100 Notable alumni of
McMaster University
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McMaster University is 513th in the world, 195th 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. 1 individual affiliated with McMaster University won Nobel Prizes in Physics.
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John Candy
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- manufacturercomedianfilm directortelevision actoractor
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John Franklin Candy was a Canadian 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 SCTV sketch comedy series. He grew to prominence in the 1980s with his roles in comedic films such as Stripes, Splash, Little Shop of Horrors, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Spaceballs, The Great Outdoors, and Uncle Buck. He was also known for his supporting roles in The Blues Brothers, National Lampoon's Vacation, and Home Alone, and had dramatic roles in Only the Lonely and JFK.
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Eugene Levy
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- musicianvoice actorfilm directorwriterfilm producer
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Eugene Levy is a Canadian actor and comedian. Known for portraying flustered and unconventional figures, Levy has won multiple accolades throughout his career including four Primetime Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2011, and was made Companion of the Order of Canada in 2022.
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Martin Short
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- voice actorfilm directorsingeractorcomedian
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Martin Hayter Short is a Canadian actor, comedian, and writer. He has received various awards including two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award. Short was awarded as an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2019.
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Ivan Reitman
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- film actortheatrical directorfilm directorfilm producerscreenwriter
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Ivan Reitman was a Czechoslovak-born Canadian filmmaker. He was best known for his comedy work, especially in the 1980s and 1990s. He was the owner of The Montecito Picture Company, founded in 1998.
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Pokimane
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- YouTuberchess playerTwitch streameronline streamertelevision producer
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Imane Anys, better known as Pokimane, is a Moroccan-Canadian Twitch streamer and YouTuber. She is best known for her live streams on Twitch, broadcasting video game content, most notably in League of Legends and Fortnite. She is currently the most-followed female streamer on the platform. She is a member and co-founder of OfflineTV, an online social entertainment group of content creators.
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Tommy Douglas
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- clericpoliticianChristian minister
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Thomas Clement Douglas was a Canadian politician who served as the seventh 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 government introduced the continent's first single-payer, universal health care program.
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John Sessions
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- television actorcomedianactorfilm actorstage actor
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John 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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- film actorfilm directorfilm produceractortelevision 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
- physicistuniversity teacher
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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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- bodybuilderYouTubertelevision 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 actorstage actorfilm actor
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Jonathan Frid was a Canadian actor, best 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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- politicianillusionistmagician
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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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- businesspersonpolitician
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Belinda Caroline Stronach is a Canadian businesswoman, philanthropist and a 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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Myron Scholes
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- mathematicianeconomistresearcher
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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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David Easton
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- university teacherpolitical scientist
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David Easton was a Canadian-born American political scientist. 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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- biologistneurologistphysicianastronautphotographer
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Roberta Lynn Bondar is a Canadian astronaut, neurologist and consultant. She is Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space.
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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 its first non-Finnish 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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Jaime Mañalich
- Enrolled in McMaster University
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- politiciansurgeonphysician
- Biography
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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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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 has been the 58th mayor of Hamilton since 2022. Horwath previously served as the member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Hamilton Centre from 2004 to 2022, as leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP) from 2009 to 2022 and as the leader of the Official Opposition in Ontario from 2018 to 2022.
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Tihomir Orešković
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- businesspersonentrepreneurpolitician
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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
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Dalton James Patrick McGuinty Jr. is a former Canadian 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 after his party was re-elected in that year's provincial election.
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Lionel Sanders
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- triathlete
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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 and 2021, 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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Ron Joyce
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- businesspersonautobiographer
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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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Lincoln Alexander
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- lawyerpoliticianautobiographer
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Lincoln MacCauley Alexander was a Canadian lawyer and politician who became the first Black Canadian to be a member of Parliament in the House of Commons, a federal Cabinet Minister (as federal Minister of Labour), a Chair of the Worker's Compensation Board of Ontario, and the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1985 to 1991. Alexander was also a governor of the Canadian Unity Council.
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Harold Innis
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- sociologistuniversity teacherphilosopherhistorianeconomist
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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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- canoeistpoliticiankayaker
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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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Gurratan Singh
- Enrolled in McMaster University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in religious studies and philosophy
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gurratan Singh is a former Indo-Canadian politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2018 provincial election. He represented the riding of Brampton East as a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party. He was defeated in the 2022 Ontario general election.
