The following is a list of chancellors, principals, and noted alumni and professors of

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, Quebec, Canada.

List of chancellors

# Charles Dewey Day (1864–1884) # James Ferrier (1884–1888) # Sir Donald Alexander Smith, Lord Strathcona (1889–1914) # Sir William Christopher Macdonald (1914–1917) # 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 ...

(1918–1920) # Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty (1921–1942) # Morris Watson Wilson (1943–1946) # Orville Sievwright Tyndale (BA 1908, MA 1909, BCL 1915) (1946–1952) # Bertie Charles Gardner (1952–1957) # Ray Edwin Powell (1957–1964) # Howard Irwin Ross (BA 1930) (1964–1970) #

Donald Olding Hebb Donald Olding Hebb (July 22, 1904 – August 20, 1985) was a Canadian psychologist who was influential in the area of neuropsychology, where he sought to understand how the function of neurons contributed to psychological processes such as l ...

(MA, 1932) (1970–1974) # Stuart Milner Finlayson (1975) # Conrad Fetherstonhaugh Harrington (BA 1933, BCL 1936) (1976–1984) # A. Jean de Grandpré (BCL 1943) (1984–1991) #

Gretta Chambers Gretta Chambers (''née'' Taylor; January 15, 1927 – September 9, 2017) was a Canadian journalist and former Chancellor of McGill University. Life and career Chambers grew up in Outremont and attended Miss Edgar's and Miss Cramp's School a ...

(BA 1947) (1991–1999) # Richard W. Pound (BCom 1962, LAcc 1964, BCL 1967) (1999–2009) # H. Arnold Steinberg (BCom 1954) (2009–2014) # Michael A. Meighen (BA 1960) (2014–2021) # John McCall MacBain (2021–present)

List of principals

George Jehoshaphat Mountain George Jehoshaphat Mountain (27 July 1789 – 6 January 1863) was a British-Canadian Anglican bishop (3rd Anglican Bishop of Quebec), the first Principal of McGill College from 1824 to 1835, and one of the founders of Bishop's University and ...

(1824–1835) # John Bethune (1835–1846) #

Edmund Allen Meredith Edmund Allen Meredith (7 October 1817 – 2 January 1899) was an Irish lawyer whose career was in public service in Canada. He was Under Secretary of State for Canada; a prison reformer, writer, president of the Literary and Historical Soci ...

(1846–1853) # Sir

John William Dawson Sir John William Dawson (1820–1899) was a Canadian geologist and university administrator. Life and work John William Dawson was born on 13 October 1820 in Pictou, Nova Scotia, where he attended and graduated from Pictou Academy. Of Scotti ...

(1855–1893) # Sir William Peterson (1895–1919) # Sir

Auckland Campbell Geddes Auckland Campbell Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes, (21 June 1879 – 8 June 1954) was a British academic, soldier, politician and diplomat. He was a member of David Lloyd George's coalition government during the First World War and also served as Am ...

(1919–1920) # General Sir Arthur Currie (1920–1933) #

Arthur Eustace Morgan Arthur Eustace Morgan (26 July 1886 – 3 February 1972) was the eighth Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University. Born in Bristol, England, he was the first Principal of University College Hull from 1926 to 1935. From 1935 to 193 ...

(1935–1937) #

Lewis Williams Douglas Lewis Williams Douglas (July 2, 1894March 7, 1974) was an American politician, diplomat, businessman and academic. Early life and education Douglas was the son of James Douglas, Jr., a mining executive employed by the Phelps Dodge Company, and ...

(1938–1939) #

Frank Cyril James Frank Cyril James (October 8, 1903 – May 3, 1973) was a Canadian academic and principal of McGill University from 1939 to 1962. Biography Born in London, England, he won a Sir Ernest Cassel Travelling Scholarship that allowed him to stu ...

(1939–1962) # Harold Rocke Robertson (BSc 1932, MD 1936) (1962–1970) #

Robert Edward Bell Robert Edward Bell (November 29, 1918 – April 1, 1992) was a Canadian nuclear physicist and principal of McGill University from 1970 to 1979. Biography Born in New Malden, England to Canadian parents, he was raised in Ladner, British Columb ...

(PhD 1948) (1970–1979) # David Lloyd Johnston (1979–1994) #

Bernard Shapiro Bernard Jack Shapiro, (born June 8, 1935) is a Canadian academic, civil servant, former Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University from 1994 to 2004, and the first Ethics Commissioner of Canada between May 17, 2004 and March 29, 2007. Bi ...

(BA, 1956) (1994–2002) #

Heather Munroe-Blum Heather Anne Elyse Lilian Munroe-Blum (born August 25, 1950) is a Canadian academic and businesswoman. She is the former principal and vice-chancellor of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. She is also a member of the board of directors of ...

(2003–2013) # Suzanne Fortier (BSc 1972, PhD 1976) (2013–2022)

Noted alumni and professors

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Nobel Prize graduates and faculty members

Academy Award graduates

Pulitzer Prize graduates

Academics and scholars

Maude Abbott Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott (March 18, 1868Sources disagree on the date of Abbott's birth. The Canadian Encyclopedia'Maude Abbott Medical Museum and the ' are among the sources that support a birthdate of 18 March 1868. However, articles in the ...

(BA 1890) - physician and pathologist, authority on congenital heart disease, co-founder of International Academy of Pathology * Nancy J. Adler – Professor of Organizational Behavior and Samuel Bronfman Chair in Management at McGill University * Abdolhamid Akbarzadeh Shafaroudi – assistant professor in machine design and mechanical engineering at McGill University * Selim Akl (MSc 1976, PhD, 1978) – unconventional computer scientist *

Ismail al-Faruqi Ismaʻīl Rājī al-Fārūqī ( ar, إسماعيل راجي الفاروقي January 1, 1921 – May 27, 1986) was a Palestinian- American philosopher. He spent several years at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, then taught at several universities ...

– Muslim philosopher and comparative religion scholar * Alia Al-Saji – professor of philosophy *

Antony Alcock Antony Evelyn Alcock (12 September 1936 – 2 September 2006 University of Ulster) was a historian and Ulster Unionist politician. Born in Valletta, Malta, he grew up in Devon and Hampshire while at Harrow School from 1950 to 1954. Following his e ...

(BA 1961) – Ulster historian; actively involved in the negotiations leading up to the

Belfast Agreement The Good Friday Agreement (GFA), or Belfast Agreement ( ga, Comhaontú Aoine an Chéasta or ; Ulster-Scots: or ), is a pair of agreements signed on 10 April 1998 that ended most of the violence of The Troubles, a political conflict in No ...

Brian Alters Brian J. Alters, Ph.D. is a professor in Chapman University's College of Educational Studies. He directs Chapman's Evolution Education Research Center, has taught science education at both Harvard and McGill Universities, and is regarded as a spec ...

– evolution and education * Frederick Andermann (BA 1948, BSc 1952) – neuroscientist *

Athanasios Asimakopulos Athanasios "Tom" Asimakopulos () (May 28, 1930 – May 25, 1990) was a Canadian economist, who was the "William Dow Professor of Political Economy" in the Department of Economics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His monograph, '' ...

(BA 1951, MA 1953) – prominent economist in the

Post Keynesian Post or POST commonly refers to: *Mail, the postal system, especially in Commonwealth of Nations countries **An Post, the Irish national postal service **Canada Post, Canadian postal service **Deutsche Post, German postal service **Iraqi Post, Ira ...

tradition * Brigitte Askonas (BSc 1944, MSc 1949) – prominent British immunologist * Karine Auclair – professor of chemistry at McGill University and Canada Research Chair in Antimicrobials and Green Enzymes * Francis Aveling (BA 1897, MA 1899) – Canadian psychologist, divinity scholar, and Roman Catholic priest * Sir

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, FRS (Postdoc 1978) – British plant scientist and geneticist; now Professor of Botany at the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

Jill Beck Jill Beck (born 1949) is an American dancer, scholar, administrator and educator. She served as the 15th president of Lawrence University from July 2004 to 2013. On February 2, 2012, Beck announced her intention to retire, and was succeeded by ...

(MA 1976) – dance and choreography scholar, and 15th President of

Lawrence University Lawrence University is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Appleton, Wisconsin. Founded in 1847, its first classes were held on November 12, 1849. Lawrence was the second college in the U.S. to be founded as a coeduca ...

Eric Berne Eric Berne (May 10, 1910 – July 15, 1970) was a Canadian-born psychiatrist who created the theory of transactional analysis as a way of explaining human behavior. Berne's theory of transactional analysis was based on the ideas of Freud ...

(BSc 1931, MD 1935) – psychiatrist, originator of the psychoanalytic theory of

transactional analysis Transactional Analysis (TA) is a psychoanalytic theory and method of therapy wherein social interactions (or “transactions”) are analyzed to determine the ego state of the communicator (whether parent-like, childlike, or adult-like) as a b ...

* Raoul Bott (BEng 1945, MEng 1948) – mathematician specializing in topology,

Wolf Prize in Mathematics The Wolf Prize in Mathematics is awarded almost annually by the Wolf Foundation in Israel. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Agriculture, Chemistry, Medicine, Physics and Arts ...

, 2000 *

Reuven Brenner Reuven Brenner (born 1947) is a Romanian-born Israeli-Canadian economics professor, holding the REPAP Chair of Economics at McGill University's Desautels Faculty of Management. Notability Forbes magazine has called the professor one of "six ...

– economist; current faculty member * Ayşe Buğra (PhD 1981) – economist * Gerald Bull – former professor of mechanical engineering; expert on projectiles; designer of the Iraqi Project Babylon *

Mario Bunge Mario Augusto Bunge (; ; September 21, 1919 – February 24, 2020) was an Argentine-Canadian philosopher and physicist. His philosophical writings combined scientific realism, systemism, materialism, emergentism, and other principles. He was ...

– physicist and philosopher * Miriam Burland – astronomer at Dominion Observatory from 1927 to 1967 *

Ron Burnett Ron Burnett (born 1947) is an author, professor and the President Emeritus and Research Director for the new Centre for Transdisciplinary Studies at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Education Burnett was born 24 May 1947 in London, Engl ...

(PhD 1981) – president and vice-chancellor, Emily Carr University of Art and Design; former Director of the Graduate Program in Communications, McGill University *

Anne Carson Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and professor. Trained at the University of Toronto, Carson has taught classics, comparative literature, and creative writing at universities across the Unit ...

– thinker, writer, translator, and University of Michigan classics professor *

Donald Ewen Cameron Donald Ewen Cameron ( – ) was a Scottish-born psychiatrist. He is largely known today for his central role in unethical medical experiments, and development of psychological and medical torture techniques for the . He served as president of th ...

– psychiatrist, involved with mind control experimentation at McGill *

Thomas Chang Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (disambiguation) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the ...

(BSc 1957, MD 1961, PhD 1965) – invented and developed world's first artificial cell * Margaret Ridley Charlton – historian, pioneer librarian, and one of the founders of the Medical Library Association * Sherry Chou (MD 2001) – Neurologist and critical care physician at the

University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a public state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The university is composed of 17 undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges at its urban Pittsburgh campus, home to the univers ...

* Sujit Choudhry (BSc 1992) – constitutionalist and Dean of the University of California Berkeley, School of Law * Thomas H. Clark – paleontologist; namesake of the mineral Thomasclarkite * Terence Coderre (PhD 1985) – Professor of Medicine and the Harold Griffith Chair in Anaesthesia Research at McGill University * Robert W. Cox (BA 1946) – former United Nations official; a leading authority of the British school of International Political Economy; former professor of political science at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

; current professor emeritus at

York University York University (french: Université York), also known as YorkU or simply YU, is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university, and it has approximately 55,700 students, 7,000 faculty and sta ...

* R. F. Patrick Cronin (MD 1953) – cardiologist; Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at McGill (1972–1977); healthcare consultant * Augusto Claudio Cuello – Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics and Charles E. Frosst/Merck Chair in Pharmacology at McGill University *

Philip J. Currie Philip John Currie (born March 13, 1949) is a Canadian palaeontologist and museum curator who helped found the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta and is now a professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. In the ...

(MSc 1975, PhD 1981) – paleontologist and former curator of the

Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology (RTMP, and often referred to as the Royal Tyrrell Museum) is a palaeontology museum and research facility in Drumheller, Alberta, Canada. The museum was named in honour of Joseph Burr Tyrrell, and is situ ...

* Roger Daley (MSc 1968, PhD 1971) – meteorologist * Armand de Mestral (BCL 1966) – professor of

international law International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards generally recognized as binding between states. It establishes normative guidelines and a common conceptual framework for ...

* Carrie Derick (BEd 1881, BA 1890, MSc 1896) – first woman to become a professor in Canada (in botany at McGill) * Arti Dhand (PhD 2000) – associate professor at the

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 ...

, Department for the Study of Religion * Vibert Douglas (PhD 1926) – astrophysicist *

Charles R. Drew Charles Richard Drew (June 3, 1904 – April 1, 1950) was an American surgeon and medical researcher. He researched in the field of blood transfusions, developing improved techniques for blood storage, and applied his expert knowledge to devel ...

(MD 1933) – physician and professor * Kyle Elliott – Canadian ornithologist, assistant professor in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences at McGill University, and Canada Research Chair in Arctic Ecology. * Hamid Etemad – professor of

international business International business refers to the trade of goods, services, technology, capital and/or knowledge across national borders and at a global or transnational scale. It involves cross-border transactions of goods and services between two or mor ...

; business guru and researcher * Jennifer V. Evans – professor at

Carleton University Carleton University is an English-language public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1942 as Carleton College, the institution originally operated as a private, non-denominational evening college to serve returning Wo ...

* Basil Favis - Canadian chemist and professor * David A. Freedman (BSc 1958) – statistician; professor at

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant un ...

Grover Furr Grover Carr Furr III (born April 3, 1944) is an American professor of Medieval English literature at Montclair State University. He is widely regarded as a historical revisionist, and has published numerous revisionist books and papers about S ...

(BA 1965) – professor of English literature; historical negationist and apologist for Joseph Stalin * James E. Gill (BSc 1921) – geology professor who introduced the Master's of Applied Science in Mineral Exploration program and established an analytical laboratory for the application of geochemistry to mineral exploration * Gilbert Girdwood – professor of chemistry; radiologist * Leo Goldberger (BA 1951, MA 1952) – psychologist, professor at

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then- Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, th ...

and director of the Research Center for Mental Health,

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...

survivor * Lawrence Goodridge, food safety and wastewater monitoring researcher * Phil Gold (BSc 1957, MSc 1961, M.D. 1961, PhD 1965) – Canadian physician, scientist, and professor. In 1968, he co-discovered the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), which resulted in a blood test used in the diagnosis and management of people with cancer. * David Goltzman (BSc 1966, MD 1968) –

endocrinologist Endocrinology (from ''endocrine'' + '' -ology'') is a branch of biology and medicine dealing with the endocrine system, its diseases, and its specific secretions known as hormones. It is also concerned with the integration of developmental events ...

