List of University of Alberta people

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This is a list of distinguished people affiliated with the University of Alberta.

Current faculty[]

  • Ali A. Abdi - anthropologist and author; education and international development
  • William Anselmi - Professor of Italian and Italian-Canadian Literature and Culture
  • Lorne Babiuk - immunologist and virologist
  • Harold Barclay - anthropology
  • Howard Bashaw - music
  • Norman C. Beaulieu - electrical engineering
  • Ted Bishop - English and film studies
  • Edward D. Blodgett - author and researcher in comparative literature, religion and film/media[1]
  • Ludwig N. Carbyn - Wolf biology
  • Philip J. Currie - palaeontology
  • Patricia Demers - English and film studies
  • Jaroslaw Drelich - chemical engineering
  • Abdulhakem Elezzabi - father of spinplasmonics
  • Pierre Flor-Henry - psychology
  • John Gamon - pioneer of the Photochemical Reflectance Index
  • Andrew Gow - Historian of Medieval and early modern Europe.
  • Jonathan Locke Hart - author, literary scholar and historian[2]
  • Peter Hide - sculpture
  • John-Paul Himka - professor of East European history
  • Greg Hollingshead - novelist and professor of English
  • Michael Houghton - Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of hepatitis C
  • Peter L. Hurd - biology
  • Mark A. Lewis - mathematical ecologist and the Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Biology at the Centre for Mathematical Biology[3]
  • Karim Jamal - School of Business
  • Stephen A. Kent - Professor in the Department of Sociology
  • Jacobus Kloppers - Adjunct Professor of Organ
  • Natalie Kononenko - professor of folklore
  • Andriy Kovalenko - molecular dynamics pioneer, of the Kovalenko-Hirata Closure relationship fame
  • Rouslan Krechetnikov - Ig Nobel Prize laureate
  • Andy Liu - mathematics
  • Michael Lounsbury - Associate Dean of Research, Thornton A. Graham Chair and Professor of strategic management, organizations and sociology
  • Austin Mardon - Adjunct Professor, recipient of Order of Canada
  • Jacob Masliyah - pioneer researcher in oil-sands extraction, recipient of Order of Canada[4]
  • Takahiko Masuda - associate professor of psychology
  • Anne McLellan - law
  • Iman Mersal - poet, Professor of Arabic literature and Middle Eastern and African Studies
  • Robert Moody - mathematics, co-inventor of Kac–Moody algebra
  • Adam Morton - philosopher and member of the Royal Society of Canada[5][6]
  • Don Page
  • Raj Pannu
  • Mike Percy - economics
  • Leonard Ratzlaff - professor of choral music
  • Jia Rongqing - mathematics
  • Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa - director of the university's Center for Earth Observation Sciences
  • Jonathan Schaeffer - computer scientist and the Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence[7]
  • James Shapiro - professor of surgery, medicine and surgical oncology; director of the Clinical Islet Transplant Program
  • Arya Mitra Sharma - Alberta Health Services endowed Chair in Obesity Research and Management
  • Ian Stirling
  • Richard S. Sutton - computer science
  • Darren Tanke - palaeontology
  • Thomas Thundat - Canada Excellence Research Chair in Oilsands Molecular Engineering
  • Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann - mathematician
  • Ban Tsui - Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
  • Allan Warrack - Department of Marketing, Business Economics and Law in the Faculty of Business and also serves as the Associate Dean of the Master of Public Management Program and Vice-President of Administration
  • Thaddeus E. Weckowicz - Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Theoretical Psychology
  • Rudy Wiebe - English
  • Douglas Wiens - statistics
  • Osmar R. Zaiane - computer science
  • Vaclav Zizler - mathematics

Past faculty[]

  • Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi‘
  • Jane Alexander
  • William Hardy Alexander - one of the university's first four professors; university historian[8]
  • Margaret Atwood - author
  • C. Fred Bentley
  • Russell Brown - professor of law, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
  • Donald Cameron
  • Clive Carruthers
  • Karl Clark
  • Jagannath Prasad Das - professor of educational psychology; member of the Order of Canada
  • John B. Dossetor - professor emeritus of medicine and bioethics
  • Robert Folinsbee
  • Malcolm Forsyth - professor of composition, Department of Music; Juno Award winner and member of the Order of Canada
  • Victor Golla
  • Thomas B. Greenfield
  • Allan Gregg
  • Ronald Hamowy
  • W. G. Hardy – Professor of Classics, writer, ice hockey administrator, Member of the Order of Canada[9]
  • H. A. Hargreaves
  • Walter Edgar Harris
  • Myer Horowitz
  • Werner Israel - professor of physics and leader in the theory of black holes; Fellow of the Royal Society and Royal Society of Canada
  • George Ivany
  • Martin Joos
  • William Alexander Robb Kerr
  • Mors Kochanski - bushcraft and wilderness survival pioneer
  • Karol Józef Krótki (1922–2007) - active in Department of Sociology in 1968–1990, instrumental in establishing a strong demography program and the Population Research Laboratory; awarded the title of University Professor in 1983 and after his retirement remained active as a professor emeritus; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
  • Gérard Vincent La Forest - dean of law (1968–1970), past Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
  • Francis John Lewis - professor of botany
  • John M. MacEachran
  • Walter Mackenzie
  • Barry J. Mailloux
  • David Marsden - world record holder in unpowered sailplane flight
  • Carlo Montemagno - Father of Bionanotechnology
  • Angus Munn
  • Joseph S. Nelson - ichthyology
  • Hope A. Olson
  • John Orrell
  • Jim Parr
  • Solomiia Pavlychko
  • Anatol Roshko - one of only three people alive to have a dimensionless number (Roshko number) named after them
  • George A. Rothrock
  • Gail Sidonie Sobat
  • Mathukumalli V. Subbarao
  • Yasushi Takahashi
  • Henry Marshall Tory - first president, founder of three universities, the Alberta Research Council and National Research Council of Canada
  • Hiroomi Umezawa
  • Maury Van Vliet
  • Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901–1972) - professor of theoretical biology in the Department of Zoology and Psychology (1960–1968), helped establish the Advanced Center for Theoretical Psychology, originator of General Systems Theory
  • Ella May Walker
  • Wilfred Watson
  • John Alexander Weir - first dean of law
  • Daniel Woolf

Alumni[]

Academics[]

  • Tania Bubela – professor and dean in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University
  • Satish K. Tripathi – President of University at Buffalo
  • Dominique Abrioux – President of Athabasca University (1995–2005)
  • Sir John Bell – Regius Chair of Medicine, University of Oxford[10]
  • Andrew Brook – Chancellor's Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Carleton University
  • James Collip – biochemistry professor, played key role in discovery of insulin
  • Jim Cummins – professor and author, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
  • Bernadette Louise Dean – Principal of Kinnaird College, Pakistan
  • Su Guaning – President of Nanyang Technological University
  • Joy Johnson – Vice-President, Research, Simon Fraser University
  • Raymond U. Lemieux – chemistry pioneer, winner of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1999) and the Albert Einstein World Award of Science (1992)
  • Tak Wah Mak – molecular biologist
  • Joseph B. Martin – Dean of Harvard Medical School[11]
  • Ravi S. Menon, Canadian-American biophysicist and Professor The University of Western Ontario
  • Joseph Pivato – writer and researcher in ethnic minority writing in Canada; Professor, Athabasca University, Edmonton
  • Janice Stein – international relations researcher
  • Wallace Sterling – past president of Stanford University
  • Richard E. Taylor – Nobel Laureate
  • Bas van Fraassen – Princeton University, McCosh Professor of Philosophy
  • David Silver & Aja Huang – Google Deep Mind, Two main researchers of Alpha Go
  • Jordan B. Peterson - Clinical psychologist and professor at the University of Toronto

Authors[]

  • Todd Babiak
  • Gary Botting
  • Caterina Edwards
  • Karen Graham (dietitian)
  • Edmundo Farolan
  • Arthur Kroeger
  • Robert Kroetsch
  • Steve Lillebuen
  • W. O. Mitchell
  • Kit Pearson
  • Candace Savage
  • Lesley-Anne Scorgie
  • Timothy Taylor
  • Adam Thrasher - author of Space Moose[12]
  • Vern Thiessen
  • Brian Tracy
  • Aritha Van Herk
  • Rudy Wiebe

