33 Notable alumni of Wilfrid Laurier University
Updated: June 22, 2026 EliteDegrees
Wilfrid Laurier University is ranked #794 in the world and #29 in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 33 notable alumni from Wilfrid Laurier 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 Wilfrid Laurier University won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Pamela Klassen
1967-. (aged 59)
religious studies scholar
university teacher
Pamela E. Klassen FRSC is a Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto, co-appointed to the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. In 2019, Klassen was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
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2. Angela Redish
1952-. (aged 74)
economist
Angela Redish is a professor of economics at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia and the acting President of the Canadian Economics Association. From 2001 to 2006, Redish served as the Head of Department of Economics at the University of British Columbia and was awarded The President's Medal of Excellence by the University of British...
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3. Richard Covey
1979-. (aged 47)
composer
Richard Covey is a Canadian composer who is currently a sessional instructor in the Department of Music at the University of Prince Edward Island.
4. Jean Crowder
1952-. (aged 74)
consultant
politician
manager
Jean A. Crowder is a Canadian businesswoman and politician. She served as a Member of Parliament for the New Democratic Party from 2004 until 2015.
5. Kathleen O'Grady
1967-. (aged 59)
writer
children's writer
Kathleen O'Grady is a Canadian author and academic. She has published two children's books, but is more widely known as a feminist scholar who investigates women's health issues through a cultural lens and whose work addresses the under-researched intersection between feminism and the study of religion. She is also a past Editor of Network, the national, bilingual health magazine for...
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6. Gary Denniss
1944-. (aged 82)
historian
biographer
Frank Garfield "Gary" Denniss is a Canadian historian, newspaper columnist, retired public school teacher, speaker and ordained minister born in 1944 in Bracebridge, Ontario Denniss is the author of 43 books on the history of the District Municipality of Muskoka,
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7. Benjamin Alarie
1977-. (aged 49)
legal scholar
Benjamin Alarie is a Canadian legal scholar and entrepreneur. He is a co-founder and CEO of Blue J, a company that develops artificial intelligence tools for tax research. Alarie also serves as professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where he also holds the Osler Chair in Business Law. His academic work focuses on taxation, judicial decision-making, and...
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8. Ashley Stephenson
1982-. (aged 44)
ice hockey player
baseball player
Ashley Stephenson is a former two-sport athlete from Ontario who played baseball for Canada women's national baseball team and ice hockey in the original NWHL and the CWHL. She won a silver medal at the 2015 Pan American Games.
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9. Anthony Del Col
1977-. (aged 49)
screenwriter
comics artist
writer
Anthony Del Col is a Canadian-born, Pulitzer Prize-winning creator, writer and entrepreneur. Del Col is the writer of the Insider comic I Escaped a Chinese Internment Camp, the co-creator and co-writer of the Joe Shuster Award-nominated comic, Kill Shakespeare, Audible's Assassin's Creed: Gold, Marvel's Luke Cage: Everyman and the controversial Image Comics graphic novel Son of Hitler.
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10. Suresh Sriskandarajah
1980-. (aged 46)
Suresh Sriskandarajah is a Canadian citizen who pleaded guilty to U.S. charges of conspiring to provide material support to the Tamil Tigers, a Sri Lankan civil rights and freedom liberation movement. He was sentenced to two years in U.S. prison.
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11. John Estacio
1966-. (aged 60)
composer
John Estacio CM is a contemporary Canadian composer of opera, orchestral and choral music.
12. Lyndon Hooper
1966-. (aged 60)
futsal player
association football coach
association football player
Lyndon Hooper is a Canadian former professional soccer player and former assistant coach of the Toronto Lynx soccer team of the United Soccer Leagues First Division. A former midfielder, he was a prominent Canadian international.
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13. Ted McMeekin
1948-. (aged 78)
politician
Ted McMeekin is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is the Ward 15 Councillor, for the City of Hamilton. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2000 to 2018 who represented the ridings of Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale and Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Aldershot. He served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne.
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14. Stephen Woodworth
1954-. (aged 72)
lawyer
politician
Stephen Woodworth is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Kitchener Centre in the House of Commons of Canada for the Conservative Party of Canada in the 40th and 41st Parliaments (2008–2015).
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15. Harold Albrecht
1949-. (aged 77)
farmer
dentist
politician
Harold Glenn Albrecht was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Conservative Party of Canada in the riding of Kitchener—Conestoga from 2006 until 2019. He defeated the incumbent Liberal MP, Lynn Myers, by just over 1,000 votes in the 2006 federal election to gain a seat in the House of Commons of Canada.
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16. Becky Kellar-Duke
1975-. (aged 51)
ice hockey player
Rebecca "Becky" Kellar is a retired ice hockey defender. She played for the Toronto Aeros and Oakville Ice in the NWHL, the Burlington Barracudas in the Canadian Women's Hockey League, and the Canadian national team.
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17. Cheryl Kreviazuk
1992-. (aged 34)
curler
Cheryl Kreviazuk is a Canadian curler from Ottawa, Ontario.