, Professor of Medicine and Physiology, and A.G. Massabki Chair in Medicine at McGill University *

Shyamala Gopalan Gopalan Shyamala (December 7, 1938 – February 11, 2009) was a biomedical scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, whose work in isolating and characterizing the progesterone receptor gene stimulated advances in breast biology ...

– breast cancer researcher in the

Faculty of Medicine A medical school is a tertiary educational institution, or part of such an institution, that teaches medicine, and awards a professional degree for physicians. Such medical degrees include the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS, M ...

and McGill-affiliated

Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research The Jewish General Hospital (JGH; french: Hôpital général juif), known officially as the Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital (french: Hôpital général juif Sir Mortimer B. Davis) since 1978, is an acute-care teaching hospital in ...

; mother of U.S. Vice President

Kamala Harris Kamala Devi Harris ( ; born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th vice president of the United States. She is the first female vice president and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, as well ...

* Jack Gross (PhD 1949) an

, one the co-discoverers of

Triiodothyronine Triiodothyronine, also known as T3, is a thyroid hormone. It affects almost every physiological process in the body, including growth and development, metabolism, body temperature, and heart rate. Production of T3 and its prohormone thyrox ...

(T3) * William W. Happ - (BS) - Silicon transistor pioneer at

Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory was a pioneering semiconductor developer founded by William Shockley, and funded by Beckman Instruments, Inc., in 1955. It was the first high technology company in what came to be known as Silicon Valley to w ...

, and Professor at

Arizona State University Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the ...

* John Harnad (BSc 1967) – Mathematical physicist, Director, Mathematical physics laboratory,

Centre de recherches mathématiques The Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) is the first mathematical research institute in Canada, located at the Université de Montréal. The CRM has ten research laboratories, one in each of: mathematical analysis, number theory and symbo ...

Stevan Harnad Stevan Robert Harnad (Hernád István Róbert, Hesslein István, born June 2, 1945, Budapest) is a Hungarian-born cognitive scientist based in Montreal, Canada. Education Harnad was born in Budapest, Hungary. He did his undergraduate work at McG ...

(BA 1967, MA 1969) – Canada Research Chair, Cognitive Sciences;

open access Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre op ...

and

animal rights Animal rights is the philosophy according to which many or all sentient animals have moral worth that is independent of their utility for humans, and that their most basic interests—such as avoiding suffering—should be afforded the s ...

activist *

S. I. Hayakawa Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (July 18, 1906 – February 27, 1992) was a Canadian-born American academic and politician of Japanese ancestry. A professor of English, he served as president of San Francisco State University and then as U.S. Senator from ...

(MA 1928) – linguist, U.S. Senator, and 9th President of

San Francisco State University San Francisco State University (commonly referred to as San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public research university in San Francisco. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers 118 different ...

Karen S. Haynes Karen Sue Haynes (born c. 1946) is an American academic and college administrator who previously served as the president of California State University San Marcos. She also served as president of the University of Houston–Victoria. Education ...

(MSW 1970) – American college administrator and social worker, former president of University of Houston–Victoria, and current president of

California State University San Marcos California State University San Marcos (CSUSM or Cal State San Marcos) is a public university in San Marcos, California. It was founded in 1989 as the 21st campus in the 23-campus California State University (CSU) system. CSUSM offers 43 bach ...

(MA, 1932) – father of cognitive psychobiology; pioneer in

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech ...

; developed concept of

Hebbian learning Hebbian theory is a neuroscientific theory claiming that an increase in synaptic efficacy arises from a presynaptic cell's repeated and persistent stimulation of a postsynaptic cell. It is an attempt to explain synaptic plasticity, the adaptatio ...

John Hemming John Hemming may refer to: * John Hemming (historian) (born 1935), British explorer and author *John Hemming (politician) (born 1960), British politician See also *John Heminges, co-publisher of Shakespeare's works after his death *John Hemings J ...

(BA 1957) – explorer * Janyne M. Hodder (BA 1970, MA 1982) – educational psychologist and 6th President of the University of the Bahamas * Alma Howard (BSc 1934, MSc, 1936, PhD 1938) – radiobiologist * Fumiko Ikawa-Smith – archaeologist in East Asian and Japanese archaeology & administrator, Director of the Centre for East Asian Studies (1983 and 1988) and Associate Vice-Principal (Academic) of McGill University (1991–1996). * Herbert Jasper – neuroscientist * Julian Jaynes (BA 1944) – psychologist, author of '' The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind'' *

George Karpati George Karpati, (May 17, 1934 – February 6, 2009) was a Canadian neurologist and neuroscientist who was one of the leading experts on the diagnosis and treatment of neuromuscular disorders including muscular dystrophy research. Born in D ...

– neuroscientist * Victoria Kaspi (BSc 1989) – astrophysicist researching neutron stars and pulsars * Roger Keesing – anthropologist * Howard Atwood Kelly – member of the faculty of medicine at McGill; one of the "Big Four" founding professors at the

Johns Hopkins Hospital The Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH) is the teaching hospital and biomedical research facility of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, located in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. It was founded in 1889 using money from a bequest of over $7 million (1873 ...

, credited with establishing gynecology as a true specialty *

Frances Oldham Kelsey Frances Kathleen Kelsey ( Oldham; July 24, 1914 – August 7, 2015) was a Canadian-American pharmacologist and physician. As a reviewer for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), she refused to authorize thalidomide for market because sh ...

(Bsc 1934, MSc 1935) –

pharmacologist Pharmacology is a branch of medicine, biology and pharmaceutical sciences concerned with drug or medication action, where a drug may be defined as any artificial, natural, or endogenous (from within the body) molecule which exerts a biochemic ...

and physician *

Raymond Klibansky Raymond Klibansky, (October 15, 1905 – August 5, 2005) was a German-Canadian historian of philosophy and art. Biography Born in Paris, to Rosa Scheidt and Hermann Klibansky, he was educated at the University of Kiel, University of Hamburg ...

– philosopher * Normand Landry (PhD 2010) – professor of communication at Université TÉLUQ and current Canada Research Chair in Media Education and Human Rights *

Harold Laski Harold Joseph Laski (30 June 1893 – 24 March 1950) was an English political theorist and economist. He was active in politics and served as the chairman of the British Labour Party from 1945 to 1946 and was a professor at the London School o ...

– political theorist *

Charles Philippe Leblond Charles Philippe Leblond (February 5, 1910 – April 10, 2007) was a pioneer of cell biology and stem cell research and a Canadian former professor of anatomy. Leblond is notable for developing autoradiography and his work showing how cells ...

– pioneer of stem cells, inventor of autoradiography * Grant LeMarquand (BA 1977, STM 1982, MA 1998) – Canadian Anglican bishop, missionary, and professor at

Trinity School for Ministry Trinity School for Ministry (TSM), formerly known as Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry, is an Anglican seminary in Ambridge, Pennsylvania. It is generally associated with low church, evangelical Anglicanism. History In the mid 1970s, several pr ...

Daniel Levitin Daniel Joseph Levitin, FRSC (born December 27, 1957) is an American-Canadian cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, writer, musician, and record producer. He is the author of four ''New York Times'' best-selling books, including '' This Is Y ...

– cognitive psychologist *

Pericles Lewis Pericles Lewis is the Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of comparative literature at Yale University and the Dean of Yale College. Previously at Yale, he was the founding President of Yale-NUS College, a liberal arts college in Singapore that is join ...

(BA 1990) – founding President of

Yale-NUS College Yale-NUS College is a liberal arts college in Singapore. Established in 2011 as a collaboration between Yale University and the National University of Singapore, it was the first liberal arts college in Singapore and one of the first few in Asia. ...

; professor of English and comparative literature at

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the w ...

* Abraham S. Luchins – American psychologist known for his research on mental sets (Einstellung effect) * Michael J. MacKenzie – Professor of Social Work, Psychiatry, and Pediatrics at McGill University, and

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 ...

in Child Well-Being * Michael Mackey – professor of physiology and Joseph Morley Drake Chair in Physiology at McGill University * Colin MacLeod (MD 1932) – Canadian-American geneticist; discovered DNA breakthroughs * James Mallory – for many years Canada's leading constitutional scholar *

Joseph Boyd Martin Joseph Boyd Martin (born October 20, 1938 in Bassano, Alberta) is a Canadian physician who is the Edward R. and Anne G. Lefler Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. Prior to that, he served as the Dean of Harvard Medical Sc ...

– former Dean of the

Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the graduate medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1782, HMS is one of the oldest medical schools in the United States and is cons ...

; former Dean and Chancellor at the

University of California, San Francisco The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California. It is part of the University of California system and is dedicated entirely to health science and life science. It ...

; former chair of

neurology Neurology (from el, νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the brain, the spinal ...

and

neurosurgery Neurosurgery or neurological surgery, known in common parlance as brain surgery, is the medical specialty concerned with the surgical treatment of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spinal cord and pe ...

at the Montreal Neurological Institute * Michael Meaney – pioneer of epigenetics; James McGill Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology and Neurosurgery. * Ronald Melzack (BA, 1950, MSc 1951, PhD 1954) – developed the McGill Pain Questionnaire * Ravi S. Menon (MSc(A), 1986) - Canadian-American biophysicist involved in the development of

functional magnetic resonance imaging Functional magnetic resonance imaging or functional MRI (fMRI) measures brain activity by detecting changes associated with blood flow. This technique relies on the fact that cerebral blood flow and neuronal activation are coupled. When an area o ...

, Professor at The University of Western Ontario. * John S. Meyer (MD 1948, MSc 1949) – neurology professor and Chairman of the U.S. President's Commission on Heart Disease, Cancer and Stroke *

Brenda Milner Brenda Milner (née Langford; July 15, 1918) is a British-Canadian neuropsychologist who has contributed extensively to the research literature on various topics in the field of clinical neuropsychology. Milner is a professor in the Departme ...

(MA 1949, PhD 1952) – provided the first clear demonstration of the existence of multiple memory systems in the brain with patient H.M. *

Henry Mintzberg Henry Mintzberg (born September 2, 1939) is a Canadian academic and author on business and management. He is currently the Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at the Desautels Faculty of Management of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, ...

(BEng 1961) – business guru * Mortimer Mishkin (MA 1949, PhD 1951) – renowned neuropsychologist for path-breaking work on brain-processing of memories and 2009

National Medal of Science The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social scienc ...

recipient * Albert Moll (LLB 1932, MD 1937) – professor of psychiatry; pioneer of psychiatric day treatment * Marie-Eve Morin – Canadian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy * Karl Moore – associate professor of management at McGill University *

William Reginald Morse William Reginald Morse (30 August 1874 – 11 November 1939) was a Canadian author, medical doctor, and medical missionary in China. In 1901 he proceeded to West China where he founded West China Union University. The university was one of the f ...

, MD, one of four medical missionaries who founded the

West China Union University The West China Union University ( zh, t=華西協合大學), also called West China University or Huaxi University, was a private university in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. It was the product of the collective efforts of four Protestant, denominational ...

Chengdu Chengdu (, ; simplified Chinese: 成都; pinyin: ''Chéngdū''; Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ), alternatively romanized as Chengtu, is a sub-provincial city which serves as the capital of the Chinese provin ...

, Sichuan, in 1914; went on to become dean of the medical faculty and, later, assistant researcher at the Peabody Museum, where he advanced studies of Chinese and Tibetan medicine * Beverley Pearson Murphy, endocrinologist and professor * Jennifer G. Murphy (BS 2000) – Professor of chemistry at

* E. R. Ward Neale (BSc 1949) – geologist, professor at

Memorial University of Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland, also known as Memorial University or MUN (), is a public university in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, based in St. John's, with satellite campuses in Corner Brook, elsewhere in Newfoundland and ...

* Louis Nirenberg (BS, 1945) – mathematician; 1995

recipient and winner of 2015

Abel Prize The Abel Prize ( ; no, Abelprisen ) is awarded annually by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians. It is named after the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829) and directly modeled after the Nobel Pri ...

* Percy Erskine Nobbs – former professor of architecture; designer of many buildings in Montreal, especially at McGill, and in Alberta, British Columbia, and South Africa *

James Olds James Olds (May 30, 1922 – August 21, 1976) was an American psychologist who co-discovered the pleasure center of the brain with Peter Milner while he was a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University in 1954. He is considered to be one of the fou ...

(Postdoc 1955) – neuroscientist and psychologist; co-discovered the reward center of the brain; a founder of modern neuroscience * Kelvin Ogilvie – McGill chemistry professor 1974-87 * Santa J. Ono (PhD 1991) – immunologist; 15th President & Vice-Chancellor of The University of British Columbia; 28th President of The University of Cincinnati; 15th President of the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

; discovered NFX1 RING Finger motif; showed HMGA2 truncation drives mesenchymal tumor development *

William Osler Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet, (; July 12, 1849 – December 29, 1919) was a Canadian physician and one of the "Big Four" founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Osler created the first residency program for specialty training of phys ...

(MD 1872) – McGill professor; medical pioneer; developed the modern form of a doctor's bedside manner; a founder of the

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUSOM) is the medical school of Johns Hopkins University, a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1893, the School of Medicine shares a campus with the Johns Hopkins Hospi ...

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consi ...

* Gilles Paradis – public health and preventive medicine physician at the Institut national de santé publique du Québec, as well as professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health and Strathcona Chair in Epidemiology at McGill University. * Madhu Pai – Canada Research Chair of Epidemiology and Global Health at McGill University *

Arthur Lindo Patterson Arthur Lindo Patterson (23 July 1902, Nelson, New Zealand - 6 November 1966, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a pioneering British X-ray crystallographer. Patterson was born to British parents in New Zealand in 1902. Shortly afterwards the famil ...

(BSc 1923, MSc 1924, PhD 1928) – physicist *

Jordan Peterson Jordan Bernt Peterson (born 12 June 1962) is a Canadian media personality, clinical psychologist, author, and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. He began to receive widespread attention as a public intellectual in the late 201 ...

(PhD 1991, Postdoc 1993) – clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and psychology professor currently at the

* Kevin Petrecca – neurosurgical oncologist at the

Montreal Neurological Institute The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC; french: Centre universitaire de santé McGill) is one of two major healthcare networks in the city of Montreal, Quebec. It is affiliated with McGill University and is one of the largest medical complex in ...

, chief of neurosurgery at the

MUHC The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC; french: Centre universitaire de santé McGill) is one of two major healthcare networks in the city of Montreal, Quebec. It is affiliated with McGill University and is one of the largest medical complex in ...

, associate professor of neurology and neurosurgery and William Feindel Chair in Neuro-Oncology at McGill University *

Wilder Penfield Wilder Graves Penfield (January 26, 1891April 5, 1976) was an American-Canadian neurosurgeon. He expanded brain surgery's methods and techniques, including mapping the functions of various regions of the brain such as the cortical homunculus. ...

– neurosurgery pioneer; first director of the

and Montreal Neurological Hospital, which are affiliated with McGill University *

Stephen R. Perry Stephen R. Perry (born 1950) is a Canadian scholar in the fields of jurisprudence and political philosophy. He is the John J. O'Brien Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Director of the I ...

