34 Notable alumni of
Bishop's University
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Bishop's University is 1746th in the world, 619th in North America, and 36th in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 34 notable alumni from Bishop's 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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Michael Ondaatje
- Occupations
- university teachernovelistpedagoguewriterscreenwriter
- Biography
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Philip Michael Ondaatje is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer, essayist, novelist, editor, and filmmaker.
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Reginald Fessenden
- Occupations
- physicistinventorengineeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Reginald Aubrey Fessenden was a Canadian-born inventor who received hundreds of patents in various fields, most notably ones related to radio and sonar.
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Johnny Reid
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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John Kirkland Reid is a Scottish-Canadian country music artist. Reid moved to Canada in July 1989 when he was 16. His father, a diesel mechanic, wanted to give Reid and his brother opportunities he did not think they would have in Scotland. He graduated from Turner Fenton Secondary School in Brampton, Ontario, in 1992. Reid went on to attend Bishop's University in Lennoxville, Quebec, where he met his wife (and was a kicker on the varsity football team).
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Allen Chastanet
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Allen Michael Chastanet is a Saint Lucian businessman and politician who served as Prime Minister of Saint Lucia from 2016 to 2021. He is currently the Leader of the Opposition of Saint Lucia and the political leader of the United Workers Party as well as the parliamentary representative for Micoud South constituency.
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Jason MacDonald
- Occupations
- mixed martial arts fighter
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Jason Anthony MacDonald is a Canadian former mixed martial artist. A professional from 1999 until 2013, he is perhaps best remembered for his two stints in the UFC, but also fought for King of the Cage, and the Maximum Fighting Championship. Known for his grappling skills, 19 of his 25 career wins came by way of submission.
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Sydney Valpy Radley-Walters
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- military personnel
- Biography
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Sydney Valpy Radley-Walters CMM, DSO, MC, CD, nicknamed "Rad", was a tank commander in the Canadian Army. Credited with 18 German tanks and many other armoured vehicles, he was the leading Western Allies' tank ace of the Second World War.
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Maude Abbott
- Occupations
- pathologistuniversity teachertechnical writerphysiciancardiologist
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Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott was a Canadian physician, among Canada's earliest female medical graduates, and an internationally known expert on congenital heart disease. She was one of the first women to obtain a BA from McGill University.
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Larry Smith
- Occupations
- politicianCanadian football player
- Biography
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Larry W. Smith, CQ is a Canadian athlete, businessperson and member of the Senate of Canada. He served as Leader of the Opposition in the Senate from April 2017 until November 2019.
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Jim Corcoran
- Occupations
- singersongwriterradio personality
- Biography
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James Ashley Corcoran is a Canadian singer-songwriter and former broadcaster.
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Francis Reginald Scott
- Occupations
- politicianlawyerpoet
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Francis Reginald Scott, commonly known as Frank Scott or F. R. Scott, was a lawyer, Canadian poet, intellectual, and constitutional scholar. He helped found the first Canadian social democratic party, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, and its successor, the New Democratic Party. He won Canada's top literary prize, the Governor General's Award, twice, once for poetry and once for non-fiction. He was married to artist Marian Dale Scott.
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Robert Ghiz
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Robert Watson Joseph Ghiz is a Canadian politician who served as the 31st premier of Prince Edward Island from 2007 to 2015. He is the son of the 27th premier, Joe Ghiz.
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J. K. L. Ross
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- military personnel
- Biography
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Commander John Kenneth Leveson "Jack" Ross, CBE was a Canadian businessman, sportsman, thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder, and philanthropist. He is best remembered for winning the first United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 1919 with his Hall of Fame colt, Sir Barton. In 1911, he set the world record for catching the largest tuna (680 lb; 308 kg) by rod and line at St. Anns, Nova Scotia. After his father, he was the second Canadian to be made a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron.
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Damian Pettigrew
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- screenwriterfilm director
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Damian Pettigrew (1963) is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, author, and multimedia artist, best known for his cinematic portraits of Balthus, Federico Fellini, and Jean Giraud.
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James Maloney
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
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James V. Maloney is a Canadian lawyer and politician, who was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 election. He represents the electoral district of Etobicoke—Lakeshore as a member of the Liberal Party.
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Scott Griffin
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- 1938-.. (age 86)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Scott Griffin, is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist best known for founding the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2000, one of the world's most generous poetry awards, and Poetry In Voice, a bilingual recitation competition for Canadian high schools. Celebrating its 20th year in 2020, the Griffin Poetry Prize has become known as the most adventurous and generous international literary award. Griffin has been interviewed on CBC Radio, discussing the genesis of his love for poetry, reading from his favourite works and paying tribute to poet Seamus Heaney, who received the Griffin Lifetime Recognition Award in 2012.
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Douglas Abbott
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
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Douglas Charles Abbott was a Canadian Member of Parliament, federal Cabinet Minister, and justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Abbott's appointment directly from the Cabinet of Canada as Finance Minister to the Supreme Court was one of the most controversial in the Supreme Court's history.
