100 Notable alumni of
Laval University
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Laval University is 277th in the world, 117th in North America, and 7th in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Laval University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Brian Mulroney
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Martin Brian Mulroney was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician who served as the 18th prime minister of Canada from 1984 to 1993.
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Jean Chrétien
- Occupations
- politicianautobiographerlawyerdiplomat
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Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien PC OM CC KC AdE is a Canadian politician, statesman, and lawyer who served as the 20th prime minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003.
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Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
- Occupations
- politician
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Jean was the Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1964 until his abdication in 2000. He was the first Grand Duke of Luxembourg of French agnatic descent.
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Carme Chacón
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacherlawyer
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Carme Maria Chacón Piqueras was a Spanish lawyer, lecturer and politician who was minister of Defence from 2008 to 2011 in the cabinet led by Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
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Conrad Black
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- biographerpoliticianbusinesspersonautobiographerpublisher
- Biography
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Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, is a Canadian-British writer and former politician, newspaper publisher, and financier.
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Niklaus Wirth
- Enrolled in Laval University
- In 1960 graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- inventorprogrammeruniversity teachercomputer scientistengineer
- Biography
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Niklaus Emil Wirth was a Swiss computer scientist. He designed several programming languages, including Pascal, and pioneered several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984, he won the Turing Award, generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science, "for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages".
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Ben Mulroney
- Occupations
- actortelevision presenter
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Benedict Martin Paul Mulroney is a Canadian radio host and former television host. He is the eldest son of Brian Mulroney, the 18th Prime Minister of Canada.
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René Lévesque
- Enrolled in Laval University
- Studied in 1941-1943
- Occupations
- politicianjournalistauthor
- Biography
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René Lévesque GOQ was a Canadian politician and journalist who served as the 23rd premier of Quebec from 1976 to 1985. He was the first Québécois political leader since Confederation to seek, through a referendum, a mandate to negotiate the political independence of Quebec. Starting his career as a reporter, and radio and television host, he later became known for his eminent role in Quebec's nationalization of hydro-electric companies and as an ardent defender of Quebec sovereignty. He was the founder of the Parti Québécois, and before that, a Liberal minister in the Lesage government from 1960 to 1966.
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David Servan-Schreiber
- Occupations
- essayistpsychologistphysician writerpsychiatristuniversity teacher
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David Servan-Schreiber was a French physician, neuroscientist and author. He was a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He was also a lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine of Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1.
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Louis St. Laurent
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- politiciandiplomatlawyer
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Louis Stephen St. Laurent PC CC QC was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 12th prime minister of Canada from 1948 to 1957.
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Lucien Bouchard
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- politiciandiplomatlawyer
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Lucien Bouchard PC GOQ is a French Canadian lawyer, diplomat and retired politician.
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Gilles Vigneault
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- musiciansingerpoetsinger-songwriteractor
- Biography
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Gilles Vigneault GOQ is a Canadian poet, publisher, singer-songwriter, and Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist. Two of his songs are considered by many to be Quebec's unofficial anthems: "Mon pays" and "Gens du pays", and his line Mon pays ce n'est pas un pays, c'est l'hiver (My country is not a country, it is winter, from "Mon Pays") became a proverb in Quebec. Vigneault is a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec, Knight of the Legion of Honour, and Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
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Stéphane Dion
- Occupations
- ministerpoliticianpolitical scientistuniversity teacherauthor
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Stéphane Maurice Dion PC is a Canadian diplomat, academic and former politician who has been the Canadian ambassador to France and Monaco since 2022 and special envoy to the European Union since 2017. He was leader of the Opposition and leader of the Liberal Party from 2006 to 2008. He served in cabinets as intergovernmental affairs minister (1996–2003), environment minister (2003–2006), and foreign affairs minister (2015–2017).
