List of University of Toronto people

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The following is a list of notable persons affiliated with the University of Toronto, including alumni, chancellors, presidents, and current and former faculty members.

Alumni

To avoid redundancy, alumni who hold or have held faculty positions in the University of Toronto are placed on this list of alumni, and do not appear on the list of faculty. Individuals are ordered by the year of their first degree from the university.

For graduates of the Faculty of Arts and Science, college and satellite campus affiliations, if known, are indicated after degree years, with shorthands used for University College (U.C.), University of Trinity College (Trin.), Victoria University (Vic.), University of St. Michael's College (St.M.), Innis College (Innis), New College (New), Knox College (Knox), Regis College (Regis), Wycliffe College (Wyc.), Woodsworth College (Wdw.), Massey College (Massey), Scarborough Campus (UTSC) and Mississauga Campus (UTM).

Nobel laureates

Frederick Banting (alumnus and former faculty) – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1923
John James Richard Macleod (former faculty) – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1923
William Faulkner (School of Aeronautics, 1918) – Nobel Prize in Literature, 1949^[1]^[2]
Lester B. Pearson (alumnus and former faculty) – Nobel Peace Prize, 1957
Arthur Leonard Schawlow (alumnus) – Nobel Prize in Physics, 1981
John Charles Polanyi (faculty) – Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1986
Bertram Brockhouse (alumnus) – Nobel Prize in Physics, 1994
Walter Kohn (alumnus) – Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1998
James Orbinski (alumnus and faculty) – Nobel Peace Prize, 1999
Oliver Smithies (former faculty) – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2007

Government

Heads of State and Government

Name	Year	Notability
William Des Vœux^[3]	B.A. 1858	Governor of Fiji, 1880–85; Governor of Newfoundland, 1886–87; Governor of Hong Kong, 1887–91
William Lyon Mackenzie King	A.M. 1897	Prime Minister of Canada (1935–48)
Vincent Massey	(U.C. 1910)	Governor General of Canada (1952–59)
Dame Eugenia Charles	B.A. 1946	2nd Prime Minister of Dominica, 1980–95
Noor Hassanali^[4]	LL.B. 1947	2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago, 1987–97
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga	B.A. 1958, M.A. 1960^[5]	President of Latvia, 1999–2007
Lester B. Pearson^[6]	B.A. 1919 Vic., professor of history	14th Prime Minister of Canada
Adrienne Clarkson^[7]^[8] M.A. 1962,^[8]^[9] Ph.D. Vic.,^[7] LLD Hon. 2001^[8])	B.A. 1960 Trin., M.A. 1962, Ph.D.	26th Governor General of Canada
Paul Martin^[10]	B.A. 1961 St.M., LL.B. 1965	21st Prime Minister of Canada
Stephen Harper	Attended College. Did not graduate.	22nd Prime Minister of Canada 2006–2015

International

William Des Vœux^[3] (B.A. 1858) – Governor of Fiji, 1880–85; Governor of Newfoundland, 1886–87; Governor of Hong Kong, 1887–91
Sir Gilbert Parker, 1st Baronet^[11] – British propagandaist and novelist; member of parliament in the British House of Commons for Gravesend, 1900–18
Dame Eugenia Charles (B.A. 1946)^[12] – 2nd Prime Minister of Dominica, 1980-1995
Maciej Giertych (Ph.D. 1962)^[13] – Polish member of the European Parliament, former Polish minister of education
Liu Chao-shiuan (Ph.D. 1971)^[14] – 22nd Premier of the Republic of China (Taiwan), former president of National Tsing Hua University and Soochow University
John P. Walters^[15] (M.A. 1976) – Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (colloquially "Drug Czar"), 2001–09

Governors-General and Prime Ministers

William Lyon Mackenzie King (B.A. 1895,LL.B. 1896, M.A. 1897)^[16] – 10th Prime Minister of Canada
Arthur Meighen (B.A. 1896)^[17] – 9th Prime Minister of Canada
Vincent Massey (B.A. 1910 U.C.)^[18] – 18th and first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada, philanthropist
Lester B. Pearson (B.A. 1919 Vic., professor of history)^[6] – 14th Prime Minister of Canada
Adrienne Clarkson (B.A.(Hons) 1960 Trin.,^[7]^[8] M.A. 1962,^[8]^[9] Ph.D. Vic.,^[7] LLD Hon. 2001^[8]) – 26th Governor General of Canada
Paul Martin (B.A. 1961 St.M., LL.B. 1965) – 21st Prime Minister of Canada^[10]
Stephen Harper (Attended College. Did not graduate.) – 22nd Prime Minister of Canada

Supreme Court judges

John Douglas Armour (B.A. 1850)^[19] – Puisne Justice, 1902–03^[20]
John Idington (LL.B. 1864)^[21] – Puisne Justice, 1905–27^[20]
Albert Clements Killam (B.A. 1872)^[22] – Puisne Justice, 1903–05^[20]
Lyman Poore Duff (B.A. 1887, LL.B. 1889)^[23] – Puisne Justice, 1906–33,^[20] Chief Justice, 1933–44
John Henderson Lamont (B.A. 1892, LL.B. 1893)^[24] - Puisne Justice, 1927-1936^[20]
Henry Hague Davis (B.A. 1907, M.A. 1909, LL.B. 1911)^[25] – Puisne Justice, 1935–44^[20]
Wishart Flett Spence (B.A. 1925)^[26] – Puisne Justice, 1963–78^[20]
Bora Laskin (B.A. 1933, M.A. 1935, LL.B. 1936) – Puisne Justice, 1970–73, Chief Justice, 1973–84^[27]
Yves Pratte^[28] – Puisne Justice, 1977–79^[20]
John Sopinka (B.A. 1955, LL.B. 1958)^[29] – Puisne Justice, 1988–97^[20]
John C. Major^[30] (LL.B. 1957) – Puisne Justice, 1992–2005^[20]
William Ian Corneil Binnie (LL.B. 1965)^[31] – Puisne Justice, 1998–2011^[20]
Louis LeBel (LL.M. 1966)^[32] – Puisne Justice, 2000–^[20]
Rosalie Abella (B.A. 1967, LL.B. 1970)^[33] – Puisne Justice, 2004–^[20]
Michael J. Moldaver (B.A. 1968, LL.B. 1971)^[34] - Puisne Justice, 2011-^[20]

Lieutenant-governors, premiers and mayors

John Morison Gibson (B.A. 1863 U.C., LL.D. 1869) – 9th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
William Mulock (B.A. 1863) – 14th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
William Barclay McMurrich (B.A. 1863, M.A. 1864) – 22nd Mayor of Toronto
Hugh John Macdonald (B.A. 1869) – 8th Premier of Manitoba
Oliver Aiken Howland (LL.B.) – 31st Mayor of Toronto
McLeod Stewart (M.A.) – Mayor of Ottawa, 1887–88
James Albert Manning Aikins (B.A. 1875) – 9th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba, founder of the Canadian Bar Association
Frederick W. A. G. Haultain (B.A. 1879) – 1st Premier of the Northwest Territories
Arthur Sifton (B.A. 1880 Vic.) – 2nd Premier of Alberta
Emerson Coatsworth (LL.B. 1886) – 33rd Mayor of Toronto
William Short (LL.B.) – Mayor of Edmonton, 1901–04
Thomas Russ Deacon (B.A.Sc. 1891) – Mayor of Winnipeg, 1913–14
Herbert Alexander Bruce (M.B. 1892) – 15th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
Kenneth W. MacKenzie (B.A. 1893) – Mayor of Edmonton, 1899–1901
Howard Ferguson (B.A.) – 9th Premier of Ontario
George Stewart Henry (B.A., LL.B.) – 10th Premier of Ontario
George Reginald Geary (LL.B. 1896) – 35th Mayor of Toronto
Roland Fairbairn McWilliams (B.A. 1896) – Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba, 1940–53
Harry Marshall Erskine Evans (B.A. 1897) – Mayor of Edmonton, 1917–18
Louis Orville Breithaupt (B.A.) – 18th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
Harold Fisher (B.A.) – Mayor of Ottawa, 1917–20
Freeman Ferrier Treleaven (B.A.) – Mayor of Hamilton, Ontario, 1926–27
John Alexander Douglas McCurdy (B.A.Sc. 1906) – Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, first person to fly an airplane in the British Empire
Frederick Warriner (D.D.S. 1907) – Mayor of Winnipeg, 1937, Mayor of Winnipeg Beach, 1931–36
John Edward Brownlee (B.A. 1908 Vic.) – 5th Premier of Alberta
Gordon Daniel Conant (B.A.) – 12th Premier of Ontario
Leonard Outerbridge (LL.B.) – 2nd Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador
Harry Nixon (B.Sc. OAC) – 13th Premier of Ontario
William Ross Macdonald (B.A. 1914) – 21st Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Solicitor-General of Canada
George A. Drew (B.A. 1916) – 14th Premier of Ontario and High Commissioner of Canada in London
Leslie Frost (B.A.) – 16th Premier of Ontario
Grant MacEwan (B.Sc. 1926 OAC) – 9th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta
Errick Willis (B.A.) – Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba, 1960–65, a member of the Canadian curling team that won a gold medal in the 1932 Winter Olympics
Pauline Mills McGibbon (B.A. 1933 Vic.) – 22nd Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
Keith Hymmen (B.Sc.) – Mayor of Kitchener, Ontario, 1963–65
Fabian O'Dea (M.A.) – 4th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador
John Black Aird (B.A. 1945 Trin.) – 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Ontario; Senator, 1964–74
Vincent Dantzer (M.A.) – Mayor of Edmonton, 1965–68
Robert Gordon Robertson (Ph.D.) – 7th Commissioner of the Northwest Territories
Bill Davis (B.A. 1951) – 18th Premier of Ontario
Hal Jackman (B.A. 1953 Vic., LL.B. 1956) – 25th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, financier and philanthropist
Ross Alger (M.B.A.) – Mayor of Calgary, 1977–80
Marilyn Trenholme Counsell (M.D.) – Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick, 1997–2003
Allan Higdon (B.Ed.) – Mayor of Ottawa, 2000–01
Edward Roberts (B.A. 1960, LL.B. 1964) – 11th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador
John Sewell (B.A. 1961, LL.B. 1964) – 58th Mayor of Toronto
David Peterson (LL.B. 1967) – 20th Premier of Ontario
Don Cousens (D.Th. Knox) – Mayor of Markham, Ontario, 1994–2006
Bob Rae (B.A. 1969, LL.B. 1977) – 21st Premier of Ontario, 5th Leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party
David Onley (B.A. 1975) – 28th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
Susan Fennell (B.Sc. 1977 UTM) – Mayor of Brampton, Ontario, founder and commissioner of the National Women's Hockey League
David Miller (LL.B. 1984) – 63rd Mayor of Toronto
Kathleen Wynne (M.A. 1980; M.Ed. 1995) - 25th Premier of Ontario
John Tory (B.A. 1975 Trin.) – Mayor of Toronto, 2014-, Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, 2005–07

