33 Notable alumni of
Wilfrid Laurier University
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Wilfrid Laurier University is 1567th in the world, 545th in North America, and 33rd in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 33 notable alumni from Wilfrid Laurier 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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Keegan Connor Tracy
- Occupations
- voice actorfilm directoractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Keegan Connor Tracy is a Canadian actress, author and director. She earned recognition for her roles in the comedy-drama series Beggars and Choosers (1999–2000) and the supernatural horror films Final Destination 2 (2003) and White Noise (2005).
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Martin Lee
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Martin Lee Ka-shing is a Hong Kong businessman. He is chairman of Henderson Land Development, a real estate developer in Hong Kong. He is also chairman and managing director of Henderson Investment Limited, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Miramar Hotel and Investment Company, and chairman of The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited, all of which are listed companies. He is the son of real estate tycoon and majority owner of Henderson Land Development Lee Shau-kee.
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Anthony Rota
- Occupations
- directorpoliticianinstructorentrepreneuradviser
- Biography
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Anthony Michael Gerard Rota PC is a Canadian politician who served as the 37th speaker of the House of Commons from 2019 to 2023. A member of the Liberal Party, he served as the member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Nipissing—Timiskaming until 2025. He previously represented Nipissing—Timiskaming as MP from 2004 to 2011. In 2019, he was elected by the House of Commons to be the speaker in the 43rd Parliament and in 2021 was re-elected in the 44th Parliament.
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John Morris
- Occupations
- curler
- Biography
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John C. Morris is a Canadian curler, and two-time Olympic gold medallist from Canmore, Alberta. Morris played third for the Kevin Martin team until April 24, 2013. Morris, author of the book Fit to Curl, is the son of Maureen and Earle Morris, inventor of the "Stabilizer" curling broom. Morris grew up in Gloucester, Ontario (now part of Ottawa) and at the age of five began curling at the Navy Curling Club.
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Shad
- Occupations
- singerrapper
- Biography
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Shadrach Kabango, known professionally as Shad or Shad K, is a Canadian rapper and broadcaster. Beginning his career in 2005, has released seven studio albums and three extended plays. He won a Juno Award for Rap Recording of the Year in 2011 and five of his albums have been shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize, the most short-list nominations of any artist in the prize's history. In 2013, CBC Music named Shad the second-greatest Canadian rapper of all time. Shad hosted Q on CBC Radio One from 2015 to 2016, and hosts the International Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentary series Hip-Hop Evolution on HBO Canada and Netflix.
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Chris Van Vliet
- Occupations
- journalisttelevision presenter
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Christopher Van Vliet is a Canadian television and radio personality and YouTuber. He was born and raised in Pickering, Ontario.
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Cheryl Pounder
- Occupations
- ice hockey playersinger
- Biography
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Cheryl Pounder is a Canadian former ice hockey player who played for the Toronto Aeros and Mississauga Chiefs. She was a five-time Abby Hoffman Cup national champion, four times with the Aeros and once with the Chiefs. She won two gold medals with Canada at the Olympic Games. After her playing career, she has worked as a broadcaster.
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Rod Phillips
- Enrolled in Wilfrid Laurier University
- 1988-1992 graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Occupations
- business executivebusinesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Rod Phillips is a Canadian businessman and former politician who was the member of Provincial Parliament for Ajax from 2018 to 2022. A member of the Ontario Progressive Conservative (PC) Party, Phillips served as Ontario's minister of the environment, conservation and parks from 2018 to 2019, minister of finance from 2019 to 2020, and minister of long-term care from 2021 to 2022.
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Damien Robitaille
- Enrolled in Wilfrid Laurier University
- Studied classical music
- Occupations
- songwriterrecording artistactorsinger
- Biography
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Damien Robitaille is a Canadian musician from the village of Lafontaine, Ontario, in the Georgian Bay area, two hours north-west of Toronto. He is a Franco-Ontarian musician whose career is mainly based in Quebec, where he has lived since 2003.
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Charles Sousa
- Enrolled in Wilfrid Laurier University
- In 1982 graduated with Bachelor in Business Administration
- Occupations
- administratorpolitician
- Biography
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Anthony Charles Sousa MP is a Canadian politician who has served as the Member of Parliament from Mississauga-Lakeshore since December 12, 2022. He previously served as the Minister of Finance for Ontario from 2013 to 2018. A member of the Ontario Liberal Party, Sousa was elected to represent Mississauga South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 2007. He joined the provincial cabinet as the minister of labour in 2010 and became Ontario's minister of citizenship and immigration in 2011. In 2022, Sousa ran as the federal Liberal candidate in the Mississauga-Lakeshore by-election which was held on December 12, 2022. Sousa won the election, defeating 39 other candidates.
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Prabmeet Sarkaria
- Years
- 1988-.. (age 38)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Prabmeet Singh Sarkaria ECO KC MPP is a Canadian lawyer and politician who has been the Ontario minister of transportation since 2023. He has sat as the member of Provincial Parliament for Brampton South since 2018, representing the Progressive Conservative (PC) Party.
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Dean Allison
- Occupations
- businesspersonentrepreneurpolitician
- Biography
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Dean Allison MP is a Canadian politician. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2004 federal election for the riding of Niagara West—Glanbrook, now Niagara West. Allison is a member of the Conservative Party of Canada and has been re-elected in each subsequent election.
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Brian Masse
- Occupations
- university teacherprogram directorpolitician
- Biography
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Brian S. Masse is a Canadian politician. He served in the House of Commons of Canada from 2002 until the 2025 Canadian federal election, representing the riding of Windsor West as a member of the New Democratic Party.
