List of University of Western Ontario people

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This is a list of notable individuals associated with the University of Western Ontario, including graduates, former students, professors, and researchers.

Alumni[]

Academics and scholars[]

  • M. Shahid Alam — economist
  • George Ayittey — Ghanaian economist, author and president of the Free Africa Foundation in Washington DC, professor at American University
  • U. Aswathanarayana — Honorary Director of the Mahadevan International Centre for Water Resources Management, India
  • Larry Bourne — Professor Emeritus of Urban Geography and Planning at University of Toronto
  • Frances Egan — Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University
  • J. Carson Mark — mathematician
  • Robert C. Dynes — physicist, former President of the University of California
  • Raffi Indjejikian — professor of accounting, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
  • Charles Jago — academic, university administrator
  • Gabriel Leung — physician and epidemiologist, current Dean of the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong
  • Mark Mullins — executive director, Fraser Institute
  • Leola Neal — psychologist, first female president of the Ontario Psychological Association
  • Andrew Price-Smith — Colorado College political science professor
  • Philip Reny — economist, Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago
  • Ervin Sejdic - a data scientist and an engineering professor at the University of Pittsburgh
  • Vandana Shiva (Ph.D. Philosophy) — philosopher, environmentalist, eco feminist
  • Michael Walker — economist
  • Julia M. Wright— professor of English, Dalhousie University

Science and technology[]

Media and arts[]

Journalism and publishing[]

  • Thalia Assuras (B.Sc. 1980, M.A. 1981 Journalism) — CBC and CBS journalist[2]
  • Cameron Bailey — film critic and Toronto International Film Festival programmer
  • Perrin Beatty (1970) — former president, CBC
  • Lisa Bowes — sports anchor, CTV Calgary[3]
  • Andrea Canning (B.A. 1994 Psychology) — ABC News correspondent[4]
  • Nicole Dunsdon (M.A. 1995 Journalism) — the last person to win the Miss Canada competition before it was cancelled in 1992
  • Brendan Fernandes — artist
  • Scott Feschuk — speechwriter, humorist and former newspaper journalist
  • Elliotte Friedman (1993) — sports reporter, host, Hockey Night in Canada[5]
  • Jennifer Hedger (B.A. 1998 Theatre Arts/English) — sports reporter for TSN[6][7]
  • Heather Hiscox (M.A. 1987 Journalism) — CBC news anchor[8]
  • Sam Maggs (B.A. 2010 English Language & Literature) — author, entertainment journalist, and comic book and video game writer[9]
  • Kevin Newman (B.A. 1981 Political Science) — anchor of Global National[10]
  • Carol Off (B.A. 1981) — television and radio journalist[11]
  • Kevin Quinn — sportscaster, Rogers Sportsnet
  • Uche Eze (B.Sc Business Administration 2006) —Nigerian blogger and founder of BellaNaija
  • Scott Russell (B.A. 1980 History, B.Ed. 1981, M.A. 1985 Journalism) — CBC commentator, Hockey Night in Canada and figure skating[12][13]
  • Morley Safer — host of 60 Minutes (did not graduate)[14]
  • Dan Shulman (B.Sc. 1989 Actuarial Science) — sportscaster for ESPN[15]
  • Steve Simmons — sports journalist, Toronto Sun
  • Christine Simpson (1985) — sports reporter, Rogers Sportsnet[16]
  • Rachel Sklar — Lawyer, CNN commentator, and media blogger
  • Paul Wells (B.A. 1989 Political Science) — journalist and pundit, columnist for Maclean's[17]

Film, television and theatre[]

