Mount Allison University - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

Mount Allison has produced more Rhodes Scholars (noted by RS in the list below) per capita than any other university in the Commonwealth.

  • John Peters Humphrey, jurist
  • Ivan Rand, jurist
  • Christopher Pratt, C.C., artist
  • Mary Pratt, C.C., artist
  • Sir Cuthbert Sebastian, Governor-General of St. Kitts and Nevis
  • Winthrop Pickard Bell, historian and philosopher
  • John Buchanan, Premier of Nova Scotia, senator
  • Robert Winters, politician
  • Hon. Marilyn Trenholme Counsell, physician, Senator, Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick
  • Heward Grafftey, politician and businessman
  • Ian Hanomansing, journalist
  • Alex Colville, P.C., C.C., artist
  • Greg Kerr, Current Member of Parliament for West Nova
  • Frank Parker Day (RS), author, educator, president of Union College (NY), 1929–1933
  • Muriel McQueen Fergusson, senator
  • Herménégilde Chiasson, Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick
  • Barra MacNeils, entertainers
  • Hon. J. Michael MacDonald, Chief Justice of Nova Scotia
  • Edgar Ritchie (RS), diplomat to the United States
  • Moses Morgan (RS), academic
  • Henry Burr, entertainer
  • Leslie M. Little, judge - federal Tax Court of Canada
  • John Clarence Webster, physician/historian
  • Michael Wu, Chair and CEO (Ret.), Wing Lung Bank, Hong Kong
  • John Bragg, O.C., industrialist
  • Wallace McCain, C.C., industrialist
  • Hon. Margaret McCain, O.C., Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick
  • Michael deAdder, cartoonist
  • John James Grant, current Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
  • Hon. Kevin Lynch, Vice-Chair, BMO Financial Group
  • Dr. Vianne Timmons, President and Vice-Chancellor, University of Regina
  • Kate Braid, poet
  • John Gray, playwright
  • Rick Black, CFL football player, Grey Cup champion
  • Eric Lapointe, CFL football player, Hec Crighton Trophy winner
  • Angus MacLean, Premier of Prince Edward Island
  • Catherine Callbeck, Premier of Prince Edward Island; businesswoman
  • Brenda Mary Robertson, First female in the New Brunswick Legislature; Order of Canada
  • Erminie Cohen, Senator
  • Arthur Motyer, (RS) playwright, novelist, professor emeritus
  • Don Hannah, Playwright; novelist
  • Alison Sealy-Smith, Actor; and founding member and founding director of Obsidian Theatre.
  • Alex Morrison, Lieutenant Colonel in the Canadian Forces
  • Scott Simms, Current Member of Parliament for Bonavista—Gander—Grand Falls—Windsor
  • Kate Beaton, Cartoonist
  • Lydia Adams, Conductor
  • Purdy Crawford, CC QC, Canadian lawyer and businessman.

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