Guy Laliberté

Guy Laliberte is the rare entrepreneur whose product was wonder itself. Co-founding Cirque du Soleil in 1984 with Gilles Ste-Croix, he turned a troupe of Quebec street performers into a global spectacle seen by over 90 million people, and built a billionaire fortune doing it. I admire that he reinvented the circus by stripping out the animals and leaning entirely into human artistry, music and theatre. The honors stacked up too: the Order of Canada, the National Order of Quebec, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star. He even flew to space as a tourist. To me he's proof that creative vision and hard business sense aren't opposites.

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Name (English)

Guy Laliberté

Name (Japanese)

ギー・ラリベルテ

Reading

ぎー・らりべるて

Born

September 2, 1959 (age 67)

Origin

Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

Occupation

entrepreneur / musician / poker player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Boar

Awards & achievements

• Officer of the Order of Canada
• 1997 Knight of the National Order of Quebec
• 2016 Companion of the Ordre des arts et des lettres du Québec
• honorary doctorate at the Laval University
• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
• National Order of Quebec

• Official sitehttps://www.cirquedusoleil.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20Lalibert%C3%A9
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AE%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%AA%E3%83%99%E3%83%AB%E3%83%86
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q357468

Tags

• Quebec
• entrepreneur
• musician
• poker player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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