# List of Memorial University of Newfoundland people

This is a list of people involved with Memorial University of Newfoundland.

## Chancellors

| Name | Years in office |
| The Rt. Hon. Viscount Rothermere of Hemsted | 1952–1961 |
| The Rt. Hon. Lord Thomson of Fleet | 1961–1968 |
| Dr. G. Alain Frecker | 1971–1979 |
| Dr. Paul Desmarais | 1979–1988 |
| His Honour the Honourable John C. Crosbie | 1994–2008 |
| Dr. Rick Hillier | 2008–2012 |
| Dr. Susan Dyer Knight | 2012–2022 |
| Earl Ludlow | 2022 to present |

## Presidents

| Name | Years active |
| John Lewis Paton | 1925–1933 |
| Albert Hatcher | 1933–1952 |
| Raymond Gushue | 1952–1966 |
| Moses Morgan | 1966–1967 |
| The Rt. Hon. the Lord Taylor of Harlow | 1967–1973 |
| Moses Morgan | 1973–1981 |
| Leslie Harris | 1981–1990 |
| Arthur May | 1990–1999 |
| Axel Meisen | 1999–2007 |
| Eddy Campbell | 2007–2009 |
| Christopher Loomis | 2009–2010 |
| Gary Kachanoski | 2010–2020 |
| Vianne Timmons | 2020-2023 |
| Neil Bose (pro tempore) | 2023 to present |

## Founders

* Vincent Patrick Burke

## Notable alumni
### Academics and scholars

* David Agnew, president, Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology, former Secretary of Cabinet, Government of Ontario
* Gary Botting, poet, playwright, lawyer and legal scholar
* Donald B. Dingwell, D.Sc. (h.c. mult.) FMSA FGAC MAE FAGU FRSC BVK ACATECH ML FAAAS, award-winning experimental geoscientist, past President of the European Geosciences Union, 3rd Secretary-General of the European Research Council, President of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior
* Robert Gellately, historian
* John Gosse
* George Ivany, President, University of Saskatchewan
* Mary C. Lobban, British physiologist
* Brian Pratt, award-winning paleontologist and sedimentologist, Fellow of the Geological Society of America, and past president of the Geological Association of Canada
* Harold Williams, geologist and world expert on the tectonics of mountain belts

### Business

* Moya Greene - President and CEO of Royal Mail
* Jane Rowe - President of Teachers Private Capital, the private equity arm of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan

### Politics and government

* KM Chan - biochemistry professor and politician
* Gen. Rick Hillier - Chief of the Defence Staff, Canadian Forces
* Dale Kirby - Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development
* Allan Rowe - MPP for Dartmouth South and liberal caucus whip, former television host
* Marit Stiles (born 1969) - Member of Provincial Parliament for Davenport in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP) and the leader of the Opposition
* Clyde Wells - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador, former Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador
* Danny Williams - former Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador

### Film and television

* Perry Chafe - TV producer and writer, Republic of Doyle & Son of A Critch
* Bill Gillespie - former Security Correspondent, CBC Radio
* Tristan Homer - children's television producer
* Bhreagh MacNeil - Canadian Screen Award nominated actress
* Mark McKinney - comedian, member of The Kids in the Hall
* Scott Oake - sportscaster for CBC Sports

### Press and literature

* Anne Chislett - playwright
* Michael Crummey - novelist and poet
* Gwynne Dyer - journalist, syndicated columnist and military historian, Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (1973–1977)
* Tom Harrington - journalist
* Wayne Johnston - novelist
* Rex Murphy - journalist and commentator

### Art and music

* Alan Doyle - musician
* Duo Concertante -Nancy Dahn on violin and Tim Steeves on piano
* Bob Hallett - musician
* Andy Jones - comedian
* Séan McCann - musician
* Fergus O'Byrne - musician
* Shelley Posen - folklorist and singer-songwriter
* Erin Power - musician, The Swinging Belles
* Laura Winter - musician, The Swinging Belles

### Science

* Carolyn Relf - geologist

### Sports

* Brad Gushue - Olympic gold medallist (curling)
* Mark Nichols - Olympic gold medallist (curling)

### Medicine

* Norman R.C. Campbell – Professor of Medicine, Community Health Sciences and Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Calgary
* Ranjit Chandra - Former professor of Medicine, forced to resign after allegations of scientific misconduct and data fabrication
* Jawahar Kalra – physician, clinical researcher, and academic

### Crime

* Shirley Turner – Accused murderer whose death of her son Zachary gave rise to the movie Dear Zachary

## Notable faculty, past and present
### University Research Professors

(Note: "University Research Professor" is the name for MUN's highest academic honour. One can be a full professor, even conducting research, at the university without being a "University Research Professor.")
* Ian Jordaan - engineer and world expert on design of offshore structures in harsh environments
* Harold Williams - geologist and world expert on the tectonics of mountain belts

### Other faculty

* Jean Briggs - anthropologist and expert on Inuit languages
* Lindsay Cahill - chemist
* John Frederick Dewey - structural geologist. Fellow of the Royal Society and member of the United States National Academy of Sciences; Wollaston Medal & Penrose Medal recipient.
* Donald Hillman - paediatrician and professor of pediatrics best known for working in Third World countries in international child health and development
* Francesca M. Kerton - chemist
* Elliott Leyton - renowned for studies of serial murderers
* Elizabeth Miller - 19th century British Gothic literature
* Ward Neale - geologist
* Robert Paine - Anthropologist studying the Inuit and Saami peoples.
* Patrick Parfrey - nephrologist and clinical epidemiologist
* Augustus Rowe - former Minister of Health of Newfoundland and Labrador; former chairman of Memorial University's Department of Family Medicine
* Wei Qiu, architecture professor

## Rhodes Scholars

* Matthew Downer - 2019
* Laura Pittman - 2013 - engineer
* Sean Connors - 1987 - physician
* Robert Joy - 1973 - actor
* Danny Williams - 1969 - Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador
* Rex Murphy - 1968 - TV commentator
* Bill Rowe - 1964
* Fabian O'Dea - 1939
* Moses Morgan - 1938

## Honorary degree recipients

* Sarah Anala - Canadian social worker
* Anne, Princess Royal - member of the Canadian Royal family
* Lloyd Axworthy - Canadian politician
* Jean Chrétien - 20th Prime Minister of Canada
* Bob Cole - CBC hockey commentator
* John Frederick Dewey - geologist
* Craig Dobbin - businessman
* Gwynne Dyer - journalist
* John Kenneth Galbraith - economist
* Loyola Hearn - former Minister of Fisheries and Oceans
* Ron Hynes - folk musician
* David Lloyd Johnston - Governor General of Canada
* Cathy Jones - comedian and actress
* Aung San Suu Kyi - pro-democracy advocate
* HRH Princess Mary - member of the Canadian Royal Family
* Rick Mercer - Canadian comedian and television personality
* Brian Mulroney - 18th Prime Minister of Canada
* Ward Neale - geologist
* Lester B. Pearson - 14th Prime Minister of Canada, Nobel Peace Prize winner
* Raymond Price - geologist
* Edward Shackleton - geographer and politician
* David Suzuki - Canadian science broadcaster and environmental activist
* Mary Walsh - comedian
* John Tuzo Wilson - geophysicist