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

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

Kingston Kingston may refer to: Places * List of places called Kingston, including the six most populated: ** Kingston, Jamaica ** Kingston upon Hull, England ** City of Kingston, Victoria, Australia ** Kingston, Ontario, Canada ** Kingston upon Thames, ...

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, Canada. The list includes notable academics, artists, businesspeople, professionals, and athletes.

Notable Queen's alumni

Academic leaders

Emajuddin Ahamed Emajuddin Ahamed (15 December 1933 – 17 July 2020) was a Bangladeshi political scientist, author and educationist. He served as the 21st vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka during 1992–1996. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 1992 by the ...

– political scientist, author, educationist & former

vice-chancellor A vice-chancellor (commonly called a VC) serves as the chief executive of a university in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Kenya, other Commonwealth of Nati ...

of the

University of Dhaka The University of Dhaka (), also known as Dhaka University (DU), is a public university, public research university located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Established in 1921, it is the oldest active university in the country. The University of Dhaka w ...

* John Hall Archer – first president of the

University of Regina The University of Regina is a public university located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Founded in 1911 as a private denominational high school of the Methodist Church of Canada, it began an association with the University of Saskatchewan as a j ...

* Herbert Basser – theologian, Harvard Starr Fellow * Vijay Bhargava – researcher *

David Card David Edward Card (born 1956) is a Canadian-American labour economist and the Class of 1950 Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has been since 1997. He was awarded half of the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in ...

– economist, winner of Nobel Prize in Economics and

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

* George Ramsay Cook – Canadian historian *

Alfred Fitzpatrick Alfred Fitzpatrick (22 April 1862 – 16 June 1936) was born in Pictou County, Nova Scotia. He attended Pictou Academy. He founded Frontier College in 1899, the oldest adult education institution in Canada. Career In 1899, Reverend Fitzpatrick be ...

– founder of

Frontier College United for Literacy () a Canadian literacy organization established in 1899 by Alfred Fitzpatrick. It was founded as the Reading Camp Association and was renamed Frontier College in 1919. In 2022, Frontier College changed its name to United for ...

* William Thomson Newnham – first president of

Seneca College Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology, branded as Seneca Polytechnic since 2023, is a multi-campus public college in the Greater Toronto Area and Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. It offers full-time and part-time programs at the baccala ...

, 1967–1984 * Frits Pannekoek (PhD 1974) – president of

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

* David Siderovski – Professor and Chair of Pharmacology & Neuroscience at

University of North Texas Health Science Center The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth – HSC, Health Science Center, Health Science Center at Fort Worth – is an academic health science center in Fort Worth, Texas. It is part of the University of North Texas Sys ...

(winner of ASPET John J. Abel Award) *

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

– first person of colour to graduate from a Canadian university, and first black lawyer in

British North America British North America comprised the colonial territories of the British Empire in North America from 1783 onwards. English colonisation of North America began in the 16th century in Newfoundland, then further south at Roanoke and Jamestown, ...

* Shirley M. Tilghman (BSc 1968) – president of

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

, member of the board of directors of

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Actors, film, and media

* Scott Anderson –

CanWest Canwest Global Communications Corporation, which operated under the corporate name Canwest, was a major Canadian media conglomerate based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with its head offices at Canwest Place (now called 201 Portage). It held radio, ...

MediaWorks senior vice-president, content; former

editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The editor-in-chief heads all departments of the organization and is held accoun ...

of the ''

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

'' *

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

– actor *

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

–

CNN Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news organization operating, most notably, a website and a TV channel headquartered in Atlanta. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable ne ...

news anchor *

Rachel Blanchard Rachel Elise Blanchard (born 19 March 1976) is a Canadian actress.Rachel Blanchard's b ...

– actress *

Kristian Bruun Charles Kristian Bonnycastle Bruun (born October 25, 1979) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his roles in ''Orphan Black'', ''Murdoch Mysteries'', '' The Recruit'', ''The Girl Who Escaped: The Kara Robinson Story'', and '' The Rookie''. ...

– actor *

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

– actor *

Nicholas Campbell Nicholas Campbell (born 24 March 1952) is a Canadian actor and filmmaker. He is a four-time Gemini Awards, Gemini Award winner, a three-time Genie Awards, Genie Award nominee, and a Canadian Screen Awards, Canadian Screen Award nominee. He is k ...

– actor *

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

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

Sarita Choudhury Sarita Catherine Louise Choudhury (born August 18, 1966) is a British actress. She made her screen debut starring in the romantic drama film ''Mississippi Masala'' (1991). She later appeared in American and international film productions, includ ...

– actress *

Brendan Connor Brendan Connor is a Canadian radio and television journalist, currently a reporter with CBC Northern Ontario in Sudbury. Prior to CBC, he spent 13 years anchoring and reporting for CTV Northern Ontario. His father, Michael Connor, was a longtime ...

– television broadcaster, Al Jazeera International *

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

– actress *

Chris Cuthbert Chris Cuthbert (born September 20, 1957) is a Canadian sportscaster. He currently serves as the lead play-by-play commentator with CBC Sports/Sportsnet for ''Hockey Night in Canada'', and calls most national and regional games for the Toronto Ma ...

– TSN sportscaster *

Lyse Doucet Lyse Marie Doucet (; born 24 December 1958) is a Canadian journalist who is the BBC's Chief International Correspondent and senior presenter. She presents on BBC World Service radio and BBC World News television, and also reports for BBC Ra ...

–

BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current sta ...

's Chief International Correspondent *

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

– actress * Sally Gifford – host on

CBC CBC may refer to: Media * Cadena Baja California or Grupo Cadena, a radio and television broadcaster in Mexico * Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canada's radio and television public broadcaster ** CBC Television ** CBC Radio One ** CBC Music ** ...

's national kids' show, '' The X'' *

Lorne Greene Lorne Hyman Greene (born Lyon Himan Green; February 12, 1915 – September 11, 1987) was a Canadian actor, singer, and radio personality. His notable television roles include Ben Cartwright on the Western ''Bonanza'' and Commander Adama in ...

(BA'37, LLD'71) – actor *

Amy Lalonde Amy Ciupak Lalonde is a Canadian-born television and film actress from Pelham, Ontario. She holds a degree in drama and history from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Lalonde appears on the television channel SCREAM. She has made guest ...

– actress, also played an actress who went to Queen's Business School in '' Wild Roses'' *Ryan Letourneau – full-time Twitch streamer and YouTuber known online as

Northernlion Ryan Gary Letourneau (born November 28, 1988), better known as Northernlion, is a Canadian streamer and YouTuber. He is a full-time gaming streamer on Twitch and uploads parts of his streams to YouTube, while also creating content exclusively f ...