, John J. O'Brien Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the

University of Pennsylvania Law School The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (also known as Penn Law or Penn Carey Law) is the law school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is among the most selective and oldes ...

Steven Pinker Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. He is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. ...

(BA 1976) – cognitive psychologist; author of ''The Blank Slate'', ''How the Mind Works'' * Susan Pinker (BA 1979) – psychologist; author of '' The Sexual Paradox'' *

Jeremy Quastel Jeremy Daniel Quastel , is a Canadian mathematician specializing in probability theory, stochastic processes, partial differential equations. He is currently head of the mathematics department at the University of Toronto. He grew up in Vanc ...

– mathematician specializing in

probability theory Probability theory is the branch of mathematics concerned with probability. Although there are several different probability interpretations, probability theory treats the concept in a rigorous mathematical manner by expressing it through a set ...

and PDEs, currently professor at the University of Toronto * Judah Hirsch Quastel – biochemist; pioneer in

neurochemistry Neurochemistry is the study of chemicals, including neurotransmitters and other molecules such as psychopharmaceuticals and neuropeptides, that control and influence the physiology of the nervous system. This particular field within neuroscienc ...

and soil metabolism; Director of the McGill University-Montreal General Hospital Research Institute * Amélie Quesnel-Vallée – associate professor with joint appointment in the Departments of Sociology and Epidemiology, and Canada Research Chair in Policies and Health Inequalities at McGill * Fazlur Rahman – Islamic philosopher *

James R. Reid James R. Reid (1849 – December 12, 1937) was a Canadian American who was a Presbyterian minister. He served as the second president of Montana State University from 1894 to 1904. Life and career James R. Reid was born in 1849 in Dundas County, ...

(BA 1881, MDiv 1883) – theologian and president of College of Montana (1889–1893) and

Montana State University Montana State University (MSU) is a public land-grant research university in Bozeman, Montana. It is the state's largest university. MSU offers baccalaureate degrees in 60 fields, master's degrees in 68 fields, and doctoral degrees in 35 fie ...

(1894–1904)''National Cyclopedia of American Biography.'' New York: James T. White Co., 1896, p. 95.
Accessed 19 August 2013. * Richard Birdsall Rogers (BEng 1878) – civil engineer and designer of the

Peterborough Lift Lock The Peterborough Lift Lock is a boat lift located on the Trent Canal in the city of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, and is Lock 21 on the Trent-Severn Waterway. For many years, the lock's dual lifts were the highest hydraulic boat lifts in ...

* Christopher E. Rudd (BSc 1978) – immunologist; professor at Harvard and Cambridge *

Witold Rybczynski Witold Rybczynski (born 1 March 1943) is a Canadian American architect, professor and writer. He is currently the Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor Emeritus of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania. Early life Rybczynski was born in E ...

(BArch 1966, MArch 1972) – Scottish-born McGill-trained architect and internationally known writer and critic *

Philip Carl Salzman Philip Carl Salzman (born c.1940) is professor emeritus of anthropology at McGill University, Quebec, Canada. Background Salzman graduated from Antioch College in Ohio, United States in 1962, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in ...

– anthropologist *

Joseph A. Schwarcz Joseph A. Schwarcz (born 1947) is an author and a sessional instructor at McGill University. He is the director of McGill's Office for Science and Society. Early life Schwarcz is an only child, born in Sopron, Hungary to Jewish parents. Durin ...

(BSc 1969, PhD 1973) – chemist, science popularizer, science journalist * Hans Selye — (DSc, 1942) Endocrinologist, pioneered studies on the effects of stress on the human body. *

Justine Sergent Justine Saade-Sergent (March 31, 1950– April 11, 1994) was a researcher in the cognitive neuroscience field. From 1979 to 1982, she was an associate professor of neurology and neurosurgery at the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill Unive ...

(BA, 1973, MSc 1979, PhD 1982) – neuroscientist *

(BA, 1956) – Ethics Commissioner of Canada; former Principal of McGill and Deputy Education Minister of Ontario; twin brother of Harold Shapiro * Harold Shapiro (BA, 1956, MA 1959) – former president of

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

; former president of the

; twin brother of Bernard Shapiro * Judith N. Shklar (BA, 1949, MA 1950) – political scientist, John Cowles Professor of Government at Harvard, and first woman president of the

American Political Science Association The American Political Science Association (APSA) is a professional association of political science students and scholars in the United States. Founded in 1903 in the Tilton Memorial Library (now Tilton Hall) of Tulane University in New Orle ...

(APSA) *

Vera Shlakman Vera Shlakman (July 15, 1909 – November 5, 2017) was a 20th-century American professor of Economics and Marxism and author of a 1935 book on women factory workers. She was best known in 1952 for her firing by Queens College for refusing to testif ...

(BA 1930, MA 1931) – professor of economics, noted Marxist scholar, and author of famous book on women factory workers * Jenni Sidey (BEng 2011) – Canadian astronaut, engineer, and lecturer. *

Upinder Singh Upinder Singh is an Indian historian who is Professor of History and Dean of Faculty at Ashoka University. She is the former head of the History Department at the University of Delhi. She is also the recipient of the inaugural Infosys Prize i ...

(PhD 1990) – Indian historian *

Nahum Sonenberg Nahum Sonenberg, ( he, נחום סוננברג; born December 29, 1946) is an Israeli Canadian microbiologist and biochemist. He is a James McGill professor of biochemistry at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

– Israeli Canadian microbiologist and biochemist. He is a James McGill professor of biochemistry * M. R. Srinivasan (MEng 1952, PhD 1954) – Indian Nuclear Physicist *

Moshe Szyf Moshe Szyf is a geneticist and James McGill professor of pharmacology and therapeutics at the McGill University, where he also holds a GlaxoSmithKline-CIHR chair in pharmacology. Szyf's main research interests lie with epigenetics, including ...

– geneticist, pioneer of epigenetics; James McGill professor of pharmacology and therapeutics. * Charles Taylor (BA 1952) – writer, philosopher, and political theorist; 2007 winner of the

Templeton Prize The Templeton Prize is an annual award granted to a living person, in the estimation of the judges, "whose exemplary achievements advance Sir John Templeton's philanthropic vision: harnessing the power of the sciences to explore the deepest quest ...

* Karen Teff (PhD 1988) - biologist and geneticist * Marc Tessier-Lavigne (BSc 1980) – 11th and current president of

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is conside ...

; former president of

Rockefeller University The Rockefeller University is a private biomedical research and graduate-only university in New York City, New York. It focuses primarily on the biological and medical sciences and provides doctoral and postdoctoral education. It is classif ...

; Rhodes scholar *

Wendy Thomson Wendy Thomson (born 1953) is a Canadian-born public administrator and social policy researcher and advisor who has worked in both Canada and the UK. She was the managing director of Norfolk County Council from 2014 until the end of 2018. Since J ...

- former head of School of Social Work and current vice-chancellor of

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degr ...

, 2019- *

Lionel Tiger Lionel Tiger (born February 5, 1937) is a Canadian-American anthropologist. He is the Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University and co-Research Director of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. Early life and education Bor ...

(BA 1959) – best-selling author; Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University * Peter Todd (BCom 1983) – former dean of McGill's Desautels Faculty of Management, dean of

HEC Paris HEC Paris (french: École des hautes études commerciales de Paris) is a business school, and one of the most prestigious and selective grandes écoles, located in Jouy-en-Josas, France. HEC offers Master in Management, MSc International Fin ...

Stephen Toope Stephen John Toope (born February 14, 1958) is a Canadian legal scholar, academic administrator and a scholar specializing in human rights, public international law and international relations. In April 2013 he announced he was stepping down ...

(BCL, 1983 LLB, 1983) – Vice-Chancellor of the

(2017–), President of the University of British Columbia (2006–2014) * Bruce Trigger – OC OQ FRSC (18 June 1937 – 1 December 2006) archaeologist, anthropologist, and ethnohistorian. James McGill Professor (2001–2006), Professor McGill University (1967–2006). * Tom Velk – monetary economics and public policy professor *

Jacob Viner Jacob Viner (3 May 1892 – 12 September 1970) was a Canadian economist and is considered with Frank Knight and Henry Simons to be one of the "inspiring" mentors of the early Chicago school of economics in the 1930s: he was one of the leading fig ...

(BA 1914) – professor; early leader of the

Chicago school of economics The Chicago school of economics is a neoclassical school of economic thought associated with the work of the faculty at the University of Chicago, some of whom have constructed and popularized its principles. Milton Friedman and George Stig ...

*Robert Vogel (academic) - professor; Dean of Faculty of Arts of

* Alice Vrielink – Head of Discipline in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Western Australia; conducts research in crystallography *

Immanuel Wallerstein Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (; September 28, 1930 – August 31, 2019) was an American sociologist and economic historian. He is perhaps best known for his development of the general approach in sociology which led to the emergence of his wo ...

– former professor of sociology (1971–1976); political scientist, known for the

World Systems Theory World-systems theory (also known as world-systems analysis or the world-systems perspective)Immanuel Wallerstein, (2004), "World-systems Analysis." In ''World System History'', ed. George Modelski, in ''Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems'' (E ...

* Jagannath Wani (PhD 1967) – statistics professor and philanthropist focusing on mental illness awareness *

Frank T. M. White Frank Thomas Matthews White (1909–1971) was an Australian mining and metallurgical engineer and mineral science educator. His career included appointments in Australia, Fiji, Malaya, and Canada. An examination of White's career reveals steady ...

– Foundation Professor, Mining and Metallurgical Engineering,

University of Queensland , mottoeng = By means of knowledge and hard work , established = , endowment = A$224.3 million , budget = A$2.1 billion , type = Public research university , chancellor = Peter Varghese , vice_chancellor = Deborah Terry , city = B ...

; Macdonald Professor of Mining Engineering and Applied Geophysics,

* Franklin White (MD 1969) – scholar-practitioner; former president, Canadian Public Health Association; 1997 Medal of Honor from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) * Joseph Wong, Vice President, International, University of Toronto * Tim Wu (BSc 1995) – professor at

Columbia Law School Columbia Law School (Columbia Law or CLS) is the law school of Columbia University, a private Ivy League university in New York City. Columbia Law is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious law schools in the world and has always ranked i ...

; adviser for the

New York State Attorney General The attorney general of New York is the chief legal officer of the U.S. state of New York and head of the Department of Law of the state government. The office has been in existence in some form since 1626, under the Dutch colonial government o ...

Leo Yaffe Leo Yaffe, (July 6, 1916 – May 14, 1997) was a Canadian nuclear chemistry scientist and a proponent of the peaceful uses of nuclear power. Born in Devils Lake, North Dakota, his family moved to Winnipeg in 1920. He studied at the Unive ...

(PhD 1943) - nuclear chemist * Bernard P. Zeigler (BEng 1962) – a Canadian engineer and emeritus professor at the University of Arizona, known for inventing

Discrete Event System Specification ''Devs'' is an American science fiction thriller television miniseries created, written, and directed by Alex Garland. It premiered on March 5, 2020, on FX on Hulu. Lily Chan (Sonoya Mizuno) is a software engineer for Amaya, a quantum computing ...

(DEVS) in 1976. *

Hans Zingg Hans H. Zingg is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics and Wyeth-Ayerst Chair in Women's Health at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Biography He earned his Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) from the U ...

(PhD) – Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Wyeth-Ayerst Chair in Women's Health at McGill * Bernard Zinman (MD) – research endocrinologist, clinician, and diabetes expert

Business and media

* Suhayya Abu-Hakima – co-founder and CEO of AmikaNow! and Amika Mobile Corporation * Noubar Afeyan ― one of two Canadian co-founders of

Moderna Moderna, Inc. ( ) is an American pharmaceutical and biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts that focuses on RNA therapeutics, primarily mRNA vaccines. These vaccines use a copy of a molecule called messenger RNA (mRNA) to ...

, Inc. * Vinod Agarwal – founder and former chairman of LogicVision ($100 million NASDAQ traded company) * Suroosh Alvi – journalist, filmmaker, and co-founder of ''

VICE A vice is a practice, behaviour, or habit generally considered immoral, sinful, criminal, rude, taboo, depraved, degrading, deviant or perverted in the associated society. In more minor usage, vice can refer to a fault, a negative character t ...

'' magazine * Peyush Bansal- co-founder and CEO at

Lenskart Lenskart is an Indian multinational optical prescription eyewear retail chain, based in Faridabad. Lenskart had 900+ stores in over 46 cities in India. Its manufacturing facility in New Delhi manufactures 3 lakh glasses a month. Lenskart is ...

, an Indian

unicorn The unicorn is a legendary creature that has been described since antiquity as a beast with a single large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead. In European literature and art, the unicorn has for the last thousand years o ...

. Investor at

Shark Tank India ''Shark Tank India'' is an Indian Hindi-language business reality television series that airs on Sony Entertainment Television. The show is the Indian franchise of the American show ''Shark Tank''. It shows entrepreneurs making business presenta ...

. * Aldo Bensadoun – founder and CEO of the

ALDO Group The ALDO Group branded as ALDO, is a Canadian multinational corporation retailer that owns and operates a worldwide chain of shoe and accessories stores. The company was founded by Aldo Bensadoun in Montreal, Quebec, in 1972, where its co ...

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 Canad ...

– imprisoned press baron and media tycoon in the Anglo-Canadian tradition of Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Thomson of Fleet; owner of 650 dailies/weeklies around the world *

Gad Elmaleh Gad Elmaleh ( ar, جاد المالح, Latn, ar, Gād el-Māleḥ; born 19 April 1971) is a Moroccan-Canadian stand-up comedian and actor who achieved fame in France, Morocco and the United States. He is best known in the French-speaking wor ...

– French comedian *

Charles Bronfman Charles Bronfman, (born June 27, 1931) is a Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist and is a member of the Canadian Jewish Bronfman family. With an estimated net worth of $2.5 billion (as of 2021), Bronfman was ranked by '' Forbes'' ...

– philanthropist; former Co-Chairman of

Seagram The Seagram Company Ltd. (which traded as Seagram's) was a Canadian multinational conglomerate formerly headquartered in Montreal, Quebec. Originally a distiller of Canadian whisky based in Waterloo, Ontario, it was once (in the 1990s) the ...

Distillers *

Edgar Bronfman, Sr. Edgar Miles Bronfman (born June 20, 1929 – December 21, 2013) was a Canadian-American businessman. He worked for his family's distilled beverage firm, Seagram, eventually becoming president, treasurer and CEO. As president of the World Jewish ...

– former CEO of Seagram * John Cleghorn – former chairman 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 ...

, the largest bank in Canada; currently chairman of SNC-Lavalin group * Jim Coleman (1911–2001), Canadian sports journalist, writer and press secretary * Jean Coutu – businessman; billionaire; founder and CEO of

Jean Coutu Group The Jean Coutu Group (PJC) Inc. is a Canadian drugstore chain headquartered in Varennes, Quebec. It has more than 400 franchised locations in New Brunswick, Ontario and Quebec under the PJC Jean Coutu, PJC Clinique, and PJC Santé banners. ...

