List of Queen's University people
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The following is a list of notable alumni, faculty and affiliates of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
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[edit] Notable Queen's alumni
[edit] Academic leaders
- Arthur B. McDonald - Director of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
- John Hall Archer – first President of the University of Regina [1]
- Herbert Basser – Theologian, Harvard Starr Fellow
- David Card – economist, winner of John Bates Clark Medal[2]
- Frits Pannekoek (PhD 1974) – President of Athabasca University[3]
- Shirley M. Tilghman (BSc 1968) – President of Princeton University,[4] member of the Board of Directors of Google[5]
- Alfred Fitzpatrick – founder of Frontier College [6]
- Robert Sutherland – first person of colour to graduate from a Canadian university, and the first black lawyer in British North America.[7]
[edit] 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 – former MSNBC News Anchor
- Rachel Blanchard – actress
- 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
- Fr. Raymond J. de Souza (B.A. 1993, MPA 1994) – columnist for the National Post
- Sally Gifford – host on CBC's national kids' show, The X
- Lorne Greene (BA'37, LLD'71) – actor
- Kate Greenhouse – actress
- Ethan Hunt - actress
- Amy Lalonde - actress, also played an actress who went to Queen's Business School in Wild Roses (TV series)
- Elan Mastai – screenwriter
- Anna Olson - chef and television presenter
- Nancy Palk – actress
- Italia Ricci - actress
- Shelagh Rogers – CBC broadcaster
- Ted Simonett – actor, of the "Canadian Tire advertising couple"
- Jeffrey Simpson – political columnist for The Globe and Mail
- Rod Smith – TSN sportscaster
- John Stackhouse – Editor, The Globe and Mail
- Ian Stewart (B.A. 1990) – broadcaster and journalist, member of the Canadian Journalism Forum[8]
- Ali Velshi – former Report on Business Television and current CNN business reporter
- Nancy Wilson – CBC journalist
- 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 – founder of Ballard Power Systems
- 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 Corporation, the parent company of American Airlines
- Kerry Clark – CEO of Cardinal Health and former Vice Chairman of Procter & Gamble[9]
- 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
- Don Drummond (economist) (MA, LLD) – former Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist of TD Bank Financial Group and Donald Matthews Faculty Fellowship on Global Public Policy [10]
- Paul Goddard (B.Sc. 1990) - CEO of Pizza Pizza
- Mel Goodes – former Chairman and CEO of the Warner-Lambert Company
- Steven Gunn – CEO and co-founder of Sleep Country Canada
- F. C. Kohli – former CEO of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
- Leonard Lee (B.A. 1963) – founder of Lee Valley Tools
- 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 (now Alliance Atlantis)
- Stephen A. Miles (B.A. (Psych) 1991, MBA 1997) - Vice Chairman of Heidrick & Struggles, author, and consultant to CEOs and corporate boards of directors
- Alexander C. Monteith – Senior Vice-President of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation and recipient of the IEEE Edison Medal
- Elon and Kimbal Musk - Founders of Paypal and Tesla Motors
- Ken Nicholson (B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering 1992) - co-founder of Transformix Engineering[11]
- Gord Nixon (BComm 1979) – President and CEO of the Royal Bank of Canada
- Douglas Peters (BComm 1963) – banker, economist and politician
- A. J. Petrina (B.Sc. 1959) – former CEO of Placer Dome Inc.
- 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
- Michael Serbinis (B.S.) - President and CEO of Kobo Inc.
