- Jesse Lumsden
Jesse Lumsden Running back, CFL Jesse Lumsden grew up in Burlington, ON and had a successful career at Nelson High School in his hometown of Burlington. He was named both the Metro Bowl MVP and the Nelson Football MVP in 1999. The geography major from McMaster University in 2005 was signed with the Hamilton TiCats where he was named Offensive and Canadian player of the week. - Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS, (18 May 1872 - 2 February 1970), was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, advocate for social reform, and pacifist. A prolific writer, he was also a populariser of philosophy and a commentator on a large variety of topics, ranging from very serious issues to those much less so. Continuing a family tradition in political affairs, he was a prominent anti-war activist, … - Peter George
Peter James George, C.M. (born 1941) is a Canadian economist and university administrator. He is currently president of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Born in Toronto, Ontario, George graduated from the University of Toronto Schools and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1962, a Master of Arts degree in 1963, and a Ph.D. in 1967 from the University of Toronto. He joined McMaster University as a lecturer in 1965. - Stephen Lewis
Stephen Henry Lewis, C.C. (born November 11, 1937) is a Canadian politician, broadcaster and diplomat. He is currently Social Science Scholar-in-Residence at McMaster University, having recently completed his term as United Nations special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, the son of former federal New Democratic Party leader David Lewis, he attended Harbord Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto. - Gordon Guyatt
Gordon Henry Guyatt is a physician and Professor of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He is known for his work on "evidence-based medicine", a term that first appeared in a paper he published. He has published over 450 peer-reviewed articles in medical journals. He has also written extensively on health care policy in the popular press. - Peter Szatmari
Peter Szatmari (1950-) is a Canadian expert on Autism and Asperger syndrome. Dr. Szatmari is currently a Professor and Vice-Chair, Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, at McMaster University. He is also the Director of the research training program in the department, and a member of the Offord Centre for Child Studies. Dr. Szatmari is Editor of the journal, "Evidence-Based Mental Health", … - Margo Wilson
Margo Wilson is Professor of Psychology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Along with her frequent research partner Martin Daly, she has written many influential papers and books in the field of evolutionary psychology. Current research topics include an evolutionary perspective on interpersonal violence. She and Martin Daly are former editors-in-chief of the journal "Evolution and Human Behavior". - Hendrik Poinar
Hendrik N. Poinar (born 1969 in Utrecht, The Netherlands) is an evolutionary biologist. He is best known for successfully extracting DNA sequences from ground sloth coprolites. The son of noted entomologist George Poinar, Jr. and Eva Poinar, Poinar received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in 1992 and 1999 respectively before earning a Ph.D. in 1999 from the University of Munich, … - James Stewart
Professor James Stewart M.Sc, Ph.D is a Canadian professor emeritus of mathematics at McMaster University. Stewart received his M.S. at Stanford University and his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He worked for two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of London. Stewart's research focuses on harmonic analysis and functional analysis. Stewart is most well known for his series of textbooks sold at high school and university level mathematics. - William McMaster
William McMaster (December 24, 1811 - September 22, 1887) was a wholesaler, Senator and banker in the 1800s. A director of the Bank of Montreal from 1864-1867, he was a driving force behind the creation of the Canadian Bank of Commerce of which he served as the founding president from 1867 to his death in 1887. He served in the Canadian Senate from 1867-1887 as a Liberal. He also helped found McMaster University in Toronto (later moved to Hamilton), Ontario. - David Sackett
David Sackett (born November 17, 1934) is a Canadian medical doctor and a pioneer in evidence-based medicine. He founded the first department of clinical epidemiology in Canada at McMaster University, and the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine. He well known for his textbook "Clinical Epidemiology: A Basic Science for Clinical Medicine". - Michael Degroote
Michael G. DeGroote, OC (born 1932) is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. Aside from his business career which has made him a billionaire, he is best known as a major private donor to McMaster University. - Dave Thomas
David "Dave" Thomas (born May 20, 1949) is a Canadian comedian and actor. He was born in St. Catharines, Ontario, but moved to Dundas, Ontario with his family where he attended elementary and secondary school. He attended Dundas District high school and graduated with honours from McMaster University in nearby Hamilton, Ontario. - David Johnson
