director, appointed 2013 Gaston Miron , poet, appointed 1996 Ted Moses , aboriginal chief, appointed 2002 Lise Payette , politician, writer, appointed 2001 Pierre Péladeau businessman, appointed 1989 Louise Penny , author, appointed 2017 Hubert Reeves , astrophysicist, appointed 1994 Maurice Richard , hockey player, appointed 1985 Mary Simon , Governor General of Canada, appointed 1992 Mary Two-Axe Earley , women's rights activist, appointed 1985 Jacques Villeneuve , racing driver, appointed 1998 Knight Jacques Amyot , long-distance swimmer, appointed 2001 Denys Arcand , filmmaker, appointed 1990 Frédéric Back , animator, appointed 1989 Alice Benjamin, appointed 1993 Sylvie Bernier , Olympic diver, appointed 1985 Ferdinand Biondi , radio broadcaster, appointed 1985 Neil Bissoondath , author, appointed 2010 Denise Bombardier , journalist, appointed 2000 Claire Bonenfant , president of the Quebec Status of Women Council, appointed 1991 Émile Bouchard , hockey player, appointed 2008 Gaétan Boucher , speed skater, appointed 1985 Isabelle Boulay , singer, appointed 2012 Pierre Bourque , mayor of Montreal, appointed 1993 Françoise David , social and feminist activist, appointed 1999 Yvon Deschamps , comedian, appointed 2001 Jean Duceppe , actor, appointed 1985 Diane Dufresne , singer and painter, appointed 2002 Laurent Duvernay-Tardif , NFL player, appointed 2019 Gad Elmaleh, comedian, appointed 2017 Marc Favreau , actor, appointed 1995 Jean-Pierre Ferland , singer-songwriter Madeleine Ferron , writer, appointed 1992 Daniel Germain , philanthropist, appointed 1997 Jacques Godbout , writer and filmmaker, appointed 1998 Marc-André Hamelin , pianist Otto Joachim , composer, musician, painter, appointed 1993 Roland-Benoît Jomphe , poet, appointed 1987 Oliver Theophilus Jones , pianist, organist, composer and arranger, appointed 1994 Pauline Julien , singer-songwriter, appointed 1997 Madeleine Juneau , museologist, teacher, nun, appointed 2017 Marie-Claire Kirkland-Casgrain , appointed 1985 Françoise Labbé , artist, appointed 1997 Jacques Lacombe , conductor, appointed 2012 Jacques Lacoursière , historian, appointed 2002 Guy Lafleur , hockey player, appointed 2005 Guy Laliberté , appointed 1997 Mario Lemieux , hockey player, appointed 2009 Michel Lemieux , performance artist and theatre director, appointed 2014 Édouard Lock , dancer, appointed 2001 Louis Lortie , pianist, appointed 1998 Norman McLaren , animator and filmmaker, appointed 1985 Julie Payette , astronaut, appointed 2000 Oscar Peterson , jazz musician, appointed 1991 Chantal Petitclerc , wheelchair athlete, Canadian senator, appointed 2005 Samuel Pierre, professor, appointed 2009 Victor Pilon , director, theatre designer, visual designer and photographer, appointed 2014 Luc Plamondon , songwriter, appointed 1990 Jean-Louis Roux , actor and Lieutenant