100 Notable alumni of McMaster University
Updated: June 23, 2026 EliteDegrees
McMaster University is ranked #134 in the world and #9 in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from McMaster University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with McMaster University won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Santee Smith
dancer
choreographer
chancellor
Santee Smith Tekaronhiáhkhwa CM is a Canadian Mohawk multidisciplinary artist, dancer, designer, producer, and choreographer. She has used her voice and research to create dance works representing Indigenous identities. She is an advocate for Indigenous performances and is one of Canada's most dominating dance artists. Santee Smith has amassed multiple awards throughout her career and in 2019, she was appointed...
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2. Mike Bradwell
1986-. (aged 40)
Canadian football player
Mike Bradwell is a Canadian former professional football wide receiver who played for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was drafted in the second round of the 2008 CFL draft by the Toronto Argonauts. He began playing football in his final year at Leaside High School and played CIS football with McMaster University.
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3. Sean Barrett
1944-. (aged 82)
politician
economist
Sean Declan Conrad Barrett is an Irish economist and former senator. He was a senior lecturer in the Department of Economics of Trinity College Dublin, and a Fellow of the college. In April 2011, he was elected to the Dublin University constituency of Seanad Éireann but narrowly lost his seat in 2016. In 2018 he was elected a Pro-Chancellor of...
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4. Bob Dechert
1958-. (aged 68)
lawyer
politician
Robert "Bob" Dechert is a former Canadian politician and lawyer. A member of the Conservative Party of Canada, Dechert served as the member of Parliament for the riding of Mississauga—Erindale in the House of Commons of Canada from 2008 to 2015.
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5. Jordan Hall
writer
novelist
Jordan Hall is a Canadian writer, playwright and web series creator, best known for creating the award-winning web series Carmilla.
6. Tony Valeri
1957-. (aged 69)
real-estate agent
insurance executive
marketing manager
politician
Tony Valeri PC is a former Canadian politician. Valeri was the Government House Leader in Paul Martin's government from 2004 until 2006. He was narrowly defeated by New Democratic (NDP) candidate Wayne Marston in the 2006 general election held on January 23, 2006.
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7. Tyler Crapigna
1992-. (aged 34)
Canadian football player
Tyler Crapigna is a Canadian former professional football placekicker who played in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played CIS football for the McMaster Marauders from 2010 to 2014 and kicked the game-winning field goal in double overtime of the 47th Vanier Cup.
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8. Nanda Lwin
1971-. (aged 55)
music journalist
engineer
music historian
civil engineer
Nanda Layos Lwin is a Canadian author, music historian, journalist, civil engineer, and educator. He wrote the weekly ChartTalk column, a commentary of the current Canadian music charts; it appeared on canoe.ca from 1997 to 2002 and in The Hamilton Spectator from 2003 to 2006. He is the author and publisher of eight books including Top 40 Hits: The Essential...
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9. David Hamid
1955-. (aged 71)
Anglican priest
David Hamid is a retired Anglican bishop (Church of England) with British and Canadian citizenship. He has been the Suffragan Bishop in Europe since 2002.
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10. Jeffrey Remedios
business executive
Jeffrey Remedios is the chairman and CEO of Universal Music Canada. He also founded Arts & Crafts Records, and chairs the Toronto International Film Festival. He has appeared multiple times on the Billboard list of international power players, and was named by Toronto Life as one of Toronto's 50 most influential people. In August 2025, during his TIFF chairmanship, the...
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11. Josh Bongard
1974-. (aged 52)
artificial intelligence researcher
Josh Bongard is a professor at the University of Vermont and a 2010 PECASE awardee.
12. Chris Van Zeyl
1983-. (aged 43)
Canadian football player
Chris Van Zeyl is a Canadian former professional gridiron football offensive tackle who played for 15 years in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for the Montreal Alouettes, Toronto Argonauts, and Hamilton Tiger-Cats. He is a two-time Grey Cup champion with the Argonauts and was named a CFL All-Star three times and CFL East Division All-Star seven times. He was also...
