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The following is a list of chancellors, principals, and noted alumni and professors of
McGill University in
Montreal , Quebec, Canada.
List of chancellors
List of principals/president
Noted alumni and professors
Sir John Abbott ,
3rd
Prime Minister of Canada
Sir Wilfrid Laurier ,
7th
Prime Minister of Canada
Justin Trudeau ,
23rd and current
Prime Minister of Canada
Julie Payette ,
astronaut and former
Governor-General of Canada
Timothy Harris , current
Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis
Daniel Oduber Quirós , 37th
President of Costa Rica
Vaira Vike-Freiberga , 6th and first female
President of Latvia
Ahmed Nazif , 48th
Prime Minister of Egypt
Paula Ann Cox , 10th
Prime Minister of Bermuda
John Rankin , former
Governor-General of Bermuda , the 143rd
Marc Tessier-Lavigne ,
neuroscientist and 11th President of
Stanford University
Stephen Toope ,
legal scholar and current President of the
University of Cambridge
Wendy Thomson ,
social work professor and current President of the
University of London
Santa J. Ono ,
immunologist , 28th President of the
University of Cincinnati , 15th President of the
University of Michigan ; 15th President & Vice-Chancellor of the
University of British Columbia
Harold Tafler Shapiro , former President of both
Princeton University and the
University of Michigan
Suzanne Fortier ,
crystallographer and former Principal of
McGill University
S. I. Hayakawa , internationally renowned
linguist , served as
U.S. Senator and President of
San Francisco State University
Mortimer Zuckerman , owner-publisher of
U.S. News & World Report and
New York Daily News , founder-CEO of
Boston Properties
Edgar Bronfman Sr. , President-CEO of
Seagram and recipient of the US
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Aldo Bensadoun , retail
magnate , founder-chairman of
ALDO Shoes and
ALDO Racing Team
sponsor
Conrad Black , media tycoon, and current Member of the
House of Lords in the
British Parliament
R. DeLisle Worrell ,
econometrician and Governor of the
Central Bank of Barbados
David Lametti , current
Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of Canada
Catherine McKenna , Canada's current
Minister of the Environment and Climate Change , and
Member of Parliament
Clément Gascon , current
Justice of the
Supreme Court of Canada
Sheilah Martin , current
Justice of the
Supreme Court of Canada
Gordon Wasserman, The Lord Wasserman , current Member of the
House of Lords in the
British Parliament
Chase Going Woodhouse ,
U.S. Congresswoman , early feminist leader, and suffragist
Sir William Osler , "Father of Modern Medicine", co-founded the
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Wilder Penfield ,
neurosurgeon , discovered
electrical stimulation of the
human brain
Ernest Rutherford , awarded the 1908
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for path-breaking work in
atomic physics
Frederick Soddy received the 1921
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering
isotopes
James Naismith , inventor of the
sport of
basketball
Zbigniew Brzezinski , US
National Security Advisor and US
Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
Charles Taylor , multi-awarded philosopher
Leonard Cohen , novelist, singer-songwriter, and poet
Burt Bacharach , six-time
Grammy Award -winning composer and musician
William Shatner , film director and actor best known as
Captain James T. Kirk in
Star Trek
Mia Kirshner , movie and TV actress
R. Tait McKenzie , renowned sculptor and pioneer in collegiate
physical education
Charles Krauthammer won the 1987
Pulitzer Prize for "witty and insightful columns on national issues"
Yoshua Bengio , 2018 recipient of the
Turing Award for engineering breakthroughs in
deep neural networks as critical component of computing
Louis Nirenberg , world-acclaimed mathematician, won the 2015
Abel Prize for "striking and seminal" work on nonlinear
partial differential equations
Victor J. Dzau , former chairman,
National Institutes of Health (NIH), and current President of the US
National Academy of Medicine
Andrew Schally , awarded the 1977
Nobel Prize in Medicine for pioneering work on
hormones
Val Logsdon Fitch , 1980
Nobel Prize in Physics for disproving that
particle interaction is indifferent to the direction of time
David H. Hubel received the 1981
Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries of
information processing in the
visual system
Rudolph A. Marcus , winner of the 1992
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for groundbreaking theory of
electron transfer
Willard Boyle , 2009
Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing "an imaging semiconductor circuit" as "core technology behind the
digital photography revolution"
Jack W. Szostak , 2009
Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering how the body protects
chromosomes housing
genetic code
Ralph Steinman won the 2011
Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering
dendritic cells and their role in
immunity
John O'Keefe received the 2014
Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering the brain's positioning system
Thomas Chang , inventor of the
artificial cell and three-time nominee for the
Nobel Prize in Medicine
Nobel Prize graduates and faculty members
Academy Award graduates
Pulitzer Prize graduates
Academics and scholars
Maude Abbott (BA 1890) - physician and pathologist, authority on congenital heart disease, co-founder of
International Academy of Pathology
Nancy J. Adler – Professor of Organizational Behavior and Samuel Bronfman Chair in Management at McGill University
Abdolhamid Akbarzadeh Shafaroudi – assistant professor in machine design and mechanical engineering at McGill University
Selim Akl (MSc 1976, PhD, 1978) – unconventional computer scientist
Ismail al-Faruqi – Muslim philosopher and comparative religion scholar
Alia Al-Saji – professor of philosophy
Antony Alcock (BA 1961) – Ulster historian; actively involved in the negotiations leading up to the
Belfast Agreement
Brian Alters – evolution and education
Frederick Andermann (BA 1948, BSc 1952) – neuroscientist
Athanasios Asimakopulos (BA 1951, MA 1953) – prominent economist in the
Post Keynesian tradition
Brigitte Askonas (BSc 1944, MSc 1949) – prominent British immunologist
Karine Auclair – professor of chemistry at McGill University and Canada Research Chair in Antimicrobials and Green Enzymes
Francis Aveling (BA 1897, MA 1899) – Canadian psychologist, divinity scholar, and Roman Catholic priest
Sir
David Baulcombe ,
FRS (Postdoc 1978) – British plant scientist and geneticist; now
Professor of Botany at the
University of Cambridge
Jill Beck (MA 1976) – dance and choreography scholar, and 15th President of
Lawrence University
Eric Berne (BSc 1931, MD 1935) – psychiatrist, originator of the psychoanalytic theory of
transactional analysis
Raoul Bott (BEng 1945, MEng 1948) – mathematician specializing in topology,
Wolf Prize in Mathematics , 2000
Reuven Brenner – economist; current faculty member
Ayşe Buğra (PhD 1981) – economist
Gerald Bull – former professor of mechanical engineering; expert on projectiles; designer of the Iraqi
Project Babylon
Mario Bunge – physicist and philosopher
Miriam Burland – astronomer at Dominion Observatory from 1927 to 1967
Ron Burnett (PhD 1981) – president and vice-chancellor, Emily Carr University of Art and Design; former Director of the Graduate Program in Communications, McGill University
Anne Carson – thinker, writer, translator, and University of Michigan classics professor
Donald Ewen Cameron – psychiatrist, involved with mind control experimentation at McGill
Thomas Chang (BSc 1957, MD 1961, PhD 1965) – invented and developed world's first artificial cell
Margaret Ridley Charlton – historian, pioneer librarian, and one of the founders of the
Medical Library Association
Sherry Chou (MD 2001) – Neurologist and critical care physician at the
University of Pittsburgh
Sujit Choudhry (BSc 1992) – constitutionalist and Dean of the
University of California Berkeley, School of Law
Thomas H. Clark – paleontologist; namesake of the mineral
Thomasclarkite
Terence Coderre (PhD 1985) – Professor of Medicine and the Harold Griffith Chair in Anaesthesia Research at McGill University
Robert W. Cox (BA 1946) – former United Nations official; a leading authority of the British school of
International Political Economy ; former professor of political science at
Columbia University ; current professor emeritus at
York University
R. F. Patrick Cronin (MD 1953) – cardiologist; Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at McGill (1972–1977); healthcare consultant
Augusto Claudio Cuello – Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics and Charles E. Frosst/Merck Chair in Pharmacology at McGill University
Philip J. Currie (MSc 1975, PhD 1981) – paleontologist and former curator of the
Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
Roger Daley (MSc 1968, PhD 1971) – meteorologist
Armand de Mestral (BCL 1966) – professor of
international law
Carrie Derick (BEd 1881, BA 1890, MSc 1896) – first woman to become a professor in Canada (in botany at McGill)
Arti Dhand (PhD 2000) – associate professor at the
University of Toronto , Department for the Study of Religion
[7]
Vibert Douglas (PhD 1926) – astrophysicist
[8]
Charles R. Drew (MD 1933) – physician and professor
Kyle Elliott – Canadian ornithologist, assistant professor in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences at McGill University, and Canada Research Chair in Arctic Ecology.
