100 Notable alumni of
McGill University
McGill University is 70th in the world, 37th in North America, and 2nd in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from McGill 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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Justin Trudeau
- Enrolled in McGill University
- In 1994 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in literary studies
- Occupations
- juristinternational forum participantministermember of parliamentpolitician
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Justin Pierre James Trudeau is a Canadian politician serving as the 23rd and current prime minister of Canada since 2015 and leader of the Liberal Party since 2013. Trudeau is the second-youngest prime minister in Canadian history after Joe Clark; he is also the first to be the child of a previous holder of the post, as the eldest son of Pierre Trudeau.
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Leonard Cohen
- Enrolled in McGill University
- 1951-1955 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- novelistpianistauthorsingerwriter
- Biography
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Leonard Norman Cohen was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist. Themes commonly explored throughout his work include faith and mortality, isolation and depression, betrayal and redemption, social and political conflict, and sexual and romantic love, desire, regret, and loss. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was invested as a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour. In 2011, he received one of the Prince of Asturias Awards for literature and the ninth Glenn Gould Prize.
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Jordan Peterson
- Enrolled in McGill University
- 1985-1991 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in clinical psychology
- Occupations
- clinical psychologistwritercultural criticYouTuberpsychologist
- Biography
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Jordan Bernt Peterson is a Canadian psychologist, author, and media commentator. He began to receive widespread attention in the late 2010s for his views on cultural and political issues, often described as conservative. Peterson has described himself as a classic British liberal and a traditionalist.
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Christopher Plummer
- Occupations
- film actorvoice actorstage actoractortelevision actor
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Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer was a Canadian actor. His career spanned seven decades, gaining him recognition for his performances in film, stage, and television. He received multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards, making him the only Canadian recipient of the "Triple Crown of Acting". He also received a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award as well as a nomination for a Grammy Award.
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William Shatner
- Enrolled in McGill University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Commerce
- Occupations
- singerkaratekawriterscience fiction writeractor
- Biography
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William Shatner is a Canadian actor. In a career spanning seven decades, he is best known for his portrayal of James T. Kirk in the Star Trek franchise, from his 1966 debut as the captain of the starship Enterprise in the second pilot of the first Star Trek television series to his final appearance as Captain Kirk in the seventh Star Trek feature film, Star Trek Generations (1994).
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Mackenzie Davis
- Occupations
- television actorfilm produceractorfilm actormodel
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Mackenzie Rio Davis is a Canadian actress, producer, and model. She made her feature film debut in Smashed (2012). In 2013, she appeared in Breathe In and The F Word (for which she was nominated for the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress). She also starred in The Martian (2015), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), and Happiest Season (2020).
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Laurie Holden
- Occupations
- film actorvoice actorstage actorhuman rights activistfilm producer
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Heather Laurie Holden is a Canadian-American actress, producer, and human rights activist, known for her roles as Marita Covarrubias in The X-Files (1996–2002), Adele Stanton in The Majestic (2001), Cybil Bennett in Silent Hill (2006), Amanda Dumfries in The Mist (2007), Olivia Murray in The Shield (2008), Andrea Harrison in The Walking Dead (2010–2013, 2020-2022), Renee in The Americans (2017–2018), and the Crimson Countess in Vought News Network: Seven on 7 with Cameron Coleman (2021) and The Boys (2022).
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James Naismith
- Occupations
- basketball playerinventorphysicianwriterbasketball coach
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James Naismith was a Canadian-American physical educator, physician, Christian chaplain, and sports coach, best known as the inventor of the game of basketball. After moving to the United States, he wrote the original basketball rule book and founded the University of Kansas basketball program. Naismith lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, as well as the birth of the National Invitation Tournament (1938) and the NCAA Tournament (1939).
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Grimes
- Occupations
- songwritermusicianmanufacturerdirectorpainter
- Biography
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Claire Elise Boucher, known professionally as Grimes, is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Her early work has been described as extending from "lo-fi R&B" to futuristic dance-pop, and has incorporated influences from electronic music, hip hop, and rock. Her lyrics often touch on science fiction and feminist themes. She has released five studio albums.
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Burt Bacharach
- Occupations
- musiciansongwriterrecording artistconductorfilm score composer
- Biography
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Burt Freeman Bacharach was an American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist who is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential figures of 20th-century popular music. Starting in the 1950s, he composed hundreds of pop songs, many in collaboration with lyricist Hal David. Bacharach's music is characterized by unusual chord progressions and time signature changes, influenced by his background in jazz, and uncommon selections of instruments for small orchestras. He arranged, conducted, and produced much of his recorded output.
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Zbigniew Brzezinski
- Enrolled in McGill University
- Studied in 1945-1950
- Occupations
- strategistuniversity teachergeopoliticianauthorpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński, or Zbig, was a Polish-American diplomat and political scientist. He served as a counselor to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968 and was President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981. As a scholar, Brzezinski belonged to the realist school of international relations, standing in the geopolitical tradition of Halford Mackinder and Nicholas J. Spykman, while elements of liberal idealism have also been identified in his outlook. Brzezinski was the primary organizer of The Trilateral Commission.
