List of Carleton University people

Lineage and establishment

Chancellors

• 1952-1954 Harry Stevenson Southam
• 1954-1968 Jack Mackenzie
• 1969-1972 Lester B. Pearson
• 1973-1980 Gerhard Herzberg
• 1980-1990 Robert Gordon Robertson (Emeritus 1992-)
• 1990-1992 Pauline Jewett
• 1993-2002 Arthur Kroeger (Emeritus 2002-2008)
• 2002 Ray Hnatyshyn
• 2003-2008 Marc Garneau
• 2008–present Herb Gray

Presidents

• 1942-1947 Henry Marshall Tory
• 1947-1955 Murdoch Maxwell MacOdrum
• 1955-1956 James Alexander Gibson (pro tempore)
• 1956-1958 Claude Bissell
• 1958-1972 Davidson Dunton
• 1972-1978 Michael Kelway Oliver
• 1979 James Downey (pro tempore) 1 January - 15 May
• 1979-1989 William Edwin Beckel
• 1989-1996 Robin Hugh Farquhar
• 1996-2005 Richard J. Van Loon
• 2005-2006 David W. Atkinson
• 2006-2008 Samy Mahmoud (pro tempore), from 20 November 2006
• 2008–present Roseann Runte

Notable alumni and faculty

• Dan Aykroyd, Actor and Comedian; studied criminology and sociology, but did not graduate.^[1]
• David Azrieli, Architect, 10th richest man in Canada
• Omar Zakhilwal, former Professor of Economics, Afghan Finance Minister and Chief Economic Advisor to the President of Afghanistan.
• Lord Black of Cross Harbour (Conrad Black), former businessman
• Lindsay Blackett, first black Cabinet minister in Alberta
• Taz Boga, Anchor at CHCH News in Hamilton; former Anchor/Reporter at A-Channel in Ottawa
• Keith Boag, chief political correspondent for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
• Patrick Boyer, Member of Parliament
• K-OS (Kheaven Brereton), Canadian musician
• Gord Brown, Member of Parliament
• Louise Charron, Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
• Rita Celli, host for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
• Mike Colle, Member of Provincial Parliament
• Alex Cullen, Member of Provincial Parliament, Ottawa City Councillor
• Hans Daigeler, Member of Provincial Parliament
• Barry Devolin, Member of Parliament
• Paul Dewar, Member of Parliament
• Michelle Douglas, Human Rights Activist
• James Duthie, TSN host and Journalist
• Bruck Easton, former president of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
• Ward P.D. Elcock, Deputy Minister of Defence, former Director of Canadian Security Intelligence Service
• David Estok, Editor-in-Chief of Hamilton Spectator
• Ivan Fellegi, Former Chief Statistician of Canada
• Rob Ford, Current Mayor of the City of Toronto, studied political science but dropped out after first year
• Matthew Fraser, former Editor-in-Chief of National Post
• Evelyn Gigantes, Member of Provincial Parliament
• Edward Greenspon, Editor-in-Chief of The Globe and Mail
• Allan Gregg, pollster, political pundit
• Sara Gruen, fiction author known best for her award winning novel Water for Elephants
• Peter Grünberg, Nobel laureates in Physics 2007^[2]
• Elizabeth Hanna, undergraduate major in philosophy and later graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada. Voice Actor and Speech-Language Patholologist.
• Gregory Henriquez, Architect, Governor-General's Medal for Architecture
• Abdul Rahman Jabarah, alleged al-Qaeda member killed in 2003
• Peter Jennings, journalist and news anchor for ABC News, two-time Peabody Award winner, awarded a Litterarum doctor, honoris causa',' in 1997 (Didn't spend more than a day in the program)
• Pauline Jewett, Member of Parliament, professor and Chancellor of Carleton University
• Leo Jordan, Member of Provincial Parliament
• Jim Judd, Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service
• Wilbert Keon, Senator, heart surgeon
• Warren Kinsella, lawyer, author, musician, political consultant, lobbyist and commentator
• Lawrence M. Krauss, physics professor at Arizona State University and popular science author
• Michael I. Krauss, professor at George Mason University School of Law
• Marvin Lara, Actor
• Chalmers Jack Mackenzie, former chancellor, first president of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited
• Robert MacNeil, journalist, Officer of the Order of Canada
• John Manley, Former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Canada
• Randal Marlin, Carleton philosophy professor specializing in the study of propaganda
• Trevor Matthews, Founder and CEO of Brookstreet Pictures
• Robert Maxwell, (BJ '91) Anchor KTVX-ABC Salt Lake City, Utah (also WFTV-ABC, Orlando, FL and The NewRO, Ottawa)
• J.Gordon McNulty, Los Angeles, CA Superior Court Judge
• Jag Mohan, Consulting Engineer & Dean of Engineering Technology and Applied Science, Centennial College, Toronto, Canada
• Yasir Naqvi, Member of Provincial Parliament
• Ryan North, Writer and Computer Scientist
• Tom Nevakshonoff, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
• Paul Okalik, Former premier of Nunavut
• Gordon Pape, financial self-help writer
• Ernie Parsons, Member of Provincial Parliament
• Lester Bowles Pearson, former chancellor, professor, Prime Minister of Canada, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• Gordon Phaneuf, President, Ontario Liberal Party
• John Porter, former Professor of Sociology
• Michael Prue, Member of Provincial Parliament
• Karim Rashid, Industrial Designer
• Scott Reid, Member of Parliament
• Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, Prime Minister of Somalia
• Norman Sterling, Member of Provincial Parliament
• Barbara Sullivan, Member of Provincial Parliament
• Harley Swedler, architect
• Michael Taylor (1951–2010), former Executive Vice President, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited
• Judy Wasylycia-Leis, Member of Parliament
• Jim Watson, Member of Provincial Parliament, Mayor and City Councillor of Ottawa
• Keenan Wellar, Sociopreneur and Founder of LiveWorkPlay and Heartwood House charities
• Susan Wood, Canadian literature scholar and pioneer of feminist science fiction studies
• Peter Worthington, Editor-in-Chief of the Toronto Sun

Notable honorary degree recipients

• Dag Hammarskjöld, United Nations Secretary-General (1953–1961), Nobel Peace Prize laureate, awarded a Legum Doctor, honoris causa in 1954
• U Thant, United Nations Secretary-General (1961–1971), awarded a Legum Doctor, honoris causa in 1962
• Kurt Waldheim, United Nations Secretary-General (1972–1981), awarded a Legum Doctor, honoris causa in 1972
• Tommy Douglas, 7th Premier of Saskatchewan, led the first socialist government in North America and introduced universal public health care to Canada, awarded a Legum Doctor, honoris causa in 1980
• Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, United Nations Secretary-General (1982–1992), awarded a Legum Doctor, honoris causa in 1985
• Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, awarded a Legum Doctor, honoris causa in 1993
• Boutros Boutros-Ghali, United Nations Secretary-General (1992–1997), awarded a Legum Doctor, honoris causa in 1995
• Romano Prodi, 79th Prime Minister of Italy, awarded a Legum Doctor, honoris causa in 2001
• Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General (1997–2007), Nobel Peace Prize laureate, awarded a Legum Doctor, honoris causa in 2004

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