- Seamus Heaney
Seamus Justin Heaney 's attempts to develop poetic language in which meaning and sound are intimately related result in concentrated, sensually evocative poems characterized by assonant phrasing, richly descriptive adjectives, and witty metaphors. Heaney's poems also tend to mirror social and cultural divisions in contemporary Northern Ireland. - Will Kymlicka
Will Kymlicka is a Canadian political philosopher. He is currently Professor of Philosophy and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Political Philosophy at Queen's University, and Recurrent Visiting Professor in the Nationalism Studies Program at the Central European University in Budapest. He is a leader in the field of philosophy of multiculturalism. Kymlicka received his B.A. in philosophy and politics from Queen's University in 1984, and his D.Phil. - Russell Smith
Russell Claude Smith is a Canadian novelist, newspaper columnist, and expert on men's clothing and style. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Smith was educated at the Université de Paris and Queen's University. Smith is one of Canada's most famous "urban" novelists; that is, unlike the traditional perception of Canadian literature as being about predominantly rural settings and themes, Smith writes specifically about big city life. - David Walker
David Walker (born August 1, 1947) is a Canadian politician. He served in the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 to 1997, as a member of the Liberal Party. Walker was born in Sudbury, Ontario. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Carleton University (1970), a Master of Arts from Queen's University (1974), and a Ph.D. from McMaster University (1976). He was a professor of Political Science at the University of Winnipeg in Manitoba from 1974 to 1988, … - John Cook
John Cook (13 April 1805 - 31 March 1892) was a Presbyterian Church in Canada minister and educator from Quebec. He was born in Sanquhar, Scotland, and educated at University of Glasgow and University of Edinburgh. He served as a minister in the Church of Scotland, and was ordained in December 1835 in Cardross, and designated minister of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Quebec City (under the Colonial Committee) and arrived in Canada East in April 1836. - William Morris
William Morris (October 31 1786-June 29 1858) was a businessman and political figure in Upper Canada. He was born in Paisley, Scotland in 1786, the son of a Scottish manufacturer. His family came to Upper Canada in 1801, where his father set up an import-export business. The business failed and his father retired to a farm near Elizabethtown (Brockville). After the death of his father, he opened a general store with his brother, Alexander. - Jeffrey Simpson
Jeffrey Carl Simpson, is a renowned and successful Canadian journalist. For the past 23 years he has been "The Globe and Mail"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s national affairs columnist, and has won all three of Canada's leading literary prizes — the Governor General's Award for non-fiction book writing, the National Magazine Award for political writing, and the National Newspaper Award for column writing. - David Card
David Card was educated at Queen's University (Canada) and received his PhD from Princeton University in 1983. Briefly at the University of Chicago, he returned to Princeton to teach, until coming to Berkeley in 1997 as the Class of 1950 Professor of Economics. Card's current research interests include the causes and consequences of racial segregation, the economic impacts of immigration, and the effects of health insurance on health care utilization and health. - John Gerretsen
John Philip Gerretsen (born June 9, 1942) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and is a Minister in the Cabinet of Premier Dalton McGuinty. Gerretsen was born in Hilversum, The Netherlands during World War II, and moved to Canada with his parents in 1954. He was educated at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, receiving a BA degree in 1964 and an LL.B in 1967. - Tom Courchene
Thomas J. "Tom" Courchene is a Canadian economist and professor. Born in Wakaw, Saskatchewan, he received a Honours Bachelor of Arts from the University of Saskatchewan in 1962. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1967. In 1969, he received a Post-doctoral Fellow from the University of Chicago. He started teaching as a lecturer in economics at the University of Western Ontario in 1965. - William Leiss
William Leiss, O.C., Ph.D., F.R.S.C. (born 1939) was President of the Royal Society of Canada from 1999-2001. Born in Long Island, New York at the end of 1939, he grew up in rural Pennsylvania. He began his university education in New Jersey, at Fairleigh Dickinson University, graduating in 1956 with a B.A. summa cum laude (major in history and minor in accounting); then in Massachusetts, … - James Douglas
James S. Douglas (1837-1918) was born in Quebec City. His Scottish-born father, Dr. James Douglas, a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, had earned the reputation of being the fastest surgeon in town, capable of performing an amputation in less than one minute. Dr. Douglas transmitted his thirst for adventure to his son, taking him on numerous expeditions to Egypt and the Holy Land in the mid-19th century. He brought back several mummies from these journeys, … - James MacKinnon
