This list of University of Manitoba alumni includes notable graduates, non-graduates, and current students of the University of Manitoba.
Name | Occupation / Known for | UM credentials/activities | Additional details |
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Douglas Abra | judge | BA (1968); LL.B (1972) | |
Samuel Hunter Adams | lawyer and 21st Mayor of Calgary | BA (1906) | |
Tracie O. Afifi | research scientist | BSc (1999); MSc (2003), PhD (2009) | |
Judie Alimonti | immunologist and research scientist | PhD | |
Peter Allen | composer | BMus (1975) | |
Mohamed Ali Al-Shaaban | television personality and surgeon | BSc (2006) | |
Rob Altemeyer | politician | BA | |
Nancy Ames | scientist | BSc (1980); BSc (1982) | |
Victor Anonsen | footballer and artist | BA (1977) | |
Frank Aquila | judge | LL.B (1982) | |
Germaine Arnaktauyok | printmaker, painter and illustrator | BFA (1968) | |
Niki Ashton | politician | BA | |
Gordon J. G. Asmundson | psychologist and professor | MA; PhD (1991) | |
David Asper | lawyer and businessman; son of Izzy Asper | BA (1981) | |
Gail Asper | lawyer; daughter of Izzy Asper | BA (1981); LL.B.(1984) | |
Izzy Asper | tax lawyer and media magnate of CanWest Global Communications Corp. | BA (1953); LLB (1957); LLM (1964) | In 2000, the University's Faculty of Management was re-named to the Asper School of Business in his honour.[1] |
Robert Astley | actuary | BSc | |
Ken Attafuah | criminologist | BA (1982) | |
Nahlah Ayed | reporter | BSc; MSc | |
George Ayittey | economist and president of the Free Africa Foundation | PhD | |
Tim Ball | public speaker and professor | MA | |
G. Michael Bancroft | chemist and synchrotron scientist; first director of the Canadian Light Source | MSc (1964) | |
David G. Barber | environmental scientist | BSc (1981); MSc (1987) | |
Kathy Bardswick | President and CEO of The Co-operators | BS | |
Lindon W. Barrett | cultural theorist | BA (1983) | |
Robert Beamish | cardiologist | MD (1942)[2] | |
William Moore Benidickson | former Member of Parliament, federal Cabinet Minister, and Senator[3] | ||
Richard Spink Bowles | lawyer and former Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor[4] | BA (1933); LLB (1937) | |
George Montegu Black II | businessman, father of Conrad Black[5] | ||
Andy Blair | National Hockey League player in the 1920s and 1930s, mostly with the Toronto Maple Leafs | ||
Yvonne Brill | rocket and jet propulsion engineer who invented the fuel-efficient rocket thruster that keeps satellites in orbit today. | BS (1945) | The Yvonne C. Brill Lectureship in Aerospace Engineering of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is named in her honor and presented annually |
Harold J Brodie | mycologist[6] | BSc (1929) | |
Harold Buchwald | lawyer[7] | BA (1948); LL.B (1952); LL.M (1957) | |
Wilfred Buck | scientific facilitator and Indigenous star lore expert | B.Ed. | |
Constantine of Irinoupolis | American Orthodox hierarch, Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA | St. Andrew's College graduate (1959) | |
Don Callis | professional wrestler,[8] MHSAA Darts finalist (1978) | BA (1991); MBA (2003) | |
Norman Cantor | medieval scholar and writer[9] | BA (1951) | |
Albert Chan | Hong Kong politician and lawmaker | BA; BSW | |
Richard Condie | Academy Award-nominated animator; creator of The Big Snit[10] | BA (1967) | |
Brian Dickson | former Chief Justice of Canada[11] | LL.B (1938) | |
Gerry Ducharme | politician and a cabinet minister in the 1988–1995 Progressive Conservative government[citation needed] | ||
Mary Dunn | President of the Dominion Women's Amateur Hockey Association and the Manitoba branch of the Women's Amateur Athletic Federation of Canada[12] | BS (1938) | |
Audrey Dwyer | actor and writer[13] | ||
Marcel Dzama | artist | BFA (1997)[14] | |
Ed Evanko | actor and singer[15] | BA | |
Gordon S. Fahrni | Canada’s longest-lived physician (108 years old) | MD (1911) | |
Faouzia | singer-songwriter | ||
Fernanda Ferreira | cognitive psychologist | BA in Psychology (1982) | |
Gary Filmon | Premier of Manitoba (1988–1999) | BSc Civil Engineering[16] | |
Danny Finkleman | former CBC Radio host[17] | LL.B | |
Bruce Flatt | CEO of Brookfield Asset Management and billionaire ranked on Forbes magazine | BComm | |
Steven Fletcher | politician; former Conservative MP in the House of Commons; former federal Cabinet Minister | BSc geological engineering; MBA at Asper[18] | |
Nahanni Fontaine | politician | MA[19] | |
Phil Fontaine | Indigenous Canadian leader | BA (1981)[20] | |
Waldron Fox-Decent | mediator, professor, Crown Corporation chairman[21] | BA (1959); MA (1971) | |
Eira Friesen | advocate for women in Winnipeg[22] | BSc (1939) | |
Patrick Friesen | poet, playwright, essayist | ||
Erving Goffman | sociologist who introduced the concept of dramaturgy into the field | BSc[23] | |
Velvl Greene | scientist and academic | BS in agriculture; MS dairy bacteriology[24] | |
Monty Hall | television personality | BSc[25] | Hall was also president of Variety Clubs International and received the Order of Canada |
Ellie Harvie | actress[26] | BA | |
S.I. Hayakawa | scholar and professor of semantics; United States Senator[27] | BA (1927) | |
