List of Famous people born in Quebec, Canada
Yassine Bounou
Yassine Bounou, also known as Bono, is a Moroccan professional footballer who plays for Spanish club Sevilla FC and the Morocco national team as a goalkeeper.
Guy Boucher
Guy Boucher is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach. Boucher is the former head coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning and Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was also the head coach of SC Bern in the 2014–15 season. He previously coached in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL). He has coached various Canadian international teams. He's currently involved in a French Canadian show, called On Jase. The show is on the RDS channel and it's hosted by Martin Lemay.
Conrad Black
Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, KCSG, is a Canadian-born British former newspaper publisher, and writer. His father was businessman George Montegu Black II, who had significant holdings in Canadian manufacturing, retail and media businesses through part-ownership of the holding company Ravelston Corporation. In 1978, two years after their father's death, Conrad and his older brother Montegu took majority control of Ravelston. Over the next seven years, Conrad Black sold off most of their non-media holdings in order to focus on newspaper publishing. Black controlled Hollinger International, once the world's third-largest English-language newspaper empire, which published The Daily Telegraph (UK), Chicago Sun-Times (U.S.), The Jerusalem Post (Israel), National Post (Canada), and hundreds of community newspapers in North America, before controversy erupted over the sale of some of the company's assets.
Mario Lemieux
Mario Lemieux is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played parts of 17 National Hockey League (NHL) seasons with the Pittsburgh Penguins from 1984 to 2006, assuming ownership in 1999. Nicknamed "The Magnificent One" or Le Magnifique, he is widely acknowledged to have been one of the greatest players of all time. A gifted playmaker and fast skater despite his large size, Lemieux often beat defencemen with fakes and dekes.
Peter Cullen
Peter Claver Cullen is a Canadian voice actor. He is best known as the voice of Optimus Prime in the original 1980s Transformers animated series, and most other incarnations of the character. He has also voiced many other characters across a wide variety of popular media, including Eeyore in the Winnie the Pooh franchise, Monterey Jack in Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, the first voice of KARR in Knight Rider and the vocalizations of the predator in Predator. In 2007, Cullen returned to the role of Optimus Prime in Transformers media, starting with the first live-action film.
Autumn Phillips
Autumn Patricia Phillips is the Canadian-born wife of Peter Phillips, who is the son of Anne, Princess Royal and the eldest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. After graduating from McGill University in 2002, Autumn Kelly met Peter Phillips in her birthplace and hometown of Montreal, Quebec. Their engagement was announced in July 2007, and were married in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, on 17 May 2008. They have two daughters. The couple separated in September 2019.
Lenni-Kim
Lenni-Kim is a Canadian singer and actor.
Brian Mulroney
Martin Brian Mulroney is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 18th prime minister of Canada from September 17, 1984, to June 25, 1993.
Karine Vanasse
Karine Vanasse is a Canadian actress, who had roles in the films Polytechnique, Séraphin: Heart of Stone , Switch and Set Me Free (Emporte-moi). Internationally she is best known for her roles as Colette Valois in Pan Am, Margaux LeMarchal in Revenge and Lise Delorme in Cardinal.
Ben Mulroney
Benedict Martin Paul Mulroney is a Canadian television host. He is the eldest son of former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.