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Chancellors

  • 1952-1954 Harry Stevenson Southam
    Harry Stevenson Southam
    Harry Stevenson Southam was a Canadian newspaper publisher of The Ottawa Citizen and Chancellor of Carleton College from 1952 to 1954....

  • 1954-1968 Jack Mackenzie
    Jack Mackenzie
    Chalmers Jack Mackenzie, CC, CMG, MC, FRS, FRSC was a Canadian civil engineer, chancellor of Carleton University, president of the National Research Council, first president of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, first president of Atomic Energy Control Board and instrumental in the development of...

  • 1969-1972 Lester B. Pearson
    Lester B. Pearson
    Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson, PC, OM, CC, OBE was a Canadian professor, historian, civil servant, statesman, diplomat, and politician, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing the United Nations Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis...

  • 1973-1980 Gerhard Herzberg
    Gerhard Herzberg
    Gerhard Heinrich Friedrich Otto Julius Herzberg, was a pioneering physicist and physical chemist, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1971, "for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals". Herzberg's main work concerned...

  • 1980-1990 Robert Gordon Robertson
    Robert Gordon Robertson
    Robert Gordon Robertson, PC, CC, FRSC was Commissioner of the Northwest Territories from November 15, 1953 to July 12, 1963 who, having been sworn in at the age of 36, remains the youngest person to ever hold the office...

     (Emeritus 1992-)
  • 1990-1992 Pauline Jewett
    Pauline Jewett
    Pauline Jewett, was a Canadian Member of Parliament.Born in St. Catharines, Ontario, she received a BA and a MA from Queen's University and a Ph.D in political science from Harvard University in 1949...

  • 1993-2002 Arthur Kroeger
    Arthur Kroeger
    Arthur Kroeger, was a Canadian academic and civil servant, who is referred to as the "dean of deputy ministers"....

     (Emeritus 2002-2008)
  • 2002 Ray Hnatyshyn
    Ray Hnatyshyn
    Ramon John Hnatyshyn , commonly known as Ray Hnatyshyn, was a Canadian politician and statesman who served as Governor General of Canada, the 24th since Canadian Confederation....

  • 2003-2008 Marc Garneau
    Marc Garneau
    Joseph Jean-Pierre Marc Garneau, CC CD FCASI MP is a Canadian retired military officer, former astronaut, engineer and politician.Garneau was the first Canadian in space taking part in three flights aboard NASA Space shuttles...

  • 2008–present Herb Gray
    Herb Gray
    Herbert Eser Gray, is a retired Canadian politician. He was Canada's first Jewish federal cabinet minister, and is one of only a few Canadians ever granted the title The Right Honourable who was not so entitled by virtue of a position held.-Early life:Born in Windsor, Ontario, the son of Harry...



Presidents

  • 1942-1947 Henry Marshall Tory
    Henry Marshall Tory
    Henry Marshall Tory was the first president of the University of Alberta , the first president of the Khaki University, the first president of the National Research Council and the first president of Carleton College...

  • 1947-1955 Murdoch Maxwell MacOdrum
    Murdoch Maxwell MacOdrum
    Murdoch Maxwell MacOdrum was the second president of Carleton College in Ottawa, Ontario.Born in Nova Scotia, MacOdrum got his B.A. from Dalhousie University in 1923, his MA in 1925 from McGill and a PhD in English from the University of Edinburgh...

  • 1955-1956 James Alexander Gibson
    James Alexander Gibson
    James Alexander Gibson was a Canadian academic, federal bureaucrat and private secretary to prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King....

     (pro tempore)
  • 1956-1958 Claude Bissell
    Claude Bissell
    Claude Thomas Bissell, was a Canadian author and educator.-Biography:He was the eighth president of the University of Toronto from 1958 to 1971. He played a major part in the expansion of the University of Toronto, tripling the size of the university during his tenure.He was born in Meaford,...

  • 1958-1972 Davidson Dunton
  • 1972-1978 Michael Kelway Oliver
  • 1979 James Downey
    James Downey (academic)
    James Downey, OC is a Canadian academic.Born in Winterton, Newfoundland, Downey was a graduate of Memorial University of Newfoundland and of the University of London where, as a Rothermere Fellow, he earned a PhD in English literature in 1966.At Carleton University, where he began his career, he...

     (pro tempore) 1 January - 15 May
  • 1979-1989 William Edwin Beckel
    William Edwin Beckel
    William Edwin Beckel is a Canadian academic and former president of Carleton University in Ottawa and the University of Lethbridge in Alberta. He was an early proponent of the use of television as a university teaching medium....

  • 1989-1996 Robin Hugh Farquhar
    Robin Hugh Farquhar
    Robin Hugh Farquhar is a Canadian academic and former university administrator. He was President of The University of Winnipeg from 1981 to 1989 and President of Carleton University from 1989 to 1996....

  • 1996-2005 Richard J. Van Loon
    Richard J. Van Loon
    Richard Van Loon is a former Canadian civil servant and ex-president of Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario.Van Loon was the first president of Carleton who was also a Carleton alumnus. He got his bachelor of science in chemistry there in 1961, as well as an MA in 1965...

  • 2005-2006 David W. Atkinson
    David W. Atkinson
    David William Atkinson is a Canadian academic and President of Grant 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....

  • 2006-2008 Samy Mahmoud
    Samy Mahmoud
    Samy A. Mahmoud is the 5th chancellor of University of Sharjah. He was formerly the president of Carleton University.- Biography :Samy A. Mahmoud is the 5th and current chancellor of University of Sharjah, Dr. Mahmoud formally accepted this honorary title on August 1, 2008. He is at present...

     (pro tempore), from 20 November 2006
  • 2008–present Roseann Runte
    Roseann Runte
    Roseann O'Reilly Runte, is a college professor and the President and Vice-Chancellor of Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She was also the seventh president of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, only the third woman to head a four-year college or university in Virginia...


Notable alumni and faculty

  • Dan Aykroyd
    Dan Aykroyd
    Daniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, CM is a Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter, musician, winemaker and ufologist. He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live, an originator of The Blues Brothers and Ghostbusters and has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter.-Early...

    , Actor and Comedian; studied criminology
    Criminology
    Criminology is the scientific study of the nature, extent, causes, and control of criminal behavior in both the individual and in society...

     and sociology
    Sociology
    Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...