  • Bryan Baeumler (B.A. 1996) — award-winning host of Disaster DIY[18] and House of Bryan[19]
  • Greg Brady (B.A. Political Science 1993) — host of Brady and Lang in the Morning on Sportsnet 590, The Fan
  • Steve Byers — actor, Falcon Beach
  • Nancy Dolman (Philosophy) — actress and wife of Martin Short
  • Max Ferguson (B.A. 1946) — radio personality[20]
  • David Furnish (H.B.A. 1985) — filmmaker and husband of Sir Elton John[21]
  • Tomson Highway (B. Mus. 1975, B.A. 1976) — playwright[22]
  • Simu Liu (H.B.A. 2011) — Canadian-Chinese actor, writer, and stuntman [23]
  • Juggan Kazim (B.A. 2002 Media, Information & Technoculture and Sociology) — actress, model, television personality[24]
  • Alexander Knox — Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning actor (did not graduate)[25]
  • Sarah Richardson (B.A. Visual Arts 93) — interior designer, HGTV series Sarah's House and Sarah 101, Design Inc.
  • Kelly Rowan (1989) — actress, The O.C.
  • David Shore — screenwriter and creator of television show House
  • Rob Stewart — filmmaker, conservationist, and creator of Sharkwater[26]
  • Alan Thicke (1967) — actor, Growing Pains[27]
  • Kelly Thornton (B.A., did not finish) — theatre director[28]
  • Al Waxman (B.A. 1957) — actor[29]


Music, fine arts and architecture[]

  • Simona Atzori (B.A. 2001 Visual Arts) — dancer, artist, born without arms[30]
  • John Davis Barnett — librarian, curator
  • Basia Bulat (B.A. 2006 English) — musician[31]
  • Jack Chambers — artist
  • Todd Clark — lead singer of the Toronto-based rock group Pilot Speed, formally known as Pilate, songwriter, record producer
  • Duncan Coutts (1993) — musician, Our Lady Peace[32]
  • Eric Ethridge — country pop singer, songwriter[33]
  • Garth Hudson — organist, The Band
  • Stephan Moccio (B.Mus. 1994) — musician, singer/songwriter, composer, 2010 Vancouver Games performer[34]
  • Adrianne Pieczonka (B.Mus. 1985) — soprano opera singer[35]
  • Zameer Rizvi (B.Eng. 1981 Electrical Engineering)
  • Michael Schade (B. Mus. 1888)— tenor opera singer[36]
  • Mike Turner — guitarist/producer, formerly of Our Lady Peace[32]
  • Stephen Willis — musicologist
  • Don Wright — composer, musician and educator

Business[]

Government[]