Ministers, diplomats, party leaders and other political figures

Ron Moeser (BA), Toronto City Councillor for Ward 44 Scarborough East in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
William F. Bell (BA), mayor of Richmond Hill, Ontario
Adam Crooks (LL.B.) – Treasurer of Ontario, 1872–77, Attorney General of Ontario, 1871–72, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Toronto West, 1871–74
Robert Alexander Harrison (B.C.L. 1855, D.C.L. 1859 Trin.) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for West Toronto, 1867–72
Arthur Matheson (B.A. Trin.) – Treasurer of Ontario, 1905–13, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Lanark South, 1898–1913
Thomas Moss (B.A. 1858, M.A. 1859) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for West Toronto, 1873–75, Chief Justice of Ontario, 1878–80
James Wellington McLaughlin (B.A.) – Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Durham West, 1879–90
William Lount (LL.B.) – Member of the Canadian House of Commons for Toronto Centre, 1896–97, former justice in the Common Pleas division of the Supreme Court of Ontario
Thomas Dixon Craig (B.A.) – Member of the Canadian House of Commons, 1891–1900, as an independent Conservative member
James Joseph Foy (B.A. St.M.) – Attorney General of Ontario, 1905–14, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Toronto South, 1898–1916
Richard Harcourt (B.A.) – Treasurer of Ontario, 1890–99, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Monck, 1879–1908
William Ralph Meredith (LL.B. 1872) – Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, 1878–94
Allen Bristol Aylesworth (B.A. 1874, M.A. 1875) – Minister of Justice, 1906–11, Minister of Labour, 1905–06, Postmaster General of Canada, 1905–06
Sam Hughes (B.A.) – Minister of Militia and Defence, 1911–16, Member of the Canadian Parliament for Victoria, 1904–21
Clifford Sifton (B.A. 1875 Vic.) – Minister of the Interior, 1896–1905
William Findlay Maclean (B.A.) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for York South, 1904–26, and York East, 1892–1904
Alfred Henry Clarke (LL.B.) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for Essex South, 1904–17, member of the Liberal Party of Canada
James Alexander Lougheed (B.A.) – Leader of the Government in the Senate, 1911–21, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, 1906–11, 1921–25
Robert Allan Pyne (B.A.) – Ontario Minister of Education, 1914–18, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Toronto Northeast, 1898–1918
William Barton Northrup (B.A. 1877, M.A. 1878) – Clerk of the House of Commons, 1918–24, Member of the Canadian Parliament for Hastings East, 1892–96
Thomas Chisholm (M.D. 1879) – Member of the Canadian House of Commons for Huron East, 1904–11, member of the Conservative Party of Canada
William James Roche (M.B. Trin.) – Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, 1912–17, Secretary of State for Canada, 1911–12
Robert Franklin Sutherland (B.A.) – Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, 1905–09, Member of the Canadian Parliament for Essex North, 1900–09
Hartley Dewart (B.A.) – Leader of the Ontario Liberal Party, 1919–21
J. S. Woodsworth (B.A. Vic.) – First leader of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (later became the New Democratic Party), 1932–42
Edmund James Bristol (B.A. 1883) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for Toronto East Centre, 1925–26, and Toronto Centre, 1905–25
John Taylor Gilmour (M.D. Trin.) – Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for York West, 1886–94
Alexander Grant MacKay (M.B.A.) – Leader of the Ontario Liberal Party, 1907–11, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Athabasca, 1913–20
Isaac Benson Lucas (B.A.) – Attorney General of Ontario, 1914–19, Treasurer of Ontario, 1913–14
Henry John Cody (B.A.) – Ontario Minister of Education, 1918–19
Thomas Erlin Kaiser (M.D. 1890) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for Ontario, 1925–30
William Henry Moore (B.A. 1894) – Former Member of the Canadian Parliament for Ontario, member of the Liberal Party of Canada
William Thomas White (B.A. 1895) – Minister of Finance and Receiver General, 1911–19, Member of the Canadian Parliament for Leeds, 1911–21
Morley Currie (M.D. 1895) – Member of the Canadian House of Commons, 1908–11, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Prince Edward, 1902–08
Manning Doherty (B.Sc. 1895 OAC) – Leader of the United Farmers of Ontario, 1924–25, vice-president of the Toronto Stock Exchange, 1938
Edmond Proulx (M.A. St.M.) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for Prescott, 1904–21, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Prescott, 1923–29
W. E. N. Sinclair (LL.B.) – Leader of the Ontario Liberal Party, 1923–30
William Herbert Price (B.A.) – Attorney General of Ontario, 1926–34, Treasurer of Ontario, 1923–26, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Parkdale, 1914–37
James Rutherford (M.B.) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for Kent, 1926–39, member of the Liberal Party of Canada
George Arthur Welsh (B.Ed.) – Provincial Secretary and Registrar of Ontario, 1949–55, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Muskoka—Ontario, 1945–55
C. C. Downey (B.A.) – Chairman of the Toronto Transit Commission, 1960–63
William James Dunlop (B.A.) – Ontario Minister of Education, 1951–59, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Eglinton, 1951–61
Harold Timmins (B.A.) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for Parkdale, 1946–49, member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
John Campbell Elliott (B.A. Trin.) – Minister of Public Works, 1926–30, Minister of Labour, 1926, Postmaster General of Canada, 1935–39
H. H. Wrong (B.A., professor of history) – Canadian Ambassador to the United States, 1946–53
Paul Joseph James Martin (B.A. 1925) – Senator for Windsor-Walkerville, Ontario, 1968–74, Member of the Canadian Parliament for Essex East, 1935–68
H.H. Hannam (B.Sc. 1926 OAC) – General Secretary of the United Farmers of Ontario, 1933–42, former President and managing director of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture
Escott Reid (B.A. 1927 Trin.) – Canadian High Commissioner to India, 1952–57, Director of the South-Asia and Middle Easter Department of the World Bank, 1962–65
Victor Railton (M.B.) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for Welland, 1972–79, member of the Liberal Party of Canada
Charles Herbert Little (B.A. 1930 Trin.) – Director of Naval Intelligence during the Second World War, recipient of the Queen's Jubilee Medal
John Yaremko (B.A.) – Provincial Secretary and Registrar of Ontario, 1960–66, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Bellwoods, 1951–75
E. Herbert Norman (B.A. Vic.) – Canadian Ambassador to Japan, 1946–50
Ted Jolliffe (B.A. Vic.) – First leader of the Ontario Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, 1942–53, leader of the Official Opposition in the Ontario Legislature
George Hees (B.A.) – Minister of Transport, 1957–60, Member of the Canadian Parliament for Broadview, 1950–62
Alfred Hales (B.Sc. 1934 OAC) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for Wellington, 1968–74, and Wellington South, 1957–68
Frederick Robertson (M.D.) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for Northumberland, 1949–57, member of the Liberal Party of Canada
George Ignatieff (B.A. 1936 Trin.) – Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations, 1966–68; president of the United Nations Security Council, 1968–69
Saul Rae (B.A. 1936 U.C.) – Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations, 1972–76
John Kenneth Macalister (B.A. 1937 U.C.) – Special Operations Executive operative in the Second World War
Hu Harries (M.A.) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for Edmonton-Strathcona
Martin O'Connell (M.A., Ph.D.) – Minister of Labour, 1972, 1978–79, Member of the Canadian Parliament for Scarborough East, 1968–72
James H. Aitchison (Ph.D.) – Leader of the New Democratic Party of Nova Scotia, 1963–68
Alastair Gillespie (M.Comm.) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for Etobicoke
Judy LaMarsh (B.A. Vic.) – Secretary of State for Canada, 1965–68, Minister of National Health and Welfare, 1963–65
James McNulty (B.A.) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for St. Catharines, 1968–72, and Lincoln, 1962–68, member of the Liberal Party of Canada
Marion Bryden (M.A.) – Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, 1975–90, Member of the Canadian Parliament for Beaches—Woodbine, 1975–90
Joe Greene (B.A.) – Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources, 1968–72, Member of the Canadian Parliament for Niagara Falls, 1968–72
James Auld (B.A.) – Minister of Colleges and Universities, 1974–75, Ontario Minister of the Environment, 1972–74
René Brunelle (M.A.) – Provincial Secretary for Resources Development of Ontario, 1977–81, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Cochrane North, 1958–81
Andy Thompson (dropped out) – Leader of the Ontario Liberal Party, 1964–66
Bette Stephenson (M.D. 1946) – Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for York Mills, 1975–87
Harry Craig Parrott (D.D.S. 1947) – Ontario Minister of the Environment, 1978–81, Ontario Minister of Colleges and Universities, 1975–78
Royce Frith (B.A.) – Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, 1994–96, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate of Canada, 1991–93
Morton Shulman (M.D. 1948) – Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, 1967–75, member of the New Democratic Party
Paul Hellyer (B.A. 1949) – First leader of the Canadian Action Party, 1997–2004
Elizabeth Joan Smith (B.A. St.M.) – Solicitor General of Ontario, 1987–89, member of the Ontario Liberal Party
Denis Lazure (B.A.) – Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for La Prairie, 1989–96, Bertrand, 1981–84, and Chambly, 1976–81
Stanley Haidasz (M.B. 1951) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for Parkdale, 1962–78, Member of the Canadian Parliament for Trinity, 1957–58
Daniel G. Hill (M.A., 1951; Ph.D., 1960, Sociology). – Founding head of the Ontario Human Rights Commission
Donald S. Macdonald (B.A. 1952 Trin.) – Minister of National Defence, 1970–72; President of the Privy Council, 1968–70; Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, 1988–91
Max Yalden (B.A. 1952 Vic.) – Commissioner of Official Languages, 1977–1984
Robert Nixon (B.Ed.) – Leader of the Ontario Liberal Party, 1967–75, 1990–91, Treasurer of Ontario, 1985–90
Reuben Baetz (LL.B.) – Ontario Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, 1985–87, Ontario Minister of Tourism and Recreation, 1982–85, Provincial Secretary for Justice of Ontario, 1985
Jesse Flis (B.A., M.Ed.) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for Parkdale—High Park, 1979–84, 1993–97, member of the Liberal Party of Canada
Bud Cullen (B.A. 1954) – Federal Court judge, Minister of National Revenue, 1975–76
Roy McMurtry (B.A. 1954 Trin.) – Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, 1985–88, Chief Justice of Ontario, 1996–, Chancellor of York University, 2008–
Laurier LaPierre (B.A. 1955 St.M., M.A. 1957, Ph.D. 1962) – Senator, member of the Liberal Party of Canada, Officer of the Order of Canada
Bill Saunderson (B.A. 1956 Trin.) – Ontario Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Tourism, 1995–97
Ian Scott (B.A. St.M.) – Attorney General of Ontario, 1985–90, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for St. David, 1985–87, and St. George—St. David, 1987–92
Nick Leluk (B.A.) – Ontario Minister of Correctional Services, 1981–85, member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario
Julian Porter (B.A.) – Chairman of the Toronto Transit Commission, 1979–87, former President of the Canadian National Exhibition
John Reimer (B.A.) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for Kitchener, 1979–80, 1984–93
Terry Grier (B.A. 1958 Trin.) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for Etobicoke–Lakeshore, 1972–74, President of Ryerson University, 1988–95
Ruth Grier (B.A. 1958 Trin.) – Ontario Minister of the Environment 1990–93, Ontario Minister of Health 93–95, Member of the Canadian Parliament for Etobicoke—Lakeshore 1987–95
Bob Kaplan (B.A. 1958) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for York Centre, 1974–93, and Don Valley, 1968–72
Ed Broadbent (B.A. 1959 Trin.) – Leader of the New Democratic Party, 1975–89
John Oostrom (B.A. 1959, M.B.A.) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for Willowdale, 1984–88, member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
Michael Wilson (B.A. 1959 Trin.) – 22nd Canadian Ambassador to the United States, 2006–09; Minister of Finance, 1984–91
Gerry Martiniuk (M.A.) – Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, 2007–, member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario
Yuri Shymko (B.A.) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for Parkdale—High Park, 1978–79, member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
Bill Graham (B.A. 1961 Trin.) – Minister of Foreign Affairs, 2002–03; Minister of National Defence, 2004–06; Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, 2006
Bruce McCaffrey (B.A.) – Ontario Minister of Community and Social Services, 1983, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Armourdale, 1977–87
Christine Stewart (B.Sc.N.) – Minister of the Environment, 1997–99, Secretary of State (Latin America and Africa), 1993–97
Alfred Stong (B.A.) – Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for York Centre, 1975–81, judge in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice
Ron Duhamel (M.A., Ph.D.) – Minister of Veterans Affairs, 2000–02, Member of the Canadian Parliament for Saint Boniface, 1988–2002
Mark MacGuigan (Ph.D.) – Minister of Justice, 1982–84, Secretary of State for External Affairs, 1980–82, Member of the Canadian Parliament for Windsor—Walkerville, 1968–84
Barbara McDougall (B.A. 1963) – Minister responsible for the Status of Women, 1986–90, Member of the Canadian Parliament for St. Paul's, 1984–93
Bob Wong (B.A.) – Ontario Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, 1989–90, Ontario Minister of Energy, 1987–89
Michael Cassidy (B.A. Trin.) – Leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party, 1978–82
Dan Hays (LL.B.) – Leader of the Opposition in the Senate of Canada, 2006–07, Speaker of the Canadian Senate, 2001–05, Senator Alberta, 1984–2007
Michael Kergin (B.A. 1965) – 19th Canadian Ambassador to the United States
Barbara Greene (B.A. 1966 St.M.) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for Don Valley North, 1988–93, member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
Carole Taylor (B.A. Vic.) – Minister of Finance of British Columbia, 2005–08, member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia for Vancouver-Langara, 2005–08
John Godfrey (B.A. 1967 Trin.) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for Don Valley West, 1993–2008
Bev Oda (B.A.) – Minister for International Cooperation, 2007–, Minister of Canadian Heritage, 2006–07, Member of the Canadian Parliament for Durham, 2004–
Connie Fogal (M.A.) – Leader of the Canadian Action Party, 2004–08
Stephen Lewis (dropped out) – Leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party, 1970–78
Michael Prue (B.A.) – Toronto City Councillor, 1998–2001, Member of the Canadian Parliament for Beaches—East York, 2001–
Greg Sorbara (dropped out) – Ontario Minister of Finance, 2003–05, 2006–07, Ontario Minister of Labour, 1987–89
Walter McLean (M.Div. Knox) – Secretary of State for Canada, 1984–85, Member of the Canadian Parliament for Waterloo, 1979–93
John Hastings (M.A. 1967) – Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Etobicoke North, 1999–2003, member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario
John Bosley (B.A. 1968 Trin.) – Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, 1984–86, Member of the Canadian Parliament for Don Valley West, 1979–93
Doug Frith (B.Pharm. 1968) – Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, 1984, Member of the Canadian Parliament for Sudbury, 1980–88
Graham Fraser (B.A. 1968, M.A. 1972) – Canada's 6th Commissioner of Official Languages
Michael Ignatieff (B.A. 1969 Trin.) – Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, 2008–, director of Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at John F. Kennedy School of Government, 2000–05
Steven W. Langdon (B.A. 1969 Trin.) – Member of the Canadian House of Commons, 1984–93, member of the New Democratic Party
Patrick Boyer (M.A., LL.B.) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for Etobicoke-Lakeshore, 1984–93, member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
Joe Volpe (B.A. 1970, B.Ed. 1971, M.Ed. 1980) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for Eglinton—Lawrence, 1988–
David Berger (B.A. 1971) – Canadian Ambassador to Israel, 1995–99, Member of the Canadian Parliament for Saint-Henri—Westmount, 1988–94
Tom Wappel (B.A. 1971) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for Scarborough Southwest, 1997–2008, and Scarborough West, 1988–97
Alan Tonks (M.Ed.) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for York South-Weston, 2000–, 6th Metro Toronto Chairman, 1987–97
Garth Turner (B.A.) – Minister of National Revenue, 1993, Member of the Canadian Parliament for Halton, 2006–08, Member of the Canadian Parliament for Halton—Peel, 1988–93
Peggy Nash (B.A.) – President of the New Democratic Party of Canada, 2009–, Member of the Canadian Parliament for Parkdale—High Park, 2006–08
Jim Wiseman (B.A.) – Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Durham West, 1990–95, member of the Ontario New Democratic Party
Howard Hampton (B.Ed.) – Leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party, 1996–2009
Maria Minna (B.A.) – Minister for International Cooperation, 1999–2002, Member of the Canadian Parliament for Beaches—East York, 1997–
Sarmite Bulte (B.A. U.C.) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for Parkdale—High Park, 1997–2006
Carolyn Bennett (M.D. 1974) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for St. Paul's, 1997–, member of the Liberal Party of Canada, Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs, 2015-
Byron Wilfert (B.A., M.A., B.Ed.) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for Richmond Hill, 2004–, Member of the Canadian Parliament for Oak Ridges, 1997–2004
Ted Morton (M.A. 1975, Ph.D. 1981) – Minister of Sustainable Resource Development in the Alberta government, 2006–, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 2004–
Ross Hornby (M.A. 1976) – Canadian Ambassador to the European Union, 2006–
Alex Himelfarb (Ph.D.) – Canadian Ambassador to Italy, 2006–
Jeffrey S. Lyons (J.D.) – Chairman of the Toronto Transit Commission, 1987–89, former Chairman of Gray Coach and Trentway-Wagar
Wayne Arthurs (B.Ed.) – Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Pickering—Scarborough East, 2007–, member of the Ontario Liberal Party
Martha Hall Findlay (B.A.) – Lawyer, Member of the Canadian Parliament for Willowdale, 2008–
Jim Karygiannis (B.ASc.) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for Scarborough—Agincourt, 1988–, member of the Liberal Party of Canada
Rob Oliphant (B.Comm. 1978) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for Don Valley West, 2008–, member of the Liberal Party of Canada
Rosario Marchese (B.A. 1978, B.Ed.) – Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Trinity-Spadina, 1999–, member of the New Democratic Party of Ontario
Christopher Bentley (LL.B. 1979) – Attorney General of Ontario, 2007–, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for London West, 2003–
Leona Dombrowsky (B.A. 1979) – Ontario Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, 2005–, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Prince Edward—Hastings, 2007–
Kathleen Wynne (M.A. 1980) – Ontario Minister of Education, 2006–, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Don Valley West, 2003–, Premier of Ontario, 2013-
Marie Bountrogianni (M.Ed. 1980) – Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, 1999–2007, member of the Ontario Liberal Party
Tony Ianno (B.Sc.) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for Trinity-Spadina, 1993–2006, Minister of Families and Caregivers, 2004–06
Tony Silipo (B.A.) – Ontario Minister of Community and Social Services, 1993–95, Ontario Minister of Education, 1991–93, Chair of the Management Board, 1991–92
Borys Wrzesnewskyj (B.Comm. Trin.) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for Etobicoke Centre, 2004–, member of the Liberal Party of Canada
Paul Christie (Ph.D.) – Chairman of the Toronto Transit Commission, 1994–98
Joseph Cordiano (B.A.) – Ontario Minister for Economic Development and Trade, 2003–06, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for York South—Weston, 1999–2006
Margarett Best (B.A. UTSC) – Ontario Minister of Health Promotion, 2007–, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Scarborough—Guildwood, 2007–
Tony Clement (B.A. 1983, LL.B. 1986) – Minister of Industry, 2008–, Minister of Health, 2006–08, Member of the Canadian Parliament for Parry Sound—Muskoka, 2006–
Alfred Apps (LL.B. 1984) – President of the Liberal Party of Canada, 2009–
Lorenzo Berardinetti (B.A.) – Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Scarborough Southwest, 2003–, member of the Ontario Liberal Party
Tim Murphy (LL.B.) – Chief of Staff of the Prime Minister's Office, 2003–06, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for St. George—St. David, 1993–95
Bob Dechert (LL.B.) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for Mississauga—Erindale, 2008–, member of the Conservative Party of Canada
Jim Wilson (B.A. St.M.) – Ontario Minister of Northern Development and Mines, 2002–03, Ontario Minister of Health, 1995–97
Shelley Martel (B.A.) – Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Sudbury East, 1987–99, member of the Ontario New Democratic Party
Peter Van Loan (B.A. 1987, M.A. 1989, M.Sc. 1993) – Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, 2006–07, President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, 2006–07
Dan Newman (B.A. 1987 U.C.) – Ontario Minister of Northern Development and Mines, 2001–02, Ontario Minister of the Environment, 2000–01
Kirsty Duncan (B.A. 1988) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for Etobicoke North, 2008–, member of the Liberal Party of Canada, Minister of Science (Canada), 2015-
Shafiq Qaadri (M.D. 1988) – Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Etobicoke North, 2003–, member of the Ontario Liberal Party
Mary Anne Chambers (B.Comm. 1988) – Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Scarborough East, 2003–07, member of the Ontario Liberal Party
Roy MacLaren (M.Div. 1991 Trin.) – Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, 1996–2000, Member of the Canadian Parliament for Etobicoke North, 1979–84, 1988–96
Monique Smith (B.A.) – Ontario Minister of Tourism, 2008–, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Nipissing, 2003–
Jason Dearborn (B.A. 1994 Trin., M.Div. 1996 Trin.) – Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan for Kindersley, 2002–07, member of the Saskatchewan Party
Michael Chong (B.A. 1994 Trin.) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for Wellington—Halton Hills, 2004–, President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, 2006
Mark Holland (B.A. 1996) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for Ajax—Pickering, 2004–, member of the Liberal Party of Canada
Patrick Brown (B.A.) – Member of the Canadian Parliament for Barrie, 2006–, President of the Progressive Conservative Youth Federation, 1998–2002
Dale Kirby (Ph.D 2003 OISE/UT) - Member of the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador for St. John's North, 2011-
Tevita Hala Palefau (Ph.D 2005 OISE/UT) - Minister for Education, Member of Parliament, and Member of Privy Council and Cabinet, Tonga, 2005-2010.
Dr Jane Philpott (MPH 2012) - Member of the Canadian Parliament for Markham—Stouffville, 2015-, Minister of Health, 2015-

Natural sciences, mathematics, medicine and engineering

Mathematics and statistics

John Charles Fields (B.A. 1884, professor of mathematics 1902–32) – Mathematician and founder of the Fields Medal^[35]
Robert H. Coats (B.A. 1896 U.C., visiting professor of statistics) – Canada's first Dominion Statistician
Herbert Marshall (B.A. 1915) – Statistician, academic, Canada's third Dominion Statistician
Samuel Beatty (Ph.D. 1915) – Mathematician and educator, Beatty sequence is named after him, 21st Chancellor of the University of Toronto
Cecilia Krieger (B.A. 1924, M.A. 1925, Ph.D. 1930) – Mathematician, the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics in Canada
Gilbert de Beauregard Robinson (B.A. 1927) – Mathematician in combinatorics and representation theory of the symmetric groups, known for the Robinson–Schensted correspondence
Albert W. Tucker (B.A. 1928) – Mathematician; co-discoverer of the Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions
Israel Halperin (B.A. 1932 Vic.) – Mathematician, social activist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Henry Marshall Tory Medal recipient
Nathan Mendelsohn (B.A., M.A., Ph.D. 1941) – Mathematician, former President of the Canadian Mathematical Society, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, winner of the Henry Marshall Tory Medal
Cecil J. Nesbitt (B.A. 1934, M.A. 1935, Ph.D. 1937) – Mathematician, co-discoverer of the Schuette–Nesbitt formula
J. Carson Mark (Ph.D. 1938) – Mathematician, noted for his work on developing nuclear weapons for the United States at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Irving Kaplansky (B.A. 1938, M.A. 1940) – Mathematician, member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, former director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and President of the American Mathematical Society
Chia-Chiao Lin (M.Sc. 1941) – Applied mathematician, Institute Professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, former President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Cathleen Synge Morawetz (B.A. 1945) – Mathematician, Professor Emerita at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at the New York University, former President of the American Mathematical Society, the National Medal of Science winner
Leo Moser (M.Sc. 1945) – Mathematician, best known for his Moser polygon notation
Robert Steinberg (Ph.D. 1948) – Mathematician, professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles, winner of the Steele Prize and Jeffery-Williams Prize, member of the National Academy of Sciences
Donald B. Gillies (B.A. 1950) – Mathematician and computer scientist known for his work in game theory, computer design, and minicomputer programming environments
Laurent C. Siebenmann (B.Sc.) – Professor of mathematics at the Université de Paris-Sud at Orsay, co-discoverer of the Kirby–Siebenmann class, winner of the Jeffery–Williams Prize
James Arthur (B.Sc., M.Sc.) – Former President of the American Mathematical Society
Jerrold E. Marsden (B.Sc.) – American applied mathematician, the Carl F. Braun Professor of Engineering and Control & Dynamic Systems at the California Institute of Technology
John Benedetto (Ph.D. 1964) – Professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park, Director of the Norbert Wiener Center for Harmonic Analysis and Applications
Robert Moody (M.A. 1964, Ph.D. 1966) – Mathematician, co-discoverer of Kac–Moody algebra, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
John Friedlander (B.Sc. 1965) – Mathematician in analytic number theory
Norman Johnson (Ph.D. 1966) – Mathematician, famous for Johnson solids
Mir Masoom Ali (M. Sc. 1967, Ph.D. 1969) - Statistician Ball State University.
James Stewart (Ph.D. 1967) – Mathematician and educator, professor emeritus of mathematics at McMaster University
Eddy Campbell (Ph.D. 1981) – Mathematician, former President of the Canadian Mathematical Society, current President of the University of New Brunswick
Cem Yıldırım (Ph.D. 1990) – Turkish mathematician who specializes in number theory, professor of mathematics at Boğaziçi University
Ravi Vakil (B.Sc., M.Sc. 1992) – Four-time William Lowell Putnam Scholar, professor of mathematics at Stanford University