* Paul Desmarais, Jr. – chairman of Power Corporation * Ritika Dutt – CEO & co-founder of Botler AI *

Darren Entwistle Darren Entwistle (born 1962) is a Canadian businessman. He is currently the president and chief executive officer of TELUS, a Canadian telecommunications company. Early life Born in Montreal, Quebec, Entwistle received a Bachelor of Economics ...

– president and chief executive officer of Telus *

Adam Gopnik Adam Gopnik (born August 24, 1956) is an American writer and essayist. He is best known as a staff writer for ''The New Yorker,'' to which he has contributed non-fiction, fiction, memoir, and criticism since 1986. He is the author of nine books ...

– staff writer for ''

The New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues ...

'' magazine *

Céline Galipeau Céline Galipeau, OC, OQ, is a Canadian news anchor for Radio-Canada. Well known for her comprehensive and insightful coverage from Moscow, she is currently the weekday anchor of the network's flagship newscast ''Le Téléjournal''. Early life ...

– weekday anchor of

Ici Radio-Canada Télé Ici Radio-Canada Télé (formerly known as Télévision de Radio-Canada) is a Canadian French-language free-to-air television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (known in French as Société Radio-Canada), the national pu ...

's Le Téléjournal * Kuok Khoon Hong – Singaporean billionaire and co-founder of Wilmar International * Dick Irvin, Jr. – sports broadcaster and author; second longest serving member of CBC's ''

Hockey Night in Canada CBC Television has aired National Hockey League (NHL) broadcasts under the ''Hockey Night in Canada'' (often abbreviated ''Hockey Night'' or ''HNiC'') brand that is primarily associated with its Saturday night NHL broadcasts throughout its hi ...

'' (after Bob Cole) * Hubert Lacroix – president and CEO of the

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (french: Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television. It is a federal Crown corporation that receives funding from the governmen ...

David Lawee CapitalG (formerly Google Capital) is the independent growth fund under Alphabet Inc. Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate holding company headquartered in Mountain View, California. It was created through a ...

– partner and founder of

Google Capital CapitalG (formerly Google Capital) is the independent growth fund under Alphabet Inc. Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate holding company headquartered in Mountain View, California. It was created through a ...

John MacBain John H. McCall MacBain (born ) is a Canadian billionaire businessman and philanthropist who is the founder of the McCall MacBain Foundation and Pamoja Capital SA, its investment arm. Prior to establishing the McCall MacBain Foundation, in the l ...

– founder, CEO and president of

Trader Classified Media Trader Classified Media NV (formerly Hebdo Mag) was an international classified advertising company based in the Netherlands and run by Canadian John MacBain. History The company was founded in 1987 as Hebdo Mag by John MacBain and Louise Blou ...

Shahid Mahmood Shahid Mahmood (Urdu: شاہد محمود) (17 March 1939 – 13 December 2020) was a Pakistani cricketer who played in one Test in 1962. He played first-class cricket in Pakistan from 1957 to 1969. He played his only Test on the tour to ...

– political cartoonist *

Scott McDonald Scott Douglas McDonald (born 21 August 1983) is an Australian former professional footballer and is the current head coach for National Premier Leagues club Gold Coast Knights. Originally a striker, McDonald could also play as an attacking mi ...

– CEO of Oliver Wyman * Thomas S. Monahan – president and CEO of

CIBC Mellon CIBC Mellon was founded in 1996 as a joint venture between the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (hereafter CIBC) and the Mellon Financial Corporation (now The Bank of New York Mellon) (hereafter Mellon) to offer asset servicing to instituti ...

* Claude Mongeau – CEO and president of the

Canadian National Railway The Canadian National Railway Company (french: Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States. CN i ...

Harley Morenstein Harley Morenstein (born July 20, 1985) is a Canadian actor, Internet personality, and vlogger. He co-created, produces, and hosts the YouTube show Epic Meal Time and its FYI television spin-off series Epic Meal Empire. He also runs a vlog cha ...

– host and co-creator of ''

Epic Meal Time ''Epic Meal Time'' is a Canadian YouTube cooking show known for creating extremely high-calorie meals, generally out of meat products (with particular emphasis on bacon) and including alcohol (especially Jack Daniel's). It debuted in Octobe ...

'' *

Andy Nulman Andy Nulman (born 1959), is a Montreal-based businessman best known for his activities in co-founding and promoting the '' Just For Laughs'' comedy festival; under Nulman's stewardship, the festival grew from a two-day show to a month-long event ...

– co-founder of Just for Laughs *

Mark Phillips Captain Mark Anthony Peter Phillips (born 22 September 1948) is an English Olympic gold medal-winning horseman for Great Britain and the first husband of Anne, Princess Royal, with whom he has two children. He remains a leading figure in Briti ...

– CBS News London bureau correspondent since 1982, formerly CBC News London correspondent *

Elizabeth Plank Elizabeth Plank (born March 19, 1987) is a Canadian author and journalist. She was a senior producer and political correspondent at '' Vox'', and began hosting her journalism show called ''Positive Spin'' at NBC News in July 2020. She is a colum ...

– '' Vox''

video blog A video blog or video log, sometimes shortened to vlog (), is a form of blog for which the medium is video. Vlog entries often combine embedded video (or a video link) with supporting text, images, and other metadata. Entries can be recorded in ...

ger and online journalist *

Robert Rabinovitch Robert Rabinovitch (born March 1, 1943) is a Canadian public servant and businessman who was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

– president and CEO of the

Jade Raymond Jade Raymond (born 28 August 1975) is a Canadian video game creator, best known for helping create the ''Assassin's Creed'' and ''Watch Dogs'' franchises, and for building the Ubisoft Toronto and EA Motive Studios. On 16 March 2021, Raymond an ...

video game producer at

Ubisoft Ubisoft Entertainment SA (; ; formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment SA) is a French video game publisher headquartered in Saint-Mandé with development studios across the world. Its video game franchises include '' Assassin's Creed'', '' Far Cry'', ...

; co-host of G4TV's ''Electronic Playground'' * Matthew Rosenberg – Washington correspondent at ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...

,'' and national security analyst for CNN * John Roth – former CEO of Nortel Networks *

Calin Rovinescu Călin Rovinescu (born September 16, 1955), served as the president and chief executive officer of Air Canada from April 2009 to February 2021. Early life and education Rovinescu was born in Bucharest, Romania. He emigrated to Canada with his ...

– president and CEO of

Air Canada Air Canada is the flag carrier and the largest airline of Canada by the size and passengers carried. Air Canada maintains its headquarters in the borough of Saint-Laurent, Montreal, Quebec. The airline, founded in 1937, provides scheduled an ...

Claire Saffitz Claire Saffitz (born 1986) is an American food writer, chef, and YouTube personality. Until mid-2020, she was a contributing editor at ''Bon Appétit'' magazine and starred in several series on the ''Bon Appétit'' YouTube channel, including '' ...

– American pastry chef, food writer and YouTube personality *

Sugar Sammy Samir Khullar (born 29 February 1976), better known as Sugar Sammy, is a Canadian stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer from Montreal, Quebec. Being fluently quadrilingual, his is comedy routines are delivered in English and French, a ...

- Canadian comedian * Seymour Schulich – benefactor to the Schulich School of Music at McGill and

Schulich School of Business The Schulich School of Business is the business school of York University located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The institution provides undergraduate and graduate degree and diploma programs in business administration, finance, accounting, busine ...

* Allan Scott – writer-producer of more than 20 feature films, including ''

Don't Look Now ''Don't Look Now'' ( it, A Venezia... un Dicembre rosso shocking, lit=In Venice... a shocking red December) is a 1973 English-language film in the thriller genre directed by Nicolas Roeg, adapted from the 1971 short story by Daphne du Mauri ...

'', voted the best British film of all time; wrote ''

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert ''The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert'' is a 1994 Australian road comedy film written and directed by Stephan Elliott. The plot follows two drag queens, played by Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce, and a transgender woman, played by Ter ...

''; as chairman of Macallan-Glenlivet, he turned Macallan into a world-leading malt whisky *

Savik Shuster Savik Shuster (russian: link=no, Са́вик Шу́стер, uk, Са́вік Шу́стер, born Ševelis Šusteris; November 22, 1952 in Vilnius) is a journalist and Ukrainian political TV shows anchor. He presented ''The Freedom By Sav ...

– TV journalist working for

Ukrainian television Television has a long history in Ukraine, where regular television broadcasting started during the Soviet years in 1951. However the first ever TV broadcast took place on 1 February 1939 in Kyiv. Since then TV broadcasting has expanded, particu ...

* Evan Solomon –

political journalist Political journalism is a broad branch of journalism that includes coverage of all aspects of politics and political science, although the term usually refers specifically to coverage of civil governments and political power. Political journa ...

and radio host on

Sirius XM Canada Sirius XM Canada Holdings Inc. (commonly referred to as Sirius XM Canada) is a Canadian radio broadcasting company, which operates as a Canadian affiliate of Sirius XM Radio. The company received approval from the Canadian Radio-television and ...

, columnist for ''

Maclean's ''Maclean's'', founded in 1905, is a Canadian news magazine reporting on Canadian issues such as politics, pop culture, and current events. Its founder, publisher John Bayne Maclean, established the magazine to provide a uniquely Canadian pers ...

'' * Helga Stephenson – interim CEO of the

Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television is a Canadian non-profit organization created in 1979 to recognize the achievements of the over 4,000 Canadian cinema of Canada, film industry and television in Canada, television industry professionals ...

Ziya Tong Ziya () is a Turkish given name for males and females, it is of Arabic origin, in Turkish ''Ziya'' means ''light''. Given name * Ziya Doğan, Turkish football manager * Ziya Gökalp, Turkish sociologist * Nazmi Ziya Güran, Turkish impressionist p ...

– television personality and co-host of ''

Daily Planet The ''Daily Planet'' is a fictional newspaper appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly in association with Superman. The newspaper was first mentioned in ''Action Comics'' #23 (April 1940). The ''Daily Planet'' build ...

'' *

Lorne Trottier Lorne M. Trottier, OC (born 15 June 1948) is a Canadian engineer, businessman and philanthropist. He co-founded Matrox, a computer corporation that specializes in computer graphics. Trottier sits as an advisor to Canada's Ecofiscal Commission. ...

– founder of Matrox Electronic Systems *

Ivana Trump Ivana Marie Trump (, ; February 20, 1949 – July 14, 2022) was a Czech-American businesswoman, media personality, socialite, fashion designer, author, and model. Ivana lived in Canada in the 1970s before relocating to the United States and m ...

– Czech-American businesswoman and former fashion model, ex-wife of President

Donald Trump Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of P ...

* Les Vadasz – founding member of

Intel Corporation Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers of the x86 serie ...

Zain Verjee Zain Verjee (born February 11, 1974) is a Kenyan journalist. She is a former CNN anchor and correspondent, and now works in public relations. Her communications firm, Zain Verjee Group, has worked with Bloomberg Media, Bloomberg Philanthropies, ...

– co-anchor of CNN International's European morning program '' World Report'' * Michelle Zatlyn – co-founder, president, and COO of

Cloudflare Cloudflare, Inc. is an American content delivery network and DDoS mitigation company, founded in 2009. It primarily acts as a reverse proxy between a website's visitor and the Cloudflare customer's hosting provider. Its headquarters are in Sa ...

* Moses Znaimer – co-founder and former president and executive producer of CityTV; Chairman and Executive Producer of the Access Media Group *

Mort Zuckerman Mortimer Benjamin Zuckerman (born June 4, 1937) is a Canadian-American billionaire media proprietor, magazine editor, and investor. He is the co-founder, executive chairman and former CEO of Boston Properties, one of the largest real estate inves ...

– CEO of Atlantic Monthly Corporation and publisher of '' U.S. News & World Report'' * Changpeng Zhao - founder and CEO of

Binance Binance is a cryptocurrency exchange which is the largest exchange in the world in terms of daily trading volume of cryptocurrencies. It was founded in 2017 and is registered in the Cayman Islands. Binance was founded by Changpeng Zhao, a dev ...

, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange.

Politics and government

Canadian politicians and civil servants

McGill alumni have held and continue to hold many positions at the federal and provincial levels in Canadian politics:

=Governors-General of Canada

= *

Julie Payette Julie Payette (; born October 20, 1963) is a Canadian engineer, scientist and former astronaut who served from 2017 to 2021 as Governor General of Canada, the 29th since Canadian Confederation. Payette holds engineering degrees from McGill ...

(BEng 1986) –

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 ...

, 2017–2021; former

Canadian Space Agency The Canadian Space Agency (CSA; french: Agence spatiale canadienne, ASC) is the national space agency of Canada, established in 1990 by the ''Canadian Space Agency Act''. The president is Lisa Campbell, who took the position on September 3, 202 ...

astronaut An astronaut (from the Ancient Greek (), meaning 'star', and (), meaning 'sailor') is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member aboard a spacecraft. Although generally r ...

* David Lloyd Johnston (LLD 2000) –

, 2010–2017; former McGill principal; former head of the Board of Overseers at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of highe ...

; former president of the

University of Waterloo The University of Waterloo (UWaterloo, UW, or Waterloo) is a public research university with a main campus in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is on of land adjacent to "Uptown" Waterloo and Waterloo Park. The university also operates ...

, 1999–2011

=Prime ministers

= *

Sir John Abbott Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott (March 12, 1821 – October 30, 1893) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the third prime minister of Canada from 1891 to 1892. He held office as the leader of the Conservative Party. Abbo ...

(BCL 1854) – third Prime Minister of Canada and first to be born in Canada * Sir

Wilfrid Laurier Sir Henri Charles Wilfrid Laurier, ( ; ; November 20, 1841 – February 17, 1919) was a Canadian lawyer, statesman, and politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Canada from 1896 to 1911. The first French Canadian prime mini ...

(BCL 1864) – seventh Prime Minister of Canada *

Justin Trudeau Justin Pierre James Trudeau ( , ; born December 25, 1971) is a Canadian politician who is the 23rd and current prime minister of Canada. He has served as the prime minister of Canada since 2015 and as the leader of the Liberal Party since ...

(BA 1994) – 23rd and current prime minister of Canada

=Cabinet ministers and members of parliament

= * Chris Alexander (BA 1989) – Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, 2013–2015; previously Canadian ambassador to Afghanistan, 2003–2005 * Warren Allmand (BCL 1952) – served variously as Solicitor General,

Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Minister may refer to: * Minister (Christianity), a Christian cleric ** Minister (Catholic Church) * Minister (government), a member of government who heads a ministry (government department) ** Minister without portfolio, a member of government w ...