. *

Linda Liao Linda Liao (, now known as 廖語晴; born 24 May 1981) is a Taiwanese singer, actress and VJ. She is known as a professional gamer for ''StarCraft II''. She attended Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario Kingston is a city in Ontario ...

(廖語晴) – singer/actress *

Michelle MacLaren Michelle Maxwell MacLaren is a Canadian television director and producer. She has directed episodes of ''The X-Files'', ''Better Call Saul'', ''Breaking Bad'', ''The Walking Dead (TV series), The Walking Dead'', ''Game of Thrones'', and ''Westwor ...

– TV series director *

Molly McGlynn Molly McGlynn is a Canadian Americans, Canadian American film and television director and screenwriter.

– film and television director and screenwriter *

Vanessa Morgan Vanessa Morgan Mziray (born March 23, 1992) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her roles as Beatrix "Bird" Castro in the MTV teen drama series '' Finding Carter'', as Amanda Pierce in the Family teen comedy series ''The Latest Buzz'', and a ...

– actress *

Anna Olson Anna Olson (born May 4, 1968) is an American pastry chef. She was previously the host of Food Network Canada's '' Fresh with Anna Olson'', ''Sugar (Canadian TV series), Sugar'' and ''Kitchen Equipped'' and ''Bake with Anna Olson''. She is curre ...

– chef and television presenter *

Evanka Osmak ''Sportsnet Central'' is the flagship sports news program on Sportsnet in Canada. Originally known as ''Sportscentral'' and later ''Sportsnetnews'', it was re-branded as ''Sportsnet Connected'' on January 1, 2007 with an emphasis on more local c ...

–

SportsNet Sportsnet is a Television in Canada, Canadian English-language Discretionary service, discretionary sports broadcasting, sports specialty channel owned by Rogers Sports & Media. It was established in 1998 as CTV Sportsnet, a joint venture betw ...

broadcaster * Italia Ricci – actress *

Shelagh Rogers Shelagh Rogers, OC, is a Canadian broadcast journalist based in British Columbia. She is the current chancellor of Queen's University at Kingston. She is also the host and producer of CBC Radio One's '' The Next Chapter'', and the former chance ...

–

broadcaster * Ted Simonett – actor *

Jeffrey Simpson Jeffrey Carl Simpson, OC (born February 17, 1949), is a Canadian journalist. Simpson was ''The Globe and Mails national affairs columnist for almost three decades. He has won all three of Canada's leading literary prizes: the Governor Genera ...

– political columnist for ''

The Globe and Mail ''The Globe and Mail'' is a Newspapers in Canada, Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in Western Canada, western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of more than 6 million in 2024, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on week ...

'' *

Rachel Skarsten Rachel Skarsten (born 23 April, 1985) is a Canadian actress. She is known for playing Dinah Lance in ''Birds of Prey'' (2002–2003), Tamsin in ''Lost Girl'' (2013–2015), Queen Elizabeth I in ''Reign'' (2014–2017), and Beth Kane in ''Batw ...

– actress * Rod Smith – TSN sportscaster * John Stackhouse – former editor, ''

'' *

Julie Stewart-Binks Julie Stewart-Binks (born April 30, 1987) is a Canadian journalist who has worked for Barstool Sports, ESPN, and Fox Sports. Stewart-Binks worked as a rinkside reporter for the 2022 Stanley Cup playoffs on TNT. Early years Stewart-Binks was bo ...

– sports broadcaster, ESPN *

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

– actress and producer *

Ali Velshi Ali Velshi (born October 29, 1968, or 1969) is a Canadian television journalist, a senior economic and business correspondent for NBC News, and an anchor for MSNBC. He is also a substitute anchor for ''The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell'' on ...

– former '' Report on Business Television'' and current

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

reporter A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public. This is called journalism. Roles Journalists can work in broadcast, print, advertis ...

Sandy Webster Alexander (Sandy) Webster (January 30, 1923 - March 22, 2017) was a Canadian actor, best known for his regular supporting role as forensic investigator Dr. Chisholm in the drama television series '' The Great Detective''. Background Born and raised ...

– actor * Nancy Wilson – CBC journalist *

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

– actor

Business people

Alfred Bader Alfred Robert Bader (April 28, 1924 – December 23, 2018) was a Canadian chemist, businessman, philanthropist, and collector of fine art. He was considered by the ''Chemical & Engineering News'' poll of 1998 to be one of the "Top 75 Distinguis ...

(B.Sc. 1945, B.A. 1946, M.Sc. 1947) – founder of

Sigma-Aldrich Corporation Sigma-Aldrich (formally MilliporeSigma) is an American chemical, life science, and biotechnology company owned by the multinational chemical conglomerate Merck Group. Sigma-Aldrich was created in 1975 by the merger of Sigma Chemical Company and ...

, and donor of 15th century

Herstmonceux Castle Herstmonceux Castle is a brick-built castle, dating from the 15th century, near Herstmonceux, East Sussex, England. It is one of the oldest significant brick buildings still standing in England. The castle was renowned for being one of the fi ...

* Geoffrey Ballard – founder of

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

* Robert Buchan – founder and former president and CEO of

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

Derek Burney Derek Hudson Burney (born 1 November 1939) for a time served as Canada's ambassador to the US, and was political strategist for both the government of Brian Mulroney and of Stephen Harper. He was for a time an executive or director in private i ...

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

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

, current member of the board of directors of

CanWest Global Communications Canwest Global Communications Corporation, which operated under the corporate name Canwest, was a major Canadian media conglomerate based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with its head offices at Canwest Place (now called 201 Portage). It held radio, t ...

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

and

Shell Canada Shell Canada Limited () is the principal Canadian subsidiary of British energy major Shell plc and one of Canada's largest integrated oil companies. Exploration and production of oil, natural gas and sulphur is a major part of its business, as ...

* Donald J. Carty – former chairman and CEO of

AMR Corporation AMR Corporation was an airline holding company based in Fort Worth, Texas, which was the parent company of American Airlines, American Eagle Airlines, AmericanConnection and Executive Airlines. AMR filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy prot ...

, the parent company of

American Airlines American Airlines, Inc. is a major airlines of the United States, major airline in the United States headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, within the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, and is the Largest airlines in the world, largest airline in the ...

