The following is a list of notable alumni, faculty and affiliates of

Queen's University at Kingston Queen's University at Kingston, commonly known as Queen's University or simply Queen's, is a public research university in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Queen's holds more than of land throughout Ontario and owns Herstmonceux Castle in East Suss ...

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, Canada.

Notable Queen's alumni

Academic leaders

* John Hall Archer – first president of the University of Regina * Herbert Basser – theologian, Harvard Starr Fellow * David Card – economist, winner of

John Bates Clark Medal The John Bates Clark Medal is awarded by the American Economic Association to "that American economist under the age of forty who is adjudged to have made a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge." The award is named after the ...

George Ramsay Cook George Ramsay Cook (28 November 1931 – 14 July 2016) was a Canadian historian and general editor of the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography''. He was professor of history at the University of Toronto, 1958–1968; York University, 1969–1 ...

– Canadian historian * William Thomson Newnham – first president of Seneca College, 1967–1984 * Frits Pannekoek (PhD 1974) – president of

Athabasca University Athabasca University (AU) is a Canadian public research university that primarily operates through online distance education. Founded in 1970, it is one of four comprehensive academic and research universities in Alberta, and was the first ...

Shirley M. Tilghman Shirley Marie Tilghman, (; née Caldwell; born 17 September 1946) is a Canadian scholar in molecular biology and an academic administrator. She is now a professor of molecular biology and public policy and president emerita of Princeton Univers ...

(BSc 1968) – president of

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

, member of the board of directors of

Google Google LLC () is an American multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics. ...

* Alfred Fitzpatrick – founder of

Frontier College Frontier College (french: Collège Frontière) is the former name of United for Literacy'. It is a Canadian literacy organization established in 1899 by Alfred Fitzpatrick. It was founded as the Reading Camp Association and was renamed Frontier C ...

* David Siderovski – Professor and Chair of Pharmacology & Neuroscience at University of North Texas Health Science Center (winner of ASPET John J. Abel Award) *

Robert Sutherland Robert Sutherland (1830–1878), a native of Jamaica, was the first known graduate of colour at a Canadian university, and the first Black man to study law in British North America.Queens UniversityQueensU.ca "Alumni." Retrieved on: 2009-05-30 ...

– first person of colour to graduate from a Canadian university, and the first black lawyer in British North America. *

Vijay Bhargava Vijay K. Bhargava (विजय भार्गव; born September 22, 1948) is a researcher and Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He served the department as its Head f ...

– researcher, co-author/co-editor of Digital Communications by Satellite (1981), Cooperative Cellular Wireless Communications (2011), Reed Solomon Codes and their Applications (1994), Communications, Information and Network Security (2003)and Cognitive Wireless Communication Networks (2007).

Actors, film, and media

* Scott Anderson –

CanWest Canwest Global Communications Corporation, which operated under the corporate name Canwest, was a major Canadian media conglomerate based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with its head offices at Canwest Place. It held radio, television broadcasting an ...

MediaWorks senior vice-president, content; former

editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...

of the ''

Ottawa Citizen The ''Ottawa Citizen'' is an English-language daily newspaper owned by Postmedia Network in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. History Established as ''The Bytown Packet'' in 1845 by William Harris (journalist), William Harris, it was renamed the '' ...

'' *

Dean Armstrong Dean Armstrong (born April 24, 1973) is a Canadian actor, producer, and acting coach. Early life Armstrong was born in Owen Sound, Ontario. He attended Queen's University, in Kingston, Ontario and graduated with degrees in theater arts and edu ...

– actor *

Ashleigh Banfield Ashleigh Dennistoun Banfield (born December 29, 1967) is a Canadian-American journalist and host of ''Banfield'' on the NewsNation network. She is a former host of ''Legal View with Ashleigh Banfield'' and ''Early Start'' on CNN. Education ...

–

CNN CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the M ...

news anchor * Rachel Blanchard – actress * Kristian Bruun – actor *

Greg Bryk Gregory Michael Bryk (born 19 August 1972) is a Canadian film and television actor. He has appeared in numerous films and television series and is best known for his reoccurring roles in ''ReGenesis'' (2004–2008), '' XIII: The Series'' (201 ...

– actor *

Nicholas Campbell Nicholas Campbell (born 24 March 1952) is a Canadian film, television and voice actor and filmmaker, who won three Gemini Awards for acting. He is known for such films as ''Naked Lunch'', ''Prozac Nation'', ''New Waterford Girl'' and the telev ...

– actor *

Tom Cavanagh Thomas Cavanagh (born October 26, 1963) is a Canadian actor. He is known for a variety of roles on American television, including starring roles in '' Ed'' (2000–2004), ''Love Monkey'' (2006) and '' Trust Me'' (2009), and recurring roles on ...

– actor, played title character in sitcom '' Ed'' *

Wendy Crewson Wendy Jane Crewson (born May 9, 1956) is a Canadian actress and producer. She began her career appearing on Canadian television, before her breakthrough role in 1991 dramatic film '' The Doctor''. Crewson has appeared in many Hollywood films, inc ...

– actress * Brendan Connor – television broadcaster,

Al Jazeera International Al Jazeera English (AJE; ar, الجزيرة‎, translit=al-jazīrah, , literally "The Peninsula", referring to the Qatar Peninsula) is an international 24-hour English-language news channel owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network, which is own ...

* Chris Cuthbert –

TSN TSN may refer to: Science and technology * Translin, DNA binding protein involved in microRNA function * Taxonomic serial number, a stable and unique taxonomic serial number issued by the Integrated Taxonomic Information System * The Science Netwo ...

sportscaster * Lyse Doucet -

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's Chief International Correspondent *

Lisa Eichhorn Lisa Eichhorn (born February 4, 1952) is an American actress, writer and producer. She made her film debut in 1979 in the John Schlesinger film '' Yanks'', for which she received two Golden Globe nominations. Her international career has includ ...

– actress *

Sally Gifford Sally Gifford Piper (born September 30, 1981), usually credited as Sally Gifford, is a Canadian or American actress. She hosted CBC Television's national children's show, The-X. In 2013 she gained widespread attention for appearing in a viral v ...

– host on CBC's national kids' show, '' The X'' * Lorne Greene (BA'37, LLD'71) – actor *

Amy Lalonde Amy Ciupak Lalonde (born August 6, 1975) is a Canadian-born television and film actress from Pelham, Ontario. She holds a degree in drama and history from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Lalonde appears on the television channel SCREA ...

– actress, also played an actress who went to Queen's Business School in '' Wild Roses'' *

Anna Olson Anna Olson (born May 4, 1968 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a professionally trained American pastry chef. She resides in Welland in the Niagara region of Ontario, Canada. She was previously the host of Food Network Canada's '' Fresh with Anna Olson'', ...

– chef and television presenter *

Italia Ricci Stephanie Italia Ricci (; born October 29, 1986) is a Canadian-American actress. She's known for starring as April Carver in the 2014–2015 ABC Family television series ''Chasing Life'', and for playing White House Chief of Staff and Special A ...

– actress * Michelle MacLaren – TV series director * Molly McGlynn – film and television director and screenwriter * Shelagh Rogers – CBC broadcaster *

Ted Simonett The Canadian Tire guy is a character played by actor Ted Simonett in a series of television commercials for Canadian Tire stores that ran for eight years. The character typically touted the features and benefits of products unique to Canadian Tire ...

– actor * Jeffrey Simpson – political columnist for ''

The Globe and Mail ''The Globe and Mail'' is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of approximately 2 million in 2015, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays, although it ...

'' * Rod Smith –

sportscaster * John Stackhouse – former Editor, ''

'' *

Katie Uhlmann ''My Roommate's an Escort'' is a Canadian comedy web series created, written by, and starring Katie Uhlmann and Trish Rainone. All 11 episodes of the first season are directed by Uhlmann, and the series premiered on YouTube on April 3, 2017. Raino ...

– actress and producer * Ali Velshi – former '' Report on Business Television'' and current

business Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or Trade, buying and selling Product (business), products (such as goods and Service (economics), services). It is also "any activity or enterprise entered into for pr ...

reporter A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...

* Nancy Wilson – CBC journalist *

Gema Zamprogna Gema Zamprogna (born 24 May 1976) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her role as Felicity King on ''Road to Avonlea'' and Mackie "Mac" Daniels in '' The Challengers''. Personal life Gema Zamprogna was born 24 May 1976 in Hamilton, ...

