List of York University people

This is a list of York University people. It includes notable graduates and faculty of the Toronto, Canada institution, as well as graduates of Osgoode Hall Law School prior to its affiliation with York.

Graduates

Politicians

Osgoode Hall Law School has been associated with York University since 1969. For graduates before that date, see Notable alumni of Osgoode Hall.

Name	Notability
John Black Aird	Lieutenant Governor of Ontario [1980–1985] and Canadian senator [1964–1974][1][2]
Lincoln Alexander	Lieutenant Governor of Ontario [1985–1991][3][4]
Andrus Ansip	Prime Minister of Estonia [2005–][5][6]
Maurizio Bevilacqua	Parliamentary Secretary [1993–1996] and Secretary of State for Canada [2002–2003][7][8]
Angela Bogdan	Canadian Ambassador to former Yugoslavia, Sri Lanka, Maldives, and Australia[9]
Marion Boyd	Attorney General of Ontario [1993–1995][10][11]
Michael Bryant	Attorney-General of Ontario [2003–2007][12][13]
Aileen Carroll	federal Minister for International Cooperation [2003–2006][14][15]
Ann Cavoukian	Ontario Privacy Commissioner
Carme Chacon	Minister of Defence in the Government of Spain [2008–][16][17]
Joseph Clarke	mayor of Edmonton, Alberta [1934–1937]
Marshall A. Cohen	former President and CEO of Molson, member of the Trilateral Commission[18][19]
David Collenette	former senior federal cabinet minister[20][21]
George Drew	14th Premier of Ontario[22][23]
Ernie Eves	23rd Premier of Ontario[24][25]
J. S. Ewart QC	advocate of Canadian independence[26][27]
Gordon O'Connor	Former Minister of National Defence of Canada[28][29]
Gordon Fairweather	first chief commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission[30][31]
Martha Hall Findlay	Member of Parliament and active member of the Liberal Party of Canada[32][33]
Jim Flaherty	Minister of Finance of Canada[34][35]
Herb Gray	former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, former Solicitor General of Canada[36][37]
Barbara Hall	former Mayor of Toronto, current Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission[38][39]
Carol Hansell	Board of Directors, Bank of Canada[40][41]
Charles Harnick	former Attorney General of Ontario[4][42]
Ron Irwin	former Federal Cabinet Minister, former Ambassador to Ireland, current Consul to Boston[43]
James Kelleher	former member of the Canadian Senate[44][45]
Peter Kormos	former Minister of Consumer and Commercial Relations, House Leader for the Ontario NDP Caucus[46][47]
Zahir Lalani	Consul and Senior Representative for New York at the Bank of Canada[48][49]
Jack Layton	Leader of the federal New Democratic Party[50]
Floyd Laughren	former Ontario NDP MPP and finance minister[51][52]
William Ross Macdonald	former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario[53][54]
John Matheson	former MP, retired judge, and political sponsor of the Canadian Flag,[55][56] which was designed by George Stanley
Roy McMurtry	former Attorney General of Ontario[57][58]
John McNee	Canadian ambassador to United Nations[59][60]
Lisa Raitt	Canadian Minister of Natural Resources[61][62]
James O'Reilly	Federal politician[63][64]
John Robarts	17th Premier of Ontario[65][66]
Ian Scott	former Attorney General of Ontario[67][68]
Karen Kraft Sloan	former United Nations Ambassador of the environment[69][70]
Greg Sorbara	Ontario Minister of Finance[71][72]
John Tory	Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario[73][74]
Peter Van Loan	Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, former President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs[75][76]
Robert Stanley Welch	former Deputy Premier of Ontario, Former Attorney General of Ontario[77][78]
David Young	former Attorney General of Ontario[79][80]

