List of McGill University people: Difference between revisions

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[[File:Mcgill university coa.png|thumb|150px|[[Heraldry of McGill University|McGill University's coat of arms]]]]

# [[H. Arnold Steinberg]] (BCom 1954) (2009–2014)

# [[Michael A. Meighen]] (BA 1960) (2014–2021)

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[[File:Sir Wilfrid Laurier - Bain.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Wilfrid Laurier|Sir Wilfrid Laurier]], [[List of Prime Ministers of Canada|7th]] [[Prime Minister of Canada]]]]

[[File:Trudeau visit White House for USMCA (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Justin Trudeau]], [[List of Prime Ministers of Canada|23rd]] and current [[Prime Minister of Canada]]]]

[[File:TimothyHarris.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Timothy Harris]], current [[List of Prime Ministers of Saint Kitts and Nevis|Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis]]]]

[[File:Daniel Oduber 3 (adjusted).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Daniel Oduber Quirós]], 37th [[President of Costa Rica]]]]

[[File:Vaira Vike-Freiberga-13062007.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Vaira Vike-Freiberga]], 6th and first female [[President of Latvia]]]]

[[File:Paula Cox 2010 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Paula Cox|Paula Ann Cox]], 10th [[List of Premiers of Bermuda|Prime Minister of Bermuda]]]]

[[File:Johnrankin.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[John Rankin (diplomat)|John Rankin]], former [[Governor of Bermuda|Governor-General of Bermuda]], the 143rd]]

[[File:WBT, UL, London, UK.png|thumb|right|110px|[[Wendy Thomson]], [[social work]] professor and current President of the [[University of London]]]]

[[File:Santa-Ono-2015-1.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Santa J. Ono]], [[immunologist]], 28th President of the [[University of Cincinnati]], 15th President of the [[University of Michigan]]; 15th President & Vice-Chancellor of the [[University of British Columbia]]]]

[[File:Dr. Suzanne Fortier.png|thumb|right|110px|[[Suzanne Fortier]], [[Crystallography|crystallographer]] and former Principal of [[McGill University]]]]

[[File:Mortimer Zuckerman, January 2013-1.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Mortimer Zuckerman]], owner-publisher of [[U.S. News & World Report]] and [[New York Daily News]], founder-CEO of [[Boston Properties]]]]

[[File:Edgar M Bronfman 1989.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Edgar Bronfman Sr.]], President-CEO of [[Seagram]] and recipient of the US [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]]]]

[[File:Official portrait of Lord Wasserman crop 2.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Gordon Wasserman, Baron Wasserman|Gordon Wasserman, The Lord Wasserman]], current Member of the [[House of Lords]] in the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|British Parliament]]]]

[[File:Chase Woodhouse.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Chase G. Woodhouse|Chase Going Woodhouse]], [[U.S. Congresswoman]], early feminist leader, and suffragist]]

[[File:Wilder Penfield.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Wilder Penfield]], [[neurosurgeon]], discovered [[electrical stimulation]] of the [[human brain]]]]

[[File:Ernest Rutherford2.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Ernest Rutherford]], awarded the 1908 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] for path-breaking work in [[atomic physics]]]]

[[File:Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1977.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Zbigniew Brzezinski]], US [[National Security Advisor (United States)|National Security Advisor]] and US [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] recipient]]

[[File:Charles Taylor (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Charles Taylor (philosopher)|Charles Taylor]], multi-awarded philosopher]]

[[File:Star Trek William Shatner.JPG|thumb|right|110px|[[William Shatner]], film director and actor best known as [[James T. Kirk|Captain James T. Kirk]] in ''[[Star Trek]]'']]

[[File:Mia Kirshner Comic-Con 2012.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Mia Kirshner]], movie and TV actress]]

[[File:Dr. John O' Keefe, Nobel laureate in Medicine.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[John O'Keefe (neuroscientist)|John O'Keefe]] received the 2014 [[Nobel Prize in Medicine]] for discovering the brain's positioning system]]

[[File:TMS Chang.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Thomas Chang]], inventor of the [[artificial cell]] and three-time nominee for the [[Nobel Prize in Medicine]]]]

===Nobel Prize graduates and faculty members===

{| class="wikitable"

| Various

| 2006, 1999, 1987, 1970, 1970, 1968

|}

 

