List of University of Calgary people

This is a list of people associated with the University of Calgary.

Alumni

Alumni are listed by their department of study.

Archeology

• Peter Mathews, B.A. : Mayanist, MacArthur Fellow at Yale University
• Ronald Wright: award-winning Cambridge University-educated author and historian

Business Administration/Commerce

• Al Duerr, M.B.A.: Mayor of Calgary
• Jodi Evans, B.Comm.: Olympic Basketball player and Rhodes Scholar
• Charlie Fischer, B.Sc (engineering), M.B.A.: president and CEO of Nexen Inc
• Russ Girling, B. Comm., M.B.A.: President & CEO, TransCanada Corporation
• Gary Kovacs, M.B.A. : CEO of Mozilla Corporation
• Hal Kvisle, M.B.A.: CEO of Talsiman, member of the Trilateral Commission.
• Ezra Levant, B.Comm.: journalist, conservative writer and commentator
• Devant Maharaj, B.Comm., : former Senator and Minister of Food Production, Trinidad and Tobago.
• Naheed Nenshi, B.Comm.: also educated at Harvard University, Mayor of Calgary.
• Rob Renner, B.Comm : Minister of Environment for Alberta
• Jonathan Scott, B.Comm.: actor known for his work on Property Brothers.
• W. Brett Wilson, O.C., M.B.A.: businessman, philanthropist, member of the Order of Canada.
• John Zaozirny, B.Comm.: lawyer, Minister of Energy for Alberta.

Classics

• Michael Lapidge, B.A. : Medieval Scholar, Fellow Emeritus of Clare College, Cambridge University; Fellow of the British Academy, recipient of the Sir Israel Gollancz Prize

Computer Science

• Theo de Raadt, B.Sc. 1992: founder and leader of OpenBSD and other projects developed with University of California at Berkeley and DARPA.
• James Gosling OC, B.Sc. 1977: inventor of the Java programming language.
• Radford M. Neal, B.Sc., M.Sc. : Research Chair in Statistics and Machine Learning
• Xiaolin Wu, Ph.D. : Fellow of IEEE, inventor of Xiaolin Wu's line algorithm

Economics

• John Anderson, B.A. : Rhodes Scholar
• Stephen Harper, B.A. 1985, M.A. 1991: Prime Minister of Canada
• Danielle Smith, B.A.: politician, Member of Alberta's Progressive Conservative Party
• Chip Wilson B.A.: founder of Lululemon

Engineering

• Robert Thirsk, B.Sc. 1985: astronaut.
• Gerald Fuller, B.Sc.: professor of chemical engineering at Stanford University
• Christine Nesbitt, Canadian Olympic gold medalist in long track speed skating
• Klaus-Jurgen Bathe, M.Sc.: pioneer of finite element analysis, professor of mechanical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• M. Elizabeth Cannon Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
• Garrett Camp, B.Eng., M.Sc. computer science : co-founded StumbleUpon and Uber
• Hatim Zaghloul, M.Sc., Ph.D. (physics): inventor, co-founder of WiLAN
• Grant Mossop, B.Sc., M.Sc. Director of the Geological Survey of Canada
• Douglas R. Hamilton (Ph.D. '91): NASA flight surgeon and biomedical engineer

English/Literature/Humanities/Fine Arts

• Bernadette Andrea, B.A., M.A. : C. Jacobs Endowed Professor in Literature at University of Texas, Ph.D. at Cornell University
• Derek Michael Besant, B.F.A. : internationally acclaimed artist, member of Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
• John Campbell, M.A. : held Wilde Professorship of Mental Philosophy, lecture's at UC Berkeley
• Onkar Ghate, M.A., Ph.D. (philosophy): senior fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute
• Don Gillmor, B.A. : writer, Governor General's award, Canadian National Magazine Awards, appeared in The Walrus & Rolling Stone
• Hiromi Goto, B.A. (English) : Canadian-Japanese author and cultural critic, recipient of Commonwealth Writer's Prize
• Laurel Johannesson, M.F.A. : internationally exhibited artist, studied at the Royal College of Art, Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome
• Gwyneth Kutz, B.A. : Ambassador of Canada to Peru
• Rosa Marchitelli, B.A. (English) : CBC journalist in Vancouver
• Robert McKim, M.A. : professor of Religion, Ph.D. from Yale University
• Helen McLean, M.A. : painter
• L.R. Wright, (Writing) : mystery writer, recipient of Edgar Allen Award
• Jan Zwicky, B.A.: philosopher, poet
• Maurice Yacowar, B.A. : film theorist, authored seminal studies on Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, and Paul Morrissey

International Relations

• Pierre Poilievre, B.A.: Member of Canadian Parliament.

