# List of University of Ottawa people

This is a list of University of Ottawa people.

## Notable people
### Athletes and leaders in sports

* Caleb Agada (born 1994), Nigerian-Canadian basketball player in the Latvian-Estonian Basketball League and for the Nigerian national basketball team
* Bianca Borgella, para-athlete
* James Cartwright, Olympic athlete (kayak)
* Michael A. Chambers, former president of the Canadian Olympic Committee and Olympic Order recipient
* Sonia Denoncourt, association football referee
* Doug Falconer, CFL football player, film producer
* Julia Hanes, para-athlete
* Brianna Hennessy, para-canoeist
* Lou Lefaive, Canadian sports administrator and civil servant
* Trinity Lowthian, wheelchair fencer
* Neil Lumsden, CFL football player
* Sherraine MacKay, Olympic athlete (épée fencing)
* Silver Quilty, Canadian Football Hall of Fame inductee
* Brad Sinopoli, CFL football player
* Charles Thiffault (born 1939), NHL ice hockey coach
* Ibrahim Tounkara, CFL football player
* Ousmane Tounkara, CFL football player

### Business leaders

* France Chrétien, prominent lawyer and businesswoman; daughter of former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien
* André Desmarais, President and CEO of Power Corp. Canada
* Paul Desmarais, entrepreneur
* Daniel Lamarre, president and chief operating officer of Cirque du Soleil
* Chuck Rifici, Canadian entrepreneur, former CEO of Tweed Marijuana Inc, and former CFO of the Liberal Party of Canada.
* Sherrexcia Rolle, Bahamian attorney and VP of Operations & General Counsel of Western Air

### Civil servants and public sector leaders

* Johanne Bélisle, former Commissioner of Patents, Registrar of Trademarks and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)
* Jocelyne Bourgon, Canadian representative to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); former Clerk of the Privy Council
* William J. S. Elliott, former commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
* Robert John Giroux, university president
* Ahmed Hussen, Federal Cabinet Minister and President of the Canadian Somali Congress
* Christiane Ouimet, first Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of Canada
* Sheridan Scott, Commissioner of Competition of the Competition Bureau
* Paul Tellier, former Clerk of the Privy Council

### Journalists

* Aaron Badgley, music journalist and radio host
* Samantha Bee, host of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
* Marcel Desjardins, political commentator and news director
* Pierre Dufault, journalist and sports commentator for Radio-Canada
* Mary Lou Finlay, journalist for the CBC
* Peter Jennings, journalist and news anchor for ABC News
* Lisa LaFlamme, journalist
* Alex Trebek, former broadcaster for CBC, host of the game show Jeopardy!

### Jurists

* Louise Arbour, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; former Supreme Court Justice
* Michel Bastarache, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
* Louise Charron, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
* Gérald Fauteux, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
* Louis LeBel, Justice of the Supreme Court
* Richard Wagner, Chief Justice of Canada

### Musicians

* Joyce El-Khoury, opera singer
* Angela Hewitt, pianist
* Roch Voisine, singer-songwriter

### Media personalities

* George Aryee, Director General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (1991–1992)
* Randall Dark, director, producer, and HDTV pioneer
* Erica Ehm, television personality and songwriter, former MuchMusic VJ
* Jeanette Jenkins, Hollywood fitness trainer, spokeswoman for BET's Television foundation, "A Healthy BET Campaign"
* Suzanne Pinel, children's entertainer (Marie-Soleil)
* Quddus, model, MTV VJ

### Natural scientists and engineers

* Xiaoyi Bao, professor, Canada Research Chair in Fiber Optics and Photonics
* Robert W. Boyd, physicist, Canada Excellence Research Chair Laureate in Quantum Nonlinear Optics
* Timothy C. Lethbridge, professor of computer science and software engineering
* Tuncer Őren, professor emeritus of computer science
* Tito Scaiano, professor of chemistry, photochemist
* Dafydd Williams, astronaut

### Physicians and other health care professionals

* Mark Aubry, Chief Medical Officer of Hockey Canada, and the International Ice Hockey Federation
* Anna Baranowsky, clinical psychologist; founder and CEO of the Traumatology Institute
* Margaret Beznak, physiologist
* Walter Douglas Boyd, cardiothoracic surgeon and innovator, developed minimally invasive robotic cardiac surgery and cardiac regeneration procedures
* Dave Holmes, University Research Chair in Forensic Nursing; Editor-in-Chief of Aporia – the Nursing Journal
* Wilbert Joseph Keon, cardiovascular surgeon, first Canadian to implant an artificial heart in a human
* Padmaja Subbarao, respirologist and scientist in physiology and experimental medicine
* Philip Steven Wells, hematologist, developed the Wells risk score for pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis

### Political leaders

* Philémon Yunji Yang, Former Cameroon Prime minister

#### Federal and international

* Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed, former Prime Minister of Somalia
* Bernard Chidzero, former Finance Minister of Zimbabwe
* Ousainou Darboe, former Vice-President of the Gambia
* Greg Fergus, 38th Speaker of the House of Commons, Member of Parliament
* Salter Hayden, Senator and lawyer
* Rahim Jaffer, former Canadian Member of Parliament
* John Manley, former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance
* Paul Martin, former Prime Minister of Canada
* Gabriela Michetti, former Vice President of Argentina
* Sir Edward Morris, former Prime Minister of Newfoundland
* André Ouellet, former Minister and CEO and president of Canada Post
* Jean-Luc Pepin, politician, Cabinet minister
* John Richardson, Brigadier General in the Canadian Forces and Member of Parliament
* Allan Rock, former Minister of Justice, among other ministerial portfolios, Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations, President of the University of Ottawa
* Hugh Segal, politician and Senator

