List of Dalhousie University people

The following is a list of notable alumni, faculty, and others affiliated with Dalhousie University located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Alumni

Academia

Clarence Batan – sociologist and professor, University of Santo Tomas
Stephen Blackwood – President of Ralston College
Philip Bryden – Dean of Law at University of New Brunswick (2004-2009) and University of Alberta (2009-)^[1]
Robert MacGregor Dawson political scientist
Howard Epstein (LL.B. 1973, faculty) – MLA for Halifax Chebucto^[2]
Edgar Gold O.C. – expert in international ocean law and marine and environmental policy
T. A. Goudge – philosopher
Donald Olding Hebb – father of modern neuroscience
Albert Ross Hill – president of the University of Missouri (1908 - 1921)
Peter Hochachka (MS), O.C. – professor and zoologist
George Laurence – nuclear physicist
Hugh MacLennan, O.C., O.Q. – author and professor
Ronald St. John Macdonald (B. Law 1952), O.C. – law professor and international law expert
H. R. Milner (B.Law 1911) – lawyer, businessman, and former Chancellor of University of King's College
Moses Morgan (B.A.) – former president of Memorial University of Newfoundland^[3]

Business

Purdy Crawford, O.C. (LL.B. 1955) – corporate director, former CEO of Imasco^[4]
Frank Manning Covert – CBE, O.C. -- lawyer and business person
Sir Graham Day (1959) – former chairman of Cadbury Schweppes plc, Hydro One, as well as CEO of British Shipbuilders and the Rover Group
Sir James Hamet Dunn – major Canadian financier and industrialist
Sean Durfy (B.Comm 1989) – President and CEO of WestJet^[5]
Neville Gilfoy – publisher [1]
Cary Kaplan – founder of Cosmos Sports, former Hamilton Bulldogs president
Charles Peter McColough – CEO of Xerox^[6]
Don Mills – CEO of CCL Group^[7]
Karen Oldfield (1985) – CEO of the Halifax Port Authority^[8]
Maury Van Vliet, O.C. – president and CEO of the 1978 Commonwealth Games
James Palmer (1952) – Founding partner of Burnett, Duckwoth & Palmer^[9]

Government and politics

Prime Ministers

Rt. Hon. Richard Bedford Bennett – 11th Prime Minister of Canada; only Canadian prime minister raised to the English peerage as 1st Viscount Bennett
Rt. Hon. Joe Clark – 16th Prime Minister of Canada
Hon. Anne McLellan, O.C. – law professor and former Liberal deputy Prime Minister^[10]
Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney (law school graduate student, transferred to Université Laval) – 18th Prime Minister of Canada^[11]

Lieutenant Governors

Hon. Myra Freeman – O.NS – philanthropist, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia^[12]
Clarence Gosse, O.C. – 24th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
Arthur Maxwell House, O.C. – neurologist and a former Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Henry Poole MacKeen, O.C. – 22nd Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
Sir John Robert Nicholson – OBE – businessman, politician and Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia^[13]
Hon. Fabian O'Dea – Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador^[14]
Sir Albert Walsh – chief justice and first Lieutenant Governor for Newfoundland

Premiers

Allan Emrys Blakeney – tenth Premier of Saskatchewan
John Buchanan – 20th Premier of Nova Scotia, senator
Alex Campbell – 23rd Premier of Prince Edward Island
Amor De Cosmos – 2nd Premier of British Columbia
Hon. Darrell Dexter – current Premier of Nova Scotia
Joseph Atallah Ghiz – 27th Premier of Prince Edward Island and former Dean of Dalhousie Law School
Dr. John Hamm – 25th Premier of Nova Scotia
Richard Bennett Hatfield – former Premier of New Brunswick
Angus Lewis MacDonald (1921) – 13th Premier of Nova Scotia
Russell MacLellan – 24th Premier of Nova Scotia
Gerald Regan (1952) – former Liberal Premier of Nova Scotia
Hon. Robert Stanfield – Premier of Nova Scotia and leader of the Federal Progressive Conservatives
Danny Williams – 9th Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador

Justices

Donald Clancy – former Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia and current member of the British Columbia Review Board
Lorne Clarke – former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia
Patrick H. Curran – Chief Judge of the Nova Scotia Provincial Court
Sir Joseph Andrew Chisholm – CBE – former Mayor of Halifax and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia
John Doull – Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, also provincial politician
Constance Glube – former Chief Justice of Nova Scotia, first female Chief Justice of Canada
Alexander Hickman, O.C. – Supreme Court of Newfoundland as Chief Justice
Leslie M. Little (1961) – co-founding partner of Thorsteinssons; Justice of the federal Tax Court of Canada
John Keiller MacKay, O.C. – former judge of Supreme Court of Ontario and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
Roland Ritchie – Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Joseph Phillip Kennedy – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia
Valerie L. Marshall (1991) – Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador
Valerie Miller (1985) – Justice of the Tax Court of Canada
Hon. Edmund Leslie Newcombe (B.A. 1878, M.A. 1881, faculty) – Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada^[15]
Eugene Rossiter (1978) – Associate Chief Judge, Tax Court of Canada
Jamie Saunders (LL.B. 1973) – Justice of the Nova Scotia Provincial Court of Appeal^[16]
Robert Sedgewick – Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
John Smithers (1991) – senior counsel in tax law, Department of Justice
Clyde Wells – provincial Chief Justice of the Court of Appeal and 5th Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador
Bertha Wilson, O.C. – first woman Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada

Legislators

Hon. Scott Brison – Member of Parliament, former Liberal cabinet minister^[17]
T.J. Burke – provincial politician, New Brunswick
Hon. Gerry Byrne – Member of Parliament
George Furey – senator representing Newfoundland Labrador^[18]
Danny Graham – former leader of the Liberal Party of Nova Scotia
Henry Hicks – Senator
Michael J. L. Kirby – former federal politician and current senator for Nova Scotia
Megan Leslie – incumbent Member of Parliament for Halifax
Finlay MacDonald, O.C. – senator representing Halifax, Nova Scotia
John MacEachern – politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly
Hon. Donald Oliver (LL.B. 1964, faculty) – first black Canadian Senator^[19]
Hon. Dr. Calvin Ruck, O.C. – activist and senator^[20]
Russell Trood – Liberal Party senator for the state of Queensland, Australia^[21]

Executive council

Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah – Current Saudi Health Minster and pediatric surgeon
Hon. John Crosbie – former Canadian Minister of Finance, current Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador
David Charles Dingwall (B.Comm 1974, LL.B. 1979) – former Liberal cabinet minister^[22]
Hon. Peter MacKay – Minister of National Defense^[23]
Hon. Gerald Regan – former Liberal cabinet minister
Stewart McInnes (1961) – former Conservative Cabinet Minister
Christine Melnick – provincial NDP cabinet minister, Manitoba^[24]
Reid Morden – former Canadian Security Intelligence Service director^[25]
Hon. Jim Prentice – Conservative cabinet minister^[26]
Graham Steele (1989), Minister of Finance of Nova Scotia, Member of the Nova Scotia Legislature

Attorneys General

Murdoch MacPherson – Attorney-General of Saskatchewan
Geoff Plant (LL.B. 1981) – Attorney General of British Columbia^[27]

Diplomats

Michael Leir – Canadian High Commissioner to Australia
Kishore Mahbubani – former Ambassador of the Republic of Singapore to the United Nations, Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

Mayors

William G. Adams – former mayor of St. John's, Newfoundland
Peter J. Kelly – current mayor of the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia

Other

Chris Axworthy – professor and Federal NDP politician^[28]
Jamie Baillie – former Credit Union Atlantic CEO, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia^[29]
Frank Bainimarama – military dictator of Fiji
Hon. Sidney Smith – president of University of Toronto, Conservative Party Secretary of State for External Affairs

Activists

Jan Crull Jr. (BA) – attorney, consultant, former Native American rights advocate, filmmaker, and investment banker
Peter Dalglish (Law) – international children's rights activist; founded Toronto based Street Kids International
Elizabeth May (LLB 1983) – President of the Sierra Club of Canada, leader of the Green Party of Canada^[30]
Alexa McDonough (BA 1965) – former leader of the New Democratic Party^[31]
Nick Wright (MBA, Law) – founding leader of the Green Party of Nova Scotia