Gururaj Deshpande Gururaj Deshpande ("Desh" Deshpande) is an Indian American venture capitalist and entrepreneur, who is best known for co-founding the Chelmsford, MA-based internet equipment manufacturer Sycamore Networks,David A. Dodge – former governor of the

Bank of Canada The Bank of Canada (BoC; ) is a Crown corporations of Canada, 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 Surve ...

, and

chancellor Chancellor () is a title of various official positions in the governments of many countries. The original chancellors were the of Roman courts of justice—ushers, who sat at the (lattice work screens) of a basilica (court hall), which separa ...

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

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

) *

Don Drummond Don Drummond (12 March 1934 – 6 May 1969) was a Jamaican ska trombonist and composer. He was one of the original members of The Skatalites, and composed many of their tunes. In 1966, Drummond was convicted of murdering his 23-year-old ...

(MA, LLD) – former senior vice-president and

Chief Economist Chief economist is a single-position job class having primary responsibility for the development, coordination, and production of economic and financial analysis. It is distinguished from the other economist positions by the broader scope of respons ...

TD Bank Financial Group Toronto-Dominion Bank (), doing business as TD Bank Group (), is a Canadian multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The bank was created on February 1, 1955, through the merger of the Bank of ...

and Donald Matthews Faculty Fellowship on Global Public Policy * Mel Goodes – former chairman and CEO of the Warner-Lambert Company * Stephen K. Gunn – CEO and co-founder of

Sleep Country Canada Sleep Country Canada Holdings Inc. is a Canadian mattress Retail, retailer and #1 specialty retailer of Canada with over 250 stores operating in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Is ...

* Brian Hill – founder and Executive Chair of

Aritzia Aritzia LP is a Canadian clothing retail company founded in Vancouver, British Columbia, by businessman Brian Hill in 1984. Aritzia sells a variety of lifestyle apparel through various upscale retail stores across Canada, the United States, ...

* F. C. Kohli – former CEO of

Tata Consultancy Services Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an Indian Multinational corporation, multinational technology company specializing in information technology services and consulting. Headquartered in Mumbai, it is a part of the Tata Group and operates in 150 ...

(TCS) * Leonard Lee (B.A. 1963) – founder of Lee Valley Tools * Tiff Macklem (B.A 1983) - Governor of the

Michael MacMillan Michael I. M. MacMillan (born 1957) is a Canadian film and broadcasting executive who is the CEO of Blue Ant Media. Career MacMillan was previously the Executive Chairman of Alliance Atlantis. Macmillan co-founded Atlantis Films in 1978. In it ...

– chairman and co-founder of

Alliance Atlantis Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. (commonly known as Alliance Atlantis) was a Canadian media company that operated primarily as a specialty service operator in Canada. Alliance Atlantis also had offices in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Halifax, Los ...

Earle McLaughlin William Earle McLaughlin (16 September 1915 – 30 October 1991) was a Canadian banker who was the Chairman of the Royal Bank of Canada from 1960 to 1979. Born in Oshawa, Ontario, to parents Frank McLaughlin and Frankie L. Houlden. Earle McLaug ...

– former president and CEO of the

Royal Bank of Canada Royal Bank of Canada (RBC; ) is a Canadian multinational Financial institution, financial services company and the Big Five (banks), largest bank in Canada by market capitalization. The bank serves over 20 million clients and has more than ...

Seaton McLean Seaton McLean is a Canadian film and television producer A television producer is a person who oversees one or more aspects of a television show, television program. Some producers take more of an executive role, in that they conceive new progra ...

– co-founder of Atlantis Films (now

) * Alexander C. Monteith – senior vice-president of the

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

and recipient of the

IEEE Edison Medal The IEEE Edison Medal is presented by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) "for a career of meritorious achievement in electrical science, electrical engineering, or the electrical arts." It is the oldest medal in this fi ...

Elon Musk Elon Reeve Musk ( ; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman. He is known for his leadership of Tesla, SpaceX, X (formerly Twitter), and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Musk has been considered the wealthiest person in th ...

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

Kimbal Musk Kimbal James Musk (born 20 September 1972) is a businessman and restaurateur. He co-owns The Kitchen Restaurant Group, with restaurants in Colorado, Chicago, and Austin. He is the co-founder and chairman of Big Green, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit tha ...

– South African restaurateur, chef, and entrepreneur *

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

– founder, Nanos Research * Gord Nixon (BComm 1979) – president and CEO of the

Douglas Peters Douglas Dennison Peters, (March 3, 1930 – October 7, 2016) was a Canadian banker, economist, and politician. Life and career Peters was born in Brandon, Manitoba, the son of Mary Gladys (née Dennison) and Dr. Wilfrid Seymour Peters. In 1954 ...

(BComm 1963) – banker, economist and politician * Stephen Poloz –

Governor of the Bank of Canada The governor of the Bank of Canada () is the chief executive officer of the Bank of Canada and acts as chair of its board of directors. The '' Bank of Canada Act'', 1985, S. 6(1), provides that the governor and deputy governor shall be appointed ...

Stephen Quinn Stephen Jude Quinn (born 1 April 1986) is an Irish professional Association football, footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Mansfield Town F.C., Mansfield Town. He has also represented the Republic of Ireland national football team, Repu ...

– senior vice president, Wal-Mart Inc, Bentonville, Arkansas *

David Radler F. David Radler (born 1942 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian executive active in finance and news media. Radler was once president of Ravelston Corporation, a privately owned corporation owned by Conrad Black and Radler to control their former ...

(MBA 1967) – former president of

Ravelston Corporation Ravelston Corporation Limited was a Canadian holding company that was largely controlled by Conrad Black and business partner David Radler. At one time, it held a majority stake in Hollinger Inc., once one of the largest media corporations in th ...

(which owned

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

which controlled

Hollinger International Hollinger Inc. was a Canadian media company based in Toronto which was established in 1985 by businessman Conrad Black. At one time, the company was the third-largest media empire in the world. In 1996, through stock purchases, it took over co ...

), cooperating with the prosecution in the

Conrad Black Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour (born 25 August 1944), is a Canadian-British writer and former politician, Publishing, newspaper publisher, Investor, financier, and Fraudster, convicted fraudster. Black's father was businessma ...

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

Kobo Inc. Rakuten Kobo Inc., or simply Kobo, is a Canadian company that sells ebooks, audiobooks, e-readers and formerly tablet computers. It is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is a subsidiary of the Japanese e-commerce conglomerate Rakute ...

Chris Viehbacher Chris Viehbacher (born 1960) is a German-Canadian businessman. Sanofi He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Sanofi and Chairman of Genzyme until 29 October 2014. Viehbacher then worked with Gurnet Point Capital, a healthcare venture capital ...