    , but did not graduate.
  • David Azrieli
    David Azrieli
    David Joshua Azrieli, is a Canadian real estate tycoon, developer, designer, architect, and philanthropist. With an estimated net worth of $US 3.1 billion , Azrieli was ranked by Forbes as the 8th wealthiest Canadian and 362nd in the world....

    , Architect, 10th richest man in Canada
  • Omar Zakhilwal
    Omar Zakhilwal
    Dr. Omar Zakhilwal , is an economist and a prominent politician in Afghanistan. He is the current Finance Minister as well as the Chief Economic Advisor to the President of Afghanistan. He is also the president of the Afghanistan Cricket Board.-Early life:...

    , former Professor of Economics, Afghan Finance Minister and Chief Economic Advisor to the President of Afghanistan.
  • Lord Black of Cross Harbour (Conrad Black)
    Conrad Black
    Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, OC, KCSG, PC is a Canadian-born member of the British House of Lords, and a historian, columnist and publisher, who was for a time the third largest newspaper magnate in the world. Lord Black controlled Hollinger International, Inc...

    , former businessman
  • Lindsay Blackett
    Lindsay Blackett
    Lindsay Blackett is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, representing the constituency of Calgary-North West as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

    , first black Cabinet minister in Alberta
    Alberta
    Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

  • Taz Boga, Anchor at CHCH News in Hamilton; former Anchor/Reporter at A-Channel in Ottawa
  • Keith Boag
    Keith Boag
    Keith Boag is a Canadian senior journalist with CBC Television. He worked with The National as the chief political correspondent, CBC News: Sunday and other current affairs programs, as chief political correspondent, based in Ottawa....

    , chief political correspondent for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
    Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
    The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...

  • Patrick Boyer
    Patrick Boyer
    J. Patrick Boyer is a university professor, author and a former Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament ....

    , Member of Parliament
  • K-OS
    K-os
    Kevin Brereton , better known by his stage name k-os , is a Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer...

     (Kheaven Brereton), Canadian musician
  • Gord Brown
    Gord Brown
    Gordon "Gord" Brown is a Canadian politician. He is a current member of the Canadian House of Commons, representing the Ontario riding of Leeds—Grenville as a Conservative member....

    , Member of Parliament
  • Louise Charron
    Louise Charron
    Louise Charron is a Canadian jurist. She was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in October, 2004, and is the first native-born Franco-Ontarian Supreme Court judge...

    , Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
    Supreme Court of Canada
    The Supreme Court of Canada is the highest court of Canada and is the final court of appeals in the Canadian justice system. The court grants permission to between 40 and 75 litigants each year to appeal decisions rendered by provincial, territorial and federal appellate courts, and its decisions...

  • Rita Celli
    Rita Celli
    Rita Celli is a Canadian journalist and radio presenter. Celli graduated with high honours in journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada with a minor in Classics in 1991....

    , host for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
    Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
    The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...

  • Mike Colle
    Mike Colle
    Michael Colle is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Eglinton—Lawrence for the Ontario Liberal Party.-Background:...

    , Member of Provincial Parliament
  • Alex Cullen
    Alex Cullen
    Alexander Shaun Cullen is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a former Member of Provincial Parliament in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and a former member of Ottawa City Council, representing the Bay Ward in Ottawa's west end.-Early life and city politics:Cullen was born February 18,...

    , Member of Provincial Parliament, Ottawa City Councillor
  • Hans Daigeler
    Hans Daigeler
    Hans Wolfgang Daigeler was a politician in Ontario, Canada...

    , Member of Provincial Parliament
  • Barry Devolin
    Barry Devolin
    Barry Devolin, MP is a Canadian politician. He is a current Member of Parliament serving the riding of Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock....

    , Member of Parliament
  • Paul Dewar
    Paul Dewar
    Paul W. Dewar is a Canadian politician currently serving as the Member of Parliament for the riding of Ottawa Centre.Dewar is a member of the New Democratic Party and was first elected to the House of Commons in the 2006 federal election...

    , Member of Parliament
  • Michelle Douglas
    Michelle Douglas
    Michelle Douglas is a Canadian human rights activist who was involved in a landmark case around lesbian and gay equality rights in the Canadian military....

    , Human Rights Activist
  • James Duthie
    James Duthie (sportscaster)
    James "Boom Boom" Duthie is an Ottawa-born Canadian sportscaster for TSN. He is currently the host of The NHL on TSN. In the past, he has hosted CFL Live, NBA in the Paint and SportsCentre. He also writes a column for TSN.ca called The Good the Bad the Duthie...

    , TSN
    The Sports Network
    The Sports Network, commonly abbreviated as TSN, is a Canadian English language Category C specialty channel and is Canada's leading English language sports TV channel. TSN premiered in 1984, in the first group of Canadian specialty cable channels...

     host and Journalist
  • Bruck Easton
    Bruck Easton
    Bruck Easton is a Windsor, Ontario lawyer and a member of the Liberal Party of Canada. He is a former president of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and was a candidate for the PCs in the 1988, 1997 and 2000 federal elections in the riding of Windsor—St. Clair.He was born in Windsor,...

    , former president of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
  • Ward P.D. Elcock
    Ward P.D. Elcock
    Ward P.D. Elcock is a Canadian civil servant who served as the Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service from 1994 until May 2004. He served as the Deputy Minister of National Defence from August 5, 2004 to October 1, 2007....

    , Deputy Minister of Defence, former Director of Canadian Security Intelligence Service
    Canadian Security Intelligence Service
    The Canadian Security Intelligence Service is Canada's national intelligence service. It is responsible for collecting, analyzing, reporting and disseminating intelligence on threats to Canada's national security, and conducting operations, covert and overt, within Canada and abroad.Its...

  • David Estok, Editor-in-Chief of Hamilton Spectator
  • Ivan Fellegi
    Ivan Fellegi
    Ivan Peter Fellegi, OC is a Hungarian-Canadian statistician and was the Chief Statistician of Canada from 1985 to 2008.Born in Szeged, Hungary, Ivan Fellegi was in his third year of studying mathematics at the Eötvös Loránd University, when the Hungarian uprising was crushed in 1956...

    , Former Chief Statistician of Canada
  • Rob Ford
    Rob Ford
    Robert Bruce "Rob" Ford is the 64th and current Mayor of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was first elected to city council in the 2000 Toronto municipal election, and was re-elected to his council seat in 2003 and again in 2006...

