100 Notable alumni of Laval University

Boris Bede is a French-Canadian professional football placekicker and punter. He most recently played for the Edmonton Elks of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He first enrolled at Tiffin University before transferring to Université Laval. Bede has been nicknamed "Boom Boom" for his strong leg on kickoffs and punts.

Laurent Dubreuil is a Canadian speed skater. He competes primarily in the short distances of 500 m and 1000 m. Dubreuil won his first World Cup medal during the 2014–15 season when he placed third in the World Cup stop in Seoul. He won a bronze medal at the 2015 World Single Distance Championships and a silver medal in the...

Pierre Duchesne is a Canadian public servant who was the 28th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec and former secretary general of the National Assembly of Quebec. As lieutenant governor he was the viceregal representative of Queen Elizabeth II of Canada in the Province of Quebec. His appointment was made by Governor General of Canada Michaëlle Jean, on the Constitutional advice of...

Louis Joseph Robichaud PC CC ONB QC, popularly known as "Little Louis" or "P'tit-Louis", was the second (but first elected) Acadian premier of New Brunswick, serving from 1960 to 1970.

Pierre Paul-Hus MP is a Canadian politician, who was elected to represent the riding of Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles as a member of the Conservative Party in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 Canadian federal election.

Jean Marchand PC CC was a Québécois public figure, trade unionist and politician in Quebec, Canada.

Louis-Honoré Fréchette CMG was a Canadian poet, politician, playwright and short story writer. For his prose, he would be the first Quebecois to receive the Prix Montyon from the Académie française, and the first Canadian to receive any honor from a European nation.

Claude Castonguay, CC GOQ was a Canadian politician, educator, and businessman.

Alexandre Cloutier is a Canadian politician and lawyer. He was a member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Lac-Saint-Jean in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region from 2007 to 2018, representing the Parti Québécois.

Louise Beaudoin is a Canadian politician who represented the electoral district of Rosemont in the National Assembly of Quebec until 2012, as a member of the Parti Québécois (PQ). She sat as an independent from June 6, 2011 to April 3, 2012. She is best known for her previous tenure as a Member of the National Assembly (MNA) for Chambly,...

Jocelyne Saucier is a Canadian novelist and journalist based in Quebec.

Gérard Bouchard MSRC is a Canadian historian and sociologist affiliated with the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Born on 26 December 1943 in Jonquière, Quebec, he obtained his master's degree in sociology from Université Laval in 1968 and later obtained his PhD in history from the University of Paris in 1971. Bouchard had authored, co-authored, edited, or co-edited 26 books,...

Andrée Plamondon Boucher was a Canadian politician from the province of Quebec. She was the mayor of Quebec City from November 19, 2005, until her death. Previously, she had been the mayor of the city of Sainte-Foy, formerly a suburb of Quebec City, from 1985 until 2001, when the cities of Sainte-Foy and Quebec were merged. She was the first...

Pierre Harvey, CM CQ is a Canadian sports athlete. He was the first Canadian male athlete to compete in both the 1984 Summer Olympics (road cycling) and 1984 Winter Olympics (cross-country skiing).

Charles Marius Barbeau, CC FRSC, also known as C. Marius Barbeau, or more commonly simply Marius Barbeau, was a Canadian ethnographer and folklorist who is today considered a founder of Canadian anthropology. A Rhodes Scholar, he is best known for an early championing of Québecois folk culture, and for his exhaustive cataloguing of the social organization, narrative and musical traditions,...

Éric Caire MNA is a Canadian politician who serves as a member of the National Assembly for the electoral district of La Peltrie.

Marc Tanguay MNA is a Canadian politician and a member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the LaFontaine electoral district.

David Gregory Rickford PC ECO KC MPP is a Canadian politician. He is the Minister of Northern Development and Minister of Indigenous Affairs in the Executive Council of Ontario under Premier Doug Ford. He represents the Kenora—Rainy River riding in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

Arnaud Gascon-Nadon is a Canadian former professional football defensive lineman who played in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was selected 17th overall by the Tiger-Cats in the 2012 CFL draft. After the 2011 CIS season, he was ranked as the 13th best player in the Canadian Football League's Amateur Scouting Bureau January rankings for players eligible in the 2012...

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 female world championships. She formerly played for Counter Logic Gaming Red.

Lawrence Cannon, PC is a Canadian politician from Quebec and Prime Minister Stephen Harper's former Quebec lieutenant. In early 2006, he was made the Minister of Transport. On October 30, 2008, he relinquished oversight of Transport and was sworn in as Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was defeated in the 2011 federal election by the NDP's Mathieu Ravignat. He was...

Alfred Pellan CC OQ RCA was an important figure in twentieth-century Canadian painting.

Jacques Ferron was a Canadian physician and author.

