List of University of British Columbia people

This is a list of alumni and faculty from the University of British Columbia.

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Alumni

Nobel laureates

Alumni of the University of British Columbia

Bertram Brockhouse, BA 1947, Nobel laureate (Physics, 1994)

Robert Mundell, BA 1953, Nobel laureate (Economics, 1999)

Kim Campbell, BA 1969, 19th Prime Minister of Canada

Bjarni Tryggvason, BS 1972, NRC/CSA astronaut

Justin Trudeau, BEd. 1994, Current Prime Minister of Canada

Michael Shanks, BFA 1994, actor (portrayed Dr. Daniel Jackson in the television series Stargate SG-1)

• Bertram Brockhouse, BA 1947 (math and physics) ^[1] - Nobel laureate (Physics, 1994) "for the development of neutron spectroscopy"^[2]
• Robert Mundell, BA 1953 ^[3] - Nobel laureate (Economics, 1999) "for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas"^[4]

Academia

• Kanti Bajpai, former headmaster of The Doon School
• Amit Chakma, President, University of Western Ontario
• Patricia Churchland, philosopher
• John J. Clague, Geological Survey of Canada scientist and SFU professor
• Thomas Martin Franck, international law scholar; NYU Law Professor Emeritus; former Editor-In-Chief of the American Journal of International Law^[5][6][7]
• Rick Hansen, educator and Man In Motion
• Michiel Horn, historian, professor emeritus, Glendon College, York University
• Joy Johnson, Vice-President Research, Simon Fraser University
• Indira Samarasekera, President, University of Alberta
• William Sauder, contributor to the Sauder School of Business
• David Turpin, President, University of Victoria

Architecture

• Bing Thom, architect of various urban design projects around Canada and the United States

Business

• David Cheriton, Google founding investor and computer science professor at Stanford University
• Dominic Barton, Global Managing Director of McKinsey & Co.^[8]
• Andrew Bibby, BCom 1980, President, Grosvenor Americas
• Dean Bosacki, businessman
• Yael Cohen, non-profit executive and philanthropist; founder of F**k Cancer
• Herb Dhaliwal, businessman, real estate developer and philanthropist
• Lalith Gamage, CEO of Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology
• Martin Glynn, MBA 1972, President and CEO, HSBC Canada
• Lindsay Gordon, MBA 1976, CEO of HSBC Canada
• Darren Huston, CEO of Priceline^[9]
• Frank Iacobucci, BCom 1961, former Puisne Justice, Supreme Court of Canada; former Dean, University of Toronto's Faculty of Law
• David Ing, marketing scientist, and senior consultant
• Paul Lee, former President of Electronic Arts
• Brandt C. Louie, President and CEO of H.Y. Louie Co. Limited, and Chairman of London Drugs Limited.
• Kyle MacDonald, blogger and founder of the One red paperclip website
• John H. McArthur, BCom 1957, Dean Emeritus, Harvard Business School
• Henry McKinnell, CEO and Chairman of the Board, Pfizer
• Nadir Mohamed, BCom 1978, CEO, Rogers Communications
• Sarah Morgan-Silvester BCom 1982, Chancellor, University of British Columbia
• Jim Pattison, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and sole owner of the Jim Pattison Group, the second largest privately held company in Canada (did not graduate)
• Ben Rutledge, BCom 2006, Canadian rower and '08 Olympic gold medalist
• Gregg Saretsky, MBA 1984, President & CEO, WestJet
• William Sauder, BCom 1948, Chairman of International Forest Products Ltd. and Sauder Industries
• Peter Wall, property developer in Vancouver; played a significant and controversial part in the city's real-estate boom in the 19902-2000s; established the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (did not graduate)
• Nolan Watson, co-founder of Sandstorm Resources Ltd.; known for his contribution to finance innovation in the mining industry; youngest CFO (age 26) of a New York Stock Exchange listed company; helped develop the silver streaming business model; raise over $1 billion in debt and equity to fund Silver Wheaton’s growth into the largest streaming company in the world
• Brian Wong, internet entrepreneur; co-founded Kiip, a mobile app rewards platform; in 2010 surpassed Mark Zuckerberg to become youngest entrepreneur to raise venture capital funding^{[10][11][12][13]}
• Jacki Zehner, BCom 1987, President of Women Moving Millions; youngest woman to be made a partner in Goldman Sachs, in 1996^[14][15]

