# List of Université Laval people

This is a list of people associated with Université Laval.

## Notable alumni
### Artists and media personalities

* Victor Bouchard, pianist and composer
* Édith Butler, Acadian singer
* Christiane Chabot, artist
* Claude Lagacé, organist
* Gaston Miron, poet and author
* Renée Morisset, pianist
* Ben Mulroney, television host and son of former prime minister Brian Mulroney
* Gilles Vigneault, artist

### Athletes

* Boris Bede, gridiron football player
* Pierre Harvey, Olympic cyclist and cross-country skier
* Pierre Lavertu, CFL player
* Ed Millaire, professional hockey player, Montreal Canadiens
* Abi Tripp, Paralympic swimmer

### Business leaders

* Marcel Aubut, president of the Canadian Olympic Committee
* Conrad Black, former media magnate
* Manon Brouillette, President and CEO of Videotron
* Richard Fortin (born 1949/50), former chairman of Couche-Tard
* Louis Garneau, businessman and Olympic cyclist
* Marc Laliberté, CEO of Via Rail Canada
* Jean Leclerc, chairman, Leclerc biscuits and former provincial politician
* Charles Sirois, businessman and venture capitalist

### Political Leaders
#### Canadian

* Prime Ministers of Canada Louis St. Laurent, Brian Mulroney and Jean Chrétien
* Premiers of Quebec Lucien Bouchard, Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Edmund James Flynn, Jean Lesage, René Lévesque, Pauline Marois, Simon-Napoléon Parent and Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
* Jean-Martin Aussant, former leader of Option nationale party
* Jean Bazin, senator
* Louise Beaudoin, former minister in Quebec
* Lawrence Cannon, Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, 2008–2011
* Thomas Chapais, lawyer and federal politician
* Raoul Dandurand, lawyer, federal politician, diplomat, president of the League of Nations Assembly for 1925
* Stéphane Dion, diplomat and former politician; former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
* Gilbert Finn, 26th Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick
* Eugène Fiset, former Surgeon General of Canada, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
* Michael Fortier, senator
* Wilfrid Gariépy, Alberta cabinet minister
* Clement Gignac, politician, former Quebec Minister of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade and chief economist at Industrial Alliance
* Daniel Joseph Greene, Premier of Newfoundland, 1894–95
* Michael Meighen, senator
* Christian Paradis
* Louis J. Robichaud, 24th premier of New Brunswick
* Raymond C. Setlakwe, senator
* Arthur Tremblay, senator

#### Senior public servants

* Johanne Bélisle, former Commissioner of Patents, Registrar of Trademarks and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)
* Raymond Chrétien, former diplomat and lawyer
* Ernest Côté, diplomat and civil servant.
* Marc Lortie, diplomat
* Gérard Veilleux, former senior civil servant, president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (1989–1993)
* Jennie Carignan, Brigadier General

#### Foreign

* Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria (1918–2007)
* Archduchess Charlotte of Austria, social worker and royal heiress
* Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1919–2010)
* Mahamat Ali Adoum, permanent representative of Chad to the United Nations; former Minister of foreign affairs (1992–93)
* Jacques-Édouard Alexis, prime minister of Haiti, 1999–2001 and 2006–2008
* Carme Chacón, Spanish Minister of Defence, 2008–2011
* Habiba Zehi Ben Romdhane, Tunisian Minister of health
* Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
* Pearlette Louisy, Governess-General of Saint Lucia, 1997-2017

### Jurists

* Supreme Court Justices Suzanne Côté, Louis LeBel, Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, Charles Fitzpatrick, Arthur Cyrille Albert Malouin, Lawrence Arthur Dumoulin Cannon, Louis-Philippe Pigeon, Julien Chouinard, Robert Taschereau, Henri-Elzéar Taschereau, Thibaudeau Rinfret
* Marcel Crête (fr), jurist and former Chief Justice of Quebec (1980–88)
* Léon Gérin, lawyer and president of the Royal Society of Canada
* Paule Gauthier, lawyer, arbitrator, corporate director, former chair of the Security Intelligence Review Committee 1996–2004
* Frederick Edmund Meredith, lawyer and businessman, 8th chancellor of Bishop's University
* Adolphe-Basile Routhier, judge and writer

### Public intellectuals and academics

* Fabrisia Ambrosio, academic
* Gérard Bouchard, academic and public intellectual
* Thomas De Koninck, philosopher
* Micheline Dumont (historian), historian
* Gustave Guillaume, linguist, philologist and Volney Prize laureate
* Valérie Harvey, writer and sociologist
* Yolande Henderson, Pakistani high school teacher
* Richard Hotte, professor of information technology at Université TÉLUQ and current UNESCO Chair in Global Smart Disruptive Learning
* Luc Langlois, philosopher, Ordre des Palmes Académiques laureate, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, 2002-2010
* Georges Larivière, researcher, writer, ice hockey coach
* Laurent Picard, academic, former president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
* Rodrigue Tremblay, economist
* Niklaus Wirth, computer scientist, Turing Award winner

