,
3rd Prime Minister of Canada ,
7th Prime Minister of Canada ,
23rd and former
Prime Minister of Canada ,
astronaut and former
Governor General of Canada , current
Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis , 37th
President of Costa Rica , 6th and first female
President of Latvia , 48th
Prime Minister of Egypt , 10th
Prime Minister of Bermuda , former
Governor-General of Bermuda, the 143rd ,
neuroscientist and 11th President of
Stanford University ,
legal scholar and current President of the
University of Cambridge ,
social work professor and current President of the
University of London ,
immunologist, 28th President of the
University of Cincinnati, 15th President of the
University of Michigan; 15th President & Vice-Chancellor of the
University of British Columbia , former President of both
Princeton University and the
University of Michigan ,
crystallographer and former Principal of
McGill University , internationally renowned
linguist, served as
U.S. Senator and President of
San Francisco State University , owner-publisher of
U.S. News & World Report and
New York Daily News, founder-CEO of
Boston Properties , President-CEO of
Seagram and recipient of the US
Presidential Medal of Freedom , retail
magnate, founder-chairman of
ALDO Shoes and
ALDO Racing Team
sponsor , media tycoon, and current Member of the
House of Lords in the
British Parliament ,
econometrician and Governor of the
Central Bank of Barbados , current
Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of Canada , Canada's current
Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, and
Member of Parliament , current
Justice of the
Supreme Court of Canada , current
Justice of the
Supreme Court of Canada , current Member of the
House of Lords in the
British Parliament ,
U.S. Congresswoman, early feminist leader, and suffragist , "Father of Modern Medicine", co-founded the
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine ,
neurosurgeon, discovered
electrical stimulation of the
human brain , awarded the 1908
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for path-breaking work in
atomic physics received the 1921
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering
isotopes , inventor of the
sport of
basketball , US
National Security Advisor and US
Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient , multi-awarded philosopher , novelist, singer-songwriter, and poet , six-time
Grammy Award-winning composer and musician , film director and actor best known as
Captain James T. Kirk in
Star Trek , movie and TV actress , renowned sculptor and pioneer in collegiate
physical education won the 1987
Pulitzer Prize for "witty and insightful columns on national issues" , 2018 recipient of the
Turing Award for engineering breakthroughs in
deep neural networks as critical component of computing , world-acclaimed mathematician, won the 2015
Abel Prize for "striking and seminal" work on nonlinear
partial differential equations , former chairman,
National Institutes of Health (NIH), and current President of the US
National Academy of Medicine , awarded the 1977
Nobel Prize in Medicine for pioneering work on
hormones , 1980
Nobel Prize in Physics for disproving that
particle interaction is indifferent to the direction of time received the 1981
Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries of
information processing in the
visual system , winner of the 1992
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for groundbreaking theory of
electron transfer , 2009
Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing "an imaging semiconductor circuit" as "core technology behind the
digital photography revolution" , 2009
Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering how the body protects
chromosomes housing
genetic code won the 2011
Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering
dendritic cells and their role in
immunity received the 2014
Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering the brain's positioning system , inventor of the
artificial cell and three-time nominee for the
Nobel Prize in Medicine Nobel Prize graduates and faculty members Academy Awards Grammy Awards Emmy Awards Pulitzer Prize Astronauts •
Dafydd Williams (BSc 1976, MDCM 1983, MSc 1983, DSc 2007) - mission specialist on two Space Shuttle missions •
Robert Thirsk (MDCM 1982) - holds the Canadian record for the most time spent in space •
Julie Payette (BEng 1986, DSc 2003) - completed two spaceflights,
STS-96 and
STS-127 •
David Saint-Jacques (MedResident 2007) - launched to the
International Space Station, on Expeditions
57,
58 and
59 •
Jenni Sidey-Gibbons (BEng 2011) - one of the two members of the
2017 CSA Group Academics and scholars •
Maude Abbott (BA 1890) - physician and pathologist, authority on congenital heart disease, co-founder of
International Academy of Pathology •
Nancy J. Adler – Professor of Organizational Behavior and Samuel Bronfman Chair in Management at McGill University •
Abdolhamid Akbarzadeh Shafaroudi – assistant professor in machine design and mechanical engineering at McGill University •
Selim Akl (MSc 1976, PhD, 1978) – unconventional computer scientist •
Ismail al-Faruqi – Muslim philosopher and comparative religion scholar •
Alia Al-Saji – professor of philosophy •
Antony Alcock (BA 1961) – Ulster historian; actively involved in the negotiations leading up to the
Belfast Agreement •
Brian Alters – evolution and education •
Frederick Andermann (BA 1948, BSc 1952) – neuroscientist •
Tom Angus (PhD 1952) - entomologist, deputy director of the federal Forest Pest Management Institute •
Athanasios Asimakopulos (BA 1951, MA 1953) – prominent economist in the
Post Keynesian tradition •
Brigitte Askonas (BSc 1944, MSc 1949) – prominent British immunologist •
Karine Auclair – professor of chemistry at McGill University and Canada Research Chair in Antimicrobials and Green Enzymes •
Francis Aveling (BA 1897, MA 1899) – Canadian psychologist, divinity scholar, and Roman Catholic priest • Sir
David Baulcombe,
FRS (Postdoc 1978) – British plant scientist and geneticist; now
Professor of Botany at the
University of Cambridge •
Jill Beck (MA 1976) – dance and choreography scholar, and 15th President of
Lawrence University •
Eric Berne (BSc 1931, MD 1935) – psychiatrist, originator of the psychoanalytic theory of
transactional analysis •
Raoul Bott (BEng 1945, MEng 1948) – mathematician specializing in topology,
Wolf Prize in Mathematics, 2000 •
Reuven Brenner – economist; current faculty member •
Ayşe Buğra (PhD 1981) – economist •
Gerald Bull – former professor of mechanical engineering; expert on projectiles; designer of the Iraqi
Project Babylon •
Mario Bunge – physicist and philosopher •
Miriam Burland – astronomer at Dominion Observatory from 1927 to 1967 •
Ron Burnett (PhD 1981) – president and vice-chancellor, Emily Carr University of Art and Design; former Director of the Graduate Program in Communications, McGill University •
Kenneth Neill Cameron - literary scholar •
Anne Carson – thinker, writer, translator, and University of Michigan classics professor •
Donald Ewen Cameron – psychiatrist, involved with mind control experimentation at McGill •
Thomas Chang (BSc 1957, MD 1961, PhD 1965) – invented and developed world's first artificial cell •
Margaret Ridley Charlton – historian, pioneer librarian, and one of the founders of the
Medical Library Association •
Saswati Chatterjee, virologist •
Sherry Chou (MD 2001) – Neurologist and critical care physician at the
University of Pittsburgh •
Sujit Choudhry (BSc 1992) – constitutionalist and Dean of the
University of California Berkeley, School of Law •
Thomas H. Clark – paleontologist; namesake of the mineral
Thomasclarkite •
Terence Coderre (PhD 1985) – Professor of Medicine and the Harold Griffith Chair in Anaesthesia Research at McGill University •
Robert W. Cox (BA 1946) – former United Nations official; a leading authority of the British school of
International Political Economy; former professor of political science at
Columbia University; current professor emeritus at
York University •