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13. Rob Burgess
1957-2025 (aged 68)
businessperson
Robert Kenneth Burgess was a Canadian executive in the technology industry. He was the chief executive officer of Macromedia from 1996 to 2005 and chairman from 1997 to 2005. Prior to that, he was CEO of Alias Research from 1991 to 1995.
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14. John E. Thomas
1926-1996 (aged 70)
philosopher
John Edward Thomas was a British-born Canadian philosopher and pioneer of medical ethics in Canada.
15. Charles Aubrey Eaton
1868-1953 (aged 85)
politician
pastor
Charles Aubrey Eaton was a Canadian-born American Baptist clergyman, journalist, and Republican politician who represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives from 1925 to 1953. His district, which centered on Somerset County, was numbered as the 4th district from 1925 to 1933 and the 5th district from 1933 to 1953. He was a leading voice in the...
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16. Gillian E. Wu
1943-. (aged 83)
immunologist
Gillian Elizabeth Wu (born 1943) is a Canadian Immunologist and the former Dean of Pure and Applied Science at York University. She is currently Professor Emerita in York University's Faculty of Science (Department of Biology) and Faculty of Health and also at the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine.
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17. Chris Searle
1944-. (aged 82)
teacher
poet
Chris Searle is a British educator, poet, anti-racist activist, and socialist. He has written widely on cricket, language, jazz, race, and social justice, and has taught in Canada, England, Tobago, Mozambique, and Grenada. He has been associated with the Institute of Race Relations since the 1970s, and is on the editorial board of Race & Class. He writes a weekly...
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18. Akram Pedramnia
1969-. (aged 57)
literary critic
poet
writer
translator
novelist
Akram Pedramnia is an Iranian-Canadian writer, translator, Joycean scholar, researcher, activist, and physician. She has written, researched, and translated many English novels and political articles. She has resided in Canada since 1998, when she emigrated from Iran.
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19. Aaron Carpenter
1983-. (aged 43)
rugby union player
Aaron Carpenter is a retired Canadian rugby union player who represented Canada at three Rugby World Cups (2007, 2011 and 2015). He became the Canadian international cap leader on June 17, 2017, with 77. After retiring from play in January 2018, he began coaching the Toronto Arrows.
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20. Robert Nixon
1928-. (aged 98)
politician
Robert Fletcher Nixon OOnt ECO is a retired Canadian politician in the province of Ontario, Canada. The son of former Premier of Ontario Harry Nixon, he was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in a 1962 by-election following his father's death. The younger Nixon was elected leader of the Ontario Liberal Party in 1967 and led them through...
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21. Richard Bader
1931-2012 (aged 81)
chemist
Richard F. W. Bader FRSC FCIC was a Canadian quantum chemist, noted for his work on the atoms in molecules theory. This theory attempts to establish a physical basis for many of the working concepts of chemistry, such as atoms in molecules and bonding, in terms of the topology of the electron density function in three-dimensional space. Alongside the eminent...
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22. Howard Engel
1931-2019 (aged 88)
writer
novelist
Howard Engel CM was a Canadian mystery author and CBC producer who resided in Toronto, Ontario. He was famous for his Benny Cooperman detective series, set in the Niagara Region in and around the city of Grantham, Ontario, mirroring St. Catharines, Ontario, where he was born. He was one of the founding authors of Crime Writers of Canada in 1982.
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23. Anupam Sen
1940-. (aged 86)
academic
Anupam Sen is a Bangladeshi author, sociologist, and social activist. He was the vice-chancellor of Premier University, Chittagong. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2014 by the Government of Bangladesh.
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24. Mamdouh Shoukri
engineer
Mamdouh Shoukri, CM OOnt was the seventh President and Vice-Chancellor of York University, serving two terms from 2007 to 2017. His first term began on July 1, 2007, and on April 25, 2011, the Board of Governors of York University announced his renewal for a second term.
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25. Stanley Knowles
1908-1997 (aged 89)
Christian minister
clergyman
printer
priest
politician
Stanley Howard Knowles PC OC was a Canadian parliamentarian. Knowles represented the riding of Winnipeg North Centre from 1942 to 1958 on behalf of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and again from 1962 to 1984 representing the CCF's successor, the New Democratic Party (NDP).