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Pauline Marois
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- politician
- Biography
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Pauline Marois is a retired Canadian politician, who served as the 30th premier of Quebec from 2012 to 2014. Marois had been a member of the National Assembly in various ridings since 1981 as a member of the Parti Québécois (PQ), serving as party leader from 2007 to 2014. She is the first female premier of Quebec.
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Marc Ouellet
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- Catholic priestLatin Catholic bishopuniversity teacher
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Marc Armand Ouellet PSS is a Canadian Catholic prelate who served as prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops and president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America from 2010 to 2023. He is a member of the Sulpicians.
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David Saint-Jacques
- Occupations
- physicianastrophysicistastronautphysicist
- Biography
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David Saint-Jacques OC OQ FRCGS is a Canadian astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). He is also an astrophysicist, engineer, and a physician.
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Geneviève Guilbault
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Geneviève Guilbault MNA is a Canadian politician who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in a by-election held in the electoral district Louis-Hébert on October 2, 2017. She is a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec. On October 18, 2018, she was appointed Deputy Premier and Minister of Public Safety. On October 20, 2022, she was re-appointed Deputy Premier and appointed Minister of Transport replacing François Bonnardel.
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Rémy Girard
- Occupations
- actorfilm actortelevision presenterstage actortelevision actor
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Rémy Girard OC is a Canadian actor and former television host from Quebec.
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Jean Lesage
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Jean Lesage PC CC CD was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served as the 19th premier of Quebec from July 5, 1960, to June 16, 1966. Alongside Georges-Émile Lapalme, René Lévesque and others, he is often viewed as the father of the Quiet Revolution. He is the namesake of the Québec City Jean Lesage International Airport, the main sections of Quebec's longest Autoroute highway Autoroute 20, and the provincial electoral district within Quebec City named Jean-Lesage.
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Ilham Kadri
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Ilham Kadri is a Moroccan business executive, and the CEO of Syensqo.
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Duchess Charlotte, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Occupations
- aristocrat
- Biography
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Archduchess Charlotte of Austria was a daughter of Emperor Charles I of Austria and his wife Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma. She was also known by the name Charlotte de Bar while a welfare worker in the United States from 1943 to 1956.
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Lawrence Hill
- Occupations
- writernovelist
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Lawrence Hill is a Canadian novelist, essayist, and memoirist. He is known for his 2007 novel The Book of Negroes, inspired by the Black Loyalists given freedom and resettled in Nova Scotia by the British after the American Revolutionary War, and his 2001 memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada. The Book of Negroes was adapted for a TV mini-series produced in 2015. He was selected in 2013 for the Massey Lectures: he drew from his non-fiction book Blood: The Stuff of Life, published that year. His ten books include other non-fiction and fictional works, and some have been translated into other languages and published in numerous other countries.
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Georges Vanier
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- politicianmilitary personnellawyerdiplomat
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Georges-Philias Vanier PC DSO MC CD was a Canadian military officer, diplomat, and statesman who served as the 19th governor general of Canada from 1959 to 1967, the first Quebecer and second Canadian-born person to hold the position.
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Alex Harvey
- Occupations
- cross-country skier
- Biography
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Alex Harvey is a retired Canadian cross-country skier who competed between 2005 and 2019. Harvey is also a member of the Quebec Provincial Cycling Team.
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Pierre Mailloux
- Occupations
- psychoanalystradio personalitypsychiatrist
- Biography
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Pierre Mailloux, better known as Doc Mailloux or Docteur Mailloux, was a Canadian psychiatrist and controversial radio show host.
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Amir Khadir
- Enrolled in Laval University
- Graduated with Doctor of Medicine
- Occupations
- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Amir Khadir is a Canadian politician in the province of Quebec. A member of Québec solidaire (QS), he was one of the party's co-spokespeople from 2006 to 2012, alongside Françoise David. From 2008 to 2018, he was a Member of the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA) for the electoral district of Mercier. Khadir was the first elected representative of QS.
