100 Notable alumni of
McMaster University
McMaster University is 498th in the world, 198th in North America, and 15th in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from McMaster University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 3 individuals affiliated with McMaster University won Nobel Prizes in Physics and Economics.
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John Candy
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- actorcomedianscreenwriterfilm actormanufacturer
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John Franklin Candy was a Canadian-American actor and comedian known mainly for his work in Hollywood films. Candy rose to fame in the 1970s as a member of the Toronto branch of the Second City and its Second City Television (SCTV) series, and through his appearances in comedy films, including Stripes, National Lampoon's Vacation, Splash, Cool Runnings, Summer Rental, The Great Outdoors, Spaceballs, and Uncle Buck, as well as more dramatic roles in Only the Lonely and JFK. One of his most renowned onscreen performances was as Del Griffith, the talkative shower-curtain ring salesman in the John Hughes comedy film Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
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Eugene Levy
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- screenwriterfilm actoractorfilm producerfilm director
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Eugene Levy CM is a Canadian actor, comedian, producer, director, and writer. From 1976 until 1984, he appeared in the Canadian television sketch comedy series SCTV. He has also appeared in the American Pie series of films and the Canadian sitcom Schitt's Creek. He often plays flustered and unconventional figures. He is a regular collaborator of actor-director Christopher Guest, appearing in and co-writing four of his films, commencing with Waiting for Guffman (1996).
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Martin Short
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- actorscreenwritersingervoice actorcomedian
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Martin Hayter Short is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, singer, and writer. He is known for his work on the television programs SCTV and Saturday Night Live. He has starred in comedy films such as Three Amigos (1986), Innerspace (1987), Three Fugitives (1989), Clifford (1994), Father of the Bride (1991), Pure Luck (1991), Captain Ron (1992), Father of the Bride Part II (1995), Mars Attacks! (1996), Jungle 2 Jungle (1997), and The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006). Short created the characters Jiminy Glick and Ed Grimley.
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Ivan Reitman
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- film producerfilm directorscreenwritertheatrical directorfilm actor
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Ivan Reitman, is a Slovak-Canadian-American film and television director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his comedy work, especially in the 1980s and 1990s. He is the owner of The Montecito Picture Company, founded in 1998.
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Pokimane
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- video bloggerYouTuberonline streamerTwitch streamervirtual YouTuber
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Imane Anys, better known by her online alias Pokimane, is a Canadian Internet personality. Anys is best known for her live streams on Twitch, broadcasting video game content, most notably in League of Legends and Fortnite. She is a member of OfflineTV, an online social entertainment group of content creators.
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Tommy Douglas
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- politicianministercleric
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Thomas Clement Douglas was a Canadian politician who served as Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961 and Leader of the New Democratic Party from 1961 to 1971. A Baptist minister, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1935 as a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). He left federal politics to become Leader of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and then the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan. His cabinet was the first democratic socialist government in North America and it introduced the continent's first single-payer, universal health care program.
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John Sessions
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- actorcomedianfilm actorstage actortelevision actor
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John Gibb Marshall, better known by the stage name John Sessions, was a British actor and comedian. He was known for comedy improvisation in television shows such as Whose Line Is It Anyway?, as a panellist on QI, and as a character actor in numerous films, both in the UK and Hollywood.
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Dave Thomas
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- actorfilm directorscreenwriterfilm producerfilm actor
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David William Thomas is a Canadian actor, comedian and television writer. He is best known for being one half of the duo Bob and Doug McKenzie with Rick Moranis. He appeared as Doug McKenzie on SCTV, for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award out of two nominations, and in the film Strange Brew (1983), which he also co-directed. As a duo, they made two albums, The Great White North and Strange Brew, the former gaining them a Grammy Award nomination and a Juno Award.
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Donna Strickland
- Enrolled in McMaster University
- In 1981 graduated with Bachelor of Engineering in engineering physics
- Occupations
- physicist
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Donna Theo Strickland, is a Canadian optical physicist and pioneer in the field of pulsed lasers. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, together with Gérard Mourou, for the practical implementation of chirped pulse amplification. She is a professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.
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Furious Pete
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- YouTuberbodybuildertelevision producer
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Peter Czerwinski, better known by his stage name Furious Pete, is a Canadian competitive eater, and YouTube personality. Czerwinski currently holds fourteen Guinness World Records in eating.
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Jonathan Frid
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- television actorfilm actorstage actor
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Jonathan Frid was a Canadian actor, widely known for his role as vampire Barnabas Collins on the gothic television soap opera Dark Shadows.