#### Provincial & Territorial

* Howard Hampton, former leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party
* Dalton McGuinty, former Premier of Ontario
* Paul Okalik, first premier of Nunavut
* Michael Connolly, former MLA for Calgary-Hawkwood
* Bernard Drainville, MNA for Lévis
* David Piccini (born 1988), politician, Ontario’s Minister of Labour, Immigration, Training & Skills Development

#### Municipal

* Bob Chiarelli, former mayor of the City of Ottawa
* Mathieu Fleury, former Ottawa City Councillor for Rideau-Vanier
* Jean-Paul L'Allier, former mayor of Quebec City
* Gérald Tremblay, former mayor of Montreal

### Social scientists

* Merridee Bujaki, manager of Accounting Studies
* Michel Chossudovsky, economist and author
* Dimitri Kitsikis, geopolitician
* Anna Koutsoyiannis, economist
* Joel Westheimer, American-born professor at the University of Ottawa

### Visual artists

* Rhonda Abrams, classically trained painter and video artist
* Jean-Marc Carisse, photographer, author and recipient of Library and Archives Canada Scholar Award
* Philippe Falardeau, Oscar-nominated director

### Writers and literature experts

* Angèle Bassolé-Ouédraogo, Ivoirian poet
* Michel Marc Bouchard, playwright
* Cyril Dabydeen, author and Professor of English
* Andrew Donskov, professor of modern languages, Tolstoy expert
* Faisal Kutty, lawyer, writer, human rights activist, academic teaching at Osgoode Hall Law School and at Valparaiso University
* Angela Narth, children's author
* Carol Shields, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer
* Kim Renders (BA in drama 1977), playwright, theatre director and actor; co-founder of Nightwood Theatre
* Christl Verduyn, professor of English Literature and Canadian Studies; recipient of the Governor General's International Award for Canadian Studies (2006)

## Governor General's Literary Awards

* Michel Bock, professor of history, Governor General's literary award winner

### Other

* Abdul Rahman Jabarah, alleged al-Qaeda member killed in 2003
* Ahmed Khadr, alleged by Canada and the United States of being a "senior associate" and financier of al-Qaeda killed in Afghanistan in 2003
* Denis Rancourt, former physics professor, scientist, academic dissident

## Chancellors and presidents
### List of chancellors

(1889–1965) University of Ottawa
* 1889–1909 Mgr Joseph-Thomas Duhamel
* 1911–1922 Mgr Charles-Hugues Gauthier
* 1922–1927 Mgr Joseph-Médard Émard
* 1928–1940 Mgr Joseph-Guillaume-Laurent Forbes
* 1940–1953 Mgr Alexandre Vachon
* 1953–1965 Mgr Marie-Joseph Lemieux, OP
(1965–present) University of Ottawa (reorganised)
* 1966–1973 The Right Honourable Pauline Vanier
* 1973–1979 The Right Honourable Gérald Fauteux
* 1979–1985 Gabrielle Léger
* 1985–1990 The Honourable Maurice Sauvé
* 1991–1993 Gordon F. Henderson
* 1994–2012 Huguette Labelle
* 2012–2015 The Right Honourable Michaelle Jean
* 2015–2022 Calin Rovinescu
* 2022–present: Claudette Commanda

### List of presidents

(1848–1861) Le Collège de Bytown / The College of Bytown
* 1848–1849 Édouard Chevalier, OMI
* 1849–1850 Jean-François Allard, OMI
* 1850–1851 Napoléon Mignault, OMI
* 1851–1853 Augustin Gaudet, OMI
* 1853–1861 Joseph-Henri Tabaret, OMI
(1861–1889) Collège d'Ottawa / College of Ottawa
* 1861–1864 Joseph-Henri Tabaret, OMI
* 1864–1867 Timothy Ryan, OMI
* 1867–1874 Joseph-Henri Tabaret, OMI
* 1874–1877 Antoine Paillier, OMI
* 1877–1886 Joseph-Henri Tabaret, OMI
* 1886 Philémon Provost, OMI
* 1886–1887 Antoine Paillier, OMI
* 1887–1889 Jean-Marie Fayard, OMI
(1889–1965) Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
* 1889–1898 James McGuckin, OMI
* 1898–1901 Henri-Antoine Constantineau, OMI
* 1901–1905 Joseph-Édouard Émery, OMI
* 1905–1911 William Murphy, OMI
* 1911–1914 Adrien-Bruno Roy, OMI
* 1914–1915 Henri Gervais, OMI
* 1915–1921 Louis Rhéaume, OMI
* 1921–1927 François-Xavier Marcotte, OMI
* 1927–1930 Uldéric Robert, OMI
* 1930–1936 Gilles Marchand, OMI
* 1936–1942 Joseph Hébert, OMI
* 1942–1946 Philippe Cornellier, OMI
* 1946–1952 Jean-Charles LaFramboise, OMI
* 1952–1958 Rodrigue Normandin, OMI
* 1958–1964 Henri-F. Légaré, OMI
* 1964–1965 Roger Guindon, OMI
(1965–present) Université d'Ottawa (nouvelle structure) / University of Ottawa (reorganised)
* 1965–1984 Roger Guindon, OMI
* 1984–1990 Antoine D'Iorio
* 1990–2001 Marcel Hamelin
* 2001–2008 Gilles G. Patry
* 2008–2017 Allan Rock
* 2017–present Jacques Frémont