List of Acadians

This is a list of members of the Acadian people, and people of Acadian origins.

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

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

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
• René LeBlanc - notary, the only Acadian named in Longfellow's Poem "Évangeline - A Tale of Acadie"

See also

• List of French Canadian writers from outside Quebec
• List of Quebecers
• List of Cajuns
• List of people by nationality

References

1. http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/bourg_alexandre_3E.html
2. List of Veterans named by Governor of Boston, p. 155
3. https://archive.org/stream/documentsrelativ10brod#page/168/mode/1up
4. https://archive.org/stream/documentsrelativ10brod#page/171/mode/1up
5. https://archive.org/stream/documentsrelativ10brod#page/173/mode/1up
6. Barnes, p. 112, note 17
7. http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/leblanc_joseph_3E.html
8. p. 46
9. p. 46 - note Villebon has Melanson's first initial as "M" when it was "P"
10. Conquest of Acadia, p. 58
11. http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/thibodeau_simon_5E.html
12. Northern Armageddon: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham By D. Peter MacLeod
13. http://www.cbc.ca/history/EPCONTENTSE1EP4CH8PA4LE.html