Jump to content
 







Main menu
    


Navigation  


●Main page
 ●Contents
 ●Current events
 ●Random article
 ●About Wikipedia
 ●Contact us
 ●Donate
  



Contribute  


●Help
 ●Learn to edit
 ●Community portal
 ●Recent changes
 ●Upload file
  







Search  

































●Create account

●Log in
 









●Create account
 ● Log in
  



Pages for logged out editors learn more  


●Contributions
 ●Talk
  


















Contents

   



(Top)
  


1 Current faculty  




2 Past faculty  




3 Alumni  


3.1  Academics  




3.2  Authors  




3.3  Judges  




3.4  Politicians  




3.5  Other notable alumni  




3.6  Rhodes Scholars  






4 Honorary degree recipients  




5 References  













List of University of Alberta people







Add links
  








●Article
 ●Talk
  
















●Read
 ●Edit
 ●View history
  







Tools
    


Actions  


●Read
 ●Edit
 ●View history
  



General  


●What links here
 ●Related changes
 ●Upload file
 ●Special pages
 ●Permanent link
 ●Page information
 ●Cite this page
 ●Get shortened URL
 ●Download QR code
 ●Wikidata item
  



Print/export  


●Download as PDF
 ●Printable version
  















Appearance
    

 





From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  

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
  • Ludwig N. Carbyn – wolf biology
  • Philip J. Currie – palaeontology
  • Patricia Demers – English and film studies
  • Jaroslaw Drelich – chemical engineering
  • Marilyn Dumont - poet
  • 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[1]
  • 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 ChairinMathematical Biology at the Centre for Mathematical Biology[2]
  • 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[3]
  • 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[4][5]
  • 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 ChairinArtificial Intelligence[6]
  • 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
  • Toby Spribille – lichenologist
  • 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]

  • Jane Alexander
  • William Hardy Alexander – one of the university's first four professors; university historian[7]
  • Margaret Atwood – author
  • C. Fred Bentley
  • Edward D. Blodgett – author and researcher in comparative literature, religion and film/media[8]
  • 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]

  • 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]

  • Billy-Ray Belcourt
  • 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]

  • 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]

  • 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]

  • 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
  • Esther Tailfeathers[18]
  • William Thorsell – editor, The Globe and Mail; Director, the Royal Ontario Museum
  • Jason Tuffs – CEO of MNP LLP[19]
  • 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:

    Honorary degree recipients[edit]

    See also: List of University of Alberta honorary degree recipients
  • 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]

    1. ^ "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.
  • ^ "UAP Books: Apostrophes IV". 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.Free access icon
  • ^ "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.
  • ^ "Medical doctor and changemaker, Dr. Esther Tailfeathers, to receive University of Lethbridge honorary degree | UNews". University of Lethbridge. Archived from the original on 2024-06-05. Retrieved 2024-06-05.
  • ^ "Jason Tuffs, CPA, CA". MNP. MNP LLP. Retrieved 8 September 2021.

    • Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_University_of_Alberta_people&oldid=1232088094"
    Categories: 
    ●Lists of people by university or college in Canada
     ●Lists of people from Alberta
     ●University of Alberta
     Hidden categories: 
    ●Articles with short description
     ●Short description is different from Wikidata
      


    ●This page was last edited on 1 July 2024, at 21:56 (UTC).
    ●Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.


    ●Privacy policy
    ●About Wikipedia
    ●Disclaimers
    ●Contact Wikipedia
    ●Code of Conduct
    ●Developers
    ●Statistics
    ●Cookie statement
    ●Mobile view


    Wikimedia Foundation
    Powered by MediaWiki