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26. Lisa Thomaidis
1971-. (aged 55)
basketball player
basketball coach
Lisa Thomaidis is a Greek-Canadian basketball coach who is the head coach of the Saskatchewan Huskies women's basketball program. She is a three-time national champion as a head coach after leading the Huskies to wins in 2016, 2020, and 2025. She was also the head coach for the Canada women's national basketball team from 2014 to September, 2021, and of...
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27. John Ivison
columnist
John Ivison is a Scottish Canadian journalist and author. He is an Ottawa-based political columnist for the National Post and Ottawa Bureau Chief.
28. Karen Bakker
1971-2023 (aged 52)
university teacher
ecologist
geographer
Karen Bakker was a Canadian author, researcher, and entrepreneur known for her work on digital transformation, environmental governance, and sustainability. A Rhodes Scholar with a DPhil from Oxford, Bakker was a professor at the University of British Columbia. In 2022–2023 she was on sabbatical leave at Harvard, as a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow. She was the recipient of numerous awards,...
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29. Kevin G. Lynch
1951-. (aged 75)
economist
Kevin G. Lynch PC OC is a Canadian economist and former Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet, Canada's most senior civil servant.
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30. Rami M. Shapiro
1951-. (aged 75)
writer
Rami M. Shapiro, commonly called "Rabbi Rami", is an American Reform rabbi, author, teacher, and speaker on the subjects liberal Judaism and contemporary spirituality. His Judaism is grounded in the perennial philosophy.
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31. Stephen A. Kent
university teacher
sociologist
Stephen A. Kent is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. He researches new religious movements, and has published research on several such groups including the Children of God (The Family), the Church of Scientology, and other NRMs in Canada.
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32. Martyn Burke
1952-. (aged 74)
film producer
screenwriter
director
writer
film director
Martyn Burke is a Canadian director, novelist and screenwriter from Toronto, Ontario.
33. Richard Hayman
1920-2014 (aged 94)
composer
conductor
Richard Warren Joseph Hayman was an American musician who was the chief music arranger of the Boston Pops Orchestra for over 50 years, and served as a pops conductor for orchestras including the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony and the Grand Rapids Symphony in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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34. Theodosius Mar Thoma
1949-. (aged 77)
metropolitan
presbyter
Theodosius Mar Thoma XXII Metropolitan is the Mar Thoma Metropolitan and the Primate of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church. Theodosius Mar Thoma presently occupies the Apostolic Throne of St Thomas and is also the first Mar Thoma Metropolitan to be born in post-independence India.
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35. Michael Frank Goodchild
1944-. (aged 82)
geographer
Michael Frank Goodchild is a British-American geographer. He is an Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. After nineteen years at the University of Western Ontario, including three years as chair, he moved to Santa Barbara in 1988, as part of the establishment of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, which he directed for...
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36. Gordon Guyatt
1953-. (aged 73)
researcher
physician
Gordon Henry Guyatt is a Canadian physician who is a professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He is known for his leadership in evidence-based medicine, a term that first appeared in a single-author paper he published in 1991. Subsequently, a 1992 JAMA article led by Guyatt proved instrumental in bringing the concept of evidence-based medicine to the world's attention....
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37. Tyler Ardron
1991-. (aged 35)
rugby union player
Tyler Ardron is a Canadian rugby union player who plays for Canada nationally and Castres in the Top 14. Ardron plays in the back-row but is also capable of providing cover in the second row.
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38. James C. Adamson
1946-. (aged 80)
military flight engineer
aircraft pilot
astronaut
James Craig Adamson is a former NASA astronaut and retired Colonel of the United States Army. He is married with 3 children. James Adamson flew on two missions, STS-28 and STS-43, and completed 263 orbits and 334 hours in space. After retiring from NASA, he was recruited by Allied Signal (later merged with Honeywell) where he retired in 2001. Adamson...
