List of Queen's University people
The following is a list of notable alumni, faculty and affiliates of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Notable Queen's alumni
Academic leaders
- John Hall Archer – first President of the University of Regina [1]
- Herbert Basser – theologian, Harvard Starr Fellow
- David Card – economist, winner of John Bates Clark Medal[2]
- George Ramsay Cook – Canadian historian.
- William Thomson Newnham, first President of Seneca College 1967-1984
- Frits Pannekoek (PhD 1974) – president of Athabasca University[3]
- Shirley M. Tilghman (BSc 1968) – president of Princeton University,[4] member of the Board of Directors of Google[5]
- Michael McDonald – Hubble Fellow at MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research [6]
- W. Iain Scott – dean, Western Law School [7]
- Alfred Fitzpatrick – founder of Frontier College [8]
- Krishna Rajagopal – professor and Associate Head for Education, Physics at MIT [9]
- David Siderovski – E.J. Van Liere Professor and Chair of Physiology & Pharmacology at West Virginia University
- Robert Sutherland – first person of colour to graduate from a Canadian university, and the first black lawyer in British North America.[10]
- Vijay Bhargava – researcher, co-author/co-editor of Digital Communications by Satellite (1981),Cooperative Cellular Wireless Communications (2011),Reed Solomon Codes and their Applications (1994),Communications, Information and Network Security (2003)and Cognitive Wireless Communication Networks (2007).
Actors, film, and media
- Scott Anderson – CanWest MediaWorks Senior Vice-President, content; former Editor-in-Chief of the Ottawa Citizen
- Dean Armstrong – actor
- Ashleigh Banfield – CNN news anchor
- Rachel Blanchard – actress
- Nicholas Campbell – actor
- Tom Cavanagh – actor, played title character in sitcom Ed
- Wendy Crewson – actress
- Brendan Connor – television broadcaster, Al Jazeera International
- Chris Cuthbert – TSN sportscaster
- Fr. Raymond J. de Souza (B.A. 1993, MPA 1994) – columnist for the National Post
- Lisa Eichhorn – actress
- Sally Gifford – host on CBC's national kids' show, The X
- Lorne Greene (BA'37, LLD'71) – actor
- Kate Greenhouse – actress
- Amy Lalonde – actress, also played an actress who went to Queen's Business School in Wild Roses (TV series)
- Elan Mastai – screenwriter
- Anna Olson – chef and television presenter
- Nancy Palk – actress[11]
- Italia Ricci – actress
- Alannah Campbell – CBC broadcaster
- Michelle MacLaren – TV series director
- Shelagh Rogers – CBC broadcaster
- Ted Simonett – actor
- Jeffrey Simpson – political columnist for The Globe and Mail
- Rod Smith – TSN sportscaster
- John Stackhouse – Editor, The Globe and Mail
- Ian Stewart (B.A. 1990) – broadcaster and journalist, member of the Canadian Journalism Forum[12]
- Katie Uhlmann - actress and producer
- Ali Velshi – former Report on Business Television and current CNN business reporter
- Nancy Wilson – CBC journalist
- Gema Zamprogna – actor
- Linda Liao (廖語晴) – singer/actress
- Sarita Choudhury – actress
- Rachel Skarsten – actress
Business people
- Michael Henry Adams – founder of Environics
- Alfred Bader (B.Sc. 1945, B.A. 1946, M.Sc. 1947) – founder of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, and donor of 15th century Herstmonceux Castle
- Geoffrey Ballard – founder of Ballard Power Systems
- Tracey Belcourt – EVP and Chief Strategy Officer of Mondelez International
- Robert Buchan – founder and former President and CEO of Kinross Gold
- David Brearton – president, North America of Mondelez
- Derek Burney (B.A. 1962, M.A. 1964) – former President and CEO of Bell Canada, current member of the Board of Directors of CanWest Global Communications, Quebecor World Inc. and Shell Canada
- Donald J. Carty – former Chairman and CEO of AMR Corporation, the parent company of American Airlines
- Kerry Clark – CEO of Cardinal Health and former Vice Chairman of Procter & Gamble[13]
- Gururaj Deshpande – founder of Sycamore Networks
- David A. Dodge – former Governor of the Bank of Canada, and Chancellor of Queen's, effective July 1, 2008
