29 Notable alumni of
University of King's College
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The University of King's College is 1820th in the world, 642nd in North America, and 38th in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 29 notable alumni from the University of King's College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Miriam Toews
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Miriam Toews OM is a Canadian writer and author of nine books, including A Complicated Kindness (2004), All My Puny Sorrows (2014), and Women Talking (2018). She has won a number of literary prizes including the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award for her body of work. Toews is also a three-time finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a two-time winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
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Ryan Hemsworth
- Years
- 1990-.. (age 34)
- Occupations
- record producercomposerdisc jockey
- Biography
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Ryan Hemsworth is a Canadian record producer and DJ. He specialises in electronic music and sampling. He has produced tracks for Tinashe, Tory Lanez, Mitski, and E-40.
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Ben Caplan
- Years
- 1986-.. (age 38)
- Occupations
- singercomposer
- Biography
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Ben Caplan is a Canadian folk musician from Halifax, Nova Scotia. He often performs with his band The Casual Smokers, and his first full-length studio album, In the Time of the Great Remembering, was released on October 20, 2011. His second record, Birds With Broken Wings, was released September 18, 2015. His third album, Old Stock, was released on June 15, 2018, and his fourth album, recollection, was released on October 15, 2021.
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John Hamm
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Frederick Hamm is a Canadian physician and politician, who served as the 25th premier of Nova Scotia from 1999 to 2006.
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Stephen J. Blackwood
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- entrepreneurliterary historianphilosopher
- Biography
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Stephen James Blackwood is a Canadian-American professor, academic, and social commentator.
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Stephen Marche
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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Stephen Marche is a liberal Canadian novelist, essayist, and cultural commentator. He is an alumnus of the University of King's College and City College of New York (CUNY). In 2005, he received a doctorate in early modern English drama from the University of Toronto. He taught Renaissance drama at CUNY until 2007, when he resigned in order to write full-time.
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Amber MacArthur
- Occupations
- television presenterblogger
- Biography
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Amber Dawn MacArthur is a Canadian television and netcasting personality, bestselling author of two books, and keynote speaker. MacArthur (aka Amber Mac) is the former co-host of BNN's App Central and Bloomberg Brink, G4TechTV's Call for Help, and TWiT's The Social Hour (successor to net@night/Inside the Net). She was the most followed Canadian television personality on Twitter in 2008. In 2018, she was named DMZ's 30 inspirational women making a difference in tech.
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Amor De Cosmos
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- journalistphotographerpolitician
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Amor De Cosmos was a Canadian journalist, publisher and politician. He served as the second premier of British Columbia.
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Jay Ferguson
- Occupations
- songwritermusician
- Biography
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Jay Ferguson is a Canadian musician and a member of the rock band Sloan. He is the only member in Sloan who comes from Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Thomas Chandler Haliburton
- Occupations
- historianwriterpoliticianjudge
- Biography
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Thomas Chandler Haliburton was a Nova Scotian politician, judge, and author. He made an important political contribution to the state of Nova Scotia before its entry into Confederation of Canada. He was the first international best-selling author of fiction from what is now Canada. In 1856, he immigrated to England, where he served as a Conservative Member of Parliament. He was the father of the British civil servant Lord Haliburton and of the anthropologist Robert Grant Haliburton.
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Darrell Dexter
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Darrell Elvin Dexter is a Canadian lawyer, journalist and former naval officer who served as the 27th premier of Nova Scotia from 2009 to 2013. A member of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party, he served as party leader from 2001 to 2013. He became Premier in 2009 after his party defeated the governing Progressive Conservative Party, leading the first NDP government in Atlantic Canada and the second east of Manitoba. His government was defeated in the 2013 election, becoming the first Nova Scotia government in 131 years to be denied a second mandate; Dexter himself was defeated in his constituency by 21 votes. Dexter now serves as a lobbyist for the cannabis industry.
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Laurel Collins
- Years
- 1984-.. (age 40)
- Occupations
- politicianeducator
- Biography
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Laurel Collins is a Canadian politician who was elected to represent the riding of Victoria in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2019 Canadian federal election. Prior to her election in the House of Commons, she was a city councillor for Victoria City Council. She is the NDP Critic for the Environment and Climate Change and the NDP Deputy Caucus Chair.