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Doug Henning
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- magicianpolitician
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Douglas James Henning was a Canadian magician, illusionist, escape artist and politician.
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Belinda Stronach
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- politicianbusinessperson
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Belinda Caroline Stronach, is a Canadian businesswoman, philanthropist and former Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of Canada from 2004 to 2008. Originally elected as a Conservative, she later crossed the floor to join the Liberals. From May 17, 2005, to February 6, 2006, Stronach was the Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development and Minister responsible for Democratic Renewal in the government of Paul Martin. After leaving politics, she served as the executive vice-chairman of Magna International, Canada's largest automotive parts manufacturer until December 31, 2010.
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David Easton
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- political scientistuniversity teacher
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David Easton was a Canadian-born American political scientist. Easton, who was born in Toronto, Ontario, came to the United States in 1943. From 1947 to 1997, he served as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago.
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Roberta Bondar
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- astronautbiologistphotographerneurologistphysician
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Roberta Bondar is Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space. After more than a decade as head of an international space medicine research team collaborating with NASA, Bondar became a consultant and speaker in the business, scientific, and medical communities.
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Myron Scholes
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- economistmathematician
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Myron Samuel Scholes is a Canadian-American financial economist. Scholes is the Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, and co-originator of the Black–Scholes options pricing model. Scholes is currently the chairman of the Board of Economic Advisers of Stamos Capital Partners. Previously he served as the chairman of Platinum Grove Asset Management and on the Dimensional Fund Advisors board of directors, American Century Mutual Fund board of directors and the Cutwater Advisory Board. He was a principal and limited partner at Long-Term Capital Management and a managing director at Salomon Brothers. Other positions Scholes held include the Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago, senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution, director of the Center for Research in Security Prices, and professor of finance at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Scholes earned his PhD at the University of Chicago.
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Jaime Mañalich
- Enrolled in McMaster University
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- politicianphysiciansurgeon
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Jaime José Mañalich Muxi is a Chilean physician (nephrologist), and former Health Minister. He held the position during the first Piñera government (2010-2014) and assumed the role again in June 2019 until he was replaced in June 2020 amidst criticism over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile.
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Alex Anthopoulos
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- chief executive officer
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Alex Anthopoulos is a Canadian professional baseball executive, currently working as the general manager and president of baseball operations for the Atlanta Braves. He was the senior vice president of baseball operations and general manager of the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2010 to 2015, for whom he began as a scouting coordinator in 2003. Prior to the Blue Jays, Anthopoulos got his start in professional baseball with the Montreal Expos organization in 2000. In 2015, he was named the Sporting News Executive of the Year after the Blue Jays advanced to the playoffs for the first time since 1993, reaching the American League Championship Series (ALCS). However, his term with the Blue Jays ended on October 29, 2015, when he declined a five-year contract extension. He served for two years as vice president of player development for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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Stephen Elop
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- business executive
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Stephen Elop is a Canadian businessman who most recently worked at Australian telecom company Telstra from April 2016. In the past he had worked for Nokia as the first non-Finn CEO and later as Executive Vice President, Devices & Services, as well as the head of the Microsoft Business Division, as the COO of Juniper Networks, as the president of worldwide field operations at Adobe Systems, in several senior positions in Macromedia and as the CIO at Boston Chicken.
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Andrea Horwath
- Enrolled in McMaster University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in industrial relations
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Andrea Horwath is a Canadian politician who currently serves as the leader of the Official Opposition in Ontario since 2018 and leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP) since 2009. She is the member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Hamilton Centre since 2004.
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Tihomir Orešković
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- businesspersonpoliticianentrepreneur
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Tihomir "Tim" Orešković is a Croatian Canadian businessman who was Prime Minister of Croatia from January to October 2016.
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Dalton McGuinty
- Enrolled in McMaster University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in biology
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Dalton James Patrick McGuinty Jr. is a Canadian retired politician who served as the 24th Premier of Ontario from 2003 to 2013. He was the first Liberal leader to win two majority governments since Mitchell Hepburn nearly 70 years earlier. In 2011, he became the first Liberal premier to secure a third consecutive term since Oliver Mowat (1872–1896), after his party was re-elected in that year's provincial election.
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Ron Joyce
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- autobiographerbusinessperson
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Ronald Vaughan Joyce, was a Canadian entrepreneur and billionaire. He co-founded the Tim Hortons doughnut chain as Tim Horton's partner and first franchisee in 1964. After the death of Tim Horton, Ron Joyce was instrumental in establishing the Tim Horton Children's Camps and the Tim Horton Children's Foundation. He has received many awards and honours for his success in business and his extensive philanthropy. He was named a member of the Order of Canada in 1992 in recognition of his dedication to underprivileged children and youth.
