List of Dalhousie University people

This is a list of notable alumni, faculty, and affiliates of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada.

Sorted by name:

A

* Robert Ackman, O.C. -- Omega-3 fatty acid pioneer
* William G. Adams -- former mayor of St. John's, Newfoundland
* Chris Axworthy -- professor and Federal NDP politician

B

* Jamie Baillie -- businessman, Credit Union Atlantic
* Rt. Hon. Richard Bennett -- previous Prime Minister of Canada
* Roger Charles Bell -- criminal
* Hon. Scott Brison -- former Liberal cabinet minister
* Philip Bryden -- Dean at University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law
* John Buchanan -- former Premier of Nova Scotia, senator
* T.J. Burke -- provincial politician, New Brunswick

C

* Sir Joseph Andrew Chisholm, CBE -- former Mayor of Halifax and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia
* Rt. Hon. Joe Clark -- former Prime Minister of Canada
* Lorne Clarke -- former Chief Justice of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court
* Frank Manning Covert, CBE, O.C. -- lawyer and business person
* Hon. John Crosbie -- former Minister of Finance (Canada)

D

* Martin Henry Dawson -- pioneer in penicillin therapy
* Darrell Dexter -- NDP leader
* James Hamet Dunn -- major Canadian financier and industrialist

F

* Myra Freeman, O.NS -- philanthropist, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.
* George Furey -- senator representing Newfoundland Labrador

G

* Hon. Gerald Regan -- former Liberal cabinet minister
* Stephen Giles -- Olympic silver medal paddler
* Neville Gilfoy -- publisher
* Constance Glube -- Chief Justice of the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal
* Edgar Gold O.C. -- leading experts in international ocean law and marine and environmental policy
* Clarence Gosse, O.C. -- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
* Simon Gray -- English playwright, Commander of the Order of the British Empire
* Sandra Gwyn, O.C. -- journalist and writer

H

* Ian Hanomansing -- television journalist
* Donald Olding Hebb -- father of modern neuroscience
* Peter Herrndorf, O.C. -- president and CEO of the National Arts Centre
* Alexander Hickman, O.C. -- Supreme Court of Newfoundland as Chief Justice
* Peter Hochachka, O.C. -- professor and zoologist
* Arthur Maxwell House, O.C. -- neurologist and a former Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador.
* Eleanor Humphries -- businessperson, Halifax International Airport Authority

J

* Colleen Jones -- former world champion curler

K

* Cary Kaplan -- founder of Cosmos Sports, former Hamilton Bulldogs president
* Michael John Keen -- Department of Geology professor (1961-1977) and department chairman
* Peter J. Kelly -- current mayor of the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia
* Michael J. L. Kirby -- former federal politician and current senator for Nova Scotia

L

*Michael Leir -- Canadian High Commissioner to Australia

M

* Finlay MacDonald, O.C. -- senator representing Halifax, Nova Scotia
* John Keiller MacKay, O.C. -- former judge of Supreme Court of Ontario and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
* Peter MacKay -- former leader of the Conservative party and current Minister of Foreign Affairs
* Henry Poole MacKeen, O.C. -- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
* Hugh MacLennan, O.C., O.Q. -- author and professor
* Murdoch MacPherson -- Attorney-General of Saskatchewan
* Ronald St. John Macdonald, O.C. -- law professor and international law expert
* Kate Maki -- singer-songwriter
* Alexa McDonough -- previous federal leader of the NDP
* Hon. Anne McLellan -- law professor and former Liberal deputy Prime Minister
* Christine Melnick -- provincial NDP cabinet minister, Manitoba
* Peter Milliken -- Liberal Speaker of the House of Commons
* Don Mills -- Businessman, CCL Group
* Reid Morden -- former director of CSIS
* Moses Morgan -- former president of Memorial University of Newfoundland
* Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney -- former Prime Minister of Canada
* Mordy Mednick -- Current summer student at Cassels Brock and Canadian Hockey Player

N

* Edmund Leslie Newcombe -- Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
* Sir John Robert Nicholson, OBE -- businessman, politician and Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.

O

* Fabian O'Dea -- Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador
* Karen Oldfield -- business-person, Halifax Port Authority

P

* Hon. Jim Prentice -- Conservative cabinet minister

R

* Calvin Ruck, O.C. -- activist and a senator

* Michael Scarola -- world championship bronze medalist paddler
* Robert Sedgewick -- Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
* Hon. Sidney Smith -- president of University of Toronto, Conservative Secretary of State for External Affairs
* Hon. Robert Stanfield -- Premier of Nova Scotia and leader of the Federal Progressive Conservatives
* Colin Starnes -- professor, author and former President of the University of King's College
* Kathryn D. Sullivan, NASA astronaut, first American woman to walk in space

T

* Russell Trood -- Liberal Party Senator for the state of Queensland, Australia

V

* Maury Van Vliet, O.C. -- president and CEO of the 1978 Commonwealth Games

W

* Dr. Peter Busby Waite -- historian, longtime Thomas McCulloch Professor of History
* Sir Albert Walsh -- chief justice and first Lieutenant Governor for Newfoundland
* Dr. John Clarence Webster -- Governor of Dalhousie University in 1934. [http://www.unbf.ca/womenandmuseum/cweb_claren_txt.htm]
* Clyde Wells -- provincial Chief Justice of the Court of Appeal and Premier of Newfoundland
* Danny Williams, the current Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador
* Marjorie Willison -- CBC radio personality
* Martin Willison -- Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies
* Bertha Wilson, O.C. -- first woman Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
* Lance Woolaver -- author, playwright and director