100 Notable alumni of University of Calgary

Jessica O'Connell is a Canadian athlete competing primarily in long-distance events. She represented her country at the 2016 World Indoor Championships finishing ninth.

Erica Rachelle Morningstar is a Canadian swimmer who has competed in international events including the 2008 Summer Olympics, and 2012 Summer Olympics.

Natalie Panek is a Canadian working in aerospace engineering. She works in the robotics and automation division of the space technology company MDA.

Tracy Stuart is a Canadian rower. She began rowing in 2000 at the age of 25 by enrolling in the learn to row program, while attending the University of Calgary. Since then, Tracy has been to the starting line 12 times and brought home 9 medals, including a Bronze in the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics and a gold in the...

Matthew John Walter is a Canadian former professional football running back who played five seasons in the Canadian Football League (CFL) with the Calgary Stampeders and Saskatchewan Roughriders. He was drafted 34th overall by the Stampeders in the 2011 CFL draft and was originally signed by the team on May 26, 2011. He played CIS football for the Calgary Dinos.

Moira Stilwell is a Canadian politician and physician who served as the member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia for the riding of Vancouver-Langara from 2009 to 2017. As part of the British Columbia Liberal Party caucus, she served in several cabinet posts under premiers Gordon Campbell and Christy Clark.

Anthony Wilfred James Whitford ONWT was a Canadian politician, who served as the commissioner of the Northwest Territories from 2005 to 2010.

Andrew Kooman is an author and playwright from Red Deer, Alberta, Canada.

David William Atkinson is a Canadian academic and former president of MacEwan University. He is the former president of Kwantlen Polytechnic University and two Ontario universities, Brock University in St. Catharines and Carleton University in Ottawa.

Jacqueline Jill Robinson is a Canadian writer and editor. She is the author of a novel and four collections of short stories. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in a wide variety of magazines and literary journals including Geist, the Antigonish Review, Event, Prairie Fire and the Windsor Review. Her novel, More In Anger, published in 2012, tells the...

Jordan Belchos is a Canadian speed skater. He primarily skates in the long distances of 1500 m, 5000 m and 10 000 m, as well as the mass start event. He won medals at the World Cup level and finished third at the 2012–13 ISU Speed Skating Mass Start World Cup.

Teresa Yan-Yi Woo-Paw is a Canadian politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-Northern Hills as a Progressive Conservative.

Lieutenant-General Christopher J. Coates CMM MSM CD is a former military officer of the Royal Canadian Air Force. In July 2020, he replaced Lieutenant-General Michael Rouleau as commander of Canadian Joint Operations Command. From July 2018 until July 2020, he was the deputy commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command succeeding Lieutenant-General Pierre St-Amand.

Tara Hunt is an author, speaker and startup founder. She has been called a "pioneer in online marketing and one of the most respected authorities on online communities".

Natan Albahari is a Serbian politician and activist served as a member of the National Assembly of Serbia from 1 August 2022 to 6 February 2024. He has served as the member of the presidency and international secretary of the Movement of Free Citizens (PSG) since September 2024.

Peter Mathews is an Australian archaeologist, epigrapher, and Mayanist.

Linden David Gaydosh is a Canadian former professional football defensive tackle who played in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Toronto Argonauts. He played CIS football with the Calgary Dinos. Gaydosh was drafted first overall by the Tiger-Cats in the 2013 CFL draft, but instead chose to sign with the Carolina Panthers.

Iya Viktorovna Gavrilova is a Russian ice hockey player. She was a member of the Russian national team from 2003 to 2016 and represented Russia at the Winter Olympic Games in 2006, 2010, and 2014 and at eleven IIHF Women's World Championships, winning bronze medals at the tournaments in 2013 and 2016. At the 2015 Winter Universiade in Granada, Spain,...

Danielle Marie Larivee ECA is a Canadian politician who was elected in the 2015 Alberta general election to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the electoral district of Lesser Slave Lake. She defeated incumbent Progressive Conservative MLA Pearl Calahasen, who had served the district since 1989 and was the longest serving incumbent. She is a public health nurse. In 2019...

Mark Arendz OPEI is a Canadian biathlon and Para-Nordic skier. He was disabled at the age of seven when his arm got caught in the blades of a grain auger. He participated in the 2010, 2014 and 2018 Winter Paralympics and won 8 medals in total, including gold in the men's 15km biathlon standing at the 2018 games.

Amber Fares is a Lebanese Canadian filmmaker, documentarian, director and cinematographer. She co-founded SocDoc Studios. She is based in Brooklyn and the West Bank.

