100 Notable alumni of
University of Quebec in Montreal
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The University of Quebec in Montreal is 533rd in the world, 196th in North America, and 16th in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Quebec in 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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Denis Villeneuve
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Denis Villeneuve is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He has received seven Canadian Screen Awards as well as nominations for four Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. Villeneuve's films have grossed more than $1.8 billion worldwide.
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Jean-Marc Vallée
- Occupations
- film screenwriterfilm producerfilm actorfilm directorfilm editor
- Biography
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Jean-Marc Vallée OC OQ was a Canadian filmmaker, film editor, and screenwriter. After studying film at the Université de 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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Christy Chung
- Enrolled in the University of Quebec in Montreal
- Studied marketing
- Occupations
- restaurateurmodelbusinesspersonactorfilm actor
- Biography
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Christy Chung is a Canadian actress. She is best known for starring in films Mermaid Got Married, The Bodyguard from Beijing, Love on Delivery and Jan Dara.
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Maxime Bernier
- Occupations
- businesspersonlawyerdiplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Maxime Bernier PC is a Canadian politician who is the founder and leader of the People's Party of Canada (PPC). Formerly a member of the Conservative Party, Bernier left the caucus in 2018 to form the PPC. He was the member of Parliament (MP) for Beauce from 2006 to 2019 and served as a Cabinet minister in the Harper government.
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Mathieu Bock-Côté
- Occupations
- columnistessayist
- Biography
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Mathieu Bock-Côté, often referred to by his initials MBC, is a Canadian sociologist, essayist, public intellectual, and conservative political commentator who resides in Paris, where he appears as a television and radio personality.
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Nelly Arcan
- Occupations
- children's writernovelistwriter
- Biography
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Nelly Arcan was a Canadian novelist. Arcan was born Isabelle Fortier at Lac-Mégantic in the Eastern Townships of Quebec.
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Pierre Lapointe
- Occupations
- singer-songwritersinger
- Biography
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Pierre Lapointe is a Canadian singer-songwriter. His work largely follows the tradition of French chanson, though he is influenced by modern pop music. Defining himself as a "popular singer", he has built an egocentric persona of a dandy onstage, but says he does this mostly to deflect attention from himself. His records have found critical and commercial success in Canada. His regular tours in France ensured him growing popularity as well as critical recognition.
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Pierre Karl Péladeau
- Enrolled in the University of Quebec in Montreal
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- chairman of the executive boardbusinesspersonchief executive officerpolitician
- 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 is seen as a "strong Quebec nationalist" and who has wielded his media properties to influence Quebec politics. Péladeau used to own Sun Media Corporation.
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Martin Villeneuve
- Occupations
- screenwriterwriterfilm director
- Biography
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Martin Villeneuve is a Canadian screenwriter, producer, director, actor, and art director. He was nominated at the Canadian Screen Award (formerly Genie Award) in 2013 for Best Adapted Screenplay, for Mars et Avril, his feature film debut. He is also known for The 12 Tasks of Imelda, his second feature film released in 2022, in which he portrays his own grandmother, and for his animated series Red Ketchup which premiered in 2023. Villeneuve previously worked for Cirque du Soleil as an artistic director for commercials and films.
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Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois is a Canadian politician who was the co-spokesperson of the party Québec solidaire from 2017 to 2025, and was elected as a member of the provincial legislative assembly on 29 May 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 9 August 2012.
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Martin Matte
- Occupations
- screenwriteractorcomedianfilm actor
- Biography
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Martin Matte is a Canadian stand-up comedian and actor from Laval, Quebec. He created and starred in the television sitcom Les Beaux malaises, and is the current spokesperson for Quebec grocery store chain Maxi, a position he has held since 2016.
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Guy A. Lepage
- Occupations
- television presenterfilm directorcomedianactortelevision producer
- Biography
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Guy A. Lepage is a Canadian comedian, actor, talk show host, and producer.
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Catherine Dorion
- Occupations
- novelistfilm directoractorpolitical scientistpolitician
- Biography
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Catherine Dorion is a Canadian politician from Quebec, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election. She represented the electoral district of Taschereau as a member of Québec solidaire from 2018 to 2022.