Jack Layton – Leader of the New Democratic Party

Judges

Name	Notability
Archie Campbell (jurist)	legal giant, led inquiry into SARS [81]
Kim Carter	former Chief Military Judge of the Canadian Forces, current Ombudsmen of British Columbia.[82]
John Robert Cartwright	former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada [83]
Peter Cory	former puisne judge of the Supreme Court of Canada and former Chancellor of the university [84]
Asher Dan Grunis	president of the Supreme Court of Israel[85]
Frank Joseph Hughes	Supreme Court Judge.[86]
Wilfred Judson	former puisne judge of the Supreme Court of Canada [87]
Patrick Kerwin	former Chief Justice of Canada[88]
Harry S. Laforme	Ont. Court of Appeal, head of Aboriginal Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada [89]
Bora Laskin	former Chief Justice of Canada [90]
Claire L'Heureux-Dube	former judge of the Supreme Court of Canada (LLD) [91]
Patrick LeSage	former Chief Justice of Ontario [92]
Allen Linden	Federal Court of Appeal judge [93]
Goldwyn Arthur Martin	QC – former Justice of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, prominent criminal law scholar.[94]
Roy McMurtry	former Chief Justice of Ontario [58]
Dennis O'Connor	of the Court of Appeal for Ontario and Associate Chief Justice of Ontario [95]
James O'Reilly	Federal Court of Canada.[96]
John D. Richard	Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Appeal of Canada [97]
Wishart Spence	former puisne judge of the Supreme Court of Canada [98]
Warren Winkler	Chief Justice of Ontario [99]

Business leaders

Name	Notability
Isabel Bassett	former MPP and Chief Executive Officer of TVOntario
Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty	President of the Canadian Pacific Railway
Douglas G. Bergeron	billionaire, President and CEO of Verifone
George Butterfield	co-founder of luxury active travel company Butterfield & Robinson
Ivan Fecan	President and Chief Executive Officer, CTV
Alexander Haditaghi	founder, owner and chairman of Pacific Mortgage Company, CEO of MoPals.com
Gordon Lownds	co-founder of Sleep Country Canada
Rob McEwen	President and CEO of US Gold Corporation
Sergio Marchionne	President and CEO of Fiat and Chrysler Group LLC
Larry Organ	Chief Executive Officer, ConsumerBase LLC, Founder of FastWeb and JobsOnline
Edward Samuel Rogers	business tycoon, President and CEO Rogers Communications
Alex Shnaider	Chairman of Royal Laser Corp. and co-founder of Midland Group Midland Group, Canada's youngest billionaire
Richard E. Waugh	President and Chief Executive Officer, Scotiabank
Dennis Fotinos	President & CEO of Enwave
Denise Pickett	President & CEO of American Express Canada
John S. Hunkin	Former CEO of CIBC
Alan G. McNally	Former Chairman of Harris Bank
Eileen Mercier	Chair of Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board
Paul Tsaparis	President & CEO Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Co.
Robert J. Gemmell	Former President & CEO of Citigroup Global Markets Canada Inc.
David Wilson	Chairman of the Ontario Securities Commission
Vikas Kohli	Founder of Fatlabs Recording Studio in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Colleen Johnston	Group Head Finance and Chief Financial Officer at TD Bank Financial Group [100]

