List of University of Guelph people

The following is a list of notable alumni, faculty and affiliates of University of Guelph in Canada.

Chancellors
At its first convocation on May 21, 1965 George Drew was installed as chancellor of the University.


 * George Drew (1965–1971)
 * Emmett Matthew Hall (1971–1977)
 * Pauline Mills McGibbon (1977–1983)
 * William Atcheson Stewart (1983–1989


 * Lincoln Alexander (1991–2007)
 * Pamela Wallin (2007–2011)
 * David Mirvish (2012–2017)
 * Martha Billes (2017–2022)
 * Mary Anne Chambers (2022–present)

Presidents

 * John Douglas MacLachlan (1964–1967)
 * William Winegard (1967–1975)
 * Donald Forster (1975–1983)
 * Burton Matthews (1983–1988)
 * Brian Segal (1988–1993)
 * Mordechai Rozanski (1993–2003)
 * Alastair Summerlee (2003–2014)
 * Franco Vaccarino (2014–2020)
 * Charlotte Yates (Interim) (2020–2021)
 * Charlotte Yates (2021–present)

Notable alumni

 * Edmund Abaka - professor of African history at the University of Miami
 * Allan Armitage – author and professor at the University of Georgia
 * Rupan Bal – Canadian–Indian YouTuber
 * Chris Banks – poet
 * Toby Barrett – politician, Member of Provincial Parliament for Haldimand—Norfolk
 * Alexandra Beaton – actress and dancer
 * Karen Beauchemin – research scientist
 * Deni Ellis Béchard – Canadian-American novelist
 * Jennifer Beech – Canadian television host
 * Laura Bertram – actress
 * Mark Bourrie – lawyer and journalist
 * Tim Bray – software developer and entrepreneur
 * Sara Angelucci – artist and professor at Ryerson University
 * Harry Brightwell
 * Ryder Britton
 * Christa Brosseau
 * James Robert Brown
 * Krista Buecking
 * Tyler Clark Burke – artist, illustrator, designer, and writer
 * Kathy Butler
 * Mikey Bustos
 * Cassie Campbell
 * Dom Cardillo
 * David Castle
 * Anna Chatterton
 * Laurel Schafer, Canada Research Chair in Catalyst Development
 * Dicki Chhoyang
 * George Chiang
 * Meredith Chivers
 * Olivia Chow – 66th Mayor of Toronto
 * Reid Coolsaet
 * Claude Cormier
 * Anne Croy, Reproductive immunologist
 * Elisabeth de Mariaffi
 * Diane Deans
 * Susan Dobson
 * Peter Donaldson
 * Maura Doyle, multimedia artist
 * Rick Ferraro
 * Graham Forsythe
 * James E. Fraser
 * Harry L. Garrigus
 * Nora Gould – poet
 * Tim Grant
 * Peter S. Gray
 * Michael Grimes (Associate Diploma 1920), Irish scientist and first Professor of Microbiology at University College Cork
 * Tara Hedican
 * Graham Henderson
 * Stephen Hicks
 * Robert Horner
 * Nasrin Husseini – (MSc 2020) Afghani refugee advocate, veterinary researcher, and food activist
 * Alexis Jordan
 * David Joseph
 * Mark Lautens
 * Robert Leigh
 * Matt Lennox
 * Karen Ludwig
 * Judy Maddren
 * Charlie Masters
 * Brandon Maxwell
 * Tom McBroom
 * Scott McGillivray
 * Audrey McLaughlin
 * Heather McNairn
 * Gord Miller
 * K. D. Miller
 * Kenneth Mitchell
 * Kimberly Moffit
 * Peter Moss
 * Jacey Murphy
 * Ian Murray
 * Brendan Myers
 * Opendra Narayan
 * Piers Nash
 * Joe Neilands
 * Greg O’Gallagher
 * Penny Park
 * Roula Partheniou – artist
 * Cecil Frederick Patterson
 * Mirela Rahneva
 * Lisa Raitt
 * Jordan Raycroft
 * Jus Reign – Canadian Comedian and YouTube Personality
 * Sue Richards
 * Jael Richardson
 * Doug Rollins
 * Liz Sandals
 * Dolph Schluter
 * James Schroder
 * H. B. Sharman
 * Jonathan Sherbino
 * Kalidas Shetty
 * Vandana Shiva
 * Jane Siberry – singer / songwriter
 * Michael Sona – political figure
 * Ralph Spence
 * John Steffler
 * Bernadine Strik (1962–2023), horticulturist.
 * Derek Sullivan
 * Mary Swan
 * Marwan Tabbara
 * Stephen J. Tanner
 * Chase Tang - actor / mental health advocate
 * Lisa Thompson
 * Jane Urquhart
 * Dennis vanEngelsdorp – assistant professor at University of Maryland
 * Mike Wallace – politician
 * Hope Weiler – associate professor at McGill University
 * Terry Wilson – police officer
 * John Wise – politician
 * Jane Wright – entomologist
 * Elizabeth Yake – film producer
 * Jiyuan Yu – philosopher
 * Liz Howard – poet and winner of the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize for her book Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent
 * Aisha Sasha John – poet
 * Canisia Lubrin – poet
 * Elisabeth de Mariaffi – novelist and short story writer
 * Soraya Peerbaye – poet
 * Ayelet Tsabari – novelist and winner of the Sami Rohr Prize
 * Paul Vermeersch – poet
 * Zoe Whittall – novelist and Canadian Screen Award-winning screenwriter
 * Alissa York – novelist
 * Edgar Archibald – agricultural scientist
 * George Atkins – broadcaster
 * Karen Bailey – scientist
 * Roberta Bondar – Canada's first female astronaut
 * Ernest Charles Drury – eighth Premier of Ontario
 * John Kenneth Galbraith – economist
 * Bill Hanley – Hockey Hall of Fame member
 * George Stewart Henry – tenth Premier of Ontario
 * Grant MacEwan – ninth Lieutenant Governor of Alberta
 * H.R. MacMillan – forester, industrialist, wartime administrator, and philanthropist
 * Harry Nixon – thirteenth Premier of Ontario
 * Stanley Thompson – golf course architect
 * Kelly Thornton – theatre director
 * Lyle Vanclief – former Minister of Agriculture
 * Emma-Jayne Wilson – jockey
 * Charles Ambrose Zavitz – pioneered the development of soybeans for commercial use in Ontario
 * Edmund Zavitz – pioneer in re-forestation in Ontario
 * Donald Arthur Hatch — Canadian academic
 * Cara Elizabeth Yar Khan – disability advocate, public speaker and United Nations humanitarian
 * Azadeh Elmizadeh - visual artist]
 * John Dunsworth - Actor & The Liqour