### Religious leaders

* Louis-Nazaire Bégin, Canadian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
* Charles Sandwith Campbell, benefactor of Montreal; Governor of McGill University
* Gérald Lacroix, ISPX, cardinal, archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec and Primate of Canada
* Marc Ouellet, cardinal, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops and president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America

### Scientists and physicians

* Albéric Boivin, physicist known for his work in optics and lasers
* Claire Deschênes, mechanical engineer and professor of engineering at Laval
* Paul Fiset, microbiologist and developer of the Q fever vaccine
* Paul-Antoine Giguère, physical chemist
* Jean-Charles Gille, engineer, psychiatrist and professor of medicine.
* Larkin Kerwin, physicist, first president of the Canadian Space Agency, 1989–1992
* Fernand Labrie, physician and medical researcher
* Louis de Lotbiniere-Harwood, Dean of Medicine at Université de Montréal; President of the Hôpital Notre-Dame
* Paul Marmet, physicist
* Aimé Pelletier, surgeon; under pen name Bertrand Vac, influential Quebec novelist, particularly in the 1950s
* Ouida Ramón-Moliner, first female anaesthetist at Université Laval
* Franco Rasetti, physicist and founding chairman of the Laval physics department, 1939–1947
* Jean-Paul Richard, physicist, academic and researcher
* Nicole Roy, professor of human nutrition in New Zealand
* David Saint-Jacques, astrophysicist and astronaut for the Canadian Space Agency
* David Servan-Schreiber, physician and author
* Réjean Thomas (fr), physician and founder of the Canadian division of Médecins du Monde

### Rhodes Scholars

* Marius Barbeau 1910
* Edgar Rochette 1914
* Roger Gaudry 1937
* Julien Chouinard 1951
* Thomas De Koninck 1956
* Gregory Kates 1966
* Jean-François Garneau 1982
* Leo Bureau-Blouin 2016

## Recipients of honorary degrees

Approximately 1100 honorary doctorates have been granted since 1864. Some notable recipients are:
* Janette Bertrand, journalist and feminist
* Lise Bissonnette, journalist and civil servant
* Marie-Claire Blais, writer
* Henri-Raymond Casgrain, historian and priest
* Céline Dion, singer
* Maurice Duplessis, 16th Premier of Quebec
* Germaine Guèvremont, writer
* Adélard Godbout, 15th Premier of Quebec
* Marc-André Hamelin, pianist
* Anne Hébert, writer
* Guy Laliberté, Cirque du Soleil founder
* Jean Lesage, 19th Premier of Quebec
* Julie Payette, astronaut
* Paul Sauvé, 17th Premier of Quebec
* Yoav Talmi, conductor
* Gilles Vigneault, poet and singer

## Rectors

There has been 25 rectors since the granting of university status in 1852.
* 1852–1860 M. l'abbé Louis-Jacques Casault
* 1860–1866 M. l'abbé Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau
* 1866–1869 Mgr Michel-Édouard Méthot
* 1869–1871 M. l'abbé Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau
* 1871–1880 Mgr Thomas-Étienne Hamel
* 1880–1883 Mgr Michel-Édouard Méthot
* 1883–1886 Mgr Thomas-Étienne Hamel
* 1886–1887 Mgr Michel-Édouard Méthot
* 1887–1893 Mgr Benjamin Pâquet
* 1893–1899 Mgr Joseph-Clovis-Kemner Laflamme
* 1899–1908 Mgr Olivier-E. Mathieu
* 1908–1909 Mgr Joseph-Clovis-Kemner Laflamme
* 1909–1915 Mgr Amédée-Edmond Gosselin
* 1915–1921 Mgr François Pelletier
* 1921 M. l'abbé Pierre Hébert
* 1921–1924 Mgr Charles-Napoléon Gariépy
* 1924–1927 Mgr Camille Roy
* 1927–1929 Mgr Amédée-Edmond Gosselin
* 1929 Mgr Camille Roy
* 1929–1932 Mgr Philéas-J. Filion
* 1932–1938 Mgr Camille Roy
* 1938–1939 Mgr Arthur Robert
* 1939–1940 Mgr Alexandre Vachon
* 1940–1943 Mgr Camille Roy
* 1943–1945 Mgr Cyrille Gagnon
* 1945–1954 Mgr Ferdinand Vandry
* 1954–1960 Mgr Alphonse-Marie Parent
* 1960–1972 Mgr Louis-Albert Vachon
* 1972–1977 Larkin Kerwin
* 1977–1987 Jean-Guy Paquet
* 1987–1997 Michel Gervais
* 1997–2002 François Tavenas
* 2002–2007 Michel Pigeon
* 2007–2017 Denis Brière
* 2017–present Sophie D'Amours