Kinesiology

• Drew Scott, B.Sc.: actor known for his work on Property Brothers.

Law

• Diane Ablonczy: LL.B.: Member of Parliament of Canada
• Joanne Archibald : B.A., LL.B. : Appeal Board Chair for Public Service Commission of Canada
• Sara L. Bagg : LL.B. : Ph.D. (philosophy), Research Lawyer at Miller Thomson
• Gary Botting: J.D.: lawyer, author, scholar, leading authority on Canadian extradition law
• Joan Brockman : LL.B. : lawyer honoured by the CBA, author, social theorist, professor of criminology
• Neil Brown, Q.C., B.Sc., LL.B.: lawyer, professor of biology, member of Alberta Legislative Assembly
• Keith Byblow: J.D. : Partner at Blake, Cassels & Graydon
• Scott Cochlan: LL.B. : Partner at Torys LLP
• James M. Dickson, Q.C., P.Eng. : LL.B. : Partner at Stewart McKelvey, Director at Empire Company Limited
• Shawn Graham: LL.B.: Senior Counsel at Royal Bank of Canada, named Lexpert's Leading Lawyers Under 40
• Kathleen Ganley: J.D. : Attorney General of Alberta
• Eric Greif, LL.B. : noted entertainment lawyer and music producer
• Paul Groarke : LL.B. : criminal lawyer, member of Canadian Human Rights Commission, professor of philosophy
• Kent Hehr: J.D.: Cabinet Minister in Canadian Parliament
• Kerri Howard: J.D. : Partner at DLA Piper
• Paul Jeffrey : LL.B. : Justice at Alberta Court of Queen's Bench
• Alan Jochelson: LL.B. : Partner at Gowlings, former partner at Ernst & Young
• Linda M. Kamerman: LL.B. : Mining & Lands Commissioner of Ontario at Office of the Mining & Lands Commissioner
• Janet Keeping : LL.B. : architect from MIT and Leader of the Green Party of Alberta
• Maureen Killoran Q.C., J.D. : Managing Partner at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt
• Warren Kinsella: LL.B. : Toronto-based lawyer and political consultant, key strategist for the Liberal Party of Canada
• Anne L. Kirker, Q.C. : LL.B. : Partner at Norton Rose, President of Law Society of Alberta
• Kirk Lamb: LL.B. : Princeton University alumnus, Chairman of Canadian Junior Hockey League, sports lawyer at Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP
• Patrick Lindsay: B.A., LL.B.: partner at Borden Ladner Gervais, Lexpert's Leading Lawyers Under 40
• Harvey Locke : B.A., LL.B. : internationally recognized conservationist lawyer, named as Canada's 21st century Leader by Time Magazine
• Cecilia Low: LL.M. : Commissioner at Alberta Energy Regulator
• Riaz Mamdani : J.D. : Pharmacist, corporate lawyer, CEO of property developer Strategic Group
• William D. McFetridge, Q.C. : LL.B. : Arbitrator at Lancaster House, named in Best Lawyers of Canada, alternate Tribunal Chair of Alberta Human Rights Commission
• Stephanie McLean: J.D. : Alberta Cabinet Minister
• Magdalena Muir: LL.M. : named a Canada Fulbright Scholar
• Terra Nicolay: LL.M. : Senior Counsel at Chevron
• Blair Nixon, Q.C. : LL.B. : partner at Felesky Flynn LLP, CFO at Walton Global Investments, Justice at Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta
• Janice Odegaard : LL.B. : Senior VP and General Counsel for Suncor Energy, named among Top 100 Most Powerful Women in 2014
• Richard O'Gorman : LL.B. : Judge at Alberta Queen's Bench, Assistant Chief Judge of Calgary Family Court
• Hugh O'Reilly: LL.B. : partner at Torys LLP, partner at Cavalluzzo Shilton McIntyre Cornish LLP, President & CEO of OPTrust
• Valerie R. Prather, Q.C. : LL.B. : Partner at Bennett Jones LLP, focus in professional negligence, published scholar on medical law and bioethics, lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine
• Megan Ross : J.D. : tax lawyer, consultant to UNICEF, lecturer at University of Toronto
• Patricia Rowbotham LL.B. : LL.M. from Cambridge University, Judge at Alberta Court of Appeal
• Irfan Sabir: J.D. : Minister of Human Services of Alberta
• Lisa Silver : LL.M. : criminal defense lawyer with Brian Greenspan, Planning Committee for the Calgary Beth Tzedec Congregation
• Christine E. Silverberg : J.D. : first female Chief of Calgary Police Services, Woman of Valour Award from B'nai B'rith
• Deborah Straw LL.B. : General Counsel for Olympic WinSport Canada, Senior Counsel for Saipem
• Linda Taylor (lawyer): B.A., LL.B.: LL.M. at Cambridge University, Executive Director at the United Nations Office of Administration of Justice (OAJ)
• Nickie Vlavianos: LL.M. : legal scholar, LL.M thesis received Governor General's Gold Medal for best graduate thesis of any faculty in Canada
• Paul M. Williams : LL.B. : Cambridge University alumnus, Energy & Finance lawyer at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Los Angeles CA office
• Barbara M Young : LL.B. : Justice at the Supreme Court of British Columbia

