100 Notable alumni of
University of Montreal
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The University of Montreal is 240th in the world, 104th in North America, and 5th 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
- memoiristlawyerjournalistpoliticianjudge
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Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau was a Canadian lawyer and politician 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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- television actorwriterfilm actoractor
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Michael Mando is a Canadian actor. 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
- modeljournalist
- Biography
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Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, also known as Sophie Grégoire, is a Canadian retired television host. She is 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
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- film directorfilm actorfilm producerfilm screenwriterscreenwriter
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Jean-Marc Vallée 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
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- politicianinternational forum participantlawyer
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Mélanie Joly 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
- environmentalistastrophysicistscience communicatoruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Hubert Reeves was a Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science.
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Michaëlle Jean
- Occupations
- journalistpoliticiannews presenter
- Biography
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Michaëlle Jean is a Canadian stateswoman and former journalist who served from 2005 to 2010 as governor general of Canada, the 27th since Canadian Confederation. She is the first Haitian Canadian and black person to hold this office.
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Joseph Wiseman
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- film actorstage actortelevision actor
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Joseph Wiseman was a Canadian-American theatre, film, and television actor who starred as the villain Julius No in the first James Bond film, Dr. No, in 1962. Wiseman was also known for his role as Manny Weisbord on the TV series Crime Story and his career on Broadway. He was once called "the spookiest actor in the American theatre".
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Maurice Duplessis
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- politicianlawyer
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Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis,, byname "Le Chef" ("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 1930s 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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Mathieu Bock-Côté
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- opinion journalistcolumnistsociologistessayist
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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 currently resides in Paris, where he appears as a television and radio personality.
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Ian J. Goodfellow
- Enrolled in the University of Montreal
- In 2014 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- computer scientistinformation 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 was previously employed as a research scientist at Google Brain and director of machine learning at Apple 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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Philippe Couillard
- Occupations
- politicianinternational forum participantneurosurgeon
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Philippe Couillard 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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Yves-François Blanchet
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Yves-François Blanchet is a Canadian politician and the leader of the Bloc Québécois (BQ) since 2019. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Beloeil—Chambly since the 2019 election.
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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, 1983. 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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Roman Frayssinet
- Occupations
- comedianactorstand-up comedian
- Biography
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Roman Frayssinet in Chevilly-Larue, is a French actor and comedian.
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Patrice Désilets
- Occupations
- game designercreative director
- 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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Manon Massé
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Manon Massé 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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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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Denys Arcand
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- film actordirectorscreenwriteractorfilm producer
- Biography
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Georges-Henri Denys Arcand is a French Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. His film The Barbarian Invasions won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2004. His films have also been nominated three further times, including two nominations in the same category for The Decline of the American Empire in 1986 and Jesus of Montreal in 1989, becoming the only French-Canadian director in history whose films have received this number of nominations and, subsequently, to have a film win the award. For The Barbarian Invasions, he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, losing to Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation.
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Pierre Laporte
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- journalistpoliticianlawyer
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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
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- lawyereconomistpoliticiannon-fiction writer
- Biography
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Robert Bourassa 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
- international forum participantpolitician
- 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
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Pierre Karl Péladeau, also known by his initials PKP, is a Canadian businessman, billionaire and former politician. He was also the MNA 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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- university teacherLatin Catholic bishopCatholic priest
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Marc Armand Ouellet is a Canadian prelate of the Catholic Church. He was the prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops and president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America from 2010 to 2023.
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David Saint-Jacques
- Occupations
- physicistastronautastrophysicistphysician
- Biography
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David Saint-Jacques is a Canadian astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). He is also an astrophysicist, engineer, and a physician.
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Kim Thúy
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 56)
- Occupations
- lawyerrestaurateurnovelistwriter
- Biography
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Kim Thúy Ly Thanh, CQ is a Vietnamese-born Canadian writer, whose debut novel Ru won the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 2010 Governor General's Awards.
