List Of Bishop's College School Alumni

Bishop's College School, a private secondary school founded in 1836 in the Borough of Lennoxville, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada owns an Old boy network. Former male students are referred to as BCS Old Boys and former King's Hall, Compton & BCS female students are referred to as Old Girls. BCS's sister school, King's Hall, Compton, was founded in 1872 in Compton, Québec and merged with BCS in 1972.

The official charter of the Bishop's College School BCS Alumni Association was granted in 1901. The Heneker- Williams Society was created by the Board of Directors of the BCS Association to honour individuals who by leadership and example, have set the standard for volunteer support of Bishop's College School and King's Hall, Compton.

This list is a collection of notable BCS/KHC Alumni. For a list of BCS/KHC faculty see List of Bishop's College School Faculty.

Bishop's College School and Bishop's University have been two separate independent institutions since 1922, after sharing space on Bishop's University campus for nearly 80 years. Please do not include BU alumni on this page.

Educators and thinkers

* Frederick Edmund Meredith (1862–1941), lawyer, Chancellor of Bishop's University and President of the Montreal Victorias, Bâtonnier of the Bar of Montreal.
* General Andrew McNaughton (1887–1966), as the electrical engineer who designed the Cathode Ray Direction Finder and the President of the National Research Board.
*Charles Sandwith Campbell (1858–1923) A benefactor who gave the City of Montreal the Campbell Concerts and Campbell Parks. He was a Governor of McGill University.
* George Hurst (1926–2012), Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic, visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
* Eric Herbert Molson OC (born 1937) C.M., former Chairman of Molson Coors and former Chancellor of Concordia University.
* William Heneker (1867–1939), one of only a handful of Canadians to reach the full rank of General in the British Army, BCS alumnus and former teacher.
* William Watson Ogilvie – was the president of the Montreal Board of Trade in 1893 and 1894, and a member of its council for six years. He was also a Director of the Bank of Montreal, the Montreal Transportation Company, the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company, and a Founding Director of the Royal Trust Company.
* Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (1866–1932) professor at Purdue University and the Founder/Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Pittsburgh.

Sciences and engineering

* Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (1866–1932) Inventor of radio (AM broadcasting) and sonar "Fessenden oscillator", professor at the Purdue University and the founder/chair of the Electrical Engineering department at the University of Pittsburgh.
* General Andrew McNaughton (1887–1966), the electrical engineer who designed the Cathode Ray Direction Finder and the President of the National Research Board.
* Frederick Edmund Meredith (1862–1941), lawyer, Chancellor of Bishop's University and President of the Montreal Victorias, Bâtonnier of the Bar of Montreal
* Selwyn G. Blaylock (1879–1945), President of the Canadian Institute of Mining, established the Selwyn G. Blaylock Medal.
* James Ross (1848–1913) of Montreal, a Scottish-born Canadian civil engineer, businessman and philanthropist. He established his fortune predominantly through railway construction, notably for the Canadian Pacific Railway, of which he was the major shareholder, and also served as a Governor of McGill University.
* Richard H. Tomlinson OC, (c. 1924 – 2018) was a Canadian chemist and philanthropist who graduated from Cambridge University. He is best known as a founding director of Gennum Corp., a Canadian manufacturer of semiconductors and semiconductor-based products, and for making one of the largest single donations to a Canadian university. He was also a Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, McMaster University.

Medicine and humanitarians

* Harry Woodburn Blaylock CBE (1978–1928) was Chief commissioner of the Canadian Red Cross Society (1906–1974) was a Canadian architect, educator, and humanitarian who worked alongside Norman Bethune as the chief fundraiser for the Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy in Madrid, Spain. He is responsible for introducing Bethune's achievements in China to the western world for the first time, and nominated Bethune's House as a National Historic Site of Canada.
*Sir James Lauder Brunton 4th Bt., of Stratford Place (1947-) was born in Montreal and educated at Bishop's College School, Lennoxville, Quebec, and McGill University, Montreal. He is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. His father and grandfather were also both educated at McGill. His grandfather (the 2nd Baronet) settled the family in Canada in 1912.

Arts and media

* Jake Eberts OC (1941–2012), award-winning film producer of ''Chariots of Fire'', ''Gandhi'', ''Dances with Wolves'' & ''Chicken Run''. He has been associated with films garnering 66 Oscar nominations, including nine for Best Picture. In 2006, March of the Penguins won the Oscar for Best Documentary.
* Richard Smeaton White (1865–1936) was a Canadian newspaper publisher and political figure. He sat for Inkerman Division in the Senate of Canada as a Conservative from 1917 to 1936.
* Ralph Barker Gustafson, CM (1909–1995) was a Canadian poet and professor at Bishop's University.
* John Calder (1927–2018) was a Scottish-Canadian writer who founded the company Calder Publishing in 1949.
*Sharon Pollock (1928-2021) Canadian Playwright, an officer of the Order of Canada and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
* Clive M. Law(1954–2017) was a Canadian publisher and author, and founder and President of Service Publications.
* John Glassco (1909–1981) was a Canadian poet, memoirist and novelist. According to Stephen Scobie, "Glassco will be remembered for his brilliant autobiography, his elegant, classical poems, and for his translations."Stephen Scobie,
Glassco, John
", ''Canadian Encyclopedia'' (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1988), 906. He is also remembered by some for his erotica.
* David Atkinson (1921–2012), Broadway actor and singer. He also served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II in the South Pacific just prior to Japan's surrender.
* Norman Webster OC (1941–) A Canadian journalist and a former editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail and The Gazette.
* George Hurst (1926–2012), Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic; visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
*Giles Walker (1946–2020) Scottish-Canadian film director, staff director at the National Film Board of Canada for 20 years and recipient of an Oscar nomination for a short drama.
* Stuart McLean

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