List of Queen's University people
The following is a list of notable alumni, faculty and affiliates of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Notable Queen's alumni
Academic leaders
Actors, film, and media
- Scott Anderson – CanWest MediaWorks Senior Vice-President, content; former Editor-in-Chief of the Ottawa Citizen
- Dean Armstrong – actor
- Ashleigh Banfield – former MSNBC News Anchor
- Rachel Blanchard – actress
- Nicholas Campbell – actor
- Tom Cavanagh – actor, played title character in sitcom Ed
- Wendy Crewson – actress
- Brendan Connor – Television broadcaster, Al Jazeera International
- Chris Cuthbert – TSN sportscaster
- Fr. Raymond J. de Souza (B.A. 1993, MPA 1994) – columnist for the National Post
- Sally Gifford – host on CBC's national kids' show, The X
- Lorne Greene (BA'37, LLD'71) – actor
- Kate Greenhouse – actress
- Ethan Hunt - actress
- Amy Lalonde - actress, also played an actress who went to Queen's Business School in Wild Roses (TV series)
- Elan Mastai – screenwriter
- Anna Olson - chef and television presenter
- Nancy Palk – actress
- Italia Ricci - actress
- Shelagh Rogers – CBC broadcaster
- Ted Simonett – actor, of the "Canadian Tire advertising couple"
- Jeffrey Simpson – political columnist for The Globe and Mail
- Rod Smith – TSN sportscaster
- John Stackhouse – Editor, The Globe and Mail
- Ian Stewart (B.A. 1990) – broadcaster and journalist, member of the Canadian Journalism Forum[8]
- Ali Velshi – former Report on Business Television and current CNN business reporter
- Nancy Wilson – CBC journalist
- Gema Zamprogna – actor
Entrepreneurs and business leaders
- Michael Henry Adams – founder of Environics
- Alfred Bader (B.Sc. 1945, B.A. 1946, M.Sc. 1947) – founder of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, and donor of 15th century Herstmonceux Castle
- Geoffrey Ballard – founder of Ballard Power Systems
- Curtis Bartlett – co-founder of Intellectual Capital Partners
- Derek Burney (B.A. 1962, M.A. 1964) – former President and CEO of Bell Canada, current member of the Board of Directors of CanWest Global Communications, Quebecor World Inc., and Shell Canada
- Donald J. Carty – former Chairman and CEO of AMR Corporation, the parent company of American Airlines
- Kerry Clark – CEO of Cardinal Health and former Vice Chairman of Procter & Gamble[9]
- Peng-Sang Cau (BComm 1994) - CEO and co-founder of Transformix Engineering[10]
- Gururaj Deshpande– founder of Sycamore Networks
- David A. Dodge – former Governor of the Bank of Canada, and Chancellor of Queen's, effective July 1, 2008
- Don Drummond (MA) – Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist of TD Bank Financial Group[11]
- Steven Gunn – CEO and co-founder of Sleep Country Canada
- Mel Goodes – former Chairman and CEO of the Warner-Lambert Company
- F. C. Kohli – former CEO of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
- Leonard Lee (B.A. 1963) – founder of Lee Valley Tools
- Donald Lindsay (B.Sc.(Eng.) 1980) – CEO of Tec-Cominco
- Michael MacMillan – Chairman and co-founder of Alliance Atlantis
- Earle McLaughlin – former President and CEO of the Royal Bank of Canada
- Seaton McLean – co-founder of Atlantis Films (now Alliance Atlantis)
- Stephen A. Miles (B.A. (Psych) 1991, MBA 1997) - Vice Chairman of Heidrick & Struggles, author, and consultant to CEOs and corporate boards of directors
- Alexander C. Monteith – Senior Vice-President of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation and recipient of the IEEE Edison Medal
- Elon and Kimbal Musk - Founders of Paypal and Tesla Motors
- Ken Nicholson (B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering 1992) - co-founder of Transformix Engineering[10]
- Gord Nixon (BComm 1979) – President and CEO of the Royal Bank of Canada
- Douglas Peters (BComm 1963) – banker, economist and politician
- A. J. Petrina (B.Sc. 1959) – former CEO of Placer Dome Inc.
- Janice Platt – Academy Award winner and co-founder of Atlantis Films (now Alliance Atlantis)
- Stephen Quinn – Senior Vice President, Wal-Mart Inc, Bentonville, Arkansas
- David Radler (MBA 1967) – former President of Ravelston Corporation (which owned Argus Corporation which controlled Hollinger International), cooperating with the prosecution in the Conrad Black racketeering case
- John A. Rae – Executive Vice-President of Power Corporation, Chair of the Board of Trustees of Queen's
- Grant Rasmussen – CEO of UBS Canada
- A. G. Stollery (B.Sc. 1938) – geologist and the late founder of Consolidated Morrison Ltd.
- Michael Serbinis (B.S.) - President and CEO of Kobo Inc.