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Frederick George Scott
- Occupations
- writerpoet
- Biography
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Frederick George Scott was for the first part of his life an Anglican priest and a Canadian poet to whom the Canadian literary establishment gave the epithet "Poet of the Laurentians." He was associated with Canada's Confederation Poets, and wrote 13 books of Christian and patriotic poetry, often using the natural world to convey deeper spiritual meaning.
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William Heneker
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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General Sir William Charles Giffard Heneker, KCB, KCMG, DSO was a Canadian soldier who served with the British Army in West Africa, India, and then later on the Western Front during the First World War. A notable military strategist and tactician, he became one of the most experienced and highly decorated Canadians in the British Empire, and one of only a handful of Canadians to reach the rank of full general.
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Leroy Blugh
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- 1966-.. (age 58)
- Occupations
- Canadian football player
- Biography
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Leroy Blugh is a former professional Canadian football defensive lineman and the defensive line coach for the Queen's Gaels of U Sports football. He played for fifteen seasons in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for two different teams and was the winner of the CFL's Most Outstanding Canadian Award in 1996 and is a two-time CFL West Division All-Star and a 81st Grey Cup Champion (1993). In 2015, he was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.
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Shawn Gore
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- player of American footballCanadian football player
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Shawn Vere Gore, is a retired professional Canadian football wide receiver. Gore spent the majority of his professional career playing for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League. He was drafted tenth overall by the Lions in the 2010 CFL Draft, but signed with the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League on the day after the draft as a free agent. He played college football for the Bishop's Gaiters, and high school football for the Newtonbrook North Stars.
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Cameron Hughes
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- athlete
- Biography
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Cameron Hughes is a Canadian crowd igniter, professional speaker and sports entertainer..
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James Yurichuk
- Occupations
- Canadian football player
- Biography
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James Yurichuk is a former Canadian professional football linebacker and businessman. He was drafted by the BC Lions in the 2009 CFL Draft in the first round and played four seasons with the BC Lions, winning the Grey Cup in 2011 with the Lions. He played CIS football for the Bishop's Gaiters. Yurichuk is also the founder and CEO of Wuxly Outerwear.
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George Siber
- Occupations
- physicianimmunologistvirologist
- Biography
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George Rainer Siber is a medical researcher and vaccine expert with 48 years of experience in developing numerous vaccines, therapeutic antibodies, and diagnostic agents for infectious diseases.
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William Price
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
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Sir William Price was a Canadian businessman and politician.
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William P. Anderson
- Occupations
- geographerengineercivil engineer
- Biography
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Colonel William Patrick Anderson was a Canadian civil engineer. He was Superintendent of Lighthouses for almost 40 years, and was responsible for many of the more notable lighthouses in Canada.
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Steve Shanahan
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 54)
- Biography
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Steven Léo Shanahan is a politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He has served on the Montreal City Council from 2013 to 2017 as a member of Vrai changement pour Montréal.
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Nick Poloniato
- Occupations
- Canadian football playerbobsledder
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Nick Poloniato is a University football player and bobsledder. A graduate of Bishop's University where he was a member of the Bishop's Gaiters football team. He competed at several World Cup and international competitions, finishing 5th in the Two-man event at the 2017 FIBT World Championships. Nick went on to compete at the 2018 Olympics for Canada. He finished his career after the 2019 World Cup Season.
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Frederick Edmund Meredith
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Frederick Edmund Meredith was a Canadian lawyer and businessman. He was the 8th Chancellor of Bishop's University; President of the Mount Royal Club; Bâtonnier of the Bar of Montreal; President of the Montreal Victorias for three of their Stanley Cup championships in the late 1890s, and Chief Counsel to the CPR at the inquest into the sinking of RMS Empress of Ireland.
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Andy Keen
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- cinematographer
- Biography
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Andrew "Andy" John David Keen is a Canadian documentary filmmaker whose films include Bobcaygeon starring The Tragically Hip, Escarpment Blues starring Sarah Harmer, and the documentary Seven Painters Seven Places (1999). He was a director of photography on "Know Your Mushrooms" (2009), directed by Ron Mann. Keen has worked as director and cameraman on numerous television commercials and music videos, and in 2010 he was honoured with a Webby Award in the category of Activism for a series of online videos he produced for The Canadian Stem Cell Foundation. Bobcaygeon is a feature film about Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip and their riotous concert in Bobcaygeon. The film had its World Premiere at the 2012 Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) and in April 2013 won the Juno Award for Music DVD of the Year.
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John Sewell Sanborn
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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John Sewell Sanborn was a Canadian educator, lawyer, judge and political figure. Some sources give his middle name as Sewall.
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George Thorneloe
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- 1848-1935 (aged 87)
- Occupations
- priest
- Biography
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George Thorneloe was a Canadian Anglican bishop at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.
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James King
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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James King was a Canadian businessman and politician.
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Robert Newton Hall
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Robert Newton Hall, was a lawyer, educator, judge and political figure in Quebec, Canada. He represented Town of Sherbrooke in the House of Commons of Canada from 1882 to 1891 as a Liberal-Conservative member.
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Louis-Edmond Panneton
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- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Louis-Edmond Panneton was a lawyer, judge, educator and political figure in Quebec. He represented Sherbrooke in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1892 to 1900 as a Conservative.
