List of Famous people born in Quebec, Canada
Martin Brodeur
Martin Pierre Brodeur is a Canadian-American former professional ice hockey goaltender and current team executive. He played 22 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL), 21 of them for the New Jersey Devils, with whom he won three Stanley Cup championships and five Eastern Conference championships in 17 postseason campaigns. He also won two Olympic gold medals with Team Canada in the 2002 and 2010 Winter Olympic Games, as well as several other medals with Team Canada in other international competitions. Brodeur is widely regarded as one of the greatest goaltenders of all time. In 2017, he was named by the league as one of the "100 Greatest NHL Players", and the following year, he was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Yanic Truesdale
Yanic Truesdale is a Canadian-American actor best known for his portrayal of Michel Gerard in the television series Gilmore Girls, a role that prompted Daily Variety to name him one of "10 Actors to Watch".
Star Wars Kid
Star Wars Kid is a viral video made in 2002 by Ghyslain Raza in which he wields a golf ball retriever in imitation of Darth Maul's lightsaber moves from the film Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, hence the name. At the time, Raza was a 15-year-old high school student from Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada. He had not intended for the video to become public, but its subsequent release led to ridicule during which Raza chose to distance himself from the video. Raza since has affirmed his identity and has used the video to help to speak on the effects of bullying and harassment.
Yanni Gourde
Yanni Gourde is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward currently playing with the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League (NHL). Gourde won the Stanley Cup as a member of the Lightning in 2020.
Elias Koteas
Elias Koteas is a Canadian–Greek actor. He is best known for acting in either supporting or leading roles in films from the United States and Canada.
Mike Bossy
Michael Dean Bossy or, according to some sources, Michael Jean Bossy is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played his entire National Hockey League (NHL) career for the New York Islanders, and was a crucial part of their four-year reign as Stanley Cup champions in the early 1980s.
Tiff Macklem
Richard Tiffany "Tiff" Macklem is a Canadian banker and economist who serves as the current Governor of the Bank of Canada. He was also the former Dean of the Rotman School of Management and had previously served as the Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada.
Marcel Dionne
Marcel Elphège "Little Beaver" Dionne is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Los Angeles Kings and New York Rangers. Marcel Dionne was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1992. In 2017 Dionne was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.
Dov Charney
Dov Charney is a Canadian-American entrepreneur, clothing manufacturer and advocate for immigration reform in the United States. He is the founder of American Apparel, which until its bankruptcy in 2015, was one of the largest and most influential garment manufacturers in the United States. Charney exited American Apparel in 2014 and subsequently founded Los Angeles Apparel.
Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge
Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge is a Canadian actor and film producer best known for major roles in Quebec films Nitro and The 3 L'il Pigs in 2007.