- John Molson
John Molson (December 28, 1763 - January 11, 1836) was an Anglo-Quebecer who was a major brewer and entrepreneur in Canada, starting the Molson Brewing Company. Born in England, he emigrated to Canada as a young man and in 1821 built Lower Canada's first distillery. He also established the Champlain and Saint Lawrence Railroad, the first railway into Canada, and introduced steam power into Montreal industry. - Valery Fabrikant
Valery Fabrikant (born 1940 in Minsk, USSR), is a former associate professor of mechanical engineering at Concordia University. He was the gunman in the school massacre referred to as the Concordia University massacre in which he killed four colleagues. Born in the Soviet Union to a Jewish family, he immigrated to Canada in 1979 and began teaching at Concordia in 1980. - Claude Lajeunesse
Claude Lajeunesse (born 1941) is the current President and Vice-Chancellor of Concordia University. From 1995 until August 2005, he was President and Vice Chancellor of Ryerson University. He received his PhD in 1969, and his Master of Science degree in 1967 in Nuclear Engineering. Prior to his appointment as President of Ryerson University, he was CEO of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada. - Frederick Lowy
Frederick Hans Lowy is a respected Canadian medical educator and former President and Vice-Chancellor of Concordia University. Born in Großpetersdorf, Austria in 1933, Lowy moved to downtown Montreal at age 13. Lowy studied medicine at McGill University, graduating in 1959. As an undergraduate, he was a volunteer at the McGill Daily student newspaper. He was a psychiatric consultant at the Royal Victoria Hospital and Neurological Institute in the late 1960s. Dr. - John Harnad
John Harnad is a Hungarian-born mathematical physicist. He did his undergraduate work at McGill University and his graduate work at University of Oxford (D.Phil. 1972). He is currently Director of the Mathematical Physics group at the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM), a national research centre in mathematics at Université de Montréal and Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Concordia University. - Kai Nielsen
Kai Nielsen is adjunct professor of philosophy at Concordia University in Montreal and professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Calgary. Before moving to Canada Nielsen taught for many years at New York University (NYU). He specializes in metaphilosophy, ethics, and social and political philosophy. Nielsen has also written about philosophy of religion, and is a leading advocate of contemporary, atheist philosophy. - John McKay
John McKay (born 1939) is a mathematician at Concordia University in Canada, known for his discovery of monstrous moonshine, his joint construction of some sporadic simple groups, and for the McKay correspondence relating certain finite groups to Lie groups. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2000, and won the 2003 CRM-Fields Prize. - David Graham
David Graham is a Canadian academic who has served in a number of Canadian universities. He is currently Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. His research is primarily concerned with the early modern French emblem book. - Jon Paul Fiorentino
Jon Paul Fiorentino is a Canadian poet and short story writer. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he currently teaches at Concordia University and is managing editor of "Matrix" magazine. - Ian Horrocks
Ian Horrocks is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Manchester in the UK. His research focuses on knowledge representation, particularly ontology languages, description logics, and optimised reasoning algorithms. His work on tableau reasoning for very expressive description logics has formed the basis of most description logic reasoning systems in use today, including Racer, FaCT++, and Pellet. Prof. - Gad Saad
Dr. Gad Saad (born October 13, 1964) is an evolutionary behavioral scientist and Associate Professor of Marketing at the John Molson School of Business (Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada). He has held Visiting Associate Professorships at Cornell University, Dartmouth College, and the University of California Irvine. His main research interests lie at the nexus of evolutionary theory, decision-making, and consumption. - Stephanie Bolster
Stephanie Bolster is a Canadian poet who lives in Montreal, Quebec, and is a professor of creative writing at Concordia University. She was at one point a writer in residence at York House School. Her collection "White Stone: The Alice Poems" won the 1998 Governor General's Award for English language poetry. - Jaggi Singh
Jaggi Singh (born 1971 in Toronto) is one of Canada's most high-profile anti-globalization and social justice activists. A self-described anarchist, Singh lives in Montreal where he works with groups such as Solidarity Across Borders (a local migrant-rights organization) and the No One Is Illegal collective, among others. Singh graduated from St. Michael's College School and attended the University of Toronto. - Judith Woodsworth
Dr. Judith Weisz Woodsworth is President of Laurentian University. She holds a Ph.D in French Literature from McGill University and served as a professor of Modern Languages and Academic Vice-President at Mount Saint Vincent University. A teacher for many years at Concordia University, she has written about translation theory, translation history and literary translation, and was the founding president of the Canadian Association for Translation Studies. - Bernard Lonergan
