List of University of Alberta people

This is a list of distinguished people affiliated with the University of Alberta.

Current faculty

• 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
• Mark A. Lewis - mathematical ecologist and the Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Biology at the Centre for Mathematical Biology ^[3]
• 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
• 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

• 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

Academics

• Charlene Bearhead – first educational lead at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba
• Tania Bubela – professor and dean in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University
• Satish K. Tripathi – President of University at Buffalo
• Dominique Abrioux – President of Athabasca University (1995–2005)
• Sir John Bell – Regius Chair of Medicine, University of Oxford ^[10]
• Andrew Brook – Chancellor's Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Carleton 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
• 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)
• 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
• Joseph Pivato – writer and researcher in ethnic minority writing in Canada; professor, Athabasca University, Edmonton
• Noris Salazar Allen - Panamanian bryologist
• Janice Stein – international relations researcher
• Wallace Sterling – past president of Stanford University
• Richard E. Taylor – Nobel Laureate
• Bas van Fraassen – Princeton University, McCosh Professor of Philosophy
• David Silver & Aja Huang – Google Deep Mind, two main researchers of Alpha Go
• Jordan B. Peterson - clinical psychologist and professor at the University of Toronto

Authors

• Todd Babiak
• Gary Botting
• Caterina Edwards
• Karen Graham (dietitian)
• Edmundo Farolan
• Sam Forster
• Arthur Kroeger
• Robert Kroetsch
• Steve Lillebuen
• W. O. Mitchell
• Kit Pearson
• Candace Savage
• Lesley-Anne Scorgie
• Timothy Taylor
• Adam Thrasher - author of Space Moose ^[12]
• Vern Thiessen
• Brian Tracy
• Aritha Van Herk
• Rudy Wiebe

Judges

• 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)
• Lionel Locksley Jones - Justice of the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta (retired) (deceased 2016)
• Adam Germain - Justice of the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta (retired), member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (retired)

Politicians

• 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
• Don Iveson – former Mayor of Edmonton
• Lou Hyndman – former Alberta cabinet minister ^[13]
• 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

• Greg Abel (born 1961/62) - businessman, Berkshire Hathaway ^[15]
• Doris Anderson – editor and rights activist
• Nereo Bolzon – Canadian football player
• Ron Butlin – Canadian 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
• Patrick Gilmore – actor
• Jay Gilday - singer-songwriter
• Randy Gregg – former National Hockey League player and medical researcher
• Paul Gross – actor
• Ted Harrison – painter and illustrator
• Anil Arora – current Chief Statistician of Canada
• 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
• Achol Jok Mach, South Sudanese activist and podcaster
• Thomas Rockwell Mackie - medical physicist, inventor of Tomotherapy
• Shelley Moore - special education expert
• Ray Muzyka – BioWare co-founder
• Glenna Matoush – visual artist
• 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 – Canadian golfer; five-time world long drive champion
• Sidney Richard Carlyle Nelson – Canadian Air Marshal for the RAF

Rhodes Scholars

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

See also: List of University of Alberta honorary degree recipients

• His Highness the Aga Khan – Spiritual Leader of the Ismaili Muslims
• Douglas Cardinal – architect
• Charles III
• Victor Cavendish – former Governor General of Canada
• 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

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