List of University of Manitoba alumni

This list of University of Manitoba alumni includes notable graduates, non-graduates, and current students of the University of Manitoba.

List

{| class="wikitable" !Name !Occupation / known for !UM credentials / activities !Additional details |- |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)

|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.Israel Harold (Izzy) Asper at The Canadian Encyclopedia. |- |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)

|William Moore Benidickson |former member of Parliament, federal cabinet minister, and senator"William Moore Benidickson (1911-1985)" at Manitoba Historical Society (accessed February 16, 2011).

|George Montegu Black II |businessman, father of Conrad BlackRichard Siklos, Shades of Black: Conrad Black and the World's Fastest Growing Press Empire, chapter one reprinted at The New York Times (accessed February 16, 2011.

|Andy Blair |National Hockey League player in the 1920s and 1930s, mostly with the Toronto Maple Leafs

|Richard Spink Bowles |lawyer and former Manitoba lieutenant-governor"Past Lieutenant Governors: Richard Spink Bowles" at Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba website (accessed February 16, 2011). |BA (1933); LLB (1937)

|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 honour and presented annually. |- |Harold J Brodie |mycologist"Harold Johnston Brodie, 1907-1989", Mycologia 81(6):832 (1989). |BSc (1929)

|Harold Buchwald |lawyer"Dr. Harold Buchwald CM QC" , Distinguished Graduates, University of Manitoba, April 2008. | BA (1948); LL.B (1952); LL.M (1957)

|Wilfred Buck |scientific facilitator and Indigenous star lore expert |B.Ed.

|Don Callis |professional wrestler,"Cyrus chats with SLAM! Wrestling", CANOE, September 7, 2000. MHSAA Darts finalist (1978) |BA (1991); MBA (2003)

|Norman Cantor |medieval scholar and writerWolfgang Saxon, "Norman F. Cantor, a noted medievalist", New York Times News Service obituary, October 8, 2004. |BA (1951)

|Albert Chan |Hong Kong politician and lawmaker |BA; BSW

|Richard Condie |Academy Award-nominated animator; creator of The Big Snit"Richard Condie fonds" at University of Manitoba Libraries: Archives and Special Collections (accessed February 16, 2011). |BA (1967)

|Constantine of Irinoupolis |American Orthodox hierarch, primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA |St. Andrew's College graduate (1959)

|Meaghan DeWarrenne-Waller |fashion model; winner of Canada's Next Top Model, Cycle 3

|Brian Dickson |former chief justice of CanadaSupreme Court of Canada - Chief Justice Brian Dickson (accessed February 16, 2011) |LL.B (1938)

|Gerry Ducharme |politician and cabinet minister in the 1988–1995 Progressive Conservative government

|Mary Dunn |president of the Dominion Women's Amateur Hockey Association and the Manitoba branch of the Women's Amateur Athletic Federation of Canada |BS (1938)

|Audrey Dwyer |actor and writer

|Marcel Dzama |artist |BFA (1997)Marcel Dzama CV (accessed February 16, 2011).

|Ed Evanko |actor and singerEd Evanko at The Canadian Encyclopedia. |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"Hon. Gary A. Filmon PC OC OM (b. 1942)" , Distinguished Graduates, University of Manitoba, January 2009

|Danny Finkleman |former CBC Radio host"Celebrated Alumni 2005" , University of Manitoba (accessed February 16, 2011) |LL.B

|Bruce Flatt |CEO of Brookfield Asset Management and billionaire ranked by Forbes magazine |BComm

|Steven Fletcher |politician; former Conservative MP in the House of Commons; former federal cabinet minister | BSc geological engineering; MBA at Asper

|Nahanni Fontaine | politician |MA

|Phil Fontaine |Indigenous Canadian leader |BA (1981)"Mr. L. Phillip Fontaine OM" , Distinguished Graduates, University of Manitoba (accessed February 16, 2011)

|Waldron Fox-Decent |mediator, professor, Crown Corporation chairman"Mr. Waldron Fox-Decent CMM CM OM" , Distinguished Graduates, University of Manitoba (accessed February 16, 2011). |BA (1959); MA (1971)

|Eira Friesen |advocate for women in Winnipeg |BSc (1939)

|Patrick Friesen |poet, playwright, essayist

|Donna Giberson |Entomologist |PhD

|Erving Goffman |sociologist who introduced the concept of dramaturgy into the field |BScTom Burns, Erving Goffman (Taylor & Francis, 1992), , p.9. Excerpt available at Google Books

| Jyoti Gondek | mayor of Calgary

|Audrey Gordon |politician, former minister of Health and Seniors Care in Manitoba |BA; MBA

|Velvl Greene |scientist and academic |BS in agriculture; MS dairy bacteriology

|Monty Hall |television personality |BSc"Dr. Monty Hall OC OM" , Distinguished Graduates, University of Manitoba, August 2004 (accessed February 16, 2011). |Hall was also president of Variety Clubs International and received the Order of Canada. |- |Ellie Harvie |actress |BA

|S.I. Hayakawa |scholar and professor of semantics; United States senator"Hayakawa, Samuel Ichiye", at Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. | BA (1927)

|John Alexander Hopps |inventor of the world's first artificial pacemaker; known as the "father of biomedical engineering in Canada""Dr. John Alexander Hopps OC" , Distinguished Graduates, University of Manitoba (accessed February 16, 2011). |BEng (1941)

|Gad Horowitz |political scientist who coined the term "Red Tory""Gad Horowitz, Professor Emeritus" , University of Toronto (accessed February 16, 2010). |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"Past Lieutenant Governors: Francis Laurence Jobin" at Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba website (accessed February 16, 2011).

|F. Ross Johnson |businessman; CEO of RJR Nabisco"Dr. F. Ross Johnson OC" , Distinguished Graduates, University of Manitoba, August 2004 (accessed February 16, 2011). |BComm (1952)

|Tanya Kappo |lawyer and Indigenous rights activist |JD (2012)

|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

|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)

|Gordon Orlikow |decathlon, heptathlon, and hurdles competitor, Athletics Canada chairman, Canadian Olympic Committee member, Korn/Ferry International partner; competed for the Manitoba Bisons in track and field; honoured on the Bisons Walkway of Honour

|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. |- |Claude C. Robinson |ice hockey and sports executive |1902 |inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame and Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame |- |Dufferin Roblin |former premier of Manitoba

|Marshall Rothstein |Supreme Court of Canada judge

|Alexei Maxim Russell |internationally-published novelist

|Fred Sandhu |Provincial Court of Manitoba judge"Two Judges Appointed to Provincial Court" , Province of Manitoba, May 1, 2003.

|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

|Mohamed Ali Al-Shaaban |television personality and surgeon |BSc (2006)

|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

|Olawale Sulaiman |neurosurgeon and academic

|William Sweet |philosopher and professor at St, Francis Xavier University |MA (1979) |Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC) |- |Frank Trafford Taylor |lawyer and former president of Kiwanis International