List of McGill University people

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The following is a list of chancellors, principals, and noted alumni and professors of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Contents 1 List of Chancellors 2 List of Principals 3 Notable students 4 Noted alumni and professors 4.1 Nobel Prize graduates and faculty members 4.2 Academics and scholars 4.3 Business and media 4.4 Politics and government 4.5 Art, music, and film 4.6 Inventors 4.7 Sports 4.8 Fictional characters 4.9 Others 5 List of Rhodes Scholars

[edit] List of Chancellors

1. Charles Dewey Day (1864-1884)
2. James Ferrier (1884-1888)
3. Sir Donald Alexander Smith, Lord Strathcona (1889-1914)
4. Sir William Christopher Macdonald (1914-1917)
5. Sir Robert Laird Borden (1918-1920)
6. Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty (1921-1942)
7. Morris Watson Wilson (1943-1946)
8. Orville Sievwright Tyndale (1946-1952)
9. Bertie Charles Gardner (1952-1957)
10. Ray Edwin Powell (1957-1964)
11. Howard Irwin Ross (1964-1970)
12. Donald Olding Hebb (1970-1974)
13. Stuart Milner Finlayson (1975)
14. Conrad Fetherstonhaugh Harrington (1976-1984)
15. A. Jean de Grandpré (1984-1991)
16. Gretta Chambers (1991-1999)
17. Richard W. Pound (1999-Present)

[edit] List of Principals

1. George Jehoshaphat Mountain (1824-1835)
2. John Bethune (1835-1846)
3. Edmund Allen Meredith (1846-1853)
4. Charles Dewey Day (1853-1855)
5. Sir John William Dawson (1855-1893)
6. Sir William Peterson (1895-1919)
7. Sir Auckland Campbell Geddes (1919-1920)
8. General Sir Arthur Currie (1920-1933)
9. Arthur Eustace Morgan (1935-1937)
10. Lewis Williams Douglas (1938-1939)
11. Frank Cyril James (1939-1962)
12. Harold Rocke Robertson (1962-1970)
13. Robert Edward Bell (1970-1979)
14. David Lloyd Johnston (1979-1994)
15. Bernard Shapiro (1994-2002)
16. Heather Munroe-Blum (2003- )

[edit] Notable students

• Jennifer Heil — 2006 Olympic gold medallist in freestyle skiing. (BComm)
• Charline Labonté — 2006 Olympic gold medallist in Women's Ice Hockey (BEd - Physical Education)

[edit] Noted alumni and professors

[edit] Nobel Prize graduates and faculty members

• Robert Mundell — former faculty member, Economics (1999)
• Val Logsdon Fitch — alumnus, Physics (1980)
• David Hunter Hubel — alumnus, Physiology (1981)
• Rudolph Marcus — alumnus, Chemistry (1992)
• Ernest Rutherford — former faculty member, Chemistry (1908)
• Andrew Schally — alumnus, Physiology (1977)
• Frederick Soddy — former demonstrator, Chemistry (1921)