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Denise Bombardier
- Occupations
- writertelevision presentersociologistpolitical scientistjournalist
- Biography
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Denise Bombardier 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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Mireia Boya Busquet
- Enrolled in the University of Montreal
- Graduated with Doctor
- Occupations
- environmental scientistdocumentary filmmakerpoliticianteacher
- 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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Denis Coderre
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Denis Coderre 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 2021, he was defeated once again by Valérie Plante after a second mayoral race. He has been an administrator of Eurostar since 2018 and special advisor for the FIA since 2019.
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Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois is a politician from Quebec, Canada. With Manon Massé, 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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Gilles Duceppe
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- politiciantrade unionist
- Biography
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Gilles Duceppe is a retired Canadian 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
- radio personalityjournalist
- 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.
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Louise Arbour
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- diplomatlawyeruniversity teacherjudgeinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Louise Arbour, CC, GOQ is a Canadian lawyer, prosecutor and jurist.
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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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Janette Bertrand
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- writerscreenwriteractorplaywrightjournalist
- Biography
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Janette Bertrand is a Quebec journalist, actress, educator, and writer.
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François-Philippe Champagne
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- politicianlawyerjurist
- Biography
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François-Philippe Champagne 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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Henry Morgentaler
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Henekh "Henry" Morgentaler, 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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Bernard Landry
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- lawyereconomistpoliticiantelevision presenter
- Biography
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Bernard Landry 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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Steven Guilbeault
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- environmentalist
- Biography
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Steven Guilbeault 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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Georges Vanier
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- lawyermilitary personnelpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Georges-Philias Vanier was a Canadian military officer and diplomat who served as governor general of Canada, the first Quebecer and second Canadian-born person to hold the position.
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Jean Drapeau
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- lawyerMayor of Montreal
- Biography
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Jean Drapeau 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.
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Alexandra Stréliski
- Occupations
- composermusic interpreter
- 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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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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Nzanga Mobutu
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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François-Joseph Mobutu Nzanga Ngbangawe 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 under President Joseph Kabila from 2007 to 2011, initially as Minister of State for Agriculture and subsequently as Deputy Prime Minister for Basic Social Needs. He was dismissed from the government in March 2011. In 2008, he 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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Kim Nguyen
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriterfilm producerfilm screenwriter
- 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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Amir Khadir
- Enrolled in the University of Montreal
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in physics
- Occupations
- politician
- 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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Jean Coutu
- Biography
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Jean Coutu, 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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Jan Grabowski
- Occupations
- historianuniversity teacherhistorian 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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Paul Piché
- Occupations
- singer-songwriter
- Biography
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Paul Piché is a singer-songwriter, environmentalist, political activist and Quebec sovereigntist.
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Claude Meunier
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- writerfilm directorscreenwriteractorplaywright
- Biography
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Claude Meunier is a Canadian actor, dramaturge, comedian and film director.
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Galatea Bellugi
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Galatea Bellugi is a French actress.
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Lucille Teasdale-Corti
- Occupations
- physiciansurgeon
- Biography
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Lucille Teasdale-Corti 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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Calin Rovinescu
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Călin Rovinescu, served as the president and chief executive officer of Air Canada from April 2009 to February 2021.
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Roger Guillemin
- Enrolled in the University of Montreal
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- biochemistendocrinologistphysicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Roger Charles Louis Guillemin is 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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Patrick Pichette
- Occupations
- chief financial officerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Patrick Pichette, 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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Marc Miller
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Marc Miller 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. Prior to entering politics, Miller was a lawyer with Stikeman Elliott and an infantry soldier Canadian Army Primary Reserve.
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Pierre Péladeau
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Pierre Péladeau was a French-Canadian businessman. He was the founder of Quebecor Inc., a Canadian media and telecommunications conglomerate in Quebec.
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Danielle McCann
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 71)
- 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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Sophie Thibault
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- television presenterjournalist
- Biography
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Sophie Thibault is a Quebec journalist and television reporter for the TVA network.
