35 Notable alumni of
University of Winnipeg
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The University of Winnipeg is 1458th in the world, 517th in North America, and 32nd in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 35 notable alumni from the University of Winnipeg sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Sonia Sui
- Occupations
- television actormodelfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Sonia Sui is a Taiwanese actress, television host and model. She is best known for her role as Hsieh An-chen in the 2010 television series The Fierce Wife.
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Rosemary
- Occupations
- professional wrestleractor
- Biography
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Holly Letkeman better known by the ring name Rosemary is a Canadian professional wrestler and actress. She is signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) under the ring name Courtney Rush, where she is a member of Decay and The Death Dollz. She is currently a record four-time TNA Knockouts World Tag Team Champion and a former TNA Knockouts Champion. She has worked for promotions such as BSE Pro, Border City Wrestling (BCW), Maximum Pro Wrestling, NCW Femmes Fatales, Smash, Steel City Pro Wrestling, and Shimmer Women Athletes. She is also a former Shimmer Tag Team Champion with Sara Del Rey.
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Chantal Kreviazuk
- Occupations
- pianistsongwritersingeractor
- Biography
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Chantal Jennifer Kreviazuk is a Canadian singer, songwriter, composer, and pianist. Born in Winnipeg, she played music from a young age before signing with Columbia Records in the 1990s. Her debut studio album, Under These Rocks and Stones, was first released in Canada in 1996 and saw commercial success before being issued in the United States the following year to critical praise.
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Bif Naked
- Occupations
- songwritersinger
- Biography
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Beth Torbert is a Canadian singer best known by her stage name Bif Naked. Between 1996 and 2016, she was among the top 150 selling Canadian artists in Canada.
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Brad Roberts
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Bradley Kenneth Roberts is the lead singer and guitarist for the Canadian folk-rock band Crash Test Dummies, of which he has also been the only constant member since its inception. He sings in the bass-baritone range. The band is best known internationally for their 1993 album God Shuffled His Feet and single "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" and best known in Canada for the 1991 single "Superman's Song".
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Guy Maddin
- Occupations
- camera operatorcinematographerscreenwriteractorfilm producer
- Biography
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Guy Maddin is a Canadian screenwriter, director, author, cinematographer, and film editor of both features and short films, as well as an installation artist, from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Since completing his first film in 1985, Maddin has become one of Canada's most well-known and celebrated filmmakers.
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Fred Penner
- Occupations
- television presentersingerscreenwriteractorcomposer
- Biography
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Frederick Ralph Cornelius Penner is a Canadian children's entertainer and musician known for the song "The Cat Came Back" and his television series, Fred Penner's Place, which aired on CBC in Canada from 1985 to 1997 and in the United States on Nickelodeon from 1989 to 1992.
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Wilma Mansveld
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Wilma Jacqueline Mansveld is a Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA). She served as Undersecretary for Infrastructure and Environment, dealing with water policy, environment and aviation in the Second Rutte cabinet from 5 November 2012 until 28 October 2015. Before that she was a member of the States of Groningen from 2007 to 2011 and afterwards a member of the Provincial-Executive of the same province from 2011 to 2012. Mansveld worked as an accountant for Jaguar Cars Netherlands and was secretary of the Social-Economic Council North Netherlands from 2001 to 2011.
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Jennifer Gunter
- Occupations
- obstetriciangynaecologistwriterresearcher
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Jennifer Gunter is a Canadian-American gynecologist, a New York Times columnist covering women's health, an author, and a specialist in chronic pain medicine and vulvovaginal disorders.
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Shannon Birchard
- Occupations
- curler
- Biography
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Shannon Birchard is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She currently plays second on Team Kerri Einarson from Gimli, Manitoba. Currently, the Einarson team are the four-time reigning Scotties Tournament of Hearts champions, winning the title in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. Birchard also won the 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts with Jennifer Jones when she filled for Kaitlyn Lawes who was competing at the PyeongChang Olympics. She would win a world championship as the alternate member of the Jones team that same year when they won the event in North Bay in 2018. She has also won four Grand Slam of Curling events with the Einarson rink.