– actor * Linda Liao (廖語晴) – singer/actress *

Sarita Choudhury Sarita Catherine Louise Choudhury (born 18 August 1966) is a British actress, known for her role as Mina in the Mira Nair-directed feature film ''Mississippi Masala'' (1991). Choudhury has played roles in American and international films and tel ...

– actress * Rachel Skarsten – actress *

Julie Stewart-Binks Julie Stewart-Binks (born April 30, 1987) is a Canadian journalist who has worked for Barstool Sports, ESPN, and Fox Sports. Early years Stewart-Binks was born in Toronto, Ontario, where she attended Havergal College. Stewart-Binks graduated fro ...

– sports broadcaster, ESPN * Vanessa Morgan – actress *

Ashleigh Rains Ashleigh is the feminine form of the Old English name Ashley, which means "dweller near the ash tree forest". It is most common in the United States and United Kingdom. Notable people B *Ashleigh Ball (born 1983), Canadian voice actress * Ashle ...

– actress and producer *

Evanka Osmak Evanka Osmak (born September 20, 1980) is a sports anchor for Canada's Rogers Sportsnet television. Osmak was born in Ridgewood, New Jersey, but raised in Oakville, Ontario. After attending Appleby College in Oakville, Ontario, Osmak earned a c ...

–

SportsNet Sportsnet is a Canadian English-language sports specialty channel owned by Rogers Sports & Media. It was established in 1998 as CTV Sportsnet, a joint venture between CTV, Liberty Media, and Rogers Media. CTV parent Bell Globemedia then ...

broadcaster

Business people

Alfred Bader Alfred Robert Bader, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, CBE (April 28, 1924 – December 23, 2018) was a Canadians, Canadian chemist, businessman, philanthropist, and collector of fine art. He was considered by the ''Chemical & Engine ...

(B.Sc. 1945, B.A. 1946, M.Sc. 1947) – founder of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, and donor of 15th century Herstmonceux Castle * Geoffrey Ballard – founder of

Ballard Power Systems Ballard Power Systems Inc. is a developer and manufacturer of proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell products for markets such as heavy-duty motive (consisting of bus and tram applications), portable power, material handling as well as engineer ...

Robert Buchan Robert M Buchan is a Scottish-Canadian mining engineer, businessman and philanthropist. He founded Kinross Gold in 1993. It is now the 3rd-largest gold mining company in North America. Brought up in Rosyth, Fife, Buchan graduated with a 1st class ...

– founder and former president and CEO of

Kinross Gold Kinross Gold Corporation is a Canadian-based gold mining, gold and silver mining company founded in 1993 and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Kinross currently operates six active gold mines, and was ranked fifth of the "10 Top Gold-mining ...

Derek Burney Derek Hudson Burney, OC (born 1939) for a time served as Canada's ambassador to the US, and was political strategist for both the government of Brian Mulroney and of Stephen Harper. He was for a time an executive or director in private industry ...

(B.A. 1962, M.A. 1964) – former president and CEO of

Bell Canada Bell Canada (commonly referred to as Bell) is a Canadian telecommunications company headquartered at 1 Carrefour Alexander-Graham-Bell in the borough of Verdun in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is an ILEC (incumbent local exchange carrier) in t ...

, current member of the board of directors of CanWest Global Communications,

Quebecor World Inc. Quebecor World Inc. was a printing subsidiary of Quebecor Inc. based in Montreal, Quebec. It comprised a number of small and large print shops throughout the world. In 2010, Quebecor World (now known as Worldcolor) was acquired by Wisconsin-based ...

and Shell Canada * Donald J. Carty – former chairman and CEO of AMR Corporation, the parent company of

American Airlines American Airlines is a major airlines of the United States, major US-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, within the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. It is the Largest airlines in the world, largest airline in the world when measured ...

Gururaj Deshpande Gururaj Deshpande ("Desh" Deshpande) is an Indian American venture capitalist and entrepreneur, who is best known for co-founding the Chelmsford, MA-based internet equipment manufacturer Sycamore Networks,David A. Dodge David Allison Dodge (born June 8, 1943) is a Canadian economist. He served as Governor of the Bank of Canada from 2001 to 2008. Early life Dodge was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1943. He attended Ridley College, a private boarding school ...

– former governor of the

Bank of Canada The Bank of Canada (BoC; french: Banque du Canada) is a Crown corporation and Canada's central bank. Chartered in 1934 under the ''Bank of Canada Act'', it is responsible for formulating Canada's monetary policy,OECD. OECD Economic Surveys: Ca ...

, and

chancellor Chancellor ( la, cancellarius) is a title of various official positions in the governments of many nations. The original chancellors were the of Roman courts of justice—ushers, who sat at the or lattice work screens of a basilica or law cou ...

of Queen's, effective July 1, 2008 * Frances Donald – youngest chief economist for a major financial services firm in Canada (

Manulife Manulife Financial Corporation (also known as Financière Manuvie in Quebec) is a Canadian multinational insurance company and financial services provider headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The company operates in Canada and Asia as "Manulife" an ...

) *

Elon Musk Elon Reeve Musk ( ; born June 28, 1971) is a business magnate and investor. He is the founder, CEO and chief engineer of SpaceX; angel investor, CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; owner and CEO of Twitter, Inc.; founder of The Bori ...

– founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer at SpaceX; early stage investor, CEO, and Product Architect of Tesla, Inc. (left after 2 years). *

Kimbal Musk Kimbal Reeve Musk (born 20 September 1972) is a South African restaurateur, chef, and entrepreneur. He owns The Kitchen Restaurant Group, a collection of "community" restaurants located in Colorado, Chicago, and Indianapolis. He is the co-fo ...

– South African restaurateur, chef, and entrepreneur * Don Drummond (MA, LLD) – former senior vice-president and Chief Economist of TD Bank Financial Group and Donald Matthews Faculty Fellowship on Global Public Policy * Mel Goodes – former chairman and CEO of the Warner-Lambert Company *

Stephen K. Gunn Stephen K. Gunn is Executive Co-Chairman and co-Founder of Sleep Country Canada Inc, which he co-founded with Christine Magee and Gordon Lownds. As of June 2013, the company has 201 stores across Canada and 43 stores in the US ( Sleep America). E ...

– CEO and co-founder of

Sleep Country Canada Sleep Country Canada Holdings Inc. is a Canadian mattress retailer and with over 250 stores operating in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia. In 2006, the comp ...

F. C. Kohli Faqir Chand Kohli (19 March 192426 November 2020) was a co-founder and the first CEO of TCS Tata Consultancy Services, India's largest Software Services Co. He was also associated with other companies within Tata Group including Tata Power Comp ...

– former CEO of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) *

Leonard Lee Leonard G. Lee CM (July 17, 1938 – July 7, 2016) was a Canadian entrepreneur and founder of Lee Valley Tools and Canica Design. Lee was born in 1938 in Wadena, Sask., and grew up in a log cabin without electricity or running water. He rece ...

(B.A. 1963) – founder of Lee Valley Tools * Michael MacMillan – chairman and co-founder of Alliance Atlantis *

Earle McLaughlin William Earle McLaughlin, OC (1915 – October 30, 1991) was a Canadian banker. Born in Oshawa, Ontario, to parents Frank McLaughlin and Frankie L. Houlden. Earle McLaughlin graduated with the gold medal in commerce from Queen's University and ...

– former president and CEO of the

Royal Bank of Canada Royal Bank of Canada (RBC; french: Banque royale du Canada) is a Canadian multinational financial services company and the largest bank in Canada by market capitalization. The bank serves over 17 million clients and has more than 89,000& ...

Seaton McLean Seaton McLean is a Canadian film and television producer. He co-founded Atlantis Films. He oversaw all production activity for the Atlantis Films Limited, producing television series like ''White Fang'', ''Traders'', '' Earth: Final Conflict'', ...

– co-founder of Atlantis Films (now Alliance Atlantis) *

Alexander C. Monteith Alexander Crawford Monteith (April 10, 1902 – September 17, 1979) was a Senior Vice-President of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, and for more than forty years a leader in the development of electric power systems. Monteith received his ...