Medicine and dentistry

Anderson Ruffin Abbott (M.D. 1861) – First Black Canadian doctor, participated in the American Civil War
Albert Ernest Archer (M.D.) – Physician and political activist, President of the Canadian Medical Association, 1942–43
Elizabeth Bagshaw (M.B.) – Medical director of the first birth control clinic in Canada
Michael Baker (M.D. 1966) – Physician and cancer researcher, Physician-in-Chief of the Toronto General Hospital, recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal
Frederick Banting (M.B. 1916) – Co-discoverer of insulin, with student Charles Best, co-researcher James Collip and professor of physiology John James Richard Macleod
Henry J. M. Barnett (M.D. 1944) – Pioneer of the use of aspirin as a preventive therapy for heart attack and stroke
Staff Barootes (M.D. 1943) – Physician and urologist, former treasurer and deputy president of the Canadian Medical Association
John Basmajian (M.D. 1945) – Physician, noted for his work in rehabilitation science, taught at Queen's University, Emory University and McMaster University
Sheela Basrur (M.D. 1982) – Chief Medical Officer of Health and Assistant Deputy Minister of Public Health in the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, 2004–06
Gordon Bell (M.D. 1943) - Pioneer in the treatment of drug and alcohol addiction, founder of the Donwood Institute and Bellwood Health Services. Appointed as Officer of the Order of Canada in 1982, the Royal Bank Award and Gold Medal in 1985, and the Ontario Psychological Foundation's Norma V. Bowen Humanitarian Award in 1991. Since his death in 2005, he has had a street named after him in Toronto, Ontario.
Charles Best (B.A. 1921, M.D. 1925) – Student of Frederick Banting in the discovery of insulin; later adviser to the medical research committee of the World Health Organization
Norman Bethune (M.D. 1916) – Physician and humanitarian; developed the first blood transfusion service in the Spanish Civil War, doctor to Mao Zedong's army in the Second Sino-Japanese War
Wilfred Gordon Bigelow (M.D. 1938) – Heart surgeon who developed the artificial pacemaker and the use of hypothermia in open heart surgery
Francis John Blatherwick (D.PH. 1975) – One of Canada's trailblazing leaders in public health, the longest-serving medical health officer in Canada
Susan Bradley (M.D. 1966) – Psychiatrist best known for her work in gender identity disorder in children, former Psychiatrist-in-Chief at the Hospital for Sick Children
John Callaghan (M.D. 1946) – Cardiac surgeon who "pioneered open-heart surgery in Alberta"^[36]
Kevin Chan (B.Sc.) – Emergency physician at the Hospital for Sick Children, expert in pediatric population health
Christopher Chetsanga (M.Sc. 1965, Ph.D. 1969) – Professor of the University of Zimbabwe who discovered two DNA repair enzymes^[37]
Brock Chisholm (M.D. 1924) – Director-General of the World Health Organization, 1948–53
Charles Kirk Clarke (M.D. 1879) – Psychiatrist who co-founded the Canadian National Committee for Mental Hygiene (now the Canadian Mental Health Association)
James Collip (B.A. 1912 Trin., M.A. 1913, Ph.D. 1916) – Significant member of the research team that discovered insulin; later served as the Chair of the Department of Biochemistry at McGill University and Dean of Medicine at the University of Western Ontario
Harold Copp (M.D. 1939) – Biochemist who discovered and named calcitonin, a hormone used in the treatment of hypercalcemia and osteoporosis
Thomas Stephen Cullen (M.B. 1890) – Gynecologist associated with Johns Hopkins Hospital, Cullen's sign is named for him
Robert Defries (M.D. 1913) – Physician, Former director of Connaught Medical Research Laboratories
Theodore Drake (M.B. 1914) – Pediatrician and nutrition expert; inventor of the baby food Pablum with Frederick Tisdall at the Hospital for Sick Children
Larry Goldenberg (M.D. 1978) – Pioneer in the role of MRI and focal therapy in the treatment of prostate cancer
Brian Goldman (M.D. 1980) – Doctor and radio personality, practices at Mount Sinai Hospital, produces a radio documentary series, White Coat, Black Art
Duncan Archibald Graham (M.B. 1905) – Physician and academic, Physician-in-Chief at the Toronto General Hospital until 1947
Arthur Ham (M.B. 1927) – Prominent histologist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, textbook Histology'
Raymond Heimbecker (M.D. 1947) – Cardiovascular surgeon who performed the world's first complete heart valve transplant in 1962 and Canada's first modern heart transplant in 1981
Jack Hirsh (D.Sc.) – Clinician, and scientist specializing in anticoagulant therapy and thrombosis, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Harold E. Johns (M.A., Ph.D. 1939) – Medical physicist who developed of the use of ionizing radiation to treat cancer
Victor Ling (B.Sc. 1966) – Medical researcher known for the discovery of P-glycoprotein
John Joseph Mackenzie (B.Sc. 1886 U.C., professor of pathology and bacteriology) – Pathologist and bacteriologist, member of the Society of American Bacteriologists and the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists
Thomas McCrae (M.D. 1903) – Professor of Medicine at Jefferson Medical College, collaborated with William Osler on The Principles and Practice of Medicine
Ernest McCulloch (M.D. 1948) – Cellular biologist and Lasker Award recipient credited with the discovery of the stem cell
Robert McMurtry (M.D. 1965) – Physician, special advisor to the Canadian Royal Commission on the Future of Health Care
Maud Menten (B.A. 1904, M.B. 1907, M.D. 1911) – Major contributor to enzyme kinetics and histochemistry, for whom the Michaelis-Menten equation is named
Thomas Mills (B.A. 1871 U.C., M.A. 1872) – Physician and physiologist, taught at McGill University, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Ken Money (B.Sc. 1958, M.Sc. 1959, Ph.D. 1961) – Astronaut and physiologist, retired from Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine now known as Defence Research and Development Canada.
James Fraser Mustard (M.D. 1953) – Physician and scientist, a founding member of the McMaster University's Faculty of Medicine, past Chairman of Ballard Power Systems
William Thornton Mustard (M.D. 1937) – Physician and cardiac surgeon, one of the first to perform open-heart surgery, well known for Mustard cardiovascular procedure
Jack Newman (M.D. 1970) – Physician specializing in breastfeeding support and advocacy, consultant for Unicef's Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative
Robert Noble (M.D. 1934) – Physician who was involved in the discovery of vinblastine, recipient of the Gairdner Foundation International Award
James Orbinski (M.A. 1998, associate professor of medicine) – President of Médecins Sans Frontières; fellow at the Munk Centre for International Studies
Oronhyatekha (M.D. 1866) – First Canadian Aboriginal medical graduate, former President of the Grand Council of Canadian Chiefs
Jennie Smillie Robertson (M.B. 1909) – First female surgeon in Canada
Robert B. Salter (M.D. 1947) – Pediatric orthopaedic surgeon who originated the continuous passive motion (CPM) treatment to aid the recovery of joints after trauma
Ricky Kanee Schachter (M.B. 1943, associate professor) – Renowned dermatologist, former president of the Canadian Dermatological Association
Peter A. Singer (M.D. 1984) – Former director of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics and member of the scientific advisory board of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Elizabeth Stern (M.D. 1939) – Professor of epidemiology at the University of California, Los Angeles who published the first case report linking a virus to a cancer
Augusta Stowe-Gullen (M.D. 1883) – First female Canadian doctor, awarded the Order of British Empire
James Thorburn (M.B.) – Physician and university professor, consulting surgeon at the Toronto General Hospital, President of the Canadian Medical Association, 1895
Stephen Ticktin (M.D. 1973) – Psychiatrist, therapist and lecturer, notable figure in the anti-psychiatry movement
Ross Upshur (M.Sc. 1997) – Physician and researcher, Director of the Primary Care Research Unit at Sunnybrook Research Institute
Paul Walfish (M.D. 1958) – Endocrinologist, noted for his research in thyroid physiology and pathology, worked at Mount Sinai Hospital

Physics, chemistry and astronomy

William Frederick King (B.A. 1874) – Astronomer, founding director of the Dominion Observatory, President of the Royal Society of Canada, 1911–12
Robert Fulford Ruttan (B.A. 1881) – Chemist and educator, former president of the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Canadian Golf Association
Clarence Chant (B.A. 1890) – Physicist and astronomer, president of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and principal founder of the David Dunlap Observatory, considered the father of Canadian astronomy
John Cunningham McLennan (B.Sc. 1892, Ph.D. 1900) – Physicist of the Cavendish Laboratory and McLennan Laboratories, key founder of the National Research Council
John Stanley Plaskett (B.Sc. 1899) – Astronomer who discovered the binary nature of Plaskett's star
Eli Franklin Burton (B.Sc. 1901, Ph.D. 1910) – Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and member of the National Research Council, co-developer of the first practical electron microscope
William Edmund Harper (B.Sc. 1906, M.Sc. 1907) – Astronomer, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, member of staff at the Dominion Observatory
Lawrence V. Redman (B.A. 1908) – Chemist, a pioneer in the industrial applications of plastics, former president of the American Chemical Society
Arthur Jeffrey Dempster (B.Sc. 1909, M.Sc. 1910) – Physicist who developed the world's first modern mass spectrometer and discovered uranium isotope ²³⁵U
Joseph Algernon Pearce (B.Sc., M.Sc.) – Astrophysicist, director of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, 1940–51, former president of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and the Royal Society of Canada
Harry Hemley Plaskett (B.A. 1916) – Astronomer who made significant contributions to the fields of solar physics, astronomical spectroscopy and spectrophotometry, taught at Oxford and won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.^[38]
Frank Scott Hogg (B.Sc.) – Astronomer who pioneered in the study of spectrophotometry of stars and of spectra of comets.,^[39] the crater Hogg on the Moon is co-named for him
Don Misener (M.Sc. 1935) – Discoverer of the superfluid phase of matter together with Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa
Donald MacRae (B.Sc. 1937) – Astronomer, Director of the David Dunlap Observatory, 1965–78, appeared in the Academy Award-nominated NFB documentary Universe
Arthur Leonard Schawlow (B.A. 1941 Vic., M.A., Ph.D. 1949) – Developer of laser spectroscopy
Walter Kohn (B.A. 1945 U.C., M.A. 1946) – Pioneer of quantum chemistry and leading developer of the density functional theory
Boris P. Stoicheff (B.Sc. 1947, Ph.D. 1950, professor of physics) – Physicist, former president of the Optical Society of America, recipient of the Frederic Ives Medal
Bertram Brockhouse (M.A. 1948, Ph.D. 1950) – Developer of neutron triple-axis spectrometry and other neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter^[40]
Robert Ackman (B.A. 1950) – Chemist and pioneer in marine oils and Omega-3 fatty acid
Ursula Franklin (Post-doctoral studies) – Metallurgist, research physicist, humanitarian, the first female professor in the University of Toronto's department of metallurgy and materials science, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Isaac Abella (B.A. 1957) – Physicist specializing in laser physics, quantom optics and spectroscopy, professor of physics at the University of Chicago
Thomas Timusk (B.A. 1957) – Physicist, professor emeritus of physics at McMaster University, co-winner of the Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids
Robert J. LeRoy (B.Sc. 1965, M.Sc. 1967) – Developer of the near-dissociation theory and the LeRoy Radius with Richard Barry Bernstein
Hugh Ross (M.Sc., Ph.D.) – Astronomer, astrophysicist, Old Earth creationist and Christian apologist, established his own ministry called Reasons To Believe
Elagu V. Elaguppillai (M.Sc. 1968, Ph.D. 1970) – Nuclear scientist, former Senior Scientific Advisor of Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, member of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, 1992–96
William Richard Peltier (M.Sc. 1969, Ph.D. 1971) – Physicist in atmospheric, oceanic and geophysical turbulence and fluid dynamics, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the American Geophysical Union
Mark B. Wise (B.Sc. 1976, M.Sc. 1977) – Theoretical physicist known for his role in the development of heavy quark effective theory, John A. McCone Professor of High Energy Physics at California Institute of Technology
Melissa Franklin (B.Sc. 1977 Innis) – Experimental particle physicist, professor of physics at Harvard University
Walter Dorn (Ph.D. 1985) – Chemist and educator, Chair of the Canadian Pugwash Group, the Canadian branch of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs which received the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize
Nima Arkani-Hamed (B.Sc. 1993) – Theoretical physicist, former professor of physics at Harvard University and faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study
David Charbonneau (B.Sc.) – Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University, recipient of the Robert J. Trumpler Award and the Alan T. Waterman Award

Biology and ecology

Archibald Macallum (B.A. 1880) – Biochemist and founder of the National Research Council of Canada
J. Playfair McMurrich (M.A. 1881) – Zoologist and academic, winner of the Flavelle Medal, former president of the Royal Society of Canada and the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Charles E. Saunders (B.A. 1888) – Agronomist and inventor of Marquis wheat
Archibald Gowanlock Huntsman (B.A. 1905, professor of marine zoology 1927–54) – Fisheries biologist, invented the fast freezing of fish fillets, recipient of the Flavelle Medal, former president of the Royal Society of Canada
Sanford Jackson (B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D) – Prominent biochemist, former biochemist-in-chief at the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children, inventor of the bilirubinometer
C. S. Holling (B.A., M.Sc. 1952) – Ecologist and pioneer in ecological economics, director of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Vienna
Roberta Lynn Bonder (Ph.D. 1974) – Astronaut and a neurologist conducts research in basic and clinical science.
Anne Zeller (M.A. 1971, Ph.D. 1978) – Physical anthropologist specialized in the study of primates
William E. Rees (Ph.D.) – Ecologist, professor of ecology at the University of British Columbia, originated the ecological footprint concept and co-developed the method
Helen Rodd (M.Sc. 1982, associate professor 1998–) – Zoologist, recipient of the Premier's Research Excellence Award
Jan Conn (Ph.D. 1987) – Geneticist and poet, her book South of the Tudo Bem Cafe shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award
Cheryl Arrowsmith (Ph.D.) – Structural biologist, Chief Scientist at the Toronto lab of the Structural Genomics Consortium