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Charles Krauthammer
- Occupations
- opinion journalistcolumnistjournalistpunditphysician
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Charles Krauthammer was an American political columnist. A moderate liberal who turned independent conservative as a political pundit, Krauthammer won the Pulitzer Prize for his columns in The Washington Post in 1987. His weekly column was syndicated to more than 400 publications worldwide. While in his first year studying medicine at Harvard Medical School, Krauthammer became permanently paralyzed from the waist down after a diving board accident that severed his spinal cord at cervical spinal nerve 5. After spending 14 months recovering in a hospital, he returned to medical school, graduating to become a psychiatrist involved in the creation of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders III in 1980. He joined the Carter administration in 1978 as a director of psychiatric research, eventually becoming the speechwriter to Vice President Walter Mondale in 1980.
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Jessalyn Gilsig
- Occupations
- actorfilm actorvoice actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Jessalyn Sarah Gilsig is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her roles as Lauren Davis in Boston Public, Gina Russo in Nip/Tuck, Terri Schuester in Glee, and as Siggy Haraldson in Vikings.
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Mia Kirshner
- Occupations
- television actorfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Mia Kirshner is a Canadian actress, writer and social activist. She is known for television roles as Mandy in 24 (2001–2005), as Jenny Schecter in The L Word (2004–2009), as Amanda Grayson in Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2019), and as Isobel Flemming in The Vampire Diaries (2010-2011). Her film credits include Love and Human Remains (1993), Exotica (1994), The Crow: City of Angels (1996), Mad City (1997), Not Another Teen Movie (2001) and The Black Dahlia (2006).
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Rachelle Lefevre
- Occupations
- television actorfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Rachelle Marie Lefèvre is a Canadian actress. She has starred in the television series Big Wolf on Campus and had recurring roles in What About Brian, Boston Legal, and Swingtown. She played the vampire Victoria in the first two films of the Twilight saga. In 2011, she starred in the ABC medical drama Off the Map, followed by the CBS series A Gifted Man (2011–2012) and Under the Dome (2013–2015).
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Steven Pinker
- Enrolled in McGill University
- In 1976 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in psychology
- Occupations
- experimental psychologistanthropologistevolutionary psychologistlinguistphilosopher
- Biography
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Steven Arthur Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. He is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.
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Rufus Wainwright
- Occupations
- composermusiciansingerpianistsinger-songwriter
- Biography
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Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright is a Canadian-American singer, songwriter, and composer. He has recorded 10 studio albums and numerous tracks on compilations and film soundtracks. He has also written two classical operas and set Shakespeare's sonnets to music for a theatre piece by Robert Wilson.
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Samantha Bee
- Occupations
- journalisttelevision actoractortelevision producervoice actor
- Biography
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Samantha Anne Bee is a Canadian-American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actress, and television host.
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Julie Payette
- Enrolled in McGill University
- In 1986 graduated with Bachelor of Engineering in electrical engineering
- Occupations
- engineerastronautpolitician
- Biography
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Julie Payette is a Canadian engineer, scientist and former astronaut who served from 2017 to 2021 as Governor General of Canada, the 29th since Canadian Confederation.
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Evan Goldberg
- Occupations
- television producerexecutive producerfilm directorfilm producerscreenwriter
- Biography
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Evan D. Goldberg is a Canadian filmmaker and comedian. He has collaborated with his childhood friend Seth Rogen on the films Superbad, Pineapple Express, This Is the End, The Interview, and Good Boys.
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Hume Cronyn
- Occupations
- television actoractorfilm actorscreenwriterstage actor
- Biography
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Hume Blake Cronyn Jr. OC was a Canadian-American actor and writer.
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Laurent Duvernay-Tardif
- Occupations
- American football playerCanadian football playergridiron football player
- Biography
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Laurent Duvernay-Tardif is a Canadian football guard who is a free agent. He played university football and attended medical school at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, before being drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the sixth round of the 2014 NFL Draft. Duvernay-Tardif is only the fourth medical school graduate to play in the NFL. He was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec in 2019 and enrolled at Harvard University to get a Master of Public Health degree the following year.
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Drew Goddard
- Occupations
- television producerexecutive producerfilm directorfilm producerscreenwriter
- Biography
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Andrew Brion Hogan Goddard is an American filmmaker. He began his career writing episodes for the television shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Alias, and Lost. After moving into screenwriting in film, he wrote Cloverfield (2008), World War Z (2013), and The Martian (2015), the latter earning him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. In 2011, he made his directorial debut with The Cabin in the Woods.
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Conrad Black
- Occupations
- publisherpoliticianhistorianautobiographerbiographer
- Biography
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Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, is a Canadian-British former newspaper publisher, businessman, and writer.
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Cameron Mathison
- Occupations
- television actorengineeractorfilm actormodel
- Biography
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Cameron Arthur Mathison is a Canadian-American actor and television host. From 1997 to 2011, he played the role of Ryan Lavery on All My Children.