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Reza Ardakanian
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- politician
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Reza Ardakanian is an Iranian professor, politician and former Minister of Energy of Iran, a position he had held from 29 October 2017 to 25 August 2021. He was previously deputy energy minister in the 1980s and 1990s and has been involved with UN-Water.
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Sheila Copps
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- journalistpoliticianwriterautobiographer
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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
- Biography
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Roger Paul Neilson, was a Canadian professional ice hockey coach, most notably in the NHL, where he served with eight teams. Known as Captain Video because of his technological contributions to the game, he is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame in the builder category. Alongside his decorated coaching abilities, Neilson is commonly remembered today for his many antics which resulted in the creation of several NHL rules.
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Bertram Brockhouse
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- physicistuniversity teachernuclear physicist
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Bertram Neville Brockhouse, was a Canadian physicist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics (1994, shared with Clifford Shull) "for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter", in particular "for the development of neutron spectroscopy".
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Yasir Naqvi
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- politician
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Yasir Abbas Naqvi is a Canadian politician who has served as the member of Parliament (MP) for Ottawa Centre since the 2021 federal election, sitting as a Liberal. Prior to his election to the House of Commons, Naqvi was active in Ontario provincial politics, serving as the attorney general of Ontario (2016–2018), minister of community safety and correctional services (2014–2016), and minister of labour (2013–2014). He represented Ottawa Centre in the Legislative Assembly.
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PJ Haarsma
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- science fiction writernovelist
- Biography
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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. He is also the founder and CEO of Redbear Films, a production company that focuses on advertisements.
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Syl Apps
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- pole vaulterpoliticianice hockey player
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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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- film actormodelmanagertelevision actorambassador
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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 (2016), The Wedding Party, The Arbitration (2016), and the TV series Gidi Up (2013–2014) and at the Toronto International Film Festival and Africa International Film Festival. She is an ambassador for Multichoice's DSTV Explora, the widest satellite cable network across Africa. She has in the movie, A Soldier's Story 2: Return from the Dead - sequel to a 2016 multiple award-winning romantdramasama.
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Peter Sloly
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- chief of policeassociation football player
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Peter John Michael Sloly is a Canadian former police officer who served as the chief of police for the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) from 2019 to 2022. Before joining the OPS, Sloly was a member of the Toronto Police Service (TPS) for 27 years, including as a deputy chief of police from 2009 to 2016.
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Steve Mann
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- computer scientistengineerinventoruniversity teacherwriter
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William Stephen George Mann is a Canadian engineer, professor, and inventor who works 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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Eric Hoskins
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- politician
- Biography
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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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John Mighton
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- writerplaywrightmathematicianinternational forum participantactor
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John Mighton, OC is a Canadian mathematician, author, and playwright.
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David Braley
- Occupations
- 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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Sarah Thomson
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sarah Jane Thomson, also known as Sarah Jane Whatmough-Thomson, is an entrepreneur who was publisher and CEO of the Women's Post and a former candidate for mayor of Toronto.
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Samantha Nutt
- Occupations
- physician
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Samantha Joan Nutt is a Canadian physician and philanthropist who is the founder and president 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
- Occupations
- singerjazz musician
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Diana Panton is a Canadian jazz vocalist. Her latest album, blue, was awarded the 2023 Silver Disc Award by Japan's Jazz Critique Magazine. This is Panton's third Silver Disc Award -Yesterday Perhaps and Pink were awarded Silver Discs upon their release in Japan. blue also earned Panton her eighth JUNO nomination at the 2023 JUNO Awards in Canada. Panton 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 received 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.
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James Orbinski
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- writerhumanitarianphysician
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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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Ruby Sahota
- Born in
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Canada - Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
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Ruby Sahota is a Canadian Liberal politician who was elected as a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada to represent the federal riding Brampton North during the 2015 Canadian federal election.
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Tyler Ardron
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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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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- novelistwriterauthorpoet
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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? (1993), 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
- aircraft pilotaerospace engineerengineerastronaut
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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
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- writernununiversity teacher
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Dhammananda Bhikkhuni, 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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Gordon Guyatt
- Occupations
- researcherphysician
- Biography
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Gordon Henry Guyatt is a Canadian physician who is Distinguished University Professor in the Departments of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact (formerly Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics) 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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Matthew Barber
- Occupations
- singer-songwritersinger
- 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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Martin Green
- Occupations
- engineerenvironmentalist
- 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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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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Michael Frank Goodchild
- Years
- 1944-.. (age 79)
- 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
- university teachersociologist
- 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 Family), the Church of Scientology, and other NRMs operating in Canada.
