- Paul Davenport
Paul Theodore Davenport, OC, BA, MA, Ph.D, LL.D (born 1946) is the ninth president of the University of Western Ontario. Born in Summit, New Jersey, he graduated magna cum laude from Stanford University in 1969 with a BA in economics. He was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He moved to Canada and earned an MA and Ph.D in economics from the University of Toronto. Beginning in 1973 he taught economics at McGill University. From 1986 to 1989, he was Vice Principal, … - J. Philippe Rushton
John Philippe (Phil) Rushton (born December 3, 1943) is a psychology professor at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, who is most widely known for his work on intelligence and racial differences, particularly his book "Race, Evolution And Behavior". Rushton also researches altruism from a number of perspectives. Rushton is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American, British, and Canadian Psychological Associations. - Gordon McBean
Dr. Gordon McBean is a Canadian climatologist who serves as chairman of the board of trustees of the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences. He is a professor at the University of Western Ontario and Chair for Policy in the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction. Previously he was the Assistant Deputy Minister of Meteorological Service of Canada. In 1995, McBean gave a speech to the World Meteorological Organization on global warming. - Salim Mansur
Salim Mansur, PhD, is a Muslim and is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario Canada. He is a writer for the London Free Press, the Toronto Sun, ProudToBeCanadian.ca, and numerous publications including National Review, the Middle East Forum and Frontpagemag. He often presents analysis on the Muslim world, Islam, South Asia, Middle East. - Carol Stephenson
Carol Stephenson is the dean of the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. She is a director of ING Canada and the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan. She began her career at Bell Canada. After becoming an executive at Bell, she managed Stentor as CEO. She then managed Lucent Technologies Canada from 1999 to 2003. She is an alumna of The University of Toronto, The University of California, Berkeley and the Harvard Business School. - Michael Geist
Michael Allen Geist (born 11 July 1968) is a Canadian academic, and the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law at the University of Ottawa. Geist was educated at the University of Western Ontario, Osgoode Hall Law School, Cambridge University and the Columbia Law School. His weekly columns on new technology and its legal ramifications appear in the "Toronto Star" and the "Ottawa Citizen". - John Ibbitson
John Ibbitson (born 1955 in Gravenhurst, Ontario) is a Canadian political columnist. He writes primarily on Canadian federal politics for "The Globe and Mail". He has written three books on politics, "Promised Land: Inside the Mike Harris Revolution" (1997), "Loyal No More: Ontario's Struggle for a Separate Destiny", and "The Polite Revolution: Perfecting the Canadian Dream" (McClelland & Stewart, 2005). - Anne Marie Decicco-Best
Anne Marie DeCicco-Best (born April 1964) is the current (60th) mayor of London, Ontario, Canada. Ms. DeCicco graduated from Fanshawe College's broadcast journalism program in 1986 and worked for CHYR in Leamington, Ontario, before returning in 1987 to work at CJBK and CJBX, a country music station in London as a reporter covering city hall. She also later taught at Fanshawe. DeCicco was first elected to London City Council in 1991 as a councillor in Ward Five, … - Frederick Banting
Sir Frederick Grant Banting, KBE, MC, MD, FRSC (November 14, 1891 - February 21, 1941) was a Canadian medical scientist, doctor and Nobel laureate noted as one of the co-discovers of insulin. Banting was born in Alliston, Ontario, Canada. After studying medicine at the University of Toronto and graduating in 1916, he served in the Canadian Army Medical Corps during World War I. He won the Military Cross during the war. - James Reaney
James Crerar Reaney is a Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic. He was born in Easthope, Ontario. Reaney won his first of three Governor General's Awards for the book of poetry "The Red Heart" in 1949. He received the other two awards for "A Suit of Nettles" (1958) and a joint award for "Twelve Letters to a Small Town" and "The Killdeer and Other Plays" (1962). - David Naylor
Christopher David Naylor, D.Phil, MD (born 1954 in Woodstock, Ontario) is a medical researcher and president of the University of Toronto. A Rhodes Scholar, Naylor received an MD from the University of Toronto in 1978, proceeding to Hertford College, University of Oxford, where he earned a D.Phil in 1983 in the Department of Social and Administrative Studies. - Bruce Smith
Bruce Smith is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 1999. Smith has a diploma in Urban Design from Fanshawe College, a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Waterloo, and a degree in Public Administration from the University of Western Ontario. He worked as a senior planner in the city of London, Ontario after graduating, … - Michael Walker
Michael Walker, Ph.D (born 1945, in Corner Brook, Newfoundland) is a Canadian economist. He is best known as the founder of the Fraser Institute. He earned a BA from St. Francis Xavier University, and went on to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario. He worked at the Bank of Canada and the Federal Department of Finance. He then taught at the University of Western Ontario and Carleton University. - Roberta Bondar
Roberta Bondar , a medical doctor and Ph.D. in neurobiology, became the first Canadian woman astronaut and the world's first neurologist in space in 1992 on the International Microgravity Laboratory. She was elected to the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame for her pioneering space medical research. - Regna Darnell