* [[Brian Alters]] – evolution and education

* [[Frederick Andermann]] (BA 1948, BSc 1952) – neuroscientist

* [[Athanasios Asimakopulos]] (BA 1951, MA 1953) – prominent economist in the [[Post Keynesian]] tradition

* [[Brigitte Askonas]] (BSc 1944, MSc 1949) – prominent British immunologist

* [[Thomas Chang]] (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]]

*[[Sujit Choudhry]] (BSc 1992) – constitutionalist and Dean of the [[UC Berkeley School of Law|University of California Berkeley, School of Law]]

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

* [[Jordan Peterson]] (PhD 1991, Postdoc 1993) – clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and psychology professor currently at the [[University of Toronto]]

* [[Hans Zingg]] (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===

* [[Aldo Bensadoun]] – founder and CEO of the [[ALDO Group]]

* [[Conrad Black]] – 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<ref>{{cite web|url=http://utpress.utpress.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/cw2w3.cgi?p=biro&t=45801&d=2498|title=Conrad Black's Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry|work=[[University of Toronto Press]]|quote=McGill Univ. M.A. 1973|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071117062235/http://utpress.utpress.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/cw2w3.cgi?p=biro&t=45801&d=2498|archivedate=17 November 2007}}</ref>

* [[Charles Bronfman]] – philanthropist; former co-chairman of [[Seagram]] Distillers<ref>{{cite web|url=http://utpress.utpress.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/cw2w3.cgi?p=brock&t=33318&d=1251|title=Charles Bronfman's Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry|work=[[University of Toronto Press]]|quote=McGill Univ.|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071117062243/http://utpress.utpress.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/cw2w3.cgi?p=brock&t=33318&d=1251|archivedate=17 November 2007}}</ref>

* [[Edgar Bronfman, Sr.]] – former CEO of Seagram<ref>{{cite web|url=http://utpress.utpress.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/cw2w3.cgi?p=brock&t=34570&d=1418|title=Edgar M. Bronfman's Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry|work=[[University of Toronto Press]]|quote=McGill Univ., B.A. 1951|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071117062248/http://utpress.utpress.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/cw2w3.cgi?p=brock&t=34570&d=1418|archivedate=17 November 2007}}</ref>

* [[Jean Coutu (pharmacist)|Jean Coutu]] – businessman; billionaire; founder and CEO of [[Jean Coutu Group]]

* [[Paul Desmarais, Jr.]] – chairman of [[Power Corporation]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://utpress.utpress.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/cw2w3.cgi?p=denman&t=78230&d=1902|title=Paul Desmarais, Jr.'s Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry|work=[[University of Toronto Press]]|quote=McGill Univ. B.Comm. 1977|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071117062258/http://utpress.utpress.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/cw2w3.cgi?p=denman&t=78230&d=1902|archivedate=17 November 2007}}</ref>

* [[Darren Entwistle]] – president and chief executive officer of [[Telus]]

* [[Stéphanie Fillion]] - Award-winning [[French Canadians|French-Canadian]] reporter and [[United Nations]] correspondent

* [[John Joseph Caldwell Abbott|Sir John Abbott]] (BCL 1854) – third Prime Minister of Canada and first to be born in Canada<ref name="mcgill.ca">{{Cite web |url=https://www.mcgill.ca/about/alumni/publicservice/ |title=Public service |access-date=3 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611041326/http://www.mcgill.ca/about/alumni/publicservice/ |archive-date=11 June 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

* [[Wilfrid Laurier|Sir Wilfrid Laurier]] (BCL 1864) – seventh Prime Minister of Canada<ref name="mcgill.ca" />

 

=====Cabinet ministers and members of parliament=====

*[[Marc Miller (politician)|Marc Miller]] (BCL, LLB 2001): Current Member of Parliament for [[Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Sœurs]], Quebec, and Parliamentary Secretary to the [[Minister of Crown–Indigenous Relations]]

* [[David Lametti]] (BCL 1989, LLB 1989): Current Member of Parliament for [[LaSalle—Émard—Verdun]], Quebec, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development