Hamid Etemad – professor of
international business ; business guru and researcher
Jennifer V. Evans – professor at
Carleton University
Basil Favis - Canadian chemist and professor
David A. Freedman (BSc 1958) – statistician; professor at
University of California, Berkeley
Grover Furr (BA 1965) – professor of English literature; historical negationist and apologist for Joseph Stalin
James E. Gill (BSc 1921) – geology professor who introduced the Master's of Applied Science in Mineral Exploration program and established an analytical laboratory for the application of geochemistry to mineral exploration
Gilbert Girdwood – professor of chemistry; radiologist
Leo Goldberger (BA 1951, MA 1952) – psychologist, professor at
New York University and director of the Research Center for Mental Health,
Holocaust survivor
Lawrence Goodridge , food safety and wastewater monitoring researcher
Phil Gold (BSc 1957, MSc 1961, M.D. 1961, PhD 1965) – Canadian physician, scientist, and professor. In 1968, he co-discovered the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), which resulted in a blood test used in the diagnosis and management of people with cancer.
David Goltzman (BSc 1966, MD 1968) –
endocrinologist , Professor of Medicine and Physiology, and A.G. Massabki Chair in Medicine at McGill University
Shyamala Gopalan – breast cancer researcher in the
Faculty of Medicine and McGill-affiliated
Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research ; mother of U.S. Vice President
Kamala Harris
Laurie N. Gottlieb , Flora Madeline Shaw Chair of Nursing, Editor-in-Chief of CJNR (
Canadian Journal of Nursing Research )
[9]
Jack Gross (PhD 1949) an
endocrinologist , one the co-discoverers of
Triiodothyronine (T3)
William W. Happ - (BS) - Silicon transistor pioneer at
Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory , and Professor at
Arizona State University
[10]
John Harnad (BSc 1967) – Mathematical physicist, Director, Mathematical physics laboratory,
Centre de recherches mathématiques
Stevan Harnad (BA 1967, MA 1969) – Canada Research Chair, Cognitive Sciences;
open access and
animal rights activist
S. I. Hayakawa (MA 1928) – linguist, U.S. Senator, and 9th President of
San Francisco State University
Karen S. Haynes (MSW 1970) – American college administrator and social worker, former president of
University of Houston–Victoria , and current president of
California State University San Marcos
Donald Olding Hebb (MA, 1932) – father of cognitive psychobiology; pioneer in
artificial intelligence ; developed concept of
Hebbian learning
John Hemming (BA 1957) – explorer
Janyne M. Hodder (BA 1970, MA 1982) – educational psychologist and 6th President of the
University of the Bahamas
Alma Howard (BSc 1934, MSc, 1936, PhD 1938) – radiobiologist
Fumiko Ikawa-Smith – archaeologist in East Asian and Japanese archaeology & administrator, Director of the Centre for East Asian Studies (1983 and 1988)
[11] and Associate Vice-Principal (Academic) of McGill University (1991–1996).
Herbert Jasper – neuroscientist
Julian Jaynes (BA 1944) – psychologist, author of
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
George Karpati – neuroscientist
Victoria Kaspi (BSc 1989) – astrophysicist researching neutron stars and pulsars
Roger Keesing – anthropologist
Howard Atwood Kelly – member of the faculty of medicine at McGill; one of the "Big Four" founding professors at the
Johns Hopkins Hospital , credited with establishing gynecology as a true specialty
Frances Oldham Kelsey (Bsc 1934, MSc 1935) –
pharmacologist and physician
Samara Klar (BA 2005) – political scientist and founder of
Women Also Know Stuff
Raymond Klibansky – philosopher
Normand Landry (PhD 2010) – professor of communication at
Université TÉLUQ and current Canada Research Chair in Media Education and Human Rights
Harold Laski – political theorist
Charles Philippe Leblond – pioneer of stem cells, inventor of autoradiography
Grant LeMarquand (BA 1977, STM 1982, MA 1998) – Canadian Anglican bishop, missionary, and professor at
Trinity School for Ministry
Daniel Levitin – cognitive psychologist
Pericles Lewis (BA 1990) – founding President of
Yale-NUS College ; professor of English and comparative literature at
Yale University
Herbert Melville Little (MD 1901) – Gynaecologist, lecturer in obstetrics and gynaecology at McGill, and World War I Army captain
Abraham S. Luchins – American psychologist known for his research on mental sets (Einstellung effect)
Michael J. MacKenzie – Professor of Social Work, Psychiatry, and Pediatrics at McGill University, and
Canada Research Chair in Child Well-Being
Michael Mackey – professor of physiology and
Joseph Morley Drake Chair in Physiology at McGill University
Colin MacLeod (MD 1932) – Canadian-American geneticist; discovered DNA breakthroughs
James Mallory – for many years Canada's leading constitutional scholar
Joseph Boyd Martin – former Dean of the
Harvard Medical School ; former Dean and Chancellor at the
University of California, San Francisco ;
[12] former chair of
neurology and
neurosurgery at the Montreal Neurological Institute
Anna McPherson , physicist and the first female professor in the Department of Physics
Michael Meaney – pioneer of epigenetics; James McGill Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology and Neurosurgery.
Ronald Melzack (BA, 1950, MSc 1951, PhD 1954) – developed the McGill Pain Questionnaire
Ravi S. Menon (MSc(A), 1986) - Canadian-American biophysicist involved in the development of
functional magnetic resonance imaging , Professor at
The University of Western Ontario .
Donna Mergler (PhD, 1973) – neuro-physiologist specializing in environmental effects of
neurotoxins
John S. Meyer (MD 1948, MSc 1949) – neurology professor and Chairman of the U.S. President's Commission on Heart Disease, Cancer and Stroke
Brenda Milner (MA 1949, PhD 1952) – provided the first clear demonstration of the existence of multiple memory systems in the brain with patient
H.M.