– senior vice-president of the

Westinghouse Electric Corporation The Westinghouse Electric Corporation was an American manufacturing company founded in 1886 by George Westinghouse. It was originally named "Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company" and was renamed "Westinghouse Electric Corporation" in ...

and recipient of the IEEE Edison Medal *

Nik Nanos Nik Nanos (born in 1964 as Nikita James Nanos) is a Canadian public opinion pollster, entrepreneur, public speaker, author, and expert in political, business and social trends. Early life and education The son of Greek immigrants, he grew up in ...

– founder, Nanos Research *

Gord Nixon Gordon M. "Gord" Nixon, (born January 25, 1957) was the president, CEO and director of Royal Bank of Canada, from 2001 to 2014. He is chairman of Bell Canada Enterprises, lead director of George Weston Limited, director and chairman of the corpo ...

(BComm 1979) – president and CEO of the

* Douglas Peters (BComm 1963) – banker, economist and politician * Stephen Poloz – Governor of the Bank of Canada *

Stephen Quinn Stephen Jude Quinn (born 1 April 1986) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Mansfield Town. He has also represented the Republic of Ireland national team. He started his career with League of Ireland club St Patric ...

– senior vice president, Wal-Mart Inc, Bentonville, Arkansas * David Radler (MBA 1967) – former president of Ravelston Corporation (which owned

Argus Corporation The Argus Corporation was an investment holding company based in Toronto, Ontario. During the 1960s and 1970s, it was the most powerful and best known conglomerate in Canada, at one time controlling the companies making up 10 percent of all shar ...

which controlled Hollinger International), cooperating with the prosecution in the

Conrad Black Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour (born 25 August 1944), is a Canadian-born British former newspaper publisher, businessman, and writer. His father was businessman George Montegu Black II, who had significant holdings in Canadi ...

racketeering case *

Michele Romanow Michele Romanow (born June 12, 1985) is a Canadian tech entrepreneur, television personality, board director and venture capitalist. She co-founded Clearbanc, a Toronto based provider of revenue sharing solutions to fund new online businesses, ...

(BScEng 2007, MBA 2008) – cast member on ''Dragons' Den'', co-founder of Clearbanc * Michael Serbinis (B.S.) – president and CEO of

Kobo Inc. Rakuten Kobo Inc., or simply Kobo, is a Canadian company that sells ebooks, audiobooks, ereaders and tablet computers. It is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, and is a subsidiary of the Japanese ecommerce conglomerate Rakuten. The name'' Ko ...

* Chris Viehbacher – CEO of Sanofi * Mark Wiseman – president and CEO of

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB; french: Office d'investissement du régime de pensions du Canada), operating as CPP Investments (french: Investissements RPC), is a Canadian Crown corporation established by way of the 1997 ''Cana ...

Literature and the arts

Jill Barber Jill Barber (born February 6, 1980) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Originally associated with the folk-pop genre, she has performed vocal jazz and pop music on her more recent albums.Matthew Barber Matthew Barber (born January 10, 1977) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. His music has been classified as indie pop and pop rock with folk and alternative country influences. Barber was born and grew up in Port Credit, which is part of Mississa ...

– singer-songwriter *

Janet Cardiff Janet Cardiff (born March 15, 1957) is a Canadian artist who works chiefly with sound and sound installations, often in collaboration with her husband and partner George Bures Miller. Cardiff first gained international recognition in the art worl ...

– artist *

Lina Chartrand Lina Chartrand (1948-1994) was a Canadian writer and theatre creator. She was a co-founder of the feminist theatre company, Company of Sirens. Her most famous work was the bilingual and partly autobiographical play, ''La P'tite Miss Easter Seals' ...

(B.A.) – writer * George Elliott Clarke (Ph.D. 1993) – writer and academic * Dawn Dumont – author * Jim Cuddy – lead singer of

Blue Rodeo Blue Rodeo is a Canadian country rock band formed in 1984 in Toronto, Ontario. They have released 16 full-length studio albums, four live recordings, one greatest hits album, and two video/DVDs, along with multiple solo albums, side projects, a ...

Kalli Dakos Kalli Dakos (born June 16, 1950) is a Canadians, Canadian children's poet and teacher. She was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and graduated from Queen's University at Kingston, Queen's University, earning BAH and BEd degrees. Bibliography *1995 ...

– children's poet and teacher *

Robertson Davies William Robertson Davies (28 August 1913 – 2 December 1995) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished " men of letters" ...

, CC – author and playwright * Gord Downie – lead singer of band

The Tragically Hip The Tragically Hip, often referred to simply as the Hip, were a Canadian rock band formed in Kingston, Ontario in 1984, consisting of vocalist Gord Downie, guitarist Paul Langlois, guitarist Rob Baker (known as Bobby Baker until 1994), bassi ...

* Priscilla Galloway – author *

Sarah Harmer Sarah Harmer (born November 12, 1970) is a Canadian singer, songwriter and environmental activist. Early life Born and raised in Burlington, Ontario, Harmer gained her first exposure to the musician's lifestyle as a teenager, when her older sist ...

– singer-songwriter *

Frank Ll. Harrison Francis Llewellyn Harrison, better known as "Frank Harrison" or "Frank Ll. Harrison" (29 September 1905 – 29 December 1987) was one of the leading Musicology, musicologists of his time and a pioneering Ethnomusicology, ethnomusicologist. Init ...

– musicologist *

Steven Heighton Steven Heighton (August 14, 1961 – April 19, 2022) was a Canadian fiction writer, poet, and singer-songwriter. He is the author of eighteen books, including three short story collections, four novels, and seven poetry collections.

– author *

Elena Juatco The second season of '' Canadian Idol'' debuted on June 1, 2004, and became the most watched show in Canada, drawing in over 3 million viewers each week. Auditions were held in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Halif ...

– singer and ''

Canadian Idol ''Canadian Idol'' is a Canadian reality television competition show which aired on CTV, based on the British show ''Pop Idol''. The show was a competition to find the most talented young singer in Canada, and was hosted by Ben Mulroney. Jon Dore ...

'' season 2 top 10 contestant * Irene Luxbacher – artist, author and illustrator * Cyndra MacDowall – artist and photographer *

Emily Julian McManus Emily Julian McManus (December 30, 1865 – September 21, 1918) was a Canadian poet, author, and educator. In addition to a number of poems, some of which were reproduced in the collection of George William Ross, and some by William Douw Lighthall ...

(M.A., 1894) — poet, author, and educator *

Jay Malinowski Jay Malinowski (born 1982) is a Canadians, Canadian singer, songwriter, visual artist and writer. He was born in Montreal, Quebec, and grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is best known as the vocalist and guitarist for reggae group Bedo ...

(B.A. 2004) – vocalist and

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

ist for the Canadian band Bedouin Soundclash *

Paul Nicholas Mason Paul Nicholas Mason (born 1958) is an English-born Canadian novelist, playwright, and actor. Early years Mason was born in London, England. He lived as a child in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and British Columbia before settling in southern Ontari ...

– author * Michael Ondaatje (M.A. 1967) – author *

Neil Pasricha Neil Pasricha (born September 17, 1979) is a Canadian author, entrepreneur, podcaster, and public speaker characterized by his advocacy of positivity and simple pleasures. He is best known for his The Book of Awesome series, and "The Happiness Eq ...

– speaker, author and writer of

1000 Awesome Things 1000 Awesome Things is a blog written by Neil Pasricha, who posts one thing in life he considers awesome each weekday. The site was launched on June 20, 2008 with #1000 Broccoflower and is counting down until it hits #1. An awesome thing is post ...

Joseph Petric Joseph Francis Petric (born October 8, 1952) is a Canadian concert accordionist, historian, author, and pedagogue. Formation Formal training Petric began private studies at the Royal Conservatory with Joe Macerollo in 1968. In 1971 he was ...

– musician *

Ciara Phillips Ciara Phillips (born 1976) is a Canadian-Irish artist based primarily in Glasgow, United Kingdom. Phillips was born in Ottawa, Canada. Her higher education was completed, first, at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada (Bachelor of Fin ...

(BFA 2000) – artist *

Maynard Plant Maynard may refer to: Names * Maynard (given name) * Maynard (surname) Places Canada * Maynard, Ontario, a village in Augusta Township United States * Maynard, Arkansas * Maynard, Iowa * Maynard, Kentucky * Maynard, Massachusetts * Maynard, Minne ...