* [[Murray Rankin]] (BA 1972): Former Member of Parliament for [[Victoria (British Columbia federal electoral district)|Victoria]], [[British Columbia]], and current Member of the [[Legislative Assembly of British Columbia]] for [[Oak Bay-Gordon Head]] and British Columbia Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation

* [[Anthony Housefather]] (BCL, LLB 1993): Current Member of Parliament for [[Mount Royal]], Quebec, and chair of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights

* [[Arnold Heeney]] (BCL 1927) – ambassador to the United States and [[NATO]]

* [[Kirsten Hillman]] (BCL/LLB) - ambassador to the United States, 2020-

* [[John McCallum]] (PhD 1977) – ambassador to China

* [[Andrew McNaughton]] (BA 1910, MSc 1912) – ambassador to the United Nations and President of the [[UN Security Council]]

 

=====Others=====

* [[Gerald Butts]] (BA 1993, MA 1996) – current [[Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of Canada]], 2015–

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

*[[Malik Amin Aslam]] (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]] and former chairman of [[Caribbean Airlines]] (national airline of [[Barbados]])

 

=====Legislators=====

* [[Jennifer Irwin]] – actress, ''[[Still Standing (American TV series)|Still Standing]]''

* [[Heather Juergensen]] – actress, co-screenwriter ''[[Kissing Jessica Stein]]''

* [[George Karpati]]

* [[Kid Koala]], born Eric San – turntablist and musician

* [[Christian Lander]] – author of the Stuff White People Like blog

* [[Robert Lantos]] – film producer

* [[Irving Layton]] – poet

* [[Stephen Leacock]] – humorist and economist

* [[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]]''

* [[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

* [[Robert William Service]] – poet and writer of the [[Yukon Gold Rush]]

* [[Mark Shainblum]] – author and comic book creator

* [[J. Torres]] – comic book writer

* [[Zineb Triki]] – actress

* [[Ken Vandermark]] – jazz saxophonist and [[MacArthur Foundation]] "genius award" winner

* [[Rufus Wainwright]] (briefly attended – dropped out upon record deal) – recording artist, musician

* [[William Weintraub]] – author, journalist and filmmaker (''Why Rock the Boat?'')

* [[Lorne Elias]] (PhD 1956) – inventor of the explosives vapour detector EVD-1<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ideas That Made History|url=https://mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/s/1762/news/interior.aspx?sid=1762&gid=2&pgid=1222|access-date=2022-01-23|website=mcgillnews.mcgill.ca|language=en}}</ref>

* [[Alan Emtage]] – inventor of [[Archie search engine|Archie]], the grandfather of search engines

* [[Paul Moller]] – inventor of the [[Moller Skycar]], a VTOL aircraft

 

* [[Randy Chevrier]] – former NFL and CFL player

* [[J. P. Darche]] – American football long snapper

* [[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;<ref>{{cite web |title=Laurent Duvernay-Tardif graduates medical school |url=https://www.nfl.com/news/laurent-duvernay-tardif-graduates-medical-school-0ap3000000934656 |website=NFL.com}}</ref> first medical doctor and first Quebecer to play and win the [[Super Bowl LIV|Super Bowl]].

* [[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

* [[Silver Quilty]] – Canadian Football Hall of Fame inductee, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame inductee, Canadian Amateur Hockey Association president.

* [[Allan Roth]] – baseball and hockey [[statistician]] for the [[Los Angeles Dodgers|Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers]] of [[Major League Baseball]] (1947-1964) and the [[Montreal Canadiens]] of the [[National Hockey League]] (1944-1947). [[Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame]] inductee.

 

===Others===

*[[Amal Elsana Alh'jooj]] – Bedouin Israeli feminist and peace activist

* [[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]]

* [[Dmytro Cipywnyk]] – physician and academic

* [[Annie MacDonald Langstaff]] – in 1914 became McGill's and [[Quebec]]'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

* [[William Reginald Morse]], Canadian author, medical doctor, and medical missionary in China<ref>{{cite book | last = Choa | first = Gerald H. | title = "Heal the Sick" was Their Motto: The Protestant Medical Missionaries in China | publisher = Chinese University Press | year = 1990 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=pqnMkfsZWlYC&pg=PP1 | pages = 138| isbn = 9789622014534 }}</ref>