100 Notable alumni of
University of Montreal
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The University of Montreal is 240th in the world, 103rd in North America, and 4th in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Montreal sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Pierre Trudeau
- Occupations
- memoiristpoliticianlawyerjournalistdiarist
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Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau PC CC CH QC FRSC was a Canadian politician, statesman, and lawyer who served as the 15th prime minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1984. Between his non-consecutive terms as prime minister, he served as the leader of the Opposition from 1979 to 1980.
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Michael Mando
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- film actorwritertelevision actoractor
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Michael Mando is a Canadian actor and singer. He played Nacho Varga on the AMC series Better Call Saul (2015–2022), Vaas Montenegro in the video game franchise Far Cry (2012, 2021), Vic Schmidt in the sci-fi series Orphan Black (2013–2014), and Mac Gargan in Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017). He is a two-time Canadian Screen Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nominee.
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Sophie Grégoire
- Occupations
- journalistmodel
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Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, also known as Sophie Grégoire, is a Canadian retired television host. She was married to 23rd prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau; the couple separated in 2023. She is involved in charity work, social work, and public speaking focused mainly on the environment, women's issues, and children's issues. She was an ambassador for the WE Charity, which fell into scandal in 2020.
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Jean-Marc Vallée
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm screenwriterfilm producerfilm actorfilm director
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Jean-Marc Vallée OC OQ was a Canadian filmmaker, film editor, and screenwriter. After studying film at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Vallée went on to make a number of critically acclaimed short films, including Stéréotypes (1991), Les Fleurs magiques (1995), and Les Mots magiques (1998).
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Mélanie Joly
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Mélanie Joly PC MP is a Canadian politician and lawyer who has served as minister of Foreign Affairs since October 2021. A member of the Liberal Party, Joly represents the Montreal-area riding of Ahuntsic-Cartierville in the House of Commons, taking office as a member of Parliament (MP) following the 2015 federal election. She has held a number of portfolios including Canadian heritage, tourism, and La Francophonie. Joly ran for mayor of Montreal in the 2013 Montreal municipal election, placing second behind eventual winner Denis Coderre.
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Hubert Reeves
- Occupations
- university teacherscience communicatorastrophysicistenvironmentalist
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Hubert Reeves CC GOQ was a Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science.
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Joseph Wiseman
- Occupations
- stage actorfilm actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Joseph Wiseman was a Canadian-American theatre, film, and television actor. He starred as the villain Julius No in the first James Bond film, Dr. No, in 1962. He was also known for his role as crime boss Manny Weisbord on the television series Crime Story and his lengthy career on Broadway, where he was once called "the spookiest actor in the American theatre".
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Michaëlle Jean
- Occupations
- politicianjournalistnews presenter
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Michaëlle Jean PC CC CMM CD FRCPSC is a Canadian former journalist who served as the 27th governor general of Canada from 2005 to 2010. She is the first Haitian Canadian and black person to hold this office.
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Mathieu Bock-Côté
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- columnistessayist
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Mathieu Bock-Côté, often referred to by his initials MBC, is a Canadian sociologist, essayist, writer, public intellectual, and conservative political commentator who resides in Paris, where he appears as a television and radio personality.
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Maurice Duplessis
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis, QC byname "Le Chef" ([lə ʃɛf], "The Boss"), was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 16th premier of Quebec. A conservative, nationalist, populist, anti-communist, anti-unionist and fervent Catholic, Duplessis and his party, the Union Nationale, dominated provincial politics from the 1920s to the 1950s. With a total of 18 years and 82 days in office, he remains the longest-serving premier in Quebec history.