Bracken Kearns is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. Along with an extensive minor league career, he played for the Florida Panthers, San Jose Sharks and New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL).

Kenneth B. Storey FRSC was a Canadian scientist whose work drew from a variety of fields including biochemistry and molecular biology. He was a Professor of Biology, Biochemistry and Chemistry at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Storey has a world-wide reputation for his research on biochemical adaptation—the molecular mechanisms that allow animals to adapt to and endure severe environmental stresses...

Martine Leavitt is a Canadian American writer of young adult novels and a creative writing instructor.

Elizabeth Hanson, also known as Liz Hanson, is a Canadian politician from the Yukon. She was the leader of the Yukon New Democratic Party from 2009 until 2019, and represented the electoral district of Whitehorse Centre in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 2010 to 2021.

Diane Ablonczy PC is a former Canadian Member of Parliament who served in the House of Commons of Canada. Ablonczy represented Calgary ridings from 1993 to 2015, sitting first with the Reform Party of Canada, then with the Canadian Alliance, and finally with the Conservative Party of Canada. She served as the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (Americas and...

Sukhjivan Singh Chungh is a Canadian professional football offensive lineman. He played CIS football at University of Calgary.

Frederick James Hawkes was a Canadian politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Calgary West from 1979 until 1993.

Jill Belland is a Canadian TV personality and business person. She is a co-owner of Barre Belle in Calgary, where she provides dance and exercise training. She was previously a TV host and producer at Citytv Calgary, where she was the "On Location Host" of Breakfast Television.

Rebecca Northan is a Canadian actor, improviser, theatre director, and creative artist. She is known for playing the hippie mother Diane Macleod on the CTV & The Comedy Network sitcom Alice, I Think and for her role as Jane in the independent film Adult Adoption. She is a graduate of the University of Calgary, and an alumna of the Loose...

Jesse Cockney is a Canadian Olympic cross-country skier of Inuvialuit heritage whose father, Angus Cockney, also was a Canadian national team member and national champion. The 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia is where Cockney made his Olympic debut. Cockney competed in two events at Sochi, the sprint, and the 50 km mass start, which are the shortest and...

Ricardo Miranda ECA is a Canadian politician and trade unionist who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 2015 Alberta general election representing the electoral district of Calgary-Cross.

Rosemarie Ashley Falk MP is a Canadian politician from Saskatchewan, who has represented the riding of Battlefords—Lloydminster in the House of Commons of Canada since a by-election victory in 2017. She is a member of the Conservative Party of Canada caucus. Falk currently serves as the Deputy Shadow Minister for Families, Children and Social Development and Status of Women.

Larissa Lai is an American-born Canadian novelist and literary critic. She is a recipient of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and Lambda Literary Foundation's 2020 Jim Duggins, PhD Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize.

Sarah Davachi is a Canadian composer and performer of electroacoustic and minimalist music. She is a pianist and an organist.

Irfan Sabir ECA MLA is a Canadian lawyer and politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 2015 and 2019 Alberta general elections to represent the electoral district of Calgary-Bhullar-McCall. He is a member of the Alberta New Democratic Party. In the 29th Alberta Legislature his party formed a majority government and he was a member...

Kristina Nicole Groves is a Canadian retired speed skater. She is Canada's most decorated skater in the World Single Distances Championships with 13 career medals in this event. She won four Olympic medals: she won two silver medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, in the 1,500 meters and team pursuit, and she won the silver medal in the...

Tracy Gray is a Canadian politician and businesswoman who served as a member of Parliament representing the riding of Kelowna—Lake Country in the House of Commons from 2019 to 2025. A member of the Conservative Party, she was first elected to the 2019 federal election. She also served as a city councillor for Kelowna City from 2014 to 2018.

Kathleen Teresa Ganley ECA is a Canadian lawyer and politician who was elected in the 2019 Alberta general election to represent the electoral district of Calgary-Mountain View in the 30th Alberta Legislature. She was previously elected in 2015 to represent Calgary-Buffalo in the 29th Legislature. She is a member of the New Democratic Party of Alberta. On May 24, 2015...

Michelle Stilwell is a Canadian athlete and politician. She represented Canada at four Summer Paralympic Games (2000, 2008, 2012 and 2016), as well as the 2015 Parapan American Games. She competed in wheelchair basketball before becoming a wheelchair racer, and is the only female Paralympic athlete to win gold medals in two separate summer sport events.

Robert J. Anders is a former Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Calgary West from 1997 until 2015 and was a founding member of the Conservative Party of Canada.

