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Anne-Marie Alonzo, was a Canadian playwright, poet, novelist, critic and publisher.

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Napoléon Aubin, christened Aimé-Nicolas, was born from a Swiss family in Chêne-Bougeries, a district of Geneva, at the time a territory of France. He was a journalist, writer, publisher, scientist, musician and lithographer.

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Suzanne Aubry is a Canadian novelist, screenwriter and playwright.

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Christine Beaulieu is a Canadian actress and playwright. She garnered a Canadian Screen Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards, and a Jutra Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 18th Jutra Awards, for her performance in Le Mirage.

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Herménégilde Chiasson is a Canadian poet, playwright and visual artist of Acadian origin. Born in Saint-Simon, New Brunswick, he was the 29th Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick between 2003 and 2009. He is also currently a professor at Université de Moncton.

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Jean Marc Dalpé is a Canadian playwright and poet. He is one of the most important figures in Franco-Ontarian literature.

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Aurore Dessureault-Descôteaux was a writer in Quebec, Canada. She was perhaps best known as the author of the téléroman Entre chien et loup.

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Réjean Ducharme was a Canadian novelist and playwright who resided in Montreal. He was known for his reclusive personality and did not appear at any public functions since his first successful book was published in 1966. A common theme of his early work was the rejection of the adult world by children.

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Carole Fréchette is an award-winning Canadian playwright. She won the Siminovitch Prize in 2002. To date she has written more than a dozen plays including The Four Lives of Marie, The Seven Days of Simon Labrosse, Helen's Necklace, John and Beatrice, The Little Room at the Top of the Stairs, and most recently: Thinking of Yu.

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Louis-Honoré Fréchette,, was a Canadian poet, politician, playwright, and short story writer. For his prose, he would be the first Quebecois to receive the Prix Montyon from the Académie française, as well as the first Canadian to receive any honor of this kind from a European nation.

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Gratien Gélinas, was a Canadian author, playwright, actor, director, producer and administrator who is considered one of the founders of modern Canadian theatre and film.

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Mickaël Gouin is a Canadian actor and television writer from Drummondville, Quebec. He is most noted for his role in the sketch comedy series SNL Québec, the Quebec adaptation of Saturday Night Live, and its spinoff Le nouveau show.

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Rachel Graton is a Canadian playwright and actress from Quebec. She is most noted for her play La nuit du 4 au 5, which won the Prix Gratien-Gélinas in 2017 and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for French-language drama at the 2019 Governor General's Awards.

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Marie Laberge is a Quebec actress, educator and writer.

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Rina Lasnier, was a Québécois poet. Born in St-Grégoire d'Iberville-Mont-Saint-Grégoire, Quebec, she attended Collège Marguerite Bourgeoys and the Université de Montréal. Although she was the author of several plays, including Féerie indienne, she is chiefly remembered as a poet.

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Suzanne Lebeau is a Quebec actor and writer.

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Robert Lepage, is a Canadian playwright, actor, film director, and stage director.

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François Létourneau is a Canadian actor and writer, best known as co-creator and star of the television series Les Invincibles and Série noire.

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Antonine Maillet, is an Acadian novelist, playwright, and scholar. She was born in Bouctouche, New Brunswick, Canada.

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Joséphine Marchand-Dandurand was a journalist, writer and feminist activist in Quebec.

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Catherine Mavrikakis is a Canadian academic and award-winning writer living in Quebec.

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Claude Meunier is a Canadian actor, dramaturge, comedian and film director.

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Andrée A. Michaud is a Canadian novelist and playwright from Quebec. She is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction, for Le ravissement at the 2001 Governor General's Awards and for Bondrée at the 2014 Governor General's Awards, and won the Prix Ringuet in 2007 for Mirror Lake. Boundary, translated by Donald Winkler, has been longlisted for the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

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Pauline Michel is a Canadian novelist, poet, playwright, songwriter and screenwriter.

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Joseph Quesnel was a French Canadian composer, poet, playwright and slave-trader. Among his works were two operas, Colas et Colinette and Lucas et Cécile; the former is considered to be the first Canadian opera.

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Vincent de Tourdonnet is a Canadian musical theatre writer. He is known for writing large-scale historical musicals, as well as intimate, cabaret-style musicals. He also serves as stage director.

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Michel Tremblay, CQ is a French Canadian novelist and playwright.