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Régis Labeaume
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Régis Labeaume is a Canadian businessman, writer and politician. He served as mayor of Quebec City from 2007 to 2021. He was first elected on December 2, 2007 after the death of former mayor Andrée Boucher. He was reelected in 2009, 2013, and 2017.
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J. Michel Doyon
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- politicianhistorianlawyer
- Biography
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Joseph Michel Doyon KC AdE is a Canadian lawyer, historian, and author who served as the 29th lieutenant governor of Quebec. He assumed office on September 24, 2015 and was succeeded by Manon Jeannotte on January 25, 2024. Doyon previously served as the 144th head of the Bar of Quebec for the 2007–2008 term.
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Christian Dubé
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Christian Dubé MNA is a Canadian politician. He is a member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of La Prairie, and serves as Minister of Health and Social Services.
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Chrystine Brouillet
- Occupations
- writerplaywrightchildren's writernovelist
- Biography
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Chrystine Brouillet, CM CQ is a Canadian novelist.
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Serge Bouchard
- Occupations
- radio personalitywriteranthropologistessayist
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Serge Bouchard was a Canadian anthropologist, writer, and media personality. Bouchard studied contemporary life in Canada from an anthropological perspective; his subjects ranged from Innu hunters to Quebec truck drivers. Through his frequent appearances in the media, Bouchard's commentary reached both a popular and scholarly audience. He received the Prix Gérard-Morrisset in 2015 and a Governor-General's Award in 2017.
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Marcel Aubut
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- lawyer
- Biography
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Marcel Aubut, OC OQ KC is a Canadian lawyer, former president of the Canadian Olympic Committee and former president and Chief Executive Officer of the Quebec Nordiques of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was a board member of many businesses and organizations.
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Marie-Claire Blais
- Occupations
- short story writerplaywrightpoetscreenwriterwriter
- Biography
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Marie-Claire Blais CC OQ MSRC was a Canadian writer, novelist, poet, and playwright from the province of Quebec. In a career spanning seventy years, she wrote novels, plays, collections of poetry and fiction, newspaper articles, radio dramas, and scripts for television. She was a four-time recipient of the Governor General’s literary prize for French-Canadian literature, and was also a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for creative arts.
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Antonine Maillet
- Occupations
- translatorwriterstorytellerplaywrightnovelist
- Biography
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Antonine Maillet, PC CC OQ ONB FRSC is an Acadian novelist, playwright, and scholar. She was born in Bouctouche, New Brunswick, Canada.
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Gérald Lacroix
- Occupations
- Catholic priestCatholic deaconCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Gérald Cyprien Lacroix ISPX is a Canadian Catholic prelate who has served as the Archbishop of Quebec and Primate of Canada since 2011. He has been a cardinal since 22 February 2014. He was previously Auxiliary Bishop of Quebec. He is a member of the Council of Cardinals and the Secular Institute Pius X.
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Marie Laberge
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- poetnovelistfilm directorwriterplaywright
- Biography
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Marie Laberge is a Quebec actress, educator and writer.
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Édith Butler
- Occupations
- composersinger
- Biography
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Édith Butler OC ONB is an Acadian-Canadian singer-songwriter and folklorist of from New Brunswick’s Acadian Peninsula.
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Léa Clermont-Dion
- Occupations
- researcherfilm director
- Biography
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Léa Clermont-Dion is a Canadian author, feminist, television and radio host, and body image advocate. She was a co-facilitator, with Jacinthe Veillette, and spokesperson of the Québec Charter for a Healthy and Diverse Body Image. Clermont-Dion came to public attention during an appearance on the television programme Tout le monde en parle in October 2009. She is a doctoral student in political science at Laval University and the author of La revanche des moches (2014) and Les Superbes (2016).
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Nathalie Normandeau
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nathalie Normandeau is a Canadian politician from Quebec. She was MNA for the riding of Bonaventure in the Gaspésie region between 1998 and 2011. She was also Deputy Premier and a member of the Quebec Liberal Party.