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Ian J. Goodfellow
- Enrolled in the University of Montreal
- In 2014 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- information scientistcomputer scientistartificial intelligence researcher
- Biography
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Ian J. Goodfellow is an American computer scientist, engineer, and executive, most noted for his work on artificial neural networks and deep learning. He is a research scientist at Google DeepMind, was previously employed as a research scientist at Google Brain and director of machine learning at Apple as well as one of the first employees at OpenAI, and has made several important contributions to the field of deep learning, including the invention of the generative adversarial network (GAN). Goodfellow co-wrote, as the first author, the textbook Deep Learning (2016) and wrote the chapter on deep learning in the authoritative textbook of the field of artificial intelligence, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (used in more than 1,500 universities in 135 countries).
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Roman Frayssinet
- Occupations
- stand-up comedianactorcomedian
- Biography
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Roman Frayssinet in Chevilly-Larue, is a French actor and comedian.
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Yves-François Blanchet
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Yves-François Blanchet MP is a Canadian politician who has led the Bloc Québécois (BQ) since 2019. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Beloeil—Chambly since the 2019 federal election.
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Philippe Couillard
- Occupations
- politicianneurosurgeon
- Biography
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Philippe Couillard PC is a Canadian business advisor and former neurosurgeon, university professor and politician who served as 31st premier of Quebec from 2014 to 2018. Between 2003 and 2008, he was Quebec's Minister of Health and Social Services in Jean Charest's Liberal government and was MNA for Mont-Royal until he resigned in 2008. In the 2014 election, Couillard moved to the riding of Roberval, where he resides. He was the leader of the Quebec Liberal Party from 2013 to 2018. He resigned as Liberal leader and MNA on October 4, 2018.
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Gilbert Rozon
- Occupations
- television presentertalent manager
- Biography
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Gilbert Rozon is a Canadian businessman and founder of the Just for Laughs (French: Juste pour Rire) comedy festival, which he created on July 14, 1982. He is also responsible for the development and international deployment of the Just for Laughs/Juste pour Rire brand in over 150 countries. The Just for Laughs festival is considered the largest comedy festival in the world.
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Valérie Plante
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Valérie Plante is a Canadian politician serving as the 45th and current mayor of Montreal since 2017. First elected to Montreal City Council in the 2013 election, she has served as leader of the Projet Montréal party since December 2016.
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Patrice Désilets
- Occupations
- creative directorgame designer
- Biography
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Patrice Désilets is a Canadian game designer best known for creating the Assassin's Creed series. He served as creative director for Assassin's Creed, Assassin's Creed II, and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. He is also known for being the director of Ubisoft's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. In 2014, he founded the Montreal-based indie studio Panache Digital Games, where he worked on the game Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey.
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Denys Arcand
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- film directorfilm produceractorscreenwriterdirector
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Georges-Henri Denys Arcand CC GOQ RCA is a Canadian filmmaker. During his four decades career, he became one of the most internationally-recognized director from Quebec, earning widespread acclaim and numerous accolades for his "intensely personal, challenging, and intellectual films."
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Manon Massé
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Manon Massé MNA is a Canadian politician in Quebec and was one of co-spokespersons for Québec solidaire from 2017 to 2023. She has represented Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques in the National Assembly of Quebec since the 2014 general election. Before her time in political office, she was a community organizer and one of the co-founders for the political movement Option citoyenne.
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Pierre Laporte
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- politicianjournalistlawyer
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Pierre Laporte was a Canadian lawyer, journalist and politician. He was deputy premier of the province of Quebec when he was kidnapped and murdered by members of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) during the October Crisis.
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Robert Bourassa
- Occupations
- politicianeconomistlawyernon-fiction writer
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Robert Bourassa GOQ was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 22nd premier of Quebec from 1970 to 1976 and from 1985 to 1994. A member of the Liberal Party of Quebec, he served a total of just under 15 years as premier. Bourassa's tenure was marked by major events affecting Quebec, including the October Crisis and the Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords.