    , Current Mayor of the City of Toronto, studied political science
    Political science
    Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...

     but dropped out after first year
  • Matthew Fraser
    Matthew Fraser (journalist)
    Matthew William Fraser is a British-Canadian journalist, academic, and author known for his writing about the media industries...

    , former Editor-in-Chief of National Post
    National Post
    The National Post is a Canadian English-language national newspaper based in Don Mills, a district of Toronto. The paper is owned by Postmedia Network Inc. and is published Mondays through Saturdays...

  • Evelyn Gigantes
    Evelyn Gigantes
    Evelyn Adelaide Gigantes is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She served as a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on three occasions between 1975 and 1995, and was a prominent cabinet minister in the government of Bob Rae.The daughter of Earle Sanford Peach...

    , Member of Provincial Parliament
  • Edward Greenspon
    Edward Greenspon
    Edward Greenspon is vice president, business development for Star Media Group, a division of Torstar Corp. Before that, he was the editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail newspaper, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada for seven years...

    , Editor-in-Chief of The Globe and Mail
    The Globe and Mail
    The Globe and Mail is a nationally distributed Canadian newspaper, based in Toronto and printed in six cities across the country. With a weekly readership of approximately 1 million, it is Canada's largest-circulation national newspaper and second-largest daily newspaper after the Toronto Star...

  • Allan Gregg
    Allan Gregg
    Allan Gregg is a Canadian pollster, political advisor, and pundit.-Early life:Gregg was born in Edmonton, Alberta. He was the eldest child in his family which consisted of four boys and one girl. Gregg graduated from Harry Ainley High School at the second top of his class with honors...

    , pollster, political pundit
  • Sara Gruen
    Sara Gruen
    Sara Gruen is a Canada-born dual citizen author. Her books deal greatly with animals and she is a supporter of numerous charitable organizations that support animals and wildlife.-Early life and education:...

    , fiction author known best for her award winning novel Water for Elephants
    Water for Elephants
    Water for Elephants is a historical novel by Sara Gruen. Gruen originally wrote the novel as part of National Novel Writing Month.- Plot :...

  • Peter Grünberg
    Peter Grünberg
    Peter Andreas Grünberg is a German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his discovery with Albert Fert of giant magnetoresistance which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disk drives.-Biography:...

    , Nobel laureates in Physics 2007
  • Elizabeth Hanna
    Elizabeth Hanna
    Elizabeth Hanna is a Canadian film and television actress, most notable for her voice acting work in animated films. She later complemented her voice acting skills by becoming a Speech-Language Pathologist.-Early history:...

    , undergraduate major in philosophy
    Philosophy
    Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

     and later graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada
    National Theatre School of Canada
    The National Theatre School of Canada is a private college located in Montreal, Quebec.Established in Montreal in 1960, the National Theatre School of Canada offers professional training in English and French in a setting that unites all the theatre arts: acting, playwriting, directing, set and...

    . Voice Actor and Speech-Language Patholologist.
  • Gregory Henriquez
    Gregory Henriquez
    Gregory Henriquez is a Canadian architect, best known for the design of community-based mixed-use, institutional and social housing projects in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, Canada...

    , Architect, Governor-General's Medal for Architecture
  • Abdul Rahman Jabarah
    Abdul Rahman Jabarah
    Abdul Rahman Jabarah was a Canadian killed in a July 2003 firefight with Saudi Arabian officials who believed he was involved in the Riyadh compound bombings by al-Qaeda.-Life:...

    , alleged al-Qaeda
    Al-Qaeda
    Al-Qaeda is a global broad-based militant Islamist terrorist organization founded by Osama bin Laden sometime between August 1988 and late 1989. It operates as a network comprising both a multinational, stateless army and a radical Sunni Muslim movement calling for global Jihad...

     member killed in 2003
  • Peter Jennings
    Peter Jennings
    Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CM was a Canadian American journalist and news anchor. He was the sole anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 1983 until his death in 2005 of complications from lung cancer...

    , journalist and news anchor for ABC News
    ABC News
    ABC News is the news gathering and broadcasting division of American broadcast television network ABC, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company...

    , two-time Peabody Award
    Peabody Award
    The George Foster Peabody Awards recognize distinguished and meritorious public service by radio and television stations, networks, producing organizations and individuals. In 1939, the National Association of Broadcasters formed a committee to recognize outstanding achievement in radio broadcasting...

     winner, awarded a Litterarum doctor, honoris causa',' in 1997 (Didn't spend more than a day in the program)
  • Pauline Jewett
    Pauline Jewett
    Pauline Jewett, was a Canadian Member of Parliament.Born in St. Catharines, Ontario, she received a BA and a MA from Queen's University and a Ph.D in political science from Harvard University in 1949...

    , Member of Parliament, professor and Chancellor of Carleton University
  • Leo Jordan
    Leo Jordan
    W. Leo Jordan is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1999....

    , Member of Provincial Parliament
  • Jim Judd
    Jim Judd
    James "Jim" Judd is a retired Canadian diplomat and senior civil servant. He served as the Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service . He was appointed to the position by Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin on November 29, 2004 and retired from the position on June 27, 2009, before the...

    , Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service
    Canadian Security Intelligence Service
    The Canadian Security Intelligence Service is Canada's national intelligence service. It is responsible for collecting, analyzing, reporting and disseminating intelligence on threats to Canada's national security, and conducting operations, covert and overt, within Canada and abroad.Its...

  • Wilbert Keon
    Wilbert Keon
    Wilbert Joseph Keon, OC is a heart surgeon, researcher and was a Canadian Senator.Born in Sheenboro, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Science from St. Patrick's College, Carleton University and a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Ottawa.After a period of studying and teaching at Harvard...

    , Senator, heart surgeon
  • Warren Kinsella
    Warren Kinsella
    Warren James Douglas Kinsella , is a Toronto-based Canadian, lawyer, author, musician, political consultant, commentator, and blogger...

    , lawyer, author, musician, political consultant, lobbyist and commentator
  • Lawrence M. Krauss
    Lawrence M. Krauss
    Lawrence Maxwell Krauss is an American theoretical physicist who is professor of physics, Foundation Professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration, and director of the Origins Project at the Arizona State University. He is the author of several bestselling books, including The Physics of...

