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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