R. F. Patrick Cronin (MD 1953) – cardiologist; Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at McGill (1972–1977); healthcare consultant •
Augusto Claudio Cuello – Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics and Charles E. Frosst/Merck Chair in Pharmacology at McGill University •
Philip J. Currie (MSc 1975, PhD 1981) – paleontologist and former curator of the
Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology •
Roger Daley (MSc 1968, PhD 1971) – meteorologist •
Armand de Mestral (BCL 1966) – professor of
international law •
Carrie Derick (BEd 1881, BA 1890, MSc 1896) – first woman to become a professor in Canada (in botany at McGill) •
Arti Dhand (PhD 2000) – associate professor at the
University of Toronto, Department for the Study of Religion •
Vibert Douglas (PhD 1926) – astrophysicist •
Charles R. Drew (MD 1933) – physician and professor •
Kyle Elliott – Canadian ornithologist, assistant professor in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences at McGill University, and Canada Research Chair in Arctic Ecology. •
Hamid Etemad – professor of
international business; business guru and researcher •
Jennifer V. Evans – professor at
Carleton University •
Basil Favis - Canadian chemist and professor •
David A. Freedman (BSc 1958) – statistician; professor at
University of California, Berkeley •
Grover Furr (BA 1965) – professor of English literature; historical negationist and apologist for Joseph Stalin •
James E. Gill (BSc 1921) – geology professor who introduced the Master's of Applied Science in Mineral Exploration program and established an analytical laboratory for the application of geochemistry to mineral exploration •
Gilbert Girdwood – professor of chemistry; radiologist •
Leo Goldberger (BA 1951, MA 1952) – psychologist, professor at
New York University and director of the Research Center for Mental Health,
Holocaust survivor •
Lawrence Goodridge, food safety and wastewater monitoring researcher •
Phil Gold (BSc 1957, MSc 1961, M.D. 1961, PhD 1965) – Canadian physician, scientist, and professor. In 1968, he co-discovered the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), which resulted in a blood test used in the diagnosis and management of people with cancer. •
David Goltzman (BSc 1966, MD 1968) –
endocrinologist, Professor of Medicine and Physiology, and A.G. Massabki Chair in Medicine at McGill University •
Shyamala Gopalan – breast cancer researcher in the
Faculty of Medicine and McGill-affiliated
Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research; mother of U.S. Vice President
Kamala Harris •
Laurie N. Gottlieb, Flora Madeline Shaw Chair of Nursing, Editor-in-Chief of CJNR (
Canadian Journal of Nursing Research) •
Jack Gross (PhD 1949) an
endocrinologist, one the co-discoverers of
Triiodothyronine (T3) •
William W. Happ - (BS) - Silicon transistor pioneer at
Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, and Professor at
Arizona State University •
John Harnad (BSc 1967) – Mathematical physicist, Director, Mathematical physics laboratory,
Centre de recherches mathématiques •
Stevan Harnad (BA 1967, MA 1969) – Canada Research Chair, Cognitive Sciences;
open access and
animal rights activist •
S. I. Hayakawa (MA 1928) – linguist, U.S. Senator, and 9th President of
San Francisco State University •
Karen S. Haynes (MSW 1970) – American college administrator and social worker, former president of
University of Houston–Victoria, and current president of
California State University San Marcos •
Donald Olding Hebb (MA, 1932) – father of cognitive psychobiology; pioneer in
artificial intelligence; developed concept of
Hebbian learning •
John Hemming (BA 1957) – explorer •
Alma Howard (BSc 1934, MSc, 1936, PhD 1938) – radiobiologist •
Fumiko Ikawa-Smith – archaeologist in East Asian and Japanese archaeology & administrator, Director of the Centre for East Asian Studies (1983 and 1988) and Associate Vice-Principal (Academic) of McGill University (1991–1996). •
Herbert Jasper – neuroscientist •
Julian Jaynes (BA 1944) – psychologist, author of
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind •
George Karpati – neuroscientist •
Victoria Kaspi (BSc 1989) – astrophysicist researching neutron stars and pulsars •
Roger Keesing – anthropologist •
Howard Atwood Kelly – member of the faculty of medicine at McGill; one of the "Big Four" founding professors at the
Johns Hopkins Hospital, credited with establishing gynecology as a true specialty •
Frances Oldham Kelsey (Bsc 1934, MSc 1935) –
pharmacologist and physician •
Samara Klar (BA 2005) – political scientist and founder of
Women Also Know Stuff •
Raymond Klibansky – philosopher •
Normand Landry (PhD 2010) – professor of communication at
Université TÉLUQ and current Canada Research Chair in Media Education and Human Rights •
Harold Laski – political theorist •
Gilles J Lavigne – researcher, expert on bruxism, sleep apnea •
Charles Philippe Leblond – pioneer of stem cells, inventor of autoradiography •
Grant LeMarquand (BA 1977, STM 1982, MA 1998) – Canadian Anglican bishop, missionary, and professor at
Trinity School for Ministry •
Daniel Levitin – cognitive psychologist •
Pericles Lewis (BA 1990) – founding President of
Yale-NUS College; professor of English and comparative literature at
Yale University •
Herbert Melville Little (MD 1901) – Gynaecologist, lecturer in obstetrics and gynaecology at McGill, and World War I Army captain •
Abraham S. Luchins – American psychologist known for his research on mental sets (Einstellung effect) •
Michael J. MacKenzie – Professor of Social Work, Psychiatry, and Pediatrics at McGill University, and
Canada Research Chair in Child Well-Being •
Michael Mackey – professor of physiology and
Joseph Morley Drake Chair in Physiology at McGill University •
Colin MacLeod (MD 1932) – Canadian-American geneticist; discovered DNA breakthroughs •
James Mallory – for many years Canada's leading constitutional scholar •
Joseph Boyd Martin – former Dean of the
Harvard Medical School; former Dean and Chancellor at the
University of California, San Francisco; former chair of
neurology and
neurosurgery at the Montreal Neurological Institute •
Anna McPherson, physicist and the first female professor in the Department of Physics •
Michael Meaney – pioneer of epigenetics; James McGill Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology and Neurosurgery. •
Ronald Melzack (BA, 1950, MSc 1951, PhD 1954) – developed the McGill Pain Questionnaire •
Ravi S. Menon (MSc(A), 1986) - Canadian-American biophysicist involved in the development of
functional magnetic resonance imaging, Professor at
The University of Western Ontario. •
Donna Mergler (PhD, 1973) – neuro-physiologist specializing in environmental effects of
neurotoxins •
John S. Meyer (MD 1948, MSc 1949) – neurology professor and Chairman of the U.S. President's Commission on Heart Disease, Cancer and Stroke •
Brenda Milner (MA 1949, PhD 1952) – provided the first clear demonstration of the existence of multiple memory systems in the brain with patient
H.M. •
Henry Mintzberg (BEng 1961) – business guru •
Mortimer Mishkin (MA 1949, PhD 1951) – renowned neuropsychologist for path-breaking work on brain-processing of memories and 2009
National Medal of Science recipient •
Albert Moll (LLB 1932, MD 1937) – professor of psychiatry; pioneer of psychiatric day treatment •
Marie-Eve Morin – Canadian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy •
Karl Moore – associate professor of management at McGill University •
Audrey Moores - professor of chemistry and Tier II Canada Research Chair •
William Reginald Morse, MD, one of four medical missionaries who founded the
West China Union University in
Chengdu, Sichuan, in 1914; went on to become dean of the medical faculty and, later, assistant researcher at the
Peabody Museum, where he advanced studies of Chinese and Tibetan medicine •
Beverley Pearson Murphy, endocrinologist and professor •
Jennifer G. Murphy (BS 2000) – Professor of chemistry at
University of Toronto •
Ivan R. Nabi (PhD 1989) - cell biologist and professor at
University of British Columbia. •
E. R. Ward Neale (BSc 1949) – geologist, professor at
Memorial University of Newfoundland •