, and

Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs The Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs was a Government of Canada cabinet position held between 1967 and 1995. The minister was responsible for consumer and corporate issues relating to legislation at the federal level. The minister was al ...

between 1972 and 1979 * Steven Blaney (Cert Mgmt 1991) –

Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness The minister of public safety (french: ministre de la sécurité publique) is the minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet responsible for overseeing Public Safety Canada, the internal security department of the Government of Canada. The p ...

, 2013–2015 *

Jim Carr James Gordon Carr (October 11, 1951 – December 12, 2022) was a Canadian politician, cabinet minister, journalist, and professional oboist. A member of the Liberal Party, he served as the member of Parliament for Winnipeg South Centre from 2 ...

(BA 1979) –

Minister of Natural Resources The minister of natural resources () is the minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who is responsible for Natural Resources Canada (NRCan). In addition to NRCan, the minister oversees the federal government's natural resources portfolio ...

, 2015– * Brooke Claxton (BCL 1946) – Minister of Health, 1943–1946; Minister of National Defence, 1946–1954 *

Irwin Cotler Irwin Cotler, PC, OC, OQ (born May 8, 1940) is a retired Canadian politician who was Member of Parliament for Mount Royal from 1999 to 2015. He served as the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada from 2003 until the Liberal gov ...

(BA 1961, BCL 1964) – Minister of Justice and Attorney General, 2003–2006 *

Charles Doherty Charles Joseph Doherty, (May 11, 1855 – July 28, 1931) was a Canadian politician and lawyer. Early life and education Doherty was born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Marcus Doherty, an Irish-born judge of the Supreme Court for the Pro ...

(BCL 1876, Hon. LLD 1913) – Minister of Justice and Attorney General, 1911–1921 * Charles Drury (BCL 1936) – Minister of Finance, Defence, Public Works, Industry, President of the Treasury Board * Sydney Arthur Fisher (BA 1868)— Minister of Agriculture, 1896–1911 *

Karina Gould Karina Gould (born June 28, 1987) is a Canadian politician who has been the minister of families, children and social development since October 26, 2021. A member of the Liberal Party, she serves as a member of Parliament (MP) and has represen ...

(BA 2010) – Minister of Democratic Institutions, 2017–present * Herb Gray (BCom 1952) – Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, 1997–2002 *

Don Johnston Donald James Johnston, (June 26, 1936 – February 4, 2022) was a Canadian lawyer, writer and politician who was Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) from 1996 to 2006. He was the first non-Euro ...

(BA 1955, BCL 1958) – Minister of State for Science and Technology, Minister of State for Economic and Regional Development, and Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada * Robert Layton (BA 1947) –

Minister of State Minister of State is a title borne by politicians in certain countries governed under a parliamentary system. In some countries a Minister of State is a Junior Minister of government, who is assigned to assist a specific Cabinet Minister. I ...

for Mines, 1984–1988 *

John McCallum John McCallum (born 9 April 1950) is a Canadian politician, economist, diplomat and former university professor. A former Liberal Member of Parliament ( MP), McCallum was the Canadian Ambassador to China from 2017 to 2019. He was asked for h ...

(PhD 1977) – Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship of Canada since 2015; former Dean of the Faculty of Arts of McGill University *

David Lametti David T. Lametti (born August 10, 1962) is a Canadian politician who has been the minister of justice and attorney general of Canada since 2019. A member of the Liberal Party, Lametti sits as a member of Parliament (MP) and has represented L ...

(BCL/LLB 1989) – Minister of Justice, 2019– * Catherine McKenna (LLB 1999) – Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, 2015– *

Frederick Debartzch Monk Frederick Debartzch Monk, (April 6, 1856 – May 15, 1914) was a Canadian lawyer and politician. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Monk was the son of The Hon. Mr Justice Samuel Cornwallis Monk (1814–1888) and Rosalie Caroline Debartzch (1819– ...

(BCL 1877) – Minister of Public Works, 1911–1912 * Joe Oliver (BA 1961, BCL 1964) – Minister of Finance, 2014–2015 *

Jim Peterson James Scott Peterson (born July 30, 1941) is a retired Canadian politician. He was a Liberal member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1980 to 1984 and again from 1988 to 2007 who represented the northern Toronto riding of Willowdale. He ...

(DCL 1970) –

Minister of International Trade The Minister of International Trade Diversification () was a minister of the Crown position in the Cabinet of Canada, Canadian Cabinet who was responsible for the federal government's international trade portfolio. Along with the Minister of Fo ...

, 2003–2006 * Greg Rickford (BCL/LLB 2005) – Minister of Natural Resources, 2014–2015 *

Richard Fadden Richard Brian Marcel Fadden, OC (known as Dick Fadden; born September 1951) is a Canadian former civil servant who was the National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada and an Associate Secretary to the Cabinet. He retired from that p ...

(BA 1973) – former Deputy Minister of National Defence and

National Security Advisor A national security advisor serves as the chief advisor to a national government on matters of security. The advisor is not usually a member of the government's cabinet but is usually a member of various military or security councils. National sec ...

* John Joseph Curran (LLB 1862) – first

Solicitor General of Canada The Solicitor General of Canada was a position in the Canadian ministry from 1892 to 2005. The position was based on the Solicitor General in the British system and was originally designated as an officer to assist the Minister of Justice. It was ...

Jonathan Wilkinson Jonathan Wilkinson (born June 11, 1965) is a Canadian politician who has served as the minister of natural resources since 2021. A member of the Liberal Party, Wilkinson was elected as the member of Parliament (MP) for North Vancouver in 2015 ...

(MA 1992) * Nick Whalen (LLB 2011) Lawyer and former MP for the Liberal * Julie Dzerowicz (Bcom 1994) * Arif Virani (BA 1994) *

Julie Dabrusin Julie A. Dabrusin (born April 16, 1971) is a Canadian Liberal politician. She was elected to represent the riding of Toronto—Danforth in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 federal election. Dabrusin earned university degrees in law ...

(BA 1994) *

Angelo Iacono Angelo G. Iacono is a Canadian Liberal politician, who was elected to represent the riding of Alfred-Pellan in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 federal election. Iacono attended McGill University, earning a Bachelor of Arts degre ...

(BA 1988) * Steven Blaney (Cert Mgmt 1991) *

Matthew Dubé Matthew Dubé (born May 3, 1988) is a Canadian politician who was elected to the House of Commons in the 2011 federal election to represent the electoral district of Chambly—Borduas in Quebec as a member of the New Democratic Party. He was ...

(BA 2011) * Brenda Shanahan (BSW 2007) * Michael Levitt (politician) (Arts 1993) *

Francis Scarpaleggia Francis Scarpaleggia (born June 6, 1957 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian politician. He is a member of the Liberal Party of Canada and Member of Parliament for the riding of Lac-Saint-Louis, which encompasses the west of the island of Montre ...

(BA 1979) * Sherry Romanado (Cert PR Mgmt 2005) *

Anthony Housefather Anthony Housefather (born January 25, 1973) is a Canadian Member of Parliament representing the riding of Mount Royal on the island of Montreal. From 2015 to 2019, Housefather served as the Chair of the Justice and Human Rights Committee. Fo ...

(BCL/LLB 1993) *

Thomas Mulcair Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) Thomas is a male given name of Aramaic origins. The English spelling "Thomas" is a transliteration; through Latin "Thomas", of the approximate Greek translite ...

(BCL 1976, LLB 1977) * Will Amos (BCL/LLB 2004) *

Peter Schiefke Peter Schiefke (born April 13, 1979) is a Canadian environmentalist and Liberal politician, who was elected to represent the riding of Vaudreuil—Soulanges in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 federal election. Biography Peter Sc ...

(MSc 2011) * Marc Miller (BCL/LLB 2001) Lawyer and MP for the Liberal current

Minister of Indigenous Services The minister of Indigenous services (french: ministre des services aux autochtones) is a minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet. The minister is responsible for Indigenous Services Canada (ISC), the department of the Government of Canad ...

in the Federal Cabinet * Joël Lightbound (BCL/LLB 2011), Liberal politician, MP for the riding of

Louis-Hébert Louis-Hébert could refer to: *Louis-Hébert (provincial electoral district) Louis-Hébert is a provincial electoral district in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada. It consists of part of the Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge boroug ...

. *

Emmanuella Lambropoulos Emmanuella Lambropoulos (born September 12, 1990) is a Canadian politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Saint-Laurent since 2017.Raquel Dancho (BA 2014) *

Mylène Freeman Mylène Freeman (born March 7, 1989) is a former Canadian politician who was the New Democratic Party (NDP) Member of Parliament for the riding of Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel in Quebec. She was elected in the 2011 Canadian federal election a ...

(BA 2011) *

Charmaine Borg Charmaine Borg is a Canadian politician who served as the New Democratic Party Member of Parliament for the riding of Terrebonne—Blainville in Quebec from 2011 to 2015. Borg was born on 3 November 1990 in Oakville, Ontario as one of seven c ...

(BA 2011) *

Laurin Liu Laurin Liu (, born November 13, 1990) is a Canadian politician who was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2011 federal election. She represented the electoral district of Rivière-des-Mille-Îles as a member of the New Democratic ...

(BA 2011)

=Supreme Court justices

= * Douglas Abbott (BCL 1918) – appointed to the Court in 1954, previously Minister of National Defence and Minister of Finance * Ian Binnie (BA 1960) – appointed to the Court in 1998, formerly Associate Deputy Minister of Justice * Louis-Philippe de Grandpré (BCL 1938) – appointed to the Court in 1974, formerly president of the Canadian Bar Association *

Marie Deschamps Marie Deschamps, CC (born October 2, 1952) is a former puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. She retired from the court on August 7, 2012. In September 2019, Deschamps was appointed as a member of the National Security and Intelligence ...

(LLM 1983) – appointed to the Court in 2002, previously a Judge on the Quebec Court of Appeal *

Gérald Fauteux Joseph Honoré Gérald Fauteux (October 22, 1900 – September 14, 1980) was the 13th Chief Justice of Canada from 1970 to 1973. Born in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, the son of Homère Fauteux and Héva Mercier, he studied at the Université de ...

– appointed to the Court in 1949, previously dean of the Faculty of Law. *

Morris Fish Morris Jacob Fish, (born November 16, 1938) was a judge of the Supreme Court of Canada from 2003 to 2013. Born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Aaron S. Fish and Zlata Grober, he received a Bachelor of Arts (with distinction) in 1959 and a Bache ...

(BA 1959, BCL 1962) – appointed to the Court in 2003, previously a Judge on the Quebec Court of Appeal * Clément Gascon (BCL 1981) – appointed to the Court in 2014, previously a Judge on the Quebec Court of Appeal * Désiré Girouard (BCL 1860) – appointed to the Court in 1895, previously member of Parliament *

Charles Gonthier Charles Doherty Gonthier, (August 1, 1928 – July 16, 2009) was a Puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Canada from February 1, 1989 to August 1, 2003. He was replaced by Morris Fish. Early life Gonthier was born in Montreal, Quebec to G ...

(BCL 1951) – served on the Supreme Court 1989–2003 *

Mahmud Jamal Mahmud Jamal (born 1967) is a Canadian jurist serving as a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada since 2021. Jamal worked as a partner at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt and taught law at McGill University and Osgoode Hall Law School before ...

(BCL’93, LLB’93),

puisne justice A puisne judge or puisne justice (; from french: puisné or ; , 'since, later' + , 'born', i.e. 'junior') is a dated term for an ordinary judge or a judge of lesser rank of a particular court. Use The term is used almost exclusively in common law ...

of the

Supreme Court of Canada The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC; french: Cour suprême du Canada, CSC) is the Supreme court, highest court in the Court system of Canada, judicial system of Canada. It comprises List of Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada, nine justices, wh ...

— appointed to the Court in 2021, previously a Judge on the Court of Appeal for Ontario * Nicholas Kasirer (BCL, LLB 1985) – appointed to the court in 2019, previously a judge on the Quebec Court of Appeal * Gerald Le Dain (BCL 1949) – appointed to the Court in 1984, previously a Judge on the Federal Court of Appeal * Sheilah Martin (BCL, LLB, 1981), – appointed to the Court in 2017, previously judge of the Court of Appeal of Alberta *

Pierre-Basile Mignault Pierre-Basile Mignault (September 30, 1854 – October 15, 1945) was a Canadian lawyer and Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of Pierre-Basile Mignault and Catherine O'Callaghan, he rece ...

(BCL 1878) – appointed to the Court in 1918, previously President of the Bar of Montréal * Thibaudeau Rinfret (BCL 1900) – appointed to the Court in 1924, previously a Judge on the Superior Court of Quebec

=Senators

= * Albert Joseph Brown (BA 1883, BCL 1886) – Senator for Wellington, 1932–1938 * Henry Joseph Cloran (BCL 1883) – Senator for Victoria, Quebec, 1903–1928 *

Sheila Finestone Sheila Abbey Finestone, (January 28, 1927 – June 8, 2009) was a Canadian Member of Parliament and Senator. Early life Born in Montreal, Quebec, the daughter of Minnie Cummings Abbey and Monroe Abbey. Her father was a president of the ...

(BSc 1947) – appointed to the Senate of Canada in 1999 * Joan Fraser (BA 1965) – appointed to the Canadian Senate in 1998 *

Linda Frum Linda Frum (born January 13, 1963) is a Canadian author and journalist, and was a Conservative member of the Senate of Canada from 2009 until 2021. She has announced her intention to retire from the Senate effective August 27, 2021 to devote mor ...

(BA 1984) – appointed to the Senate in 2009 * Marc Gold (BA 1972) – current Senator for Stadacona,

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirte ...

* Sir

William Hales Hingston Sir William Hales Hingston (29 June 1829 – 19 February 1907) was a Canadian physician, politician, banker, and Senator. Biography Born in Hinchinbrooke near Huntingdon, Quebec, he received his MDCM from McGill University in 1851. ...

(MD CM 1851) – Senator for Rougemont, 1896–1907; Mayor of Montreal, 1875–1877 * James Horace King (MD CM 1895) – Leader of the Government in the Senate, 1942–1945 *

Michael Meighen Michael Arthur Meighen, (born March 25, 1939) is a Canadian lawyer, cultural patron, and former senator. He practised as a litigation and commercial lawyer in Montreal and Toronto. He is a grandson of Arthur Meighen, the ninth Prime Minister of ...

(BA 1960) – appointed to the Senate in 1990 *

Vivienne Poy Vivienne Poy (née Lee; ; born May 15, 1941) is a Canadian businesswoman, author and philanthropist. She served as a member of the Senate of Canada from 1998 until her retirement in 2012. Early life and education On May 15, 1941, Poy was ...

(BA 1962) – appointed to the Senate in 1998 * Larry Smith (BCL 1976) – appointed to the Senate in 2011 and Leader of the Opposition in the Senate * Leo Housakos (BA 1992) – incumbent Senator for Wellington, Quebec and former Speaker of the Senate of Canada * James Edwin Robertson (BA 1865) – Member of Parliament and Senator for

Prince Edward Island Prince Edward Island (PEI; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is the smallest province in terms of land area and population, but the most densely populated. The island has several nicknames: "Garden of the Gulf", ...

