List of University of Alberta people
This is a list of distinguished people affiliated with the University of Alberta.
Current faculty[edit]
- Ali A. Abdi – anthropologist and author; education and international development
- William Anselmi – professor of Italian and Italian-Canadian literature and culture
- Lorne Babiuk – immunologist and virologist
- Harold Barclay – anthropology
- Howard Bashaw – music
- Norman C. Beaulieu – electrical engineering
- Ted Bishop – English and film studies
- Edward D. Blodgett – author and researcher in comparative literature, religion and film/media[1]
- Ludwig N. Carbyn – wolf biology
- Philip J. Currie – palaeontology
- Patricia Demers – english and film studies
- Jaroslaw Drelich – chemical engineering
- Janet A. W. Elliott – distinguished professor, faculty of engineering
- Pierre Flor-Henry – psychology
- John Gamon – pioneer of the Photochemical Reflectance Index
- Andrew Gow – historian of medieval and early modern Europe
- Jonathan Locke Hart – author, literary scholar and historian[2]
- Peter Hide – sculpture
- John-Paul Himka – professor of East European history
- Greg Hollingshead – novelist and professor of English
- Michael Houghton – Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of hepatitis C
- Peter L. Hurd – biology
- Karim Jamal – School of Business
- Stephen A. Kent – professor in the Department of Sociology
- Jacobus Kloppers – adjunct professor of Organ
- Natalie Kononenko -–professor of folklore
- Mark A. Lewis – mathematical ecologist and the Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Biology at the Centre for Mathematical Biology[3]
- Andy Liu – mathematics
- Michael Lounsbury – Associate Dean of Research, Thornton A. Graham Chair and professor of strategic management, organizations and sociology
- Austin Mardon – adjunct professor, recipient of Order of Canada
- Jacob Masliyah – pioneer researcher in oil-sands extraction, recipient of Order of Canada[4]
- Takahiko Masuda – associate professor of psychology
- Anne McLellan – law
- Iman Mersal – poet, professor of Arabic literature and Middle Eastern and African studies
- Robert Moody – mathematics, co-inventor of Kac–Moody algebra
- Adam Morton – philosopher and member of the Royal Society of Canada[5][6]
- Don Page
- Raj Pannu
- Mike Percy – economics
- Leonard Ratzlaff – professor of choral music
- Jia Rongqing – mathematics
- Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa – director of the university's Center for Earth Observation Sciences
- Jonathan Schaeffer – computer scientist and the Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence[7]
- James Shapiro – professor of surgery, medicine and surgical oncology; director of the Clinical Islet Transplant Program
- Arya Mitra Sharma – Alberta Health Services endowed Chair in Obesity Research and Management
- Ian Stirling
- Richard S. Sutton – computer science
- Darren Tanke – palaeontology
- Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann – mathematician
- Ban Tsui – professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine
- Allan Warrack – Department of Marketing, Business Economics and Law in the Faculty of Business and also serves as the Associate Dean of the Master of Public Management Program and Vice-President of Administration
- Thaddeus E. Weckowicz – professor emeritus of psychiatry, psychology, and theoretical psychology
- Rudy Wiebe – English
- Douglas Wiens – statistics
- Toshifumi Yokota – medical genetics
- Osmar R. Zaiane – computer science
- Vaclav Zizler – mathematics
Past faculty[edit]
- Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi‘
- Jane Alexander
- William Hardy Alexander – one of the university's first four professors; university historian[8]
- Margaret Atwood – author
- C. Fred Bentley
- Russell Brown – professor of law, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Donald Cameron
- Clive Carruthers
- Karl Clark
- Jagannath Prasad Das – professor of educational psychology; member of the Order of Canada
- John B. Dossetor – professor emeritus of medicine and bioethics
- Robert Folinsbee
- Malcolm Forsyth – professor of composition, Department of Music; Juno Award winner and member of the Order of Canada
- Victor Golla
- Thomas B. Greenfield
- Allan Gregg
- Ronald Hamowy
- W. G. Hardy – professor of classics, writer, ice hockey administrator, member of the Order of Canada[9]