Government, politics, and law

• David Anderson, former Cabinet Minister, and former President of the Governing Council of the UN Environment Programme
• Jack Austin, former Cabinet Minister, and former Leader of the Government in the Senate
• John Alan Beesley, diplomat; former UN Ambassador
• Thomas Berger, First Nations' rights advocate; politician; former Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia
• Donald Brenner, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia
• Kim Campbell, former Prime Minister of Canada
• Pat Carney, Canadian senator
• Jim Chu, Chief Constable of the Vancouver Police Department
• Glen Clark, 31st Premier of British Columbia
• Joe Clark, former Canadian prime minister
• Ujjal Dosanjh, former B.C. premier^[16]
• Lance Finch, Chief Justice of British Columbia^[17]
• John Fraser, former Speaker of the House of Commons and Progressive Conservative MP
• Garde Gardom, former Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
• Robert Hampton Gray, awarded the Victoria Cross for heroism during World War II
• Mike Harcourt, former B.C. premier
• Nancy Heppner, Member of the Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly
• Russ Hiebert, Member of Parliament for South Surrey—White Rock—Cloverdale
• Frank Iacobucci, former Puisne Justice on the Supreme Court of Canada
• Ted Lee, former Head of the UN Economic and Social Affairs Section, former Ambassador to Israel, South Africa, Austria, former High Commissioner to Cypres, Lesotho, Swaziland, former Governor of Canada to the International Atomic Energy Agency^[18]
• Rob Marris, British Labour party MP
• Allan McEachern, former Chancellor of UBC and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia
• Michael Omolewa, historian, diplomat and former President of UNESCO General Conference
• Wally Oppal, former Attorney General of British Columbia
• Stephen Owen, former Member of Parliament; current UBC V-P of External, Legal and Community Relations
• Richard Peck, Queen's Counsel and frequent Special Prosecutor
• Leslie Peterson, former Attorney General of BC and Chancellor of UBC
• Art Phillips, former mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1973-1977
• Steven Point, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, 2007–12
• Svend Robinson, former NDP MP
• Mark Satin, political activist and author
• Stanley Schumacher, Member of Parliament and Speaker of the Alberta Legislative Assembly
• Alfred Scow, the first First Nations judge in BC
• Bud Smith, former Attorney General of BC^[19]
• Andrew Steele, political activist and writer
• Justin Trudeau, the 23rd Prime Minister of Canada; former schoolteacher; eldest son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
• John Turner, former prime minister^[20]
• Allan Williams, former Attorney General of BC
• John Yap, MBA 1983, Minister of Advance Education and Minister Responsible for Multiculturalism, Province of BC

Journalism

• Stevie Cameron, journalist
• Allan Fotheringham, journalist
• Robin Gill, anchor, Global News Toronto, Weekend Edition
• Nil Köksal, CBC Television journalist
• Duncan McCue, reporter for the CBC
• Lynne McNamara, journalist
• Blake Price, broadcaster
• Zafar Sobhan, Bangladeshi journalist and editor of the Dhaka Tribune

Literature

• Geoffrey Ashe, writer
• Elizabeth Bachinsky, poet and writer
• Pierre Berton, author and historian
• Gary Botting, poet, playwright, lawyer and legal scholar
• Steven Galloway, novelist
• William Gibson, writer
• Genni Gunn, novelist and translator
• Hart Hanson, writer and show runner of Bones
• Anosh Irani, novelist and playwright
• Jane Munro, poet
• Angela Narth, children's author
• Gayla Reid, writer
• Renée Sarojini Saklikar, poet and writer^[21]
• Rita Wong, poet and writer