Fr. Bernard Lonergan, S.J. (17 December 1904 - 26 November 1984) was a Canadian Jesuit Priest. He was a philosopher-theologian in the Thomist tradition and an economist from Buckingham, Quebec. He taught at Loyola College (Montreal) (now Concordia University), the University of Toronto (Regis College), the Pontifical Gregorian University and Boston College. He is the author of Insight: A Study of Human Understanding (1957) and Method in Theology(1973), … - Georges Vanier
Major-General Georges-Philéas Vanier, PC DSO MC & Bar (April 23, 1888 - March 5, 1967) was a Canadian soldier and diplomat who was Governor General of Canada from 1959 until his death. Georges Vanier was born in Montreal. He studied at Loyola College in Montreal, and received a law degree at the Montreal branch of Université Laval. During the First World War, he was a founding member of the 22nd Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, … - Marcel Danis
Marcel Danis, PC, B.A., M.A., LL.B. (born October 22 1943) is a university administrator, lawyer and former Canadian politician. Danis completed a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science at Loyola College (since renamed Concordia University) in 1965, a Master of Arts in Political Science at Fordham University in 1966, studied constitutional law and political science at the Université de Paris from 1966-1968, … - Michael Thompson
Michael Thompson is a Toronto city councillor. He represents the western half of Scarborough Centre, Ward 37 Scarborough Centre. Raised in Scarborough he has a BA in Economics from Concordia University. He is a Black Canadian. Thompson graduated from Ionview Public School and Sir John A. Macdonald Collegiate in Scarborough. Prior to being elected as a city councillor, he worked in the financial services industry, and founded a business services company. - Lucian Turcescu
Lucian Turcescu, is a professor of theology at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He emigrated to Canada in 1992, and obtained his Ph.D. in theology from the University of Toronto in 1999. Turcescu taught for six years at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, where he became an Associate Professor and Chair of the Religious Studies Department. In 2005, he was hired as an Associate Professor in the Department of Theological Studies at Concordia University. - David McGimpsey
David McGimpsey is a Canadian poet, humorist and scholar. He teaches creative writing at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. - Régine Chassagne
Régine Chassagne is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist musician and singer, and a founding member of the indie rock band Arcade Fire. She is married to co-founder Win Butler. She was born in Canada, her family having emigrated from Haiti during the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier ("Baby Doc"), and she grew up in St-Lambert, a suburb of Montreal. Her heritage is alluded to in the Arcade Fire song "Haiti", in which she sings, … - Samir Mallal
Samir Mallal is a filmmaker from Montreal. He is best known for Directing two documentaries: "Discordia" and "Bombay Calling". His first film "Discordia" (2004) follows three students during the aftermath of the Netenyahu Incident at Concordia University in Montreal in 2002. His second film, "Bombay Calling" (2006) follows the lives of telemarketers working outsourced jobs in a call center in Bombay (Mumbai), India. - Torill Kove
Torill Kove (born 1958) is a Norwegian-Canadian film director and animator. She won the 2007 Academy Award for Animated Short Film for the film "The Danish Poet", co-produced by Norway's Mikrofilm AS and the National Film Board of Canada Born in Hamar, Norway, Kove has lived in Montreal, Quebec since 1982, when she moved there to continue academic studies in urban planning at Concordia University, where she changed her major to animation. - Hana Gartner
Hana Gartner is one of Canada's most recognized journalists, best known for her investigative reporting on The Fifth Estate . With a distinguished career over 25 years in broadcasting for the CBC , Gartner has earned the respect of the journalistic community and numerous awards. Born in Prague and raised in Montreal, Gartner graduated cum laude from Concordia University 's Communication Studies before starting her broadcasting career at CJAD radio in 1970. - Barbara Kay
Barbara Kay is a columnist with the "National Post". Kay is a graduate of the University of Toronto where she earned an undergraduate degree in English literature. She received a Master of Arts from McGill University and subsequently taught literature at Concordia University and several CEGEPs. Beginning her journalism career as a book reviewer, Kay branched out into writing op/eds for the "Post" before becoming a columnist in 2003. - Jana Sterbak
Jana Sterbak is a Canadian artist best known for her works constructed from meat. Two sculptures, "Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic" (1987) and "Chair Apollinaire" (1999), were both works whose primary medium was cured flank steak. Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Sterback immigrated to Montréal, Québec in 1968. She acquired her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1977 at Montréal's Concordia University. - Rawi Hage
Rawi Hage is a Canadian writer and photographer. Born in Beirut, Hage grew up in Lebanon and Cyprus. He moved to New York City in 1982, and after studying at the New York Institute of Photography, relocated to Montreal in 1991, where he studied arts at Dawson College and Concordia University. He subsequently began exhibiting as a photographer, and has had works acquired by the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Musée de la civilisation de Québec. - Craig Silverman