    , physics professor at Arizona State University
    Arizona State University
    Arizona State University is a public research university located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area of the State of Arizona...

     and popular science author
  • Michael I. Krauss
    Michael I. Krauss
    Michael Ian Krauss is Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law, an American legal scholar and expert on tort law, products liability, jurisprudence and legal ethics. He is faculty advisor to George Mason's Federalist Society chapter, and lectures frequently at FS chapters across...

    , professor at George Mason University School of Law
    George Mason University School of Law
    George Mason University School of Law is the law school of George Mason University, a state university in Virginia, United States...

  • Marvin Lara, Actor
  • Chalmers Jack Mackenzie, former chancellor, first president of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited
    Atomic Energy of Canada Limited
    Atomic Energy of Canada Limited or AECL is a Canadian federal Crown corporation and Canada's largest nuclear science and technology laboratory...

  • Robert MacNeil
    Robert MacNeil
    Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil, OC, known sometimes as Robin MacNeil, , is currently a novelist and formerly was a television news anchor and journalist who had paired with Jim Lehrer to create The MacNeil/Lehrer Report in 1975.-Early life:MacNeil was born in Montreal, the son of Margaret...

    , journalist, Officer of the Order of Canada
    Order of Canada
    The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is, within the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, the second highest honour for merit...

  • John Manley
    John Manley (politician)
    John Paul Manley, PC, OC is a Canadian lawyer, businessman and politician. He served as Liberal Member of Parliament for Ottawa South from 1988 to 2004, and a Cabinet Minister from 1993 to 2003. He is presently President and CEO of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives.-Background:Manley was...

    , Former Deputy Prime Minister
    Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
    The Deputy Prime Minister of Canada is an honorary position in the cabinet, conferred at the discretion of the prime minister. There is currently, , no deputy prime minister....

     and Finance Minister of Canada
  • Randal Marlin
    Randal Marlin
    Randal Marlin, , is a Canadian philosophy professor at Carleton University in Ottawa who specializes in the study of propaganda. He was educated at Princeton University, McGill University, the University of Oxford, and the University of Toronto...

    , Carleton philosophy professor specializing in the study of propaganda
  • Trevor Matthews
    Trevor Matthews
    Trevor Matthews is a Canadian film producer and actor. He is the youngest son of telecommunications billionaire Sir Terence Matthews and Ann Matthews.-Early life:...

    , Founder and CEO of Brookstreet Pictures
    Brookstreet Pictures
    Brookstreet Pictures is a film production company with offices in Beverly Hills, California and Kanata, Ontario. Founded by Trevor Matthews in 2004, the company produces and finances films.-Filmography:* Street Soldier * Old West...

  • Robert Maxwell, (BJ '91) Anchor KTVX-ABC Salt Lake City, Utah (also WFTV-ABC, Orlando, FL and The NewRO, Ottawa)
  • J.Gordon McNulty, Los Angeles, CA Superior Court Judge
  • Jag Mohan, Consulting Engineer & Dean of Engineering Technology and Applied Science, Centennial College, Toronto, Canada
  • Yasir Naqvi
    Yasir Naqvi
    Yasir Naqvi MPP is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2007 provincial election, representing the riding of Ottawa Centre. He is also the President of the Ontario Liberal Party....

    , Member of Provincial Parliament
  • Ryan North
    Ryan North
    Ryan M. North is a Canadian writer, computer programmer, and occasional songwriter who is the creator and author of Dinosaur Comics, and co-creator of Whispered Apologies and Happy Dog the Happy Dog....

    , Writer and Computer Scientist
  • Tom Nevakshonoff, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
  • Paul Okalik
    Paul Okalik
    Paul Okalik MLA is a Canadian politician. He is the first Inuk member called to the Nunavut Bar, the first Premier of Nunavut and the only multi-term premier of a Canadian territory....

    , Former premier of Nunavut
    Nunavut
    Nunavut is the largest and newest federal territory of Canada; it was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, though the actual boundaries had been established in 1993...

  • Gordon Pape
    Gordon Pape
    Gordon Kendrew Pape is a Canadian author and newsletter publisher. He has written more than 20 books on a variety of themes, including novels, personal finance guides, and Christmas trivia....

    , financial self-help writer
  • Ernie Parsons
    Ernie Parsons
    Ernie Parsons is a Justice of the Peace and former politician in Ontario, Canada. Until 2007 he was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Prince Edward—Hastings for the Ontario Liberal Party.Parsons received a Civil Engineering degree from Carleton University...

    , Member of Provincial Parliament
  • Lester Bowles Pearson, former chancellor, professor, Prime Minister of Canada
    Prime Minister of Canada
    The Prime Minister of Canada is the primary minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet, and thus head of government for Canada, charged with advising the Canadian monarch or viceroy on the exercise of the executive powers vested in them by the constitution...

    , Nobel Peace Prize
    Nobel Peace Prize
    The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...

     laureate
  • Gordon Phaneuf, President, Ontario Liberal Party
  • John Porter
    John Porter (sociologist)
    John Arthur Porter was one of Canada's most important sociologists during the period from 1950 to the late 1970s. His work in the field of social stratification opened up new areas of inquiry for many sociologists in Canada.Porter was born in Vancouver and completed his education at the London...

    , former Professor of Sociology
  • Michael Prue
    Michael Prue
    Michael D. Prue is a Canadian politician, who represents the riding of Beaches—East York in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. He is the New Democratic Party critic for Finance, Public Infrastructure Renewal, Community and Social Services and the Management Board of Cabinet, and for issues...

    , Member of Provincial Parliament
  • Karim Rashid
    Karim Rashid
    Karim Rashid is an industrial designer. He received a Bachelor in Industrial Design from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada in 1982 and completed his postgraduate studies in Italy....

    , Industrial Designer
  • Scott Reid
    Scott Reid
    Scott Reid may refer to:*Scott Reid , Conservative Party of Canada MP*Scott Reid , advisor to former Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin*Scott Reid , baseball player...

    , Member of Parliament
  • Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke
    Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke
    Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke is a Somali diplomat and politician. He is the former Prime Minister of Somalia.-Biography:...

    , Prime Minister of Somalia
  • Norman Sterling, Member of Provincial Parliament
  • Barbara Sullivan
    Barbara Sullivan
    Barbara Sullivan Barbara Sullivan Barbara Sullivan (born January 24, 1943 in Calgary, is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1987 to 1995....

