List of Queen's University people

The following is a list of notable alumni, faculty and affiliates of Queen's University at Kingston in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The list includes notable academics, artists, businesspeople, professionals, and athletes.

Notable Queen's alumni

Academic leaders

Emajuddin Ahamed – political scientist, author, educationist & former vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka
John Hall Archer – first president of the University of Regina
Herbert Basser – theologian, Harvard Starr Fellow
Vijay Bhargava – researcher
David Card – economist, winner of Nobel Prize in Economics and John Bates Clark Medal
George Ramsay Cook – Canadian historian
Herb Emery – economist
Alfred Fitzpatrick – founder of Frontier College
William Thomson Newnham – first president of Seneca College, 1967–1984
Frits Pannekoek – president of Athabasca University
David Siderovski – Professor and Chair of Pharmacology & Neuroscience at University of North Texas Health Science Center
Robert Sutherland – first person of colour to graduate from a Canadian university, and first black lawyer in British North America
Shirley M. Tilghman – president of Princeton University, member of the board of directors of Google

Actors, film, and media

Scott Anderson – CanWest MediaWorks senior vice-president, content; former editor-in-chief of the Ottawa Citizen
Dean Armstrong – actor
Ashleigh Banfield – CNN news anchor
Rachel Blanchard – actress
Kristian Bruun – actor
Greg Bryk – actor
Nicholas Campbell – actor
Tom Cavanagh – actor, played title character in sitcom Ed
Sarita Choudhury – actress
Brendan Connor – television broadcaster, Al Jazeera International
Wendy Crewson – actress
Chris Cuthbert – TSN sportscaster
Lyse Doucet – BBC's Chief International Correspondent
Lisa Eichhorn – actress
Sally Gifford – host on CBC's national kids' show, The X
Lorne Greene – actor
Amy Lalonde – actress, also played an actress who went to Queen's Business School in Wild Roses
Ryan Letourneau – full-time Twitch streamer and YouTuber known online as Northernlion.
Linda Liao – singer/actress
Michelle MacLaren – TV series director
Molly McGlynn – film and television director and screenwriter
Vanessa Morgan – actress
Anna Olson – chef and television presenter
Evanka Osmak – SportsNet broadcaster
Italia Ricci – actress
Shelagh Rogers – CBC broadcaster
Ted Simonett – actor
Jeffrey Simpson – political columnist for The Globe and Mail
Rachel Skarsten – actress
Rod Smith – TSN sportscaster
Celine Song – filmmaker
John Stackhouse – former editor, The Globe and Mail
Julie Stewart-Binks – sports broadcaster, ESPN
Katie Uhlmann – actress and producer
Ali Velshi – former Report on Business Television and current CNN business reporter
Sandy Webster – actor
Nancy Wilson – CBC journalist
Gema Zamprogna – actor
Gabriel Hull - actor

Business people

Alfred Bader – founder of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, and donor of 15th century Herstmonceux Castle
Geoffrey Ballard – founder of Ballard Power Systems
Robert Buchan – founder and former president and CEO of Kinross Gold
Derek Burney – 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 Corporation, the parent company of American Airlines
Gururaj Deshpande – founder of Sycamore Networks
David A. Dodge – former governor of the Bank of Canada, and chancellor of Queen's, effective July 1, 2008
Frances Donald – youngest chief economist for a major financial services firm in Canada
Don Drummond – former senior vice-president and Chief Economist of TD Bank Financial Group and Donald Matthews Faculty Fellowship on Global Public Policy
Mel Goodes – former chairman and CEO of the Warner-Lambert Company
Stephen K. Gunn – CEO and co-founder of Sleep Country Canada
Brian Hill – founder and Executive Chair of Aritzia
F. C. Kohli – former CEO of Tata Consultancy Services
Leonard Lee – founder of Lee Valley Tools
Tiff Macklem - Governor of the Bank of Canada
Michael MacMillan – chairman and co-founder of Alliance Atlantis
Earle McLaughlin – former president and CEO of the Royal Bank of Canada
Seaton McLean – co-founder of Atlantis Films
Alexander C. Monteith – senior vice-president of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation and recipient of the IEEE Edison Medal
Elon Musk – founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer at SpaceX; early stage investor, CEO, and Product Architect of Tesla, Inc.
Kimbal Musk – South African restaurateur, chef, and entrepreneur
Nik Nanos – founder, Nanos Research
Gord Nixon – president and CEO of the Royal Bank of Canada
Douglas Peters – banker, economist and politician
Stephen Poloz – Governor of the Bank of Canada
Stephen Quinn – senior vice president, Wal-Mart Inc, Bentonville, Arkansas
David Radler – former president of Ravelston Corporation, cooperating with the prosecution in the Conrad Black racketeering case
Michele Romanow – cast member on Dragons' Den, co-founder of Clearbanc
Michael Serbinis – president and CEO of Kobo Inc.
Chris Viehbacher – CEO of Sanofi
Mark Wiseman – president and CEO of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
Rajeev Madhavan - Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist based in Silicon Valley, California