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Mike Babcock
- Occupations
- ice hockey playerice hockey coach
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Michael Babcock Jr. is a Canadian former ice hockey coach. He spent parts of eighteen seasons as a professional and head coach in the National Hockey League (NHL). He began as head coach of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, whom he led to the 2003 Stanley Cup Finals. In 2005, Babcock signed with the Detroit Red Wings, winning the Stanley Cup with them in 2008, and helping them to the Stanley Cup playoffs every year during his tenure, becoming the winningest coach in Red Wings history. In 2015, he left Detroit to coach the Toronto Maple Leafs, a position he held until 2019.
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Win Butler
- Occupations
- banjoistcomposersinger-songwriterpoetguitarist
- Biography
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Edwin Farnham Butler III is an American-Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, and multi-instrumentalist. He co-founded the Montreal-based indie rock band Arcade Fire with Josh Deu and his wife Régine Chassagne.
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Changpeng Zhao
- Occupations
- oratorinternational forum participantbusinesspersonbusiness executivechief executive officer
- Biography
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Changpeng Zhao, commonly known as CZ, is a Chinese-born Canadian businessman, investor, and software engineer. Zhao is the co-founder and CEO of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume as of July 2022.
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Jessica Mulroney
- Years
- 1980-.. (age 43)
- Occupations
- television presenterpersonal stylist
- Biography
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Jessica Mulroney is a Canadian fashion stylist and marketing consultant, noted for her previous work with Kleinfeld Bridal (Hudson's Bay), past guest appearances on television shows Good Morning America and CityLine, and hosting of I Do, Redo. She is a Canadian fashion advocate and contributor to Sunwing's Wedding Vacations magazine.
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Henry Mintzberg Storch
- Occupations
- sociologistuniversity teacherwritereconomist
- Biography
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Henry Mintzberg is a Canadian academic and author on business and management. He is currently the Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at the Desautels Faculty of Management of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where he has been teaching since 1968.
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Charles Taylor
- Occupations
- writerphilosopherpolitical scientistsociologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Charles Margrave Taylor is a Canadian philosopher from Montreal, Quebec, and professor emeritus at McGill University best known for his contributions to political philosophy, the philosophy of social science, the history of philosophy, and intellectual history. His work has earned him the Kyoto Prize, the Templeton Prize, the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy, and the John W. Kluge Prize.
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Chilly Gonzales
- Occupations
- composerrecording artistrecord producerjazz musicianfilm score composer
- Biography
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Jason Charles Beck, professionally known as Chilly Gonzales, is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and producer. Currently based in Cologne, Germany, he previously lived for several years in Paris. Gonzales’ career spans numerous genres. He is known for his rap albums, his collaborations with pop musicians like Feist and Drake, his albums of classical piano compositions (including the Solo Piano trilogy), and also for his collaborations with electronic musicians like Daft Punk and Boys Noize, the latter with whom he produces as Octave Minds.
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Wilfrid Laurier
- Occupations
- writerjournalistessayistpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Sir Henri Charles Wilfrid Laurier, GCMG, PC, KC was a Canadian lawyer, statesman, and politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Canada from 1896 to 1911. The first French Canadian prime minister, his 15-year tenure remains the longest unbroken term of office among Canadian prime ministers and his nearly 45 years of service in the House of Commons is a record for the House. Laurier is best known for his compromises between English and French Canada.
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Régine Chassagne
- Occupations
- pianistsingermusiciansongwriter
- Biography
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Régine Alexandra Chassagne is a Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, and multi-instrumentalist, and is a member of the band Arcade Fire. She is married to co-founder Win Butler.
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Eric Berne
- Occupations
- non-fiction writermilitary physicianpsychologistacademicpsychiatrist
- Biography
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Eric Berne was a Canadian-born psychiatrist who created the theory of transactional analysis as a way of explaining human behavior.
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Gad Saad
- Occupations
- YouTuberpolitical scientistpsychologisttelevision produceruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Gad Saad is a Canadian marketing professor at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University. He is known for applying evolutionary psychology to marketing and consumer behaviour. He wrote a blog for Psychology Today and hosts a YouTube channel titled "The Saad Truth".
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Moshe Safdie
- Occupations
- architectuniversity teacherurban plannerauthor
- Biography
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Moshe Safdie is an architect, urban planner, educator, theorist, and author, with Israeli, Canadian, and American citizenship. He is known for incorporating principles of socially responsible design in his 50-year career. His projects include cultural, educational, and civic institutions; neighborhoods and public parks; housing; mixed-use urban centers; airports; and master plans for existing communities and entirely new cities in North and South America, the Middle East, and Asia. He is most identified with designing Marina Bay Sands and Jewel Changi Airport, as well as his debut project, Habitat 67, originally conceived as his thesis at McGill University.