- H. A. Hargreaves
- Walter Edgar Harris
- Myer Horowitz
- Werner Israel – professor of physics and leader in the theory of black holes; Fellow of the Royal Society and Royal Society of Canada
- George Ivany
- Martin Joos
- William Alexander Robb Kerr
- Mors Kochanski – bushcraft and wilderness survival pioneer
- Karol Józef Krótki (1922–2007) – active in Department of Sociology in 1968–1990, instrumental in establishing a strong demography program and the Population Research Laboratory; awarded the title of University Professor in 1983 and after his retirement remained active as a professor emeritus; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
- Gérard Vincent La Forest – dean of law (1968–1970), past Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Francis John Lewis – professor of botany
- John M. MacEachran
- Walter Mackenzie
- Barry J. Mailloux
- Carlo Montemagno – "father of bionanotechnology"
- Angus Munn
- Joseph S. Nelson – ichthyology
- Hope A. Olson
- John Orrell
- Jim Parr
- Solomiia Pavlychko
- Anatol Roshko – one of only three people alive to have a dimensionless number (Roshko number) named after them
- George A. Rothrock
- Gail Sidonie Sobat
- Mathukumalli V. Subbarao
- Morris Swadesh
- Yasushi Takahashi
- Henry Marshall Tory – first president, founder of three universities, the Alberta Research Council and National Research Council of Canada
- Thomas Thundat – Canada Excellence Research Chair in Oilsands Molecular Engineering
- Hiroomi Umezawa
- Maury Van Vliet
- Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901–1972) – professor of theoretical biology in the Department of Zoology and Psychology (1960–1968), helped establish the Advanced Center for Theoretical Psychology, originator of General Systems Theory
- Ella May Walker
- Wilfred Watson
- John Alexander Weir – first Dean of Law
- Daniel Woolf
Alumni[edit]
Academics[edit]
- Dominique Abrioux – President of Athabasca University (1995–2005)
- Charlene Bearhead – first educational lead at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba
- Sir John Bell – Regius Chair of Medicine, University of Oxford[10]
- Andrew Brook – Chancellor's Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Carleton University
- Tania Bubela – professor and dean in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University
- Franco Romano Calaresu (1931–1996) – professor of neurophysiology, University of Western Ontario
- James Collip – biochemistry professor, played key role in discovery of insulin
- Jim Cummins – professor and author, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
- Bernadette Louise Dean – Principal of Kinnaird College, Pakistan
- Su Guaning – President of Nanyang Technological University
- Aja Huang – Google Deep Mind; with David Silver, a main researcher of Alpha Go
- Joy Johnson – Vice-President, Research, Simon Fraser University
- Raymond U. Lemieux – chemistry pioneer, winner of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1999) and the Albert Einstein World Award of Science (1992)
- Jacqueline P. Leighton - educational psychologist, academic and author
- Tak Wah Mak – molecular biologist
- Joseph B. Martin – Dean of Harvard Medical School[11]
- Ravi S. Menon – Canadian-American biophysicist and professor The University of Western Ontario
- Martin P. Mintchev – bioengineering academic and inventor
- Piers Nash – cancer research professor at the University of Chicago and founder of Sympatic
- Jordan B. Peterson – clinical psychologist and professor at the University of Toronto
- Joseph Pivato – writer and researcher in ethnic minority writing in Canada; professor, Athabasca University, Edmonton
- Noris Salazar Allen – Panamanian bryologist
- David Silver – Google Deep Mind; with Aja Huang, a main researcher of Alpha Go
- Janice Stein – international relations researcher
- Wallace Sterling – past president of Stanford University
- Richard E. Taylor – Nobel Laureate
- Satish K. Tripathi – President of University at Buffalo
- Bas van Fraassen – Princeton University, McCosh Professor of Philosophy
Authors[edit]
- Todd Babiak
- Gary Botting
- Caterina Edwards
- Edmundo Farolan
- Karen Graham – dietitian
- Arthur Kroeger
- Robert Kroetsch
- Steve Lillebuen
- W. O. Mitchell
- Kit Pearson
- Candace Savage
- Lesley-Anne Scorgie
- Timothy Taylor
- Vern Thiessen
- Adam Thrasher – author of Space Moose[12]
