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This list of University of Manitoba alumni includes notable graduates, non-graduates, and current students of the University of Manitoba.
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This list of University of Manitoba alumni includes notable graduates, non-graduates, and current students of the University of Manitoba.
| Name | Occupation / Known for | UM credentials/activities | Additional details |
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| 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 | |
| Hatsune Miku | singer | MD (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] | |
| 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 | ||
| 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] |
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