    , Member of Provincial Parliament
  • Harley Swedler
    Harley Swedler
    Harley Swedler is a New York-based architect, designer and author.-Biography:Harley Swedler was born in Ottawa, Canada in 1962. Swedler earned a B.Arch. degree from Carleton University in Ottawa...

    , architect
  • Michael Taylor (1951–2010), former Executive Vice President, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited
    Atomic Energy of Canada Limited
    Atomic Energy of Canada Limited or AECL is a Canadian federal Crown corporation and Canada's largest nuclear science and technology laboratory...

  • Judy Wasylycia-Leis
    Judy Wasylycia-Leis
    Klazina Judith "Judy" Wasylycia-Leis is a Canadian politician. She was a Manitoba cabinet minister in the government of Howard Pawley from 1986 to 1988, and was a member of the Canadian House of Commons from September 22, 1997 to April 30, 2010...

    , Member of Parliament
  • Jim Watson, Member of Provincial Parliament, Mayor and City Councillor of Ottawa
  • Keenan Wellar, Sociopreneur and Founder of LiveWorkPlay
    LiveWorkPlay
    LiveWorkPlay is a Canadian charitable organization for people with intellectual disabilities. Founded in Ottawa in 1995 by the husband and wife team of Keenan Wellar and Julie Kingstone, LiveWorkPlay was originally known as the Keen Learning Centre for Youth and then the Special Needs Network...

     and Heartwood House
    Heartwood House
    is a charitable organization in Ottawa, Canada. It is an umbrella charity that provides a home to 18 non-profit groups providing a variety of programs and services.Heartwood House is home to the following non-profit community organizations:...

     charities
  • Susan Wood
    Susan Wood (science fiction)
    Susan Joan Wood Susan Joan Wood Susan Joan Wood (August 22, 1948-November 12, 1980 was a Canadian author, critic, and science fiction fan, born in Ottawa, Ontario.Wood discovered science fiction fandom while she was studying at Carleton University in the 1960s. Wood met fellow fan Mike Glicksohn of...

    , Canadian literature scholar and pioneer of feminist science fiction studies
  • Peter Worthington
    Peter Worthington
    Peter Worthington is a Canadian journalist. A foreign correspondent with the Toronto Telegram newspaper from 1956, Worthington was an eyewitness to the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963, and can be seen in photographs of the event. He remained with the Telegram until it folded in 1971...

    , Editor-in-Chief of the Toronto Sun
    Toronto Sun
    The Toronto Sun is an English-language daily tabloid newspaper published in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is known for its daily Sunshine Girl feature and for what it sees as a populist conservative editorial stance.-History:...


Notable honorary degree recipients

  • Dag Hammarskjöld
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was a Swedish diplomat, economist, and author. An early Secretary-General of the United Nations, he served from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961. He is the only person to have been awarded a posthumous Nobel Peace Prize. Hammarskjöld...

    , United Nations Secretary-General (1953–1961), Nobel Peace Prize laureate, awarded a Legum Doctor, honoris causa in 1954
  • U Thant
    U Thant
    U Thant was a Burmese diplomat and the third Secretary-General of the United Nations, from 1961 to 1971. He was chosen for the post when his predecessor, Dag Hammarskjöld, died in September 1961....

    , United Nations Secretary-General (1961–1971), awarded a Legum Doctor, honoris causa in 1962
  • Kurt Waldheim
    Kurt Waldheim
    Kurt Josef Waldheim was an Austrian diplomat and politician. Waldheim was the fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and the ninth President of Austria, from 1986 to 1992...

    , United Nations Secretary-General (1972–1981), awarded a Legum Doctor, honoris causa in 1972
  • Tommy Douglas
    Tommy Douglas
    Thomas Clement "Tommy" Douglas, was a Scottish-born Baptist minister who became a prominent Canadian social democratic politician...

    , 7th Premier of Saskatchewan, led the first socialist government in North America and introduced universal public health care to Canada, awarded a Legum Doctor, honoris causa in 1980
  • Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
    Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
    Javier Pérez de Cuéllar y de la Guerra is a Peruvian diplomat who served as the fifth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1, 1982 to December 31, 1991. He studied in Colegio San Agustín of Lima, and then at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. In 1995, he ran unsuccessfully...

    , United Nations Secretary-General (1982–1992), awarded a Legum Doctor, honoris causa in 1985
  • Mikhail Gorbachev
    Mikhail Gorbachev
    Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the USSR, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991...

    , General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
    General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
    General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the title given to the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. With some exceptions, the office was synonymous with leader of the Soviet Union...

    , awarded a Legum Doctor, honoris causa in 1993
  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali is an Egyptian politician and diplomat who was the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1992 to December 1996...

    , United Nations Secretary-General (1992–1997), awarded a Legum Doctor, honoris causa in 1995
  • Romano Prodi
    Romano Prodi
    Romano Prodi is an Italian politician and statesman. He served as the Prime Minister of Italy, from 17 May 1996 to 21 October 1998 and from 17 May 2006 to 8 May 2008...

    , 79th Prime Minister of Italy, awarded a Legum Doctor, honoris causa in 2001
  • Kofi Annan
    Kofi Annan
    Kofi Atta Annan is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the UN from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006...

    , United Nations Secretary-General (1997–2007), Nobel Peace Prize laureate, awarded a Legum Doctor, honoris causa in 2004

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Name
Known for
Relationship to Carleton


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Timothy J. Anderson
Timothy J. Anderson
Timothy J. Anderson is a writer, classical singer, actor and composer.Anderson graduated from the Carleton School of Journalism, and has written professionally for the stage and television. He was a librettist-in-residence with the Canadian Opera Company in 1988/89 working with Denis Gougeon. He...


Opera singer, writer
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Katherine Arnup
Same-Sex Activist, author,
Professor

Ike Awgu
Ike Awgu
Ike Jonathan Awgu is a Canadian politician. At the age of 19 he ran for Mayor in the 2003 municipal election, and finished third out of eight candidates with 2.92% of the vote...


Mayoral candidate, Television host, Columnist
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Dan Aykroyd
Dan Aykroyd
Daniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, CM is a Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter, musician, winemaker and ufologist. He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live, an originator of The Blues Brothers and Ghostbusters and has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter.-Early...