Charles De Koninck MSRC was a Belgian-Canadian Thomist philosopher and theologian. As director of the Department of Philosophy at the Université Laval in Quebec, he influenced Catholic philosophy in French Canada and also influenced Catholic philosophers in English Canada and the United States. The author of many books and articles in French and English, he contributed to a variety of...

Joseph Louis François Paradis is a Canadian politician who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in a byelection on October 20, 2014. He represents the electoral district of Lévis as a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ). After the 2018 Quebec general election Paradis was elected President of the National Assembly of Quebec.

Pierre Moreau PC is a Canadian politician and former lawyer who has served as the representative of the Government in the Senate since 2025 under Prime Minister Mark Carney. He was appointed to the Senate in 2024 on the advice of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, representing the Laurentides division of Quebec.

Naomi Fontaine is a Canadian writer from Quebec, noted as one of the most prominent First Nations writers in contemporary francophone Canadian literature. She is a member of the Innu nation.

Matthew Rankin is a Canadian experimental filmmaker. His feature-length debut, The Twentieth Century, premiered in 2019 and was nominated for eight Canadian Screen Awards, winning three.

Raymond A. J. Chrétien CC AdE is a Canadian lawyer and diplomat. He served as ambassador to the United States from 1994–2000. His uncle, Jean Chrétien, was the 20th prime minister from 1993 to 2003.

Aziz Rabbah is a Moroccan politician from the Justice and Development Party. On 3 January 2012, he became Minister of Transportation and equipment in Abdelilah Benkirane's government.

Léo Bureau-Blouin is a former Quebec politician who in the 2012 provincial election at age 20 became the youngest person ever to be elected as a member of the National Assembly of Quebec. He was elected in the district of Laval-des-Rapides for the Parti Québécois. He was previously a student leader, president of the Fédération étudiante collégiale du Québec, who...

Sol Zanetti is a Quebec politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election. He represents the electoral district of Jean-Lesage as a member of Québec solidaire.

Patrice Michaud is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Cap-Chat, Quebec. He won the SOCAN Songwriting Prize in the French division in 2014 for his song "Mécaniques générales", and his 2017 album Almanach was a Juno Award finalist for Francophone Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2018.

Dorothée Berryman is a Canadian actress and singer from Quebec.

Carlos Domingos Gomes Júnior is a Bissau-Guinean politician who was Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau from 10 May 2004 to 2 November 2005, and again from 25 December 2008 to 10 February 2012. He has been the President of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) since 2002 and is widely known as "Cadogo". He resigned...

Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier FRSC was a Canadian judge, author, and lyricist. He wrote the lyrics of the original French version of the Canadian national anthem "O Canada". He was born in Saint-Placide, Quebec, to Charles Routhier and Angélique Lafleur.

Mathieu Betts is a Canadian professional football defensive lineman for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League (CFL). Betts is the only player in U Sports football history to have won four major individual awards, after he won the 2015 Peter Gorman Trophy as the most outstanding rookie and three J. P. Metras Trophies between 2016 and 2018, as...

Louis-Alexandre Taschereau was the 14th premier of Quebec from 1920 to 1936. A member of the Parti libéral du Québec, Taschereau's near 16-year tenure remains the longest uninterrupted term of office among Quebec premiers.

Hélène Dorion, OC CQ is a Canadian poet, and writer.

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...

Dov Joseph was an Israeli statesman. During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, he was in charge of Jerusalem. He later held ministerial positions in nine Israeli governments.

Gérard Deltell MP is a Canadian politician who has served as the member of Parliament (MP) for Louis-Saint-Laurent since 2015. A member of the Conservative Party, Deltell was Opposition House Leader from 2020 to 2022 under Erin O'Toole and held a number of opposition critic positions. Prior to entering federal politics, he represented Chauveau in the National Assembly of Quebec...

Michael M. Fortier is a Canadian investment banker, lawyer and former politician who was Minister of Public Works and Government Services from 2006 to 2008 and Minister of International Trade in 2008. A member of the Conservative Party, Fortier was appointed to the Senate of Canada in 2006 on the advice of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, before resigning as a...

André Arthur was a Canadian radio host and politician. He was the independent Member of Parliament for the riding of Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier from 2006 to 2011. He has been described as the "godfather" of radio poubelle (trash radio), a style of politically conservative radio popular in Quebec City.

François Létourneau is a Canadian actor and writer, best known as co-creator and star of the television series Les Invincibles, Série noire and Happily Married (C'est comme ça que je t'aime).

Guy Arthur Auguste Rocher CC GOQ MSRC was a Canadian academic and sociologist.

Nathalie Normandeau is a Canadian politician from Quebec. She was MNA for the riding of Bonaventure in the Gaspésie region between 1998 and 2011. She was also Deputy Premier and a member of the Quebec Liberal Party.

