- Bianca Beauchamp
Bianca Beauchamp (born October 14, 1977 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian "adult" model, known for her glamour and latex modeling. - Celine Dion
Céline Marie Claudette Dion Angélil, OC, OQ, (born March 30 1968) is a Canadian pop vocalist and occasional songwriter. Born to a large, impoverished family in Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion became a young star in francophone Canada after her manager and would-be husband, René Angélil, mortgaged his home to finance her first record. - Leonard Cohen
Leonard Norman Cohen, CC (born September 21, 1934 in Westmount, Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. Cohen's earliest songs (many of which appeared on the 1968 album "Songs of Leonard Cohen") were rooted in European folk music melodies and instrumentation, sung in a high baritone. - Chris Benoit
Christopher Michael Benoit (May 21, 1967 – June 24, 2007) was a Canadian professional wrestler who wrestled for Extreme Championship Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling, and World Wrestling Entertainment. A two-time World Heavyweight Champion, he was widely regarded as one of the best technical professional wrestlers of his generation. Chris Benoit, his wife Nancy, and their 7-year-old son Daniel were found dead in their Fayetteville, Georgia home on June 25, 2007. - Gad Saad
Dr. Gad Saad (born October 13, 1964) is an evolutionary behavioral scientist and Associate Professor of Marketing at the John Molson School of Business (Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada). He has held Visiting Associate Professorships at Cornell University, Dartmouth College, and the University of California Irvine. His main research interests lie at the nexus of evolutionary theory, decision-making, and consumption. - Mario Lemieux
Mario Lemieux (born October 5, 1965, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a retired professional ice hockey centre who played 17 seasons for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League between 1984 and 2006. He is also the Penguins' principal owner and chairman of the board, having bought the team out of bankruptcy in 1999. Lemieux is generally regarded as one of the greatest players to ever play in the NHL. - William Shatner
William Alan Shatner (born on March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor who gained fame for playing James Tiberius Kirk of the "USS Enterprise" in the television show "Star Trek" from 1966 to 1969 and in seven of the subsequent movies. Shatner has written a series of books chronicling his experiences playing James T. Kirk and being a part of "Star Trek". He also played the title role as veteran police sergeant "T.J. Hooker", from 1982 to 1986. - Karla Homolka
Karla Leanne Homolka, also known as Karla Leanne Teale, (born May 4, 1970 in Port Credit, Ontario, Canada), is a Canadian serial killer who attracted worldwide media attention when she was convicted of helping her husband, Paul Bernardo, rape and murder teenage girls, including her own sister Tammy Homolka. In return for her confession, she was given a plea bargain whereby she escaped the maximum penalty for her crimes. - Elisha Cuthbert
Elisha Ann Cuthbert (born November 30 1982) is a Canadian actress. She is known as the former co-host of the Canadian children's television series, "Popular Mechanics for Kids", and for her role as Kim Bauer in the American action-thriller television series "24". She had her first lead role in the 2004 feature film "The Girl Next Door". - Rufus Wainwright
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright (born July 22, 1973) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter. He is the brother of Martha Wainwright, the half brother of Lucy Wainwright Roche, and the son of Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle. Since 1998, he has recorded five albums of original music, several EPs, and numerous tracks included on compilations and film soundtracks. - Mylène Farmer
Mylène Farmer, born Mylène Jeanne Gautier, is a Canadian-born French singer and songwriter. She has sold more than 20 million albums. - Eric Gagné
Eric Serge Gagné, is a right-handed relief pitcher for the Texas Rangers. Signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers as a free agent in 1995, Gagné started his career as a starting pitcher. After stuggling in that role, the Dodgers converted Gagné from a starter to a reliever where for three years (2002-2004), he was statistically the most outstanding closer in the game, winning the Cy Young Award in 2003. - Samuel Dalembert
Samuel Davis Dalembert (born May 10, 1981 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is a professional basketball player who plays center with the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers. Dalembert began playing in Montreal, Canada and played college basketball at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, US. He is an occasional double-double achiever for the Sixers and averages around 3 blocks per game - placing him among the league's elite in this category. - Ian Laperriere