Actor
studied at Carleton, honorary D.Litt. 1994

David Azrieli
David Azrieli
David Joshua Azrieli, is a Canadian real estate tycoon, developer, designer, architect, and philanthropist. With an estimated net worth of $US 3.1 billion , Azrieli was ranked by Forbes as the 8th wealthiest Canadian and 362nd in the world....


Architect, businessman
Graduate


B

Georges Bédard
Georges Bédard
Georges Bédard is a former member of Ottawa City Council representing the ward of Rideau-Vanier. This ward covers Lower Town, Sandy Hill, and Vanier. Born and raised in the area Bédard currently lives in Sandy Hill he attended Carleton University where he obtained a degree in political science...


Ottawa City Councillor
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Conrad Black
Conrad Black
Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, OC, KCSG, PC is a Canadian-born member of the British House of Lords, and a historian, columnist and publisher, who was for a time the third largest newspaper magnate in the world. Lord Black controlled Hollinger International, Inc...


Financier and Newspaper Magnate
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Alan Bones
Alan Bones
Alan Bones is a Canadian diplomat. He is currently the Canadian ambassador to Iceland. He was previously the Chargé d'affaires a.i. to Sudan.Bones graduates from Carleton University in 1981 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science and was hired in 1987 at the Department of External Affairs....


Diplomat
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Patrick Boyer
Patrick Boyer
J. Patrick Boyer is a university professor, author and a former Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament ....


Member of Parliament
Graduate

Walter Douglas Boyd
Walter Douglas Boyd
Dr. Walter Douglas Boyd, M.D., is a world-renowned cardiothoracic surgeon.He is a graduate of Carleton University, and the University of Ottawa for his medical degree. In 1999, Dr...


Heart Surgeon
Graduate

George Brizan
George Brizan
George Ignatius Brizan, CMG, CBE is a Grenadian political figure who served as the Caribbean island nation's Prime Minister for four months in 1995...


Former Prime Minister of Grenada
Grenada
Grenada is an island country and Commonwealth Realm consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines in the southeastern Caribbean Sea...


Graduate

Dawn K. Brett
Writer and documentary filmmaker
Graduate

Gord Brown
Gord Brown
Gordon "Gord" Brown is a Canadian politician. He is a current member of the Canadian House of Commons, representing the Ontario riding of Leeds—Grenville as a Conservative member....


Politician
Graduate

Shona Brown
Google
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...

's VP, Business Operations
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C

Rita Celli
Rita Celli
Rita Celli is a Canadian journalist and radio presenter. Celli graduated with high honours in journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada with a minor in Classics in 1991....


Ottawa Anchor for CBC TV's Canada Now
Canada Now
Canada Now was the early-evening national news program on CBC Television, the main English television network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, between 2000 and 2007...

 program
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Louise Charron
Louise Charron
Louise Charron is a Canadian jurist. She was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in October, 2004, and is the first native-born Franco-Ontarian Supreme Court judge...


Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Graduate

Barbara Coll
Barbara Coll
Barbara "WebMama" Coll is a search engine marketing/SEM pioneer who in 2003 established the global, non-profit Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization ....


Founder of SEMPO
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Mike Colle
Mike Colle
Michael Colle is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Eglinton—Lawrence for the Ontario Liberal Party.-Background:...


Politician
Graduate

Michael Cowpland
Michael Cowpland
Michael Cowpland is a British-born entrepreneur, businessman, and the founder and one-time president, chairman and CEO of Corel, a Canadian software company.-Early life:...


Former CEO and Founder of Corel
Corel
Corel Corporation from the abbreviation is a computer software company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, that specializes in graphics processing, similar to Adobe Systems...


Graduate

Alex Cullen
Alex Cullen
Alexander Shaun Cullen is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a former Member of Provincial Parliament in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and a former member of Ottawa City Council, representing the Bay Ward in Ottawa's west end.-Early life and city politics:Cullen was born February 18,...


Ottawa City Councillor
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Allan Cutler
Allan Cutler
Allan S. Cutler is a former Canadian public servant notable for his role as the whistleblower who reported anomalies in a Canadian sponsorship program designed to raise awareness in Quebec of the Government of Canada's contributions to Quebec industries and culture. This program was undertaken to...


Public Servant, Politician
Graduate


D

Hans Daigeler
Hans Daigeler
Hans Wolfgang Daigeler was a politician in Ontario, Canada...


Politician
Graduate

Barry Devolin
Barry Devolin
Barry Devolin, MP is a Canadian politician. He is a current Member of Parliament serving the riding of Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock....


Conservative
Conservative Party of Canada
The Conservative Party of Canada , is a political party in Canada which was formed by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in 2003. It is positioned on the right of the Canadian political spectrum...

 Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...


Graduate

Paul Dewar
Paul Dewar
Paul W. Dewar is a Canadian politician currently serving as the Member of Parliament for the riding of Ottawa Centre.Dewar is a member of the New Democratic Party and was first elected to the House of Commons in the 2006 federal election...


New Democratic Party
New Democratic Party
The New Democratic Party , commonly referred to as the NDP, is a federal social-democratic political party in Canada. The interim leader of the NDP is Nycole Turmel who was appointed to the position due to the illness of Jack Layton, who died on August 22, 2011. The provincial wings of the NDP in...

 Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...


Graduate

Michelle Douglas
Michelle Douglas
Michelle Douglas is a Canadian human rights activist who was involved in a landmark case around lesbian and gay equality rights in the Canadian military....


Human Rights Activist
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James Duthie
James Duthie (sportscaster)
James "Boom Boom" Duthie is an Ottawa-born Canadian sportscaster for TSN. He is currently the host of The NHL on TSN. In the past, he has hosted CFL Live, NBA in the Paint and SportsCentre. He also writes a column for TSN.ca called The Good the Bad the Duthie...


TSN Sportscaster
Graduate

E

Bruck Easton
Bruck Easton
Bruck Easton is a Windsor, Ontario lawyer and a member of the Liberal Party of Canada. He is a former president of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and was a candidate for the PCs in the 1988, 1997 and 2000 federal elections in the riding of Windsor—St. Clair.He was born in Windsor,...


Politician
Graduate

Ward P.D. Elcock
Ward P.D. Elcock
Ward P.D. Elcock is a Canadian civil servant who served as the Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service from 1994 until May 2004. He served as the Deputy Minister of National Defence from August 5, 2004 to October 1, 2007....


