List of University of Manitoba alumni
This is a list of University of Manitoba alumni.
List[]
Notable alumni from the University of Manitoba include:
Name | Occupation / Known for | UM credentials/activities | Additional details |
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Victor Anonsen | footballer and artist | ||
David Asper | lawyer and businessman; son of Izzy Asper | ||
Gail Asper | lawyer; daughter of Izzy Asper | B.A. (1981); LL.B. (1984) | |
Izzy Asper | tax lawyer and media magnate of CanWest Global Communications Corp. | BA (1953); LLB (1957); LLM (1964) | In 2000, the University's Faculty of Management was re-named to the Asper School of Business in his honour.[1] |
G. Michael Bancroft | chemist and synchrotron scientist; first director of the Canadian Light Source | graduate (1963); MSc in chemistry (1964) | |
Kathy Bardswick | President and CEO of The Co-operators | ||
William Moore Benidickson | former Member of Parliament, federal Cabinet Minister, and Senator[2] | ||
Richard Spink Bowles | lawyer and former Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor[3] | ||
George Montegu Black II | businessman, father of Conrad Black[4] | ||
Andy Blair | National Hockey League player in the 1920s and 1930s, mostly with the Toronto Maple Leafs | ||
Yvonne Brill | Canadian rocket and jet propulsion engineer who invented the fuel-efficient rocket thruster that keeps satellites in orbit today. | The Yvonne C. Brill Lectureship in Aerospace Engineering of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is named in her honor and presented annually | |
Harold J Brodie | mycologist[5] | ||
Harold Buchwald | lawyer[6] | ||
Wilfred Buck | scientific facilitator and Indigenous star lore expert | ||
Constantine of Irinoupolis | American Orthodox hierarch, Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA | St. Andrew's College graduate (1959) | |
Don Callis | professional wrestler,[7] MHSAA Darts finalist (1978) | ||
Norman Cantor | medieval scholar and writer[8] | ||
Albert Chan | Hong Kong politician and lawmaker | ||
Richard Condie | Academy Award-nominated animator; creator of The Big Snit[9] | ||
Brian Dickson | former Chief Justice of Canada[10] | ||
Gerry Ducharme | politician and a cabinet minister in the 1988–1995 Progressive Conservative government[citation needed] | ||
Mary Dunn | President of the Dominion Women's Amateur Hockey Association and the Manitoba branch of the Women's Amateur Athletic Federation of Canada[11] | ||
Audrey Dwyer | actor and writer[12] | ||
Marcel Dzama | artist | BFA (1997)[13] | |
Ed Evanko | actor and singer[14] | ||
Fernanda Ferreira | cognitive psychologist | BA in Psychology (1982) | |
Gary Filmon | Premier of Manitoba (1988–1999) | BSc Civil Engineering[15] | |
Danny Finkleman | former CBC Radio host[16] | ||
Steven Fletcher | politician; former Conservative MP in the House of Commons; former federal Cabinet Minister | BSc geological engineering; MBA at Asper[17] | |
Phil Fontaine | Aboriginal Canadian leader | BA (1981)[18] | |
Waldron Fox-Decent | mediator, professor, Crown Corporation chairman[19] | ||
Eira Friesen | advocate for women in Winnipeg[20] | ||
Erving Goffman | sociologist who famously introduced the concept of dramaturgy into the field | BSc[21] | |
Velvl Greene | scientist and academic | B.S agriculture; M.S. dairy bacteriology[22] | |
Monty Hall | television personality | BSc[23] | Hall was also president of Variety Clubs International and received the Order of Canada |
Ellie Harvie | actress[24] | ||
S.I. Hayakawa | scholar and professor of semantics; United States Senator[25] | ||
John Alexander Hopps | inventor of the world's first artificial pacemaker; known as the "father of biomedical engineering in Canada"[26] | ||
Gad Horowitz | political scientist who coined the term "Red Tory"[27] | ||
Barbara Humphreys | architect and author, specializing in public service, historic preservation, and housing | ||
Johanna Hurme | architect and activist | ||
Israel Idonije | retired NFL defensive end | ||
Jamaluddin Jarjis | former Malaysian ambassador to the United States; former Malaysian government minister | ||