Literature and the arts
Military service
Miscellaneous
- Jock Climie (B.A. 1989, LL.B. 1998) – lawyer, former CFL player, and broadcaster
- Owen "Tyler Durden" Cook – one of the pick-up artists discussed in Neil Strauss's 2005 book The Game
- Douglas Cunningham (B.A., LL.B.) – lawyer and Ontario Superior Court Justice
- Julianne Parfett (B.A., J.D.) - lawyer and Ontario Superior Court Justice
- Julie Dickson (M.E.) - civil servant
- David A. Dodge (B.A.) – former Bank of Canada governor and current Chancellor of Queen's University
- Brad Elberg – lawyer and former CFL player
- Grant Campbell (Ph.D. 1990) [(Japan)] Naturopath, author
- Karla Homolka - convicted murderer, who completed her Queen's Psychology degree while behind bars
- Andrew Kalotay (B.Sc. 1964, M.Sc. 1966) – mathematician, Wall Street financier and chess master
- Martin Kreuzer (post-doc. 1991) – mathematician, professor, and correspondence chess Grandmaster
- Kim Phuc (Honorary degree recipient) - made famous through the picture of her depicted during the Vietnam War
- Mike Schad – former NFL player
- H.I.H. Prince Takamado of Japan
- David Smart (B.A. 1994) – Canadian champion basketball coach
- Jim Young – 1st Canadian college football player drafted into the NFL (Minnesota Vikings)
- Johnny Evans - quarterback, perhaps the greatest player to wear the Tricolour, 2 time Grey Cup champion
Political leaders
- William Aberhart – former Premier of Alberta
- John Baird (B.A. 1992) – Minister of the Environment
- Derek Burney (B.A. 1962, M.A. 1964) – former Canadian Ambassador to the Korea, Japan, and the United States
- Diana Buttu – Palestinian legal advisor
- Sean Conway – Director of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations (Queen's University), former Ontario cabinet minister and MPP
- Thomas Cromwell (B.Mus. 1973, Law 1976) - Supreme Court justice
- John Crosbie – former Minister of Finance
- David Emerson (PhD 1975) – Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Pacific Gateway and the Vancouver-Whistler Olympics
- John Gerretsen – Ontario MPP, former mayor of Kingston, Ontario cabinet minister
- Sir Kenneth O. Hall - Governor General of Jamaica
- James R.M. Harris – author and politician, former Leader of the Green Party of Canada
- David Lloyd Johnston (LL.B. 1966) – President of the University of Waterloo, Principal of McGill University, Dean of the School of Law at the University of Western Ontario, and the 28th Governor General of Canada. [13]
- John Matheson – helped develop the Canadian Flag and the Order of Canada
- Frank McKenna – former Canadian Ambassador to the United States and former Premier of New Brunswick
- Peter Milliken (B.A. 1968) – Speaker of the House of Commons
- Tim Murphy – chief of staff of the Canadian Prime Minister's Office under Paul Martin's government
- Robert Nicholson (B.A. 1975) – Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
- George Spotton (B.A. 1895), member of the House of Commons
Scientists
Notable Queen's faculty and affiliates
In addition to the following notable faculty members, Sir Sandford Fleming, former Prime Minister of Canada Sir Robert Laird Borden, and former Governor General of Canada Roland Michener have all served as Chancellor of the university, though this is a non-academic role.
Principals
- The Rev Thomas Liddell (1841–1846) [15]
- The Rev John Machar (1846–1853) [15]
- The Rev James George (acting Principal 1853-1857) [15]
- The Rev John Cook (1857–1859) [15]
- The Rev William Leitch (1859–1864) [15]
- The Rev William Snodgrass (1864–1877) [15]
- The Rev George Monro Grant (1877–1902) [15]
- The Rev Daniel Miner Gordon (1902–1916) [15]
- The Rev Robert Bruce Taylor (1917–1929) [15]
- Sir William Hamilton Fyfe (1930–1936) [15]
- Robert Charles Wallace (1936–1951) [15]
- William Archibald Mackintosh (1951–1961) [15]
- James Alexander Corry (1961–1968) [15]
- John James Deutsch (1968–1974) [15]
- Ronald Lampman Watts (1974–1984) [15]
- David Chadwick Smith (1984–1994) [15]
- William Claude Leggett (1994–2004) [15]
- Karen R. Hitchcock (2004–2008) [15]
- Thomas R. Williams (2008–2009) [15]
- Daniel Woolf (2009–Present) [15]
Chancellors
- The Rev John Cook (1877–1879) [16]
- Sir Sandford Fleming (1880–1915) [16]
- James Douglas (1915–1918) [16]
- The Rt Hon Sir Edward Beatty (1918–1923) [16]
- The Rt Hon Sir Robert Laird Borden (1924–1929) [16]
- James Armstrong Richardson (1929–1939) [16]
- The Hon Charles Avery Dunning (1940–1958) [16]
- John Bertram Stirling (1960–1973) [16]
- The Rt Hon Roland Michener (1973–1980) [16]
- Dr. Agnes Mccausland Benidickson (1980–1996) [16]
- The Rt Hon Dr. Peter Lougheed (1996–2002) [16]
- A. Charles Baillie (2002–2008) [16]
- David A. Dodge (2008–present) [16]
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