David John Johnson (born December 17, 1945 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was the mayor of East York from 1982 to 1993, a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1993 to 1999, and a senior cabinet minister in the government of Mike Harris. He has also sought election to the federal House of Commons. Johnson has a Bachelor of Science degree from McMaster University, … - David Parnas
David Lorge Parnas (born February 10, 1941) is an early pioneer of software engineering who developed the concept of module design which is the foundation of object oriented programming today. He is also noted for his advocacy of technical realism. - Greg Marshall
Greg Marshall (born Guelph, Ontario) was a Canadian football running back and coach. Marshall was the head coach with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats from 2004 to 2006. Prior to his time with the Ti-Cats, Marshall was the head coach of McMaster University's football team. - Bertram Brockhouse
Bertram Neville Brockhouse, CC, Ph.D, D.Sc, FRSC (July 15, 1918 - October 13, 2003) was a Nobel prize-winning Canadian physicist. Brockhouse was born in Lethbridge Alberta, and was a graduate of the University of British Columbia (BA, 1947) and the University of Toronto (MA, 1948; Ph.D, 1950). From 1950 to 1962 he carried out research at Atomic Energy of Canada's Chalk River Nuclear Laboratory. In 1962, he became professor at McMaster University in Canada, … - 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. - Adam van Koeverden
Adam Joseph van Koeverden (born January 29, 1982 in Oakville, Ontario) is a Canadian flatwater kayak racer and reigning Olympic champion in K-1 500 m. He won a bronze medal in the K-1 1000 m at the 1999 world junior championships in Zagreb, Croatia, and then became world junior marathon champion in 2000. His first success as a senior came with a silver medal at the 2003 world championships in Gainesville, Georgia in the men's K-1 1000 m event. - Ivan Reitman
Ivan Reitman is a Slovakian-born, Canadian-raised jewish film actor, producer, and director. He is most remembered for directing and producing a string of comedies, mostly in the 1980s and 1990s. Reitman worked on a number of films after graduating from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He produced two films for director David Cronenberg with "Shivers/They Came from Within/The Parasite Murders" (1974) and "Rabid" (1976). - 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, … - Tom Maibaum
Prof. Tom Maibaum (born 18 August 1947 in Hungary) is a British-Canadian computer scientist. Maibaum has an undergraduate degree in Pure Mathematics from the University of Toronto, Canada (1970), and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of London, England (1974). Professor Maibaum has held academic posts at Imperial College, London, King's College London (UK) and McMaster University (Canada). His research interests have concentrated on the theory of specification, … - Roy Adams
Roy J. Adams is a prominent Canadian author, newspaper columnist, human rights activist and academic. He emigrated to Canada in 1973 and taught industrial relations at McMaster University until 1997. Since then he has been a newspaper columnist for the "Hamilton Spectator" and has written a number of articles. He has contributed significantly to the development of industrial relations theory in North America. - Mike Lazaridis
Mike Lazaridis President and Co-Chief Executive Officer Mike Lazaridis is known in the global wireless community as a visionary, innovator and engineer of extraordinary talent. He traces his passion for his work to his hometown of Windsor, Ontario, where his love of science and fascination with electronics were nurtured in supportive family and school environments. - John Frank
John Frank, MD, MSc, FRCPC is a Canadian epidemiologist. He was trained in medicine and community medicine at the University of Toronto, in family medicine at McMaster University, and in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He was the founding Director of Research at the Institute for Work & Health in Toronto from 1991 until 1997, and is currently a Senior Scientist at that Institute. Dr. - Andrea Horwath
Andrea Horwath is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Hamilton East for the Ontario New Democratic Party. Horwath was born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, and has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Labour Studies from McMaster University in that city. She received her first job as a community development worker at the McQueston Legal Clinic, providing assistance to workers in the city. - 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, … - Ahmad Ghany
Born and raised in Mississauga, Ontario, Ahmad Mustafa Ghany is one of 17 people arrested in the 2006 Toronto terrorism arrests. His father, Farouk Abdul Ghany, is an Ontario urologist from Trinidad and Tobago. Ahmad Mustafa Ghany moved to Saudi Arabia when his parents secured a teaching position at King Saud University. When the family returned to Canada after the death of their eldest of three sons, … - Michael Ruse
