The Prix Patriote de l'année (English:Patriot of the Year prize) is an honorary title created in 1975. It is awarded by the patriotic Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society to people "having distinguished [themselves] in the defense of the interests of Quebec and the democracy of peoples, in memory of the Patriotes of the 1830s."
Laureates 1975: Madeleine Chaput and Marcel Chaput 1976: François-Albert Angers 1977: Camille Laurin 1978: Andrée Bertrand-Ferretti 1979: Raymond Barbeau 1980: Raymond Lévesque 1981: Jean Duceppe 1985: Jacques Parizeau 1986: Gaston Cholette 1987: Gilles Vigneault 1987: Fernand Roberge 1987: Jacques Henripin 1987: Pierre Harvey 1987: Rolland A. Pinsonneault 1987: Gérald LeBlanc 1987: Yvonne Hubert 1987: André Brassard 1987: Gérald Godin 1987: Claude Gosselin 1987: Gilles Proulx 1987: Lorraine Pagé 1988: Mia Riddez-Morisset 1989: Louis Laberge 1990: Serge Turgeon 1991: Jacques Proulx 1992: Carmen Sabag-Olmedo 1993: Jean-Claude Germain 1994: Paul Piché 1995: Monique Vézina 1996: Gérald Larose 1997: Yves Michaud 1998: Fernand Daoust and Jean-Marc Léger 2000: Jean-Marie Cossette 2001: Marcel Tessier 2002: Pierre Falardeau 2003: Georges Aubin and Renée Blanchet 2004: Luck Mervil 2005: Louise Laurin 2006: Bernard Landry 2007: Loco Locass (trio consisting of Sébastien Fréchette, Sébastien Ricard, Mathieu Farhoud-Dionne) 2008: Robert Laplante 2009: Hélène Pedneault 2010: Gilles Laporte 2011: Denis Trudel 2012: Fred Pellerin, Claudette Carbonneau, Jasmin Roy, Maria Mourani, Julie Snyder, Louis-José Houde and Dominic Champagne 2013: Frédéric Bastien 2014: Pierre Curzi 2015: Robin Philpot 2016: Jean-Paul Perreault 2017: Odette Sarrazin 2018: François Côté, Éric Poirier and Guillaume Rousseau 2019: Patrick R. Bourgeois 2020: Laurent Duvernay-Tardif 2021: Véronique Hivon
References "Liste des Lauréates et lauréats du prix Patriote de l'année" at Bilan du Siècle Le titre de Patriote de l’année
See also Parti patriote Patriote Rebellion Quebec nationalism