List of University of Alberta people
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This is a list of distinguished people affiliated with the University of Alberta.
- Ali A. Abdi – anthropologist and author; education and international development
- Jordan Abel – poet
- John Acorn – naturalist and science communicator
- William Anselmi – professor of Italian and Italian-Canadian literature and culture
- Florence Ashley – law professor, first openly transfeminine clerk of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Lorne Babiuk – immunologist and virologist
- Harold Barclay – anthropologist
- Howard Bashaw – composer
- Norman C. Beaulieu – electrical engineer
- Ted Bishop – English professor
- Stan Boutin – wildlife population ecologist
- Mark Boyce – wildlife population ecologist
- Ludwig N. Carbyn – wolf biologist
- D. Jean Clandinin – education researcher
- Kerry Courneya – kinesiologist
- Philip J. Currie – palaeontologist
- Patricia Demers – English professor
- Jaroslaw Drelich – chemical engineer
- Marilyn Dumont - poet
- Janet A. W. Elliott – distinguished professor, faculty of engineering
- Andrew Gow – historian of medieval and early modern Europe
- Jonathan Locke Hart – author, literary scholar and historian[1]
- Peter Hide – sculptor
- John-Paul Himka – historian of Eastern Europe
- Greg Hollingshead – novelist and professor of English
- Michael Houghton – Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of hepatitis C
- Tasha Hubbard – filmmaker and scholar of Indigenous studies
- Peter L. Hurd – biologist
- Karim Jamal – business professor
- Stephen A. Kent – sociologist
- Conor Kerr – novelist and poet
- Jacobus Kloppers – organist
- Natalie Kononenko – folklorist
- Andrew Leach – energy economist
- Mark A. Lewis – mathematical ecologist and the Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Biology at the Centre for Mathematical Biology[2]
- Michael Lounsbury – Associate Dean of Research, Thornton A. Graham Chair and professor of strategic management, organizations and sociology
- Chloë Lum and Yannick Desranleau – visual artists and former members of the band AIDS Wolf
- Austin Mardon – adjunct professor, recipient of Order of Canada
- Jacob Masliyah – pioneer researcher in oil-sands extraction, recipient of Order of Canada[3]
- Takahiko Masuda – psychologist
- Iman Mersal – poet, professor of Arabic literature and Middle Eastern and African studies
- Robert Moody – mathematician, co-inventor of Kac–Moody algebra
- Adam Morton – philosopher and member of the Royal Society of Canada[4][5]
- Don Page – theoretical cosmologist
- Raj Pannu – sociologist, former head of the Alberta New Democratic Party
- Graham Pearson – geologist
- Mike Percy – economist
- Leonard Ratzlaff – professor of choral music
- Jia Rongqing – mathematician
- Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa – director of the university's Center for Earth Observation Sciences
- Jonathan Schaeffer – computer scientist and the Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence[6]
- James Shapiro – professor of surgery, medicine and surgical oncology; director of the Clinical Islet Transplant Program; leader of the team that developed the Edmonton protocol
- Arya Mitra Sharma – Alberta Health Services endowed Chair in Obesity Research and Management
- Toby Spribille – lichenologist
- Richard S. Sutton – computer scientist and Turing Award winner
- Frank Sysyn – historian of Eastern Europe
- Kim TallBear – professor of native studies
- Darren Tanke – palaeontologist
- Ban Tsui – professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine
- D. Lorne Tyrrell – infectious disease physician
- Allan Warrack – Department of Marketing, Business Economics and Law in the Faculty of Business and also serves as the Associate Dean of the Master of Public Management Program and Vice-President of Administration
- Lana Whiskeyjack – artist and scholar of gender, sexuality, and Indigenous identity
- Rudy Wiebe – novelist, two-time Governor General's Award-winner
- Douglas Wiens – statistician
- David S. Wishart – computational biologist
- Toshifumi Yokota – medical geneticist
- Osmar R. Zaiane – computer scientist
- Vaclav Zizler – mathematician
Past faculty
- Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi‘ – Islamic scholar
- Jane Alexander – Anglican bishop
- William Hardy Alexander – one of the university's first four professors; university historian[7]
- Violet Archer – composer and performer
- Margaret-Ann Armour - chemist, supporter of women in science and engineering, member of the Order of Canada
- Margaret Atwood – author of The Handmaid's Tale and many other novels, poetry collections, and works of criticism; two-time Booker Prize winner
