List of University of Toronto people

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Contents 1 Chancellors 2 Presidents 3 Nobel Laureates 4 Notable Alumni 4.1 Academics and scholars 4.2 Business 4.3 Politics and government 4.4 Film and television 4.5 Press and literature 4.6 Art and music 4.7 Sports 4.8 Others 5 Notable Faculty, past and present 5.1 University Professors 5.2 Others

[edit] Chancellors

1. Major-General Sir Peregrine Maitland (1827–1828)
2. Major-General Sir John Colborne (1828–1835)
3. Sir Francis Bond Head (1836–1838)
4. Major-General Sir George Arthur (1838–1841)
5. The Rt. Hon. Baron Sydenham (1841)
6. The Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Bagot (1842–1843)
7. The Rt. Hon. Baron Metcalfe (1843–1845)
8. The Rt. Hon. the Earl Cathcart (1846–1847)
9. The Rt. Hon. the Earl of Elgin & Kincardine (1847–1849 )
10. The Hon. Peter Boyle de Blaquière (1850–1852)
11. The Hon. William Hume Blake (1853–1856)
12. The Hon. Robert Easton Burns (1856–1863)
13. The Hon. George Skeffington Connor (1863)
14. The Hon. Joseph Curran Morrison (1863–1876)
15. The Hon. Edward Blake (1876–1900)
16. The Hon. Sir William Ralph Meredith (1900–1923)
17. Sir Edmund Walker (1923–1924)
18. The Rt. Hon. Sir William Mulock (1924–1944)
19. Hon. and Rev. Henry John Cody (1944–1947)
20. The Rt. Hon. Vincent Massey (1947–1953)
21. Samuel Beatty (1953–1959)
22. François Charles Archile Jeanneret (1959–1965)
23. O.M. Solandt (1965–1971)
24. Pauline Mills McGibbon (1971–1974)
25. Eva Waddell Mader Macdonald (1974–1977)
26. Arthur Bruce Barbour Moore (1977–1980)
27. George Ignatieff (1980–1986)
28. The Hon. John Black Aird (1986–1991)
29. Rose Wolfe (1991–1997)
30. The Hon. Henry Newton Rowell Jackman (1997–2003)
31. Senator Vivienne Poy (2003–2006)
32. The Hon. David Peterson (1 July 2006-present)

[edit] Presidents

1. Bishop John Strachan (1827 – 1848)
2. John McCaul (1848 – 1853)
3. Sir Daniel Wilson (1889 – 1892)
4. James Loudon (1892 – 1906)
5. Sir Robert Falconer (1907 – 1932)
6. Henry John Cody (1932 – 1945)
7. Sidney Smith (1945 – 1957)
8. Claude Bissell (1958 – 1971)
9. John Robert Evans (1972 – 1978)
10. James Ham (1978 – 1983)
11. David Strangway (1983 – 1984)
12. George Connell (1984 – 1990)
13. Robert Prichard (1990 – 2000)
14. Robert Birgeneau (2000 – 2004)
15. Frank Iacobucci (interim, 2004 – 2005)
16. David Naylor (2005 – present)

[edit] Nobel Laureates

• Frederick Banting - Alumnus and Former Faculty Member, 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Bertram Brockhouse – Alumnus, 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Walter Kohn – Alumnus, 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• John James Richard Macleod – Former Faculty Member, 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• James Orbinski – Alumnus and Former Faculty Member, 1999 Nobel Peace Prize
• Lester B. Pearson – Alumnus and Former Faculty Member, 1957 Nobel Peace Prize
• John Polanyi – Current Faculty Member, 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Arthur Leonard Schawlow – Alumnus, 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics

[edit] Notable Alumni

Some alumni are listed below in the section on faculty and hence not duplicated here

