List of Queen's University people

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The following is a list of notable alumni, faculty and affiliates of Queen's University at Kingston 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]
  • Alfred Fitzpatrick – founder of Frontier College[6]
  • David Siderovski – Professor and Chair of Pharmacology & Neuroscience at University of North Texas Health Science Center (winner of ASPET John J. Abel Award)
  • Robert Sutherland – first person of colour to graduate from a Canadian university, and the first black lawyer in British North America.[7]
  • 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 AndersonCanWest MediaWorks senior vice-president, content; former editor-in-chief of the Ottawa Citizen
  • Dean Armstrong – actor
  • Ashleigh BanfieldCNN news anchor
  • Rachel Blanchard – actress
  • Kristian Bruun – actor
  • Nicholas Campbell – actor
  • Tom Cavanagh – actor, played title character in sitcom Ed
  • Wendy Crewson – actress
  • Brendan Connor – television broadcaster, Al Jazeera International
  • Chris CuthbertTSN sportscaster
  • Lisa Eichhorn – actress
  • Sally Gifford – host on CBC's national kids' show, The X
  • Lorne Greene (BA'37, LLD'71) – actor
  • Amy Lalonde – actress, also played an actress who went to Queen's Business School in Wild Roses
  • Anna Olson – chef and television presenter
  • Italia Ricci – actress
  • Michelle MacLaren – TV series director
  • Shelagh RogersCBC broadcaster
  • Ted Simonett – actor
  • Jeffrey Simpson – political columnist for The Globe and Mail
  • Rod SmithTSN sportscaster
  • John Stackhouse – former Editor, The Globe and Mail
  • 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
  • Julie Stewart-Binks – sports broadcaster, ESPN
  • Vanessa Morgan – actress
  • [8] – actress and producer
  • Evanka OsmakSportsNet broadcaster

Business people[]

  • 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
  • Robert Buchan – founder and former president and CEO of Kinross Gold
  • 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
  • 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
  • Frances Donald – youngest chief economist for a major financial services firm in Canada (Manulife)
  • Elon Musk – founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer at SpaceX; early stage investor, CEO, and Product Architect of Tesla, Inc. (left after 2 years).
  • Kimbal Musk – South African restaurateur, chef, and entrepreneur
  • Don Drummond (MA, LLD) – former senior vice-president and Chief Economist of TD Bank Financial Group and Donald Matthews Faculty Fellowship on Global Public Policy [9]
  • Mel Goodes – former chairman and CEO of the Warner-Lambert Company
  • Stephen K. Gunn – CEO and co-founder of Sleep Country Canada
  • F. C. Kohli – former CEO of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
  • Leonard Lee (B.A. 1963) – founder of Lee Valley Tools
  • 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)
  • Alexander C. Monteith – senior vice-president of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation and recipient of the IEEE Edison Medal
  • Nik Nanos – founder, Nanos Research
  • Gord Nixon (BComm 1979) – president and CEO of the Royal Bank of Canada
  • Douglas Peters (BComm 1963) – banker, economist and politician
  • Stephen PolozGovernor 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
  • Michele Romanow (BScEng 2007, MBA 2008) – cast member on Dragons' Den, co-founder of Clearbanc[10]
  • Michael Serbinis (B.S.) – president and CEO of Kobo Inc.
  • Chris Viehbacher – CEO of Sanofi
  • Mark Wiseman – president and CEO of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board[11]

Literature and the arts[]

Gord Downie – lead singer of band The Tragically Hip
  • Jill Barber – singer-songwriter
  • Matthew Barber – singer-songwriter
  • Janet Cardiff – artist
  • Lina Chartrand (B.A.) – writer
  • George Elliott Clarke (Ph.D. 1993) – writer and academic
  • 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
  • Priscilla Galloway – author
  • Sarah Harmer – singer-songwriter
  • Frank Ll. Harrison – musicologist
  • Steven Heighton – author
  • Elena Juatco – singer and Canadian Idol season 2 top 10 contestant
  • Cyndra MacDowall – artist and photographer
  • 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
  • Joseph Petric – musician
  • Ciara Phillips (BFA 2000) – artist[12]
  • Maynard Plant – vocalist and guitarist for the Japanese band Monkey Majik
  • Jean Mills – children's author
  • Alexander Muir (B.A. 1851) – composer of The Maple Leaf Forever
  • Baņuta Rubess (B.A., honours 1977) – playwright and theatre director[13]
  • Eon Sinclair (B.A. 2004) – bassist for Canadian band Bedouin Soundclash
  • Gord Sinclair – bassist of The Tragically Hip
  • Russell Smith – author and The Globe and Mail columnist
  • Moez Surani – author
  • Timothy Taylor – author
  • Judith Thompson – playwright
  • Chris Turner – author

