List of Université Laval people

This is a list of people associated with Université Laval.

Artists and media personalities

 * Victor Bouchard, pianist and composer
 * Édith Butler, Acadian singer
 * Christiane Chabot, artist
 * Claude Lagacé, organist
 * Gaston Miron, poet and author
 * Renée Morisset, pianist
 * Ben Mulroney, television host and son of former prime minister Brian Mulroney
 * Gilles Vigneault, artist

Athletes

 * Boris Bede, gridiron football player
 * Pierre Harvey, Olympic cyclist and cross-country skier
 * Pierre Lavertu, CFL player
 * Ed Millaire, professional hockey player, Montreal Canadiens

Business leaders

 * Marcel Aubut, president of the Canadian Olympic Committee
 * Conrad Black, former media magnate
 * Manon Brouillette, President and CEO of Videotron
 * Richard Fortin (born 1949/50), former chairman of Couche-Tard
 * Louis Garneau, businessman and Olympic cyclist
 * Marc Laliberté, CEO of Via Rail Canada
 * Jean Leclerc, chairman, Leclerc biscuits and former provincial politician
 * Charles Sirois, businessman and venture capitalist

Canadian

 * Prime Ministers of Canada Louis St. Laurent, Brian Mulroney and Jean Chrétien
 * Premiers of Quebec Lucien Bouchard, Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Edmund James Flynn, Jean Lesage, René Lévesque, Pauline Marois, Simon-Napoléon Parent and Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
 * Jean-Martin Aussant, former leader of Option nationale party
 * Jean Bazin, senator
 * Louise Beaudoin, former minister in Quebec
 * Lawrence Cannon, Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, 2008–2011
 * Thomas Chapais, lawyer and federal politician
 * Raoul Dandurand, lawyer, federal politician, diplomat, president of the League of Nations Assembly for 1925
 * Stéphane Dion, diplomat and former politician; former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
 * Gilbert Finn, 26th Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick
 * Eugène Fiset, former Surgeon General of Canada, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
 * Michael Fortier, senator
 * Wilfrid Gariépy, Alberta cabinet minister
 * Clement Gignac, politician, former Quebec Minister of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade and chief economist at Industrial Alliance
 * Daniel Joseph Greene, Premier of Newfoundland, 1894–95
 * Michael Meighen, senator
 * Christian Paradis
 * Louis J. Robichaud, 24th premier of New Brunswick
 * Raymond C. Setlakwe, senator
 * Arthur Tremblay, senator

Senior public servants

 * Johanne Bélisle, former Commissioner of Patents, Registrar of Trademarks and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)
 * Raymond Chrétien, former diplomat and lawyer
 * Ernest Côté, diplomat and civil servant.
 * Marc Lortie, diplomat
 * Gérard Veilleux, former senior civil servant, president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (1989–1993)
 * Jennie Carignan, Brigadier General

Foreign

 * Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria (1918–2007)
 * Archduchess Charlotte of Austria, social worker and royal heiress
 * Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1919–2010)
 * Mahamat Ali Adoum, permanent representative of Chad to the United Nations; former Minister of foreign affairs (1992–93)
 * Jacques-Édouard Alexis, prime minister of Haiti, 1999–2001 and 2006–2008
 * Carme Chacón, Spanish Minister of Defence, 2008–2011
 * Habiba Zehi Ben Romdhane, Tunisian Minister of health
 * Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
 * Pearlette Louisy, Governess-General of Saint Lucia, 1997-2017

Jurists

 * Supreme Court Justices Suzanne Côté, Louis LeBel, Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, Charles Fitzpatrick, Arthur Cyrille Albert Malouin, Lawrence Arthur Dumoulin Cannon, Louis-Philippe Pigeon, Julien Chouinard, Robert Taschereau, Henri-Elzéar Taschereau, Thibaudeau Rinfret
 * Marcel Crête (fr), jurist and former Chief Justice of Quebec (1980–88)
 * Léon Gérin, lawyer and president of the Royal Society of Canada
 * Paule Gauthier, lawyer, arbitrator, corporate director, former chair of the Security Intelligence Review Committee 1996–2004
 * Frederick Edmund Meredith, lawyer and businessman, 8th chancellor of Bishop's University
 * Adolphe-Basile Routhier, judge and writer

Public intellectuals and academics

 * Fabrisia Ambrosio, academic
 * Gérard Bouchard, academic and public intellectual
 * Thomas De Koninck, philosopher
 * Gustave Guillaume, linguist, philologist and Volney Prize laureate
 * Yolande Henderson, Pakistani high school teacher
 * Richard Hotte, professor of information technology at Université TÉLUQ and current UNESCO Chair in Global Smart Disruptive Learning
 * Luc Langlois, philosopher, Ordre des Palmes Académiques laureate, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, 2002-2010
 * Georges Larivière, researcher, writer, ice hockey coach
 * Laurent Picard, academic, former president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 * Rodrigue Tremblay, economist
 * Niklaus Wirth, computer scientist, Turing Award winner

