This is a list of University of Ottawa people.
Notable people
Athletes and leaders in sports Caleb Agada (born 1994), Nigerian-Canadian basketball player in the Latvian-Estonian Basketball League and for the Nigerian national basketball team Bianca Borgella, para-athlete James Cartwright, Olympic athlete (kayak) Michael A. Chambers, former president of the Canadian Olympic Committee and Olympic Order recipient Sonia Denoncourt, association football referee Doug Falconer, CFL football player, film producer Julia Hanes, para-athlete Brianna Hennessy, para-canoeist Lou Lefaive, Canadian sports administrator and civil servant Trinity Lowthian, wheelchair fencer Neil Lumsden, CFL football player Sherraine MacKay, Olympic athlete (épée fencing) Silver Quilty, Canadian Football Hall of Fame inductee Margot Shore, association football player Brad Sinopoli, CFL football player Miranda Smith, association football player Charles Thiffault (born 1939), NHL ice hockey coach Ibrahim Tounkara, CFL football player Ousmane Tounkara, CFL football player
Business leaders France Chrétien, prominent lawyer and businesswoman; daughter of former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien André Desmarais, President and CEO of Power Corp. Canada Paul Desmarais, entrepreneur Daniel Lamarre, president and chief operating officer of Cirque du Soleil Chuck Rifici, Canadian entrepreneur, former CEO of Tweed Marijuana Inc, and former CFO of the Liberal Party of Canada. Sherrexcia Rolle, Bahamian attorney and VP of Operations & General Counsel of Western Air
Civil servants and public sector leaders Johanne Bélisle, former Commissioner of Patents, Registrar of Trademarks and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) Jocelyne Bourgon, Canadian representative to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); former Clerk of the Privy Council William J. S. Elliott, former commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Robert John Giroux, university president Ahmed Hussen, Federal Cabinet Minister and President of the Canadian Somali Congress Christiane Ouimet, first Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of Canada Sheridan Scott, Commissioner of Competition of the Competition Bureau Paul Tellier, former Clerk of the Privy Council
Journalists Aaron Badgley, music journalist and radio host Samantha Bee, host of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Scott Burnside, journalist and sportswriter Marcel Desjardins, political commentator and news director Pierre Dufault, journalist and sports commentator for Radio-Canada Mary Lou Finlay, journalist for the CBC Peter Jennings, journalist and news anchor for ABC News Lisa LaFlamme, journalist Alex Trebek, former broadcaster for CBC, host of the game show Jeopardy!
Jurists Louise Arbour, Governor General of Canada, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Michel Bastarache, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Louise Charron, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Gérald Fauteux, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Louis LeBel, Justice of the Supreme Court Richard Wagner, Chief Justice of Canada
Musicians Joyce El-Khoury, opera singer Angela Hewitt, pianist Roch Voisine, singer-songwriter
Media personalities George Aryee, Director General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (1991–1992) Randall Dark, director, producer, and HDTV pioneer Erica Ehm, television personality and songwriter, former MuchMusic VJ Jeanette Jenkins, Hollywood fitness trainer, spokeswoman for BET's Television foundation, "A Healthy BET Campaign" Suzanne Pinel, children's entertainer (Marie-Soleil) Quddus, model, MTV VJ
Natural scientists and engineers Xiaoyi Bao, professor, Canada Research Chair in Fiber Optics and Photonics Robert W. Boyd, physicist, Canada Excellence Research Chair Laureate in Quantum Nonlinear Optics Richard L'Abbé, engineer Timothy C. Lethbridge, professor of computer science and software engineering Yashpal Singh Malik, virologist Tuncer Őren, professor emeritus of computer science Tito Scaiano, professor of chemistry, photochemist Dafydd Williams, astronaut
Physicians and other health care professionals Mark Aubry, Chief Medical Officer of Hockey Canada, and the International Ice Hockey Federation Anna Baranowsky, clinical psychologist; founder and CEO of the Traumatology Institute Margaret Beznak, physiologist Dave Holmes, University Research Chair in Forensic Nursing; Editor-in-Chief of Aporia – the Nursing Journal Wilbert Joseph Keon, cardiovascular surgeon, first Canadian to implant an artificial heart in a human Padmaja Subbarao, respirologist and scientist in physiology and experimental medicine Philip Steven Wells, hematologist, developed the Wells risk score for pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis
Political leaders Philémon Yunji Yang, Former Cameroon Prime minister