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
  • 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
  • Ferg Devins (B.A. 1984) – Past President Queen's Alumni Association, former Chief Corporate Affairs Officer Molson Coors Canada, Volunteer Chair of Bladder Cancer Canada
  • J. Douglas Cunningham (B.A., LL.B.) – 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
  • barbara findlay (M.A, LL.B.) – lawyer and LGBT rights activist[14]
  • Alan B. Gold – former Chief Justice of Quebec Superior Court; Chancellor of Concordia University
  • 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
  • Martin Kreuzer (post-doc. 1991) – mathematician, professor, and correspondence chess Grandmaster
  • James Macleod – militia officer, lawyer, North-West Mounted Police officer, magistrate, judge, and politician.
  • Andrew McFadyen – patients rights advocate
  • Kim Phuc (honorary degree recipient) – notable through the picture of her depicted during the Vietnam War
  • Jack Pickup – physician, the "Flying Doctor of British Columbia"
  • David Smart (B.A. 1994) – Canadian champion basketball coach
  • Prince Takamado of Japan
  • Ali Velshi – CNN business analyst

Political leaders[]

  • William Aberhart – former Premier of Alberta
  • Rohit Aggarwala – Commissioner of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection
  • Isabel Bassett – former broadcaster and provincial cabinet minister
  • John Baird (B.A. 1992) – former Minister of the Environment and former 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 ButtuPalestinian 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 former Member of Parliament
  • David Emerson (PhD 1975) – Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Pacific Gateway and the Vancouver-Whistler Olympics
  • John Gerretsen – Ontario MPP, former mayor of Kingston, Ontario cabinet minister
  • Sir Kenneth O. Hall – Governor General of Jamaica
  • James R.M. Harris – author and politician, former Leader of the Green Party of Canada
  • 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.[15]
  • 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 Murphychief 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
  • Alison Redford – (attended for two years 1983–1985) 14th premier of Alberta (2011–2014)[16]
  • George Spotton (B.A. 1895) – member of the House of Commons
  • Karen Stintz – Toronto municipal councillor and chair of the TTC (2010–2014)
  • Ross Thatcher – 9th premier of Saskatchewan (1964–1971)
  • Kathleen Wynne (B.A.) – 25th premier of Ontario (2013–2018)
  • Rathika Sitsabaiesan (M.I.R. 2007) – Member of Parliament for Scarborough-Rouge River (2011–2015)

Scientists[]

  • Walter A. Bell B.Sc. – geologist and paleontologist
  • Norman L. Bowen B.Sc., M.Sc. – chemical geologist
  • Leon Katz, B.Sc. MSc. – professor University of Saskatchewan, founder of Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory, Member of the Order of Canada
  • Bill Buxton B.Mus. (1973) – computer scientist and human-computer interaction pioneer
  • Barbara Cade-Menun – research scientist
  • Charles LeGeyt Fortescue – electrical engineer
  • James Edwin Hawley (BSc 1918, MSc 1920) – Head of Geological Sciences Department (1929–1962), Hawleyite is named after him
  • Kenneth E. Iverson (BSc 1951) – inventor of the APL programming language, Turing Award laureate
  • Mustapha Ishak Boushaki (PhD 2002) – theoretical physicist
  • Erin Johnson (PhD 2008) – theoretical chemist
  • Thomas Edvard Krogh M.Sc.(Geology) – geochronologist and a curator for the Royal Ontario Museum.
  • Margaret McKellar M.D. (1890), medical missionary
  • J. F. A. McManus M.D. (1938) – pathologist
  • Derek Muller (BSc 2004) – physics educator, creator and writer-host of Veritasium (YouTube channel)
  • Anthony J. NaldrettUniversity of Toronto emeritus professor, geologist [17]
  • 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
  • Jane Stewart (B.A. 1956) – neuroscientist[18]
  • Carolyn Relf (BSc 1984, PhD 1992) – geologist[19]
  • Harold Horton Sheldon (1893–1964) – physicist, scientist, inventor, teacher, editor and author
  • Venkatesh K. R. Kodur Ph.D. – University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University and pioneer in structural fire engineering
  • Adolfo J. de Bold – O.C. Ph.D. – emeritus professor at University of Ottawa discovered heart hormones