Regna Darnell is a Canadian anthropologist known for her linguistic anthropological fieldwork with the Plains Cree of northern Alberta and with southwestern Ontario First Nations peoples as well as for her scholarship on the history of anthropology. She attended Bryn Mawr College and in 1965 began Ph.D. work at the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned a Ph.D. in 1969. She was a student of A. Irving Hallowell. - Michael Groden
Michael Groden is Professor of English at The University of Western Ontario. Groden received a B.A. from Dartmouth College (magna cum laude) in 1969 and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1975. He is known for his involvement in the envisioning and development of James Joyce's "Ulysses" as hypertext and hypermedia with William H. Quillian and other scholars from around the world. In 2007, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. - Joe Fontana
Joseph Frank "Joe" Fontana, PC, (born January 13, 1950 in Celare, Cosenza, Italy) was a Liberal member of the Parliament of Canada for the riding of London North Centre, in London, Ontario. In 1954 his father Ugo (a police officer), his mother Pearl and his sisters Anna and Maria emigrated from Italy to Timmins, Ontario, (where another sister, Adrianna, was later born). He later studied chemical engineering at the University of Waterloo, … - Irene Mathyssen
Irene R. Mathyssen (born August 16, 1951 in London, Ontario) is a Canadian politician and a Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons. She was previously a New Democratic Party Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) from 1990 to 1995, and briefly served as a minister in the government of Bob Rae. Mathyssen was educated at the University of Western Ontario from 1970 to 1975, received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Drama, … - Ian Brodie
Dr. Ian Brodie, Ph.D (born July 25, 1967 in Toronto) is a Canadian political scientist and political functionary, who has been Chief of Staff in Stephen Harper's Prime Minister's Office since Harper's ascension to prime minister in 2006. He attended high school at the University of Toronto Schools. He earned a BA in political science from McGill University in Montreal, and an MA and a Ph.D from the University of Calgary. - Fred Longstaffe
Dr. Fred J. Longstaffe Ph.D., FRSC is the Provost and VP Academic at the University of Western Ontario. He is a highly regarded leader in Earth Science research. His current focus is on applying knowledge of stable isotopes to various fields of study. Longstaffe earned a BSc (Hon) from the University of Windsor and a PhD in Geology from McMaster University. In 1978, he attended the University of Alberta as a Killam Post-Doctoral Scholar. - Peter Desbarats
Peter Desbarats is a Montreal, Quebec-born Canadian author, playwright and journalist. He is the former dean of journalism at the University of Western Ontario (1981-1997), a former commissioner in the Somalia Inquiry and a former Maclean-Hunter chair of Communications Ethics at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Currently, he lives in a heritage home with his actress wife, Hazel, in the East Woodfield Heritage Conservation District in London, Ontario, Canada. - Nick Dyer-Witheford
Nick Dyer-Witheford is a Professor in the Faculty of Information & Media Studies, University of Western Ontario, in London, Ontario, Canada. Born in Britain, yet a holder of a New Zealand passport, he came to Canada in his twenties and settled in Vancouver. Married, with two daughters, he lives in London (Canada) - Andy Fantuz
Andrew "Andy" Fantuz, (born December 18 1983 in Chatham, Ontario) is a slotback for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League. Fantuz is 6ft 4in and 221 pounds. In his first year with the Riders, he had 30 catches for 408 yards and 3 touchdowns. Andrew holds the CIS single season receiving record. He played for the University of Western Ontario in the CIS. While at Western, Andy lived in Essex Hall and on John St. He is number 83. - Diane Finley
Diane Finley PC, MP (born October 3, 1957 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian politician. She serves as Minister of Citizenship and Immigration in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. She is a current member of the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Haldimand—Norfolk for the Conservative Party. Finley was raised in Port Dover and Charlotteville, … - David Young
David Samuel D'Arcy Young (born 17 July 1946) is a Canadian playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Born in Oakville, Ontario, Young studied at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of seven plays, two novels and several screenplays and teleplays. Two of his plays, "Inexpressible Island" and "Glenn", have been nominated for multiple Canadian drama awards. - Ian McWhinney
Ian Renwick McWhinney, OC, FRCGP, FCFP, FRCP, (born October 11, 1926) is a Canadian physician and academic known as the "Father of Family Medicine" for his work in creating a family medicine program at the University of Western Ontario. Born in Burnley, England, he studied at Cheltenham College from 1940 to 1944. During World War II, he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps. After the war, he studied at Clare College, Cambridge and at St. - George Bowering
George Harry Bowering (born December 1, 1935) is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. He was born in Penticton, British Columbia, and raised in the nearby town of Oliver, where his father was a high-school chemistry teacher. Bowering is one of a group of poets including Frank Davey, Fred Wah, Jamie Reid, and David Dawson who were together at the University of British Columbia in the 1950s. There they founded the journal "Tish". - Steve Peters
