List of University of Waterloo people

The University of Waterloo, located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, is a comprehensive public university that was founded in 1957 by Drs. Gerry Hagey and Ira G. Needles. It has grown into an institution of more than 42,000 students, faculty, and staff. The school is notable for being the first accredited university in North America to create a [University of Waterloo, Ontario|Waterloo Faculty of Mathematics|Faculty of Mathematics], which is now the world's largest, and to have the largest cooperative education program in the world. The school is also known for having more companies formed by its faculty, students, and alumni than any other Canadian university, and as such, the university has been called the "MIT of the North".
The list includes notable faculty, alumni, staff, and former university presidents. The enrollment for 2020 was 36,057 undergraduate and 6,231 graduate students, with 1,350 faculty members and 2,596 staff. About 221,000 people have graduated from the university, and now reside in over 150 countries.

Alumni and faculty

Faculty

Name	Relationship	Discipline	Known for	Notes
	Professor	Cryptography	Professor
	Lecturer	Mathematics	Statistics and quality control
	Professor	Mathematics	Geometer
	Professor	Electrical engineering	Professor at the University of British Columbia
	Researcher	Mathematics	Mathematics researcher
	Chairman	—	J Page R Wadsworth chairman at the University of Waterloo
	Manager	—	Software developer and entrepreneur
	Professor	Mechanical engineering	Engineer, academic, and civil servant
	Professor	Chemistry	National Science Advisor to the Government of Canada
	Dean	History	Dean of the Faculty of Arts
	Professor	Mathematics	Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas
	Professor	Computer science	Dynamic Markov Compression co-creator
David G. Cory	Professor	Chemistry	Canada Excellence Research Chair in Quantum Information Processing
	Professor	Religious studies	Professor at the University of Waterloo
	Governor	—	Governor of the University of Waterloo
	Lecturer	Computer science	WATFIV creator
	Professor	Mathematics	Fields Institute director
	Professor	Literature	Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Oxford
	Professor	Mathematics	Mathematician
	Professor	Engineering	Writer for The Globe and Mail
	Professor	Politics	Liberal Member of Parliament for Kitchener
	Professor	Philosophy
	Professor	History	Member of the Canadian Senate
	Professor	Chemistry	2007 Musgrave gold medal winner from the Institute of Jamaica
	Professor	Mathematics	Maple co-creator
	Professor	Cryptography	Radialpoint chief scientist
	Dean	Mathematics	Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics
	Professor	Arts	Professor at the University of Waterloo
	Chancellor	—	Chancellor of St. Jerome's University at the University of Waterloo
	Professor	Mathematics	Operations research and applied discrete mathematics
	Professor	Mathematics	Mathematician
	Coach	—	Head coach for the University of Waterloo women's hockey team
	Professor	Computer science	Turing creator
	Professor	Environmental studies	Professor at the University of Waterloo
	Writer	—	Novelist and non-fiction writer
	Professor	Mathematics	Professor of combinatorics and optimization
	Professor	Political science	Political scientist and author
	Associate professor	Ecology	Associate professor of environment and research studies
	Assistant professor	Biology	Assistant professor at the University of Waterloo
	Professor	Mathematics	Mathematician
	Coach	—	Football coach at the University of Waterloo
	Professor	Cryptography	Professor at the University of Washington
	Professor	Anthropology	Social anthropology
	Professor	Arts	Psychologist
	Professor	Applied Mathematics	Researcher and professor
	Researcher	Physics	Physics professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
	Professor	Psychology	Just-world phenomenon	-
	Professor	Chemistry	Chemist
	Professor	Mathematics	Author of Organizational Hologram
	Researcher	Philosophy	Philosopher
	Lecturer	Philosophy	Diplomat
	Professor	Canadian culture	First Nations poet and author
	Professor	Physics	Theoretical physicist
	Professor	Cryptography	Certicom research associate, MQV co-inventor
	Chairman	History	Canada Research Chair in gender history and medicine history
	Professor	Physics	Professor emeritus at the University of Toronto
	Professor	Arts	Historian
	Chairman	Economics	Nobel laureate in economics, known for the Mundell–Fleming model. Was the Chairman of the Department of Economics at the University of Waterloo, 1972–1974
	Professor	Architecture	President of Barton Myers Associates
	Professor	Physics	Theoretical physicist, Royal Society of Canada Fellow
	Professor	Arts	Philosopher
	Professor	Combinatorics	Mathematician
	Professor	Arts	Philosopher
	Professor	Mathematics	Professor of mathematics at the University of Waterloo
	Coach	—	Offensive coordinator for the Waterloo Warriors
	Chairman	French literature	Chair of French Studies
	Professor	Physics	Distinguished Professor Emeritus
	Professor	Earth sciences	Physics professor at the University of Toronto
	Professor	Mathematics	Professor of mathematics
	Professor	Engineering	Distinguished Professor Emeritus
	Professor	Mathematics	Professor of mathematics at the University of Waterloo
	Professor	Theology	Professor at Conrad Grebel University College at UW
	Professor	Chemistry	Molecular beam methods for studying weak van der Waals forces
	Dean	Engineering	Dean of the University of Waterloo Faculty of Engineering
	Professor	Computer science	Professor
	Professor	English	Professor of English at the University of Southern Denmark
	Professor	Physics	Theoretical physicist
	Professor	Jewish studies	Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Waterloo
	Professor	Mathematics	Member of Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research
	Professor	Physics	Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, together with Gérard Mourou, for the practical implementation of chirped pulse amplification
	Professor	History	President of Trent University and Simon Fraser University
	Professor	Arts	Philosopher and cognitive scientist
	Undergraduate	Mathematics	Stanford professor and fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
	Professor	—	Robotics researcher
	Professor	Computer Science	Database researcher
	Professor	Mathematics	World War II code breaker and founder of the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo
	Professor	History	Architectural historian
	Professor	Cryptography	Certicom founder, MQV co-inventor
	Professor	Anthropology	Chair of Anthropology
	Professor	Physics	Professor of physics at the University of Waterloo
	Pilot-in-Residence	Aviation	Pilot-in-Residence, the first to hold this position
	Professor	Political science	Former mayor of Waterloo, Ontario
	Professor	Civil engineering	Civil engineer, UW President emeritus
	Professor/undergraduate	Mathematics	Mathematical physicist
	Professor	Arts	Social psychologist
	Professor	Anthropology	Chair of Anthropology

Administration

Chancellors

#	Name	Term	References
1		1960–1966
2		1966–1975
3		1975–1978
4		1979–1985
5		1985–1991
6		1991–1997
7		1997–2003
8		2003–2009
9		2009–2014
10		2014–2018
11		2018–2024
12	Jagdeep Singh Bachher	2024–present