The following is a list of notable alumni, faculty and affiliates of Queen's University in Kingston , Ontario , Canada .
Notable Queen's alumni [ edit ]
Academic leaders [ edit ]
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]
George Ramsay Cook – Canadian historian.
William Thomson Newnham , first President of Seneca College 1967-1984
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]
Michael McDonald – professor, MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research [6]
W. Iain Scott – dean, Western Law School [7]
Alfred Fitzpatrick – founder of Frontier College [8]
Krishna Rajagopal – professor and Associate Head for Education, Physics at MIT [9]
David Siderovski – E.J. Van Liere Professor and Chair of Physiology & Pharmacology at West Virginia University
Robert Sutherland – first person of colour to graduate from a Canadian university, and the first black lawyer in British North America .[10]
Vijay Bhargava – researcher, co-author/co-editor of Digital Communications by Satellite (1981),Cooperative Cellular Wireless Communications (2011),Reed Solomon Codes and their Applications (1994),Communications, Information and Network Security (2003)and Cognitive Wireless Communication Networks (2007).
Actors, film, and media [ edit ]
Business people [ edit ]
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
Tracey Belcourt – EVP and Chief Strategy Officer of Mondelez International
Robert Buchan – founder and former President and CEO of Kinross Gold
David Brearton – president, North America of Mondelez
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
Pedro E. Castillo Lefeld (B.A. Economics, 1979) - Notable Dominican Banker
Kerry Clark – CEO of Cardinal Health and former Vice Chairman of Procter & Gamble [14]
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 [15]
Jeremy Freedman (LLB) – president and CEO of Gluskin Sheff
Paul Goddard (B.Sc. 1990) – CEO of Pizza Pizza
Mel Goodes – former Chairman and CEO of the Warner-Lambert Company
Stephen K. Gunn – CEO and co-founder of Sleep Country Canada
David Holland – president and CEO of Torstar Corporation
Adam Howard – president and Country Head for Canada, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
F. C. Kohli – former CEO of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
Leonard Lee (B.A. 1963) – founder of Lee Valley Tools
Jim Leech (MBA) – president and CEO of Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
Donald Lindsay (B.Sc., Hons) – CEO of Teck
Walt Macnee (BA 77, Bed 78) – vice chairman, MasterCard Worldwide
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 )
Ian Putnam - executive vice president, chief corporate development officer of Hudson's Bay Company (HBC)
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
Kerry Munro, group president, Digital Delivery Network, Canada Post
Nik Nanos – founder, Nanos Research
Ken Nicholson (B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering 1992) – co-founder of Transformix Engineering[16]
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 Poloz – Governor of the Bank of Canada
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
Grant Rasmussen – former CEO of UBS Canada
Sue Riddell Rose (BSc) – CEO, Perpetual Energy
Michael Serbinis (B.S.) – president and CEO of Kobo Inc.
