List of University of British Columbia people

This is a list of alumni from the University of British Columbia.

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Notable alumni

• Kanti Bajpai, former headmaster of The Doon School
• Geoffrey Ashe, writer
• Michael Conway Baker, composer
• Saad Khan, Canfor Co-op
• Albert Bandura, psychologist
• Marc Baril, video game composer
• Dominic Barton, Managing Director of McKinsey & Co.^[1]
• Sonja Bennett, actress
• Pierre Berton, author and historian
• Stewart Blusson, diamond hunter and philanthropist
• Peter Borwein, mathematician and pi researcher
• Bertram Brockhouse, Nobel laureate in Physics in 1994
• Stevie Cameron, journalist
• Amit Chakma, President, University of Western Ontario
• John J. Clague, Geological Survey of Canada scientist and SFU professor
• Joe Clark, former Canadian prime minister
• John Turner, former Canadian prime minister ^[2]
• Kim Campbell, former Canadian prime minister ^[3]
• Pat Carney, Canadian senator
• Nicola Cavendish, actor
• Linda Chung, actress
• Ujjal Dosanjh, former B.C. premier.^[4]
• Jeff Francis, Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher
• Charlotte Froese Fischer, mathematician and chemist
• Bruce Ford, Olympic rower^[5]
• Allan Fotheringham, journalist
• Judith Forst, mezzo-soprano
• Steven Galloway, novelist and playwright
• Lalith Gamage, CEO of Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology
• William Gibson, writer
• Robin Gill, Anchor, Global News Toronto, Weekend Edition
• Jason Gray-Stanford, actor
• Genni Gunn, novelist and translator
• Sturla Gunnarsson, Academy Award nominated director^[6]
• Rick Hansen, educator and Man In Motion
• Mike Harcourt, former B.C. premier
• Kathleen Heddle, three time Olympic gold medalist in rowing.
• Ben Heppner, tenor
• Nancy Heppner, Member of the Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly
• Kris Holm, unicyclist
• Frank Iacobucci, former Puisne Justice on the Supreme Court of Canada
• David Ing, marketing scientist, and senior consultant
• Paul Johansson, actor^[7]
• Nil Köksal, CBC Television journalist
• Robert Langlands, mathematician specializing in automorphic forms and representation theory, Shaw Prize laureate in Mathematics in 2007
• Evangeline Lilly, actress
• Bernice Liu, actress
• Rob Marris, British Labour party MP
• Kyle MacDonald, One red paperclip
• Henry McKinnell, CEO and Chairman of the Board, Pfizer
• Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice
• Robert Mundell, Nobel laureate in Economics in 1999
• Pat Onstad, Major League Soccer Goalkeeper, Houston Dynamo
• Stephen Owen, former Canadian Member of Parliament and current UBC V-P of External, Legal & Community Relations
• Grace Park, actress
• Emily Perkins, actress
• Blake Price, broadcaster
• Gayla Reid, writer
• Ben Rutledge, Canadian Olympic rower.
• Indira Samarasekera, President, University of Alberta
• Lawrence Santiago, human geographer
• Mark Satin, activist
• William Sauder, contributor to the Sauder School of Business
• Stanley Schumacher, Canadian Member of Parliament and Speaker of the Alberta Legislative Assembly
• Michael Shanks, actor
• Andrew Steele, political activist and writer
• Bruce Sweeney, filmmaker
• Erin Taylor, actress
• Bjarni Tryggvason, astronaut
• David Turpin, President, University of Victoria
• Leanne Li, actress
• Anne Heung, former Hong Kong actress
• Kenneth Ma, actor
• Erich Vogt, Founder of TRIUMF, Order of Canada 1976, former professor UBC

Notable faculty (former and current)

