100 Notable alumni of University of Ottawa

Daniel Turp is a professor of constitutional and international law at the Université de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He served as a Bloc Québécois member of Parliament from 1997 to 2000 and as a Parti Québécois member of the Quebec National Assembly from 2003 to 2008.

Marion Hilda Dewar CM was a prominent member of the New Democratic Party (NDP), mayor of Ottawa from 1978 to 1985 and a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1987 to 1988.

Richard Brian Marcel Fadden OC is a Canadian former civil servant who was the national security advisor to the prime minister of Canada and an associate secretary to the cabinet. He retired from that position on March 31, 2016. He had previously served as the deputy minister for the Department of National Defence from 2013 to 2015. From 2009 to...

Father Magnus J. Wenninger OSB was an American mathematician who worked on constructing polyhedron models, and wrote the first book on their construction.

Lewis Ward is an English-Canadian professional football placekicker for the Ottawa Redblacks of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played U Sports football at the University of Ottawa for the Gee-Gees.

Katharine Kreiner-Phillips is a former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist from Canada.

Andrea Daria Khanjin MPP is a Canadian politician who has been the Ontario minister of the environment, conservation and parks since 2023 and the member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Barrie—Innisfil since 2018. A member of the Progressive Conservative (PC) Party, Khanjin was previously her caucus' deputy house leader from 2020 to 2024 and deputy party whip from 2022 to...

Jacques Lacoursière, CM CQ was a Canadian TV host, author and historian specialized in Quebec's history.

Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve OMI was a Canadian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Quebec from 1931 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1933.

Lanni Marchant is a Canadian long distance runner from London, Ontario. On October 20, 2013, Marchant set the Canadian women's marathon record at the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon, beating the 28-year-old national record by running it in exactly 2:28:00. This record held until March 10, 2019 when Rachel Cliff established the new marathon national record in 2:26:56. Marchant participated at...

Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin is a Canadian politician, who was elected mayor of Gatineau in the city's 2013 municipal election under the Action Gatineau banner. Previously a city councillor for the city's Buckingham District, he defeated incumbent mayor Marc Bureau in what was widely seen as a surprise victory.

Alexander Mathias Munter is a Canadian health-care executive, business owner, and former politician in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), and as of 2025 is the head of the Canadian Medical Association.

Jo-Anne McArthur is a Canadian photojournalist, humane educator, animal rights activist and author. She is known for her We Animals project, a photography project documenting human relationships with animals. Through the We Animals Humane Education program, McArthur offers presentations about human relationships with animals in educational and other environments, and through the We Animals Archive, she provides photographs and other...

Marc-André Bédard was a Canadian lawyer and politician. Born in Lac-à-la-Croix, Quebec, Bédard served in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1973 to 1985 and was Minister of Justice and Deputy Premier. Bédard was the father of politician Stéphane Bédard.

José Avelino Bettencourt ComC, OMRI is a Portuguese-Canadian prelate of the Catholic Church who works in the diplomatic service of the Holy See.

Charles Coleman Thompson is an American Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Indianapolis since 2017. He previously served as Bishop of Evansville from 2011 to 2017.

Marie Grégoire was the Action démocratique du Québec Member of the National Assembly of Quebec, Canada, for the electoral district of Berthier from 2002 to 2003.

Martine Delvaux is a Canadian writer from Montreal, Quebec. She is most noted for her 2015 novel Blanc dehors, which was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 2016 Governor General's Awards.

André Marin, born on 12 January 1965, is a Canadian lawyer. He served as the first Ombudsman of the National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces from 1998 to 2005, and as Ontario ombudsman from 2005 to 2015.

Françoise Boivin is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Gatineau in the House of Commons of Canada until 2015.

Joyce El-Khoury is a Lebanese-Canadian opera singer performing with leading opera companies and symphony orchestras around the world. She is a soprano praised for her bel canto singing.

Chris Beard is a Canadian business leader, and former CEO of the Mozilla Corporation.

Howard George Hampton ECO is a politician who was a member of Provincial Parliament for the province of Ontario. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada, from 1987 to 1999 in the electoral district of Rainy River, and from 1999 to 2011 in the redistributed electoral district of Kenora—Rainy River. A member of the Ontario New Democratic Party,...