Michael Pitfield Peter Michael Pitfield (June 18, 1937 – October 19, 2017) was a Canadian Senator and senior civil servant. Pitfield was the youngest son of the Canadian financier Ward C. Pitfield and Grace MacDougall Pitfield, daughter of Canadian ice hockey ...

(LLB 1959) – Senator for Ottawa-Vanier, Ontario * Joan Fraser (BA 1965) – Senator for De Lorimier, Quebec * John Caswell Davis (BEng 1910) – Senator for

Winnipeg Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749 ...

, Manitoba * Charles Boucher de Boucherville (MD 1843) – third Premier of

and Senator for Montarville, Quebec * Sarto Fournier (LLB 1937) – Member of Parliament, 38th Mayor of

, and Senator for De Lanaudière, Quebec *

Théodore Robitaille Théodore Robitaille, (29 January 1834 – 17 August 1897) was a Canadian physician, politician, and the fourth Lieutenant Governor of Quebec. Born in Varennes, Lower Canada, the son of Louis-Adolphe Robitaille (pronounced "ro-bee-tie") a ...

(MD 1858) – Member of Parliament, and Senator for

Gulf A gulf is a large inlet from the ocean into the landmass, typically with a narrower opening than a bay, but that is not observable in all geographic areas so named. The term gulf was traditionally used for large highly-indented navigable bodie ...

, Quebec

=Members of Parliament (House of Commons)

= *

(BCL 1976, LLB 1977) – former leader of the

New Democratic Party The New Democratic Party (NDP; french: Nouveau Parti démocratique, NPD) is a federal political party in Canada. Widely described as social democratic,The party is widely described as social democratic: * * * * * * * * * * * * ...

Leader of the Opposition The Leader of the Opposition is a title traditionally held by the leader of the largest political party not in government, typical in countries utilizing the parliamentary system form of government. The leader of the opposition is typically se ...

, and current Member of Parliament for

Outremont Outremont is an affluent residential borough (''arrondissement'') of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It consists entirely of the former city on the Island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec. The neighbourhood is inhabited largely by fran ...

, Quebec * Marc Miller (BCL, LLB 2001) – current Member of Parliament for

Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Sœurs Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Sœurs is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2015. It encompasses a portion of Quebec formerly included in the electoral distric ...

, Quebec, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Crown–Indigenous Relations *

(BCL 1989, LLB 1989) – current Member of Parliament for

LaSalle—Émard—Verdun LaSalle—Émard—Verdun is a federal electoral district in Montreal, Quebec. It was created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and was legally defined in the 2013 representation order. It came into effect upon the call ...

, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development * Arif Virani (BA 1994) – current Member of Parliament for

Parkdale—High Park Parkdale—High Park is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1979. It was created during the 1976 electoral boundaries redistribution from parts of Parkdale, Hig ...

, Ontario, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada *

Murray Rankin Murray Rankin (born January 26, 1950) is a Canadian lawyer, politician and public law expert who serves as British Columbia's Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation. A member of the New Democratic Party, Rankin represents the r ...

(BA 1972) – current Member of Parliament for Victoria,

British Columbia British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, for ...

(BCL, LLB 1993) – current Member of Parliament for

Mount Royal Mount Royal (french: link=no, Mont Royal, ) is a large intrusive rock hill or small mountain in the city of Montreal, immediately west of Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The best-known hypothesis for the origin of the name Montreal is the ...

, Quebec and Chairman of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights *

Albina Guarnieri Albina Guarnieri (born June 23, 1953) is a former Canadian politician. She was a Liberal member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 2011 who represented the Greater Toronto Area ridings of Mississauga East and Mississauga East—Cook ...

(MA 1979) – Member of Parliament for Mississauga East,

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 Ca ...

George MacKinnon George Edward MacKinnon (April 22, 1906 – May 1, 1995) was an American politician, attorney, and judge who variously served as a United States representative and United States Attorney for Minnesota, and as a United States circuit judge of th ...

(MD 1902) – Member of Parliament for

Kootenay East Kootenay East (also known as Kootenay East—Revelstoke) was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1917 to 1968 and from 1979 to 1997. This riding was created a ...

, British Columbia * Christophe-Alphonse Geoffrion (BCL 1866) – Member of Parliament for

Verchères Verchères is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in Montérégie, Quebec, located on the south bank of the Saint Lawrence River. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 5,692. History In the 17th century, the settlement at Verchères w ...

, Quebec * Joseph Alexandre Camille Madore (BCL 1880) – Member of Parliament for Hochelaga, Quebec *

Jack Layton John Gilbert Layton (July 18, 1950 – August 22, 2011) was a Canadian academic and politician who served as the leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) from 2003 to 2011 and leader of the Official Opposition in 2011. He previously sat on To ...

(BA 1969) – former leader of the

and Member of Parliament for

Toronto—Danforth Toronto—Danforth (formerly Broadview—Greenwood) is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1979. It lies to the east of Downtown Toronto. Its best-known MP was ...

, Ontario * Samuel William Jacobs (BCL 1893) – Member of Parliament for

George-Étienne Cartier Sir George-Étienne Cartier, 1st Baronet, (pronounced ; September 6, 1814May 20, 1873) was a Canadian statesman and Father of Confederation. The English spelling of the name—George, instead of Georges, the usual French spelling—is explained ...

, Quebec * Alan Macnaughton (BA 1924, BCL 1927) – former Member of Parliament and Speaker of the House of Commons *

Thomas d'Arcy McGee Thomas D'Arcy McGee (13 April 18257 April 1868) was an Irish-Canadian politician, Catholic spokesman, journalist, poet, and a Father of Canadian Confederation. The young McGee was an Irish Catholic who opposed British rule in Ireland, and w ...

(BCL 1861) – a father of the Canadian Confederation and prominent Member of Parliament for Montreal West, Quebec * The "McGill 5" – five then-current McGill students who were elected as NDP MPs in 2011: **

(BA 2011) – MP for Terrebonne-Blainville (2011–2015) **

(BA 2011) – current MP for Beloeil—Chambly (Chambly—Borduas until 2015) **

(BA 2011) – MP for Argenteuil-Papineau-Mirabel (2011–2015) **

(BA 2016) – MP for Rivière-des-Mille-Îles (2011–2015) ** Jamie Nicholls (PhD cand 2017) – MP for Vaudreuil-Soulanges (2011–2015)

=Auditors-general

= *

Denis Desautels L. Denis Desautels, (born May 14, 1943) is a Canadian accountant, corporate director, and former Auditor General of Canada. Early life and education Born in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Quebec, Desautels received a Bachelor of Commerce degree fr ...

(BCom 1964) – auditor general, 1991–2001 *

Sheila Fraser Sheila Fraser (born September 16, 1950) served as Auditor General of Canada from 2001 to 2011. Early life and education Fraser was born in Dundee, Quebec, Canada to Kenneth Fraser (1917-2005), a Quebec Member of the National Assembly for Hunti ...

(BCom 1972) – first female auditor general of Canada

=Ambassadors

= *

Arnold Heeney Arnold Danford Patrick Heeney, (April 5, 1902 – December 20, 1970) was a Canadian lawyer, diplomat and civil servant. He was born in Montreal, Quebec. He was educated at St. John's College, Winnipeg and received a Bachelor of Arts de ...

(BCL 1927) – ambassador to the United States and

NATO The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, ; french: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, ), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two N ...

* Kirsten Hillman (law degree) - ambassador to the United States, 2020- * Guillermo Rishchynski (BA 1975) – ambassador to the United Nations, Brazil, Mexico and

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the ...

* Ralph Lysyshyn (BA 1969) – ambassador to Russia * Sydney David Pierce (BA 1922, BCL 1925) – ambassador to Brazil,

Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to ...

Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...

, Mexico, and the

OECD The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; french: Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, ''OCDE'') is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate ...

* Yves Fortier (BCL 1958) – ambassador to the United Nations * Chris Alexander (BA 1989) – ambassador to

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is borde ...

David Wright David Allen Wright (born December 20, 1982) is an American former professional baseball third baseman who played his entire 14-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career for the New York Mets. He was drafted by the Mets in 2001 MLB draft and made h ...

(BA 1966) – Ambassador to Spain and

Andrew McNaughton Andrew is the English form of a given name common in many countries. In the 1990s, it was among the top ten most popular names given to boys in English-speaking countries. "Andrew" is frequently shortened to "Andy" or "Drew". The word is derived ...

(BA 1910, MSc 1912) – ambassador to the United Nations and President of the

UN Security Council The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) and is charged with ensuring international peace and security, recommending the admission of new UN members to the General Assembly, an ...

* Frederic Bertley (BSc 1994, PhD 1999) – ambassador to

Senegal Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 ...

* James R. Wright (BA 1970) – ambassador (high commissioner) to the United Kingdom * Robert Fowler (BA 1966) – ambassador to the United Nations and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations * Élaine Ayotte (MA 1990) – ambassador and permanent delegate to the

UNESCO The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a List of specialized agencies of the United Nations, specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international coope ...

Gordon Smith Gordon Smith may refer to: In politics * Gordon H. Smith (born 1952), former U.S. Senator from Oregon, and current Area Authority for the LDS Church *Gordon Elsworth Smith (1918–2005), Canadian politician *Gordon Smith (academic) (1927–2009), ...

(BA 1968) – Ambassador to the

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational union, supranational political union, political and economic union of Member state of the European Union, member states that are located primarily in Europe, Europe. The union has a total area of ...

and

(PhD 1977) – ambassador to China * John Rankin (law degree) – former British ambassador to Nepal; Governor of

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; current British Governor of

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=Heads of financial institutions

= *

Graham Towers Graham Ford Towers (29 September 1897 – 4 December 1975) was the first Governor of the Bank of Canada from 1934 to 1954. Biography Born in Montreal, Quebec, educated at St. Andrew's College in Toronto, he graduated from McGill Universi ...

(BA 1919) – first and founding 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: C ...

(1934–1955) and Governor for Canada at the

International Monetary Fund The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution, headquartered in Washington, D.C., consisting of 190 countries. Its stated mission is "working to foster glo ...

Marcel Massé Marcel Massé (born June 23, 1940) is a Canadian politician and civil servant. Biography Massé was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1940 and graduated from McGill University and Pembroke College, Oxford (as Rhodes Scholar in 1963). He served as ...

(LLB 1961) – Member of Parliament, President of the Treasury Board, and President of the

Canadian International Development Agency The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) was a federal Canadian organization that administered foreign aid programs in developing countries. The agency was merged into the Department of Foreign Affairs in 2013 by the federal governmen ...

* Sylvia Ostry (BA 1948, MA 1950) – chairman,

Economic Council of Canada The Economic Council of Canada (originally the National Productivity Council) is a former Crown corporation that was owned by the Government of Canada and was established in 1963 under the ''Economic Council of Canada Act''. When the Council made ...

=Others

= * Gerald Butts (BA 1993, MA 1996) – current

Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of Canada In Canada, the Principal Secretary is a senior aide, often the most senior political aide, to a head of government. Formerly, the position of Principal Secretary was the most senior one in the Canadian Prime Minister's Office (PMO). However, sin ...

, 2015– * Sir Charles Boucher de Boucherville (MD 1843) – Premier of Quebec, 1874–1878, 1891–1892 *

Ian Brodie Ian Ross Brodie (born July 25, 1967) is a Canadian political scientist and was Chief of Staff in Stephen Harper's Prime Minister's Office from Harper's ascension to the position of prime minister until July 1, 2008. The news that he was leaving ...

(BA 1990) –

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 ...

in the government of Prime Minister

Stephen Harper Stephen Joseph Harper (born April 30, 1959) is a Canadian politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015. Harper is the first and only prime minister to come from the modern-day Conservative Party of Canada, ...

, 2006–2008 * Neil Brown, Q.C. (PhD. 1973) – Alberta MLA * Rosemary Brown – first Black Canadian woman to be elected to a provincial legislature * James Campbell Clouston (BEng 1918) – Canadian officer in the British

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against Fr ...

, who acted as pier-master during the

Dunkirk evacuation The Dunkirk evacuation, codenamed Operation Dynamo and also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, or just Dunkirk, was the evacuation of more than 338,000 Allies of World War II, Allied soldiers during the World War II, Second World War from the bea ...

; inspiration for

Kenneth Branagh Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (; born 10 December 1960) is a British actor and filmmaker. Branagh trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and has served as its president since 2015. He has won an Academy Award, four BAFTAs (plus ...

's pier-master character in

Christopher Nolan Christopher Edward Nolan (born 30 July 1970) is a British-American filmmaker. Known for his lucrative Hollywood blockbusters with complex storytelling, Nolan is considered a leading filmmaker of the 21st century. His films have grossed $5&nb ...

's 2017 film ''

Dunkirk Dunkirk (french: Dunkerque ; vls, label=French Flemish, Duunkerke; nl, Duinkerke(n) ; , ;) is a commune in the department of Nord in northern France.

'' *

May Cutler May Ebbitt Cutler (September 4, 1923 – March 3, 2011) was a Canadian writer, journalist, playwright, and publisher. She founded Tundra Books in her home in 1967, becoming Canada's first female publisher of children's books. She served a four-y ...

(BA 1945, MA 1951) – first woman to serve as Mayor of Westmount, Quebec (1987–1991); founder of

Tundra Books In physical geography, tundra () is a type of biome where tree growth is hindered by frigid temperatures and short growing seasons. The term ''tundra'' comes through Russian (') from the Kildin Sámi word (') meaning "uplands", "treeless moun ...

; first female Canadian publisher of children's books * Sir

Charles Peers Davidson Sir Charles Peers Davidson (January 1841 – January 29, 1929) was a Canadian lawyer and judge. Born in Huntingdon, Lower Canada to Capt. Alexander Davidson and Marion Peers, Davidson was educated at McGill University where he received a B ...

(BA 1864, MA 1867, BCL 1873, DCL 1875, Hon. LLD 1912) – Chief Justice of the Quebec Superior Court, 1912–1915 * Henry Thomas Duffy (BA 1876, BCL 1879) – Minister of Public Works and Treasurer of Quebec *

Brian Gallant Brian Alexander Gallant (born April 27, 1982) is a Canadian politician who served as the 33rd premier of New Brunswick from October 7, 2014, until November 9, 2018. Of Acadian and Dutch descent, Gallant practised as a lawyer before winning the Li ...

(LLM 2011) –

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. ...

, 2014– * R. A. E. Greenshields (BA 1883, BCL 1885) – Chief Justice of the Superior Court of the Province of Quebec, 1929–1942 *

(BCL 1958, BA 1960) – former Secretary General of the

Carlos Leitão Carlos Leitão is a Canadian politician in Quebec, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2014 election. He represented the electoral district of Robert-Baldwin as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party until his retirement f ...

