# List of University of Saskatchewan alumni

Between 1907 and 2007 there were over 132,200 alumni of the University of Saskatchewan. This list features notable people who have graduated from a degree, certificate and/or diploma program at the university.

## Agriculture

* Lorne Babiuk - immunologist, pathogenesist, virologist, molecular virology, and vaccinologist
* Howard Fredeen - animal breeding researcher
* Lawrence Kirk - agronomist best known for introducing crested wheatgrass
* J.W. Grant MacEwan - Director of the School of Agriculture, Professor of Animal Husbandry, and Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta (1966–1974)
* Kenneth Norrie - economic historian specializing in the economy of Western Canada, especially prairie wheat farming
* Cecil Frederick Patterson - introduced 52 new varieties of hardy fruits for the prairies and over 18 varieties of hybrid hardy lilies
* Clayton Oscar Person - international authority on the genetics of host-parasite relations

## Arts and entertainment

* Robert Boyer - Canadian visual artist of aboriginal heritage; BEd from the Regina Campus of the U of S in 1971
* Kim Coates - actor, honorary Doctor of Letters
* Stephen Fox - clarinet maker
* Garnet Hertz - artist, designer and academic; Canada Research Chair
* Frances Hyland - actress
* William G. Hobbs - physician, surgeon, major Canadian artist
* Ann James - English-born Canadian artist and educator
* Laurel Johannesson - artist
* Deborah Theaker - actress known as Casey Edison on the science fiction comedy show Manic Mansion
* Gordon Thiessen OC - Governor of the Bank of Canada; one of the "100 Alumni of Influence" from the U of S

## Business

* Tom Anselmi - President and COO of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment
* Marilyn Atkinson - President of Erickson Coaching International
* H. Douglas Barber - founder of Electrical Engineering Canadian; CEO of Gennum Corporation
* N. Murray Edwards - billionaire
* John E. Floyd - economist
* Chad Hamre - entrepreneur
* Daryl "Doc" Seaman, OC, honorary Doctor of Laws - businessman; one of the "100 Alumni of Influence" from the U of S
* Arnold Tremere - Executive Director, government official (Canadian International Grains Institute)
* Steven Gregory Woods - entrepreneur
* Victor J. Zaleschuk - chair of the board of Cameco Corporation

## Computers, engineering, and technology

* Fred Mannering - Professor at University of South Florida, Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher
* Permanand Mohan - Chief Examiner for the Caribbean Examinations Council's CAPE Examinations in Computer Science
* W. Brett Wilson - entrepreneur, philanthropist; former Dragon's Den panelist; co-founder of FirstEnergy Capital; founder, President, and Chairman of Prairie Merchant Capital; Chairman of Canoe Financial

## Educators

* Dominique Abrioux - former President of Athabasca University
* John Hall Archer - librarian, historian, civil servant, first President of the University of Regina
* Reginald John Godfrey Bateman - professor of English
* George Fredrick Curtis - dean of the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law
* R. Peter MacKinnon - lawyer, legal academic, President of the U of S
* Darin Nesbitt - instructor of political science at Douglas College in New Westminster, B.C.
* A K M Siddiq - 18th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dhaka.
* Paul Thagard - Professor of Philosophy, with cross appointment to Psychology and Computer Science, and Director of the Cognitive Science Program, at the University of Waterloo
* Henry (Harry) George Thode, CC, MBE, FRSC - president and vice-chancellor of McMaster University; one of the "100 Alumni of Influence" from the U of S

## Environmentalists

* Richard St. Barbe Baker - English forester, environmental activist, and author
* Jim MacNeill - consultant, environmentalist, and international public servant

## Historians

* Frank Kusch - historian of American history

## Journalism/publishing/broadcasting

* Eric Malling - television journalist
* Sally Merchant - television personality and political figure