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39. James Alcock
1942-. (aged 84)
psychologist
James E. Alcock is professor emeritus (Psychology) at York University (Canada). Alcock is a noted critic of parapsychology and a Fellow and Member of the Executive Council for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is a member of the editorial board of The Skeptical Inquirer, and a frequent contributor to the magazine. He has also been a columnist for Humanist...
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40. Diana Panton
1974-. (aged 52)
singer
jazz musician
Diana Panton is a Canadian jazz vocalist. Her latest release, "soft winds and roses", topped the Jazz Best Seller Chart at Books.com in Taiwan and the Vocal Jazz Chart on Amazon Japan. Her album, blue, was awarded the 2023 Silver Disc Award by Japan's Jazz Critique Magazine. Her albums Yesterday Perhaps and Pink were awarded Silver Discs upon their release...
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41. Tyler Sanders
1991-. (aged 35)
volleyball player
Tyler James "TJ" Sanders is a former professional Canadian male volleyball player. He was a member of the Canada men's national volleyball team, representing Canada in the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. He also was a gold medallist at the 2015 NORCECA Championship, and a bronze medalist at the 2015 Pan American Games and a bronze medalist at the 2017...
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42. Samantha Nutt
1969-. (aged 57)
physician
Samantha Joan Nutt CM OOnt is a Canadian physician and philanthropist who is the founder and president of War Child Canada. She has more than sixteen years of experience working in war zones. Her 2011 book Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies and Aid details her work over the course of fifteen years in some of the most devastated regions of...
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43. Stephen Maar
1994-. (aged 32)
volleyball player
Stephen Timothy Maar is a Canadian professional volleyball player who plays as an outside hitter for Galatasaray.
44. Sarah Thomson
1968-. (aged 58)
politician
Sarah Jane Thomson, also known as Sarah Jane Whatmough-Thomson, is an entrepreneur who was publisher and CEO of the Women's Post and a former candidate for mayor of Toronto.
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45. Ali Hassan
comedian
film actor
Ali Hassan is a Canadian comedian and actor, known as the host of CBC Radio One's weekly comedy program Laugh Out Loud and as the moderator of CBC Radio's annual Canada Reads competition since 2017.
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46. David Braley
1941-2020 (aged 79)
businessperson
politician
David Osborn Braley OC was a Canadian businessman and politician who was the owner of three Canadian Football League (CFL) teams during his lifetime: the BC Lions, Toronto Argonauts, and Hamilton Tiger-Cats. He was appointed to the Senate of Canada in 2010 as a Conservative, but resigned three years later stating no official reason. He was a member of the...
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47. Thomas Mason
1964-. (aged 62)
physicist
researcher
Thomas Mason is a Canadian-American condensed-matter physicist who serves as the director of Los Alamos National Laboratory. Prior to this appointment, he had been an executive at Battelle Memorial Institute from 2017 to 2018, and the director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 2007 to 2017. Mason moved to Oak Ridge in 1998 at the start of construction of the...
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48. Syl Apps
1915-1998 (aged 83)
ice hockey player
pole vaulter
politician
Charles Joseph Sylvanus Apps CM, was a Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs from 1936 to 1948, an Olympic pole vaulter and a Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament in Ontario. In 2017 Apps was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.
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49. John Mighton
1957-. (aged 69)
writer
playwright
actor
mathematician
John Mighton, O.C. born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada on October 2, 1957, is a Canadian mathematician, playwright and best-selling author, who is known for his work to support children's successful math education. Mighton founded JUMP Math as a charity in 2002 and developed the JUMP Math program to address student underachievement in math. Mighton has won national and international awards...
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50. Ruby Sahota
lawyer
politician
Ruby Sahota PC MP is a Canadian lawyer and politician. A member of the Liberal Party, she is currently serving as Secretary of State (Combatting Crime). She previously served as the Minister of Democratic Institutions from 2024 to 2025 and has represented the federal riding of Brampton North and its successor riding Brampton North—Caledon in the House of Commons of...
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51. PJ Haarsma
1964-. (aged 62)
science fiction writer
novelist
Philip-Jon Haarsma /ˈhɑːrzmɑː/, more commonly known as PJ Haarsma, is a Canadian-born producer and science fiction author best known for his creation of the Rings of Orbis universe, which encompasses The Softwire series of books. Haarsma created a free, online role-playing game, also called the Rings of Orbis, set in the same universe. Both the book-series and the game target...