Sergio Marchionne – CEO of Chrysler and Fiat

Artists and entertainers

Name	Notability
岑寧兒 Yoyo Sham	Singer-Songwriter from Hong Kong mostly based in Taiwan. Became prominent after working as a backup vocalist for Eason Chan's DUO concert in 2010.
Will Beauchamp	award winning filmmaker, Warner Bros. Canada representative
Mark Bluvshtein	chess grandmaster
Christian Bök	acclaimed poet, professor at University of Calgary
Arthur Bourinot	Governor General's Award for Poetry
Elizabeth Bradely	Chair of Drama at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University
Shannon Bramer	poet
Natalie Brown	star of Sophie on CBC
Amanda Brugel	co-star on MVP: The Secret Lives of Hockey Wives on CBC
Juan Chioran	voice and stage actor at the Stratford Festival
Ins Choi	actor, playwright of "Kim's Convenience"
Gerry Dee	comedian (Last Comic Standing)
Robert Duncan	composer
deMarco DeCiccio	a vocalist with the contemporary, openly gay Christian and music duo Jason and deMarco
Orville Lloyd Douglas	poet/writer
Matt Dusk	jazz musician
Melyssa Ford	model and actress, on-air personality for Sirius Satellite Radio
Thea Gill	actress (Queer as Folk)
Douglas Glover	acclaimed writer, Governor General's Award for Fiction
Katherine Govier	novelist, winner of Marian Engel Award
Kim Gordon	singer and bassist of experimental rock band Sonic Youth
Larysa Harapyn	entertainment reporter for CityTV
Mark Irwin	cinematographer (Me, Myself & Irene, Scream, There's Something About Mary)
K-os	musician
Kardinal Offishall	Canadian musician
K'naan	musician
Chaker Khazaal	Writer
Kid Twist	musician
Vikas Kohli	producer and founder of Fatlabs
Bruce LaBruce	underground filmmaker and icon of the gay arts community (JD's, Vinyl)
Michelle LaVallee	artist
Ringo Lam	Hong Kong action director, inspired Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs
Jerry Levitan	producer and star of Oscar Award nominated animated short I Met the Walrus
Peter Lynch	filmmaker (Project Grizzly)
Rachel McAdams	actress
Steve McCaffery	poet
Allyson Mitchell	Toronto-based artist
Annemarie Morais	internationally acclaimed award winning filmmaker (How She Move)
Jeffrey Morgan	authorized biographer of both Alice Cooper and Iggy Pop & The Stooges
Mike Murley	jazz musician, recipient of Juno Award
George Murray	poet
Mathew Murray	web series creator, filmmaker
Steven Page	musician, former lead singer for the Barenaked Ladies
Zoie Palmer	actress
Mark Penney	film director
Ramona Pringle	actor (Shoot 'Em Up)
Dina Pugliese	Television personality, co-host of CityTV's Breakfast Television
Michael Redhill	award winning poet, playwright, and novelist, editorial board of Coach House Press
Nino Ricci	writer, Governor General's Award for Fiction
Spencer Rice	actor/director (Kenny vs. Spenny)
Peter Robinson	English-born Canadian-based detective novelist
Don Ross	noted fingerstyle guitar champion, lauded by Bruce Cockburn
Anusree Roy	actor and playwright
Nora Samosir	Indonesian actress [101]
Jacqueline Samuda	actress and author
Albert Schultz	actor
Eddie Schwartz	songwriter/producer (ex. The Doobie Brothers, Pat Benatar)
Lilly Singh	YouTube celebrity
Sarah Slean	singer-songwriter
Ron Sparks	comedian/actor/writer, (Video on Trial)
Joel A. Sutherland	author
Susan Swan	author
Priya Thomas	musician
Raymond Thompson	Creator of hit New Zealand teen/sci-fi television series The Tribe
Scott Thompson	comedian/actor, (The Kids in the Hall, The Larry Sanders Show, My Fabulous Gay Wedding)
Larry Towell	celebrated photographer
Maurice Dean Wint	actor, nominated for a Dora Award
Laura Vandervoort	actress (Smallville, Instant Star, Into the Blue 2)
Kristy Yang	Chinese-born Canadian actress

k-os 2011 Official Publicity Photo

Scientists

Name	Notability
Nigel Lockyer	Director of TRIUMF, Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics
Steve MacLean	Astronaut
Helen Rodd	Award-winning zoologist
Ellen Bialystok	Award-winning psychologist. Winner of the Killiam Prize
Bridget Stutchbury	Natural scientist and writer. Author of Silence of the Songbirds, and "The Bird Detective"[102]

Steve MacLean – astronaut, President of the Canadian Space Agency

Athletes

Name	Notability
Karen Cockburn	Olympic medallist, trampoline (Silver in 2008 & 2004, Bronze in 2000)
Adam Henrich	Professional ice hockey player
Jeff Johnson	Professional football player (Currently playing for the CFL's Toronto Argonauts)
Tuğba Karademir	2 time Olympian, representing Turkey in Figure skating at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics.[103]
Sarah Steinke	Canadian Swimmer
Carlos Newton	Mixed Martial Artist (Former UFC Welterweight Champion)
Trish Stratus	Former professional wrestler and WWE Hall of Famer, known for most Women's Championship reigns (7 reigns)
Mathieu Turgeon	Olympic medallist, trampoline (Bronze in 2000)
Andre Durie	Professional Football Player (Currently playing for the CFL's Toronto Argonauts)
Ricky Foley	Professional Football Player (Currently playing for the CFL's Saskatchewan Roughriders)
Taylor Wilde	Former professional wrestler (Youngest TNA Women's Knockout Champion (2008) and first Knockout in TNA history to win the singles and tag team Knockout titles (2009))
Dontae Richards-Kwok	Canadian Sprinter
Frank Hoffmann	CFL player
Bill Hatanaka	Canadian football player
Sean Foudy	Canadian football player

