43 Notable alumni of
Acadia University
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Acadia University is 1305th in the world, 469th in North America, and 29th in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 43 notable alumni from Acadia University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Joanne Kelly
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Joanne M. Kelly is a Canadian actress, known for her appearances in films such as Going the Distance, and in the TV series Warehouse 13 as the character Myka Bering, a Secret Service agent.
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Peter MacKay
- Occupations
- lawyerrugby union playerpoliticiandiplomat
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Peter Gordon MacKay is a Canadian lawyer and politician. He was a Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2015 and has served as Minister of Justice and Attorney General (2013–2015), Minister of National Defence (2007–2013), and Minister of Foreign Affairs (2006–2007) in the Cabinet of Canada under Prime Minister Stephen Harper. MacKay was the final leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (PC Party), and he agreed to merge the party with Stephen Harper's Canadian Alliance in 2003, forming the Conservative Party of Canada and making MacKay one of the co-founders of the current conservative wing of Canadian politics.
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Michael Clarke
- Occupations
- drummer
- Biography
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Michael Clarke was an American musician, best known as the drummer for the 1960s rock group the Byrds from 1964 to 1967. He died in 1993, at age 47, from liver failure, a direct result of more than three decades of heavy alcohol consumption.
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Hans Moravec
- Enrolled in Acadia University
- In 1969 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- computer scientistwriteruniversity teacherfuturistartificial intelligence researcher
- Biography
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Hans Peter Moravec is an adjunct faculty member at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA. He is known for his work on robotics, artificial intelligence, and writings on the impact of technology. Moravec also is a futurist with many of his publications and predictions focusing on transhumanism. Moravec developed techniques in computer vision for determining the region of interest (ROI) in a scene.
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Kennedy Stewart
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Edward Charles Kennedy Stewart is a Canadian academic administrator and politician who served as the 40th mayor of Vancouver from 2018 to 2022. He previously was the member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Burnaby—Douglas (2011–2015) and Burnaby South (2015–2018), serving in the House of Commons as a member of the New Democratic Party (NDP) caucus.
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Alexandra Fuller
- Occupations
- writerjournalist
- Biography
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Alexandra Fuller is a British-Rhodesian author. Her articles and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, National Geographic, Granta, The New York Times, The Guardian and The Financial Times.
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David H. Levy
- Occupations
- astronomer
- Biography
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David Howard Levy is a Canadian amateur astronomer, science writer and discoverer of comets and minor planets, who co-discovered Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 in 1993, which collided with the planet Jupiter in 1994.
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Charles Brenton Huggins
- Occupations
- surgeonuniversity teacherphysicianoncologistphysiologist
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Charles Brenton Huggins was a Canadian-American surgeon and physiologist known for his work on prostate function, prostate cancer, and breast cancer. Born in Halifax in 1901, Huggins moved to the United States for medical school. He was one of the founding staff members of the University of Chicago Medical School, where he remained for the duration of his professional research career. Huggins' work on how sex hormones influence prostate function ultimately led to his discovery of hormone therapies to treat prostate cancer. For this finding, he was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. In addition to his work on prostate cancer, Huggins explored the relationship between hormones and breast cancer, developed an animal model for breast cancer, and developed "chromogenic substrate"s that are widely used for biochemical analyses. Huggins continued to perform research into his 90s; he died in Chicago in 1997.
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Ron James
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Ron James is a Canadian stand-up comedian, author, and voice actor.
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Heather Rankin
- Occupations
- actorsingersongwriter
- Biography
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Heather Elaine Rankin is a Canadian singer, songwriter and actor. She is most well known as a member of the multi-platinum selling musical group The Rankin Family.
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Roger Tomlinson
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- geographer
- Biography
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Roger Frank Tomlinson was an English-Canadian geographer and the primary originator of modern geographic information systems (GIS), and has been acknowledged as the "father of GIS."
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Jacob Gould Schurman
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- diplomatwriteruniversity teacherpoliticianuniversity president
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Jacob Gould Schurman was an American educator and diplomat, who served as President of Cornell University and United States Ambassador to Germany.
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Lorie Kane
- Occupations
- golfer
- Biography
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Lorie Kane, is a professional golfer on the LPGA Tour. She began her career on the LPGA Tour in 1996 and has four career victories and 99 top-10 finishes on the tour. She won the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award in 2000 and became a member of the Order of Canada at a ceremony in December 2006. Kane was the second Canadian to have multiple wins on the LPGA circuit in one season, in 2000, after Sandra Post performed the feat twice, in 1978 and 1979. The next person to do so was Brooke Henderson, in 2016. In 2015, she was inducted into the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame. In May 2020 it was announced that she would be inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2020-2021.
