McMaster University - Notable Alumni and Faculty

Notable Alumni and Faculty

Main article: List of McMaster University people See also: List of McMaster University Olympic athletes, coaches and officials

As of November 2010, McMaster University has over 140,000 alumni residing over 140 countries. Throughout McMaster's history, faculty, alumni, and former students have played prominent roles in many different fields, accumulating a number of awards including Nobel prizes, Rhodes scholarships and the Lasker Award. Nobel Prize winners include alumnus Myron Scholes, who was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1997; faculty member Bertram Brockhouse, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1994; and alumnus James Orbinski, who accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 on behalf of Doctors Without Borders.

Many former students have gained local and national prominence for serving in government. Lincoln Alexander served as Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, also becoming the first visible-minority Lieutenant Governor in Canada. Two premiers from Canada, the current premier from Ontario, Dalton McGuinty, and the former premier of Saskatchewan, Tommy Douglas, were graduates of McMaster University. Prominent faculty members in the field of social sciences include Ruth Landes, a cultural anthropologist, and Henry Giroux, one of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy. A prominent alumnus in the field of social sciences was Harold Innis, who helped shape communication theory and the staples thesis.

A significant number of prominent business leaders have studied at McMaster. Examples include Stephen Elop, current president and CEO of Nokia and former president of Microsoft's business division; Paul D. House, current executive chairman of Tim Hortons; Lynton Wilson, current chairman of Nortel and chancellor of McMaster; Michael Lee-Chin, current chairman, CEO, and CIO of AIC Limited; and Rob Burgess, former chairman and CEO of Macromedia and director of Adobe Systems. Two members of McMaster University had travelled in space: faculty member Dafydd Williams, who is a physician-scientist at McMaster Centre for Medical Robotics at St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton, and astronaut Roberta Bondar, the first Canadian woman in space.

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