– CEO of

Sanofi Sanofi S.A. is a French Multinational corporation, multinational pharmaceutical and healthcare company headquartered in Paris, France. The corporation was established in 1973 and merged with Synthélabo in 1999 to form Sanofi-Synthélabo. In 200 ...

Mark Wiseman Mark Wiseman (born 1970) is a Canadian businessman and financier who has worked with many institutional investors and the Government of Canada. He was formerly the chair of the Alberta Investment Management Corporation; a manager at BlackRock; an ...

– president and CEO of

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB; ), operating as CPP Investments (), is a Canadian Crown corporation established by way of the 1997 ''Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Act'' to oversee and invest the funds contributed to and h ...

* Rajeev Madhavan - Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist based in Silicon Valley, California

Literature and the arts

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

– singer-songwriter *

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

– artist * Lina Chartrand (B.A.) – writer *

George Elliott Clarke George Elliott Clarke (born February 12, 1960) is a Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic who served as the Poet Laureate of Toronto from 2012 to 2015 and as the Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate in 2016-2017. Clarke's work addresse ...

(Ph.D. 1993) – writer and academic *

Jim Cuddy James Gordon Cuddy, (born December 2, 1955) is a Canadian singer-songwriter primarily associated with the band Blue Rodeo. Early life and education Cuddy was born in Toronto, Ontario. His mother Jean Cuddy was an English teacher at Monarch P ...

– lead singer of

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

* Kalli Dakos – children's poet and teacher *

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

, CC – author and playwright *

Gord Downie Gordon Edgar Downie (February 6, 1964 – October 17, 2017) was a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, musician, writer, poet, and activist. He was the singer and lyricist for the Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip, which he fronted from ...

– lead singer of band

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

* Dawn Dumont – author * Priscilla Galloway – author *

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

– singer-songwriter * Frank Ll. Harrison – musicologist *

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

– author * Elena Juatco – singer and ''

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

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

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

(B.A. 2004) – vocalist and

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

ist for the Canadian band

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

* Paul Nicholas Mason – author *

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

(M.A., 1894) — poet, author, and educator * Jean Mills – children's author *

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

(B.A. 1851) – composer of "

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

" * Justine Musk – author *

Michael Ondaatje Philip Michael Ondaatje (; born 12 September 1943) is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer and essayist. Ondaatje's literary career began with his poetry in 1967, publishing ''The Dainty Monsters'', and then in 1970 the critically a ...

(M.A. 1967) – author *

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

– speaker, author and writer of 1000 Awesome Things * Joseph Petric – musician *

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

(BFA 2000) – artist * Maynard Plant – vocalist and guitarist for the Japanese band

Monkey Majik Monkey Majik (stylised as MONKEY MAJIK) is a Japanese pop rock band formed in 2000 in Sendai, Japan. The band consists of Canadian brothers, Maynard Plant and Blaise Plant, each acting as lead vocalists and guitarists, and two Japanese members: ...

Iain Reid Iain Reid (born 1981) is a Canadian writer. Winner of the RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award in 2015, Reid is the author of ''I'm Thinking of Ending Things'' (2016) and '' Foe'' (2018). Writing career Reid established his writing career by publis ...

(B.A. 2004) – novelist, author of

I'm Thinking of Ending Things ''I'm Thinking of Ending Things'' (stylized as i'm thinking ''of'' ending things) is a 2020 American surrealist psychological thriller film written and directed by Charlie Kaufman. It is an adaptation of the 2016 novel of the same name by Ia ...

Baņuta Rubess Baņuta Rubess (born 1956) is a Latvian-Canadian theatre director and playwright. She co-wrote ''This is For You, Anna'' as a member of the Anna Project. Rubess was a co-recipient of the 1988 Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award for children's ...

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

Eon Sinclair Bedouin Soundclash is a Canadian band based in Toronto and consisting of vocalist and guitarist Jay Malinowski, bass player Eon Sinclair, and various session musicians. Their sound has been described as a combination of reggae and ska. Bedouin So ...

(B.A. 2004) –

bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Wood * Bass or basswood, the wood of the tilia americana tree Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in th ...

ist for Canadian band

* Gord Sinclair – bassist of

* Russell Smith – author and ''

'' columnist *

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

– author * Timothy Taylor – author *

Judith Thompson Judith Clare Thompson, OC (born September 20, 1954) is a Canadian playwright. She has twice been awarded the Governor General's Award for drama, and is the recipient of many other awards including the Order of Canada, the Walter Carsen Performi ...

– playwright * Chris Turner – author

Military

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

(B.A. 1933) – awarded the

Victoria Cross The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest and most prestigious decoration of the Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom, British decorations system. It is awarded for valour "in the presence of the enemy" to members of the British ...

for service during the

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

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

* Mark Norman (Bachelor of Economics) – Vice-Admiral, Commander of RCN * Ken Watkin (Bachelor of Laws and Master of Laws) – Brigadier General and Judge Advocate General of the

Canadian Forces The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF; , FAC) are the unified Military, military forces of Canada, including sea, land, and air commands referred to as the Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force. Under the ''National Defenc ...

Political leaders

William Aberhart William Aberhart (December 30, 1878 – May 23, 1943), also known as "Bible Bill" for his radio sermons about the Bible, was a Canadian politician and the seventh premier of Alberta from 1935 to his death in 1943. He was the founder and first le ...

– former

Premier of Alberta The premier of Alberta is the head of government and first minister of the Canadian province of Alberta. The current premier is Danielle Smith, leader of the governing United Conservative Party, who was sworn in on October 11, 2022. The premi ...

* Rohit Aggarwala – Commissioner of the

New York City Department of Environmental Protection The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is the department of the government of New York City that manages the city's water supply and works to reduce air, noise, and hazardous materials pollution. Under a 1.3 billion do ...

* John Baird (B.A. 1992) – former

Minister of the Environment An environment minister (sometimes minister of the environment or secretary of the environment) is a cabinet position charged with protecting the natural environment and promoting wildlife conservation. The areas associated with the duties of a ...

and former Foreign Affairs Minister *

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

– former broadcaster and provincial cabinet minister *

Michael Breaugh Michael James Breaugh (September 13, 1942 – November 22, 2019) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1975 to 1990, and in the House of Commons of Canada from a 1990 by-election until 1993. Background ...

– former Member of Parliament and Member of Provincial Parliament *

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

Korea Korea is a peninsular region in East Asia consisting of the Korean Peninsula, Jeju Island, and smaller islands. Since the end of World War II in 1945, it has been politically Division of Korea, divided at or near the 38th parallel north, 3 ...

Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...

, and the

United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ...

* Diana Buttu –

Palestinian Palestinians () are an Arab ethnonational group native to the Levantine region of Palestine. *: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenous p ...

legal advisor *

Sean Conway Sean Conway may refer to: * Sean Conway (swimmer) (born 1981), British-Zimbabwean athlete, author and speaker *Sean Conway (businessman) (born 1984), American entrepreneur *Sean Conway (Canadian politician) Sean Conway (born July 24, 1951) is a ...

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

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

(B.Mus. 1973, Law 1976) –

Supreme Court In most legal jurisdictions, a supreme court, also known as a court of last resort, apex court, high (or final) court of appeal, and court of final appeal, is the highest court within the hierarchy of courts. Broadly speaking, the decisions of ...

justice *

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

– former

Minister of Finance A ministry of finance is a ministry or other government agency in charge of government finance, fiscal policy, and financial regulation. It is headed by a finance minister, an executive or cabinet position . A ministry of finance's portfolio ...

Paul Dewar Paul Wilson Dewar (January 25, 1963 – February 6, 2019) was a Canadian educator and politician from Ottawa, Ontario. He was the New Democratic Party (NDP) Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Ottawa Centre. Dewar was first elected to ...

– educator, aid worker and former Member of Parliament *

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

(PhD 1975) –

Minister of International Trade The Minister of International Trade () is the minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet responsible for the federal government's international trade portfolio. Along with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development, it is ...

and Minister for the Pacific Gateway and the Vancouver-Whistler Olympics *

Robert Fowler Robert or Bobby Fowler may refer to: * Robert Fowler (archbishop of Dublin) (1724–1801), bishop in the Church of Ireland * Robert Fowler (artist) (1853–1926), English artist * Robert Fowler (athlete) (1882–1957), American marathoner * Robert ...

– Canadian diplomat *

Jean-Denis Garon Jean-Denis Garon is a Canadian politician who was elected to represent the riding of Mirabel in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2021 Canadian federal election The 2021 Canadian federal election was held on September 20, 2021, to ele ...

(Ph.D. 2012) – Scholar and politician, Member of Parliament for Mirabel *

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

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

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

– Governor General of

Jamaica Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the is ...

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

Green Party of Canada The Green Party of Canada () is a federal political party in Canada, founded in 1983 with a focus on green politics. The Green Party is currently the fifth largest party in the House of Commons by seat count. It elected its first member of ...

* Yolande James (LL.B. 2003) – lawyer and politician, Quebec's first black cabinet minister * Pauline Jewett – university administrator and federal Member of Parliament *

David Lloyd Johnston David Lloyd Johnston (born June 28, 1941) is a Canadian academic, author, and statesman who served as the 28th governor general of Canada from 2010 to 2017. Johnston was the special rapporteur appointed to investigate reports of foreign inter ...

(LL.B. 1966) – president of the

University of Waterloo The University of Waterloo (UWaterloo, UW, or Waterloo) is a Public university, public research university located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is on of land adjacent to uptown Waterloo and Waterloo Park. The university also op ...

, Principal of

McGill University McGill University (French: Université McGill) is an English-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill University, Vol. I. For the Advancement of Learning, ...

, Dean of the School of Law at the

University of Western Ontario The University of Western Ontario (UWO; branded as Western University) is a Public university, public research university in London, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on of land, surrounded by residential neighbourhoods and the Thame ...

, and the 28th

Governor General of Canada The governor general of Canada () is the federal representative of the . The monarch of Canada is also sovereign and head of state of 14 other Commonwealth realms and resides in the United Kingdom. The monarch, on the Advice (constitutional la ...

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

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

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

(Ph.D. 1992) – scholar and politician, former member of Quebec National Assembly and Quebec minister of finance (2012-2014) *

John Matheson John Ross Matheson (14 November 1917 – 27 December 2013) was a Canadian politician, lawyer, and judge, who helped develop both the national flag of Canada and the Order of Canada. Early life John Matheson was born in Arundel, Quebec, th ...

– "Midwife of Canadian Flag" and former MP for Leeds, judge in Ottawa-Carlton * Lindsay Mathyssen – member of Parliament *

Frank McKenna Francis Joseph McKenna (born January 19, 1948) is a Canadian businessman and former politician and diplomat. He is currently Chair of Brookfield Corporation and Deputy Chairman of the Toronto-Dominion Bank. He served as Canadian Ambassador ...

– former Canadian ambassador to the

and former

Premier of New Brunswick The premier of New Brunswick ( (masculine) or (feminine)) is the first minister and head of government for the Canadian province of New Brunswick. The premier of a Canadian province is much like the prime minister of Canada. They are normally ...

Peter Milliken Peter Andrew Stewart Milliken (born November 12, 1946) is a Canadian lawyer and politician. He was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 until his retirement in 2011 and served as Speaker of the House for 10 years beginning in 2 ...

(B.A. 1968) –

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

Tim Murphy Timothy Murphy may refer to: Politics * Tim Murphy (American politician) (born 1952), American Republican Party politician from Pennsylvania * Tim Murphy (Canadian politician) (born 1959), Canadian politician * Timothy J. Murphy (1893–1949), Iri ...

–

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 supportin ...

of the

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

Prime Minister's Office under

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

's government * Robert Nicholson (B.A. 1975) – Minister of National Defence of Canada *

Alison Redford Alison Merrilla Redford (born March 7, 1965) is a Canadian lawyer and former politician. She was the 14th premier of Alberta, having served in this capacity from October 7, 2011, to March 23, 2014. Redford was born in Kitimat, British Columbia ...

– (attended for two years 1983–1985) 14th premier of Alberta (2011–2014) *

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

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

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

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

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

– Toronto municipal councillor and chair of the TTC (2010–2014) *

Ross Thatcher Wilbert Ross Thatcher, (May 24, 1917 – July 22, 1971) was a Canadian politician who served as the ninth premier of Saskatchewan from 1964 to 1971. Thatcher began his career as a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in 1942, elect ...

– 9th premier of Saskatchewan (1964–1971) *

Kathleen Wynne Kathleen O'Day Wynne ( ; born May 21, 1953) is a former Canadian politician who served as the 25th premier of Ontario and leader of the Ontario Liberal Party from 2013 to 2018. She was Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario), member of provinci ...

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

Scientists

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

B.Sc. – geologist and paleontologist * Mustapha Ishak Boushaki (PhD 2002) – theoretical physicist *

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

B.Sc., M.Sc. – chemical geologist *

Bill Buxton William Arthur Stewart Buxton (born March 10, 1949) is a Canadian computer scientist and designer. He is regarded as one of the pioneers in the field of human–computer interaction and is currently active in research at the University of Toront ...