Craig Silverman is a writer and communications consultant in Montreal, Canada. A graduate of the journalism program at Concordia University, he is best known as the founder and editor of Regret the Error, a blog that reports on corrections, retractions and trends regarding accuracy and honesty in the media. His writing has appeared in The Globe And Mail, Saturday Night, Toro, Report On Business Magazine, Vice, The Coast, Montreal Magazine and The Sunday Herald, … - Henry Habib
Henry Habib is the Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Concordia University. He established the Political Science Department at Loyola College, and was instrumental in establishing the Global Forum for International Co-operation (GFIC). He is a well-known authority on Middle Eastern politics. Habib received his Bachelor's degree in political science from the American University in Beirut, Lebanon; his M.A. from Fordham University; and his Ph.D. from McGill University. - Robert Majzels
Robert Majzels (born 1950) is a Canadian author, playwright and translator. - Gary Burns
Gary Burns is a Canadian film writer and director. Born in Calgary, Alberta, Gary Burns studied Drama at the University of Calgary before attending Concordia University, where he graduated in 1992 from the Fine Arts film program. Many of his films are shot in Calgary, and contain references to the particularities of living in the city. - Todd Swift
Todd Swift (born April 8, 1966) is a Canadian poet, editor, cultural activist and university lecturer based in the United Kingdom. Swift was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and raised in Saint-Lambert, Quebec. He received a BA in English from Concordia University and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. While attending university, Swift was one of Canada's most successful parliamentary debaters. - Gordon O'Connor
Gordon James O'Connor, PC, OMM, CD, BA, B.Sc., MP (born May 18, 1939) is a retired Brigadier-General, current Canadian Member of Parliament and the Minister of National Defence. He is one of a few Defence Ministers to have served in the military, the last being Gilles Lamontagne. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he has a B.Sc Mathematics and Physics from Concordia University and BA in Philosophy from York University. He served over 30 years in the Canadian Army, … - Clark Johnson
Clark Johnson, (born September 1954) sometimes credited as "Clark 'Slappy' Jackson", "Clarque Johnson", and "J. Clark Johnson," is an American actor and director who has worked in both television and film. Johnson was born in September 1954 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and spent much of his life in Canada, including studying at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. He began doing feature film work in 1981, … - Emily Haines
Emily Haines (born January 25, 1974 in New Delhi, India) is a member of the bands Metric and Broken Social Scene. She has contributed backing vocals to albums by other Broken Social Scene members, such as Jason Collett. Emily is a daughter of Canadian poet Paul Haines and sister of Canadian television journalist Avery Haines. Her brother is Tim Haines, owner of Bluestreak Records in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. She was born in New Delhi, India, and raised in Canada. - René Balcer
René Balcer is a Canadian television writer and producer. He was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and attended the Lower Canada College in Montreal. He earned his B.A. in Communication Studies from Concordia University in 1978. He began his career as a journalist, covering the Yom Kippur War as a cameraman. He later worked as a reporter and editor for various Canadian publications, and made documentary films for the National Film Board of Canada. - Irene Whittome
Irene F. Whittome is a Canadian multi-media artist. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, she attended the Vancouver School of Arts. She then spent five years studying printmaking at the "Atelier 17" of Stanley William Hayter. Since 1974, she has been a Professor of the visual arts in the Faculty of Fine Arts of Concordia University. In 2004, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 1997, she was awarded the Prix du Québec's Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas. - Ed Enos
Ed Enos is a former Canadian Football League player and university athletics administrator. A graduate of the University of Connecticut, he had a try out with the New York Giants of the NFL in 1956, but played pro football in Canada, with the B.C. Lions of the CFL in 1957 and 1958 (23 games.) He is most famously known as a successful university athletics director. Quoting his 1998 Concordia University Sports Hall of Fame induction: <blockquote>Dr. - André Desmarais
André Desmarais, O.C. (born October 26, 1956, in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian businessman, whose hometown is Montreal, Canada. He is one of two sons of Paul Desmarais, Sr. He is currently the president and co-chief executive officer of his father's founding company the Power Corporation, based in Montreal, Canada. It is a diversified management and holding company, which has holdings in leading financial services and the communications sector. - Ruth Taylor
Ruth Taylor (10 January 1961 - 18 February 2006) was a Canadian poet, editor and college professor. Born in Lachine, Quebec and raised in Pincourt, Quebec, she attended John Abbott College, McGill University, and Concordia University. Taylor was the author of three collections of poetry: "The Drawing Board" (1988); "Dragon Papers" (1994), a finalist for the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry; and "Comet Wine" (2007), published posthumously.
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