- George Ball - entomologist[8]
- Henry Beissel – poet and playwright
- C. Fred Bentley – soil scientist
- Stanford Blade – agronomist
- Edward D. Blodgett – author and researcher in comparative literature, religion and film/media[9]
- Russell Brown – professor of law, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Donald Cameron – academic administrator and member of the Senate of Canada
- Clive Carruthers – classicist
- Karl Clark – chemist and oil sands researcher
- Jagannath Prasad Das – educational psychologist; member of the Order of Canada
- James DeFelice - theatre professor
- John B. Dossetor – professor emeritus of medicine and bioethics
- Pierre Flor-Henry – psychologist
- Robert Folinsbee – geologist
- Malcolm Forsyth – composer; Juno Award winner and member of the Order of Canada
- John Gamon – plant physiologist and Earth observation scientist, developer of the Photochemical Reflectance Index
- Victor Golla – linguist and anthropologist
- Thomas B. Greenfield – scholar of educational administration
- Allan Gregg – pollster and political advisor
- Ronald Hamowy – libertarian intellectual
- W. G. Hardy – classicist, writer, ice hockey administrator, member of the Order of Canada[10]
- H. A. Hargreaves – science fiction writer
- Walter Edgar Harris – analytical chemist
- Myer Horowitz – early childhood education scholar, president of the University of Alberta
- Werner Israel – professor of physics and leader in the theory of black holes; Fellow of the Royal Society and Royal Society of Canada
- George Ivany – president of the University of Saskatchewan
- Martin Joos – linguist
- William Alexander Robb Kerr – president of the University of Alberta
- Mors Kochanski – bushcraft and wilderness survival pioneer
- Henry Kreisel – novelist and essayist
- Karol Józef Krótki – demographer who helped establish the Population Research Laboratory, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
- Gérard Vincent La Forest – dean of law (1968–1970), past Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Raymond U. Lemieux – chemistry pioneer, winner of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1999) and the Albert Einstein World Award of Science (1992)
- Francis John Lewis – botanist
- Andy Liu – mathematician
- Dorothy Livesay – poet, two-time winner of Governor General's Awards
- John M. MacEachran – psychologist, proponent of eugenics
- Walter Mackenzie – surgeon
- Barry J. Mailloux – computer scientist
- Eli Mandel – poet, winner of a Governor General's Award
- Anne McLellan – law professor, former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada and holder of multiple other Cabinet positions
- Carlo Montemagno – bionanotechnologist, winner of the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology
- Norbert Morgenstern – geotechnical engineer
- Leo Moser – geometer and discrete mathematician
- Angus Munn – soldier and anesthesiologist
- Joseph S. Nelson – ichthyologist
- Hope A. Olson – library scientist
- John Orrell – theatre historian who advised the reconstruction of Shakespeare's Globe
- Jim Parr – metallurgist, broadcaster, and composer
- Solomiia Pavlychko – literary critic
- Graham Peacock – abstract painter
- Anatol Roshko – physicist, one of only three people alive to have a dimensionless number (Roshko number) named after them
- George A. Rothrock – European historian
- David Schindler – limnologist, winner of the Volvo Environment Prize and the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
- Stephen Scobie – poet
- Gail Sidonie Sobat – writer and educator
- Ian Stirling – Arctic ecologist
- Mathukumalli V. Subbarao – number theorist
- David Suzuki – zoologist, environmental activist, and science communicator
- Morris Swadesh – pioneer of lexicostatistics and creator of the Swadesh list
- Yasushi Takahashi – physicist, co-discoverer of the Ward–Takahashi identity
- Henry Marshall Tory – first president of the University of Alberta, founder of three universities, the Alberta Research Council and National Research Council of Canada
- Thomas Thundat – Canada Excellence Research Chair in Oilsands Molecular Engineering
- Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann – mathematician
- Hiroomi Umezawa – physicist
- Maury Van Vliet – physical education scholar
- Ludwig von Bertalanffy – theoretical biologist who helped establish the Advanced Center for Theoretical Psychology, originator of General Systems Theory and creator of the Von Bertalanffy function
- Ella May Walker – visual artist and writer
- Sheila Watson – novelist, author of The Double Hook
- Wilfred Watson – poet and dramatist
- Thaddeus E. Weckowicz – psychologist
- John Alexander Weir – first Dean of Law
- Daniel Woolf – historian
- Norman Yates – painter
