List of Acadians
This is a list of notable Acadians, and people of Acadia origins.
To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Acadian or must have references showing they are Acadian and are notable.
Actors
- Jim Gaffigan – actor/comedian; grandmother had Acadian roots
- 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
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
- Marcel Arsenault – Philanthropist Billionaire, donated all his wealth to charity
- 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
- Chris d'Entremont – Nova Scotia MLA, Minister of Health and Acadian Affairs
- Ray Frenette – former Premier of New Brunswick
- Brian Gallant – former Premier of New Brunswick
- Neil LeBlanc – Consul General to Boston, Massachusetts, and former Nova Scotia MLA, Minister of Finance
- Roméo LeBlanc – politician and journalist, former Governor-General of Canada
- Dominic LeBlanc — Canadian MP and cabinet minister
- Viola Léger – former senator and actress
- Pascal Poirier – first Acadian member of the Canadian Senate
- 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
Military veterans
- Pierre Maisonnat dit Baptiste
- Alexandre Bourg
- Joseph Broussard
- Louis Amand Bujold
- Jacques Coste
- 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 – pilot for French Navy during King George's War
- François Dupont Duvivier
- Joseph-Nicolas Gautier and his wife
- Joseph Godin dit Bellefontaine, Sieur de Beauséjour – Commander of the Acadian Militia of the St-John River valley
- William Johnson – Battle of Bloody Creek
- Bernard Marres 'Marc' dit La Sonde – fought the British at Canso, Nova Scotia
- Abel LeBlanc – Petit de Grat, NS, West Nova Scotia Regiment, wounded while in combat in Italy.
- Joseph LeBlanc, dit Le Maigre
- Napoleon LeBlanc – Petit de Grat, NS, Royal Canadian Regiment WWII, captured by the Imperial Army of Japan, prisoner of war for over three years
- Rene LeBlanc – from Minas, worked for Villebon during King William's War
- Pierre Melanson – from Minas, worked for Villebon during King William's War, appointed "captain of the coast"
- Charles Pelerain – pilot for French Navy during King George's War
- Charles Raymond
- Prudent Robichaud – leader of the mutiny on the Pembroke
- Pierre II Surette
- Simon Thibodeau – American Revolution
- Joseph Trahan – Battle of the Plains of Abraham
- Joseph Winniett – supported the British; grandchild of Pierre Maisonnat dit Baptiste
Musicians
- Maxim Cormier – guitarist, composer
- Angèle Arsenault – singer-songwriter, media host
- Marcel Aymar – singer
- Annie Blanchard
- Édith Butler – singer-songwriter
- Zachary Richard - singer-songwriter
- Cayouche – country singer and songwriter
- Julie Doiron – singer-songwriter
- Patsy Gallant – singer and actress
- Boozoo Chavis - singer-songwriter
- Wilfred Le Bouthillier – singer
- Lisa LeBlanc – singer-songwriter
- Anna Malenfant – contralto and composer
- Natasha St-Pier - singer
- Radio Radio – hip hop group; Jacques Doucet, Alexandre Bilodeau, Gabriel Malenfant
- Fayo – singer- songwriter
- Waylon Thibodaux – fiddler and singer-songwriter
- Ernest Tollar – saxophonist, flutist, composer
- Yvette Tollar – jazz singer, composer
- Roch Voisine – singer-songwriter
- Beau Jocque - singer-songwriter
- Helen Arsenault – Bergeron – Trad Music Performer – keyboard, guitar, dance
- P'tit Belliveau – singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer
Sports
- Louis Cyr – weightlifter, "Strongest Man in the World"
- Eric Cyr – MLB player
- Paul Cyr – NHL player
- Jean Béliveau – Hockey Hall of Fame, Montreal Canadiens
- Luc Bourdon – NHL player
- Leo Burke – wrestler
- Jean-Louis Cormier – wrestler
- Rheal Cormier – Major League Baseball pitcher
- Yvon Cormier – wrestler
- René Duprée – wrestler
- Yvon Durelle – boxer
- Suzanne Gaudet – curler
- Ron Guidry – Major League baseball pitcher
- Bobby Hebert- NFL Quarterback New Orleans Saints
- Camille Henry – NHL player, winner of the Lady Byng Trophy and the Calder Memorial Trophy
- Bobby Kay – wrestler
- Jacques LeBlanc – boxer
- Robert Maillet – wrestler
- Brad Marchand – NHL player, Boston Bruins
- Roland Melanson – NHL goalie
- Chad Ogea – Major League Baseball pitcher
- Henri Richard – Hockey Hall of Fame, Montreal Canadiens
- Maurice Richard – Hockey Hall of Fame, Montreal Canadiens
- Miguel Sullivan – goalie, Cape Breton Screaming Eagles
- Ryan Theriot – Major League Baseball infielder
Visual artists
- Jennifer Bélanger – artist
- Rémi Belliveau – artist
- Jean-Denis Boudreau – artist
- Marjolaine Bourgeois – artist
- Angèle Cormier – artist
- Mario Doucette – painter
- André Jacques LeBlanc – artist
- Mathieu Léger – artist
- Annie France Noël – artist
- Anne-Marie Sirois – artist
Writers
- Gilbert Buote – educator, publisher and author
- Herménégilde Chiasson – writer, ex-lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick
- Joey Comeau – writer, comic creator
- France Daigle – writer and playwright
- Andrea Doucet – sociologist and writer
- Clive Doucet – writer
- Valentin Landry – journalist and educator
- Émilie Leblanc – Acadian activist and educator
- 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
Media
- Phil Comeau – film and television director; 92 film awards, Order of Canada, Order of New Brunswick
- Lyse Doucet – news correspondent and presenter, BBC World
Pre-deportation
- David Basset, trader and privateer
- Michel Boudrot – Judge and Lieutenant General, italic=unset, Governor General, italic=unset, italic=unset, italic=unset, Lt. General of Port Royal
- Joseph Broussard
- Noel Doiron – leader of the Acadians; died in the single greatest tragedy of the Expulsion, the sinking of the Duke William
- Joseph-Nicolas Gautier – merchant trader and Acadian militia leader
- Daniel LeBlanc – immigrant and progenitor of the LeBlanc family, the largest Acadian family at the time of the deportation
- Pierre LeBlanc – early settler of Pointe-de-l'Église, Nova Scotia
- 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
- Joseph d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin – military officer and Abenaki chief
- Pierre II Surette – Acadian resistance leader and co-founder of Ste. Anne du Ruisseau, Nova Scotia
- Jeanne Dugas – wife of Pierre Bois, one of the co-founders of Chéticamp, Nova Scotia