Adam Henrich

Broadcasters

Name	Notability
Barbara Budd	award-winning senior journalist with the CBC
Ken Daniels	former Hockey Night in Canada host, current Detroit Red Wings commentator on FSN Detroit
Melissa DiMarco	TV personality and actress. has her own show and a role on Degrassi: The Next Generation
Nancy Durham	journalist and foreign correspondent for the CBC, married to Oxford philosopher Bill Newton-Smith
Matt Galloway	CBC Radio One host, Metro Morning
Jian Ghomeshi	CBC host, musician, writer and producer
Olga Graham	author and professional editor Free Press777.
Michael Harris	Ottawa Sun columnist, Woodrow Wilson Scholar
Chantal Hebert	award-winning journalist for The Toronto Star as well as Le Devoir and National Post among others, and commentator on Canadian politics, appears often on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Peter Hitchens	columnist and author.
Michael Hirsh	co-founder of Nelvana international animation company based in Toronto (Babar, Hergé's Adventures of Tintin, Bob and Margaret)
Patrick Loubert	co-founder of Nelvana
Paul Jones	Current Play by play man for the Toronto Raptors
Hazel Mae	news anchor and personality on Sportsnet
Jonathan Mann	journalist for CNN International
Brian Milner	senior columnist for the Globe and Mail
Jacquie Perrin	host of CBC's Saturday Report, accomplished pilot.
Beatrice Politi	political specialist on CP24 in Ottawa
B.W. Powe	writer and columnist for The Globe and Mail
Dina Pugliese	co-host of Breakfast Television on CityTV in Toronto
Natasha Ramsahai	chief meteorologist for CBC Canada
Liz Reyes	award winning TV News Anchor, Reporter and personality, now at WVUE New Orleans USA
Sandie Rinaldo	award-winning CTV news anchor for all of Canada
Paula Todd	award-winning journalist and host of TVOntario's Person to Person and CTV's The Verdict
Mark Jones	ESPN and ABC play-by-play sports broadcaster

Other

Name	Notability
Ashley Ebner	Shoe designer and founder of Joker's Closet
Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang	Vice Chancellor, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
Gord Ash	Former Toronto Blue Jays General Manager (1995–2001) and current Milwaukee Brewers assistant to the General Manager.
Harry Black	humanitarian, former Executive Director of UNICEF Canada.
Gwen Boniface	former Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police.
Guy Bujold	current President of the Canadian Space Agency
Pat Quinn – NHL & Team Canada head coach	Marlys Edwardh	civil rights lawyer who represented Maher Arar.
Ward P.D. Elcock	former Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
Susan Eng	former chair of the Toronto Police Services Board, Director of Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
Melyssa Ford	model and BET personality.
Cecil Foster	novelist, essayist and sociologist.
Edward Greenspan	criminal defense lawyer (clients include Conrad Black among others).
Alexander Haditaghi	founder, owner and chairman of Pacific Mortgage Company
Wilson A. Head	Human Rights activist
Edmund Ho	Chief Executive of Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.
Ahmed Hussen	President of the Canadian Somali Congress
Faisal Kutty	lawyer, law professor, writer and human rights activist
Sheldon Levy	President & Vice-Chancellor of Ryerson University
Deborah McCawley	former Chief Executive Officer for the Law Society of Manitoba, currently sitting as a Manitoba judge.
Gavin MacKenzie	Treasurer (the head) of the Law Society of Upper Canada
James MacKinnon	head of the Economics department at Queen's University
Jay Manuel	creative director of America's Next Top Model as well as Canada's Next Top Model
Michael Marder	philosopher
Joseph Pivato	literary critic, professor and Italian-Canadian writer
Julian Porter	former Commissioner of the Toronto Transit Commission and President of the Canadian National Exhibition
Victoria Pratt	actress, fitness model, fitness writer
Pat Quinn	former coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs NHL hockey team
David Rocco	celebrity chef, actor and producer
Clayton Ruby	criminal defense lawyer
Bea Rose Santiago	Miss International 2013
Kim Sawchuk	academic and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies for the Faculty of Arts and Science at Concordia University
Tom Traves	President & Vice-Chancellor of Dalhousie University
Sylvana Windsor, Countess of St Andrews	academic and historian
Tom Wright	former commissioner of the Canadian Football League, former President of Adidas Canada
Shadya Yasin	social activist, poet and teacher
Alan Young	renowned Canadian constitutional lawyer and civil rights activist