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Antony Auclair
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Antony Auclair is a Canadian former professional gridiron football tight end. He played university football at Université Laval, and was signed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an undrafted free agent in 2017, with whom he won Super Bowl LV in 2020. He also played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Houston Texans.
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André Arthur
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- politicianjournalistradio personality
- Biography
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André Arthur was a Canadian radio host and politician. He was the independent Member of Parliament for the riding of Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier from 2006 to 2011. He has been described as the "godfather" of radio poubelle (trash radio), a style of politically conservative radio popular in Quebec City.
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Jennie Carignan
- Biography
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General Marie Annabelle Jennie Carignan CMM MSC MSM CD is a Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) officer who has served as Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) since July 2024. Born in Quebec, Carignan graduated as a military engineer from the Royal Military College Saint-Jean. She served as an officer in combat engineering regiments in various Canadian military actions in the 1990s and 2000s including: the Golan Heights; Bosnia; and Afghanistan. As a full colonel, Carignan became Commandant of the Royal Military College Saint-Jean in 2013.
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Jim Oberstar
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- politician
- Biography
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James Louis Oberstar was an American politician and Congressman who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 2011. Hailing from Minnesota and a member of the state's local Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, he represented the northeastern eighth congressional district, which included the cities of Duluth, Brainerd, Grand Rapids, International Falls, and Hibbing, within an area of Minnesota known as the Iron Range. He chaired the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee from 2007 until his departure, having been the ranking minority member since 1995. In November 2010, he was defeated by a margin of 4,407 votes by Republican Chip Cravaack. He had the longest tenure of any Congressman from Minnesota.
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François Létourneau
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- actorscreenwritertelevision actorwriterplaywright
- Biography
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François Létourneau is a Canadian actor and writer, best known as co-creator and star of the television series Les Invincibles, Série noire and Happily Married (C'est comme ça que je t'aime).
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Gérard Deltell
- Occupations
- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Gérard Deltell MP is a Canadian politician who has served as the member of Parliament (MP) for Louis-Saint-Laurent since 2015. A member of the Conservative Party, Deltell was Opposition House Leader from 2020 to 2022 under Erin O'Toole and held a number of opposition critic positions. Prior to entering federal politics, he represented Chauveau in the National Assembly of Quebec from 2008 to 2015 and was the leader of the Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ) from 2009 until it merged with the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) in 2012. He served as the CAQ's house leader until 2014.
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Michael Fortier
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Michael M. Fortier, PC is a Canadian financier, lawyer and former politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as Minister of Public Works and Government Services from 2006 to 2008, and Minister of International Trade in 2008 under Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Fortier served in Cabinet of Canada while a Senator, which proved controversial. In 2008, he resigned from the Senate to run for a seat in the House of Commons in the 2008 election; he placed second in riding of Vaudreuil-Soulanges.
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Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Louis-Alexandre Taschereau was the 14th premier of Quebec from 1920 to 1936. A member of the Parti libéral du Québec, Taschereau's near 16-year tenure remains the longest uninterrupted term of office among Quebec premiers.
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Jean-Martin Aussant
- Occupations
- financial analystpolitician
- Biography
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Jean-Martin Aussant is a Canadian economist, musician, and politician, now serving as Executive director of the Chantier de l'économie sociale. He represented Nicolet-Yamaska in the National Assembly of Quebec from 2008 to 2012, first as a member of the Parti Québécois and then as leader of his own party, Option nationale. He was defeated when he ran for re-election in Nicolet-Bécancour in the 2012 general election. He later rejoined the Parti Québécois to run unsuccessfully in the 2018 Quebec election.
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Joël Lightbound
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Joël Lightbound MP is a Canadian politician serving as the member of Parliament (MP) for Louis-Hébert. A member of the Liberal Party, he was first elected following the 2015 federal election.
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Dov Joseph
- Occupations
- politicianadvocatelawyer
- Biography
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Dov Joseph was an Israeli statesman. During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, he was in charge of Jerusalem. He later held ministerial positions in nine Israeli governments.
