List of McMaster University people

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This is a list of people affiliated with McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Notable alumni

Alumni are listed by their field of eventual employment.

Business

• Charles Anderson - M.B.A (1969): program director of the faculty of management at University of Manitoba (1974), president and chancellor of Brandon University (1990)
• Timothy J. Aubrey - B.Com. (1989): senior vice-president, finance of Fairmont Hotels & Resorts
• Paul J. Bognar - B.A. (1981): general Manager of Maytag and The Hoover Company, Canada
• Claude Brochu - M.B.A (1971): captain in the Royal Vingt-Deux Regiment
• Teresa Cascioli - B.Com. (1983): financial analyst; president and CEO of Lakeport Brewing Company
• Michael Lee-Chin - B.Eng. (Civil Engineering, 1974): chairman and CEO of AIC Limited
• Philip F. Connell - B.A. (Hons.): (Political Science, 1946): vice-president finance of George Weston Limited and Oshawa Group
• Jack Darville - B.Com. (1968): partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
• Wayne C. Fox - M.B.A (1973): vice-chairman and Chief Risk Officer of CIBC
• Karen Maidment - B.Com. (1981): executive vice-president and CRO, Bank of Montreal
• John Mayberry - B.Eng.: president and CEO of Dofasco Inc
• Leslie McLean - B.Eng. (1965), M.Eng. (1966): chief engineer and vice-president of Stelco (1975)
• Ellen M. Malcolmson - B.A. (Hons.) (French and Political Science, 1983): president and CEO of Expertech Network Installation Inc
• Edward Minich - B.Sc. (1972), M.B.A (1974): president and CEO of Otis Elevator Company
• William G. Missen - B.A. (Humanities, 1972): senior vice-president of Stelco Inc
• James V Sardo - M.B.A (1973) - president and CEO of Firestone, Canada
• John Sinclair - B.A. (1958): executive vice-president of Bell Canada (1983-1992)
• Tayce Wakefield - B.A. (Political Science, 1980): vice-president of corporate affairs of General Motors, Canada
• Robert Waugh - B.A. (Hons.) (Political Economy, 1940): vice-president and director of General Motors, Canada
• Lynn R Williams - B.A. (1944): president of the United Steelworkers of America (1984)
• Red Wilson - B.A. (Hons.) (Economics, 1962): chair, Nortel Networks Corporation; Second Secretary in the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, Japan (1967)

Fine Arts and Media

• Ronald Ames - B.A. (Latin, 1964): actor
• Matthew Barber - M.A. (Philosophy): singer and songwriter
• Leonard Blum - B.A. (1975): award-winning screenwriter
• Martyn Burke - B.A. (Econ&Bus, 1964): film maker, novelist and journalist
• John Candy - B.A. : actor
• Howard Engel - B.A. (Humanities, 1955): writer and CBC producer
• Marian Engel - B.A. (Hons.) (English): novelist
• Jay Firestone - B.Comm. (1979): television and film producer
• Jonathan Frid - B.A. (Film, 1948): actor
• Daniel Goldberg - B.A. (Film, 1970): actor, screenwriter and producer
• Marjorie Harris - B.A. (Hons.) (English, 1959): writer
• Doug Henning- B.Sc. (Hons.) (Psychology, 1970): magician
• Simon Johnston - B.A. (1972): Canadian playwright director and teacher
• Kerrie Keane - B.A. (History, 1970): actress
• Gary Lautens - B.A. (History, 1949): legendary Canadian newspaper humorist
• Eugene Levy - B.A. (Film, 1969): actor
• Margaret K. Lyons - B.A. (1949): renowned BBC and CBC reporter
• Lawrence Martin - B.A. (Political Science, 1969): journalist
• Ivan Reitman - B.Mus. (Hons.) (1969): director and producer
• John Sessions - Ph.D. (English): actor
• Martin Short - B.A. (Social Work, 1972): actor
• Harley Mark Steubing - B.A. (1974): freelance TV news reporter (1982)
• Geraldine King Tam - B.A. (1943): world-renowned botanical artist
• Miriam Therese - M.R.E (1976): renowned singer and composer
• Dave Thomas - B.A. (English): actor
• Bernard Trotter - B.A. (Hons.) (History, 1945): producer, executive and member of board of directors of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Humanities and Social Sciences