Public Servant
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Phil Eyler
Phil Eyler
Phil Eyler is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1981 to 1986....


Politician
Graduate


G

Marc Garneau
Marc Garneau
Joseph Jean-Pierre Marc Garneau, CC CD FCASI MP is a Canadian retired military officer, former astronaut, engineer and politician.Garneau was the first Canadian in space taking part in three flights aboard NASA Space shuttles...


former President of the Canadian Space Agency, Member of Parliament
Former Chancellor

Evelyn Gigantes
Evelyn Gigantes
Evelyn Adelaide Gigantes is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She served as a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on three occasions between 1975 and 1995, and was a prominent cabinet minister in the government of Bob Rae.The daughter of Earle Sanford Peach...


Former New Democrat Ontario cabinet minister
Graduate

Frank Graves
Frank Graves (pollster)
Francis L. "Frank" Graves is a Canadian applied social researcher. He is the founder and current president of EKOS Research Associates Inc.Graves received a Bachelor of Arts in social anthropology from Carleton University in 1976, a Master of Arts in sociology from Carleton University in 1977, and...


President of EKOS Research Associates
EKOS Research Associates
EKOS Research Associates Inc. is a Canadian social and economic research company founded by Carleton University graduate Frank Graves. They specialize in market research, public opinion research, strategic communications advice, program evaluation and performance measurement, and human resources...


Graduate

Herb Gray
Herb Gray
Herbert Eser Gray, is a retired Canadian politician. He was Canada's first Jewish federal cabinet minister, and is one of only a few Canadians ever granted the title The Right Honourable who was not so entitled by virtue of a position held.-Early life:Born in Windsor, Ontario, the son of Harry...


former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
The Deputy Prime Minister of Canada is an honorary position in the cabinet, conferred at the discretion of the prime minister. There is currently, , no deputy prime minister....


Current Chancellor

Edward Greenspon
Edward Greenspon
Edward Greenspon is vice president, business development for Star Media Group, a division of Torstar Corp. Before that, he was the editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail newspaper, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada for seven years...


Editor-in-chief of the Globe and Mail.
Graduate

Peter Grünberg
Peter Grünberg
Peter Andreas Grünberg is a German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his discovery with Albert Fert of giant magnetoresistance which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disk drives.-Biography:...


Nobel laureate in Physics, 2007
Research Faculty

H

Neil Herland
Journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

, CBC News
CBC News
CBC News is the department within the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on CBC television, radio and online services...


Graduate

Thomas Homer-Dixon
Thomas Homer-Dixon
Thomas Homer-Dixon holds the Centre for International Governance Innovation Chair of Global Systems at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Ontario, and is a Professor in the Centre for Environment and Business in the Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo...


Author of The Ingenuity Gap
Ingenuity Gap
The Ingenuity Gap is a non-fiction book by Canadian academic Thomas Homer-Dixon. It was written over the course of eight years from 1992 to 2000 when it was published by Knopf. The book argues that the nature of problems faced by our society are becoming more complex and that our ability to...


Director of Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
Graduate

Peter Hume
Peter Hume
Peter Ernest Hume is a city councillor in the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He represents Alta Vista Ward.Hume grew up in the Canterbury area of Ottawa. He attended Hawthorne Public School and Canterbury High School before graduating with a degree in Economics from Carleton University...


Ottawa City Councillor
Graduate

Peter L. Hurd
Peter L. Hurd
Peter L. Hurd is an academic specialising in biology. He is currently an Associate Professor aligned to both the Department of Psychology's Biocognition Unit, and the University's Centre for Neuroscience at the University of Alberta...


Evolutionary biologist
Graduate


I

Marianne Illing
Marianne Illing
Marianne Illing is a Canadian water polo player.Illing is a graduate of Carleton University. She was a member of the Canadian women's Olympic water polo team in Athens, 2004. She was part of the 4th place women's water polo team at the 2003 World Championships in Barcelona, Spain.-References:...


Olympian (Canadian Olympic water polo team)
Graduate


J

Peter Jennings
Peter Jennings
Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CM was a Canadian American journalist and news anchor. He was the sole anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 1983 until his death in 2005 of complications from lung cancer...


Journalist
studied briefly at Carleton, honorary D.Litt. 1997
Pauline Jewett
Pauline Jewett
Pauline Jewett, was a Canadian Member of Parliament.Born in St. Catharines, Ontario, she received a BA and a MA from Queen's University and a Ph.D in political science from Harvard University in 1949...


Politician
taught at Carleton, and was also chancellor (1990–1992)

Leo Jordan
Leo Jordan
W. Leo Jordan is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1999....


Politician
Graduate


K

Wilbert Keon
Wilbert Keon
Wilbert Joseph Keon, OC is a heart surgeon, researcher and was a Canadian Senator.Born in Sheenboro, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Science from St. Patrick's College, Carleton University and a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Ottawa.After a period of studying and teaching at Harvard...


Senator, Heart Surgeon
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Lawrence M. Krauss
Lawrence M. Krauss
Lawrence Maxwell Krauss is an American theoretical physicist who is professor of physics, Foundation Professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration, and director of the Origins Project at the Arizona State University. He is the author of several bestselling books, including The Physics of...


Author of The Physics of Star Trek
Star Trek
Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise...


Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Arthur Kroeger
Arthur Kroeger
Arthur Kroeger, was a Canadian academic and civil servant, who is referred to as the "dean of deputy ministers"....


Civil Servant
chancellor (1993–2002)

Warren Kinsella
Warren Kinsella
Warren James Douglas Kinsella , is a Toronto-based Canadian, lawyer, author, musician, political consultant, commentator, and blogger...


Politician, Author, Weblogger
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Alison Korn
Alison Korn
Alison Korn is a Canadian rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...


Olympic medalist
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M

Robert MacNeil
Robert MacNeil
Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil, OC, known sometimes as Robin MacNeil, , is currently a novelist and formerly was a television news anchor and journalist who had paired with Jim Lehrer to create The MacNeil/Lehrer Report in 1975.-Early life:MacNeil was born in Montreal, the son of Margaret...


Journalist and Television news anchor
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John Manley
John Manley (politician)
John Paul Manley, PC, OC is a Canadian lawyer, businessman and politician. He served as Liberal Member of Parliament for Ottawa South from 1988 to 2004, and a Cabinet Minister from 1993 to 2003. He is presently President and CEO of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives.-Background:Manley was...