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Pauline Marois
- Occupations
- 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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Pierre Karl Péladeau
- Enrolled in the University of Montreal
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politicianchairman of the executive boardbusinesspersonchief executive officer
- Biography
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Pierre Karl Péladeau OQ, also known by his initials PKP, is a Canadian businessman, billionaire and former politician. He was also the MNA (Member of the National Assembly) for Saint-Jérôme. Péladeau is the president and CEO of Quebecor Inc. He used to own Sun Media Corporation. Péladeau is seen as a "strong Quebec nationalist" and an influential businessman in 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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Kim Thúy
- Occupations
- authorrestaurateurnovelistlawyerwriter
- Biography
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Kim Thúy Ly Thanh, CM CQ is a Vietnamese-born Canadian writer. Kim Thúy was born in Vietnam in 1968. At the age of 10 she left Vietnam along with a wave of refugees commonly referred to in the media as “the boat people” and settled with her family in Quebec, Canada. A graduate in translation and law, she has worked as a seamstress, interpreter, lawyer, and restaurant owner. The author has received many awards, including the Governor General’s Literary Award in 2010, and was one of the top 4 finalists of the Alternative Nobel Prize in 2018. Her books have sold more than 850,000 copies around the world and have been translated into 31 languages and distributed across 43 countries and territories. Kim Thúy lives in Montreal where she devotes her time to writing.
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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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Denise Bombardier
- Occupations
- political scientistsociologisttelevision presenterwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Denise Bombardier CM CQ was a Canadian journalist, essayist, novelist and media personality who worked for the French-language television network Radio-Canada for over 30 years.
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Bruce Xiaoyu Liu
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Bruce Liu is a Canadian pianist. Born in Paris and raised in Montreal, he began to play the piano at eight years old and was performing by the age of eleven. In 2021, he rose to widespread renown after winning the XVIII International Chopin Piano Competition.
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Denis Coderre
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Denis Coderre PC is a Canadian politician from Quebec. Coderre was the member of Parliament for the riding of Bourassa from 1997 until 2013, and was the Immigration minister from 2002 to 2003 and became the mayor of Montreal in 2013, but lost in 2017 to Valérie Plante. In the 2021 Montreal municipal election, he was defeated once again by Plante.
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Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois is a politician from Canada. He is the co-spokesperson of the left-wing party Québec solidaire since May 21, 2017, and was elected as a member of the provincial legislative assembly on May 29, 2017. Before his arrival in active politics, he was well known for his role during the 2012 Quebec student protests as co-spokesperson of the Coalition large de l'Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante (CLASSE), a broad coalition of student associations opposed to the $1,625 tuition hike introduced by Jean Charest's government. He quit that position on August 9, 2012.
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Mireia Boya Busquet
- Enrolled in the University of Montreal
- Graduated with Doctor
- Occupations
- documentary filmmakerenvironmental scientistteacherpolitician
- Biography
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Mireia Boya Busquet is a Catalan scientist, activist, and politician from Spain. She is a councilor of the Aran municipality of Les. Since February 2018 she has been part of the national secretariat of the Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP). She was a member of the Catalan Parliament from 2016 to 2017.
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Janette Bertrand
- Occupations
- actorscreenwriterwriterjournalistplaywright
- Biography
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Janette Bertrand CC CQ is a Quebec journalist, actress, educator, and writer.
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Gilles Duceppe
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- trade unionistpolitician
- Biography
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Gilles Duceppe is a Canadian retired politician, proponent of the Quebec sovereignty movement and former leader of the Bloc Québécois. He was a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada for over 20 years and was the leader of the sovereigntist Bloc Québécois for 15 years in three stints: 1996, 1997–2011 and in 2015. He was Leader of the Official Opposition in the Parliament of Canada from March 17, 1997, to June 1, 1997. He resigned as party leader after the 2011 election, in which he lost his own seat to New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate Hélène Laverdière and his party suffered a heavy defeat; however, he returned four years later to lead the party into the 2015 election. After being defeated in his own riding by Laverdière again, he resigned once more.