James G. MacKinnon (January 4, 1951-) is the head of the Economics Department and an econometrics professor at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. He is the Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Econometrics. He has also been involved in fundraising for the David Smith Chair of Economics, a fund established for the purpose of hiring a new economics professor. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1971 from York University, a Master of Arts degree in 1974 and Ph.D. in 1974, … - Alfred Bader
Dr. Alfred Bader was born on April 28, 1924 in Vienna, Austria. Founder of what would later become Sigma-Aldrich chemical company, he is well known as an art-collector and generous donor to his alma maters. Born into a family of Czech Jewish descent, he fled from Austria to England at age 14 to escape the Nazis. In 1940 he was deported to Canada and was interned at a camp in southern Quebec. - Scott Reid
Scott Reid was the deputy chief of staff (operations) in the Prime Minister's Office of Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, as well as one of Martin's senior advisors. He made frequent appearances in Canadian media speaking on behalf of the PMO and the Liberal Party of Canada. During the 2005-06 election campaign, he has served as director of communications for the campaign. Reid has a B.A. in history and politics from Queen's University. - David A. Dodge
Mr. Dodge was appointed Governor of the Bank of Canada on 1 February 2001, for a term of seven years. As Governor, he is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank. A native of Toronto, Mr. Dodge received a bachelor's degree (Honours) in Economics from Queen's University, and a PhD in Economics from Princeton (1972). - John McGarry
John McGarry (born 1957) is a political scientist from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is currently Professor of Political Studies and Canada Research Chair in Nationalism and Democracy at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He is the author of numerous influential books about the Northern Ireland conflict, many of them co-authored with Brendan O'Leary. He currently sits on the advisory council of the Centre for the Study of Democracy. - Madeleine Ennis
Madeleine Ennis is a pharmacologist and researcher at Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her experiments have shown that ultra-dilute solutions, such as those used in Homeopathic remedies, can affect cells just as the controls do. - Sarah Harmer
Harmer gained her first exposure to the musician's lifestyle as a teenager, when her older sister Mary started taking her to concerts by the then-unknown Tragically Hip . At the age of 17, she was invited to join a Toronto band, The Saddletramps . For three years, she juggled The Saddletramps with her studies in philosophy and women's studies at Queen's University . - John White
John White (May 6 1833 - September 24 1894) was an Ontario machinist and political figure. He represented Hastings East in the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative member from 1871 to 1887. He was born in Donegal, County Donegal, Ireland in 1833 and grew up there. In 1856, he married Esther Johnston. He operated a cheese factory on the Moira River near the town of Roslin. White served as reeve for Tyendinaga. - John Meisel
John Meisel, CC (born October 23, 1923, Vienna, Austria) is a Canadian political scientist, teacher and scholar. He attended the University of Toronto and the University of London. He has taught at Queen's University since 1949. He served on the Ontario Advisory Committee on Confederation in 1965. From 1980 to 1983 he was Chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. - Kim Richard Nossal
Kim Richard Nossal, (Ph.D., is the head of the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He was born in London, England, and schooled in Melbourne, Beijing, Toronto, and Hong Kong. He attended the University of Toronto, receiving his PhD in 1977. In 1976 he joined the Department of Political Science at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, where he taught international relations and Canadian foreign policy for 25 years, … - Caroline Baillie
Caroline Baillie is a materials scientist and, since July, 2003, the DuPont Canada Chair in Engineering Education at the Faculty of Applied Science at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. In popular culture, Baillie is best known as the host of "Building the Impossible", … - Agnes Benidickson
Agnes McCausland Benidickson (August 19 1920 - March 23 2007) was the first female Chancellor of Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada, from 1980 to 1996. Born in Chaffeys Locks, Ontario, she was the daughter of the former Queen's Chancellor James Armstrong Richardson, Sr., who served from 1929 to 1939. She was raised in Winnipeg, and received her Bachelor of Arts from Queen's in 1941, and a LL.D. in 1979. She is the sister of the Honourable James A. Richardson, … - William C. Leggett
William C. Leggett, CM, PhD., LLD, DSc., FRSC. (born 1939) served as the 17th Principal of Queen's University from 1994 to 2004. Dr. Leggett is also a Professor of Biology at Queen's, with research focusing on the dynamics of fish populations. He is the author/co-author of over 170 peer reviewed scientific publications. He was only the second scientist to hold the Principalship. - Matthew Mendelsohn
Matthew Mendelsohn is a Canadian university professor and public policy consultant. He is the deputy minister of the Ontario government's Democratic Renewal Secretariat. He is also director of the Canadian Opinion Research Archive and an associate professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. From 1996 to 1998, he served as a senior advisor in Canada's Privy Council Office, … - Rosemary Nelson