Noted faculty

Name	Notability
Irving Abella	history
William Phillips	Professor of Economics, notable for his contribution in Economics with the Phillips Curve
Louise Arbour	Professor of Law, currently UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Harry Arthurs	law and former President of York University
Paul Axelrod	education
Joel Bakan	law, author of The Corporation
Shannon Bell	performance philosopher, political scientist, feminist
James Beveridge	filmmaker and educator; founder of York's Department of Film
Heather Monroe-Blum	currently the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University
Hédi Bouraoui	French and English literature
Rob Bowman	ethnomusicology
Ed Broadbent	(1960s) – former leader of the federal New Democratic Party
Jean-Gabriel Castel	Professor Emeritus of Law
Jerome Ch'en	Professor Emeritus of History
G. Ramsay Cook	Professor Emeritus of History
Neil Leon Rudenstine	Professor Emeritus of Political Science, former president of Harvard University
Andrea Davis	Professor of Humanities, Latin American Caribbean Studies, History, English
Christopher Dewdney	author, Professor of English Literature
Lynne Fernie	film studies
Markus Giesler	Schulich Marketing Professor, named one of the 40 best business school professors under the age of 40 in the world
Stephen Gill	Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Barbara Godard	Professor of English and the Avie Bennett Historica Chair in Canadian Literature.
Jack Granatstein	Professor Emeritus of History
Leslie Green	Professor, Law, Philosophy, and Social and Political Thought, permanent Chair in Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford
Christopher D. Green	Professor of Psychology and Philosophy, President-elect of the Society for the History of Psychology (APA Division 26)
John Greyson	film director
Peter Hogg	Professor Emeritus of Law, constitutional expert, former Dean of Osgoode
Michiel Horn	Professor Emeritus of History, University Historian
Jacques Israelievitch	violinist, member of the Order of Canada[104]
Ali Kazimi	filmmaker
Gabriel Kolko	Professor Emeritus of History
James Laxer	author, columnist and commentator, Professor of Canadian Politics
Irving Layton	poet
Jack Layton	leader of the New Democratic Party
Lee Lorch	Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, civil rights activist, member of Cuban Academy of Sciences
Edelgard Mahant	political science
Patrick J. Monahan	Professor of Law
Jonathan Nitzan	Professor of Political Economy
David F. Noble	Historian of Technology
Michael Ondaatje	author and filmmaker, Professor of English Literature
Leo Panitch	Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science (Canada Research Chair in Political Economy), editor of the Socialist Register
Andreas Papandreou	Greek Prime Minister, Economics Professor (1969–1974)
Sergei M. Plekhanov	Professor of Political Science, member of Soviet Academy of Sciences
B. W. Powe	Professor of English
Trichy Sankaran	Indian carnatic percussionist
John Ridpath	Objectivist philosopher and retired Associate Professor of Economics and Intellectual History
Paul Roazen	Professor Emeritus of Social and Political Science, founder of meta-psychotherapy
Anne E. Russon	Professor of Psychology, expert on Orangutan innovation and intelligence
J.T. Saywell	Professor Emeritus of History
David N. Stamos	Professor of Philosophy
Grant Strate	founder of York's Dance department and first resident choreographer of National Ballet of Canada
Orest Subtelny	Professor of History
Priscilla Uppal	professor of creative writing nominated for Griffin Poetry Prize
Ellen Wood	historian and critic of political theory
Neal Wood	historian
Robin Wood	Professor Emeritus of Film and Video, famous film critic
James Alcock	Psychology Professor, author, and noted parapsychology skeptic

Distinguished Research Professors

The rank of "Distinguished Research Professor" is the highest rank a professor can achieve at York University. There are only ever 25 active Distinguished Research Professors at any time.^[105] It is awarded to members of the faculty who have made outstanding contributions to the University through their work in research.^[106]