Francis Lawrence Jobin | former Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba[28] | ||
F. Ross Johnson | businessman; CEO of RJR Nabisco[29] | ||
Tanya Kappo | lawyer and Indigenous rights activist | JD (2012)[30] | |
Sam Katz | mayor of Winnipeg (2004–2014) | BA (1973) | |
Guy Gavriel Kay | novelist and poet | ||
David Kilgour | former federal Minister of Transport | ||
Greg Kopp | Acting Dean of Engineering at the University of Western Ontario | ||
Scott Koskie | former member of the Canada men's national volleyball team | ||
Amanda Lang | journalist; senior business correspondent for CBC News | ||
Allan Levine | author, known mainly for his award-winning non-fiction and historical mystery writing | ||
Bob Lowes | Canadian ice hockey coach and executive | ||
James Lunney | politician; former Conservative Member of Parliament for the riding of Nanaimo—Alberni in BC | ||
Inky Mark | former federal Conservative Member of Parliament for Dauphin—Swan River, Manitoba | ||
Bill Mason | author, filmmaker, environmentalist | ||
Pearl McGonigal | former Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba | ||
William John McKeag | former Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba | ||
Marshall McLuhan | famed media scholar | ||
Harry Medovy | pediatrician and academic | ||
Olawale Sulaiman | neurosurgeon and academic | ||
Ovide Mercredi | Aboriginal Canadian leader | LLB (1977) | |
Ted Milian, | Canadian football player | ||
W.O. Mitchell | writer | ||
W. L. Morton | historian | ||
Arnold Naimark | physician, academic, and former President of the U of M | ||
Alison Norlen | artist | ||
William Norrie | mayor of Winnipeg (1979–1992) | BA (1950); LLB (1955) | |
Rey Pagtakhan | physician, academic, former MP and federal cabinet minister | ||
Malcolm Peat | Emeritus Professor at Queen's University | Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) | |
Jim Peebles | astrophysicist | won the Crafoord Prize (2005), Nobel Prize in Physics (2019), Companion of the Order of Canada, Order of Merit (CC, OM, 2020) | |
Leonard Peikoff | philosopher | ||
Frank Pickersgill | Special Operations Executive agent in World War II executed by the Nazis | ||
Barry Posner | physician and research scientist on diabetes | ||
Jon Pylypchuk | artist | ||
Clay Riddell | oil tycoon; founder, president and CEO of Paramount Resources, based in Calgary | BSc Honours (1959) | the University's Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources is named in his honour |
Dufferin Roblin | former Premier of Manitoba | ||
Marshall Rothstein | Supreme Court of Canada judge | ||
Alexei Maxim Russell | internationally-published novelist | ||
Fred Sandhu | Provincial Court of Manitoba judge[31] | ||
Edward Schreyer | Premier of Manitoba (1969–1977) and Governor General of Canada (1979–1984) | ||
Richard Scott | former Chief Justice of Manitoba Court of Appeal | ||
Harry Seidler | Australian architect[32] | ||
Mitchell Sharp | former Liberal Minister of Finance | ||
Patricia Alice Shaw | linguist specializing in phonology and known for her work on First Nations languages | ||
Louis Slotin | physicist and chemist who took part in the Manhattan Project | BSc (1932); MSc (1933) | |
Robert Steen | Mayor of Winnipeg (1977–1979) | ||
Mary Ann Steggles | Commonwealth scholar and international expert on British colonial statuary | Olive Beatrice Stanton recipient | |
Iain Stewart | theoretical physicist | ||
Frank Trafford Taylor | Canadian lawyer and former president of Kiwanis International | ||
John W.M. Thompson | Manitoba MLA and Provincial Cabinet Minister | ||
Thorbergur Thorvaldson | cement chemist[33] | ||
Miriam Toews | novelist | ||
Vic Toews | politician; former Minister of Justice and Attorney General and the President of the Treasury Board in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper | ||
Andrew Unger | satirist and novelist | ||
Meaghan DeWarrenne-Waller | fashion model; winner of Canada's Next Top Model, Cycle 3 | ||
Adele Wiseman | author | ||
Svetlana Zylin | playwright and director[34] |
References[]
- ^ * Israel Harold (Izzy) Asper at The Canadian Encyclopedia.