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Ted Arnott
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Theodore Calvin Arnott is a Canadian politician who was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on September 6, 1990, representing the Riding of Wellington. He is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario and represented the Riding of Wellington—Halton Hills in the Ontario Legislature. Arnott served as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario during the 42nd and 43rd Parliaments of Ontario.
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Heather Munroe-Blum
- Occupations
- financier
- Biography
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Heather Anne Elyse Lilian Munroe-Blum OC OQ FRSC is a Canadian academic and businesswoman.
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Harold Albrecht
- Occupations
- farmerdentistpolitician
- Biography
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Harold Glenn Albrecht was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Conservative Party of Canada in the riding of Kitchener—Conestoga from 2006 until 2019. He defeated the incumbent Liberal MP, Lynn Myers, by just over 1,000 votes in the 2006 federal election to gain a seat in the House of Commons of Canada.
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Becky Kellar-Duke
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Rebecca "Becky" Kellar is a retired ice hockey defender. She played for the Toronto Aeros and Oakville Ice in the NWHL, the Burlington Barracudas in the Canadian Women's Hockey League, and the Canadian national team.
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Cheryl Kreviazuk
- Occupations
- curler
- Biography
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Cheryl Kreviazuk is a Canadian curler from Ottawa, Ontario.
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Phil McColeman
- Occupations
- real estate developerbuilding engineerproperty managerpolitician
- Biography
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Phil McColeman is a former Canadian politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 2008 to 2021 as a member of the Conservative Party. He represented the riding of Brant from 2008 to 2015 and, following the 2012 federal electoral district redistribution, he represented the riding of Brantford—Brant from 2015 to 2021. On 8 January 2021, he announced that he would not seek re-election in the 2021 federal election.
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Lyndon Hooper
- Occupations
- futsal playerassociation football coachassociation football player
- Biography
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Lyndon Hooper is a Canadian former professional soccer player and former assistant coach of the Toronto Lynx soccer team of the United Soccer Leagues First Division. A former midfielder, he was a prominent Canadian international.
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Ted McMeekin
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ted McMeekin is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is the Ward 15 Councillor, for the City of Hamilton. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2000 to 2018 who represented the ridings of Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale and Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Aldershot. He served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne.
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Stephen Woodworth
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Stephen Woodworth is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Kitchener Centre in the House of Commons of Canada for the Conservative Party of Canada in the 40th and 41st Parliaments (2008–2015).
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Ashley Stephenson
- Occupations
- ice hockey playerbaseball player
- Biography
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Ashley Stephenson is a former two-sport athlete from Ontario who played baseball for Canada women's national baseball team and ice hockey in the original NWHL and the CWHL. She won a silver medal at the 2015 Pan American Games.
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Anthony Del Col
- Occupations
- screenwritercomics artistwriter
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Anthony Del Col is a Canadian-born, Pulitzer Prize-winning creator, writer and entrepreneur. Del Col is the writer of the Insider comic I Escaped a Chinese Internment Camp, the co-creator and co-writer of the Joe Shuster Award-nominated comic, Kill Shakespeare, Audible's Assassin's Creed: Gold, Marvel's Luke Cage: Everyman and the controversial Image Comics graphic novel Son of Hitler.
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Suresh Sriskandarajah
- Biography
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Suresh Sriskandarajah is a Canadian citizen who pleaded guilty to U.S. charges of conspiring to provide material support to the Tamil Tigers, a Sri Lankan civil rights and freedom liberation movement. He was sentenced to two years in U.S. prison.
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John Estacio
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 60)
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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John Estacio CM is a contemporary Canadian composer of opera, orchestral and choral music.
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Jean Crowder
- Occupations
- consultantpoliticianmanager
- Biography
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Jean A. Crowder is a Canadian businesswoman and politician. She served as a Member of Parliament for the New Democratic Party from 2004 until 2015.
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Kathleen O'Grady
- Occupations
- writerchildren's writer
- Biography
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Kathleen O'Grady is a Canadian author and academic. She has published two children's books, but is more widely known as a feminist scholar who investigates women's health issues through a cultural lens and whose work addresses the under-researched intersection between feminism and the study of religion. She is also a past Editor of Network, the national, bilingual health magazine for Canadian women, and has published several books addressing feminist theory and methodology.
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Gary Denniss
- Occupations
- historianbiographer
- Biography
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Frank Garfield "Gary" Denniss is a Canadian historian, newspaper columnist, retired public school teacher, speaker and ordained minister born in 1944 in Bracebridge, Ontario Denniss is the author of 43 books on the history of the District Municipality of Muskoka,
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Benjamin Alarie
- Occupations
- legal scholar
- Biography
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Benjamin Alarie is a Canadian legal scholar and entrepreneur. He is a co-founder and CEO of Blue J, a company that develops artificial intelligence tools for tax research. Alarie also serves as professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where he also holds the Osler Chair in Business Law. His academic work focuses on taxation, judicial decision-making, and the application of artificial intelligence to law, with particular emphasis on taxation and fiscal federalism.
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Pamela Klassen
- Years
- 1967-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- religious studies scholaruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Pamela E. Klassen FRSC is a Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto, co-appointed to the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. In 2019, Klassen was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
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Angela Redish
- Years
- 1952-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Angela Redish is a professor of economics at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia and the acting President of the Canadian Economics Association. From 2001 to 2006, Redish served as the Head of Department of Economics at the University of British Columbia and was awarded The President's Medal of Excellence by the University of British Columbia in 2018 for her contributions towards establishing the Vancouver School of Economics.
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Richard Covey
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Richard Covey is a Canadian composer who is currently a sessional instructor in the Department of Music at the University of Prince Edward Island.
