31 Notable alumni of
Wilfrid Laurier University
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Wilfrid Laurier University is 1556th in the world, 541st in North America, and 33rd in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 31 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
- film actorvoice actorfilm directoractor
- Biography
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Keegan Connor Tracy is a Canadian actress and author. She is best known for her roles as Audrey Malone in the Showtime comedy-drama series Beggars and Choosers (1999–2000), the Blue Fairy in the ABC fantasy drama series Once Upon a Time (2011–18), Miss Blair Watson in the A&E drama series Bates Motel (2013–16), and Professor Lipson in the Syfy fantasy series The Magicians (2016–2020). Tracy's other notable work includes roles on the television series Jake 2.0, The 4400, Stargate SG-1, Supernatural, Psych, and Battlestar Galactica.
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Martin Lee
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Dr Martin Lee Ka-shing is Chairman of Henderson Land, a real estate developer in Hong Kong. He is also Chairman and Managing Director of Henderson Investment Limited, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Miramar Hotel and Investment Company, Limited, 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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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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Anthony Rota
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anthony Michael Gerard Rota MP 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 currently serves as the member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Nipissing—Timiskaming. 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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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
- Biography
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Christopher Van Vliet is a Canadian television/radio personality and YouTuber currently living in Studio City, Los Angeles. He was born and raised in Pickering, Ontario.
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Rod Phillips
- Enrolled in Wilfrid Laurier University
- 1988-1992 graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Occupations
- businesspersonpoliticianbusiness executive
- Biography
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Rod Phillips is a Canadian businessman, serving as the Vice-Chair of Canaccord Genuity, a Canadian based global financial services company. He also currently serves on the board of Aecon Group Inc.
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Cheryl Pounder
- Occupations
- ice hockey playersinger
- Biography
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Cheryl Pounder is a women's ice hockey player. She played defence for the Canadian Women's Hockey League's Mississauga Chiefs, and competed in the 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics.
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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
- politician
- 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 Missisuaga 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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Dean Allison
- Occupations
- politician
- 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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Prabmeet Sarkaria
- Years
- 1988-.. (age 37)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Prabmeet Singh Sarkaria 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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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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Brian Masse
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Brian S. Masse MP is a Canadian politician. He has served in the House of Commons of Canada since 2002, representing the riding of Windsor West as a member of the New Democratic Party.
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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
- dentistpolitician
- 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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Cheryl Kreviazuk
- Occupations
- curler
- Biography
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Cheryl Kreviazuk is a Canadian curler from Ottawa, Ontario.
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Becky Kellar-Duke
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Rebecca "Becky" Kellar is a women's ice hockey player. She played for Burlington Barracudas in the Canadian Women's Hockey League.
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Phil McColeman
- Occupations
- politician
- 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
- association football playerassociation football manager
- 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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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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Ted McMeekin
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 77)
- 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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Jean Crowder
- Occupations
- politician
- 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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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
- writerscreenwritercomics artist
- Biography
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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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John Estacio
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 59)
- 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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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 jurist, law professor, and entrepreneur. He serves as Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where he also holds the Osler Chair in Business Law. He is an author of many publications in the domain of taxation and constitutional law with respect to issues of taxation and fiscal federalism. Alarie is co-founder and CEO of Blue J, a legal software company based in Toronto, Canada.
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Angela Redish
- Years
- 1952-.. (age 73)
- 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.
