List of McGill University people

The following is a list of chancellors, principals, and noted alumni and professors of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

McGill alumni have held and continue to hold many positions at the federal and provincial levels in Canadian politics: McGill alumni have held and continue to hold many top government positions in other countries:

For a full list of notable alumni and faculty from the School of Architecture, see:

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Sir John Abbott , 3rd Prime Minister of Canada
Sir Wilfrid Laurier , 7th Prime Minister of Canada
Justin Trudeau , 23rd and current Prime Minister of Canada
Julie Payette , astronaut and former Governor General of Canada
Timothy Harris , current Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis
Daniel Oduber Quirós , 37th President of Costa Rica
Vaira Vike-Freiberga , 6th and first female President of Latvia
Ahmed Nazif , 48th Prime Minister of Egypt
Paula Ann Cox , 10th Prime Minister of Bermuda
John Rankin , former Governor-General of Bermuda , the 143rd
Marc Tessier-Lavigne , neuroscientist and 11th President of Stanford University
Stephen Toope , legal scholar and current President of the University of Cambridge
Wendy Thomson , social work professor and current President of the University of London
Santa J. Ono , immunologist , 28th President of the University of Cincinnati , 15th President of the University of Michigan ; 15th President & Vice-Chancellor of the University of British Columbia
Harold Tafler Shapiro , former President of both Princeton University and the University of Michigan
Suzanne Fortier , crystallographer and former Principal of McGill University
S. I. Hayakawa , internationally renowned linguist , served as U.S. Senator and President of San Francisco State University
Mortimer Zuckerman , owner-publisher of U.S. News & World Report and New York Daily News , founder-CEO of Boston Properties
Edgar Bronfman Sr. , President-CEO of Seagram and recipient of the US Presidential Medal of Freedom
Aldo Bensadoun , retail magnate , founder-chairman of ALDO Shoes and ALDO Racing Team sponsor
Conrad Black , media tycoon, and current Member of the House of Lords in the British Parliament
R. DeLisle Worrell , econometrician and Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados
David Lametti , current Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of Canada
Catherine McKenna , Canada's current Minister of the Environment and Climate Change , and Member of Parliament
Clément Gascon , current Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Sheilah Martin , current Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Gordon Wasserman, The Lord Wasserman , current Member of the House of Lords in the British Parliament
Chase Going Woodhouse , U.S. Congresswoman , early feminist leader, and suffragist
Sir William Osler , "Father of Modern Medicine", co-founded the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Wilder Penfield , neurosurgeon , discovered electrical stimulation of the human brain
Ernest Rutherford , awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for path-breaking work in atomic physics
Frederick Soddy received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering isotopes
James Naismith , inventor of the sport of basketball
Zbigniew Brzezinski , US National Security Advisor and US Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
Charles Taylor , multi-awarded philosopher
Leonard Cohen , novelist, singer-songwriter, and poet
Burt Bacharach , six-time Grammy Award -winning composer and musician
William Shatner , film director and actor best known as Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek
Mia Kirshner , movie and TV actress
R. Tait McKenzie , renowned sculptor and pioneer in collegiate physical education
Charles Krauthammer won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for "witty and insightful columns on national issues"
Yoshua Bengio , 2018 recipient of the Turing Award for engineering breakthroughs in deep neural networks as critical component of computing
Louis Nirenberg , world-acclaimed mathematician, won the 2015 Abel Prize for "striking and seminal" work on nonlinear partial differential equations
Victor J. Dzau , former chairman, National Institutes of Health (NIH), and current President of the US National Academy of Medicine
Andrew Schally , awarded the 1977 Nobel Prize in Medicine for pioneering work on hormones
Val Logsdon Fitch , 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for disproving that particle interaction is indifferent to the direction of time
David H. Hubel received the 1981 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries of information processing in the visual system
Rudolph A. Marcus , winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for groundbreaking theory of electron transfer
Willard Boyle , 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing "an imaging semiconductor circuit" as "core technology behind the digital photography revolution"
Jack W. Szostak , 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering how the body protects chromosomes housing genetic code
Ralph Steinman won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering dendritic cells and their role in immunity
John O'Keefe received the 2014 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering the brain's positioning system
Thomas Chang , inventor of the artificial cell and three-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Medicine