Mathematics

• Dwight Duffus, Ph.D. : Goodrich C White Professor of Mathematics at Emory University
• Douglas Wiens, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. : recipient of Lester R. Ford Award from Mathematical Association of America, Fellow of American Statistical Association
• Ian H. Witten, M.Sc. : B.A. at Cambridge University, inventor of WEKA, Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Medicine

• Sue Pedersen, M.D.: endocrinologist and world expert on obesity.
• Sanjeev Dutta, M.D.: associate professor at Stanford University.
• William Gnam, M.D. : psychiatrist, Harvard trained health economist, Rhodes Scholar
• D. George Wyse, M.D.: pharmacologist, internationally recognized expert in Cardiac Arrhythmia

Natural Sciences

• Cyrille Barette, Ph.D. : biologist, recipient of Prix Sceptique from Sceptiques du Québec
• Graeme I. Bell, B.SC., M.Sc. : Human Geneticist, Professor of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Chicago
• Terry Duguid, M.Sc. (Env. Des.) : Member of Canadian Parliament
• Ashton F. Embry, Ph.D. : Geological Survey of Canada scientist, fossil named in his honour
• Bogdan Knezevic, B.Sc. : neuroscientist, Rhodes Scholar
• Kenneth B. Storey, B.Sc : molecular biologist, appointed to Royal Society of Canada, member of American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Professor Joseph Sung(PhD 1991), Vice-Chancellor / President of the Chinese University of Hong Kong(CUHK) and Mok Hing Yiu Professor of Medicine, CUHK
• Umesh Varshney, Ph.D. : molecular biologist at Indian Institute of Science, member of Indian National Science Academy
• Alice Vrielink, B.Sc., M.S.c. : Vice President of Society of Crystallographers (Australia & New Zealand), member of American Crystallographic Association, Ph.D. from the University of London
• David A Wardle, Ph.D. : ecologist, Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand
• Samuel Weiss, Ph.D.: pioneer in neurobiology
• Mingjie Zhang, Ph.D. : recipient of China's State Natural Science Award, Member of Chinese Academy of Science

Political Science

• Rob Anders, B.A.: Member of Canadian Parliament.
• Ian Brodie, M.A., Ph.D.: political scientist and former Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Stephen Harper
• Sharon Carstairs: Member of the Canadian Senate.
• Susanne Craig, B.A.: journalist for Wall Street Journal and New York Times.
• Kyle Fawcett, B.A. : Minister of Energy for Alberta
• Zsuzsi Gartner, B.A.: journalist at Globe & Mail
• Paul Gibbard, B.A. : Canadian Ambassador to Venezuela
• Pat Kelly, B.A. : Member of Canadian Parliament
• Mercedes Stephenson, B.A. : journalist and military analyst
• Ray Novak, Ph.D.: Chief of Staff to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper
• Christopher Manfredi, B.A., M.A. : writer and constitutional scholar, Ph.D. Claremont Graduate School, Dean of Arts at McGill University
• Lee Richardson: member of the Canadian Parliament, also educated at the University of Oxford
• Murray Smith, B.A.: Minister of Energy for Alberta.
• Lorne Taylor, B.A. : Minister of Environment for Alberta