Politician, former Deputy Prime Minister
Deputy Prime Minister
A deputy prime minister or vice prime minister is, in some counties, a government minister who can take the position of acting prime minister when the prime minister is temporarily absent. The position is often likened to that of a vice president, but is significantly different, though both...


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Randal Marlin
Randal Marlin
Randal Marlin, , is a Canadian philosophy professor at Carleton University in Ottawa who specializes in the study of propaganda. He was educated at Princeton University, McGill University, the University of Oxford, and the University of Toronto...


Author
Professor

Trevor Matthews
Trevor Matthews
Trevor Matthews is a Canadian film producer and actor. He is the youngest son of telecommunications billionaire Sir Terence Matthews and Ann Matthews.-Early life:...


Producer, Actor
Studied at Carleton

Robert Maxwell
Television news anchor and reporter
Graduate

Gerald McMaster
Gerald McMaster
Gerald R. McMaster is a Plains Cree and Blackfoot curator, artist, and author. He is enrolled in the Siksika First Nation. Currently he lives in Toronto, Canada and is curator of Canadian art at the Art Gallery of Ontario....


Author, artist, and curator
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John Milloy
Politician
Graduate

Bruce Milne
Bruce Milne
Bruce Milne is an Australian music entrepreneur closely linked to the Melbourne post-punk scene. He founded the independent record label Au-Go-Go in 1979....


Vice President of Product Management, CA Technologies
Graduate


N

Tom Nevakshonoff
New Democrat Manitoba MLA
Graduate

Geoff Nightingale
VP of Engineering for Ascend Geo, LLC.
http://www.ascendgeo.com/index.php?content=about_us_management&mainNav=4&subNav=4
Graduate

Ryan North
Ryan North
Ryan M. North is a Canadian writer, computer programmer, and occasional songwriter who is the creator and author of Dinosaur Comics, and co-creator of Whispered Apologies and Happy Dog the Happy Dog....


Comic author
Graduate


P

Thomas Pawlick
First publisher of Harrowsmith magazine
Graduate

Ernie Parsons
Ernie Parsons
Ernie Parsons is a Justice of the Peace and former politician in Ontario, Canada. Until 2007 he was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Prince Edward—Hastings for the Ontario Liberal Party.Parsons received a Civil Engineering degree from Carleton University...


Politician
Graduate

Michael D. Prue
Politician
Graduate

W. Wesley Pue
W. Wesley Pue
W. Wesley Pue is a Canadian lawyer and academic, Nemetz Professor of Legal History at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver...


Professor of law, past President of Canadian Law and Society Association
Faculty


R

Karim Rashid
Karim Rashid
Karim Rashid is an industrial designer. He received a Bachelor in Industrial Design from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada in 1982 and completed his postgraduate studies in Italy....


Industrial Designer
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Scott Reid
Politician
Graduate

Cristina Rémond
Cristina Rémond
Cristina Yvonne Rémond grew up in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She can speak English, French, German, and HungarianAs a teenager, Remond had seven years of paramilitary training with the Royal Canadian Air Cadets, graduated as cadet Squadron Commander and obtained her private pilot's license at on...


Model, Anthropologist
Graduate

Andrew Rowden
Nortel Engineer & Band Manager
Graduate


S

Don Scott
Politician
Graduate

Sheridan Scott
Sheridan Scott
Sheridan Scott is the former Commissioner of Competition of the Competition Bureau of Canada. She joined the Ottawa office of law firm Bennett Jones in March 2009 after leaving the Bureau....


Politician
Professor

Eric Sprott
Founder of Sprott Asset Management
Graduate

Norm Sterling
Norm Sterling
Norman William Sterling is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is one of the longest-serving members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, having been first elected in 1977....


Politician
Graduate

David Studer
Broadcast Journalist
Graduate

Barbara Sullivan
Barbara Sullivan
Barbara Sullivan Barbara Sullivan Barbara Sullivan (born January 24, 1943 in Calgary, is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1987 to 1995....


Politician
Graduate


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Doug Thompson
Doug Thompson
Doug Thompson is a councillor in the city of Ottawa for the Osgoode Ward. Thompson is also the former mayor of Osgoode Township prior to the amalgamation with the new City of Ottawa, and he is a Councillor with the amalgamated City of Ottawa Council for Osgoode Ward. Prior to being Mayor of...


Ottawa City Councillor
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John C. Turmel
John C. Turmel
John C. Turmel is a perennial candidate for election in Canada, and according to the Guinness Book of Records holds the records for the most elections contested and for the most elections lost having contested 75 elections and lost 74...


Engineer, holder of Guinness world record for greatest number of elections lost
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Chris Tse
Chris Tse
Chris Tse is a Canadian spoken word poet of Chinese descent. He has won numerous poetry slam competitions and was the former captain of the Capital Slam team that won the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word championship....


Spoken Word Poet
Spoken word
Spoken word is a form of poetry that often uses alliterated prose or verse and occasionally uses metered verse to express social commentary. Traditionally it is in the first person, is from the poet’s point of view and is themed in current events....


Graduate


V

Jill Vickers
Jill Vickers
Dr. Jill McCalla Vickers, Ph.D is a notable Canadian feminist political scientist and professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Dr...


Political Scientist, Author, Candidate
Professor


W

Judy Wasylycia-Leis
Judy Wasylycia-Leis
Klazina Judith "Judy" Wasylycia-Leis is a Canadian politician. She was a Manitoba cabinet minister in the government of Howard Pawley from 1986 to 1988, and was a member of the Canadian House of Commons from September 22, 1997 to April 30, 2010...


Politician
Graduate

Jim Watson
Politician
Graduate

Keenan Wellar
Sociopreneur
Graduate

Douglas Whiteway
Douglas Whiteway
Douglas Alfred Whiteway is a journalist and author who lives in Winnipeg, Canada. He has a BA in Religious Studies from the University of Manitoba, and a degree in journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa. He has worked for the Winnipeg Tribune and the Winnipeg Free Press.Under the pen-name...


Journalist
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Peter Worthington
Peter Worthington
Peter Worthington is a Canadian journalist. A foreign correspondent with the Toronto Telegram newspaper from 1956, Worthington was an eyewitness to the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963, and can be seen in photographs of the event. He remained with the Telegram until it folded in 1971...


Journalist
Graduate


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