Gary Kovacs is an American technologist and corporate executive. He has been the chief executive officer of Mozilla Corporation, AVG Technologies, and Accela. He has also worked for a number of technology companies in the San Francisco Bay Area including Adobe, SAP, IBM, and Zi Corporation.

Dominick Lukasz Zator is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a defender for Ekstraklasa club Arka Gdynia and the Canada national team.

Anita M. Vandenbeld MP is a Canadian politician, who was elected to represent the riding of Ottawa West—Nepean for the Liberal Party of Canada in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 Canadian federal election. She was re-elected in the same riding in 2019, in 2021 and in 2025. Vandenbeld currently serves as Parliamentary secretary to the Minister...

Joseph Anthony Ceci ECA MLA is a Canadian, Albertan, politician who was elected in the 2019 Alberta general election to represent the electoral district of Calgary-Buffalo in the 30th Alberta Legislature. He was previously elected in 2015 to represent Calgary-Fort in the 29th Legislature. He is a member of the Alberta New Democratic Party. Prior to holding provincial office, Ceci...

Stephanie L. Kusie MP is a Canadian politician and former diplomat who was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in a by-election on April 3, 2017. She represents the electoral district of Calgary Midnapore in Alberta as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada and serves as Shadow Minister of Treasury Board in the Official Opposition...

Shabbir Akhtar was a British philosopher, poet, researcher, writer and multilingual scholar. He was on the Faculty of Theology and Religions at the University of Oxford. His interests included political Islam, Quranic exegesis, revival of philosophical discourse in Islam, Islamophobia, extremism, terrorism and Christian-Muslim relations as well as Islamic readings of the New Testament. Shabbir Akhtar was also a Søren...

Stephen Downes is a Canadian philosopher and commentator in the fields of online learning and new media. He has explored and promoted the educational use of computer and online technologies since 1995. He gave the 2004 Buntine Oration and was a presenter at the February 2007 Online Connectivism Conference. In 2008, Downes and George Siemens designed and taught an online,...

Amy Lee Nixon is a Canadian retired curler and lawyer from Calgary, Alberta. She was a member of the bronze medal-winning 2006 Winter Olympic women's curling team, skipped by Shannon Kleibrink. Nixon was also the chair of the board of governors of Curling Canada from 2021 to 2022.

Janet Edna Merivale Austin OBC was the 30th lieutenant governor of British Columbia, having served from 2018 to 2025. She was the viceregal representative of Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III in the province of British Columbia.

Leela Sharon Aheer ECA is a Canadian politician who was elected in the 2015 Alberta election to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, and re-elected in the 2019 Alberta general election.

Blake Richards MP is a Canadian politician. He has been a Conservative Member of Parliament since 2008, having been elected to represent the now defunct electoral district (or riding) of Wild Rose in the October 14, 2008 and May 2, 2011 federal elections and subsequently the riding of Banff—Airdrie in federal elections held in 2015, 2019, and 2021. In 2025,...

Eric Greif was a Canadian-American lawyer, university instructor, and entertainment personality and producer known for a management and record production career within the heavy metal musical genre in the 1980s and early 1990s, and later within the legal profession. He was also known for being the longtime manager and lawyer of metal musician Chuck Schuldiner. Canadian filmmaker Sam Dunn has...

Riza Raquel Santos is a Canadian former actress, TV host, model and beauty pageant titleholder. She is currently the Vice President of Argyle Fox Inc., a technology firm headquartered in Calgary. She achieved the "Canada's Triple Crown": Miss Earth Canada 2006, Miss World Canada 2011 and Miss Universe Canada 2013.

Robert "Bob" Brent Thirsk, OC OBC is a Canadian retired engineer and physician, and a former Canadian Space Agency astronaut. He holds the Canadian record for the most time spent in space (204 days, 18 hours and 29 minutes). He became an officer of the Order of Canada (OC) in 2013 and was named to the Order of British Columbia...

Kara Scott /ˈkɛərə/ is a Canadian British TV personality, journalist and poker player.

Brianne Alexandra Jenner is a Canadian professional ice hockey player and captain for the Ottawa Charge of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL) and a member of Canada women's national ice hockey team.

Michael Peter Todd Spavor is a Canadian consultant who has worked extensively in North Korea. He is the director and founding member of Paektu Cultural Exchange, an NGO that facilitates sports, cultural, tourism and business exchanges involving North Korea.

Mark Roger Tewksbury, CC MSM is a Canadian former competitive swimmer. He is best known for winning the gold medal in the 100-metre backstroke at the 1992 Summer Olympics. He also hosted the first season of How It's Made, a Canadian documentary series, in 2001.