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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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Mamdouh Shoukri
- 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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Kevin G. Lynch
- Occupations
- international forum participanteconomist
- 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
- writernovelist
- 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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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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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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Anupam Sen
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Anupam Sen is a Bangladeshi author, sociologist, and 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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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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Lisa Thomaidis
- Occupations
- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Lisa Thomaidis is a Canadian basketball coach who is the head coach of the Saskatchewan Huskies women's basketball program, winning the Bronze Baby National Championship Trophy in 2016 and 2020. She was also the head coach for the Canada women's national basketball team from 2014 to September, 2021.
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Rami M. Shapiro
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Rami M. Shapiro, commonly called "Rabbi Rami", is an author, teacher, and speakeron the subjects of liberal Judaism and contemporary spirituality.
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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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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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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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Theodosius Mar Thoma
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- metropolitan
- Biography
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Theodosius Mar Thoma XXII Metropolitan is the Mar Thoma Metropolitan and the Primate of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church. Theodosius Mar Thoma presently occupies the Apostolic Throne of St Thomas and is also the first Mar Thoma Metropolitan to be born in post-independence India.
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Bob Dechert
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Robert "Bob" Dechert is a former 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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Akram Pedramnia
- Occupations
- novelistphysicianliterary criticpoetwriter
- 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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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
- politicianeconomist
- 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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Rob Burgess
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Rob Burgess is a Canadian executive in the technology industry. He was the chief executive officer of Macromedia Inc. from 1996 to 2005 and chairman from 1997 to 2005. Prior to that, he was CEO of Alias Research from 1991 to 1995.
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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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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 (NDP) candidate Wayne Marston in the 2006 general election held on January 23, 2006.
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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, and chairs the Toronto International Film Festival. He has appeared multiple times on the Billboard list of international power players, and 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, retired 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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Gillian E. Wu
- Occupations
- immunologist
- Biography
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Gillian Elizabeth Wu is a Canadian Immunologist and the former Dean of Pure and Applied Science at York University. She is currently Professor Emerita in York University's Faculty of Science (Department of Biology) and Faculty of Health and also at the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine.
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Josh Bongard
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 49)
- Occupations
- artificial intelligence researcher
- Biography
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Josh Bongard is a professor at the University of Vermont and a 2010 PECASE awardee.
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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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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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Victor M. Montori
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- endocrinologist
- Biography
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Victor Montori is a 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. He was named Chief Resident of the Department of Internal Medicine from 1999 to 2000.
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Andrew Jones
- Occupations
- Canadian football player
- Biography
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Andrew Jones is a Canadian retired professional football player who was an offensive lineman for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League (CFL). Jones was drafted by the Lions in the fourth round of the 2007 CFL Draft. He is a three-time Grey Cup champion, having won with three different teams in a span of five years, 2011, 2012, and 2015. He played CIS football for the McMaster Marauders.
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John E. Thomas
- Years
- 1926-1996 (aged 70)
- Occupations
- philosopher
- Biography
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John Edward Thomas was a British-born Canadian philosopher and pioneer of medical ethics in Canada.
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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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Peter Trent
- Years
- 1946-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- teacherpoliticianbusiness magnate
- 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 during the 1 November 2009 municipal election.
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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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Sow-Hsin Chen
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teachernuclear physicist
- Biography
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Sow-Hsin Chen, was a Hoklo Taiwanese physicist and Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was 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 was recognized for his training of young scientists in the use of those same techniques. Regarding hydrogen storage, his research focused on the use of activated carbon to allow hydrogen to be stored at room temperature.
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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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Bartha Knoppers
- Occupations
- jurist
- Biography
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Bartha Maria Knoppers, OC OQ is a Canadian law Professor and an expert on the ethical aspects of genetics, genomics and biotechnology.
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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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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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Vince Molinaro
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 61)
- 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 Accountable Leaders. Molinaro is the reference founder and CEO of Leadership Contract Inc.
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Kelsey T. 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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John F. MacGregor
- Years
- 1943-.. (age 80)
- 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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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.