[edit] Academics and scholars

• Fazlur Rahman (Islamic studies)
• Eric Berne (psychiatry) — originator of the psychoanalytic theory of transactional analysis
• Gerald Bull — former professor of mechanical engineering, expert on projectiles, designer of the Iraqi Project Babylon
• Mario Bunge — philosopher
• Margaret Ridley Charlton (medical library) — one of the founders of the Medical Library Association (professional associations)
• Jacques Dallaire — sport and business performance scientist and consultant
• Carrie Derick — first woman to become a professor in Canada (in botany at McGill)
• Hamid Etemad — professor of international business and renowned business guru and researcher.
• S. I. Hayakawa — linguist, U.S. senator, former president of San Francisco State University
• Ismail al-Faruqi (philosophy and religion) — renowned Muslim philosopher and comparative religion scholar
• Ariel Fenster (Chemistry) — Chemistry professor who has appeared on the Discovery Channel TV show "What's that all about?"
• Donald Olding Hebb (psychology) — father of cognitive psychobiology, pioneer in artificial intelligence, developed concept of Hebbian learning
• Julian Jaynes — psychologist, author of The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
• Roger Keesing — celebrated anthropologist
• Raymond Klibansky — philosopher
• Joseph B. Martin — Dean of the Harvard Medical School [1], former chair of neurology and neurosurgery
• James Mallory — for many years Canada's leading constitutional scholar
• Ronald Melzack (medicine) — developed the McGill Pain Questionnaire
• Armand de Mestral — professor of international law
• Brenda Milner — provided the first clear demonstration of the existence of multiple memory systems in the brain with patient H.M.
• Henry Mintzberg — internationally renowned business guru
• Percy Erskine Nobbs — former professor of architecture and designer of many buildings in Montreal, especially at McGill, and in Alberta, British Columbia, and South Africa
• William Osler (medicine) — graduate in medicine (1872) and then McGill professor, he was a medical pioneer, developed the modern form of a doctor's bedside manner. Later one of the four founders of the Johns Hopkins Medical School at Johns Hopkins University
• Bhikhu Parekh, Baron Parekh — celebrated political philosopher, currently at the London School of Economics
• Wilder Penfield (neurosurgery) — neurosurgery pioneer, first director of the renowned Montreal Neurological Institute and Montreal Neurological Hospital, which are affiliated with McGill University
• Steven Pinker (cognitive psychology) — author of "The Blank Slate", "How the Mind Works".
• Judah Hirsch Quastel (biochemistry) — pioneer in neurochemistry and soil metabolism; Director of the McGill University-Montreal General Hospital Research Institute
• Richard Birdsall Rogers — civil engineer and designer of the Peterborough Lift Lock
• Witold Rybczynski — Scottish-born McGill-trained architect and internationally known writer and critic
• Joseph A. Schwarcz — chemist, science populizer, science journalist
• Harold Shapiro, former president emeritus of Princeton University and former president of the University of Michigan.
• Bernard Shapiro (education) — Ethics Commissioner of Canada, former Principal of McGill and Deputy Education Minister of Ontario. Twin brother of Harold.
• Charles Taylor (philosophy) — renowned writer, versatile philosopher, and political theorist
• Dale C. Thomson -- Vice-Principal (1973-1976) and Professor of Political Science (1973-1994)
• Lydia White — Linguist
• Reuven Brenner -- Renowned economist and current faculty member

[edit] Business and media

• Vinod Agarwal — Founder & former Chairman of LogicVision ($100 million NASDAQ traded company: LGVN)
• John F. Burns — current Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist, formerly of The Globe and Mail
• Edgar Bronfman, Sr. — former CEO of Seagram Distillers.
• Charles Bronfman — Order of Canada recipient, Philanthropist, former Co-Chairman of Seagram Distillers.
• Conrad Black — embattled press baron and media tycoon in the Anglo-Canadian tradition of Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Thomson of Fleet, owner of 650 dailies/weeklies around the world
• Marc Chouinard — president and chief operation officer of The Bay
• John Cleghorn — former chairman of the Royal Bank of Canada, the largest bank in Canada. Currently chairman of SNC-Lavalin group.
• Paul Desmarais, Jr. — Chairman of Power Corp.
• Adam Gopnik — staff writer for The New Yorker magazine
• Charles Krauthammer — Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist, The Washington Post and Time Magazine.
• Mark Phillips — CBS News London bureau correspondent since 1982, formerly CBC News London correspondent
• Seymour Schulich (investments) — benefactor to the Schulich School of Music at McGill and Schulich School of Business, York University
• Lorne Trottier — founder of Matrox Electronic Systems
• Mort Zuckerman — CEO of Atlantic Monthly Corporation and publisher of U.S. News & World Report
• John Roth — former CEO of Nortel Networks
• Jade Raymond — videogame producer at Ubisoft and co-host of G4TV's Electronic Playground
• Moses Znaimer — co-founder and former President and Executive Producer of CityTV and Chairman/Executive Producer of the Access Media Group
• Dick Irvin, Jr. — Canadian sports broadcaster and author; longest serving member of CBC's Hockey Night in Canada