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Patrice Michaud
- Occupations
- guitaristsinger-songwritersinger
- Biography
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Patrice Michaud is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Cap-Chat, Quebec. He won the SOCAN Songwriting Prize in the French division in 2014 for his song "Mécaniques générales", and his 2017 album Almanach was a Juno Award finalist for Francophone Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2018.
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Pearlette Louisy
- Years
- 1946-.. (age 79)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dame Calliopa Pearlette Louisy GCSL GCMG DStJ is a Saint Lucian academic, who served as governor-general of Saint Lucia from 19 September 1997, until her resignation on 31 December 2017. She is the first woman to hold the vice-regal office, as well as the longest-serving governor-general in the history of Saint Lucia.
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Carlos Gomes Júnior
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Carlos Domingos Gomes Júnior is a Bissau-Guinean politician who was Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau from 10 May 2004 to 2 November 2005, and again from 25 December 2008 to 10 February 2012. He has been the President of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) since 2002 and is widely known as "Cadogo". He resigned as prime minister on 10 February 2012 to run in the presidential election triggered by President Malam Bacai Sanhá's death on 9 January.
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Adolphe-Basile Routhier
- Occupations
- judgenovelistpoetteachersongwriter
- Biography
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Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier FRSC was a Canadian judge, author, and lyricist. He wrote the lyrics of the original French version of the Canadian national anthem "O Canada". He was born in Saint-Placide, Quebec, to Charles Routhier and Angélique Lafleur.
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Dorothée Berryman
- Occupations
- stage actoractorsingerpop singerjazz musician
- Biography
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Dorothée Berryman is a Canadian actress and singer from Quebec.
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Guy Rocher
- Occupations
- sociologistuniversity teacherresearcher
- Biography
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Guy Arthur Auguste Rocher CC GOQ MSRC is a Canadian academic and sociologist.
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Léo Bureau-Blouin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Léo Bureau-Blouin is a former Quebec politician who in the 2012 provincial election at age 20 became the youngest person ever to be elected as a member of the National Assembly of Quebec. He was elected in the district of Laval-des-Rapides for the Parti Québécois. He was previously a student leader, president of the Fédération étudiante collégiale du Québec, who played a key role in organizing the 2012 Quebec student protests. He lost his seat in the 2014 general election on April 7 to the Quebec Liberal Party candidate Saul Polo.
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Mathieu Betts
- Occupations
- athlete
- Biography
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Mathieu Betts is a Canadian professional football defensive lineman for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League (CFL). Betts is the only player in U Sports football history to have won four major individual awards, after he won the 2015 Peter Gorman Trophy as the most outstanding rookie and three J. P. Metras Trophies between 2016 and 2018, as the most outstanding down lineman. He is also a two-time Vanier Cup champion, having won in 2016 and 2018.
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Bruno Marchand
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Bruno Marchand is a Canadian politician who currently serves as mayor of Quebec City, Quebec, succeeding Régis Labeaume in the 2021 Quebec City municipal election.
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Aziz Rabbah
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Aziz Rabbah is a Moroccan politician from the Justice and Development Party. On 3 January 2012, he became Minister of Transportation and equipment in Abdelilah Benkirane's government.
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Sylvain Gaudreault
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sylvain Gaudreault is a Canadian politician and teacher. He was the Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Jonquière in the city of Saguenay from 2007 to 2022. He represents the Parti Québécois. On May 6, 2016, the party caucus chose him as interim leader following the resignation of PQ leader Pierre Karl Péladeau.
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Sylvie Bernier
- Occupations
- competitive diver
- Biography
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Sylvie Bernier, CM, CQ is an Olympic athlete from Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada. She won the gold medal in the Women's 3m Springboard Diving at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
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Pierre Moreau
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Pierre Moreau is a Canadian politician and former lawyer who serves as a senator for the Canadian province of Quebec.
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Alfred Pellan
- Occupations
- professormuralistpaintercostume designerillustrator
- Biography
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Alfred Pellan CC OQ RCA was an important figure in twentieth-century Canadian painting.