– vocalist and guitarist for the Japanese band

Monkey Majik Monkey is a common name that may refer to most mammals of the infraorder Simiiformes, also known as the simians. Traditionally, all animals in the group now known as simians are counted as monkeys except the apes, which constitutes an incomple ...

* Jean Mills – children's author *

Alexander Muir Alexander Muir (5 April 1830 – 26 June 1906) was a Canadian songwriter, poet, soldier, and school headmaster. He was the composer of ''The Maple Leaf Forever'', which he wrote in October 1867 to celebrate the Confederation of Canada. Early l ...

(B.A. 1851) – composer of

The Maple Leaf Forever "The Maple Leaf Forever" is a Canadian song written by Alexander Muir (1830–1906) in 1867, the year of Canada's Canadian Confederation, Confederation. He wrote the work after serving with the Queen's Own Rifles of Toronto in the Battle of Ridg ...

* Baņuta Rubess (B.A., honours 1977) – playwright and theatre director *

Eon Sinclair Bedouin Soundclash is a Canadian band based in Toronto and consisting of vocalist and guitarist Jay Malinowski, bass player Eon Sinclair and drummer Chuck Treece. Their sound has been described as a combination of reggae and ska. Bedouin Soundcla ...

(B.A. 2004) –

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ist for Canadian band Bedouin Soundclash *

Gord Sinclair The Tragically Hip, often referred to simply as the Hip, were a Canadian rock band formed in Kingston, Ontario in 1984, consisting of vocalist Gord Downie, guitarist Paul Langlois, guitarist Rob Baker (known as Bobby Baker until 1994), bassis ...

– bassist of

* Russell Smith – author and ''

'' columnist *

Moez Surani Moez Surani (born April 10, 1979) is a Canadian poet and artist. He is the author of the poetry collections ''Reticent Bodies'' and ''Floating Life'', and the booklength poem ''عملية Operación Opération Operation 行动 Операция''. ...

– author * Timothy Taylor – author * Judith Thompson – playwright * Chris Turner – author

Military

* Mark Norman (Bachelor of Economics) – Vice-Admiral, Commander of RCN *

John Weir Foote John Weir Foote, (May 5, 1904 – May 2, 1988) was a Canadian military chaplain and politician. He received the Victoria Cross for his actions during the Dieppe Raid in 1942. Foote is the only Canadian chaplain to be awarded the Victoria C ...

(B.A. 1933) – awarded the

Victoria Cross The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest and most prestigious award of the British honours system. It is awarded for valour "in the presence of the enemy" to members of the British Armed Forces and may be awarded posthumously. It was previously ...

for service during the

Dieppe Raid Operation Jubilee or the Dieppe Raid (19 August 1942) was an Allied amphibious attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe in northern France, during the Second World War. Over 6,050 infantry, predominantly Canadian, supported by a regiment o ...

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

Ken Watkin Brigadier General Kenneth "Ken" Watkin, (born 1954) is a Canadian lawyer, soldier and jurist. Watkin was Judge Advocate General (JAG) of the Canadian Forces from 2006 to 2010. He is an expert on military law. He was promoted to brigadier genera ...

(Bachelor of Laws and Master of Laws) – Brigadier General and Judge Advocate General of the

Canadian Forces } The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF; french: Forces armées canadiennes, ''FAC'') are the unified military forces of Canada, including sea, land, and air elements referred to as the Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army, and Royal Canadian Air Force. ...

Miscellaneous

J. Sidney Bernstein Jacob Sidney Bernstein (May 9, 1877 – December 9, 1943) was a Russian-born Jewish-American lawyer, politician, and judge from New York. Life Bernstein was born on May 9, 1877, the son of Joseph and Jeanette Bernstein. Bernstein was born in Rus ...

(B.A. 1898) – American lawyer, politician, and judge *

Jock Climie Jock Climie is a Canadian retired Canadian Football League player who played the slotback position primarily with the Ottawa Rough Riders, and Montreal Alouettes. He is also a former sportscaster with Canadian sports television channel TSN as p ...

(B.A. 1989, LL.B. 1998) – lawyer, former

CFL The Canadian Football League (CFL; french: Ligue canadienne de football—LCF) is a professional sports league in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football. The league consists of nine teams, each located in a ci ...

player, and broadcaster *Ferg Devins (B.A. 1984) – Past President Queen's Alumni Association, former Chief Corporate Affairs Officer Molson Coors Canada, Volunteer Chair of Bladder Cancer Canada *

J. Douglas Cunningham John Douglas Cunningham (born October 22, 1940 in Kingston, Ontario) is the former Associate Chief Justice of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. He is the son of D.G. (Ben) Cunningham and Isabelle Simpson. Cunningham attended the Universi ...

(B.A., LL.B.) – lawyer and Ontario Superior Court Justice * Julie Dickson (M.E.) – civil servant *

David A. Dodge David Allison Dodge (born June 8, 1943) is a Canadian economist. He served as Governor of the Bank of Canada from 2001 to 2008. Early life Dodge was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1943. He attended Ridley College, a private boarding school ...

(B.A.) – former Bank of Canada governor and current Chancellor of Queen's University *

Virginia Douglas Virginia I. Douglas ( – ) was a Canadian psychologist. She was a professor at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, noted for her contributions to the study of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Biography Douglas was born in Lon ...

– past president of the Canadian Psychological Association *

Andrew J. Feustel Andrew Jay "Drew" Feustel (; born August 25, 1965) is an American/Canadian NASA astronaut and geophysicist. Following several years working as a geophysicist, Feustel was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in July 2000. He is the vetera ...

(Ph.D) – geophysicist and

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...

astronaut * barbara findlay (M.A, LL.B.) – lawyer and LGBT rights activist *

Alan B. Gold Alan Bernard Gold (July 21, 1917 – May 15, 2005) was the chief justice of the Quebec Superior Court from 1983 to 1992. Born in Montreal, Gold received a B.A. from Queen's University in 1938 and a bachelor's degree in civil law from th ...

– former Chief Justice of Quebec Superior Court; Chancellor of

Concordia University Concordia University ( French: ''Université Concordia'') is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1974 following the merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University, Concordia is one of the t ...

* Karla Homolka – convicted murderer, who completed her Queen's Psychology degree while behind bars *

Andrew Kalotay Andrew Kalotay (born 1941) is a Hungarian-born finance professor, Wall Street quant and chess master. He is best known as an authority on fixed income valuation and institutional debt management. He is currently the President of Andrew Kalo ...

(B.Sc. 1964, M.Sc. 1966) – mathematician,

Wall Street Wall Street is an eight-block-long street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It runs between Broadway in the west to South Street and the East River in the east. The term "Wall Street" has become a metonym for t ...

financier and chess master * Martin Kreuzer (post-doc. 1991) – mathematician, professor, and correspondence chess Grandmaster * James Macleod – militia officer, lawyer,

North-West Mounted Police The North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) was a Canadian para-military police force, established in 1873, to maintain order in the new Canadian North-West Territories (NWT) following the 1870 transfer of Rupert’s Land and North-Western Territory ...

officer, magistrate, judge, and politician. * Andrew McFadyen – patients rights advocate *

Kim Phuc Phan Thị Kim Phúc (; born April 6, 1963), referred to informally as the girl in the picture and the Napalm girl, is a South Vietnamese-born Canadian woman best known as the nine-year-old child depicted in the Pulitzer Prize–winning phot ...

(honorary degree recipient) – notable through the picture of her depicted during the

Vietnam War The Vietnam War (also known by #Names, other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vie ...

* Jack Pickup – physician, the "Flying Doctor of British Columbia" * David Smart (B.A. 1994) – Canadian champion basketball coach * Prince Takamado of

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

* Ali Velshi – CNN business analyst

Political leaders

* William Aberhart – former Premier of Alberta *

Rohit Aggarwala Rohit T. "Rit" Aggarwala is an American environmental policy adviser, transportation planner, historian, and civil servant who is New York City’s Chief Climate Officer as well as the Commissioner of the New York City Department of Environmental ...

– Commissioner of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection *

Isabel Bassett Isabel Bassett (born August 23, 1939) is a Canadian broadcaster and former politician. From 1999 until 2005 she was the chair and CEO of TVOntario/TFO, Ontario's provincial public television network. She has been a controversial figure at times ...