[edit] Literature and the arts
Robertson Davies – Author and playwright
- Jill Barber – Singer-songwriter
- Matthew Barber – Singer-songwriter
- Rob Baker (B.F.A. 1986) – Guitarist of The Tragically Hip
- Janet Cardiff – Artist
- George Elliott Clarke (Ph.D. 1993) – Writer and academic
- Jane Corkin – Artist [12]
- 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
- David Franklin – Chief curator, National Gallery of Canada
- Priscilla Galloway – Author
- Sarah Harmer – Singer/songwriter
- Steven Heighton – Author
- Elena Juatco – Singer and Canadian Idol Season 2 Top 10 contestant
- Jay Malinowski (B.A. 2004) – Vocalist and guitarist for the Canadian band Bedouin Soundclash
- Paul Nicholas Mason - Author
- Michael Ondaatje (M.A. 1967) – Author
- Maynard Plant – Vocalist and guitarist for the Japanese band Monkey Majik
- Alexander Muir (B.A. 1851) composer of The Maple Leaf Forever
- Eon Sinclair (B.A. 2004) – bassist for Canadian band Bedouin Soundclash
- Gord Sinclair – Bassist of The Tragically Hip
- Meaghan Diane Shearer – Composer and violinist
- Russell Smith – Author and Globe and Mail columnist
- Timothy Taylor – Author
- Judith Thompson – Playwright
- Chris Turner (author) – Author
[edit] Military service
- John Weir Foote (B.A. 1933) – awarded the Victoria Cross for service during the Dieppe Raid in WWII
- Ken Watkin (Bachelor of Laws and Master of Laws) – Brigadier General and Judge Advocate General of the Canadian Forces
[edit] Miscellaneous
- Jock Climie (B.A. 1989, LL.B. 1998) – lawyer, former CFL player, and broadcaster
- Owen "Tyler Durden" Cook – one of the pick-up artists discussed in Neil Strauss's 2005 book The Game
- Douglas Cunningham (B.A., LL.B.) – lawyer and Ontario Superior Court Justice
- Julianne Parfett (B.A., J.D.) - lawyer and Ontario Superior Court Justice
- Julie Dickson (M.E.) - civil servant
- David A. Dodge (B.A.) – former Bank of Canada governor and current Chancellor of Queen's University
- Brad Elberg – lawyer and former CFL player
- Grant Campbell (Ph.D. 1990) [(Japan)] Naturopath, author
- Karla Homolka - convicted murderer, who completed her Queen's Psychology degree while behind bars
- 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
- Kim Phuc (Honorary degree recipient) - made famous through the picture of her depicted during the Vietnam War
- Mike Schad – former NFL player
- H.I.H. Prince Takamado of Japan
- David Smart (B.A. 1994) – Canadian champion basketball coach
- Jim Young – 1st Canadian college football player drafted into the NFL (Minnesota Vikings)
- Johnny Evans - quarterback, perhaps the greatest player to wear the Tricolour, 2 time Grey Cup champion
[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
- Diana Buttu – Palestinian legal advisor
- Sean Conway – Director of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations (Queen's University), former Ontario cabinet minister and MPP
- Thomas Cromwell (B.Mus. 1973, Law 1976) - Supreme Court justice
- John Crosbie – former Minister of Finance
- Paul Dewar - educator, aid worker and Member of Parliament
- David Emerson (PhD 1975) – Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Pacific Gateway and the Vancouver-Whistler Olympics
- 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
- David Lloyd Johnston (LL.B. 1966) – 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.[13]
- 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
- Arthur B. McDonald - Particle Physicist, Director of SNOLAB
- 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
- 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
- Thomas Edvard Krogh M.Sc.(Geology) - geochronologist and a curator for the Royal Ontario Museum.
- J. F. A. McManus M.D. (1938) - pathologist
- Anthony J. Naldrett – University of Toronto emeritus professor, geologist [14]
- Ian Rae B.Sc.(Eng.) (1980) - co-developer of CorelDraw software
- John L. Wallace (BSc 1979, MSc 1980) - co-founder of NicOx, founder of Antibe Therapeutics, Director of the Farncombe Institute
[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
- István Anhalt – Music (Juno Award winning composer)
- Robin Boadway - Economics (Member of the Canadian Royal Society and the Order of Canada)
- Caroline Baillie – Engineering
- John Burge – Music (Juno Award winning composer)
- James Cordy – Computing (co-inventor of the Turing programming language)
- Thomas Courchene - Economics, Policy Studies
- Richard J. F. Day – Sociology
- Suzanne Fortier – Chemistry (President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC))
- J. A. W. Gunn - Politics
- Leo Jonker – Mathematics (Queen's Chair of Teaching and Learning)
- Tom Kent – Economics
- Will Kymlicka – Canada Research Chair, Philosophy
- William C. Leggett – Biology (Chairman of the Board of the Canada Foundation for Innovation) and former Principal of Queen's University (1994–2004)
- James G. MacKinnon - Economics (Fellow of the Econometric Society)
- Art McDonald – Physics (winner of the Herzberg Prize, Canada's most prestigious honour in science), as well as the Benjamin Franklin Prize in Physics and a member of the Order of Canada
- John McGarry – Politics
- M. Ram Murty – Mathematics (Queen's Research Chair)
- Morten O. Nielsen - Economics (formerly Professor at Cornell U.)