Henry Mintzberg (BEng 1961) – business guru
Mortimer Mishkin (MA 1949, PhD 1951) – renowned neuropsychologist for path-breaking work on brain-processing of memories and 2009
National Medal of Science recipient
Albert Moll (LLB 1932, MD 1937) – professor of psychiatry; pioneer of psychiatric day treatment
Marie-Eve Morin – Canadian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy
Karl Moore – associate professor of management at McGill University
William Reginald Morse , MD, one of four medical missionaries who founded the
West China Union University in
Chengdu , Sichuan, in 1914; went on to become dean of the medical faculty and, later, assistant researcher at the
Peabody Museum , where he advanced studies of Chinese and Tibetan medicine
Beverley Pearson Murphy , endocrinologist and professor
Jennifer G. Murphy (BS 2000) – Professor of chemistry at
University of Toronto
E. R. Ward Neale (BSc 1949) – geologist, professor at
Memorial University of Newfoundland
[13]
Mona Nemer (PhD 1992) – Chief Science Adviser of Canada, 2017–present
Louis Nirenberg (BS 1945) – mathematician; 1995
National Medal of Science recipient and winner of 2015
Abel Prize
Percy Erskine Nobbs – former professor of architecture; designer of many buildings in Montreal, especially at McGill, and in Alberta, British Columbia, and South Africa
James Olds (Postdoc 1955) – neuroscientist and psychologist; co-discovered the reward center of the brain; a founder of modern neuroscience
Kelvin Ogilvie – McGill chemistry professor 1974–87; expert in biotechnology, bioorganic chemistry, genetic engineering
Santa J. Ono (PhD 1991) – immunologist; 15th President & Vice-Chancellor of
The University of British Columbia ; 28th President of
The University of Cincinnati ; 15th President of the
University of Michigan ; discovered NFX1 RING Finger motif; showed HMGA2 truncation drives mesenchymal tumor development
William Osler (MD 1872) – McGill professor; medical pioneer; developed the modern form of a doctor's bedside manner; a founder of the
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine at
Johns Hopkins University
Gilles Paradis – public health and preventive medicine physician at the Institut national de santé publique du Québec, as well as professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health and Strathcona Chair in Epidemiology at McGill University.
Madhu Pai – Canada Research Chair of Epidemiology and Global Health at McGill University
Arthur Lindo Patterson (BSc 1923, MSc 1924, PhD 1928) – physicist
Jordan Peterson (PhD 1991, Postdoc 1993) – clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and psychology professor currently at the
University of Toronto
Kevin Petrecca – neurosurgical oncologist at the
Montreal Neurological Institute , chief of neurosurgery at the
MUHC , associate professor of neurology and neurosurgery and William Feindel Chair in Neuro-Oncology at McGill University
Wilder Penfield – neurosurgery pioneer; first director of the
Montreal Neurological Institute and Montreal Neurological Hospital, which are affiliated with McGill University
Stephen R. Perry , John J. O'Brien Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Steven Pinker (BA 1976) – cognitive psychologist; author of The Blank Slate , How the Mind Works
Susan Pinker (BA 1979) – psychologist; author of
The Sexual Paradox
Jeremy Quastel – mathematician specializing in
probability theory and
PDEs , currently professor at the University of Toronto
Judah Hirsch Quastel – biochemist; pioneer in
neurochemistry and soil metabolism; Director of the McGill University-Montreal General Hospital Research Institute
Amélie Quesnel-Vallée – associate professor with joint appointment in the Departments of Sociology and Epidemiology, and Canada Research Chair in Policies and Health Inequalities at McGill
Fazlur Rahman – Islamic philosopher
James R. Reid (BA 1881, MDiv 1883) – theologian and president of
College of Montana (1889–1893) and
Montana State University (1894–1904)
[14]
Richard Birdsall Rogers (BEng 1878) – civil engineer and designer of the
Peterborough Lift Lock
Mary Laura Chalk Rowles (BSc 1925, MSc 1926, PhD 1928) – physicist
Christopher E. Rudd (BSc 1978) – immunologist; professor at Harvard and Cambridge
Witold Rybczynski (BArch 1966, MArch 1972) – Scottish-born McGill-trained architect and internationally known writer and critic
Philip Carl Salzman – anthropologist
Joseph A. Schwarcz (BSc 1969, PhD 1973) – chemist, science popularizer, science journalist
Hans Selye — (DSc, 1942) Endocrinologist, pioneered studies on the effects of stress on the human body.
Justine Sergent (BA, 1973, MSc 1979, PhD 1982) – neuroscientist
Bernard Shapiro (BA, 1956) – Ethics Commissioner of Canada; former Principal of McGill and Deputy Education Minister of Ontario; twin brother of Harold Shapiro
Harold Shapiro (BA, 1956, MA 1959) – former president of
Princeton University ; former president of the
University of Michigan ; twin brother of Bernard Shapiro
Judith N. Shklar (BA, 1949, MA 1950) – political scientist, John Cowles Professor of Government at Harvard, and first woman president of the
American Political Science Association (APSA)
Vera Shlakman (BA 1930, MA 1931) – professor of economics, noted Marxist scholar, and author of famous book on women factory workers
Jenni Sidey (BEng 2011) – Canadian astronaut, engineer, and lecturer.
Upinder Singh (PhD 1990) – Indian historian
Nahum Sonenberg – Israeli Canadian microbiologist and biochemist. He is a James McGill professor of biochemistry
M. R. Srinivasan (MEng 1952, PhD 1954) – Indian Nuclear Physicist
[15]
Moshe Szyf – geneticist, pioneer of epigenetics; James McGill professor of pharmacology and therapeutics.
Charles Taylor (BA 1952) – writer, philosopher, and political theorist; 2007 winner of the
Templeton Prize
Karen Teff (PhD 1988) - biologist and geneticist
Demetri Terzopoulos
FRS
FRSC (BEng 1978, MEng 1980) -
Academy Award winning Greek-Canadian-American
computer scientist , university
professor ,
author , and
entrepreneur
Marc Tessier-Lavigne (BSc 1980) – 11th president of
Stanford University ; former president of
Rockefeller University ; Rhodes scholar
Wendy Thomson - former head of School of Social Work and current vice-chancellor of
University of London , 2019-
Lionel Tiger (BA 1959) – best-selling author; Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University
Peter Todd (BCom 1983) – former dean of McGill's
Desautels Faculty of Management , dean of
HEC Paris
[16]
Stephen Toope (BCL, 1983 LLB, 1983) – Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Cambridge (2017–), President of the University of British Columbia (2006–2014)
Bruce Trigger – OC OQ FRSC (18 June 1937 – 1 December 2006) archaeologist, anthropologist, and ethnohistorian. James McGill Professor (2001–2006), Professor McGill University (1967–2006).
Tom Velk – monetary economics and public policy professor
Manuella Vincter - particle physicist, professor at
Carleton University , deputy spokesperson of the
ATLAS experiment
Jacob Viner (BA 1914) – professor; early leader of the
Chicago school of economics
Robert Vogel (academic) - professor; Dean of Faculty of Arts of
McGill University
Alice Vrielink – Head of Discipline in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Western Australia; conducts research in crystallography
Immanuel Wallerstein – former professor of sociology (1971–1976);
[17] political scientist, known for the
World Systems Theory
Jagannath Wani (PhD 1967) – statistics professor and philanthropist focusing on mental illness awareness
Frank T. M. White – Foundation Professor, Mining and Metallurgical Engineering,
University of Queensland ; Macdonald Professor of Mining Engineering and Applied Geophysics,
McGill University
Franklin White (MD 1969) – scholar-practitioner; former president, Canadian Public Health Association; 1997 Medal of Honor from the
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)
Joseph Wong , Vice President, International, University of Toronto
William Wright (DMC 1848) – first person of colour to obtain a medical degree in Canada and first to be a professor; professor,
McGill Medical Faculty , 1854-1883.
