- Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie (born June 4, 1975) is an American film actress, a former fashion model, and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She is often cited by popular media as the world's sexiest person and her off-screen life is widely reported. She has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award. After appearing as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film "Lookin' to Get Out", … - Paula Abdul
Paula Julie Abdul (born June 19, 1962) is an American television personality, jewelry designer, multi-platinum selling singer, and Emmy Award-winning choreographer. In the 1980s, Abdul rose from being a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers NBA basketball team to being a sought-after choreographer at the height of the music video era, then to being a Pop-R&B singer with a string of hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s. - E. Annie Proulx
Edna Annie Proulx (pronounced) (born August 22, 1935) is an American journalist and author. Her second novel, "The Shipping News" (1993), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for fiction in 1994. Her short story "Brokeback Mountain" was adapted as an Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe Award-winning major motion picture released in 2005. - Adam Lamberg
Adam Matthew Lamberg (born September 14, 1984) is an American actor, perhaps best known playing David "Gordo" Gordon in the Disney Channel series "Lizzie McGuire" from 2001 to 2004. Lamberg was born in New York City to Suzanne, a public high school teacher, and Marc Lamberg. He attended P.S. 183 on the upper east side. His father is Jewish and his mother is French Canadian; Lamberg considers himself a "cultural Jew". - Yvon Chouinard
Yvon Chouinard (born 1938) (in Maine) is a rock climber, environmentalist and outdoor industry businessman, noted for his contributions to climbing, climbing equipment and the outdoor gear business. Chouinard is also a surfer, kayaker and fisherman. He is a writer, first on climbing issues and ethics, and more lately on mixing environmentalism and sound business practice in the concept of a slow company. - James Haven
James Haven (born James Haven Voight on May 11, 1973 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor and producer. - Larry Lalonde
Larry "Ler" LaLonde (born Reed Lawrence LaLonde on September 12, 1968 in Richmond, California) is a guitarist who currently plays in Primus along with Les Claypool and Tim Alexander. He has also played with Possessed, Blind Illusion, No Forcefield, and the Frank Zappa tribute band "Caca". - Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac (pronounced) (March 12 1922 - October 21 1969) was an American novelist, writer, poet, and artist. He is perhaps the best known of a group of writers and friends who came to be known as the Beat Generation, a term he himself created. Kerouac enjoyed some degree of popular appeal but little critical acclaim during his lifetime. Today, however, he is considered an important and influential author. - Alanis Morissette
Alanis Nadine Morissette (born in Ottawa, 1 June 1974) is a Canadian and naturalized American singer-songwriter, record producer, and occasional actress. She is recognized for creating one of the highest selling albums in the history of the music industry, and has won seven Grammy Awards. Morissette began her career in Canada, and as a child recorded two dance-pop albums, "Alanis" and "Now Is the Time", under MCA Records. - Jennifer Lavoie
Jennifer J. Lavoie (born 25 February 1971 in Nashua, New Hampshire) is an American model, actress and entrepreneur. She was selected as "Playboy"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Playmate of the Month for August, 1993, and she graced the cover of the October 1994 issue of the magazine. Her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley. Jennifer has appeared in several Playboy videos and special editions, … - Toussaint Charbonneau
Toussaint Charbonneau (March 20, 1767 - August 12, 1843; see note) was a French-Canadian explorer and trader, and a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, best known as the husband of Sacagawea. - Nap Lajoie
Napoleon "Nap" Lajoie [la-ZHOWAY] (September 5, 1874 – February 7, 1959), also known as Larry Lajoie, was an American professional athlete of French Canadian descent. In his career as a second baseman in Major League Baseball, he was considered one of the greatest players of the fledgling American League in the early 20th century and the most serious of Ty Cobb's challengers. - Tom Cousineau
Tom Cousineau (born May 6, 1957, in Fairview Park, Ohio) is a former American Football linebacker who played six seasons in the National Football League with the Cleveland Browns and the San Francisco 49ers from 1982 to 1987. Cousineau is best known for being the first overall pick of the 1979 NFL Draft. - Mike Michaud