Music

• Michael Conway Baker, composer
• Marc Baril, video game composer

Entertainment

• Sonja Bennett, actress
• Nicola Cavendish, actor
• Linda Chung, actress
• Danica d'Hondt, actress
• Judith Forst, mezzo-soprano
• Jason Gray-Stanford, actor
• Sturla Gunnarsson, Academy Award-nominated director^[22]
• Stephen Hegyes, film and television producer
• Ben Heppner, tenor
• Anne Heung, former Hong Kong actress
• Ed Hill, standup comedian
• Kris Holm, unicyclist
• Paul Johansson, actor^[23]
• Leanne Li, actress
• Evangeline Lilly, actress
• Bernice Liu, actress
• Kenneth Ma, actor
• Grace Park, actress
• Eddie Peng, actor
• Emily Perkins, actress
• Evan Ma, actor
• John Ruskin, aka Nardwuar the Human Serviette, rock musician, radio, and television personality
• Michael Shanks, actor
• Hannah Simone, actress, New Girl
• Bruce Sweeney, filmmaker

Science and engineering

• Albert Bandura, psychologist
• Stewart Blusson, diamond hunter and philanthropist
• Peter Borwein, mathematician and pi researcher
• Charlotte Froese Fischer, mathematician and chemist
• Robert Langlands, mathematician specializing in automorphic forms and representation theory, Wolf Prize Laureate
• Bjarni Tryggvason, astronaut
• Cecil Howard Green, geophysicist and co-founder of Texas Instruments. A noted philanthropist he donated money for the Green College, University of British Columbia

Sports

• Terry Cochrane, Canadian football player
• Bruce Ford, Olympic rower^[24]
• Jeff Francis, Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher
• Kathleen Heddle, three time Olympic gold medalist in rowing
• George Hungerford, Olympic gold medalist
• Andrea Neil, women's soccer player and pioneer
• Pat Onstad, Major League Soccer goalkeeper, Houston Dynamo
• Annamay Pierse, world record-setting breaststroke swimmer
• David Pol, football player
• Ben Rutledge, gold medal-winning Olympic rower
• Pieter Vanden Bos, football player
• Robert Weitemeyer, gold medal-winning Olympic rower

Rhodes Scholars

• Dominic Barton (1984)
• Matthew Chan (2006)^[25]
• Katherine Trajan (2007)^[26]
• Emma Preston (2008)^[27]
• Alysia Garmulewicz (2009)^[28]
• Kayli Johnson (2010)^[29]
• Aneil Jaswal (2011)^[30]
• Logan Graham (2015)^[31]

Faculty (former and current)

Faculty of the University of British Columbia

Kim Campbell, 19th Prime Minister of Canada

Daniel Kahneman, Nobel laureate (Economics, 2002)

Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada

Rudolf Vrba

Nobel laureates

• Hans G. Dehmelt, Nobel laureate (Physics, 1989); visiting researcher in 1955 ^[32]
• Daniel Kahneman, Nobel laureate (Economics, 2002); faculty member (1978–1986)
• Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel laureate (Medicine, 1968); faculty member (1952-1960)
• Michael Smith, Nobel laureate (Chemistry, 1993); professor of molecular biology (1966-2000)
• Carl E. Wieman, Nobel laureate (Physics, 2001); professor of physics (2007-2013)

Archaeology

• Richard J. Pearson, archaeologist and gardener

Architecture

• Arthur Erickson, architect

Business and economics

• Brian Burke, former President and General Manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs
• Rogemar Mamon, mathematician

History

• Timothy Brook, sinologist
• George F.G. Stanley, historian, designer of Canadian flag, Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick

Linguistics

• Dale Kinkade, linguist and specialist on Salishan languages
• Edwin G. Pulleyblank, linguist and specialist in Old Chinese

Literature

• Margaret Atwood, novelist, poet, and literary critic
• Joseph Boyden, writer
• Steven Galloway, novelist
• Charlotte Gill, writer
• Roy Kiyooka, artist and poet
• Larissa Lai, writer
• Nancy Lee, writer
• Annabel Lyon, writer
• Keith Maillard, writer
• Linda Svendsen, writer
• Timothy Taylor, writer
• Chia-ying Yeh, Chinese-Canadian poet and scholar of classical Chinese poetry

Political science

• Kim Campbell, former Prime Minister
• Catherine Dauvergne, holds the Canada Research Chair in Migration Law
• Michael Ignatieff, academic, politician, and former Leader of the Opposition
• Norman MacKenzie
• Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada; professor at the University of British Columbia (1974-1981)

