List of Famous people born in Quebec, Canada
Thomas Chabot
Thomas Chabot is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman and alternate captain for the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL). Chabot was drafted in the first round by the Senators in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft.
Dave Leduc
Dave Leduc is a Canadian Lethwei fighter who competes in the World Lethwei Championship, where he is the current WLC Cruiserweight World Champion. He is also the undefeated Openweight Lethwei World Champion under traditional rules. Leduc gained widespread notoriety by becoming the first Canadian to win in the controversial Prison Fight. In 2016, he travelled to Myanmar to achieve his dream of fighting Burmese bareknuckle boxing, considered the world's most brutal sport. Leduc challenged and defeated Tun Tun Min, who was then recognized as the best in the world and became the first non-Burmese to win a Lethwei Golden Belt. The same year, he married Russian writer and model Irina Terehova in a nationally televised traditional Burmese wedding ceremony in Yangon with approximately 30 million viewers in Myanmar.
Flora Martínez
Flora Martinez is a Canadian-Colombian film and television actress and singer, best known for her title role in the film Rosario Tijeras. Martinez was nominated for Goya Award for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film in 2005.
Ariel Helwani
Ariel Helwani is a Canadian journalist who primarily covers mixed martial arts (MMA).
Josué Duverger
Josué Duverger is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Portuguese club Vitória Setúbal and the Haiti national team.
Dave Keon
David Michael Keon is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre. He played professionally from 1960 to 1982, including 15 seasons with the Toronto Maple Leafs, and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1986. Keon was inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 2010. On October 16, 2016, as part of the Toronto Maple Leafs centennial celebrations, Keon was named the greatest player in the team's history. In 2017 Keon was named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players in NHL history.
Alain Vigneault
Alain Vigneault is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL). Vigneault has previously coached the Montreal Canadiens, Vancouver Canucks, and the New York Rangers in the NHL, as well as in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL). During his career with the Canucks, he won the Jack Adams Award as the NHL's top coach of the year in 2006–07 and became the team's record holder for wins as a coach. Under Vigneault, Vancouver won back-to-back Presidents' Trophies and made one Stanley Cup Finals appearance (2011). In his first season with New York, he led the Rangers to their first Stanley Cup Finals appearance (2014) in 20 years.
Alice Morel-Michaud
Alice Morel-Michaud is a Quebec actress. She is best known for her performance in The Pee-Wee 3D: The Winter That Changed My Life , for which she garnered a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards. Her other film and television appearances have included the films Aurore, Route 132, Love Project and Junior Majeur, and the television series Trauma, Nos étés, Human Trafficking and Les Soeurs Elliot.
Alexandre Burrows
Alexandre Ménard-Burrows is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Vancouver Canucks and the Ottawa Senators. He is currently an assistant coach for the Laval Rocket of the American Hockey League. He was known for playing in the style of an agitator and for his ascension to the NHL from being an undrafted player in the ECHL. After a two-year career in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL), he played in the minor leagues for three seasons. He was signed by the Vancouver Canucks in 2005 from their American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Manitoba Moose. Burrows established himself as a checking forward with the Canucks in his first three NHL seasons before emerging as a scorer with four consecutive 25-plus-goal seasons from 2008–09 to 2011–12.
Denise Bombardier
Denise Bombardier, is a journalist, essayist, novelist and media personality who worked for the French-language television station Radio-Canada for over 30 years.