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Jean-François Lisée
- Occupations
- writerjournalistessayistpolitician
- Biography
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Jean-François Lisée is a Canadian politician who served as the leader of the Parti Québécois from October 2016 until October 2018. He was first elected a member of the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2012 Quebec election in the electoral district of Rosemont.
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Ken Scott
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directoractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Ken Scott is a Canadian screenwriter, actor, director, and comedian. He is best known as a member of the comedy group Les Bizarroïdes with Martin Petit, Stéphane E. Roy and Guy Lévesque, and as screenwriter of the films Seducing Doctor Lewis, The Little Book of Revenge (Guide de la petite vengeance), and Starbuck, as well as television series Le Plateau.
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Geneviève Pettersen
- Occupations
- screenwriternovelistwriterbloggerfilm screenwriter
- Biography
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Geneviève Pettersen is a Canadian writer from Quebec. Her debut novel, La déesse des mouches à feu (2014), was awarded the Grand Prix littéraire Archambault.
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Sylvie Moreau
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Sylvie Moreau, is a Canadian actress.
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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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Antoine Vézina
- Years
- 1973-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Antoine Vézina is a Canadian actor and television personality.
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Daniel Langlois
- Occupations
- business magnateinventorphilanthropistanimator
- Biography
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Daniel Langlois OC CQ was a Canadian businessman who was the president and founder of the Daniel Langlois Foundation, Ex-Centris, and Media Principia Inc.
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Léa Clermont-Dion
- Occupations
- researcherfilm director
- Biography
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Léa Clermont-Dion is a Canadian author, feminist, television and radio host, and body image advocate. She was a co-facilitator, with Jacinthe Veillette, and spokesperson of the Québec Charter for a Healthy and Diverse Body Image. Clermont-Dion came to public attention during an appearance on the television programme Tout le monde en parle in October 2009. She is a doctoral student in political science at Laval University and the author of La revanche des moches (2014) and Les Superbes (2016).
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Raquel Peña
- Enrolled in the University of Quebec in Montreal
- Graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Occupations
- academicpolitician
- Biography
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Raquel Peña Rodríguez de Antuña is a Dominican politician and academic who has served as the 40th Vice President of the Dominican Republic under President Luis Abinader since 2020.
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Marguerite Blais
- Occupations
- television presenterpoliticianjournalist
- Biography
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Marie Josephine Marguerite Blais is a Canadian politician, journalist, radio host and television host from Quebec. She was a Coalition Avenir Québec Member of the National Assembly of Québec and a previous Minister Responsible for Seniors and Informal Caregivers and Member of the Comité ministériel des services aux citoyens. She was a Liberal Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the electoral division of Saint-Henri–Sainte-Anne in Montreal from 2007 to 2015, and served as the Minister responsible for Seniors, vice-chair of the Comité ministériel du développement social, éducatif et culturel and member of the Conseil du trésor.
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Peter Julian
- Occupations
- manual workerpoliticianexecutive director
- Biography
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Peter S. Julian is a Canadian politician who was a Member of Parliament for the New Democratic Party (NDP) from 2004 to 2025. He represented the ridings of Burnaby—New Westminster from 2004 to 2015 and New Westminster—Burnaby from 2015 to 2025. He also served as the house leader for the NDP for much of his political career. He was defeated in the 2025 Canadian federal election.
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Amandine Gay
- Enrolled in the University of Quebec in Montreal
- Studied in 2015-2018
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directorafrofeministactor
- Biography
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Amandine Gay is a French feminist, filmmaker, researcher and actress. Her first film Ouvrir la Voix is a documentary giving voice to Black women in France that aims to give an other approach of feminist movements.
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Jean-François Roberge
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 52)
- Occupations
- writerchildren's writernovelistpolitician
- Biography
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Jean-François Roberge MNA is a Canadian politician who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2014 election. He represents the electoral district of Chambly as a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec and is the former Education Minister. He was replaced by Bernard Drainville in October 2022.
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Charlotte Aubin
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Charlotte Aubin is a Canadian actress from Quebec. She is most noted for her performance in the film Isla Blanca, for which she received a Prix Iris nomination for Best Actress at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2018.
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Julie Doucet
- Occupations
- comics artist
- Biography
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Julie Doucet is a Canadian underground cartoonist and artist, best known for her autobiographical works such as Dirty Plotte and My New York Diary. Her work is concerned with such topics as "sex, violence, menstruation and male/female issues."