[edit] Politics and government

• Sir John Abbott — first Canadian prime minister to be born in Canada
• John Aimers — Dominion Chairman, Monarchist League of Canada
• Ian Binnie — Supreme Court justice
• Zbigniew Brzezinski — former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter
• Irwin Cotler — Justice Minister of Canada, distinguished legal scholar and international human rights lawyer
• Thomas D'Arcy McGee — Father of Confederation and one of only a few notable political assassinations in Canadian history
• Marie Deschamps — Supreme Court justice
• Morris Fish — Supreme Court justice
• Sheila Fraser — Auditor General of Canada
• Charles Gonthier — Supreme Court justice
• Sir Wilfrid Laurier — former Prime Minister of Canada
• Jack Layton — leader of the New Democratic Party
• Joni Madraiwiwi, Vice-President of Fiji
• Dr. Ahmed Nazif — current Prime Minister of Egypt
• Daniel Oduber Quirós — former President of Costa Rica
• Bernard Shapiro — Federal Ethics Commissioner
• Marie-Claire Kirkland Strover — first woman elected to the Quebec National Assembly
• Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga — President of Latvia
• John McCallum — current Liberal Finance Critic in the Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet and former Dean of the Faculty of Arts at McGill University.
• Vivienne Poy, a Liberal Senator representing Toronto.
• Ian Brodie, current Conservative government Chief of Staff
• Gilles Duguay, former ambassador to several African and Eastern European countries, currently a guest professor at McGill.

[edit] Art, music, and film

• Michael Andre — poet and editor
• Burt Bacharach — Academy Award-winning musician
• Samantha Bee — correspondent, The Daily Show
• Win Butler — musician, co-founder of The Arcade Fire
• Anne Carson — poet and professor of classics
• Leonard Cohen — author, songwriter
• Robert Cooper — president of TriStar Films
• Hume Cronyn — actor, The Seventh Cross, Cocoon. Studied theatre, left for Broadway without completing his degree.
• Hubert Davis — BA '00 and Oscar nominee for best documentary short subject
• Sean D'Anconia — Visual Artist and Screenwriter
• William Henry Drummond — Irish-born Canadian poet
• Louis Dudek — poet
• Jake Eberts — producer of Gandhi, Chariots of Fire
• Arthur Erickson — architect (Robson Square, Vancouver; Canadian Chancery, Washington DC; Roy Thomson Hall; Museum of Anthropology, UBC; Simon Fraser University; Museum of Glass, Tacoma; California Plaza, San Diego Convention Center)
• Mary Fahl — singer and actress
• Colin Ferguson (actor) — actor, Coupling
• Jessalyn Gilsig — actress, Boston Public, NYPD Blue
• Linda Griffiths — playwright, actress
• Gavin Heffernan — director (Expiration)
• Yiang Hui — Norwegian DJ
• Jennifer Irwin — actress, Still Standing
• Mia Kirshner — actress, The L Word
• Irving Layton— Canadian poet
• Stephen Leacock — humorist and economist
• John McCrae — surgeon, poet, author of famous Canadian poem "In Flanders' Fields"
• Kate and Anna McGarrigle — musicians and folk-singers
• Hugh MacLennan — Canadian writer (Two Solitudes, Barometer Rising)
• Cameron Mathison — actor, All My Children
• Casey McKinnon — actress
• Raymond Moriyama — architect (Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto; Canadian Embassy, Tokyo; Ontario Science Centre; Toronto Reference Library; Canadian War Museum; Saudi Arabian National Museum, Riyadh)
• Christopher Plummer — film and stage actor
• Sam Roberts — musician
• Moshe Safdie — architect (National Gallery of Canada, Vancouver Library, Salt Lake City Public Library, Musee de la Civilisation, Habitat '67)
• Kid Koala real name Eric San, turntablist and musician.
• Robert Edison Sandiford — short story writer and essayist
• John Ralston Saul — Governor-General's-Award-winning philosophical author
• William Shatner — lead actor in Star Trek and Boston Legal, played Captain James T. Kirk
• Jaspreet Singh — author, Seventeen Tomatoes
• Sonja Skarstedt — poet and illustrator
• Ruth Taylor — poet
• Ken Vandermark — Jazz saxophonist and MacArthur Foundation Genius Award winner.
• Rufus Wainwright — (briefly attended — dropped out upon record deal) Canadian recording artist, musician.
• William Weintraub — Author, journalist and filmmaker (Why Rock the Boat?)
• John Weldon — Academy Award winner and National Film Board animator
• Jan Wong — Globe and Mail columnist ("Lunch with Jan Wong" series), and author of several notable books, including award-winning Red China Blues and Jan Wong's China.
• Geoffrey De Wilde — Record Label Executive Capitol Records