- Don Drummond (economist) (MA, LLD) – former senior vice-president and Chief Economist of TD Bank Financial Group and Donald Matthews Faculty Fellowship on Global Public Policy [14]
- Jeremy Freedman (LLB) – president and CEO of Gluskin Sheff
- Paul Goddard (B.Sc. 1990) – CEO of Pizza Pizza
- Mel Goodes – former Chairman and CEO of the Warner-Lambert Company
- Stephen K. Gunn – CEO and co-founder of Sleep Country Canada
- David Holland – president and CEO of Torstar Corporation
- Adam Howard – president and Country Head for Canada, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
- F. C. Kohli – former CEO of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
- Leonard Lee (B.A. 1963) – founder of Lee Valley Tools
- Jim Leech (MBA) – president and CEO of Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
- Donald Lindsay (B.Sc., Hons) – CEO of Teck
- Walt Macnee (BA 77, Bed 78) – vice chairman, MasterCard Worldwide
- Michael MacMillan – chairman and co-founder of Alliance Atlantis
- Earle McLaughlin – former president and CEO of the Royal Bank of Canada
- Seaton McLean – co-founder of Atlantis Films (now Alliance Atlantis)
- Stephen A. Miles (B.A. (Psych) 1991, MBA 1997) – vice chairman of Heidrick & Struggles, author, and consultant to CEOs and corporate boards of directors
- Alexander C. Monteith – senior vice-president of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation and recipient of the IEEE Edison Medal
- Kerry Munro, group president, Digital Delivery Network, Canada Post
- Nik Nanos – founder, Nanos Research
- Ken Nicholson (B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering 1992) – co-founder of Transformix Engineering[15]
- Gord Nixon (BComm 1979) – president and CEO of the Royal Bank of Canada
- Douglas Peters (BComm 1963) – banker, economist and politician
- A. J. Petrina (B.Sc. 1959) – former CEO of Placer Dome Inc.
- Janice Platt – Academy Award winner and co-founder of Atlantis Films (now Alliance Atlantis)
- Stephen Poloz – Governor of the Bank of Canada
- Stephen Quinn – senior vice president, Wal-Mart Inc, Bentonville, Arkansas
- David Radler (MBA 1967) – former President of Ravelston Corporation (which owned Argus Corporation which controlled Hollinger International), cooperating with the prosecution in the Conrad Black racketeering case
- John A. Rae – executive vice-president of Power Corporation
- Grant Rasmussen – former CEO of UBS Canada
- Sue Riddell Rose (BSc) – CEO, Perpetual Energy
- Michael Serbinis (B.S.) – president and CEO of Kobo Inc.
- Mark Wiseman – president and CEO, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board[16]
- Chris Viehbacher – CEO of Sanofi
- Ramathreya Krishnamurthi - former General Manager Times of India, India, Managing Director PropGod Services [17]
Literature and the arts
- Jill Barber – singer-songwriter
- Matthew Barber – singer-songwriter
- Rob Baker (B.F.A. 1986) – guitarist of The Tragically Hip
- Janet Cardiff – artist
- George Elliott Clarke (Ph.D. 1993) – writer and academic
- John Colapinto (B.A. 1981) - novelist, staff writer at The New Yorker
- Jane Corkin – artist [18]
- Jim Cuddy – lead singer of Blue Rodeo
- Kalli Dakos – children's poet and teacher
- Robertson Davies, CC – author and playwright
- Gord Downie – lead singer of band The Tragically Hip
- David Franklin – chief curator, National Gallery of Canada
- Priscilla Galloway – author
- Sarah Harmer – singer-songwriter
- Steven Heighton – author
- Elena Juatco – singer and Canadian Idol season 2 top 10 contestant
- Jay Malinowski (B.A. 2004) – vocalist and guitarist for the Canadian band Bedouin Soundclash
- Paul Nicholas Mason – author
- Michael Ondaatje (M.A. 1967) – author
- Neil Pasricha – speaker, author and writer of 1000 Awesome Things
- Jeff Pearce (B.A.1989) – bassist for Moist (Canadian band)
- Ciara Phillips (BFA 2000) – artist[19]
- Maynard Plant – vocalist and guitarist for the Japanese band Monkey Majik
- Mark Makowy (B.A. 1989) – guitarist in Moist (Canadian band)
- Alexander Muir (B.A. 1851) – composer of The Maple Leaf Forever
- Eon Sinclair (B.A. 2004) – bassist for Canadian band Bedouin Soundclash
- Gord Sinclair – bassist of The Tragically Hip