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Lionel Sanders
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- triathlete
- Biography
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Lionel James Sanders is a Canadian professional triathlete and the winner of the 2017 ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships. In 2017 he also placed second at the Ironman World Championship. In 2014 he placed fourth in the 2014 Ironman 70.3 World Championship held in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec. Sanders's first professional race was in September 2013 at the Muskoka Ironman 70.3, where he took 1st place over Andreas Raelert.
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Harold Innis
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- economisthistorianphilosopheruniversity teachersociologist
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Harold Adams Innis was a Canadian professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author of seminal works on media, communication theory, and Canadian economic history. He helped develop the staples thesis, which holds that Canada's culture, political history, and economy have been decisively influenced by the exploitation and export of a series of "staples" such as fur, fish, lumber, wheat, mined metals, and coal. The staple thesis dominated economic history in Canada from the 1930s to 1960s, and continues to be a fundamental part of the Canadian political economic tradition.
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Adam van Koeverden
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- kayakercanoeistpolitician
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Adam Joseph van Koeverden is a Canadian sprint kayaker and politician. He is an Olympic gold medallist in the K-1 500m category (2004) and a two-time world champion in K-1 500 (2007) and K-1 1000 (2011), winning four Olympic and eight world championship medals. His home club is the Burloak Canoe Club in Oakville, Ontario.
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Lincoln Alexander
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- lawyerpoliticianautobiographer
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Lincoln MacCauley Alexander was a Canadian lawyer who became the first black Member of Parliament in the House of Commons, the first black federal Cabinet Minister (serving as federal Minister of Labour), the first black Chair of the Worker's Compensation Board, and the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1985 to 1991. He was the first person to serve five terms as Chancellor of the University of Guelph, from 1991 to 2007. Alexander was also a governor of the Canadian Unity Council.
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Reza Ardakanian
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- politician
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Reza Ardakanian is an Iranian professor, politician and the current Minister of Energy of Iran, a position he has held since 29 October 2017. He was previously deputy energy minister in the 1980s and 1990s and has been involved with UN-Water.
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Gurratan Singh
- Born in
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Canada - Enrolled in McMaster University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and religious studies
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gurratan Singh is an Indo-Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2018 provincial election. He represents the riding of Brampton East as a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party.
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Sheila Copps
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- journalistpoliticianautobiographerwriter
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Sheila Maureen Copps is a former Canadian politician who also served as the sixth deputy prime minister of Canada from November 4, 1993, to April 30, 1996, and June 19, 1996, to June 11, 1997. Her father, Victor Copps was once mayor of Hamilton, Ontario.
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Roger Neilson
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- ice hockey player
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Roger Paul Neilson, was a Canadian professional ice hockey coach, most notably in the National Hockey League (NHL), and was responsible for many innovations in the game. He is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame in the builder category.
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Yasir Naqvi
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- politician
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Yasir Abbas Naqvi is a former Pakistani-Canadian politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2007 to 2018 who represented the riding of Ottawa Centre. He was President of the Ontario Liberal Party and served in several cabinet positions in the government of Kathleen Wynne, including as Attorney General.
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PJ Haarsma
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- novelistscience fiction writer
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Philip-Jon Haarsma /ˈhɑːrzmɑː/, more commonly known as PJ Haarsma, is a Canadian born producer and science fiction author best known for his creation of the Rings of Orbis universe, which encompasses The Softwire series of books. Haarsma created a free, online role-playing game, also called the Rings of Orbis, set in the same universe. Both the book-series and the game target young, often reluctant readers in an attempt to encourage them by rewarding them for reading.
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Syl Apps
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- ice hockey playerpoliticianpole vaulter
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Charles Joseph Sylvanus Apps, was a Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs from 1936 to 1948, an Olympic pole vaulter and a Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament in Ontario. In 2017 Apps was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.
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Somkele Iyamah
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- actorbusiness executive
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Somkele Iyamah-Idhalama is a Nigerian TV and film actress and model. She is well known for her roles in 93 Days, The Wedding Party, The Arbitration (2016), the TV series Gidi Up (2013–present) and gained recognition at the Toronto International Film Festival and Africa International Film Festival. She is also the latest ambassador for Multichoice's DSTV Explora, the widest satellite cable network across Africa. She's set to feature in the highly anticipated movie, A Soldier's Story 2: Return from the Dead - sequel to 2016 multiple award-winning romantic drama.
