- James McGill
James McGill was a Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He was also a prominent member of the Château Clique. Born in Glasgow, Scotland and educated at Glasgow University, he became one of the Montreal merchants involved in the fur trade south of the Great Lakes from 1770. He diversified his activities into land speculation and by 1810 had abandoned the fur trade altogether. Rumoured to be the richest man in Montreal, he left a great deal of money to charity, … - Heather Munroe-Blum
Heather Munroe-Blum Principal and Vice-Chancellor McGill University - Graham Bell
Graham Bell is a contemporary evolutionary biologist with interests in the evolution of sexual reproduction and the maintenance of variation. Bell is presently at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He developed the "Tangled Bank" theory of evolutionary genetics after observing the asexual and sexual behavior patterns of Aphids as well as monogonont rotifers. - Margaret Somerville
Margaret Anne Ganley Somerville, AM, FRSC (born April 13, 1942) is an Australian/Canadian ethicist and academic. She is the Samuel Gale Professor of Law, Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and the Founding Director of the Faculty of Law's Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University. - Gil Troy
Gil Troy is an American academic. He received his undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degrees from Harvard University and is a professor of History at McGill University. The author of five books, four of which concern American presidential history, … - Mark Wainberg
Mark A. Wainberg, O.C., O.Q., Ph.D., (born April 21, 1945) is a Canadian scientist and AIDS researcher. He is the Director of the McGill University AIDS Centre and Professor of Medicine and of Microbiology at McGill University. His most notable achievements is his initial identification of the antiviral capabilities of 3TC in 1989. He received a B.Sc. from McGill University in 1966 and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1972. - Peter Smith
Peter Smith is the current head coach of the Canadian national women's hockey team. He served as assistant coach under Melody Davidson for 3 years. Native of Lachine, Quebec, he is also the head coach of the McGill Martlets women's ice hockey team. - Irwin Cotler
Professor Cotler teaches constitutional law, international human rights law, law and poverty, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, discrimination and the law, civil liberties, and comparative and international protection of minorities' rights. His main research areas are freedom of expression and assaultive speech, equality law, peace and human rights, and comparative constitutional law. - Alan Emtage
Alan Emtage (born November 27, 1964) conceived of and implemented the first version of Archie, a pre-Web internet search engine for locating material in public FTP archives. A native of Barbados, and the son of Sir Stephen and Lady Emtage, he attended high school at Harrison College from 1975 to 1983 (and in 1981 becoming the proud owner of a Sinclair ZX81 with 1K of memory), where he graduated at the top of his class, winning the prestigious Barbados Scholarship. - Moshe Safdie
Moshe Safdie, C.C., B.Arch., LL.D., F.R.A.I.C., FAIA (b. July 14, 1938) is an architect and urban designer. He was born in the town of Haifa, Israel. He moved with his family to Montreal, Canada when he was a teenager, a move he disliked as a dedicated Zionist and socialist. - Abby Lippman
Abby Lippman got her BA from Cornell University (Ithaca NY) and her PhD from McGill University (Montreal, Quebec). She is currently Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, with cross appointments in Family Medicine and Social Studies of Medicine, all at McGill. She is also President of the Canadian Women's Health Network, a role that allows her to combine her academic and activist passions. - Bernard Shapiro
Bernard Jack Shapiro, OC, GOQ, Ph.D (born June 8, 1935) is a Canadian academic, civil servant, former Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University from 1994 to 2004, and the first Ethics Commissioner of Canada between May 17, 2004 and March 29, 2007. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University in 1956. In 1967 he received a Doctorate in Education from Harvard University. - Godfried Toussaint
Godfried Toussaint, professor in the School of Computer Science at the McGill University Montreal, Canada since 1972. He is an expert in various aspects of computational geometry and its application: pattern recognition, motion planning and others. Other interests include instance-based learning, music information retrieval, and computational music theory. He has been editor and associated editor of a number of scientific journals. - William Feindel
William Howard Feindel (born 1918) is a Canadian neurosurgeon, scientist and professor. Born in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, he received a B.A. in Biology from Acadia University in 1939, a M.Sc. from Dalhousie University in 1942, and a MDCM from McGill University in 1945. Attending Merton College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar he received his D. Phil in 1949. - Eric Fombonne
