List of Acadians
This is a list of members of the Acadian people, and people of Acadian origins.
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Actors
- Jared Leto - actor, musician, producer, and director; grandfather had Acadian roots
- Robert Maillet - actor, professional wrestler from Sainte-Marie-de-Kent, New Brunswick
- Patricia McKenzie - actress born in Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine (Painchaud family)
Law and politics
- Aubin-Edmond Arsenault - former Premier of Prince Edward Island
- Joseph-Octave Arsenault - first Acadian Prince Edward Island member of the Canadian Senate
- Télésphore Arsenault - Canadian politician, business manager and farmer
- Michel Bastarache - Supreme Court of Canada
- Edmond Blanchard - chief justice of the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada, former politician
- Gérald Clavette - New Brunswick politician
- Fred DeLorey - conservative political strategist and chief spokesperson for the Conservative Party of Canada.
- Chris d'Entremont - Nova Scotia MLA, Minister of Health and Acadian Affairs
- Neil LeBlanc - Consul General to Boston, Massachusetts, and former Nova Scotia MLA, Minister of Finance
- Roméo LeBlanc - politician and journalist, former Governor-General of Canada123
- Viola Léger - former senator and actress
- René Lévesque - separatist Premier of Quebec
- Louis Robichaud - former Premier of New Brunswick
- Michel Samson - Nova Scotia MLA, Liberal Party of Nova Scotia
- Camille Thériault - former Premier of New Brunswick
- Robert Thibault - Canadian Liberal MP
- Peter J. Veniot - former Premier of New Brunswick
- Vernon White - Police Chief of the Ottawa Police Force 2007 to present; Canadian senator
Military veterans
- Pierre Maisonnat dit Baptiste
- Alexandre Bourg[1]
- John Bradstreet - fought for British
- Joseph Broussard[2]
- Louis Amand Bujold (Armand Bigeau)[3]
- Jacques Coste[4][5]
- Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour
- Bernard-Anselme d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin
- Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin
- Joseph d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin
- Paul Doucet (alias Paul Laurent) — pilot for French Navy during King George's War[6]
- François Dupont Duvivier
- Joseph-Nicolas Gautier and his wife
- Joseph Godin dit Bellefontaine, Sieur de Beauséjour and Commander of the Acadian Militia of the St-John River valley (St. John River Campaign)
- William Johnson (Guillaume Jeanson) - Battle of Bloody Creek (1757)
- Bernard Marres 'Marc' dit La Sonde - fought the British at Canso, Nova Scotia (1718)
- Abel LeBlanc - Petit de Grat, NS, West Nova Scotia Regiment, wounded while in combat in Italy.
- Joseph LeBlanc, dit Le Maigre[7]
- Napoleon LeBlanc - Petit de Grat, NS, Royal Canadian Regiment WWII, captured by the Imperial Army of Japan, prisoner of war for over 3 years
- Rene LeBlanc - from Minas, worked for Villebon during King William's War[8]
- Pierre Melanson - from Minas, worked for Villebon during King William's War, appointed "captain of the coast"[9][10]
- Charles Pelerain (Tuck) — pilot for French Navy during King George's War[6]
- Charles Raymond
- Prudent Robichaud - leader of the mutiny on the Pembroke
- Pierre II Surette
- Simon Thibodeau - American Revolution[11]
- Joseph Trahan[12][13] - Battle of the Plains of Abraham
- Joseph Winniett - supported the British; grandchild of Pierre Maisonnat dit Baptiste
Musicians
- Angèle Arsenault - singer-songwriter, media host
- Marcel Aymar - singer
- Annie Blanchard
- Édith Butler - singer-songwriter
- Cayouche - country singer and songwriter
- Julie Doiron - singer-songwriter
- Patsy Gallant - singer and actress
- Wilfred Le Bouthillier - singer
