List of University of Toronto alumni

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This list of University of Toronto alumni includes notable graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of the University of Toronto from its three campuses located in Ontario, Canada.

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To avoid redundancy, alumni who hold or have held faculty positions in the University of Toronto are placed on this list of alumni, and do not appear on the list of faculty. Individuals are ordered by the year of their first degree from the university.

If the college (for graduates of the Faculty of Arts & Science) or campus is known, are indicated after degree years with shorthands listed below:

St. George campus

Mississauga campus

Scarborough campus

Nobel laureates

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  • Frederick Banting (alumnus and former faculty) – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1923
  • John Macleod (former faculty) – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1923
  • William Faulkner (School of Aeronautics, 1918) – Nobel Prize in Literature, 1949{{cite book | last = Minter | first = David | title = William Faulkner: His Life and Work | publisher = Johns Hopkins University Press | year = 1990 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=28x7-A_97XwC&pg=PP1 | pages = 31| isbn = 9780801857478 }}{{cite web | last = Scrivener | first = Leslie | title = U of T Back Campus Debate Invokes William Faulkner, Morley Callaghan |work= Toronto Star | date = June 9, 2013 | url = https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/06/09/u_of_t_back_campus_debate_invokes_william_faulkner_morley_callaghan.html}}{{cite web|url=https://www.utoronto.ca/news/memoriam-remembering-first-world-war-u-t|title=In Memoriam: remembering the First World War at U of T|website=University of Toronto News|language=en|access-date=2018-03-14}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tZKBAAAAQBAJ&q=William+Faulkner+university+of+toronto&pg=PT309|title=The University of Toronto: A History, Second Edition|last=Friedland|first=Martin L.|date=2013-06-17|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=9781442667594|language=en}}
  • Lester B. Pearson (alumnus Vic. and former faculty) – Nobel Peace Prize, 1957
  • Arthur Leonard Schawlow ( Alumnae Vic.) – Nobel Prize in Physics, 1981
  • John Charles Polanyi (faculty) – Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1986
  • Nadine Gordimer (former faculty) – Nobel Prize in Literature, 1991{{Cite web|date=2021-05-12|title=Nadine Gordimer, fearless activist, award-winning author and senior fellow at U of T's Massey College|url=https://twitter.com/nowtoronto/status/488685532172812288|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512022945/https://twitter.com/nowtoronto/status/488685532172812288|archive-date=2021-05-12}}{{Cite web|last=|first=|title=Senior Fellows|url=https://www.masseycollege.ca/our-community/senior-fellows/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512023454/https://www.masseycollege.ca/our-community/senior-fellows/|archive-date=2021-05-12|access-date=2021-05-12|website=Massey College|language=en-US}}
  • Bertram Brockhouse (alumnus) – Nobel Prize in Physics, 1994
  • Walter Kohn (alumnus) – Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1998
  • James Orbinski (alumnus and faculty) – Nobel Peace Prize, 1999
  • Michael Spence (alumnus and former faculty) – Nobel Prize in Economics, 2001
  • Oliver Smithies (former faculty) – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2007
  • Geoffrey Hinton (faculty) – Nobel Prize in Physics, 2024}}