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Andy Fillmore
- Occupations
- politicianurban planner
- Biography
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Peter Alexander Fillmore is a Canadian Liberal politician who has represented the riding of Halifax in the House of Commons of Canada since 2015.
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Gudie Hutchings
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gudrid Ida "Gudie" Hutchings PC MP is a Canadian politician serves as Minister of Rural Economic Development and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. A member of the Liberal Party, Hutchings has represented Long Range Mountains in the House of Commons since the 2015 election.
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William A. White
- Years
- 1874-1936 (aged 62)
- Occupations
- chaplainteacher
- Biography
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William Andrew White II was a Canadian chaplain and military officer from Nova Scotia who was commissioned as the first black officer in the Canadian Army. He served in World War I as a military chaplain, the only black officer in the Canadian military during the war.
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Milton Fowler Gregg
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- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Brigadier Milton Fowler Gregg VC, PC, OC, CBE, MC, ED, CD was a Canadian military officer and a First World War recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. In later life, he was a Member of the Canadian Parliament, cabinet minister, academic, soldier and diplomat.
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Dale Frail
- Occupations
- astrophysicistphysicistastronomer
- Biography
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Dale A. Frail is a Canadian astronomer working at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, New Mexico.
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Vernon White
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Vernon Darryl White is a Canadian former senator and former chief of the Ottawa Police Service.
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Freeman Patterson
- Occupations
- writerphotographer
- Biography
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Freeman Wilford Patterson is a Canadian nature photographer and writer. He lives at Shamper's Bluff, New Brunswick. Patterson has authored several books on photographic techniques and theory, as well as on his nature photography.
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Charles Aubrey Eaton
- Enrolled in Acadia University
- Studied in 1890
- Occupations
- pastorpolitician
- Biography
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Charles Aubrey Eaton was a Canadian-born American clergyman and politician who led congregations at Natick, Massachusetts, 1893–1895; Bloor Street, Toronto, 1895–1901; Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, 1901–1909; and Madison Avenue, New York City, 1909 to 1916. Eaton served in the United States House of Representatives from 1925 to 1953, representing the New Jersey's 4th congressional district from 1925 to 1933, and (as a result of redistricting based on the 1930 census) the 5th district from 1933 to 1953. He participated in the creation of the United Nations.
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Scott Armstrong
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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David Scott Armstrong is a Canadian politician, who was elected as a Conservative member to represent the electoral district of Cumberland—Colchester—Musquodoboit Valley in the federal by-elections on November 9, 2009. He served until his defeat in the 2015 election.
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William Pearly Oliver
- Biography
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William Pearly Oliver worked at the Cornwallis Street Baptist Church for twenty-five years (1937–1962) and was instrumental in developing the four leading organizations to support Black Nova Scotians in the 20th century: Nova Scotia Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1945), the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission (1967), the Black United Front (1969) and the Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia (1983). He was instrumental in supporting the case of Viola Desmond. Oliver was awarded the Order of Canada in 1984.
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Norman McLeod Rogers
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Norman McLeod Rogers was a Canadian lawyer and statesman. He served as the Member of Parliament for Kingston, Ontario, Canada and as a cabinet minister in the government of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. He was also an early biographer of King.
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Carlyle Smith Beals
- Occupations
- astronomerastrophysicist
- Biography
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Carlyle Smith Beals, FRS was a Canadian astronomer.
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Mark Day
- Occupations
- television actoractor
- Biography
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Mark Day is a Canadian actor and broadcaster from Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia.
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Paul Masotti
- Occupations
- Canadian football player
- Biography
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Paul Masotti is a former professional Canadian football player and current front office executive with the Canadian Football League Toronto Argonauts. Masotti played the wide receiver position for 12 seasons with the Toronto Argonauts, from 1988 to 1999, retiring just before the 2000 season to join the Argos front office first as Executive Vice-President, and then as general manager.
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Ron Stewart
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ronald Daniel Stewart is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Cape Breton North in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1993 to 1997. He was a member of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party.
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Charles Frederick Hartt
- Occupations
- biologistnaturalistpaleontologistgeologist
- Biography
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Charles Frederick Hartt was a Canadian-American geologist, paleontologist and naturalist who specialized in the geology of Brazil.