- Lisa LeBlanc - singer-songwriter
- Radio Radio - hip hop group; Jacques Doucet, Alexandre Bilodeau, Gabriel Malenfant
- Natasha St-Pier - singer
- Waylon Thibodaux - fiddler and singer-songwriter (Louisiana)
- Roch Voisine - singer-songwriter
Sports
- Jean Beliveau - Hockey Hall of Fame, Montreal Canadiens
- Luc Bourdon - NHL player
- Leo Burke (Leonce Cormier) - wrestler
- Jean-Louis Cormier (Rudy Kay) - wrestler
- Rheal Cormier - Major League Baseball pitcher
- Yvon Cormier (The Beast) - wrestler
- René Duprée - wrestler
- Yvon Durelle - boxer
- Suzanne Gaudet - curler
- Ron Guidry - Major League baseball pitcher
- Camille Henry - NHL player, winner of the Lady Byng Trophy and the Calder Memorial Trophy
- Bobby Kay (Romeo Cormier) - wrestler
- Jacques LeBlanc - boxer
- Robert Maillet - wrestler
- Brad Marchand - NHL player, Boston Bruins
- Roland Melanson - NHL goalie
- Chad Ogea - Major League Baseball pitcher
- Cassidy O'Reilly - professional wrestler
- Joe Proctor - mixed martial artist
- Maurice Richard - Hockey Hall of Fame, Montreal Canadiens
- Henri Richard - Hockey Hall of Fame, Montreal Canadiens
- Miguel Sullivan - goalie, Cape Breton Screaming Eagles
- Ryan Theriot - Major League Baseball infielder
Visual artists
- Mario Doucette - painter
- André Jacques LeBlanc - artist
Writers
- Herménégilde Chiasson - writer, ex-lieutenant-governor of New-Brunswick
- Joey Comeau - writer, comic creator
- France Daigle - writer and playwright
- Clive Doucet - writer
- Gabriel LeBlanc - writer of Acadian history, culture and folklore
- Gérald Leblanc - poet
- Antonine Maillet - writer and playwright; Prix Goncourt 1979
- Alden Nowlan - poet, novelist, and playwright
- Col. John Boileau - writer, journalist and book reviewer
- Marie-Colombe Robichaud - writer and playwright[14]
Media
- Phil Comeau - film and television director; 36 film awards, Order of Canada
- Lyse Doucet - news correspondent and presenter, BBC World
- Dale Winslow - creator of educational YouTube channel Think Fact
Pre-deportation
- Joseph Broussard (Beausoleil)
- Noel Doiron - leader of the Acadians; died in the single greatest tragedy of the Expulsion - the sinking of the Duke William
- Daniel LeBlanc - Immigrant and progenitor of the LeBlanc family, the largest Acadian family at the time of the deportation.
- René LeBlanc - notary, the only Acadian named in Longfellow's Poem "Évangeline - A Tale of Acadie"
- Philippe Mius d’Entremont - Lieutenant-major under Charles de LaTour, founder of Pubnico, and later King's Attorney in Acadia
- Pierre II Surette - Acadian resistance leader and co-founder of Ste. Anne du Ruisseau, Nova Scotia
See also
- List of French Canadian writers from outside Quebec
- List of Quebecers
- List of Cajuns
- List of people by nationality
References
- ↑ http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/bourg_alexandre_3E.html
- ↑ List of Veterans named by Governor of Boston, p. 155
- ↑ https://archive.org/stream/documentsrelativ10brod#page/168/mode/1up
- ↑ https://archive.org/stream/documentsrelativ10brod#page/171/mode/1up
- ↑ https://archive.org/stream/documentsrelativ10brod#page/173/mode/1up
- 1 2 Barnes, p. 112, note 17
- ↑ http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/leblanc_joseph_3E.html
- ↑ p. 46
- ↑ p. 46 - note Villebon has Melanson's first initial as "M" when it was "P"
- ↑ Conquest of Acadia, p. 58
- ↑ http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/thibodeau_simon_5E.html
- ↑ Northern Armageddon: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham By D. Peter MacLeod
- ↑ http://www.cbc.ca/history/EPCONTENTSE1EP4CH8PA4LE.html
- ↑ "Festival des cultures francophones" (PDF). Dalhousie Univresity.
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