Social Sciences

• Imants Barušs, M.Sc. (Psychology) : author, member of New York Academy of Sciences
• Reginald Bibby O.C., M.A.: celebrated sociologist, member of the Order of Canada
• George Brizan, CGM CBE : Prime Minister of Grenada
• Eliana Coldham, B.Sc. (Psychology): recipient of Rhodes Scholarship
• Keith Hampton, B.A. (Sociology) : recipient of International Communication Association award, taught at MIT and University of Pennsylvania
• Jim Hawkes, M.Sc. (Psychology): chief aid to PM Joe Clark, leader of Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, Government Whip in House of Commons of Canada
• Robert Janes, Ph.D. : Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship, Lieutenant Governor's Award, Fellow of Canadian Museums Association
• Zhang Ling, M.A. : novelist, recipient of The People's Literature Award in China
• Michael J. Neufeld, B.A. : historian and author, Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University, curator of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum
• Anita Vandenbeld, B.A. : international advisor with United Nations organizations, Member of Canadian Parliament
• Douglas Wiebe, B.A. : associate professor of epidemiology at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, senior fellow at Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
• Erin Weir, M.A. : economist with Privy Council, Member of Canadian Parliament

Social Work/Library Studies/Education/ECE

• Sir Carlyle Glean, B.Ed, MA: Governor-General of Grenada

Olympians

• Allison Beveridge, Olympic Bronze Medalist, (cycling)
• Arne Dankers. Olympic Silver Medalist
• Kristina Groves, Olympic Silver Medalist in speed skating
• Jan Hudec, Olympic Bronze Medalist (2014 Sochi, Alpine Skiing)
• Chris le Bihan. Olympic Bronze Medalist
• Kirsti Lay, Olympic Bronze Medalist, cycling
• Christine Nesbitt. Olympic Gold Medalist
• Mark Tewksbury, Olympic Gold Medalist (swimming)
• Erica Wiebe, Olympic Gold Medalist

Other

• Sukh Chungh, Canadian football player
• J. P. Izquierdo, Canadian football player
• Steve Rodehutskors, Canadian football player
• Greg Vavra, former Canadian Football League quarterback
• Kate O'Brien (cyclist), Canadian track cyclist and bobsledder

Faculty

Faculty are listed by their academic department.

Law

• Anna-Maria Hubert, Legal scholar specializing in international marine law and adjudication of science, Research Fellow at Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS) at the University of Oxford.
• Kathleen Mahoney, Q.C., LL.B., LL.M., Diploma in International Human Rights Law (University of Cambridge, Institut International des Droits de l'Homme, Strasbourg), Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada, Human Rights Fellow (Harvard Law School), Counsel to Bosnia Herzegovina at the International Court of Justice, named Expert Advisor to InterAction Council of Former Heads of State and Government, Secretary of the National Academy of Social Sciences for the Royal Society of Canada.
• Jack Mintz, Ph.D., (cross-appointed to School of Public Policy), former President and CEO of C.D. Howe Institute, widely published consultant to World Bank, IMF and OECD, Special Advisor to Canadian Dept of Finance (1984-86), Independent Director of Imperial Oil Ltd. since 2005, named among worlds top experts in tax policy by UK Magazine (2004), named among five most influential experts in regulation by the Financial Post (2012), Research Fellow at Oxford University.
• Ian Brodie: former advisor to the Canadian Prime Minister, Strategic Advisor to the Inter-American Development Bank.

History

• David Bercuson: member of the Calgary School.

Sociology

• Ian Brodie: former advisor to Stephen Harper.

Political Science

• Barry F. Cooper: member of the Calgary School.
• Tom Flanagan: member of the Calgary School, advisor to Preston Manning and Stephen Harper.
• Rainer Knopff: member of the Calgary School.
• Ted Morton: member of the Calgary School, Alberta MLA.

Psychology

• Philip E. Vernon: Ph.D. Cambridge, D.Sc. London, contributed to I.Q. theory

Physics

• Arthur W. Knudsen: researcher on the Manhattan Project, is credited by the Physics Dept. for creating the laboratory system used by the dept. today.

Mathematics

• Károly Bezdek: Canada Research Chair and Director of the Centre for Computational and Discrete Geometry in the Faculty of Science.
• Richard K. Guy : combinatorial game theorist, discovered unistable polyhedron with John Horton Conway.

Medicine

• Morley D. Hollenberg: pharmacologist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada [1]
• Quentin Pittman: neuroscientist (fever research)[2]
• Eldon Smith: cardiologist, Advisory Board Chair of the Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta
• John L. Wallace: pharmacologist (inflammation research), Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada [3] & entrepreneur (co-founder of Nicox, founder of Antibe Therapeutics [4])
• Michael Walsh: molecular biologist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada http://web.archive.org/web/20100613170937/http://www.rsc.ca:80/documents/media/2009%20New%20Fellows%20(Citations).pdf
• Samuel Weiss: neuroscientist, Director of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute
• D. George Wyse: cardiologist and pharmacologist, Distinguished Scientist of the Heart Rhythm Society