Mona Nemer (PhD 1992) – Chief Science Adviser of Canada, 2017–present •
Louis Nirenberg (BS 1945) – mathematician; 1995
National Medal of Science recipient and winner of 2015
Abel Prize •
Percy Erskine Nobbs – former professor of architecture; designer of many buildings in Montreal, especially at McGill, and in Alberta, British Columbia, and South Africa •
James Olds (Postdoc 1955) – neuroscientist and psychologist; co-discovered the reward center of the brain; a founder of modern neuroscience •
Kelvin Ogilvie – McGill chemistry professor 1974–87; expert in biotechnology, bioorganic chemistry, genetic engineering •
Santa J. Ono (PhD 1991) – immunologist; 15th President & Vice-Chancellor of
The University of British Columbia; 28th President of
The University of Cincinnati; 15th President of the
University of Michigan; discovered NFX1 RING Finger motif; showed HMGA2 truncation drives mesenchymal tumor development •
William Osler (MD 1872) – McGill professor; medical pioneer; developed the modern form of a doctor's bedside manner; a founder of the
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine at
Johns Hopkins University •
Gilles Paradis – public health and preventive medicine physician at the Institut national de santé publique du Québec, as well as professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health and Strathcona Chair in Epidemiology at McGill University. •
Madhu Pai – Canada Research Chair of Epidemiology and Global Health at McGill University •
Antony Page (B.Comm., 1988) - dean of the
Florida International University College of Law •
Johanne Paradis (PhD 1997), Canadian language scientist, researcher •
Arthur Lindo Patterson (BSc 1923, MSc 1924, PhD 1928) – physicist •
Jordan Peterson (PhD 1991, Postdoc 1993) – clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and psychology professor currently at the
University of Toronto •
Kevin Petrecca – neurosurgical oncologist at the
Montreal Neurological Institute, chief of neurosurgery at the
MUHC, associate professor of neurology and neurosurgery and William Feindel Chair in Neuro-Oncology at McGill University •
Wilder Penfield – neurosurgery pioneer; first director of the
Montreal Neurological Institute and Montreal Neurological Hospital, which are affiliated with McGill University •
Stephen R. Perry, John J. O'Brien Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Pennsylvania Law School •
Steven Pinker (BA 1976) – cognitive psychologist; author of
The Blank Slate,
How the Mind Works •
Susan Pinker (BA 1979) – psychologist; author of
The Sexual Paradox •
Jeremy Quastel – mathematician specializing in
probability theory and
PDEs, currently professor at the University of Toronto •
Judah Hirsch Quastel – biochemist; pioneer in
neurochemistry and soil metabolism; Director of the McGill University-Montreal General Hospital Research Institute •
Amélie Quesnel-Vallée – associate professor with joint appointment in the Departments of Sociology and Epidemiology, and Canada Research Chair in Policies and Health Inequalities at McGill •
Fazlur Rahman – Islamic philosopher •
James R. Reid (BA 1881, MDiv 1883) – theologian and president of
College of Montana (1889–1893) and
Montana State University (1894–1904) •
Richard Birdsall Rogers (BEng 1878) – civil engineer and designer of the
Peterborough Lift Lock •
Mary Laura Chalk Rowles (BSc 1925, MSc 1926, PhD 1928) – physicist •
Christopher E. Rudd (BSc 1978) – immunologist; professor at Harvard and Cambridge •
Witold Rybczynski (BArch 1966, MArch 1972) – Scottish-born McGill-trained architect and internationally known writer and critic •
Philip Carl Salzman – anthropologist •
Joseph A. Schwarcz (BSc 1969, PhD 1973) – chemist, science popularizer, science journalist •
Hans Selye — (DSc, 1942) Endocrinologist, pioneered studies on the effects of stress on the human body. •
Justine Sergent (BA, 1973, MSc 1979, PhD 1982) – neuroscientist •
Bernard Shapiro (BA, 1956) – Ethics Commissioner of Canada; former Principal of McGill and Deputy Education Minister of Ontario; twin brother of Harold Shapiro •
Harold Shapiro (BA, 1956, MA 1959) – former president of
Princeton University; former president of the
University of Michigan; twin brother of Bernard Shapiro •
Judith N. Shklar (BA, 1949, MA 1950) – political scientist, John Cowles Professor of Government at Harvard, and first woman president of the
American Political Science Association (APSA) •
Vera Shlakman (BA 1930, MA 1931) – professor of economics, noted Marxist scholar, and author of famous book on women factory workers •
Jenni Sidey (BEng 2011) – Canadian astronaut, engineer, and lecturer. •
Upinder Singh (PhD 1990) – Indian historian •
Nahum Sonenberg – Israeli Canadian microbiologist and biochemist. He is a James McGill professor of biochemistry •
M. R. Srinivasan (MEng 1952, PhD 1954) – Indian Nuclear Physicist •
Moshe Szyf – geneticist, pioneer of epigenetics; James McGill professor of pharmacology and therapeutics. •
Charles Taylor (BA 1952) – writer, philosopher, and political theorist; 2007 winner of the
Templeton Prize •
Karen Teff (PhD 1988) - biologist and geneticist •
Demetri Terzopoulos (BEng 1978, MEng 1980) -
Academy Award winning Greek-Canadian-American
computer scientist, university
professor,
author, and
entrepreneur •
Marc Tessier-Lavigne (BSc 1980) – 11th president of
Stanford University; former president of
Rockefeller University; Rhodes scholar •
Wendy Thomson - former head of School of Social Work and current vice-chancellor of
University of London, 2019- •
Lionel Tiger (BA 1959) – best-selling author; Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University •
Peter Todd (BCom 1983) – former dean of McGill's
Desautels Faculty of Management, dean of
HEC Paris •
Stephen Toope (BCL, 1983 LLB, 1983) – Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Cambridge (2017–), President of the University of British Columbia (2006–2014) •
Bruce Trigger – OC OQ FRSC (18 June 1937 – 1 December 2006) archaeologist, anthropologist, and ethnohistorian. James McGill Professor (2001–2006), Professor McGill University (1967–2006). •
Tom Velk – monetary economics and public policy professor •
Manuella Vincter - particle physicist, professor at
Carleton University, deputy spokesperson of the
ATLAS experiment •
Jacob Viner (BA 1914) – professor; early leader of the
Chicago school of economics • Robert Vogel (academic) - professor; Dean of Faculty of Arts of
McGill University •
Alice Vrielink – Head of Discipline in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Western Australia; conducts research in crystallography •
Immanuel Wallerstein – former professor of sociology (1971–1976); political scientist, known for the
World Systems Theory •
Jagannath Wani (PhD 1967) – statistics professor and philanthropist focusing on mental illness awareness •
Frank T. M. White – Foundation Professor, Mining and Metallurgical Engineering,
University of Queensland; Macdonald Professor of Mining Engineering and Applied Geophysics,
McGill University •
Franklin White (MD 1969) – scholar-practitioner; former president, Canadian Public Health Association; 1997 Medal of Honor from the
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) •
Andrew B. Wittkower (BS 1955) – physicist and IEEE fellow •
Joseph Wong, Vice President, International, University of Toronto • William Wright (DMC 1848) – first person of colour to obtain a medical degree in Canada and first to be a professor; professor,
McGill Medical Faculty, 1854-1883. •
Tim Wu (BSc 1995) – professor at
Columbia Law School; adviser for the
New York State Attorney General •
Leo Yaffe (PhD 1943) - nuclear chemist •
Bernard P. Zeigler (BEng 1962) – a Canadian engineer and emeritus professor at the University of Arizona, known for inventing
Discrete Event System Specification (DEVS) in 1976. •
Hans Zingg (PhD) – Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Wyeth-Ayerst Chair in Women's Health at McGill •
Bernard Zinman (MD) – research endocrinologist, clinician, and diabetes expert •
Eva Kushner (BA, MA, PhD) - a scholar of literature and the first female president of a Canadian University (
Victoria University).