[18]
[19]
Tim Wu (BSc 1995) – professor at
Columbia Law School ; adviser for the
New York State Attorney General
Leo Yaffe (PhD 1943) - nuclear chemist
Bernard P. Zeigler (BEng 1962) – a Canadian engineer and emeritus professor at the University of Arizona, known for inventing
Discrete Event System Specification (DEVS) in 1976.
Hans Zingg (PhD) – Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Wyeth-Ayerst Chair in Women's Health at McGill
Bernard Zinman (MD) – research endocrinologist, clinician, and diabetes expert
Business and media
Suhayya Abu-Hakima – co-founder and CEO of AmikaNow! and Amika Mobile Corporation
[20]
Noubar Afeyan ― one of two Canadian co-founders of
Moderna , Inc.
Vinod Agarwal – founder and former chairman of
LogicVision ($100 million NASDAQ traded company)
Suroosh Alvi – journalist, filmmaker, and co-founder of
VICE magazine
Peyush Bansal - co-founder and CEO at
Lenskart , an Indian
unicorn . Investor at
Shark Tank India .
[21]
Aldo Bensadoun – founder and CEO of the
ALDO Group
Conrad Black – imprisoned press baron and media tycoon in the Anglo-Canadian tradition of Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Thomson of Fleet; owner of 650 dailies/weeklies around the world
[22]
Gad Elmaleh – French comedian
Charles Bronfman – philanthropist; former co-chairman of
Seagram Distillers
[23]
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. – former CEO of Seagram
[24]
Kitra Cahana - Peabody award-winning documentary filmmaker and documentary photographer
[25]
John Cleghorn – former chairman of the
Royal Bank of Canada , the largest bank in Canada; currently chairman of
SNC-Lavalin group
[26]
Jim Coleman (1911–2001), Canadian sports journalist, writer and press secretary
[27]
[28]
Jean Coutu – businessman; billionaire; founder and CEO of
Jean Coutu Group
Paul Desmarais, Jr. – chairman of
Power Corporation
[29]
Ritika Dutt – CEO & co-founder of
Botler AI
Darren Entwistle – president and chief executive officer of
Telus
Stéphanie Fillion - Award-winning
French-Canadian reporter and
United Nations correspondent
Adam Gopnik – staff writer for
The New Yorker magazine
Céline Galipeau – weekday anchor of
Ici Radio-Canada Télé 's
Le Téléjournal
Kuok Khoon Hong – Singaporean billionaire and co-founder of
Wilmar International
Dick Irvin, Jr. – sports broadcaster and author; second longest serving member of
CBC 's
Hockey Night in Canada (after
Bob Cole )
Hubert Lacroix – president and CEO of the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
David Lawee – partner and founder of
Google Capital
John MacBain – founder, CEO and president of
Trader Classified Media
Shahid Mahmood – political cartoonist
Scott McDonald – CEO of
Oliver Wyman
Thomas S. Monahan – president and CEO of
CIBC Mellon
Claude Mongeau – CEO and president of the
Canadian National Railway
Harley Morenstein – host and co-creator of
Epic Meal Time
Andy Nulman – co-founder of
Just for Laughs
Mark Phillips – CBS News London bureau correspondent since 1982, formerly CBC News London correspondent
Elizabeth Plank –
Vox
video blogger and online journalist
Robert Rabinovitch – president and CEO of the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Jade Raymond video game producer at
Ubisoft ; co-host of G4TV's Electronic Playground
Matthew Rosenberg – Washington correspondent at
The New York Times , and national security analyst for
CNN
John Roth – former CEO of
Nortel Networks
Calin Rovinescu – president and CEO of
Air Canada
Claire Saffitz – American pastry chef, food writer and YouTube personality
Sugar Sammy - Canadian comedian
Seymour Schulich – benefactor to the
Schulich School of Music at McGill and
Schulich School of Business ,
York University
Allan Scott – writer-producer of more than 20 feature films, including
Don't Look Now , voted the best British film of all time; wrote
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert ; as chairman of Macallan-Glenlivet, he turned Macallan into a world-leading malt whisky
Savik Shuster – TV journalist working for
Ukrainian television
Evan Solomon –
political journalist and radio host on
Sirius XM Canada , columnist for
Maclean's
Helga Stephenson – interim CEO of the
Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television
Ziya Tong – television personality and co-host of
Daily Planet
Lorne Trottier – founder of
Matrox Electronic Systems
Ivana Trump – Czech-American businesswoman and former fashion model, ex-wife of President
Donald Trump
Les Vadasz – founding member of
Intel Corporation
Zain Verjee – co-anchor of CNN International's European morning program
World Report
Michelle Zatlyn – co-founder, president, and COO of
Cloudflare
Moses Znaimer – co-founder and former president and executive producer of CityTV; chairman and Executive Producer of the Access Media Group
Mort Zuckerman – CEO of Atlantic Monthly Corporation and publisher of
U.S. News & World Report
Changpeng Zhao - founder and CEO of
Binance , the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange.
Politics and government
Canadian politicians and civil servants
McGill alumni have held and continue to hold many positions at the federal and provincial levels in Canadian politics:
Governors-General of Canada
Prime ministers
Cabinet ministers and members of parliament
Chris Alexander (BA 1989) –
Minister of Citizenship and Immigration , 2013–2015; previously Canadian ambassador to Afghanistan, 2003–2005
Warren Allmand (BCL 1952) – served variously as
Solicitor General ,
Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development , and
Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs between 1972 and 1979
Steven Blaney (Cert Mgmt 1991) –
Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness , 2013–2015
Jim Carr (BA 1979) –
Minister of Natural Resources , 2015–
Brooke Claxton (BCL 1946) – Minister of Health, 1943–1946;
Minister of National Defence , 1946–1954
Irwin Cotler (BA 1961, BCL 1964) –
Minister of Justice and Attorney General , 2003–2006
Charles Doherty (BCL 1876, Hon. LLD 1913) – Minister of Justice and Attorney General, 1911–1921
Charles Drury (BCL 1936) – Minister of Finance, Defence, Public Works, Industry, President of the Treasury Board
Sydney Arthur Fisher (BA 1868)—
Minister of Agriculture , 1896–1911
Karina Gould (BA 2010) – Minister of Democratic Institutions, 2017–present
Herb Gray (BCom 1952) –
Deputy Prime Minister of Canada , 1997–2002
Don Johnston (BA 1955, BCL 1958) – Minister of State for Science and Technology, Minister of State for Economic and Regional Development, and Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
Robert Layton (BA 1947) –
Minister of State for
Mines , 1984–1988
John McCallum (PhD 1977) – Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship of Canada since 2015; former Dean of the Faculty of Arts of McGill University
David Lametti (BCL/LLB 1989) – Minister of Justice, 2019–
Catherine McKenna (LLB 1999) – Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, 2015–
Frederick Debartzch Monk (BCL 1877) – Minister of Public Works, 1911–1912
Joe Oliver (BA 1961, BCL 1964) – Minister of Finance, 2014–2015
Jim Peterson (DCL 1970) –
Minister of International Trade , 2003–2006
Greg Rickford (BCL/LLB 2005) – Minister of Natural Resources, 2014–2015
Richard Fadden (BA 1973) – former Deputy Minister of National Defence and
National Security Advisor
John Joseph Curran (LLB 1862) – first
Solicitor General of Canada
Jonathan Wilkinson (MA 1992)
Nick Whalen (LLB 2011) Lawyer and former MP for the
Liberal
Julie Dzerowicz (Bcom 1994)
Arif Virani (BA 1994)
Julie Dabrusin (BA 1994)
Angelo Iacono (BA 1988)
Steven Blaney (Cert Mgmt 1991)
Matthew Dubé (BA 2011)
Brenda Shanahan (BSW 2007)
Michael Levitt (politician) (Arts 1993)
Francis Scarpaleggia (BA 1979)
Sherry Romanado (Cert PR Mgmt 2005)
Anthony Housefather (BCL/LLB 1993)
Thomas Mulcair (BCL 1976, LLB 1977)
Will Amos (BCL/LLB 2004)
Peter Schiefke (MSc 2011)
Marc Miller (BCL/LLB 2001) Lawyer and MP for the
Liberal current
Minister of Indigenous Services in the
Federal Cabinet
Joël Lightbound (BCL/LLB 2011),
Liberal politician, MP for the
riding of
Louis-Hébert .
