List of Dalhousie University people

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The following is a list of notable alumni, faculty, and others affiliated with Dalhousie University located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Alumni[]

Scientists[]

  • Dr. Robert Ackman (MS 1952), O.C. – omega-3 fatty acid research pioneer[1]
  • Martin Henry Dawson (BA 1916) – pioneer in penicillin therapy
  • Dr. Erik Demaine (BSc. 1993)  – youngest professor ever hired at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Danielle Fong (BSc. 2005)  – pioneer in green energy
  • Trudy Mackay (BSc, MSc), quantitative geneticist, winner of the Wolf Prize in Agriculture in 2016[2]
  • Arthur B. McDonald (BSc, MSc)  – Nobel Laureate: 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics[3]
  • Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan (PhD 1978)  – NASA astronaut, first American woman to walk in space
  • Ban Tsui (Dip. Eng., BSc, MSc, MD)  – described the Tsui Test and developed a catheter over needle kit for peripheral nerve block
  • Mary Anne White, O.C. – multi-award-winning materials scientist and educator

Government and politics[]

Prime Ministers[]

Lieutenant Governors[]

Diplomats[]

  • Michael Leir – Canadian High Commissioner to Australia
  • Kishore Mahbubani – former Ambassador of the Republic of Singapore to the United Nations, Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
  • Audri Mukhopadhyay- Canadian Diplomat and economist

Premiers[]

Other notable politicians and political actors[]

Mayors[]

Academia[]

Business[]

Law and lawmaking[]

Justices[]

Attorneys General[]

  • Murdoch MacPherson – Attorney-General of Saskatchewan
  • Geoff Plant (LL.B. 1981) – Attorney General of British Columbia[27]

Legislators[]

Activists[]

  • Jan Crull Jr. (BA)  – attorney, consultant, former Native American rights advocate, filmmaker, and investment banker
  • Peter Dalglish (Law) – international children's rights activist; founded Toronto-based Street Kids International
  • Elizabeth May (LLB 1983)  – President of the Sierra Club of Canada, leader of the Green Party of Canada[33]
  • Alexa McDonough (BA 1965)  – former leader of the New Democratic Party[34]
  • Nick Wright (MBA, Law)  – founding leader of the Green Party of Nova Scotia

Journalism[]

  • Sandra Gwyn, O.C. – journalist and writer
  • Ian Hanomansing (Law)  – television journalist
  • Dr. Armand Leroi (BS1989)  – evolutionary developmental biologist, author, and BBC documentarist[35]
  • Amber MacArthur (BA)  – television and netcasting personality
  • Robert MacNeil – broadcast journalist; co-anchored the nightly The MacNeil/Lehrer Report on PBS[36]
  • Marjorie Willison – CBC radio personality

Literature[]

  • Ernest Buckler – novelist[37]
  • George Elliot Clarke – Author and recipient of the Governor General's Award
  • Simon Gray – English playwright, Commander of the Order of the British Empire
  • , Author, journalist and academic
  • Kenneth Leslie – poet
  • Lucy Maud (L.M.) Montgomery – author of Anne of Green Gables (attended 1895, 1896)[38]
  • James Macdonald Oxley (BA 1874) – Lawyer and an author of books for boys
  • , Author, radio host and academic
  • Budge Wilson – author
  • Lance Woolaver – author, playwright and director

Performing arts[]

Sports[]

Other[]

Administration[]

Presidents[]

Presidents of Dalhousie University[45][46]
Name Start of term End of term Notes
1 Thomas McCulloch 1838 1843
University was closed from 1843 to 1863
2 James Ross 1863 1885
3 John Forrest 1885 1911
4 Arthur Stanley Mackenzie 1911 1931
5 Carleton Wellesley Stanley 1931 1945
6 Alexander Enoch Kerr 1945 1963
7 Henry Hicks 1963 1980
8 William Andrew MacKay 1980 1986
9 Howard Charles Clark 1986 1995
10 Tom Traves 1995 2013
11 Richard Florizone 2013 2019 Florizone announced plans to resign in 2019.[47] He has a Ph.D. in nuclear physics from MIT.[48]
12 Deep Saini 2020 present

Chancellors[]

Chancellors of Dalhousie University[49]
Name Start of term End of term Notes
1 C. D. Howe 1957 1960
Position vacant from 1960 to 1968
2 Marcia Anastasia Christoforides 1968 1990
3 H. Reuben Cohen 1990 1994
4 Graham Day 1994 2001
5 Richard Goldbloom 2001 2008
6 Fred Fountain 2008 2015
7 Anne McLellan 2015 present McLellan is the ninth Deputy Prime Minister of Canada.

Notable faculty[]

  • A. H. Armstrong – classicist
  • Peter Aucoin – political science, public administration
  • Said Awad – Professor Emeritus of Urology
  • Jerome H. Barkow – anthropologist
  • Axel D. Becke – chemist
  • Michael Bishop – literary scholar
  • Edward Blackadder – Professor of Medical Jurisprudence
  • John Cameron, FRSE – Professor of Anatomy[50]
  • Lesley Choyce – author
  • James De Mille – Professor of English and Rhetoric
  • Ford Doolittle – biochemist
  • James Doull – philosopher, Professor of Classics
  • John Forrest – Professor of History
  • Edgar Z. Friedenberg – educationist[51]
  • John Godfrey – historian
  • Clarence Gosse – Professor of Urology
  • George Grant – philosopher
  • Shauntay Grant – author
  • Roy Martin Haines – historian
  • Brian K. Hall – biologist
  • William Hare – Professor of Education and Philosophy
  • C. D. Howe – engineer, businessman, Liberal Cabinet minister
  • Erin Johnson – chemist
  • Michael John Keen – Department of Geology professor (1961–77) and department chairman
  • Thomas Worrall Kent – Dean of Administrative Studies, adjunct professor of Public Administration[52]
  • George Lawson – botanist
  • Alexander H. Leighton – psychiatrist
  • Roy Leitch  – English composition
  • Charles Macdonald – Professor of Mathematics
  • Brian Mackay-Lyons – architect[53]
  • Arthur Stanley Mackenzie – physicist
  • Christine Macy – architect, historian and the dean of the architecture and planning faculty
  • Elisabeth Mann-Borgese – Professor of Law
  • Daniel Murray – mathematician
  • Cynthia Neville – historian[54]
  • Lars Osberg – McCulloch Professor of Economics
  • E. C. Pielou – ecologist
  • Robert Rosen – Professor of Biophysics
  • Malcolm Ross – literary critic
  • Eric Segelberg – Professor of Classics
  • Wilfred Cantwell Smith – Professor of Religion
  • Colin Starnes – professor, author and former President of the University of King's College
  • Steve Tittle – composer
  • Peter Busby Waite – historian, longtime Thomas McCulloch Professor of History
  • Richard Wassersug – Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology
  • John Clarence Webster – Governor of Dalhousie University in 1934[55]
  • Richard Chapman Weldon – Professor of Law
  • Franklin White – Professor and Head, Community Health and Epidemiology (1982–89); adjunct since 1989
  • Boris Worm – marine ecologist
  • Nissim Mannathukkaren Associate Professor

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