[edit] Academics and scholars

• Robert Birgeneau – Chancellor of University of California, Berkeley
• Davidson Black - Paleoanthropologist
• Bertram Brockhouse – Physicist
• Gerald Bull – Artillery expert assassinated by Mossad
• Peter Carr – Head of Quantitative Financial Research at Bloomberg, Mathematical Finance Director at New York University
• Christopher Chetsanga - Professor University of Zimbabwe, discovered two DNA repair enzymes
• Janet Currie - Chair of the department of economics at Columbia University
• Ronald J. Daniels – Provost of University of Pennsylvania
• Paul Davenport – President of University of Western Ontario
• John Charles Fields – Mathematician, founder of the Fields Medal
• John Kenneth Galbraith – Writer, former professor of economics at Harvard, former U.S Ambassador to India
• Kristopher Gardham - Physiologist, researcher into pigeon mating habits
• Erving Goffman - Sociologist/Writer
• James Hillier – Co-inventor of the electron microscope
• Geoffrey Hinton – Computer scientist
• Dr. Arlette Lefebvre – Child psychiatrist at Sick Kids and founder of Ability Online
• Brian Kernighan – Computer scientist
• Mark Kingwell – Philosopher
• Walter Kohn – Pioneer of quantum chemistry
• Victor Lange - author and academic
• Christian Martin - ex-CEO of Western Sands Finance
• John Alexander Douglas McCurdy – First Canadian aviator and Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
• Arthur Leonard Schawlow – Developer of laser spectroscopy
• James T. Shotwell, preeminent historian, Professor of the History of International Relations at Columbia University and president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, he helped create the United Nations Charter
• Martin Shubik – Mathematical economist at Yale University
• Peter A. Singer - physician and bioethicist
• Jean Edward Smith - John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University
• Albert W. Tucker – Renowned mathematician and co-discoverer of the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions
• Lewis Urry – Inventor of the alkaline battery
• Ravi Vakil – Four-time William Lowell Putnam Scholar, Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University
• Robert E. Whaley- Inventor of VIX implied volatility index and Professor of Finance at Fuqua School of Business.
• Paul Weiler – Professor of Law at Harvard University
• Harold Williams – World-renowned geologist and leading authority on the tectonic evolution of mountain ranges
• Caesar Wright - Dean of the Faculty of Law

[edit] Business

• Leonard Asper – President and CEO of CanWest Global Communications Corp
• David R. Beatty – International business expert and past Chairman of the Board of UCC
• Jean-Jérôme Baudry – Founder and CEO, Baudry Cybernomics Corporation
• Noah Blackstein- Lead portfolio manager, Dynamic Power American Growth Fund
• Ben Chiu – Entrepreneur, KillerApp founder
• W. Edmund Clark – CEO of Toronto Dominion Bank
• Tony Comper – CEO of Bank of Montreal
• David Denison – CEO of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
• Frank Dottori – Co-founder and CEO of Tembec
• Kevin Dougherty – President of Sun Life Financial
• Darren Entwistle – CEO of Telus
• Mark Foote – President of Canadian Tire
• Patrick Fung – Chairman and CEO, Wing Hang Bank
• Peter Godsoe – Chairman of Fairmont Hotels & Resorts and Sobeys, former Chairman of Bank of Nova Scotia
• Peter Hickman – President and CEO, Merrill Lynch HSBC Canada
• Peter Munk – Founder and Chairman of Barrick Gold Corporation
• Richard Nesbitt – CEO of Toronto Stock Exchange
• Sir Henry Pellatt – Canadian financier and builder of Casa Loma
• Robert Prichard – CEO of Torstar
• Justin Rawlinson – CEO of Western Sands Finance and Raw Venture Funds
• Gail Regan – Chair of Cara Operations
• Gerrard P Rocchi – President and CEO, Barclays Global Investors Canada
• Edward Rogers – Business tycoon, Rogers Communications
• David Rosenberg – Merrill Lynch Chief Economist
• Michael J. Sabia – CEO of Bell Canada Enterprises
• Jean-Pierre Sabourin – President and CEO, Canada Deposit Insurance Corp.
• Bernard “Barry” Sherman – Business tycoon, major shareholder of Apotex and Barr Pharmaceuticals
• Thomas Sears – CEO of Royal Bank of Canada Insurance
• Rodney Sim – Chair and CEO, Orion Securities
• Jeffrey Skoll – Business tycoon, eBay co-founder

