List of York University people
Here follows a list of notable graduates and faculty of York University. This list includes graduates of Osgoode Hall Law School prior to its affiliation with York.
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Graduates
Nobel Laureates
Politicians
Judges
Business leaders
- George Butterfield - co-founder of luxury active travel company Butterfield & Robinson
- Bernd Christmas - Board of Directors, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Ivan Fecan - President and Chief Executive Officer, CTV
- Gordon Lownds - co-founder of Sleep Country Canada
- Rob McEwen - President and CEO of US Gold Corporation
- Sergio Marchionne - President and CEO of Fiat and Chrysler Group LLC
- Larry Organ - Chief Executive Officer, ConsumerBase LLC, Founder of FastWeb and JobsOnline
- Edward Samuel Rogers - business tycoon, President and CEO Rogers Communications
- Alex Shnaider - Chairman of Royal Laser Corp. and co-founder of Midland Group Midland Group, Canada's youngest billionaire
- Richard E. Waugh - President and Chief Executive Officer, Scotiabank
- Naveen Dargan, director of several energy trusts including CCS Income Trust and Trinidad Energy Services
- Dennis Fotinos, President & CEO of Enwave
- Denise Pickett, President & CEO of American Express Canada
- John S. Hunkin, Former CEO of CIBC
- Alan G. McNally, Former Chairman of Harris Bank
- Eileen Mercier , Chair of Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board
- Paul Tsaparis, President & CEO Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Co.
- Robert J. Gemmell ,Former President & CEO of Citigroup Global Markets Canada Inc.
- David Wilson, Chairman of the Ontario Securities Commission
- Vikas Kohli, Founder of Fatlabs Recording Studio in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
- Colleen Johnston, Group Head Finance and Chief Financial Officer at TD Bank Financial Group [112]
Artists and Entertainers
- Will Beauchamp - award winning filmmaker, Warner Bros. Canada representative
- Mark Bluvshtein, chess grandmaster
- Christian Bök - acclaimed poet, professor at University of Calgary
- Arthur Bourinot - Governor General's Award for Poetry
- Elizabeth Bradely - Chair of Drama at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University
- Shannon Bramer - poet
- Natalie Brown - star of Sophie on CBC
- Amanda Brugel - co-star on MVP: The Secret Lives of Hockey Wives on CBC
- Gerry Dee - comedian (Last Comic Standing)
- Robert Duncan - composer
- deMarco DeCiccio- a vocalist with the contemporary, openly gay Christian and music duo Jason and deMarco
- Orville Lloyd Douglas - poet/writer
- Matt Dusk- jazz musician
- Melyssa Ford - model and actress, on-air personality for Sirius Satellite Radio
- Thea Gill - actress (Queer as Folk)
- Douglas Glover - acclaimed writer, Governor General's Award for Fiction
- Katherine Govier - novelist, winner of Marian Engel Award
- Kim Gordon - singer and bassist of experimental rock band Sonic Youth
- Larysa Harapyn - entertainment reporter for CityTV
- Mark Irwin - cinematographer (Me, Myself & Irene, Scream, There's Something About Mary)
- Kardinal Offishall - Canadian musician
- Vikas Kohli - producer and founder of Fatlabs
- Bruce LaBruce - Underground Filmmaker and icon of the gay arts community (JD's, Vinyl)
- Ringo Lam - Hong Kong action director, inspired Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs
- Jerry Levitan - producer and star of Oscar Award nominated animated short I Met the Walrus
- Peter Lynch - filmmaker (Project Grizzly)
- Rachel McAdams - actress (Mean Girls, Wedding Crashers, The Notebook)
- Steve McCaffery - poet
- Annemarie Morais - internationally acclaimed award winning filmmaker (How She Move)
- Jeffrey Morgan, authorized biographer of both Alice Cooper and The Stooges
- Mike Murley - jazz musician, recipient of Juno Award
- George Murray - poet
- Steven Page - musician, former lead singer for the Barenaked Ladies
- Mark Penney - film director
- Ramona Pringle - actor (Shoot 'Em Up)
- Dina Pugliese - Television personality, co-host of CityTV's Breakfast Television
- Michael Redhill - award winning poet, playwright, and novelist, editorial board of Coach House Press
- Nino Ricci - writer, Governor General's Award for Fiction
- Spencer Rice - actor/director (Kenny vs. Spenny)