Government

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William Des Vœux{{cite web |url=http://www.heritage.nf.ca/govhouse/governors/g54.html |title=Sir George William Des Voeux, 1886–1887: Government House |publisher=Memorial University of Newfoundland |access-date=December 30, 2009}}B.A. 1858Governor of Fiji, 1880–85; Governor of Newfoundland, 1886–87; Governor of Hong Kong, 1887–91
William Lyon Mackenzie KingA.M. 1897Prime Minister of Canada (1935–48)
Vincent Massey(U.C. 1910)Governor General of Canada (1952–59)
Dame Eugenia CharlesB.A. 19462nd Prime Minister of Dominica, 1980–95
Noor Hassanali{{cite web |url=http://vicu.utoronto.ca/Vic/about.htm |title=About Victoria College |quote="Victoria's alumni include distinguished men and women in public life (the late Lester Bowles Pearson 1919, Prime Minister of Canada 1963–68; Pauline McGibbon 1933, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario 1974–80; Noor Hassanali 1947" |access-date=11 June 2011}}LL.B. 19472nd President of Trinidad and Tobago, 1987–97
Vaira Vīķe-FreibergaB.A. 1958 (Vic.), M.A. 1960{{cite web |url=http://www.vvf.lv/vvf/biography | title= Biography – 6th President of Latvia |access-date=15 June 2011 }}President of Latvia, 1999–2007
Lester B. Pearson{{cite web |url=http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=7988 |title=Pearson, Lester Bowles |access-date=23 July 2011}}B.A. 1919 Vic., professor of history14th Prime Minister of Canada
Adrienne Clarkson{{cite web | url = http://thevarsity.ca/2011/02/28/how-she-got-here-adrienne-clarkson/ | title = How she got here: Adrienne Clarkson | last = Buller | first = Robin | date = 2011-02-28 | work = The Varsity | quote = Mme. Clarkson graduated from Trinity College in 1960 with an honours BA in English Literature |access-date= 2012-08-13}} M.A. 1962,{{cite web | url = http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/all-about-alumni/adrienne-clarkson-sworn-in-as-governor-general/ | title = The GG and U of T | access-date = 2011-12-10 | last = Rolston | first = Bruce | work = UofTMagazine | quote = Clarkson graduated from Trinity College in 1960 with a bachelor's degree in English literature and earned her MA in 1962}} Ph.D. Vic., LLD Hon. 2001{{cite web | url = http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/feature/the-age-of-dissent/ | title = The Age of Dissent | access-date = 2011-12-10 | last = Webb | first = Margaret | work = UofTMagazine | quote = Clarkson (BA 1960 Trinity, Massachusetts 1962, LLD Hon. 2001)}})B.A. 1960 Trin., M.A. 1962, Ph.D.26th Governor General of Canada
Paul Martin{{cite web |url=http://thevarsity.ca/2011/03/14/how-he-got-here-paul-martin/ |title=How he got here: Paul Martin |access-date=2012-09-13 |last=Buller |first=Robin |work=The Varsity |date=15 March 2011 |quote=He graduated with an Honours BA in Philosophy and History from St. Michael's College in 1961, after which he went on to complete his law degree, also at U of T}}B.A. 1961 St.M., LL.B. 196521st Prime Minister of Canada
Stephen HarperAttended college; did not graduate22nd Prime Minister of Canada 2006–2015
Julie PayetteMaster of Applied Science degree in computer engineering29th Governor General of Canada 2017–2021

=International=

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|url = http://db1.archives.queensu.ca/ica-atom/index.php/parker-gilbert;isaar

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  • Dame Eugenia Charles (B.A. 1946){{cite web |url=http://www.thegrenadarevolutiononline.com/damecharles.html |title=Eugenia Charles (1919–2005) |access-date=9 October 2013}} – 2nd Prime Minister of Dominica, 1980–1995
  • Rein Taagepera (B.A. Sc 1959) Member of the Estonian Constitutional Assembly, Estonian Presidential Candidate, founder of Res Publica Party, and founding dean of a new School of Social Sciences at the University of Tartu
  • Maciej Giertych (Ph.D. 1962){{cite web |url=http://www.giertych.pl/?sr=!czytaj&id=17&dz=2&x=2&pocz=0&gr= |title=Maciej Giertych |access-date=16 June 2011}} – Polish member of the European Parliament, former Polish minister of education
  • Liu Chao-shiuan (Ph.D. 1971){{cite web |url=http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/all-about-alumni/chao-shiuan-liu/ |access-date=17 June 2011|title=The Rose Wolfe Distinguished Alumni Award |publisher=University of Toronto}} – 22nd Premier of the Republic of China (Taiwan), former president of National Tsing Hua University and Soochow University
  • Jennifer Roberts (M.A. 1984) Mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, 2015–2017.{{cite web|url=https://citysummit.nlc.org/speaker/jennifer-roberts/|title=Jennifer Roberts|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171031034514/https://citysummit.nlc.org/speaker/jennifer-roberts/|archive-date=31 October 2017}}
  • John P. Walters{{cite web |url=http://www.hudson.org/learn/index.cfm?fuseaction=staff_bio&eid=JohnWalters |access-date=30 June 2011 |title=John P. Walters |publisher=Hudson Institute |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613031533/http://www.hudson.org/learn/index.cfm?fuseaction=staff_bio&eid=JohnWalters |archive-date=13 June 2011 }} (M.A. 1976) – Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (colloquially "Drug Czar"), 2001–09
  • Walter Ofonagoro (B.A. Trin., 1966) – scholar, politician, businessman, and former Minister of Information and Culture, Federal Republic of Nigeria

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=Governors-general and prime ministers=