Sports[]

Notable 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.

Principals[]

  1. Rev Thomas Liddell (1841–1846) [21]
  2. Rev John Machar (1846–1853) [21]
  3. Rev James George (acting Principal 1853–1857) [21]
  4. Rev John Cook (1857–1859) [21]
  5. Rev William Leitch (1859–1864) [21]
  6. Rev William Snodgrass (1864–1877) [21]
  7. Rev George Monro Grant (1877–1902) [21]
  8. Rev (1902–1916) [21]
  9. Rev (1917–1929) [21]
  10. Sir William Hamilton Fyfe (1930–1936) [21]
  11. Robert Charles Wallace (1936–1951) [21]
  12. William Archibald Mackintosh (1951–1961) [21]
  13. James Alexander Corry (1961–1968) [21]
  14. John James Deutsch (1968–1974) [21]
  15. Ronald Lampman Watts (1974–1984) [21]
  16. David Chadwick Smith (1984–1994) [21]
  17. William Claude Leggett (1994–2004) [21]
  18. Karen R. Hitchcock (2004–2008) [21]
  19. Thomas R. Williams (2008–2009) [21]
  20. Daniel Woolf (2009–2019) [21]
  21. Patrick Deane (2019–Present)[21]

Chancellors[]

  1. Rev John Cook (1877–1879) [22]
  2. Sir Sandford Fleming (1880–1915) [22]
  3. James Douglas (1915–1918) [22]
  4. Sir Edward Beatty (1918–1923) [22]
  5. Sir Robert Laird Borden (1924–1929) [22]
  6. James Armstrong Richardson (1929–1939) [22]
  7. Charles Avery Dunning (1940–1958) [22]
  8. John Bertram Stirling (1960–1973) [22]
  9. Roland Michener (1973–1980) [22]
  10. Agnes Mccausland Benidickson (1980–1996) [22]
  11. Peter Lougheed (1996–2002) [22]
  12. A. Charles Baillie (2002–2008) [22]
  13. David A. Dodge (2008–2014) [22]
  14. Jim Leech (2014–2021) [22]
  15. Murray Sinclair (2021–present) [22]

Rectors[]

  1. Rev (1913)
  2. James L. Robertson (1916)
  3. Brigadier General A. E. Ross (1920)
  4. (1925)
  5. Oscar D. Skelton (1929)
  6. R. B. Bennett (1935)
  7. Norman McLeod Rogers (1937)
  8. The Earl of Athlone (1940)
  9. BK Sandwell (1944)
  10. Leonard W. Brockington (1947)
  11. M. Grattan O'Leary (1968)
  12. (1969, first student Rector[23])
  13. (1972)
  14. (1974)
  15. (1976)
  16. Hugh Christie (1978)
  17. (1980)
  18. James Harris (1982)
  19. Richard Powers (1984)
  20. (1986)
  21. Charis Kelso (1988)
  22. (1990)
  23. (1992)
  24. Peter Gallant (1994)
  25. Ian Michael (1996)
  26. Michael Kealy (1998)
  27. (2000)
  28. (2002)
  29. (2004)
  30. (2006)
  31. (2008)
  32. Nick Day (2010)
  33. (2011)
  34. Mike Young (2014)
  35. Cameron Yung (2016)
  36. Alexandra da Silva (2018)
  37. Sam Hiemstra (2020)

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