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52. Bertram Brockhouse
1918-2003 (aged 85)
university teacher
nuclear physicist
physicist
Bertram Neville Brockhouse, CC FRSC FRS was a Canadian physicist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics (1994, shared with Clifford Shull) "for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter", in particular "for the development of neutron spectroscopy".
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53. Roger Neilson
1934-2003 (aged 69)
ice hockey coach
Roger Paul Neilson, CM was a Canadian professional ice hockey coach, most notably in the NHL, where he served with eight teams. Known as Captain Video because of his technological contributions to the game, he is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame in the builder category. Alongside his decorated coaching abilities, Neilson is commonly remembered today for his...
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54. Reza Ardakanian
1958-. (aged 68)
politician
Reza Ardakanian is an Iranian professor, politician and former Minister of Energy of Iran, a position he had held from 29 October 2017 to 25 August 2021. He was previously deputy energy minister in the 1980s and 1990s and has been involved with UN-Water.
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55. Steve Mann
1962-. (aged 64)
university teacher
writer
computer scientist
engineer
inventor
William Stephen George Mann is a Canadian engineer, professor, and inventor who works in wearable computing, augmented reality, extended reality, and computational photography, particularly high-dynamic-range imaging. Mann is considered the "father of wearable computing" for his early inventions and continuing contributions to the field.
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56. Lincoln Alexander
1922-2012 (aged 90)
autobiographer
lawyer
politician
Lincoln MacCauley Alexander PC CC OOnt CD QC was a Canadian lawyer and politician who became the first Black Canadian to be a member of Parliament in the House of Commons, a federal Cabinet Minister (as federal Minister of Labour), a Chair of the Worker's Compensation Board of Ontario, and the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1985 to 1991....
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57. Gurratan Singh
1984-. (aged 42)
politician
Gurratan Singh is a Canadian lawyer and former politician who represented Brampton East in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2018 to 2022. A member of the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP), Singh practiced as a litigation lawyer before he was elected as a member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) in the 2018 provincial election. He was defeated in the 2022...
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58. Adam van Koeverden
1982-. (aged 44)
canoeist
kayaker
athlete
politician
Adam Joseph van Koeverden PC MP is a Canadian sprint kayaker, Olympic gold medallist, and politician serving since 2025 as the Secretary of State for Sport in Prime Minister Mark Carney's Cabinet. A member of the Liberal Party, he has represented the electoral disitrct of Burlington North-Milton West and its predecessor district of Milton in the House of Commons since...
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59. Harold Innis
1894-1952 (aged 58)
university teacher
historian
philosopher
sociologist
economist
Harold Adams Innis FRSC was a Canadian professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author of seminal works on media, communication theory, and Canadian economic history. He helped develop the staples thesis, which holds that Canada's culture, political history, and economy have been decisively influenced by the exploitation and export of a series of "staples" such...
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60. Martin Popoff
1963-. (aged 63)
music critic
biographer
music journalist
Martin Popoff is a Canadian music journalist, critic and author. He is mainly known for writing about heavy metal music. The senior editor and co-founder of Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles, he has written more than twenty books that both critically evaluate heavy metal and document its history. He has been called "heavy metal's most widely recognized journalist" by his...
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61. Tihomir Orešković
1966-. (aged 60)
businessperson
entrepreneur
politician
Tihomir "Tim" Orešković is a Croatian-Canadian businessman who was Prime Minister of Croatia from January to October 2016, before a no-confidence vote filed by one of the two parties in the ruling coalition brought his government down.
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62. Ruby Dhalla
1974-. (aged 52)
chiropractor
businessperson
actor
politician
Ruby Dhalla is a Canadian businesswoman and politician. She served as the Member of Parliament for Brampton—Springdale in the House of Commons of Canada from 2004 to 2011 as a member of the Liberal Party. Dhalla and British Columbia Conservative MP Nina Grewal were the first Sikh women to serve in the House of Commons of Canada.