Business and media •
Suhayya Abu-Hakima – co-founder and CEO of AmikaNow! and Amika Mobile Corporation •
Noubar Afeyan ― one of two Canadian co-founders of
Moderna, Inc. •
Vinod Agarwal – founder and former chairman of
LogicVision ($100 million NASDAQ traded company) •
Suroosh Alvi – journalist, filmmaker, and co-founder of
VICE magazine •
Peyush Bansal- co-founder and CEO at
Lenskart, an Indian
unicorn. Investor at
Shark Tank India. •
Aldo Bensadoun – founder and CEO of the
ALDO Group •
Conrad Black – imprisoned press baron and media tycoon in the Anglo-Canadian tradition of Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Thomson of Fleet; owner of 650 dailies/weeklies around the world •
Nigel Braun – YouTuber and chemist • Thomas Brag – co-founder of
Yes Theory •
Charles Bronfman – philanthropist; former co-chairman of
Seagram Distillers •
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. – former CEO of Seagram •
Kitra Cahana - Peabody award-winning documentary filmmaker and documentary photographer •
John Cleghorn – former chairman of the
Royal Bank of Canada, the largest bank in Canada; currently chairman of
SNC-Lavalin group •
Jim Coleman (1911–2001), Canadian sports journalist, writer and press secretary •
Jean Coutu – businessman; billionaire; founder and CEO of
Jean Coutu Group • Matt Dahlia – co-founder of
Yes Theory •
Paul Desmarais, Jr. – chairman of
Power Corporation •
Ritika Dutt – CEO and co-founder of
Botler AI •
Gad Elmaleh – French comedian •
Darren Entwistle – president and chief executive officer of
Telus •
Stéphanie Fillion - Award-winning
French-Canadian reporter and
United Nations correspondent •
Adam Gopnik – staff writer for
The New Yorker magazine •
Céline Galipeau – weekday anchor of
Ici Radio-Canada Télé's
Le Téléjournal •
Kuok Khoon Hong – Singaporean billionaire and co-founder of
Wilmar International •
Dick Irvin, Jr. – sports broadcaster and author; second longest serving member of
CBC's
Hockey Night in Canada (after
Bob Cole) •
Hubert Lacroix – president and CEO of the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation •
David Lawee – partner and founder of
Google Capital •
John MacBain – founder, CEO and president of
Trader Classified Media •
Shahid Mahmood – political cartoonist •
Scott McDonald – CEO of
Oliver Wyman •
Don McGowan – television personality, weatherman and host at
CFCF-DT •
Thomas S. Monahan – president and CEO of
CIBC Mellon •
Claude Mongeau – CEO and president of the
Canadian National Railway •
Harley Morenstein – host and co-creator of
Epic Meal Time •
Andy Nulman – co-founder of
Just for Laughs •
Mark Phillips – CBS News London bureau correspondent since 1982, formerly CBC News London correspondent •
Elizabeth Plank –
Vox video blogger and online journalist •
Robert Rabinovitch – president and CEO of the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation •
Jade Raymond video game producer at
Ubisoft; co-host of G4TV's
Electronic Playground •
Matthew Rosenberg – Washington correspondent at
The New York Times, and national security analyst for
CNN •
John Roth – former CEO of
Nortel Networks •
Calin Rovinescu – president and CEO of
Air Canada •
Claire Saffitz – American pastry chef, food writer and YouTube personality •
Sugar Sammy - Canadian comedian •
Seymour Schulich – benefactor to the
Schulich School of Music at McGill and
Schulich School of Business,
York University •
Allan Scott – writer-producer of more than 20 feature films, including ''
Don't Look Now, voted the best British film of all time; wrote Priscilla, Queen of the Desert''; as chairman of Macallan-Glenlivet, he turned Macallan into a world-leading malt whisky •
Savik Shuster – TV journalist working for
Ukrainian television •
Evan Solomon –
political journalist and radio host on
Sirius XM Canada, columnist for ''
Maclean's'' •
Helga Stephenson – interim CEO of the
Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television •
Ziya Tong – television personality and co-host of
Daily Planet •
Lorne Trottier – founder of
Matrox Electronic Systems •
Ivana Trump – Czech-American businesswoman and former fashion model, ex-wife of President
Donald Trump •
Les Vadasz – founding member of
Intel Corporation •
Zain Verjee – co-anchor of CNN International's European morning program
World Report •
Michelle Zatlyn – co-founder, president, and COO of
Cloudflare •
Moses Znaimer – co-founder and former president and executive producer of CityTV; chairman and Executive Producer of the Access Media Group •
Mort Zuckerman – CEO of Atlantic Monthly Corporation and publisher of
U.S. News & World Report •
Changpeng Zhao - founder and CEO of
Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange.