Joël Lightbound is a Canadian politician who has served as the minister of government transformation, public services and procurement since May 2025 and the government's Quebec lieutenant since December 2025. A member of the Liberal Party, he was first elected following the 2015 federal election and is the member of Parliament (MP) for Louis-Hébert.

Antony Auclair is a Canadian former professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL). He played university football at Université Laval, and was signed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an undrafted free agent in 2017, with whom he won Super Bowl LV in 2020. He also played in the NFL for the Houston...

James Louis Oberstar was an American politician and Congressman who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 2011. Hailing from Minnesota and a member of the state's local Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, he represented the northeastern eighth congressional district, which included the cities of Duluth, Brainerd, Grand Rapids, International Falls, and Hibbing, within an area of Minnesota known...

Marie Laberge is a Quebec actress, educator and writer.

Marcel Aubut, OC OQ KC is a Canadian lawyer, former president of the Canadian Olympic Committee and former president and Chief Executive Officer of the Quebec Nordiques of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was a board member of many businesses and organizations.

Édith Butler OC CQ ONB is an Acadian-Canadian singer-songwriter and folklorist from New Brunswick’s Acadian Peninsula.

Bruno Marchand is a Canadian politician who currently serves as mayor of Quebec City, succeeding Régis Labeaume in the 2021 Quebec City municipal election.

Chrystine Brouillet, CM CQ is a Canadian novelist.

General Marie Annabelle Jennie Carignan is a Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) officer who has served as Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) since July 2024. Born in Quebec, Carignan graduated as a military engineer from the Royal Military College of Canada (RMCC) in Kingston, Ontario. She served as an officer in combat engineering regiments in various Canadian military actions in...

Marie-Claire Blais CC OQ MSRC was a Canadian writer, novelist, poet, and playwright from the province of Quebec. In a career spanning seventy years, she wrote novels, plays, collections of poetry and fiction, newspaper articles, radio dramas, and scripts for television. She was a four-time recipient of the Governor General’s literary prize for French-Canadian literature, and was also a recipient...

Joseph Michel Doyon KC AdE is a Canadian lawyer, historian, and author who served as the 29th lieutenant governor of Quebec. He assumed office on September 24, 2015 and was succeeded by Manon Jeannotte on January 25, 2024. Doyon previously served as the 144th head of the Bar of Quebec for the 2007–2008 term.

Serge Bouchard was a Canadian anthropologist, writer, and media personality. Bouchard studied contemporary life in Canada from an anthropological perspective; his subjects ranged from Innu hunters to Quebec truck drivers. Through his frequent appearances in the media, Bouchard's commentary reached both a popular and scholarly audience. He received the Prix Gérard-Morrisset in 2015 and a Governor-General's Award in 2017.

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.

Christian Dubé MNA is a Canadian politician who has served as a member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of La Prairie since 2018. A prominent member of François Legault's Coalition Avenir Québec government, he served as Minister of Health and Social Services from 2020 to 2025.

Gérald Cyprien Lacroix ISPX is a Canadian Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Quebec and Primate of Canada since 2011. He was previously Auxiliary Bishop of Quebec from 2009 to 2011. A member of the Council of Cardinals and the Secular Institute Pius X, he was made a cardinal in 2014.

Antonine Maillet PC CC OQ ONB FRSC was an Acadian novelist, playwright and scholar.

Régis Labeaume is a Canadian businessman, writer and politician. He served as mayor of Quebec City from 2007 to 2021. He was first elected on December 2, 2007, after the death of former mayor Andrée Boucher. He was reelected in 2009, 2013, and 2017.

Georges-Philias Vanier was a Canadian military officer, diplomat, and statesman who served as the 19th governor general of Canada from 1959 to 1967, the first Quebecer and second Canadian-born person to hold the position.

Lawrence Hill is a Canadian novelist, essayist, and memoirist. He is known for his 2007 novel The Book of Negroes, inspired by the Black Loyalists given freedom and resettled in Nova Scotia by the British after the American Revolutionary War, and his 2001 memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada. The Book of Negroes was...

Pierre Mailloux, better known as Doc Mailloux or Docteur Mailloux, was a Canadian psychiatrist and controversial radio show host.

Alex Harvey is a retired Canadian cross-country skier who competed between 2005 and 2019. Harvey is also a member of the Quebec Provincial Cycling Team.

David Saint-Jacques OC OQ FRCGS is a Canadian astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). He is also an astrophysicist, engineer, and a physician.

Geneviève Guilbault MNA is a Canadian politician who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in a by-election held in the electoral district Louis-Hébert on October 2, 2017. She is a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec. On October 18, 2018, she was appointed Deputy Premier and Minister of Public Safety. On October 20, 2022, she was re-appointed Deputy...