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Éric Duhaime
- Occupations
- columnistpoliticianjournalistradio personality
- Biography
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Éric Duhaime is a Canadian conservative columnist, radio host, and politician serving as leader of the Conservative Party of Quebec since April 17, 2021. During his radio career, he has been associated with radio poubelle, a style of provocative right-wing radio popular in Quebec City.
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François-Philippe Champagne
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- politicianjuristlawyer
- Biography
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François-Philippe Champagne PC MP is a Canadian politician who has been Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry since 2021. He was formerly the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2019 to 2021. He was elected to represent the riding of Saint-Maurice—Champlain in the House of Commons in the 2015 election for the Liberal Party. He became Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry on January 12, 2021, after a cabinet reshuffle.
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Louise Arbour
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- university teacherlawyerdiplomatjudge
- Biography
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Louise Arbour, CC, GOQ is a Canadian lawyer, prosecutor and jurist.
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Henry Morgentaler
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- physician
- Biography
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Henekh "Henry" Morgentaler CM, was a Polish-born Canadian physician, and abortion rights advocate who fought numerous legal battles aimed at expanding abortion rights in Canada. As a Jewish youth during World War II, Morgentaler was imprisoned at the Łódź Ghetto and later at the Dachau concentration camp.
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Steven Guilbeault
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- politicianenvironmentalist
- Biography
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Steven Guilbeault PC MP is a Canadian politician and activist who has served as Minister of Environment and Climate Change since October 26, 2021. A member of the Liberal Party, Guilbeault has sat as a member of Parliament (MP) since the 2019 federal election, representing the Montreal riding of Laurier–Sainte-Marie in the House of Commons. Guilbeault was previously the minister of Canadian heritage from 2019 to 2021.
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Bernard Landry
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- politicianeconomistlawyertelevision presenter
- Biography
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Bernard Landry GOQ was a Canadian politician who served as the 28th premier of Quebec from 2001 to 2003. A member of the Parti Québécois (PQ), he led the party from 2001 to 2005, also serving as the leader of the Opposition from 2003 to 2005.
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Georges Vanier
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- politicianmilitary personnellawyerdiplomat
- Biography
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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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Jean Drapeau
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- Mayor of Montreallawyer
- Biography
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Jean Drapeau CC GOQ was a Canadian politician who served as mayor of Montreal for 2 non-consecutive terms from 1954 to 1957 and from 1960 to 1986. Major accomplishments of the Drapeau Administration include the development of the Montreal Metro entirely underground mass transit subway system running on 'whisper quiet' rubber wheels, a successful international exposition Expo 67 as well as the construction of a major performing arts centre, the Place des Arts. Drapeau also secured the hosting of the 1976 Summer Olympics and was instrumental in building the Olympic Stadium and then world's tallest inclined tower. Drapeau was responsible for securing a Major League Baseball franchise, with the creation of the Montreal Expos in 1969. Drapeau's main legacy is Montreal's attainment of global status under his administration. He was the longest serving mayor of Montreal.
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Galatea Bellugi
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Galatea Bellugi is a French actress.
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Alexandra Stréliski
- Occupations
- music interpretercomposer
- Biography
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Alexandra Stréliski is a Canadian neo-classical composer and pianist based in Quebec. She has released three albums: Pianoscope, Inscape (2018) and Néo-Romance (2023).
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Nzanga Mobutu
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nzanga Mobutu is a Congolese politician. A son of the long-time President Mobutu Sese Seko, he served in the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2007 to 2011, initially as Minister of State for Agriculture and subsequently as Deputy Prime Minister for Basic Social Needs and Deputy Prime Minister for Labor, Employment and Social Security. He received the fourth-highest number of votes in the 2006 presidential election. In 2007, Nzanga founded the Union of Mobutist Democrats as the successor to his father's Popular Movement of the Revolution and has led the party since.
