List of University of Manitoba alumni

Notable alumni from the University of Manitoba include:

• Victor Anonsen, footballer and artist
• Izzy Asper, tax lawyer and media magnate (BA - 1953, LLB - 1957, LLM - 1964)[1]
• Craig Baines (VAdm), (BA-1988, LLD-2019, MSC, CD), Royal Canadian Navy Commander-Maritime Forces Atlantic since 2017, 37th Commander of Royal Canadian Navy (2021)
• G. Michael Bancroft, chemist and synchrotron scientist, first director of the Canadian Light Source
• Kathy Bardswick, President and CEO of The Co-operators
• William Moore Benidickson, former MP, federal cabinet minister and senator[2]
• Richard Spink Bowles, lawyer and former Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor[3]
• George Montegu Black II, businessman, father of Conrad Black[4]
• Andy Blair, National Hockey League player in the 1920s and 1930s, mostly with the Toronto Maple Leafs
• Charles Bouchard, Lieutenant General Canadian Forces Air Command, commander of NATO Forces in Operation Unified Protector
• Yvonne Brill, a Canadian rocket and jet propulsion engineer who invented the fuel-efficient rocket thruster that keeps satellites in orbit today. The Yvonne C. Brill Lectureship in Aerospace Engineering of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is named in her honor and presented annually
• Harold J Brodie, mycologist[5]
• Harold Buchwald, lawyer[6]
• Wilfred Buck, scientific facilitator and Indigenous star lore expert
• Constantine of Irinoupolis, American Orthodox hierarch, Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA - St. Andrew's College 1959
• Don Callis, professional wrestler,[7] MHSAA Darts finalist (1978)
• Norman Cantor, medieval scholar and writer[8]
• Albert Chan, Hong Kong politician and lawmaker
• Dr. Michael Chan Yue-kwong (Chinese: 陳裕光,博士), Chairman of Café de Coral Holdings Ltd (Chinese: 香港大家樂集團), Hong Kong, publicly listed in SEHK: 0341
• Dr. Bruce Chown, a Canadian scientist who researched the blood factor known as the Rhesus factor and helped produced a Rh immune vaccine, Rh gamma globulin, which helps to prevent Erythroblastosis fetalis in 1968. He is also one of six Canadian physicians and researchers being honoured on a stamp by Canada Post
• Richard Condie, Academy Award-nominated animator; creator of The Big Snit[9]
• Brian Dickson, former Chief Justice of Canada[10]
• Gerry Ducharme, politician, a cabinet minister in the government of Progressive Conservative Premier Gary Filmon, 1988–1995
• Audrey Dwyer, actor and writer[11]
• Marcel Dzama, artist (1997)[12]
• Ed Evanko, actor and singer[13]
• Gary Filmon, Manitoba Premier 1988–1999 (BSc Civil Engineering)[14]
• Danny Finkleman, former CBC radio host[15]
• Steven Fletcher, politician, former Conservative MP in the House of Commons, former federal Cabinet Minister, (BSc geological engineering, Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Asper)[16]
• Phil Fontaine, Aboriginal Canadian leader (BA 1981)[17]
• Waldron Fox-Decent, mediator, professor, Crown Corporation chairman[18]
• Eira Friesen, advocate for women in Winnipeg[19]
• Erving Goffman, sociologist[20]
• Velvl Greene, scientist and academic, B.S agriculture, M.S. dairy bacteriology[21]
• Monty Hall, television personality, president of Variety Clubs International, Order of Canada BSc[22]
• Ellie Harvie, actress[23]
• S.I. Hayakawa, scholar and professor of semantics, United States Senator[24]
• John Alexander Hopps, inventor of the world's first artificial pacemaker; known as the "father of biomedical engineering in Canada"[25]
• Gad Horowitz, political scientist, coiner of the term "Red Tory"[26]
• Phil Hudson, Canadian volleyball coach and retired secondary school teacher, former Manitoba Bisons men's volleyball coach and player
• Barbara Humphreys, architect and author, specializing in public service, historic preservation, and housing
• Johanna Hurme, architect and activist
• Israel Idonije, retired NFL defensive end
• Jamaluddin Jarjis, former Malaysian ambassador to the United States, former Malaysian government minister
• Francis Lawrence Jobin, former Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor[27]
• F. Ross Johnson, businessman, CEO of RJR Nabisco[28]
• Tanya Kappo, lawyer and Indigenous rights activist (JD - 2012)[29]