- Kim Richard Nossal – Politics
- Paulo Ribenboim – Mathematics (retired faculty)
- John Smol – Biology (winner of the Herzberg Prize, Canada's most prestigious honour in science)
- David J. Thomson - Mathematics
- Helen Tiffin – English
- Craig Walker – Drama
- Noriko Yui – Mathematical Physics
- Clarke Mackey – Film and Media
[edit] Principals
- The Rev Thomas Liddell (1841–1846) [15]
- The Rev John Machar (1846–1853) [15]
- The Rev James George (acting Principal 1853-1857) [15]
- The Rev John Cook (1857–1859) [15]
- The Rev William Leitch (1859–1864) [15]
- The Rev William Snodgrass (1864–1877) [15]
- The Rev George Monro Grant (1877–1902) [15]
- The Rev Daniel Miner Gordon (1902–1916) [15]
- The Rev Robert Bruce Taylor (1917–1929) [15]
- Sir William Hamilton Fyfe (1930–1936) [15]
- Robert Charles Wallace (1936–1951) [15]
- William Archibald Mackintosh (1951–1961) [15]
- James Alexander Corry (1961–1968) [15]
- John James Deutsch (1968–1974) [15]
- Ronald Lampman Watts (1974–1984) [15]
- David Chadwick Smith (1984–1994) [15]
- William Claude Leggett (1994–2004) [15]
- Karen R. Hitchcock (2004–2008) [15]
- Thomas R. Williams (2008–2009) [15]
- Daniel Woolf (2009–Present) [15]
[edit] Chancellors
- The Rev John Cook (1877–1879) [16]
- Sir Sandford Fleming (1880–1915) [16]
- James Douglas (1915–1918) [16]
- The Rt Hon Sir Edward Beatty (1918–1923) [16]
- The Rt Hon Sir Robert Laird Borden (1924–1929) [16]
- James Armstrong Richardson (1929–1939) [16]
- The Hon Charles Avery Dunning (1940–1958) [16]
- John Bertram Stirling (1960–1973) [16]
- The Rt Hon Roland Michener (1973–1980) [16]
- Dr. Agnes Mccausland Benidickson (1980–1996) [16]
- The Rt Hon Dr. Peter Lougheed (1996–2002) [16]
- A. Charles Baillie (2002–2008) [16]
- David A. Dodge (2008–present) [16]
[edit] References
- ^ "Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry: John Hall Archer". University of Toronto Press. http://utpress.utpress.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/cw2w3.cgi?p=apsey&t=24106&d=2306. "Queen's, Ph.D. 1969"
- ^ "John Bates Clark Medal". American Economics Association. 2008. http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/clark_medal.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-14.
- ^ "Dr. Frits Pannekoek Biography". Athabasca University. 2007-05-12. http://www.athabascau.ca/presoff/staff/fritsp.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-14. ""…completing his Ph.D. (1974)…at Queen's University.""
- ^ "President's Biography". Princeton University. 2008. http://www.princeton.edu/president/biography/. Retrieved 2008-07-14. ""Tilghman, a native of Canada, received her Honors B.Sc. in chemistry from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, in 1968.""
- ^ "Corporate Information – Google Management". 2008. http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/execs.html. Retrieved 2008-07-14.
- ^ "Fitzpatrick Award (Frontier College)". National Adult Literacy database. http://www.nald.ca/info/awards/national/frontier.htm.
- ^ Who Is Robert Sutherland?
- ^ Members, Canadian Journalism Forum
- ^ "Cardinal Health Executive Leadership Team". http://www.td.com/economics/about/don.jsp. Retrieved 2008-07-14. "…Clark graduated from Queen’s University with a bachelor of commerce degree."
- ^ "Don Drummond appointed fellow and visiting scholar in Policy Studies". Queen's University, School of Policy Studies. http://www.queensu.ca/sps/news/2010/sample.html. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
- ^ Whitney, Ben (Spring/Summer 2005). "Peng-Sang Cau, BCom `94 leads Transformix Engineering – From Queen`s Commerce to Kingston business leader". Inquiry. Queen's School of Business. http://business.queensu.ca/alumni_and_donors/docs/inqS05_profile2.pdf. Retrieved 2009-09-28.
- ^ Jane Corkin bio from the ROM
- ^ "Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry: David Lloyd Johnston". University of Toronto Press. http://utpress.utpress.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/cw2w3.cgi?p=johnson&t=52631&d=1695. "Queen's Univ. LL.B. 1966"
- ^ "Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry: Anthony J. Naldrett". University of Toronto Press. http://utpress.utpress.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/cw2w3.cgi?p=nabein&t=24558&d=1917. "Queen's Univ. M.Sc. 1961, Ph.D. 1964"
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t "Queen's Encyclopedia: Principal". Queen's University. http://qnc.queensu.ca/Encyclopedia/p.html#Principal.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Queen's Encyclopedia: Chancellor". Queen's University. http://qnc.queensu.ca/Encyclopedia/c.html#Chancellor.