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Hélène Dorion
- Occupations
- poetmusicianessayistnovelistwriter
- Biography
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Hélène Dorion, OC CQ is a Canadian poet, and writer.
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Lawrence Cannon
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Lawrence Cannon, PC is a Canadian politician from Quebec and Prime Minister Stephen Harper's former Quebec lieutenant. In early 2006, he was made the Minister of Transport. On October 30, 2008, he relinquished oversight of Transport and was sworn in as Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was defeated in the 2011 federal election by the NDP's Mathieu Ravignat. He was appointed as Canadian Ambassador to France in May 2012, and he served in that position until September 2017.
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François Paradis
- Occupations
- politicianjournalisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Joseph Louis François Paradis is a Canadian politician who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in a byelection on October 20, 2014. He represents the electoral district of Lévis as a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec. After the 2018 Quebec general election Paradis was elected President of the National Assembly of Quebec.
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Sol Zanetti
- Enrolled in Laval University
- In 2005 graduated with bachelor's degree
- In 2017 graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- philosopherpoliticianpolitical candidateteacher
- Biography
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Sol Zanetti is a Quebec politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election. He represents the electoral district of Jean-Lesage as a member of Québec solidaire.
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Jacques Ferron
- Occupations
- short story writerpoliticianmedicplaywrightphysician writer
- Biography
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Jacques Ferron was a Canadian physician and author.
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Stephanie Harvey
- Enrolled in Laval University
- 2005-2008 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in architecture
- Occupations
- professional gamergame testerdirectorwriterTwitch streamer
- Biography
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Stephanie Harvey, also known by her in-game name missharvey, is a Canadian video game developer and retired professional gamer. She is best known as a Counter-Strike and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) player, having won five world championships. She formerly played for Counter Logic Gaming Red.
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Jacques-Édouard Alexis
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jacques-Édouard Alexis is a Haitian politician. He served as the prime minister of Haiti from 1999 to 2001 and was prime minister for a second term from 2006 to 2008 when he was dismissed due to political fallout from food riots.
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Naomi Fontaine
- Occupations
- writerpoetnovelistactor
- Biography
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Naomi Fontaine is a Canadian writer from Quebec, noted as one of the most prominent First Nations writers in contemporary francophone Canadian literature. She is a member of the Innu nation.
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Stéphane Bergeron
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Stéphane Bergeron MP is a Canadian politician. He currently serves as a Bloc Québécois member of the House of Commons of Canada since 2019 and previously served in that office from 1993 to 2005. He served as a Parti Québécois member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 2005 to 2018.
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Greg Rickford
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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David Gregory Rickford PC KC MPP is a Canadian politician. He is the Minister of Northern Development and Minister of Indigenous Affairs in the Executive Council of Ontario under Premier Doug Ford. He represents the Kenora—Rainy River riding in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
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Charles De Koninck
- Enrolled in Laval University
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- philosopheruniversity teachertheologian
- Biography
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Charles De Koninck MSRC was a Belgian-Canadian Thomist philosopher and theologian. As director of the Department of Philosophy at the Université Laval in Quebec, he influenced Catholic philosophy in French Canada and also influenced Catholic philosophers in English Canada and the United States. The author of many books and articles in French and English, he contributed to a variety of philosophical fields including natural philosophy, philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, and political philosophy, but he also wrote on theology, especially Mariology.
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Raymond Chrétien
- Occupations
- diplomatlawyer
- Biography
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Raymond A. J. Chrétien CC AdE is a Canadian lawyer and diplomat. He served as ambassador to the United States from 1994–2000. His uncle, Jean Chrétien, was the 20th prime minister from 1993 to 2003.