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Marc Miller
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Marc Miller PC MP is a Canadian politician who was elected to represent the riding of Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Sœurs in the House of Commons in the 2015 election. A member of the Liberal Party of Canada, he currently serves as Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship in the Federal Cabinet following the swearing in of a new cabinet on July 26, 2023. He previously served as the Minister of Crown Indigenous Relations, starting on October 26, 2021.
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Jean Coutu
- Years
- 1910-..
- Biography
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Jean Coutu, OC OQ is a Canadian pharmacist and businessman. He is the founder and chairman of the Jean Coutu Group which he started in 1969. With an estimated net worth of $US 2.3 billion (as of 2015), Coutu was ranked by Forbes as the 22nd wealthiest Canadian and 938th wealthiest person in the world.
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Anne Robillard
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Anne Robilard is a Canadian novelist, best known as the author of the Knights of Emerald heroic fantasy series. The Knights of Emerald books have known an enormous attention in French-speaking countries, such as France, and especially Canada, more than a million copies having been sold, only in Quebec. They are being translated into English, and the few ones now available in that language have already known success. The series counts 12 books, and is followed by another series, called the "Enkidiev Inheritors", which has also become very famous in a short period of time.
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Jan Grabowski
- Occupations
- university teacherhistorianhistorian of Modern Age
- Biography
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Jan Zbigniew Grabowski is a Polish-Canadian professor of history at the University of Ottawa, specializing in Jewish–Polish relations in German-occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust in Poland.
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Amir Khadir
- Enrolled in the University of Montreal
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in physics
- 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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Kim Nguyen
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directorfilm screenwriterfilm producer
- Biography
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Kim Nguyen is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for his 2012 film War Witch (Rebelle) which received numerous honours including an Academy Awards nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Roger Guillemin
- Enrolled in the University of Montreal
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- physiologistphysicianendocrinologistuniversity teacherbiochemist
- Biography
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Roger Charles Louis Guillemin was a French-American neuroscientist. He received the National Medal of Science in 1976, and the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1977 for his work on neurohormones, sharing the prize that year with Andrew Schally and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow.
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Paul Piché
- Occupations
- singer-songwriter
- Biography
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Paul Piché is a Canadian singer-songwriter, environmentalist and political activist
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Claude Meunier
- Occupations
- actorscreenwriterfilm directorwriterplaywright
- Biography
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Claude Meunier OC is a Canadian actor, dramaturge, comedian and film director.
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Lucille Teasdale-Corti
- Occupations
- surgeonphysician
- Biography
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Lucille Teasdale-Corti CM GOQ was a Canadian physician and pediatric surgeon, who worked in Uganda from 1961 until her death in 1996. Despite considerable hardship, including civil war and the AIDS epidemic, she cofounded with her husband a university hospital in the north of Uganda.
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Patrick Pichette
- Occupations
- businesspersonchief financial officer
- Biography
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Patrick Pichette CQ is a Canadian business executive and venture capitalist who was the senior vice president and the chief financial officer of Google from 2008 until 2015. He then became a venture capital fund manager, and is a director for several companies and a foundation.
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Pierre Péladeau
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Pierre Péladeau CM OQ was a Canadian businessman. He was the founder of Quebecor Inc., a Canadian media and telecommunications conglomerate in Quebec.
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Daniel Johnson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Francis Daniel Johnson Sr. PC was a Canadian politician and the 20th premier of Quebec from 1966 to his death in 1968.
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Mohsen Hashemi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mohsen Hashemi Rafsanjani is an Iranian politician, academic and engineer who served as a member and was chairman of the City Council of Tehran from 2017 to 2021. He was the deputy director of Iran's Islamic Azad University from 2013 until 2017 and chairman and CEO of Tehran Metro for 13 years. He was the main reformist member candidate for the fourth period of the Tehran city council in 2013 as Tehran Mayor, but lost to Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. In 2017, he was elected as a city councilor and later was elected as chairman of the council.
