McGill University

McGill University is a publicly funded, research-intensive, non-denominational, co-educational, international university located in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821, McGill is considered to be the second best university in Canada and amongst the top universities in the world.

Noted alumni and professors

Academics and scholars

• Eric Berne (psychiatry) — originator of the psychoanalytic theory of transactional analysis
• Gerald Bull — former professor of mechanical engineering, expert on projectiles, designer of the Iraqi Project Babylon
• Mario Bunge — philosopher
• Carrie Derick — first woman to become a professor in Canada (in botany at McGill)
• Hamid Etemad — professor of international business and renowned business guru and researcher.
• S. I. Hayakawa — linguist, U.S. senator, former president of San Francisco State University
• Ismail al-Faruqi (philosophy and religion) — renowned Muslim philosopher and comparative religion scholar
• Donald Olding Hebb (psychology) — father of cognitive psychobiology, pioneer in artificial intelligence, developed concept of Hebbian learning
• Julian Jaynes — psychologist, author of The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
• Roger Keesing — celebrated anthropologist
• James Mallory — for many years Canada's leading constitutional scholar
• Ronald Melzack (medicine) — developed the McGill Pain Questionnaire
• Armand de Mestral — professor of international law
• Brenda Milner — provided the first clear demonstration of the existence of multiple memory systems in the brain with patient H.M.
• Henry Mintzberg — internationally renowned business guru
• Karl Moore — internationally known business guru
• Percy Erskine Nobbs — former professor of architecture and designer of many buildings in Montreal, especially at McGill, and in Alberta, British Columbia, and South Africa
• William Osler (medicine) — graduate in medicine (1872) and then McGill professor, he was a medical pioneer, developed the modern form of a doctor's bedside manner. Later one of the four founders of the Johns Hopkins Medical School at Johns Hopkins University
• Wilder Penfield (neurosurgery) — neurosurgery pioneer, first director of the renowned Montreal Neurological Institute and Montreal Neurological Hospital, which are affiliated with McGill University
• Steven Pinker (cognitive psychology) — author of "The Blank Slate", "How the Mind Works".
• Judah Hirsch Quastel (biochemistry) — pioneer in neurochemistry and soil metabolism; Director of the McGill University-Montreal General Hospital Research Institute
• Richard Birdsall Rogers — civil engineer and designer of the Peterborough Lift Lock
• Witold Rybczynski — Scottish-born McGill-trained architect and internationally known writer and critic
• Harold Shapiro, current president emeritus of Princeton University and former president of the University of Michigan.
• Bernard Shapiro (education) — Ethics Commissioner of Canada, former Principal of McGill and Deputy Education Minister of Ontario. Twin brother of Harold.
• Charles Taylor (philosophy) — renowned writer, versatile philosopher, and political theorist
• Margaret Ridley Charlton (medicine) — one of the founders of the Medical Library Association (professional associations)

Current presidents of other Canadian universities

• Paul Davenport — University of Western Ontario
• David Johnston — University of Waterloo
• Frederick Lowy — Concordia University
• Axel Meissen — Memorial University of Newfoundland
• Martha Cook Piper — University of British Columbia
• Harvey Weingarten — University of Calgary
• Peter J. George — McMaster University

Business and media

• Lawrence Bloomberg — former CEO of First Marathon Securities, and philanthropist.
• John Burns — current Pulitzer Prize-winning "New York Times" journalist, formerly of "The Globe and Mail"
• John Cleghorn — former chairman of the Royal Bank of Canada, the largest bank in Canada
• Aldo Bensadoun — Entrepreneur — CEO of Aldo Group Inc.
• Edgar Bronfman, Sr. — former CEO of Seagram's Distillers
• Charles Bronfman — Order of Canada receipent, Philanthropist, former Co-Chairman of Seagram Distillers.
• Conrad Black — embattled press baron and media tycoon in the Anglo-Canadian tradition of Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Thomson of Fleet, owner of 650 dailies/weeklies around the world
• Lennox K. Black — Entrepreneur and Chairman of Teleflex Inc.
• Livio "Desi" Desimone — former CEO of St Paul-based 3M Corporation
• Paul Desmarais Jr. — Chairman of Power Corp.
• John W. Dobson — Entrepreneur — CEO of Formula Growth Ltd. and Philanthropist.
• Darren Entwistle — CEO of Telus Inc.
• Ned Goodman — Entrepreneur (Dundee Securities, Dundee Realty, Beutel/Goodman, Dynamic Mutual Funds), CEO of Dundee Wealth Management and philanthropist.
• Adam Gopnik — staff writer for "The New Yorker" magazine
• David Kassie — CEO of Genuity Capital (Investment Bank)
• Charles Krauthammer -Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist, The Washington Post and Time Magazine
• Paul Lowenstein — CEO of CCFL (Investment Bank)
• Ron Meade — founder of Altamira
• Mark Phillips — CBS News London bureau correspondent since 1982, formerly CBC News London correspondent
• Raymond Royer — CEO of Domtar Inc.
• Seymour Schulich (investments) — benefactor to the Schulich School of Music at McGill and Schulich School of Business, York University
• Richard Thoman — former CEO of Xerox Inc.
• Richard H. Tomlinson — Founder of Gennum Corporation, Professor of Chemistry, and a Pre-Eminent Benefactor of McGill University.
• Lorne Trottier — founder of Matrox
• Herschal Victor — CEO of Jack Victor Ltd.
• Mort Zuckerman — CEO of Atlantic Monthly Corporation and publisher of U.S. News & World Report
• John Ross — former CEO of Nortel Networks