Eric Fombonne, MD, FRCP, (b. 1954, Paris, France) is a professor of psychiatry and an epidemiologist. Dr. Fombonne directs the child psychiatry division at McGill University in Canada and the psychiatry department at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, where he played a key role in the launch of its autism clinic. Fombonne is also the Canada Research Chair in child psychiatry. - Philippe Couillard
Philippe Couillard M.D., (born June 26, 1957 in Montreal) is a politician, university professor, and neurosurgeon in Quebec, Canada. He currently serves as the Quebec Minister for Health and Social Services in the government of Jean Charest. Couillard holds a medical degree and a degree in neurosurgery from the Université de Montréal. - Desmond Morton
Desmond Morton, OC, Ph.D., FRSC (born 1937) is a Canadian historian who specializes in the history of the Canadian military, as well as the history of Canadian political and industrial relations. Born in Calgary, Alberta, Morton is a graduate of the Collège Militaire Royal de St-Jean, the Royal Military College of Canada, a Rhodes Scholar, the University of Oxford (where he received his PhD), and the London School of Economics. - John Rea
John Rea is a Montréal based composer and head of the composition department at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University. - Brian Alters
Brian J. Alters (B.Sc., Ph.D. USC) is an Associate Professor of Education and Sir William Dawson Scholar at McGill University, where he also holds the Tomlinson Chair in Science Education and is both founder and Director of the Evolution Education Research Centre. He has taught science education at both Harvard and McGill Univerties, and is regarded as a specialist in evolution education. - Walter Scott
Walter Scott was an Australian academic. He was the son of G. I. Scott and educated at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating with first-class honours in classics and the Ireland, Craven and Derby scholarships. From 1879 he was a fellow of Merton College, and in 1884 was appointed professor of classics at the University of Sydney; his inaugural lecture, 'What is Classical Study', delivered on 23 March 1885, was published as a pamphlet. - David Lewis
David Lewis (born Losz), CC, MA (June 23, or October 1909 -May 23, 1981) was a Russian-born Canadian labour lawyer and social democratic politician. He was national secretary of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) from 1936 to 1950, and was one of the key architects of the New Democratic Party (NDP) in 1961. He was the NDP's national leader from 1971 to 1975. His politics were heavily influenced by the Jewish Labour Bund and because of that, … - 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. - David Thomas
David Thomas is the Chair of Biochemistry at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. His research interests include cell signaling pathways and their role in infectious diseases and molecular chaperone systems in the endoplasmic reticulum. - Stephen Toope
Stephen Toope is the President of the University of British Colombia (UBC) and former president of the Trudeau Foundation. Also a former Dean of McGill's Faculty of Law, Professor Toope is a scholar who specializes in public international law, human rights and legal theory. He has been a member and chair of the boards of several civil society organizations that promote human rights and international development. - John Kennedy
John Kennedy was a Canadian civil engineer. He was born at Spencerville, Ontario, and was educated at McGill University. In 1863 he was appointed assistant city engineer of Montreal. In 1871 he became division engineer, and later chief engineer of the Great Western System of Canada. In 1875-1907 he was chief engineer of the Montreal harbor commission. - William Tetley
William Tetley, C.M., Q.C., LL. L. (born February 10, 1927 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a lawyer and professor of law at McGill University in Montreal, the visiting Professor of Maritime and Commercial Law at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and a former member of the National Assembly of Quebec and Cabinet Minister. William Tetley attended the Royal Canadian Naval College and served with the Royal Canadian Navy. - Percival Molson
Percival Molson, MC (born August 14, 1880 - died July 5, 1917) was a Canadian star athlete and soldier. An Anglo-Quebecer, Molson was born in the resort community of Cacouna, Québec, on the St. Lawrence River. He was the son of John Thomas Molson (1837-1910) and Jane (Jennie) Baker Butler (1850-1926). - Paul Desmarais
Paul Desmarais, Sr., P.C., C.C., B.Comm, LL.D (born January 4, 1927, in Sudbury, Ontario) is a Canadian financier in Montreal and one of the ten richest persons in Canada (6th richest). He counts among his friends Brian Mulroney, former prime minister of Canada; Jean Chrétien, former prime minister of Canada; the late Pierre Elliot Trudeau, former prime minister of Canada; George H. W. Bush Sr. former President of United States of America; George W. Bush Jr. - Hugh MacLennan
