# List of Bishop's University alumni

Bishop's University is a liberal arts university in Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada. Following are some of its notable alumni.

## Art

* Kay Kinsman – visual artist

## Education

* Susan Boyd – feminist legal scholar, the inaugural chair in Feminist Legal Studies, founder of the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies, and professor emerita at UBC
* Scott Griffin – Chancellor of Bishop's University
* Lisa Guenther – Queen's National Scholar in Political Philosophy and Critical Prison Studies at Queen's University in Kingston
* David McKnight – anthropologist, ethnographer, and senior lecturer at London University
* Frederick Edmund Meredith – Chancellor of Bishop's University
* George Siber – medical researcher, vaccine expert, and professor at Harvard and Johns Hopkins University
* Colin Starnes – former President of the University of King's College
* Norman Webster – Chancellor of University of Prince Edward Island and former editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail
* Barrie Wilson – Professor Emeritus and senior scholar in Religious Studies at York University
* George Whalley – poet and English professor at Queen's University

## Film and entertainment

* Alex Bulmer – playwright and theatre artist
* Jim Corcoran – singer, songwriter and radio host
* Jake Eberts – film producer, executive and financier
* Cameron Hughes – professional crowd igniter and sports entertainer
* Andy Keen – documentary filmmaker
* Galt MacDermot – musician, arranger, and composer of the 1960s rock musical Hair
* Silvio Narizzano – film and television director who worked primarily in the United Kingdom
* Damian Pettigrew – film director, best known for Fellini, I’m a Born Liar
* Johnny Reid – country music singer

## Law

* Douglas Abbott – former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada ad former Minister of National Defence and Minister of Finance
* Fred Kaufman – Justice with the Québec Court of Appeal and Acting Chief Justice of Québec
* John Sewell Sanborn – judge with thee Quebec Superior Court and the Court of Queen's Bench at Montreal and member of the Senate of Canada
* Jamie W. S. Saunders – former Justice of the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal

## Literature and journalism

* John W. H. Bassett – publisher of the Montreal Gazette and the Toronto Telegram, founder of CFTO-TV, owner of the Toronto Argonauts, 1961–1971
* Jane Brierley – translator of books and editorial translator for The Globe and Mail
* Ralph Gustafson – poet
* Scott Griffin – founder of the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world's most generous poetry awards
* Helen Anne Henderson – journalist and disability rights advocate
* Michael Ondaatje – poet, writer, best known for the novel The English Patient
* Canon Frederick Scott – Poet and senior chaplain with the First Canadian Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force in World War I
* F. R. Scott – winner of the Governor General's Award for poetry and non-fiction
* Ian Stephens – poet, journalist, and musician
* Alexis S. Troubetzkoy – author notable for his works on Russian history
* Norman Webster – former editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail and chancellor of University of Prince Edward Island

## Military

* William Heneker – military strategist and tactician during World War I and one of the most highly decorated Canadians in the British Empire
* Duncan "Dusty" Miller – Vice Admiral and Naval Task Commander aboard HMCS Athabaskan during the Gulf War
* Robert Moncel – Lieutenant-General of the Canadian Army and former Vice Chief of the Defence Staff
* Sydney Valpy Radley-Walters – Brigadier General in the Canadian Army, decorated tank ace with the Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment during the Second World War

## Politics and government

* Monroe Abbey – lawyer and president of Canadian Jewish Congress
* Douglas Abbott – former Minister of National Defence and Minister of Finance and former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
* William P. Anderson – Canadian Superintendent of Lighthouses for almost 40 years
* Alfred Pike Bissonnet – director of the Trade Commissioner Service and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Indonesia, Argentina, Paraguay, and Urugua
* Peter Blaikie – former President of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and television commentator
* Richard Cannings – former Ottawa City Councillor
* Allen Chastenet – seventh Prime Minister of St. Lucia.
* Roy Cullen – former Liberal Member of Parliament for the riding of Etobicoke North
* Robert Ghiz – former Premier of Prince Edward Island
* James King – Legislative Assembly of Quebec
* George Hugh Macdonell – House of Commons of Canada
* Jason MacDonald – Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Director of Communications
* James Maloney – House of Commons of Canada
* Alexander Webb Morris – Legislative Assembly of Quebec
* John Sewell Sanborn – member of the Senate of Canada and judge with thee Quebec Superior Court and the Court of Queen's Bench at Montreal
* Reed Scowen – member of the National Assembly of Quebec
* Raymond Setlakwe – Canadian Senator
* Steve Shanahan – Montreal City Council
* Larry Smith – Canadian Senator, former President of the Montreal Alouettes, and commissioner of the Canadian Football League
* John Kennett Starnes – Canadian Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, Egypt, and Sudan

