| Name
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Occupation / Known for
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UM credentials/activities
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Additional details
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| Douglas Abra
|
judge
|
BA (1968); LL.B (1972)
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| Samuel Hunter Adams
|
lawyer and 21st Mayor of Calgary
|
BA (1906)
|
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| Tracie O. Afifi
|
research scientist
|
BSc (1999); MSc (2003), PhD (2009)
|
|
| Judie Alimonti
|
immunologist and research scientist
|
PhD
|
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| Peter Allen
|
composer
|
BMus (1975)
|
|
| Mohamed Ali Al-Shaaban
|
television personality and surgeon
|
BSc (2006)
|
|
| Rob Altemeyer
|
politician
|
BA
|
|
| Nancy Ames
|
scientist
|
BSc (1980); BSc (1982)
|
|
| Victor Anonsen
|
footballer and artist
|
BA (1977)
|
|
| Frank Aquila
|
judge
|
LL.B (1982)
|
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| Germaine Arnaktauyok
|
printmaker, painter and illustrator
|
BFA (1968)
|
|
| Niki Ashton
|
politician
|
BA
|
|
| Gordon J. G. Asmundson
|
psychologist and professor
|
MA; PhD (1991)
|
|
| David Asper
|
lawyer and businessman; son of Izzy Asper
|
BA (1981)
|
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| Gail Asper
|
lawyer; daughter of Izzy Asper
|
BA (1981); LL.B.(1984)
|
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| Izzy Asper
|
tax lawyer and media magnate of CanWest Global Communications Corp.
|
BA (1953); LLB (1957); LLM (1964)
|
In 2000, the University's Faculty of Management was re-named to the Asper School of Business in his honour.[1]
|
| Robert Astley
|
actuary
|
BSc
|
|
| Ken Attafuah
|
criminologist
|
BA (1982)
|
|
| Nahlah Ayed
|
reporter
|
BSc; MSc
|
|
| George Ayittey
|
economist and president of the Free Africa Foundation
|
PhD
|
|
| Tim Ball
|
public speaker and professor
|
MA
|
|
| G. Michael Bancroft
|
chemist and synchrotron scientist; first director of the Canadian Light Source
|
MSc (1964)
|
|
| David G. Barber
|
environmental scientist
|
BSc (1981); MSc (1987)
|
|
| Kathy Bardswick
|
President and CEO of The Co-operators
|
BS
|
|
| Lindon W. Barrett
|
cultural theorist
|
BA (1983)
|
|
| Robert Beamish
|
cardiologist
|
MD (1942)[2]
|
|
| William Moore Benidickson
|
former Member of Parliament, federal Cabinet Minister, and Senator[3]
|
|
|
| Richard Spink Bowles
|
lawyer and former Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor[4]
|
BA (1933); LLB (1937)
|
|
| George Montegu Black II
|
businessman, father of Conrad Black[5]
|
|
|
| Andy Blair
|
National Hockey League player in the 1920s and 1930s, mostly with the Toronto Maple Leafs
|
|
|
| Yvonne Brill
|
rocket and jet propulsion engineer who invented the fuel-efficient rocket thruster that keeps satellites in orbit today.
|
BS (1945)
|
The Yvonne C. Brill Lectureship in Aerospace Engineering of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is named in her honor and presented annually
|
| Harold J Brodie
|
mycologist[6]
|
BSc (1929)
|
|
| Harold Buchwald
|
lawyer[7]
|
BA (1948); LL.B (1952); LL.M (1957)
|
|
| Wilfred Buck
|
scientific facilitator and Indigenous star lore expert
|
B.Ed.