Engineering and computer science

H. E. T. Haultain (B.A.Sc. 1889) – Mining engineer who began The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer; inventor of the Superpanner and Infrasizer, instruments used in dressing ore
Frederick Walker Baldwin (B.A.Sc. 1906) – Hydrofoil and aviation pioneer, designer and builder of the Silver Dart, White Wing and Red Wing aircraft
D. W. Harvey (B.A.Sc.) – General Manager of the Toronto Transit Commission, 1924–38, played a key role in its early development
John G. Inglis (B.A.Sc. 1923) – General Manager – Operations of the Toronto Transit Commission, 1959–68
Elsie MacGill (B.A.Sc. 1927) – The world's first female aircraft designer, "Queen of the Hurricanes", commissioner on the Royal Commission on the Status of Women of 1967
Wilbur R. Franks (M.B. 1928) – Aviation medical scientist and inventor of the G-suit, awarded the Legion of Merit
Jim Chamberlin (B.A.Sc. 1936) – Aerodynamicist and chief designer of the Avro Arrow, major designer for the Gemini space capsule and Apollo Lunar Module
James Hillier (B.A. 1937, M.A. 1938, Ph.D. 1941) – Scientist and inventor who designed and built the first practical electron microscope with Cecil Hall and Albert Prebus
Bernard Etkin (B.A.Sc. 1941, M.A.Sc. 1947) – Authority on aircraft guidance and control
Leslie Shemilt (B.A.Sc. 1941) – Dean of engineering at McMaster University, 1969–79, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, recipient of the Canadian Centennial Medal
Calvin Gotlieb (B.Sc. 1942, M.Sc. 1944, Ph.D. 1947, professor of computer science) – Computer scientist who has been called the "Father of Computing" in Canada, former president of the Canadian Information Processing Society
James Milton Ham (B.A.Sc. 1943, professor of electrical engineering) – Founding fellow and former president of the Canadian Academy of Engineering
Gerald Bull (B.A.Sc. 1944, M.A.Sc. 1948, Ph.D. 1951) – Ballistics engineer and developer of long-range superguns, headed Project HARP for the United States Department of Defence and later Project Babylon for Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government
Gordon Slemon (M.A.Sc. 1948, professor of engineering) – Electrical engineer, the IEEE Nikola Tesla Award winner, wrote Magnetoelectric Devices and Electric Machines and Drives
Lewis Urry (B.A.Sc. 1950) – Inventor of the alkaline battery and the lithium battery
William Kahan (B.A. 1954, M.A. 1956, Ph.D. 1958) – Architect of the IEEE 754 standard for floating-point computation, developer of the Kahan summation algorithm, recipient of the Turing Award in 1989
Thomas Brzustowski (B.A.Sc. 1958) – Former president of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, taught mechanical engineering at the University of Waterloo
Ken Money (B.Sc. 1958, M.Sc. 1959, Ph.D. 1961, professor of physiology) – Retired NRC/CSA Astronaut, Spacelab Payload Operations Controller for a Spacelab mission in 1992
Zvonko Vranesic (B.Eng., M.Eng., Ph.D) – Electrical engineer, International Master of chess and developer of computer chess software
Alfred Aho (B.A.Sc. 1963) – Co-creator of the AWK programming language, co-author of Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools and several other textbooks on computer science
Brian Kernighan (B.A.Sc. 1964) – Bell Labs computer scientist who co-authored The C Programming Language and The UNIX Programming Environment
Derek Corneil (M.Sc 1965 Ph.D 1968 ) - Chair of Computer Science Department 1985–90 at University of Toronto, professor emeritus of computer science at University of Toronto, author/co-author of over 100 research publications
Olaf von Ramm (B.Sc. 1968, M.Sc. 1970) – Thomas Lord Professor of Engineering at Duke University and holder of the first patent on three-dimensional ultrasound
Keith Geddes (M.Sc. 1970, Ph.D. 1973) – Professor Emeritus in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, member of the Association for Computing Machinery
Tom Maibaum (B.A. 1970) – Computer scientist concentrating on the theory of specification, taught at Imperial College London, King's College London and McMaster University
Roberta Bondar (Ph.D. 1974) – First neurologist in space and Canada's first female astronaut; former head of space medicine research at NASA
Eric Hehner (Ph.D. 1974, professor of computer science) – Influential computer scientist who focuses on formal methods, particularly for programming
Andreas Mandelis Faculty - Expert on photonics
Jonathan Schaeffer (B.Sc. 1979) – Developer of Chinook, the world's strongest checkers-playing computer program, and Polaris, a program that plays Texas hold 'em
Arthur Whitney (M.A.) – Computer scientist most notable for developing the APL-inspired programming languages A+ and K.,^[41] CEO and co-founder of Kx Systems
Kim Vicente (B.A.Sc. 1985, professor of engineering 1998–) – Mechanical and industrial engineer, specializing in the field of human factors, author of The Human Factor
Richard Cleve (Ph.D. 1989) – Professor of computer science at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, associate member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
David Megginson – Computer software consultant and developer, the lead developer and original maintainer of the Simple API for XML
Julie Payette (M.A.Sc. 1990) – Chief astronaut of the Canadian Space Agency, 2000–07; former research engineer at IBM and Bell-Northern Research
Gregory Dudek (M.Sc., Ph.D.) – Professor of computer science and Director of the McGill University School of Computer Science at McGill University
Ryan North (M.Sc. 2005) – Writer and computer programmer, creator and author of Dinosaur Comics, co-creator of Whispered Apologies and Happy Dog the Happy Dog

Earth science

Joseph Tyrrell (LL.B. 1880) – Geologist and mining consultant who discovered dinosaur bones in Alberta's Badlands and coal around Drumheller
William Parks (B.A. 1892, Ph.D. 1900) – Geologist and paleontologist, following in the tradition of Lawrence Lambe, Parksosaurus was named for him
Elwood S. Moore (B.A. 1904, M.A. 1908) – Economic geologist, former president of the Society of Economic Geologists, Royal Society of Canada and Royal Canadian Institute
C. S. Wright (B.Sc. 1908) – Glaciologist and member of the British Antarctic Expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott, navigator of the sledge team that found Scott's perished body
Duncan R. Derry (M.A. Ph.D.) – Economic geologist, creator of the World Atlas of Geological and Mineral Deposits^[42]
George Sherwood Hume (B.Sc.) – Geologist, former president of the Geological Association of Canada, the Royal Society of Canada and the Geological Society of America
John Tuzo Wilson (B.Sc. 1930 Trin.) – Geologist, geophysicist and pioneer in the theory of plate tectonics who conceived of the transform fault concept; Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Wollaston Medal winner
Raymond Thorsteinsson (M.Sc.) – Award-winning geologist, noted for his contribution to the geology of the Proterozoic and Paleozoic rocks
Lawrence Morley (B.Sc. 1946, M.Sc., Ph.D.) – Geophysicist known for his study of magnetic properties of ocean crust, founder of the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
Roger Blais (Ph.D. 1954) – Geological engineer who helped develop a number of prospecting and exploration technologies, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Eric W. Mountjoy (Ph.D. 1960) – Award-winning geologist, professor emeritus of geology at McGill University, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Harold Williams (Ph.D. 1961) – Geologist and expert on the Appalachian Mountains and tectonic development of mountain belts, advanced the theory of colliding super-continents; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Philip J. Currie (B.Sc. 1972) – Paleontologist, museum curator who helped found the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, teaches at the University of Alberta

Social sciences

Anthropology, geography and archaeology

Charles Trick Currelly (B.A. 1898 Vic., M.A. 1902) – First director of the Royal Ontario Museum, member of the staff of the Egypt Exploration Fund which was conducting excavations at Abydos in Upper Egypt
Davidson Black (M.A. 1906, M.D. 1909) – Paleoanthropologist who identified and named Sinanthropus pekinensis, better known as Peking Man^[43]
Arthur Custance (M.A., Ph.D.) – Anthropologist, scientist and author specializing on science and Christianity.^[44]
Elizabeth Bott Spillius (B.A., 1954) – Key founder of social network analysis^[45]
Robert Bateman (B.A. 1954 Vic.) – Naturalist, painter
J. Keith Fraser (M.A. 1955) – Physical geographer, former president of the Canadian Association of Geographers and the executive secretary, publisher and general manager of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society
Donald B. Redford (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) – Egyptologist and archaeologist, editor of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, director of the Akhenaten Temple Project
George F. MacDonald (B.A. 1961) – Anthropologist and director of the Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1983–98, member of UNESCO's drafting committee on the protection of world cultural and natural heritage
Robert John McGhee (B.A. 1964, M.A. 1966) – Author and specialist in Arctic archaeology, former president of the Canadian Archaeological Association, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Richard Borshay Lee (B.A., M.A.) – Anthropologist studying indigenous people in hunting and gathering societies, best known for his work on the Ju'/hoansi
Shabir Ally (M.A.) – President of the Islamic Information & Dawah Centre International in Toronto
Peter J. Brand (Ph.D. 1998) – Egyptologist, Field Director of the Karnak Great Hypostyle Hall Project of the University of Memphis, 2001–

Sociology

Samuel Delbert Clark (Ph.D. 1938; professor of sociology, 1938–76) – Sociologist known for studies on Canadian social development and political economics
Jean Burnet (B.A. Vic.) – Sociologist specializing in ethnic studies, founder of the Glendon Sociology Department at York University
Linda Carty (Ph.D. 1989),^[46] Author and Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Syracuse University
Erving Goffman (B.A. 1945) – Sociologist, author of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, taught at Cal and UPenn, 73rd president of the American Sociological Association^[47]
Daniel G. Hill (M.A. 1951, Ph.D. 1960) – Sociologist, human rights specialist and Black Canadian historian, Ontario Ombudsman, 1984–89, founder of the Ontario Black History Society
Himani Bannerji (Ph.D.) – Writer, academic, professor of sociology at York University, known for her activist work and poetry
Barry Wellman (Ph.D. 1969) Director of NetLab and S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, Fellow Royal Society of Canada
Elliott Leyton (Ph.D. 1972) – Sociologist, educator and author on serial homicide and juvenile delinquency
Livy A. Visano (B.A. 1973, M.A. 1974, Ph.D. 1986) – Professor of sociology and criminology at York University, associate editor of the International Journal of Comparative Sociology

Psychology and linguistics

Elliott Jaques (B.A. 1935) – Psychoanalyst and organizational psychologist who developed the notion of requisite organization
Gurion Hyman (B.Pharm. 1946) – Jewish linguist, anthropologist, pharmacist, composer, artist, and translator, proprietor of the second branch of Hyman's Book and Art Shoppe
Abram Hoffer (M.D. 1949) – Psychiatrist; proposed controversial megavitamin therapies for the treatment of schizophrenia
Endel Tulving (B.A. 1953 U.C., M.A. 1954, professor emeritus) – Neuroscientist whose research developed the distinction between episodic and Semantic memory; famously worked with patient KC; fellow of the Royal Societies of Canada and London
Albert Bregman (B.A. 1957. M.A. 1959) – Psychologist, known for coining the term auditory scene analysis, taught at McGill University, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Arlette Lefebvre (M.D. 1970) – Child psychiatrist at the Hospital for Sick Children and founder of Ability Online
Patricia Alice Shaw (M.A. 1973, Ph.D. 1976) – Linguist, noted for her work on First Nations languages, associate professor of linguistics at the University of British Columbia
Ellen Bialystok (Ph.D. 1976) – Psychologist, Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at York University, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Daniel Schacter (M.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1981, assistant professor of psychology, 1981–87) – Psychologist, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, 2002–, author of The Seven Sins of Memory, Guggenheim Fellow
Diane Massam (B.A. 1980, professor of linguistics) – Linguist specializing in the syntax of Niuean, developed an analysis of noun incorporation
Lisa Feldman Barrett (B.Sc., 1986) - University Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Northeastern University, and fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, who developed the conceptual-act model of emotion
Andrew Carnie (B.A. 1991 St.M.) – Linguist, professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona, known for his research on syntactic theory
Rachel Sarah Herz (Ph.D. 1992) – Researcher, writer and consultant on the psychology of olfaction^[48]
Katharine Banham, (M.A., 1923) - lecturer in psychology and philosophy at the University of Toronto, later Associate Professor of Psychology, Emerita, at Duke University

Economics, management and political science

Sedley Cudmore (B.A. 1905, professor of political economy 1908–45) – Economist, academic, civil servant, Canada's second Dominion Statistician
William Thomas Gould Hackett (B.A.Sc.) – Economist, economic adviser for the Bank of Montreal
John Kenneth Galbraith (B.Sc. 1931 OAC) – Economist, former professor of economics at Harvard, former United States Ambassador to India,^[49] former president of the American Economic Association, recipient of two U.S. Presidential Medals of Freedom, The Great Crash, 1929, The Affluent Society, The Age of Uncertainty, The Anatomy of Power
C. B. Macpherson (B.A. 1933, professor of political economy 1956–87) – Political scientist who contributed to the theory of possessive individualism, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, officer of the Order of Canada, The Life and Times of Liberal Democracy
Louis Rasminsky (B.A.) – 3rd Governor of the Bank of Canada, 1961–73, who helped form the postwar international finance system; executive director at the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
David A. Rosenberg (B.A. 1983, M.A. 1984)-Former chief Economist for Merrill Lynch, author of daily newsletter, Breakfast with Dave, currently chief Economist and Strategist with Gluskin Sheff and Associates
John Hodgetts (B.A.) – Political scientist who is regarded as the father of public administration studies in Canada
David Easton (B.A. 1939) – Political scientist, renowned for his application of systems theory to political science, former President of the American Political Science Association, active member in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, A Framework for Political Analysis, A Systems Analysis of Political Life
Lorie Tarshis (B.A.) – Economist and educator, professor of economics at Stanford University, 1946–1970
Harry Gordon Johnson (M.A. 1943) – Economist who focused on international trade and international finance, distinguished fellow of the American Economic Association
John Meisel (B.A., M.A.) – Political scientist, 103rd President of the Royal Society of Canada, former Chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
Martin Shubik (B.A. 1947, M.Sc. 1949) – Mathematical economist in game theory, Seymour H. Knox Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Institutional Economics at Yale University
Richard Lipsey (M.A. 1953) – Economist and educator, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Econometric Society, winner of the Schumpeter Prize, wrote Positive Economics, Theory of the Second Best
Alan Cairns (B.A., 1953, M.A. 1957) – Political scientist, professor emeritus of political science at the University of British Columbia, recipient of the Molson Prize
Gerald Caplan (M.A.) – Canadian academic, public policy analyst, commentator and political activist, former political organizer for the New Democratic Party
Stephen Clarkson (B.A. Trin., professor of political economy) – Political scientist, Senior Fellow at the CIGI, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
William Christian (B.A. 1966, M.A.) – Professor of political science at the University of Guelph, author of biography on George Grant and Political Parties and Ideologies in Canada^[50]
Malcolm Knight (B.A. 1967, professor of economics 1971–75) – Economist, vice-chairman of Deutsche Bank, visiting professor of finance at the London School of Economics, former General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements, former Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada
Mel Cappe (B.A. 1971 New) – President and CEO of the Institute for Research on Public Policy, 2006–, Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, 2002–06
John Kirton (B.A. 1971) – Political scientist specializing in Canadian foreign policy, the director and co-founder of the G8 Research Group, Canadian Foreign Policy in a Changing World
Douglas A. Ross (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) – Political scientist specializing in international relations, author of In the Interests of Peace: Canada and Vietnam, 1954–1973
Bernard Yack (B.A.) – American political theorist, The Problems of a Political Animal
Jeff Rubin (B.A.) – Economist and author, former chief economist at CIBC World Markets
Denise Chong (M.A. 1978) – Chinese Canadian economist and writer, author of Egg on Mao: The Story of an Ordinary Man Who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship
Daniel Trefler (B.A. 1982, professor of economics 1997–) – Economist specializing in international economics, known for empirical research on patterns of trade
Maris Martinsons (B.A.Sc. 1982, M.B.A. 1984) – professor of management; government advisor; international business consultant
Dwayne Benjamin (B.Sc. 1984, professor of economics) – Economist, managing editor of Canadian Journal of Economics, editor of Economic Development and Cultural Change
Andrew Pyle (B.A. 1987, M.A. 1988) – Economist, adviser with ScotiaMcLeod, former ABN AMRO's Chief Canadian Strategist
Stanley E. Zin (Ph.D. 1987) – Cyert and DeGroot Professor of Economics and Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University, research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Frisch Medal recipient
Shouyong Shi (M.A. 1988, Ph.D. 1991) – Economist, tier 1 Canada Research Chair, research fellow at the Bank of Canada

Humanities

Philosophy

George Blewett (B.A. 1897 Vic.) – First native-born philosopher in English Canada, authored The Study of Nature and The Vision of God
T. A. Goudge (Ph.D. 1937) – Philosopher, member of the American Philosophical Association, President of the Canadian Philosophy Association in 1964, President of the Charles S. Peirce Society 1957 59, wrote The Ascent of Life, which won the Governor General's Award
Peter Glassen (B.A. 1944, M.A. 1945) – Philosopher, noted for his arguments against metaphysical materialism
Emil Fackenheim (Ph.D. 1945) – Jewish philosopher and Reform rabbi
Joseph Owens (Ph.D. 1951) – Roman Catholic priest, scholar in medieval philosophy, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
James Robb (M.A., Ph.D. 1953) – Professor of philosophy at Marquette University, expert in Medieval philosophy
David Gauthier (B.A. 1954) – Philosopher known for his social contract theory of morality, author of Morals by Agreement
Barry Stroud (B.A.) – Willis S. and Mario Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley
Ted Honderich (B.A. 1959) – Grote Professor Emeritus of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London
Howard Adelman (B.A. 1960, M.A. 1963, Ph.D. 1971) – Philosopher, retire Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at York University
John N. Deck (Ph.D. 1960) – Philosopher, known for Nature, Contemplation and the One
Dan Goldstick (B.A. 1962, professor of philosophy) – Long-time member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Canada, Professor Emeritus in philosophy at Toronto
L. W. Sumner (B.A. 1962) – Philosopher in normative and applied ethics and political philosophy, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
William Hare (Ph.D. 1971) – Philosopher, noted for his work in philosophy of education, Professor Emeritus of Mount Saint Vincent University
Michael Neumann (Ph.D. 1975) – Political philosopher, What's Left?, The Rule of Law
Calvin Normore (Ph.D. 1976) – Philosopher, an expert in Medieval Philosophy, past president of the Pacific division of the American Philosophical Association, teaches at UCLA
Paul Thagard (Ph.D. 1977) – Philosopher, former Chair of the Governing Board of the Cognitive Science Society, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Jan Zwicky (Ph.D. 1981) – Philosopher, poet, essayist, winner of two Governor General's Awards
Mark Kingwell (B.A. 1985 St. M., professor of philosophy) – Philosopher, winner of the Spitz Prize, contributing editor to Harper's Magazine and The Globe and Mail
Charles Blattberg (B.A.) – Professor of political philosophy at the Université de Montréal
Onkar Ghate (B.A. 1990) – Senior fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute
John Russon (Ph.D. 1990) – Philosopher, known for his interpretations of G. W. F. Hegel, author of Human Experience and Bearing Witness to Epiphany.
David Sztybel (Ph.D. 2000) – Ethicist specializing in animal ethics