[edit] Inventors

• Bernard Belleau — inventor of Lamivudine, a drug used in the treatment of HIV and Hepatitis B infection
• Willard Boyle, inventor of the Charge-coupled device (CCD)
• William Chalmers — inventor of Plexiglas
• Thomas Chang — creator of first artificial cell
• James Creighton — Law, 1880, generally considered to be the originator of North American ice hockey rules
• Charles R. Drew — MDCM '33, black American medical pioneer, track star who led McGill to five intercollegiate titles, and, as medical advisor for the Blood for Britain program of WWII, the father of blood banks
• Alan Emtage — inventor of Archie, the grandfather of search engines
• Dr. Cluny MacPherson; inventor of the MacPherson respirator gas mask during World War I.
• Julie Masis — Russian-American journalist and social activist.
• James Naismith — BA 1887, inventor of basketball
• Paul Moller — inventor of the Moller Skycar, a VTOL aircraft

[edit] Sports

• Mike Babcock — head coach of the Detroit Red Wings
• Russ Blinco — Montreal Maroons centre who won Calder Trophy as NHL Rookie-of-the-Year in 1935
• Jack Gelineau — Boston Bruins & Chicago Blackhawks goaltender who won Calder Trophy as NHL Rookie-of-the-Year in 1950
• George Burnett — former coach for the Edmonton Oilers
• Doug Carpenter — former head coach for the Toronto Maple Leafs and New Jersey Devils
• Ken Dryden — LLB '74; a Canadian politician, lawyer, businessman, author and retired National Hockey League goaltender from the Montreal Canadiens. Also served as President of the Toronto Maple Leafs
• Phil Edwards — MD '36, one of Canada's most decorated Olympians with 5 bronze medals
• George Hodgson — BEng, 1916, Canadian Olympic men's swim team (1912 and 1920), McGill's first athlete to win an Olympic gold medal and the first Canadian to win two Olympic gold medals (Stockholm, 1916)
• Frank Patrick — BA 1908, wrote much of the NHL rule book
• Hon. Sydney David Pierce — BA '22, BCL '25, LLD '56, 1924 Olympic swimmer and former Canadian ambassador to many countries
• Richard "Dick" Pound — former Olympic swimmer, former IOC vice president, chancellor of McGill, current chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)
• Kim St-Pierre — BEd, 2005, Canadian Olympic women's hockey team (2002 and 2006), McGill's first female athlete to become an Olympic gold medallist (Salt Lake City, 2002)
• Frank "Shag" Shaughnessy — first professional football coach hired by a Canadian university, he revolutionized Canadian college football by introducing the forward pass in 1921 in a game against Syracuse University and lobbied for a decade until the forward pass was adopted by the Canadian Rugby Football Union in 1931
• Jack Wright — MDCM '28, eleven-year veteran of Canadian Davis Cup team in 1920s and 1930s

[edit] Fictional characters

• Dr. James Wilson — oncologist at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in FOX Network TV drama House.

[edit] Others

• Norman Bethune — as "Bai Qiu'en," subject of essay by Mao Zedong; medical professor. He became the Red Army’s Medical Chief and trained thousands of Chinese as medics and doctors, he died in 1939 (from blood poisoning) during the Long March.
• Lawrence Moore Cosgrave — Canadian signer of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender
• Thomas Neill Cream — Glasgow-born serial killer of the 1800s, thought by some to have been Jack the Ripper
• Ken Dryden — LLB '73, former Montreal Canadiens goalie, Liberal Party politician, Minister of Social Development in the Paul Martin government
• Andrew Knowles — Computer engineer, linguist & card shark
• John Peters Humphrey — co-writer of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Julie Payette — astronaut
• Robert Rabinovitch — President and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
• Francis Scrimger. Victoria Cross winner, (1915). BA (1901), MDCM (1905). Later Professor of Surgery and Chief of Surgery at the Children's Memorial Hospital.
• Harmeet Singh Sooden — Peace activist once held captive in Iraq
• Robert Thirsk — astronaut
• Dafydd Williams — astronaut

