University Of Toronto Notable Alumni

Check out the list of notable University Of Toronto alumni. Some of the notable University Of Toronto students are Alexander Graham Bell, Steve Perry, Margaret Atwood, Naomi Klein and Lester B. Pearson.

In Ontario, Canada lies the University of Toronto, which is a public research university which was founded in 1827. The university is renowned for its programs in literary criticism and communication theory. Commonly known as U of T, University of Toronto has found itself in the top of Canada’s leading institutions, where learning, innovation and creative creation is honed and celebrated. With undergraduate, graduate and professional courses, the university has shown fruitful results in the past and strives to enhance the quality of its research and teachings, in the future. The academic programs include Arts and Science, Industrial Relations, Film Studies, Engineering, Renaissance Studies, Humanities and so on. This is supported by the state-of-the-art campus and the academic proficiency of its noteworthy faculty. With research being its core area of expertise, University of Toronto has been ranked the second in the world for research performance, by The University Ranking by Academic Performance. It has also been deemed as Canada’s top medical-doctoral university for eleven consecutive years, by Maclean’s magazine. This prestigious institution has an alumni list which includes several remarkable personalities who have left their mark in various areas of study. John Charles Fields, William Fredrick King, Preet Banerjee and Hart Hanson were all once students of the esteemed University of Toronto. It is a pleasant surprise as to how many prominent politicians, historians, businessmen, journalists and scientists had their humble beginnings in University Of Toronto. Take a look at the list, to find out.

Donald Sutherland
(Actor)

17 July 1935

Canadian

Margaret Atwood
(Writer, Environmental Activist)

18 November 1939

Canadian

Alexander Graham Bell
(Inventor of Telephone)

03 March 1847

Canadian,Scottish

Steve Perry

22 January 1949

American

Stana Katic
(Actor)

26 April 1978

Canadian,American

Lester B. Pearson
(14th Prime Minister of Canada)

23 April 1897

Canadian

Michael Ondaatje
(Canadian poet)

12 September 1943

Canadian

Naomi Klein

08 May 1970

Canadian

John Kenneth Galbraith
(Economist)

15 October 1908

Canadian

William Osler
(Professor of Medicine, Historian, Pathologist, Educator, Author, Practical Joker)

12 July 1849

Canadian

Frederick Banting
(Discoverer of Insulin)

14 November 1891

Canadian

Norman Bethune
(Physician)

03 March 1890

Canadian

Roberta Bondar
(Astronaut & Neurologist)

04 December 1945

Canadian

Stephen Leacock
(Canadian writer)

30 December 1869

Canadian

Stephen Lewis
(Politician, Broadcaster and Diplomat)

11 November 1937

Canadian

Walter Kohn
(Physicist and Chemist)

09 March 1923

Austrian

Arthur Leonard Schawlow
(Physicist)

05 May 1921

American

Bertram Brockhouse
(Physicist)

15 July 1918

Canadian

Scott Speedman
(Actor)

01 September 1975

Canadian,British

Kathleen Wynne
(Politician)

21 May 1953

Canadian

Paul Bernardo
(Serial killer)

27 August 1964

Canadian

Victor Garber
(Television actor, Film actor, Singer, Musician, Stage actor)

16 March 1949

Canadian

Katherine Ryan
(Comedian)

30 June 1983

Irish

David Cronenberg
(Film director, Screenwriter, Actor, Film producer, Film editor)

15 March 1943

Canadian

Lorne Michaels
(Screenwriter, Film producer, Actor, Television actor)

17 November 1944

American

Caterina Scorsone
(Actor, Film actor)

16 October 1981

Canadian

Julie Payette
(Astronaut, Engineer)

20 October 1963

Canadian

Stefan Molyneux
(Philosopher, Writer, Novelist, Podcaster, YouTuber)

24 September 1966

Canadian

Bob Rae
(Politician, Lawyer)

02 August 1948

Canadian

Michael Wincott
(Television actor, Film actor, Actor)

21 January 1958

Canadian

William Lyon Mackenzie King
(Politician, Journalist, Author)

Robert Goulet
(Singer, Musicologist, Stage actor, Film actor)

26 November 1933

American

John Tory
(Lawyer, Politician)

28 May 1954

Canadian

Lyse Doucet
(Journalist, Television presenter)