- Peter Robinson - English-born Canadian-based detective novelist
- Don Ross - noted fingerstyle guitar champion, lauded by Bruce Cockburn
- Nora Samosir - Indonesian actress [113]
- Jacqueline Samuda, actress and author
- Albert Schultz - actor
- Eddie Schwartz - songwriter/producer (ex. The Doobie Brothers, Pat Benetar)
- Sarah Slean - singer-songwriter
- Ron Sparks - comedian/actor/writer, (Video on Trial)
- Joel A. Sutherland - author
- Susan Swan - author
- Priya Thomas - musician
- Raymond Thompson - Creator of hit New Zealand teen/sci-fi television series The Tribe
- Scott Thompson - comedian/actor, (The Kids in the Hall, The Larry Sanders Show, My Fabulous Gay Wedding)
- Larry Towell - celebrated photographer
- Maurice Dean Wint - actor, nominated for a Dora Award
- Laura Vandervoort - Actress (Smallville, Instant Star, Into the Blue 2)
- K'naan - musician
Scientists
- Nigel Lockyer - Director of TRIUMF, Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics
Athletes
Broadcasters
- Zuraidah Alman - Canada News Anchor for Global News
- Barbara Budd - award-winning senior journalist with the CBC
- Nick Czernkovich - meteorologist for CBC
- Ken Daniels - former Hockey Night in Canada host, current Detroit Red Wings commentator on FSN Detroit
- Melissa DiMarco - TV personality and actress. has her own show and a role on Degrassi: The Next Generation
- Nancy Durham - journalist and foreign correspondent for the CBC, married to Oxford philosopher Bill Newton-Smith
- Jian Ghomeshi - CBC host, musician, writer and producer
- Michael Harris - Ottawa Sun columnist, Woodrow Wilson Scholar
- Chantal Hebert - award-winning journalist for The Toronto Star as well as Le Devoir and National Post among others, and commentator on Canadian politics, appears often on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Michael Hirsh - co-founder of Nelvana international animation company based in Toronto (Babar, Hergé's Adventures of Tintin, Bob and Margaret)
- Patrick Loubert - co-founder of Nelvana
- Paul Jones - Current Play by play man for the Toronto Raptors
- Hazel Mae, news anchor and personality on NESN in Boston, Massachusetts.
- Jonathan Mann, journalist for CNN International
- Brian Milner - senior columnist for the Globe and Mail
- Jacquie Perrin - host of CBC's Saturday Report, accomplished pilot.
- Beatrice Politi - political specialist on CP24 in Ottawa
- B.W. Powe - writer and columnist for The Globe and Mail
- Dina Pugliese - co-host of Breakfast Television on CityTV in Toronto
- Natasha Ramsahai - chief meteorologist for CBC Canada
- Liz Reyes - award winning TV News Anchor, Reporter and personality, now at WVUE New Orleans & runs her own media website at LizReyes.com
- Sandie Rinaldo - award-winning CTV news anchor for all of Canada
- Paula Todd - award-winning journalist and host of TVOntario's Person to Person and CTV's The Verdict
- Mark Jones - ESPN and ABC play-by-play sports broadcaster
Other
Noted faculty
- Irving Abella, history
- William Phillips, Professor of Economics, notable for his contribution in Economics with the Phillips Curve
- Louise Arbour, Professor of Law, currently UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Harry Arthurs, law and former President of York University
- Paul Axelrod, education
- Joel Bakan, law, author of The Corporation
- Richard Wellen, Business and Society
- Shannon Bell, performance philosopher, political scientist, feminist
- Heather Monroe-Blum, currently the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University
- Hédi Bouraoui, French and English literature
- Rob Bowman, ethnomusicology
- Ed Broadbent (1960s) - former leader of the federal New Democratic Party
- Jean-Gabriel Castel - Professor Emeritus of Law
- Jerome Ch'en - Professor Emeritus of History
- G. Ramsay Cook - Professor Emeritus of History
- Neil Leon Rudenstine, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, former president of Harvard University
- Andrea Davis - Professor of Humanities, Latin American Caribbean Studies, History, English
- Christopher Dewdney - author, Professor of English Literature
- Stephen Gill - Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
- Barbara Godard - Professor of English and the Avie Bennett Historica Chair in Canadian Literature.