– former broadcaster and provincial cabinet minister * John Baird (B.A. 1992) – former Minister of the Environment and former Foreign Affairs Minister * Michael Breaugh – former Member of Parliament and Member of Provincial Parliament *

(B.A. 1962, M.A. 1964) – former Canadian ambassador to the

Korea Korea ( ko, 한국, or , ) is a peninsular region in East Asia. Since 1945, it has been divided at or near the 38th parallel, with North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) comprising its northern half and South Korea (Republic o ...

, and the

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...

Diana Buttu Diana Buttu is a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer and a former spokesperson for the Palestine Liberation Organization. Best known for her work as a legal adviser and a participant in Middle East peace process, peace negotiations between Israeli and P ...

– Palestinian legal advisor *

Sean Conway Sean Conway, (born July 24, 1951) is a former provincial politician in Ontario, Canada and a university professor. He served for 28 years as a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1975 to 2003, and was a high-profile cabin ...

– director of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations (Queen's University), former Ontario cabinet minister and MPP *

Thomas Cromwell Thomas Cromwell (; 1485 – 28 July 1540), briefly Earl of Essex, was an English lawyer and statesman who served as chief minister to King Henry VIII from 1534 to 1540, when he was beheaded on orders of the king, who later blamed false charge ...

(B.Mus. 1973, Law 1976) –

Supreme Court A supreme court is the highest court within the hierarchy of courts in most legal jurisdictions. Other descriptions for such courts include court of last resort, apex court, and high (or final) court of appeal. Broadly speaking, the decisions of ...

justice *

John Crosbie John Carnell Crosbie, (January 30, 1931 – January 10, 2020) was a Canadian provincial and federal politician who served as the 12th lieutenant governor of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Prior to being lieutenant governor, he served as a pr ...

– former

Minister of Finance A finance minister is an executive or cabinet position in charge of one or more of government finances, economic policy and financial regulation. A finance minister's portfolio has a large variety of names around the world, such as "treasury", " ...

* Paul Dewar – educator, aid worker and former Member of Parliament *

David Emerson David Lee Emerson, (born September 17, 1945) is a Canadian politician, financial executive, and economist. He was formerly the Member of Parliament for the riding of Vancouver Kingsway. He was first elected as a Liberal and served as Ministe ...

(PhD 1975) –

Minister of International Trade The Minister of International Trade Diversification () was a minister of the Crown position in the Canadian Cabinet who was responsible for the federal government's international trade portfolio. Along with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and t ...

and Minister for the Pacific Gateway and the Vancouver-Whistler Olympics * Jean-Denis Garon (Ph.D. 2012) – Scholar and politician, Member of Parliament for Mirabel *

John Gerretsen John Philip Gerretsen (born June 9, 1942) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2014 who represented the eastern Ontario riding of Kingston and the Islands. He ser ...

– Ontario MPP, former mayor of Kingston, Ontario cabinet minister *Sir

Kenneth O. Hall Sir Kenneth Octavius Hall (born 24 April 1941) served as the governor-general of Jamaica from 16 February 2006 to 26 February 2009. He was Jamaica's fifth governor-general since independence in 1962. Early life and education Hall was born i ...

– Governor General of

Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...

* James R.M. Harris – author and politician, former Leader of the

Green Party of Canada The Green Party of Canada (french: Parti vert du Canada) is a federal political party in Canada, founded in 1983 with a focus on green politics. The Green Party is currently the fifth largest party in the House of Commons by seat count. It el ...

Yolande James Yolande James (born November 21, 1977 in Montreal, Quebec) is a former Quebec provincial politician. She was the first black female MNA and the youngest, as well as the first black cabinet minister in Quebec history. A member of the Quebec Liber ...

(LL.B. 2003) – lawyer and politician, Quebec's first black cabinet minister *

Pauline Jewett Pauline Jewett, (December 11, 1922 – July 5, 1992) was a Canadian Liberal and later New Democratic Party Member of Parliament. Life and career Jewett was born in St. Catharines, Ontario, where she attended elementary and secondary scho ...

– university administrator and federal Member of Parliament * David Lloyd Johnston (LL.B. 1966) – president of the University of Waterloo, Principal of

McGill University McGill University (french: link=no, Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter granted by King George IV,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill Universit ...

, Dean of the School of Law at the

University of Western Ontario The University of Western Ontario (UWO), also known as Western University or Western, is a Public university, public research university in London, Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on of land, surrounded by resident ...

, and the 28th

Governor General of Canada The governor general of Canada (french: gouverneure générale du Canada) is the federal viceregal representative of the . The is head of state of Canada and the 14 other Commonwealth realms, but resides in oldest and most populous realm, t ...

. *

Donald C. MacDonald Donald Cameron MacDonald (December 7, 1913 – March 8, 2008) was a Canadian politician. Referred to in the media as the "best premier Ontario never had," he represented the provincial riding of York South in the Legislative Assembly of O ...

– former Ontario MPP and leader of the Ontario CCF/NDP (1953–1970) *

Nicolas Marceau Nicolas Marceau (born June 23, 1964) is a Canadians, Canadian economist, university professor, politician and former Minister of Finance (Quebec), Minister of Finance. He was previously a professor of economics at the Université du Québec à M ...

(Ph.D. 1992) – scholar and politician, former member of Quebec National Assembly and Quebec minister of finance (2012-2014) * John Matheson – "Midwife of Canadian Flag" and former MP for Leeds, judge in Ottawa-Carlton *

Frank McKenna Francis Joseph McKenna (born January 19, 1948) is a Canadian businessman and former politician and diplomat. He is currently Deputy Chairman of the Toronto-Dominion Bank. He served as Canadian Ambassador to the United States from 2005 to 2006 ...

– former Canadian ambassador to the

and former

Premier of New Brunswick The premier of New Brunswick ( French (masculine): ''premier ministre du Nouveau-Brunswick'', or feminine: ''première ministre du Nouveau-Brunswick'') is the first minister and head of government for the Canadian province of New Brunswick. The ...

* Peter Milliken (B.A. 1968) –

Speaker of the House of Commons Speaker of the House of Commons is a political leadership position found in countries that have a House of Commons, where the membership of the body elects a speaker to lead its proceedings. Systems that have such a position include: * Speaker of ...

* Tim Murphy –

chief of staff The title chief of staff (or head of staff) identifies the leader of a complex organization such as the armed forces, institution, or body of persons and it also may identify a principal staff officer (PSO), who is the coordinator of the supporti ...

of the

Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...

Prime Minister's Office under

Paul Martin Paul Edgar Philippe Martin (born August 28, 1938), also known as Paul Martin Jr., is a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 21st prime minister of Canada and the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 2003 to 2006. The son o ...

's government * Robert Fowler – (Canadian Diplomat) * Robert Nicholson (B.A. 1975) – Minister of National Defence of Canada * Alison Redford – (attended for two years 1983–1985) 14th premier of Alberta (2011–2014) *

George Spotton George Spotton (March 23, 1877 – April 20, 1936) was a Canadian Member of Parliament between 1927 and 1935. Spotton received a bachelor's degree in history from Queen's University, graduating in 1895. During World War I he briefly served in ...

(B.A. 1895) – member of the House of Commons *

Karen Stintz Karen Stintz (born November 2, 1971) is a former Canadian politician who represented Ward 16 Eglinton—Lawrence on Toronto City Council from 2003 to 2014 and was the chair of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) from 2010 to 2014. Background Bor ...

– Toronto municipal councillor and chair of the TTC (2010–2014) * Ross Thatcher – 9th premier of Saskatchewan (1964–1971) *

Kathleen Wynne Kathleen O'Day Wynne ( ; born May 21, 1953) is a Canadian former politician who served as the 25th premier of Ontario and leader of the Ontario Liberal Party from 2013 to 2018. She was elected to the Legislative Assembly in 2003 and sat as the ...

(B.A.) – 25th premier of Ontario (2013–2018) *

Rathika Sitsabaiesan Rathika Sitsabaiesan (; born December 23, 1981) is a Canadian former politician who was the member of Parliament (MP) for Scarborough—Rouge River from 2011 to 2015 as a member of the New Democratic Party (NDP). Sitsabaiesan is the first Tamil ...

