Notable Alumni
- H. E. T. Haultain (class of 1889) – Founder of The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer
- Frederick Walker Baldwin (class of 1906) – Designer of the Silver Dart, White Wing and Red Wing aircraft
- Elsie MacGill (class of 1927) – First female aircraft designer, "Queen of the Hurricanes"
- Jim Chamberlin (class of 1936) – Chief designer of the Avro Arrow, chief of engineering for NASA's Project Mercury
- Gerald Bull (class of 1944, M.A.Sc. 1948, Ph.D. 1951) – Ballistics engineer and developer of long-range superguns
- Lewis Urry (class of 1950) – Inventor of the alkaline battery and the lithium battery
- Peter Munk (class of 1952) – Founder and chairman of Barrick Gold
- Paul Godfrey (class of 1962) – Politician and former president of the Toronto Blue Jays
- Alfred Aho (class of 1963) – Co-creator of the AWK programming language, co-author of Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
- Brian Kernighan (class of 1964) – Bell Labs scientist, co-author of The C Programming Language and The UNIX Programming Environment
- Bernard Sherman (class of 1964) – Chairman and CEO of Apotex
- Kim Vicente (class of 1985, prof. of mechanical engineering 1998–) – Author, The Human Factor
- Jeffrey Skoll (class of 1987) – First employee and president of eBay
- Julie Payette (M.A.Sc. 1990) – Astronaut
- Isabel Bayrakdarian (class of 1997) – Opera singer
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