## Religion

* John Almond – Anglican priest in Canada in the first half of the 20th century
* Russel Brown – Anglican priest and eighth Bishop of Quebec
* James Carmichael – fourth Anglican Bishop of Montreal
* Patrick Clark – Anglican Bishop of Kootenay
* Kent Clarke – Anglican Bishop Suffragan of Niagara
* William Davis – Anglican Bishop Coadjutor of Nova Scotia, Archbishop of Nova Scotia, and Archbishop Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada
* Harry Dawson – priest and Dean of Niagara
* Francis C. FitzHugh – Anglo-Catholic priest who served as rector of St. Clement's Church, Philadelphia
* Octave Fortin – Archdeacon of Winnipeg
* Graham Ingham – Anglican Bishop of Sierra Leone
* Edwin Lackey – Anglica Bishop of Ottawa and Metropolitan of Ontario
* Richard Lonsdell – Anglican Archdeacon of St Andrews in the Diocese of Montreal
* Tim Matthews – Anglican Bishop of Quebec
* William Moorhead – Anglican Bishop of Fredericton
* Percy O'Driscoll – Anglican Bishop of Huron and Metropolitan of Ontario
* Taylor Pryce – Anglican suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Toronto
* William Robinson – Anglican Bishop of Ottawa,
* Canon Frederick Scott – Poet and senior chaplain with the First Canadian Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force in World War I
* Buxton Smith – priest and Dean of Ontario
* George Thorneloe – Bishop of Algoma, Metropolitan of Ontario, and Archbishop of Algoma
* Robert Waterman – Anglican Bishop Coadjutor of Nova Scotia

## Science and medicine

* Maude Abbott – one of Canada's earliest female medical graduates, founder of the Federation of Medical Women of Canada
* Christopher Aikman – astrophysicist formerly with the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory
* Reginald Fessenden – inventor known for his pioneering work developing radio technology and transmitted the first radio audio broadcast
* Richard H. Tomlinson – chemist and founding director of Gennum Corp

## Sports

* Stephen Adekolu – wide receiver for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League
* Nick Arakgi – CFL football star and CFL's Most Outstanding Canadian Award winner
* Leroy Blugh – CFL player, CFL's Most Outstanding Canadian Award winner, and defensive assistant coach Ottawa Red Blacks
* Mathieu Boulay – CFL football player
* Gary Chown – CFL football player
* Adrian Clarke – CFL football player
* Gilles Colon – CFL football player
* Justin Conn – CFL football player
* Tim Cronk – CFL football player
* Robert Dunkley – sailor who competed in the Laser event at the 1996 Summer Olympics
* Tom Europe – CFL defensive back, BC Lions
* Kyle Exume – CFL football player
* Jermaine Gabriel – CFL football player
* Keith Godding – CFL wide receiver, Montreal Alouettes
* Shawn Gore – CFL professional football player
* Debbie Huband – women's basketball player who participated in the 1984 Summer Olympics
* Kyle Jones – CFL linebacker, Toronto Argonauts
* Jamall Lee – CFL Running Back, BC Lions
* Jason MacDonald – former mixed martial artist
* Josh Maveety – CFL football player
* Dan McCullough – former Canadian Football League player and the former head coach for the UNB Red Bombers of the Atlantic Football League
* Kelly Murumets – President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Tennis Canada
* Elie Ngoyi – CFL football player
* J. K. L. Ross – sportsman and thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder who won the first United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing with his colt, Sir Barton
* Chris Skinner (Canadian football) – CFL football player
* Larry Smith – former president of the Montreal Alouettes, former commissioner of the Canadian Football League, current Canadian Senator
* Ryan Thorne – CIS basketball player with the Bishop's Gaiters
* Junior Turner – CFL football player
* Steven Turner – CFL football player
* Dan West – CFL football player
* James Yurichuk – former CFL Linebacker, BC Lions
* Steve Zatylny – Canadian football player