24 December 1958

Canadian

Erving Goffman
(Sociologist, Non-fiction writer)

11 June 1922

Canadian,American

Paul Martin
(Politician, Lawyer, Entrepreneur)

28 August 1938

Canadian,American

Peter Munk
(Engineer)

08 November 1927

Canadian

Sergio Marchionne
(Entrepreneur, Accountant, Businessperson, Lawyer)

17 June 1952

Italian

David Shore
(Film director, Screenwriter, Film producer, Writer, Lawyer)

03 July 1959

Canadian

Norman Jewison
(Film director, Film producer, Actor, Screenwriter)

21 July 1926

Canadian

Gerald Bull
(Aerospace engineer, Engineer, Inventor)

09 March 1928

Canadian

Brian George
(Actor, Film actor)

01 July 1952

Israeli

William B. Davis
(Actor, Screenwriter, Film actor)

13 January 1938

Canadian

Farley Mowat
(Writer)

12 May 1921

Canadian

Michael Ignatieff
(Journalist, Historian, Politician, Novelist, Philosopher, Writer, University teacher)

12 May 1947

Canadian

Paul Hellyer
(Politician, Ufologist, Writer)

06 August 1923

Canadian

Atom Egoyan
(Film director, Screenwriter, Film producer, Actor, University teacher)

19 July 1960

Canadian,Egyptian

Northrop Frye
(Writer, Philosopher, Educationist, Cleric, Poet, Literary critic)

14 July 1912

Canadian

Adrienne Clarkson
(Journalist, Novelist, Autobiographer, Musicologist, Writer, Politician)

10 February 1939

Canadian

Mike Keenan
(Ice hockey coach, Ice hockey player)

21 October 1949

Canadian

Raine Maida
(Singer, Songwriter, Record producer)

18 February 1970

Canadian

Arthur Currie
(Officer)

05 December 1875

Canadian

Mary Ainsworth
(Psychologist, University teacher)

01 December 1913

Canadian,American

Rohinton Mistry
(Writer)

03 July 1952

Canadian

Guy Gavriel Kay
(Lawyer, Writer)

07 November 1954

Canadian

Anne Carson
(Linguist, Poet, Translator, Writer, University teacher, Literary critic)

21 June 1950

Canadian

Jim Creeggan
(Musician, Songwriter)

12 February 1970

Canadian

Ted Kotcheff
(Film director, Film producer)

07 April 1931

Canadian

Don McKellar
(Screenwriter, Film director, Actor)

17 August 1963

Canadian

Steve Paikin
(Journalist, Biographer)

09 June 1960

Canadian

Kenneth D. Taylor
(Diplomat)

05 October 1934

Canadian

Arthur Meighen
(Politician, Lawyer, Diplomat)

16 June 1874

Canadian

Vincent Massey
(Diplomat)

20 February 1887

Canadian

Mychael Danna
(Composer, Musician, Film score composer)

20 September 1958

Canadian

David Easton
(Political scientist, University teacher)

24 June 1917

Canadian

Jim Balsillie
(Businessperson)

03 February 1961

Canadian

Bonnie Crombie
(Politician)

05 February 1960

Canadian

Alan Eagleson
(Lawyer, Politician, Trade unionist)

24 April 1933

Canadian

Don Harron
(Librettist, Actor, Screenwriter)

19 September 1924

Canadian

Michael Spence
(Economist, University teacher, Scientist, Professor)

07 November 1943

American

Philipp Hildebrand
(Banker, Economist, University teacher)

19 July 1963

Swiss

Albert W. Tucker
(Mathematician, Topologist, University teacher)

28 November 1905

Canadian,American

Tony Clement
(Lawyer, Politician)

27 January 1961

Canadian

Barbara Frum
(Journalist, Radio personality)

08 September 1937

American

Ryan North
(Engineer, Programmer, Cartoonist)

20 October 1980

Canadian

Carolyn Bennett
(Politician, Physician)

20 December 1950

Canadian

Andrew Coyne
(Columnist, Editor)

23 December 1960

Canadian

Dominic LeBlanc
(Lawyer, Politician)

14 December 1967

Canadian

Endel Tulving
(Neuroscientist, Psychologist)

26 May 1927

Canadian,Estonian

Rosalie Abella
(Judge)

01 July 1946

Canadian

Ed Broadbent
(Politician)

21 March 1936

Canadian

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