Literature

Wilfred Campbell (B.A. 1882 U.C., M.A. 1883 Wyc.) – Poet
Ralph Connor (B.A. 1883, D.Th. Knox) – Novelist
Archibald Lampman (B.A. 1882 Trin.) – Early Canadian poet belonging to the Confederation Poets group
Stephen Leacock (B.A. 1891 U.C.) – Humorist, writer and political economist, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
John McCrae (B.A. 1894, M.B. 1898) – Poet, physician and soldier; In Flanders Fields
E. J. Pratt (B.A. 1911 Vic., M.A. 1912, B.D. 1913) – Poet, the Royal Society of Canada member, three Governor General's Awards, one Lorne Pierce Medal, Towards the Last Spike
Arthur Bourinot (B.A. 1915 U.C.) – Poet, lawyer, won the Governor General's Award for Under the Sun
Paul Hiebert (M.A.) – Writer and humorist, Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour recipient, Sarah Binks
Raymond Knister (B.A. Vic.) – Novelist, short story writer anc critic, My Star Predominant
Morley Callaghan (B.A. 1925) – Novelist, writer and playwright
Earle Birney (M.A., professor of English, 1936–41) – Poet, winner of two Governor General's Awards
Edna Staebler (B.A. 1929, B.Ed. 1931) – Author, best known for a series of cookbooks, awarded the Order of Canada
Ernest Buckler (M.A. 1930) – Novelist and short story writer, awarded the Canadian Centennial Medal, The Mountain and the Valley
Dorothy Livesay (B.A. 1931 Trin.) – Poet, winner of the Governor General's Award for Day and Night and Poems for People
Northrop Frye^[18] (B.A. 1933 Vic.; professor of English 1939–91) – Literary critic and theorist; author, Fearful Symmetry, Anatomy of Criticism, The Well-Tempered Critic
Douglas LePan (B.A. 1935) – Poet, novelist and academic, won two Governor General's Awards, one Lorne Pierce Medal, Guggenheim Fellow, The Deserter, The Net and the Sword
Miriam Waddington (B.A. 1939) – Poet, her poem Jacques Cartier in Toronto is on the back of the Canadian $100 bill released in 2004
Margaret Avison (B.A. 1940, M.A. 1965) – Poet, Griffin Poetry Prize recipient
George Elliott (B.A.) – Short Story writer, reporter and editor of the Timmins Daily Press
Hugh Kenner (B.A. 1945, M.A. 1946) – Literary scholar, critic and professor, taught at UC Santa Barbara, Johns Hopkins and Georgia, Dublin's Joyce, The Poetry of Ezra Pound
Henry Kreisel (B.A. 1946, M.A. 1947) – Writer, officer of the Order of Canada, The Rich Man
Douglas Lochhead (M.A. 1947) – Poet, the Carlo Betocchi Poetry Prize recipient, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Phyllis Gotlieb (B.A. 1948, M.A. 1950) – Science fiction novelist and poet, winner of the Prix Aurora Award
Don Coles (B.A. 1949, M.A. 1952) – Poet, received the Governor General's Award and the Trillium Book Award
Walter Stewart (dropped out, 1953) – Writer, editor and educator of journalism
Ken Adachi (B.A., M.A., professor of English 1958–71) – Writer and literary critic, The Enemy That Never Was
Richard Outram (B.A. 1953 Vic.) – Poet
Jay Macpherson (M.A. 1955, Ph.D. 1964, professor of literature, 1957–96) – Lyric poet and scholar, winner of the Governor General's Award, The boatman
Rod Anderson (B.Sc. 1956) – Poet, musician and chartered accountant, member of the Canadian League of Poets
Eli Mandel (Ph.D. 1957) – Poet and literary academic, winner of the Governor General's Award, An Idiot Joy
Scott Symons (B.A.) – Writer, Place d'Armes
John Robert Colombo (B.A. 1959) – Poet, anthologist, editor, essayist, Mysterious Canada, Richard Maurice Bucke
Austin Clarke (B.A.) – Novelist, essayist and short story writer, Giller Prize and Commonwealth Writers Prize winner, The Polished Hoe
Claire Pratt (B.A. Vic.) – Poet, artist, editor, senior editor of McClelland & Stewart
Barry Callaghan (B.A. 1960 St.M., M.A. 1962) – Author, poet, son of Morley Callaghan
David Helwig (B.A. 1960) – Poet, novelist and essayist, professor of literature at Queen's University, member of the Order of Canada
Dave Godfrey (B.A. Trin.) – Writer and publisher, won the Governor General's Award for his novel The New Ancestors
Sheila Watson (Ph.D. 1961 St.M.) – Novelist, critic and educator, the Lorne Pierce Medal recipient, The Double Hook
Margaret Atwood (B.A. 1961 Vic.) – Writer, poet and novelist; The Handmaid's Tale, The Blind Assassin; recipient of one Prince of Asturias Award, one Arthur C. Clarke Award, five Booker Prizes and two Governor General's Awards
Dennis Lee (B.A. 1962, M.A. 1965) – Children's writer and poet, Alligator Pie
Eric Wright (M.A. 1963) – Writer of mystery novels, Arthur Ellis Award, City of Toronto Book Award and Derrick Murdoch Award recipient
Matt Cohen (B.A. 1964, M.A. 1965) – Writer, recipient of the Governor General's Award, Elizabeth and After, Emotional Arithmetic
Michael Ondaatje (B.A. 1965 U.C.) – Poet and novelist, The English Patient; recipient of the Booker Prize
Joy Fielding (B.A. 1966) – Novelist and actress, Kiss Mommy Goodbye, See Jane Run
Norma Cole (M.A.) – Contemporary American poet, visual artist and frequent translator, Mace Hill Remap, Do the Monkey
David Staines (B.A. 1967) – Literary critic and university professor, taught at several institutions including Harvard, Lorne Pierce Medal recipient, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Margaret Visser (Ph.D.) – Writer, broadcaster, Glenfiddich Award and Jane Grigson Award recipient, The Geometry of Love: Space, Time, Mystery and Meaning in an Ordinary Church
Edmundo Farolan Romero (M.A. 1969) – Poet, Dramatist and Novelist. Premio Zobel 1982^[51]
Linda Hutcheon (B.A. 1969, Ph.D. 1975; professor of literature, 1988–) – Former president of the Modern Language Association
Susan Wood (B.A. 1969, M.A. 1970, Ph.D. 1975) – Author and critic, recipient of three Hugo Awards for Best Fan Writer, co-publisher of Energumen
Elizabeth Brewster (B.LSc.) – Poet and academic, member of the Order of Canada
Greg Hollingshead (B.A.) – Novelist, winner of the Governor General's Award for his short fiction The Roaring Girl
John Steffler (B.A. 1971) – Poet and novelist, recipient of the Thomas Head Raddall Award and the Atlantic Poetry Prize, former Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate
Wayne Tefs (M.A.) – Novelist, critic and anthologist, recipient of the Canadian Magazine Fiction Prize for Red Rock and After
M. T. Kelly (M.A.) – Novelist, poet and playwright, the Governor General's Award recipient, A Dream Like Mine
Anne Carson (B.A. 1974 St.M., M.A. 1975, Ph.D. 1981) – Poet, essayist and translator; professor of classics at the University of Michigan
Derrick de Kerckhove (Ph.D. 1975, professor of French) – Theorist on Western civilization, literacy and society; former Director, Marshall McLuhan Program; The Skin of Culture
Dionne Brand (B.A., M.A., Ph.D) – Poet, novelist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Poet Laureate of Toronto for a three-year term
Guy Gavriel Kay (LL.B. 1976) – Author of fantasy fiction, The Fionavar Tapestry
O.R. Melling (B.A. Trin 1977, M.A. SGS 1984)- Writer, Screenwriter and Literary Critic, aka known as G.V. Whelan, 'The Druid's Tune,' 'The Chronicles of Faerie' - Ruth Schwartz Award, Young Adult Canadian Book of the Year Award
Di Brandt (M.A.) – Poet and literary critic, recipient of the Gerald Lampert Award, juror of the 2008 Governor General's Awards
Paul Quarrington (B.A.) – Novelist and playwright, winner of Stephen Leacock Award, Governor General's Award and Matt Cohen Prize, King Leary, Whale Music, The Spirit Cabinet
John Mighton (B.A. 1978 Vic., Ph.D. 2000) – Author and mathematician, winner of two Governor General's Awards, Possible Worlds
Guy Gavriel Kay (LL.B. 1978) – Author of fantasy fiction, winner of Prix Aurora Award, The Wandering Fire, Tigana, The Last Light of the Sun
Susan Glickman (Ph.D., professor of English, −1993) – Writer and critic, received several prizes such as the Gabrielle Roy Prize
Anne Michaels (B.A. 1980) – Poet and novelist; Commonwealth Prize, Orange Prize recipient
B. W. Powe (M.A. 1981) – Author, poet, essayist
Marianne Ackerman (M.A. 1981) – Playwright, novelist, journalist, theatre critic for Montreal Gazette, the Nathan Cohen Award winner
Charles Foran (B.A. St.M.) – Novelist and non-fiction writer, contribution editor to The Walrus, contributing reviewer for The Globe and Mail
Rohinton Mistry (B.A. 1982) – Author, Governor General's Award, Commonwealth Writers Prize and Giller Prize recipient, Such a Long Journey and A Fine Balance
David Manicom (B.A.) – Poet, novelist and diplomat, a finalist for the 2004 Governor General's Award for English language poetry
Barbara Fradkin (M.A.) – Mystery writer, two-time winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel, past president of Crime Writers of Canada
Michael Redhill (B.A.) – Poet, playwright, novelist, publisher and editor of Brick
Kenneth Oppel (B.A. Trin.) – Author, the Governor General's Literary Award recipient, Silverwing, Airborn, Skybreaker
Camilla Gibb (B.A. 1991 U.C.) – Author, Mouthing the Words and Sweetness in the Belly
Elizabeth Ruth (B.A., M.A.) – Novelist, Ten Good Seconds of Silence
Bert Archer (B.A. St.M.) – Author, journalist, and critic, former editor of Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, columnist of Toronto Life
Andrew Pyper (LL.B.) – Writer of fiction, winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Lost Girls
Hal Niedzviecki (B.A.) – Novelist and cultural critic, co-founder of the magazine Broken Pencil
Lynn Crosbie (Ph.D., professor of literature) – Poet and novelist, columnist for The Globe and Mail
Vincent Lam (M.D. 1999) – Writer and medical doctor, recipient of the Giller Prize, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
Sky Gilbert (M.A. 2000) – Writer, actor, academic and drag performer, appeared in Too Much Sex
Sheila Heti (B.A.) – Writer, Ticknor, The Middle Stories
Rebecca Rosenblum (M.A. 2007) – Author, a Journey Prize finalist

History

John George Bourinot (dropped out) – Historian and civil servant, founding member of the Royal Society of Canada, creator of the Bourinot's Rules of Order
James T. Shotwell (B.A. 1898) – History professor at Columbia University, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, member of the San Francisco Conference that drafted the United Nations Charter
Arthur R. M. Lower (B.A.) – Historian, recipient of two Governor General's Awards, former president of the Royal Society of Canada
Frank Underhill (M.A., professor of history) – Historian, social critic and political thinker, a founder of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, In Search of Canadian Liberalism
C. P. Stacey (B.A. 1924) – Official historian of the Canadian Army in the Second World War; contributor to the study of the Dieppe Raid and Operation Spring
Donald Creighton (B.A. 1925 Vic.; professor of history, 1945–79) – Historian, novelist and noted anglophile, author of Commercial Empire of the St. Lawrence
Michael Bliss (B.A., M.A., Ph.D., professor) – Medical, business and political historian, author of The Discovery of Insulin, William Osler: A Life in Medicine and Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery
Victor Lange (M.A. 1931 U.C.) – Renowned Germanist; president of the International Society of Germanists, John M. Woodhull Professor of Modern Languages at Princeton University
John Wendell Holmes (M.A. 1933) – Historian and diplomat, former president of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs, recipient of the J. B. Tyrrell Historical Medal
Alfred Bailey (Ph.D. 1934) – Ethno-historian and educator, former assistant director and associate curator of the New Brunswick Museum, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
J. M. S. Careless (B.A. 1940) – Historian and biographer, two-time winner of the Governor General's Award
William Kilbourn (B.A. Trin. 1948) – Historian, member of the executives of the Canada Council and the Canadian commission for UNESCO, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Stephen Clarkson (B.A. 1959 Trin.) – Political scientist specializing in foreign policy, neoconservatism, globalization and North American integration; Governor General's Award winner
Jack Granatstein (M.A. 1962) – Historian, winner of the J.B. Tyrrell Historical Medal, Vimy Award
Irving Abella (B.A. 1963, M.A. 1964, Ph.D. 1969) – Historian, writer, None is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe 1933-1948, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Michiel Horn (M.A., Ph.D.) – Historian and educator, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, professor emeritus, Glendon College, York University
Modris Eksteins (B.A. Trin., professor of history 1970–) – Historian, winner of the Trillium Book Award and the Pearson Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize, Rites of Spring: The Great War, The Birth of Modern Age
Robert Bothwell (B.A., professor of Canadian history 1981–) – Historian, best known for his work on Canadian Cold War participation
Norman Hillmer (B.A. 1966, M.A. 1967) – Historian and educator, For Better or For Worse: Canada and the United States to the l990s
David Bercuson (M.A. 1967, Ph.D. 1971) – Labour, military and political historian, Vimy Award winner, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Deconfederation: Canada without Quebec
Margaret Conrad (M.A. 1968, Ph.D. 1979) – Historian specializing in Atlantic Canada and Women's history, recipient of the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Veronica Strong-Boag (B.A. 1970, Ph.D. 1975) – Historian, former president of the Canadian Historical Association, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
George R. D. Goulet (LL.M.) – Métis best-selling author and retired lawyer
Alastair Sweeny (B.A. Trin.) – Historian, author and publisher, wrote George-Étienne Cartier: A Biography
Roger Sarty (B.A.) – Historian specializing in the history of Canada's navy and coastal defence
Nick Brune (B.A. 1975, M.A. 1976, B.Ed. 1977) – Educator, historian and author, winner of the Governor General's Award for Excellence in Teaching Canadian History
Kenneth R. Bartlett (Ph.D. 1978, professor of history) – Renaissance historian, president of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies
Afua Cooper (Ph.D.) – Historian and dub poet, Memories Have Tongue, The Hanging of Angelique
Joseph Imre (B.A. 2005) – Historian, political scientist and public servant at the National Research Council of Canada

Law (excluding the Supreme Court judges mentioned above)

John Arnup (B.A. 1932 Vic.) – Judge of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, 1970–85, best known for having pioneered universal legal aid in Ontario
Anne Bayefsky (B.A., M.A., LL.B.) – Human rights scholar and activist, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, teaches at York University
Charles Dubin (B.A. 1941) – Chief Justice of Ontario, 1990–96, best known for leading the Dubin Inquiry into the use of steroids by athletes
Todd Ducharme (LL.B. 1986) – First Métis to be appointed to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice
William Glenholme Falconbridge (B.A. 1866 U.C., M.A. 1870) – Chief Justice of Ontario Superior Court of Justice, 1900–20
Martin Friedland (B.Comm. 1955, LL.B. 1958) – Lawyer, academic and author; recipient of the Molson Prize in 1994
George Alexander Gale (B.A. 1929) – Chief Justice of Ontario, 1964–76
Bill Hastings (B.A. 1978) – District Court Judge of New Zealand
Bernard Hibbitts (LL.M. 1986) – Lawyer, professor and publisher, founder and publisher of JURIST, teaches at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law
William Goldwin Carrington Howland (B.A. 1936) – Chief Justice of Ontario, 1977–92
William Kaplan (B.A. 1980) – Lawyer and writer, professor of law at the University of Ottawa Law School, 1989–2001
Mayo Moran (S.J.D. 1999, dean of the faculty of law, 2006–) – Law professor who published extensively in comparative constitutional law, private law, and legal and feminist theory
Ed Morgan (LL.B. 1984), Professor of International Law at the University of Toronto
Kent Roach (B.A. 1984 Vic., LL.B. 1987, professor of law) – Legal academic noted for his writings on criminal law, former law clerk to Justice Bertha Wilson of the Supreme Court
Clayton Ruby (LL.B. 1969) – Lawyer, specializing in constitutional and criminal law and civil rights, former acting Treasurer of the Law Society of Upper Canada
Robert Sharpe (LL.B. 1970, dean of the faculty of law, 1990–95) – Judge of the Court of Appeal for Ontario.,^[52] 1999–, patron of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal.^[53]
James Marshall Tory (B.A.) – Chair Emeritus and Counsel at Torys LLP
John A. Tory (B.A., LL.B. 1952) – Co-founder of the law firm, Tory, Tory, Deslauriers, a director of Rogers Communications
John S. D. Tory – Founder of Torys LLP, a director of A.V. Roe Canada
Stephen Waddams (B.A., professor of law) – Legal academic specializing in contract law, former Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Theology