Billionaires Politics and government Canadian politicians and civil servants McGill alumni have held and continue to hold many positions at the federal and provincial levels in Canadian politics:
Governors-General of Canada •
Julie Payette (BEng 1986) –
Governor General of Canada, 2017–2021; former
Canadian Space Agency astronaut •
David Lloyd Johnston (LLD 2000) –
Governor General of Canada, 2010–2017; former McGill principal; former head of the Board of Overseers at
Harvard University; former president of the
University of Waterloo, 1999–2011
Prime ministers •
Sir John Abbott (BCL 1854) – third Prime Minister of Canada and first to be born in Canada •
Sir Wilfrid Laurier (BCL 1864) – seventh Prime Minister of Canada •
Ian Binnie (BA 1960) – appointed to the Court in 1998, formerly Associate Deputy Minister of Justice •
Marie Deschamps (LLM 1983) – appointed to the Court in 2002, previously a Judge on the Quebec Court of Appeal •
Charles Gonthier (BCL 1951) – served on the Supreme Court 1989–2003 •
Nicholas Kasirer (BCL, LLB 1985) – appointed to the court in 2019, previously a judge on the Quebec Court of Appeal •
Gerald Le Dain (BCL 1949) – appointed to the Court in 1984, previously a Judge on the Federal Court of Appeal •
Sheilah Martin (BCL, LLB, 1981), – appointed to the Court in 2017, previously judge of the
Court of Appeal of Alberta •
Pierre-Basile Mignault (BCL 1878) – appointed to the Court in 1918, previously President of the Bar of Montréal •
Thibaudeau Rinfret (BCL 1900) – appointed to the Court in 1924, previously a Judge on the Superior Court of Quebec
Senators •
Albert Joseph Brown (BA 1883, BCL 1886) – Senator for Wellington, 1932–1938 •
Henry Joseph Cloran (BCL 1883) – Senator for Victoria, Quebec, 1903–1928 •
Sheila Finestone (BSc 1947) – appointed to the Senate of Canada in 1999 •
Gerald Butts (BA 1993, MA 1996) – current
Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of Canada, 2015– • Sir
Charles Boucher de Boucherville (MD 1843) – Premier of Quebec, 1874–1878, 1891–1892 •
Ian Brodie (BA 1990) –
Chief of Staff in the government of Prime Minister
Stephen Harper, 2006–2008 •
Neil Brown,
Q.C. (PhD. 1973) – Alberta MLA •
Rosemary Brown – first Black Canadian woman to be elected to a provincial legislature •
James Campbell Clouston (BEng 1918) – Canadian officer in the British
Royal Navy, who acted as pier-master during the
Dunkirk evacuation; inspiration for
Kenneth Branagh's pier-master character in
Christopher Nolan's 2017 film
Dunkirk •
May Cutler (BA 1945, MA 1951) – first woman to serve as Mayor of
Westmount, Quebec (1987–1991); founder of
Tundra Books; first female Canadian publisher of children's books • Sir
Charles Peers Davidson (BA 1864, MA 1867, BCL 1873, DCL 1875, Hon. LLD 1912) – Chief Justice of the Quebec Superior Court, 1912–1915 •
Henry Thomas Duffy (BA 1876, BCL 1879) – Minister of Public Works and Treasurer of Quebec •
Brian Gallant (LLM 2011) –
Premier of New Brunswick, 2014– •
R. A. E. Greenshields (BA 1883, BCL 1885) – Chief Justice of the
Superior Court of the Province of Quebec, 1929–1942 •
Don Johnston (BCL 1958, BA 1960) – former Secretary General of the
OECD •
Carlos Leitão (BA 1979) –
Minister of Finance of Quebec, 2014– •
David Lewis (BA and LLD) –
Rhodes Scholar and former leader of the
New Democratic Party (1971–75) •
Alexander Cameron Rutherford (BA, LLB 1881) – first premier of Alberta, founder of the
University of Alberta •
Bernard Shapiro (BA 1956) – Federal Ethics Commissioner, 2004–2007 •
Marie-Claire Kirkland Strover (BA 1947, BCL 1950) – first woman elected to the Quebec National Assembly, serving between 1966 and 1973.
Foreign politicians and other government officials McGill alumni have held and continue to hold many top government positions in other countries:
Foreign heads of state/government •
Paula Cox (BA 1985) – former
prime minister of Bermuda •
Timothy Harris (PhD 2001) – current
Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis •
Joni Madraiwiwi (LLM 1989; DipA&SL 1988) – former acting president and vice-president of the
Republic of Fiji and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the
Republic of Nauru •
Jacqui Quinn-Leandro (PhD 2003) – first female (acting) prime minister of
Antigua and Barbuda, and cabinet member (Minister of Education, Minister of Labour, and Minister of Public Service) •
Michael Manley (BA 1943) – former prime minister of
Jamaica, and former member of the Senate and House of Representatives in the
Parliament of Jamaica •
Ahmed Nazif (PhD 1983) – former prime minister of
Egypt •
John Rankin (LLM 1984) – current
Governor-General of Bermuda •
Daniel Oduber Quirós (MA 1945) – former president of
Costa Rica •
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga (PhD 1965) – former president of
Latvia; first female president of Latvia
Cabinet members •
Mukti Ali (MA 1960s) – Minister of Religious Affairs of The Republic of Indonesia, 1971-1978 •
Zbigniew Brzezinski (BA 1949; MA 1950) – former National Security Advisor (with Cabinet rank) to President
Jimmy Carter •
Peter Murcott Bunting (BEng 1983) – current
Minister of National Security of Jamaica •
Warren Randolph Burgess (MA 1915) – former United States Undersecretary of the Treasury and United States Ambassador to
NATO •
Miguel Castilla (BA 1991) – current Minister of Economy and Finance of
Peru •
Stephen Chebrot (MSc 2009) – current Minister for Transport in the Ugandan Cabinet and incumbent Member of the
Parliament of Uganda, and former Ugandan Ambassador to
India •
Bernard Chidzero (PhD 1958) – Minister of Finance of
Zimbabwe, 1985–1995 •
Peng Ming-min (MA 1952) – senior adviser (with cabinet rank) to the president of
Taiwan, and former presidential candidate in Taiwan •
Jacqui Quinn-Leandro (PhD 2003) – first female (acting) prime minister of
Antigua and Barbuda, and cabinet member (Minister of Education, Minister of Labour, and Minister of Public Service) •
Hamdillah Abdul Wahab (BEng 1974) – former
Deputy Minister of Industry and Primary Resources •
Michael Žantovský (MA 1975) – Press Secretary and Presidential Spokesman of the
Czech Republic •
Euan Howard, 4th Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal (BEng 1951) – British
