List of University of Saskatchewan alumni

Between 1907 and 2007 there were over 132,200 alumni of the University of Saskatchewan. This list features notable people who have successfully graduated from a degree, certificate and/or diploma program at the university.

Agriculture

 * Lorne Babiuk - immunologist, pathogenesist, virologist, molecular virology, and vaccinologist
 * Howard Fredeen - animal breeding researcher
 * Lawrence Kirk - agronomist best known for introducing crested wheatgrass
 * J.W. Grant MacEwan - Director of the School of Agriculture, Professor of Animal Husbandry, and Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta (1966–1974)
 * Kenneth Norrie - economic historian specializing in the economy of Western Canada, especially prairie wheat farming
 * Cecil Frederick Patterson - introduced 52 new varieties of hardy fruits for the prairies and over 18 varieties of hybrid hardy lilies
 * Clayton Oscar Person - international authority on the genetics of host-parasite relations

Arts and entertainment

 * Robert Boyer - Canadian visual artist of aboriginal heritage; BEd from the Regina Campus of the U of S in 1971
 * Kim Coates - actor, honorary Doctor of Letters
 * Stephen Fox - clarinet maker
 * Garnet Hertz - artist, designer and academic; Canada Research Chair
 * Frances Hyland - actress
 * William G. Hobbs - physician, surgeon, major Canadian artist
 * Ann James - English-born Canadian artist and educator
 * Laurel Johannesson - artist
 * Deborah Theaker - actress known as Casey Edison on the science fiction comedy show Manic Mansion
 * Gordon Thiessen OC - Governor of the Bank of Canada; one of the "100 Alumni of Influence" from the U of S

Business

 * Tom Anselmi - President and COO of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment
 * Marilyn Atkinson - President of Erickson Coaching International
 * H. Douglas Barber - founder of Electrical Engineering Canadian; CEO of Gennum Corporation
 * N. Murray Edwards - billionaire
 * John E. Floyd - economist
 * Chad Hamre - entrepreneur
 * Daryl "Doc" Seaman, OC, honorary Doctor of Laws - businessman; one of the "100 Alumni of Influence" from the U of S
 * Arnold Tremere - Executive Director, government official (Canadian International Grains Institute)
 * Steven Gregory Woods - entrepreneur
 * Victor J. Zaleschuk - chair of the board of Cameco Corporation

Computers, engineering, and technology

 * Fred Mannering - Professor at University of South Florida, Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher
 * Permanand Mohan - Chief Examiner for the Caribbean Examinations Council's CAPE Examinations in Computer Science
 * W. Brett Wilson - entrepreneur, philanthropist; former Dragon's Den panelist; co-founder of FirstEnergy Capital; founder, President, and Chairman of Prairie Merchant Capital; Chairman of Canoe Financial

Educators

 * Dominique Abrioux - former President of Athabasca University
 * John Hall Archer - librarian, historian, civil servant, first President of the University of Regina
 * Reginald John Godfrey Bateman - professor of English
 * George Fredrick Curtis - dean of the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law
 * R. Peter MacKinnon - lawyer, legal academic, President of the U of S
 * Darin Nesbitt - instructor of political science at Douglas College in New Westminster, B.C.
 * A K M Siddiq - 18th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dhaka.
 * Paul Thagard - Professor of Philosophy, with cross appointment to Psychology and Computer Science, and Director of the Cognitive Science Program, at the University of Waterloo
 * Henry (Harry) George Thode, CC, MBE, FRSC - president and vice-chancellor of McMaster University; one of the "100 Alumni of Influence" from the U of S

Environmentalists

 * Richard St. Barbe Baker - English forester, environmental activist, and author
 * Jim MacNeill - consultant, environmentalist, and international public servant

Historians

 * Frank Kusch - historian of American history

Journalism/publishing/broadcasting

 * Eric Malling - television journalist
 * Sally Merchant - television personality and political figure