Bradley Sinopoli is a Canadian former professional football wide receiver who played nine years in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was originally a quarterback with the Calgary Stampeders before being converted to wide receiver in 2013. He then joined the Ottawa Redblacks where he was twice named the CFL's Most Outstanding Canadian, was named an East Division All-Star three...

Anne McGrath is a Canadian political advisor. McGrath was president of the New Democratic Party from 2006 to 2009, National Director of the NDP from 2019 to 2024 and previously from 2014 to 2015, principal secretary to former Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, and as Notley's deputy chief of staff. McGrath also served as the principal secretary to federal NDP leader...

Hani Rashid is an architect and educator. He co-founded the New York-based architecture firm, Asymptote Architecture with Lise Anne Couture.

Faisal Kutty is a Canadian lawyer, academic, writer, public speaker, and activist focused on human rights, civil liberties, international law, comparative law, international affairs, media bias, and national security. He served as an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and is an Associate Professor of Law Emeritus at Valparaiso University. He has previously taught at Dwayne O. Andreas School...

Hugh Segal was a Canadian political strategist, author, commentator, academic, and senator. He served as chief of staff to Ontario Premier Bill Davis and later to Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Segal resigned from the Senate of Canada on June 15, 2014, as a result of his appointment as master (later principal) of Massey College in Toronto.

Allan Michael Rock PC CM OOnt KC is a Canadian lawyer, former politician, diplomat and university administrator. He was Canada's ambassador to the United Nations (2003-2006) and had previously served in the Cabinet of Jean Chrétien, most notably as Justice Minister (1993–1997), Health Minister (1997–2002) and Minister of Industry and Infrastructure (2002-03).

Sonia Ahmed as Sonia Iqbal Ahmed, is a Kuwait-born Canadian Pakistani and founder of Miss Canada Pakistan Inc., now known as Miss Pakistan World, Mr. Pakistan World and Mrs. Pakistan World that were first held in 2002 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Jean-Paul L'Allier was a Canadian politician, a two-term Member of the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA) and the 38th mayor of Quebec City from 1989 to 2005.

Roberto Chiarelli is a Canadian politician. He was a Liberal member in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario who served from 1987 to 1997 and again from 2010 to 2018 who represented the ridings of Ottawa West and Ottawa West—Nepean. He was the Regional Chair of Ottawa-Carleton from 1997 to 2001 and was mayor of Ottawa from 2001 to 2006. He...

Merrilee K. Fullerton is a Canadian physician and former politician who represented Kanata—Carleton in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2018 to 2023. A member of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, Fullerton was the minister of training, colleges, and universities from 2018 to 2019, minister of long-term care from 2019 to 2021, and minister of children, community and social services...

Mathieu Lacombe MNA is a Canadian politician who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election. He represents the electoral district of Papineau as a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec and was the former Minister of Families. He was re-elected in the 2022 provincial election. He is the current Minister of Culture and Communications.

Amanda Simard is the former MPP for Glengarry—Prescott—Russell in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 42nd Parliament of Ontario. Simard was elected in the 2018 provincial election as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, but left the PC caucus on November 29, 2018, after Ontario premier Doug Ford eliminated the province's French-language services commissioner and cancelled...

Mélissa Laveaux is an independent Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist of Haitian descent previously signed to No Format!. Her music has been described as a mix of roots, folk, and blues using her signature percussive finger-style guitar stylings and soulful vocals. In 2006, Laveaux released the first full-length album of her own songs, which she co-produced with percussionist Rob Reid (on...

Mauril Joseph Adrien Jules Bélanger PC was a Canadian politician.

Michel Marc Bouchard, OC CQ is a Canadian playwright. He has received the Prix Journal de Montreal, Prix du Cercle des critiques de l'Outaouais, the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award, and nine Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards for the Vancouver productions of Lilies and The Orphan Muses.

Maxime Rémillard is a Canadian businessman born on January 17, 1975, in Greenfield Park, Quebec. He is the president of both Remcorp, a leading Canadian private investment firm and Remstar Media, an entertainment and content delivery company.

Bernard Drainville MNA is a Canadian politician, television host and journalist. A member of the Coalition Avenir Québec, he has served as a member of the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA) for the riding of Lévis since 2022. He was formerly the MNA for the riding of Marie-Victorin in Longueuil from 2007 to 2016, representing the Parti Québécois.