John Hugh MacLennan, CC, CQ (20 March 1907 - 9 November 1990) was a Canadian author and professor of English at McGill University. He won five Governor General's Awards and a Royal Bank Award. MacLennan was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia and moved with his family to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1914. He was educated at Dalhousie University, Oxford University, and Princeton University before accepting a teaching position at Lower Canada College in Montreal, Quebec. - Sheila Fraser
Sheila Fraser (born September 16, 1950 in Dundee, Quebec, Canada) is the current Auditor General of Canada. She earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree from McGill University in 1972. She then became a chartered accountant in 1974 and FCA in 1994. In 1981, she worked for Ernst and Young where she worked on assignment to the Auditor General of Quebec in some cases, and other Quebec government offices. - F. R. Scott
Francis Reginald Scott CC, commonly known as Frank Scott or F.R. Scott, (August 1 1899 - January 30 1985) was a Canadian poet, intellectual and constitutional expert. Born and raised in Quebec City, Scott witnessed the riots in the city during the Conscription Crisis of 1917. Completing his undergraduate studies at Bishop's University, in Lennoxville, Quebec, … - Lorne Trottier
Lorne M. Trottier (born 15 June 1948) is a co-founder of Matrox, a computer corporation that specializes in computer graphics. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Trottier received a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering in 1970 and a Masters of Engineering in the same field in 1973 both from McGill University. The Lorne M. Trottier building at McGill was funded in part by his donations. - John McCrae
Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae, MD (November 30, 1872 - January 28, 1918) was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist, soldier during World War I and a surgeon during the battle of Ypres. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields". - T. V. Paul
Thazhakuzhyil Paul, M.Phil (JNU), Ph.D. (UCLA) is James McGill professor of International Relations in the department of Political Science at McGill University. - Mario Bunge
Mario Augusto Bunge (born September 21, 1919, Buenos Aires) is an Argentinian philosopher and physicist mainly active in Canada. Bunge began his studies at Universidad Nacional de La Plata, graduating with a Ph.D. in physico-mathematical sciences in 1952. He was professor of theoretical physics and philosophy, 1956 - 1966, first at La Plata then at Universidad de Buenos Aires. Dissatisfied with the political climate of his country, he chose to emigrate. - Anton Kuerti
Anton (Emil) Kuerti is a Canadian pianist, music teacher and composer. Since his performance of the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Boston Pops Orchestra at age 11, he has developed international recognition as a solo pianist, particularly focusing on the works of Beethoven. Kuerti studied music at the Longy School of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music and the Curtis Institute. His teachers included Arthur Loesser, Rudolf Serkin and Mieczysław Horszowski. - John William Dawson
Sir John William Dawson, CMG, FRS, FRSC (October 13 1820 - November 19 1899), was a Canadian geologist, born in Pictou, Nova Scotia. Of Scottish descent, Dawson attended the University of Edinburgh to complete his education, and graduated in 1842, having gained a knowledge of geology and natural history from Robert Jameson. Dawson returned to Nova Scotia in 1842, accompanied by Sir Charles Lyell on his first visit to that territory. - Mike Babcock
Mike Babcock (born April 29, 1963 in Manitowadge, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian hockey head coach and former player. From 2002 to 2005 he was the head coach of the NHL's Anaheim Mighty Ducks, leading the Ducks to their first appearance in the Stanley Cup Finals in 2003, where they lost to the New Jersey Devils in seven games. In July 2005, he rejected a one-year extension offer to stay with the Ducks. On July 15, Babcock became the head coach for the Detroit Red Wings, … - David Avis
David Michael Avis is a Canadian and British computer scientist and a professor in Computational Geometry and Applied Mathematics. He is currently a professor in the School of Computer Science, McGill University, in Montreal. Avis received his Ph.D. in 1997 from Stanford University. He has published more than 70 journal papers and articles. He has an Erdős number of one due to his collaboration with Paul Erdős. - Zbigniew Brzezinski
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski (born March 28, 1928, Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish-American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman who served as United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981. Known for his hawkish foreign policy at a time when the Democratic Party was increasingly dovish, he is a foreign policy realist and considered by some to be the Democrats' response to Republican realist Henry Kissinger.
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