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Hans Selye
- Enrolled in McGill University
- In 1933 graduated with Doctor of Science
- Occupations
- endocrinologistpsychologistphysiologistphysicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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János Hugo Bruno "Hans" Selye CC was a pioneering Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist who conducted important scientific work on the hypothetical non-specific response of an organism to stressors. Although he did not recognize all of the many aspects of glucocorticoids, Selye was aware of their role in the stress response. Charlotte Gerson considers him the first to demonstrate the existence of biological stress.
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Jade Raymond
- Occupations
- programmertelevision presentervideo game producerengineer
- Biography
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Jade Raymond is a Canadian video game creator, best known for helping create the Assassin's Creed and Watch Dogs franchises, and for building the Ubisoft Toronto and EA Motive Studios. On 16 March 2021, Raymond announced the founding of a new independent development team called Haven Studios, which was later acquired by Sony Interactive Entertainment in July 2022, officially becoming a part of PlayStation Studios.
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Jack Layton
- Enrolled in McGill University
- In 1970 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in political science
- Occupations
- political scientistpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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John Gilbert Layton was a Canadian academic and politician who served as the leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) from 2003 to 2011 and leader of the Official Opposition in 2011. He previously sat on Toronto City Council, occasionally holding the title of acting mayor or deputy mayor of Toronto during his tenure as city councillor. Layton was the member of Parliament (MP) for Toronto—Danforth from 2004 until his death.
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Hubert Reeves
- Occupations
- astrophysicistscience communicator
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Hubert Reeves, is a Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science.
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Kirsten Prout
- Occupations
- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Kirsten Prout Zien is a Canadian actress. She is known for her lead roles in the ABC Family television shows, portraying Amanda Bloom in Kyle XY and Char Chamberlin in The Lying Game. Her first sizable break in film came in 2005, when she was cast as Abby Miller, a lead role opposite Jennifer Garner in Elektra. In 2007, Prout was nominated for Best Performance in a TV Series by the Young Artists Awards for Kyle XY. In 2010, Prout portrayed the vampire "Lucy" in Twilight Saga: Eclipse. She has guest starred in notable series including NCIS, Psych, Devious Maids, Ties That Bind and Dear White People. Prout is also known for her lead roles in the horror genre, as Alex Bell in the MTV film series My Super Psycho Sweet 16, Jewel McCaul in Joyride 3, and Sloane in the 2015 horror indie Even Lambs Have Teeth.
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Frances Oldham Kelsey
- Enrolled in McGill University
- In 1934 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- In 1935 graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- physicianuniversity teacherpharmacologist
- Biography
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Frances Kathleen Oldham Kelsey was a Canadian-American pharmacologist and physician. As a reviewer for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), she refused to authorize thalidomide for market because she had concerns about the lack of evidence regarding the drug's safety. Her concerns proved to be justified when it was shown that thalidomide caused serious birth defects. Kelsey's career intersected with the passage of laws strengthening FDA oversight of pharmaceuticals. Kelsey was the second woman to receive the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service, awarded to her by John F. Kennedy in 1962.
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Colin Ferguson
- Occupations
- television directorfilm actortelevision producerfilm directoractor
- Biography
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Colin Ferguson is a Canadian-American actor, director and producer. He is known for playing Sheriff Jack Carter on the Syfy series Eureka, the Maytag Man, and Lewis on Then Came You.
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Yetide Badaki
- Occupations
- television actorfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Yetide BadakiListen is a Nigerian-American actress. She is best known for playing Bilquis on the Starz series American Gods.
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Alessandro Juliani
- Occupations
- television actorvoice actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Alessandro Juliani is a Canadian actor and singer. He is notable for playing the roles of Tactical Officer Lieutenant Felix Gaeta on the Sci-Fi Channel television program Battlestar Galactica, Emil Hamilton in Smallville, Jacapo Sinclair on The CW series The 100, and Dr. Cerberus on the Netflix series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. He is also known for voicing the character L in the English version of the anime series Death Note and its live action films, as well as several other animation projects. Juliani provided the voice of Aaron Fox on Nexo Knights.
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Anthony Lemke
- Occupations
- television actorfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Roger Anthony Lemke is a Canadian television and film actor, best known for portraying Three (Marcus Boone / Titch) on Syfy's science-fiction drama Dark Matter.
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Mani Haghighi
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directoractor
- Biography
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Mani Haghighi is an Iranian film director, writer, film producer, and actor. Haghighi started making movies in 2001.
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Savik Shuster
- Occupations
- television producerjournalisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Savik Shuster is a journalist and Ukrainian political TV shows anchor. He presented The Freedom By Savik Shuster and starting in 2005 Svoboda slova on ICTV. From December 2015 he produces and lead political talk shows on his independent 3S.tv, after he has been cancelled from several tycoon-owned TVs. In December 2016 3S.tv announced cease of activity and on 1 March 2017 the channel stopped broadcasting. According to official statement the reason thereof is business being no longer viable due to several litigations and corresponding financial constraints. All court cases were subsequently closed due to lack of substance. In 2019 Shuster came back to Ukraine as anchor of "Svoboda Slova Savika Shustera" at "Ukraina" TV channel.