Leif Vollebekk is a Canadian indie folk singer-songwriter, whose 2017 album Twin Solitude was a shortlisted finalist for the 2017 Polaris Music Prize and the 2018 Juno Award for Adult Alternative Album of the Year.

Anne-Marie Cadieux is a Canadian actress, film director and screenwriter. She has won a Jutra Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Streetheart (Le Cœur au poing) and in 2008 was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for her role in You (Toi).

Dawn Kathleen McEwen is a Canadian semi-retired curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She was the long-time lead for the Jennifer Jones rink, who became Olympic champions, winning gold for Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics. McEwen is a two-time world champion in curling, having won with Jones at the 2008 World Championships and again at the 2018 World Championships. In 2019,...

Lisa Colleen Weagle is a Canadian curler from Ottawa, Ontario. Weagle was the lead on the Rachel Homan team from 2010 until March 12, 2020, when the team announced they would be parting ways with her. She then joined Team Jennifer Jones for two seasons until the team disbanded on March 15, 2022. She then played lead for the 2024–25...

Ahmed Saïd Khadr was an Egyptian-Canadian with alleged ties to al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. His activity in Afghanistan began in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, and he has been described as having had ties to a number of militants within the Afghan mujahideen, including Saudi militant Osama bin Laden. Khadr was accused by Canada and...

Carla Dawn Qualtrough PC is a Canadian politician and former Paralympic swimmer who served as the Minister of Sport and Physical Activity from July 2023 to December 2024. A member of the Liberal Party, Qualtrough represented the riding of Delta in the House of Commons from 2015 to 2025.

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...

Marie-Josée Kravis is a Canadian businesswoman and philanthropist.

Philippe Falardeau is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.

Mitch Garber CM is a Canadian lawyer, investor and business executive. He was awarded the Order of Canada in 2019, that country's highest civilian honour.

Rod Fergusson is a Canadian video game producer, best known for overseeing the development of the Gears of War franchise, originally at Epic Games and then as head of The Coalition, and heading development on the Diablo series at Blizzard Entertainment. He currently is leading the development of the BioShock franchise at Cloud Chamber under 2K Games.

Jacques Martin is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach. In the National Hockey League (NHL), he has served as head coach of the St. Louis Blues, Ottawa Senators, Montreal Canadiens and Florida Panthers. Martin also served as the general manager of the Panthers and has served as an assistant coach with the Canadian men's national ice hockey team. Martin is...

Jeanne Mathilde Sauvé was a Canadian politician, journalist and stateswoman who served as the 23rd governor general of Canada from 1984 to 1990 and as the 29th speaker of the House of Commons from 1980 to 1984. She was the first woman to hold either office, and is to date the only woman to serve as speaker of the House...

Gregory Christophe Fergus PC MP is a Canadian politician who served as the 39th speaker of the House of Commons from October 3, 2023 to May 26, 2025. He is the member of Parliament (MP) for Hull—Aylmer.

Peter Chiarelli is a Canadian ice hockey executive and former player. He is the Vice President of Hockey Operations for the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League. He previously served as general manager of both the Boston Bruins and the Edmonton Oilers, winning the Stanley Cup with the Bruins in 2011. Both of his tenures as general manager...

Angela Hewitt CC OBE is a Canadian classical pianist. She is best known for her Bach interpretations.

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...

Jane Pauline Philpott PC is a physician, academic administrator, and former Canadian politician who represented the riding of Markham—Stouffville in the House of Commons. She was first elected in the 2015 federal election as a member of the Liberal Party and was appointed to the Cabinet of the 29th Canadian Ministry, headed by Justin Trudeau, on November 4, 2015. On...

Joseph Armand Roch Voisine, OC CQ ONB is a Canadian singer-songwriter, actor, and radio and television host who lives in Montreal and Paris. He writes and performs material in both English and French. He won the Juno Award for Male Vocalist of the Year in 1994. In 1997, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Rachel Catherine Homan is a Canadian international curler and the reigning women's world champion. Homan is a former Canadian junior champion, a five-time Canadian national champion, and three-time World Champion, all as a skip. She was also the skip of the Canadian women's curling team at the 2018 Winter Olympics, and will skip the team at the February 2026 Winter...