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  • William Lyon Mackenzie King (B.A. U.C., 1895, LL.B. 1896, M.A. 1897){{cite web |url=http://www.greatpast.utoronto.ca/GreatMinds/ShowBanner.asp?ID=69 |title=University of Toronto – great past |access-date=1 July 2011 |archive-date=2 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111202130909/http://www.greatpast.utoronto.ca/GreatMinds/ShowBanner.asp?ID=69 |url-status=dead }} – 10th Prime Minister of Canada
  • Arthur Meighen (B.A. U.C., 1896){{cite web |url=http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=7987 |access-date=4 July 2011 |title=Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online |publisher=University of Toronto/Université Laval}} – 9th Prime Minister of Canada
  • Vincent Massey (B.A. 1910 U.C.){{cite journal| last=Faught| first=Brad| title=A Feast of Thought| journal=UofT Magazine| issue=Spring 2002| publisher=University of Toronto| location=Toronto| year=2002| url=http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/02spring/feast.asp| access-date=July 5, 2011| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080918093846/http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/02spring/feast.asp| archive-date=September 18, 2008| url-status=dead}} – 18th and first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada, philanthropist
  • Lester B. Pearson (B.A. 1919 Vic., professor of history) – 14th Prime Minister of Canada
  • Adrienne Clarkson (B.A.(Hons) 1960 Trin., M.A. 1962, Ph.D. Vic., LLD Hon. 2001) – 26th Governor General of Canada
  • Paul Martin (B.A. 1961 St.M., LL.B. 1965) – 21st Prime Minister of Canada
  • Stephen Harper (attended college; did not graduate) – 22nd Prime Minister of Canada
  • Julie Payette (Master of Applied Science degree in computer engineering) – 29th Governor General of Canada

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=Supreme Court judges=

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  • John Douglas Armour (B.A. 1850){{cite web |url=http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/armour/index-eng.asp |title=Judges of the Court – The Honourable Mr. Justice John Douglas Armour |date=2012-04-07 |access-date=2012-09-13 |publisher=Supreme Court of Canada |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120227170305/http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/armour/index-eng.asp |archive-date=2012-02-27 }}Puisne Justice, 1902–03{{cite web |url=http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/cfpju-jupp/index-eng.asp |title=Judges of the Court – Current and Former Puisne Judges |date=2012-04-24 |access-date=2012-09-13 |publisher=Supreme Court of Canada |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414230922/http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/cfpju-jupp/index-eng.asp |archive-date=2012-04-14 }}
  • John Idington (LL.B. 1864){{cite web |url=http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/idington/index-eng.asp |title=Judges of the Court – The Honourable Mr. Justice John Idington |access-date=2012-09-13 |publisher=Supreme Court of Canada |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515213818/http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/idington/index-eng.asp |archive-date=2013-05-15 }} – Puisne Justice, 1905–27
  • Albert Clements Killam (B.A. 1872){{cite web |url=http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/killam/index-eng.asp |title=Judges of the Court – The Honourable Mr. Justice Albert Clements Killam |access-date=2012-09-13 |publisher=Supreme Court of Canada |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515213815/http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/killam/index-eng.asp |archive-date=2013-05-15 }} – Puisne Justice, 1903–05
  • Lyman Poore Duff (B.A. 1887, LL.B. 1889){{cite web |url=http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/duff/index-eng.asp |title=Judges of the Court – The Right Honourable Sir Lyman Poore Duff, P.C., G.C.M.G. |access-date=2012-09-13 |publisher=Supreme Court of Canada |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120216183903/http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/duff/index-eng.asp |archive-date=2012-02-16 }} – Puisne Justice, 1906–33, Chief Justice, 1933–44
  • John Henderson Lamont (B.A. 1892, LL.B. 1893){{cite web|url=http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/lamont/index-eng.asp |title=Judges of the Court – The Honourable Mr. Justice John Henderson Lamont |date=2012-04-07 |access-date=2012-09-13 |publisher=Supreme Court of Canada |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614153702/http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/lamont/index-eng.asp |archive-date=2011-06-14 }} – Puisne Justice, 1927–1936
  • Henry Hague Davis (B.A. 1907, M.A. 1909, LL.B. 1911){{cite web |url=http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/davis/index-eng.asp |title=Judges of the Court – The Honourable Mr. Justice Henry Hague Davis |date=2012-04-07 |access-date=2012-09-26 |publisher=Supreme Court of Canada |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120227170321/http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/davis/index-eng.asp |archive-date=2012-02-27 }} – Puisne Justice, 1935–44
  • Wishart Flett Spence (B.A. 1925){{cite web |url=http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/spence/index-eng.asp |title=Judges of the Court – The Honourable Mr. Justice Wishart Flett Spence |date=2012-04-07 |access-date=2012-09-26 |publisher=Supreme Court of Canada |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120327152556/http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/spence/index-eng.asp |archive-date=2012-03-27 }} – Puisne Justice, 1963–78
  • Bora Laskin (B.A. 1933, M.A. 1935, LL.B. 1936) – Puisne Justice, 1970–73, Chief Justice, 1973–84{{cite web |url=http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/laskin/index-eng.asp |title=Judges of the Court – The Right Honourable Bora Laskin, P.C., C.C. |publisher=Supreme Court of Canada |date=2012-04-07 |access-date=2012-09-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515213732/http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/laskin/index-eng.asp |archive-date=2013-05-15 }}
  • Yves Pratte{{cite web |url=http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/pratte/index-eng.asp |title=Judges of the Court – The Honourable Mr. Justice Yves Pratte |publisher=Supreme Court of Canada |date=2012-04-07 |access-date=2012-09-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515213923/http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/pratte/index-eng.asp |archive-date=2013-05-15 }} – Puisne Justice, 1977–79
  • John Sopinka (B.A. 1955, LL.B. 1958){{cite web |url=http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/sopinka/index-eng.asp |title=Judges of the Court – The Honourable Mr. Justice John Sopinka |publisher=Supreme Court of Canada |date=2012-04-07 |access-date=2012-09-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515213938/http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/sopinka/index-eng.asp |archive-date=2013-05-15 }} – Puisne Justice, 1988–97
  • John C. Major{{cite web|url=http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/major/index-eng.asp |title=Judges of the Court – The Honourable Mr. Justice John C. Major |publisher=Supreme Court of Canada |date=2012-04-07 |access-date=2012-09-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120227170459/http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/major/index-eng.asp |archive-date=2012-02-27 }} (LL.B. 1957) – Puisne Justice, 1992–2005
  • William Ian Corneil Binnie (LL.B. 1965){{cite web|