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Gaston Miron
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Gaston Miron OQ was an important Canadian poet, writer, and editor of Quebec's Quiet Revolution. His classic L'homme rapaillé (partly translated as The March to Love: Selected Poems of Gaston Miron, whose title echoes his celebrated poem La marche à l'amour) has sold over 100,000 copies and is one of the most widely read texts of the Quebecois literary canon. Committed to his people's separation from Canada and to the establishment of an independent French-speaking nation in North America, Gaston Miron remains the most important literary figure of Quebec's nationalist movement.
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Sophie Thibault
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- journalisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Sophie Thibault CQ is a Quebec journalist and television reporter for the TVA network.
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Gaétan Barrette
- Occupations
- politicianphysicianradiologist
- Biography
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Gaétan Barrette is a Canadian politician in Quebec, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2014 election. He represented the electoral district of La Pinière as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party until retiring from politics at the 2022 Quebec general election.
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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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Danielle McCann
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 72)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Danielle McCann is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election. She represents the electoral district of Sanguinet as a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec and is the former Minister of Health.
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Nadia Kounda
- Enrolled in the University of Montreal
- Studied film studies
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Nadia Kounda is a Moroccan film actress.
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Natalie Choquette
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Natalie Choquette is a French Canadian soprano.
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Michel Jean
- Occupations
- writerjournalisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Michel Jean is a Canadian television journalist and author. He was the weekend anchor of TVA Nouvelles on TVA until retiring from the network in 2024, and was formerly an anchor on TVA's newsmagazine JE and for the 24-hour news channel RDI.
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Françoise David
- Enrolled in the University of Montreal
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in social work
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Françoise David CQ is a former spokesperson of Québec solidaire – a left-wing, feminist, and sovereigntist political party in the province of Quebec, Canada. She was elected to serve as the Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Gouin in the 2012 Quebec election, and then again in the 2014 Quebec election. Quebec Solidaire was born from the merger of Option Citoyenne with l'Union des Forces Progressistes. She is the author of the book/manifesto Bien commun recherché – une option citoyenne (over 7,000 copies sold in Quebec) which attempts to combine the concepts of "common good", social justice, ecology and economic democracy into a coherent political doctrine. On January 19, 2017, Françoise David announced her immediate retirement as both party spokesperson and as a Member of the National Assembly due to her health.
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Daniel Johnson
- Occupations
- businesspersonpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Daniel Johnson Jr. GOQ is a former Canadian politician. He was a member of the Liberal Party of Quebec and was the 25th premier of Quebec for nine months in 1994 until his party's defeat in the provincial general election.
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Alexandre Boulerice
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Alexandre Boulerice MP is a Canadian politician who has represented the riding of Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie in the House of Commons of Canada as a member of the New Democratic Party (NDP) since the 2011 election. He is currently the NDP's Quebec lieutenant and ethics critic. Boulerice was appointed as the Deputy Leader of the New Democratic Party on March 11, 2019, by party leader Jagmeet Singh. As of the 2019 federal election, Boulerice is the only NDP MP from Quebec and since the 2021 federal election, he is the only NDP MP from any province east of Ontario.
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Hubert Aquin
- Occupations
- editing staffnovelistfilm directorwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Hubert Aquin was a Quebec writer, filmmaker and intellectual. He is particularly known for his novel Next Episode. He is also an important figure in the history of the Quebec independence movement, to which he contributed both as an activist and as an essayist. Tempted by suicide for a great part of his existence, he ended his life in 1977 in the gardens of Villa Maria College.
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Gérald Tremblay
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Gérald Tremblay is a former Canadian politician and businessman who served as mayor of Montreal from 2002 until his resignation in 2012. He also served as president of the Montreal Metropolitan Community. Before becoming mayor he had a long career in business and management. Tremblay resigned as Mayor on November 5, 2012, following allegations of corruption made at the Charbonneau Commission.
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Paul Gérin-Lajoie
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Paul Gérin-Lajoie, CC GOQ QC was a Canadian lawyer, philanthropist, and a former member of the National Assembly of Quebec and Cabinet Minister.