[edit] Politics and government

• Rosalie Abella – Supreme Court Justice
• James Albert Manning Aikins – Founder of Canadian Bar Association and Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba
• John Black Aird – 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
• Louise Arbour – Supreme Court Justice
• John Douglas Armour – Supreme Court Justice
• William Ian Corneil Binnie – Supreme Court Justice
• Louis Orville Breithaupt – 18th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
• Ed Broadbent – Former Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada
• Herbert Alexander Bruce – 15th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
• Adrienne Clarkson – 26th Governor General of Canada
• Henry Hague Davis – Supreme Court Justice
• Bill Davis – 18th Premier of Ontario
• George Drew – 14th Premier of Ontario and High Commissioner to Britain
• Lyman Poore Duff – Supreme Court Justice
• Albert Clements Killam – Supreme Court Justice
• Maciej Giertych- politician, a current Polish member of the European Parliament (since 2004), professor of dendrology, in Toronto got a PhD, father of Roman Giertych, Polish Minister of Education
• Bill Graham – Defence Minister of Canada
• Gordon Graydon – Former Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
• Frederick W. A. G. Haultain – First Premier of the North-West Territories
• Sam Hughes – Former Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence during the First World War
• Frank Iacobucci – Supreme Court Justice
• John Idington – Supreme Court Justice
• Henry N. R. Jackman – Former Chairman National Trust Company and 25th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
• Antonio Lamer – Former Chief Justice
• John Henderson Lamont – Supreme Court Justice
• Stephen Lewis – Former Canadian Ambassador to the UN Security Council and UN Representative to Africa
• Louis LeBel – Supreme Court Justice
• William Lyon Mackenzie King – 10th Prime Minister of Canada
• Bora Laskin – Supreme Court Justice and former Chief Justice
• Claire L'Heureux-Dubé – Supreme Court Justice
• Charles Herbert Little – Director of Naval Intelligence during the Second World War
• John Kenneth Macalister – Canadian SOE operative in the Second World War
• William Ross Macdonald – 21st Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
• John C. Major – Supreme Court Justice
• Paul Joseph James Martin – Former Canadian politician who served as a MP for 33 years
• Paul Martin – 21st Prime Minister of Canada
• Vincent Massey – Philanthropist and 18th (first Canadian-born) Governor General of Canada
• Pauline Mills McGibbon – 22nd Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
• Arthur Meighen – 9th Prime Minister of Canada
• David Miller – Mayor of Toronto
• David Mills – Supreme Court Justice
• Lester B. Pearson – 14th Prime Minister of Canada
• David Peterson – 20th Premier of Ontario
• Frank Pickersgill – Canadian SOE operative in the Second World War
• Yves Pratte – Supreme Court Justice
• Bob Rae – 21st Premier of Ontario
• John Sopinka – Supreme Court Justice
• Wishart Flett Spence – Supreme Court Justice
• Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga – President of Latvia
• Michael Wilson- Canadian ambasaddor to the United States and former finance minister
• James Shaver Woodsworth – Pioneer of the social democratic movement in Canada

[edit] Film and television

• David Cronenberg – Filmmaker (Videodrome, The Fly, A History of Violence)
• Mychael Danna – Composer (Hearts in Atlantis, Capote)
• Atom Egoyan – Filmmaker (The Sweet Hereafter, Where the Truth Lies)
• Graeme Ferguson – Filmmaker and co-inventor of IMAX
• Robert Goulet – Actor and singer (The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear)
• Hart Hanson - Screenwriter and producer (Bones (TV Series), Joan of Arcadia, Judging Amy)
• Arthur Hiller – Film director (The Man in the Glass Booth, Silver Streak)
• Norman Jewison – Filmmaker (In the Heat of the Night, Fiddler on the Roof, Moonstruck)
• Ted Kotcheff – Film and television director (First Blood, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)
• Tim Long – Screenwriter (The Simpsons, The Late Show with David Letterman)
• Don McKellar – Actor and film director (Last Night)
• Joe Medjuck – Film producer (Ghostbusters, Kindergarten Cop)
• Lorne Michaels – Producer (Saturday Night Live)
• Mark Rowswell- a.k.a Dashan, Media personality in China
• Paul Shaffer – Musician and actor (The Late Show with David Letterman)
• Frank Shuster – Comedian (Wayne & Shuster)
• Donald Sutherland – Actor (JFK, Fallen)
• Johnny Wayne – Comedian (Wayne & Shuster)
• Graham Yost – Screenwriter (Speed, Mission to Mars)

