List of University of Ottawa people

This is a list of University of Ottawa people.

Athletes and leaders in sports

 * Caleb Agada (born 1994), Nigerian-Canadian basketball player in the Israeli Premier League and for the Nigerian national basketball team
 * James Cartwright, Olympic athlete (kayak)
 * Michael A. Chambers, former president of the Canadian Olympic Committee and Olympic Order recipient
 * Sonia Denoncourt, association football referee
 * Doug Falconer, CFL football player, film producer
 * Lou Lefaive, Canadian sports administrator and civil servant
 * Neil Lumsden, CFL football player
 * Sherraine MacKay, Olympic athlete (épée fencing)
 * Silver Quilty, Canadian Football Hall of Fame inductee
 * Brad Sinopoli, CFL football player
 * Charles Thiffault (born 1939), NHL ice hockey coach
 * Ibrahim Tounkara, CFL football player
 * Ousmane Tounkara, CFL football player

Business leaders

 * France Chrétien, prominent lawyer and businesswoman; daughter of former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien
 * André Desmarais, President and CEO of Power Corp. Canada
 * Paul Desmarais, entrepreneur
 * Daniel Lamarre, president and chief operating officer of Cirque du Soleil
 * Chuck Rifici, Canadian entrepreneur, former CEO of Tweed Marijuana Inc, and former CFO of the Liberal Party of Canada.
 * Sherrexcia Rolle, Bahamian attorney and VP of Operations & General Counsel of Western Air

Civil servants and public sector leaders

 * Johanne Bélisle, former Commissioner of Patents, Registrar of Trademarks and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)
 * Jocelyne Bourgon, Canadian representative to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); former Clerk of the Privy Council
 * William J. S. Elliott, former commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
 * Robert John Giroux, university president
 * Ahmed Hussen, Federal Cabinet Minister and President of the Canadian Somali Congress
 * Christiane Ouimet, first Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of Canada
 * Sheridan Scott, Commissioner of Competition of the Competition Bureau
 * Paul Tellier, former Clerk of the Privy Council

Journalists

 * Samantha Bee, host of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
 * Marcel Desjardins, political commentator and news director
 * Pierre Dufault, journalist and sports commentator for Radio-Canada
 * Mary Lou Finlay, journalist for the CBC
 * Peter Jennings, journalist and news anchor for ABC News
 * Lisa LaFlamme, journalist
 * Alex Trebek, former broadcaster for CBC, host of the game show Jeopardy!

Jurists

 * Louise Arbour, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; former Supreme Court Justice
 * Michel Bastarache, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
 * Louise Charron, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
 * Gérald Fauteux, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
 * Louis LeBel, Justice of the Supreme Court
 * Richard Wagner, Chief Justice of Canada

Musicians

 * Joyce El-Khoury, opera singer
 * Angela Hewitt, pianist
 * Roch Voisine, singer-songwriter

Media personalities

 * George Aryee, Director General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (1991–1992)
 * Randall Dark, director, producer, and HDTV pioneer
 * Erica Ehm, television personality and songwriter, former MuchMusic VJ
 * Jeanette Jenkins, Hollywood fitness trainer, spokeswoman for BET's Television foundation, "A Healthy BET Campaign"
 * Suzanne Pinel, children's entertainer (Marie-Soleil)
 * Quddus, model, MTV VJ

Natural scientists and engineers

 * Xiaoyi Bao, professor, Canada Research Chair in Fiber Optics and Photonics
 * Robert W. Boyd, physicist, Canada Excellence Research Chair Laureate in Quantum Nonlinear Optics
 * Timothy C. Lethbridge, professor of computer science and software engineering
 * Tuncer Őren, professor emeritus of computer science
 * Tito Scaiano, professor of chemistry, photochemist
 * Dafydd Williams, astronaut

Physicians and other health care professionals

 * Mark Aubry, Chief Medical Officer of Hockey Canada, and the International Ice Hockey Federation
 * Anna Baranowsky, clinical psychologist; founder and CEO of the Traumatology Institute
 * Margaret Beznak, physiologist
 * Walter Douglas Boyd, cardiothoracic surgeon and innovator, developed minimally invasive robotic cardiac surgery and cardiac regeneration procedures
 * Dave Holmes, University Research Chair in Forensic Nursing; Editor-in-Chief of Aporia – the Nursing Journal
 * Wilbert Joseph Keon, cardiovascular surgeon, first Canadian to implant an artificial heart in a human
 * Padmaja Subbarao, respirologist and scientist in physiology and experimental medicine
 * Philip Steven Wells, hematologist, developed the Wells risk score for pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis

Political leaders

 * Philémon Yunji Yang, Former Cameroon Prime minister

Federal and international

 * Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed, former Prime Minister of Somalia
 * Bernard Chidzero, former Finance Minister of Zimbabwe
 * Ousainou Darboe, former Vice-President of the Gambia
 * Greg Fergus, 38th Speaker of the House of Commons, Member of Parliament
 * Salter Hayden, Senator and lawyer
 * Rahim Jaffer, former Canadian Member of Parliament
 * John Manley, former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance
 * Paul Martin, former Prime Minister of Canada
 * Gabriela Michetti, former Vice President of Argentina
 * Sir Edward Morris, former Prime Minister of Newfoundland
 * André Ouellet, former Minister and CEO and president of Canada Post
 * Jean-Luc Pepin, politician, Cabinet minister
 * John Richardson, Brigadier General in the Canadian Forces and Member of Parliament
 * Allan Rock, former Minister of Justice, among other ministerial portfolios, Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations, President of the University of Ottawa
 * Hugh Segal, politician and Senator