Michael H. (Mike) Michaud was born January 18 1955 in Millinocket, Maine. He has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing. He was first elected in 2002, narrowly defeating Republican Kevin Raye in the race to replace John Baldacci (who was elected Governor). The 2002 race garnered a great deal of publicity as, in a reverse of most Congressional races, … - Robert Goulet
Robert Gerard Goulet (born November 26 1933 in Lawrence, Massachusetts) is an American entertainer. Goulet rose to international stardom in 1960 as Lancelot in Lerner and Loewe's hit Broadway musical, "Camelot". His long career as a singer and actor encompasses theatre, radio, television and film. Goulet resides and performs in Las Vegas, Nevada. - Rene Gagnon
Rene Arthur Gagnon was one of the U.S. Marines immortalized by Joe Rosenthal's famous World War II photograph "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima". - Jean Baptiste Charbonneau
Jean Baptiste Charbonneau was the son of Sacagawea and her French Canadian husband Toussaint Charbonneau, born while they were members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition; expedition co-leader William Clark nicknamed him Pomp or Pompy. Pompeys Pillar on the Yellowstone River in Montana is named after him, and his image can be found on the Sacagawea dollar coin; he is the only child ever depicted on United States currency. - Marcheline Bertrand
Marcheline Bertrand (May 9 1950 - January 27 2007) was an American actress of French-Canadian descent. According to daughter Angelina Jolie, Bertrand was often wrongly identified as a French actress: "My mom is as far from French Parisian as you can get. She was part Iroquois Indian, from Chicago. She grew up in a bowling alley that my grandparents owned." Of her reported Indigenous Iroquois ancestry, Bertrand's former husband, Jon Voight, … - John Leclair
John Clark LeClair (born July 5, 1969 in St. Albans, Vermont) is an American professional ice hockey player. He most recently played left wing for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the NHL, who released him on December 14, 2006. He is currently an unrestricted free-agent. - Ross Perot
Henry Ross "The Boss" Perot (born June 27, 1930) is an American businessman from Texas, who is best known for seeking the office of President of the United States in 1992 and 1996. Perot founded Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in 1962 and later sold the company to General Motors and founded Perot Systems. Perot is a billionaire. With an estimated net worth of around $4.3 billion as of 2006, he is ranked by "Forbes" as the 57th-richest person in America. - Kelly Lebrock
Kelly LeBrock (born March 24, 1960) is an English/American actress and supermodel (measurements 34-24-34 (in 1982)), known for her acting debut in "The Woman in Red", and later on in the film, "Weird Science". - Francis Ouimet
Francis Ouimet (May 8, 1893 - September 3, 1967) was an American golfer. He is widely known for winning the 1913 U.S. Open, and was the first American elected Captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews. His father was a French-Canadian immigrant (hence his typical French last name) and his mother was an Irish immigrant. - Mike Gravel
Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel (born May 13, 1930), is a former Democratic United States Senator from Alaska for two terms, from 1969 to 1981. He is primarily known for his efforts in ending the draft following the Vietnam War and for having put into the public record the Pentagon Papers in 1971. He is currently a candidate for the 2008 Democratic nomination for President of the United States. - George Drouillard
George Drouillard was a civilian interpreter for the Lewis and Clark's Voyage of Discovery. - Paul Theroux
Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10, 1941) is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best known work is "The Great Railway Bazaar" (1975), a travelogue about a trip he made by train from Great Britain through Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, through South Asia, then South-East Asia, up through East Asia, as far east as Japan, and then back across Russia to his point of origin. Although perhaps best known as a travel writer, … - Pierre Bottineau
Pierre Bottineau (January 1st, 1817-July 26th, 1895) was a Minnesota Frontiersman. Known as the "Kit Carson of the Northwest", he was an integral part of the history and development of Minnesota and North Dakota. He was an accomplished surveyor and his many settlement parties founded cities all over Minnesota and North Dakota. Those settlements would become cities such as Osseo, MN and Maple Grove, MN northwest of the Twin Cities, as well as Breckenridge, MN and Wahpeton, … - Christopher Meloni
Christopher Peter Meloni (born on April 2, 1961) is an American Emmy-nominated actor known for his near opposite roles as the protective and committed Det. Elliot Stabler on the NBC drama series "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit", and as the bisexual serial killer Chris Keller on HBO's "Oz". - Adrian Nicole Leblanc