- ^ "William Moore Benidickson (1911-1985)" at Manitoba Historical Society (accessed February 16, 2011).
- ^ "Past Lieutenant Governors: Richard Spink Bowles" at Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba website (accessed February 16, 2011).
- ^ Richard Siklos, Shades of Black: Conrad Black and the World's Fastest Growing Press Empire, chapter one reprinted at The New York Times (accessed February 16, 2011.
- ^ "Harold Johnston Brodie, 1907-1989", Mycologia 81(6):832 (1989).
- ^ "Dr. Harold Buchwald CM QC" Archived 2011-05-14 at the Wayback Machine, Distinguished Graduates, University of Manitoba, April 2008.
- ^ "Cyrus chats with SLAM! Wrestling", CANOE, September 7, 2000.
- ^ Wolfgang Saxon, "Norman F. Cantor, a noted medievalist", New York Times News Service obituary, October 8, 2004.
- ^ "Richard Condie fonds" at University of Manitoba Libraries: Archives and Special Collections (accessed February 16, 2011).
- ^ * Supreme Court of Canada - Chief Justice Brian Dickson Archived 2011-05-16 at the Wayback Machine (accessed February 16, 2011)
- ^ "Deaths and Funerals: Mary Dunn". Winnipeg Free Press. Winnipeg, Manitoba. January 11, 1965. p. 22.
- ^ King, Randall (2019-03-13). "Mar 2019: Royal MTC names new associate AD". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
- ^ Marcel Dzama CV[permanent dead link] (accessed February 16, 2011).
- ^ Ed Evanko at The Canadian Encyclopedia.
- ^ "Hon. Gary A. Filmon PC OC OM (b. 1942)" Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine, Distinguished Graduates, University of Manitoba, January 2009
- ^ "Celebrated Alumni 2005" Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine, University of Manitoba (accessed February 16, 2011)
- ^ https://umanitoba.ca/faculties/management/programs/graduate/mba/steven_fletcher.html
- ^ "Mr. L. Phillip Fontaine OM" Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine, Distinguished Graduates, University of Manitoba (accessed February 16, 2011)
- ^ "Mr. Waldron Fox-Decent CMM CM OM" Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine, Distinguished Graduates, University of Manitoba (accessed February 16, 2011).
- ^ http://www.gg.ca/honour.aspx?id=5746&t=12&ln=Friesen
- ^ Tom Burns, Erving Goffman (Taylor & Francis, 1992), ISBN 978-0-415-06772-0, p.9. Excerpt available at Google Books
- ^ Russo, Yocheved Mirian (10 January 2007). "The Rebbe and the Rocket Scientist". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
- ^ "Dr. Monty Hall OC OM" Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine, Distinguished Graduates, University of Manitoba, August 2004 (accessed February 16, 2011).
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- ^ "Hayakawa, Samuel Ichiye", at Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- ^ "Dr. John Alexander Hopps OC" Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine, Distinguished Graduates, University of Manitoba (accessed February 16, 2011).
- ^ "Gad Horowitz, Professor Emeritus" Archived 2011-01-13 at the Wayback Machine, University of Toronto (accessed February 16, 2010).
- ^ "Past Lieutenant Governors: Francis Laurence Jobin" at Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba website (accessed February 16, 2011).
- ^ "Dr. F. Ross Johnson OC" Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine, Distinguished Graduates, University of Manitoba, August 2004 (accessed February 16, 2011).
- ^ "Jan 2013: Full interview: In conversation with Tanya Kappo". Winnipeg Free Press. 2013-01-25. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
- ^ "Two Judges Appointed to Provincial Court" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, Province of Manitoba, May 1, 2003.
- ^ Harry Seidler
- ^ DMT Multimedia Unit (2007), RSC: The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada ..., archived from the original on October 7, 2006, retrieved September 7, 2007
- ^ "U of M Fall Convocation to Present 895 Awards". Winnipeg Free Press. 1968-10-17. Retrieved 2020-06-27 – via Newspapers.com.
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