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Pierre-Luc Brillant
- Occupations
- songwritertelevision actoractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Pierre-Luc Brillant is a Canadian actor and musician. He is best known for his performance in the film C.R.A.Z.Y., for which he received a Prix Jutra nomination for Best Supporting Actor in 2006.
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Bryan Perro
- Occupations
- writerplaywrightchildren's writernovelist
- Biography
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Bryan Perro is the author of the children's fantasy fiction series Amos Daragon, a series of twelve novels that focus on the adventurous young adult Amos Daragon and his quest to become the 'Mask Wearer'.
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Arlette Cousture
- Occupations
- screenwriterradio employeewriternovelistopinion journalist
- 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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Caroline St-Hilaire
- Occupations
- administratorexecutive directorconsultantpolitician
- Biography
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Caroline St-Hilaire is a Canadian politician, who served as Mayor of Longueuil under the banner of Action Longueuil from November 10, 2009, to November 5, 2017. She was previously a Member of Parliament, representing the Bloc Québécois for the riding of Longueuil—Pierre-Boucher.
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Romeo Saganash
- Occupations
- juristlawyerbusinesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Diom Roméo Saganash is a Cree lawyer and former politician from Canada. Saganash served as the member of Parliament (MP) for Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou in Quebec from 2011 to 2019. A member of the New Democratic Party (NDP), he was first elected to the House of Commons in the 2011 federal election and was re-elected in the 2015 federal election. He did not run in 2019.
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Larry Tremblay
- Occupations
- novelistwriterplaywrightactorpoet
- Biography
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Larry Tremblay is a Canadian writer from Quebec. He is a two-time nominee for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction, for Le Mangeur de bicyclette at the 2003 Governor General's Awards and for L'Orangeraie at the 2014 Governor General's Awards, and a nominee for the Governor General's Award for French-language drama at the 1997 Governor General's Awards for the published compilation of his plays Ogre and Cornemuse.
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Simon Plouffe
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Simon Plouffe is a Canadian mathematician who discovered the Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula (BBP algorithm) which permits the computation of the nth binary digit of π, in 1995. His other 2022 formula allows extracting the nth digit of π in decimal. He was born in Saint-Jovite, Quebec.
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Marie-France Bazzo
- Occupations
- television presenterproducerradio personality
- Biography
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Marie-France Bazzo is a Canadian broadcaster, who has hosted television programming for Télé-Québec and radio programming for the Ici Radio-Canada Première network.
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Steven Blaney
- Occupations
- environmental consultantengineerpolitician
- Biography
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Steven Blaney PC is a Canadian businessman and politician who has been the mayor of Lévis, Quebec, since 2025. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as the Minister of Public Safety Canada from 2013 to 2015 and previously as the Minister of Veterans Affairs and Minister of State for La Francophonie in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper from 2011 to 2013. He represented the Québec riding of Lévis—Bellechasse in the Canadian House of Commons from 2006 to 2021. Despite his anglophone-sounding name, Blaney is a Francophone; his English has a marked Quebecois accent. He ran in the 2017 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election, being eliminated in the 7th round of voting.
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Émilie Heymans
- Occupations
- competitive diver
- Biography
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Émilie-Joane Heymans is a Canadian diver. She was born in Brussels, Belgium and raised in Greenfield Park, a suburb of Montreal. Heymans has won four Olympic medals, two bronze and two silver. She was the first female diver to win medals in four consecutive Olympic games and the first Canadian to win medals in four consecutive Olympics. Heymans also is a one time world champion and has won four Pan American championships as well as one Commonwealth Games championship. In addition she has won multiple medals in all three of these competitions.
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Sylvie Bernier
- Occupations
- competitive diver
- Biography
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Sylvie Bernier, CM, CQ is an Olympic athlete from Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada. She won the gold medal in the Women's 3m Springboard Diving at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
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Laure Waridel
- Occupations
- writerenvironmentalist
- Biography
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Laure Waridel, CM is a social activist, a writer, an associate professor of environmental studies and sociology at the Université du Québec à Montréal, and a radio and TV commentator.