Law, government, and public policy

 * Don Atchison - mayor of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
 * Pat Atkinson - politician
 * Chris Axworthy - politician
 * Gordon Barnhart - University Secretary, professor in Canadian Politics, former Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan
 * Dave Batters - politician
 * Edward Dmytro Bayda - Chief Justice of Saskatchewan
 * Clément Chartier - Métis Canadian leader
 * Brooke Claxton - veteran of World War I, federal Minister of National Health and Welfare and Minister of National Defence honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the U of S
 * Eric Cline - politician
 * Roméo Dallaire, OC, CMM, GOQ, MSC, CD - senator, humanitarian, author and retired general; honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the U of S
 * Jonathan Denis - 23rd Minister of Justice of Alberta and notable Calgary lawyer
 * Grant Devine - Progressive Conservative Premier
 * John Diefenbaker, CH, PC, QC - 13th Prime Minister of Canada; university's chancellor; he and his wife were buried at the university, near the Diefenbaker Canada Centre
 * Noah Evanchuk - 2011 Canadian federal election candidate, Saskatchewan Provincial Court Judge
 * Laurie Evans - politician
 * Clarence Fines - provincial treasurer of Saskatchewan
 * Jon Gerrard, PC - politician and medical doctor
 * Ralph Goodale, PC - Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Natural Resources, Minister of Public Works, Minister of Finance, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
 * Alvin Hamilton, PC - politician
 * Robert Hanbidge, honorary Doctor of Laws - lawyer, municipal, provincial and federal politician, and Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan
 * Lynda M. Haverstock - Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan (2000–2006); Leader of the Saskatchewan Liberal Party
 * Benjamin D. Heppner - school teacher, businessman and politician
 * John Hewson - Australian politician
 * Ray Hnatyshyn - 24th Governor General of Canada
 * Constance D. Hunt - lawyer, legal academic, and judge
 * Gerard Jennissen - politician
 * Fredrick W. Johnson - 16th Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan
 * Gordon Kirkby - politician, mayor and lawyer
 * Otto Lang, PC, OC, QC - politician
 * Léonard Hilarion Joseph Legault - diplomat
 * Harold Hugh MacKay, OC, QC - lawyer and corporate director
 * Murdoch MacPherson, QC - Attorney-General of Saskatchewan; honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree from U of S
 * Jim Maddin - Mayor of Saskatoon
 * James Mallory - jurist; academic; constitutional expert; instructor in political science at U of S
 * Edward Cyril Malone - Saskatchewan lawyer and politician
 * William McIntyre, CC (born 1918) - retired Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
 * Stewart McLean - Manitoba politician
 * Gary Merasty, M.P. - politician; one of the "100 Alumni of Influence" from the U of S
 * Anthony Merchant, Q.C. - Saskatchewan lawyer
 * George Porteous - 14th Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan
 * Robert Gordon Robertson, PC, CC FRSC - Commissioner of the Northwest Territories
 * David Rodney - politician, teacher, and professional speaker
 * Roy Romanow, PC, OC, SOM, QC - politician and former Premier of Saskatchewan; one of the "100 Alumni of Influence" from the U of S
 * Tillie Taylor - judge, first chair of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission
 * Andrew Thomson - Minister of Finance of Saskatchewan
 * William Ferdinand Alphonse Turgeon - politician and diplomat
 * John Thomas Wolfe - Canadian provincial politician
 * Stephen Worobetz, OC, MC, SOM - physician and former Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan; one of the "100 Alumni of Influence" from the U of S
 * Clifford Wright - mayor of Saskatoon; honorary Doctor of Laws
 * Iva Yeo - politician

Literature

 * William Barr - Arctic historian; U of S faculty member
 * Dennis Cooley - poet
 * Lorna Crozier, a.k.a. Lorna Uher - poet
 * Dawn Dumont, author, BA 1995
 * Sarah Ens - poet
 * Richard Epp - playwright
 * Michael Helm - novelist
 * Maureen Hunter - playwright
 * Eli Mandel - poet and literary academic
 * William Sarjeant - geologist and novelist
 * Joseph Schull - playwright and historian
 * Tasha Spillett-Sumner - writer and educator
 * Guy Clarence Vanderhaeghe, OC, SOM - fiction author; one of the "100 Alumni of Influence" from the U of S
 * William Whitehead - writer, actor and filmmaker

Medicine

 * Hulda Regehr Clark - naturopath, author, and controversial practitioner of alternative medicine
 * Dmytro Cipywnyk, CM – physician and academic
 * Emmett Matthew Hall, CC, QC - jurist and civil libertarian; considered one of the fathers of the Canadian system of Medicare
 * Franklin M. Loew - one of the team that developed canola oil; recipient of the Queen's Jubilee Medal
 * Charles Randal Smith - head pediatric forensic pathologist

Nobel Prize winners

 * Gerhard Herzberg - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1970; was offered a position in 1935 to flee Nazi Germany, and remained at the university for ten years
 * Henry Taube, FRSC - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1983

Philosophy

 * Zenon Pylyshyn - cognitive scientist and philosopher

Science

 * Sylvia Fedoruk - University Chancellor, professor in Oncology, Associate Member in Physics, and Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan (1988–1994)
 * William Sarjeant - geologist and novelist
 * Elizabeth Scarr - researcher in neuropathology
 * Raymond Thorsteinsson - geologist of the high Arctic; one of the "100 Alumni of Influence" from the U of S]
 * Thorbergur Thorvaldson - scientist and first dean of graduate studies at the U of S
 * James Till O.C., O.Ont., F.R.S.C. - biophysicist, medical researcher who demonstrated the existence of stem cells; one of the "100 Alumni of Influence" from the U of S

Sociologists

 * Samuel Delbert Clark - sociologist

Sports

 * Kelly Bates - B.C. Lions, CFL and U of S Saskatchewan Huskies football player
 * Rod Bryden - owner of the Ottawa Senators; professor of law at U of S
 * Tyson Craiggs - B.C. Lions, CFL and U of S Saskatchewan Huskies football player
 * Cyprian Enweani - sprinter
 * George Genereux - physician and trap shooting gold medal winner
 * Charles Cecil Hay - ice hockey player, organizer, and administrator
 * Diane Jones-Konihowski, C.M. - pentathlete
 * Dave King - hockey coach
 * Gene Makowsky - Saskatchewan Roughriders lineman of the CFL
 * Shannon Miller - hockey coach
 * Sandra Schmirler, SOM, BSPE - curler; Olympic and triple World Champion; one of the '100 Alumni of Influence" from the U of S
 * Don Wittman - nationally recognized sports broadcaster in Canada
 * Viola Yanik - wrestler

Theology

 * Maurice Baudoux - priest and Archbishop of Saint Boniface, Manitoba
 * Walter H. Farquharson - hymn-writer
 * Herbert V. Günther - Buddhist; professor and Head of the Department of Far Eastern Studies at the U of S
 * Muzaffar Iqbal - founding president of the Center for Islam and Science
 * Raymond L. Schultz - National Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

Honorary degree recipients

 * Arnold Davidson Dunton, CC, Doctor of Laws, honoris causa - educator and public administrator
 * Charles Cecil Hay, honorary doctorate - ice hockey player, organizer, and administrator