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc is an American journalist whose works focus on the marginalized members of society: adolescents living in poverty, prostitutes, women in prison, etc. LeBlanc grew up in a working class family in Leominster, Massachusetts. She studied at Smith College, Oxford, and Yale University. She worked for Seventeen Magazine as an editor after earning her Master's degree in Modern Literature at Oxford. - Damien Marchessault
Damien Marchessault (or Marchesseau) (April 1, 1818 - January 20, 1868) was Mayor of Los Angeles, California from May 9, 1859 to May 9 1860 and then again from December 27, 1860 to January 7, 1861. Marchessault assumed the office one last time interrupting Cristobal Aguilar's first term in office for three months. Born in St.-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, Canada, Marchessault was described as a carousing onetime New Orleans gambler. - Will Durant
William James Durant (November 5, 1885-November 7, 1981) was an American philosopher, historian, and writer. He is best known for his authorship and co-authorship with his wife Ariel Durant of "The Story of Civilization". - Prudent Beaudry
Prudent Beaudry (1818 - 1893) served as mayor of Los Angeles, California from 1874 to 1876. A native of Quebec, he was the second French American mayor of Los Angeles, after Damien Marchessault. His brother Jean-Louis Beaudry was the mayor Montreal between 1862 to 1866, 1877 to 1879 and 1881 to 1885. He owned a great deal of real estate in downtown Los Angeles mainly around Temple Street. A street in downtown Los Angeles is named after him. - Roger Levesque
Roger Levesque (born January 22, 1981) is an American soccer player, currently playing for the Seattle Sounders of the A-League (America). Levesque played college soccer at Stanford University from 1999 to 2002. After two seasons as a reserve, Levesque became a starter as a junior, and ended the season as a second-team All-American, having scored 14 goals and 9 assists. In his senior year he led the team in points with 7 goals and 13 assists, … - Robert Choquette
Robert Guy Choquette (April 22, 1905 - January 22, 1991) was a Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat. Born in Manchester, New Hampshire, his family moved to Montreal in 1914. In 1968, he was appointed Canada's ambassador to Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina. He served until 1970. In 1968 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. In 1989 he was made a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec. - Viola Léger
Viola Léger is an Acadian-Canadian actress and former Canadian Senator. Léger received a B.A. and a B.Ed. from the University of Moncton, and an M.F.A. (Theater Education) from Boston University. She was appointed to the Senate at the recommendation of Prime Minister, Jean Chrétien, in 2001, representing the Senatorial division of L'Acadie, New Brunswick. She was a member of the Liberal caucus. In 1989, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. - Francis Bouillon
Francis Bouillon (born October 17 1975 in New York City) is a professional hockey defenceman. Bouillon was born to a French Canadian mother and a Haitian father. He currently plays for the National Hockey League's Montreal Canadiens. He was signed as a free agent by the Montreal Canadiens in 1998 with which he has played most of his career (except for a short stint with the Nashville Predators in 2002-2003). - Aram J. Pothier
Aram Jules Pothier was the Republican governor of Rhode Island from 1909-1915 and from 1925 until his death in 1929. He was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island and served as its mayor before becoming governor. - François X. Matthieu
François X. Matthieu was a French Canadian settler of the Oregon Country who was one of the people involved in forming the government of the U.S. state of Oregon. Matthieu came to the Oregon Country with the Elijah White party in 1842, spending his first winter with fellow pioneer Étienne Lucier and discussing politics and government. Having been part of an unsuccessful rebellion against the British in Canada, … - Emery J. San Souci
Emery J. San Souci (1857 - 1936) was the Republican governor of Rhode Island from 1921 to 1923. He was an American of French-Canadian descent. He died on August 10 1936. - Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli (February 28, 1903 - July 25, 1986) was a famous Hollywood director and accomplished stage director, often considered by critics to be the father of the modern musical. - Darlene Gillespie
Darlene Faye Gillespie was born April 8, 1941, in Montreal, Canada. She is best known for having been a singer and dancer on the original Mickey Mouse Club television show from 1955 to 1958. Her Irish father and French-Canadian mother were a former vaudeville dance team. When Darlene was two years old, her family moved to Los Angeles, California, where she became a naturalized US citizen in September 1956.
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