Nathanael Burwash (B.A. 1859 Vic.) – Methodist minister and university administrator
Albert Benjamin Simpson (B.Th. 1865 Knox) – Preacher, theologian and author, founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance
Charles Coughlin (B.A. 1911 St.M.) – Religious and political speaker, noted radio opponent of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Robert Baird McClure (M.B. 1922) – 23rd Moderator of the United Church of Canada, 1968–71
Tom Harpur (B.A. 1951 U.C., D.Th. 1956 Wyc.) – Theologian, author and columnist, former religion editor of the Toronto Star, recipient of a State of Israel Silver Medal for Outstanding Journalism, fellow of the American Religious Public Relations Council
Amir Hussain (B.A. 1987 U.C., Ph.D. 2001), Editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Andrew Hutchison (L.Th. 1969 Trin.) – Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, 2004–07, Bishop of Montreal, 1990–2004
A. James Reimer (M.A., Ph.D. St.M.) – Mennonite theologian, Mennonites and Classical Theology
Adele Reinhartz (B.A. 1975, M.A. 1977) – Theologian, former president of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Mary Jo Leddy (Ph.D.) – Theologian, writer and social activist, founding editor of the Catholic New Times, former member of the Roman Catholic Sisters of Our Lady of Sion
Thomas Rosica (D.Th. 1985 Regis) – Catholic priest and Basilian Father, CEO of Canadian Catholic Salt + Light Television network
Lucian Turcescu (Ph.D. 1999) – Theologian, professor of theology at Concordia University

Media and arts

Journalism and publishing

James Ross (B.A. 1857, M.A. 1865) – Journalist, lawyer, member of the provisional government established by Louis Riel during the Red River Rebellion of 1869–1870
Henry Albert Harper (B.A. 1895) – Journalist and civil servant, the statue of Sir Galahad at Parliament Hill was built in honour of him
Peter C. Newman (B.A. 1950 Vic., M.Comm. 1954) – Journalist; former editor, Maclean's and Toronto Star; author, The Canadian Establishment, The Secret Mulroney Tapes
Michele Landsberg (B.A. 1952) – Writer, social activist and feminist, columnist for the Toronto Star, recipient of the Governor General's Award
Walter Stewart (dropped out) – Writer, editor and journalism educator, "Canada's conscience"
Christina McCall (B.A. 1956 Vic.) – Journalist and political writer, journalist at The Globe and Mail, Saturday Night and Maclean's, senior editor at Chatelaine
Barbara Frum (B.A. 1959) – Prolific journalist and interviewer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, host of The Journal
Barbara Amiel (B.A. 1963 U.C.) – British journalist, socialite, spouse of publishing mogul Conrad Black
Michael Kesterton (B.A.) – Columnist for The Globe and Mail
John Honderich (B.A.) – Publisher of the Toronto Star, 1994–2004
Margaret Wente (M.A.) – Columnist for The Globe and Mail, winner of two National Newspaper Awards for column
Ellie Tesher (B.A.) – Journalist and advice columnist for the Toronto Star
Linda McQuaig (B.A.) – Journalist, columnist and non-fiction author, business reporter at The Globe and Mail, columnist for the Toronto Star
Bonnie Fuller (B.A. 1977 U.C.) – Media executive, editorial director of American Media and editor of Flare, Cosmopolitan, YM, Marie Claire, Glamour and Us Weekly.
Heather Mallick (B.A. U.C., M.A.) – Columnist for Chatelaine, The Guardian and The Globe and Mail
John Ibbitson (B.A. 1979) – Writer and journalist, columnist for The Globe and Mail
Lyse Doucet (M.A. 1982) - Chief International correspondent for the "BBC"
Andrew Coyne (B.A. Trin.) – National editor for Maclean's, former columnist with the National Post
Matthew Fraser (B.A. 1981 Vic.) – Editor-in-chief, National Post
Jagoda Pike (B.A. Trin.) – Publisher of the Toronto Star 2006–08, President of Star Media Group
Malcolm Gladwell (B.A. 1984 Trin.) – Journalist; staff writer for The Washington Post and The New Yorker; author of The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers
Isabel Vincent (B.A.) – Investigative journalist for the National Post
Naomi Klein (B.A. incomplete) – Journalist and activist; author, No Logo; contributor to The Nation, The Globe and Mail and The Guardian^[54]
Marc Dillon Riddell (B.A. 1997 St.M.) – Gemini Award winning Broadcast Journalist
Benjamin Joffe-Walt (B.Ed. 2003) – Writer, CNN Africa Print Journalist of the Year
Simon Pulsifer (B.A. 2004 Vic.) – Prolific contributor to English Wikipedia under the username SimonP
Ryan North (M.Sc. 2005) – Webcomic author

Film, television and theatre

Preet Banerjee (B.S. 2001 UTSC) – host of the television show Million Dollar Neighbourhood on the Oprah Winfrey Network
Frank Shuster (B.A. 1939 U.C.) – Comedian, member of the comedy duo Wayne & Shuster
Johnny Wayne (B.A. 1940 U.C.) – Comedian, member of the comedy duo Wayne & Shuster
Arthur Hiller (B.A. 1947 U.C., M.A. 1950) – Film director, The Man in the Glass Booth, Silver Streak
Elwy Yost (B.A. 1948) – Television host, hosted Passport to Adventure series, Magic Shadows and Saturday Night at the Movies
William Hutt (B.A. 1948 Trin.) – Actor of stage, television and film, King Lear, Long Day's Journey into Night, Sam Wanamaker Prize recipient
Albert Wesley Johnson (M.PA.) – President of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1975–1982
Norman Jewison (B.A. 1949 Vic.) – Film director, In the Heat of the Night, Fiddler on the Roof, Moonstruck
Patrick Watson (M.A.) – Broadcaster and television writer, Titans, The Watson Report, The Canadian Establishment, Heritage Minutes
Ted Kotcheff (B.A. 1952) – Film and television director, First Blood, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Leon Major (B.A. 1955) – Opera and theatre director, artistic director of Boston Lyric Opera, 1998–2003
Daniel McCarthy (B.A. St. Michael's )– Children's television producer who helped create The Friendly Giant, Mr. Dressup, and Sesame Park^[55]
Peter Gzowski (dropped out) – Broadcaster, writer and reporter, the CBC radio show Morningside
Donald Sutherland (B.A. 1958 Vic.) – Actor, The Dirty Dozen, M*A*S*H (film), Ordinary People, JFK, Hunger Games
William B. Davis (B.A. 1959) – Actor, known for his role as the Cigarette Smoking Man on The X-Files
Lorne Michaels (B.A. 1966 U.C.) – Creator and producer of Saturday Night Live
David Cronenberg (B.A. 1967 U.C.) – Film director, Videodrome, The Fly, A History of Violence
Hart Hanson (B.A.) – American television writer and producer, Bones, Joan of Arcadia
Stephen Stohn (J.D. 1977) – Entertainment lawyer and television producer, President of Epitome Pictures, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Instant Star
Ron Mann (B.A. 1980 Innis) – Documentary filmmaker, Imagine the Sound, Grass
Graham Yost (B.A. 1980 Trin.) – Screenwriter, Speed, Mission to Mars
Atom Egoyan (B.A. 1982 Trin.) – Film director, The Sweet Hereafter, Where the Truth Lies
David Shore (LL.B. 1982) – Television screenwriter, House, Law & Order
Heather Hiscox (B.A. 1986) – News anchor who works for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, host of CBC News: Morning
Mark Rowswell (B.A. 1988 U.C.) – Media personality, one of the best-known Western performers in China
Tim Long (B.A. 1992 U.C.) – Comedy screenwriter, The Simpsons, Politically Incorrect, Spy Magazine, Late Show with David Letterman
Lin Chi-ling (B.A.) – Taiwanese actress and model, Red Cliff
Tom Perlmutter (M.B.A.) – Government Film Commissioner and Chair of the National Film Board of Canada^[56]

Music, fine arts and architecture

Ross Parmenter (B.A. 1933 Trin.) – Music editor for The New York Times, expert on indigenous Mexican culture
John Beckwith (B.Mus. 1947, M.Mus 1961, professor of music) – Composer, writer and pianist, written over 130 compositions, Member of the Order of Canada
Elmer Iseler (B.Mus. 1950) – Conductor of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and founder of the Festival Singers of Canada
Raymond Moriyama (B.Arch. 1954) – Architect, winner of the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts
Teresa Stratas (Art Dip. Mus. 1959) – Soprano opera singer with the Metropolitan Opera
Paul Shaffer (B.A. 1971 U.C.) – Leader of the CBS Orchestra for the Late Show with David Letterman, former musical director of Saturday Night Live, co-writer of "It's Raining Men"
Liona Boyd (B.Mus. 1972) – Classical guitarist
Bruce Kuwabara (B.Arch. 1972) – Architect, partner in the firm Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects (KPMB), recipient of the RAIC 2006 Gold Medal
David J. Elliott (B.Mus., M.Mus., B.Ed.) – Professor of music at New York University, Music Matters: A New Philosophy of Music Education
Amy Sky (B.Mus. 1982) – Singer, songwriter and actor
Mychael Danna (B.Mus. 1986, B.Ed. 1987) – Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Emmy Award winning film composer
Adrianne Pieczonka (B.Mus. 1988) – Soprano opera singer, received the title Kammersängerin from the Austrian government, officer of the Order of Canada
Doris McCarthy (B.A. 1989 UTSC) – Artist, known for her landscape paintings
Raine Maida (dropped out) – Vocalist of the Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace
Isabel Bayrakdarian (B.A.Sc. 1997) – Opera singer
Maggie MacDonald (B.A. U.C.) – Playwright, musician and writer, member of the indie pop band The Hidden Cameras
Owen Pallett (B.Mus. 2002) - Composer, Arranger, Violinist, Singer-Songwriter
Measha Brueggergosman (B.Mus. 1999) – Concert artist and opera singer
Wendy Luo (BA 2013) – Pianist, popular Twitch.tv streamer
Sebastian Brown (BA 2014) – Pianist

Education

Abraham Lincoln McCrimmon (B.A. 1890) – Chancellor of McMaster University, 1911–22
P. E. MacKenzie (B.A., LL.B. 1893) – Chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan, 1940–46
Arthur Currie (dropped out) – President and Vice Chancellor of McGill University, 1920–33
William Alexander Robb Kerr (B.A. 1899, M.A. 1901) – President of the University of Alberta, 1936–41
Edward Wentworth Beatty (B.A.) – Chancellor of McGill University, 1921–42, Chancellor of Queen's University, 1918–23
Walter P. Thompson (B.A. 1910) – President of the University of Saskatchewan, 1949–59
Gordon Shrum (B.A. 1919 Vic., M.A. 1921, Ph.D. 1923) – Chancellor of Simon Fraser University, 1964–68
Dana Porter (B.A. 1921) – Chancellor of the University of Waterloo, 1960–66
John Lowe (B.A. 1922 Trin.) – Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, 1948–51, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, 1939–59
John Josiah Robinette (B.A. 1926) – Chancellor of Trent University, 1984–87
Howard Hillen Kerr (B.A.Sc. 1926) – President of Ryerson University, 1948–66
Carl Pollock (B.Eng.) – Chancellor of the University of Waterloo, 1975–78
Murray G. Ross (M.A. 1938) – President of York University, 1959–70
Harry Gunning (B.A., M.A., Ph.D. 1942) – President of the University of Alberta, 1974–79
Chien Wei-zang (Ph.D. 1942) – President of Shanghai University, 1982–
Burt Matthews (B.A.Sc. 1947) – President of the University of Guelph, 1983–88, President of the University of Waterloo, 1970–81
Josef Kates (B.A. 1948, M.A. 1949, Ph.D. 1951) – Chancellor of the University of Waterloo, 1979–85
William Arthur Cochrane (M.D. 1949) – President of the University of Calgary, 1974–78
Douglas Tyndall Wright (B.A.Sc. 1949) – President of the University of Waterloo, 1981–93
George Connell (B.A. 1951, Ph.D. 1955) – President of the University of Western Ontario, 1977–84
Thomas Symons (B.A. 1951) – President and vice-chancellor of Trent University, 1961–72
Ronald Lampman Watts (B.A. 1952 Trin.) – Principal of Queen's University, 1974–84
H. Ian Macdonald (B.Comm. 1952) – President of York University, 1974–84
Stephen Taylor (B.Sc. Hons), President and COO, Morguard Corp
Walter Pitman (B.A. 1952, M.A. 1954) – President of Ryerson University, 1975–80
William Winegard (Ph.D. 1952) – President of the University of Guelph, 1967–75
Harry Arthurs (B.A. 1955, LL.B. 1958) – President of York University, 1985–92
David Strangway (B.A. 1956, M.A., Ph.D. 1960, 11th President) – President of Quest University, 2002–07, President of the University of British Columbia, 1985–97
Donald Forster (B.A.) – President of the University of Guelph, 1975–83
Norman Wagner (M.A. 1960, Ph.D. 1965) – President of the University of Calgary, 1978–88
Peter George (B.A. 1962, M.A. 1963, Ph.D. 1967) – President of McMaster University, 1995–
Susan Mann (B.A. 1963) – President of York University, 1992–97
Robert Birgeneau (B.Sc. 1963) – Former President of University of Toronto (2000–04), Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, 2004–^[57]
Margaret MacMillan (B.A. 1966 Trin.) – Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford, 2007–
Emőke Szathmáry (B.A. St.M., Ph.D.) – President of the University of Manitoba, 1997–2008
Lorna Marsden (B.A. 1968) – President of York University, 1997–2007, President of Wilfrid Laurier University, 1992–97
Paul Davenport (M.A. 1970, Ph.D. 1976) – President of the University of Western Ontario, 1994–^[58]
Michael W. Higgins (B.Ed. 1973) – President of St Thomas University
Doug Owram (Ph.D. 1976) – Provost and Vice-President of the University of Alberta, 1998–2003
Ronald J. Daniels (B.A. 1982, J.D. 1986; dean of law) – President of Johns Hopkins University, 2009–; Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, 2005–09
Joseph Cassidy (S.T.B., M.Div. 1986 Regis) – Principal of St Chad's College, Durham, 1997–
Satish K. Tripathi (M.Sc. 1976, Ph.D 1979) - President of the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Business

H. R. MacMillan (B.Sc. 1906 OAC) – Founder of the H.R. MacMillan Export Company, Ltd, Chairman of the Vancouver Board of Trade, 1933
Murray Koffler (Phm.B. 1946) – Founder of Shoppers Drug Mart
William Arthur Cochrane (M.D. 1949) – Chairman, President and CEO of Connaught Laboratories Limited, 1978–89, President of the University of Calgary, 1974–78
Peter Munk (B.A.Sc. 1952) – Founder and Chairman of Barrick Gold
John Robert Evans (M.D. 1952) – Former President of Torstar
Leslie Dan (B.Sc. 1954) – Founder of Novopharm
Edward Samuel Rogers (B.A. 1956 Trin.) – Former President and CEO of Rogers Communications
Marshall A. Cohen (B.A.) – President and CEO of Molson, 1988–96
Richard M. Thomson (B.A.Sc.) – Chairman and CEO of Toronto-Dominion Bank, 1978–97
Peter Godsoe (B.Sc. 1961 Vic.) – President and CEO of Bank of Nova Scotia, 1992–2003; Chairman of Fairmont Hotels and Resorts and Sobeys, Chancellor of the University of Western Ontario, 1996–2000
A. Charles Baillie (B.A. 1962 Trin.) – Chief executive of Toronto-Dominion Bank, 1997–2002, President of Queen's University, 2002–08
Bernard Sherman (B.A.Sc. 1964) – Founder, Chairman and CEO of Apotex Inc., 1974–
F. Anthony Comper (B.A. 1966 St.M.) – President and CEO of Bank of Montreal, 1990–2007
David A. Galloway (B.A. 1966) – Chairman of Bank of Montreal, 2004–, President and CEO of Torstar, 1988–2002, President and CEO of Harlequin Enterprises, 1983–88
Ron Brenneman (B.Eng. 1968) – President and CEO of Petro-Canada, 2005–
W. Edmund Clark (B.A. 1969) – President and CEO of Toronto-Dominion Bank, 2002–2014
Maureen Kempston Darkes (B.A. 1970 Vic., LL.B. 1973) – President of General Motors Latin America, Africa and Middle East
Michael Sproule (M.B.A. 1971) – CFO of New York Life Insurance Company^[59]
Sergio Marchionne (B.A. U.C.) – CEO of Fiat S.p.A. and Chrysler Group, 2009–, Chairman of European Automobile Manufacturers Association, 2006–
Robert Prichard (LL.B. 1975) – President of Torstar, 2001– (13th President of the University of Toronto as well)
Philip Orsino (B.A. 1976 Vic.) – President and CEO of Masonite International Corporation, 1989–2005
Bill Peters (M.A. 1977) – CEO of Calgary Science Centre, 2000–
Catherine Swift (B.A. 1977) – President and CEO of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, 1995–
Bill Downe (M.B.A. 1978) – President and CEO of Bank of Montreal, 2007–
John M. Cassaday (M.B.A. 1981) – President and CEO of Corus Entertainment^[60]
Ian Bennett (M.A.) – President and CEO of Royal Canadian Mint, 2006–
Paul Tsaparis (B.Sc. UTSC) – President and CEO of Hewlett Packard Canada^[60]
John di Massimo (B.Comm. UTM 1982) – Vice-President and CFO of Rhodia Canada^[60]
Warren Adelman (B.A. Political Science & History) - President and Chief Operating Officer of GoDaddy.com^[61]
Jim Balsillie (B.Comm. 1984 Trin.) – Co-chief executive of Research In Motion, 1992–
Richard Nesbitt (M.B.A. 1985) – CEO of CIBC World Markets, 2008–, CEO of the TSX Group, which operates the Toronto Stock Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange, 2004–08;
Sonia Baxendale (B.A. 1984) - President, CIBC Retail Banking and Wealth Management;
Gary Dibb (M.B.A. 1987) – Chief administrative officer of Barclays PLC^[62]
Jeffrey Skoll (B.A.Sc. 1987) – First President of eBay, philanthropist, Founder & Chairman Participant Media
Eugene Tenenbaum (B.Sc. 1987) – Director of Chelsea Football Club^[63]
Simon Cooper (M.B.A. 1988) – President and COO of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company
Hana Zalzal (B.A.Sc. 1988) – Founder and President of Cargo^[64]
Leonard Asper (LL.B. 1989) – President and chief executive of Canwest Global Communications
Charles Foster (M.B.A. 1989) – Managing director of Barclays Capital^[65]
Jean-Pierre Sabourin (M.B.A. 1990) – President and CEO of the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation^[62]
Suneet Tuli (B.A.Sc. 1990) - Co-Founder and CEO of DataWind^[66]
Allen Lau (M.A.Sc. 1991) - Co-Founder and CEO of Wattpad^[67]
Elliot Noss (B.A. UTSC) – President and CEO of Tucows^[60]
Michael Serbinis (M.S.) - President and CEO of Kobo Inc.
Vito Culmone (B.Comm) - CFO of Westjet
Ammar Al-Joundi (B.A.Sc.) - CFO of Barrick Gold
Robert Herjavec (B.A. 1984) - CEO of Herjavec Group, Dragons' Den dragon
Clement Melville Keys - Aeronautical Entrepreneur. Investor of Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, China National Aviation Corporation, North American Aviation and TWA. First President of Curtiss-Wright