Federal and international Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed, former Prime Minister of Somalia Bernard Chidzero, former Finance Minister of Zimbabwe Ousainou Darboe, former Vice-President of the Gambia Greg Fergus, 38th Speaker of the House of Commons, Member of Parliament Salter Hayden, Senator and lawyer Rahim Jaffer, former Canadian Member of Parliament John Manley, former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Paul Martin, former Prime Minister of Canada Gabriela Michetti, former Vice President of Argentina Sir Edward Morris, former Prime Minister of Newfoundland André Ouellet, former Minister and CEO and president of Canada Post Jean-Luc Pepin, politician, Cabinet minister John Richardson, Brigadier General in the Canadian Forces and Member of Parliament Pauline Rochefort, member of Parliament Allan Rock, former Minister of Justice, among other ministerial portfolios, Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations, President of the University of Ottawa Hugh Segal, politician and Senator Landon Pearson, Canadian senator and children's rights activist Melissa Lantsman, Member of Parliament for Thornhill (2021 - Present) and Co-Deputy Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Oppositionhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/melissalantsman/details/education/
Provincial & Territorial Howard Hampton, former leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party Dalton McGuinty, former Premier of Ontario Paul Okalik, first premier of Nunavut Michael Connolly, former MLA for Calgary-Hawkwood Bernard Drainville, MNA for Lévis David Piccini (born 1988), politician, Ontario’s Minister of Labour, Immigration, Training & Skills Development
Municipal Bob Chiarelli, former mayor of the City of Ottawa Mathieu Fleury, former Ottawa City Councillor for Rideau-Vanier Jean-Paul L'Allier, former mayor of Quebec City Gérald Tremblay, former mayor of Montreal
Social scientists Merridee Bujaki, manager of Accounting Studies Michel Chossudovsky, economist and author Dimitri Kitsikis, geopolitician Anna Koutsoyiannis, economist Joel Westheimer, American-born professor at the University of Ottawa
Visual artists Rhonda Abrams, classically trained painter and video artist Jean-Marc Carisse, photographer, author and recipient of Library and Archives Canada Scholar Award Philippe Falardeau, Oscar-nominated director
Writers and literature experts Angèle Bassolé-Ouédraogo, Ivoirian poet Michel Marc Bouchard, playwright Cyril Dabydeen, author and Professor of English Andrew Donskov, professor of modern languages, Tolstoy expert Faisal Kutty, lawyer, writer, human rights activist, academic teaching at Osgoode Hall Law School and at Valparaiso University Angela Narth, children's author Carol Shields, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Kim Renders (BA in drama 1977), playwright, theatre director and actor; co-founder of Nightwood Theatre Christl Verduyn, professor of English Literature and Canadian Studies; recipient of the Governor General's International Award for Canadian Studies (2006)
Governor General's Literary Awards Michel Bock, professor of history, Governor General's literary award winner
Other Abdul Rahman Jabarah, alleged al-Qaeda member killed in 2003 Ahmed Khadr, alleged by Canada and the United States of being a "senior associate" and financier of al-Qaeda killed in Afghanistan in 2003 Denis Rancourt, former physics professor, scientist, academic dissident
Chancellors and presidents
List of chancellors (1889–1965) University of Ottawa
1889–1909 Mgr Joseph-Thomas Duhamel 1911–1922 Mgr Charles-Hugues Gauthier 1922–1927 Mgr Joseph-Médard Émard 1928–1940 Mgr Joseph-Guillaume-Laurent Forbes 1940–1953 Mgr Alexandre Vachon 1953–1965 Mgr Marie-Joseph Lemieux, OP
(1965–present) University of Ottawa (reorganised)
1966–1973 The Right Honourable Pauline Vanier 1973–1979 The Right Honourable Gérald Fauteux 1979–1985 Gabrielle Léger 1985–1990 The Honourable Maurice Sauvé 1991–1993 Gordon F. Henderson 1994–2012 Huguette Labelle 2012–2015 The Right Honourable Michaelle Jean 2015–2022 Calin Rovinescu 2022–present: Claudette Commanda
List of presidents (1848–1861) Le Collège de Bytown / The College of Bytown
1848–1849 Édouard Chevalier, OMI 1849–1850 Jean-François Allard, OMI 1850–1851 Napoléon Mignault, OMI 1851–1853 Augustin Gaudet, OMI 1853–1861 Joseph-Henri Tabaret, OMI
(1861–1889) Collège d'Ottawa / College of Ottawa
1861–1864 Joseph-Henri Tabaret, OMI 1864–1867 Timothy Ryan, OMI 1867–1874 Joseph-Henri Tabaret, OMI 1874–1877 Antoine Paillier, OMI 1877–1886 Joseph-Henri Tabaret, OMI 1886 Philémon Provost, OMI 1886–1887 Antoine Paillier, OMI 1887–1889 Jean-Marie Fayard, OMI
(1889–1965) Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
1889–1898 James McGuckin, OMI 1898–1901 Henri-Antoine Constantineau, OMI 1901–1905 Joseph-Édouard Émery, OMI 1905–1911 William Murphy, OMI 1911–1914 Adrien-Bruno Roy, OMI 1914–1915 Henri Gervais, OMI 1915–1921 Louis Rhéaume, OMI 1921–1927 François-Xavier Marcotte, OMI 1927–1930 Uldéric Robert, OMI 1930–1936 Gilles Marchand, OMI 1936–1942 Joseph Hébert, OMI 1942–1946 Philippe Cornellier, OMI 1946–1952 Jean-Charles LaFramboise, OMI 1952–1958 Rodrigue Normandin, OMI 1958–1964 Henri-F. Légaré, OMI 1964–1965 Roger Guindon, OMI
(1965–present) Université d'Ottawa (nouvelle structure) / University of Ottawa (reorganised)
1965–1984 Roger Guindon, OMI 1984–1990 Antoine D'Iorio 1990–2001 Marcel Hamelin 2001–2008 Gilles G. Patry 2008–2017 Allan Rock 2017–2025 Jacques Frémont 2025–present Marie-Eve Sylvestre
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