List of Carleton University people
This is a list of notable people associated with Carleton University, such as faculty members and alumni.
Lineage and establishment
Chancellors
Presidents
Notable alumni and faculty
Academics
- Lawrence M. Krauss, physics professor at Arizona State University and popular science author
- Ryan North, writer and computer scientist
- Peter Grünberg, Nobel laureate in Physics 2007[1]
- Andrew Brook, Chancellor's Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science
- Michael I. Krauss, professor at George Mason University School of Law
- Randal Marlin, Carleton philosophy professor specializing in the study of propaganda
- Nicole McCance, psychotherapist
- Robin Neill, economic historian
- Ivan Fellegi, former Chief Statistician of Canada
- John Porter, former Professor of Sociology
Politicians
- Lindsay Blackett, first black Cabinet minister in Alberta
- Patrick Boyer, Member of Parliament
- Gord Brown, Member of Parliament
- Mike Colle, Member of Provincial Parliament
- Alex Cullen, Member of Provincial Parliament, Ottawa City Councillor
- Hans Daigeler, Member of Provincial Parliament
- Barry Devolin, Member of Parliament
- Paul Dewar, former Member of Parliament
- Pauline Jewett, Member of Parliament, professor and Chancellor of Carleton University
- Donna Jones, civil servant, murder victim
- Leo Jordan, Member of Provincial Parliament
- Catherine Fife, Member of Provincial Parliament, President of the Ontario Public School Boards Association
- Rob Ford, former Mayor of the City of Toronto, studied political science for a year
- Omar Zakhilwal, former Professor of Economics, Afghan Finance Minister and Chief Economic Advisor to the President of Afghanistan
- Bruck Easton, former president of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
- Ward P.D. Elcock, Deputy Minister of Defence, former Director of Canadian Security Intelligence Service
- Evelyn Gigantes, Member of Provincial Parliament
- Claudia Mo, Member of Hong Kong Legislative Council
- Yasir Naqvi, Member of Provincial Parliament
- Tom Nevakshonoff, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
- Paul Okalik, former premier of Nunavut
- Ernie Parsons, Member of Provincial Parliament
- Lester Bowles Pearson, former chancellor, professor, Prime Minister of Canada, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- Scott Reid, Member of Parliament
- Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, former Prime Minister of Somalia
- Norman Sterling, Member of Provincial Parliament
- Barbara Sullivan, Member of Provincial Parliament
- Judy Wasylycia-Leis, Member of Parliament
- Jim Watson, Member of Provincial Parliament, Mayor and City Councillor of Ottawa
- Michael Prue, Member of Provincial Parliament
- John Manley, former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Canada
- Wilbert Keon, Senator, heart surgeon
Journalists
- Rosemary Barton, political journalist and host of Power & Politics on CBC News Network
- Keith Boag, chief political correspondent for CBC News
- Rita Celli, host for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Gavin McInnes, writer, founder of Vice
- James Duthie, TSN host and Journalist
- Matthew Fraser, former Editor-in-Chief of National Post
- Edward Greenspon, Editor-in-Chief of The Globe and Mail
- Shane Smith, co-founder and CEO of Vice
- Carolyn MacKenzie, broadcaster[2]
- Peter Jennings, journalist and news anchor for ABC News, two-time Peabody Award winner, awarded a Litterarum doctor, honoris causa in 1997
- Robert MacNeil, journalist, Officer of the Order of Canada
Entrepreneurs
Entertainers
Others
- Chris Bailey, writer and productivity consultant
- Louise Charron, Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Michelle Douglas, human rights activist
- Allan Gregg, pollster, political pundit
- Sara Gruen, fiction author known best for award-winning novel Water for Elephants
- Gregory Henriquez, architect, Governor-General's Medal for Architecture
- Abdul Rahman Jabarah, alleged al-Qaeda member killed in 2003
- Jim Judd, Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service
- Firdaus Kharas, human rights activist, founder of Chocolate Moose Media
- Warren Kinsella, lawyer, author, musician, political consultant, lobbyist and commentator
- Chalmers Jack Mackenzie, former chancellor, first president of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited
- Gordon Pape, financial self-help writer
- Karim Rashid, industrial designer
- Wayne Smith, current Chief Statistician of Statistics Canada
- Harley Swedler, architect
- Susan Wood, Canadian literature scholar, pioneer of feminist science fiction studies
- Peter Worthington, Editor-in-Chief of the Toronto Sun
Notable honorary degree recipients
- Dag Hammarskjöld, United Nations Secretary-General (1953–1961), Nobel Peace Prize laureate; awarded a Legum Doctor, honoris causa in 1954[4]
- U Thant, United Nations Secretary-General (1961–1971); awarded a Legum Doctor, honoris causa in 1962[4]
- Kurt Waldheim, United Nations Secretary-General (1972–1981); awarded a Legum Doctor, honoris causa in 1972[4]
- Tommy Douglas, 7th Premier of Saskatchewan; led the first socialist government in North America and introduced universal public health care to Canada; awarded a Legum Doctor, honoris causa in 1980[4]
- Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, United Nations Secretary-General (1982–1992); awarded a Legum Doctor, honoris causa in 1985[4]
- Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; awarded a Legum Doctor, honoris causa in 1993[4]
- Boutros Boutros-Ghali, United Nations Secretary-General (1992–1997); awarded a Legum Doctor, honoris causa in 1995[4]
- Romano Prodi, 79th Prime Minister of Italy; awarded a Legum Doctor, honoris causa in 2001[4]
- Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General (1997–2007), Nobel Peace Prize laureate; awarded a Legum Doctor, honoris causa in 2004[4]
- Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada (2005–2010); awarded a Legum Doctor, honoris causa in 2012[5]
Other people
Name |
Known for |
Relationship to Carleton |
Timothy J. Anderson |
Opera singer, writer |
Graduate |
Ike Awgu |
Mayoral candidate, television host, columnist |
Graduate |
Dan Aykroyd |
Actor |
Studied at Carleton, honorary D.Litt. 1994 |
David Azrieli |
Architect, businessman |
Graduate |
Rosemary Barton |
Political journalist, host of Power & Politics on CBC News Network |
Graduate |
Georges Bédard |
Ottawa City Councillor |
Graduate |
Conrad Black |
Financier and newspaper magnate |
Graduate |
Alan Bones |
Diplomat |
Graduate |
Patrick Boyer |
Member of Parliament |
Graduate |
Walter Douglas Boyd |
Heart surgeon |
Graduate |
George Brizan |
Former Prime Minister of Grenada |
Graduate |
Gord Brown |
Politician |
Graduate |
Shona Brown |
Google's VP, Business Operations |
Graduate |
Rita Celli |
Ottawa anchor for CBC TV's Canada Now program |
Graduate |
Louise Charron |
Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada |
Graduate |
Mike Colle |
Politician |
Graduate |
Michael Cowpland |
Former CEO and founder of Corel |
Graduate |
Alex Cullen |
Ottawa City Councillor |
Graduate |
Allan Cutler |
Public servant, politician |
Graduate |
Hans Daigeler |
Politician |
Graduate |
Barry Devolin |
Conservative Member of Parliament |
Graduate |
Paul Dewar |
New Democratic Party Member of Parliament |
Graduate |
Michelle Douglas |
Human rights activist |
Graduate |
James Duthie |
TSN sportscaster |
Graduate |
Bruck Easton |
Politician |
Graduate |
Ward P.D. Elcock |
Public servant |
Graduate |
Phil Eyler |
Politician |
Graduate |
Ivan Fellegi |
Chief Statistician of Canada |
Graduate |
Marc Garneau |
Former President of the Canadian Space Agency, Member of Parliament |
Former Chancellor |
Evelyn Gigantes |
Former New Democrat Ontario cabinet minister |
Graduate |
Frank Graves |
President of EKOS Research Associates |
Graduate |
Herb Gray |
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada |
Former Chancellor |
Edward Greenspon |
Editor-in-chief of the Globe and Mail |
Graduate |
Peter Grünberg |
Nobel laureate in Physics, 2007 |
Research Faculty |
Thomas Homer-Dixon |
Author of The Ingenuity Gap; Director of Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies |
Graduate |
Peter Hume |
Ottawa City Councillor |
Graduate |
Peter L. Hurd |
Evolutionary biologist |
Graduate |
Marianne Illing |
Olympian (Canadian Olympic water polo team) |
Graduate |
Peter Jennings |
Journalist |
Studied briefly at Carleton, honorary D.Litt. 1997 |
Pauline Jewett |
Politician |
Taught at Carleton; was chancellor 1990–1992 |
Leo Jordan |
Politician |
Graduate |
Wilbert Keon |
Senator, heart surgeon |
Graduate |
Lawrence M. Krauss |
Author of The Physics of Star Trek |
Professor of Physics and Astronomy |
Arthur Kroeger |
Civil Servant |
Chancellor (1993–2002) |
Warren Kinsella |
Politician, author, weblogger |
Graduate |
Alison Korn |
Olympic medalist |
Graduate |
Shawn Little |
Ottawa City Councillor |
Graduate |
Robert MacNeil |
Journalist and television news anchor |
Graduate |
John Manley |
Politician, former Deputy Prime Minister |
Graduate |
Randal Marlin |
Author |
Professor |
Trevor Matthews |
Producer, actor |
Studied at Carleton |
Gerald McMaster |
Author, artist, and curator |
Graduate |
John Milloy |
Politician |
Graduate |
Bruce Milne |
Vice President of Product Management, CA Technologies |
Graduate |
Tom Nevakshonoff |
New Democrat Manitoba MLA |
Graduate |
Ryan North |
Comic author |
Graduate |
Paul Okalik |
Former Premier of Nunavut |
Graduate |
Ernie Parsons |
Politician |
Graduate |
Michael D. Prue |
Politician |
Graduate |
W. Wesley Pue |
Professor of law, past President of Canadian Law and Society Association |
Faculty |
Karim Rashid |
Industrial designer |
Graduate |
Scott Reid |
Politician |
Graduate |
Cristina Rémond |
Model, anthropologist |
Graduate |
Don Scott |
Politician |
Graduate |
Sheridan Scott |
Politician |
Professor |
Norm Sterling |
Politician |
Graduate |
Barbara Sullivan |
Politician |
Graduate |
Doug Thompson |
Ottawa City Councillor |
Graduate |
John Turmel |
Engineer, holder of Guinness world record for greatest number of elections lost |
Graduate |
Chris Tse |
Spoken word poet |
Graduate |
Jill Vickers |
Political scientist, author, candidate |
Professor |
Judy Wasylycia-Leis |
Politician |
Graduate |
Jim Watson |
Politician |
Graduate |
Keenan Wellar |
Sociopreneur |
Graduate |
Douglas Whiteway |
Journalist |
Graduate |
Peter Worthington |
Journalist |
Graduate |
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