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Eric Hoskins
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- politician
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Eric William Hoskins is a Canadian physician and former politician who served as Ontario Minister of Health and Long-Term Care from 2014 to 2018. A member of the Liberal Party, he sat as a member of the Provincial Parliament (MPP) from 2009 to 2018, representing the electoral district of Toronto—St. Paul's in the Ontario Legislature.
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David Braley
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- politician
- Biography
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David Osborn Braley was a Canadian businessman and politician who was the owner of the BC Lions and previously owner of the Toronto Argonauts and Hamilton Tiger-Cats. He was appointed to the Senate of Canada in 2010 as a Conservative, but resigned three years later stating no official reason. He was a member of the Order of Canada and the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.
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John Mighton
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- mathematicianplaywrightactor
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John Mighton, OC is a Canadian mathematician, author, and playwright.
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Sarah Thomson
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sarah Thomson, also known as Sarah Whatmough-Thomson, is publisher and CEO of the Women's Post and the volunteer CEO of the non-profit Transit Alliance.
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Samantha Nutt
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Samantha Joan Nutt is a Canadian physician and philanthropist who is the founder and executive director of War Child Canada. She has more than sixteen years of experience working in war zones. Her 2011 book Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies and Aid details her work over the course of fifteen years in some of the most devastated regions of the world.
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Diana Panton
- Born in
- Canada
- Occupations
- singerjazz musician
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Diana Panton is a Canadian jazz vocalist. She won a Juno Award for Children's Album of the Year in 2017 for I Believe in Little Things and a 2015 Juno award for Vocal Jazz Album for RED. She has also received five JUNO nominations for her albums Cheerful Little Earful, Solstice/Equinox (2019), Christmas Kiss (2013), To Brazil with Love (2012) and If the Moon Turns Green...(2009). I Believe in Little Things debuted at #8 on the Billboard Jazz Chart while simultaneously debuting at #11 on the Billboard Children's Music Chart. Her first album,...Yesterday Perhaps, and her third album, Pink, were awarded Silver Disc Awards by Japan's Jazz Critique Magazine.
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James Orbinski
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- physicianwriter
- Biography
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James Jude Orbinski, is a Canadian physician, humanitarian activist, author and leading scholar in global health. Orbinski was the 2016-17 Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of California, Irvine, and as of September 1, 2017, he is professor and inaugural director of the Dahdaleh Institute of Global Health Research at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was previously the CIGI Chair in Global Health Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Wilfrid Laurier University (2012-2017), Chair of Global Health at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (2010-2012) and full professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto (2003-2012), where he was the founding Saul Rae Fellow at Massey College. Orbinski’s current research interests focus on the health impacts of climate change, medical humanitarianism, intervention strategies around emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, and global health governance.
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Steve Mann
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- inventoruniversity teachercomputer scientistengineerwriter
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William Stephen George Mann is a Canadian engineer, professor, and inventor known for his work in augmented reality, computational photography, particularly wearable computing, and high-dynamic-range imaging. Mann is sometimes labeled the "Father of Wearable Computing" for early inventions and continuing contributions to the field. He cofounded InteraXon, makers of the Muse brain-sensing headband, and is also a founding member of the IEEE Council on Extended Intelligence (CXI). Mann is currently CTO and cofounder at Blueberry X Technologies and Chairman of MannLab. Mann was born in Canada, and currently lives in Toronto, Canada, with his wife and two children.
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Tyler Ardron
- Occupations
- rugby union player
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Tyler Ardron is a Canadian rugby union player who plays for Canada nationally and Castres in the Top 14. Ardron plays in the back-row but is also capable of providing cover in the second row. Ardron made his debut for the Canada national rugby union team against the United States during the 2012 Summer Internationals and has captained the team since 2013, notably at the World Cup in 2015 and 2019. In 2017 it was announced that Ardron had signed with the Super Rugby side the Chiefs for the 2018 season and Bay of Plenty for the 2017 Mitre 10 Cup season.
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Blake Morrison
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- poetwriternovelistauthor
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Philip Blake Morrison FRSL is an English poet and author who has published in a wide range of fiction and non-fiction genres. His greatest success came with the publication of his memoirs And When Did You Last See Your Father? which won the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography. He has also written a study of the murder of James Bulger, As If. Since 2003, Morrison has been Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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James C. Adamson
- Occupations
- astronautengineeraircraft pilot
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James Craig Adamson is a former NASA astronaut and retired Colonel of the United States Army. He is married with 3 children. James Adamson flew on two missions, STS-28 and STS-43, and completed 263 orbits and 334 hours in space. After retiring from NASA, he was recruited by Allied Signal (later merged with Honeywell) where he retired in 2001. Adamson has logged over 3,000 hours in over 30 different types of helicopters and airplanes.