[edit] Press and literature

• Barbara Amiel – Journalist
• Margaret Atwood – Author (The Handmaid's Tale, The Blind Assassin)
• Khan Beshov - Editor in Chief of the Nunatsiaq News
• Christian Bök – Poet (Eunoia)
• Morley Callaghan – Novelist and playwright
• Bill Cameron – News anchor and author
• Matthew Fraser - Editor-in-Chief, National Post
• Barbara Frum – One of Canada’s most respected and influential journalists
• Guy Gavriel Kay – Author (The Fionavar Tapestry)
• Camilla Gibb - Author (Sweetness in the Belly)
• Malcolm Gladwell – Journalist and author (The Tipping Point, Blink)
• Peter Gzowski – Famous broadcaster and reporter, dubbed 'Mr. Canada' by many
• Greg Hollingshead – Author
• Michael Ignatieff – Novelist, scholar, and politician
• Naomi Klein – Journalist and activist (No Logo)
• Archibald Lampman – One of Canada’s finest poets
• Stephen Leacock – Author and economist
• Heather Mallick – Journalist
• John McCrae – Poet (In Flanders Fields)
• Farley Mowat – Author (Lost in the Barrens)
• Rohinton Mistry – Author (Such a Long Journey, A Fine Balance)
• Peter C. Newman – Award-winning journalist, former editor of Maclean's and the Toronto Star
• Michael Ondaatje – Author (The English Patient)
• John Roberts – Television journalist for CNN
• Jeffrey Simpson – Journalist
• Craig Walker – Author, actor, and theatre director
• Ian Woods – Publisher and political activist

[edit] Art and music

• Isabel Bayrakdarian – World-renowned opera singer
• Liona Boyd – Guitarist
• Victor Braun – Opera singer
• Measha Brueggergosman – Critically acclaimed concert artist and opera singer
• Victor Feldbrill – Conductor and violinist
• Maureen Forrester – Opera singer
• Hagood Hardy – Composer, pianist, and vibraphonist
• Lois Marshall – Opera singer
• Teresa Stratas – Opera singer
• Raine Maida - lead vocals of Our Lady Peace

[edit] Sports

• Jeffrey Buttle – Figure skater and 2006 Olympic Bronze Medalist
• Conn Smythe – Architect of the NHL
• Gail Kim - wrestler

[edit] Others

• Norman Bethune – Physician, humanitarian, and doctor to Mao Zedong's army
• Roberta Bondar – First neurologist in space and Canada’s first female astronaut
• Dashan – First white person to be trained in xiangsheng, a Chinese performing art. Most famous white Chinese resident.
• Elsie MacGill – Aeronautical engineer
• Ryan North – Webcomic author
• James Orbinski – President of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders)
• Julie Payette – Astronaut
• Craig Kielburger – International children's rights activist, founder of Free the Children and current Trinity College student

Prevain Devendran- Lawyer, Philanthropist, Humanitarian & Patron of the Arts.

• Simon Pulsifer - Largest contributor to wikipedia
• John L. McPherson- General Secretary of the Hong Kong YMCAs from 1905 to 1935.

[edit] Notable Faculty, past and present

[edit] University Professors

(U of T's highest academic honour. The authoritative list is here)

