- Rasmus Lerdorf
Rasmus Lerdorf (born November 22 1968 in Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland) is a Danish-Greenlandic programmer and the creator of the PHP programming language. He authored the first two versions. Rasmus also participated in the development of later versions of PHP led by a group of developers including Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski, who later founded Zend Technologies.
- Scott Vanstone
Dr. Scott A. Vanstone Founder & Executive Vice-President Strategic Technology One of the founders of Certicom, Dr. Vanstone is also a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Vanstone devotes much of his research to the efficient implementation of the elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) for the provision of information security services in handheld computers, smart cards, wireless devices and integrated circuits.
- Gaston Gonnet
Gaston H. Gonnet is a Uruguayan computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is best known for his contributions to the Maple computer algebra system and the creation of an electronic version of the Oxford English Dictionary.
- David Cheriton
David R. Cheriton is a Canadian-born computer science professor at Stanford University and a billionaire as a result of his investments in technology companies. He received his Masters and PhD degrees from the University of Waterloo in 1974 and 1978, respectively, and spent three years as an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia before moving to Stanford.
- Dan Dodge
Dan Dodge is a true pioneer of embedded systems technology. Together with business partner Gordon Bell , he created one of the world's first message-passing operating systems - the forerunner to the revolutionary QNX A Neutrino A microkernel RTOS.
- Gordon Agnew
Gordon Agnew is an engineering professor at the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada. Agnew might be a co-founder of cryptography giant Certicom. He also has a strong passion for microprocessor-controlled toasters and is an avid advocate in the field. Agnew is highly interested in encryption and data security. Does he teach macroeconomics with Larry Smith? Sure why not? He received his BASc degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo in 1978 and a Ph. D. in 1982.
- Don Boudria
Donald "Don" Boudria, PC (born August 30, 1949, in Hull, Quebec) is a former Canadian politician. He served in the Canadian House of Commons from 1984 to 2005 as a member of the Liberal Party of Canada, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Jean Chrétien.
- Andrew Telegdi
Andrew Telegdi, PC, MP (born May 28, 1946 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Liberal Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons. Telegdi was elected in the riding of Waterloo in the general election of 1993, and in the riding of Kitchener—Waterloo in the elections of 1997, 2000, 2004, and 2006. Telegdi is known for his blunt outspokenness on several issues. A Hungarian expatriate who entered Canada as a refugee, …
- Tom Duff
Thomas Douglas Selkirk Duff (b. December 8, 1952, named for his putative ancestor, the fifth Earl of Selkirk) is a computer programmer. He was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and grew up in Toronto and Leaside. In 1974 he graduated from the University of Waterloo with a B.Math and, two years later, got a M.Sc. from the University of Toronto.
- George Elliott Clarke
George Elliott Clarke is a Canadian poet and playwright. Born in Windsor Plains, Nova Scotia, he has spent much of his career writing about the black communities of Nova Scotia and served for a time in the African-American Studies department at Duke University. He earned a B.A. honours degree in English from the University of Waterloo (1984), an M.A. in English from Dalhousie University (1989) and a Ph.D. in English from Queen’s University (1993).
- Vahid Tarokh
Vahid Tarokh is an electrical engineer and mathematician with fundamental contributions to telecommunication, specifically to signal processing for wireless communications. He received the PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1995.
- Garfield Dunlop
Garfield Dunlop is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Simcoe North for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. Dunlop was educated at the University of Waterloo. Before entering public life, he was involved with a family business, Glen Dunlop Plumbing, Heating and Supplies (which he first joined in 1971). In 1980, Dunlop was elected a councillor in the village of Coldwater, …
- George Roter
- Steve Smith
Steve Smith, CM (born December 24, 1945, Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian comedy writer and actor. Before turning to comedy, Smith studied engineering at the University of Waterloo and then worked a variety of jobs. In 1979, he began to produce, write, and star in "Smith & Smith", a sketch comedy series with a cast of two: Smith and his wife, Morag Smith. The show was produced for Hamilton, Ontario's CHCH and syndicated to other television stations in Canada.
- Michele Mosca
Michele Mosca is co-founder and deputy director of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, researcher and founding member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and associate professor of mathematics at St. Jerome's University. He has held a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Quantum Computation since January 2002, and has been a scholar for the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research since September 2003.