Mark Wiseman – president and CEO, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board [17]
Chris Viehbacher – CEO of Sanofi
Ramathreya Krishnamurthi - former General Manager Times of India, India, Managing Director PropGod Services [18]
Literature and the arts [ edit ]
Military [ edit ]
Miscellaneous [ edit ]
Jock Climie (B.A. 1989, LL.B. 1998) – lawyer, former CFL player, and broadcaster
J. 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
Virginia Douglas - past president of the Canadian Psychological Association
Andrew J. Feustel (Ph.D) - Geophysicist and NASA Astronaut
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
Craig MacTavish (EMBA 2011) – former NHL player, head coach, and hockey operations executive
Martin Kreuzer (post-doc. 1991) – mathematician, professor, and correspondence chess Grandmaster
Kim Phuc (Honorary degree recipient) – notable through the picture of her depicted during the Vietnam War
Mike Schad – former NFL player
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, 2 time Grey Cup champion
Ali Velshi – CNN Business Analyst
Alan B. Gold – former Chief Justice of Quebec Superior Court; Chancellor of Concordia University
Hurley Smith (Sci '33) - inventor of the pocket protector .[21]
Political leaders [ edit ]
William Aberhart – former Premier of Alberta
Isabel Bassett – former broadcaster and provincial cabinet minister
John Baird (B.A. 1992) – former Minister of the Environment and former Foreign Affairs Minister
Michael Breaugh – former Member of Parliament and Member of Provincial Parliament
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
Patricia Fortier – Canadian Ambassador to Peru and Bolivia
John Gerretsen – Ontario MPP, former mayor of Kingston, Ontario cabinet minister
Mackenzie Clugston – Canadian Ambassador to Japan
Sir Kenneth O. Hall – Governor General of Jamaica
James R.M. Harris – author and politician, former Leader of the Green Party of Canada
David Hutton (MBA 70) – former ambassador to the UAE
Yolande James (LL.B. 2003) – lawyer and politician, Quebec's first black cabinet minister
Pauline Jewett – university administrator and federal Member of Parliament
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 .[22]
Donald C. MacDonald – former Ontario MPP and leader of the Ontario CCF/NDP (1953 - 1970)
Nicolas Marceau (Ph.D. 1992) – scholar and politician, member of Quebec National Assembly and current Quebec Finance minister
John Matheson – "Midwife of Canadian Flag" and former MP for Leeds, judge in Ottawa-Carlton
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 Fowler – (Canadian Diplomat)
Robert Nicholson (B.A. 1975) – Minister of National Defence of Canada
Robert Ready (B.A. 1978 - M.P.A 1981) – Former Canadian High Commissioner to Jamaica, the Cayman Islands and the Turks and Caicos Islands
Alison Redford – (attended for two years 1983–1985) 14th premier of Alberta (2011–2014)[23]
George Spotton (B.A. 1895) – member of the House of Commons
Karen Stintz – Toronto municipal councillor and chair of the TTC
Ross Thatcher – 9th Premier of Saskatchewan (1964–1971)
Kathleen Wynne (B.A.) – 25th and current Premier of Ontario
Scientists [ edit ]
Walter A. Bell B.Sc. – geologist and paleontologist
Norman L. Bowen B.Sc., M.Sc. – chemical geologist
Leon Katz (physicist) , B.Sc. MSc. – professor University of Saskatchewan, Founder Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory, Member of the Order of Canada
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 [24]
Kathleen I. Pritchard MD 1971 – head of oncology at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre , Toronto
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 , Former Director of the Farncombe Institute
Dr. Derek Muller (BSc 2004) – physics educator, creator and writer-host of Veritasium (YouTube channel)
Harold Horton Sheldon (1893-1964) - a physicist, scientist, inventor, teacher, editor and author.
Sir Fraser Stoddart - NRC Postdoctoral Fellow (1967-1970), Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2016.[25] [26]
Notable Queen's faculty and affiliates [ edit ]
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.