- Meaghan Diane Shearer – composer and violinist
- Russell Smith – author and Globe and Mail columnist
- Moez Surani - author
- Timothy Taylor – author
- Judith Thompson – playwright
- Chris Turner (author) – author
- Chris Ward (B.A. 1988) – drummer for The Mahones, Hell Billys, Pat Temple and The High Lonesome Players
Military
- Mark Norman (Bachelor of Economics) - Vice-Admiral, Commander of RCN
- John Weir Foote (B.A. 1933) – awarded the Victoria Cross for service during the Dieppe Raid in World War II
- Al Meinzinger (M.A. 1990) – RMC Commandant
- Ken Watkin (Bachelor of Laws and Master of Laws) – Brigadier General and Judge Advocate General of the Canadian Forces
Miscellaneous
- Jock Climie (B.A. 1989, LL.B. 1998) – lawyer, former CFL player, and broadcaster
- Douglas Cunningham (B.A., LL.B.) – lawyer and Ontario Superior Court Justice
- Julianne Parfett (B.A., J.D.) – lawyer and Ontario Superior Court Justice
- Julie Dickson (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
- Andrew J. Feustel (Ph.D) - Geophysicist and NASA Astronaut
- Karla Homolka – convicted murderer, who completed her Queen's Psychology degree while behind bars
- Andrew Kalotay (B.Sc. 1964, M.Sc. 1966) – mathematician, Wall Street financier and chess master
- Craig MacTavish (EMBA 2011) – former NHL player, head coach, and hockey operations executive
- Martin Kreuzer (post-doc. 1991) – mathematician, professor, and correspondence chess Grandmaster
- Kim Phuc (Honorary degree recipient) – notable through the picture of her depicted during the Vietnam War
- Mike Schad – former NFL player
- Prince Takamado of Japan
- David Smart (B.A. 1994) – Canadian champion basketball coach
- Jim Young – 1st Canadian college football player drafted into the NFL (Minnesota Vikings)
- Johnny Evans – quarterback, 2 time Grey Cup champion
- Ali Velshi – CNN Business Analyst
- Alan B. Gold – former Chief Justice of Quebec Superior Court; Chancellor of Concordia University
Political leaders
- William Aberhart – former Premier of Alberta
- Isabel Bassett – former broadcaster and provincial cabinet minister
- John Baird (B.A. 1992) – former Minister of the Environment and current Foreign Affairs Minister
- Michael Breaugh – former Member of Parliament and Member of Provincial Parliament
- Derek Burney (B.A. 1962, M.A. 1964) – former Canadian Ambassador to the Korea, Japan, and the United States
- Diana Buttu – Palestinian legal advisor
- Sean Conway – director of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations (Queen's University), former Ontario cabinet minister and MPP
- Thomas Cromwell (B.Mus. 1973, Law 1976) – Supreme Court justice
- John Crosbie – former Minister of Finance
- Paul Dewar – educator, aid worker and Member of Parliament
- David Emerson (PhD 1975) – Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Pacific Gateway and the Vancouver-Whistler Olympics
- Patricia Fortier – Canadian Ambassador to Peru and Bolivia
- John Gerretsen – Ontario MPP, former mayor of Kingston, Ontario cabinet minister
- Mackenzie Clugston – Canadian Ambassador to Japan
- Sir Kenneth O. Hall – Governor General of Jamaica
- James R.M. Harris – author and politician, former Leader of the Green Party of Canada
- David Hutton (MBA 70) – former ambassador to the UAE
- 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 (LL.B. 1966) – president of the University of Waterloo, Principal of McGill University, Dean of the School of Law at the University of Western Ontario, and the 28th Governor General of Canada.[20]
- Donald C. MacDonald – former Ontario MPP and leader of the Ontario CCF/NDP (1953 - 1970)
- Nicolas Marceau (Ph.D. 1992) – scholar and politician, member of Quebec National Assembly and current Quebec Finance minister
- John Matheson – "Midwife of Canadian Flag" and former MP for Leeds, judge in Ottawa-Carlton
- Frank McKenna – former Canadian Ambassador to the United States and former Premier of New Brunswick
- Peter Milliken (B.A. 1968) – Speaker of the House of Commons
- Tim Murphy – chief of staff of the Canadian Prime Minister's Office under Paul Martin's government
- Robert Fowler – (Canadian Diplomat)
- Robert Nicholson (B.A. 1975) – Minister of National Defence of Canada