Stephen J. "Steve" Peters (born January 19, 1963) is a Canadian politician. He is currently a Member of Provincial Parliament of the Ontario legislature, and serves as a Cabinet Minister in the government of Dalton McGuinty. Peters was born in St. Thomas, in the southwestern section of Ontario. Both of his parents were the children of Ukrainian immigrants. He was educated at the University of Western Ontario, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1985. - Jack Chambers
John "Jack" Chambers (March 25, 1931-April 13, 1978) was a Canadian artist and filmmaker. Born in London, Ontario, he spent eight years (1953-1961) studying in Europe after studying at H.B. Beal Secondary School and the University of Western Ontario. While in Europe he met Pablo Picasso, who suggested he continue his studies in Madrid. - Kevin Newman
Kevin Newman (born June 2 1959 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian journalist and news anchor. Since 2001, he has been anchor of "Global National", and currently also hosts Global's weekly newsmagazine series "Global Currents". Newman began his career in broadcasting at CHRW radio in London, Ontario, becoming the first News Director and working on Western Mustang football broadcasts as the campus station of the University of Western Ontario formally organised. - Ian Kerr
Ian Kerr is a Canadian academic who is recognized as an international expert in emerging law and technology issues. He holds a Canada Research Chair in Ethics, Law, and Technology at the University of Ottawa. He teaches contracts as well as a unique upper-year seminar offered each year during the month of January in Puerto Rico that brings students from very different legal traditions together to exchange culture, values, … - David Borwein
David Borwein (born 1924, in Kanaus, Lithuania) is a Canadian mathematician of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry, known for his research in the summability theory of series and integrals. He has also done work in measure theory and probability theory, number theory, and approximate subgradients and coderivatives. He has recently collaborated with his son, Jonathan Borwein and with B.A. Mares Jr. on the properties of single- and many-variable sinc integrals. - Tom Patterson
Harry Thomas "Tom" Patterson O.C., O.Ont., B.A., LL.D. (June 11 1920 - February 23, 2005) was a Stratford, Ontario born journalist who went on to found the Stratford Festival of Canada, the largest theatre festival in Canada. Patterson was a veteran of World War II and a journalist writing for Maclean's magazine in 1953. From the time that he was a teenager, he had thought that his home town of Stratford, Ontario should be home to performances of Shakespeare's plays. - Tomson Highway
Tomson Highway, CM (born December 6, 1951) is a Cree playwright, novelist, and children's author from Brochet, Manitoba. He is the celebrated author of the plays "The Rez Sisters" and "Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing", both of which won him the Dora Mavor Moore Award and the Floyd S. Chalmers Award. "The Rez Sisters" became a smash hit across Canada and went on to the Edinburgh International Festival in 1988. - Isaac Hellmuth
The Right Reverend Isaac Hellmuth (Born December 14, 1819), second Bishop of the Diocese of Huron, was the founder of Huron University College and the University of Western Ontario, one of Canada's leading universities. Isaac was born in Poland in 1819 and educated at the University of Breslau. His father was a rabbi and he trained to be a rabbi himself. However, intellectual discourse with theologians of other faiths made him question his faith and his father disowned him. - Kelly Rowan
Kelly Rowan (born October 26, 1967 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actress well known for her modelling career and her popular character Kirsten Cohen on the FOX TV series "The O.C." She began modeling in her college years to earn extra cash, becoming involved in acting while working in commercials. A graduate of Toronto's Northern Secondary School, as well as a graduate of the University of Western Ontario, … - Elizabeth Witmer
Elizabeth Witmer is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She has been a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1990, originally representing Waterloo North and later Kitchener—Waterloo for the Progressive Conservative Party. Witmer moved with her family to Ontario at a young age. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Western Ontario, and later attended the Althouse College of Education. - Galen Weston
Willard Gordon Galen Weston, OC, OOnt, (born October 29, 1940) is a Canadian businessman and descendant of George Weston of the George Weston Bakeries Limited. Weston is the son of Willard Garfield Weston and grandson of the founder George Weston. Brother Garry Weston (1927-2002) took charge of Associated British Foods plc, the family's UK operations. While he studied in London, Ontario at the University of Western Ontario, Weston was roommates with Dave Nichol, … - Robert McMurtry
Dr. Robert McMurtry is a physician and special advisor to the Canadian Royal Commission on the Future of Health Care. He is actively involved in discussions on creating an accessible medical system for the Canadian public, and has long advocated for more effective public involvement in healthcare policy. Dr. McMurtry graduated from the University of Toronto in Medicine in 1965, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. - Arthur Labatt
Arthur Sackville Labatt, OC (born May 11, 1934) is a great-grandson of John Labatt, founder of the Labatt brewery. He is currently the chancellor of the University of Western Ontario (UWO) in London, Ontario, Canada. Born in London, Labatt studied business at UWO for one year in 1953, and also briefly studied at McGill University where he joined the Kappa Alpha Society, however never graduating from either university.
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