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Gilles Proulx
- 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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Guy Caron
- Occupations
- public relations officerpoliticianjournalistresearchereconomist
- Biography
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Guy Caron is a Canadian politician who was elected the mayor of Rimouski, Quebec in 2021 and re-elected in 2025. He was previously a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 2011 to 2019, and served as the federal parliamentary leader of the New Democratic Party from 2017 to 2019, substituting for party leader Jagmeet Singh who during this time did not hold a seat.
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Misstress Barbara
- Occupations
- record producerdisc jockeysongwriter
- Biography
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Barbara Bonfiglio, better known as Misstress Barbara, is an Italian-born Canadian producer, DJ and singer-songwriter. Born in Catania, Italy, she moved to Montreal, Quebec, Canada at the age of eight and has resided in the city ever since. She has DJed around the globe and has an extensive discography as a producer.
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Stéphane Bergeron
- Occupations
- political adviserteaching assistantpolitician
- Biography
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Stéphane Bergeron is a Canadian politician. He served as a Bloc Québécois member of the House of Commons of Canada from 2019 to 2025 and previously served in that office from 1993 to 2005. He served as a Parti Québécois member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 2005 to 2018. He did not seek re-election in 2025.
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Paul Doucet
- Occupations
- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Paul Doucet is a Canadian actor known for his portrayal of Jean Duceppe in Jean Duceppe.
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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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Vincent Marissal
- Occupations
- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Vincent Marissal is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election. He was elected in the provincial riding of Rosemont as a member of Québec solidaire. On 22 November 2025, he announced that he was leaving the party to sit as an independent.
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François Gravel
- Occupations
- writerchildren's writernovelistteacher
- Biography
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François Gravel is a Canadian writer from Quebec. Most noted as an author of literature for children and young adults, he has also published a number of adult novels.
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Sébastien Proulx
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Sébastien Proulx is a Canadian politician. He was an Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ) Member of the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA) for the electoral district of Trois-Rivières from 2007 to 2008. He is a lawyer and was the main political consultant to ADQ leader Mario Dumont until his election.
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Michèle Audette
- Occupations
- consultantpolitician
- Biography
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Michèle Taïna Audette is a Canadian politician and activist. She served as president of Femmes autochtones du Québec (Quebec Native Women) from 1998 to 2004 and again from 2010 to 2012. She was also the president of Native Women's Association of Canada from 2012 to 2014. From 2004 through 2008, she served as Associate Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Relations with Citizens and Immigration of the Quebec government, where she was in charge of the Secretariat for Women.
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Taraneh Javanbakht
- Occupations
- photographerliterary criticplaywrightessayisttranslator
- Biography
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Taraneh Javanbakht is an Iranian-Canadian scientist and polymath.
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Michel Venne
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Michel Venne is a Canadian journalist, author and intellectual. He was a columnist for the Montreal newspaper Le Devoir. He is founder and director of the Institut du Nouveau Monde. Venne is a vocal advocate of Quebec independence and of progressive, social democratic politics.
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Corno
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Joanne Corneau, better known by the pseudonym Corno, was a Canadian artist from the Saguenay region of Quebec. She achieved international recognition for her large-scale paintings of women's faces and bodies in a "post-pop" style.
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Barbada de Barbades
- Occupations
- drag queendisc jockeyassociation football player
- Biography
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Barbada de Barbades is the stage name of Sébastien Potvin, a Canadian drag queen and a television host. He is best known as one of the drag house mothers in the reality competition series Call Me Mother.
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Nicole Brossard
- Occupations
- poetdirectorwriterwomen's rights activistnovelist
- Biography
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Nicole Brossard OC CQ is a French-Canadian formalist poet and novelist. Her work is known for exploration of feminist themes and for challenging masculine-oriented language and points of view in French literature.
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Richard Z. Sirois
- Occupations
- humoristradio personality
- Biography
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Richard Z. Sirois is a French-speaking Canadian radio and television comedian. He was born in Matane, Quebec. His family moved to Montreal when he was six years old.
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Stéphane Lafleur
- Occupations
- film screenwriterscreenwriterfilm editorsongwriterfilm director
- Biography
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Stéphane Lafleur is a French-Canadian film director, editor and musician.
