List of Memorial University of Newfoundland people

This is a list of people involved with Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Founders

 * Vincent Patrick Burke

Academics and scholars

 * David Agnew, president, Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology, former Secretary of Cabinet, Government of Ontario
 * Gary Botting, poet, playwright, lawyer and legal scholar
 * Donald B. Dingwell, D.Sc. (h.c. mult.) FMSA FGAC MAE FAGU FRSC BVK ACATECH ML FAAAS, award-winning experimental geoscientist, past President of the European Geosciences Union, 3rd Secretary-General of the European Research Council, President of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior
 * Robert Gellately, historian
 * John Gosse
 * George Ivany, President, University of Saskatchewan
 * Mary C. Lobban, British physiologist
 * Brian Pratt, award-winning paleontologist and sedimentologist, Fellow of the Geological Society of America, and past president of the Geological Association of Canada
 * Harold Williams, geologist and world expert on the tectonics of mountain belts

Business

 * Nick Careen - Vice President at Air Canada
 * Moya Greene - President and CEO of Royal Mail
 * Lorraine Mitchelmore - President and Country Chair and Executive Vice President Heavy Oil for Shell Canada
 * Barry Perry - CEO at Fortis Inc.
 * Una Power - CFO at Nexen Inc.
 * Larry Short, CPA - CBC Contributor, Executive Director, and Portfolio Manager at ShortFinancial
 * Jane Rowe - President of Teachers Private Capital, the private equity arm of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan

Politics and government

 * KM Chan - biochemistry professor and politician
 * Gen. Rick Hillier - Chief of the Defence Staff, Canadian Forces
 * Dale Kirby - Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development
 * Allan Rowe - MPP for Dartmouth South and liberal caucus whip, former television host
 * Marit Stiles (born 1969) - Member of Provincial Parliament for Davenport in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP) and the leader of the Opposition
 * Clyde Wells - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador, former Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador
 * Danny Williams - former Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador

Film and television

 * Perry Chafe - TV producer and writer, Republic of Doyle & Son of A Critch
 * Bill Gillespie - former Security Correspondent, CBC Radio
 * Tristan Homer - children's television producer
 * Bhreagh MacNeil - Canadian Screen Award nominated actress
 * Mark McKinney - comedian, member of The Kids in the Hall
 * Scott Oake - sportscaster for CBC Sports

Press and literature

 * Anne Chislett - playwright


 * Michael Crummey - novelist and poet
 * Gwynne Dyer - journalist, syndicated columnist and military historian, Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (1973–1977)
 * Tom Harrington - journalist
 * Wayne Johnston - novelist
 * Rex Murphy - journalist and commentator

Art and music

 * Alan Doyle - musician
 * Duo Concertante -Nancy Dahn on violin and Tim Steeves on piano
 * Bob Hallett - musician
 * Andy Jones - comedian
 * Séan McCann - musician
 * Fergus O'Byrne - musician
 * Shelley Posen - folklorist and singer-songwriter
 * Erin Power - musician, The Swinging Belles
 * Laura Winter - musician, The Swinging Belles

Science

 * Carolyn Relf - geologist

Sports

 * Brad Gushue - Olympic gold medallist (curling)
 * Mark Nichols - Olympic gold medallist (curling)

Medicine

 * Dr. Norman R.C. Campbell – Professor of Medicine, Community Health Sciences and Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Calgary
 * Ranjit Chandra - Former professor of Medicine, forced to resign after allegations of scientific misconduct and data fabrication
 * Jawahar Kalra – physician, clinical researcher, and academic

Crime

 * Shirley Turner – Murderer whose murder of her son Zachary gave rise to the movie Dear Zachary

University Research Professors
(Note: "University Research Professor" is the name for MUN's highest academic honour. One can be a full professor, even conducting research, at the university without being a "University Research Professor.")
 * Ian Jordaan - engineer and world expert on design of offshore structures in harsh environments
 * Harold Williams - geologist and world expert on the tectonics of mountain belts

Other faculty

 * Jean Briggs - anthropologist and expert on Inuit languages
 * Lindsay Cahill - chemist
 * John Frederick Dewey - structural geologist. Fellow of the Royal Society and member of the United States National Academy of Sciences; Wollaston Medal & Penrose Medal recipient.
 * Donald Hillman - paediatrician and professor of pediatrics best known for working in Third World countries in international child health and development
 * Francesca M. Kerton - chemist
 * Elliott Leyton - renowned for studies of serial murderers
 * Elizabeth Miller - 19th century British Gothic literature
 * Ward Neale - geologist
 * Robert Paine - Anthropologist studying the Inuit and Saami peoples.
 * Patrick Parfrey - nephrologist and clinical epidemiologist
 * Augustus Rowe - former Minister of Health of Newfoundland and Labrador; former chairman of Memorial University's Department of Family Medicine
 * Wei Qiu, architecture professor

Rhodes Scholars

 * Matthew Downer - 2019
 * Laura Pittman - 2013 - engineer
 * Sean Connors - 1987 - physician
 * Robert Joy - 1973 - actor
 * Danny Williams - 1969 - Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador
 * Rex Murphy - 1968 - TV commentator
 * Bill Rowe - 1964
 * Fabian O'Dea - 1939
 * Moses Morgan - 1938

Honorary degree recipients

 * Sarah Anala - Canadian social worker
 * Anne, Princess Royal - member of the Canadian Royal family
 * Lloyd Axworthy - Canadian politician
 * Jean Chrétien - 20th Prime Minister of Canada
 * Bob Cole - CBC hockey commentator
 * John Frederick Dewey - geologist
 * Craig Dobbin - businessman
 * Gwynne Dyer - journalist
 * John Kenneth Galbraith - economist
 * Loyola Hearn - former Minister of Fisheries and Oceans
 * Ron Hynes - folk musician
 * David Lloyd Johnston - Governor General of Canada
 * Cathy Jones - comedian and actress
 * Aung San Suu Kyi - pro-democracy advocate
 * HRH Princess Mary - member of the Canadian Royal Family
 * Rick Mercer - Canadian comedian and television personality
 * Brian Mulroney - 18th Prime Minister of Canada
 * Ward Neale - geologist
 * Lester B. Pearson - 14th Prime Minister of Canada, Nobel Peace Prize winner
 * Raymond Price - geologist
 * Edward Shackleton - geographer and politician
 * David Suzuki - Canadian science broadcaster and environmental activist
 * Mary Walsh - comedian
 * John Tuzo Wilson - geophysicist