Michael Ruse (born June 21, 1940 in Birmingham, England) is a philosopher of science, working on the philosophy of the biology, and is well known for his work on the argument between creationism and evolutionary biology. He was born in England, took his undergraduate degree at the University of Bristol (1962), his master's degree at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario (1964), and Ph.D. at the University of Bristol (1970). - David Bell
David Bell is currently emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Sheffield, having previously studied in Dublin (Trinity College Dublin), Göttingen and Canada (McMaster University). He is well known for his work in continental philosophy from an analytic point of view (especially his work on Edmund Husserl), as well as being interested in solipsism, and other areas of philosophies of mind, language, logic and mathematics. - Richard Allen
Richard Alexander Allen (born February 10, 1929 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is an historian and former politician in Ontario, Canada. He sat as a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1982 to 1995, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Bob Rae. Allen has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto, a Master's Degree from the University of Saskatchewan and a Ph.D. from Duke University. - Victor Montori
Victor M. Montori, (born, Lima, 1970), is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Montori was born and raised in Peru. He completed medical school at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Peru, before joining the Internal Medicine Residency Program at the Mayo Clinic, where he was eventually named Chief Resident (1999-2000). Following his residency training, Dr. Montori began a Fellowship in Endocrinology, also at the Mayo Clinic, … - Harold Innis
Harold Adams Innis (November 5, 1894 - November 8, 1952) was a professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author of many seminal works on Canadian economic history and on media and communication theory. - Paul L. Williams
Paul L. Williams is an American author, journalist, and consultant. He is also an adjunct professor of humanities. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Wilkes University, a Master of Divinity degree from Drew University, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree also from Drew. He is the author of six books, the most recent one being "Dunces of Doomsday: 10 Blunders That Gave Rise to Radical Islam, Terrorist Regimes, and the Threat of an American Hiroshima". - Alvin A. Lee
Alvin A. Lee, B.A., M.Div., Ph.D., is a literary critic. The majority of his academic career--some 39 years--was spent at McMaster University in Hamilton; he served as President and vice-chancellor of that university from 1980 to 1990. The McMaster Museum of Art is housed in a building named in his honour because of his work acquiring art for McMaster University. He received honourary doctorates from the University of Toronto and from Beijing University. - Michele Landsberg
Michele Landsberg, OC, is an award-winning Canadian writer, social activist and feminist who wrote a major column for the "Toronto Star" newspaper. Born in 1935, she grew up in Toronto, acquiring values and grammar from her strict immigrant mother. After graduating with a bachelors degree in English from the University of Toronto in 1962, she worked for "The Globe and Mail", raised her family, freelanced, … - Douglas Barber
H. Douglas Barber is a Canadian businessman. He is a founder and former President and CEO of Gennum Corporation, a Canadian public company that designs, manufactures and markets semiconductors and semiconductor-based products. Born in Saskatchewan, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1959 and a Master of Science degree in 1960 both in Electrical Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan. - Myron Scholes
Myron S. Scholes, born in Timmins, Ontario, Canada, on July 1, 1941, is one of the authors of the famous Black-Scholes equation. In 1997 he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for "a new method to determine the value of derivatives". The model provides the fundamental conceptual framework for valuing options, such as calls or puts, and is referred to as the Black-Scholes model, which has become the standard in financial markets globally. - Russ Powers
Russ Powers is a Canadian politician. He is a former member of the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale for the Liberal Party. Powers moved with his family to Dundas in 1966, and remains a member of the community. He was educated at Mohawk College and the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene, and has worked at McMaster University as a laboratory technologist since 1979. - Marian Engel
Marian Engel, née Marian Ruth Passmore was a Canadian novelist. Born in Toronto, Ontario, she was educated at McMaster University and McGill University, where she wrote her Masters thesis on the English Canadian novel, under the supervision of Hugh MacLennan. She taught briefly at McGill and at the University of Montana. She married Howard Engel in 1962, and began to raise a family and pursue a writing career.
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