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Dhammananda Bhikkhuni
- Occupations
- authoruniversity teacherwriternun
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Dhammananda Bhikkhuni, was born Chatsumarn Kabilsingh (Thai: ฉัตรสุมาลย์ กบิลสิงห์; RTGS: Chatsuman Kabinsing) or Chatsumarn Kabilsingh Shatsena (Thai: ฉัตรสุมาลย์ กบิลสิงห์ ษัฏเสน; RTGS: Chatsuman Kabinsing Satsena; 6 October 1944) is a Thai bhikkhuni ("Buddhist nun"). On 28 February 2003, Kabilsingh received full monastic ordination as a bhikkhuni of the Theravada tradition in Sri Lanka. She is Abbess of Songdhammakalyani Monastery, the only temple in Thailand where there are bhikkhunis.
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Matthew Barber
- Occupations
- singersinger-songwriter
- Biography
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Matthew Barber is a Canadian singer-songwriter. His music has been classified as indie pop and pop rock with folk and alternative country influences.
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Peter Sloly
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Peter John M. Sloly, is a Canadian police officer who is Ottawa Chief of Police, and a former soccer player. He is the former deputy chief of the Toronto Police Service (Divisional Policing Command and Operational Support Command 2009-2016) and was a member of the Toronto Police for 27 years. He is also a former soccer player who represented the Canadian national team in 1984.
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Gordon Guyatt
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Gordon Henry Guyatt, MD, MSc, FRCP, OC born November 11, 1953) is a Canadian physician and Distinguished University Professor in the Departments of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact and Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He is known for his leadership in evidence-based medicine, a term that first appeared in a single-author paper he published in 1991. Subsequently, a 1992 JAMA article that Guyatt led proved instrumental in bringing the concept of evidence-based medicine to the world's attention. In 2007, The BMJ launched an international election for the most important contributions to healthcare. Evidence-based medicine came 7th, ahead of the computer and medical imaging. Guyatt's concerns with the role of the medical system, social justice, and medical reform remain central issues that he promoted in tandem with his medical work. On October 9, 2015, he was named to the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
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James Alcock
- Occupations
- psychologist
- Biography
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James E. Alcock is a Canadian educator. He has been a Professor of Psychology at York University (Canada) since 1973. Alcock is a noted critic of parapsychology and is a Fellow and Member of the Executive Council for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is a member of the Editorial Board of The Skeptical Inquirer, and a frequent contributor to the magazine. He has also been a columnist for Humanist Perspectives Magazine. In 1999, a panel of skeptics named him among the two dozen most outstanding skeptics of the 20th century. In May 2004, CSICOP awarded Alcock CSI's highest honor, the In Praise of Reason Award. Alcock is also an amateur magician and is a member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians. As of 2020, he is currently on leave from York University.
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Martin Green
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Martin Andrew Green is an Australian engineer and professor at the University of New South Wales who works on solar energy. He was awarded the 2021 Japan Prize for his achievements in the "Development of High-Efficiency Silicon Photovoltaic Devices". He is editor-in-chief of the academic journal Progress in Photovoltaics.
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Mamdouh Shoukri
- Years
- 1940s
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Mamdouh Shoukri, was the seventh President and Vice-Chancellor of York University, serving two terms from 2007 to 2017. His first term began on July 1, 2007, and on April 25, 2011, the Board of Governors of York University announced his renewal for a second term.
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Michael Frank Goodchild
- Years
- 1944-.. (age 78)
- Enrolled in McMaster University
- In 1969 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in geography
- Occupations
- geographer
- Biography
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Michael Frank Goodchild is a British-American geographer. He is an Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. After nineteen years at the University of Western Ontario, including three years as chair, he moved to Santa Barbara in 1988, as part of the establishment of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, which he directed for over 20 years. In 2008, he founded the UCSB Center for Spatial Studies.
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Stephen A. Kent
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- sociologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Stephen A. Kent, is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He researches new religious movements, and has published research on several such groups including the Children of God, the Church of Scientology, and newer faiths operating in Canada.
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Kevin G. Lynch
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Kevin G. Lynch is a Canadian economist and former Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet, Canada's most senior civil servant.
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Howard Engel
- Occupations
- novelistwriter
- Biography
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Howard Engel CM was a Canadian mystery author and CBC producer who resided in Toronto, Ontario. He was famous for his Benny Cooperman detective series, set in the Niagara Region in and around the city of Grantham, Ontario, mirroring St. Catharines, Ontario, where he was born. He was one of the founding authors of Crime Writers Of Canada in 1982.
