Michel Caron (January 14, 1763 – December 26, 1831) was a political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Saint-Maurice in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1804 to 1814. He signed his name as Michel Caront.

He was born in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, the son of Michel Caron and Marie-Josephte Parent. He married Marie-Anne Trahan, who was of Acadian descent, in 1767. In 1783, he settled on property in the seigneury of Yamachiche which had been acquired by his father and was known as the village of the Carons. In 1812, Caron was named a commissioner for the purpose of taking the oath of allegiance for Yamachiche parish. He was part of a group of singers known as the "Chantres de Machiche". Caron was named a justice of the peace. He did not run for reelection to the assembly in 1814. Caron died in Yamachiche at the age of 67.

His brothers Charles and François also served in the assembly.

Georges Van Parys (born Paris, 7 June 1902 – died there 27 January 1971) was a French composer of film music and operettas. Among his musical influences were the group Les Six, Maurice Ravel, and Claude Debussy. Later in his career he served as vice-president of the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique. He is buried in the cemetery at Villiers-sur-Marne.

Pierre Alexandre is a writer, a journalist and a businessman. He has found and is the CEO of New York Financial Press, a media company based in Wall Street, inside the Stock Exchange.

Pierre Alexandre graduated from the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris) and from IPJ, a famous french journalist school.

Pierre Alexandre is a renowned journalist and financial reporter. He is a benchmark for his profession, especially in the fields of finance and economics. His records include working with France Info, Capital, L'Express and BFM. He was also editor in chief of Strategies.

In 2000, he becomes the correspondent in Wall Street for TF1 (the first french tv channel) and later for LCI. Now, he works with France24, the worldwide news channel, and Europe 1, a national French radio station.

In 2005, Pierre Alexandre creates New York Financial Press. NYFP produces on line videos with a financial content. With NYFP, Pierre Alexandre created an international and multilingual network, available in eight languages: French, English, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, Russians, Chinese and Japanese. NYFP produces videos per day on business news for an international audience, including live spots from Wall Street studios, analysis of the other markets and financial centers (Asia and Europe), as well as ad-hoc reports on request for French and other European media outlets.

Michel Onfray (born January 1, 1959 in Argentan, Orne, France) is a contemporary French philosopher who adheres to hedonism, atheism and anarchism. He is a highly prolific author on philosophy with more than 50 written books.

He has gained notoriety for writing such works as Physiologie de Georges Palante, portrait d'un nietzchéen de gauche, Politique du rebelle: traité de résistance et d'insoumission, Traité d'athéologie: Physique de la métaphysique (translated into English as Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, La puissance d'exister and La Sculpture de soi for which he won the annual Prix Médicis in 1993.

His philosophy is mainly influenced by such thinkers as Nietzsche, Epicurus, the cynic and cyrenaic schools, Julien Offray de La Mettrie, and individualist anarchism.

Born to a family of Norman farmers, he graduated with a Ph.D. in philosophy. He taught this subject to senior students at a technical high school in Caen between 1983 and 2002, before establishing what he and his supporters call the Université populaire de Caen, proclaiming its foundation on a free-of-charge basis and on the manifesto written by Onfray in 2004 (La communauté philosophique).

Pierre Marcoux (January 2, 1757 – November 20, 1809) was a businessman and militia officer in Lower Canada.

He was born at Quebec City in 1757, the son of Pierre Marcoux and his first wife, Geneviève Lepage. Marcoux served in the militia during the defence of the town against the Americans in 1775-6. At the end of the American Revolution, he was placed on half pay and received a grant of land. He married Marie-Anne, the daughter of Quebec merchant Louis Dunière, in 1783. In 1785, in partnership with his father-in-law and other Quebec merchants, he organized an expedition to Baie des Esquimaux (Hamilton Inlet) on the Labrador coast to harvest seals. Although the first trip was not particularly successful, in 1788, they were able to trade supplies with the local natives for seals, despite a dispute with two other traders active in the area and continued to trade in the area during the 1790s. From 1796 to 1802, he served as a captain in the Royal Canadian Volunteer Regiment.

In 1797, Marcoux received a share of the family farm after the death of his father. He sold his share to his father-in-law and settled at Montreal. He became a member there of the Club des Apôtres, which held monthly gastronomic suppers. In 1809, he was named overseer of highways for Quebec district but he died soon afterwards of pleurisy at Berthier in 1809.