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Arnaud Gascon-Nadon
- Occupations
- Canadian football playergridiron football player
- Biography
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Arnaud Gascon-Nadon is a Canadian former professional football defensive lineman who played in the Canadian Football League (CFL) in 2018. He was selected 17th overall by the Tiger-Cats in the 2012 CFL Draft. After the 2011 CIS season, he was ranked as the 13th best player in the Canadian Football League's Amateur Scouting Bureau January rankings for players eligible in the 2012 CFL Draft, and ninth by players in Canadian Interuniversity Sport. Gascon-Nadon played CIS football with the Laval Rouge et Or and for the Rice University Owls in 2008.
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Raymond Malenfant
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Raymond Malenfant was a Canadian businessman.
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Pierre Harvey
- Occupations
- sport cyclistcross-country skier
- Biography
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Pierre Harvey, CM CQ is a Canadian sports athlete. He was the first Canadian male athlete to compete in both the 1984 Summer Olympics (road cycling) and 1984 Winter Olympics (cross-country skiing).
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Gérard Bouchard
- Enrolled in Laval University
- In 1968 graduated with laurea magistrale in sociology
- Occupations
- sociologistnovelistuniversity teacherwriterhistorian
- Biography
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Gérard Bouchard MSRC is a Canadian historian and sociologist affiliated with the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Born on 26 December 1943 in Jonquière, Quebec, he obtained his master's degree in sociology from Université Laval in 1968 and later obtained his PhD in history from the University of Paris in 1971. Bouchard had authored, co-authored, edited, or co-edited 26 books, and published 230 papers in scientific journals as of 2005.
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Andrée Boucher
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Andrée Plamondon Boucher was a Canadian politician from the province of Quebec. She was the mayor of Quebec City from November 19, 2005, until her death. Previously, she had been the mayor of the city of Sainte-Foy, formerly a suburb of Quebec City, from 1985 until 2001, when the cities of Sainte-Foy and Quebec were merged. She was the first woman to become leader of a municipal political party in the province of Quebec.
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Jocelyne Saucier
- Occupations
- writerjournalistnovelist
- Biography
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Jocelyne Saucier is a Canadian novelist and journalist based in Quebec.
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Marius Barbeau
- Occupations
- essayistwriterstorytelleranthropologistcollector of fairy tales
- Biography
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Charles Marius Barbeau, CC FRSC, also known as C. Marius Barbeau, or more commonly simply Marius Barbeau, was a Canadian ethnographer and folklorist who is today considered a founder of Canadian anthropology. A Rhodes Scholar, he is best known for an early championing of Québecois folk culture, and for his exhaustive cataloguing of the social organization, narrative and musical traditions, and plastic arts of the Tsimshianic-speaking peoples in British Columbia (Tsimshian, Gitxsan, and Nisga'a), and other Northwest Coast peoples. He developed unconventional theories about the peopling of the Americas.
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Alexandre Cloutier
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Alexandre Cloutier is a Canadian politician and lawyer. He was a member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Lac-Saint-Jean in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region from 2007 to 2018, representing the Parti Québécois.
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Claude Castonguay
- Occupations
- politicianactuary
- Biography
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Claude Castonguay, CC GOQ was a Canadian politician, educator, and businessman.
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Louis-Honoré Fréchette
- Occupations
- politicianplaywrightpoetwriteressayist
- Biography
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Louis-Honoré Fréchette CMG was a Canadian poet, politician, playwright and short story writer. For his prose, he would be the first Quebecois to receive the Prix Montyon from the Académie française, as well as the first Canadian to receive any honor of this kind from a European nation.
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Benoît Pelletier
- Enrolled in Laval University
- In 1981 graduated with law degree
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacherlawyer
- Biography
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Benoît Pelletier CM OQ FRSC was a Canadian lawyer, academic, and politician in the province of Quebec.
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Louise Beaudoin
- Enrolled in Laval University
- Graduated with master's degree in history
- Occupations
- teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Louise Beaudoin is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Rosemont in the National Assembly of Quebec until 2012, as a member of the Parti Québécois (PQ). She sat as an independent from June 6, 2011 to April 3, 2012. She is best known for her previous tenure as a Member of the National Assembly (MNA) of Chambly, from 1994 to 2003, when she occupied various ministerial positions.