Emmanuella Lambropoulos (BEd 2013)
Raquel Dancho (BA 2014)
Mylène Freeman (BA 2011)
Charmaine Borg (BA 2011)
Laurin Liu (BA 2011)
Supreme Court justices
Douglas Abbott (BCL 1918) – appointed to the Court in 1954, previously Minister of National Defence and Minister of Finance
[31]
Ian Binnie (BA 1960) – appointed to the Court in 1998, formerly Associate Deputy Minister of Justice
[30]
Louis-Philippe de Grandpré (BCL 1938) – appointed to the Court in 1974, formerly president of the Canadian Bar Association
[32]
Marie Deschamps (LLM 1983) – appointed to the Court in 2002, previously a Judge on the Quebec Court of Appeal
[30]
Gérald Fauteux – appointed to the Court in 1949, previously dean of the Faculty of Law.
Morris Fish (BA 1959, BCL 1962) – appointed to the Court in 2003, previously a Judge on the Quebec Court of Appeal
[30]
Clément Gascon (BCL 1981) – appointed to the Court in 2014, previously a Judge on the Quebec Court of Appeal
Désiré Girouard (BCL 1860) – appointed to the Court in 1895, previously member of Parliament
[33]
Charles Gonthier (BCL 1951) – served on the Supreme Court 1989–2003
[30]
Mahmud Jamal (BCL’93, LLB’93),
puisne justice of the
Supreme Court of Canada — appointed to the Court in 2021, previously a Judge on the Court of Appeal for Ontario
[34]
Nicholas Kasirer (BCL, LLB 1985) – appointed to the court in 2019, previously a judge on the Quebec Court of Appeal
[35]
Gerald Le Dain (BCL 1949) – appointed to the Court in 1984, previously a Judge on the Federal Court of Appeal
[36]
Sheilah Martin (BCL, LLB, 1981), – appointed to the Court in 2017, previously judge of the
Court of Appeal of Alberta
[37]
Pierre-Basile Mignault (BCL 1878) – appointed to the Court in 1918, previously President of the Bar of Montréal
[38]
Thibaudeau Rinfret (BCL 1900) – appointed to the Court in 1924, previously a Judge on the Superior Court of Quebec
[39]
Senators
Albert Joseph Brown (BA 1883, BCL 1886) – Senator for Wellington, 1932–1938
Henry Joseph Cloran (BCL 1883) – Senator for Victoria, Quebec, 1903–1928
Sheila Finestone (BSc 1947) – appointed to the Senate of Canada in 1999
[30]
Joan Fraser (BA 1965) – appointed to the Canadian Senate in 1998
[30]
Linda Frum (BA 1984) – appointed to the Senate in 2009
Marc Gold (BA 1972) – current Senator for Stadacona,
Quebec
Sir
William Hales Hingston (MD CM 1851) – Senator for Rougemont, 1896–1907; Mayor of Montreal, 1875–1877
James Horace King (MD CM 1895) – Leader of the Government in the Senate, 1942–1945
Michael Meighen (BA 1960) – appointed to the Senate in 1990
Vivienne Poy (BA 1962) – appointed to the Senate in 1998
[30]
Larry Smith (BCL 1976) – appointed to the Senate in 2011 and Leader of the Opposition in the Senate
[30]
Leo Housakos (BA 1992) – incumbent Senator for Wellington, Quebec and former Speaker of the Senate of Canada
James Edwin Robertson (BA 1865) – Member of Parliament and Senator for
Prince Edward Island
Michael Pitfield (LLB 1959) – Senator for
Ottawa-Vanier , Ontario
Joan Fraser (BA 1965) – Senator for
De Lorimier , Quebec
John Caswell Davis (BEng 1910) – Senator for
Winnipeg , Manitoba
Charles Boucher de Boucherville (MD 1843) – third Premier of
Quebec and Senator for
Montarville , Quebec
Sarto Fournier (LLB 1937) – Member of Parliament, 38th Mayor of
Montreal , and Senator for
De Lanaudière , Quebec
Théodore Robitaille (MD 1858) – Member of Parliament, and Senator for
Gulf , Quebec
Members of Parliament (House of Commons)
Tom Mulcair (BCL 1976, LLB 1977): Leader of the
New Democratic Party ,
Leader of the Opposition , and Member of Parliament for
Outremont , Quebec
Marc Miller (BCL, LLB 2001): Current Member of Parliament for
Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Sœurs , Quebec, and Parliamentary Secretary to the
Minister of Crown–Indigenous Relations
David Lametti (BCL 1989, LLB 1989): Current Member of Parliament for
LaSalle—Émard—Verdun , Quebec, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development
Arif Virani (BA 1994): Current Member of Parliament for
Parkdale—High Park ,
Ontario , and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
Murray Rankin (BA 1972): Former Member of Parliament for
Victoria ,
British Columbia , and current Member of the
Legislative Assembly of British Columbia for
Oak Bay-Gordon Head and British Columbia Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation
Anthony Housefather (BCL, LLB 1993): Current Member of Parliament for
Mount Royal , Quebec, and chair of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights
Albina Guarnieri (MA 1979): Member of Parliament for
Mississauga East and
Mississauga East—Cooksville , Ontario
George MacKinnon (MD 1902): Member of Parliament for
Kootenay East , British Columbia
Christophe-Alphonse Geoffrion (BCL 1866): Member of Parliament for
Verchères , Quebec
Joseph Alexandre Camille Madore (BCL 1880): Member of Parliament for
Hochelaga , Quebec
Jack Layton (BA 1969): Leader of the
New Democratic Party ,
Leader of the Opposition , and Member of Parliament for
Toronto—Danforth , Ontario
Samuel William Jacobs (BCL 1893): Member of Parliament for
George-Étienne Cartier and
Cartier , Quebec
Alan Macnaughton (BA 1924, BCL 1927): Member of Parliament for Mount Royal, Quebec, and
Speaker of the House of Commons
Thomas d'Arcy McGee (BCL 1861): A
Father of the Canadian Confederation
[30] and prominent Member of Parliament for
Montreal West , Quebec
The "McGill 5": Five then-current McGill students who were elected as
NDP MPs in 2011:
Auditors-general
Ambassadors
Heads of financial institutions
Others
Gerald Butts (BA 1993, MA 1996) – current
Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of Canada , 2015–
Sir
Charles Boucher de Boucherville (MD 1843) – Premier of Quebec, 1874–1878, 1891–1892
Ian Brodie (BA 1990) –
Chief of Staff in the government of Prime Minister
Stephen Harper , 2006–2008
Neil Brown ,
Q.C. (PhD. 1973) – Alberta MLA
Rosemary Brown – first Black Canadian woman to be elected to a provincial legislature
James Campbell Clouston (BEng 1918) – Canadian officer in the British
Royal Navy , who acted as pier-master during the
Dunkirk evacuation ; inspiration for
Kenneth Branagh 's pier-master character in
Christopher Nolan 's 2017 film
Dunkirk
May Cutler (BA 1945, MA 1951) – first woman to serve as Mayor of
Westmount, Quebec (1987–1991); founder of
Tundra Books ; first female Canadian publisher of children's books
[40]
Sir
Charles Peers Davidson (BA 1864, MA 1867, BCL 1873, DCL 1875, Hon. LLD 1912) – Chief Justice of the Quebec Superior Court, 1912–1915
Henry Thomas Duffy (BA 1876, BCL 1879) – Minister of Public Works and Treasurer of Quebec
Brian Gallant (LLM 2011) –
Premier of New Brunswick , 2014–
R. A. E. Greenshields (BA 1883, BCL 1885) – Chief Justice of the