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Lance Woolaver
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Lance Gerard Woolaver is a Canadian author, poet, playwright, lyricist, and director. His best-known works include books, film and biographical plays about Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis, including Maud Lewis The Heart on the Door, and Maud Lewis - World Without Shadows. His plays include one about international singer Portia White, who was born in Nova Scotia: Portia White - First You Dream.
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Henry Emmerson
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Henry Robert Emmerson, was a New Brunswick lawyer, businessman, politician, and philanthropist.
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Annie Marion MacLean
- Years
- 1869-1934 (aged 65)
- Occupations
- university teachersociologistwriter
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Annie Marion MacLean was a pioneering American sociologist of the women's Chicago School, and is sometimes referred to as the "mother of contemporary ethnography". She was one of the first women to pursue a professional career in sociology.
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Neil McLeod
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- judgepolitician
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Neil McLeod was a Prince Edward Island lawyer, judge, politician, the fifth premier, and Leader of the Opposition during the amalgamation of the Prince Edward Island legislature. He was born at Uigg on the island to Roderick McLeod and Flora McDonald, Baptist immigrants from the Isle of Skye in Scotland. He was educated at the Uigg Grammar School and in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, articled in law at Charlottetown and was called to the bar in 1873. Four years later, his marriage to the beloved Isabella Jane Adelia Hayden, the Methodist granddaughter to Irish Roman Catholic immigrant and merchant John Roach Bourke, furthered Gaelic intersections among Islander cultural enclaves. McLeod was the child of immigrants from the Isle of Skye and transcriptions identified him as both "Neil McLeod" and "Neil MacLeod", in publications as well as legal documents, after the 1886 election of Angus MacLeod. Historians continue to research his positions on the 1882 replacement of French-language texts with bilingual readers for French Acadians, late nineteenth-century prohibitions on Canadian Gaelic, and corporal punishment in Prince Edward Island schools. During this period, McLeod practiced law with partner Edward Jarvis Hodgson before joining the McLeod, Morson, and McQuarrie law firm. He also served as Commissioner for the Poor House and as a "trustee" to the public Prince Edward Island Hospital for the Insane, which replaced the Lunatic Asylum following a Grand Jury inquest. In 2019, mental health officer and occupational therapist Tina Pranger examined the presents and pasts of the Hillsborough Hospital, providing a summation of previous assessments of the inquest by historians and curators.
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Ernest Howard Armstrong
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Ernest Howard Armstrong, was a Canadian politician and journalist who served as the ninth premier of Nova Scotia from 1923 to 1925.
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John Walter Jones
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- 1878-1954 (aged 76)
- Occupations
- politicianfarmer
- Biography
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John Walter Jones was a politician and farmer in Prince Edward Island, Canada. An agronomist, he was instrumental in introducing the potato crop to the island, which was to become a staple of the economy. In 1935, he received the King George V medal as the best farmer in the province.
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Judy Wakhungu
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Kenya - Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Judi Wangalwa Wakhungu is a Kenyan politician and diplomat who was appointed by President Uhuru Kenyatta as ambassador to France on 26 January 2018. Immediately prior to her present position, she served as the cabinet secretary for environment and regional development authorities from 25 April 2013 until 17 January 2018.
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Shirley Jackson Case
- Occupations
- theologianuniversity teachermathematician
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Shirley Jackson Case was an historian of early Christianity, and a liberal theologian. He served as dean of the Divinity School at the University of Chicago.
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John Wallace de Beque Farris
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- politicianlawyerjurist
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John Wallace de Beque Farris, was a Canadian lawyer and politician.
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Henry Nicholas Paint
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- 1830-1921 (aged 91)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Henry Nicholas Paint was a Canadian politician, shipowner and merchant.
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Theodore Harding Rand
- Occupations
- educator
- Biography
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Theodore Harding Rand was a Canadian educator and poet.
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John Burpee Mills
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
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John Burpee Mills, was a Canadian lawyer and politician.
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James Wilberforce Longley
- Occupations
- judgepolitician
- Biography
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James Wilberforce Longley was a Canadian journalist, lawyer, politician, and judge.
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Harris Harding Bligh
- Enrolled in Acadia University
- In 1864 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- In 1867 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- law librarianlawyerlibrarian
- Biography
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Harris Harding Bligh was a Canadian lawyer and librarian.