Religious leaders

 * Louis-Nazaire Bégin, Canadian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
 * Charles Sandwith Campbell, benefactor of Montreal; Governor of McGill University
 * Gérald Lacroix, ISPX, cardinal, archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec and Primate of Canada
 * Marc Ouellet, cardinal, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops and president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America

Scientists and physicians

 * Albéric Boivin, physicist known for his work in optics and lasers
 * Claire Deschênes, mechanical engineer and professor of engineering at Laval
 * Paul Fiset, microbiologist and developer of the Q fever vaccine
 * Paul-Antoine Giguère, physical chemist
 * Jean-Charles Gille, engineer, psychiatrist and professor of medicine.
 * Larkin Kerwin, physicist, first president of the Canadian Space Agency, 1989–1992
 * Fernand Labrie, physician and medical researcher
 * Louis de Lotbiniere-Harwood, Dean of Medicine at Université de Montréal; President of the Hôpital Notre-Dame
 * Paul Marmet, physicist
 * Aimé Pelletier, surgeon; under pen name Bertrand Vac, influential Quebec novelist, particularly in the 1950s
 * Ouida Ramón-Moliner, first female anaesthetist at Université Laval
 * Franco Rasetti, physicist and founding chairman of the Laval physics department, 1939–1947
 * Jean-Paul Richard, physicist, academic and researcher
 * Nicole Roy, professor of human nutrition in New Zealand
 * David Saint-Jacques, astrophysicist and astronaut for the Canadian Space Agency
 * David Servan-Schreiber, physician and author
 * Réjean Thomas (fr), physician and founder of the Canadian division of Médecins du Monde

Rhodes Scholars

 * Marius Barbeau 1910
 * Edgar Rochette 1914
 * Roger Gaudry 1937
 * Julien Chouinard 1951
 * Thomas De Koninck 1956
 * Gregory Kates 1966
 * Jean-François Garneau 1982
 * Leo Bureau-Blouin 2016

Recipients of honorary degrees
Approximately 1100 honorary doctorates have been granted since 1864. Some notable recipients are:
 * Janette Bertrand, journalist and feminist
 * Lise Bissonnette, journalist and civil servant
 * Marie-Claire Blais, writer
 * Henri-Raymond Casgrain, historian and priest
 * Céline Dion, singer
 * Maurice Duplessis, 16th Premier of Quebec
 * Germaine Guèvremont, writer
 * Adélard Godbout, 15th Premier of Quebec
 * Marc-André Hamelin, pianist
 * Anne Hébert, writer
 * Guy Laliberté, Cirque du Soleil founder
 * Jean Lesage, 19th Premier of Quebec
 * Julie Payette, astronaut
 * Paul Sauvé, 17th Premier of Quebec
 * Yoav Talmi, conductor
 * Gilles Vigneault, poet and singer

Rectors
There has been 25 rectors since the granting of university status in 1852.
 * 1852–1860 M. l'abbé Louis-Jacques Casault
 * 1860–1866 M. l'abbé Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau
 * 1866–1869 Mgr Michel-Édouard Méthot
 * 1869–1871 M. l'abbé Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau
 * 1871–1880 Mgr Thomas-Étienne Hamel
 * 1880–1883 Mgr Michel-Édouard Méthot
 * 1883–1886 Mgr Thomas-Étienne Hamel
 * 1886–1887 Mgr Michel-Édouard Méthot
 * 1887–1893 Mgr Benjamin Pâquet
 * 1893–1899 Mgr Joseph-Clovis-Kemner Laflamme
 * 1899–1908 Mgr Olivier-E. Mathieu
 * 1908–1909 Mgr Joseph-Clovis-Kemner Laflamme
 * 1909–1915 Mgr Amédée-Edmond Gosselin
 * 1915–1921 Mgr François Pelletier
 * 1921 M. l'abbé Pierre Hébert
 * 1921–1924 Mgr Charles-Napoléon Gariépy
 * 1924–1927 Mgr Camille Roy
 * 1927–1929 Mgr Amédée-Edmond Gosselin
 * 1929 Mgr Camille Roy
 * 1929–1932 Mgr Philéas-J. Filion
 * 1932–1938 Mgr Camille Roy
 * 1938–1939 Mgr Arthur Robert
 * 1939–1940 Mgr Alexandre Vachon
 * 1940–1943 Mgr Camille Roy
 * 1943–1945 Mgr Cyrille Gagnon
 * 1945–1954 Mgr Ferdinand Vandry
 * 1954–1960 Mgr Alphonse-Marie Parent
 * 1960–1972 Mgr Louis-Albert Vachon
 * 1972–1977 Larkin Kerwin
 * 1977–1987 Jean-Guy Paquet
 * 1987–1997 Michel Gervais
 * 1997–2002 François Tavenas
 * 2002–2007 Michel Pigeon
 * 2007–2017 Denis Brière
 * 2017–present Sophie D'Amours