(M.I.R. 2007) – Member of Parliament for Scarborough-Rouge River (2011–2015)

Scientists

Walter A. Bell Walter Andrew Bell (January 4, 1889 – 1969) was a Canadian geologist. He worked for the Geological Survey of Canada for over 40 years and authored or co-authored 70 publications. Most of them concerning Carboniferous stratigraphy, paleobotany a ...

B.Sc. – geologist and paleontologist *

Norman L. Bowen Norman Levi Bowen FRS (June 21, 1887 – September 11, 1956) was a Canadian geologist. Bowen "revolutionized experimental petrology and our understanding of mineral crystallization". Beginning geology students are familiar with Bowen's reaction s ...

B.Sc., M.Sc. – chemical geologist * Leon Katz, B.Sc. MSc. – professor University of Saskatchewan, founder of Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory, Member of the Order of Canada *

Bill Buxton William Arthur Stewart Buxton (born March 10, 1949) is a Canadian computer scientist and designer. He is a partner researcher at Microsoft Research. He is known for being one of the pioneers in the human–computer interaction field. Background ...

B.Mus. (1973) – computer scientist and human-computer interaction pioneer * Barbara Cade-Menun – research scientist * Charles LeGeyt Fortescue – electrical engineer * James Edwin Hawley (BSc 1918, MSc 1920) – Head of Geological Sciences Department (1929–1962),

Hawleyite Hawleyite is a rare sulfide mineral in the sphalerite group, dimorphous and easily confused with greenockite. Chemically, it is cadmium sulfide, and occurs as a bright yellow coating on sphalerite or siderite in vugs, deposited by meteoric water ...

is named after him *

Kenneth E. Iverson Kenneth Eugene Iverson (17 December 1920 – 19 October 2004) was a Canadian computer scientist noted for the development of the programming language APL. He was honored with the Turing Award in 1979 "for his pioneering effort in programming l ...

(BSc 1951) – inventor of the

APL programming language APL (named after the book ''A Programming Language'') is a programming language developed in the 1960s by Kenneth E. Iverson. Its central datatype is the multidimensional array. It uses a large range of special graphic symbols to represent mos ...

Turing Award The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in compu ...

laureate * Mustapha Ishak Boushaki (PhD 2002) – theoretical physicist *

Erin Johnson Erin Johnson is a Canadian computational chemist. She holds the Herzberg–Becke Chair at Dalhousie University. She works on density functional theory and intermolecular interactions. Education and early career Johnson is from Ottawa, Canada ...

(PhD 2008) – theoretical chemist *

Thomas Edvard Krogh Thomas Edvard ''"Tom"'' Krogh, FRSC (1936 – April 29, 2008) was a geochronologist and a former curator for the Royal Ontario Museum. He revolutionized the technique of radiometric uranium-lead dating with the development of new laboratory ...

M.Sc.(Geology) – geochronologist and a curator for the

Royal Ontario Museum The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is a museum of art, world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the largest museums in North America and the largest in Canada. It attracts more than one million visitors every year ...

. *

Margaret McKellar Margaret McKellar (23 October 1861 – 24 August 1941) was a Scottish-born Canadian medical missionary. She was the first medical missionary at Neemuch, India, where she founded a hospital. She was also the founder of Knox Church Missionary Societ ...

M.D. (1890), medical missionary *

J. F. A. McManus Joseph Forde Anthony McManus, (July 13, 1911 – March 4, 1980) was a Canadian pathologist who is best known for his formulation of one of the most frequently used stains in histopathology; the McManus Periodic acid-Schiff stain. Joe McManus wa ...

M.D. (1938) – pathologist *

Derek Muller Derek Alexander Muller (born 9 November 1982) is an Australian-Canadian science communicator, filmmaker, and television personality, who is best known for his YouTube channel Veritasium. Muller has also appeared as a correspondent on the Net ...

(BSc 2004) – physics educator, creator and writer-host of

Veritasium Derek Alexander Muller (born 9 November 1982) is an Australian-Canadian science communicator, filmmaker, and television personality, who is best known for his YouTube channel Veritasium. Muller has also appeared as a correspondent on the Net ...

(

YouTube YouTube is a global online video platform, online video sharing and social media, social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by ...

channel) * Anthony J. Naldrett –

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...

emeritus professor, geologist *

Kathleen I. Pritchard Kathleen I. Pritchard, is the head of oncology at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Canada, specializing in breast cancer therapies, and leading the clinical trials division of the centre. She has authored numerous studies on women ...

MD 1971 – head of

oncology Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with the study, treatment, diagnosis and prevention of cancer. A medical professional who practices oncology is an ''oncologist''. The name's etymological origin is the Greek word ὄγκος (''ó ...

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (SHSC), commonly known as Sunnybrook Hospital or simply Sunnybrook, is an academic health science centre An academic medical centre (AMC), variously also known as academic health science centre, academic healt ...

, Toronto * Ian Rae B.Sc. (Eng.) (1980) – co-developer of CorelDraw software * Jane Stewart (B.A. 1956) – neuroscientist * Carolyn Relf (BSc 1984, PhD 1992) – geologist *

Harold Horton Sheldon Harold Horton Sheldon (April 13, 1893 – December 23, 1964) was a Canadian-American physicist, scientist, inventor, teacher, editor and author. He was a science editor who wrote on futuristic subjects, especially pertaining to human space travel. ...

(1893–1964) – physicist, scientist, inventor, teacher, editor and author * Venkatesh K. R. Kodur Ph.D. – University Distinguished Professor at

Michigan State University Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the fi ...

and pioneer in structural fire engineering * Adolfo J. de Bold – O.C. Ph.D. – emeritus professor at University of Ottawa discovered heart hormones

Sports

* Keith Eaman – Canadian football player * Johnny Evans – quarterback, two time

Grey Cup The Grey Cup (french: Coupe Grey) is both the championship game of the Canadian Football League (CFL) and the trophy awarded to the victorious team playing in the namesake championship of professional Canadian football. The game is contested be ...

champion *

Dalton Kellett Dalton Kellett (born August 19, 1993) is a Canadian racing driver from Stouffville, Ontario. He competes in the IndyCar Series, driving for A. J. Foyt Racing. Racing career Early years Kellett started his racing career in snowmobile racing at the ...

–

IndyCar INDYCAR, LLC, is an American-based auto racing sanctioning body for Indy car racing and other disciplines of open wheel car racing. The organization sanctions five racing series: the premier IndyCar Series with its centerpiece the Indianapolis ...

Series Racer * Craig MacTavish (EMBA 2011) – former NHL player, head coach, and hockey operations executive *

Morris Mott Morris Kenneth Mott (born May 25, 1946) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played 199 games in the National Hockey League. He played with the Winnipeg Jets of the World Hockey Association and the California Golden Seals ...

– NHL and Canadian National Team hockey player * George Richardson – Hockey Hall of Fame member, died in World War I *

Mike Schad Michael Schad (born October 4, 1963) is a former Canadian American football offensive lineman in the National Football League and is currently a mortgage banker with CMG Financial located in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey. He was drafted by the Los Angel ...

– former NFL player *

Carl Voss Carl Potter Voss (January 6, 1907 – September 13, 1993) was an American ice hockey forward in the National Hockey League. He played for several teams between 1926 and 1938. He would later become a referee, and was inducted into the Hockey Hal ...

– NHL player and

Hockey Hall of Fame , logo = Hockey Hall of Fame Logo.svg , logo_upright = 0.5 , image = Hockey Hall of Fame, Toronto.jpg , caption = The Hall's present location on Yonge Street since 1992 , map_type = , former_name = , established = 1943 , location = 30 Y ...

inductee *

Jim Young James Norman Young (born June 6, 1943) is a former professional American football and Canadian football player. Young played running back and wide receiver for the NFL's Minnesota Vikings for two seasons (1965–66), and the CFL's BC Lions f ...

– 1st Canadian college football player drafted into the NFL (

Minnesota Vikings The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis. They compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the National Football Conference (NFC) North division. Founded in 1960 as an expansion ...

)

Notable faculty and affiliates

In addition to the following notable faculty members, Sir Sandford Fleming, former

Prime Minister of Canada The prime minister of Canada (french: premier ministre du Canada, link=no) is the head of government of Canada. Under the Westminster system, the prime minister governs with the Confidence and supply, confidence of a majority the elected Hou ...