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Rich Aucoin
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Richard Aucoin is a Canadian musician, based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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John Hamilton Gray
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
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John Hamilton Gray, was a politician in the Province of New Brunswick, Canada, a jurist, and one of the Fathers of Confederation. He should not be confused with John Hamilton Gray, a Prince Edward Island politician (and also a Father of Confederation) in the same era.
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Russell MacLellan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Russell Gregoire MacLellan is a Canadian politician who served as the 24th premier of Nova Scotia from 1997 to 1999.
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Al Tuck
- Occupations
- singersinger-songwriter
- Biography
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Al Tuck, is a Canadian songwriter and folksinger from Prince Edward Island who has spent much of his career based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Nick Wright
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nicholas dePencier Wright is a Canadian business lawyer and politician. He was the founding leader of the Green Party of Nova Scotia and was the founding Executive Director of the Canadian animal advocacy organization Animal Justice. He is currently founder and CEO of foreign affairs publication Geopolitical Monitor and was an elected member ("Bencher") of the governing body of the Law Society of Ontario (2019-2023).
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Johanna Skibsrud
- Occupations
- novelistwriterpoet
- Biography
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Johanna Shively Skibsrud is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel The Sentimentalists won the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
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John Eardley Inglis
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Major General Sir John Eardley Wilmot Inglis was a British Army officer, best known for his role in protecting the British compound for 87 days in the siege of Lucknow.
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Brian Macdonald
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Brian Thomas Macdonald is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in the 2010 provincial election. He represented the electoral district of Fredericton West-Hanwell until 2018 as a member of the Progressive Conservatives.
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Frederick Peters
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Frederick Peters was a lawyer and Prince Edward Island politician, who served as the sixth premier of Prince Edward Island.
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Sir James Stuart, 1st Baronet
- Occupations
- politicianjudge
- Biography
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Sir James Stuart, 1st Baronet of Oxford was a lawyer, judge, and political figure in Lower Canada.
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Robert Grant Haliburton
- Occupations
- historiananthropologist
- Biography
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Robert Grant Haliburton Q.C., D.C.L. was a Canadian lawyer and anthropologist. He became famous after founding the Canada First organization that saw English Canadian society as the "heirs of Aryan northmen" and that the French Canadians were a "bar to progress."
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William Johnston Almon
- Occupations
- politiciansurgeon
- Biography
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William Johnston Almon was a Nova Scotian physician and Canadian parliamentarian. He was the son of William Bruce Almon.
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Margaret Sibella Brown
- Occupations
- bryologistbotanical collectorbotanist
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Margaret Sibella Brown was a Canadian bryologist specializing in mosses and liverworts native to Nova Scotia. Although lacking formal scientific training, she has been recognized for her contributions to bryology and as an authority on the mosses and liverworts of Nova Scotia. Samples she collected are now housed at major herbaria in North America and Europe.
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Herbert James Palmer
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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H. James Palmer was the 11th premier of Prince Edward Island and the son of former colonial Premier Edward Palmer.
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Daniel Gawthrop
- Occupations
- newspaper editor
- Biography
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Daniel Gawthrop is a Canadian writer and editor. He is the author of six books, most recently a novel, Double Karma, published in 2023. He is best known for The Trial of Pope Benedict and The Rice Queen Diaries. As a journalist, he was the original publisher and editor of Xtra! West in Vancouver, and has also contributed to publications including the Vancouver Sun, The Economist, The Georgia Straight, Quill & Quire, Canadian Forum and The Tyee. He now works as a communications representative for the Canadian Union of Public Employees. and is an occasional contributor to British Columbia Review.
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John Hugill
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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John William Hugill was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as Attorney General of Alberta from 1935 until 1937. Born in England, he came to Canada and studied law before setting up a practice in Calgary. He became a prominent resident of that city, and served two years on its city council. In the early 1930s, he was one of the few prominent Calgarians with mainstream respectability to support William Aberhart's Social Credit League. He was elected as a candidate for it in the 1935 provincial election and, when it formed government, was named Attorney General by Aberhart.
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Thomas Suther
- Biography
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Thomas George Spink Suther was the Scottish Episcopalian bishop of Aberdeen from 1857 to 1865 and first bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney from 1865 to 1883.