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Ian Campbell, 12th Duke of Argyll
- Years
- 1937-2001 (aged 64)
- Occupations
- politicianaristocrat
- Biography
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Ian Campbell, 12th and 5th Duke of Argyll, KStJ, DL, FRSA, styled Marquess of Lorne between 1949 and 1973, was a Scottish peer and Chief of Clan Campbell. He was the 12th Duke of Argyll in the Peerage of Scotland, 5th Duke of Argyll in the Peerage of the United Kingdom and Lord Lieutenant of Argyll and Bute.
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Ken Dryden
- Occupations
- writerice hockey playerministerpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Kenneth Wayne Dryden is a Canadian politician, lawyer, businessman, author, and former National Hockey League (NHL) goaltender. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada and a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame. He was a Liberal Member of Parliament from 2004 to 2011 and Minister of Social Development from 2004 to 2006. In 2017, the league counted him in history's 100 Greatest NHL Players. He received the Order of Hockey in Canada in 2020.
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Douglas Coupland
- Occupations
- sculptorfashion designerscreenwriterwriterdesigner
- Biography
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Douglas Coupland is a Canadian novelist, designer, and visual artist. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized the terms Generation X and McJob. He has published thirteen novels, two collections of short stories, seven non-fiction books, and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television. He is a columnist for the Financial Times, as well as a frequent contributor to The New York Times, e-flux journal, DIS Magazine, and Vice. His art exhibits include Everywhere Is Anywhere Is Anything Is Everything, which was exhibited at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, now the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada, and Bit Rot at Rotterdam's Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, as well as the Villa Stuck.
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Michael Manley
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Michael Norman Manley was a Jamaican politician who served as the fourth Prime Minister of Jamaica from 1972 to 1980 and from 1989 to 1992. Manley championed a democratic socialist program, and has been described as a populist. He remains one of Jamaica's most popular prime ministers.
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Mortimer Zuckerman
- Occupations
- journalistbusinesspersonpublishereditor-in-chief
- Biography
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Mortimer Benjamin Zuckerman is a Canadian-American billionaire media proprietor, magazine editor, and investor. He is the co-founder, executive chairman and former CEO of Boston Properties, one of the largest real estate investment trusts in the US. Zuckerman is also the owner and publisher of U.S. News & World Report, where he serves as editor-in-chief. He formerly owned the New York Daily News, The Atlantic, and Fast Company. On the Forbes 2016 list of the world's billionaires, he was ranked No. 688 with a net worth of US$2.5 billion. As of January 2020, his net worth is estimated at US$3.0 billion.
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Yoshua Bengio
- Enrolled in McGill University
- In 1988 graduated with Master of Science in computer science
- 1988-1991 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in computer science
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering
- Occupations
- professorinformation scientistartificial intelligence researchercomputer scientist
- Biography
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Yoshua Bengio is a Canadian computer scientist, most noted for his work on artificial neural networks and deep learning. He is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the Université de Montréal and scientific director of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA).
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Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
- Occupations
- actorscreenwritershowrunnertelevision producertheatrical producer
- Biography
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Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is an American playwright, screenwriter, and comic book writer best known for his work for Marvel Comics and for the television series Glee, Big Love, Riverdale, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin. He is Chief Creative Officer of Archie Comics.
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Natasha Negovanlis
- Occupations
- writersingeractor
- Biography
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Natasha Negovanlis is a Canadian actress, writer, producer, and singer. She achieved international recognition for portraying Carmilla Karnstein in the web series Carmilla (2014–2016) and in the 2017 feature film based on the series.
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Gail Simmons
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Gail Simmons is a Canadian-American food writer and cookbook author. She has served as a permanent judge on Bravo's Emmy-winning series Top Chef since the show's inception in 2006. Simmons was previously the head critic on Top Chef Duels and host of Top Chef: Just Desserts, Bravo's pastry-focused spin-off of the Top Chef franchise. She was also the co-host of The Feed, which aired in 2014 on FYI, A+E's new lifestyle network. In addition to her work on Top Chef, Gail makes frequent television appearances on NBC's Today and ABC's Good Morning America, among others. She has been featured in such publications as New York magazine, Travel + Leisure, GQ, People, Los Angeles Times, and more.
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Edgar Bronfman, Sr
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Edgar Miles Bronfman was a Canadian-American businessman. He worked for his family's distilled beverage firm, Seagram, eventually becoming president, treasurer and CEO. As president of the World Jewish Congress, Bronfman is especially remembered for initiating diplomacy with the Soviet Union, which resulted in legitimizing the Hebrew language in the USSR, and contributed to Soviet Jews being legally able to practice their own religion, as well as immigrate to Israel.
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Jennifer Irwin
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Jennifer Irwin is a Canadian actress best known for her roles as Dolly Durkins on iZombie and as Laurie Neustadt in the comedy Superstore.
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John Abbott
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the third prime minister of Canada from 1891 to 1892. He held office as the leader of the Conservative Party.