Lisa LaFlamme OC OOnt is a Canadian television journalist, and formerly the chief anchor and senior editor of CTV National News. She replaced Lloyd Robertson in this role on September 5, 2011. LaFlamme previously served as the news international affairs correspondent and substitute host for CTV National News. In August 2022, CTV announced it was ending her contract, due to...

Helen Prejean CSJ is an American Catholic religious sister and a leading advocate for the abolition of the death penalty.

Ahmed Hussen PC MP is a Canadian lawyer and politician who has been the member of Parliament (MP) for York South—Weston—Etobicoke since 2025. A member of the Liberal Party, Hussen was a Cabinet minister from 2017 to 2025, under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He was the minister of international development from 2023 to 2025, minister of housing, diversity and inclusion...

Marie-Charms Mishael Morgan known professionally as Mishael Morgan, is a Trinidadian-Canadian actress known for the roles of Hilary Curtis and Amanda Sinclair on CBS Daytime soap opera, The Young and the Restless, the latter for which she became the first Black actress to win the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2022.

Anne Lagacé Dowson is a Canadian radio journalist.

Paul Okalik MLA is a Canadian politician. He is the first Inuk to have been called to the Nunavut Bar. He was also the first premier of Nunavut.

Gregory So Kam-leung was a Hong Kong politician and solicitor who served as Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development from 2011 to 2017.

John Paul Manley is a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician who served as the eighth deputy prime minister of Canada from 2002 to 2003. He was Liberal Member of Parliament for Ottawa South from 1988 to 2004.

Edward Graydon Carter, CM is a Canadian journalist who was the editor of Vanity Fair from 1992 until 2017. He also co-founded, with Kurt Andersen and Tom Phillips, the satirical monthly magazine Spy in 1986. In 2019, he co-launched a weekly newsletter with Alessandra Stanley called Air Mail, for "worldly cosmopolitans".

Bambang Hary Iswanto Tanoesoedibjo, usually shortened to Hary Tanoesoedibjo or Hary Tanoe, is an Indonesian businessman and politician. He is the chairman of PT MNC Asia Holding Tbk, which he founded in 1989. As the chairman, he oversees the holding company and its subsidiaries, including Media Nusantara Citra.

James Murray Costello OC was a Canadian ice hockey player, executive, and administrator. He played four seasons in the National Hockey League and was the younger brother of Les Costello. He was a lawyer by trade and president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) from 1979 to 1994. After facilitating the CAHA merger with Hockey Canada, he continued as...

Anthony Michael Gerard Rota PC is a Canadian politician who served as the 37th speaker of the House of Commons from 2019 to 2023. A member of the Liberal Party, he served as the member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Nipissing—Timiskaming until 2025. He previously represented Nipissing—Timiskaming as MP from 2004 to 2011. In 2019, he was elected...

George Alexander Trebek was a Canadian and American game show host and television personality. Regarded as a pop culture icon, he was best known for hosting the syndicated quiz show Jeopardy! for 37 seasons from its revival in 1984 until his death in 2020. Trebek also hosted a number of other game shows, including The Wizard of Odds, Double Dare,...

Samantha Anne Bee is a Canadian-American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actress, and television host.

Jean-Jacques Bertrand was a Canadian politician and lawyer who served as the 21st premier of Quebec, from October 2, 1968, to May 12, 1970. He led the Union Nationale party.

Gérald Tremblay is a former Canadian politician and businessman who served as mayor of Montreal from 2002 until his resignation in 2012. He also served as president of the Montreal Metropolitan Community. Before becoming mayor he had a long career in business and management. Tremblay resigned as Mayor on November 5, 2012, following allegations of corruption made at the Charbonneau...

Denis Coderre PC is a Canadian politician who served as the 44th mayor of Montreal from 2013 to 2017.

Louise Arbour, CC, GOQ is a Canadian lawyer, prosecutor and jurist.

Alexandre Cloutier is a Canadian politician and lawyer. He was a member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Lac-Saint-Jean in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region from 2007 to 2018, representing the Parti Québécois.

Clark Johnson is an American-Canadian actor and director, who has worked in both television and film. He is best known for his roles as David Jefferson on Night Heat (1985–88), Clark Roberts on E.N.G. (1989–94), Meldrick Lewis in Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–99) and Augustus Haynes in The Wire (2008).