  • Eve Adams (B.A. 2001 Psychology) — Conservative Member of Parliament[41]
  • Kimble Ainslie — public policy analyst, former politician
  • Ron Atkey — conservative politician
  • Joyce Bateman (H.B.A. 1977) — Conservative Member of Parliament[41]
  • Adam Beck (1916) — former mayor of London
  • James Bartleman (B.A. 1963 History) — Lieutenant Governor of Ontario[42]
  • Chris Bentley (1976) — Member of Ontario Provincial Parliament and Ontario Minister of Energy[43]
  • François Bourguignon (Ph.D. 1975 Economics) — Chief Economist of the World Bank[44]
  • Laurel Broten (LL.B.) — Liberal Member of Ontario Provincial Parliament
  • John Carmichael (B.A. 1974 Geography) — Conservative Member of Parliament[41]
  • Margaret Chan (B.A. 1973 Brescia, M.D. 1977) — Director-General - Communicable Diseases, World Health Organization[45]
  • Chris Charlton (B.A. 1986 English) — Member of Parliament [41]
  • Shawn Cleary (B.A. 1994) — Halifax Regional Councillor[46]
  • Sheila Copps (B.A. 1974 French and English from King's College) — former federal Minister of Heritage[47]
  • Jim Diodati (BA 1991) — Mayor of Niagara Falls, Ontario
  • Frank de Jong — leader of Green Party of Ontario
  • Janet Ecker (1975) — Ontario Minister of Finance
  • Doug Ferguson — president of the Liberal Party of Canada from 2008–2009
  • Diane Finley (B.A. 1979, M.B.A. 1982) — Conservative Member of Parliament and Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development[41]
  • Joe Fontana — former Liberal Member of Parliament, mayor of London
  • Cheryl Gallant (B.Sc. 1982 Chemistry) — Conservative Member of Parliament[41]
  • Roger Gallaway — politician
  • Donald Getty (1955) — CFL player and Premier of Alberta
  • Dianne Haskett (1977) — former mayor of London, Ontario
  • Tom Hockin — Conservative Politician
  • Ed Holder (B.A. 1976 Philosophy) — Conservative Member of Parliament[41]
  • Tim Hudak (B.A. 1990 Economics) — Ontario MPP and Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario[48]
  • Ron Irwin — diplomat and politician
  • Gar Knutson (1983) — Liberal Member of Parliament
  • Gloria Lindsay Luby — Conservative politician
  • Tiff Macklem — Governor of Bank of Canada
  • Paul Macklin — politician and lawyer
  • Janice MacKinnon — former Saskatchewan Minister of Finance
  • Joy MacPhail — former BC finance minister and deputy premier
  • Paul McKeever (M.A. 1991, Ph.D studies 1991-1992, LL.B. 1995)— leader of the Freedom Party of Ontario
  • Deb Matthews (B.A. Sociology, Ph.D. 2006) — Ontario MPP Minister of Health and Long-Term Care[43]
  • Irene Mathyssen (B.A. 1974, B.Ed. 1975) — Ontario NDP MPP; NDP Member of Parliament[41]
  • Howard McCurdy — NDP Member of Parliament
  • Darcy McKeough — businessman, politician
  • Cathy McLeod (B.Sc.N. 1981) — Conservative Member of Parliament[41]
  • Bill Morneau (B.A.) — Canadian Finance Minister
  • Pat O'Brien (1971) — former Liberal Member of Parliament
  • Gordon Osbaldeston (1953) — former U.S./Canadian Trade Commissioner
  • Peter Partington — Chairman of Niagara City Council
  • Steve Peters (B.A. 1985 History) — Member of Ontario Provincial Parliament[43]
  • David Peterson — former Premier of Ontario
  • Tim Peterson — Liberal politician
  • James Scott Peterson — Canadian Minister of International Trade
  • (B.A.) — Ontario Minister of Finance
  • Stephen Poloz (M.A.) — Governor of Bank of Canada
  • Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State during the 2020 United States presidential election
  • John Robarts (1939) — former Premier of Ontario
  • Andrew Saxton (B.A. 1986 ACS) — Conservative Member of Parliament[41]
  • Peggy Sattler (BA 1983, MEd 2012) — NDP Member of Provincial Parliament [49]
  • Kyle Seeback (LL.B. 1998) — Conservative Member of Parliament[41]
  • Dan Senor — spokesman for U.S. Presidential Envoy Paul Bremer[50]
  • Jagmeet Singh (B.Sc. 2001) — Leader of the New Democratic Party (2017-)
  • Lloyd St. Amand — Liberal politician
  • Bruce Smith — Conservative politician
  • Glenn Stevens — Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia
  • Karen Stintz (B.A. 1992) — Toronto city councillor and Chair of the Toronto Transit Commission[51]
  • Paul Szabo — politician
  • Shirley Thomson — Director of the McCord Museum
  • Peter Towe — diplomat and businessman
  • Bernard Trottier (M.B.A. 1992) — Conservative Member of Parliament[41]
  • Orville Alton Turnquest (1981) — MP in the Bahamas
  • Frank Valeriote (B.A. 1976 King's) — Liberal Member of Parliament[41]
  • Elizabeth Weir (1976) — leader of the New Brunswick NDP
  • John Wilkinson — Ontario MPP, Ontario Minister of Revenue
  • John Reesor Williams — conservative politician
  • David Winninger — NDP politician
  • Elizabeth Witmer (1968) — Progressive Conservative MPP
  • Alfred Apps (BA 1979) — President of the Liberal Party of Canada since 2009
  • Stephen Woodworth (LL.B. 1977) — Conservative Member of Parliament[41]
  • Alvin Yeung — Hong Kong legislative councillor
  • Pam Damoff (BA) — Federal Liberal Member of Parliament