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Thomas Mulcair
- Occupations
- lawyerpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Thomas Joseph Mulcair is a Canadian retired politician who served as the leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) from 2012 to 2017 and leader of the Official Opposition from 2012 to 2015. He was elected to the House of Commons in 2007 and sat as the member of Parliament (MP) for Outremont until 2018.
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Catherine McKenna
- Occupations
- lawyerinternational forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Catherine Mary McKenna is a Canadian lawyer and former politician who served as a Cabinet minister from 2015 to 2021. A member of the Liberal Party, McKenna was the minister of environment and climate change from 2015 to 2019 and minister of infrastructure and communities from 2019 to 2021. She was the member of Parliament (MP) for Ottawa Centre from 2015 to 2021, after deciding not to seek reelection in the 2021 federal election.
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Peng Ming-min
- Years
- 1923-2022 (aged 99)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Peng Ming-min was a notable Taiwanese democracy activist, advocate of Taiwan independence, and politician. Arrested for sedition in 1964 for printing a manifesto advocating democracy in his native Taiwan, he escaped to Sweden, before taking a post as a university teacher in the United States. After 22 years in exile he returned to become the Democratic Progressive Party's first presidential candidate in Taiwan's first direct presidential election in 1996.
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Kate McGarrigle
- Occupations
- singer-songwritersinger
- Biography
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Kate McGarrigle was a Canadian folk music singer-songwriter, who wrote and performed as a duo with her sister Anna McGarrigle.
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Dick Pound
- Occupations
- squash playerjuristswimmerlawyerbiographer
- Biography
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Richard William Duncan Pound, better known as Dick Pound, is a Canadian swimming champion, lawyer, and spokesman for ethics in sport. He was the first president of the World Anti-Doping Agency and vice-president of the International Olympic Committee. He is currently the longest-serving member of the IOC.
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Robert W. Service
- Occupations
- writerautobiographerwar correspondentpoetnovelist
- Biography
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Robert William Service was a British-Canadian poet and writer, often called "the Bard of the Yukon". Born in Lancashire of Scottish descent, he was a bank clerk by trade, but spent long periods travelling in the west in the United States and Canada, often in poverty. When his bank sent him to the Yukon, he was inspired by tales of the Klondike Gold Rush, and wrote two poems, "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee", which showed remarkable authenticity from an author with no experience of the gold rush or mining, and enjoyed immediate popularity. Encouraged by this, he quickly wrote more poems on the same theme, which were published as Songs of a Sourdough (re-titled The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses in the U.S.), and achieved a massive sale. When his next collection, Ballads of a Cheechako, proved equally successful, Service could afford to travel widely and live a leisurely life, basing himself in Paris and the French Riviera.
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Patrick Allen
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- businesspersonfilm actortelevision actorstage actor
- Biography
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John Keith Patrick Allen was a British actor.
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Tim Wu
- Enrolled in McGill University
- In 1995 graduated with Bachelor of Science in biophysics
- Occupations
- academiclegal scholarjournalist
- Biography
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Timothy "Tim" Shiou-Ming Wu is a Taiwanese American legal scholar who served as Special Assistant to the President for Technology and Competition Policy from 2021 to 2023. He was also a professor of law at Columbia University and a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. He is known legally and academically for significant contributions to antitrust and communications policy, coining the phrase "network neutrality" in his 2003 law journal article, Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination. In the late 2010s, Wu was a leading advocate for an antitrust lawsuit directed at the breakup of Facebook.
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Gordon Thomson
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Gordon Thomson is a Canadian actor widely known for his role as Adam Carrington on the 1980s American prime time soap opera Dynasty.
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Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
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- psychologistuniversity teacherpoliticianinternational forum participant
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Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga is a Latvian politician who served as the sixth President of Latvia from 1999 to 2007. She is the first woman to hold the post. She was elected President of Latvia in 1999 and re-elected for the second term in 2003.
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George Genereux
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- athletesport shooter
- Biography
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George Patrick Genereux was a Canadian gold medal-winning trap shooter and physician.
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Gerald Butts
- Occupations
- politician
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Gerald Michael Butts is a Canadian political consultant who served as the Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from November 4, 2015 until his resignation on February 18, 2019. From 2008 to 2012, he was president and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund Canada, part of a global conservation organization. In 2014, Maclean's magazine declared Butts to be the fourteenth most powerful Canadian. As the former Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Butts was praised as the architect behind the Liberal Party of Canada platform that led to its victory in October of 2015 and was one of the most senior staffers in the Office of the Prime Minister, along with Katie Telford.
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Dillon Casey
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- film actorstage actorfilm produceractortelevision actor
- Biography
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Dillon Francis Casey is an American-born Canadian actor and producer. He is best known for his role as Sean Pierce in The CW action-thriller television series Nikita.
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Adam Gopnik
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- journalistwriternovelistchildren's writer
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Adam Gopnik is an American writer and essayist. He is best known as a staff writer for The New Yorker, to which he has contributed non-fiction, fiction, memoir, and criticism since 1986.