Literature and the arts

Jill Barber – singer-songwriter
Matthew Barber – singer-songwriter
Janet Cardiff – artist
Lina Chartrand – writer
George Elliott Clarke – writer and academic
Jim Cuddy – lead singer of Blue Rodeo
Kalli Dakos – children's poet and teacher
Robertson Davies, CC – author and playwright
Gord Downie – lead singer of band The Tragically Hip
Dawn Dumont – author
Priscilla Galloway – author
Sarah Harmer – singer-songwriter
Frank Ll. Harrison – musicologist
Steven Heighton – author
Elena Juatco – singer and Canadian Idol season 2 top 10 contestant
Irene Luxbacher – artist, author and illustrator
Cyndra MacDowall – artist and photographer
Jay Malinowski – vocalist and guitarist for the Canadian band Bedouin Soundclash
Paul Nicholas Mason – author
Emily Julian McManus — poet, author, and educator
Jean Mills – children's author
Alexander Muir – composer of "The Maple Leaf Forever"
Justine Musk – author
Michael Ondaatje – author
Neil Pasricha – speaker, author and writer of 1000 Awesome Things
Joseph Petric – musician
Ciara Phillips – artist
Maynard Plant – vocalist and guitarist for the Japanese band Monkey Majik
Iain Reid – novelist, author of I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Baņuta Rubess – playwright and theatre director
Eon Sinclair – bassist for Canadian band Bedouin Soundclash
Gord Sinclair – bassist of The Tragically Hip
Russell Smith – author and The Globe and Mail columnist
Moez Surani – author
Timothy Taylor – author
Judith Thompson – playwright
Chris Turner – author

Military

John Weir Foote – awarded the Victoria Cross for service during the Dieppe Raid in World War II
Mark Norman – Vice-Admiral, Commander of RCN
Ken Watkin – Brigadier General and Judge Advocate General of the Canadian Forces

Political leaders

William Aberhart – former Premier of Alberta
Rohit Aggarwala – Commissioner of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection
John Baird – former Minister of the Environment and former Foreign Affairs Minister
Isabel Bassett – former broadcaster and provincial cabinet minister
Michael Breaugh – former Member of Parliament and Member of Provincial Parliament
Derek Burney – former Canadian ambassador to the Korea, Japan, and the United States
Diana Buttu – Palestinian legal advisor
Sean Conway – director of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, former Ontario cabinet minister and MPP
Thomas Cromwell – Supreme Court justice
John Crosbie – former Minister of Finance
Paul Dewar – educator, aid worker and former Member of Parliament
David Emerson – former Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Pacific Gateway and the Vancouver-Whistler Olympics
Robert Fowler – Canadian diplomat
Godwin Friday – fifth Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Jean-Denis Garon – Scholar and politician, Member of Parliament for Mirabel
John Gerretsen – Ontario MPP, former mayor of Kingston, Ontario cabinet minister
Sir Kenneth O. Hall – Governor General of Jamaica
James R.M. Harris – author and politician, former Leader of the Green Party of Canada
Susan Holt – premier of New Brunswick
Yolande James – lawyer and politician, Quebec's first black cabinet minister
Pauline Jewett – university administrator and federal Member of Parliament
David Lloyd Johnston – president of the University of Waterloo, Principal of McGill University, Dean of the School of Law at the University of Western Ontario, and the 28th Governor General of Canada
Donald C. MacDonald – former Ontario MPP and leader of the Ontario CCF/NDP
Nicolas Marceau – scholar and politician, former member of Quebec National Assembly and Quebec minister of finance
John Matheson – "Midwife of Canadian Flag" and former MP for Leeds, judge in Ottawa-Carlton
Lindsay Mathyssen – member of Parliament
Frank McKenna – former Canadian ambassador to the United States and former Premier of New Brunswick
Peter Milliken – 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 – Minister of National Defence of Canada
Alison Redford – 14th premier of Alberta
Rathika Sitsabaiesan – Member of Parliament for Scarborough-Rouge River
George Spotton – member of the House of Commons
Karen Stintz – Toronto municipal councillor and chair of the TTC
Ross Thatcher – 9th premier of Saskatchewan
Kathleen Wynne – 25th premier of Ontario