|
|
| Constantine of Irinoupolis
|
American Orthodox hierarch, Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA
|
St. Andrew's College graduate (1959)
|
|
| Don Callis
|
professional wrestler,[8] MHSAA Darts finalist (1978)
|
BA (1991); MBA (2003)
|
|
| Norman Cantor
|
medieval scholar and writer[9]
|
BA (1951)
|
|
| Albert Chan
|
Hong Kong politician and lawmaker
|
BA; BSW
|
|
| Richard Condie
|
Academy Award-nominated animator; creator of The Big Snit[10]
|
BA (1967)
|
|
| Brian Dickson
|
former Chief Justice of Canada[11]
|
LL.B (1938)
|
|
| Gerry Ducharme
|
politician and a cabinet minister in the 1988–1995 Progressive Conservative government[citation needed]
|
|
|
| Mary Dunn
|
President of the Dominion Women's Amateur Hockey Association and the Manitoba branch of the Women's Amateur Athletic Federation of Canada[12]
|
BS (1938)
|
|
| Audrey Dwyer
|
actor and writer[13]
|
|
|
| Marcel Dzama
|
artist
|
BFA (1997)[14]
|
|
| Ed Evanko
|
actor and singer[15]
|
BA
|
|
| Gordon S. Fahrni
|
Canada’s longest-lived physician (108 years old)
|
MD (1911)
|
|
| Faouzia
|
singer-songwriter
|
|
|
| Fernanda Ferreira
|
cognitive psychologist
|
BA in Psychology (1982)
|
|
| Gary Filmon
|
Premier of Manitoba (1988–1999)
|
BSc Civil Engineering[16]
|
|
| Danny Finkleman
|
former CBC Radio host[17]
|
LL.B
|
|
| Bruce Flatt
|
CEO of Brookfield Asset Management and billionaire ranked on Forbes magazine
|
BComm
|
|
| Steven Fletcher
|
politician; former Conservative MP in the House of Commons; former federal Cabinet Minister
|
BSc geological engineering; MBA at Asper[18]
|
|
| Nahanni Fontaine
|
politician
|
MA[19]
|
|
| Phil Fontaine
|
Indigenous Canadian leader
|
BA (1981)[20]
|
|
| Waldron Fox-Decent
|
mediator, professor, Crown Corporation chairman[21]
|
BA (1959); MA (1971)
|
|
| Eira Friesen
|
advocate for women in Winnipeg[22]
|
BSc (1939)
|
|
| Patrick Friesen
|
poet, playwright, essayist
|
|
| Erving Goffman
|
sociologist who introduced the concept of dramaturgy into the field
|
BSc[23]
|
|
| Audrey Gordon
|
politician, former Minister of Health and Seniors Care in Manitoba[24]
|
BA; MBA
|
|
| Velvl Greene
|
scientist and academic
|
BS in agriculture; MS dairy bacteriology[25]
|
|
| Monty Hall
|
television personality
|
BSc[26]
|
Hall was also president of Variety Clubs International and received the Order of Canada
|
| Ellie Harvie
|
actress[27]
|
BA
|
|
| S.I. Hayakawa
|
scholar and professor of semantics; United States Senator[28]
|
BA (1927)
|
|
| John Alexander Hopps
|
inventor of the world's first artificial pacemaker; known as the "father of biomedical engineering in Canada"[29]
|
BEng (1941)
|
|
| Gad Horowitz
|
political scientist who coined the term "Red Tory"[30]
|
BA
|
|
| Barbara Humphreys
|
architect and author, specializing in public service, historic preservation, and housing
|
B.Arch. (1941)
|
|
| Johanna Hurme
|
architect and activist
|
BEnvD (1996); MArch
|
|
| Israel Idonije
|
retired NFL defensive end
|
|
|
| Jamaluddin Jarjis
|
former Malaysian ambassador to the United States; former Malaysian government minister
|
MSc
|
|
| Francis Lawrence Jobin
|
former Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba[31]
|
|
|
| F. Ross Johnson
|
businessman; CEO of RJR Nabisco[32]
|
BComm (1952)
|
|
| Tanya Kappo
|
lawyer and Indigenous rights activist
|
JD (2012)[33]
|
|
| Sam Katz
|
mayor of Winnipeg (2004–2014)
|
BA (1973)
|
|
| Guy Gavriel Kay
|
novelist and poet
|
BA (1975)
|
|
| Humayun Akhtar Khan
|
politician
|
MS
|
|
| David Kilgour
|
former federal Minister of Transport
|
BA
|
|
| Wab Kinew
|
Premier of Manitoba (2023–present)
|
BA
|
|
| Greg Kopp
|
Acting Dean of Engineering at the University of Western Ontario
|
BSc (1989)
|
|
| Scott Koskie
|
former member of the Canada men's national volleyball team
|
BRMCD (1995)
|
|
| Roman Kroitor
|
co-founder of IMAX Corporation
|
MA (1951)
|
|
| Amanda Lang
|
journalist; senior business correspondent for CBC News
|
|
|
| Allan Levine
|
author, known mainly for his award-winning non-fiction and historical mystery writing