18. Phil McColeman
1954-. (aged 72)
real estate developer
building engineer
property manager
politician
Phil McColeman is a former Canadian politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 2008 to 2021 as a member of the Conservative Party. He represented the riding of Brant from 2008 to 2015 and, following the 2012 federal electoral district redistribution, he represented the riding of Brantford—Brant from 2015 to 2021. On 8 January 2021, he announced...
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19. Prabmeet Sarkaria
1988-. (aged 38)
politician
Prabmeet Singh Sarkaria ECO KC MPP is a Canadian lawyer and politician who has been the Ontario minister of transportation since 2023. He has sat as the member of Provincial Parliament for Brampton South since 2018, representing the Progressive Conservative (PC) Party.
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20. Dean Allison
1965-. (aged 61)
businessperson
entrepreneur
politician
Dean Allison MP is a Canadian politician. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2004 federal election for the riding of Niagara West—Glanbrook, now Niagara West. Allison is a member of the Conservative Party of Canada and has been re-elected in each subsequent election.
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21. Brian Masse
1968-. (aged 58)
university teacher
program director
politician
Brian S. Masse is a Canadian politician. He served in the House of Commons of Canada from 2002 until the 2025 Canadian federal election, representing the riding of Windsor West as a member of the New Democratic Party.
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22. Ted Arnott
1963-. (aged 63)
politician
Theodore Calvin Arnott is a Canadian politician who was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on September 6, 1990, representing the Riding of Wellington. He is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario and represented the Riding of Wellington—Halton Hills in the Ontario Legislature. Arnott served as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario during the...
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23. Heather Munroe-Blum
1950-. (aged 76)
financier
Heather Anne Elyse Lilian Munroe-Blum OC OQ FRSC is a Canadian academic and businesswoman.
24. Cheryl Pounder
1976-. (aged 50)
ice hockey player
singer
Cheryl Pounder is a Canadian former ice hockey player who played for the Toronto Aeros and Mississauga Chiefs. She was a five-time Abby Hoffman Cup national champion, four times with the Aeros and once with the Chiefs. She won two gold medals with Canada at the Olympic Games. After her playing career, she has worked as a broadcaster.
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25. Rod Phillips
1965-. (aged 61)
business executive
businessperson
politician
Rod Phillips is a Canadian businessman and former politician who was the member of Provincial Parliament for Ajax from 2018 to 2022. A member of the Ontario Progressive Conservative (PC) Party, Phillips served as Ontario's minister of the environment, conservation and parks from 2018 to 2019, minister of finance from 2019 to 2020, and minister of long-term care from 2021...
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26. Damien Robitaille
1981-. (aged 45)
songwriter
recording artist
actor
singer
Damien Robitaille is a Canadian musician from the village of Lafontaine, Ontario, in the Georgian Bay area, two hours north-west of Toronto. He is a Franco-Ontarian musician whose career is mainly based in Quebec, where he has lived since 2003.
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27. Charles Sousa
1958-. (aged 68)
administrator
politician
Anthony Charles Sousa MP is a Canadian politician who has served as the Member of Parliament from Mississauga-Lakeshore since December 12, 2022. He previously served as the Minister of Finance for Ontario from 2013 to 2018. A member of the Ontario Liberal Party, Sousa was elected to represent Mississauga South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 2007. He joined...
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28. Keegan Connor Tracy
1971-. (aged 55)
voice actor
film director
actor
film actor
Keegan Connor Tracy is a Canadian actress, author and director. She earned recognition for her roles in the comedy-drama series Beggars and Choosers (1999–2000) and the supernatural horror films Final Destination 2 (2003) and White Noise (2005).
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29. Anthony Rota
1961-. (aged 65)
director
politician
instructor
entrepreneur
adviser
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...
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30. John Morris
1948-. (aged 78)
businessperson
John C. Morris is a Canadian curler, and two-time Olympic gold medallist from Canmore, Alberta. Morris played third for the Kevin Martin team until April 24, 2013. Morris, author of the book Fit to Curl, is the son of Maureen and Earle Morris, inventor of the "Stabilizer" curling broom. Morris grew up in Gloucester, Ontario (now part of Ottawa) and...
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31. Shad
1982-. (aged 44)
singer
rapper
Shadrach Kabango, known professionally as Shad or Shad K, is a Canadian rapper and broadcaster. Beginning his career in 2005, has released seven studio albums and three extended plays. He won a Juno Award for Rap Recording of the Year in 2011 and five of his albums have been shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize, the most short-list nominations of...
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32. Chris Van Vliet
1983-. (aged 43)
journalist
television presenter
Christopher Van Vliet is a Canadian television and radio personality and YouTuber. He was born and raised in Pickering, Ontario.
33. Martin Lee
1971-. (aged 55)
businessperson
Martin Lee Chu-ming SC is a Hong Kong politician and barrister. He is the founding chairman of the United Democrats of Hong Kong and its successor, the Democratic Party, Hong Kong's flagship pro-democracy party. He was also a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong from 1985 to 1997 and from 1998 to 2008. Nicknamed the "Father of Democracy"...
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