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Heather Munroe-Blum
- Occupations
- financier
- Biography
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Heather Anne Elyse Lilian Munroe-Blum is a Canadian academic and businesswoman. She is the former principal and vice-chancellor of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. She is also a member of the board of directors of the Royal Bank of Canada, and chairperson of the board of directors of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.
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John Ivison
- Occupations
- columnist
- Biography
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John Ivison is a Scottish Canadian journalist and author. He is an Ottawa-based political columnist for the National Post and Ottawa Bureau Chief.
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Aaron Carpenter
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Aaron Carpenter is a retired Canadian rugby union player.
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Stanley Knowles
- Occupations
- politiciantrade unionistpriest
- Biography
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Stanley Howard Knowles was a Canadian parliamentarian. Knowles represented the riding of Winnipeg North Centre from 1942 to 1958 on behalf of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and again from 1962 to 1984 representing the CCF's successor, the New Democratic Party (NDP).
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Robert Nixon
- Biography
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Robert Fletcher Nixon, is a Canadian retired politician in the province of Ontario, Canada. The son of former Premier of Ontario Harry Nixon, he was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in a 1962 by-election following his father's death. The younger Nixon was elected leader of the Ontario Liberal Party in 1967 and led them through three provincial elections, the first two where the Liberals retained their standing as the second-largest party and official opposition in the legislature. Nixon resigned as party leader in 1976, and was succeeded by Stuart Smith after a leadership convention. Nixon remained a prominent member of the Liberal caucus after standing down from the party leadership, including two stints as interim opposition leader, and served as Provincial Treasurer and Deputy Premier in the government of David Peterson from 1985 to 1990.
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Richard Bader
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Richard F. W. Bader was a Canadian quantum chemist, noted for his work on the Atoms in molecules theory. This theory attempts to establish a physical basis for many of the working concepts of chemistry, such as atoms in molecules and bonding, in terms of the topology of the electron density function in three-dimensional space. Alongside the eminent chemist Ronald Gillespie, he had a significant influence on inorganic chemistry education in Canada.
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Anupam Sen
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Anupam Sen is an Bangladeshi Author, Sociologist & social activist. He is currently serving as the vice-chancellor of Premier University, Chittagong. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2014 by the Government of Bangladesh.
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Lisa Thomaidis
- Occupations
- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Lisa Thomaidis is a Canadian basketball coach for the Canada women's national basketball team. She is also the head coach of the Saskatchewan Huskies women's basketball program, winning the Bronze Baby National Championship Trophy in 2016 and 2020.
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Chris Searle
- Occupations
- teacherpoet
- Biography
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Chris Searle is a British educator, poet, anti-racist activist and socialist. He has written widely on cricket, language, jazz, race and social justice, and has taught in Canada, England, Tobago, Mozambique and Grenada. He has been associated with the Institute of Race Relations since the 1970s, and is on the editorial board of Race & Class. He writes a weekly column on jazz for the left-wing newspaper Morning Star.
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Thomas Mason
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Thomas "Thom" Mason is a Canadian-American condensed-matter physicist who currently serves as the director of Los Alamos National Laboratory. Prior to this appointment, he had been an executive at Battelle Memorial Institute from 2017–2018, and the director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 2007–2017. Mason came to Oak Ridge in 1998 at the start of construction of the Spallation Neutron Source which he led from 2001 until project completion in 2006.
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Chris Van Zeyl
- Occupations
- Canadian football player
- Biography
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Chris Van Zeyl is a professional Canadian football offensive tackle for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He is a two-time Grey Cup champion with the Toronto Argonauts and was named a CFL All-Star three times and CFL East Division All-Star six times. He played CIS Football for the McMaster Marauders as a defensive lineman.
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Bob Dechert
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Robert "Bob" Dechert is a Canadian politician and lawyer. A member of the Conservative Party of Canada, Dechert served as Member of Parliament for the riding of Mississauga—Erindale in the House of Commons of Canada from 2008 to 2015.
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Charles Aubrey Eaton
- Occupations
- politicianpastor
- 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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Sean Barrett
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Sean Declan Conrad Barrett is an Irish economist and former senator. He was a senior lecturer in the Department of Economics of Trinity College, Dublin, and a Fellow of the College. In April 2011, he was elected to the Dublin University constituency of Seanad Éireann but narrowly lost his seat in 2016. In 2018 he was elected a Pro-Chancellor of the University of Dublin.
