title: List of people from Mauricie
text: # List of people from Mauricie
  
  This is a list of people from the Mauricie region of Quebec, Canada.
  
  * Gaétan Barrette – Quebec politician
  * Nérée Beauchemin – poet and physician
  * Éric Bédard – short track speed skater
  * Steve Bégin – hockey player
  * Jean Béliveau – hockey player
  * Peter Blaikie – prominent lawyer
  * Bruno Bordeleau – doctor, mayor, member of Quebec parliament and registrar
  * Jacques J. Bouchard – strongly involved in his community, he received the Order of Canada
  * Julie Boulet – politician, member of Quebec parliament
  * Michaël Bournival – National Hockey League player
  * Antoine Ephrem Cartier – 19th-century businessman of Ludington, Michigan
  * Aline Chrétien – wife of Jean Chrétien
  * Jean Chrétien – Prime Minister of Canada
  * Raymond Chrétien – ambassador
  * Sylvain Cossette – singer-songwriter
  * Antoine Dufour – acoustic guitarist
  * Paul Dumont – founding father of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League
  * Louise Forestier – singer and actress
  * Maurice Duplessis – Premier of Quebec
  * Madeleine Ferron – writer
  * Marcelle Ferron – artist
  * Gratien Gélinas – playwright and actor
  * Martin Gélinas – National Hockey League player
  * Antoine Gérin-Lajoie – poet and novelist
  * Gérald Godin – poet and politician
  * Yanni Gourde – National Hockey League player
  * Josaphat Groleau – businessman in lumber industry, mayor
  * Maude Guérin – actress
  * Ezekiel Hart – businessman, first Jew elected to an official position of the British Empire
  * Pauline Julien – singer-songwriter
  * Pierre Labrie – poet
  * Jacques Lacoursière – historian
  * Carole Laure – actress
  * Félix Leclerc – singer-songwriter
  * Louis-Onésime Loranger – Canadian politician
  * Maxime Masson – Roman catholic priest
  * Laurent Naud – businessman in lumber industry and commerce
  * Bryan Perro – writer
  * Jacques Plante – National Hockey League player
  * Andre Pronovost – National Hockey League player
  * Yvon Rivard – writer
  * Sylvie Roy – politician
  * James Renald – musician
  * Alphée Saint-Amand – mayor, fire chief, chief ambulance, funeral, garage owner, corporate and textile trader leader
  * Camil Samson – leader of the Ralliement créditiste du Québec
  * Marcel Trudel – Quebec historian
  * Doris Veillette – journalist
  * Georges W. Veillette – businessman
  * Jean Veillet (1664–1741) – French and Canadian ancestor of all the Veillet/te(s) of America
  * Jeffrey Veillet – businessman
  * Martin Veillette – theologian, philosopher, sociologist, and teacher
  * Michel Veillette – Canadian politician in Quebec
  * Omer Veillette – businessman
  * Claude Wagner – politician
  * Henri Wittmann – linguist
  