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

alumni includes notable graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of University of Toronto, located in

Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anch ...

Ontario Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central C ...

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

. To avoid redundancy, alumni who hold or have held faculty positions in the University of Toronto are placed on this list of alumni, and do not appear on the list of faculty. Individuals are ordered by the year of their first degree from the university. For graduates of the Faculty of Arts and Science, college and satellite campus affiliations, if known, are indicated after degree years, with shorthands used for

University College In a number of countries, a university college is a college institution that provides tertiary education but does not have full or independent university status. A university college is often part of a larger university. The precise usage varies ...

(U.C.),

University of Trinity College Trinity College (occasionally referred to as The University of Trinity College) is a college federated with the University of Toronto, founded in 1851 by Bishop John Strachan. Strachan originally intended Trinity as a university of strong Angl ...

(Trin.), Victoria University (Vic.),

University of St. Michael's College St Michael's College, officially the University of St. Michael's College, is a constituent college of the University of Toronto. It was founded in 1852 by the Congregation of St. Basil and retains its Catholic affiliation through its postgraduat ...

(St.M.), Innis College (Innis), New College (New), Knox College (Knox), Regis College (Regis),

Wycliffe College Wycliffe College () is an evangelical graduate school of theology at the University of Toronto. Founded in 1877 as an evangelical seminary in the Anglican tradition, Wycliffe College today attracts students from many Christian denominations from ...

(Wyc.),

Woodsworth College Woodsworth College, named after politician and clergyman James Shaver Woodsworth (1874–1942), is a college within the University of Toronto in Canada. It is one of the largest colleges in the Faculty of Arts and Science at the St. George Camp ...

(Wdw.),

Massey College Massey College is a graduate residential college at the University of Toronto that was established, built and partially endowed in 1962 by the Massey Foundation and officially opened in 1963, though women were not admitted until 1974. It was mo ...

(Massey), Scarborough Campus (UTSC) and Mississauga Campus (UTM).

Nobel laureates

Government

Heads of state and government

International

Governors-general and prime ministers

Supreme Court judges

Nicholas Kasirer Nicholas Kasirer is a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. He was sworn into office on September 16, 2019. Kasirer was previously a justice with the Quebec Court of Appeal between 2009 and 2019. He is a graduate of the McGill Univer ...

– Puisne Justice, 2019–

Lieutenant-governors, premiers and mayors

Ministers, diplomats, party leaders and other political figures

Natural sciences, mathematics, medicine and engineering

Mathematics and statistics

Medicine and dentistry

Physics, chemistry and astronomy

Biology and ecology

Engineering and computer science

Earth science

Social sciences

Anthropology, geography and archaeology

Sociology

* Simone Browne (Ph.D. 2007; professor of sociology at

University of Texas The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

), author of ''Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness'' * Jean Burnet (B.A. Vic.) – sociologist specializing in ethnic studies, founder of the Glendon Sociology Department at

York University York University (french: Université York), also known as YorkU or simply YU, is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university, and it has approximately 55,700 students, 7,0 ...

* Samuel Delbert Clark (Ph.D. 1938; professor of sociology, 1938–76) – sociologist known for studies on Canadian social development and political economics * Erving Goffman (B.A. 1945) – sociologist, author of ''

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life ''The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life'' is a 1956 sociological book by Erving Goffman, in which the author uses the imagery of theatre in order to portray the importance of human social interaction; this approach would become known as Goff ...

'', taught at Cal and

UPenn The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest- ...

, 73rd president of the American Sociological Association * Daniel G. Hill (M.A. 1951, Ph.D. 1960) – sociologist, human rights specialist and Black Canadian historian,

Ontario Ombudsman The Office of the Ombudsman of Ontario is an independent office of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. Role The office's jurisdiction includes more than 500 provincial government ministries, agencies, corpor ...

, 1984–89, founder of the Ontario Black History Society * Himani Bannerji (Ph.D.) – writer, academic, professor of sociology at

, known for her activist work and poetry *

Barry Wellman Barry Wellman (born 1942) is a Canadian-American sociologist and is the co-director of the Toronto-based international NetLab Network. His areas of research are community sociology, the Internet, human-computer interaction and social structur ...

(Ph.D. 1969) – Director of NetLab and retired S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, Fellow Royal Society of Canada *

Elliott Leyton Elliott Leyton (August 21, 1939 – February 14, 2022) was a Canadian social-anthropologist, educator and author who, according to the CTV television news network, was amongst the most widely consulted experts on serial homicide worldwide. Bio ...

(Ph.D. 1972) – sociologist, educator and author on serial homicide and juvenile delinquency

Psychology and linguistics

Economics, management and political science

Humanities

Philosophy

Literature

History

Law (excluding the Supreme Court judges mentioned above)

Theology

Media and arts

Journalism and publishing

Film, television, radio, and theatre

Music, fine arts and architecture

Education

Business

Humanitarianism, social work and others

Athletics

References

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Nobel Laureates who were based at the University of Toronto at significant points in their careers
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