List of Queen's University people
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The following is a list of notable alumni, faculty and affiliates that are associated with Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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[edit] Notable Queen's alumni
[edit] Academic leaders
- John Hall Archer -- First President of the University of Regina
- Jackson Armstrong -- Historian
- David Card -- Economist, winner of John Bates Clark Medal
- Charles LeGeyt Fortescue -- Electrical Engineer
- James Edwin Hawley (BSc 1918, MSc 1920) -- Head of Geological Sciences Department (1929 - 1962), Hawleyite named after him
- Kenneth E. Iverson (BSc 1951) -- inventor of the APL programming language, Turing Award laureate
- David Lloyd Johnston (LL.B. 1966) -- President of the University of Waterloo
- Anthony J. Naldrett, University of Toronto emeritus professor, geologist
- Frits Pannekoek (PhD 1974) -- President of the Athabasca University
- Shirley M. Tilghman (BSc 1968) -- President of Princeton University, member of the Board of Directors of Google
[edit] Actors, film, and media
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Tom Cavanagh -- Actor, played title character in sitcom Ed
- Scott Anderson -- Editor in Chief of the Ottawa Citizen
- Dean Armstrong -- Actor
- Ashleigh Banfield -- MSNBC News Anchor
- Nicholas Campbell -- Actor
- Tom Cavanagh -- Actor, played title character in sitcom Ed
- Wendy Crewson -- Actress
- Brendan Connor -- Television broadcaster, Al Jazeera International
- Chris Cuthbert -- TSN sportscaster
- Sally Gifford -- Host on CBC's national kids' show, The-X
- Lorne Greene -- Actor
- Rachel Blanchard -- Actress
- Kate Greenhouse -- Actress
- Nancy Palk -- Actress
- Shelagh Rogers -- CBC broadcaster
- Jeffrey Simpson -- political columnist for The Globe and Mail
- Ted Simonett -- Actor, of Canadian Tire advertising couple
- Rod Smith -- TSN sportscaster
- John Stackhouse -- Editor, Report on Business, The Globe and Mail
- Ian Stewart (B.A. 1990) -- Broadcaster and journalist
- Ali Velshi -- former Report on Business Television and current CNN business reporter
- Gema Zamprogna -- Actor
[edit] Entrepreneurs and business leaders
- Michael Henry Adams -- founder of Environics
- Alfred Bader (B.Sc. 1945, B.A. 1946, M.Sc. 1947) -- founder of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, and donor of 15th century Herstmonceux Castle
- Geoffrey Ballard, C.M., O.B.C., Ph.D. -- founder of Ballard Power Systems
- Curtis Bartlett -- co-founder of Intellectual Capital Partners
- Derek Burney (B.A. 1962, M.A. 1964) -- former President and CEO of Bell Canada, current member of the Board of Directors of CanWest Global Communications, Quebecor World Inc., and Shell Canada
- Donald J. Carty -- former Chairman and CEO of AMR, the parent company of American Airlines
- Kerry Clark -- CEO of Cardinal Health -- Former Vice Chairman of Procter & Gamble
- Gururaj Deshpande -- founder of Sycamore Networks
- David A. Dodge -- Governor of the Bank of Canada
- Steven Gunn -- CEO and co-Founder of Sleep Country Canada
- Mel Goodes -- Former Chairman and CEO of the Warner-Lambert Company
- F C Kohli -- Former CEO of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
- Leonard Lee (B.A. 1963) -- Founder of Lee Valley Tools
- Donald Lindsay (B.Sc.(Eng.) 1980) -- CEO of Tec-Cominco
- Michael MacMillan -- Chairman of Alliance Atlantis, co-founder of Atlantis Films (now Alliance Atlantis)
- Earle McLaughlin -- former President and CEO of the Royal Bank of Canada.
- Seaton McLean -- co-founder of Atlantis Films (now Alliance Atlantis)
- Gord Nixon (BComm 1979) -- President and CEO of the Royal Bank of Canada
- Douglas Peters (BComm 1963) -- Banker, Economist and Politician
- Janice Platt -- Academy Award winner and co-founder of Atlantis Films (now Alliance Atlantis)
- Stephen Quinn -- Senior Vice President, Wal-Mart Inc, Bentonville, Arkansas
- David Radler (MBA 1967) -- former President of Ravelston Corporation (which owned Argus Corporation which controlled Hollinger International), cooperating with the prosecution in the Conrad Black racketeering case
- John A. Rae -- Executive Vice-President of Power Corporation, Chair of the Board of Trustees of Queen's
- Grant Rasmussen -- CEO of UBS Canada
- A.G. Stollery -- (B.Sc. 1938) -- geologist and the late founder of Consolidated Morrison Ltd.
- A.J. Petrina -- (B.Sc. 1959) -- former CEO of Placer Dome Inc.