Minister of State for Defence, 1979–1981 •
Jamaluddin Jarjis (PhD 1980) – former Malaysian ambassador to the United States and Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation •
Dov Yosef (BA 1921) – Minister of Justice, Minister of Trade and Industry, and Minister of Health of the State of Israel •
Malik Amin Aslam (MBA 1993) – former Pakistani Minister of State for the Environment and current advisor to the prime minister for Climate Change (with Cabinet rank) •
Dominique Dupuy (BA 2012) - Minister of Foreign Affairs, Religious Affairs, and Haitians Abroad of
Haiti Legislators •
Wong Yuk-shan (MSc 1976; PhD 1979) – former Member (deputy) of the
National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China •
Gilbert Cooper (BCom 1924) – former mayor of
Hamilton, Bermuda and member of the
House of Assembly of Bermuda •
S. I. Hayakawa (MA 1928) – U.S. Senator from California •
James McCleary (BA 1874) – U.S. Congressman representing
Minnesota in the
United States House of Representatives •
Joseph J. O'Brien (BA 1917) – U.S. Congressman representing New York in the
United States House of Representatives •
Chase G. Woodhouse (BA 1912; MA 1914) – U.S. Congresswoman representing
Connecticut in the
United States House of Representatives •
Carlos Heredia (MA 1985) – Member of the
Congress of Mexico and Governor of the State of
Michoacán in Mexico •
Gordon Wasserman, Baron Wasserman (BA 1959) – Member of the
House of Lords in the
British Parliament and
life peer, and internationally recognized policing advisor •
Conrad Black (MA 1973) – Member of the
House of Lords in the
British Parliament and
life peer, and publisher of
The Daily Telegraph (UK),
Chicago Sun-Times (U.S.),
The Jerusalem Post (Israel),
National Post (Canada) •
Euan Howard, 4th Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal (BEng 1951) – Member of the
House of Lords in the
British Parliament •
Andrew Hamilton Gault (BA 1902) –
Conservative Member of the
House of Commons in the
British Parliament for
Taunton, Somerset, UK (1924–1935); raised
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, the last privately raised regiment in the
British Empire; bequeathed his
Mont Saint-Hilaire estate to McGill in 1958 •
Maurice Alexander (BA 1908; BCL 1910) –
Liberal Member of the
House of Commons in the
British Parliament for
Southwark South East, UK •
Gavin Henderson, 2nd Baron Faringdon (BA 1922) – former member of the
London County Council, Chairman of the
Fabian Society, 1960–1961 •
Dhanayshar Mahabir (MA 1985; PhD 1994) – Senator of the
Republic of Trinidad and Tobago •
Jacqui Quinn-Leandro (PhD 2003) – first woman elected to the
House of Representatives, and later elected as Senator, in the
Parliament of Antigua and Barbuda •
Ramasamy Palanisamy (MA 1980) – current
Member of the Parliament of Malaysia •
Hidipo Hamutenya (MA 1971) – Member of the
National Assembly of Namibia and cabinet member (Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Minister of Trade and Industry, and Minister of Foreign Affairs) of
Namibia •
Michael Žantovský (MA 1975) – ambassador of
Czechoslovakia/
Czech Republic to the United States, Israel, and the United Kingdom, and Senator in the
Parliament of the Czech Republic •
Rıza Türmen (LLM 1980) – former Member of the
Turkish Parliament and Turkish Ambassador to
Switzerland •
Dov Yosef (BA 1921) – former member of the Israeli
Parliament and Israel's Minister of Justice, Minister of Trade and Industry, and Minister of Health •
Peter Murcott Bunting (BEng 1983) – current Member of
Parliament of Jamaica Judges •
Akintola Olufemi Eyiwunmi (LLM 1964) – justice of the
Supreme Court of Nigeria •
Muhammad Khalid Masud (MA 1971; PhD 1973) – current justice of the Shariat Appellate Bench of the
Supreme Court of Pakistan •
Joni Madraiwiwi (LLM 1989; DipA&SL 1988) – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the
Republic of Nauru •
Chile Eboe-Osuji (LLM 1991) – judge and currently president (chief justice) of the
International Criminal Court Heads of financial institutions •
Ernest Addison (PhD 1993) – banker, and current chairman and governor of the
Central Bank of Ghana •
Kofi Wampah (MA 1983; PhD 1986) – former chairman and governor of the
Bank of Ghana, and Chairman of the Central Bank Governors of West Africa •
DeLisle Worrell (MA 1973; PhD 1975) – former chairman and governor of the
Central Bank of Barbados •
P. Amarasinghe (MA 1974) – deputy governor of the
Central Bank of Sri Lanka Ambassadors •
John L. Withers II (MA 1975) – ambassador of the United States to
Albania •
Francis Terry McNamara (MA 1954) – ambassador of the United States to
Gabon,
Cape Verde, and
São Tomé and Príncipe •
John Larkindale (PhD 1971) – ambassador of New Zealand to Russia and Australia •
Kurt Jaeger (LLM 1989) – current Ambassador of
Liechtenstein to the United States •
Rıza Türmen (LLM 1980) – ambassador of
Turkey to
Switzerland •
Michael Žantovský (MA 1975) – ambassador of
Czechoslovakia/
Czech Republic to the United States, Israel, and the United Kingdom •
Jamaluddin Jarjis (PhD 1980) – ambassador of
Malaysia to the United States •
Miguel Castilla (BA 1991) – ambassador of
Peru to the United States •
John Rankin (LLM 1984) – ambassador of the United Kingdom to
Sri Lanka,
Nepal, and the
Maldives Others •
Joanne Liu (BSc 1987; MD 1991; IMHL 2014) – international president of
Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) •
Sam Nunberg (BA 2004) – former presidential political advisor to U.S. President
Donald Trump •
Ilya Sheyman (BA 2006) – social activist and Democratic candidate for the
U.S. House of Representatives in the 2012 election •
Morag Wise, Lady Wise (LLM 1994) – Scottish
Senator of the College of Justice •
David Hackett (BA 1950) – boarding school friend of
Robert F. Kennedy; founder and head of
Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 Volunteers in Service to America (
VISTA), the domestic U.S.
Peace Corps program; inspiration for Phineas in John Knowles's 1959 novel
A Separate Peace; McGill hockey player and selected for the US Olympic Hockey Team (1952) •
Wang Bingzhang (Phd 1982) – Chinese Dissident and Political Prisoner, the founding father of the overseas Chinese Democratic Movement.