- Robert Ready (B.A. 1978 - M.P.A 1981) – Former Canadian High Commissioner to Jamaica, the Cayman Islands and the Turks and Caicos Islands
- Alison Redford – (attended for two years 1983–1985) 14th premier of Alberta (2011–2014)[21]
- George Spotton (B.A. 1895) – member of the House of Commons
- Karen Stintz – Toronto municipal councillor and chair of the TTC
- Ross Thatcher – 9th Premier of Saskatchewan (1964–1971)
- Kathleen Wynne (B.A.) – 25th and current Premier of Ontario
Scientists
- Walter A. Bell B.Sc. – geologist and paleontologist
- Norman L. Bowen B.Sc., M.Sc. – chemical geologist
- Leon Katz (physicist), B.Sc. MSc. – professor University of Saskatchewan, Founder Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory, Member of the Order of Canada
- Bill Buxton B.Mus. (1973) – computer scientist and human-computer interaction pioneer
- Charles LeGeyt Fortescue – electrical engineer
- James Edwin Hawley (BSc 1918, MSc 1920) – Head of Geological Sciences Department (1929–1962), Hawleyite named after him
- Kenneth E. Iverson (BSc 1951) – inventor of the APL programming language, Turing Award laureate
- Thomas Edvard Krogh M.Sc.(Geology) - geochronologist and a curator for the Royal Ontario Museum.
- J. F. A. McManus M.D. (1938) – pathologist
- Anthony J. Naldrett – University of Toronto emeritus professor, geologist [22]
- Kathleen I. Pritchard MD 1971 – head of oncology at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto
- Ian Rae B.Sc.(Eng.) (1980) – co-developer of CorelDraw software
- John L. Wallace (BSc 1979, MSc 1980) – co-founder of NicOx, founder of Antibe Therapeutics, Director of the Farncombe Institute
- Dr. Derek Muller (BSc 2004) – physics educator, creator and writer-host of Veritasium (YouTube channel)
- Harold Horton Sheldon (1893-1964) - a physicist, scientist, inventor, teacher, editor and author.
Sports
- Keith Eaman – Canadian football player
- Morris Mott – NHL and Canadian National Team hockey player
- Carl Voss – NHL player and Hockey Hall of Fame inductee
Notable Queen's faculty and affiliates
In addition to the following notable faculty members, Sir Sandford Fleming, former Prime Minister of Canada Sir Robert Laird Borden, and former Governor General of Canada Roland Michener have all served as Chancellor of the university, though this is a non-academic role.
- Donald Akenson – History
- István Anhalt – Music (Juno Award winning composer)
- Robin Boadway – Economics (Member of the Canadian Royal Society, the Order of Canada and CESIfo Distinguished Fellow)
- Caroline Baillie – Engineering
- John Burge – Music (Juno Award winning composer)
- James Cordy – Computing (ACM Distinguished Scientist and co-inventor of the Turing programming language)
- Thomas Courchene – Economics, Policy Studies
- Richard J. F. Day – Sociology
- Suzanne Fortier – Chemistry (President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC))
- J. A. W. Gunn – Politics
- Leo Jonker – Mathematics (Queen's Chair of Teaching and Learning)
- Tom Kent – Economics
- Will Kymlicka – Canada Research Chair, Philosophy
- William C. Leggett – Biology (Chairman of the Board of the Canada Foundation for Innovation) and former Principal of Queen's University (1994–2004)
- James G. MacKinnon – Economics (Fellow of the Econometric Society)
- Art McDonald – Physics (winner of the Herzberg Prize, the Benjamin Franklin Prize in physics, the Nobel Prize in physics and a member of the Order of Canada)
- John McGarry – Politics
- M. Ram Murty – Mathematics (Queen's Research Chair)
- Kim Richard Nossal – Politics
- Paulo Ribenboim – Mathematics (retired faculty)
- Ana Siljak – History
- John P. Smol – biology (winner of the Herzberg Prize)
- David J. Thomson – Mathematics
- Helen Tiffin – English
- Craig Walker – Drama
- Noriko Yui – Mathematical Physics
- Clarke Mackey – Film and Media
- Malcolm Peat – Physiotherapy
- Gerald Bull - Long-range artillery engineer
Principals
- Rev Thomas Liddell (1841–1846) [23]
- Rev John Machar (1846–1853) [23]
- Rev James George (acting Principal 1853–1857) [23]
- Rev John Cook (1857–1859) [23]
- Rev William Leitch (1859–1864) [23]
