# List of University of Manitoba alumni

This list of University of Manitoba alumni includes notable graduates, non-graduates, and current students of the University of Manitoba.

## List

| Name | Occupation / Known for | UM credentials/activities | Additional details |
| Douglas Abra | judge | BA (1968); LL.B (1972) | |
| Samuel Hunter Adams | lawyer and 21st Mayor of Calgary | BA (1906) | |
| Tracie O. Afifi | research scientist | BSc (1999); MSc (2003), PhD (2009) | |
| Judie Alimonti | immunologist and research scientist | PhD | |
| Peter Allen | composer | BMus (1975) | |
| Mohamed Ali Al-Shaaban | television personality and surgeon | BSc (2006) | |
| Rob Altemeyer | politician | BA | |
| Nancy Ames | scientist | BSc (1980); BSc (1982) | |
| Victor Anonsen | footballer and artist | BA (1977) | |
| Frank Aquila | judge | LL.B (1982) | |
| Germaine Arnaktauyok | printmaker, painter and illustrator | BFA (1968) | |
| Niki Ashton | politician | BA | |
| Gordon J. G. Asmundson | psychologist and professor | MA; PhD (1991) | |
| David Asper | lawyer and businessman; son of Izzy Asper | BA (1981) | |
| Gail Asper | lawyer; daughter of Izzy Asper | BA (1981); LL.B.(1984) | |
| Izzy Asper | tax lawyer and media magnate of CanWest Global Communications Corp. | BA (1953); LLB (1957); LLM (1964) | In 2000, the University's Faculty of Management was re-named to the Asper School of Business in his honour. |
| Robert Astley | actuary | BSc | |
| Ken Attafuah | criminologist | BA (1982) | |
| Nahlah Ayed | reporter | BSc; MSc | |
| George Ayittey | economist and president of the Free Africa Foundation | PhD | |
| Tim Ball | public speaker and professor | MA | |
| G. Michael Bancroft | chemist and synchrotron scientist; first director of the Canadian Light Source | MSc (1964) | |
| David G. Barber | environmental scientist | BSc (1981); MSc (1987) | |
| Kathy Bardswick | President and CEO of The Co-operators | BS | |
| Lindon W. Barrett | cultural theorist | BA (1983) | |
| Robert Beamish | cardiologist | MD (1942) | |
| William Moore Benidickson | former Member of Parliament, federal Cabinet Minister, and Senator | | |
| Richard Spink Bowles | lawyer and former Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor | BA (1933); LLB (1937) | |
| George Montegu Black II | businessman, father of Conrad Black | | |
| Andy Blair | National Hockey League player in the 1920s and 1930s, mostly with the Toronto Maple Leafs | | |
| Yvonne Brill | rocket and jet propulsion engineer who invented the fuel-efficient rocket thruster that keeps satellites in orbit today. | BS (1945) | The Yvonne C. Brill Lectureship in Aerospace Engineering of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is named in her honor and presented annually |
| Harold J Brodie | mycologist | BSc (1929) | |
| Harold Buchwald | lawyer | BA (1948); LL.B (1952); LL.M (1957) | |
| Wilfred Buck | scientific facilitator and Indigenous star lore expert | B.Ed. | |
| Constantine of Irinoupolis | American Orthodox hierarch, Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA | St. Andrew's College graduate (1959) | |
| Don Callis | professional wrestler, MHSAA Darts finalist (1978) | BA (1991); MBA (2003) | |
| Norman Cantor | medieval scholar and writer | BA (1951) | |
| Albert Chan | Hong Kong politician and lawmaker | BA; BSW | |
| Richard Condie | Academy Award-nominated animator; creator of The Big Snit | BA (1967) | |
| Brian Dickson | former Chief Justice of Canada | LL.B (1938) | |
| Gerry Ducharme | politician and a cabinet minister in the 1988–1995 Progressive Conservative government | | |
| Mary Dunn | President of the Dominion Women's Amateur Hockey Association and the Manitoba branch of the Women's Amateur Athletic Federation of Canada | BS (1938) | |
| Audrey Dwyer | actor and writer | | |
| Marcel Dzama | artist | BFA (1997) | |
| Ed Evanko | actor and singer | BA | |
| Gordon S. Fahrni | Canada’s longest-lived physician (108 years old) | MD (1911) | |
| Faouzia | singer-songwriter | | |
| Fernanda Ferreira | cognitive psychologist | BA in Psychology (1982) | |
| Gary Filmon | Premier of Manitoba (1988–1999) | BSc Civil Engineering | |
| Danny Finkleman | former CBC Radio host | LL.B | |
| Bruce Flatt | CEO of Brookfield Asset Management and billionaire ranked on Forbes magazine | BComm | |
| Steven Fletcher | politician; former Conservative MP in the House of Commons; former federal Cabinet Minister | BSc geological engineering; MBA at Asper | |
| Nahanni Fontaine | politician | MA | |
| Phil Fontaine | Indigenous Canadian leader | BA (1981) | |
| Waldron Fox-Decent | mediator, professor, Crown Corporation chairman | BA (1959); MA (1971) | |
| Eira Friesen | advocate for women in Winnipeg | BSc (1939) | |
| Patrick Friesen | poet, playwright, essayist | |
| Erving Goffman | sociologist who introduced the concept of dramaturgy into the field | BSc | |
| Audrey Gordon | politician, former Minister of Health and Seniors Care in Manitoba | BA; MBA | |
| Velvl Greene | scientist and academic | BS in agriculture; MS dairy bacteriology | |
| Monty Hall | television personality | BSc | Hall was also president of Variety Clubs International and received the Order of Canada |
| Ellie Harvie | actress | BA | |
| S.I. Hayakawa | scholar and professor of semantics; United States Senator | BA (1927) | |
| John Alexander Hopps | inventor of the world's first artificial pacemaker; known as the "father of biomedical engineering in Canada" | BEng (1941) | |