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Sylvie Fréchette
- Occupations
- swimmerpoliticiansynchronized swimmer
- Biography
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Sylvie Fréchette, MSC is a Canadian former synchronised swimmer. She is the 1992 Olympic champion in the women's solo event.
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Roch Carrier
- Occupations
- short story writerwriterstorytellerplaywrightchildren's writer
- Biography
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Roch Carrier OC FRSC is a French Canadian novelist and author of "contes" (a very brief form of the short story). He is among the best known Quebec writers in English Canada.
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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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Gilles Brassard
- Occupations
- engineercryptographercomputer scientist
- Biography
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Gilles Brassard is a faculty member of the Université de Montréal, where he has been a Full Professor since 1988 and Canada Research Chair since 2001.
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Pierre-Marc Johnson
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- university teacherpoliticianlawyernon-fiction writer
- Biography
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Pierre Marc Johnson GOQ is a Canadian lawyer, physician and politician. He was the 24th premier of Quebec from October 3 to December 12, 1985, making him the province's shortest-serving premier, and the first Baby Boomer to hold the office.
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Paul Sauvé
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Joseph-Mignault-Paul Sauvé was a Canadian lawyer, World War II veteran, and politician. He was the 17th premier of Quebec in 1959 and 1960.
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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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Claude Ryan
- Occupations
- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Claude Ryan CC GOQ was a Canadian journalist and politician. He was the director of the newspaper Le Devoir from 1964 to 1978, leader of the Quebec Liberal Party from 1978 to 1982, National Assembly of Quebec member for Argenteuil from 1979 to 1994 and Minister of Education from 1985 to 1989.
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Arlette Cousture
- Occupations
- opinion journalistjournalistscreenwriterradio employeewriter
- Biography
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Arlette Cousture, OC CQ is a Canadian writer. She writes historical fiction, often depicting the lives of women in Quebec. Many of her novels have become best-sellers in the French language.
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Sonia LeBel
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sonia LeBel MNA is a Canadian politician who was elected for the Coalition Avenir Québec to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election. She represents the electoral district of Champlain as a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec.
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Diane Lamarre
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Diane Lamarre, C.M., M.Sc., D.h.c. is a Canadian pharmacist and politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2014 election. She represented the electoral district of Taillon as a member of the Parti Québécois until her defeat in the 2018 election.
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Jean-Jacques Bertrand
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Jean-Jacques Bertrand was a Canadian politician and lawyer who served as the 21st premier of Quebec, from October 2, 1968, to May 12, 1970. He led the Union Nationale party.
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Murray Rankin
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Murray Rankin KC is a Canadian lawyer, politician and public law expert who served as British Columbia's Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation from 2020 until 2024. A member of the New Democratic Party, Rankin represented the riding of Oak Bay-Gordon Head in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 2020 until 2024. Rankin previously served as the federal Member of Parliament for Victoria from 2012 to 2019, with senior roles including Justice and Attorney General Critic, Health Critic, and NDP House Leader. From 2019 to 2020, Rankin was head of Canada's National Security and Intelligence Review Agency (NSIRA), overseeing all national security and intelligence activities carried out by the Government of Canada. Previously, he was a professor of law at the University of Victoria, where he taught environmental and administrative law.
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Maria Mourani
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Maria Mourani is a Canadian politician who was elected as a Member of Parliament in the federal riding of Ahuntsic in Canada. She was formerly a member of the Bloc Québécois before leaving the party over its support for the proposed Quebec Charter of Values. She joined the New Democratic Party in November 2014 but was not a member of the party's caucus due to the party's policy against crossing the floor; she stood for the NDP in the 2015 Canadian federal election, but did not win. Mourani was the first woman of Lebanese origin elected to the Canadian House of Commons. In 2017, she became the Quebec representative in the Permanent Delegation of Canada at UNESCO.