Name	Year Of Award & Notability
Pat Armstrong	2010: Sociology, Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Gerald O. Aspirall	1988: Chemistry, Science
Isabella C. Bakker	2014: Political Science, Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Norbert Bartel	2006: Physics & Astronomy, Science & Engineering
Russell Belk	2014: Schulich School of Business
Ellen Bialystok	2003: Psychology, Arts
Diethard Bohme	1995: Chemistry, Pure & Applied Science
John Bosher	1989: History, Arts
Deborah Britzman	2006: Education
James Carley	2000: English, Arts
Jean-Gabriel Castel	1986: Osgoode Hall Law School
Jerome Ch’en	1984: History, Arts
Lorraine Code	1998: Philosophy, Arts
J. Douglas Crawford	2013: Psychology, Health
Kenneth Davey	1984: Biology, Science
Sheila Embleton	2009: Languages, Literatures & Linguistics, Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Norman Endler	1996: Psychology, Arts
Stephen Gill	2006: Political Science, Arts
Jack Granatstein	1994: History, Arts
Leslie S. Greenberg	2010: Psychology, Health
Phillip Gulliver	1985: Anthropology, Arts
Henry S. Harris	1984: Philosophy, Glendon
Robert Haynes	1986: Biology, Science
Michael Herren	1999: Humanities, Atkinson
Eric Hessels	2006: Physics & Astronomy, Science & Engineering
Ian Howard	1988: Psychology, Arts
Allan Hutchinson	2006: Osgoode Hall Law School
Christopher Innes	1997: English, Arts
Ian Jarvie	1993: Philosophy, Arts
Michael Kater	1992: History, Atkinson
Gabriel Kolko	1986: History, Arts
A. B. P. Lever	1998: Chemistry, Pure & Applied Science
Clifford Leznoff	2003: Chemistry, Pure & Applied Science
Paul Lovejoy	1997: History, Arts
John C. McConnell	2005: Earth & Space Science & Engineering, Science & Engineering
Kent McNeil	2008: Osgoode Hall Law School
Peter Moens	1991: Biology, Pure & Applied Science
Gareth Morgan	1992: Administrative Studies
H. Vivian Nelles	2001: History, Arts
Ralph W. Nicholls	1983: Physics, Science
John O’Neill	1983: Sociology, Arts
Hiroshi Ono	2001: Psychology, Arts
Leo Panitch	1999: Political Science, Arts
Debra Pepler	2008: Psychology, Health
Huw Pritchard	1983: Chemistry, Science
David M. Regan	1992: Psychology, Arts
Marcia H. Rioux	2013: Health Policy & Management, Health
Nicholas Rogers	2011: History, Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Beryl Rowland	1983: English, Arts
Stuart Shanker	2005: Psychology, Atkinson Faculty of Liberal & Professional Studies
Gordon Shepherd	1993: Earth & Space Science, Pure & Applied Science
K.W. Michael Siu	2008: Chemistry, Science & Engineering
Brian Slattery	2008: Osgoode Hall Law School
Donald Smiley	1984: Political Science, Arts
Martin Steinbach	2000: Psychology, Atkinson Faculty of Liberal & Professional Studies
Bridget Stutchbury	2009: Biology, Science & Engineering
James Tenney	1995: Music, Fine Arts
John Tsotsos	2008: Computer Science & Engineering, Science & Engineering
Reginald Whitaker	2001: Political Science, Arts
Jianhong Wu	2011: Mathematics & Statistics, Science & Engineering

Presidents

Name	Notability
Murray G. Ross	academic 1959–1970
David Slater	economist and civil servant 1970–1973
H. Ian Macdonald	economist and civil servant 1973–1984
Harry W. Arthurs	lawyer and academic 1985–1992
Susan Mann	historian and academic, 1993–1997
Lorna Marsden	academic and politician 1997 – 2008
Mamdouh Shoukri	academic, 2008–present[107]

Chancellors

Name	Notability
Wilfred A. Curtis	RCAF air marshal, 1959–1968
Floyd S. Chalmers	publisher, 1968–1973
Walter L. Gordon	federal cabinet minister, 1973–1977
John P. Robarts	premier of Ontario, 1977–1982
John S. Proctor	banker, 1982–1983
J. Tuzo Wilson	geophysicist, 1983–1986
Larry Clarke	founder of SPAR Aerospace, 1986–1991
Oscar Peterson	jazz piano great, 1991–1994
Arden Haynes	businessman, 1994–1998
Avie J. Bennett	businessman, 1998–2004
Peter deCarteret Cory	jurist, 2004–2008
Roy McMurtry	politician and judge, 2008–Present

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