Art, music, and film •
Ayal Adler – musician and composer •
Will Aitken – novelist and film critic •
Patrick Allen – English actor and businessman, known for Shakespearean roles and for narrating the controversial
Protect and Survive public information films for the
British government •
Michael Andre – poet and editor •
Darcy James Argue – jazz composer and bandleader •
Burt Bacharach - American composer, songwriter, record producer and pianist •
Hadji Bakara – "sound manipulator" and secondary keyboardist for
Wolf Parade •
Samantha Bee – correspondent,
The Daily Show •
Yanic Bercier – drummer for
death metal band
Quo Vadis •
Mary E. Black – occupational therapist, teacher, master weaver and writer •
Claire Boucher – musician and visual artist under stage name Grimes •
Win Butler – musician, co-founder of
Arcade Fire •
Peter Butterfield – concert tenor and conductor •
Anne Carson – poet and professor of classics •
Regine Chassagne – musician, co-founder of
Arcade Fire •
John Austin Clark – music director and harpsichordist, co-founder of
Bourbon Baroque •
Leonard Cohen – poet, author, songwriter, singer, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee •
Sheldon Cohen – animator and illustrator of
The Hockey Sweater •
Chuck Comeau – drummer and songwriter for band
Simple Plan •
Hume Cronyn – actor,
The Seventh Cross,
Cocoon; studied theatre, left for Broadway without completing his degree •
Hubert Davis (BA 2000) – Oscar nominee for best documentary short subject •
Mackenzie Davis – actress and
Canadian Screen Award nominee for
The F Word •
Audrey Capel Doray – artist •
Christopher Downs – actor and entertainer in
Taiwan and China, known there as 夏克立 •
William Henry Drummond – Irish-born Canadian poet •
Louis Dudek – poet •
Arthur Erickson – architect (Robson Square, Vancouver; Canadian Chancery, Washington DC; Roy Thomson Hall; Museum of Anthropology, UBC; Simon Fraser University; Museum of Glass, Tacoma; California Plaza, San Diego Convention Center) •
Mary Fahl – singer and actress •
Colin Ferguson – actor,
Eureka •
Karl Fischer – architect practicing in Montreal and New York City •
Jessalyn Gilsig – actress,
Boston Public,
NYPD Blue,
Nip/Tuck,
Glee •
Grace Glowicki – actress and filmmaker •
Evan Goldberg – co-writer of
Superbad,
Pineapple Express •
Jonathan Goldstein – author and radio producer, host of
WireTap on
CBC Radio One •
Estelí Gomez - Grammy winning musician, university instructor •
Chilly Gonzales – Grammy-nominated musician •
Linda Griffiths – playwright, actress •
Paul Haddad – actor •
Aaron Harris – percussionist/drummer, of
Islands, Montreal-based
indie rock group •
Sinjin Hawke – music producer and DJ •
Gavin Heffernan – director,
Expiration •
Jennifer Irwin – actress,
Still Standing •
Heather Juergensen – actress, co-screenwriter
Kissing Jessica Stein •
Maxwell M. Kalman – architect, designed Canada's first mall
Norgate shopping centre •
George Karpati •
Kid Koala, born Eric San – turntablist and musician •
Mia Kirshner – actress,
The L Word •
Veronika Krausas – composer •
Christian Lander – author of the Stuff White People Like blog •
Robert Lantos – film producer •
Lily Laverock – journalist, impresario and suffragist •
Irving Layton – poet •
Stephen Leacock – humorist and economist •
Rachelle Lefevre – actress,
Big Wolf on Campus,
Twilight •
Norman Levine (BA, MA) – writer •
Daniel Levitin – writer,
This Is Your Brain On Music; musician •
Julia Loktev – director of
The Loneliest Planet,
Day Night Day Night •
Brian Macdonald – choreographer and dancer in Canada, New York, and Europe •
Hugh MacLennan – writer,
Two Solitudes,
Barometer Rising •
Miles Mander – early film actor, director and novelist •
Louise Manny – historian and folklorist, collected New Brunswick folksongs •
Ruth Marshall – actress who played in
Flashpoint as the
SRU's
forensic psychologist •
Cameron Mathison – actor,
All My Children •
Marc Mayer – art curator and director of the
National Gallery of Canada •
Harry Mayerovitch – artist •
John McCrae – surgeon, poet, author of Canadian poem "
In Flanders' Fields" •
Kate McGarrigle – musician and folk-singer •
Dorothy McIlwraith – editor of
Weird Tales, 1940–54 •
Casey McKinnon – actress •
Sophia Michahelles – pageant puppet designer and co-artistic director,
Processional Arts Workshop •
Raymond Moriyama – architect (Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto; Canadian Embassy, Tokyo; Ontario Science Centre; Toronto Reference Library; Canadian War Museum; Saudi Arabian National Museum, Riyadh) •
Suniti Namjoshi – writer •
Heather O'Neill – writer •
Alisa Palmer – playwright and theatre director •
Donald Patriquin – composer and organist •
Mauro Pezzente – bassist and co-founder of
Godspeed You! Black Emperor •
Sam Roberts – musician •
John Rogers – writer/producer,
Leverage •
Rebecca Rosenblum – writer, winner of the 2007
Metcalf-Rooke Award •
Dean Rosenthal – composer •
Moshe Safdie – architect (National Gallery of Canada, Vancouver Library, Salt Lake City Public Library, Musee de la Civilisation, Habitat '67) •
Robert Edison Sandiford – short story writer and essayist •
John Ralston Saul – Governor General's Award-winning philosophical author •
Robert William Service – poet and writer of the
Yukon Gold Rush •
Mark Shainblum – author and comic book creator •
William Shatner – actor,
Boston Legal; Captain
James T. Kirk in
Star Trek •
Jaspreet Singh – author,
Seventeen Tomatoes •
Sonja Skarstedt – poet and illustrator •
Nigel Spencer – literary translator.''
Governor General's Literary Awards--2002, 2007, 2012'' •
Donald Steven –
Juno Award and
Jules Léger Prize winning composer •
Philippe Tatartcheff – Swiss-born poet and songwriter notable for writing songs in French with 8 •
Anna and
Kate McGarrigle •
Ruth Taylor – poet •
Gentile Tondino – artist •
J. Torres – comic book writer •
Zineb Triki – actress •
Jessica Trisko – 2007
Miss Earth titleholder •
Ken Vandermark – jazz saxophonist and
MacArthur Foundation "genius award" winner •
Aquil Virani - artist •
Benjamin Von Wong - artist, activist, and photographer •
Rufus Wainwright (briefly attended – dropped out upon record deal) – recording artist, musician •
William Weintraub – author, journalist and filmmaker (
Why Rock the Boat?) •
Robert Stanley Weir – author (in 1908) of the English words to "O, Canada" •
Matthew White – countertenor •
Jan Wong –
Globe and Mail columnist ("Lunch with Jan Wong" series); author of books including award-winning
Red China Blues and ''Jan Wong's China'' •
Royal Wood – singer-songwriter •
Amanda Yiyen – Taiwanese pianist
Architects For a full list of notable alumni and faculty from the
School of Architecture, see:
Inventors •
Bernard Belleau – inventor of lamivudine, a drug used in the treatment of HIV and Hepatitis B infection •
Willard Boyle – inventor of the
charge-coupled device •
Thomas Chang – creator of the first artificial cell •
James Creighton (Law 1880) – considered the originator of North American ice hockey rules •
Charles R. Drew (MDCM 1933) – black American medical pioneer; track star who led McGill to five intercollegiate titles; as medical advisor for the Blood for Britain program of World War II, the father of blood banks •
Lorne Elias (PhD 1956) – inventor of the explosives vapour detector EVD-1 •
Alan Emtage – inventor of
Archie, the grandfather of search engines • Colonel Dr.