Principals [ edit ]
Rev Thomas Liddell (1841–1846) [27]
Rev John Machar (1846–1853) [27]
Rev James George (acting Principal 1853–1857) [27]
Rev John Cook (1857–1859) [27]
Rev William Leitch (1859–1864) [27]
Rev William Snodgrass (1864–1877) [27]
Rev George Monro Grant (1877–1902) [27]
Rev Daniel Miner Gordon (1902–1916) [27]
Rev Robert Bruce Taylor (1917–1929) [27]
Sir William Hamilton Fyfe (1930–1936) [27]
Robert Charles Wallace (1936–1951) [27]
William Archibald Mackintosh (1951–1961) [27]
James Alexander Corry (1961–1968) [27]
John James Deutsch (1968–1974) [27]
Ronald Lampman Watts (1974–1984) [27]
David Chadwick Smith (1984–1994) [27]
William Claude Leggett (1994–2004) [27]
Karen R. Hitchcock (2004–2008) [27]
Thomas R. Williams (2008–2009) [27]
Daniel Woolf (2009–Present) [27]
Chancellors [ edit ]
Rev John Cook (1877–1879) [28]
Sir Sandford Fleming (1880–1915) [28]
James Douglas (1915–1918) [28]
Sir Edward Beatty (1918–1923) [28]
Sir Robert Laird Borden (1924–1929) [28]
James Armstrong Richardson (1929–1939) [28]
Charles Avery Dunning (1940–1958) [28]
John Bertram Stirling (1960–1973) [28]
Roland Michener (1973–1980) [28]
Agnes Mccausland Benidickson (1980–1996) [28]
Peter Lougheed (1996–2002) [28]
A. Charles Baillie (2002–2008) [28]
David A. Dodge (2008–present) [28]
Rectors [ edit ]
Rev S. W. Dyde (1913)
James L. Robertson (1916)
Brigadier General A. E. Ross (1920)
William H. Coverdale (1925)
Oscar D. Skelton (1929)
R. B. Bennett (1935)
Norman McLeod Rogers (1937)
The Earl of Athlone (1940)
BK Sandwell (1944)
Leonard W. Brockington (1947)
M. Grattan O'Leary (1968)
Richard Alan Broadbent (1969, first student Rector [29] )
Gary Michael Gannage (1972)
Bruce W. Trotter (1974)
Morris Chochla (1976)
Hugh Christie (1978)
Jeremy Freedman (1980)
James Harris (1982)
Richard Powers (1984)
Kelley McKinnon (1986)
Charis Kelso (1988)
Antoinette Mongillo (1990)
David Baar (1992)
Peter Gallant (1994)
Ian Michael (1996)
Michael Kealy (1998)
Daniel Sahl (2000)
Ahmed "KC" Kayssi (2002)
Grant R.A. Bishop (2004)
Johsa Marie G. Manzanilla (2006)
Leora Jackson (2008)
Nick Day (2010)
Nick Francis (2011)
Mike Young (2014)
References [ edit ]
^ "Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry: John Hall Archer" . University of Toronto Press . Queen's, Ph.D. 1969
^ "John Bates Clark Medal" . American Economics Association . 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-14 .
^ "Dr. Frits Pannekoek Biography" . Athabasca University . 2007-05-12. Retrieved 2008-07-14 . ...completing his Ph.D. (1974)...at Queen's University.
^ "President's Biography" . Princeton University . 2008. 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. Retrieved 2008-07-14 .
^ http://www.thewhig.com/2012/08/15/kingston-native-heads-up-galactic-discovery
^ http://www.lfpress.com/money/businessmonday/2011/07/25/18465331.html
^ "Fitzpatrick Award (Frontier College)" . National Adult Literacy database .
^ http://web.mit.edu/physics/people/faculty/rajagopal_krishna.html
^ Who Is Robert Sutherland?
^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0657731/
^ Members, Canadian Journalism Forum
^ "Ashleigh Rains". IMDb .
^ "Cardinal Health Executive Leadership Team" . 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. 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" (PDF) . Inquiry . Queen's School of Business . Retrieved 2009-09-28 .
^ http://www.cppib.ca/About_Us/executive_team.html
^ https://www.propgod.com/about-us
^ Jane Corkin bio from the ROM
^ "Ciara Phillips" . Re-title.com . Retrieved 8 May 2014 .
^ http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/rise-and-fall-of-the-pocket-protector
^ "Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry: David Lloyd Johnston" . University of Toronto Press . Queen's Univ. LL.B. 1966
^ "Redford says Trudeau has learned his lesson" .
^ "Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry: Anthony J. Naldrett" . University of Toronto Press . Queen's Univ. M.Sc. 1961, Ph.D. 1964
^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016" . Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 6 Oct 2016 .
^ "Stoddart Mechanostereochemistry Group" . Northwestern University. Retrieved 6 Oct 2016 .
^ 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 .
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Queen's Encyclopedia: Chancellor" . Queen's University .
^ http://www.queensu.ca/encyclopedia/r/rector.html