- Brian Tracy
- Aritha Van Herk
- Rudy Wiebe
Judges[edit]
- Adam Germain – Justice of the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta (retired), member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (retired)
- Lionel Locksley Jones – Justice of the Court of King's Bench of Alberta (retired) (deceased 2016)
- Joe Kryczka – past Justice of the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta, president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association
- Ronald Martland – past Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Beverley McLachlin – Chief Justice of Canada
- Henry Grattan Nolan – past Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- William Stevenson – past Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Allan Wachowich – past Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta (retired)
- Edward R. Wachowich – past Chief Judge of the Provincial Court of Alberta (deceased 2012)
Politicians[edit]
- Rona Ambrose – Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs
- Pat Binns – former Premier of Prince Edward Island
- Joe Clark – former Prime Minister of Canada
- Charles Dent – former NWT Cabinet Minister
- David Emerson – Minister of International Trade
- David Hancock – former Premier of Alberta and Minister of Education of Alberta
- Lou Hyndman – former Alberta cabinet minister[13]
- Don Iveson – former Mayor of Edmonton
- Matt Jeneroux – Member of Parliament for Edmonton Riverbend, former MLA
- J. Wilton Littlechild – former Member of Parliament[14]
- Peter Lougheed – former Premier of Alberta
- Preston Manning – former leader of the Reform Party of Canada, and founder of two Canadian political parties
- Greg McLean – Member of Parliament for Calgary Centre
- Roland Michener – former Governor General
- Rachel Notley – former Premier of Alberta
- Jim Prentice – former Premier of Alberta and Minister of Environment
- Ed Stelmach – former Premier of Alberta (attended, did not graduate)
- Jane Sterk – Leader of the Green Party of British Columbia
- Claudette Tardif – Canadian Senator for Alberta, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate of Canada
Other notable alumni[edit]
- Greg Abel (born 1961/62) – businessman, Berkshire Hathaway[15]
- Doris Anderson – editor and rights activist
- Anil Arora – current Chief Statistician of Canada
- Nereo Bolzon – football player
- Ron Butlin – ice hockey executive
- Clarence Campbell – former National Hockey League president
- Neil Campbell – discovered gold in Yellowknife
- Juan Chioran – voice and stage actor at the Stratford Festival
- Joel H. Cohen – Canadian-Jewish comedy writer for The Simpsons
- Ted Corday – soap opera creator (Days of Our Lives)
- Ernest Côté – soldier, diplomat and civil servant[16]
- Jim Coutts – political advisor
- Clare Drake – ice hockey coach in CIS history, inducted to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2017
- Nicole Dunsdon – the last person to win the Miss Canada competition before it was cancelled
- Bernard Ebbers – Worldcom co-founder and CEO; briefly attended the university
- William Epstein –- international expert on disarmament who worked at the United Nations
- Nathan Fillion – actor
- Jay Gilday – singer-songwriter
- Patrick Gilmore – actor
- Randy Gregg – former National Hockey League player and medical researcher
- Paul Gross – actor
- Ted Harrison – painter and illustrator
- Ivan Head – former policy adviser of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
- Violet King Henry – first black woman lawyer in Canada
- Daryl Katz – billionaire entrepreneur, owner of the Rexall Pharmacy chain and the Edmonton Oilers
- Lewis Kay – scientist
- Eric Allan Kramer – character actor, most notable in the role of Bob Duncan in Good Luck Charlie
- Joseph Kubanek – American psychiatrist
- Melina Laboucan-Massimo – climate justice and Indigenous rights advocate
- Thomas Rockwell Mackie – medical physicist, inventor of Tomotherapy
- Glenna Matoush – visual artist
- Shelley Moore – special education expert
- Ray Muzyka – BioWare co-founder
- Sidney Richard Carlyle Nelson – Canadian Air Marshal for the RAF
- Tom Radford – documentary filmmaker
- Jan Randall – composer and musician
- George Stanley – designer of the Canadian flag
- Robert Steadward – former International Paralympic Committee President[17]