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Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
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- anthropologistlinguistpsychologistuniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa was a Canadian-born American academic and politician of Japanese ancestry. A professor of English, he served as president of San Francisco State University and then as U.S. Senator from California from 1977 to 1983.
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Peter M. Lenkov
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- writershowrunnerfilm producertelevision producerscreenwriter
- Biography
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Peter M. Lenkov is a Canadian television and film writer, producer, and comic book author. He is best known as the showrunner of the reboot series Hawaii Five-0, MacGyver, and Magnum P.I., all of which aired on CBS when he was showrunner.
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Ralph Steinman
- Occupations
- biologistresearcherprofessorimmunologistphysician
- Biography
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Ralph Marvin Steinman was a Canadian physician and medical researcher at Rockefeller University, who in 1973 discovered and named dendritic cells while working as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Zanvil A. Cohn, also at Rockefeller University. Steinman was one of the recipients of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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John O'Keefe
- Enrolled in McGill University
- In 1967 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- neurologistinternational forum participantpsychologistscientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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John O'Keefe, is an American-British neuroscientist, psychologist and a professor at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour and the Research Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at University College London. He discovered place cells in the hippocampus, and that they show a specific kind of temporal coding in the form of theta phase precession. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014, together with May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser; he has received several other awards. He has worked at University College London for his entire career, but also held a part-time chair at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology at the behest of his Norwegian collaborators, the Mosers.
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Jennifer Grout
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Jennifer Grout is an American singer of Arabic and Amazigh (Tashelhit) music.
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Mike Lewis
- Occupations
- television actormodelactor
- Biography
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Michael George William Lewis is an Indonesian actor and model. His father is a Canadian diplomat, while his mother is of Chinese-Malaysian descent. When he was still in high school, Lewis' father was stationed at the Canadian embassy in Jakarta. As of 2018, Lewis resides in the Indonesian capital.
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Devon Welsh
- Years
- 1988-.. (age 35)
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Devon Welsh is a Canadian singer and songwriter. From 2010 to 2016, he was the frontman of the electropop duo Majical Cloudz. He released his debut solo album, Dream Songs, in 2018.
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Kid Koala
- Occupations
- disc jockey
- Biography
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Eric San, aka Kid Koala, is a Canadian scratch DJ, music producer, theatre producer, film composer, multimedia-performer and visual artist. His career began as a scratch DJ in 1994. Kid Koala works with genres as eclectic as hip hop, ambient, alternative, contemporary classical, blues, classic rock and traditional jazz. He has released 5 solo albums on Ninja Tune, and 3 albums on Arts & Crafts Records, the most recent being Music To Draw To: IO featuring Trixie Whitley. He has also released two award-winning graphic novels: Nufonia Must Fall and Space Cadet. He has collaborated with artists such as Gorillaz, The Slew, Lovage, The Afiara String Quartet, and Deltron 3030 (of which he is a member).
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Marc Tessier-Lavigne
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- neuroscientistacademicuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Marc Trevor Tessier-Lavigne is a Canadian-American neuroscientist who is the 11th and current president of Stanford University.
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John McCallum
- Occupations
- diplomatuniversity teacherpoliticianeconomist
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John McCallum is a Canadian politician, economist, diplomat and former university professor. A former Liberal Member of Parliament (MP), McCallum was the Canadian Ambassador to China from 2017 to 2019. He was asked for his resignation by Prime Minister Trudeau in 2019. As an MP, he represented the electoral district of Markham—Thornhill, and had previously represented Markham—Unionville and Markham. He is a member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada.
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Jack Szostak
- Enrolled in McGill University
- In 1971 graduated with Bachelor of Science in cell biology
- Occupations
- biologistprofessorgeneticistmolecular biologistbiochemist
- Biography
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Jack William Szostak is a Canadian American biologist of Polish British descent, Nobel Prize laureate, university professor at the University of Chicago, former Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, and Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Szostak has made significant contributions to the field of genetics. His achievement helped scientists to map the location of genes in mammals and to develop techniques for manipulating genes. His research findings in this area are also instrumental to the Human Genome Project. He was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol W. Greider, for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres.
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Andrew Miller
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- writeractorscreenwriterfilm directortelevision actor
- Biography
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Andrew Miller is a Canadian actor, writer, and director. He is known for his role as Kazan in the 1997 science fiction horror film Cube.
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Thomas D'Arcy McGee
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- journalistpoliticianwriterpoet
- Biography
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Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish-Canadian politician, Catholic spokesman, journalist, poet, and a Father of Canadian Confederation. The young McGee was an Irish Catholic who opposed British rule in Ireland, and was part of the Young Ireland attempts to overthrow British rule and create an independent Irish Republic. He escaped arrest and fled to the United States in 1848, where he reversed his political beliefs. He became disgusted with American republicanism, Anti-Catholicism, and Classical Liberalism. McGee became intensely monarchistic in his political beliefs and in his religious support for the embattled Pope Pius IX.