Humanitarianism, social work and others

Omond Solandt (M.D.) – First Chairman of the Canadian Defence Research Board, 1947–56, vice president for research and development at Canadian National Railways, 1956–63
Rose Wolfe (B.A. 1938, diploma in social work 1939) – Member of the Order of Ontario since 1992, and of the Order of Canada since 1999
Martha Cohen (M.A. 1945) – Community builder and philanthropist, member of the Order of Canada
Anne Golden (B.A. 1962 U.C.) – Administrator, President of the United Way of Canada, 1987–2001, former President and CEO of the Conference Board of Canada
Mark Freiman (B.A. 1969, J.D. 1983) – President of the Canadian Jewish Congress, Deputy Attorney-General of Ontario and Deputy Minister Responsible for Native Affairs, 2000–04
Hershell Ezrin (B.A.) – Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy
Paul Fromm (B.A. St.M., B.Ed., M.A.) – Activist, an alleged Canadian neo-Nazi leader with ties to the Ku Klux Klan
David Weinberger (Ph.D.) – American technologist, professional speaker and commentator, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto and author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined
Peter McLaren (B.Ed., Ph.D.) – One of the key figures in critical pedagogy, professor of education at the University of California at Los Angeles
Kamala-Jean Gopie (B.A. 1975, M.Ed. 1990) – Political activist best known for her community activism in Toronto, president of the Jamaican Canadian Association, 1979–80
Denis Rancourt (M.Sc. 1981, Ph.D. 1984) – Former physics professor, scientist, academic dissident, anarchist and activist
Rudyard Griffiths (B.A. 1993 Trin.) – Public commentator and adviser, co-founder of the Dominion Institute, author of Who We Are: A Citizen's Manifesto
Craig Kielburger (B.A. 2006 Trin.) – Children's rights advocate; founder and chair of Free The Children
Jaggi Singh (attended Trin.) – Anti-globalization and social justice activist
Amaal Nuux – singer and songwriter
Kate Raynes-Goldie (BA hons 2004) award-winning internet scholar, game designer and industry evangelist

Athletics

Conn Smythe (B.A.Sc. 1920) – NHL builder; principal owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs, 1927–61; builder of the Maple Leaf Gardens
Stan Brown (D.M.D. 1922) – Defenceman for the New York Rangers and the Detroit Cougars
Talbot Hunter – College ice hockey, lacrosse, and soccer coach at Cornell, Yale, West Point, and Harvard
Joseph Albert Sullivan (M.D. 1926) – Ice hockey player, surgeon and politician; goaltender on the gold medalist hockey team at the 1928 Winter Olympics
Bruce Kidd (B.A. 1965) – Medalist in the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games and competitor in the 1964 Summer Olympics
Lori Dupuis (B.A. St.M.) – Ice hockey player on gold medal winning 2002 Winter Olympics team
Jeffrey Buttle (B.Eng. on hiatus) – Figure skater, 2008 World Figure Skating Champion and 2006 Winter Olympics bronze medalist
John Fitzpatrick (B.Eng. 1933) – Track and fielder, football player, engineer, and inventor; Fifth placer at the 1928 Summer Olympics Men's 100 meters event
Aaron Milton – Canadian football player
Crispin Duenas (currently attending) Canadian recurve archer who represented Canada at the Summer Olympics in 2008, 2012, and 2016
Alicia Brown (B.A 2013) Canadian track and field athlete competing in the sprint events, predominately the 400m event. In July 2016, she was officially named to Canada's Olympic team
Gabriela Stafford (currently attending) Canadian middle-distance runner. In July 2016 she was officially named in Canada's Olympic team
Michelle Li (badminton) Hong Kong-born Canadian female badminton player on the 2016 Canadian Olympic team
Heather Bansley (B.A. 2010) Canadian beach volleyball player, Canadian athlete at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Josh Binstock (BPHE 2005) Male beach volleyball player from Canada who qualified for the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics
Kristina Valjas (BA 2010) Canadian beach volleyball player with the Estonian ancestry, qualified to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Belinda Trussell (BComm 1994) Canadian Olympic dressage rider, competed at the 2004 and 2016 Summer Olympics
Jason Burnett (BA 2015) Canadian trampoline gymnast, noted for having completed, in training, the world's most difficult trampoline routine with a degree of difficulty of 20.6 and holding the world record of 18.8 for a routine performed in a competition. He has placed first in the Canadian National Championships eight times in individual trampoline. In the 2008 Olympic Games he won a silver medal. He also competed at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics.
Vincent Wang (Biofrost) (BComm 2014) Canadian "League of Legends" player who won the 2016 NA LCS Summer Split with Team SoloMid.
Rosie MacLennan (BPHE 2011) Canadian trampoline gymnast. She is the 2013 World Trampoline champion, 2012 and 2016 Olympic champion, and 2011 and 2015 Pan American Games champion in the individual trampoline event.
Donna Vakalis (MArch 2009) Canadian modern pentathlete at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics
Kylie Masse (current student) Canadian competition swimmer who tied for the bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Faculty

To avoid redundancy, alumni who hold or have held faculty positions in the University of Toronto are placed on the list of alumni, and do not appear on this list of faculty.

Natural sciences and mathematics

Mathematics

John Lighton Synge (assistant professor of mathematics, 1920–25) – Irish mathematician, member of the London Mathematical Society, former treasurer of the Royal Irish Academy
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (professor of mathematics, 1936–80) – Geometer with major contributions in polytopes, non-Euclidean geometry, group theory and combinatorial theory, for whom the Coxeter group is named
W. T. Tutte (professor of mathematics, 1948–62) – Mathematician and cryptographer who deduced the German Lorenz SZ 40/42 (Tunny) machine; namesake of the Tutte theorem, Tutte matrix, Tutte graph, Tutte–Coxeter graph, Tutte 12-cage and Tutte fragment.
Abraham Robinson (professor of mathematics, 1951–57) – Mathematician who developed non-standard analysis
Chandler Davis (professor of mathematics, 1962–) – Mathematician, writer and educator, one of the co-Editors-in-Chief of the Mathematical Intelligencer
Hans Heilbronn (professor of mathematics, 1964–75) – Mathematician who devised the Davenport-Heilbronn method
Walter Warwick Sawyer (professor of mathematics, 1965–76) – Mathematician, known for his semi-popular works in Mathematician's Delight
Lionel Cooper (professor of mathematics, 1965–66) – South African mathematician who worked in various fields including operator theory, transform theory and differential equations
Maria Klawe (professor of mathematics) – Mathematician, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
Pierre Milman (professor of mathematics, 1986–) – Mathematician, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, recipient of the Jeffery-Williams Prize
Dror Bar-Natan (professor of mathematics, 2002–) – Researcher in knot theory, finite type invariants and Khovanov homology

Medicine and dentistry

John James Richard Macleod (professor of physiology, 1918–28) – Physician and physiologist; recipient of the Nobel Prize for the discovery of insulin
Harry Botterell (professor of neurophysiology, 1936–39) – Neurosurgeon, Head of neurosurgery at the Toronto General Hospital, 1953–62
Louis Siminovitch (professor of medical genetics and microbiology, 1956–85) – Molecular biologist; founding director of research at Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute; foreign associate to the National Academy of Sciences
James Till (professor of medical biophysics, 1958–97) – Biophysicist; academic on Internet research ethics and the Open Access movement
Charles Hollenberg (professor of medicine, 1970–81) – Physician, educator and researcher, former Physician-in-Chief of the Toronto General Hospital
Saul V. Levine (professor of psychiatry, 1970–93) – Psychiatrist, former Senior Psychiatrist at the Hospital for Sick Children
Manuel Buchwald (professor of molecular and medical genetics, 1973–86) – Geneticist who identified the gene that causes Fanconi anemia and, with Lap-Chee Tsui, that which causes cystic fibrosis
David MacLennan (professor of medicine, 1974–) – Biochemist who made fundamental contributions to our understanding of the mechanism of ion transport by SR calcium pumps
Tak Wah Mak (professor of medical biophysics, 1975–) – Immunologist who discovered the T-Cell receptor, and was the first to clone the genes for the receptor
Jack Greenblatt (professor of molecular medicine, 1977–) – Pioneer in research on protein-protein interactions and on mechanisms that regulate gene expression
Tirone E. David (professor of surgery, 1980–) – Cardiovascular surgeon who developed the reimplantation technique for valve-sparing aortic root replacement
Rob Buckman (professor of medicine, 1985–) – Medical oncologist and comedian; president of the Humanist Association of Canada
Janet Rossant (professor of medical genetics, 1985–) – Developmental biologist known for research in the role of genes in early embryo development
Anthony Pawson (professor of molecular and medical genetics, 1985–) – Microbiologist specializing in mechanisms for protein-protein interactions in intracellular signal transduction
John E. Dick (professor of molecular genetics) – Scientist who first identified the cancer stem cell in leukemia and later colorectal cancer; also known for demonstrations with blood stem cells in mice
Peter St. George-Hyslop (professor of medicine, 1991–) – Geneticist who isolated the key genes linked to inherited and early-onset forms of Alzheimer's disease
Morton Beiser (professor of cultural pluralism and health, 1991–2009) – Psychiatrist and epidemiologist, noted for his research in immigration and resettlement
Ahmad Teebi (professor of pediatrics and medical genetics, 1998–) – Head of the Section of Clinical Genetics & Dysmorphology at the Hospital for Sick Children
Benjamin Alman (professor of surgery) – Orthopaedic surgeon and researcher in developmental signaling pathways in musculoskeletal tumours
Frederick J. Conboy (professor of dentistry) – 47th Mayor of Toronto, secretary of the Ontario Dental Association and editor of the association's journal
David Jaffray (associate professor of radiation physics) – Medical physicist, Senior Scientist in the Division of Biophysics and Bioimaging at the Ontario Cancer Institute
David J. Jenkins (professor of nutritional sciences) – Nutritionist who developed the concept of glycemic index (GI)
Gideon Koren (professor of pediatrics, pharmacology and pharmacy) – Pediatrician, clinical pharmacologist and toxicologist, Senior Scientist of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research
John W. Semple (professor of pharmacology) – Medical researcher at St. Michael's Hospital, co-discoverer of immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)
Harvey Skinner (former professor and dean of public health sciences) – Psychologist. Dean of Health, York University since 2006. One of the first to link behaviour change, organizational improvement and information technology (e-health)

Physics, chemistry and astronomy

Helen Sawyer Hogg (professor of astronomy, 1936–76) – Astronomer; authority in the field of variable stars within globular clusters
Leopold Infeld (professor of physics, 1939–50) – Physicist and peace activist; co-formulated the equation describing star movements and co-author of The Evolution of Physics with Albert Einstein
Lloyd Montgomery Pidgeon (professor of metallurgy, 1943–69) – Chemist who developed the Pidgeon process of magnesium metal production via a silicothermic reduction
Andrew McKellar (visiting professor of physics, 1952–53) – Astronomer noted for his work in molecular spectroscopy, former president of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
John Charles Polanyi (professor of chemistry, 1956–) – Physical chemist credited with developing the technique of infrared chemiluminescence to explain energy relationships in chemical reactions
Sidney van den Bergh (professor of astronomy, 1958–77) – Astronomer who discovered Andromeda II; former president of the Canadian Astronomical Society
Alan West Brewer (professor of physics, 1962–77) – Physicist and climatologist, whose observation of the stratosphere resulted in the Brewer-Dobson circulation model
Ursula Franklin (professor of metallurgy and materials science, 1965–89) – Physicist who pioneered use of modern techniques of material analysis in archaeometry; pacifist and humanitarian since retirement
Eduard Prugovecki (professor of physics, 1967–97) – Mathematical physicist in geometro-stochastic theory
Robert K. Logan (professor of physics, 1968–2005) – Physicist and media ecologist, best known for his research in media ecology and the evolution of language, The Alphabet Effect
Charles Thomas Bolton (professor of astronomy, 1973–) – Astronomer who was the first to present evidence of a black hole's existence in Cygnus X-1, later confirmed as the first black hole candidate
Scott Tremaine (professor of astronomy, 1985–97) – Astrophysicist and contributor to the theory of solar system and galactic dynamics; first director of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
Sajeev John (professor of physics, 1989–) – Together with Eli Yablonovitch, identified photonic crystals as a class of materials designed to affect the motion of photons
Daniel Lidar (associate professor of chemistry, 2000–05) – Chemist and physicist, known for his research on control of quantum systems and quantum information processing
John Moffat (professor of physics, retired) – Physicist, noted for his work on gravity and cosmology suggesting that the speed of light has varied in the past
Ray Jayawardhana (professor of astronomy, 2005–) – Astronomer and Holder of the Canada Research Chair in observational astrophysics who reported the first direct image and spectroscopy of a likely extra-solar planet around a normal star
Roberto Abraham (professor of astronomy) – Astronomer best known for his work on high-redshift galaxy morphology

Biology and ecology

Bernhard Fernow (dean of forestry, 1907–19) – American conservationist; chief of forestry in the United States Department of Agriculture, 1886–98; editor-in-chief of the Journal of Forestry
Charles Caccia (professor of forestry, 1955–68) – Politician, member of Parliament for Davenport, 1968–2004
Tak Wah Mak (professor of biophysics and immunology, 1984–) – Award-winning biochemist and geneticist, widely known for his pioneering work in the genetics of immunology
Anthony Pawson (professor of molecular genetics, 1985–) – Geneticist whose research has revolutionized the understanding of signal transduction
Sara Shettleworth (professor of ecology, evolutionary biology and psychology) – Zoologist and psychologist, Guggenheim Fellow, American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientist Lecturer

Engineering and computer science

Robert Legget (professor of engineering, 1936–47) – Civil engineer, historian and non-fiction writer, founding President of the Canadian Academy of Engineering
Allan Borodin (professor of computer science, 1969–) – Mathematician and computational theorist in computational complexity theory and algorithms. Awarded University Professorship: university's top honour
Michael P. Collins (professor of civil engineering, 1969–) – Structural engineer; expert on the design and evaluation of reinforced and prestressed concrete under shear stress
Stephen Cook (professor of computer science, 1970–) – Recipient of the Turing Award for formalizing the notion of NP-completeness through Cook's theorem
Charles Rackoff (professor of computer science) – Noted modern cryptologist, won the Godel Prize for his work on interactive proof systems and zero-knowledge proofs.
Geoffrey Hinton (professor of computer science, 1987–) – Informatician who co-introduced the backpropagation algorithm, the Boltzmann machine and the Helmholtz machine
Steve Mann (professor of computer engineering) – Researcher in chirplet transform, comparametric equations and sousveillance; pioneer in wearable computers
Renée J. Miller (professor of computer science, 2000–) - Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Mark Chignell (professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, 1990–) – Researcher who co-introduced the concept of Intelligent Databases
Ric Holt (professor of computer science, −1997) – One of the original developers of the Turing programming language, Euclid programming language, SP/k, and of the S/SL programming language
Ted Sargent (vice-dean of research in applied science and engineering, professor of electrical and computer engineering, 1998-) - The Canadian Research Chair in Nanotechnology, author of The Dance of the Molecules: How Nanotechology is Changing Our Lives and founder and CEO of the semiconductor company InVisage Technologies^[68]

Earth science

Arthur Philemon Coleman (professor of geology, 1901–22) – Geologist, former President of the Geological Society of America, recipient of the Murchison Medal, Flavelle Medal and Penrose Medal, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Cole Harris (professor of geography, 1964–71) – Former president of the Canadian Association of Geographers and recipient of the Massey Medal
Anthony J. Naldrett (professor of geology, 1967–98) – Former President of the Society of Economic Geologists, the International Mineralogical Association and the Geological Society of America
Thomas Edvard Krogh (professor of geology, 1976–96) – Geochronologist who developed new techniques of radiometric uranium-lead dating for Precambrian rocks
Petr Vaníček (professor of geodesy) – Geodesist and theoretical geophysicist, made significant breakthroughs in theory of spectral analysis and geoid computation