Michael Dowse is a Canadian director.

Jocelyn Andrea Peterman is a Canadian curler. She currently plays second for the Kaitlyn Lawes rink, and with her husband Brett Gallant in mixed doubles. She was the second on the Canadian team, skipped by Jennifer Jones at the 2022 Winter Olympics, and played in the mixed doubles event at the 2026 Winter Olympics with Gallant.

Theo de Raadt is a South African-born software engineer who lives in Calgary, Canada. He is the founder and leader of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects and was also a founding member of NetBSD. In 2004, De Raadt won the Free Software Award for his work on OpenBSD and OpenSSH.

Harvey Locke is a Canadian conservationist, writer, and photographer. He is a recognized global leader in the field of parks, wilderness, wildlife and large landscape conservation. He is a founder of the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, with the goal to create a continuous corridor for wildlife from Yellowstone National Park in the United States to the Yukon in Northern...

Kevin Koe is a Canadian curler. Koe is a two-time World champion and four-time Canadian champion. He was the skip of the Canadian men's team at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

Susanne Craig CM is a Canadian investigative journalist and author who works at The New York Times. She gained prominence for her reporting on Donald Trump's finances, revealing his 1995 tax returns during the 2016 presidential election and co-authoring a 2018 investigation into Trump's claims of self-made wealth and financial practices.

Agam Darshi is a British-born Canadian actress best known for her role as Kate Freelander in the science fiction series Sanctuary.

Martha Joan Hart is a Canadian philanthropist and researcher known for her advocacy work following the 1999 death of her husband, Owen Hart. After her husband died in a free falling accident at Over the Edge (1999), Hart sued the World Wrestling Federation (now WWE). She later wrote a bestselling book about her husband's life and founded a charity in...

Ezra Isaac Levant is a Canadian media personality, political activist, writer, broadcaster, and former lawyer. Levant is the founder and former publisher of the conservative magazine, the Western Standard. He is also the co-founder, owner, and CEO of the far-right media website Rebel News. Levant has also worked as a columnist for Sun Media, and he hosted a daily program...

Naheed Kurban Nenshi is a Canadian politician who has served as the leader of the Alberta New Democratic Party (NDP) since 2024 and as leader of the Official Opposition since 2025. He previously served as the 36th mayor of Calgary for three terms from 2010 to 2021.

Jennifer Paweensuda Drouin is a Thai model, DJ and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe Thailand 2019 and was a top five finalist at Miss Universe 2019.

Stephen Joseph Harper is a Canadian politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015. He is to date the only prime minister to have come from the modern-day Conservative Party of Canada, being the party's co-founder and serving as its first leader from 2004 to 2015. Since 2018, he has also been the chairman...

James Arthur Gosling OC is a Canadian computer scientist, best known as the founder and lead designer behind the Java programming language.

Garrett Camp is a Canadian-French businessman, investor, and software engineer. He helped build the search engine StumbleUpon and is a co-founder of Uber. He lives in Los Angeles.

Marlaina Danielle Smith is a Canadian politician, former lobbyist, former columnist and media personality who has served as the 19th premier of Alberta and leader of the United Conservative Party (UCP) since 2022.

Pierre Marcel Poilievre is a Canadian politician who has served as the leader of the Conservative Party and leader of the Official Opposition since 2022. First elected in 2004, he has been the member of Parliament (MP) for Battle River—Crowfoot since August 2025, and previously represented Carleton until his defeat in April 2025.

Andrew Alfred Scott is a Canadian reality television personality, best known as the co-host (along with his identical twin brother Jonathan) of the TV series Property Brothers.

Yuvraj Singh Dhesi is a Canadian professional wrestler. He currently performs on the independent circuit under his real name, stylized as Raj Dhesi. He is best known for his tenures in WWE, where he performed under the ring name Jinder Mahal and is a former one-time WWE Champion, WWE United States Champion, and two-time WWE 24/7 Champion.

Kent Hehr PC is a former Canadian politician from Alberta. He served as the Liberal Member of Parliament for the riding of Calgary Centre from 2015 to 2019. Hehr was named Minister of Veterans Affairs in the federal Cabinet, headed by Justin Trudeau, on November 4, 2015, and was shuffled to be Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities in...

Jay Michael Blankenau is a Canadian professional volleyball player. A member of the Canada national team, and a participant at the Olympic Games (Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020).