url=http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/binnie/index-eng.asp |title=Judges of the Court – The Honourable Mr. Justice William Ian Corneil Binnie |publisher=Supreme Court of Canada |date=2012-04-07 |access-date=23 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090124184811/http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/binnie/index-eng.asp|archive-date=24 January 2009}} – Puisne Justice, 1998–2011

  • Louis LeBel (LL.M. 1966){{cite web |url=http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/lebel/index-eng.asp |title=Judges of the Court – The Honourable Mr. Justice Louis LeBel |publisher=Supreme Court of Canada |date=2012-04-07 |access-date=2013-04-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515193612/http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/lebel/index-eng.asp |archive-date=2013-05-15 }} – Puisne Justice, 2000–14)
  • Rosalie Abella (B.A. 1967, LL.B. 1970){{cite web |url=http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/abella/index-eng.asp |title=Judges of the Court – The Honourable Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella |publisher=Supreme Court of Canada |date=2013-04-16 |access-date=2013-04-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515213644/http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/abella/index-eng.asp |archive-date=2013-05-15 }} – Puisne Justice, 2004–
  • Michael J. Moldaver (B.A. 1968, LL.B. 1971){{cite web |url=http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/moldaver/index-eng.asp |title=Judges of the Court The Honourable Mr. Justice Michael J. Moldaver |publisher=Supreme Court of Canada |date=2013-04-16 |access-date=2013-04-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515212150/http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/moldaver/index-eng.asp |archive-date=2013-05-15 }} – Puisne Justice, 2011–
  • Andromache Karakatsanis – Puisne Justice, 2011–
  • Russell Brown – Puisne Justice, 2015–

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Natural sciences, mathematics, medicine and engineering

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=Sociology=

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|title=John Kenneth Galbraith |publisher=Britannica Online Encyclopedia |access-date=2008-06-20 }} former president of the American Economic Association, recipient of two U.S. Presidential Medals of Freedom, The Great Crash, 1929, The Affluent Society, The Age of Uncertainty, The Anatomy of Power

|url=http://www.polisci.uoguelph.ca/facultystaff/william_christian.shtml

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{{cite web |url=http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/9979 |work=University of California |title=Robert J. Birgeneau appointed UC Berkeley Chancellor |access-date=2008-06-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706082854/http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/9979 |archive-date=2008-07-06 }}

|url=http://www.uwo.ca/pvp/vice_presidents/davenport.htm

|title=President Paul Davenport

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