B.Mus. (1973) – computer scientist and human-computer interaction pioneer * Barbara Cade-Menun – research scientist * Adolfo J. de Bold – O.C. Ph.D. – emeritus professor at University of Ottawa; discovered heart hormones * Charles LeGeyt Fortescue – electrical engineer * Christine Friedenreich - cancer epidemiologist * James Edwin Hawley (BSc 1918, MSc 1920) – head of Geological Sciences Department (1929–1962) * Kenneth E. Iverson (BSc 1951) – inventor of the

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

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

laureate *

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

(PhD 2008) – theoretical chemist * Leon Katz, B.Sc. MSc. – professor University of Saskatchewan, founder of Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory, Member of the Order of Canada * Venkatesh K. R. Kodur Ph.D. – University Distinguished Professor at

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

and pioneer in structural fire engineering *

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

M.Sc. (Geology) – geochronologist and curator of the

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

* Harriet MacMillan (M.D., 1982) – medical academic and scientist * Margaret McKellar M.D. (1890), medical missionary *

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

M.D. (1938) – pathologist *

Derek Muller Derek Alexander Muller (born 9 November 1982) is a science communicator and media personality, best known for his YouTube channel Veritasium, which has over 17.8 million subscribers and 3.3 billion views as of April 2025. He currently lives in ...

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

Veritasium Derek Alexander Muller (born 9 November 1982) is a Science communication, science communicator and media personality, best known for his YouTube channel Veritasium, which has over 17.8 million subscribers and 3.3 billion views as of April 2025. ...

(

YouTube YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in ...

channel) * Anthony J. Naldrett –

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

emeritus professor, geologist * Kathleen I. Pritchard MD 1971 – head of

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

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (SHSC), commonly known as Sunnybrook Hospital or simply Sunnybrook, is an academic health science centre located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The hospital is the largest trauma centre in Canada. It is accredite ...

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

Julielynn Wong Julielynn Yee-Ching Wong is a physician, scientist and pilot, who is internationally recognized for using 3-D printing to provide healthcare services to remote environments, including outer space. Wong is the founder and CEO of two organizations ...

(M.D.) – physician, scientist and pilot

Sports

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

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

champion *

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

–

IndyCar IndyCar, LLC (stylized as INDYCAR), is an auto racing sanctioning body for American open-wheel car racing headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. The organization sanctions two racing series: the premier IndyCar Series with the Indianapolis ...

Series Racer *

Craig MacTavish Craig MacTavish (born August 15, 1958) is a Canadian professional ice hockey executive and former player, formerly an assistant coach with the St. Louis Blues. He played center for 17 seasons in the National Hockey League with the Boston Bruins, ...

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

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

– NHL and Canadian National Team hockey player * Gordon Orlikow (b. 1960) –

decathlon The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of 10 track and field events. The word "decathlon" was formed, in analogy to the word "pentathlon", from Greek δέκα (''déka'', meaning "ten") and ἄθλος (''áthlos'', or ἄ ...

heptathlon A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek ἑπτά (hepta, meaning "seven") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "competition"). A competitor in a hep ...

, and hurdles competitor,

Athletics Canada Athletics Canada or AC () is the national governing body for athletics in Canada, which includes track and field, cross-country running, road running, and race walking. Based in Ottawa, Ontario, Athletics Canada is a non-profit organization. The ...

Chairman,

Canadian Olympic Committee The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC; ), also known as Team Canada, is a private nonprofit organization that represents Canada at the International Olympic Committee. It is also a member of the Pan American Sports Organization. History Cana ...

member, Korn/Ferry International partner * George Richardson – Hockey Hall of Fame member, died in World War I *

Mike Schad Michael Schad (born October 4, 1963) is a Canadian former professional football player who was an offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL). After his football career, he became a mortgage banker with CMG Financial located in Mt. ...

– former NFL player *

Tessa Virtue Tessa Jane McCormick Virtue (born May 17, 1989) is a Canadian retired ice dancer. With ice dance partner Scott Moir, she is the 2010 and 2018 Olympic champion, the 2014 Olympic silver medallist, a three-time World champion (2010, 2012, 2017) ...

– (EMBA 2020) figure skater, multi-Olympic gold medalist *

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

– NHL player and

Hockey Hall of Fame The Hockey Hall of Fame () is a museum and hall of fame located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dedicated to the history of ice hockey, it holds exhibits about players, teams, National Hockey League (NHL) records, memorabilia and National Hockey Le ...

inductee *

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

– first Canadian college football player drafted into the NFL (

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

)

Miscellaneous

Robert Arntfield Robert Arntfield is a Canadian intensivist, medical educator, researcher, and entrepreneur. His specialty is in cardiorespiratory physiology, resuscitation, and the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare. He is a Professor of Medicine and D ...

, Canadian

intensivist An intensivist, also known as a critical care doctor, is a medical practitioner who specializes in the care of critically ill patients, most often in the intensive care unit (ICU). Intensivists can be internists or internal medicine sub-special ...

and medical educator * J. Sidney Bernstein (B.A. 1898) – American lawyer, politician, and judge *

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

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

CFL The Canadian Football League (CFL; , LCF) is a professional Canadian football league in Canada. It comprises nine teams divided into two divisions, with four teams in the East Division and five in the West Division. The CFL is the highest pr ...

player, and broadcaster * J. Douglas Cunningham (B.A., LL.B.) – lawyer and

Ontario Superior Court The Superior Court of Justice (French: ''Cour supérieure de justice'') is a superior court in Ontario. The Court sits in 52 locations across the province, including 17 Family Court locations, and consists of over 300 federally appointed judges ...

Justice *

Julie Dickson Julie Dickson, was the Superintendent of the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions of Canada, from July 4, 2007, to June, 2014. She later became a member of the ECB Supervisory Board, concerned with uniform regulatory oversight of ...

(M.E.) – civil servant * David A. Dodge (B.A.) – former Bank of Canada governor and current Chancellor of Queen's University * Virginia Douglas – past president of the

Canadian Psychological Association The Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) is the primary organization representing psychologists throughout Canada. It was organized in 1939 and incorporated under the Canada Corporations Act, Part II, in May 1950. Its objectives are to imp ...