- Olawale Sulaiman – neurosurgeon, philanthropist and academic
- William Thorsell – editor, The Globe and Mail; Director, the Royal Ontario Museum
- Jason Tuffs – CEO of MNP LLP[18]
- Malorie Urbanovitch – fashion designer
- Anne Wheeler – film director
- Dayo Wong Tze-Hwa (黃子華) – Hong Kong comedian, actor, singer-songwriter and screenwriter; pioneered Cantonese stand up comedy
- Suzie Wong (蘇施黃) – Hong Kong disk jockey and television cooking program host
- Greg Zeschuk – BioWare co-founder
- Jason Zuback – golfer; five-time world long drive champion
Rhodes Scholars[edit]
The University of Alberta has produced 76 Rhodes Scholars, including the following:
- Roland Michener (1919) – 20th governor general of Canada
- George Stanley (1929) – designer of the Canadian flag
- Arthur Kroeger (1956) – academic, federal deputy minister and chancellor of Carleton University
Honorary degree recipients[edit]
- His Highness the Aga Khan – spiritual Lleader of the Ismaili Muslims
- Douglas Cardinal – architect
- Victor Cavendish – former Governor General of Canada
- Charles III
- Jean Chrétien – former Prime Minister of Canada
- John Diefenbaker – former Prime Minister of Canada
- King Edward VIII
- Wayne Gretzky – former National Hockey League player
- Horace Harvey – second Chief Justice of Alberta; chairman of the University of Alberta Board of Governors
- Frederick Haultain – the first and only premier of Canada's North-West Territories
- Lois Hole – former Lieutenant Governor of Alberta
- Ernest Manning – former Premier of Alberta
- Don Mazankowski – former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
- Walter Murray – first President of the University of Saskatchewan
- Alexander Rutherford – first Premier of Alberta
- Arthur Sifton – former Premier of Alberta
- Manmohan Singh – former Prime Minister of India
- Donald Smith – 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
- Harry Strom – former Premier of Alberta
- Mother Teresa – missionary
- Pierre Trudeau – former Prime Minister of Canada
- Desmond Tutu – former Archbishop of Cape Town and current chair of the Global Elders
- Max Ward – pioneering aviator
References[edit]
- ^ "UAP Books: Apostrophes IV". University of Alberta. Archived from the original on August 27, 2009. Retrieved October 20, 2009.
- ^ "Jonathan Hart". Macmillan. Retrieved October 20, 2009.
- ^ "Mark Lewis Home Page". University of Alberta. Retrieved December 9, 2009.
- ^ "Dr. Jacob Masliyah". Home Page. University of Alberta. Retrieved October 20, 2009.
- ^ "Adam Morton, FRSC". University of Alberta. June 14, 2006. Archived from the original on August 27, 2009. Retrieved October 20, 2009.
- ^ "Adam Morton". Home page. University of Alberta Faculty of Arts. Archived from the original on April 5, 2005. Retrieved October 20, 2009.
- ^ "Jonathan Schaeffer Home Page". University of Alberta. Archived from the original on April 9, 2008. Retrieved October 20, 2009.
- ^ "Event Details: William Hardy Alexander Award for Excellence in Sessional Teaching". University of Alberta. Archived from the original on August 27, 2009. Retrieved October 20, 2009.
- ^ "Author not working as hard". Medicine Hat News. Medicine Hat, Alberta. June 29, 1979. p. 29.
- ^ "Sir John Bell". Oxford Health Alliance. Retrieved July 27, 2012.
- ^ "Dean of Harvard med school returns to his roots". University of Alberta. Archived from the original on August 27, 2009. Retrieved October 20, 2009.
- ^ Schoek, Ellen. I Was There: A Century of Alumni Stories about the University of Alberta, 1906–2006. University of Alberta, 2006. 635. Retrieved from Google Books on February 4, 2011. ISBN 0-88864-464-7, ISBN 978-0-88864-464-0.
- ^ "Former chancellor Lou Hyndman receives an honorary degree". University of Alberta. Archived from the original on December 8, 2008. Retrieved October 20, 2009.
- ^ "Mr. Wilton Littlechild". UNPFII. Retrieved October 20, 2009.
- ^ "Warren Buffett's Canadian lieutenant eyes Alberta expansion". Retrieved 10 January 2018 – via The Globe and Mail.
- ^ "The planner Ernest Côté was a WWII veteran who helped plan the invasion of Normandy". University of Alberta. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
- ^ "The Steadward Centre for Personal & Physical Achievement". The University of Alberta. Retrieved October 20, 2009.
- ^ "Jason Tuffs, CPA, CA". MNP. MNP LLP. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