Politics and government

• Sir John Abbott — first Canadian prime minister to be born in Canada
• John Aimers — Dominion Chairman, Monarchist League of Canada
• Ian Binnie — Supreme Court justice
• Zbigniew Brzezinski — former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter
• Irwin Cotler — Justice Minister of Canada, distinguished legal scholar and international human rights lawyer
• Thomas D'Arcy McGee — Father of Confederation and one of only a few notable political assassinations in Canadian history
• Marie Deschamps — Supreme Court justice
• Morris Fish — Supreme Court justice
• Sheila Fraser — Auditor General of Canada
• Charles Gonthier — Supreme Court justice
• Sir Wilfrid Laurier — former Prime Minister of Canada
• Jack Layton — leader of the New Democratic Party
• Dr. Ahmed Nazif — current Prime Minister of Egypt
• Daniel Oduber Quirós — former President of Costa Rica
• Bernard Shapiro — Federal Ethics Commissioner
• Marie-Claire Kirkland Strover — first woman elected to the Quebec National Assembly
• Vaira V??e-Freiberga — President of Latvia

Art, music, and film

• Burt Bacharach — Academy Award-winning musician
• Win Butler — musician, co-founder of "The Arcade Fire"
• Anne Carson — poet and professor of classics
• Leonard Cohen — author, songwriter
• Robert Cooper — president of TriStar Films
• Hubert Davis — BA '00 and Oscar nominee for best documentary short subject
• Louis Dudek — poet
• Jake Eberts — producer of "Gandhi", "Chariots of Fire"
• Arthur Erickson — architect (Robson Square, Vancouver; Canadian Chancery, Washington DC; Roy Thomson Hall; Museum of Anthropology, UBC; Simon Fraser University; Museum of Glass, Tacoma; California Plaza, San Diego Convention Center)
• Colin Ferguson (actor) — actor, Coupling
• Jessalyn Gilsig — actress, Boston Public, NYPD Blue
• Gavin Heffernan — director (Expiration)
• Stephen Leacock — humorist and economist
• John McCrae — poet, author of famous Canadian poem "In Flanders' Fields"
• Kate & Anna McGarrigle — musicians and folk-singers
• Hugh MacLennan — Canadian writer (Two Solitudes, Barometer Rising)
• Cameron Mathison — actor, All My Children
• Raymond Moriyama — architect (Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto; Canadian Embassy, Tokyo; Ontario Science Centre; Toronto Reference Library; Canadian War Museum; Saudi Arabian National Museum, Riyadh)
• Sam Roberts — musician
• Moshe Safdie — architect (National Gallery of Canada, Vancouver Library, Salt Lake City Public Library, Musee de la Civilisation, Habitat '67)
• Kid Koala real name Eric San, turntablist and musician.
• Edward Saxon — Academy Award-winning film producer
• John Ralston Saul — Governor-General's-Award-winning philosophical author
• F(rances) R(eginald) Scott — long-time law professor, authority on constitutional law, celebrated political activist, and one of Canada's leading modern poets
• William Shatner — lead actor in ', played Captain James T. Kirk.
• Ken Vandermark — Jazz saxophonist and MacArthur Foundation Genius Award winner.
• Rufus Wainwright — (briefly attended — dropped out upon record deal) Canadian recording artist, musician.
• John Weldon — Academy Award winner and National Film Board animator
• Jan Wong — columnist with the Globe and Mail, wrote the "Lunch with Jan Wong" series

Inventors

• Bernard Belleau — inventor of AIDS medication 3TC
• William Chalmers — inventor of Plexiglas
• Thomas Chang — creator of first artificial cell
• James George Alwyn Creighton — inventor of North American ice hockey rules
• Charles R. Drew — MDCM '33, black American medical pioneer, track star who led McGill to five intercollegiate titles, and, as medical advisor for the Blood for Britain program of WWII, the father of blood banks
• Alan Emtage — inventor of Archie, the grandfather of search engines
• James Naismith — BA 1887, inventor of basketball
• Paul Moller — inventor of the Moller Skycar, a VTOL aircraft
• Frank Patrick — BA 1908, wrote much of the NHL rule book
• Frank "Shag" Shaughnessy — McGill coach who revolutionised football by introducing the forward pass

Others

• Robert Rabinovitch - President and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
• Norman Bethune — as "Bai Qiu'en," subject of essay by Mao Zedong; medical professor. He became the Red Army?s Medical Chief and trained thousands of Chinese as medics and doctors, he died in 1939 (from blood poisoning) during the Long March.
• Lawrence Moore Cosgrave — Canadian signer of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender
• Ken Dryden — LLB '73, former Montreal Canadiens goalie, Liberal Party politician, Minister of Social Development in Paul Martin's government
• Jennifer Heil — 2004 and 2005 women's World Cup-winning skier
• John Peters Humphrey — co-writer of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Seang Lin Tan — expert on reproductive medicine and founder of the McGill Reproductive Centre
• Julie Payette — astronaut
• Sidney Pierce — BA '22, BCL '25, LLD '56, 1924 Olympic swimmer and former Canadian ambassador to many countries
• Richard Pound — former Olympic swimmer, former IOC vice president, chancellor of McGill
• Robert Thirsk — astronaut
• Dafydd Williams — astronaut
• Jack Wright — MDCM '28, eleven-year veteran of Canadian Davis Cup team in 1920s and 1930s

Nobel Prize Graduates and Faculty Members

• Robert Mundell — former faculty member, Economics (1999)
• Val Logsdon Fitch — alumnus, Physics (1980)
• David Hunter Hubel — alumnus, Physiology (1981)
• Rudolph Marcus — alumnus, Chemistry (1992)
• Ernest Rutherford — former faculty member, Chemistry (1908)
• Andrew Schally — alumnus, Physiology (1977)
• Frederick Soddy — former demonstrator, Chemistry (1921)