- Erik Demaine
Erik Demaine (b. February 28, 1981, in Halifax, Nova Scotia), is an associate professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His childhood was spent traveling North America with his father, Martin Demaine, an artist and sculptor; he was home-schooled. Erik entered Dalhousie University at the age of 12, and completed his bachelor's degree when only 14. His Ph.D., …
- Gordon Bell
- Robert Rosehart
Robert "Bob" G. Rosehart (born 1943) is a Canadian chemical engineer and university executive. Born in Owen Sound, Ontario, he received a B.A.Sc. degree in 1967, a M.A.Sc. in 1968, and a Ph.D. in 1970 from the University of Waterloo. In 1984, he became the President of Lakehead University and in 1997 he became President of Wilfrid Laurier University.
- Parker Mitchell
Parker's work in international development began with a simple water purification system for developing communities designed during his Bachelor's degrees in Engineering and Arts at the University of Waterloo. This progressed to a Master's in Development Studies at Cambridge University and, using strategic planning experience gained while a Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company, the co-founding of Engineers Without Borders.
- Jonathan Seet
Jonathan Seet (born November 23, 1969) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Seet was born in Singapore to a Singaporean father and an Irish mother who emigrated to Canada shortly after he was born. He currently resides in Toronto, Ontario. Seet began singing in a church choir at age 4 and started piano lessons at 5. He was a church organist at 15 years old for 3 years and played viola for the Northumberland Symphony Orchestra for several years.
- Keith Beavers
Keith Beavers (born February 9, 1983 in London, Ontario) is a backstroke and medley swimmer from Canada, who competed for his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. The student kinesiology of the University of Waterloo emerged as one of Canada's brightest young stars in 2002 when he won the bronze medal, and broke the Canadian record in the Men's 200m Backstroke at the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships.
- Paul van Oorschot
Paul C. van Oorschot is a cryptographer and computer security researcher, currently a professor of computer science at Carleton University. He is best known as co-author of the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" (ISBN 0-8493-8523-7), together with Alfred Menezes and Scott Vanstone. Van Oorschot received his Ph.D. in 1988 from the University of Waterloo.
- Rick Green
Rick Green (born 1953 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian comedian, and writer. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Waterloo. From 1975 until 1979, he worked as a presenter at the Ontario Science Centre. In 1979, he helped found the Toronto-based comedy troupe The Frantics. They were heard on their CBC Radio show "Frantic Times" and their short-lived television series, "Four on the Floor".
- Romesh Batra
Dr. Romesh Batra is a Professor in Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech. He has made contributions to Continuum Mechanics and Nonlinear Elasticity and has published over 220 journal articles widely read and reputed referred journals. He was born in India and completed his bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from University of Punjab in 1968 where he won the "Gold Medal" for being first in three states.
- Doug Stinson
Douglas Robert Stinson (born in 1956 in Guelph, Ontario) is a Canadian mathematician and cryptographer, currently a professor at the University of Waterloo and a member of the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research. Stinson received his B.Math from the University of Waterloo in 1978, his MSc from Ohio State University in 1980, and his Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo in 1981. He was at the University of Manitoba from 1981 to 1989, …
- Reihaneh Safavi-Naini
Reihaneh (Rei) Safavi-Naini is the iCORE Chair in Information Security at the University of Calgary, Canada. Before joining University of Calgary in 2007, she was a Professor of Computer Science, Faculty of Informatics and the Director of Telecommunication and Information Technology Research Institute (TITR) and Centre for Information Security at the University of Wollongong, Australia.
- Ian Goldberg
Ian Avrum Goldberg (born March 31, 1973) is a Jewish-Canadian cryptographer and cypherpunk. He is best known for breaking Netscape's implementation of SSL (with David Wagner), and for his role as Chief Scientist of Radialpoint (formerly Zero-Knowledge Systems), a Canadian software company. Beginning with the fall 2006 academic term, Goldberg is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo.
- Neil Robertson
G. Neil Robertson is a mathematician working mainly in topological graph theory, currently a distinguished professor at The Ohio State University. He earned his Ph.D. in 1969 at the University of Waterloo under his doctoral advisor William Tutte. Dr. Robertson has an Erdős number of 2 due to coauthoring a paper with Arthur M. Hobbs.