Rosemary Nelson was a prominent solicitor from Northern Ireland. Nelson, née Magee, obtained her law degree at Queen's University, Belfast (QUB). She worked with other solicitors for a number of years before opening her own practice. As a result of her defence work, representing clients in a number of high profile cases (including defending a client accused of murdering two Royal Ulster Constabulary officers), … - Arthur Kroeger
Arthur Kroeger (born 1932) is a retired Canadian civil servant who is referred to as the "dean of deputy ministers". He received a B.A. in 1955 from the University of Alberta and was a Rhodes Scholar. In 1958, he joined the Department of External Affairs and served in Geneva, New Delhi, Washington, and Ottawa. - Gary Wilson
Gary Wilson (born 1946 in Timmins, Ontario) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995. Wilson received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Laurentian University in 1969. Prior to entering politics, he worked as a library technician at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, was an executive member of the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 1302, … - Merlin Donald
Merlin Wilfred Donald (born November 17, 1939) is a Canadian psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist, and a researcher, educator, and author in the corresponding fields. - Adam Daifallah
Adam Daifallah is a conservative Canadian journalist and political author. Daifallah served on the Progressive Conservative Youth Federation’s National Executive as Policy Director, and was later President of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Campus Association while he studied at Queen's University. He has been a newspaper writer since 2002, working as Washington, … - Robert Sutherland
Robert Sutherland (1830-1878) was the first known graduate of colour at a Canadian university. His accomplishments, bequest and legacy resulted in a student-led awareness campaign on the diverse history of Queen's University nearly twelve decades after his death. - Kathleen Wynne
Kathleen O. Wynne is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Don Valley West for the Liberal Party. Wynne holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queen's University, a Master of Arts degree in linguistics from the University of Toronto (1980) and a Master of Education degree in adult education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. - Sean Conway
Sean Conway (born July 24, 1951 in Pembroke, Ontario) was a long-serving politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1975 to 2003, and was a high-profile cabinet minister in the government of David Peterson. Conway attended St. Joseph's Separate School, Madawaska Valley District High School, and completed his education at Waterloo Lutheran University (now Wilfrid Laurier University) and Queen's University. - John Hamilton
John Hamilton (1802 - 10 October 1882) was a businessman, a political figure in Upper Canada and member of the Canadian Senate. He was born in Queenston in 1802, the son of Robert Hamilton. He was educated in Queenston and Edinburgh, Scotland and first worked as a clerk in Montreal. In 1824, with his step-brother Robert, he established the Queenston Steamboat Company which operated a number of ships transporting goods on Lake Ontario. - Lorna Marsden
Lorna Marsden (born March 6, 1942) is a Canadian sociologist, academic, and former politician. She is the President and Vice-Chancellor of York University and a former senator. Born in Sidney, British Columbia, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto in 1968 and a Ph.D from Princeton University in 1972. In 1972, she joined the University of Toronto where she was a Professor of Sociology. - John Crosbie
John Carnell Crosbie, PC, OC, QC born January 30, 1931 in St. John's, Newfoundland, is a retired Canadian politician. Crosbie was educated at St. Andrew's College (Aurora, Ontario) (1945-1949), studied Political Science at Queen's University and law at Dalhousie Law School. Crosbie first entered politics as a member of the St. John's city council until he was appointed to the provincial cabinet of Liberal Premier Joey Smallwood in 1966. - C. A. R. Hoare
Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (Tony Hoare or C.A.R. Hoare, born January 11, 1934) is a British computer scientist, probably best known for the development of Quicksort (or Hoaresort), the world's most widely used sorting algorithm, in 1960. - Shelagh Rogers
Shelagh Rogers (born 1956) is a Canadian radio broadcaster. She is currently the host of CBC Radio One's "Sounds Like Canada". Rogers grew up in Ottawa, Ontario. She was the "Head Girl" at her high school, Lisgar Collegiate Institute. She played in the Ottawa Youth Orchestra and was a spare on the Reach for the Top team. Rogers began her career in broadcasting at Kingston, Ontario's CKWS, hosting a country music program while still a student at Queen's University. - Donald Akenson
Donald Harman Akenson (born May 22, 1941) is a historian and author. Akenson received his B.A. from Yale University and his doctorate from Harvard University. He is Professor of History at Queen's University and Beamish Research Professor at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool. He has authored many non-fiction books, including more than a dozen about Irish history, and five novels. His book on the Bible, "Surpassing Wonder" (1999), …
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