List of University of Ottawa people

This is a list of University of Ottawa people.

Notable people[]

Athletes and leaders in sports[]

Caleb Agada (born 1994), Nigerian-Canadian basketball player in the Israeli Premier League and for the Nigerian national basketball team
James Cartwright, Olympic athlete (kayak)
Michael A. Chambers, former president of the Canadian Olympic Committee and Olympic Order recipient
Sonia Denoncourt, association football referee
Doug Falconer, CFL football player, film producer
Lou Lefaive, Canadian sports administrator and civil servant^[1]
Neil Lumsden, CFL football player
Sherraine MacKay, Olympic athlete (épée fencing)
Silver Quilty, Canadian Football Hall of Fame inductee
Brad Sinopoli, CFL football player
Ibrahim Tounkara, CFL football player
Ousmane Tounkara, CFL football player

Business leaders[]

France Chrétien, prominent lawyer and businesswoman; daughter of former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien
Andre Desmarais, President and CEO of Power Corp. Canada
Paul Desmarais, entrepreneur
Daniel Lamarre, president and chief operating officer of Cirque du Soleil
Chuck Rifici, Canadian entrepreneur, former CEO of Tweed Marijuana Inc, and former CFO of the Liberal Party of Canada.
Rexy Rolle, Bahamian attorney and VP of Operations & General Counsel of Western Air^[2]^[3]

Civil servants and public sector leaders[]

, former of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)
Jocelyne Bourgon, Canadian representative to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); former Clerk of the Privy Council
William J. S. Elliott, former commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
, university president
Ahmed Hussen, President of the Canadian Somali Congress
Christiane Ouimet, first Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of Canada
Sheridan Scott, Commissioner of Competition of the Competition Bureau
Paul Tellier, former Clerk of the Privy Council

Journalists[]

Samantha Bee, host of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Marcel Desjardins, political commentator and news director^[4]
Pierre Dufault, journalist and sports commentator for Radio-Canada^[5]
Mary Lou Finlay, journalist for the CBC
Peter Jennings, journalist and news anchor for ABC News
Lisa LaFlamme, journalist
Alex Trebek, former broadcaster for CBC, host of the game show Jeopardy!

Jurists[]

Louise Arbour, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; former Supreme Court Justice
Michel Bastarache, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Louise Charron, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Gérald Fauteux, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Louis LeBel, Justice of the Supreme Court
Richard Wagner, Chief Justice of Canada

Musicians[]

Joyce El-Khoury, opera singer
Angela Hewitt, pianist
Roch Voisine, singer-songwriter
Grizz LeSaint, singer-songwriter/rapper

Media personalities[]

George Aryee, Director General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (1991–1992)
Randall Dark, director, producer, and HDTV pioneer
Erica Ehm, television personality and songwriter, former MuchMusic VJ
Jeanette Jenkins, Hollywood fitness trainer, spokeswoman for BET's Television foundation, "A Healthy BET Campaign"
Suzanne Pinel, children's entertainer (Marie-Soleil)
Quddus, model, MTV VJ

Natural scientists and engineers[]

Xiaoyi Bao, professor, Canada Research Chair in Fiber Optics and Photonics^[6]
Robert W. Boyd, physicist, Canada Excellence Research Chair Laureate in Quantum Nonlinear Optics
Timothy C. Lethbridge, professor of computer science and software engineering
Tuncer Őren, professor emeritus of computer science
Tito Scaiano, professor of chemistry, photochemist
Dafydd Williams, astronaut

Physicians and other health care professionals[]

Mark Aubry, Chief Medical Officer of Hockey Canada, and the International Ice Hockey Federation
Anna Baranowsky, clinical psychologist; founder and CEO of the Traumatology Institute
Margaret Beznak, physiologist
Walter Douglas Boyd, cardiothoracic surgeon and innovator, developed minimally invasive robotic cardiac surgery and cardiac regeneration procedures
Dave Holmes, University Research Chair in Forensic Nursing; Editor-in-Chief of Aporia - the Nursing Journal
Wilbert Joseph Keon, cardiovascular surgeon, first Canadian to implant an artificial heart in a human
Philip Steven Wells, hematologist, developed the Wells risk score for pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis

Political leaders[]

Philémon Yunji Yang , Former Cameroon Prime minister

Federal and international[]

Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed, Prime Minister of Somalia
Bernard Chidzero, finance minister of Zimbabwe
Ousainou Darboe, Gambian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Salter Hayden, Senator and lawyer
Rahim Jaffer, former Canadian Member of Parliament
John Manley, former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance
Paul Martin, former Prime Minister of Canada
Gabriela Michetti, Vice President of Argentina
Sir Edward Morris, former Prime Minister of Newfoundland
André Ouellet, former Minister and CEO and president of Canada Post
Jean-Luc Pepin, politician, Cabinet minister
John Richardson, Brigadier General in the Canadian Forces and Member of Parliament
Allan Rock, former Minister of Justice, among other ministerial portfolios, Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations, President of the University of Ottawa
Hugh Segal, politician and Senator

Provincial & Territorial[]

Howard Hampton, former leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party
Dalton McGuinty, former Premier of Ontario
Paul Okalik, first premier of Nunavut

Municipal[]

Bob Chiarelli, former mayor of the City of Ottawa
Mathieu Fleury, current Ottawa City Councillor for Rideau-Vanier
Jean-Paul L'Allier, former mayor of Quebec City
Gérald Tremblay, former mayor of Montreal