• James Arthur – Mathematics
• Arthur Axelrad – Medical Genetics and Microbiology
• John Beattie – History
• Claude Bissell – English
• Michael Bliss – History
• Richard Bond – Theoretical Astrophysics
• Adrian Brook – Chemistry
• Paul Brumer – Chemistry
• Maurice Careless – History
• Edward Chamberline – English
• Julia Ching – Study of Religion
• Michael P. Collins – Civil Engineering
• Stephen Cook – Computer Science
• Fergus Craik – Psychology
• Donald Creighton – History
• Jack Dainty – Botany
• Tirone David – Surgery
• Edward Davison – Electrical and Computer Enginnering
• Hans Eichner – Germanic Languages and Literatures
• Bernard Etkin – Aerospace Studies
• Emil Fackenheim – Philosophy
• Gyorgy Faludy - Poet, Writer, Translator
• Brian Fitch – French
• Roberta Frank – English and Centre for Medieval Studies
• Ursula Franklin – Materials Science and Engineering
• Martin Friedland – Law
• John Friedlander – Mathematics
• Irving Fritz – Medical Research
• Northrop Frye – English
• Irvine Glass – Aerospace Studies
• Jack Greenblatt – Banting and Best Department of Medical Research
• Ian Hacking – Philosophy
• John Hagan – Law and Sociology
• Kenneth Hare – Geography
• Mark Henkelman – Medical Biophysics
• Geoffrey Hinton - Computer Science
• Samuel Hollander – Economics
• Andrew Hughes – Music and Centre for Medieval Studies
• Linda Hutcheon – English
• James Jackson – English
• Harold E. Johns – Medical Biophysics
• Sajeev John – Physics
• Bryan Jones – Chemistry
• Mark Kingwell - Philosophy
• Douglas LePan – English
• Richard Borshay Lee – Anthropology
• Albert Litherland – Physics
• David MacLennan – Banting and Best Department of Medical Research
• Brough Macpherson – Political Science
• Tak K. Mak – Medical Biophysics and Immunology
• Ernest McCulloch – Medical Biophysics
• Roderick McInnes – Paediatrics and Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology
• Michael Millgate – English
• Anthony Naldrett – Geology
• David Olson – Human Development and Applied Psychology
• Geoffrey Ozin – Chemistry
• Marian Packham – Biochemistry
• Thomas Pangle - Political Theory/Philosophy
• Anthony Pawson – Medical Genetics and Microbiology
• Richard Peltier – Physics
• John Polanyi – Chemistry
• Howard Rapson – Chemical Engineering
• Nancy Reid – Statistics
• John Robson – English
• Janet Rossant – Medical Genetics and Microbiology
• Aser Rothstein – Medical Biophysics
• Peter Russell – Political Science
• Andre Salama – Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Robert B. Salter – Surgery
• Michael Sefton – Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry – Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering
• Israel Sigal – Mathematics
• Louis Siminovitch – Medical Genetics and Microbiology
• Francis Sparshott – Philosophy
• Peter St. George-Hyslop – Medicine and Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases
• Charles Stacey – History
• Janice Stein – Political Science
• Donna Stewart – Psychiatry
• Boris Stoicheff – Physics
• Donald Stuss – Medicine
• Wayne Sumner – Philosophy
• James Till – Medical Biophysics
• Michael Trebilcock – Law
• Lap-Chee Tsui – Medical Genetics and Microbiology
• Endel Tulving – Psychology
• Stephen Waddams – Law
• Ernest Weinrib – Law
• George Michael Wickens – Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
• Mitchell Winnik – Chemistry
• Murray Wonham – Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Peter Yates – Chemistry
• Jui Lin Yen – Electrical and Computer Engineering
• James Allen Graff - Philosophy

[edit] Others

• Parham Aarabi – World-renowned innovator and award-winning lecturer
• Frederick Banting – Medical scientist who isolated insulin
• Charles Best – Medical scientist who isolated insulin
• Wilfred Bigelow – Heart surgeon who developed the artificial pacemaker
• Allan Bloom – Political philosopher
• Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter-influential geometer
• Robertson Davies – Famous novelist and playwright
• David Foot – Economist and demographer
• Wilbur R. Franks – Scientist who developed the first G-suit
• Helen Sawyer Hogg – Astronomer
• John Hull – Well-respected finance professor
• Leopold Infeld – Physicist and peace activist
• Harold Innis – Influential political economist and former president of the American Economic Association
• John James Richard Macleod – Physician and physiologist who isolated insulin
• Steve Mann – Computer engineer and “the world’s first cyborg”
• Roger Martin – Management professor and businessman
• Marshall McLuhan – Philosopher and renowned communications theorist
• John H. Munro – Economics professor influential in ending mandatory retirement
• Abraham Robinson – Mathematician who developed non-standard analysis
• Jean Edward Smith – Political Economist
• Daniel Trefler – Economist
• I. B. Türkşen - Internationally renown authority on fuzzy logic