|
BA (1978)
|
|
| Bob Lowes
|
ice hockey coach and executive
|
|
|
| James Lunney
|
politician; former Conservative Member of Parliament for the riding of Nanaimo—Alberni in BC
|
|
|
| Inky Mark
|
former federal Conservative Member of Parliament for Dauphin—Swan River, Manitoba
|
|
|
| Bill Mason
|
author, filmmaker, environmentalist
|
|
|
| Pearl McGonigal
|
former Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba
|
|
|
| William John McKeag
|
former Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba
|
|
|
| Marshall McLuhan
|
famed media scholar
|
|
|
| Harry Medovy
|
pediatrician and academic
|
|
|
| Olawale Sulaiman
|
neurosurgeon and academic
|
|
|
| Ovide Mercredi
|
Aboriginal Canadian leader
|
LLB (1977)
|
|
| Ted Milian,
|
Canadian football player
|
|
|
| W.O. Mitchell
|
writer
|
|
|
| W. L. Morton
|
historian
|
|
|
| Arnold Naimark
|
physician, academic, and former President of the U of M
|
|
|
| Alison Norlen
|
artist
|
|
|
| William Norrie
|
mayor of Winnipeg (1979–1992)
|
BA (1950); LLB (1955)
|
|
| Rey Pagtakhan
|
physician, academic, former MP and federal cabinet minister
|
|
|
| Malcolm Peat
|
Emeritus Professor at Queen's University
|
|
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
|
| Jim Peebles
|
astrophysicist
|
|
won the Crafoord Prize (2005), Nobel Prize in Physics (2019), Companion of the Order of Canada, Order of Merit (CC, OM, 2020)
|
| Leonard Peikoff
|
philosopher
|
|
|
| Frank Pickersgill
|
Special Operations Executive agent in World War II executed by the Nazis
|
|
|
| Barry Posner
|
physician and research scientist on diabetes
|
|
|
| Jon Pylypchuk
|
artist
|
|
|
| Clay Riddell
|
oil tycoon; founder, president and CEO of Paramount Resources, based in Calgary
|
BSc Honours (1959)
|
the University's Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources is named in his honour
|
| Dufferin Roblin
|
former Premier of Manitoba
|
|
|
| Claude C. Robinson
|
ice hockey and sports executive
|
1902[34]
|
Inductee into the Hockey Hall of Fame and Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame
|
| Marshall Rothstein
|
Supreme Court of Canada judge
|
|
|
| Alexei Maxim Russell
|
internationally-published novelist
|
|
|
| Fred Sandhu
|
Provincial Court of Manitoba judge[35]
|
|
|
| Edward Schreyer
|
Premier of Manitoba (1969–1977) and Governor General of Canada (1979–1984)
|
|
|
| Cynthia Scott
|
Oscar winning filmmaker
|
BA
|
|
| Richard Scott
|
former Chief Justice of Manitoba Court of Appeal
|
|
|
| Harry Seidler
|
Australian architect[36]
|
|
|
| Mitchell Sharp
|
former Liberal Minister of Finance
|
|
|
| Patricia Alice Shaw
|
linguist specializing in phonology and known for her work on First Nations languages
|
|
|
| Louis Slotin
|
physicist and chemist who took part in the Manhattan Project
|
BSc (1932); MSc (1933)
|
|
| Robert Steen
|
Mayor of Winnipeg (1977–1979)
|
|
|
| Mary Ann Steggles
|
Commonwealth scholar and international expert on British colonial statuary
|
|
Olive Beatrice Stanton recipient
|
| Iain Stewart
|
theoretical physicist
|
|
|
| Frank Trafford Taylor
|
lawyer and former president of Kiwanis International
|
|
|
| John W.M. Thompson
|
Manitoba MLA and Provincial Cabinet Minister
|
|
|
| Grace Eiko Thomson
|
curator, activist, and internment camp survivor
|
BFA (1977)[37]
|
|
| Thorbergur Thorvaldson
|
cement chemist[38]
|
|
|
| Miriam Toews
|
novelist
|
|
|
| Vic Toews
|
politician; former Minister of Justice and Attorney General and the President of the Treasury Board in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper
|
|
|
| Andrew Unger
|
satirist and novelist
|
BA (2002); BEd. (2004)
|
|
| Chris Urmson
|
CEO of Aurora Innovation
|
BSc (1998)
|
|
| Meaghan DeWarrenne-Waller
|
fashion model; winner of Canada's Next Top Model, Cycle 3
|
|
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| Adele Wiseman
|
author
|
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| Svetlana Zylin
|
playwright and director[39]
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