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Ruby Dhalla
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ruby Dhalla is a Canadian actress, activist, model and former politician. She served as the Member of Parliament for Brampton—Springdale in the House of Commons of Canada from 2004 to 2011 as a member of the Liberal Party. Dhalla and British Columbia Conservative MP Nina Grewal were the first Sikh women to serve in the House of Commons of Canada.
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Lloyd Axworthy
- Occupations
- diplomatwriteruniversity teacherpoliticianpolitical scientist
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Lloyd Norman Axworthy is a Canadian politician, elder statesman and academic. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. Following his retirement from parliament, he served as president and vice-chancellor of the University of Winnipeg from 2004 to 2014 and as chancellor of St. Paul's University College (a constituent institution of the University of Waterloo). He is currently the Chair of the World Refugee & Migration Council.
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Ivan Coyote
- Occupations
- writerspoken word artistpoet
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Ivan E. Coyote is a Canadian spoken word performer, writer, and LGBT advocate. Coyote has won many accolades for their collections of short stories, novels, and films. They also visit schools to tell stories and give writing workshops. The CBC has called Coyote a "gender-bending author who loves telling stories and performing in front of a live audience." Coyote is non-binary and uses singular they pronouns. Many of Coyote's stories are about gender, identity, and social justice. Coyote currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Vic Toews
- Occupations
- judgepolitician
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Victor Toews is a Canadian politician and jurist. Toews is a judge of the Court of King's Bench of Manitoba. He represented Provencher in the House of Commons of Canada from 2000 until his resignation on July 9, 2013, and served in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, most recently as Minister of Public Safety. He previously served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1995 to 1999, and was a senior cabinet minister in the government of Gary Filmon. Prior to his appointment to the judiciary, Toews was a member of the Conservative Party of Canada.
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David R. Henderson
- Enrolled in the University of Winnipeg
- Studied in 1970
- Occupations
- economistschool teacher
- Biography
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David Richard Henderson is a Canadian-born American economist and author who moved to the United States in 1972 and became a U.S. citizen in 1986, serving on President Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers from 1982 to 1984. A research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution since 1990, he took a teaching position with the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California in 1984, and is now an emeritus professor of economics.
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BT Toews
- Occupations
- basketball coachbasketball player
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Burke "BT" Toews is a Canadian basketball coach and former player. He is the head coach of the Fujitsu Red Wave in the Japanese Women's Japan Basketball League. Toews played professionally in Canada and Germany. His son Kai Toews is a professional basketball player, and his nephew Jonathan Toews is a professional hockey player as captain of the Chicago Blackhawks of the NHL.
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Bill Blaikie
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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William Alexander "Bill" Blaikie was a Canadian politician. He served as a member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 to 2008, representing Elmwood—Transcona and its antecedent ridings in the House of Commons of Canada for the federal New Democratic Party. Following his retirement from federal politics, he was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 2009 until 2011, representing the Winnipeg division of Elmwood as a member of the New Democratic Party of Manitoba, and served as Minister of Conservation and Government House Leader.
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Shelly Glover
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Shelly A. Glover is a former member of the Winnipeg Police Service and former politician. Following the 2008 federal election, she became the first policewoman to become a Member of Parliament in Canadian history, representing the riding of Saint Boniface, Manitoba, which she represented until 2015.
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Kevin Lamoureux
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kevin Lamoureux is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. On November 29, 2010, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the constituency of Winnipeg North in a by-election. He was re-elected during the 2011 election by a margin of just 44 votes and being the only Liberal flip this election. Lamoureux previously served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1988 to 1999 and from 2003 to 2010, and he twice sought the leadership of the Manitoba Liberal Party. He serves in the House of Commons as a member of the Liberal Party of Canada.