* Andrew J. Feustel (Ph.D) – geophysicist and

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the federal government of the United States, US federal government responsible for the United States ...

astronaut *

Barbara Findlay barbara findlay is a Canadian lawyer and a longtime LGBT rights activist. She is the subject of the documentary '. Early life Findlay has a BA from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. She later studied at the University of British Co ...

(M.A, LL.B.) – lawyer and LGBT rights activist * Alan B. Gold – former Chief Justice of Quebec Superior Court; Chancellor of

Concordia University Concordia University () is a Public university, public English-language research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1974 following the merger of Loyola College (Montreal), Loyola College and Sir George Williams Universit ...

Karla Homolka Karla Leanne Homolka (born May 4, 1970), also known as Karla Leanne Teale, Leanne Teale and Leanne Bordelais, is a Canadian serial killer who acted as an accomplice to her husband, Paul Bernardo, taking active part in the rapes and murders of at ...

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

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

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

Wall Street Wall Street is a street in the Financial District, Manhattan, Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It runs eight city blocks between Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway in the west and South Street (Manhattan), South Str ...

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

James Macleod Lieutenant-Colonel James Farquharson Macleod (c. September 25, 1836 – September 5, 1894), born in Drynoch, Isle of Skye, Scotland, was a militia officer, lawyer, North-West Mounted Police officer, magistrate, judge, and politician in Albe ...

– militia officer, lawyer,

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

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

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

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

Vietnam War The Vietnam War (1 November 1955 – 30 April 1975) was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) and their allies. North Vietnam w ...

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

– CNN business analyst

Notable faculty and affiliates

In addition to the following notable faculty members, Sir

Sandford Fleming Sir Sandford Fleming (January 7, 1827 – July 22, 1915) was a Scottish Canadian engineer and inventor. Born and raised in Scotland, he immigrated to colonial Canada at the age of 18. He promoted worldwide standard time zones, a prime meridian, ...

, former

Prime Minister of Canada The prime minister of Canada () is the head of government of Canada. Under the Westminster system, the prime minister governs with the Confidence and supply, confidence of a majority of the elected House of Commons of Canada, House of Commons ...

Sir

Robert Laird Borden Sir Robert Laird Borden (June 26, 1854 – June 10, 1937) was a Canadian lawyer and Conservative 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 ...

, and former

governor general of Canada The governor general of Canada () is the federal representative of the . The monarch of Canada is also sovereign and head of state of 14 other Commonwealth realms and resides in the United Kingdom. The monarch, on the Advice (constitutional la ...

Roland Michener Daniel Roland Michener (April 19, 1900 – August 6, 1991) was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and diplomat who served as the 20th governor general of Canada from 1967 to 1974. Michener was born and educated in Alberta. In 1917 he served briefl ...

have all served as

of the university, though this is a non-academic role. *

Donald Akenson Donald Harman Akenson (born May 22, 1941, Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American historian and author. He is a fellow of both the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Historical Society (UK). He is a Molson Prize Laureate, awarded for a lifetime ...

– History *

Ralph Allen Ralph Allen ( – 29 June 1764) was a British postmaster, merchant and philanthropist best known for his reforms to General Post Office#Early postal services, Britain's postal system. Born in St Columb Major, Cornwall, he moved to Bath, Somers ...

– Art * W. B. Anderson – classics and Latin *

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

– Music (

Juno Award The Juno Awards (stylized as JUNOS), or simply known as the Junos, are awards presented by Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences to recognize outstanding achievements in Canada's mu ...

winning

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

) * Caroline Baillie – Engineering * John W. Berry – Psychology *

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

– Economics (Member of the Canadian Royal Society, the

Order of Canada The Order of Canada () is a Canadian state order, national order and the second-highest Award, honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, after the Order of Merit. To coincide with the Canadian Centennial, ce ...

and CESIfo Distinguished Fellow) * Janine Brodie – Political Science * Rosa Bruno-Jofré – History *

Gerald Bull Gerald Vincent Bull (March 9, 1928 – March 22, 1990) was a Canadian engineer who developed long-range artillery. He moved from project to project in his quest to economically launch a satellite using a space gun, huge artillery piece, to which ...

– long-range artillery engineer *

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

– Music, (

winning

) * Meredith Chivers – Psychology * James Cordy – Computing ( ACM Distinguished Scientist and co-inventor of the Turing programming language) * Thomas Courchene – Economics, Policy studies *

Wendy Craig Wendy Craig (born Anne Gwendolyn Craig; 20 June 1934) is an English actress who is best known for her appearances in the sitcoms '' Not in Front of the Children'' (1967–1970), '' ...And Mother Makes Three'' (1971–1973), '' ...And Mother M ...

– Psychology *

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

–

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

, Biomedical and Molecular Sciences *

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

– Psychology * Richard J. F. Day – Sociology *

Vibert Douglas Alice Vibert Douglas ( Douglas Vibert; December 15, 1894 – July 2, 1988), who usually went by her middle name, was a Canadian astronomer and astrophysicist. Early life and education Douglas was born in Montreal, Quebec, on 15 December 1894 to ...

– Astrophysics *

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

– Medical History * Gabor Fichtinger – Computing (

, Computer-Integrated Surgery) *

Suzanne Fortier Suzanne Fortier (born November 11, 1949) is a Canadian crystallographer who was the 17th Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University. Early life and education Fortier was born in Saint-Timothée, Quebec, a town on Île-de-Salaberry in ...

– Chemistry (President of the

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC; , CRSNG) is the major federal agency responsible for funding natural sciences and engineering research in Canada. NSERC directly funds university professors and students as ...

(NSERC)) * Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant – Politics *

J. A. W. Gunn John Alexander Wilson "Jock" Gunn (1937 – March 7, 2023) was a Canadian political philosopher. Early life and education Gunn earned a Bachelor of Arts in politics and history from Queen's University in 1959 and a Doctor of Philosophy de ...

– Politics *

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

– Biology (

ornithologist Ornithology, from Ancient Greek ὄρνις (''órnis''), meaning "bird", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study", is a branch of zoology dedicated to the study of birds. Several aspects of ornithology differ from related discip ...

) *

Tom Kent Thomas Kent Newton (August 6, 1954 – June 24, 2024) was an American radio personality and label executive. As the head of the ''Tom Kent Radio Network'', Kent hosted and produced syndicated daily, weekend and, 24/7 programming each week on a ...

– Economics * Audrey Kobayashi – Geography *

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

–

, Philosophy * Susan Lederman – Psychology * William Lederman – Law * William C. Leggett – Biology (Chairman of the Board of the

Canada Foundation for Innovation The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI; , ''FCI'') is an independent corporation created by the Government of Canada to invest in research facilities and equipment in Canada's universities, colleges, research hospitals, and non-profit research in ...