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Emmanuel Dubourg
- Occupations
- Chartered Professional AccountantteacherpoliticianChartered Cost Accountantaccountant
- Biography
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Emmanuel Dubourg is a Canadian politician, chartered accountant and teacher from Quebec. He was the Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Viau from 2007 until 2013. On 25 November 2013, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in a by-election to become the Liberal Member of Parliament for the Montreal riding of Bourassa. He did not stand for re-election in 2025.
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Marie Montpetit
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Marie Montpetit is a Canadian former politician in Quebec, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2014 election as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party. She represented the electoral district of Maurice-Richard (formerly known as Crémazie).
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Alain Farah
- Occupations
- university teachernovelistwriterliterary scholarpoet
- Biography
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Alain Farah is a Canadian writer and academic. Born in Montreal, Quebec in 1979 to Lebanese immigrant parents, he has published two novels and a collection of poetry.
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Daniel Paillé
- Occupations
- management assistanteconomistuniversity teacherdirector generalfinancial analyst
- Biography
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Daniel Paillé is a Canadian politician, who represented the riding of Prévost in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1994 to 1996 as a member of the Parti Québécois, and represented the district of Hochelaga in the House of Commons of Canada as a member of the Bloc Québécois. He was elected leader of the Bloc Québécois with 62 percent of the vote on December 11, 2011. Paillé stepped down as leader on December 16, 2013 for health reasons.
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Catherine Pogonat
- Occupations
- television presenter
- Biography
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Catherine Pogonat is a Canadian radio and television host from Montreal, known for her role in musical and cultural events in the province of Quebec.
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Amina Gerba
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Amina Gerba CQ is a Cameroonian-Canadian businesswoman and entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of Afrique Expansion, Afrique Expansion Forum, and Afrique Expansion magazine. She also founded the beauty care brands Kariliss and Kariderm–the latter being the world's first shea butter product to earn organic certification. In 2014, she was a recipient of the National Order of Quebec. She is a director for the Canadian Council on Africa, African Business Roundtable, and Fonds Afro-Entrepreneurs, and is the president of the board of directors for Entreprendre Ici. In 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau nominated her to the Canadian Senate, as a Senator for Quebec.
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Andrée A. Michaud
- Occupations
- writerplaywrightnovelistessayist
- Biography
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Andrée A. Michaud is a Canadian novelist and playwright from Quebec. She is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction, for Le ravissement at the 2001 Governor General's Awards and for Bondrée at the 2014 Governor General's Awards, and won the Prix Ringuet in 2007 for Mirror Lake. Boundary, translated by Donald Winkler, was longlisted for the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
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Claudia Larochelle
- Years
- 1978-.. (age 48)
- Occupations
- writerchildren's writerjournalistcolumnist
- Biography
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Claudia Larochelle is a Québécoise journalist, radio host and writer. After a college training in theatre, a bachelor's degree in journalism and a master's degree in creative writing from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), she interned as a cultural columnist for the electronic journal Rue Frontenac (in French) and made appearances on different media, including on Radio-Canada.
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Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard
- Occupations
- judoka
- Biography
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Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard is a Canadian judoka who competes in the women's 63 kg category. Beauchemin-Pinard won a bronze medal in the 63 kg weight class at the 2020 Summer Olympics, making her the second Canadian woman to win a medal in judo at the Summer Olympics. She has been ranked in the top 10 of the world in her weight category.
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Lise Roy
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Lise Roy is a Canadian actress who has appeared in stage productions, film and television.
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Roxanne Bouchard
- Occupations
- writernovelist
- Biography
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Roxanne Bouchard is a Canadian writer and educator from Quebec. She is best known for her series of maritime crime fiction novels centred on the investigations of detective Joaquin Moralès in Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula.
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Maryse Dubuc
- Occupations
- comics artistcomics colorist
- Biography
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Maryse Dubuc is a Canadian comics writer, known particularly for The Bellybuttons which she created with Marc Delafontaine ("Delaf").
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Alexandre Baril
- Enrolled in the University of Quebec in Montreal
- In 2010 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy
- Occupations
- researcher
- Biography
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Alexandre Baril, is a Canadian writer and since 2018 an associate professor at the School of Social Work, at the University of Ottawa. He researches sexual and gender diversity, bodily diversity ((dis)ability and health), and linguistic diversity. He considers his work to be intersectional, involving queer, trans, feminist and gender studies, as well as sociology of the body, health, social movements, and of critical suicidology.