- Ingrid Mattson
Ingrid Mattson , the recently elected president of the 43-year-old Islamic Society of North America, is the first convert, first non-immigrant and first woman to lead the largest Muslim umbrella organization on the continent. Her rise to prominence comes as more women and native-born Muslims are defining the faith, making Islam more of an American religion.
- Brad Templeton
Brad Templeton (born near Toronto in 1960), son of Charles Templeton and Sylvia Murphy, is a software engineer and entrepreneur. Templeton is considered one of the early luminaries of Usenet, and in 1989 founded ClariNet, which uses Usenet protocols to distribute news articles, one of the first commercial examples of electronic publishing. In his "Net History in Brief" post, he coined the phrase "Imminent death of net predicted".
- Ian Clark
Dr. Ian Clark is a professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Ottawa. His graduate work in isotope hydrogeology was at the University of Waterloo and the University of Paris. In 2004 Clark wrote a letter to the Editor of the "The Hill Times" saying: </ref>In the 2007 UK television documentary "The Great Global Warming Swindle" he argues that changes in global temperature correlate with solar activity, …
- Walt Neubrand
Walter Neubrand (born Mississauga, Ontario) is one of three men, called the Keepers of the Cup, currently in charge of keeping and maintaining the Stanley Cup during its many trips around the world.
- Jon Evans
Jon Evans (born 1973) is a Canadian novelist and journalist. Born to an expatriate Rhodesian father and Canadian mother, he grew up in Waterloo, Ontario, and is a graduate of the University of Waterloo. He won the 2005 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel from the Crime Writers of Canada for his book "Dark Places" (2004) and has been reviewed in the Economist and Washington Post. Jon has also written for magazines such as "Wired" and "The Walrus", …
- John R. English
John Richard English, C.M., Ph.D., F.R.S.C. (born January 26, 1945) is a Canadian academic who has also been very active in Canadian public life. Born in Woodstock, Ontario, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967 from the University of Waterloo, a A.M. degree in 1968 and a Ph.D. in 1973 from Harvard University. He joined the University of Waterloo as a lecturer in history in 1972, becoming an Assistant Professor in 1974, an Associate Professor in 1978, …
- Andy Anstett
Andy Anstett (June 25, 1946-) is a former Manitoba politician. He served in the NDP government of Premier Howard Pawley, and made an unsuccessful bid for the party's leadership in 1988. Anstett was born in Groningen in the Netherlands, and moved to Kitchener, Ontario, Canada as an infant child. He received an honours political science degree from the University of Waterloo and did post graduate studies in Canadian parliamentary procedure and election administration.
- Ron Sider
Ronald James Sider (b. 17 September 1939, Stevensville, Ontario) is a Canadian-born American theologian and Christian activist. He is often identified by others with the Christian left, though he personally disclaims any political inclination. He is the founder of Evangelicals for Social Action, a think-tank which seeks to develop biblical solutions to social and economic problems. He is a founding board member of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment.
- Scott Manning
Scott Manning (15 May 1958 - 16 June 2006) was a Canadian athlete and stunt pilot of the world's smallest jet, the BD-5J. Growing up in Kitchener, Ontario, Scott earned a degree in Environmental Studies at the University of Waterloo in 1985. Having played for four years on the Waterloo Warriors football team, he pursued a career in professional football, at a weight of 290lbs.
- Colin Carrie
Colin Carrie (born April 11, 1962 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian politician. He is a current member of the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Oshawa in the province of Ontario for the Conservative Party of Canada. Colin Carrie was elected to the House of Commons in June 2004 and was re-elected in January 2006. On February 7, 2006, Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed Carrie to the post of Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Industry, …
- Gary Goodyear
Gary Goodyear (born March 10, 1958 in Cambridge, Ontario) is a Canadian politician. He is a current member of the Canadian House of Commons, having been elected to represent the riding of Cambridge as a Conservative in 2004. Goodyear was educated at the University of Waterloo, in Biomechanics and Psychology. He attended the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, where he graduated cum laude, was class president, and valedictorian.
- Marie Bountrogianni
Marie Bountrogianni BA, MEd, D.Ed (born December 10, 1956) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and is a cabinet minister in the government of Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty. Bountrogianni was born in Hamilton, Ontario, the daughter of Greek immigrants. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Waterloo in 1979, a Master of Education degree from the University of Toronto in 1980, …