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63. Ron Joyce
1930-2019 (aged 89)
businessperson
autobiographer
Ronald Vaughan Joyce, CM was a Canadian entrepreneur and billionaire. He was an early investor in the Tim Hortons doughnut chain as Tim Horton's first franchisee in 1967.
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64. David Easton
1917-2014 (aged 97)
university teacher
political scientist
David Easton FRSC was a Canadian-born American political scientist. From 1947 to 1997, he served as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago.
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65. Andrea Horwath
1962-. (aged 64)
politician
Andrea Lynn Horwath is a Canadian politician who has served as the 58th mayor of Hamilton since 2022. Horwath served as the leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP) from 2009 to 2022 and as the leader of the Official Opposition from 2018 to 2022.
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66. Alex Anthopoulos
1977-. (aged 49)
chief executive officer
Alex Anthopoulos is a Canadian professional baseball executive, currently serving as general manager and president of baseball operations for the Atlanta Braves, which won the 2021 World Series.
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67. Stephen Elop
1963-. (aged 63)
business executive
Stephen Elop is a Canadian businessman who most recently worked at Australian telecom company Telstra from April 2016. In the past he had worked for Nokia as its first non-Finnish CEO and later as Executive Vice President, Devices & Services, as well as the head of the Microsoft Business Division, as the COO of Juniper Networks, as the president of...
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68. Furious Pete
1985-. (aged 41)
television producer
bodybuilder
YouTuber
Peter Czerwinski, better known by his stage name Furious Pete, is a Canadian competitive eater and YouTuber. Czerwinski currently holds fourteen Guinness World Records in eating.
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69. Helen To
1975-. (aged 51)
writer
Helen To Yu-fung, is a Hong Kong host, TV producer and columnist.
70. Doug Henning
1947-2000 (aged 53)
magician
politician
illusionist
Douglas James Henning was a Canadian magician, illusionist, escape artist and politician.
71. Myron Scholes
1941-. (aged 85)
economist
researcher
mathematician
Myron Samuel Scholes is a Canadian–American financial economist. Scholes is the Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, and co-originator of the Black–Scholes options pricing model. This mathematical model, developed with Fischer Black, revolutionized finance by providing a systematic way to value options through the elimination of risk...
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72. Tommy Douglas
1904-1986 (aged 82)
Christian minister
printer
cleric
politician
Thomas Clement Douglas PC CC SOM was a Scottish-born Canadian politician who served as the seventh premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961 and leader of the New Democratic Party from 1961 to 1971. A Baptist minister, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1935 as a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). He left...
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73. Adam DiMarco
1990-. (aged 36)
singer
actor
film actor
Adam DiMarco is a Canadian actor. He has played recurring roles in the Syfy series The Magicians (2016–2020) and the Netflix series The Order (2019–2020). He had main roles in the HBO series The White Lotus (season 2, 2022) and the Prime Video series Overcompensating (2025-present).
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74. Dave Thomas
1953-. (aged 73)
physicist
mathematician
David William Thomas CM is a Canadian actor, comedian and television writer, known for being one half of the duo Bob and Doug McKenzie with Rick Moranis. He appeared as Doug McKenzie on SCTV, for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award out of two nominations, and in the film Strange Brew (1983), which he also co-directed. As a duo,...
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75. Donna Strickland
1959-. (aged 67)
physicist
university teacher
Donna Theo Strickland is a Canadian optical physicist and pioneer in the field of pulsed lasers. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, together with Gérard Mourou, for the practical implementation of chirped pulse amplification. She is a professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.
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76. Jonathan Frid
1924-2012 (aged 88)
film actor
television actor
stage actor
Jonathan Frid was a Canadian actor, best known for his role as vampire Barnabas Collins on the gothic television soap opera Dark Shadows. The introduction in 1967 of Frid's reluctant, guilt-ridden vampire caused the floundering daytime drama to soar to 20 million daily viewers. His watershed portrayal has been cited as a key influence on contemporary genre film and television...