• Eric Agius - B.A. (1989): president of Nike, Inc. Canada
• John Nicholls Booth - B.A. (1934): renowned magician
• John Needham Blow - B.A. (English, 1939): wing commander of RCAF 1941
• Marianne Brandis - M.A. (1964): writer
• Harold Brathwaite - M.A. (French, 1969): award-winning educator, director of education for Peel Region school board
• Muriel Spurgeon Carder - B.A. (Hons.) (1944): first woman ordained in the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec
• Elva Irene Carrol - B.A (SocSci, 1951): assistant vice-president of Merill Lynch, Canada Inc
• James Albert Chambers - B.A. (Humanities, 1982): free lance documentary photographer and teacher
• Charly Chiarelli - B.A. (1973): writer
• Roberto De Clara - B.A. (Hons.) (Music, 1977): conductor
• Harold Innis - professor of political economy at the University of Toronto
• Rainer Knopff - B.A.: political science professor at the University of Calgary
• Bob Munro - B.A. (Hons.) (History, 1966): founded Mathare Youth Sports Association in Africa
• John Harry Passmore - B.A. (History and Economics, 1933): RCAF Squadron leader in World War II
• Lawrence Pennell - B.A. (1938): flight Lieutenant RCAF in World War II; member of Privy Council of Canada, deputy government house leader and solicitor general of Canada
• Michael Ruse - M.A. (1964): philosopher
• Kathryn Taussig - B.A. (1967): founding member of Camerata, innovative chamber music ensemble in 1972
• Robert Tebbs - B.A. (Economics, 1939): World War II captain of the Canadian Army

Politics and Government

• Lincoln Alexander - B.A. (History and Political Economy, 1949): Minister of Labour (Canada) (1979-80), Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (1985-91)
• Syl Apps - B.A. (Hons.) (Political Economics, 1936): hockey player and Minister of Correctional Services (1971-1974)
• Sandra Buckler - B.A. (1995): director of communications for Conservative Party, Stephen Harper
• Gordon Dean - M.Sc (Chemistry and Physics, 1946): elected Ontario Legislative 1981
• Paul Dingledine - B.A. (Economics, 1967), M.B.A (1969): first Canadian ambassador to Iran
• Tommy Douglas - M.A. (Sociology, 1933): Premier of Saskatchewan and first New Democratic Party (Canada) leader
• Andrea Horwath - B.A. (Labour Studies): former Hamilton City Councillor and MPP
• James Hutchings - B.A. (1951): Rhodes Scholar for Ontario; personal representative of the Canadian Prime Minister for the Economic Summit in 1989
• Cam Jackson: politician
• Dave Johnson, B.Sc. (Mathematics): Minster of Education (Ontario) (1997-1999)
• Roy L. Kellock - B.A. (1915): puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (1944-1958)
• Stanley Knowles - B.A. (Sociology, 1930): CCF/NDP member of parliament for Winnipeg
• Bartha Knoppers - B.A. (1972): lawyer
• Dalton McGuinty - B.Sc. (Biology, 1978): 24th premier of Ontario
• Heather Munroe-Blum - B.A. Arts/B.S.W (1974): vice-chancellor and principal of McGill University
• Robert Nixon - B.Sc. (Hons.) (Chemistry and Biology, 1950): leader of the Liberal Party of Ontario and the Opposition
• Kevin Lynch - Ph.D. (1980): Canadian economist, next Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet
• Howard Petch - B.Sc. (Hons.) (Physics and Chemistry, 1949): academic administrator
• Elinore J Richardson - B.Sc. (1967): tax lawyer of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
• David C. Smith - B.A. (1953): principle and vice-chancellor of Queen's University (1984-1994)
• Richard Splane - B.A. (Political Economy and History): RCAF pilot in World War II
• Joseph Tascona - M.B.A.: Progressive Conservative MPP
• Lui Temelkovski: Liberal MP
• Tony Valeri - B.A. (Economics, 1979): Leader of the Government in the House of Commons (2004-2006)
• Mark Wainwright - Ph.D. (Chem Eng, 1974): president of the University of New South Wales, Australia