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Steven Bednarski
- Occupations
- historianactor
- Biography
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Steven Bednarski is a Canadian historian of the Middle Ages who specializes in fourteenth-century environment, crime, sex, gender, and microhistory. He is notable for being awarded an exceptionally high level of public research funding and for piloting a trans-disciplinary international research partnership network. As a child, Bednarski also worked in Montreal, Quebec and Toronto, Ontario as an actor.
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Mathieu Traversy
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mathieu Traversy is a Canadian politician in the province of Quebec. Since 2021, he has been the mayor of Terrebonne. Previously, he represented the riding of Terrebonne in the National Assembly of Quebec from the 2008 provincial election until his defeat in the 2018 provincial election. He was a member of the Parti Québécois.
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Frantz Benjamin
- Occupations
- novelistpoliticianstorytellerwriterpoet
- Biography
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Frantz Benjamin is a Canadian politician and poet, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election. He represents the electoral district of Viau as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party. He is the third vice-president of the MNA since 29 November 2022.
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Fernando Barrios Ipenza
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Fernando Barrios Ipenza was born in Andahuaylas – Peru, he is an entrepreneur, engineer and Peruvian politician, member of the Peruvian Aprista Party. He was president of the social security health Peru and Minister of the Interior of Peru from September 14 to November 22, 2010.
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Alexandre Leduc
- Enrolled in the University of Quebec in Montreal
- 2003-2006 graduated with Bachelor of Social Science in study of history
- 2006-2010 graduated with master's degree in study of history
- 2010-2013 graduated with graduate certificate in social law and labor law
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Alexandre Leduc is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election. He represents the electoral district of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve as a member of Québec solidaire.
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Angelo Iacono
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Angelo G. Iacono MP is a Canadian Liberal politician, who was elected to represent the riding of Alfred-Pellan in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 federal election.
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Louis Hamelin
- Occupations
- novelistliterary criticwriter
- Biography
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Louis Hamelin is a Canadian journalist and fiction writer. He won the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction in 1989 for his novel La Rage, and was nominated for the same award in 1995 for his novel Betsi Larousse, ou l'ineffable eccéité de la loutre and in 2006 for his short story collection Sauvages.
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Marlene Jennings
- Occupations
- lawyerhigh civil servantpolitician
- Biography
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Marlene Jennings PC is a former Canadian politician. She was a member of the Liberal Party of Canada in the House of Commons of Canada, and represented the riding of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine from 1997 to 2011.
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Nicole Léger
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nicole Léger is a former Canadian politician and the former Member of the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA) for the riding of Pointe-aux-Trembles from 1996 to 2006 and elected back as member of the Parti Québécois in a by-election on May 12, 2008, serving until the 2018 Quebec provincial election.
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Anique Poitras
- Occupations
- novelistadjunct professorwriterchildren's writerpoet
- Biography
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Anique Poitras was an award-winning writer in Quebec, Canada, whose work was aimed mostly at adolescent readers.
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Abla Farhoud
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- novelistplaywrightwriter
- Biography
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Abla Farhoud was a Lebanese-born Canadian writer and playwright who lived in Quebec.
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François Blais
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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François Blais is a Canadian politician from Quebec, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2014 election and named Minister of Employment. He represented the electoral district of Charlesbourg as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party. From February 27, 2015, to January 28, 2016, he served as Minister of Education, Recreation and Sports following the resignation of Yves Bolduc. After January 28, he returned to the Employment and Labour portfolio.
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Eric Girard
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Eric Girard MNA is a Canadian politician who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election. He represents the electoral district of Groulx as a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec and has served as the Minister of Finance since 2018.
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Gabriel Ste-Marie
- Occupations
- teacherpoliticianjournalistresearch officereconomist
- Biography
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Gabriel Ste-Marie MP is a Canadian politician and academic who was elected to represent the riding Joliette in the House of Commons in the 2015 election. He teaches economics at Cégep régional de Lanaudière.
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Élise Turcotte
- Occupations
- literary scholaruniversity teacherwriterchildren's writerpoet
- Biography
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Élise Turcotte is a Canadian writer. She completed her BA and MA in literary studies at the University of Quebec and later received her doctorate at the Université de Sherbrooke. She now teaches literature at a CEGEP in Montreal, where she currently resides. Her writing has won much praise, and among other things she has won the Grand Prix de Poésie, as well as the 2003 Governor General's Award for her novel La Maison étrangère and the Prix Émile-Nelligan for La voix de Carla in 1987 and for La terre est ici in 1989.