Judges[]

Politicians[]

Other notable alumni[]

Rhodes Scholars[]

The University of Alberta has produced 76 Rhodes Scholars, including the following:

  • Roland Michener (1919) - 20th governor general of Canada
  • George Stanley (1929) - designer of the Canadian flag
  • Arthur Kroeger (1956) - academic, federal deputy minister and chancellor of Carleton University

Honorary degree recipients[]

See also: List of University of Alberta honorary degree recipients
  • His Highness the Aga Khan – Spiritual Leader of the Ismaili Muslims
  • Douglas Cardinal – architect
  • Charles, Prince of Wales
  • Victor Cavendish – former Governor General of Canada
  • Jean Chrétien – former Prime Minister of Canada
  • John Diefenbaker – former Prime Minister of Canada
  • King Edward VIII
  • Wayne Gretzky – former National Hockey League player
  • Horace Harvey – second Chief Justice of Alberta; chairman of the University of Alberta Board of Governors
  • Frederick Haultain – the first and only premier of Canada's North-West Territories
  • Lois Hole – former Lieutenant Governor of Alberta
  • Ernest Manning – former Premier of Alberta
  • Don Mazankowski – former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
  • Walter Murray – first President of the University of Saskatchewan
  • Alexander Rutherford – first Premier of Alberta
  • Arthur Sifton – former Premier of Alberta
  • Manmohan Singh – former Prime Minister of India
  • Donald Smith – 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
  • Harry Strom – former Premier of Alberta
  • Mother Teresa – missionary
  • Pierre Trudeau – former Prime Minister of Canada
  • Desmond Tutu – former Archbishop of Cape Town and current chair of the Global Elders
  • Max Ward – pioneering aviator

References[]

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  3. ^ "Mark Lewis Home Page". University of Alberta. Retrieved December 9, 2009.
  4. ^ "Dr. Jacob Masliyah". Home Page. University of Alberta. Retrieved October 20, 2009.
  5. ^ "Adam Morton, FRSC". University of Alberta. June 14, 2006. Archived from the original on August 27, 2009. Retrieved October 20, 2009.
  6. ^ "Adam Morton". Home page. University of Alberta Faculty of Arts. Archived from the original on April 5, 2005. Retrieved October 20, 2009.
  7. ^ "Jonathan Schaeffer Home Page". University of Alberta. Archived from the original on April 9, 2008. Retrieved October 20, 2009.
  8. ^ "Event Details: William Hardy Alexander Award for Excellence in Sessional Teaching". University of Alberta. Archived from the original on August 27, 2009. Retrieved October 20, 2009.
  9. ^ "Author not working as hard". Medicine Hat News. Medicine Hat, Alberta. June 29, 1979. p. 29.icon of an open green padlock
  10. ^ "Sir John Bell". Oxford Health Alliance. Retrieved July 27, 2012.
  11. ^ "Dean of Harvard med school returns to his roots". University of Alberta. Archived from the original on August 27, 2009. Retrieved October 20, 2009.
  12. ^ Schoek, Ellen. I Was There: A Century of Alumni Stories about the University of Alberta, 1906–2006. University of Alberta, 2006. 635. Retrieved from Google Books on February 4, 2011. ISBN 0-88864-464-7, ISBN 978-0-88864-464-0.
  13. ^ "Former chancellor Lou Hyndman receives an honorary degree". University of Alberta. Archived from the original on December 8, 2008. Retrieved October 20, 2009.
  14. ^ "Mr. Wilton Littlechild". UNPFII. Retrieved October 20, 2009.
  15. ^ "Warren Buffett's Canadian lieutenant eyes Alberta expansion". Retrieved 10 January 2018 – via The Globe and Mail.
  16. ^ "The planner Ernest Côté was a WWII veteran who helped plan the invasion of Normandy". University of Alberta. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
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