• Sam Katz, mayor of Winnipeg, 2004–2014 (BA - 1973)
• Guy Gavriel Kay, novelist and poet
• David Kilgour, former Minister of Transport
• Lorrie Kirshenbaum, Canada Research Chair in molecular cardiology, Canadian Cardiovascular Society Research Achievement Award (2020)
• Greg Kopp, Acting Dean of Engineering at the University of Western Ontario
• Scott Koskie, former member of the Canadian National Men's Volleyball team
• Roman Boghdan Kroitor, co-founder of IMAX Corporation
• Amanda Lang, journalist, senior business correspondent for CBC News
• Professor Patrick Lau Sau-shing, SBS, JP (Chinese: 劉秀成,教授), former legislative councillor, 2004–2012; Legislative Council of Hong Kong (Chinese:香港立法會) (LegCo) as a member for the Architectural, Surveying and Planning Functional Constituency (Chinese: 建築，測量，都市規劃界)
• Allan Levine, author, known mainly for his award-winning non-fiction and historical mystery writing
• Bob Lowes, Canadian ice hockey coach and executive
• James Lunney, politician, former Conservative Member of Parliament for the riding of Nanaimo—Alberni
• Inky Mark, former federal Conservative Member of Parliament for Dauphin—Swan River, Manitoba
• Bill Mason, author, filmmaker, environmentalist
• Pearl McGonigal, former Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
• William John McKeag, former Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
• Marshall McLuhan, media guru
• Harry Medovy, pediatrician and academic
• Olawale Sulaiman, neurosurgeon and academic
• Ovide Mercredi, Aboriginal Canadian leader (LLB - 1977)
• Ted Milian, Canadian football player
• W.O. Mitchell, writer
• W. L. Morton, historian
• Arnold Naimark, physician, academic, and former President of the University of Manitoba
• Alison Norlen, artist
• William Norrie, mayor of Winnipeg, 1979–1992 (BA - 1950, LLB - 1955)
• Rey Pagtakhan, physician, academic, former MP and federal cabinet minister
• Malcolm Peat, Emeritus Professor, Queen's University, Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
• Dr. Jim Peebles, C.C., O.M., F.R.S., astrophysicist; Crafoord Prize (2005), Nobel Prize in Physics (2019), Companion of the Order of Canada, Order of Merit (CC, OM, 2020)
• Leonard Peikoff, philosopher
• Frank Pickersgill, SOE agent in World War II executed by the Nazis
• Barry Posner, physician and research scientist on diabetes
• Brian Postl, M.D., FRCPC, C.C., Dean of Max Rady College of Medicine, and Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Companion of the Order of Canada (CC, 2020)
• Jon Pylypchuk, artist
• Clay Riddell, oil tycoon (BSc Honours - 1959)
• Dufferin Roblin, former Premier of Manitoba
• Marshall Rothstein, judge, Supreme Court of Canada
• Alexei Maxim Russell, internationally published novelist
• Fred Sandhu, Manitoba Provincial Court Judge[30]
• Edward Schreyer, Premier of Manitoba (1969–1977) and Governor General of Canada (1979–1984)
• Richard Scott, former Chief Justice of Manitoba Court of Appeal
• Harry Seidler, Australian architect[31]
• Mitchell Sharp, former Liberal Minister of Finance
• Patricia Alice Shaw, linguist specializing in phonology and known for her work on First Nations languages
• Louis Slotin, physicist and chemist who took part in the Manhattan Project (BSc - 1932, MSc - 1933)
• Robert Steen, Mayor of Winnipeg, 1977–1979
• Mary Ann Steggles, Commonwealth Scholar, Olive Beatrice Stanton Recipient, international expert on British colonial statuary
• Frank Trafford Taylor, Canadian lawyer and past president of Kiwanis International
• John W.M. Thompson, Manitoba MLA and Provincial Cabinet Minister
• Thorbergur Thorvaldson, cement chemist[32]
• Miriam Toews, novelist
• Vic Toews, politician, former Minister of Justice and Attorney General and the President of the Treasury Board in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper
• Meaghan DeWarrenne-Waller, fashion model, winner of Canada's Next Top Model, Cycle 3
• Adele Wiseman, author
• Sir Gordon Wu Ying-sheun (Chinese: 胡應湘,爵士), GBS, KCMG, FICE, Chairman of Hopewell Holdings Limited, (Chinese: 香港合和實業有限公司), Hong Kong, publicly listed in SEHK: 0054
• Svetlana Zylin, playwright and director[33]

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