Literature[]

  • Joan Barfoot — novelist
  • Clare Bice — author
  • Alice Munro (1976) — author; 2013 Nobel Laureate in Literature for "master of the contemporary short story"
  • Paul Vermeersch (1992) — poet

Sports[]

Religion[]

  • Thomas Christopher Collins (M.A. English) — Canadian Cardinal of the Catholic Church

Miscellaneous[]

  • Alberto Dahik (Economy and Mathematics) — Vice President of Ecuador (1992-1995), Minister of Finance (1986) and Conservative congressman (1988-1992)[60]
  • Sharon Johnston (B.Sc.) — Viceregal Consort of Canada (David Johnston)
  • Harley Pasternak — personal trainer
  • Princess Basmah Bani Ahmad of Jordan — wife of Prince Hamzah bin Al Hussein of Jordan
  • Sajjad Fazel — public health advocate[61]

Faculty[]

  • Sir Frederick Grant Banting — 1923 Nobel Laureate in Medicine, co-discoverer of insulin
  • John Lane Bell — mathematician and philosopher
  • Ian Brodie — former chief of staff of the Office of the Prime Minister
  • Sheila Butler — visual artist, professor
  • Alexander Dewdney — mathematician, computer scientist, and philosopher
  • Don Gutteridge
  • Douglas N. Jackson — designer of standardized tests
  • Wilson Bryan Key — proponent, theory of "Subliminal Seduction"
  • Charles Ling — professor of computer science
  • Michael Ondaatje — poet, novelist
  • Adrian Owen — in Cognitive Neuroscience and Imaging
  • Balachandra Rajan — literary critic, theorist
  • Carl Franz Robinow — bacteriologist
  • J. Philippe Rushton — controversial psychology professor on race and intelligence
  • Bernard Shapiro — Canadian Ethics Commissioner
  • Robert Uffen — geophysicist, professor
  • Mark S. Workentin — professor of organic chemistry

Administration[]

Chancellors[]

  • Bishop Isaac Hellmuth (1878–1885)
  • (1885–1900)
  • (1909–1914)
  • (1916–1929) (also Western's first medical graduate)
  • Henry Cockshutt (1929–1944)
  • Howard Ferguson (1945–1946)
  • (1947–1955)
  • (1955–1961)
  • (1961–1967)
  • Albert W. Trueman (1967–1971)
  • John Robarts (1971–1976)
  • (1976–1980)
  • Richard M. Ivey (1980–1984)
  • (1984–1988)
  • Grant L. Reuber (1988–1992)
  • Reva Gerstein (1992–1996)
  • Peter Godsoe (1996–2000)
  • Eleanor Clitheroe (2000–2004)
  • Arthur Labatt (2004–2008)
  • John Thompson (2008–2012)
  • Joseph Rotman (2012–2015) (died during term)
  • Jack Cowin (2015–present)

Presidents and Vice-Chancellors[]

  • Nathaniel James (1908–1914)
  • Edward Braithwaite (1914–1919)
  • "Triumvirate" (1919–1927)
    • Paul S. McKibbon
    • Hibbert W. Hill
    • W. Sherwood Fox
  • W. Sherwood Fox (1927–1947)
  • George Hall (1947–1967)
  • D. Carlton Williams (1967–1977)
  • George Connell (1977–1984)
  • Alan K. Adlington (acting president, 1984–1985)
  • George Pedersen (1985–1994)
  • Paul Davenport (1994–2009)
  • Amit Chakma (2009–2019)
  • Alan Shepard (2019–present)

In fiction[]

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