Sir

Robert Laird Borden Sir Robert Laird Borden (June 26, 1854 – June 10, 1937) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the eighth prime minister of Canada from 1911 to 1920. He is best known for his leadership of Canada during World War I. Borde ...

, and former

governor general of Canada The governor general of Canada (french: gouverneure générale du Canada) is the federal viceregal representative of the . The is head of state of Canada and the 14 other Commonwealth realms, but resides in oldest and most populous realm, t ...

Roland Michener have all served as

of the university, though this is a non-academic role. * Donald Akenson – History * Ralph Allen – Art * W. B. Anderson – classics and Latin *

István Anhalt István Anhalt, (April 12, 1919 – February 24, 2012) was a Hungarian-Canadian composer. Anhalt served as a professor of music at McGill University and founded the McGill University Electronic Music Studio. He also served as head of music at ...

– Music (

Juno Award The Juno Awards, more popularly known as the JUNOS, are awards presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music. New members of the Canadian Music Hall of ...

winning

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

) *

Robin Boadway Robin William Boadway, (born June 10, 1943) is a Canadian economist. He held the David Smith Chair at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Earlier he was Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Economic Theory at Queen's University. He has taught ...

– Economics (Member of the Canadian Royal Society, the

Order of Canada The Order of Canada (french: Ordre du Canada; abbreviated as OC) is a Canadian state order and the second-highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, after the Order of Merit. To coincide with the ...

and CESIfo Distinguished Fellow) * Caroline Baillie – Engineering * John W. Berry – Psychology * Janine Brodie – Political science * Rosa Bruno-Jofré – History *

John Burge John David Bryson Burge (born 2 January 1961) is a Canadian composer, music educator, and pianist. He has won a number of awards for his compositions, including the Alberta Culture Award (1982), the William Erving Fairclough Scholarship (198 ...

– Music, (

winning

) *

Meredith Chivers Meredith L. Chivers is a Canadian sexologist and clinical psychologist noted for her research on female sexuality, sexual orientation, paraphilias, sex differences, gender identity, and the physiology of sexual arousal. She is an associate prof ...

– Psychology * James Cordy – Computing (

ACM ACM or A.C.M. may refer to: Aviation * AGM-129 ACM, 1990–2012 USAF cruise missile * Air chief marshal * Air combat manoeuvring or dogfighting * Air cycle machine * Arica Airport (Colombia) (IATA: ACM), in Arica, Amazonas, Colombia Computing * ...

Distinguished Scientist and co-inventor of the

Turing programming language Turing is a high-level, general-purpose programming language developed in 1982 by Ric Holt and James Cordy, at University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada. It was designed in order to help students taking their first computer science course learn ...

) * Thomas Courchene – Economics, Policy studies *

Wendy Craig Anne Gwendolyn "Wendy" Craig (born 20 June 1934) is an English actress who is best known for her appearances in the sitcoms ''Not in Front of the Children (TV series), Not in Front of the Children'', ''...And Mother Makes Three'', ''...And M ...

– Psychology *

Anne Croy Barbara Anne Croy (née McLeish) is a Canadian reproductive immunologist and professor emerita in Biomedical and Molecular Sciences at Queen's University. From 2004 until 2016, Croy was a Canada Research Chair in Reproduction, Development and S ...

–

Canada Research Chair Canada Research Chair (CRC) is a title given to certain Canadian university research professors by the Canada Research Chairs Program. Program goals The Canada Research Chair program was established in 2000 as a part of the Government of Canada ...

, Biomedical and molecular sciences *

Lola Cuddy Lola L. Cuddy (born 1939) is a Canadian psychologist recognized for her contributions to the field of music psychology. She is a professor emerita in the Department of Psychology at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Biography Cuddy w ...

– Psychology *

Richard J. F. Day ''Gramsci Is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements'' is a book by Richard J. F. Day about whether social movements should pursue cultural hegemony. Day has been described as being "among a new generation of anarchist academics ...

– Sociology * Vibert Douglas – Astrophysics *

Jacalyn Duffin Jacalyn M. Duffin (born 1950) is a Canadian medical historian and hematologist. She held the Hannah Chair, History of Medicine at Queen's University from 1988 until 2017. Formerly, she was president of the American Association for the History ...

– Medical history *

Gabor Fichtinger Gabor Fichtinger is an electrical engineer from Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2016 for his contributions to medical robotics and computer A com ...

– Computing (

, Computer-Integrated Surgery) * Suzanne Fortier – Chemistry (President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)) * Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant – Politics * J. A. W. Gunn – Politics * Tom Kent – Economics *

James Allen Keast James Allen Keast (15 November 1922 – 8 March 2009) was an Australian ornithologist, and Professor of Biology at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Born in Turramurra, New South Wales, he performed war service 1941–1945 in New Gu ...

– Biology (

ornithologist Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the "methodological study and consequent knowledge of birds with all that relates to them." Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and th ...

) *

Audrey Kobayashi Audrey Lynn Kobayashi (born 1951 in British Columbia) is a Canadian professor and author, specializing in geography, geopolitics, and racial and gender studies. She was the vice-president of the Canadian Association of Geographers from 1999 to ...

– Geography *

Will Kymlicka William Kymlicka (; born 1962) is a Canadian political philosopher best known for his work on multiculturalism and animal ethics. He is currently Professor of Philosophy and Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen's University ...

–

, Philosophy *

Susan Lederman Susan J. Lederman is a Canadian experimental psychologist. She is a professor emerita in the Department of Psychology at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She is recognized for her contributions to the field of haptics. Lederman ...

– Psychology *

William Lederman William Ralph Lederman, (January 6, 1916 – July 26, 1992) was a Canadian constitutional scholar and the first dean of Queen's University Faculty of Law. Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, he received a LL.B. from the University of Saskatchewan i ...

– Law * William C. Leggett – Biology (Chairman of the Board of the

Canada Foundation for Innovation The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI; french: Fondation canadienne pour l'innovation, ''FCI'') is an independent not-for-profit organization that invests in research facilities and equipment in Canada's universities, colleges, research hospital ...

) and former Principal of Queen's University (1994–2004) * A. H. Lightstone – Mathematics *

James G. MacKinnon James Gordon MacKinnon (born January 4, 1951) is currently the Sir Edward Robert Peacock, Edward Peacock Professor of Econometrics in the Department of Economics at Queen's University at Kingston, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Kingston ...

– Economics (Fellow of the

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) * Art McDonald – Physics (winner of the Herzberg Prize, the Benjamin Franklin Prize in physics, the

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and a member of the

) *

John McGarry John McGarry, OC (born 1957) is a political scientist from Northern Ireland. He was born in Belfast and grew up in Ballymena, County Antrim. He is currently Professor of Political Studies and Canada Research Chair in Nationalism and Democracy a ...

– Politics *

Katherine McKittrick Katherine McKittrick is a Canadian professor and academic, writer, and editor. She is a professor in Gender studies at Queen's University. She is an academic and writer whose work focuses on black studies, cultural geography, anti-colonial and ...

– Gender studies *

Marjan Mozetich Marjan Mozetich (born 1948) is a Canadian composer who has written music for theatre, film and dance, as well as many symphonic works, chamber music, and solo pieces. He has written compulsory competition pieces for the 1992 Banff String Quartet ...

– Music * M. Ram Murty – Mathematics (Queen's Research Chair) *

Kim Richard Nossal Kim Richard Nossal, PhD, FRSC, is a professor emeritus in the Department of Political Studies and the Centre for International and Defence Policy, Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Education and career Born in London, England, No ...

– Politics *

Vernon Quinsey Vernon Lewis Quinsey (born October 10, 1944) is a Canadian psychologist. He has studied violent crime offenders, sex offenders, sexually violent predators, juvenile delinquency, and ways to predict, assess, and manage individuals with these tendenc ...

– Psychology *

Kim Renders Kim Renders (January 14, 1955 – July 17, 2018) was a Canadian writer, director, actor and designer and a founding member of Nightwood Theatre, the oldest professional feminist theatre company in Canada. Early life Renders was born in Toronto ...

– Theatre, Gender studies *

Paulo Ribenboim Paulo Ribenboim (born March 13, 1928) is a Brazilian-Canadian mathematician who specializes in number theory. Biography Ribenboim was born into a Jewish family in Recife, Brazil. He received his BSc in mathematics from the University of São Pa ...