Ian Laperrière is an ice hockey player in the NHL. He played in the QMJHL 1990-1993 and was drafted by the St. Louis Blues of the NHL in the 7th round and pick number 158 in the 1992 draft. On December 8, 1995 he was traded to the New York Rangers for Stéphane Matteau. On March 14, 1996 he was traded with Ray Ferraro, Mattias Norstrom, Nathan Lafayette and a draft pick to the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for Jari Kurri, Marty McSorley and Shane Churla. - Conrad Black
Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, PC, OC, KCSG (born 25 August, 1944, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a former financier and newspaper magnate who was convicted of fraud and obstruction of justice on 13 July 2007. He has written several biographies, including one about Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Black is Canadian-born but publicly renounced his Canadian citizenship in 2001 in order to become a life peer in the British House of Lords. - Gilles Duceppe
Gilles Duceppe, MP (born July 22, 1947 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Quebec nationalist and social democratic politician in Canada. He is a Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons and the leader of the separatist "Bloc Québécois" party. He is the son of a well-known Québécois actor, Jean Duceppe, and Hélène Rowley. His maternal grandfather was John James Rowley, a Briton by birth. - Ben Guite
Ben Guite (born July 17, 1978 in Montreal, Quebec is an Canadian ice hockey player who plays for the Colorado Avalanche organization. - Rudolph A. Marcus
Rudolph "Rudy" Arthur Marcus (born July 21, 1923) received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his theory of electron transfer. Marcus theory, named after him, provides a thermodynamic and kinetic framework for describing one electron outer-sphere electron transfer. He was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He earned a B.Sc. in 1943 and a Ph.D. in 1946, both from McGill University. In 1958, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. - Stephen Downes
Stephen Downes (born April 6, 1959) is a designer and theorist in the fields of online learning and new media. Born in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) Downes lived and worked across Canada before joining the National Research Council of Canada as a senior researcher in November 2001. Currently based in Moncton, New Brunswick, at the Institute for Information Technology's e-Learning Research Group, … - Joel Perrault
Joel Perrault (born April 6, 1983 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian professional ice hockey centerman who currently plays in the Phoenix Coyotes organization. Anaheim Ducks' 5th round choice (137th overall) in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft. He has 2 Goals and 3 Assists in 31 Career Games(as of Feb 25, 2007). He has had most of his playing time with the Phoenix Coyotes. He played for the Coyotes in the beginning of 2007. - Stephanie Nolen
Stephanie Nolen (born September 3 1971 in Montreal) is a Canadian journalist and writer. She is currently the Africa correspondent for "The Globe and Mail", working out of Johannesburg, South Africa. - Gino Vannelli
Gino Vannelli (born June 16, 1952 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian singer/songwriter. From a musical family he is one of three sons born to Russ and Delia Vannelli. Russ his father was a big band musician. Vannelli played drums at a young age and after finishing high school, he studied musical theory at McGill University. He eventually went to Los Angeles, California where he signed with Herb Alpert's A&M Records, releasing his first album with that record label in 1973. - Martin Brodeur
Martin Pierre Brodeur (born May 6, 1972, in Montreal, Quebec) is a professional ice hockey goaltender who has played his entire National Hockey League career with the New Jersey Devils. In his 13-year tenure, he has led the team to three Stanley Cup championships and has taken them to the playoffs all but once. In addition to holding over thirty Devils franchise records, he is on pace to surpass Patrick Roy's career records for wins, games played and minutes played, … - Lewis Furey
Lewis Furey is a Canadian composer, singer, violinist, pianist, actor and director. He was born Lewis Greenblatt in Montréal, Québec, Canada on 7 June 1949. First trained as a classical violinist, Furey played at age 11 as a soloist in the "Matinées pour la jeunesse" concert series of the Montréal Symphony Orchestra. He later studied at the Juilliard School in New York City. In 1974, he began playing and recording his own rock music compositions. - Pat Patterson
Pierre Clemont (born January 19, 1941 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian former professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Pat Patterson. He is currently working for World Wrestling Entertainment as a Producer. - David Emerson
David Lee Emerson, PC, Ph.D, MA, MP (born September 17, 1945, in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian politician, who was previously a businessman and a civil servant. Emerson is Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Pacific Gateway and the Vancouver-Whistler Olympics in the Canadian Cabinet. Like all other federal cabinet members, he is a member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada and has the right to the style "The Honourable" for life. - Bill Wennington