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77. Eugene Levy
1946-. (aged 80)
songwriter
comedian
television producer
character actor
musician
Eugene Levy is a Canadian actor and comedian. He often plays flustered and unconventional figures. He is best known for appearing in the sketch comedy series SCTV, which aired from 1976 until 1984, and the American Pie series of films. He is a regular collaborator of actor-director Christopher Guest, appearing in and co-writing four of his films, commencing with Waiting...
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78. Martin Short
1950-. (aged 76)
comedian
screenwriter
voice actor
film director
singer
Martin Hayter Short OC is a Canadian comedian, actor and writer. Short is known as an energetic comedian who gained prominence for his roles in sketch comedy. He has also acted in numerous films and television shows. His awards include two Primetime Emmy Awards, two SAG Awards, and a Tony Award. Short was made an officer of the Order of...
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79. Ivan Reitman
1946-2022 (aged 76)
film producer
film director
Ivan Reitman OC was a Canadian film director and producer. He was known for his comedy films, especially in the 1980s and 1990s. Reitman was the owner of The Montecito Picture Company, founded in 1998.
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80. Pokimane
1996-. (aged 30)
vlogger
YouTuber
chess player
Twitch streamer
online streamer
Imane Anys, better known as Pokimane, is a Moroccan and Canadian online streamer, YouTuber and influencer based in California. She is best known for gameplay and commentary livestreams on Twitch, most notably in Valorant and Fortnite. She is a co-founder of OfflineTV, an online social entertainment group of content creators.
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81. John Candy
1950-1994 (aged 44)
film actor
manufacturer
comedian
film director
television actor
John Franklin Candy was a Canadian actor and comedian best known for his work in Hollywood comedy films.
82. Yasir Naqvi
1973-. (aged 53)
lawyer
politician
Yasir Abbas Naqvi ECO MPP is a Canadian politician who has served as the member of Parliament (MP) for Ottawa Centre since the 2021 federal election, sitting as a Liberal. Prior to his election to the House of Commons of Canada, Naqvi was active in Ontario provincial politics, serving as the first visible-minority attorney general of Ontario (2016–2018), minister of...
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83. Dalton McGuinty
1955-. (aged 71)
lawyer
politician
Dalton James Patrick McGuinty Jr. OOnt ECO is a Canadian former politician who served as the 24th premier of Ontario from 2003 to 2013. He was the first Liberal leader to win two majority governments since Mitchell Hepburn nearly 70 years earlier. In 2011, he became the first Liberal premier to secure a third consecutive term since Oliver Mowat after...
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84. Peter Sloly
1966-. (aged 60)
chief of police
association football player
Peter John Michael Sloly OOM is a Canadian former police officer who served as the chief of police for the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) from 2019 to 2022. Before joining the OPS, Sloly was a member of the Toronto Police Service (TPS) for 27 years, including as a deputy chief of police from 2009 to 2016.
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85. Belinda Stronach
1966-. (aged 60)
businessperson
politician
Belinda Caroline Stronach is a Canadian businesswoman and former politician. She served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 2004 to 2008, initially as a Conservative and later as a Liberal. During her political career, Stronach served as the Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development from May 17, 2005, to February 6, 2006, and Minister responsible for Democratic Renewal...
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86. Roberta Bondar
1945-. (aged 81)
biologist
neurologist
physician
astronaut
photographer
Roberta Lynn Bondar is a Canadian astronaut, neurologist and consultant. She is Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space.
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87. Lionel Sanders
1988-. (aged 38)
triathlete
Lionel James Sanders is a Canadian professional triathlete winner of the 2017 ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships. He has 33 first place finishes in Ironman 70.3 races and 5 first place finishes in full Ironman events. In 2017 and 2022, he placed second at the Ironman World Championship. In 2014 he placed fourth in the 2014 Ironman 70.3 World...
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88. Heather Munroe-Blum
1950-. (aged 76)
financier
Heather Anne Elyse Lilian Munroe-Blum OC OQ FRSC is a Canadian academic and businesswoman.
89. James Orbinski
1960-. (aged 66)
physician
writer
humanitarian
James Jude Orbinski is a Canadian physician, humanitarian activist, author, and scholar in global health. Dr. Orbinski began his role as principal of Massey College at the University of Toronto in the 2024-2025 academic year, where he is also Full Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, and is cross-appointed to the...
