List of University of Manitoba alumni

This list of University of Manitoba alumni includes notable graduates, non-graduates, and current students of the University of Manitoba.

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Alumni of the University of Manitoba

Jim Peebles, BSc 1958, Nobel Prize in Physics

Jamaluddin Jarjis, MSc 1977, Malaysian politician

Monty Hall, BSc 1945, Host of game show Let's Make a Deal

Don Callis, BA 1991, MBA 2003, professional wrestling manager formerly signed to WWE and currently signed to AEW

Yvonne Brill, BS 1945, Engineer for NASA and the International Maritime Satellite Organization

Bruce Flatt, BComm 1987, CEO of Brookfield Asset Management

Name	Occupation / Known for	UM credentials/activities	Additional details
Douglas Abra	judge	BA (1968); LL.B (1972)
Samuel Hunter Adams	lawyer and 21st Mayor of Calgary	BA (1906)
Tracie O. Afifi	research scientist	BSc (1999); MSc (2003), PhD (2009)
Judie Alimonti	immunologist and research scientist	PhD
Peter Allen	composer	BMus (1975)
Mohamed Ali Al-Shaaban	television personality and surgeon	BSc (2006)
Rob Altemeyer	politician	BA
Nancy Ames	scientist	BSc (1980); BSc (1982)
Victor Anonsen	footballer and artist	BA (1977)
Frank Aquila	judge	LL.B (1982)
Germaine Arnaktauyok	printmaker, painter and illustrator	BFA (1968)
Niki Ashton	politician	BA
Gordon J. G. Asmundson	psychologist and professor	MA; PhD (1991)
David Asper	lawyer and businessman; son of Izzy Asper	BA (1981)
Gail Asper	lawyer; daughter of Izzy Asper	BA (1981); LL.B.(1984)
Izzy Asper	tax lawyer and media magnate of CanWest Global Communications Corp.	BA (1953); LLB (1957); LLM (1964)	In 2000, the University's Faculty of Management was re-named to the Asper School of Business in his honour. [1]
Robert Astley	actuary	BSc
Ken Attafuah	criminologist	BA (1982)
Nahlah Ayed	reporter	BSc; MSc
George Ayittey	economist and president of the Free Africa Foundation	PhD
Tim Ball	public speaker and professor	MA
G. Michael Bancroft	chemist and synchrotron scientist; first director of the Canadian Light Source	MSc (1964)
David G. Barber	environmental scientist	BSc (1981); MSc (1987)
Kathy Bardswick	President and CEO of The Co-operators	BS
Lindon W. Barrett	cultural theorist	BA (1983)
Robert Beamish	cardiologist	MD (1942) [2]
William Moore Benidickson	former Member of Parliament, federal Cabinet Minister, and Senator [3]
Richard Spink Bowles	lawyer and former Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor [4]	BA (1933); LLB (1937)
George Montegu Black II	businessman, father of Conrad Black [5]
Andy Blair	National Hockey League player in the 1920s and 1930s, mostly with the Toronto Maple Leafs
Yvonne Brill	rocket and jet propulsion engineer who invented the fuel-efficient rocket thruster that keeps satellites in orbit today.	BS (1945)	The Yvonne C. Brill Lectureship in Aerospace Engineering of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is named in her honor and presented annually
Harold J Brodie	mycologist [6]	BSc (1929)
Harold Buchwald	lawyer [7]	BA (1948); LL.B (1952); LL.M (1957)
Wilfred Buck	scientific facilitator and Indigenous star lore expert	B.Ed.
Constantine of Irinoupolis	American Orthodox hierarch, Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	St. Andrew's College graduate (1959)
Don Callis	professional wrestler, [8] MHSAA Darts finalist (1978)	BA (1991); MBA (2003)
Norman Cantor	medieval scholar and writer [9]	BA (1951)
Albert Chan	Hong Kong politician and lawmaker	BA; BSW
Richard Condie	Academy Award-nominated animator; creator of The Big Snit [10]	BA (1967)
Brian Dickson	former Chief Justice of Canada [11]	LL.B (1938)
Gerry Ducharme	politician and a cabinet minister in the 1988–1995 Progressive Conservative government[ citation needed ]
Mary Dunn	President of the Dominion Women's Amateur Hockey Association and the Manitoba branch of the Women's Amateur Athletic Federation of Canada [12]	BS (1938)
Audrey Dwyer	actor and writer [13]
Marcel Dzama	artist	BFA (1997) [14]
Ed Evanko	actor and singer [15]	BA
Gordon S. Fahrni	Canada’s longest-lived physician (108 years old)	MD (1911)
Faouzia	singer-songwriter
Fernanda Ferreira	cognitive psychologist	BA in Psychology (1982)
Gary Filmon	Premier of Manitoba (1988–1999)	BSc Civil Engineering [16]
Danny Finkleman	former CBC Radio host [17]	LL.B
Bruce Flatt	CEO of Brookfield Asset Management and billionaire ranked on Forbes magazine	BComm
Steven Fletcher	politician; former Conservative MP in the House of Commons; former federal Cabinet Minister	BSc geological engineering; MBA at Asper [18]
Nahanni Fontaine	politician	MA [19]
Phil Fontaine	Indigenous Canadian leader	BA (1981) [20]
Waldron Fox-Decent	mediator, professor, Crown Corporation chairman [21]	BA (1959); MA (1971)
Eira Friesen	advocate for women in Winnipeg [22]	BSc (1939)
Patrick Friesen	poet, playwright, essayist
Erving Goffman	sociologist who introduced the concept of dramaturgy into the field	BSc [23]		Jyoti Gondek mayor of Calgary
Audrey Gordon	politician, former Minister of Health and Seniors Care in Manitoba [24]	BA; MBA
Velvl Greene	scientist and academic	BS in agriculture; MS dairy bacteriology [25]
Monty Hall	television personality	BSc [26]	Hall was also president of Variety Clubs International and received the Order of Canada
Ellie Harvie	actress [27]	BA