Cluny MacPherson (MD 1901) – inventor of the MacPherson respirator
gas mask during World War I •
Paul Moller – inventor of the
Moller Skycar, a VTOL aircraft
Sports •
Betty Archdale – former captain (1934/5) of
English women's cricket team •
Mike Babcock – NHL coach, formerly of the
Toronto Maple Leafs; first and as of 2016 only coach to be a member of the
Triple Gold Club, having won the
Stanley Cup (Detroit, 2008),
Olympic gold medal for
men's ice hockey (2010, 2014), and the
International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF)
Ice Hockey World Championship •
Russ Blinco – Montreal Maroons centre; 1935 NHL Rookie of the Year •
Guy Boucher – former head coach of the
Ottawa Senators •
George Burnett – former head coach for the
Edmonton Oilers •
Doug Carpenter – former head coach for the Toronto Maple Leafs and
New Jersey Devils •
Randy Chevrier – former NFL and CFL player •
J. P. Darche – American football long snapper •
Ken Dryden (LLB 1974) – politician, lawyer, businessman, author; retired National Hockey League goaltender from the
Montreal Canadiens; former president of the Toronto Maple Leafs •
Laurent Duvernay-Tardif (MD, CM 2018) – American football player for the
Kansas City Chiefs, graduated from McGill's Medical School in 2018; first medical doctor and first Quebecer to play and win the
Super Bowl. •
Phil Edwards (MD 1936) – one of Canada's most decorated Olympians with 5 bronze medals •
Jack Gelineau – Boston Bruins and Chicago Blackhawks goaltender who won Calder Trophy as NHL Rookie of the Year in 1950 •
Jennifer Heil (
BComm) – 2006 Olympic gold medalist in freestyle skiing •
George Hodgson (BEng 1916) – Canadian Olympic men's swim team (1912 and 1920); McGill's first athlete to win an Olympic gold medal; first Canadian to win two Olympic gold medals (Stockholm, 1916) •
Jackrabbit Johannsen – Norwegian-Canadian; credited with introducing cross-country skiing to North America; lived in retirement at McGill's
Mont-Saint-Hilaire Gault Nature Reserve •
Charline Labonté (
BEd – Physical Education) – 2006 Olympic gold medalist in women's ice hockey •
R. Tait McKenzie – pioneer in college physical education; sculptor; physician •
Percival Molson – college athlete and soldier in World War I; namesake of
Percival Molson Memorial Stadium •
James Naismith (BA 1887) – inventor of
basketball;
University of Kansas coach; namesake of six
NCAA college basketball awards and the
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame •
Kevin O'Neill – former head coach of the
Toronto Raptors; former head coach for
USC Trojans men's basketball. •
Frank Patrick (BA 1908) – wrote much of the NHL rule book • Hon.
Sydney David Pierce (BA 1922, BCL 1925, LLD 1956) – 1924 Olympic swimmer and former Canadian ambassador to many countries •
Dick Pound – former Olympic swimmer, former
IOC vice president, chancellor of McGill, current chairman of the
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) •
Silver Quilty – Canadian Football Hall of Fame inductee, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame inductee, Canadian Amateur Hockey Association president. •
Allan Roth – baseball and hockey
statistician for the
Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers of
Major League Baseball (1947-1964) and the
Montreal Canadiens of the
National Hockey League (1944-1947).
Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame inductee. •
Samantha Rapoport –
NFL Director of Player Development, former
Canada women's national football team and
Montreal Blitz quarterback •
Kim St-Pierre (BEd 2005) – Canadian Olympic women's hockey team (2002 and 2006), McGill's first female athlete to become an Olympic gold medallist (Salt Lake City, 2002) •
Frank "Shag" Shaughnessy – first professional football coach hired by a Canadian university, he revolutionized Canadian college football by introducing the forward pass in 1921 in a game against
Syracuse University and lobbied for a decade until the forward pass was adopted by the
Canadian Rugby Football Union in 1931 •
Howard Stupp (born 1955) - Olympic wrestler •
Jack Wright (MDCM 1928) – 11-year veteran of Canadian Davis Cup team in the 1920s and 1930s •
David Zilberman – Canadian Olympic heavyweight wrestler
Fictional characters • Major Donald Craig, Canadian commando serving with British special forces during World War II, portrayed by
Rock Hudson in the 1967 war movie
Tobruk. Though the film was loosely based on real events, it's not clear whether or not Hudson's character was based on a real person. Most likely he was a pastiche character, given a Canadian background as cover for Hudson's inability to emulate a British accent. • David Hollander, played by
Dylan Walsh, former McGill University hockey player and father to
Shane Hollander in the
Crave Canadian sports romance television series
Heated Rivalry • Dr. Walter Langkowski, researcher from the Marvel Comics Canadian superhero series
Alpha Flight; portrayed as a McGill-based biophysicist researching the gamma radiation accident which created the Hulk; his discoveries transformed him into the superhero known as
Sasquatch • Lieutenant Alan McGregor, played by
Gary Cooper,
Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) • Dr. Robert Richardson, played by
Lew Ayres,
Johnny Belinda (1948) •
Dr. James Wilson,
oncologist and best friend to main character
Gregory House in the
Fox Network TV drama
House Others •
Monroe Abbey – Canadian lawyer and Jewish civic leader •
Amal Elsana Alh'jooj – Bedouin Israeli feminist and peace activist •
Norman Bethune – as "Bai Qiu'en", subject of essay
In Memory of Norman Bethune (in
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, Chapter 17: Serving the People) (Jinian Bai Qiu'en) by
Mao Zedong; medical professor; became Red Army's medical chief and trained thousands of Chinese as medics and doctors; died in 1939 (from blood poisoning) during the
Second Sino-Japanese War •
Frank E. Buck – horticulturalist •
Ian Campbell, 12th Duke of Argyll – Scottish peer and landowner •
Dink Carroll – sports journalist •
Choo Waihong – Singaporean corporate lawyer and travel writer •
Chi-Ming Chow – cardiologist and board member of the
Heart and Stroke Foundation •
Dmytro Cipywnyk – physician and academic •
Caroline Codsi: President and founder of
Women in Governance and board member of
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts •
Lawrence Moore Cosgrave – Canadian signer of the
Japanese Instrument of Surrender •
Thomas Neill Cream –
Glasgow-born serial killer of the 1800s, thought by some to have been
Jack the Ripper •
Alanna Devine – founder of McGill Student Animal Legal Defence Fund and director of Animal Advocacy •
Victor Dzau (MD) – president of the
Institute of Medicine of the
National Academy of Sciences •
Rocco Galati – constitutional lawyer; challenged Justice Marc Nadon's appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada •
Charles Goren – world champion bridge player and bestselling author •
Bertha Hosang Mah, first Chinese woman to graduate from a Canadian university (McGill 1917) •
John Harrison, lawyer and
general counsel of
Airbus •
John Peters Humphrey – author of the first draft of the UN
Universal Declaration of Human Rights •
Arnold Johnson – performed the first cardiac heart catheterization procedure in Canada in 1946 •
Annie MacDonald Langstaff – in 1914 became McGill's and
Quebec's first female law graduate but was not admitted to the Quebec bar until 2006 (posthumously); the Quebec bar did not admit women until 1941 •
Neville Maxwell – British journalist; author of notable book on the
Sino-Indian War •
Colin McGregor (BA, 1984) - infamous crossbow murderer in 1991 •
Nancy Morris – first female rabbi in Scotland •
William Reginald Morse, Canadian author, medical doctor, and medical missionary in China •
Natasha Negovanlis – actress; singer; writer; host; LGBTQIA icon •
Madeleine Parent, Canadian labour, feminist and aboriginal rights activist •
Autumn Phillips – ex-wife of Peter Phillips, who is 18th in line for the British throne •
André Robert – father of the Canadian
numerical weather prediction models •
Francis Scrimger (BA 1901, MDCM 1905) – Victoria Cross winner, 1915; Professor of Surgery and Chief of Surgery at the Children's Memorial Hospital •
Harmeet Singh Sooden – peace activist once held captive in
Iraq •
Robert Thirsk – astronaut •
Dafydd Williams – astronaut •
Janet Yale – Canadian lawyer •
Mark Rosenbloom – doctor and entrepreneur ==References==