Performing arts

• Joel Bakan, creator of The Corporation
• Sara Davis Buechner, pianist, recording artist, Koch International
• Meryn Cadell, writer and performance artist
• James Fankhauser, conductor
• Peter W. Klein, Emmy Award–winning journalist and filmmaker
• Barbara Pentland, composer
• Randy Raine-Reusch, composer and ethnomusicologist
• Lynne Stopkewich, film director

Science and engineering

• Neil Bartlett, prepared the first known noble gas compound
• Vijay Bhargava, electrical engineer
• Frank E. Buck, Professor of Horticulture
• Brian Christie, neuroscientist
• David Dolphin, biochemist
• John Friedmann, urban theorist
• J. B. Gunn, semiconductor device physicist; discoverer of the Gunn Effect
• William S. Hoar, zoologist and author, head of zoology department 1964–71
• C.S. Holling, ecologist and co-founder of adaptive management
• Patrick J. Keeling, protistologist
• Pat McGeer, neuroscientist and politician
• Peter Oberlander, Canada's first professor of urban and regional planning; founder of UBC's School of Community and Regional Planning
• Sarah Otto, evolutionary geneticist and MacArthur Fellow
• Daniel Pauly, fisheries scientist
• William Rees, planning professor and originator of the ecological footprint
• Martin Schechter, epidemiologist awarded Order of British Columbia
• Gordon Walter Semenoff, physicist, Majorana Prize (2006)
• Gordon Shrum, physicist, head of the Physics Department; Dean of Graduate Studies (1957 to 1961)
• Linda Siegel, cognitive psychologist; holder of the Dorothy C. Lam Chair in Special Education, 1996–2015
• David Suzuki, biologist and environmental activist
• Bill Unruh, physicist, discoverer of the Unruh effect
• Erich Vogt, physicist
• Rudolf Vrba, Holocaust survivor and pharmacologist

Sociology

• Giselle O. Martin-Kniep, educator specializing in learning communities

Visual arts

• Ken Lum, artist; represented Canada at the Sydney Biennale, the São Paulo Art Biennial, the Shanghai Biennale and at Documenta XI
• Jeff Wall, photographer; Tate Gallery Retrospective; MOMA; Hasselblad Award; key figure in the photoconceptualist Vancouver School

Invested into the Order of Canada

• Basil Stuart-Stubbs, C.M. (2006). University Librarian, 1964-81.
• Jane Coop, C.M. (2013). Professor of Music, 1980-2012.
• Clyde Hertzman, O.C. (2013). Professor of Population and Public Health, -2013.

Recipients of honorary degrees

• Louise Arbour, justice
• Rosemary Brown, first black Canadian woman elected to a provincial legislature
• Emily Carr, artist
• Raffi Cavoukian, musician
• The 14th Dalai Lama
• Robertson Davies, author
• John Diefenbaker, 13th Prime Minister of Canada
• David A. Dodge, economist
• Tommy Douglas, former Premier of Saskatchewan
• Shirin Ebadi, lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize winner
• Atom Egoyan, filmmaker
• Lance Finch, Chief Justice of British Columbia
• Judith Forst, mezzo-soprano
• Michael J. Fox, actor
• Mike Harcourt, former Premier of British Columbia
• Ben Heppner, operatic tenor
• Clara Hughes, Olympic cyclist and speedskater
• Finn E. Kydland, economist
• Grace McCarthy, former premier of British Columbia
• Beverley McLachlin, first woman to be Chief Justice of Canada
• Lester B. Pearson, 14th Prime Minister of Canada and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
• Oscar Peterson, jazz pianist
• Bill Reid, artist
• Amartya Sen, Indian economist awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
• Carol Shields, author
• Adlai Stevenson II, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations
• Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada
• John Turner, 17th Prime Minister of Canada
• Archbishop Desmond Tutu
• Peter Wall, real estate developer and philanthropist
• George Woodcock, anarchist philosopher and founding editor of Canadian Literature
• Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

See also

• List of Chancellors of the University of British Columbia
• List of Presidents of the University of British Columbia

References