Social scientists[]

Merridee Bujaki, manager of Accounting Studies
Michel Chossudovsky, economist and author
Dimitri Kitsikis, geopolitician
Anna Koutsoyiannis, economist

Visual artists[]

Jean-Marc Carisse, photographer

Writers and literature experts[]

Angèle Bassolé-Ouédraogo, Ivoirian poet
Michel Bock, professor of history, Governor General's literary award winner
Michel Marc Bouchard, playwright
Cyril Dabydeen, author and Professor of English
Andrew Donskov, professor of modern languages, Tolstoy expert
Faisal Kutty, lawyer, writer, human rights activist, academic teaching at Osgoode Hall Law School and at Valparaiso University
Angela Narth, children's author
Carol Shields, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer
Kim Renders (BA in drama 1977), playwright, theatre director and actor; co-founder of Nightwood Theatre^[7]
Christl Verduyn, professor of English Literature and Canadian Studies; recipient of the Governor General's International Award for Canadian Studies (2006)

Other[]

Abdul Rahman Jabarah, alleged al-Qaeda member killed in 2003
Denis Rancourt, former physics professor, scientist, academic dissident

Chancellors and presidents[]

List of chancellors[]

(1889–1965) University of Ottawa

1889–1909 Mgr Joseph-Thomas Duhamel
1911–1922 Mgr
1922–1927 Mgr Joseph-Médard Émard
1928–1940 Mgr
1940–1953 Mgr
1953–1965 Mgr Marie-Joseph Lemieux, OP

(1965–present) University of Ottawa (reorganised)

1966–1973 Pauline Vanier
1973–1979 The Right Honourable Gérald Fauteux
1979–1985 Gabrielle Léger
1985–1990 The Honourable Maurice Sauvé
1991–1993 Gordon F. Henderson
1994–2012 Huguette Labelle
2012-2015 Michaelle Jean
2015–present Calin Rovinescu

List of presidents[]

(1848–1861) Le Collège de Bytown / The College of Bytown

1848-1849 , OMI
1849-1850 , OMI
1850-1851 , OMI
1851-1853 , OMI
1853-1861 Joseph-Henri Tabaret, OMI

(1861–1889) Collège d'Ottawa / College of Ottawa

1861-1864 Joseph-Henri Tabaret, OMI
1864-1867 , OMI
1867-1874 Joseph-Henri Tabaret, OMI
1874-1877 , OMI
1877-1886 Joseph-Henri Tabaret, OMI
1886 , OMI
1886-1887 , OMI
1887-1889 , OMI

(1889–1965) Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa

1889-1898 , OMI
1898-1901 , OMI
1901-1905 , OMI
1905-1911 , OMI
1911-1914 , OMI
1914-1915 , OMI
1915-1921 , OMI
1921-1927 , OMI
1927-1930 , OMI
1930-1936 Gilles Marchand, OMI
1936-1942 , OMI
1942-1946 , OMI
1946-1952 , OMI
1952-1958 , OMI
1958-1964 , OMI
1964-1965 Roger Guindon, OMI

(1965–present) Université d'Ottawa (nouvelle structure) / University of Ottawa (reorganised)

1965-1984 Roger Guindon, OMI
1984-1990
1990-2001 Marcel Hamelin
2001-2008
2008-2017 Allan Rock
2017–present

References[]

^ Ferguson, Bob (2005). Who's Who in Canadian Sport, Volume 4. Markham, Ontario: Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd. p. 256. ISBN 1-55041-855-6.
^ "Rexy Rolle, Esq". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2021-08-01.
^ Brown, Stacy M. (2019-01-03). "Flying High: Rexy Rolle Changing the Game in the Airline Industry". The Washington Informer. Retrieved 2021-09-11.
^ Hustak, Alan (11 February 2003). "Assistant publisher at La Presse leaves a great void". The Gazette. Montreal, Quebec. p. 6.
^ Gratton, Denis (June 22, 2018). "Pierre Dufault, le dernier des grands". Le Droit (in French). Retrieved November 8, 2020.
^ "Leading fiber optics researcher Dr. Xiaoyi Bao to receive honorary degree | UNews". www.uleth.ca. Retrieved 2019-12-24.
^ Nothof, Anne. "Renders, Kim". Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia. Athabasca University. Retrieved 2020-07-17.

[1] Ferguson, Bob (2005). Who's Who in Canadian Sport, Volume 4. Markham, Ontario: Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd. p. 256. ISBN 1-55041-855-6.

[2] "Rexy Rolle, Esq". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2021-08-01.

[3] Brown, Stacy M. (2019-01-03). "Flying High: Rexy Rolle Changing the Game in the Airline Industry". The Washington Informer. Retrieved 2021-09-11.

[4] Hustak, Alan (11 February 2003). "Assistant publisher at La Presse leaves a great void". The Gazette. Montreal, Quebec. p. 6.

[5] Gratton, Denis (June 22, 2018). "Pierre Dufault, le dernier des grands". Le Droit (in French). Retrieved November 8, 2020.

[6] "Leading fiber optics researcher Dr. Xiaoyi Bao to receive honorary degree | UNews". www.uleth.ca. Retrieved 2019-12-24.

[7] Nothof, Anne. "Renders, Kim". Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia. Athabasca University. Retrieved 2020-07-17.

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