List of University of Alberta people

Current faculty

Ali A. Abdi - anthropologist and author; education and international development

William Anselmi - Professor of Italian and Italian-Canadian Literature and Culture

Lorne Babiuk - immunologist and virologist

Harold Barclay - anthropology

Howard Bashaw - music

Norman C. Beaulieu - electrical engineering

Ted Bishop - English and film studies

Edward D. Blodgett - author and researcher in comparative literature, religion and film/media

Ludwig N. Carbyn - Wolf biology

Philip J. Currie - palaeontology

Patricia Demers - English and film studies

Jaroslaw Drelich - chemical engineering

Professor Abdulhakem Elezzabi - father of spinplasmonics

Pierre Flor-Henry - psychology

John Gamon - pioneer of the Photochemical Reflectance Index

Jonathan Locke Hart - author, literary scholar and historian

Peter Hide - sculpture

John-Paul Himka - professor of East European history

Greg Hollingshead - novelist and professor of English

Michael Houghton - co-discoverer of hepatitis C

Peter L. Hurd - biology

Mark Lewis - mathematical ecologist and the Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Biology at the Centre for Mathematical Biology

Karim Jamal - School of Business

Stephen A. Kent - Professor in the Department of Sociology

Jacobus Kloppers - Adjunct Professor of Organ

Natalie Kononenko - professor of folklore

Andriy Kovalenko - molecular dynamics pioneer, of the Kovalenko-Hirata Closure relationship fame

Rouslan Krechetnikov - Ig Nobel Prize laureate

Prof. Aloke Kumar - Canada Research Chair in Biofilms and pioneer of Optoelectrofluidics

Andy Liu - mathematics

Michael Lounsbury - Associate Dean of Research, Thornton A. Graham Chair and Professor of strategic management, organizations and sociology

Jacob Masliyah - pioneer researcher in oil-sands extraction, recipient of Order of Canada

Takahiko Masuda - associate professor of psychology

Anne McLellan - law

Iman Mersal - poet, Professor of Arabic literature and Middle Eastern and African Studies

Robert Moody - mathematics, co-inventor of Kac-Moody algebra

Adam Morton - philosopher and member of the Royal Society of Canada

Don Page

Raj Pannu

Mike Percy - economics

Leonard Ratzlaff - professor of choral music

Jia Rongqing - mathematics

Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa - director of the university's Center for Earth Observation Sciences

Jonathan Schaeffer - computer scientist and the Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence

James Shapiro - medical researcher

Arya Mitra Sharma - Alberta Health Services endowed Chair in Obesity Research and Management

Ian Stirling

Richard S. Sutton - computer science

Darren Tanke - palaeontology

Thomas Thundat - Canada Excellence Chair in Oils and Molecular Engineering

Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann - mathematician

Ban Tsui - Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

Allan Warrack - Department of Marketing, Business Economics and Law in the Faculty of Business and also serves as the Associate Dean of the Master of Public Management Program and Vice-President of Administration

Thaddus E. Weckowicz - Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Theoretical Psychology

Rudy Wiebe - English

Douglas Wiens - statistics

Osmar R. Zaiane - computer science

Vaclav Zizler - mathematics

Past faculty

Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi‘

Jane Alexander

William Hardy Alexander - one of the university's first four professors; university historian

Margaret Atwood - author

C. Fred Bentley

Russell Brown - professor of law, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada

Donald Cameron

Clive Carruthers

Karl Clark

Jagannath Prasad Das - professor of educational psychology; member of the Order of Canada

John B. Dossetor - professor emeritus of medicine and bioethics

Robert Folinsbee

Malcolm Forsyth - professor of composition, Department of Music; Juno Award winner and member of the Order of Canada

Victor Golla

Thomas B. Greenfield

Allan Gregg

Ronald Hamowy

H. A. Hargreaves

Walter Edgar Harris

Myer Horowitz

Werner Israel - professor of physics and leader in the theory of black holes; Fellow of the Royal Society and Royal Society of Canada

George Ivany

Martin Joos

William Alexander Robb Kerr

Mors Kochanski - bushcraft and wilderness survival pioneer

Jussi V. Koivisto - Finnish economist, worked at the China Institute of the University of Alberta

Karol Józef Krótki (1922–2007) - active in Department of Sociology in 1968–1990, instrumental in establishing a strong demography program and the Population Research Laboratory; awarded the title of University Professor in 1983 and after his retirement remained active as a professor emeritus; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Gérard Vincent La Forest - dean of law (1968–1970), past Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada

John M. MacEachran

Walter Mackenzie

Barry J. Mailloux

David Marsden - world record holder in unpowered sailplane flight

Angus Munn

Joseph S. Nelson - ichthyology

Hope A. Olson

John Orrell

Jim Parr

Solomiia Pavlychko

Anatol Roshko - one of only three people alive to have a dimensionless number (Roshko number) named after them

George A. Rothrock

Gail Sidonie Sobat

Mathukumalli V. Subbarao

Yasushi Takahashi

Henry Marshall Tory - first president, founder of three universities, the Alberta Research Council and National Research Council of Canada

Hiroomi Umezawa

Maury Van Vliet

Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901–1972) - professor of theoretical biology in the Department of Zoology and Psychology (1960–1968), helped establish the Advanced Center for Theoretical Psychology, originator of General Systems Theory

Wilfred Watson

Daniel Woolf

Academics

Satish K. Tripathi – President of University at Buffalo

Dominique Abrioux – President of Athabasca University (1995–2005)