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Katerine Savard
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Katerine Savard is a Canadian former competitive swimmer who specializes in women's butterfly events and freestyle relay. She holds several Canadian national records in the butterfly over the 50-, 100-, and 200-metre distances in both the short and long courses. Savard also holds the Canadian junior butterfly record in the 200-metre event. She won the gold medal at the 100-metre butterfly event at the 2013 Summer Universiade, held in Kazan. Savard also won gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in the 100-metre butterfly in Glasgow, where she set the Commonwealth record in the process. At the same games, she won a bronze medal as a member of the women's 4×100-metre medley relay team.
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Gilles Proulx
- Enrolled in the University of Montreal
- In 1973 graduated with Master of Arts in study of history
- Occupations
- television presenterauthorradio personality
- Biography
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Gilles Proulx is a Canadian radio and television host in the province of Quebec. His radio career began in 1962, notably working for CHMP-FM and currently for Quebecor and Radio Ville-Marie. A strong Quebec nationalist, known for his conservative views and criticism of the anglophone community, he’s published 153 opinion columns in the Le Journal de Montréal as of 2020.
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Stéphane Gendron
- Occupations
- politiciantelevision presenterradio personality
- Biography
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Stéphane Gendron was the mayor of Huntingdon, Quebec, Canada, from 2003 to 2013 and a radio host, a television host and a political analyst for several media outlets.
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Sylvain Charlebois
- Occupations
- writerresearchereconomist
- Biography
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Sylvain Charlebois is a Canadian professor and researcher of food distribution and policy at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is a former dean of the university's Faculty of Management.
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Lawrence Cannon
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- 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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Laurence Freeman
- Occupations
- monkpriest
- Biography
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Laurence Freeman OSB is an English Benedictine monk and Catholic priest. He belongs to the Monastery of Sta Maria di Pilastrello, in Italy, of the Congregation of Monte Oliveto Maggiore. He is the Director of the World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM), Prior of its Benedictine Oblate community and also Director of Bonnevaux, the International centre of the WCCM in France.
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Camille Laurin
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- psychiatristpolitician
- Biography
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Camille Laurin was a psychiatrist and Parti Québécois (PQ) politician in the Canadian province of Quebec. A MNA member for the riding of Bourget, he is considered the father of Quebec's language law known informally as "Bill 101".
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Lomer Gouin
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Sir Jean Lomer Gouin, KCMG PC was a Canadian politician. He served as 13th premier of Quebec, as a Cabinet minister in the federal government of Canada, and as the 15th lieutenant governor of Quebec.
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Stephanie Harvey
- Enrolled in the University of Montreal
- 2008-2009 studied game design
- 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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Joseph Facal
- Occupations
- politiciansociologist
- Biography
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Joseph Facal is a Canadian politician, academic, and journalist in the province of Quebec. He was a Parti Québécois member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1994 to 2003 and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Lucien Bouchard and Bernard Landry.
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Serge Laprade
- Occupations
- television presenteractorradio personality
- Biography
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Serge Laprade was a Canadian singer and host on a number of Quebec radio and television stations.
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Monique Jérôme-Forget
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Monique Jérôme-Forget is a psychologist and a former Quebec politician. She was the Member of National Assembly (MNA) for the riding of Marguerite-Bourgeois in the Montreal region as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party between 1998 and 2009. With the government in power she was the Finance Minister from 2007 to 2009, the President of the Treasury Board and the Minister of government services and the Minister responsible of the government administration from 2003 to 2008.
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Louise Fréchette
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Louise Fréchette OC is a Canadian diplomat and public servant who served for eight years as United Nations Deputy Secretary-General. She also served a three-year term at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, an international relations and policy think-tank in Waterloo, Ontario, working on a major research project on nuclear energy and the world's security.
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Ezzedine Choukri Fishere
- Occupations
- writernovelistacademic
- Biography
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Ezzedine Choukri Fishere is an Egyptian novelist, diplomat and academic.