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Yves Robillard
- Occupations
- political adviserteacherpolitician
- Biography
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Yves Robillard is a Canadian politician, who was elected to represent the riding of Marc-Aurèle-Fortin in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 Canadian federal election. He did not seek re-election in 2025.
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Isabelle Arsenault
- Occupations
- comics artist
- Biography
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Isabelle Arsenault is a Canadian award winning illustrator living in Montreal, Quebec. She is known for her elaborate yet simplified artwork in children's literature.
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Daniel Green
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Daniel Green is a Canadian politician, environmentalist and scientific communicator. Since 2000, he has been a consultant for Sierra Club of Canada, Société pour vaincre la pollution (SVP), Coalition Eau Secours, the Rivers Foundation, Nature Québec and Parks Canada.
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Joël Arseneau
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Joël Arseneau is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election. He represents the electoral district of Îles-de-la-Madeleine as a member of the Parti Québécois.
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Anissa Khelfaoui
- Occupations
- fencer
- Biography
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Anissa Khelfaoui Nassonenko is an Algerian female fencer.
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Matthias Rioux
- Occupations
- journalistpoliticianradio personalitytrade unionist
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Matthias Rioux is a Canadian politician who represented the electoral district of Matane in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1994 to 2003 as a member of the Parti Québécois.
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Benoit Dorais
- Born in
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Canada - Enrolled in the University of Quebec in Montreal
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in philosophy
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Benoit Dorais is a city councillor from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He served as the borough mayor of Le Sud-Ouest from 2009 to 2025. From his first election to 2013, Dorais was a member of Vision Montreal, before joining Coalition Montréal in 2013 and Projet Montréal before the 2017 municipal election.
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Marc-Antoine Gagnon
- Occupations
- freestyle skier
- Biography
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Marc-Antoine Gagnon is a Canadian freestyle skier. Gagnon represented Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the moguls event. He placed fourth, narrowly losing to Russia's Alexandr Smyshlyaev for the bronze medal. Gagnon won a bronze as part of a Canadian podium sweep in the dual moguls event at the 2015 World Championships.
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Élaine Zakaïb
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Élaine Zakaïb was a Canadian politician. She was member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Richelieu, first elected in the 2012 election and re-elected in 2014.
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Claude Beausoleil
- Occupations
- literary criticuniversity teacherwriteressayistpoet
- Biography
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Claude Beausoleil was a Canadian writer, poet, and essayist.
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Kasandra Bradette
- Occupations
- short-track speed skater
- Biography
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Kasandra Bradette is a Canadian short track speed skater. She has won world championship and World Cup medals.
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Gabrielle Pilote Fortin
- Enrolled in the University of Quebec in Montreal
- Studied in 2016-2021
- Occupations
- sport cyclist
- Biography
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Gabrielle Pilote Fortin is a Canadian former professional racing cyclist and trail runner for Nike Elite, who finished her cycling career in 2023 in UCI Women's World Tour team Cofidis Women Team
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Louise Chabot
- Occupations
- nursepoliticiantrade unionist
- Biography
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Louise Chabot is a Canadian politician who was elected to represent the riding of Thérèse-De Blainville in the 2019 Canadian federal election as a member of the Bloc Québécois. She was re-elected in the 2021 election. She did not seek re-election in 2025.
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Kim O'Bomsawin
- Years
- 1983-.. (age 43)
- Enrolled in the University of Quebec in Montreal
- Studied sociology
- Occupations
- film director
- Biography
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Kim O’Bomsawin is a writer, film director, and a human rights activist specifically for Indigenous women in Canada and the U.S. O'Bomsawin is of Abenaki origin, which is a First Nation in Quebec, Canada. She is considered a leading indigenous filmmaker.
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Michel de Broin
- Occupations
- sculptorinstallation artistvideo artistphotographer
- Biography
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Michel de Broin is a Canadian sculptor. De Broin has created numerous public artworks in Canada and Europe, including the Salvador Allende monument in Montreal. He was the recipient of the 2007 Sobey Art Award.