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Akram Pedramnia
- Occupations
- poetwriterliterary criticphysiciannovelist
- Biography
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Akram Pedramnia is an Iranian-Canadian writer, translator, Joycean scholar, researcher, activist, and physician. She has written, researched, and translated many English novels and political articles. She resides in Canada since 1998 when she had emigrated from Iran.
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Tony Valeri
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tony Valeri, is a former Canadian politician. Valeri was the Government House Leader in Paul Martin's government from 2004 until 2006. He was narrowly defeated by New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate Wayne Marston in the 2006 general election held on January 23, 2006.
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David Hamid
- Occupations
- priest
- Biography
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David Hamid is an Anglican bishop with British and Canadian citizenship. He has been the Suffragan Bishop in Europe since 2002.
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Jeffrey Remedios
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Jeffrey Remedios is the Chairman and CEO of Universal Music Canada. He also founded Arts & Crafts Records. In 2015 he was named by Toronto Life as one of Toronto's 50 most influential people.
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Chris Charlton
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chris Charlton is a German-born, Canadian politician from the City of Hamilton, Ontario. As a New Democrat, she served as the Member of Parliament for Hamilton Mountain from 2006 until 2015.
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Karl Clark
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Karl Adolf Clark was a chemist and oil sand researcher. He is best known for perfecting a process that uses hot water and reagents to separate bitumen from oil sands.
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Mike Bradwell
- Occupations
- Canadian football player
- Biography
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Mike Bradwell is a former Canadian football wide receiver who played for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. He was drafted in the second round of the 2008 CFL Draft by the Toronto Argonauts. He began playing football in his final year at Leaside High School and played CIS football with McMaster University.
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Victor M. Montori
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 52)
- Occupations
- endocrinologist
- Biography
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Victor Montori is the professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA. He was born and raised in Lima, Peru. He completed medical school at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Peru, before joining the Internal Medicine Residency Program at the Mayo Clinic, where he was eventually named Chief Resident. Following his residency training, he began a Fellowship in Endocrinology, also at the Mayo Clinic, and obtained a master's degree in biomedical research from the Mayo Graduate School. During his training, he became interested in evidence-based medicine. He then spent two years at McMaster University in Canada, where he was a research fellow under Gordon Guyatt as a Mayo Foundation Scholar.
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Jason Pottinger
- Occupations
- Canadian football player
- Biography
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Jason Pottinger is a former professional Canadian football linebacker who played in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was drafted second overall by the BC Lions in the 2006 CFL Draft. He played CIS football for the McMaster Marauders.
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Kathy Bardswick
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Kathy Bardswick is a Canadian business executive. From 2002 to 2016, she was the President and CEO of The Co-operators Group Ltd, a Canadian insurance cooperative based in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. She is one of a handful of women at the helm of the top 100 companies in Canada.
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Margaret Lyons
- Enrolled in McMaster University
- Studied in 1949
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Keiko Margaret Lyons, was the first female vice president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). She is known for her role in the CBC's "Radio Revolution", a populist revamp of the CBC Radio network which resulted in programs such as Quirks and Quarks and As It Happens. Lyons was designated a Member of the Order of Canada in 2010 for her work in broadcasting.
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Peter Trent
- Years
- 1946-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- business magnateteacherpolitician
- Biography
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Peter Francis Trent, is an English-born Canadian businessman and politician. He was mayor of Westmount, Quebec until his retirement in April 2017. He was first elected as councillor in 1983. He served as mayor from 1992 to 2001, he left politics at that time due to the forced merger with the City of Montreal. He again became Mayor of Westmount by acclamation on the 1 November 2009 municipal election.
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Sow-Hsin Chen
- Occupations
- physicistnuclear physicist
- Biography
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Sow-Hsin Chen, is a Hoklo Taiwanese physicist and Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is a recognized pioneer in the research of the dynamic properties of supercooled and interfacial water with the use of neutron scattering techniques. As an educator, he has been recognized for his training of young scientists in the use of those same techniques. Regarding hydrogen storage, his research focuses on the use of activated carbon to allow hydrogen to be stored at room temperature.
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Melanie Kok
- Occupations
- rower
- Biography
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Melanie Kok [pronounced "Cook"] is a Canadian rower and neuroscientist. Kok won a bronze team medal in the Women's Lightweight Double Sculls at the 2008 Summer Olympics with Tracy Cameron.