## Law, government, and public policy

* Don Atchison - Mayor of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
* Pat Atkinson - politician
* Chris Axworthy - politician
* Gordon Barnhart - University Secretary, professor in Canadian Politics, former Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan
* Dave Batters - politician
* Edward Dmytro Bayda - Chief Justice of Saskatchewan
* Clément Chartier - Métis Canadian leader
* Brooke Claxton - veteran of World War I, federal Minister of National Health and Welfare and Minister of National Defence honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the U of S
* Eric Cline - politician
* Roméo Dallaire, OC, CMM, GOQ, MSC, CD - senator, humanitarian, author and retired general; honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the U of S
* Jonathan Denis - 23rd Minister of Justice of Alberta and notable Calgary lawyer
* Grant Devine - 11th Premier of Saskatchewan
* John Diefenbaker, CH, PC, KC - 13th Prime Minister of Canada; university's chancellor; he and his wife were buried at the university, near the Diefenbaker Canada Centre
* Noah Evanchuk - 2011 Canadian federal election candidate, Saskatchewan Provincial Court Judge
* Laurie Evans - politician
* Clarence Fines - provincial treasurer of Saskatchewan
* Jon Gerrard, PC - politician and medical doctor
* Ralph Goodale, PC - Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Natural Resources, Minister of Public Works, Minister of Finance, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
* Alvin Hamilton, PC - politician
* Robert Hanbidge, honorary Doctor of Laws - lawyer, municipal, provincial and federal politician, and Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan
* Lynda M. Haverstock - Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan (2000–2006); Leader of the Saskatchewan Liberal Party
* Benjamin D. Heppner - school teacher, businessman and politician
* John Hewson - Australian politician
* Ray Hnatyshyn - 24th Governor General of Canada
* Constance D. Hunt - lawyer, legal academic, and judge
* Gerard Jennissen - politician
* Fredrick W. Johnson - 16th Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan
* Georgina Jolibois - mayor and former Member of Parliament
* Gordon Kirkby - politician, mayor and lawyer
* Otto Lang, PC, OC, KC - politician
* Léonard Hilarion Joseph Legault - diplomat
* Harold Hugh MacKay, OC, KC - lawyer and corporate director
* Murdoch MacPherson, KC - Attorney-General of Saskatchewan; honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree from U of S
* Jim Maddin - Mayor of Saskatoon
* James Mallory - jurist; academic; constitutional expert; instructor in political science at U of S
* Edward Cyril Malone - Saskatchewan lawyer and politician
* William McIntyre, CC (born 1918) - retired Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
* Stewart McLean - Manitoba politician
* Gary Merasty, M.P. - politician; one of the "100 Alumni of Influence" from the U of S
* Anthony Merchant, KC - Saskatchewan lawyer
* George Porteous - 14th Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan
* Alison Redford, ECA, KC - 14th Premier of Alberta
* Robert Gordon Robertson, PC, CC FRSC - Commissioner of the Northwest Territories
* David Rodney - politician, teacher, and professional speaker
* Roy Romanow, PC, OC, SOM, KC - politician and 12th Premier of Saskatchewan; one of the "100 Alumni of Influence" from the U of S
* Tillie Taylor - judge, first chair of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission
* Andrew Thomson - Minister of Finance of Saskatchewan
* William Ferdinand Alphonse Turgeon - politician and diplomat
* John Thomas Wolfe - Canadian provincial politician
* Stephen Worobetz, OC, MC, SOM - physician and former Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan; one of the "100 Alumni of Influence" from the U of S
* Clifford Wright - mayor of Saskatoon; honorary Doctor of Laws
* Iva Yeo - politician
* Jacqueline Dorgan - Justice of Supreme Court - BC

## Literature

* William Barr - Arctic historian; U of S faculty member
* Dennis Cooley - poet
* Lorna Crozier, a.k.a. Lorna Uher - poet
* Dawn Dumont, author, BA 1995
* Sarah Ens - poet
* Richard Epp - playwright
* Michael Helm - novelist
* Maureen Hunter - playwright
* Eli Mandel - poet and literary academic
* William Sarjeant - geologist and novelist
* Joseph Schull - playwright and historian
* Tasha Spillett-Sumner - writer and educator
* Guy Clarence Vanderhaeghe, OC, SOM - fiction author; one of the "100 Alumni of Influence" from the U of S
* William Whitehead - writer, actor and filmmaker

## Medicine

* Hulda Regehr Clark - naturopath, author, and controversial practitioner of alternative medicine
* Dmytro Cipywnyk, CM – physician and academic
* Emmett Matthew Hall, CC, KC - jurist and civil libertarian; considered one of the fathers of the Canadian system of Medicare
* Franklin M. Loew - one of the team that developed canola oil; recipient of the Queen's Jubilee Medal
* Charles Randal Smith - head pediatric forensic pathologist

## Nobel Prize winners

* Gerhard Herzberg - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1970; was offered a position in 1935 to flee Nazi Germany, and remained at the university for ten years
* Henry Taube, FRSC - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1983

## Philosophy

* Zenon Pylyshyn - cognitive scientist and philosopher

## Science

* Sylvia Fedoruk - University Chancellor, professor in Oncology, Associate Member in Physics, and Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan (1988–1994)
* William Sarjeant - geologist and novelist
* Elizabeth Scarr - researcher in neuropathology
* Raymond Thorsteinsson - geologist of the high Arctic; one of the "100 Alumni of Influence" from the U of S]
* Thorbergur Thorvaldson - scientist and first dean of graduate studies at the U of S
* James Till O.C., O.Ont., F.R.S.C. - biophysicist, medical researcher who demonstrated the existence of stem cells; one of the "100 Alumni of Influence" from the U of S

## Sociologists

* Samuel Delbert Clark - sociologist

## Sports

* Kelly Bates - B.C. Lions, CFL and U of S Saskatchewan Huskies football player
* Rod Bryden - owner of the Ottawa Senators; professor of law at U of S
* Tyson Craiggs - B.C. Lions, CFL and U of S Saskatchewan Huskies football player
* Nikita Ens - Paralympic swimmer
* Cyprian Enweani - sprinter
* George Genereux - physician and trap shooting gold medal winner
* Charles Cecil Hay - ice hockey player, organizer, and administrator
* Diane Jones-Konihowski, C.M. - pentathlete
* Dave King - hockey coach
* Gene Makowsky - Saskatchewan Roughriders lineman of the CFL
* Shannon Miller - hockey coach
* Sandra Schmirler, SOM, BSPE - curler; Olympic and triple World Champion; one of the '100 Alumni of Influence" from the U of S
* Don Wittman - nationally recognized sports broadcaster in Canada
* Viola Yanik - wrestler

## Theology

* Maurice Baudoux - priest and Archbishop of Saint Boniface, Manitoba
* Walter H. Farquharson - hymn-writer
* Herbert V. Günther - Buddhist; professor and Head of the Department of Far Eastern Studies at the U of S
* Muzaffar Iqbal - founding president of the Center for Islam and Science
* Raymond L. Schultz - National Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

## Honorary degree recipients

* Arnold Davidson Dunton, CC, Doctor of Laws, honoris causa - educator and public administrator
* Charles Cecil Hay, honorary doctorate - ice hockey player, organizer, and administrator