List of Famous people born in Quebec, Canada
Claude Dubois
Claude André Dubois is a Canadian singer-songwriter.
Marie Denise Pelletier
Marie Denise Pelletier is a francophone Canadian singer. She served as President of Artisti, a copyright collective for music artists operated by Quebec's l'Union des artistes (UDA).
Corey Hart
Corey Mitchell Hart is a Canadian singer-songwriter, known for his hit singles "Sunglasses at Night" and "Never Surrender". He has sold over 16 million records worldwide and recorded nine US Billboard Top 40 hits. In Canada, 30 of Hart's recordings have been Top 40 hits, including 11 in the Top 10, over the course of over 35 years in the music industry. Nominated for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1984, Hart is an inductee of both Canada's Music Hall of Fame and Canada's Walk of Fame, and is also a multiple Juno award nominee and winner, including the Diamond Award for his best-selling album Boy in the Box. He has also been honoured by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN).
Maurice Boucher
Maurice Boucher is a Canadian murderer, reputed drug trafficker, and outlaw biker—the former President of the Hells Angels' Montreal chapter. Boucher led Montreal's Hells Angels against the rival Rock Machine biker gang during the Quebec Biker war of 1994 through 2002 in Quebec, Canada. In 2002, Boucher was convicted of ordering the murders of two Quebec prison officers in an effort to destabilize the Quebec Justice system, and is currently serving three life sentences at Canada’s only supermax prison in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines. He has one known daughter, Alexandra Boucher, and a son, Francis Boucher.
Omar Sharif, Jr.
Omar Sharif Jr. is an Egyptian-Canadian actor, model and gay activist who currently lives in the United States.
Bill Wennington
William Percey Wennington is a Canadian former professional basketball player who won three National Basketball Association (NBA) championships with the Chicago Bulls. A center, he represented Canada in the 1984 Olympics and 1983 World University Games, where the team won gold. He was also on the Canadian team that narrowly missed qualification for the 1992 Olympics. Wennington has been inducted into the Quebec Basketball Hall of Fame and the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame.
Alexis Lafrenière
Alexis Lafrenière is a Canadian professional ice hockey player for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL). Selected first overall by the Rimouski Océanic of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) in 2017, he was awarded the QMJHL Rookie of the Year award and was named to the First All-Star team in his rookie season. He was selected first overall by the Rangers in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft.
Jade Raymond
Jade Raymond is a Canadian video game producer and former executive in charge of Stadia Games and Entertainment, best known as founder of Ubisoft Toronto and Motive Studios.
Nico Archambault
Nicolas "Nico" Archambault is a Canadian dancer and choreographer, who in 2008 won the first season of So You Think You Can Dance Canada. After the win, he became well known for his lead role in the 2011 Canadian film On the Beat .
Isabelle Gélinas
Isabelle Gélinas is a French-Canadian actress.