Kim Campbell

Daniel Kahneman

Beverley McLachlin

Rudolf Vrba

• Joel Bakan, creator of The Corporation
• Neil Bartlett, prepared the first known noble gas compound
• Vijay Bhargava, electrical engineer
• Sara Davis Buechner, pianist, recording artist, Koch International
• Brian Burke, current President and General Manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs
• Kim Campbell, former Canadian Prime Minister
• Meryn Cadell, writer and performance artist
• Brian Christie, neuroscientist
• Catherine Dauvergne, holds the Canada Research Chair in Migration Law
• Hans G. Dehmelt, Nobel laureate in Physics in 1989
• David Dolphin, biochemist
• Arthur Erickson, architect
• James Fankhauser, conductor
• John Friedmann, urban theorist
• Steven Galloway, novelist and playwright
• J. B. Gunn, semiconductor device physicist, and discoverer of the Gunn Effect
• William S. Hoar, zoologist and author, head of zoology department 1964–71
• C.S. Holling, ecologist and co-founder of adaptive management
• Michael Ignatieff, academic and Canadian politician
• Daniel Kahneman, Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences in 2002
• Patrick J. Keeling, protistologist
• Dale Kinkade, linguist and specialist on Salishan languages
• Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel laureate in Medicine in 1968
• Roy Kiyooka, Canadian artist and poet
• Peter W. Klein, Emmy Award–winning journalist and filmmaker
• Larissa Lai, Canadian writer
• Ken Lum, noted Canadian artist. Represented Canada at the Sydney Biennale, the São Paulo Art Biennial, the Shanghai Biennale and at Documenta XI
• Pat McGeer, neuroscientist and politician
• Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
• Giselle O. Martin-Kniep, educator specializing in learning communities
• Peter Oberlander, Canada's first professor of urban and regional planning and founder of UBC's School of Community and Regional Planning
• Sarah Otto, evolutionary geneticist and MacArthur Fellow
• Daniel Pauly, fisheries scientist
• Richard J. Pearson, archaeologist and gardener
• Barbara Pentland, composer
• Randy Raine-Reusch, composer and ethnomusicologist
• William Rees, planning professor and originator of the ecological footprint
• Michael Smith, Nobel laureate in Chemistry in 1993
• George F.G. Stanley, Canadian historian, designer of Canadian flag, Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick
• Lynne Stopkewich, film director
• David Suzuki, biologist and environmental activist
• Bill Unruh, physicist, discoverer of the Unruh effect
• Erich Vogt, physicist
• Rudolf Vrba, Holocaust survivor and pharmacologist
• Jeff Wall, photographer. Tate Gallery Retrospective, MOMA, Hasselblad Award, key figure in the photoconceptualist Vancouver School.
• Carl E. Wieman, Nobel laureate in Physics in 2001

Recipients of honorary degrees

• The 14th Dalai Lama
• Louise Arbour, Justice
• Rosemary Brown, first black Canadian woman elected to a provincial legislature
• Emily Carr, Artist
• Raffi Cavoukian, Musician
• Robertson Davies, Author
• John Diefenbaker, 13th Prime Minister of Canada
• David A. Dodge, Economist
• Tommy Douglas, former Premier of Saskatchewan
• Shirin Ebadi, Lawyer and Peace Noble Prize Winner
• Atom Egoyan, Filmmaker
• Judith Forst, Mezzo-soprano
• Michael J. Fox, Actor
• Mike Harcourt, former Premier of British Columbia
• Ben Heppner, Operatic tenor
• Clara Hughes, Olympic cyclist and speedskater
• Finn E. Kydland, Economist
• Grace McCarthy, former premier of British Columbia
• Beverley McLachlin, first woman to be Chief Justice of Canada
• Lester B. Pearson, 14th Prime Minister of Canada and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
• Oscar Peterson, Jazz Pianist
• Bill Reid, Artist
• Carol Shields, Author
• Adlai Stevenson II, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations
• Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada
• John Turner, 17th Prime Minister of Canada
• Archbishop Desmond Tutu
• George Woodcock, anarchist philosopher and founding editor of Canadian Literature (journal)
• Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
• Amartya Sen, an Indian economist awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

See also

• List of Chancellors of the University of British Columbia
• List of Presidents of the University of British Columbia

References

1. ^ ""Our Managing Director"". http://ww1.mckinsey.com/aboutus/whoweare/md/. 
2. ^ "John Turner". UBC Sports Hall of Fame. University of British Columbia. http://www.ubcsportshalloffame.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?person_id=78&searchall=1. Retrieved 2011-2-21. 
3. ^ Campbell, Kim (1996), Time And Chance, pp. 17–23 .
4. ^ Dutt, Ela (July 30, 2004). "Ujjal Dosanjh is appointed Minister of Health; only Indian Canadian in Cabinet". Archived from the original on November 15, 2006. http://web.archive.org/web/20061115142343/http://www.newsindia-times.com/nit/2004/07/30/canada-top12.html. Retrieved 7 February 2009. 
5. ^ "Bruce Ford". LinkedIn Corporation. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/9/223/382. Retrieved 26 April 2009. 
6. ^ Balkissoon, Denise (July 2008). "History Major: Sturla Gunnarsson tells the true story of a great Canadian tragedy. Finally", Toronto Life 42 (7): 21. Retrieved September 23, 2010.
7. ^ "Paul Johansson - Biography". Paul Johansson Online. http://www.pauljohanssononline.com/pauljonline/pauljohanssonofficialsite.html. Retrieved 26 April 2009.