25 Notable alumni of
Trent University
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Trent University is 1660th in the world, 577th in North America, and 35th in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 25 notable alumni from Trent University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Yann Martel
- Occupations
- novelistshort story writerprose writerwriterscreenwriter
- Biography
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Yann Martel, CC is a Canadian author who wrote the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi, an international bestseller published in more than 50 territories. It has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide and spent more than a year on the bestseller lists of The New York Times and The Globe and Mail, among many other best-selling lists. Life of Pi was adapted for a movie of the same name directed by Ang Lee, receiving four Academy Awards including the Academy Award for Best Director and winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.
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Takako Suzuki
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Takako Suzuki is a Japanese politician from the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP) and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).
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Mani Haghighi
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directorfilm screenwriterfilm produceractor
- Biography
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Mani Haghighi is an Iranian film director, writer, film producer, and actor. Haghighi started making movies in 2001.
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John Horgan
- Enrolled in Trent University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Joseph Horgan was a Canadian politician and diplomat who served as the 36th premier of British Columbia from 2017 to 2022 and the ambassador of Canada to Germany from 2023 to 2024. He led the British Columbia New Democratic Party from 2014 to 2022, guiding the party to government after 16 years in opposition. A member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (MLA) from 2005 to 2023, he represented the riding of Langford-Juan de Fuca.
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Maryam Monsef
- Occupations
- politiciancommunity organizer
- Biography
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Maryam Monsef PC is an Afghan Canadian politician. She served as the member of Parliament for the riding of Peterborough—Kawartha from 2015 to 2021 as a member of the Liberal Party of Canada.
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Linwood Barclay
- Occupations
- novelistwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Linwood Barclay is an American-born Canadian author, noted as a novelist, humorist, and (former) columnist. His popular detective novels are bestsellers in Canada and internationally, beginning with No Time for Goodbye in 2007.
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Don Tapscott
- Occupations
- teacherwritermanagerbusinesspersoneconomist
- Biography
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Don Tapscott CM is a Canadian business executive, author, consultant and public speaker.
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Craig Davidson
- Occupations
- choreographerscreenwriterwriternovelistdancer
- Biography
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Craig Davidson is a Canadian author of short stories and novels, who has published work under both his name and the pen names Patrick Lestewka and Nick Cutter.
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Paul Boghossian
- Occupations
- university teacheracademicphilosopher
- Biography
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Paul Artin Boghossian is an American philosopher. He is Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University, where he chaired the department from 1994 to 2004. His research interests include epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. He is also director of the New York Institute of Philosophy and Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham.
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Nathan Cullen
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nathan Paul Cullen is a Canadian politician who served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (MLA) representing the riding of Stikine from 2020 to 2024 as a member of the New Democratic Party and served in the Executive Council of British Columbia from 2020 to 2024.
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Darren Huston
- Occupations
- chief executive officer
- Biography
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Darren R. Huston is a Canadian businessman. He is the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of BlackPines Capital Partners. Huston was previously president and CEO of Priceline and Booking.com.
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James Orbinski
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- physicianwriterhumanitarian
- Biography
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James Jude Orbinski is a Canadian physician, humanitarian activist, author, and scholar in global health. Dr. Orbinski began his role as principal of Massey College at the University of Toronto in the 2024-2025 academic year, where he is also Full Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, and is cross-appointed to the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, as well as the Dalla Lana School of Public Health,. Previously a professor in the Faculty of Health Science at York University, Dr. Orbinski founded the Dahdaleh Institute of Global Health Research.
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Gerard Kennedy
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Gerard Michael Kennedy is a Canadian politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as Ontario's minister of Education from 2003 to 2006, when he resigned to make an unsuccessful bid for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada. Kennedy previously ran for the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party, losing to future premier Dalton McGuinty on the final ballot. He also lost the 2013 Ontario Liberal leadership race, placing third.
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Tim Cook
- Enrolled in Trent University
- Graduated with Bachelor's degree in history
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Timothy Raleigh Brown Cook CM FRSC was a Canadian military historian and author. Cook was a historian at the Canadian War Museum and the author of thirteen books about the military history of Canada. Having written extensively about World War I, Cook's focus shifted to Canada's involvement in World War II with the 2014 publication of the first volume in a two-volume series chronicling Canada's role in that war. He won the Charles Taylor Prize in 2009 for his book Shock Troops. He was a two-time recipient (2000 and 2015) of the C.P. Stacey Prize, a two-time recipient of the J.W. Dafoe Book Prize, and a three-time winner of the Ottawa Book Prize. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2019. He was a member of the Order of Canada.