Sir John Bell – Regius Chair of Medicine, University of Oxford

Andrew Brook – Chancellor's Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Carleton University

James Collip – biochemistry professor, played key role in discovery of insulin

Jim Cummins – professor and author, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

Bernadette Louise Dean – Principal of Kinnaird College, Pakistan

Su Guaning – President of Nanyang Technological University

Joy Johnson – Vice-President, Research, Simon Fraser University

Raymond U. Lemieux – chemistry pioneer, winner of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1999) and the Albert Einstein World Award of Science (1992)

Tak Wah Mak – molecular biologist

Joseph B. Martin – Dean of Harvard Medical School

Joseph Pivato – writer and researcher in ethnic minority writing in Canada; Professor, Athabasca University, Edmonton

Janice Stein – international relations researcher

Wallace Sterling – past president of Stanford University

Richard E. Taylor – Nobel Laureate

Bas van Fraassen – Princeton University, McCosh Professor of Philosophy

David Silver & Aja Huang – Google Deep Mind, Two main researchers of Alpha Go

Authors

Todd Babiak

Gary Botting

Caterina Edwards

Arthur Kroeger

Robert Kroetsch

Steve Lillebuen

W.O. Mitchell

Kit Pearson

Candace Savage

Lesley-Anne Scorgie

Timothy Taylor

Adam Thrasher - author of Space Moose

Vern Thiessen

Brian Tracy

Aritha Van Herk

Rudy Wiebe

Judges

Ronald Martland - past Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada

Beverley McLachlin - Chief Justice of Canada

Henry Grattan Nolan - past Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada

William Stevenson - past Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada

Allan Wachowich - past Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta (retired)

Politicians

Rona Ambrose – Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs

Pat Binns – former Premier of Prince Edward Island

Joe Clark – former Prime Minister of Canada

Charles Dent – former NWT Cabinet Minister

David Emerson – Minister of International Trade

David Hancock – former Premier of Alberta and Minister of Education of Alberta

Don Iveson – Mayor of Edmonton

Lou Hyndman – former Alberta cabinet minister

J. Wilton Littlechild – former Member of parliament

Peter Lougheed – former Premier of Alberta

Preston Manning – former leader of the Reform Party of Canada, and founder of two Canadian political parties

Roland Michener – former Governor General

Rachel Notley – Premier of Alberta

Jim Prentice – former Premier of Alberta and Minister of Environment

Ed Stelmach – former Premier of Alberta (attended, did not graduate)

Jane Sterk – Leader of the Green Party of British Columbia

Claudette Tardif – Canadian Senator for Alberta, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate of Canada

Other notable alumni

William Thorsell – editor, The Globe and Mail; Director, the Royal Ontario Museum

Doris Anderson – editor and rights activist

Nereo Bolzon – Canadian football player

Clarence Campbell – former National Hockey League president

Jeffrey Willox – former NJHL All-Star (2012-2014) and league MVP (2014)

Neil Campbell – Discovered gold in Yellowknife

Juan Chioran – voice and stage actor at the Stratford Festival

Ted Corday – soap opera creator (Days of Our Lives)

Jim Coutts – political advisor

Nicole Dunsdon – the last person to win the Miss Canada competition before it was cancelled in 1992 due to pressure from women's organizations that considered the pageant to encourage the sexual objectification of women

Randy Gregg – former National Hockey League player and medical researcher

Paul Gross – actor

Ted Harrison – painter and illustrator

Jan Randall – composer and musician

Daryl Katz – billionaire entrepreneur, owner of the Rexall Pharmacy chain and the Edmonton Oilers

George Stanley – designer of the Canadian flag

Ivan Head – former policy adviser of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau

Robert Steadward – former International Paralympic Committee President

Anne Wheeler – film director

Nathan Fillion – actor

Dayo Wong (黃子華) – Hong Kong comedian, actor, singer-songwriter and screenwriter; pioneered Cantonese stand up comedy

Ray Muzyka – BioWare co-founder

Greg Zeschuk – BioWare co-founder

Dennis McConaghy – Executive Vice-President, TransCanada Corp

Bernard Ebbers – Worldcom co-founder and CEO; briefly attended the university

Rhodes Scholars

The University of Alberta has produced 68 Rhodes Scholars, including the following:

Roland Michener (1919) - 20th governor general of Canada

George Stanley (1929) - designer of the Canadian flag

Arthur Kroeger (1956) - academic, federal deputy minister and chancellor of Carleton University

Honorary degree recipients

His Highness the Aga Khan – Spiritual Leader of the Ismaili Muslims

Douglas Cardinal – architect

Charles, Prince of Wales

Victor Cavendish – former Governor General of Canada

Jean Chrétien – former Prime Minister of Canada

John Diefenbaker – former Prime Minister of Canada

King Edward VIII

Wayne Gretzky – former National Hockey League player

Horace Harvey – second Chief Justice of Alberta; chairman of the University of Alberta Board of Governors

Frederick Haultain – the first and only premier of Canada's North-West Territories

Lois Hole – former Lieutenant Governor of Alberta

Ernest Manning – former Premier of Alberta

Don Mazankowski – former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada

Walter Murray – first President of the University of Saskatchewan

Alexander Rutherford – first Premier of Alberta

Arthur Sifton – former Premier of Alberta

Manmohan Singh – former Prime Minister of India

Donald Smith – 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal

Harry Strom – former Premier of Alberta

Mother Teresa – missionary

Pierre Trudeau – former Prime Minister of Canada

Desmond Tutu – former Archbishop of Cape Town and current chair of the Global Elders

Max Ward – pioneering aviator