Science and Engineering

• Julia Alleyne - B.H.Sc. (1982), M.D. (1987): medical doctor of Sport CARE
• Sonia Anand - M.D., Ph.D. : clinician scientist
• Richard Bader - B.Sc. (1953), M.Sc. (1955): scientist
• Roberta Bondar - M.D. (1977): astronaut
• Barbara Buchner - B.A. (Chemistry, Physics and Math, 1948): scientist, connaught medical research laboratories
• Douglas Coleman - B.Sc. (Chemistry, 1954): scientist; researcher at Jackson Laboratory discovered genetic cause of diabetes and obesity
• Robert C. Dynes - M.Sc. (1965), Ph.D. (1968): president of the University of California system
• Kenneth Elston - B.Sc. (Hons.) (Physics, 1951): nuclear physicist
• Stephen Foster - M.D. (1972): missionary surgeon in Angola
• John A Hansuld - B.Sc. (Hons.) (Geology, 1954): pioneered Eh.pH principles to exploration geochemistry
• Frank Hawthorne - Ph.D. (1973): mineralogist and crystallographer
• Richard Heinzl - M.D. (1987): doctor; founder of Medecins Sans Frontieres
• Terrance Michael Hopkins - M.B.A (1966): plant engineer for General motors, Canada; founder of AISCO (Advanced Industrial Systems Company)
• Eric Hoskins - B.Sc. (Chemistry, 1982), M.D. (1985): public health specialist, one of Canada's Top 40 Under 40
• Hertzel Gerstein - M.Sc. (1989): medical researcher
• Patricia Green - B.Eng. (ECE, 1983): NASA aerospace engineer
• John F. MacGregor - B.Eng. (1964): statistician and chemical engineer
• Robert Marshall - B.A. (1934): national chairman of Canadian Institute of Food Science and Technology; H. J. Heinz Company
• John Mighton - M.A. (Philosophy, 1982): mathematician
• David Parnas - computer scientist
• Steve Mann - B.Sc. (1987), B.Eng. (1989), M. Eng (1992): advocate for wearable computing
• R.E. Munn - B.A. (Mathematics, 1941): chief scientist of air quality research branch of Environment Canada
• Hanna Newcombe - B.A. (Hons.) (Chemistry, 1945): scientist; director of the Peace Research Institute
• Elisabeth Nicol - M.Sc. (1987), Ph.D. (1991): physicist
• Samantha Nutt - B.A.Sc (1991), M.D. (1994): founder and executive director of War Child Canada
• James Orbinski - M.D. (1989): Nobel Laureate, Peace; was president of Medecins Sans Frontiers
• Waldemar Pieczonka - M.Sc. (1957), Ph.D. (1960): physicist and engineer; directed IBM's first attempts in integrated circuitry
• Daniel N Sauder - M.D. (1975): chairman of department of Dermatology at Johns Hopkins University
• Myron Scholes - B.A. (1962): Nobel Laureate, Economics
• William C. Shaw - M.B.A (1966): co-developed IMAX film system
• Simon Sunatori - M.Eng. (Engineering Physics, 1983) - inventor of the Sunatori Pen
• David M Wiles - B.Sc. (Hons.) (Chemistry, 1954) M.A. (1955): scientist; awarded the Queen's Silver Jubliee Medal
• Mark Tarnopolsky - B.P.E (1985), M.D. (1988), Ph.D (1991): researcher of neuromuscular disorders, Creatine

Sports

• Syl Apps - B.A. (Hons.) (Political Economics, 1936), hall of fame hockey player and Minister of Correctional Services (Ontario) (1971-1974)
• Cecilia Mary Carter-Smith - B.A. (Political Science, 1974): track star, represented Canada in 1966 and 1970 at the Commonwealth Games
• Samuel Ernest Darragh - B.Sc. (1955): professional football player for the Montréal Alouettes
• William John Mahoney - B.P.E (1963): assistant coach for Washington Capitals in NHL
• Roger Neilson - B.A. (1956): coach for the Toronto Maple Leafs, National Hockey League
• Russ Jackson - B.Sc. (Mathematics, 1958): educator, administrator and broadcaster

Nobel Laureates

• Dr. Bertram Brockhouse, co-winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Physics
• Dr. Myron Scholes, recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Economics
• Dr. James Orbinski, recipient of the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of Doctors Without Borders

Faculty and Staff

Notable Professors

• Kiridaran (Giri) Kanagaretnam - assistant professor (accounting and financial management services)
• Roy J. Adams - professor emeritus of Industrial Relations
• Bertram Brockhouse - Nobel laureate, Physics
• Henry Giroux - renowned cultural theorist
• A. C. Heidebrecht - renowned research on Earthquake Engineering
• Gordon Irons - professor of Materials Science and Engineering; director of steel research centre
• Harish Jain - professor of Commerce, human rights activist; received Order of Canada award
• Jack Rink - associate professor of Geography and Earth Sciences
• Gerald Rosenblum - associate professor of Sociology
• James Stewart - professor emeritus of Mathematics; author of the world's best selling Calculus books
• H.G. Thode - professor of Chemistry
• Gary Warner - professor and former director of the Arts and Science; received Order of Canada award
• Sandra Witelson - professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences; identified differences in Einstein's brain that may relate to his genius for spatial and mathematical thinking
• Don Woods - professor emeritus of Chemical Engineering
• John D. Brennan - Canada Research Chair in Bioanalyical Chemistry. Genius work in drug-discovery technologies.