Superior Court of the Province of Quebec , 1929–1942
Don Johnston (BCL 1958, BA 1960) – former Secretary General of the
OECD
Carlos Leitão (BA 1979) –
Minister of Finance of Quebec , 2014–
David Lewis (BA and LLD) –
Rhodes Scholar and former leader of the
New Democratic Party (1971–75)
Alexander Cameron Rutherford (BA, LLB 1881) – first premier of Alberta, founder of the
University of Alberta
Bernard Shapiro (BA 1956) – Federal Ethics Commissioner, 2004–2007
Marie-Claire Kirkland Strover (BA 1947, BCL 1950) – first woman elected to the Quebec National Assembly, serving between 1966 and 1973.
Foreign politicians and other government officials
McGill alumni have held and continue to hold many top government positions in other countries:
Heads of state/government
Cabinet members
Mukti Ali (MA 1960s) – Minister of Religious Affairs of The Republic of Indonesia, 1971-1978
Zbigniew Brzezinski (BA 1949; MA 1950) – former National Security Advisor (with Cabinet rank) to President
Jimmy Carter
Peter Murcott Bunting (BEng 1983) – current
Minister of National Security of Jamaica
Warren Randolph Burgess (MA 1915) – former United States Undersecretary of the Treasury and United States Ambassador to
NATO
Miguel Castilla (BA 1991) – current Minister of Economy and Finance of
Peru
Stephen Chebrot (MSc 2009) – current Minister for Transport in the Ugandan Cabinet and incumbent Member of the
Parliament of Uganda , and former Ugandan Ambassador to
India
Bernard Chidzero (PhD 1958) – Minister of Finance of
Zimbabwe , 1985–1995
Peng Ming-min (MA 1952) – senior adviser (with cabinet rank) to the president of
Taiwan , and former presidential candidate in Taiwan
Jacqui Quinn-Leandro (PhD 2003) – first female (acting) prime minister of
Antigua and Barbuda , and cabinet member (Minister of Education, Minister of Labour, and Minister of Public Service)
Hamdillah Abdul Wahab (BEng 1974) – former
Deputy Minister of Industry and Primary Resources
Michael Žantovský (MA 1975) – Press Secretary and Presidential Spokesman of the
Czech Republic
Euan Howard, 4th Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal (BEng 1951) – British
Minister of State for Defence, 1979–1981
Jamaluddin Jarjis (PhD 1980) – former Malaysian ambassador to the United States and Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation
Dov Yosef (BA 1921) – Minister of Justice, Minister of Trade and Industry, and Minister of Health of the State of Israel
Marko Pavliha (DCL 1992) – Minister of Transport of
Slovenia
Malik Amin Aslam (MBA 1993) – former Pakistani Minister of State for the Environment and current advisor to the prime minister for Climate Change (with Cabinet rank)
Ian DeVere Archer (LLM 1968) – Secretary of Health and Social Security of
Barbados and former chairman of
Caribbean Airlines (national airline of
Barbados )
Legislators
Wong Yuk-shan (MSc 1976; PhD 1979) – former Member (deputy) of the
National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China
Gilbert Cooper (BCom 1924) – former mayor of
Hamilton, Bermuda and member of the
House of Assembly of Bermuda
S. I. Hayakawa (MA 1928) – U.S. Senator from California
James McCleary (BA 1874) – U.S. Congressman representing
Minnesota in the
United States House of Representatives
Joseph J. O'Brien (BA 1917) – U.S. Congressman representing New York in the
United States House of Representatives
Chase G. Woodhouse (BA 1912; MA 1914) – U.S. Congresswoman representing
Connecticut in the
United States House of Representatives
Carlos Heredia (MA 1985) – Member of the
Congress of Mexico and Governor of the State of
Michoacán in Mexico
Gordon Wasserman, Baron Wasserman (BA 1959) – Member of the
House of Lords in the
British Parliament and
life peer , and internationally recognized policing advisor
Conrad Black (MA 1973) – Member of the
House of Lords in the
British Parliament and
life peer , and publisher of
The Daily Telegraph (UK),
Chicago Sun-Times (U.S.),
The Jerusalem Post (Israel),
National Post (Canada)
Euan Howard, 4th Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal (BEng 1951) – Member of the
House of Lords in the
British Parliament
Andrew Hamilton Gault (BA 1902) –
Conservative Member of the
House of Commons in the
British Parliament for
Taunton , Somerset, UK (1924–1935); raised
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry , the last privately raised regiment in the
British Empire ; bequeathed his
Mont Saint-Hilaire estate to McGill in 1958
Maurice Alexander (BA 1908; BCL 1910) –
Liberal Member of the
House of Commons in the
British Parliament for
Southwark South East , UK
Gavin Henderson, 2nd Baron Faringdon (BA 1922) – former member of the
London County Council , Chairman of the
Fabian Society , 1960–1961
Dhanayshar Mahabir (MA 1985; PhD 1994) – Senator of the
Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
Jacqui Quinn-Leandro (PhD 2003) – first woman elected to the
House of Representatives , and later elected as Senator, in the
Parliament of Antigua and Barbuda
Ramasamy Palanisamy (MA 1980) – current
Member of the Parliament of Malaysia
Hidipo Hamutenya (MA 1971) – Member of the
National Assembly of Namibia and cabinet member (Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Minister of Trade and Industry, and Minister of Foreign Affairs) of
Namibia
Michael Žantovský (MA 1975) – ambassador of
Czechoslovakia /
Czech Republic to the United States, Israel, and the United Kingdom, and Senator in the
Parliament of the Czech Republic
Rıza Türmen (LLM 1980) – former Member of the
Turkish Parliament and Turkish Ambassador to
Switzerland
Dov Yosef (BA 1921) – former member of the Israeli
Parliament and Israel's Minister of Justice, Minister of Trade and Industry, and Minister of Health
Peter Murcott Bunting (BEng 1983) – current Member of
Parliament of Jamaica
Marko Pavliha (DCL 1992) – Member of Parliament and vice-president of the National Assembly of
Slovenia
Judges
Heads of financial institutions
Ambassadors
Others
Art, music, and film
Ayal Adler – musician and composer
Will Aitken – novelist and film critic
Patrick Allen – English actor and businessman, known for Shakespearean roles and for narrating the controversial
Protect and Survive
public information films for the
British government
Michael Andre – poet and editor
Darcy James Argue – jazz composer and bandleader
Burt Bacharach - American composer, songwriter, record producer and pianist
Hadji Bakara – "sound manipulator" and secondary keyboardist for
Wolf Parade
Samantha Bee – correspondent, The Daily Show
Yanic Bercier – drummer for
death metal band
Quo Vadis
Mary E. Black – occupational therapist, teacher, master weaver and writer
Claire Boucher – musician and visual artist under stage name Grimes
Win Butler – musician, co-founder of