(BA 1979) – Minister of Finance of Quebec, 2014– * David Lewis (BA and LLD) –

Rhodes Scholar The Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom. Established in 1902, it is the oldest graduate scholarship in the world. It is considered among the world' ...

and former leader of the

(1971–75) *

Alexander Cameron Rutherford Alexander Cameron Rutherford (February 2, 1857 – June 11, 1941) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the first premier of Alberta from 1905 to 1910. Born in Ormond, Canada West, he studied and practiced law in Ottawa before h ...

(BA, LLB 1881) – first premier of Alberta, founder of the

University of Alberta The University of Alberta, also known as U of A or UAlberta, is a Public university, public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford,"A Gentleman of Strathcona – Alexande ...

(BA 1956) – Federal Ethics Commissioner, 2004–2007 * Marie-Claire Kirkland Strover (BA 1947, BCL 1950) – first woman elected to the Quebec National Assembly, serving between 1966 and 1973.

Foreign politicians and other government officials

McGill alumni have held and continue to hold many top government positions in other countries:

=Heads of state/government

= * Timothy Harris (PhD 2001) – current

Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis The prime minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis is the head of government of the Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis. The current Prime Minister is Terrance Drew since 6th August 2022. Chief Ministers (1960–1967) Elizabeth II (1960–1967 ...

* John Rankin (LLM 1984) – current Governor-General of Bermuda *

Ahmed Nazif Ahmed Nazif ( ar, أحمد نظيف, ; born 8 July 1952) served as the Prime Minister of Egypt from 14 July 2004 to 29 January 2011, when his cabinet was dismissed by President Hosni Mubarak in light of a popular uprising that led to the Egyptian ...

(PhD 1983) – former prime minister of

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning the North Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via a land bridg ...

* Daniel Oduber Quirós (MA 1945) – former president of

Costa Rica Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( es, República de Costa Rica), is a country in the Central American region of North America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the no ...

Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga (born 1 December 1937) is a Latvian politician who served as the sixth President of Latvia from 1999 to 2007. She is the first woman to hold the post. She was elected President of Latvia in 1999 and re-elected for the seco ...

(PhD 1965) – former president of

Latvia Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...

; first female president of Latvia *

Joni Madraiwiwi Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi, Lord Madraiwiwi Tangatatonga (10 November 1957 – 29 September 2016) was a prominent Fijian lawyer, legal scholar, jurist, and politician. He served as vice-president, and also acting president, of Fiji, and Chief Justi ...

(LLM 1989; DipA&SL 1988) – former acting president and vice-president of the Republic of Fiji and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the

Republic of Nauru Nauru ( or ; na, Naoero), officially the Republic of Nauru ( na, Repubrikin Naoero) and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country and microstate in Oceania, in the Central Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in Ki ...

Michael Manley Michael Norman Manley (10 December 1924 – 6 March 1997) was a Jamaican politician who served as the fourth Prime Minister of Jamaica from 1972 to 1980 and from 1989 to 1992. Manley championed a democratic socialist program, and has been ...

(BA 1943) – former prime minister 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 Hispa ...

, and former member of the Senate and House of Representatives in the

Parliament of Jamaica The Parliament of Jamaica is the legislative branch of the government of Jamaica. It consists of three elements: The Crown (represented by the Governor-General), the appointed Senate and the directly elected House of Representatives. The ...

* Paula Cox (BA 1985) – former prime minister of Bermuda

=Cabinet members

= *

Zbigniew Brzezinski Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński ( , ; March 28, 1928 – May 26, 2017), or Zbig, was a Polish-American diplomat and political scientist. He served as a counselor to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968 and was President Jimmy Carter' ...

(BA 1949; MA 1950) – former National Security Advisor (with Cabinet rank) to President

Jimmy Carter James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he previously served as th ...

Warren Randolph Burgess Warren Randolph Burgess (May 7, 1889 – September 16, 1978) was an American banker and diplomat who served as the U.S. Ambassador to NATO from 1957 to 1961. Early life Burgess was born in Newport, Rhode Island (where his father was teaching at ...

(MA 1915) – former United States Undersecretary of the Treasury and United States Ambassador to

* Miguel Castilla (BA 1991) – current Minister of Economy and Finance of

Peru , image_flag = Flag of Peru.svg , image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg , other_symbol = Great Seal of the State , other_symbol_type = National seal , national_motto = "Firm and Happy f ...

* Stephen Chebrot (MSc 2009) – current Minister for Transport in the Ugandan Cabinet and incumbent Member of the

Parliament of Uganda The parliament of Uganda is the country's legislative body. Unicameral, the most significant of the Ugandan parliament's functions is to pass laws that will provide good governance in the country. The government ministers are bound to answer t ...

, and former Ugandan Ambassador to

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area, the List of countries and dependencies by population, second-most populous ...

* Peter Murcott Bunting (BEng 1983) – current Minister of National Security of Jamaica * Bernard Chidzero (PhD 1958) – Minister of Finance of

Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and ...

, 1985–1995 *

Peng Ming-min Peng Ming-min (; 15 August 19238 April 2022) was a noted democracy activist, advocate of Taiwan independence, and politician. Arrested for sedition in 1964 for printing a manifesto advocating democracy in his native Taiwan, he escaped to Sweden ...

(MA 1952) – senior adviser (with cabinet rank) to the president of

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the no ...

, and former presidential candidate in Taiwan * Jacqui Quinn-Leandro (PhD 2003) – first female (acting) prime minister of

Antigua and Barbuda Antigua and Barbuda (, ) is a sovereign country in the West Indies. It lies at the juncture of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean in the Leeward Islands part of the Lesser Antilles, at 17°N latitude. The country consists of two majo ...

, and cabinet member (Minister of Education, Minister of Labour, and Minister of Public Service) * Michael Žantovský (MA 1975) – Press Secretary and Presidential Spokesman of the

Czech Republic The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ...

* Euan Howard, 4th Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal (BEng 1951) – British

for Defence, 1979–1981 *

Jamaluddin Jarjis Jamaluddin bin Mohd Jarjis (25 May 1951 – 4 April 2015) was a Malaysian politician, diplomat and Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation. He served as the Chairman of the 1 Malaysia Peoples' Housing (PR1MA) and Malaysian special envoy ...

(PhD 1980) – former Malaysian ambassador to the United States and Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation * Dov Yosef (BA 1921) – Minister of Justice, Minister of Trade and Industry, and Minister of Health of the State of Israel *Marko Pavliha (DCL 1992) – Minister of Transport of

Slovenia Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, and ...

Malik Amin Aslam Malik Amin Aslam (born November 27, 1966) is a Pakistani environmentalist and politician who served as Federal Minister and Adviser to former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan for Climate Change. He also serves as Vice President in IUCN. ...

(MBA 1993) – former Pakistani Minister of State for the Environment and current advisor to the prime minister for Climate Change (with Cabinet rank) *Ian DeVere Archer (LLM 1968) – Secretary of Health and Social Security of

Barbados Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of the Americas, and the most easterly of the Caribbean Islands. It occupies an area of and has a population of about 287,000 (2019 estima ...

and former chairman of

Caribbean Airlines Caribbean Airlines Limited is the state-owned airline and flag carrier of Trinidad and Tobago. The airline is also the flag carrier of Jamaica and Guyana. Headquartered in Iere House in Piarco, the airline operates flights to the Caribbean, ...

(national airline of

)

=Legislators

= * Wong Yuk-shan (MSc 1976; PhD 1979) – current Member (deputy) of the

National People's Congress The National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China (NPC; ), or simply the National People's Congress, is constitutionally the supreme state authority and the national legislature of the People's Republic of China. With 2,9 ...

of the People's Republic of China *

Gilbert Cooper Sir Gilbert Alexander "Gibby" Cooper CBE ED (31 July 1903 – 29 May 1989) was a businessman and politician in Bermuda, serving as a member of the House of Assembly and Mayor of Hamilton, Bermuda. After graduating from McGill University with a ...

(BCom 1924) – former mayor of

Hamilton, Bermuda The City of Hamilton, in Pembroke Parish, is the territorial capital of the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda. It is the territory's financial centre and a major port and tourist destination. Its population of 854 (2016) is one of the sm ...

and member of the

House of Assembly of Bermuda The House of Assembly is the lower house of the Parliament of the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda. The house has 36 Members of Parliament (MPs), elected for a term of five years in single seat constituencies using first-past-the-post voti ...

(MA 1928) – U.S. Senator from California * James McCleary (BA 1874) – U.S. Congressman representing

Minnesota Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minnesota is home to western prairies, now given over t ...

in the

United States House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they ...

Joseph J. O'Brien Joseph John O'Brien (October 9, 1897 – January 23, 1953) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York. Biography O'Brien was born in Rochester, New York. He graduated from Rochester's Cathedral High Sch ...

(BA 1917) – U.S. Congressman representing New York in the

* Chase G. Woodhouse (BA 1912; MA 1914) – U.S. Congresswoman representing

Connecticut Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York (state), New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the ...

in the

* Carlos Heredia (MA 1985) – Member of the Congress of Mexico and Governor of the State of

Michoacán Michoacán, formally Michoacán de Ocampo (; Purépecha: ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Michoacán de Ocampo ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Michoacán de Ocampo), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of ...

in Mexico * Gordon Wasserman, Baron Wasserman (BA 1959) – Member of the

House of Lords The House of Lords, also known as the House of Peers, is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Membership is by appointment, heredity or official function. Like the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminst ...

in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, British Parliament and life peer, and internationally recognized policing advisor *

(MA 1973) – Member of the

in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, British Parliament and life peer, and publisher of The Daily Telegraph (UK), Chicago Sun-Times (U.S.), The Jerusalem Post (Israel), National Post (Canada) * Euan Howard, 4th Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal (BEng 1951) – Member of the

in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, British Parliament * Andrew Hamilton Gault (BA 1902) – Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Member of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, British Parliament for Taunton, Somerset, UK (1924–1935); raised Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, the last privately raised regiment in the British Empire; bequeathed his Mont Saint-Hilaire estate to McGill in 1958 * Maurice Alexander (barrister), Maurice Alexander (BA 1908; BCL 1910) – Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Member of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, British Parliament for Southwark South East (UK Parliament constituency), Southwark South East, UK * Gavin Henderson, 2nd Baron Faringdon (BA 1922) – former member of the London County Council, Chairman of the Fabian Society, 1960–1961 * Dhanayshar Mahabir (MA 1985; PhD 1994) – Senator of the Trinidad and Tobago, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago * Jacqui Quinn-Leandro (PhD 2003) – first woman elected to the House of Representatives (Antigua and Barbuda), House of Representatives, and later elected as Senator, in the Parliament of Antigua and Barbuda * Ramasamy Palanisamy (MA 1980) – current Dewan Rakyat, Member of the Parliament of Malaysia * Hidipo Hamutenya (MA 1971) – Member of the National Assembly (Namibia), National Assembly of Namibia and cabinet member (Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Minister of Trade and Industry, and Minister of Foreign Affairs) of Namibia * Michael Žantovský (MA 1975) – ambassador of Czechoslovakia/

to the United States, Israel, and the United Kingdom, and Senator in the Parliament of the Czech Republic *Rıza Türmen (LLM 1980) – former Member of the Turkish Parliament and Turkish Ambassador to Switzerland * Dov Yosef (BA 1921) – former member of the Israeli Knesset, Parliament and Israel's Minister of Justice, Minister of Trade and Industry, and Minister of Health * Peter Murcott Bunting (BEng 1983) – current Member of

*Marko Pavliha (DCL 1992) – Member of Parliament and Vice-President of the National Assembly of

=Supreme Court/High Court Justices

= *Akintola Olufemi Eyiwunmi (LLM 1964) – justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria *Muhammad Khalid Masud (MA 1971; PhD 1973) – current justice of the Shariat Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan *

(LLM 1989; DipA&SL 1988) – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the

*Chile Eboe-Osuji (LLM 1991) – judge and currently president (chief justice) of the International Criminal Court

=Heads of financial institutions

= *Ernest Addison (PhD 1993) – banker, and current chairman and governor of the Bank of Ghana, Central Bank of Ghana *Kofi Wampah (MA 1983; PhD 1986) – former chairman and governor of the Bank of Ghana, and Chairman of the Central Bank Governors of West Africa *DeLisle Worrell (MA 1973; PhD 1975) – former chairman and governor of the Central Bank of Barbados *Kazi Abdul Muktadir (BEng 1981) – acting Governor, and current deputy governor of the State Bank of Pakistan *P. Amarasinghe (MA 1974) – deputy governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka *Herbert Walker (BA 1946) governor of the Bank of Jamaica

=Ambassadors

= *John L. Withers II (MA 1975) – ambassador of the United States to Albania *Francis Terry McNamara (MA 1954) – ambassador of the United States to Gabon, Cape Verde, and São Tomé and Príncipe *John Larkindale (PhD 1971) – ambassador of New Zealand to Russia and Australia *List of ambassadors of Liechtenstein to the United States, Kurt Jaeger (LLM 1989) – current Ambassador of Liechtenstein to the United States *Rıza Türmen (LLM 1980) – ambassador of Turkey to Switzerland * Michael Žantovský (MA 1975) – ambassador of Czechoslovakia/

to the United States, Israel, and the United Kingdom *

(PhD 1980) – ambassador of Malaysia to the United States * Miguel Castilla (BA 1991) – ambassador of

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to the United States * John Rankin (LLM 1984) – ambassador of the United Kingdom to Sri Lanka, Nepal, and the Maldives

=Others

= *Joanne Liu (BSc 1987; MD 1991; IMHL 2014) – international president of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) *Sam Nunberg (BA 2004) – former presidential political advisor to U.S. President

*Ilya Sheyman (BA 2006) – social activist and Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2012 election *Morag Wise, Lady Wise (LLM 1994) – Scottish Senator of the College of Justice * David Hackett (BA 1950) – boarding school friend of Robert F. Kennedy; founder and head of Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 Volunteers in Service to America (Americorps VISTA, VISTA), the domestic U.S. Peace Corps program; inspiration for Phineas in John Knowles's 1959 novel ''A Separate Peace''; McGill hockey player and selected for the US Olympic Hockey Team (1952) *Wang Bingzhang (dissident), Wang Bingzhang (Phd 1982) – Chinese Dissident and Political Prisoner, the founding father of the overseas Chinese Democratic Movement.