Provincial & Territorial

 * Howard Hampton, former leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party
 * Dalton McGuinty, former Premier of Ontario
 * Paul Okalik, first premier of Nunavut
 * Michael Connolly, former MLA for Calgary-Hawkwood
 * Bernard Drainville, MNA for Lévis

Municipal

 * Bob Chiarelli, former mayor of the City of Ottawa
 * Mathieu Fleury, current Ottawa City Councillor for Rideau-Vanier
 * Jean-Paul L'Allier, former mayor of Quebec City
 * Gérald Tremblay, former mayor of Montreal

Social scientists

 * Merridee Bujaki, manager of Accounting Studies
 * Michel Chossudovsky, economist and author
 * Dimitri Kitsikis, geopolitician
 * Anna Koutsoyiannis, economist
 * Joel Westheimer, American-born professor at the University of Ottawa

Visual artists

 * Rhonda Abrams, classically trained painter and video artist
 * Jean-Marc Carisse, photographer, author and recipient of Library and Archives Canada Scholar Award
 * Philippe Falardeau, Oscar-nominated director

Writers and literature experts

 * Angèle Bassolé-Ouédraogo, Ivoirian poet
 * Michel Bock, professor of history, Governor General's literary award winner
 * Michel Marc Bouchard, playwright
 * Cyril Dabydeen, author and Professor of English
 * Andrew Donskov, professor of modern languages, Tolstoy expert
 * Faisal Kutty, lawyer, writer, human rights activist, academic teaching at Osgoode Hall Law School and at Valparaiso University
 * Angela Narth, children's author
 * Carol Shields, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer
 * Kim Renders (BA in drama 1977), playwright, theatre director and actor; co-founder of Nightwood Theatre
 * Christl Verduyn, professor of English Literature and Canadian Studies; recipient of the Governor General's International Award for Canadian Studies (2006)

Other

 * Cihan Erdal, PhD student of Anthropology detained in Turkey by the government
 * Abdul Rahman Jabarah, alleged al-Qaeda member killed in 2003
 * Ahmed Khadr, alleged by Canada and the United States of being a "senior associate" and financier of al-Qaeda killed in Afghanistan in 2003
 * Denis Rancourt, former physics professor, scientist, academic dissident

List of chancellors
(1889–1965) University of Ottawa


 * 1889–1909   Mgr Joseph-Thomas Duhamel
 * 1911–1922   Mgr Charles-Hugues Gauthier
 * 1922–1927   Mgr Joseph-Médard Émard
 * 1928–1940   Mgr Joseph-Guillaume-Laurent Forbes
 * 1940–1953   Mgr Alexandre Vachon
 * 1953–1965   Mgr Marie-Joseph Lemieux, OP

(1965–present) University of Ottawa (reorganised)


 * 1966–1973 The Right Honourable Pauline Vanier
 * 1973–1979 The Right Honourable Gérald Fauteux
 * 1979–1985 Gabrielle Léger
 * 1985–1990 The Honourable Maurice Sauvé
 * 1991–1993 Gordon F. Henderson
 * 1994–2012 Huguette Labelle
 * 2012–2015 The Right Honourable Michaelle Jean
 * 2015–2022 Calin Rovinescu
 * 2022-present: Claudette Commanda

List of presidents
(1848–1861) Le Collège de Bytown / The College of Bytown


 * 1848–1849 Édouard Chevalier, OMI
 * 1849–1850 Jean-François Allard, OMI
 * 1850–1851 Napoléon Mignault, OMI
 * 1851–1853 Augustin Gaudet, OMI
 * 1853–1861 Joseph-Henri Tabaret, OMI

(1861–1889) Collège d'Ottawa / College of Ottawa


 * 1861–1864 Joseph-Henri Tabaret, OMI
 * 1864–1867 Timothy Ryan, OMI
 * 1867–1874 Joseph-Henri Tabaret, OMI
 * 1874–1877 Antoine Paillier, OMI
 * 1877–1886 Joseph-Henri Tabaret, OMI
 * 1886     Philémon Provost, OMI
 * 1886–1887 Antoine Paillier, OMI
 * 1887–1889 Jean-Marie Fayard, OMI

(1889–1965) Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa


 * 1889–1898 James McGuckin, OMI
 * 1898–1901 Henri-Antoine Constantineau, OMI
 * 1901–1905 Joseph-Édouard Émery, OMI
 * 1905–1911 William Murphy, OMI
 * 1911–1914 Adrien-Bruno Roy, OMI
 * 1914–1915 Henri Gervais, OMI
 * 1915–1921 Louis Rhéaume, OMI
 * 1921–1927 François-Xavier Marcotte, OMI
 * 1927–1930 Uldéric Robert, OMI
 * 1930–1936 Gilles Marchand, OMI
 * 1936–1942 Joseph Hébert, OMI
 * 1942–1946 Philippe Cornellier, OMI
 * 1946–1952 Jean-Charles LaFramboise, OMI
 * 1952–1958 Rodrigue Normandin, OMI
 * 1958–1964 Henri-F. Légaré, OMI
 * 1964–1965 Roger Guindon, OMI

(1965–present) Université d'Ottawa (nouvelle structure) / University of Ottawa (reorganised)


 * 1965–1984 Roger Guindon, OMI
 * 1984–1990 Antoine D'Iorio
 * 1990–2001 Marcel Hamelin
 * 2001–2008 Gilles G. Patry
 * 2008–2017 Allan Rock
 * 2017–present Jacques Frémont