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Gary Botting
- Years
- 1943-.. (age 83)
- Occupations
- novelisthistorianliterary criticpoetlawyer
- Biography
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Gary Norman Arthur Botting is a Canadian legal scholar and criminal defense lawyer (now retired) as well as a poet, playwright, novelist, and critic of literature and religion, in particular Jehovah's Witnesses. The author of 40 published books, he remains one of the country's leading authorities on extradition law. and wrongful conviction He is said to have had "more experience in battling the extradition system than any other Canadian lawyer." The author of a leading text on wrongful conviction tribunals, he is founding Chair of Miscarriage of Justice Canada.
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Stephen Stohn
- Occupations
- lawyertelevision producer
- Biography
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John Stephen Stohn, CM is an American-born Canadian entertainment lawyer and television producer. He is best known for his involvement with the Degrassi teen drama franchise, particularly as an executive producer on Degrassi: The Next Generation. Until 2018 he was the president of Epitome Pictures Inc., which he and his wife Linda Schuyler founded in 1992 and was sold to DHX Media in 2014. On June 7, 2019, he was installed as Chancellor of Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario.
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Leila S. Chudori
- Enrolled in Trent University
- In 1988 studied political science
- Occupations
- writerjournalistediting staffscreenwriter
- Biography
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Leila Salikha Chudori is an Indonesian journalist and writer. She won the Southeast Asian Writers Award in 2020. Together with her daughter Rain Chudori, Chudori founded Peron House publishing company, which debuted in Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in 2023.
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Anita Erskine
- Occupations
- television presenterentrepreneurjournalistpresenteractor
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Anita Erskine is a Ghanaian media and communications entrepreneur, broadcaster, and talk show host who broadcasts in both English and French. She is also a professional compère, actress and girls' education advocate. She is the executive producer and host of Anita Erskine's Sheroes (formerly Sheroes of Our Time), which airs on the Anita Erskine Network on YouTube, and also on Akwaaba Magic on DSTV. She is the official host and an advisor of Africa's Business Heroes (formerly Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative), the Jack Ma Foundation's flagship philanthropic entrepreneur program in Africa.
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Duane Rousselle
- Occupations
- sociologist
- Biography
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Duane Rousselle is a Canadian sociological theorist, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and professor of sociology.
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Todd Anthony Tyler
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Canada - Occupations
- photographer
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Todd Anthony Tyler is a Canadian reality television judge, fashion photographer and former model. He was the resident photographer and judge for the first season of Asia's Next Top Model. He is also the resident photographer and judge of TV show Fit for Fashion.
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Maggie Helwig
- Occupations
- writerhuman rights defenderpoetnovelist
- Biography
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Maggie Helwig is a Canadian poet, novelist, social justice activist, and Anglican priest.
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Michael Mulhall
- Occupations
- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Michael Mulhall is a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Since 2019, he has been the Archbishop of Kingston, Canada. Prior to that, he served the Bishop of Pembroke from 2007 to 2019.
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Dave Smith
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dave Smith MPP is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2018 provincial election and re elected in the 2022 provincial election. He represents the riding of Peterborough—Kawartha as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.
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Sarah Selecky
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Sarah Selecky is a Canadian writer. Her debut short story collection This Cake Is for the Party was a shortlisted nominee for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and longlisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award in 2010.
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Lynn Gehl
- Enrolled in Trent University
- Studied in 2003-2010
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Lynn Gehl is an Algonquin Anishinaabe-kwe from the Ottawa River Valley, Ontario, Canada. She is a writer, blogger and Indigenous human rights advocate. Gehl was involved in legal challenges aimed at eliminating the continued sex discrimination in the Indian Act, which withheld or removed legal Indian status from some Indigenous women and matrilineally descended Indigenous people. She is also an outspoken critic of the contemporary land claims and self-government process, as well as Indigenous issues in Canada. In April 2017, Gehl was successful in defeating Indian and Northern Affairs Canada's unstated paternity policy when the Court of Appeal for Ontario ruled the sex discrimination in the policy was unreasonable.
