List of Dalhousie University people
The following is a list of notable alumni, faculty, and others affiliated with Dalhousie University located in Halifax , Nova Scotia , Canada .
Alumni
Scientists
Dr. Robert Ackman (MS 1952), O.C. – omega-3 fatty acid research pioneer[ 1]
Martin Henry Dawson (BA 1916) – pioneer in penicillin therapyDr. Erik Demaine (BSc. 1993) – youngest professor ever hired at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Danielle Fong (BSc. 2005) – pioneer in green energyTrudy Mackay (BSc, MSc) – quantitative geneticist, winner of the Wolf Prize in Agriculture in 2016[ 2] John F. Marra , biological oceanographerThomas Mason (BSc. 1986) – physicist, director of Los Alamos National Laboratory Arthur B. McDonald (BSc, MSc) – Nobel Laureate: 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics[ 3] Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan (PhD 1978) – NASA astronaut, first American woman to walk in space
Ban Tsui (Dip. Eng., BSc, MSc, MD) – described the Tsui Test and developed a catheter over needle kit for peripheral nerve blockMary Anne White , O.C. – multi-award-winning materials scientist and educator
Government and politics
Prime Ministers
Lieutenant Governors
Diplomats
Premiers
Other notable politicians and political actors
Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Rabiah – Saudi Health Minister and pediatric surgeon
Chris Axworthy – professor and Federal NDP politician[ 10] Jamie Baillie – former Credit Union Atlantic CEO, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia [ 11] Frank Bainimarama – military dictator of Fiji Dominic Cardy – leader, New Brunswick New Democratic Party Ches Crosbie – Rhodes Scholar 1976, NL Leader of the OppositionHon. John Crosbie – former Canadian Minister of Finance , current Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador
David Charles Dingwall (B.Comm 1974, LL.B. 1979) – former Liberal cabinet minister[ 12] Hon. Peter MacKay – Minister of National Defense[ 13]
Judy Manning – former cabinet Minister, Newfoundland and Labrador[ 14] Stewart McInnes (1961) – former Conservative Cabinet MinisterHon. Anne McLellan , O.C. – law professor and former Liberal deputy Prime Minister
Christine Melnick – provincial NDP cabinet minister, Manitoba[ 15] Reid Morden – former Canadian Security Intelligence Service director[ 16] Cristelle Pratt – Assistant Secretary-General for the Environment and Climate Action, Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States Hon. Gerald Regan – former Liberal cabinet minister
Hon. Sidney Smith – president of University of Toronto, Conservative Party Secretary of State for External Affairs
Graham Steele (1989) – Minister of Finance of Nova Scotia, Member of the Nova Scotia Legislature
Mayors
Academia
Business
Frank Manning Covert , CBE , O.C. – lawyer and businesspersonPurdy Crawford , O.C. (LL.B. 1955) – corporate director, former CEO of Imasco [ 20] Sir Graham Day (1959) – former chairman of Cadbury Schweppes plc, Hydro One , as well as CEO of British Shipbuilders and the Rover Group
Sir James Hamet Dunn – major Canadian financier and industrialist
Sean Durfy (B.Comm 1989) – President and CEO of WestJet [ 21] Fred Fountain – lawyer, businessman, philanthropist, and Member of the Order of Canada Andrew Kam (B.Comm 1984, MBA 1986) – former CEO of Hong Kong Disneyland [ 22] Charles Peter McColough – CEO of Xerox [ 23] Denis Stairs , B.Eng. OBE – Canadian engineer and businessmanMaury Van Vliet , O.C. – president and CEO of the 1978 Commonwealth Games
Law and lawmaking
Justices
Sir Joseph Andrew Chisholm , KBE – former Mayor of Halifax and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia
Donald L. Clancy , Q.C. – former Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia and member of the British Columbia Review BoardLorne Clarke – former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia Patrick H. Curran – Chief Judge of the Nova Scotia Provincial Court John Doull – Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada , also provincial politicianConstance Glube (1955) – former Chief Justice of Nova Scotia, first female Chief Justice of Canada Alexander Hickman , O.C. (1947) – Supreme Court of Newfoundland as Chief JusticeJoseph Phillip Kennedy – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia Leslie M. Little (1961) – co-founding partner of Thorsteinssons; Justice of the federal Tax Court of Canada John Keiller MacKay , O.C. (1922) – former judge of Supreme Court of Ontario and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario Valerie L. Marshall (1991) – Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador [ 24] Valerie Miller (1985) – Justice of the Tax Court of Canada Hon. Edmund Leslie Newcombe (B.A. 1878, M.A. 1881, faculty) – Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada [ 25]