Arcade Fire
Peter Butterfield – concert tenor and conductor
Anne Carson – poet and professor of classics
Regine Chassagne – musician, co-founder of
Arcade Fire
John Austin Clark – music director and harpsichordist, co-founder of
Bourbon Baroque
Leonard Cohen – poet, author, songwriter, singer, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee
Sheldon Cohen – animator and illustrator of
The Hockey Sweater
Chuck Comeau – drummer and songwriter for band
Simple Plan
Hume Cronyn – actor, The Seventh Cross ,
Cocoon ; studied theatre, left for Broadway without completing his degree
Hubert Davis (BA 2000) – Oscar nominee for best documentary short subject
Mackenzie Davis – actress and
Canadian Screen Award nominee for
The F Word
Audrey Capel Doray – artist
Christopher Downs – actor and entertainer in
Taiwan and China, known there as 夏克立
William Henry Drummond – Irish-born Canadian poet
Louis Dudek – poet
Arthur Erickson – architect (Robson Square, Vancouver; Canadian Chancery, Washington DC; Roy Thomson Hall; Museum of Anthropology, UBC; Simon Fraser University; Museum of Glass, Tacoma; California Plaza, San Diego Convention Center)
Mary Fahl – singer and actress
Colin Ferguson – actor,
Eureka
Karl Fischer – architect practicing in Montreal and New York City
Jessalyn Gilsig – actress,
Boston Public ,
NYPD Blue ,
Nip/Tuck ,
Glee
Grace Glowicki – actress and filmmaker
Evan Goldberg – co-writer of
Superbad ,
Pineapple Express
Jonathan Goldstein – author and radio producer, host of
WireTap on
CBC Radio One
Chilly Gonzales – Grammy-nominated musician
Linda Griffiths – playwright, actress
Paul Haddad – actor
Aaron Harris – percussionist/drummer, of
Islands , Montreal-based
indie rock group
Sinjin Hawke – music producer and DJ
Gavin Heffernan – director, Expiration
Jennifer Irwin – actress,
Still Standing
Heather Juergensen – actress, co-screenwriter
Kissing Jessica Stein
Maxwell M. Kalman – architect, designed Canada's first mall
Norgate shopping centre
[41]
George Karpati
Kid Koala , born Eric San – turntablist and musician
Mia Kirshner – actress,
The L Word
Veronika Krausas – composer
Christian Lander – author of the Stuff White People Like blog
Robert Lantos – film producer
Irving Layton – poet
Stephen Leacock – humorist and economist
Rachelle Lefevre – actress,
Big Wolf on Campus ,
Twilight
Norman Levine (BA, MA) – writer
Daniel Levitin – writer,
This Is Your Brain On Music ; musician
Julia Loktev – director of
The Loneliest Planet ,
Day Night Day Night
Brian Macdonald – choreographer and dancer in Canada, New York, and Europe
Hugh MacLennan – writer, Two Solitudes , Barometer Rising
Miles Mander – early film actor, director and novelist
Ruth Marshall – actress who played in
Flashpoint as the
SRU 's
forensic psychologist
Cameron Mathison – actor,
All My Children
Marc Mayer – art curator and director of the
National Gallery of Canada
[42]
Harry Mayerovitch – artist
John McCrae – surgeon, poet, author of Canadian poem "
In Flanders' Fields "
Kate McGarrigle – musician and folk-singer
Dorothy McIlwraith – editor of
Weird Tales , 1940–54
Casey McKinnon – actress
Sophia Michahelles – pageant puppet designer and co-artistic director,
Processional Arts Workshop
Raymond Moriyama – architect (Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto; Canadian Embassy, Tokyo; Ontario Science Centre; Toronto Reference Library; Canadian War Museum; Saudi Arabian National Museum, Riyadh)
Suniti Namjoshi – writer
Heather O'Neill – writer
Alisa Palmer – playwright and theatre director
Donald Patriquin – composer and organist
Mauro Pezzente – bassist and co-founder of
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Sam Roberts – musician
John Rogers – writer/producer,
Leverage
Rebecca Rosenblum – writer, winner of the 2007
Metcalf-Rooke Award
Dean Rosenthal – composer
[43]
Moshe Safdie – architect (National Gallery of Canada, Vancouver Library, Salt Lake City Public Library, Musee de la Civilisation, Habitat '67)
Robert Edison Sandiford – short story writer and essayist
John Ralston Saul – Governor-General's-Award-winning philosophical author
Robert William Service – poet and writer of the
Yukon Gold Rush
Mark Shainblum – author and comic book creator
William Shatner – actor,
Boston Legal ; Captain
James T. Kirk in
Star Trek
Jaspreet Singh – author,
Seventeen Tomatoes
Sonja Skarstedt – poet and illustrator
Donald Steven –
Juno Award and
Jules Léger Prize winning composer
Philippe Tatartcheff – Swiss-born poet and songwriter notable for writing songs in French with
Anna and
Kate McGarrigle
Ruth Taylor – poet
Gentile Tondino – artist
J. Torres – comic book writer
Zineb Triki – actress
Jessica Trisko – 2007
Miss Earth titleholder
Ken Vandermark – jazz saxophonist and
MacArthur Foundation "genius award" winner
Aquil Virani - artist
Rufus Wainwright (briefly attended – dropped out upon record deal) – recording artist, musician
William Weintraub – author, journalist and filmmaker (Why Rock the Boat? )
Robert Stanley Weir – author (in 1908) of the English words to "O, Canada"
Matthew White – countertenor
[44]
Jan Wong – Globe and Mail columnist ("Lunch with Jan Wong" series); author of books including award-winning Red China Blues and Jan Wong's China
Royal Wood – singer-songwriter
Estelí Gomez - Grammy winning musician, university instructor
Architects
For a full list of notable alumni and faculty from the
School of Architecture , see:
Inventors
Sports
Betty Archdale – former captain (1934/5) of
English women's cricket team
Mike Babcock – NHL coach, formerly of the
Toronto Maple Leafs ; first and as of 2016 only coach to be a member of the
Triple Gold Club , having won the
Stanley Cup (Detroit, 2008),
Olympic gold medal for
men's ice hockey (2010, 2014), and the
International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF)
Ice Hockey World Championship
Russ Blinco – Montreal Maroons centre; 1935 NHL Rookie of the Year
Guy Boucher – former head coach of the
Ottawa Senators
George Burnett – former head coach for the
Edmonton Oilers
Doug Carpenter – former head coach for the Toronto Maple Leafs and
New Jersey Devils
Randy Chevrier – former NFL and CFL player
J. P. Darche – American football long snapper
Jacques Dussault - Teacher and American and Canadian football Coach. Coach for the
Montreal Machine ,
Montreal Alouettes and
Montreal Carabins
Ken Dryden (LLB 1974) – politician, lawyer, businessman, author; retired National Hockey League goaltender from the
Montreal Canadiens ; former president of the Toronto Maple Leafs
Laurent Duvernay-Tardif (MD, CM 2018) – American football player for the
Kansas City Chiefs , graduated from McGill's Medical School in 2018;
[46] first medical doctor and first Quebecer to play and win the
Super Bowl .