Joane Cardinal-Schubert RCA LL. D was a First Nations artist from Alberta, Canada. She was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. She was an activist for Native sovereignty.

Leonard Warren Webber is a Canadian politician who most recently served as the Member of Parliament for the riding of Calgary Confederation from 2015 until 2025 as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. During the 43rd Canadian Parliament his private member bill An Act to amend the Canada Revenue Agency Act (organ and tissue donors) (Bill C-210) was...

Faye HeavyShield is a Kainai First Nations sculptor and installation artist. She is known for her repetitive use of objects and writing to create large-scale, often minimal, site-specific installations.

Stephanie Veronica McLean PC ECA MP is a Canadian politician and lawyer who has served as Secretary of State for Seniors since 2025. A member of the Liberal party, she has represented Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke in the House of Commons of Canada since the 2025 Canadian federal election.

Hayley Wickenheiser OC is a Canadian former ice hockey player, physician and assistant general manager for the Toronto Maple Leafs. She was the first woman to play full-time professional men’s hockey in a position other than goalie. Wickenheiser was a member of Canada women's national ice hockey team for 23 years, from 1994 until announcing her retirement on January 13,...

Riaz Mamdani is a Ugandan-born Canadian businessman who is the founder and CEO of Strategic Group, a real estate investment and development company located in Calgary, Canada. In the 1990s, Mamdani gained recognition in Calgary as a financier of various startups before shifting his business efforts in the early 2000s to real estate. In part as a result of Mamdani's...

Joshua Whitehead is a Canadian First Nations, two-spirit poet and novelist.

Terri Hawkes is a Canadian actress and writer, known for playing Kelly Hennenlotter in the horror film, Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II, Adrienne in Beverly Hills 90210, Wendy Masters in General Hospital, and for being the second English dub voice actress of the title character of the Japanese anime Sailor Moon. She is the daughter of politician Jim Hawkes.

Terry Duguid PC MP is a Canadian politician. A member of the Liberal Party of Canada, he has been the Member of Parliament for Winnipeg South since the 2015 federal election. Duguid was Minister of Environment and Climate Change from March to May 2025 as well as Minister of Sport and Minister responsible for Prairies Economic Development Canada from December...

Gary Norman Arthur Botting is a Canadian legal scholar and criminal defense lawyer (now retired) as well as a poet, playwright, novelist, and critic of literature and religion, in particular Jehovah's Witnesses. The author of 40 published books, he remains one of the country's leading authorities on extradition law. and wrongful conviction He is said to have had "more experience...

Angela "Angie" Abdou is a Canadian writer of fiction and nonfiction.

Erin M. K. Weir is a Canadian politician from Saskatchewan. From 2015 until 2019, he was Member of Parliament for the riding of Regina—Lewvan. Weir initially sat as a member of the federal New Democratic Party (NDP) but was expelled from the party's caucus on May 3, 2018 after a dispute over a third party investigation that sustained some claims...

Marzieh Shah-Daei was the Deputy Minister of Petroleum from 2017 to 2019. As an Iranian engineer, she was the former Executive Director of National Petrochemical Company, as well as "Vice Minister of Petroleum on Petrochemical affairs" from 2016 to 2017.

Subhasis Chaudhury is an Indian electrical engineer, former director at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT Bombay) and currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of BSE Limited. He is a former K. N. Bajaj Chair Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering of IIT Bombay. He is known for his pioneering studies on computer vision and is an...

Joseph Sung Jao-yiu SBS JP is a Hong Kong physician and gastroenterologist, and the current dean of Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), also serving as the Senior Vice President (Health and Life Sciences) of NTU. Previously, he was the vice-chancellor and president of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).

Jonathan Scott is an English zoologist, wildlife photographer and television presenter specializing in African wildlife.

Sir Carlyle Arnold Glean, GCMG was a Grenadian politician, who served as governor-general of Grenada from 2008 to 2013.

George Ignatius Brizan, CMG, CBE was a Grenadian politician who served as Prime Minister of Grenada for four months in 1995. He moved to the top post in February, upon the resignation of Nicholas Brathwaite, and remained in office until Keith Mitchell was inaugurated on 22 June.

Raymond George Martin AM is an Australian television journalist and entertainment personality. Having won the Gold Logie five times, he is the most awarded star of Australian television, along with Graham Kennedy (although Kennedy won the 'Star of the Year Award', the forerunner of the Gold Logie in 1959).

John James Campbell is a New Zealand journalist and radio and television personality. Since 2018 he has been a presenter and reporter at TVNZ. He will start as a presenter on Radio New Zealand's daily Morning Report programme in 2026.