– Mathematics *

Kai Salomaa Kai T. Salomaa is a Finnish Canadian theoretical computer scientist, known for his numerous contributions to the state complexity of finite automata. His highly cited 1994 joint paper with Yu and Zhuang laid the foundations of the area. He has pu ...

– Computer science *

Bernice Weldon Sargent Bernice Weldon Sargent, (24 September 1906 – 17 December 1993) was a Canadian physicist who worked at the Manhattan Project's Montreal Laboratory during the Second World War as head of its nuclear physics division. In his 1932 doctoral thesis, ...

– Physics * Sanjay Sharma – Medicine (ophthalmology, epidemiology) *

Elizabeth Smith Shortt Elizabeth Smith Shortt (18 January 1859 – 14 January 1949) was one of the first three women to earn a medical degree in Canada. She was one of the women medical students expelled from Queen's University, Ontario following a hostile backlash from ...

– Medicine *

Ana Siljak Ana Siljak is a Canadian historian and writer. She is best known for her Charles Taylor Prize-nominated book ''Angel of Vengeance: The Girl Assassin, the Governor of St. Petersburg and Russia's Revolutionary World'', a biography of Vera Zasulich p ...

– History * Duncan G. Sinclair – Medicine * John P. Smol – Biology (winner of the Herzberg Prize) *

L. S. Stavrianos Leften Stavros Stavrianos (1913 – March 23, 2004) was a Greek-Canadian historian. His most influential books are considered to be ''A Global History: From Prehistory to the 21st Century'' and '' The Balkans since 1453''. He was one of the first h ...

– History * Alastair M. Taylor – Geography, Political studies *

David J. Thomson David J. Thomson is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Queen's University in Ontario and a Canada Research Chair in statistics and signal processing, formerly a member of the technical staff at Bell Labs. He is a profess ...

– Mathematics * Helen Tiffin – English *

Jennie Kidd Trout Jennie Kidd Trout (born Gowanlock; April 21, 1841 – November 10, 1921) was the first woman in Canada to become a licensed medical doctor, on March 11, 1875. Trout was the only woman in Canada licensed to practice medicine until July 1880, when ...

– Medicine * Craig Walker – Drama *

Beatrice Worsley Beatrice Helen Worsley (18 October 1921 – 8 May 1972) was a Canadian computer scientist who was the first female computer scientist in Canada. She received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Cambridge with Maurice Wilkes as adviser, the fi ...

- Computer Scinece, launched Queen's new Computer Centre based on an IBM 1620 in 1965 *

Noriko Yui Noriko Yui is a professor of mathematics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Career A native of Japan, Yui obtained her B.S. from Tsuda College, and her Ph.D. in Mathematics from Rutgers University in 1974 under the supervision of Rich ...

– Mathematical Physics *

Clarke Mackey Clarke Mackey (born September 30, 1950) is a Canadian filmmaker, author, and educator. He is known for his first feature film, ''The Only Thing You Know'' (1972), and for the focus in his filmmaking and writing on vernacular culture. His book on th ...

– Film and Media * Malcolm Peat – Physiotherapy * Gerald Bull – long-range artillery engineer

Principals

# Rev Thomas Liddell (1841–1846) # Rev John Machar (1846–1853) # Rev James George (acting Principal 1853–1857) # Rev John Cook (1857–1859) # Rev William Leitch (1859–1864) # Rev William Snodgrass (1864–1877) # Rev

George Monro Grant George Monro Grant (December 22, 1835 – May 10, 1902) was a Canadian church minister, writer, and political activist. He served as principal of Queen's College, Kingston, Ontario, for 25 years, from 1877 until 1902. Early life, education Gr ...

(1877–1902) # Rev Daniel Miner Gordon (1902–1916) # Rev Robert Bruce Taylor (1917–1929) # Sir

William Hamilton Fyfe Sir William Hamilton Fyfe (9 July 1878 – 13 June 1965) was an English and Canadian classics scholar, educator, and educational administrator. He served as the 10th Principal of Queen's University, Ontario, from 1930 to 1936, and was t ...

(1930–1936) # Robert Charles Wallace (1936–1951) #

William Archibald Mackintosh William Archibald Mackintosh, (May 21, 1895 – December 29, 1970) was a Canadian economist and political scientist, and was the twelfth principal of Queen's University from 1951 until 1961. He is best known for developing the staple thesis th ...

(1951–1961) # James Alexander Corry (1961–1968) #

John James Deutsch John James Deutsch (26 February 1911 – March 18, 1976) was a prominent Canadian economist, who served as the first chairman of the Economic Council of Canada, and as principal (1968–74) of Queen's University. Born in Quinton, Saskatc ...

(1968–1974) #

Ronald Lampman Watts Ronald Lampman Watts (March 10, 1929 − October 9, 2015) was a Canadian academic, who served as the 15th Principal and Vice-chancellor of Queen's University from 1974 until 1984. Born in Karuizawa, Japan to Canadian missionary parents. Educat ...

(1974–1984) # David Chadwick Smith (1984–1994) # William Claude Leggett (1994–2004) # Karen R. Hitchcock (2004–2008) # Thomas R. Williams (2008–2009) # Daniel Woolf (2009–2019) # Patrick Deane (2019–Present)

Chancellors

# Rev John Cook (1877–1879) # Sir Sandford Fleming (1880–1915) # James Douglas (1915–1918) # Sir Edward Beatty (1918–1923) # Sir

(1924–1929) # James Armstrong Richardson (1929–1939) # Charles Avery Dunning (1940–1958) # John Bertram Stirling (1960–1973) # Roland Michener (1973–1980) # Agnes Mccausland Benidickson (1980–1996) # Peter Lougheed (1996–2002) # A. Charles Baillie (2002–2008) #

(2008–2014) #

Jim Leech James William (Jim) Leech (born June 12, 1947) is a Canadian business executive. Since 2021, he has been chancellor-emeritus of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. From 2014 to 2021, he was the 14th Chancellor of Queen's Universi ...

(2014–2021) # Murray Sinclair (2021–present)

Rectors

# Rev S. W. Dyde (1913) # James L. Robertson (1916) # Brigadier General A. E. Ross (1920) # William H. Coverdale (1925) #

Oscar D. Skelton Oscar Douglas Skelton (July 13, 1878 – January 28, 1941) was a Canadian political economist and civil servant. Skelton was a loyal member of the Liberal Party, an expert on international affairs, and a nationalist who encouraged Canadians ...

(1929) #

R. B. Bennett Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett, (July 3, 1870 – June 26, 1947), was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, philanthropist, and politician who served as the 11th prime minister of Canada from 1930 to 1935. Bennett was born in ...

(1935) #

Norman McLeod Rogers Norman McLeod Rogers (July 25, 1894 – June 10, 1940) was a Canadian lawyer and statesman. He served as the Member of Parliament for Kingston, Ontario, Canada and as a cabinet minister in the government of Prime Minister William Lyon Macken ...

(1937) # The Earl of Athlone (1940) # BK Sandwell (1944) # Leonard W. Brockington (1947) # M. Grattan O'Leary (1968) # Richard Alan Broadbent (1969, first student Rector) # Gary Michael Gannage (1972) # Bruce W. Trotter (1974) # Morris Chochla (1976) #

Hugh Christie Hugh Christie OBE (died 1962) was an English farmer and educator. He was a founder member of the National Farmers Union and was also involved in the formation of the Women's Institutes. Hugh Whitmore Christie was married to Nellie Christie. Their ...

(1978) # Jeremy Freedman (1980) # James Harris (1982) # Richard Powers (1984) # Kelley McKinnon (1986) # Charis Kelso (1988) # Antoinette Mongillo (1990) # David Baar (1992) # Peter Gallant (1994) # Ian Michael (1996) # Michael Kealy (1998) # Daniel Sahl (2000) # Ahmed "KC" Kayssi (2002) # Grant R.A. Bishop (2004) # Johsa Marie G. Manzanilla (2006) # Leora Jackson (2008) # Nick Day (2010) # Nick Francis (2011) # Mike Young (2014) # Cameron Yung (2016) # Alexandra da Silva (2018) # Sam Hiemstra (2020) # Owen Crawford Lem (2022) https://www.queensu.ca/rector/

References

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Queen's University Queen's or Queens University may refer to: *Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada *Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK **Queen's University of Belfast (UK Parliament constituency) (1918–1950) **Queen's University of Belfast ...