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

Clarke Mackey Clarke Mackey (born September 30, 1950) is a Canadian filmmaker, author, and educator. He is known for his first feature film, '' The Only Thing You Know'' (1972), and for the focus in his filmmaking and writing on vernacular culture. His book on t ...

– Film and Media *

James G. MacKinnon James Gordon MacKinnon (born January 4, 1951) is currently the Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Econometrics in the Department of Economics at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, where he has spent his entire academic career and previously ...

– Economics (Fellow of the

Econometric Society The Econometric Society is an international society of academic economists interested in applying statistical tools in the practice of econometrics. It is an independent organization with no connections to societies of professional mathematicians o ...

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

Nobel Prize in physics The Nobel Prize in Physics () is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions to mankind in the field of physics. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the ...

and a member of the

) * John McGarry – Politics * Katherine McKittrick – Gender Studies *

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

– Music * M. Ram Murty – Mathematics (Queen's Research Chair) * Kim Richard Nossal – Politics * Malcolm Peat – Physiotherapy *

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

– Psychology *

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

– Theatre, Gender Studies *

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

– Mathematics * Kai Salomaa – Computer Science *

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

– Physics * Sanjay Sharma – Medicine (ophthalmology, epidemiology) * Bhavin J. Shastri - Neuromorphic photonic computing * Elizabeth Smith Shortt – Medicine * Ana Siljak – History * Duncan G. Sinclair – Medicine * John P. Smol – Biology (winner of the Herzberg Prize) * L. S. Stavrianos – History * Alastair M. Taylor – Geography, Political Studies * David J. Thomson – Mathematics * Helen Tiffin – English *

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

– Medicine * Craig Walker – Drama *

Beatrice Worsley Beatrice Helen Worsley (18 October 1921 – 8 May 1972) was a Canadian computer scientist, the first woman in the country to work in that profession. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge with Maurice Wilkes as adviser, the firs ...

– Computer Science, launched Queen's' new Computer Centre based on an

IBM 1620 The IBM 1620 was a model of scientific minicomputer produced by IBM. It was announced on October 21, 1959, and was then marketed as an inexpensive scientific computer. After a total production of about two thousand machines, it was withdrawn on N ...

in 1965 *

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

– Mathematical Physics

Principals

# Rev

Thomas Liddell Thomas Liddell may refer to: * Thomas Liddell (principal) (1800–1880), first principal of Queen's University, Ontario, then Queen's College * Thomas Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth (1775–1855), British peer and Tory politician * Sir Thomas Lidde ...

(1841–1846) # Rev

John Machar John Machar (1796 – February 7, 1863) was the second principal (1846–1853) of Queen's University, then known as Queen's College at Kingston. Machar was born in Tannandice, Scotland. He was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1819. In 1827 ...

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

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

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

William Hamilton Fyfe Sir William Hamilton Fyfe (9 July 1878 – 13 June 1965) was an England, English and Canadian classics scholar, educator, and educational administrator. He served as the 10th principal (university), Principal of Queen's University at Kings ...

(1930–1936) #

Robert Charles Wallace Robert Charles Wallace (June 15, 1881 – January 29, 1955) was a Scots-Canadian geologist, educator, and administrator who served as president of the University of Alberta (1928–1936), the principal of Queen's University (1936–1951), and th ...

(1936–1951) #

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

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

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

(1968–1974) #

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

(1974–1984) # David Chadwick Smith (1984–1994) # William Claude Leggett (1994–2004) # Karen R. Hitchcock (2004–2008) # Thomas R. Williams (2008–2009) #

Daniel Woolf Daniel Robert Woolf (born 5 December 1958) is a British-Canadian historian and former university administrator. He served as the 20th Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, a position to which he was ...

(2009–2019) # Patrick Deane (2019–present)

Chancellors

# Rev John Cook (1877–1879) # Sir

(1880–1915) # James Douglas (1915–1918) # Sir Edward Beatty (1918–1923) # Sir

(1924–1929) #

James Armstrong Richardson James Armstrong Richardson, Jr. (March 28, 1922 – May 17, 2004) was a Canadian Cabinet minister under Pierre Trudeau and a Winnipeg businessman. Early life Richardson was born on March 28, 1922, in Winnipeg, Manitoba to James Armstrong Ri ...

(1929–1939) #

Charles Avery Dunning Charles Avery Dunning (July 31, 1885 – October 1, 1958) was the third premier of Saskatchewan. Born in England, he emigrated to Canada at the age of 16. By the age of 36, he was premier. He had a successful career as a farmer, business ...

(1940–1958) # John Bertram Stirling (1960–1973) #

(1973–1980) # Agnes Mccausland Benidickson (1980–1996) #

Peter Lougheed Edgar Peter Lougheed ( ; July 26, 1928 – September 13, 2012) was a Canadian lawyer and Progressive Conservative politician who served as the tenth premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985, presiding over a period of reform and economic growth. ...

(1996–2002) # A. Charles Baillie (2002–2008) # David A. Dodge (2008–2014) # Jim Leech (2014–2021) #

Murray Sinclair Calvin Murray Sinclair (Ojibway name Mizanay (Mizhana) Gheezhik; January 24, 1951 – November 4, 2024) was a Canadian politician who was a member of the Senate, and a First Nations lawyer who served as chairman of the Indian Residential Scho ...

(2021–2024)

Rectors

# Rev S. W. Dyde (1913) # James L. Robertson (1916) # Brigadier General A. E. Ross (1920) # William H. Coverdale (1925) # Oscar D. Skelton (1929) # R. B. Bennett (1935) #

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

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

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

(1978) # Jeremy Freedman (1980) # James Harris (1982) # Richard Powers (1984) # Kelley McKinnon (1986) # Charis Kelso (1988) # Antoinette Mongillo (1990) #

David Baar David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Damas ...

(1992) # Peter Gallant (1994) # Ian Michael (1996) # Michael Kealy (1998) # Daniel Sahl (2000) # Ahmed "KC" Kayssi (2002) # Grant R.A. Bishop (2004) # Johsa Marie G. Manzanilla (2006) # Leora Jackson (2008) # Nick Day (2010) #

Nick Francis Nick may refer to: People and fictional characters * Nick (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Désirée Nick, German actress and writer Places * Nick, Hungary, a village * Nick, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland, a v ...

(2011) # Mike Young (2014) # Cameron Yung (2016) # Alexandra da Silva (2018) # Sam Hiemstra (2020) # Owen Crawford Lem (2022)

References

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