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Mike Ward
- Occupations
- humoristtelevision actor
- Biography
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Michael John Ward is a Canadian comedian. He performs comedy in both French and English.
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Brenda Milner
- Enrolled in McGill University
- In 1952 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- neuroscientistpsychologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Brenda Milner is a British-Canadian neuropsychologist who has contributed extensively to the research literature on various topics in the field of clinical neuropsychology. Milner is a professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University and a professor of Psychology at the Montreal Neurological Institute. As of 2020, she holds more than 25 honorary degrees and she continued to work in her nineties. Her current work covers many aspects of neuropsychology including her lifelong interest in the involvement of the temporal lobes in episodic memory. She is sometimes referred to as the founder of neuropsychology and has been essential in its development. She received the Balzan Prize for Cognitive Neuroscience in 2009, and the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience, together with John O'Keefe, and Marcus E. Raichle, in 2014. She turned 100 in July 2018 and at the time was still overseeing the work of researchers.
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Paul Bloom
- Enrolled in McGill University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Psychology
- Occupations
- psychologistprofessor emeritus
- Biography
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Paul Bloom is a Canadian American psychologist. He is the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus of psychology and cognitive science at Yale University and Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto. His research explores how children and adults understand the physical and social world, with special focus on language, morality, religion, fiction, and art.
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Bernard Nathanson
- Occupations
- gynaecologistwriterphysician
- Biography
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Bernard N. Nathanson was an American medical doctor and co-founder, in 1969, of the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL), later renamed National Abortion Rights Action League. He was also the former director of New York City's Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health, but later became an anti-abortion activist. He was the narrator for the controversial 1984 anti-abortion film The Silent Scream.
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Jonathan Goldstein
- Occupations
- radio personalityscreenwriternovelist
- Biography
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Jonathan Goldstein is an American-Canadian author, humorist and radio producer. Goldstein has worked on radio programs and podcasts such as Heavyweight, This American Life, and WireTap. Goldstein's work has been academically examined as representative of "the positioning of Jews and Canadians as potentially overlooked minorities in the late-twentieth- and early twenty-first-century United States".
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John R. Saul
- Enrolled in McGill University
- Studied in 1966
- Occupations
- investment bankerphilosopheropinion journalistpoliticiancolumnist
- Biography
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John Ralston Saul is a Canadian writer, political philosopher, and public intellectual. Saul is most widely known for his writings on the nature of individualism, citizenship and the public good; the failures of manager-led societies; the confusion between leadership and managerialism; military strategy, in particular irregular warfare; the role of freedom of speech and culture; and critiques of the prevailing economic paradigm. He is a champion of freedom of expression and was the International President of PEN International, an association of writers. Saul is the co-founder and co-chair of the Institute for Canadian Citizenship, a national charity promoting the inclusion of new citizens. He is also the co-founder and co-chair of 6 Degrees, the global forum for inclusion. Saul is also the husband to the former governor general Adrienne Clarkson, making him the Viceregal consort of Canada during most of her service (1999–2005).
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Mariloup Wolfe
- Occupations
- actorfilm director
- Biography
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Mariloup Wolfe is a Canadian actress and film director. She went to F.A.C.E. School, an art school in Montreal. She holds a major in Film Production from Concordia University (2001) and a minor in Cultural Studies from McGill University (1999). Mariloup Wolfe became famous through her role as Marianne in the popular TV series Ramdam broadcast since 2001 on Télé-Québec.
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John Rogers
- Enrolled in McGill University
- 1984-1990 studied physics
- Occupations
- film producertelevision producerscreenwritercomics writer
- Biography
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John Rogers is an American screenwriter. He is known as the creator of the television series Jackie Chan Adventures, Leverage (2008–2012; 2021-present as Leverage: Redemption on Freevee), The Librarians (2014–2018), and The Player (2015).
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Ahmed Nazif
- Occupations
- computer scientistpolitician
- Biography
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Ahmed Nazif served as the Prime Minister of Egypt from 14 July 2004 to 29 January 2011, when his cabinet was dismissed by President Hosni Mubarak in light of a popular uprising that led to the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. Nazif was Acting President of Egypt from 5 March to 15 April 2010, when President Mubarak delegated his authorities to Nazif while undergoing surgery in Germany.
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Louis Nirenberg
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacherscientist
- Biography
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Louis Nirenberg was a Canadian-American mathematician, considered one of the most outstanding mathematicians of the 20th century.
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Izabella St. James
- Occupations
- modelfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Izabella St. James is a television personality and a former girlfriend of Hugh Hefner, editor/publisher of Playboy magazine. She is best known as the author of a memoir entitled Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion, published 2006, about activities at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles.
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Willard Boyle
- Occupations
- inventorexecutivephotographerscientistphysicist
- Biography
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Willard Sterling Boyle, was a Canadian physicist. He was a pioneer in the field of laser technology and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device. As director of Space Science and Exploratory Studies at Bellcomm he helped select lunar landing sites and provided support for the Apollo space program.