Scientists

Walter A. Bell B.Sc. – geologist and paleontologist
Mustapha Ishak Boushaki – theoretical physicist
Norman L. Bowen B.Sc., M.Sc. – chemical geologist
Bill Buxton B.Mus. – computer scientist and human-computer interaction pioneer
Barbara Cade-Menun – research scientist
Adolfo J. de Bold – O.C. Ph.D. – emeritus professor at University of Ottawa; discovered heart hormones
Charles Rea Dickson M.D. C.M. – radiologist, electrotherapist, co-founder of CNIB Foundation
Charles LeGeyt Fortescue – electrical engineer
Christine Friedenreich - cancer epidemiologist
James Edwin Hawley – head of Geological Sciences Department
Kenneth E. Iverson – inventor of the APL programming language, Turing Award laureate
Erin Johnson – theoretical chemist
Leon Katz, B.Sc. MSc. – professor University of Saskatchewan, founder of Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory, Member of the Order of Canada
Venkatesh K. R. Kodur Ph.D. – University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University and pioneer in structural fire engineering
Thomas Edvard Krogh M.Sc. – geochronologist and curator of the Royal Ontario Museum
Harriet MacMillan – medical academic and scientist
Margaret McKellar M.D., medical missionary
J. F. A. McManus M.D. – pathologist
Derek Muller – physics educator, creator and writer-host of Veritasium
Anthony J. Naldrett – University of Toronto emeritus professor, geologist
Kathleen I. Pritchard MD 1971 – head of oncology at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto
Ian Rae B.Sc. – co-developer of CorelDraw software
Carolyn Relf – geologist
Jane Stewart – neuroscientist
Julielynn Wong – physician, scientist and pilot

Sports

Keith Eaman – Canadian football player
Johnny Evans – quarterback, two time Grey Cup champion
Dalton Kellett – IndyCar Series Racer
Craig MacTavish – former NHL player, head coach, and hockey operations executive
Morris Mott – NHL and Canadian National Team hockey player
Gordon Orlikow – decathlon, heptathlon, and hurdles competitor, Athletics Canada Chairman, Canadian Olympic Committee member, Korn/Ferry International partner
George Richardson – Hockey Hall of Fame member, died in World War I
Mike Schad – former NFL player
Tessa Virtue – figure skater, multi-Olympic gold medalist
Carl Voss – NHL player and Hockey Hall of Fame inductee
Jim Young – first Canadian college football player drafted into the NFL