Phil Edwards (MD 1936) – one of Canada's most decorated Olympians with 5 bronze medals
Jack Gelineau – Boston Bruins and Chicago Blackhawks goaltender who won Calder Trophy as NHL Rookie of the Year in 1950
Jennifer Heil (
BComm ) – 2006 Olympic gold medalist in freestyle skiing
George Hodgson (BEng 1916) – Canadian Olympic men's swim team (1912 and 1920); McGill's first athlete to win an Olympic gold medal; first Canadian to win two Olympic gold medals (Stockholm, 1916)
Jackrabbit Johannsen – Norwegian-Canadian; credited with introducing cross-country skiing to North America; lived in retirement at McGill's
Mont-Saint-Hilaire Gault Nature Reserve
Charline Labonté (
BEd – Physical Education) – 2006 Olympic gold medalist in women's ice hockey
R. Tait McKenzie – pioneer in college physical education; sculptor; physician
James Naismith (BA 1887) – inventor of
basketball ;
University of Kansas coach; namesake of six
NCAA college basketball awards and the
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
Kevin O'Neill – former head coach of the
Toronto Raptors ; former head coach for
USC Trojans men's basketball.
Frank Patrick (BA 1908) – wrote much of the NHL rule book
Hon.
Sydney David Pierce (BA 1922, BCL 1925, LLD 1956) – 1924 Olympic swimmer and former Canadian ambassador to many countries
Richard "Dick" Pound – former Olympic swimmer, former
IOC vice president, chancellor of McGill, current chairman of the
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)
Silver Quilty – Canadian Football Hall of Fame inductee, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame inductee, Canadian Amateur Hockey Association president.
Allan Roth – baseball and hockey
statistician for the
Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers of
Major League Baseball (1947-1964) and the
Montreal Canadiens of the
National Hockey League (1944-1947).
Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame inductee.
Samantha Rapoport –
NFL Director of Player Development, former
Canada women's national football team and
Montreal Blitz
quarterback
Kim St-Pierre (BEd 2005) – Canadian Olympic women's hockey team (2002 and 2006), McGill's first female athlete to become an Olympic gold medallist (Salt Lake City, 2002)
Frank "Shag" Shaughnessy – first professional football coach hired by a Canadian university, he revolutionized Canadian college football by introducing the forward pass in 1921 in a game against
Syracuse University and lobbied for a decade until the forward pass was adopted by the
Canadian Rugby Football Union in 1931
Howard Stupp (born 1955) - Olympic wrestler
Jack Wright (MDCM 1928) – 11-year veteran of Canadian Davis Cup team in the 1920s and 1930s
David Zilberman – Canadian Olympic heavyweight wrestler
Fictional characters
Major Donald Craig, Canadian commando serving with British special forces during World War II, portrayed by
Rock Hudson in the 1967 war movie
Tobruk . Though the film was loosely based on real events, it's not clear whether or not Hudson's character was based on a real person. Most likely he was a pastiche character, given a Canadian background as cover for Hudson's inability to emulate a British accent.
Dr. Walter Langkowski, researcher from the Marvel Comics Canadian superhero series
Alpha Flight ; portrayed as a McGill-based biophysicist researching the gamma radiation accident which created the Hulk; his discoveries transformed him into the superhero known as
Sasquatch
Lieutenant Alan McGregor, played by
Gary Cooper ,
Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
Dr. Robert Richardson, played by
Lew Ayres ,
Johnny Belinda (1948)
Dr. James Wilson ,
oncologist and best friend to main character
Gregory House in the
Fox Network TV drama
House
Others
Monroe Abbey – Canadian lawyer and Jewish civic leader
[47]
Amal Elsana Alh'jooj – Bedouin Israeli feminist and peace activist
Norman Bethune – as "Bai Qiu'en", subject of essay In Memory of Norman Bethune (in
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung , Chapter 17: Serving the People) (Jinian Bai Qiu'en) by
Mao Zedong ; medical professor; became Red Army's medical chief and trained thousands of Chinese as medics and doctors; died in 1939 (from blood poisoning) during the
Second Sino-Japanese War
Frank E. Buck – horticulturalist
Ian Campbell, 12th Duke of Argyll – Scottish peer and landowner
Chi-Ming Chow – cardiologist and board member of the
Heart and Stroke Foundation
Dmytro Cipywnyk – physician and academic
Caroline Codsi : President and founder of Women in Governance and board member of
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Lawrence Moore Cosgrave – Canadian signer of the
Japanese Instrument of Surrender
Thomas Neill Cream –
Glasgow -born serial killer of the 1800s, thought by some to have been
Jack the Ripper
Jennifer Davidson - (BSW, 1991) child rights advocate and founding director of
CELCIS , awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2020 for services to the care and protection of children and young people in Scotland and abroad
[48]
Alanna Devine – founder of McGill Student Animal Legal Defence Fund and director of Animal Advocacy
Victor Dzau (MD) – president of the
Institute of Medicine of the
National Academy of Sciences
Rocco Galati – constitutional lawyer; challenged Justice Marc Nadon's appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada
Charles Goren – world champion bridge player and bestselling author
Bertha Hosang Mah , first Chinese woman to graduate from a Canadian university (McGill 1917)
John Harrison , lawyer and
general counsel of
Airbus
John Peters Humphrey – author of the first draft of the UN
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Arnold Johnson – performed the first cardiac heart catheterization procedure in Canada in 1946
Annie MacDonald Langstaff – in 1914 became McGill's and
Quebec 's first female law graduate but was not admitted to the Quebec bar until 2006 (posthumously); the Quebec bar did not admit women until 1941
Neville Maxwell – British journalist; author of notable book on the
Sino-Indian War
Nancy Morris – first female rabbi in Scotland
William Reginald Morse , Canadian author, medical doctor, and medical missionary in China
[49]
Natasha Negovanlis – actress; singer; writer; host; LGBTQIA icon
Madeleine Parent , Canadian labour, feminist and aboriginal rights activist
Autumn Phillips – ex-wife of Peter Phillips, who is 18th in line for the British throne
André Robert – father of the Canadian
numerical weather prediction models
Francis Scrimger (BA 1901, MDCM 1905) – Victoria Cross winner, 1915; Professor of Surgery and Chief of Surgery at the Children's Memorial Hospital
Harmeet Singh Sooden – peace activist once held captive in
Iraq
Robert Thirsk – astronaut
Dafydd Williams – astronaut
Mark Rosenbloom – doctor and entrepreneur
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