- Jack Granatstein - Professor Emeritus of History
- Leslie Green, Professor, Law, Philosophy, and Social and Political Thought, permanent Chair in Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford
- Christopher D. Green, Professor of Psychology and Philosophy, President-elect of the Society for the History of Psychology (APA Division 26)
- John Greyson - film director
- Peter Hogg - Professor Emeritus of Law , constitutional expert, former Dean of Osgoode
- Michiel Horn - Professor Emeritus of History, University Historian
- Ali Kazimi - filmmaker
- Gabriel Kolko - Professor Emeritus of History
- Paul Laurendeau - Professor, Department of French Studies, linguist and language philosopher
- James Laxer - author, columnist and commentator, Professor of Canadian Politics
- Irving Layton - poet
- Jack Layton - leader of the New Democratic Party
- Lee Lorch - Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, civil rights activist, member of Cuban Academy of Sciences
- Edelgard Mahant, political science
- Patrick J. Monahan - Professor of Law
- Jonathan Nitzan - Professor of Political Economy
- David F. Noble - Historian of Technology
- Michael Ondaatje - author and filmmaker, Professor of English Literature
- Leo Panitch - Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science (Canada Research Chair in Political Economy), editor of the Socialist Register
- Andreas Papandreou - Greek Prime Minister, Economics Professor (1969-1974)
- Sergei M. Plekhanov - Professor of Political Science, member of Soviet Academy of Sciences
- B. W. Powe - Professor of English
- Trichy Sankaran - Indian carnatic percussionist
- John Ridpath - Objectivist philosopher and retired Associate Professor of Economics and Intellectual History
- Paul Roazen - Professor Emeritus of Social and Political Science, founder of meta-psychotherapy
- Anne E. Russon - Professor of Psychology, expert on Orangutan innovation and intelligence
- J.T. Saywell - Professor Emeritus of History
- David N. Stamos - Professor of Philosophy
- Grant Strate - founder of York's Dance department and first resident choreographer of National Ballet of Canada
- Orest Subtelny Professor of History
- Priscilla Uppal - professor of creative writing nominated for Griffin Poetry Prize
- Mary Vaughan - world renowned geneticist
- Ellen Wood - historian and critic of political theory
- Neal Wood - historian
- Robin Wood - Professor Emeritus of Film and Video, famous film critic
- James Alcock - Psychology Professor, author, and noted parapsychology skeptic
Presidents
Chancellors
- Wilfred A. Curtis, RCAF air marshal, 1959-1968
- Floyd S. Chalmers, publisher, 1968-1973
- Walter L. Gordon, federal cabinet minister, 1973-1977
- John P. Robarts, premier of Ontario, 1977-1982
- John S. Proctor, banker, 1982-1983
- J. Tuzo Wilson, geophysicist, 1983-1986
- Larry Clarke, founder of SPAR Aerospace, 1986-1991
- Oscar Peterson, jazz piano great, 1991-1994
- Arden Haynes, businessman, 1994-1998
- Avie J. Bennett, businessman, 1998-2004
- Peter deCarteret Cory, jurist, 2004-2008
- Roy McMurtry, politician and judge, 2008-Present
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