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Pierre Duchesne
- Occupations
- notarypolitician
- Biography
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Pierre Duchesne is a Canadian public servant who was the 28th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec and former secretary general of the National Assembly of Quebec. As lieutenant governor he was the viceregal representative of Queen Elizabeth II of Canada in the Province of Quebec. His appointment was made by Governor General of Canada Michaëlle Jean, on the Constitutional advice of Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper, and announced on May 18, 2007.
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Éric Caire
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Éric Caire MNA is a Canadian politician who serves as a member of the National Assembly for the electoral district of La Peltrie.
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Louis Robichaud
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Louis Joseph Robichaud PC CC ONB QC, popularly known as "Little Louis" or "P'tit-Louis", was the second (but first elected) Acadian premier of New Brunswick, serving from 1960 to 1970.
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Boris Bede
- Occupations
- Canadian football playerAmerican football player
- Biography
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Boris Bede is a French professional Canadian football placekicker and punter who is a free agent. He most recently played for the Edmonton Elks of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He first enrolled at Tiffin University before transferring to Université Laval. Bede has been nicknamed "Boom Boom" for his strong leg on kickoffs and punts.
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Marc Tanguay
- Years
- 1973-.. (age 52)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Marc Tanguay MNA is a Canadian politician and a member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the LaFontaine electoral district.
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Jean Marchand
- Occupations
- trade unionistpolitician
- Biography
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Jean Marchand PC CC was a French Canadian public figure, trade unionist and politician in Quebec, Canada.
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Jean Tremblay
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jean Tremblay is a Canadian businessman and politician who was mayor of Saguenay, Quebec, Canada, from 2002 to 2017. Before that he was mayor of Chicoutimi since 1996.
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Richard Béliveau
- Occupations
- researcherbiochemistneuroscientistchemist
- Biography
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Richard Béliveau is currently the director of the Molecular Medicine Laboratory and a researcher in the Department of Neurosurgery at Notre-Dame Hospital. Additionally, he holds the Claude-Bertrand Chair in Neurosurgery at the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal.
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Laurent Dubreuil
- Occupations
- speed skater
- Biography
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Laurent Dubreuil is a Canadian speed skater. He competes primarily in the short distances of 500 m and 1000 m. Dubreuil won his first World Cup medal during the 2014–15 season when he placed third in the World Cup stop in Seoul. He won a bronze medal at the 2015 World Single Distance Championships and a silver medal in the 1000m at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
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Pierre Paul-Hus
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Pierre Paul-Hus MP is a Canadian politician, who was elected to represent the riding of Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 Canadian federal election.
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Élisabeth Vonarburg
- Occupations
- translatorshort story writerwriternovelistscience fiction writer
- Biography
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Élisabeth Vonarburg is a science fiction writer. She was born in Paris (France) and has lived in Chicoutimi (now Saguenay), Quebec, Canada since 1973.
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Christian Paradis
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Christian Paradis PC is a Canadian politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Mégantic—L'Érable from 2006 to 2015. A member of the Conservative Party of Canada, he was first elected in the 2006 federal election and served as parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Natural Resources until January 4, 2007, when he was appointed Secretary of State for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the Rural Secretariat. On June 25, 2008, Paradis was appointed Minister of Public Works and Government Services, retaining his position as Secretary of State for Agriculture until October that same year. On October 30, 2008, in a cabinet shuffle following the election, he retained the Public Works portfolio. In addition, he succeeded Lawrence Cannon as Quebec Lieutenant. On January 19, 2010, in a cabinet shuffle, Prime Minister Harper appointed him Minister of Natural Resources. On May 18, 2011, in a cabinet shuffle he was appointed to be the Minister of Industry. On July 15, 2013, in a cabinet shuffle, he was appointed as Minister of International Development and Minister for La Francophonie.