Art, music, and film

* Ayal Adler – musician and composer * Will Aitken – novelist and film critic * Patrick Allen – English actor and businessman, known for Shakespearean roles and for narrating the controversial Protect and Survive public information films for the British government * Michael Andre – poet and editor * Darcy James Argue – jazz composer and bandleader * Hadji Bakara – "sound manipulator" and secondary keyboardist for Wolf Parade * Samantha Bee – correspondent, ''The Daily Show'' * Yanic Bercier – drummer for death metal band Quo Vadis (band), Quo Vadis * Mary E. Black – occupational therapist, teacher, master weaver and writer * Claire Boucher – musician and visual artist under stage name Grimes * Win Butler – musician, co-founder of Arcade Fire * Peter Butterfield – concert tenor and conductor *

– poet and professor of classics * Regine Chassagne – musician, co-founder of Arcade Fire * John Austin Clark – music director and harpsichordist, co-founder of Bourbon Baroque * Leonard Cohen – poet, author, songwriter, singer, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee * Sheldon Cohen (artist), Sheldon Cohen – animator and illustrator of ''The Hockey Sweater'' * Chuck Comeau – drummer and songwriter for band Simple Plan * Hume Cronyn – actor, ''The Seventh Cross'', ''Cocoon (film), Cocoon''; studied theatre, left for Broadway without completing his degree * Hubert Davis (filmmaker), Hubert Davis (BA 2000) – Oscar nominee for best documentary short subject * Mackenzie Davis – actress and Canadian Screen Award nominee for ''The F Word (2013 film), The F Word'' * Audrey Capel Doray – artist * Christopher Downs – actor and entertainer in

and China, known there as 夏克立 * William Henry Drummond – Irish-born Canadian poet * Louis Dudek – poet * Arthur Erickson – architect (Robson Square, Vancouver; Canadian Chancery, Washington DC; Roy Thomson Hall; Museum of Anthropology, UBC; Simon Fraser University; Museum of Glass, Tacoma; California Plaza, San Diego Convention Center) * Mary Fahl – singer and actress * Colin Ferguson (actor), Colin Ferguson – actor, ''Eureka (U.S. TV series), Eureka'' * Karl Fischer (architect), Karl Fischer – architect practicing in Montreal and New York City * Jessalyn Gilsig – actress, ''Boston Public'', ''NYPD Blue'', ''Nip/Tuck'', ''Glee (TV series), Glee'' * Grace Glowicki – actress and filmmaker * Evan Goldberg – co-writer of ''Superbad (film), Superbad'', ''Pineapple Express (film), Pineapple Express'' * Jonathan Goldstein (author), Jonathan Goldstein – author and radio producer, host of ''WireTap (radio program), WireTap'' on CBC Radio One * Gonzales (musician), Chilly Gonzales – Grammy-nominated musician * Linda Griffiths – playwright, actress * Aaron Harris (Islands drummer), Aaron Harris – percussionist/drummer, of Islands (band), Islands, Montreal-based indie rock group * Sinjin Hawke – music producer and DJ * Gavin Heffernan – director, ''Expiration'' * Jennifer Irwin – actress, ''Still Standing (American TV series), Still Standing'' * Heather Juergensen – actress, co-screenwriter ''Kissing Jessica Stein'' * Maxwell M. Kalman – architect, designed Canada's first mall Norgate shopping centre *

* Kid Koala, born Eric San – turntablist and musician * Mia Kirshner – actress, ''The L Word'' * Veronika Krausas – composer * Christian Lander – author of the Stuff White People Like blog * Robert Lantos – film producer * Irving Layton – poet * Stephen Leacock – humorist and economist * Rachelle Lefevre – actress, ''Big Wolf on Campus'', ''Twilight (2008 film), Twilight'' *

– writer, ''This Is Your Brain On Music''; musician * Julia Loktev – director of ''The Loneliest Planet'', ''Day Night Day Night'' * Brian Macdonald (choreographer), Brian Macdonald – choreographer and dancer in Canada, New York, and Europe * Hugh MacLennan – writer, ''Two Solitudes'', ''Barometer Rising'' * Miles Mander – early film actor, director and novelist * Ruth Marshall – actress who played in ''Flashpoint (TV series), Flashpoint'' as the Strategic Response Unit, SRU's Forensic psychology, forensic psychologist * Cameron Mathison – actor, ''All My Children'' * Marc Mayer – art curator and director of the National Gallery of Canada"Mayer confirmed as gallery director"
, ''The Globe and Mail'', 8 December 2008. * Harry Mayerovitch – artist * John McCrae – surgeon, poet, author of Canadian poem "In Flanders' Fields" * Kate McGarrigle – musician and folk-singer * Dorothy McIlwraith – editor of Weird Tales, 1940–54 * Casey McKinnon – actress * Sophia Michahelles – pageant puppet designer and co-artistic director, Processional Arts Workshop * Raymond Moriyama – architect (Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto; Canadian Embassy, Tokyo; Ontario Science Centre; Toronto Reference Library; Canadian War Museum; Saudi Arabian National Museum, Riyadh) * Suniti Namjoshi – writer *Heather O'Neill – writer *Alisa Palmer – playwright and theatre director * Donald Patriquin – composer and organist * Mauro Pezzente – bassist and co-founder of Godspeed You! Black Emperor * Sam Roberts (singer-songwriter), Sam Roberts – musician * John Rogers (writer), John Rogers – writer/producer, ''Leverage (American TV series), Leverage'' * Rebecca Rosenblum – writer, winner of the 2007 Metcalf-Rooke Award * Dean Rosenthal – composer * Moshe Safdie – architect (National Gallery of Canada, Vancouver Library, Salt Lake City Public Library, Musee de la Civilisation, Habitat '67) * Robert Edison Sandiford – short story writer and essayist * John Ralston Saul – Governor-General's-Award-winning philosophical author * Robert William Service – poet and writer of the Yukon Gold Rush * Mark Shainblum – author and comic book creator * William Shatner – actor, ''Boston Legal''; Captain James T. Kirk in ''Star Trek'' * Jaspreet Singh – author, ''Seventeen Tomatoes'' * Sonja Skarstedt – poet and illustrator * Donald Steven – ''Juno Award'' and ''Jules Léger Prize'' winning composer * Philippe Tatartcheff – Swiss-born poet and songwriter notable for writing songs in French with Anna McGarrigle, Anna and Kate McGarrigle * Ruth Taylor (poet), Ruth Taylor – poet * Gentile Tondino – artist * J. Torres – comic book writer * Zineb Triki – actress *Jessica Trisko – 2007 Miss Earth titleholder * Ken Vandermark – jazz saxophonist and MacArthur Foundation "genius award" winner *Aquil Virani - artist * Rufus Wainwright (briefly attended – dropped out upon record deal) – recording artist, musician * William Weintraub – author, journalist and filmmaker (''Why Rock the Boat?'') * Robert Stanley Weir – author (in 1908) of the English words to "O, Canada" *Matthew White (countertenor), Matthew White – countertenor * Jan Wong – ''Globe and Mail'' columnist ("Lunch with Jan Wong" series); author of books including award-winning ''Red China Blues'' and ''Jan Wong's China'' * Royal Wood – singer-songwriter * Estelí Gomez - Grammy winning musician, university instructor

Architects

For a full list of notable alumni and faculty from the McGill School of Architecture, School of Architecture, see:

Inventors

* Bernard Belleau – inventor of lamivudine, a drug used in the treatment of HIV and Hepatitis B infection * Willard Boyle – inventor of the charge-coupled device *

– creator of the first artificial cell * James George Aylwin Creighton, James Creighton (Law 1880) – considered the originator of North American ice hockey rules *

(MDCM 1933) – black American medical pioneer; track star who led McGill to five intercollegiate titles; as medical advisor for the Blood for Britain program of World War II, the father of blood banks * Lorne Elias (PhD 1956) – inventor of the explosives vapour detector EVD-1 * Alan Emtage – inventor of Archie search engine, Archie, the grandfather of search engines * Colonel Dr. Cluny MacPherson (MD 1901) – inventor of the MacPherson respirator gas mask during World War I * Paul Moller – inventor of the Moller Skycar, a VTOL aircraft

Sports

* Betty Archdale – former captain (1934/5) of English women's cricket team * Mike Babcock – NHL coach, formerly of the Toronto Maple Leafs; first and as of 2016 only coach to be a member of the Triple Gold Club, having won the Stanley Cup (Detroit, 2008), Olympic gold medal for Ice hockey at the Olympic Games#1998–2014, men's ice hockey (2010, 2014), and the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Ice Hockey World Championship * Russ Blinco – Montreal Maroons centre; 1935 NHL Rookie of the Year * Guy Boucher – former head coach of the Ottawa Senators * George Burnett (hockey coach), George Burnett – former head coach for the Edmonton Oilers * Doug Carpenter – former head coach for the Toronto Maple Leafs and New Jersey Devils * Randy Chevrier – former NFL and CFL player * J. P. Darche – American football long snapper * Jacques Dussault - Teacher and American and Canadian football Coach. Coach for the Montreal Machine, Montreal Alouettes and Montreal Carabins * Ken Dryden (LLB 1974) – politician, lawyer, businessman, author; retired National Hockey League goaltender from the Montreal Canadiens; former president of the Toronto Maple Leafs * Laurent Duvernay-Tardif (MD, CM 2018) – American football player for the Kansas City Chiefs, graduated from McGill's Medical School in 2018; first medical doctor and first Quebecer to play and win the Super Bowl LIV, Super Bowl. * Phil Edwards (athlete), Phil Edwards (MD 1936) – one of Canada's most decorated Olympians with 5 bronze medals * Jack Gelineau – Boston Bruins and Chicago Blackhawks goaltender who won Calder Trophy as NHL Rookie of the Year in 1950 * Jennifer Heil (Bachelor of Commerce, BComm) – 2006 Olympic gold medalist in freestyle skiing * George Hodgson (BEng 1916) – Canadian Olympic men's swim team (1912 and 1920); McGill's first athlete to win an Olympic gold medal; first Canadian to win two Olympic gold medals (Stockholm, 1916) * Jackrabbit Johannsen – Norwegian-Canadian; credited with introducing cross-country skiing to North America; lived in retirement at McGill's Mont-Saint-Hilaire Gault Nature Reserve * Charline Labonté (Bachelor of Education, BEd – Physical Education) – 2006 Olympic gold medalist in women's ice hockey * R. Tait McKenzie – pioneer in college physical education; sculptor; physician * James Naismith (BA 1887) – inventor of basketball; University of Kansas coach; namesake of six NCAA college basketball awards and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame * Kevin O'Neill (basketball), Kevin O'Neill – former head coach of the Toronto Raptors; former head coach for USC Trojans men's basketball. * Frank Patrick (ice hockey), Frank Patrick (BA 1908) – wrote much of the NHL rule book * Hon. Sydney David Pierce (BA 1922, BCL 1925, LLD 1956) – 1924 Olympic swimmer and former Canadian ambassador to many countries * Richard Pound, Richard "Dick" Pound – former Olympic swimmer, former International Olympic Committee, IOC vice president, chancellor of McGill, current chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) *Silver Quilty, Canadian Football Hall of Fame inductee, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame inductee, Canadian Amateur Hockey Association president * Samantha Rapoport – NFL Director of Player Development, former Canada women's national American football team, Canada women's national football team and Montreal Blitz quarterback * Kim St-Pierre (BEd 2005) – Canadian Olympic women's hockey team (2002 and 2006), McGill's first female athlete to become an Olympic gold medallist (Salt Lake City, 2002) * Frank Shaughnessy, Frank "Shag" Shaughnessy – first professional football coach hired by a Canadian university, he revolutionized Canadian college football by introducing the forward pass in 1921 in a game against Syracuse University and lobbied for a decade until the forward pass was adopted by the Football Canada, Canadian Rugby Football Union in 1931 *Howard Stupp (born 1955) - Olympic wrestler * Jack Wright (tennis), Jack Wright (MDCM 1928) – 11-year veteran of Canadian Davis Cup team in the 1920s and 1930s *David Zilberman (wrestler), David Zilberman – Canadian Olympic heavyweight wrestler

Fictional characters

* Major Donald Craig, Canadian commando serving with British special forces during World War II, portrayed by Rock Hudson in the 1967 war movie ''Tobruk (1967 film), Tobruk''. Though the film was loosely based on real events, it's not clear whether or not Hudson's character was based on a real person. Most likely he was a pastiche character, given a Canadian background as cover for Hudson's inability to emulate a British accent. * Dr. Walter Langkowski, researcher from the Marvel Comics Canadian superhero series Alpha Flight; portrayed as a McGill-based biophysicist researching the gamma radiation accident which created the Hulk; his discoveries transformed him into the superhero known as Sasquatch (comics), Sasquatch * Lieutenant Alan McGregor, played by Gary Cooper, ''The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (film), Lives of a Bengal Lancer'' (1935) * Dr. Robert Richardson, played by Lew Ayres, ''Johnny Belinda (1948 film), Johnny Belinda'' (1948) * Dr. James Wilson, oncologist and best friend to main character Gregory House in the Fox Network TV drama ''House (TV series), House''

Others

*Monroe Abbey – Canadian lawyer and Jewish civic leader * Norman Bethune – as "Bai Qiu'en", subject of essay ''In Memory of Norman Bethune'' (in ''Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung'', Chapter 17: Serving the People) (Jinian Bai Qiu'en) by Mao Zedong; medical professor; became Red Army's medical chief and trained thousands of Chinese as medics and doctors; died in 1939 (from blood poisoning) during the Second Sino-Japanese War * Frank E. Buck – horticulturalist * Ian Campbell, 12th Duke of Argyll – Scottish peer and landowner * Chi-Ming Chow – cardiologist and board member of the Heart and Stroke Foundation *Caroline Codsi: President and founder of ''Women in Governance'' and Board Member of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts * Lawrence Moore Cosgrave – Canadian signer of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender * Thomas Neill Cream – Glasgow-born serial killer of the 1800s, thought by some to have been Jack the Ripper *Jennifer Davidson (campaigner), Jennifer Davidson - (BSW, 1991) child rights advocate and founding director of CELCIS: Centre for Excellence for Children's Care and Protection, CELCIS, awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2020 for services to the care and protection of children and young people in Scotland and abroad *Alanna Devine – founder of McGill Student Animal Legal Defence Fund and director of Animal Advocacy * Victor Dzau (MD) – president of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences * Rocco Galati – constitutional lawyer; challenged Justice Marc Nadon's appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada * Charles Goren – world champion bridge player and bestselling author * Bertha Hosang Mah, first Chinese woman to graduate from a Canadian university (McGill 1917) * John Peters Humphrey – author of the first draft of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights * Arnold Johnson (physician), Arnold Johnson – performed the first cardiac heart catheterization procedure in Canada in 1946 * Annie MacDonald Langstaff – in 1914 became McGill's and

's first female law graduate but was not admitted to the Quebec bar until 2006 (posthumously); the Quebec bar did not admit women until 1941 * Neville Maxwell – British journalist; author of notable book on the Sino-Indian War * Nancy Morris – first female rabbi in Scotland *

, Canadian author, medical doctor, and medical missionary in China * Natasha Negovanlis – actress; singer; writer; host; LGBTQIA icon * Madeleine Parent, Canadian labour, feminist and aboriginal rights activist * Autumn Phillips – ex-wife of Peter Phillips, who is 18th in line for the British throne * André Robert – father of the Canadian numerical weather prediction models * Francis Scrimger (BA 1901, MDCM 1905) – Victoria Cross winner, 1915; Professor of Surgery and Chief of Surgery at the Children's Memorial Hospital * Harmeet Singh Sooden – peace activist once held captive in Iraq * Robert Thirsk – astronaut * Dafydd Williams – astronaut * Getachew Mekonnen – Economist 1999, Operations Research Analyst with the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)

References

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