Roland Ritchie , C.C. (part-time faculty) – Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Eugene Rossiter (1978) – Associate Chief Judge, Tax Court of Canada Jamie Saunders (1973) – Justice of the Nova Scotia Provincial Court of Appeal [ 26] Robert Sedgewick – Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Clyde Wells (1962) – provincial Chief Justice of the Court of Appeal and 5th Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador Bertha Wilson , O.C. – first woman Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Attorneys General
Legislators
Activists
Journalism
Literature
Nobu Adilman (BA 1995) – musician and television personality*Kiran Ahluwalia – Songlines Music Award-winning singer[ 40] Maureen Batt – concert and opera artistJeremy Dutcher – classically-trained Canadian Indigenous tenor, composer, musicologist,Jay Ferguson – musician for rock group Sloan [ 40] Barbara Fris – operatic soprano[ 41] Peter Herrndorf , O.C. – president and CEO of the National Arts Centre Shaun Majumder – actor/comedian[ 42] Kate Maki – singer-songwriterChris Murphy – bassist and vocalist of rock group Sloan [ 40] Oopali Operajita , (MA, 1981) – choreographer and classical Indian danseuse; Distinguished Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University Candy Palmater (LL.B. 1999) – comedian, activist, writer, and radio-television personality[ 43] Patrick Pentland – musician for rock group Sloan [ 40] Raylene Rankin – singer[ 40] Mary Vingoe (BA, 1976) – playwright, theatre director, Member of the Order of Canada [ 44]
Sports
Other
Administration
Presidents
Chancellors
Notable faculty
A. H. Armstrong – classicistPeter Aucoin – political science, public administrationSaid Awad – Professor Emeritus of UrologyJerome H. Barkow – anthropologistAxel D. Becke – chemistMichael Bishop – literary scholarEdward Blackadder – Professor of Medical JurisprudenceJohn Cameron , FRSE – Professor of Anatomy[ 51] Lesley Choyce – authorJames De Mille – Professor of English and RhetoricFord Doolittle – biochemistJames Doull – philosopher, Professor of ClassicsJohn Forrest – Professor of HistoryEdgar Z. Friedenberg – educationist[ 52] John Godfrey – historianClarence Gosse – Professor of UrologyGeorge Grant – philosopherShauntay Grant – authorRoy Martin Haines – historianBrian K. Hall – biologistWilliam Hare – Professor of Education and PhilosophyC. D. Howe – engineer, businessman, Liberal Cabinet ministerErin Johnson – chemistMichael John Keen – Department of Geology professor (1961–77) and department chairmanThomas Worrall Kent – Dean of Administrative Studies, adjunct professor of Public Administration[ 53] George Lawson – botanistAlexander H. Leighton – psychiatristRoy Leitch – English compositionCharles Macdonald – Professor of MathematicsBrian Mackay-Lyons – architect[ 54] Arthur Stanley Mackenzie – physicistChristine Macy – architect, historian and the dean of the architecture and planning facultyElisabeth Mann-Borgese – Professor of LawDaniel Murray – mathematicianCynthia Neville – historian[ 55] Lars Osberg – McCulloch Professor of EconomicsE. C. Pielou – ecologistRobert Rosen – Professor of BiophysicsMalcolm Ross – literary criticEric Segelberg – Professor of ClassicsWilfred Cantwell Smith – Professor of ReligionColin Starnes – professor, author and former President of the University of King's CollegeKeith R. Thompson – professor; Department of Oceanography; Department of Mathematics and StatisticsSteve Tittle – composerPeter Busby Waite – historian, longtime Thomas McCulloch Professor of HistoryRichard Wassersug – Professor of Anatomy and NeurobiologyJohn Clarence Webster – Governor of Dalhousie University in 1934[ 56] Richard Chapman Weldon – Professor of LawFranklin White – Professor and Head, Community Health and Epidemiology (1982–89); adjunct since 1989Boris Worm – marine ecologist
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