Rémy Girard OC is a Canadian actor and former television host from Quebec.

Jean Lesage PC CC CD was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served as the 19th premier of Quebec from July 5, 1960, to June 16, 1966. Alongside Georges-Émile Lapalme, René Lévesque and others, he is often viewed as the father of the Quiet Revolution. He is the namesake of the Québec City Jean Lesage International Airport, the main sections...

Archduchess Charlotte of Austria was a daughter of Emperor Charles I of Austria and his wife Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma. She was also known by the name Charlotte de Bar while a welfare worker in the United States from 1943 to 1956.

Louis Stephen St. Laurent was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 12th prime minister of Canada from 1948 to 1957.

David Servan-Schreiber was a French physician, neuroscientist and author. He was a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He was also a lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine of Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1.

Lucien Bouchard PC GOQ is a Canadian lawyer, diplomat and retired politician who was the 27th premier of Quebec from 1996 to 2001.

Gilles Vigneault GOQ is a Canadian poet, publisher, singer-songwriter, and Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist. Two of his songs are considered by many to be Quebec's unofficial anthems: "Mon pays" and "Gens du pays", and his line Mon pays ce n'est pas un pays, c'est l'hiver (My country is not a country, it is winter, from "Mon Pays") became a proverb...

Stéphane Maurice Dion is a Canadian diplomat, academic and former politician who served as the Canadian ambassador to France and Monaco from 2022 to 2025 and special envoy to the European Union from 2017 to 2025. He previously was leader of the Opposition and leader of the Liberal Party from 2006 to 2008. He served in cabinets as intergovernmental affairs...

Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien is a Canadian lawyer and retired politician who served as the 20th prime minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003. He served as leader of the Liberal Party from 1990 to 2003 and as leader of the Official Opposition from 1990 to 1993.

Jean was Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1964 until his abdication in 2000. He was the first Grand Duke of Luxembourg of French agnatic descent.

Benedict Martin Paul Mulroney is a Canadian radio and television host. He is the eldest son of Brian Mulroney, the 18th Prime Minister of Canada.

René Lévesque was a Canadian politician and journalist who served as the 23rd premier of Quebec from 1976 to 1985. He was the first Québécois political leader since Confederation to seek, through a referendum, a mandate to negotiate the political independence of Quebec. Starting his career as a reporter, and radio and television host, he later became known for his...

Martin Brian Mulroney was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician who served as the 18th prime minister of Canada from 1984 to 1993. He led the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and served as a member of Parliament (MP) from 1983 to 1993.

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.

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.

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...

Christine Fréchette MNA is a Canadian politician who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2022 Quebec general election. She represents the Sanguinet electoral district as a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec.

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.

Sylvain Gaudreault is a Canadian politician and teacher. He was the Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Jonquière in the city of Saguenay from 2007 to 2022. He represented the Parti Québécois. On May 6, 2016, the party caucus chose him as interim leader following the resignation of PQ leader Pierre Karl Péladeau.

Niklaus Emil Wirth was a Swiss computer scientist. He designed several programming languages, including Pascal, and pioneered several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984, he won the Turing Award, generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science, "for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages".

Carme Maria Chacón Piqueras was a Spanish lawyer, lecturer and politician who was minister of Defence from 2008 to 2011 in the cabinet led by Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

Adrian Mihai Cioroianu is a Romanian historian, politician, journalist, and essayist. A lecturer for the History Department at the University of Bucharest, he is the author of several books dealing with Romanian history (and specifically with the history of Communist Romania). He is also noted for his contribution as co-author of a high school textbook.

Marc Armand Ouellet PSS is a Canadian Catholic prelate who served as prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops and president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America from 2010 to 2023. He is a member of the Sulpicians.

Benoît Pelletier CM OQ FRSC was a Canadian lawyer, academic, and politician in the province of Quebec.

Jean-Marc Noël Aveline is a French Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Marseille since 2019. He was previously an auxiliary bishop there from 2013 to 2019. Pope Francis made him a cardinal in 2022.

Raymond Malenfant was a Canadian businessman.

Ilham Kadri is a Moroccan business executive, and the former CEO of Syensqo. Between 2019 and 2023, she was the CEO of Solvay, a Belgian chemical company. After the split of the company in December 2023, she continued as CEO of Syensqo until December 2025.

Mahamoud Ali Youssouf is a Djiboutian diplomat and the chairperson of the African Union Commission. He is the longest-serving Djiboutian foreign minister, having served from 2005 to 2025.

Dame Calliopa Pearlette Louisy GCSL GCMG DStJ is a Saint Lucian academic, who served as governor-general of Saint Lucia from 19 September 1997, until her resignation on 31 December 2017. She is the first woman to hold the vice-regal office, as well as the longest-serving governor-general in the history of Saint Lucia.