| Gad Horowitz | political scientist who coined the term "Red Tory" | BA | |
| Barbara Humphreys | architect and author, specializing in public service, historic preservation, and housing | B.Arch. (1941) | |
| Johanna Hurme | architect and activist | BEnvD (1996); MArch | |
| Israel Idonije | retired NFL defensive end | | |
| Jamaluddin Jarjis | former Malaysian ambassador to the United States; former Malaysian government minister | MSc | |
| Francis Lawrence Jobin | former Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba | | |
| F. Ross Johnson | businessman; CEO of RJR Nabisco | BComm (1952) | |
| Tanya Kappo | lawyer and Indigenous rights activist | JD (2012) | |
| Sam Katz | mayor of Winnipeg (2004–2014) | BA (1973) | |
| Guy Gavriel Kay | novelist and poet | BA (1975) | |
| Humayun Akhtar Khan | politician | MS | |
| David Kilgour | former federal Minister of Transport | BA | |
| Wab Kinew | Premier of Manitoba (2023–present) | BA | |
| Greg Kopp | Acting Dean of Engineering at the University of Western Ontario | BSc (1989) | |
| Scott Koskie | former member of the Canada men's national volleyball team | BRMCD (1995) | |
| Roman Kroitor | co-founder of IMAX Corporation | MA (1951) | |
| Amanda Lang | journalist; senior business correspondent for CBC News | | |
| Allan Levine | author, known mainly for his award-winning non-fiction and historical mystery writing | BA (1978) | |
| Bob Lowes | ice hockey coach and executive | | |
| James Lunney | politician; former Conservative Member of Parliament for the riding of Nanaimo—Alberni in BC | | |
| Inky Mark | former federal Conservative Member of Parliament for Dauphin—Swan River, Manitoba | | |
| Bill Mason | author, filmmaker, environmentalist | | |
| Pearl McGonigal | former Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba | | |
| William John McKeag | former Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba | | |
| Marshall McLuhan | famed media scholar | | |
| Harry Medovy | pediatrician and academic | | |
| Olawale Sulaiman | neurosurgeon and academic | | |
| Ovide Mercredi | Aboriginal Canadian leader | LLB (1977) | |
| Ted Milian, | Canadian football player | | |
| W.O. Mitchell | writer | | |
| W. L. Morton | historian | | |
| Arnold Naimark | physician, academic, and former President of the U of M | | |
| Alison Norlen | artist | | |
| William Norrie | mayor of Winnipeg (1979–1992) | BA (1950); LLB (1955) | |
| Rey Pagtakhan | physician, academic, former MP and federal cabinet minister | | |
| Malcolm Peat | Emeritus Professor at Queen's University | | Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) |
| Jim Peebles | astrophysicist | | won the Crafoord Prize (2005), Nobel Prize in Physics (2019), Companion of the Order of Canada, Order of Merit (CC, OM, 2020) |
| Leonard Peikoff | philosopher | | |
| Frank Pickersgill | Special Operations Executive agent in World War II executed by the Nazis | | |
| Barry Posner | physician and research scientist on diabetes | | |
| Jon Pylypchuk | artist | | |
| Clay Riddell | oil tycoon; founder, president and CEO of Paramount Resources, based in Calgary | BSc Honours (1959) | the University's Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources is named in his honour |
| Dufferin Roblin | former Premier of Manitoba | | |
| Claude C. Robinson | ice hockey and sports executive | 1902 | Inductee into the Hockey Hall of Fame and Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame |
| Marshall Rothstein | Supreme Court of Canada judge | | |
| Alexei Maxim Russell | internationally-published novelist | | |
| Fred Sandhu | Provincial Court of Manitoba judge | | |
| Edward Schreyer | Premier of Manitoba (1969–1977) and Governor General of Canada (1979–1984) | | |
| Cynthia Scott | Oscar winning filmmaker | BA | |
| Richard Scott | former Chief Justice of Manitoba Court of Appeal | | |
| Harry Seidler | Australian architect | | |
| Mitchell Sharp | former Liberal Minister of Finance | | |
| Patricia Alice Shaw | linguist specializing in phonology and known for her work on First Nations languages | | |
| Louis Slotin | physicist and chemist who took part in the Manhattan Project | BSc (1932); MSc (1933) | |
| Robert Steen | Mayor of Winnipeg (1977–1979) | | |
| Mary Ann Steggles | Commonwealth scholar and international expert on British colonial statuary | | Olive Beatrice Stanton recipient |
| Iain Stewart | theoretical physicist | | |
| Frank Trafford Taylor | lawyer and former president of Kiwanis International | | |
| John W.M. Thompson | Manitoba MLA and Provincial Cabinet Minister | | |
| Grace Eiko Thomson | curator, activist, and internment camp survivor | BFA (1977) | |
| Thorbergur Thorvaldson | cement chemist | | |
| Miriam Toews | novelist | | |
| Vic Toews | politician; former Minister of Justice and Attorney General and the President of the Treasury Board in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper | | |
| Andrew Unger | satirist and novelist | BA (2002); BEd. (2004) | |
| Chris Urmson | CEO of Aurora Innovation | BSc (1998) | |
| Meaghan DeWarrenne-Waller | fashion model; winner of Canada's Next Top Model, Cycle 3 | | |
| Adele Wiseman | author | | |
| Svetlana Zylin | playwright and director | | |
* Gordon Orlikow (b. 1960), decathlon, heptathlon, and hurdles competitor, Athletics Canada Chairman, Canadian Olympic Committee member, Korn/Ferry International partner; competed for the Manitoba Bisons in track and field, and is honored on the Bisons Walkway of Honour.