William (Bill) Percey Wennington (born December 26, 1963 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian former National Basketball Association center who won three NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls: the 1996, 1997 and 1998 teams. He was also a member of two Canadian Olympic Basketball Teams (1984 and 1992) and the 1983 World University Games team that won gold against the USA. Wennington has been inducted into the Quebec Basketball Hall of Fame, … - Hubert Reeves
Hubert Reeves is a Canadian (Québécois) astrophysicist and popularizer of science. He has been a Director of Research at the "Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique" since 1965 and currently lives in France where he often speaks on television promoting science. Born in Montreal, Reeves obtained a BSc in physics from the Université de Montréal in 1953, … - Selma Diamond
Selma Diamond (b. August 5, 1920, Montreal; d. May 13, 1985, Los Angeles), a Canadian-born but Brooklyn-raised comic actress and radio and television writer, is known best for her high-range, raspy voice and her portrayal of Selma Hacker on the first two seasons of the NBC television comedy series "Night Court". Diamond graduated from New York University and published cartoons and humour essays in "The New Yorker" before making the jump to radio and, … - Denise Ho
Denise Ho Wan-Si, also known as HOCC, CC and Goo, born May 10, 1977, with family roots in Shunde, Guangdong, is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer. - Maynard Ferguson
Walter "Maynard" Ferguson was a Canadian jazz trumpet player and bandleader. He came to prominence playing in Stan Kenton's orchestra, before forming his own band in 1957. He was noted for being able to play accurately in a remarkably high register, and for his bands, which served as stepping stones for up-and-coming talent. - Norma Shearer
Edith Norma Shearer (August 10, 1902 (some sources indicate 1900) - June 12, 1983) was an Academy Award-winning Canadian-born Hollywood actress. Shearer was one of the most popular actresses in the world from the 1920s until her retirement in 1942. Her early films cast her as the girl-next-door, but after her 1930 film "The Divorcee" she played sexually liberated women in sophisticated contemporary comedies and dramas, as well as several historical and period films. - Henry Morgentaler
Henry Morgentaler, M.D., LL.D.(hc), (born March 19, 1923, in Łódź, Poland) is a Canadian gynecologist and longtime abortion activist from Montreal. Morgentaler is a Holocaust survivor. After living through Auschwitz, he accepted a United Nations scholarship that was being offered to Jewish survivors. He went to medical school in Germany while living with a German family that was forced to house him under the programme. - Luc Robitaille
"Lucky" Luc Robitaille (born February 17, 1966 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a retired professional ice hockey player. In a 20-year NHL career from 1986 to 2006, he played for the Los Angeles Kings (three different times), New York Rangers, Detroit Red Wings and Pittsburgh Penguins. Robitaille retired as the all-time highest-scoring left winger in National Hockey League history and the holder of the Kings franchise record for goals. - Win Butler
Win Butler is the Texas-born lead vocalist and songwriter of the Montreal-based indie rock band Arcade Fire. His wife Régine Chassagne and his brother William Butler are both members of the band. Born Edwin Farnham Butler III and raised in The Woodlands, Texas, Butler is the grandson of jazz guitarist Alvino Rey, a pioneer bandleader whose career spanned eight decades. His grandmother, Luise, was a member of the King Sisters, … - Antonio Lamer
Joseph Antonio Charles Lamer, PC, CC, CD, LL.D, D.U., known as Antonio Lamer (born July 8, 1933) is a Canadian lawyer and former Chief Justice of Canada. - Jennifer Finnigan
Jennifer Christina Finnigan (born August 22, 1979) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her Emmy-winning role as Bridget Forrester in the American soap opera "The Bold and the Beautiful" from 2000 to 2004. - Ahmed Ressam
Ahmed Ressam aka "The Millennium Bomber" was convicted and given a prison sentence of 22 years in a plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport on New Year's Eve 1999. - Bernie Parent
Bernard Marcel Parent (born April 3, 1945 in Montreal, Quebec) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. - Wade Davis
Edmund Wade Davis (born December 14 1953 in West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a noted anthropologist and ethnobotanist whose work has usually focused on the observation and analysis of the customs, beliefs, and social relations of indigenous cultures in North and South America, particularly the traditional uses and beliefs associated with plants with psychoactive properties.
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