[edit] List of Rhodes Scholars

1904: Herbert Jennings, Rose John and Gordon Archibald
1905: Israel Rubinowitz and Talbot Mercer Papineau
1906: Alexander Robertson MacLeod
1908: Frank Ernest Hawkins
1909: Arthur Yates
1911: Hugh Cantley Warburton, Walter Josiah Pearse and Joseph Badenoch Clearihue
1912: Alfred Nelson King
1913: William Ewart Gladstone Murray
1914: Alfred Tennyson Seaman and Basil Elmo Atkins
1915: Eric Valentine Gordon and Percy Corbett
1917: Donald Gordon MacGregor, Sherwood Lett and Sir Harry Durham Butterfield
1918: John Hamilton Mennie and Terrence William Leighton MacDermott
1921: John Colborne Farthing
1922: Ralph Huie Le Messurier and Lawrence Henry Armstrong
1923: Cecil James Falconer Parsons and David Moffat Johnson
1924: Henry Borden
1925: Murray Fox Gibbon
1926: Eugene Alfred Forsey
1927: Herbert Frederick Moseley
1929: Kenneth Harold Brown and Henri Grier Lafleur
1930: Allan George Gillingham
1931: Kenneth Neill Cameron
1932: David Lewis, Rudolph Duder and Frederic Munroe Bourne
1933: David Pierre Caradoe Lloyd
1936: Orlando Harold Warwick
1937: John Syner Hodgson
1938: Arthur Leslie Pidgeon
1939: Donald Lavell Lloyd-Smith
1940: Douglas George Cameron and Duncan Josepeh Macdonald
1941: Percival Talbot Molson and Donald Barker Wellington Robinson
1946: H. Ferguson Scott, David Irvine Wanklyn and Mervyn Lester Weiner
1947: Allistair William Gillespie and James Alexander Paterson
1948: Ronald Leslie Bernard, Arthur Norwood Canter, Donald Francis Coates, Anthony H. Dunfield and James Reynette Leon
1949: Alan G. Kendall and Harry Chester Butterfield
1950: Robert Cranford Pratt
1952: Charles Hargrave Taylor
1953: R. Storrs McCall, Robert Neil Morrison and Charles Theodore Miller Collis
1954: Brian C. Goodwin and Robert Murray Mundle
1955: John Macleod Fraser
1957: Roberto Domenico Gualtieri and John Doehu Stubbs
1958: Joseph Massure and Louis Yves Fortier
1959: Gordon Joshua Wasserman
1961: Michael Barry Walker
1963: Marcel Masse
1964: Ralph Charles Sutherland Walker
1965: Paul Arthur Tichauer
1966: John Joseph Marcel Bergeron
1967: John Charles Tait
1968: James Waugh and Peter Perinchief
1970: David Phillip Jones
1971: Robert Dale
1973: Geoffrey E. Dougherty
1974: Philip Alexander Shandro, Fernant Beaulieu and Joseph Paul Singer
1975: John Anthony Coleman
1977: Brian James Ward
1979: John Charles Collis, James Der Derian and Lianne Irene Winnifred Potter
1980-81: Matthew Jocelyn, John H. McBain and Marc Tessier-Lavigne
1981-82: Danielle Fontaine
1982-83: Pierre Legrand and Warren Cabral
1983-84: William Hinz and Jeff Telgarsky
1984-85: Craig Scott
1985-86: Claude Genereux
1986-87: Desiree Cox-Maksimov
1990-91: Alexa Bagnell and Lesley Fellows
1991-92: Fiona Stewart
1992-93: Sujit Choudhry
1993-94: Carellin Brooks and Megan McNeill
1994-95: Stephanie Kuttner
1995-96: Lisa Grushcow, Shariq Lodhi and Diane de Kerckhove
1996-97: Melanie Jean Newton, Anne Andermann and Christine Desmarais
1997-98: Patrick Hayden
1998-99: Marco Gualtieri, Nicola Terceira and Sophie Dumont
1999-00: Astrid Christoffersen-Deb
2001-02: Kimberley Brownlee and François Tanguay-Renaud
2002-03: Emily Claire Poupart
2003-04: Aleksandra Leligdowicz, Alexandra Conliffe and Simon Rabinovitch
2004-05: Erin Freeland-Ballantyne
2005-06: Dominique Henri
2006-07: David Matthews and Katherine Trajan