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Gaston Miron
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Gaston Miron was an important 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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Gaétan Barrette
- Occupations
- physicianpoliticianradiologist
- 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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Daniel Johnson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Francis Daniel Johnson Sr. was a Canadian politician and the 20th premier of Quebec from 1966 to his death in 1968.
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Antonine Maillet
- Occupations
- university teachernovelistplaywrightstorytellerwriter
- Biography
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Antonine Maillet, is an Acadian novelist, playwright, and scholar. She was born in Bouctouche, New Brunswick, Canada.
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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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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 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
- politicianbusinesspersonlawyer
- Biography
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Daniel Johnson Jr. 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 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
- writerfilm directornovelistediting staffjournalist
- Biography
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Hubert Aquin was a Quebec novelist, political activist, essayist, filmmaker and editor.
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Paul Gérin-Lajoie
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Paul Gérin-Lajoie, was a Canadian lawyer, philanthropist, and a former member of the National Assembly of Quebec and Cabinet Minister.
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Gérald Tremblay
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacher
- 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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Roch Carrier
- Occupations
- children's writerplaywrightstorytellerwritershort story writer
- Biography
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Roch Carrier 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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Michel Jean
- Occupations
- journalistwriterassociation football playertelevision presenter
- Biography
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Michel Jean is a Canadian television journalist and author. He is currently the weekend anchor of TVA Nouvelles on TVA, and was formerly an anchor on TVA's newsmagazine JE and for the 24-hour news channel RDI.
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Jean-Martin Aussant
- Occupations
- politicianfinancial analyst
- 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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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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Gilles Brassard
- Occupations
- computer scientistcryptographerengineer
- 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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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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Guy Rocher
- Occupations
- researcheruniversity teachersociologist
- Biography
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Guy Arthur Auguste Rocher is a Canadian academic and sociologist.
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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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Claude Ryan
- Occupations
- politicianjournalist
- Biography
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Claude Ryan, 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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Pierre-Marc Johnson
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- lawyerpoliticianuniversity teachernon-fiction writer
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Pierre Marc Johnson 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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Sylvie Fréchette
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- politicianswimmersynchronized swimmer
- Biography
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Sylvie Fréchette, is a Canadian former synchronised swimmer. She is the 1992 Olympic champion in the women's solo event.
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Arlette Cousture
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- novelistwriterscreenwriter
- Biography
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Arlette Cousture, 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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Jean-Jacques Bertrand
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Jean-Jacques Bertrand was 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
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Murray Rankin is a Canadian lawyer, politician and public law expert who serves as British Columbia's Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation. A member of the New Democratic Party, Rankin represents the riding of Oak Bay-Gordon Head in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. 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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Stéphane Gendron
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- television presenterpoliticianradio 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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Sonia LeBel
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- politician
- Biography
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Sonia LeBel 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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Lawrence Cannon
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- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Lawrence Cannon, 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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Gilles Proulx
- Enrolled in the University of Montreal
- In 1973 graduated with Master of Arts in study of history
- Occupations
- authortelevision presenterradio 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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Maria Mourani
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- 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
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- swimmer
- Biography
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Katerine Savard is a Canadian 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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Lomer Gouin
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Sir Jean Lomer Gouin, 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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Camille Laurin
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- politicianpsychiatrist
- 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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Laurence Freeman
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- priestmonk
- 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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Sylvain Charlebois
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- researcherwritereconomist
- Biography
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Sylvain Charlebois is a Canadian researcher and professor in 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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Stephanie Harvey
- Enrolled in the University of Montreal
- 2008-2009 studied game design
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- YouTuberpodcasterTwitch streamerwriterdirector
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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
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- sociologistpolitician
- 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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Monique Jérôme-Forget
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- 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
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- politiciandiplomat
- 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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Wandrille Lefèvre
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Wandrille Lefèvre is a Canadian soccer player who plays as a centre back for FC Laval in Ligue1 Quebec.
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Ezzedine Choukri Fishere
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- novelistwriteracademic
- Biography
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Ezzedine Choukri Fishere is an Egyptian novelist, diplomat and academic.