John Alexander Hopps | inventor of the world's first artificial pacemaker; known as the "father of biomedical engineering in Canada"[28] | BEng (1941) | |
Gad Horowitz | political scientist who coined the term "Red Tory"[29] | BA | |
Barbara Humphreys | architect and author, specializing in public service, historic preservation, and housing | B.Arch. (1941) | |
Johanna Hurme | architect and activist | BEnvD (1996); MArch | |
Israel Idonije | retired NFL defensive end | ||
Jamaluddin Jarjis | former Malaysian ambassador to the United States; former Malaysian government minister | MSc | |
Francis Lawrence Jobin | former Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba[30] | ||
F. Ross Johnson | businessman; CEO of RJR Nabisco[31] | BComm (1952) | |
Tanya Kappo | lawyer and Indigenous rights activist | JD (2012)[32] | |
Sam Katz | mayor of Winnipeg (2004–2014) | BA (1973) | |
Guy Gavriel Kay | novelist and poet | BA (1975) | |
Humayun Akhtar Khan | politician | MS | |
David Kilgour | former federal Minister of Transport | BA | |
Wab Kinew | Premier of Manitoba (2023–present) | BA | |
Greg Kopp | Acting Dean of Engineering at the University of Western Ontario | BSc (1989) | |
Scott Koskie | former member of the Canada men's national volleyball team | BRMCD (1995) | |
Roman Kroitor | co-founder of IMAX Corporation | MA (1951) | |
Amanda Lang | journalist; senior business correspondent for CBC News | ||
Allan Levine | author, known mainly for his award-winning non-fiction and historical mystery writing | BA (1978) | |
Bob Lowes | ice hockey coach and executive | ||
James Lunney | politician; former Conservative Member of Parliament for the riding of Nanaimo—Alberni in BC | ||
Inky Mark | former federal Conservative Member of Parliament for Dauphin—Swan River, Manitoba | ||
Bill Mason | author, filmmaker, environmentalist | ||
Pearl McGonigal | former Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba | ||
William John McKeag | former Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba | ||
Marshall McLuhan | famed media scholar | ||
Harry Medovy | pediatrician and academic | ||
Olawale Sulaiman | neurosurgeon and academic | ||
Ovide Mercredi | Aboriginal Canadian leader | LLB (1977) | |
Ted Milian, | Canadian football player | ||
W.O. Mitchell | writer | ||
W. L. Morton | historian | ||
Arnold Naimark | physician, academic, and former President of the U of M | ||
Alison Norlen | artist | ||
William Norrie | mayor of Winnipeg (1979–1992) | BA (1950); LLB (1955) | |
Rey Pagtakhan | physician, academic, former MP and federal cabinet minister | ||
Malcolm Peat | Emeritus Professor at Queen's University | Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) | |
Jim Peebles | astrophysicist | won the Crafoord Prize (2005), Nobel Prize in Physics (2019), Companion of the Order of Canada, Order of Merit (CC, OM, 2020) | |
Leonard Peikoff | philosopher | ||
Frank Pickersgill | Special Operations Executive agent in World War II executed by the Nazis | ||
Barry Posner | physician and research scientist on diabetes | ||
Jon Pylypchuk | artist | ||
Clay Riddell | oil tycoon; founder, president and CEO of Paramount Resources, based in Calgary | BSc Honours (1959) | the University's Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources is named in his honour |
Dufferin Roblin | former Premier of Manitoba | ||
Claude C. Robinson | ice hockey and sports executive | 1902[33] | Inductee into the Hockey Hall of Fame and Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame |
Marshall Rothstein | Supreme Court of Canada judge | ||
Alexei Maxim Russell | internationally-published novelist | ||
Fred Sandhu | Provincial Court of Manitoba judge[34] | ||
Edward Schreyer | Premier of Manitoba (1969–1977) and Governor General of Canada (1979–1984) | ||
Cynthia Scott | Oscar winning filmmaker | BA | |
Richard Scott | former Chief Justice of Manitoba Court of Appeal | ||
Harry Seidler | Australian architect[35] | ||
Mitchell Sharp | former Liberal Minister of Finance | ||
Patricia Alice Shaw | linguist specializing in phonology and known for her work on First Nations languages | ||
Louis Slotin | physicist and chemist who took part in the Manhattan Project | BSc (1932); MSc (1933) | |
Robert Steen | Mayor of Winnipeg (1977–1979) | ||
Mary Ann Steggles | Commonwealth scholar and international expert on British colonial statuary | Olive Beatrice Stanton recipient | |
Iain Stewart | theoretical physicist | ||
Frank Trafford Taylor | lawyer and former president of Kiwanis International | ||
John W.M. Thompson | Manitoba MLA and Provincial Cabinet Minister | ||
Grace Eiko Thomson | curator, activist, and internment camp survivor | BFA (1977)[36] | |
Thorbergur Thorvaldson | cement chemist[37] | ||
Miriam Toews | novelist | ||
Vic Toews | politician; former Minister of Justice and Attorney General and the President of the Treasury Board in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper | ||
Andrew Unger | satirist and novelist | BA (2002); BEd. (2004) | |
Chris Urmson | CEO of Aurora Innovation | BSc (1998) | |
Meaghan DeWarrenne-Waller | fashion model; winner of Canada's Next Top Model, Cycle 3 | ||
Adele Wiseman | author | ||
Svetlana Zylin | playwright and director[38] |