Guy Caron is a Canadian politician who was elected the mayor of Rimouski, Quebec in 2021 and re-elected in 2025. He was previously a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 2011 to 2019, and served as the federal parliamentary leader of the New Democratic Party from 2017 to 2019, substituting for party leader Jagmeet Singh who during...

Maxime Bernier PC is a Canadian politician who is the founder and leader of the People's Party of Canada (PPC). Formerly a member of the Conservative Party, Bernier left the caucus in 2018 to form the PPC. He was the member of Parliament (MP) for Beauce from 2006 to 2019 and served as a Cabinet minister in the Harper government.

Christine Labrie is a Canadian politician, historian, and teacher. She was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election and represents the electoral district of Sherbrooke as a member of Québec solidaire.

David Joseph McGuinty is a Canadian lawyer and politician who has been Minister of National Defence since May 2025. A member of the Liberal Party, McGuinty has served as the member of Parliament (MP) for Ottawa South since 2004. From 2017 to 2024, McGuinty was the first chair of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP), an agency...

Rémy Trudel is a university professor and a former Quebec politician. A member of the Parti Québécois, he served as Member of the National Assembly for Rouyn-Noranda–Témiscamingue from 1989 to 2003. In 1988, he was one of the star candidates for the New Democratic Party in the riding of Témiscamingue. He lost the election by about 3,500 votes.

Edith Dumont is a Canadian educator who has served as the 30th lieutenant governor of Ontario since November 14, 2023.

Andrew James Scheer is a Canadian politician who has been the member of Parliament (MP) for Regina—Qu'Appelle since 2004. Scheer was the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada from 2017 to 2020. He served as the leader of the Official Opposition from 2017 to 2020 and briefly in 2025. He was the 35th speaker of the House of Commons...

Sethuraman Panchanathan is an Indian–American computer scientist and academic administrator who served as the 15th Director of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) from 2020 to 2025.

Joyce Msuya is a Tanzanian microbiologist and environmental scientist who has been serving as Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator in the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs since 2021. From 2018 to 2021, she served as the Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme at the level of Assistant Secretary-General.

Caspar Tsui Ying-wai is a Hong Kong politician, government official and DAB party member. From 2020 to 2022, he has been Secretary for Home Affairs.

Martin Cauchon PC is a Canadian lawyer and politician in Quebec Canada. He served as a Liberal Cabinet minister in the government of Jean Chrétien. He unsuccessfully ran for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada in 2013, losing to Justin Trudeau.

Oksana Ivanivna Syroyid is a Ukrainian politician and jurist. She was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary elections. In December 2014, she became the first woman to serve as the deputy speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament. Since October 2019 Syroyid is the party leader of Self Reliance.

Francis Eugene George OMI was an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Chicago from 1997 to 2014. He previously served as Bishop of Yakima and Archbishop of Portland in Oregon. A member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, George was created a cardinal by Pope John Paul II in 1998. He served as president of the United...

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor, best known for his operas, although his mature works are often referred to as music dramas. Unlike most composers, Wagner wrote both the libretti and the music for all of his stage works. He first achieved recognition with works in the Romantic tradition of Carl Maria von Weber...

Benoît Pelletier CM OQ FRSC was a Canadian lawyer, academic, and politician in the province of Quebec.

Fra' John Timothy Dunlap is a Canadian attorney and the reigning Prince and 81st Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta since his election in 2023.

Kieran Michael Moore is a Canadian physician and public servant who serves as the current chief medical officer of health of Ontario. Prior to his appointment, he served as the medical officer of health for Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington from 2017 to 2021.

Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed, also known as Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed Mohammad, is a Somali economist and politician. He has held leadership positions with various international organizations, including the World Bank, USAID, African Union/IBAR, the European Union, the Bank of Canada, COMESA, and the Islamic Development Bank in Jeddah.

Ousainou Darboe is a Gambian politician and leader of the main opposition United Democratic Party (UDP). He previously served as Vice-President of the Gambia and Minister of Women's Affairs from June 2018 to March 2019, under President Adama Barrow. He also served as President Barrow's Minister of Foreign Affairs from February 2017 to June 2018.