[edit] Literature and the Arts
- Jill Barber -- singer-songwriter
- Matthew Barber -- singer-songwriter
- Rob Baker (B.F.A. 1986) -- guitarist of The Tragically Hip
- Janet Cardiff -- Artist
- Jane Corkin -- Artist
- Jim Cuddy -- Lead singer of Blue Rodeo
- Robertson Davies, CC -- Author & playwright
- Gord Downie -- Lead singer of band The Tragically Hip
- David Franklin -- Chief curator, National Gallery of Canada
- Priscilla Galloway -- Author
- Sarah Harmer -- Singer/songwriter
- Steven Heighton -- Author
- Elena Juatco -- Singer
- Jay Malinowski (B.A. 2004) -- Vocalist and guitarist for the Canadian band Bedouin Soundclash
- Michael Ondaatje (M.A. 1967) -- Author
- Eon Sinclair (B.A. 2004) -- bassist for Canadian band Bedouin Soundclash
- Gord Sinclair -- Bassist of The Tragically Hip
- Russell Smith - Author and Globe and Mail columnist
- Timothy Taylor -- Author
- Meaghan Diane Shearer -- Composer and violinist
- Judith Thompson -- Playwright
- George Elliott Clarke (Ph.D. 1993) -- Writer and Academic
[edit] Miscellaneous
- Jock Climie (B.A. 1989, LL.B. 1998) -- lawyer, former CFL player
- Douglas Cunningham (B.A., LL.B.) -- lawyer and Ontario Superior Court Justice
- Brad Elberg -- lawyer and former CFL player
- Karla Homolka (completed degree by correspondence education) -- convicted of manslaughter
- Andrew Kalotay (B.Sc. 1964, M.Sc. 1966) -- mathematician, Wall Street financier and chess master
- Martin Kreuzer (post-doc. 1991) -- mathematician, professor, and correspondence chess Grandmaster
- Vinny Puri (M.D. 1992) -- doctor and international FIDE chess master
- Mike Schad former NFL player
- H.I.H. Prince Takamado of Japan
- David Smart (B.A. 1994) -- Canadian champion basketball coach
- Cory Suski (B.Sc. 1995, Ph.D. 2005) -- leading research scientist in ecological physiology
- Robert Sutherland -- first person of colour to graduate from a Canadian university.
- Jim Young -- 1st Canadian college football player drafted into the NFL (Minnesota Vikings)
- Owen "Tyler Durden" Cook -- A well-known and highly influential pick-up artist extensively detailed in Neil Strauss' famous book on female seduction, The Game.
[edit] Political Leaders
- William Aberhart -- former Premier of Alberta
- John Baird (B.A. 1992) -- Minister of the Environment
- Derek Burney (B.A. 1962, M.A. 1964) -- Former Canadian Ambassador to the Korea, Japan, and the United States
- Sean Conway -- Director of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations (Queen's University), former Ontario cabinet minister and MPP
- John Crosbie -- former Minister of Finance
- David Emerson (PhD 1975) -- Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Pacific Gateway and the Vancouver-Whistler Olympics
- Sheila Fraser (BComm 1970) -- Auditor General of Canada
- John Gerretsen -- Ontario MPP, former mayor of Kingston, Ontario cabinet minister
- James R.M. Harris -- author and politician, former Leader of the Green Party of Canada
- John Matheson -- helped develop the Canadian Flag and the Order of Canada
- Frank McKenna -- Former Canadian Ambassador to the United States and Former Premier of New Brunswick
- Peter Milliken (B.A. 1968) -- Speaker of the House of Commons
- Tim Murphy -- chief of staff of the Canadian Prime Minister's Office under Paul Martin's government
- Robert Nicholson (B.A. 1975) -- Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
- George Spotton (B.A. 1895), member of the House of Commons
[edit] Scientists
- Walter A. Bell B.Sc. Geologist and Paleontologist
- Norman L. Bowen B.Sc., M.Sc. Chemical Geologist
- Bill Buxton B.Mus. (1973) Computer scientist and human-computer interaction pioneer
- Donald Charlesworth B.Sc.(Eng.) Nuclear scientist, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.
- Mark Charlesworth B.Sc.(Eng.) (1981) Co-developer of CorelDraw software
- Thomas Edvard Krogh M.Sc.(Geology), Geochronologist and a curator for the Royal Ontario Museum
- J. F. A. McManus M.D. (1938) Pathologist
- Ian Rae B.Sc.(Eng.) (1980) Co-developer of CorelDraw software
[edit] Notable Queen's faculty and affiliates
In addition to the following notable faculty members, Sir Sandford Fleming, former Prime Minister of Canada Sir Robert Laird Borden, and former Governor General of Canada Roland Michener have all served as Chancellor of the university, though this is a non-academic role.
- Donald Akenson history
- Istvan Anhalt, music (Juno Award winning composer)
- Caroline Baillie, engineering
- James Cordy, computing (co-inventor of the Turing programming language)
- Suzanne Fortier, chemistry (President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC))
- Leo Jonker, mathematics (Queen's Chair of Teaching and Learning)
- Tom Kent, economics
- Will Kymlicka, philosophy
- William C. Leggett, biology (Chairman of the Board of the Canada Foundation for Innovation)
- Art McDonald, physics (winner of the Herzberg Prize, Canada's most prestigious honour in science)
- John McGarry, politics
- M. Ram Murty, mathematics (Queen's Research Chair)
- Kim Richard Nossal, politics
- John Smol, biology (winner of the Herzberg Prize, Canada's most prestigious honour in science)
- Helen Tiffin, English
- Craig Walker, drama