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90. Dhammānandā
1944-. (aged 82)
university teacher
writer
nun
Dhammananda Bhikkhuni, born Chatsumarn Kabilsingh (Thai: ฉัตรสุมาลย์ กบิลสิงห์) or Chatsumarn Kabilsingh Shatsena (Thai: ฉัตรสุมาลย์ กบิลสิงห์ ษัฏเสน; 1944), is a Thai bhikkhuni ("Buddhist nun"). On 28 February 2003, Kabilsingh received full monastic ordination as a bhikkhuni of the Theravada tradition in Sri Lanka. She is Abbess of Songdhammakalyani Monastery, the only temple in Thailand where there are bhikkhunis.
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91. Eric Hoskins
1960-. (aged 66)
politician
Eric William Hoskins OC MSC ECO is a Canadian physician and former politician who served as an Ontario cabinet minister from 2010 to 2018. A member of the Ontario Liberal Party, he represented Toronto—St. Paul's in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2009 to 2018. Before entering politics, Hoskins was the president of War Child Canada and was made an...
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92. Michael Ruse
1940-2024 (aged 84)
university teacher
philosopher
Michael Escott Ruse FRSC was a British-born Canadian philosopher of science who specialised in the philosophy of biology and worked on the relationship between science and religion, the creation–evolution controversy, and the demarcation problem within science. Ruse began his career teaching at The University of Guelph and spent many years at Florida State University.
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93. Blake Morrison
1950-. (aged 76)
writer
author
poet
novelist
Philip Blake Morrison is an English poet and author who has published in a wide range of fiction and non-fiction genres. His greatest success came with the publication of his memoirs And When Did You Last See Your Father? (1993), which won the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography and was made into a drama film of the same title....
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94. Suchart Thadathamrongvej
1952-. (aged 74)
politician
economist
Suchart Thada-Thamrongvech is a Thai politician and professor. He served as Minister of Finance under Samak Sundaravej and Somchai Wongsawat from August to December 2008 and as Minister of Education in the Cabinet of Yingluck Shinawatra from January to October 2012. From September to November 2008, he was the chairman of the Pheu Thai Party.
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95. John Sessions
1953-2020 (aged 67)
comedian
television actor
screenwriter
film actor
stage actor
John Sessions was a British actor and comedian. He was known as a regular performer on comedy improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway?, as co-creator, co-writer and co-star of the sitcom Stella Street, as a panellist on QI, and as a character actor in numerous films, both in the UK and Hollywood.
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96. Sheila Copps
1952-. (aged 74)
writer
autobiographer
journalist
politician
Sheila Maureen Copps PC OC is a former Canadian politician who also served as the sixth deputy prime minister of Canada from November 4, 1993, to April 30, 1996, and June 19, 1996, to June 11, 1997. Her father, Victor Copps, was once mayor of Hamilton, Ontario.
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97. Daniel Goldberg
1949-2023 (aged 74)
film producer
screenwriter
film director
Daniel Goldberg is a French Socialist politician. He is a mathematics teacher and was elected deputy in 2007 to represent La Courneuve.
98. Jaime Mañalich
1954-. (aged 72)
physician
politician
surgeon
Jaime José Mañalich Muxi is a Chilean physician (nephrologist), and former Health Minister.
99. Nonso Amadi
1995-. (aged 31)
singer-songwriter
Chinonso Obinna Amadi Listen is a Nigerian singer, songwriter and music producer. He is a self-taught songwriter and music producer who embarked on his music career in 2012, while at Covenant University, where he studied chemical engineering. He is signed to UMG Canada, Def Jam Recordings, UMG Nigeria, Polydor, and MCA Records France.
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100. Martin Green
1948-. (aged 78)
university teacher
engineer
environmentalist
Martin Andrew Green AM FRS FAA is an Australian engineer who specialises in photovoltaics. He is a Scientia professor of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), where he directs the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics. Green is best known for his development of the Passivated Emitter and Rear Cell (PERC) in 1983, a...
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