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Kenneth O. Hill
- Enrolled in McMaster University
- In 1963 graduated with Bachelor of Engineering
- In 1965 graduated with Master of Engineering
- In 1968 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in engineering physics
- Occupations
- physicistengineer
- Biography
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Kenneth O. Hill is a Mexican Canadian physicist who specializes in the field of photonics. In the late 1970s, he discovered the phenomena of photosensitivity in optical fiber and has worked extensively in its applications. He first demonstrated Fiber Bragg gratings and their applications in optical communication and optical sensor systems. Further areas of his discovery and innovation include the phase mask technique for grating fabrication, fiber grating dispersion compensators, and wavelength selective fiber filters, multiplexers and demultiplexers. This field of research has led to the ability to create high speed fiber optic networks as well as many other communication applications that have revolutionized the telecommunications industry.
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John E. Thomas
- Years
- 1926-1996 (aged 70)
- Occupations
- philosopher
- Biography
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John Edward Thomas was a Canadian philosopher and pioneer of medical ethics in Canada.
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Vince Molinaro
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 60)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Venanzio "Vince" Molinaro is a business strategist and leadership adviser. He is the author of several books, including The Leadership Contract. Molinaro is the reference founder and CEO of Leadership Contract Inc.
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John F. MacGregor
- Years
- 1943-.. (age 79)
- Occupations
- engineerstatistician
- Biography
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John Frederick MacGregor is a statistician whose work in the field of statistical process control has received significant recognition. His pioneering work was in the area of latent variable/multivariate analysis (MVA) methods (principal components analysis and partial least squares) applied to industrial processes.
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Charly Chiarelli
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Calogero Chiarelli (born October 2, 1948) is a Canadian writer, storyteller, actor and musician.
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Wendy Levinson
- Born in
- Canada
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Wendy Levinson MD OC is a Canadian physician and academic. She is the Chair of Choosing Wisely Canada, "a campaign to help physicians and patients engage in conversations about unnecessary tests, treatments and procedures". She is also Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto.
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Rob Leone
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rob Leone is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2011 to 2014. He represented the riding of Cambridge.
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Kelsey Leonard
- Biography
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Kelsey Leonard is the first Native American woman to earn a science degree from the University of Oxford, which she earned in 2012. She earned an MSc in Water Science, Policy and Management from St. Cross College, one of the thirty-eight colleges of the University of Oxford. Her master's thesis, “Water Quality For Native Nations: Achieving A Trust Responsibility”, discusses water quality regulation and how water resources on tribal land are not protected.
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Leah Ryerse
- Occupations
- beauty pageant contestant
- Biography
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Leah Nicole Ryerse is a beauty queen who represented Canada in Miss World 2008 in Johannesburg, South Africa. She completed her second year at McMaster with a double Honours Bachellor of Arts in Health and Social Work.
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Apostolos Serletis
- Occupations
- professoreconomist
- Biography
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Apostolos Serletis is a Greek economist who is a Professor of Economics at the University of Calgary.
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Simon Sunatori
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- engineerentrepreneur
- Biography
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Simon Sunatori is a Canadian engineer, inventor and entrepreneur, known for the invention of the Multi-Lingual Knowledge Matrix Method and System, the HyperFeeder (a squirrel-proof bird feeder with concentric perching rings and a transparent globe), the MagneScribe (an auto-retractable ballpoint pen with an ergonomic cushion), the Magic Spicer (a self-sealing auto-aligning magnetically hanging spice dispenser with a continuously variable hole-size selector) and Hyper-biOObi (Integrated Multi-Dimensional Biography & Obituary Generator from a Single Source), and for the discovery of the Anisotropic Electromagnetic Force Phenomena. He obtained a Master of Engineering (Engineering Physics) degree from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1983, and is a member of the Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO), a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a life member of the World Future Society (WFS). He is listed in Canadian Who's Who, published by the University of Toronto Press (UTP).
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Theodosius Mar Thoma
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 73)
- Occupations
- Metropolitan
- Biography
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Theodosius Mar Thoma Metropolitan is the 22nd Mar Thoma Metropolitan and the current primate of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church headquartered in Kerala, India.
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Tyrell Vernon
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Tyrell Vernon is a Canadian professional basketball player who last played for the Mississauga Power of the National Basketball League of Canada (NBL). He played at the collegiate level with McMaster University and then St. Francis Xavier University and was one of the top passers and shooters in the Atlantic University Sport association while with the latter team. Vernon primarily plays the point guard position and stands 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m).
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Santee Smith
- Occupations
- dancerchancellor
- Biography
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Santee Smith is a Kahnyen’kehàka multidisciplinary artist, dancer and choreographer from Six Nations of the Grand River. In 2019, she was appointed Chancellor of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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Laurence B. Mussio
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Laurence B. Mussio is a Canadian business historian, author, professor, management consultant and special advisor to senior executives, best known for his publications in finance, communications, political economy and reputation management.