Journalism

Sandra Gwyn, O.C. – journalist and writer
Ian Hanomansing (Law) – television journalist
Dr. Armand Leroi (BS1989) – evolutionary developmental biologist, author, and BBC documentarist^[32]
Amber MacArthur (BA) – television and netcasting personality
Robert MacNeil – broadcast journalist; co-anchored the nightly The MacNeil/Lehrer Report on PBS^[33]
Marjorie Willison – CBC radio personality

Literature

Ernest Buckler – novelist^[34]
George Elliot Clarke – Author and recipient of the Governor General's Award
Simon Gray – English playwright, Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Kenneth Leslie – poet
Lucy Maud (L.M.) Montgomery – author of Anne of Green Gables (attended 1895, 1896)^[35]
Robin Sharma (1989) – author
Maxine Tynes (BA, BEd 1973) – noted poet, educator ^[36]
Budge Wilson – author
Lance Woolaver – author, playwright and director

Performing arts

Kiran Ahluwalia – Songlines Music Award-winning singer^[37]
Jay Ferguson – musician for rock group Sloan^[37]
Barbara Fris – operatic soprano^[38]
Peter Herrndorf, O.C. – president and CEO of the National Arts Centre
Shaun Majumder – actor/comedian^[39]
Chris Murphy – bassist and vocalist of rock group Sloan^[37]
Kate Maki – singer-songwriter
Candy Palmater (LL.B. 1999) – comedian, activist, writer, and radio-television personality^[40]
Patrick Pentland – musician for rock group Sloan^[37]
Raylene Rankin – singer^[37]
Liz Rigney (BA 1989) – singer and CTV Atlantic broadcaster^[37]

Science

Dr. Robert Ackman (MS 1952), O.C. – omega-3 fatty acid research pioneer^[41]
Martin Henry Dawson (BA 1916) – pioneer in penicillin therapy
Dr. Jerzy Gajewski – President, Canadian Urological Association
Kathryn D. Sullivan (PhD 1978) – NASA astronaut, first American woman to walk in space

Sports

Stephen Giles – Olympic silver medal paddler
Colleen Jones – CBC broadcaster, world champion curler
Michael Scarola – world championship bronze medalist paddler

Other

Sarah Jackson – artist
Lesra Martin – lawyer and motivational speaker
Michel Trudeau – son of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau^[42]

Faculty

A. H. Armstrong – classicist
Peter Aucoin – political science, public administration
Jerome H. Barkow – anthropologist
Axel D. Becke – chemist
Michael Bishop – literary scholar
Edward Blackadder – Professor of Medical Jurisprudence
James De Mille – Professor of English and Rhetoric
Ford Doolittle – biochemist
James Doull – philosopher, and Professor of Classics
John Forrest – Professor of History
John Godfrey – historian
Clarence Gosse – Professor of Urology
George Grant – philosopher
Roy Martin Haines – historian
Brian K. Hall – biologist
William Hare – Professor of Education and Philosophy
Michael John Keen – Department of Geology professor (1961-1977) and department chairman
Thomas Worrall Kent – Dean of Administrative Studies, adjunct professor of Public Administration^[43]
George Lawson – botanist
Brian Mackay-Lyons – architect^[44]
Arthur Stanley Mackenzie – physicist
Elisabeth Mann-Borgese – Professor of Law
Daniel Murray – mathematician
Cynthia Neville – historian^[45]
E. C. Pielou – ecologist
Robert Rosen – Professor of Biophysics
Malcolm Ross – literary critic
Eric Segelberg – Professor of Classics
Wilfred Cantwell Smith – Professor of Religion
Colin Starnes – professor, author and former President of the University of King's College
Steve Tittle – composer
Peter Busby Waite – historian, longtime Thomas McCulloch Professor of History
Richard Wassersug – Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology
John Clarence Webster – Governor of Dalhousie University in 1934.[2]
Richard Chapman Weldon – Professor of Law
Martin Willison – Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies
Boris Worm – marine ecologist

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List of Dalhousie University people

Contents

Alumni

Academia

Business

Government and politics

Prime Ministers

Lieutenant Governors

Premiers

Justices

Legislators

Executive council

Attorneys General

Diplomats

Mayors

Other

Activists

Journalism

Literature

Performing arts

Science

Sports

Other

Faculty

References