Miscellaneous

Robert Arntfield, Canadian intensivist and medical educator
J. Sidney Bernstein – American lawyer, politician, and judge
Jock Climie – lawyer, former CFL player, and broadcaster
J. Douglas Cunningham – lawyer and Ontario Superior Court Justice
Julie Dickson – civil servant
David A. Dodge – former Bank of Canada governor and current Chancellor of Queen's University
Virginia Douglas – past president of the Canadian Psychological Association
Andrew J. Feustel – geophysicist and NASA astronaut
Barbara Findlay – lawyer and LGBT rights activist
Alan B. Gold – former Chief Justice of Quebec Superior Court; Chancellor of Concordia University
Karla Homolka – convicted murderer, who completed her Queen's Psychology degree while behind bars
Andrew Kalotay – mathematician, Wall Street financier and chess master
Martin Kreuzer – mathematician, professor, and correspondence chess Grandmaster
James Macleod – militia officer, lawyer, North-West Mounted Police officer, magistrate, judge, and politician
Andrew McFadyen – patients' rights advocate
Kim Phuc – notable through the picture of her depicted during the Vietnam War
Jack Pickup – physician, the "Flying Doctor of British Columbia"
David Smart – Canadian champion basketball coach
Prince Takamado of Japan
Ali Velshi – CNN business analyst

Notable 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
Ralph Allen – Art
W. B. Anderson – classics and Latin
István Anhalt – Music
Caroline Baillie – Engineering
John W. Berry – Psychology
Robin Boadway – Economics
Janine Brodie – Political Science
Rosa Bruno-Jofré – History
Gerald Bull – long-range artillery engineer
John Burge – Music,
Meredith Chivers – Psychology
James Cordy – Computing
Thomas Courchene – Economics, Policy studies
Wendy Craig – Psychology
Anne Croy – Canada Research Chair, Biomedical and Molecular Sciences
Lola Cuddy – Psychology
Richard J. F. Day – Sociology
Vibert Douglas – Astrophysics
Jacalyn Duffin – Medical History
Gabor Fichtinger – Computing
Suzanne Fortier – Chemistry
Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant – Politics
J. A. W. Gunn – Politics
James Allen Keast – Biology
Tom Kent – Economics
Audrey Kobayashi – Geography
Will Kymlicka – Canada Research Chair, Philosophy
Susan Lederman – Psychology
William Lederman – Law
William C. Leggett – Biology and former Principal of Queen's University
A. H. Lightstone – Mathematics
Clarke Mackey – Film and Media
James G. MacKinnon – Economics
Art McDonald – Physics
John McGarry – Politics
Katherine McKittrick – Gender Studies
Marjan Mozetich – Music
M. Ram Murty – Mathematics
Kim Richard Nossal – Politics
Malcolm Peat – Physiotherapy
Vernon Quinsey – Psychology
Kim Renders – Theatre, Gender Studies
Paulo Ribenboim – Mathematics
Kai Salomaa – Computer Science
Bernice Weldon Sargent – Physics
Sanjay Sharma – Medicine
Bhavin J. Shastri - Neuromorphic photonic computing
Elizabeth Smith Shortt – Medicine
Ana Siljak – History
Duncan G. Sinclair – Medicine
John P. Smol – Biology
L. S. Stavrianos – History
Alastair M. Taylor – Geography, Political Studies
David J. Thomson – Mathematics
Helen Tiffin – English
Jennie Kidd Trout – Medicine
Craig Walker – Drama
Beatrice Worsley – Computer Science, launched Queen's' new Computer Centre based on an IBM 1620 in 1965
Noriko Yui – Mathematical Physics

Principals

Chancellors

Rectors

Rev S. W. Dyde
James L. Robertson
Brigadier General A. E. Ross
William H. Coverdale
Oscar D. Skelton
R. B. Bennett
Norman McLeod Rogers
The Earl of Athlone
BK Sandwell
Leonard W. Brockington
M. Grattan O'Leary
Richard Alan Broadbent
Gary Michael Gannage
Bruce W. Trotter
Morris Chochla
Hugh Christie
Jeremy Freedman
James Harris
Richard Powers
Kelley McKinnon
Charis Kelso
Antoinette Mongillo
David Baar
Peter Gallant
Ian Michael
Michael Kealy
Daniel Sahl
Ahmed "KC" Kayssi
Grant R.A. Bishop
Johsa Marie G. Manzanilla
Leora Jackson
Nick Day
Nick Francis
Mike Young
Cameron Yung
Alexandra da Silva
Sam Hiemstra
Owen Crawford Lem
Niki Boytchuk-Hale