Social sciences

Anthropology and geography

Edmund Snow Carpenter (professor of anthropology, 1948–57) – Anthropologist known for his work on tribal art and visual media
Isaac Schapera (visiting professor of anthropology, 1953) – Academic from the London School of Economics and leading scholar in the anthropology of South African tribesmen
George Michael Wickens (professor of Middle Eastern studies, 1957–84) – Prolific Iranologist and translator of Persian literature; founding chair of the university's department of Near and Middle Eastern civilizations
Cole Harris (assistant professor of geography, 1964–71) – Geographer, winner of the Massey Medal, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Lee Maracle (professor of Aboriginal studies) – First Nations poet and author, recipient of the American Book Award
Marcel Danesi (professor of semiotics and linguistic anthropology) – Italian-Canadian semiotician
David H. Turner (professor of anthropology) – Anthropologist who focuses on comparative religion and the role of music in the indigenous societies of Australia, North America, Africa, and India

Sociology and psychology

Seymour Martin Lipset (lecturer of sociology, 1946–48) – American political sociologist; senior fellow at the Hoover Institution
Dennis Wrong (professor of sociology) – American sociologist, Power: Its Forms, Bases and Uses, annual award for the best graduate paper in sociology at NYU is named after him
Barry Wellman (professor of sociology, 1967–) – Sociologist; founder of the International Network for Social Network Analysis, former president of the Sociological Research Association^[69]
Anatol Rapoport (professor of mathematics and psychology, 1970–79) – Mathematical psychologist; founding professor of the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
Fergus I. M. Craik (professor of psychology, 1971–) – Cognitive psychologist known for research on levels of processing in memory
Morris Moscovitch (professor of psychology, 1971–) – Leading neuropsychologist, Senior Scientist at the Rotman Research Institute of Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care
Dorothy E. Smith (professor of sociology, retired) – Sociologist, founder of the sociological sub-disciplines of feminist Standpoint theory and Institutional Ethnography
William Johnson (professor of sociology) – Academic, journalist and author, former parliamentary correspondent for The Globe and Mail and journalist for the Montreal Gazette
Rinaldo Walcott (associate professor, 2002–) – Academic, writer, Canada Research Chair of Social Justic and Cultural Studies

Economics, management and political science

James Mavor (professor of political economy, 1892–1923) – Political economist and activist who was instrumental in assisting the emigration of the Doukhobors to Canada, and the establishment of the Royal Ontario Museum
Harold Innis (professor of political economy, 1920–52) – Political economist and communication theorist who developed the Staples thesis and time- and space-bias; former president of the American Economic Association
James Mallory (lecturer of political economy, 1943–44) – Academic and constitutional expert, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal winner
Peter H. Russell (professor of political science, 1958–96) – Scholar on aboriginal peoples, constitutional politics and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; president of the Canadian Law and Society Association
Samuel Hollander (professor of economics, 1963–98) – Scholar and author on the history of economic thought and classical economics
Jean Edward Smith (professor of political economy, 1965–99) – Noted biographer of Ulysses S. Grant and Franklin D. Roosevelt; John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University
Jerry F. Hough (professor of political science, 1968–73) – Researcher on American politics, the Soviet Union and the democratization of Russia
John E. Floyd (professor of economics, 1970–) – Scholar in international monetary economics
Michael Trebilcock (professor of law, 1972–) – Scholar specializing in law and economics, international trade law and competition law; president of the American Law and Economics Association
Thomas Pangle (professor of political science, 1979–2004) – Political scientist; holder of the Joe R. Long Chair in Democratic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin
Janice Stein (professor of political science, 1983–) – Director of the Munk Centre for International Studies
Joseph Carens (professor of political science, 1985–) – Political scientist who focuses on contemporary political theory, Culture, Citizenship and Community, A Contextual Exploration of Justice as Evenhandedness
David Foot (professor of economics) – Economist and demographer; author of Boom, Bust & Echo
John C. Hull (professor of finance, 1988–) – Prominent researcher in quantitative finance and co-developer of the Hull-White model
Ronald Deibert (professor of political science) – Researcher in Internet and human rights; director of the Citizen Lab and co-founder of the OpenNet Initiative
David Rayside (professor of political science, 1974–present) – Academic and activisit; a member of the Right to Privacy Committee and co-founder of the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Studies Association.
Ramin Jahanbegloo (professor of political science, 1997–2001, 2008–present) – Iranian intellectual and academic; recipient of the Peace Prize from the United Nations Association
Allan S. Detsky (professor of public health policy, management and evaluation) – Physician and health policy expert, Physician-in-Chief at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto
Mel Watkins (professor of economics and political science, retired) – Political economist and activist, founder and co-leader of the Waffle
Gad Horowitz (professor of political science) – Political scientist who specialized in labour theory, most notably cointed the appellation "Red Tory"
Clifford Orwin (professor of political science) – Political scientist of ancient, modern, contemporary and Jewish political thought, a Guggenheim Fellow

Humanities

Philosophy and classics

James Mark Baldwin (chair of logic and metaphysics, 1889–92) – American philosopher and psychologist, important contributor to psychology, psychiatry and the theory of evolution
Eric A. Havelock (professor of classics, 1929–47) – British classicist; author, History of the Greek Mind
Paul Churchland (lecturer of philosophy, 1967–69) – Philosopher, noted for his works in neurophilosophy and the philosophy of mind, major proponent of eliminative materialism.
Timothy Barnes (professor of classics, 1970–2007) – Classicist specializing in Christianity in the Later Roman Empire
Allan Bloom (professor of political science, 1970–79) – American philosopher and critic of contemporary higher education, best known for authoring The Closing of the American Mind
James Allen Graff (professor of philosophy and ethics, 1970–2002) – Founder of the Near East Cultural and Educational Foundation of Canada (NECEF), former vice-chair of the North American Co-ordinating Committee for NGOs on the Question of Palestine
Ronald de Sousa (professor of philosophy, 1971–2005) – Scholar in the philosophy of emotions, mind and biology
Thomas Goudge (professor of philosophy 1938-1975) served in the Royal Canadian Navy 1943–45 - Scholar in C. S. Peirce and in the philosophy of Biology—awarded the Governor General's Literary Award for academic non-fiction, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Ian Hacking (professor of philosophy, 1982–) – Noted member of the Stanford School of philosophers, known for bringing a historical approach to the philosophy of science, author of Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory
Joseph Heath (professor of philosophy) – Philosopher and author, The Rebel Sell
James Tully (professor of philosophy, 2001–03) – Distinguished political philosopher, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
James Robert Brown (professor of philosophy) – Philosopher of science, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 2007
Bas van Fraassen (professor of philosophy) – Philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of science, Laws and Symmetry, The Scientific Image
Peter Ludlow (professor of philosophy) – Philosopher, noted for his research in cyberspace, High Noon on the Electronic Frontier and Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias
Colin Howson (professor of philosophy, 2008–) – British philosopher, Scientific Reasoning: the Bayesian Approach
M. Owen Lee (Father Owen Lee), professor emeritus of classics
Jennifer Whiting, Chancellor Jackman Professor of Philosophy, scholar of ancient philosophy
Robert J. Zydenbos (professor of South Asian studies, philosophy and linguistics) – Dutch-Canadian scholar

Literature and linguistics

Marshall McLuhan (professor of English literature, 1946–79) – Influential literary critic and communications theorist, known for coining the expressions "the medium is the message" and "global village"
Robertson Davies (professor of literature, 1960–81) – Novelist and playwright; founding master of Massey College; author of The Deptford Trilogy
Angus Cameron (professor of literature, 1968–83) – Linguist and lexicographer who initiated the Dictionary of Old English
Josef Škvorecký (professor of literature, 1968–90) – Leading contemporary Czech writer, winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Governor General's Award, a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Jack Chambers (professor of linguistic, 1970–) – Linguist, expert on language variation and change, pioneered research on Canadian English and coined the term "Canadian raising"
Christina Kramer (professor of Slavic languages, 1986–) – Specialist on Balkan languages and semantics; former translator for the Berlitz Translation Service
Suniti Namjoshi (professor of literature, 1972–mid 90s) – Indian writer
George Elliott Clarke (professor of literature, 1999–) – Poet, playwright, Whylah Falls
Sonnet L'Abbe (professor of creative writing) – Poet and critic, reviewer for The Globe and Mail, Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award recipient
Michael Wex (professor of literature) – Novelist, playwright, translator and performer, Born to Kvetch
Elizabeth Cowper (professor of linguistics, 2004–) – Linguist, specializing in tense and aspect in English and Spanish

History

George MacKinnon Wrong (professor of history, 1894–1927) – Historian and Anglican priest, Canada and the American Revolution: The Disruption of the First British Empire
John Saywell (professor of history, 1954–62) – Historian specializing in the fields of politics and constitution
Fritz Heichelheim (professor of Greek and Roman history, 1962–68) – Ancient historian who specialized in ancient economic history
Jill Ker Conway (professor of history, 1964–75) – Australian-American author, The Road from Coorain, True North; president of Smith College, 1975–85
Ram Sharan Sharma (professor of history, 1965–66) – Eminent historian of Ancient India^[70]^[71]^[72] who has been a historian of international repute^[73] and the founding chairperson of Indian Council of Historical Research.
Walter Goffart (professor of history, 1960–99) – Historian who specializes in late Roman Empire, early Middle Ages and barbarian kingdoms
Archibald Paton Thornton (professor of history, 1960–87) – Academic and historian, author of The Imperial idea and its enemies: a study in British power
Rick Salutin (professor of Canadian studies, 1978–) – Novelist, playwright and critic, columnist for The Globe and Mail
Natalie Zemon Davis (professor of history) – Canadian and American historian of early period; first woman president of the American Historical Association
Derek Penslar (professor of Jewish history) – Historian specializing in Jewish history, Contemporary Antisemitism

Law

Ron Atkey (professor of law) – Legal academic and Member of the Canadian Parliament for St. Paul's, 1972–74, 1979–80
Aharon Barak (professor of law) – President of the Supreme Court of Israel, 1995–2006, Attorney General of Israel, 1975–78
Charles Dalfen (professor of law, 1972–74) – Chairperson of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, 2002–06, legal advisor for the Government of Canada's Department of Communications, 1970–72
Allan Leal (professor of law, 1972–77) – Chancellor of McMaster University, 1977–86, Deputy Attorney General of Ontario, 1977–81, Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School, 1958–66
Frank Iacobucci (professor of law, 1967–82) – Puisne Justice, 1991–2004
Ronald St. John Macdonald (professor of law, 1961–72) – Legal academic and jurist, founding President of the Canadian Council on International Law, President of the World Academy of Art and Science, 1983–87
Michael Mandel (professor of law) – Legal academic specializing in criminal law, noted critic of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Ed Morgan (professor of law), noted international law expert
Caesar Wright (dean of the faculty of law, 1949–67) – Prominent figure in the Canadian legal education reform, one of the first law professors to import the Harvard case method into Canadian legal education

Religious studies

Donald Coggan (professor of theology, 1937–44) – 101st Archbishop of Canterbury, 1974–80
Gregory Baum (professor of theology and sociology, 1959–86) – Roman Catholic theologian, Religion and Alienation, Officer of the Order of Canada
Bernard Lonergan (professor of theology, 1965–75) – Jesuit priest, economist, Insight: A Study of Human Understanding
Mary Jo Leddy (professor of theology, Regis College). Writer, theologian, social activist, founder of Catholic New Times
Willard G. Oxtoby (professor of comparative religion, 1971–99) – Founding director of the graduate centre for religious studies; author, World Religions: Western Traditions, World Religions: Eastern Traditions
Julia Ching (professor of religion and philosophy, 1978–2001) – Expert on the neo-Confucian philosophy of China
Arti Dhand (professor of religion) – Specialist in the Mahabharata and the Ramayana Hindu epics, Hindu ethics, gender issues in Hinduism, and religion and sexuality.^[74]

Fine arts, music, drama and architecture

Charles William Jefferys (professor of architecture, 1912–39) – Painter and historical illustrator; co-founder of the Canadian Society of Graphic Art with Ivor Lewis
Eric Arthur (professor of architecture 1923–66) – Architect, member of the "Toronto's Hundred Years" Publication Committee, which published Toronto's 100 Years.
H. Allen Brooks (professor of the history of art) – Architectural historian known for research on Frank Lloyd Wright, the Prairie School and Le Corbusier
Andrew Hughes (professor of music, 1969–96) – Musicologist specializing in medieval music; former president of the Medieval Academy of America^[75]
Djanet Sears (professor of drama, 2000–) – Playwright, actor and director, won four Dora Mavor Moore Awards and one Governor General's Award

Education

Norman MacKenzie (professor of law, 1927–40) – President of the University of New Brunswick, 1940–44; president of the University of British Columbia, 1944–62
David Lloyd Johnston (professor of law, 1968–74) – Principal of McGill University, 1979–94; president of the University of Waterloo, 1999–; dean of law at the University of Western Ontario, 1974–79
Kenneth Hare (professor of geography and physics, 1969–88) – President of the University of British Columbia, 1968–69; chancellor of Trent University, 1988–95
Thomas R. Williams (professor of education, 1970–77) – Principal of Queen's University, 2008–
Allan Leal (lecturer in property law, 1972–77) – Chancellor of McMaster University, 1977–86
Donald Forster (professor of economics) – President of the University of Guelph, 1975–83
Frederick Lowy (professor of psychiatry, 1974–80; dean of medicine, 1980–87) – President and vice-chancellor of Concordia University, 1995–2005
Maria Klawe (professor of computer science, 1978–80) – President of Harvey Mudd College, 2006– ; dean of engineering and applied science at Princeton University, 2002–06; dean of science at the University of British Columbia, 1998–02
Lap-Chee Tsui (professor of molecular and medical genetics, 1983–2002) – Vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong, 2002–
Heather Munroe-Blum (professor and dean of social work, 1994–2002) – Principal of McGill University, 2003–

Business and public policy

Harry Cassidy (professor of social work, 1929–34) – Social reformer and civil servant who was infliential in the creation of the Canadian welfare state
Charles Dalfen (professor of law, 1972–74) – Chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, 2002–06
James Fleck (professor of business-government relations, 1979–) – Businessman and philanthropist; former chairman of ATI Technologies, director of AMD and Certicom
Deborah Coyne (professor of law, 1986–88) – Constitutional lawyer who had worked in the Office of the Prime Minister, Business Council on National Issues and Ontario Human Rights Commission
Roger Martin (professor of strategic management, 1998–) – Former director of Monitor Group; dean of the Rotman School of Management
Gunther Eysenbach (professor of health policy, 2002–) – Researcher on Open access, health policy, eHealth and consumer health informatics
Richard Florida (professor of business, 2007–) – Economist and urban studies theorist who introduced the concept of the creative class
Don Tapscott (professor of management) – Business executive and consultant; author of Wikinomics
Tony Dean – Canadian Senator appointed in 2016
Thomas Homer-Dixon – Former Director of Peace and Conflict Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs

Chancellors

Order	Name	Years in office
1	Sir Peregrine Maitland	1827–1828
2	Sir John Colborne	1828–1835
3	Sir Francis Bond Head	1836–1838
4	Sir George Arthur	1838–1841
5	Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham	1841
6	Sir Charles Bagot	1842–1843
7	Charles Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe	1843–1845
8	Charles Cathcart, 2nd Earl Cathcart	1846–1847
9	James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin	1847–1849
10	Peter Boyle de Blaquière	1850–1852
11	William Hume Blake	1853–1856
12	Robert Easton Burns	1856–1863
13	George Skeffington Connor	1863
14	Joseph Curran Morrison	1863–1876
15	Edward Blake	1876–1900
16	William Ralph Meredith	1900–1923
17	Sir Edmund Walker	1923–1924
18	Sir William Mulock	1924–1944
19	Henry John Cody	1944–1947
20	Vincent Massey	1947–1953
21	Samuel Beatty	1953–1959
22	François Charles Archile Jeanneret	1959–1965
23	Omond Solandt	1965–1971
24	Pauline Mills McGibbon	1971–1974
25	Eva Waddell Mader Macdonald	1974–1977
26	Arthur Bruce Barbour Moore	1977–1980
27	George Ignatieff	1980–1986
28	John Black Aird	1986–1991
29	Rose Wolfe	1991–1997
30	Hal Jackman	1997–2003
31	Vivienne Poy	2003–2006
32	David Peterson	2006–2012
33	Michael Wilson	2012-

Presidents

Order	Name	Years in office	Title
1	John Strachan	1827–1848	President of King's College
2	John McCaul	1848–1850	President of King's College
		1850–1853	President of the University of Toronto
		1853–1880	Principal of University College
3	Sir Daniel Wilson	1880–1889	Principal of University College
3	Sir Daniel Wilson	1889–1892	President of the University of Toronto
4	James Loudon	1892–1906	President of the University of Toronto
5	Sir Robert Falconer	1907–1932	President of the University of Toronto
6	Henry John Cody	1932–1945	President of the University of Toronto
7	Sidney Earle Smith	1945–1957	President of the University of Toronto
8	Claude Bissell	1958–1971	President of the University of Toronto
9	John Robert Evans	1972–1978	President of the University of Toronto
10	James Milton Ham	1978–1983	President of the University of Toronto
11	David Strangway	1983–1984	President of the University of Toronto
12	George Connell	1984–1990	President of the University of Toronto
13	Robert Prichard	1990–2000	President of the University of Toronto
14	Robert Birgeneau	2000–2004	President of the University of Toronto
interim	Frank Iacobucci	2004–2005	President of the University of Toronto
15	David Naylor	2005– 2013	President of the University of Toronto
16	Meric Gertler	2013–	President of the University of Toronto

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