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Daniel Blaikie
- Occupations
- politiciantrade unionist
- Biography
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Daniel Blaikie is a Canadian politician who has served as the member of Parliament for Elmwood—Transcona since October 19, 2015. A member of the New Democratic Party (NDP), he was elected to the House of Commons in the 2015 federal election.
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Joshua Whitehead
- Occupations
- university teacherLGBTQI+ rights activistnovelistacademicessayist
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Joshua Whitehead is a Canadian First Nations, two spirit poet and novelist.
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Omar Zakhilwal
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dr. Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal is an Afghan politician who served as the President's Special Representative and Afghanistan's Ambassador to Pakistan from 2016 until 2018. He also served as Minister of Finance from 2009 to 2015. Since early 2019, Zakhilwal has been a key player in the IntraAfghan Dialogue for peace.
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Tom Wujec
- Occupations
- author
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Tom Wujec is the author and editor of several books, a fellow at Autodesk, an adjunct professor at Singularity University, a multiple TED Conference speaker and a pioneer in the emerging practice of business visualization.
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Rebecca Blaikie
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rebecca Blaikie is a Canadian politician, who served as president of the New Democratic Party from 2011 to 2016.
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Cameron Friesen
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Cameron Scott Friesen, is a Canadian politician and was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for Morden-Winkler. A member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba, he was first elected in the 2011 provincial election, and re-elected in 2016 and 2019.
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Faisal Hassan
- Born in
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Somalia - Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Faisal Ahmed Hassan is a Canadian politician, who was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2018 until his defeat in the 2022 Ontario general election. He represented the riding of York South—Weston as a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party.
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Sterling Lyon
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
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Sterling Rufus Lyon was a Canadian lawyer, cabinet minister, and the 17th premier of Manitoba from 1977 to 1981. His government introduced several fiscally-conservative measures, and was sometimes seen as a local version of the government of Margaret Thatcher in the United Kingdom. He also successfully fought for the inclusion of the notwithstanding clause in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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Jon Paul Fiorentino
- Occupations
- novelistpoet
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Jon Paul Fiorentino is a Canadian poet, novelist, short story writer, editor, and professor.
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Harvey Chochinov
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 66)
- Enrolled in the University of Winnipeg
- 1990-1993 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- researcherpsychiatrist
- Biography
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Harvey Max Chochinov is a Canadian academic and psychiatrist from Winnipeg, Canada. He is a leading authority on the emotional dimensions of end-of-life, and on supportive and palliative care. He is a Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Manitoba and a Senior Scientist at CancerCare Manitoba Research Institute.
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Linda Holeman
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- 1949-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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Linda Holeman is a Canadian author of fiction.
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Frank Albo
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- architectural historian
- Biography
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Frank Albo is a Canadian architectural historian. He is the author of Astana: Architecture, Myth, and Destiny, and was featured in The Hermetic Code (2007). Albo is currently an Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Winnipeg, where he specializes in architecture, Freemasonry, and the Western esoteric tradition.
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William P. Anderson
- Occupations
- geographerengineercivil engineer
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Colonel William Patrick Anderson was a Canadian civil engineer. He was Superintendent of Lighthouses for almost 40 years, and was responsible for many of the more notable lighthouses in Canada.
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Jaimie Isaac
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Jaimie Isaac is a Winnipeg-based Anishinaabe artist and curator.
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Lawrence J. Barkwell
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Lawrence J. Barkwell was a Canadian author, editor, historian and lecturer, best known for his comprehensive writings on the Métis Nation and Culture. He served as senior historian at Manitoba Métis Federation’s Louis Riel Institute from 2006 until his death in September 2019. He was a member of the board of directors of the Friends of Upper Fort Garry. He was Honorary Elder for the St. Norbert Parish la Barrière Métis Council.
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Cyril Keeper
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Cyril Keeper is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1980 to 1988, serving as a member of the New Democratic Party.