S.I. Hayakawa	scholar and professor of semantics; United States Senator [28]	BA (1927)
John Alexander Hopps	inventor of the world's first artificial pacemaker; known as the "father of biomedical engineering in Canada" [29]	BEng (1941)
Gad Horowitz	political scientist who coined the term "Red Tory" [30]	BA
Barbara Humphreys	architect and author, specializing in public service, historic preservation, and housing	B.Arch. (1941)
Johanna Hurme	architect and activist	BEnvD (1996); MArch
Israel Idonije	retired NFL defensive end
Jamaluddin Jarjis	former Malaysian ambassador to the United States; former Malaysian government minister	MSc
Francis Lawrence Jobin	former Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba [31]
F. Ross Johnson	businessman; CEO of RJR Nabisco [32]	BComm (1952)
Tanya Kappo	lawyer and Indigenous rights activist	JD (2012) [33]
Sam Katz	mayor of Winnipeg (2004–2014)	BA (1973)
Guy Gavriel Kay	novelist and poet	BA (1975)
Humayun Akhtar Khan	politician	MS
David Kilgour	former federal Minister of Transport	BA
Wab Kinew	Premier of Manitoba (2023–present)	BA
Greg Kopp	Acting Dean of Engineering at the University of Western Ontario	BSc (1989)
Scott Koskie	former member of the Canada men's national volleyball team	BRMCD (1995)
Roman Kroitor	co-founder of IMAX Corporation	MA (1951)
Amanda Lang	journalist; senior business correspondent for CBC News
Allan Levine	author, known mainly for his award-winning non-fiction and historical mystery writing	BA (1978)
Bob Lowes	ice hockey coach and executive
James Lunney	politician; former Conservative Member of Parliament for the riding of Nanaimo—Alberni in BC
Inky Mark	former federal Conservative Member of Parliament for Dauphin—Swan River, Manitoba
Bill Mason	author, filmmaker, environmentalist
Pearl McGonigal	former Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba
William John McKeag	former Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba
Marshall McLuhan	famed media scholar
Harry Medovy	pediatrician and academic
Olawale Sulaiman	neurosurgeon and academic
Ovide Mercredi	Aboriginal Canadian leader	LLB (1977)
Ted Milian,	Canadian football player
W.O. Mitchell	writer
W. L. Morton	historian
Arnold Naimark	physician, academic, and former President of the U of M
Alison Norlen	artist
William Norrie	mayor of Winnipeg (1979–1992)	BA (1950); LLB (1955)
Rey Pagtakhan	physician, academic, former MP and federal cabinet minister
Malcolm Peat	Emeritus Professor at Queen's University		Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
Jim Peebles	astrophysicist		won the Crafoord Prize (2005), Nobel Prize in Physics (2019), Companion of the Order of Canada, Order of Merit (CC, OM, 2020)
Leonard Peikoff	philosopher
Frank Pickersgill	Special Operations Executive agent in World War II executed by the Nazis
Barry Posner	physician and research scientist on diabetes
Jon Pylypchuk	artist
Clay Riddell	oil tycoon; founder, president and CEO of Paramount Resources, based in Calgary	BSc Honours (1959)	the University's Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources is named in his honour
Dufferin Roblin	former Premier of Manitoba
Claude C. Robinson	ice hockey and sports executive	1902 [34]	Inductee into the Hockey Hall of Fame and Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame
Marshall Rothstein	Supreme Court of Canada judge
Alexei Maxim Russell	internationally-published novelist
Fred Sandhu	Provincial Court of Manitoba judge [35]
Edward Schreyer	Premier of Manitoba (1969–1977) and Governor General of Canada (1979–1984)
Cynthia Scott	Oscar winning filmmaker	BA
Richard Scott	former Chief Justice of Manitoba Court of Appeal
Harry Seidler	Australian architect [36]
Mitchell Sharp	former Liberal Minister of Finance
Patricia Alice Shaw	linguist specializing in phonology and known for her work on First Nations languages
Louis Slotin	physicist and chemist who took part in the Manhattan Project	BSc (1932); MSc (1933)
Robert Steen	Mayor of Winnipeg (1977–1979)
Mary Ann Steggles	Commonwealth scholar and international expert on British colonial statuary		Olive Beatrice Stanton recipient
Iain Stewart	theoretical physicist
William Sweet	philosopher and professor at St, Francis Xavier University	MA (1979)	Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC)
Frank Trafford Taylor	lawyer and former president of Kiwanis International
John W.M. Thompson	Manitoba MLA and Provincial Cabinet Minister
Grace Eiko Thomson	curator, activist, and internment camp survivor	BFA (1977) [37]
Thorbergur Thorvaldson	cement chemist [38]
Miriam Toews	novelist
Vic Toews	politician; former Minister of Justice and Attorney General and the President of the Treasury Board in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper
Andrew Unger	satirist and novelist	BA (2002); BEd. (2004)
Chris Urmson	CEO of Aurora Innovation	BSc (1998)
Meaghan DeWarrenne-Waller	fashion model; winner of Canada's Next Top Model, Cycle 3
Adele Wiseman	author
Svetlana Zylin	playwright and director [39]

• Gordon Orlikow (b. 1960), decathlon, heptathlon, and hurdles competitor, Athletics Canada Chairman, Canadian Olympic Committee member, Korn/Ferry International partner; competed for the Manitoba Bisons in track and field, and is honored on the Bisons Walkway of Honour. ^[40]

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