University of New Brunswick - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

As of 2012, the University of New Brunswick reports 64,000 living alumni, half of whom live in New Brunswick.

  • Alfred Bailey - educator, poet, anthropologist, ethno-historian
  • Sandra Barr - UNB's female athlete of the year in 1968, president of the Geological Association of Canada
  • Francesco Bellini - co-founder of BioChem Pharma and Officer of the Order of Canada.
  • Elizabeth Brewster - poet and Member of the Order of Canada
  • Rod Bryden - chief executive of World Heart Corporation, co-founder of the Ottawa high-tech firm Systemhouse, and until 2003, owner of the Ottawa Senators hockey team
  • Bliss Carman - 19th-century Canadian poet
  • Anne Compton - Governor General's Award winning poet
  • Richard Currie - businessman, Chancellor of UNB
  • Julie Dickson - civil servant
  • Fredrik Stefan Eaton - department store executive
  • J. Bruce Elliot - former CEO of Labatt Brewing Company and present CEO of Second Cup
  • Hal Fredericks - author and management consultant
  • David A. Ganong - President of Ganong Bros. Limited
  • William Francis Ganong - botanist, historian, cartographer
  • Sam Hinds - The Prime Minister of Guyana
  • Ed Kavanagh - writer, musician, and teacher
  • Gérard La Forest - former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
  • Walter Learning - noted theatre director and founder of Theatre New Brunswick
  • Alistair MacLeod - author whose first novel No Great Mischief won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
  • Mike MacSween - Executive Vice President- Major Projects - Suncor Energy Inc.
  • Allison McCain - Chair of the Board of McCain Foods Limited
  • J. "Travis" McCoy - English/cultural studies professor, Kung Fu instructor, coach of Canadian National Kung Fu Team
  • Frank McKenna - lawyer, politician, diplomat, banker
  • Gerald Merrithew - educator, politician
  • Anne Murray - Grammy Award-winning singer
  • Robert Nielsen - journalist
  • Troy Parfitt, travel writer and cultural critic
  • Tony Proudfoot - all star CFL (Montreal Alouettes and BC Lions) player
  • Sir Charles G.D. Roberts - 19th-century Canadian poet
  • Andy Scott - former politician
  • A. Edison Stairs - businessman, politician
  • Clark Todd - award-winning journalist, killed on assignment in Lebanon
  • Edward Ludlow Wetmore, jurist, politician
  • Mary Matilda Winslow - The University's first black female graduate

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