- Rev William Snodgrass (1864–1877) [23]
- Rev George Monro Grant (1877–1902) [23]
- Rev Daniel Miner Gordon (1902–1916) [23]
- Rev Robert Bruce Taylor (1917–1929) [23]
- Sir William Hamilton Fyfe (1930–1936) [23]
- Robert Charles Wallace (1936–1951) [23]
- William Archibald Mackintosh (1951–1961) [23]
- James Alexander Corry (1961–1968) [23]
- John James Deutsch (1968–1974) [23]
- Ronald Lampman Watts (1974–1984) [23]
- David Chadwick Smith (1984–1994) [23]
- William Claude Leggett (1994–2004) [23]
- Karen R. Hitchcock (2004–2008) [23]
- Thomas R. Williams (2008–2009) [23]
- Daniel Woolf (2009–Present) [23]
Chancellors
- Rev John Cook (1877–1879) [24]
- Sir Sandford Fleming (1880–1915) [24]
- James Douglas (1915–1918) [24]
- Sir Edward Beatty (1918–1923) [24]
- Sir Robert Laird Borden (1924–1929) [24]
- James Armstrong Richardson (1929–1939) [24]
- Charles Avery Dunning (1940–1958) [24]
- John Bertram Stirling (1960–1973) [24]
- Roland Michener (1973–1980) [24]
- Agnes Mccausland Benidickson (1980–1996) [24]
- Peter Lougheed (1996–2002) [24]
- A. Charles Baillie (2002–2008) [24]
- David A. Dodge (2008–present) [24]
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 (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[25])
- Gary Michael Gannage (1972)
- Bruce W. Trotter (1974)
- Morris Chochla (1976)
- Hugh Christie (1978)
- Jeremy Freedman (1980)
- James Harris (1982)
- Richard Powers (1984)
- Kelley McKinnon (1986)
- Charis Kelso (1988)
- Antoinette Mongillo (1990)
- David Baar (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 (2011)
- Mike Young(2014)
References
- ↑ "Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry: John Hall Archer". University of Toronto Press.
Queen's, Ph.D. 1969
- ↑ "John Bates Clark Medal". American Economics Association. 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-14.
- ↑ "Dr. Frits Pannekoek Biography". Athabasca University. 2007-05-12. Retrieved 2008-07-14.
…completing his Ph.D. (1974)…at Queen's University.
- ↑ "President's Biography". Princeton University. 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-14.
Tilghman, a native of Canada, received her Honors B.Sc. in chemistry from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, in 1968.
- ↑ "Corporate Information – Google Management". 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-14.
- ↑ http://www.thewhig.com/2012/08/15/kingston-native-heads-up-galactic-discovery
- ↑ http://www.lfpress.com/money/businessmonday/2011/07/25/18465331.html
- ↑ "Fitzpatrick Award (Frontier College)". National Adult Literacy database.
- ↑ http://web.mit.edu/physics/people/faculty/rajagopal_krishna.html
- ↑ Who Is Robert Sutherland?
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0657731/
- ↑ Members, Canadian Journalism Forum
- ↑ "Cardinal Health Executive Leadership Team". Retrieved 2008-07-14.
…Clark graduated from Queen’s University with a bachelor of commerce degree.
- ↑ "Don Drummond appointed fellow and visiting scholar in Policy Studies". Queen's University, School of Policy Studies. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
- ↑ Whitney, Ben (Spring–Summer 2005). "Peng-Sang Cau, BCom `94 leads Transformix Engineering – From Queen`s Commerce to Kingston business leader" (PDF). Inquiry. Queen's School of Business. Retrieved 2009-09-28.
- ↑ http://www.cppib.ca/About_Us/executive_team.html
- ↑ https://www.propgod.com/about-us
- ↑ Jane Corkin bio from the ROM
- ↑ "Ciara Phillips". Re-title.com. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
- ↑ "Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry: David Lloyd Johnston". University of Toronto Press.
Queen's Univ. LL.B. 1966
- ↑ "Redford says Trudeau has learned his lesson".
- ↑ "Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry: Anthony J. Naldrett". University of Toronto Press.
Queen's Univ. M.Sc. 1961, Ph.D. 1964
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 "Queen's Encyclopedia: Principal". Queen's University.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "Queen's Encyclopedia: Chancellor". Queen's University.
- ↑ http://www.queensu.ca/encyclopedia/r/rector.html
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