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This is a list of York University people. It includes notable graduates and faculty of the Toronto, Ontario, Canada institution, as well as graduates of Osgoode Hall Law School prior to its affiliation with York in 1969. See also Notable alumni of Osgoode Hall.

## Graduates

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### Politicians

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Name  | Notability

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John Black Aird | Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (1980–1985) and Canadian senator (1964–1974)[1][2]
Lincoln Alexander | Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (1985–1991)[3][4]
Andrus Ansip | Prime Minister of Estonia (2005–)[5][6]
Navdeep Bains | Liberal MP for Mississauga—Malton, and Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development
Maurizio Bevilacqua | Parliamentary Secretary (1993–1996) and Secretary of State for Canada (2002–2003)[7][8]
Angela Bogdan  | Consul General of Canada in Sydney, Australia;[9] previously posted as Ambassador to Serbia and High Commissioner to Sri Lanka
Marion Boyd | Attorney General of Ontario (1993–1995)[10][11]
Michael Bryant | Attorney-General of Ontario (2003–2007)[12][13]
Aileen Carroll | federal Minister for International Cooperation (2003–2006)[14][15]
Ann Cavoukian | Ontario Privacy Commissioner
Carme Chacon | Minister of Defence in the Government of Spain (2008–)[16][17]
Joseph Clarke | mayor of Edmonton, Alberta (1934–1937)
Marshall A. Cohen | former president and CEO of Molson, member of the Trilateral Commission[18][19]
David Collenette | former senior federal cabinet minister[20][21]
George Drew | 14th Premier of Ontario[22][23]
Ernie Eves | 23rd Premier of Ontario[24][25]
J. S. Ewart QC | advocate of Canadian independence[26][27]
Gordon Fairweather | first chief commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission[28][29]
Martha Hall Findlay | Member of Parliament and active member of the Liberal Party of Canada[30][31]
Jim Flaherty | Minister of Finance of Canada[32][33]
Herb Gray | former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, former Solicitor General of Canada[34][35]
Barbara Hall | former Mayor of Toronto, current Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission[36][37]
Carol Hansell | Board of Directors, Bank of Canada[38][39]
Charles Harnick | former Attorney General of Ontario[4][40]
Edmund Ho Hau Wah | 1st Chief Executive of the Macau SAR
Dennis Horak  | Ambassador of Canada to Saudi Arabia[41]
Ron Irwin | former Federal Cabinet Minister, former Ambassador to Ireland, and former Consul General to Boston[42]
James Kelleher | former member of the Senate of Canada[43][44]
Michael Kerzner | Solicitor General of Ontario
Peter Kormos | former Minister of Consumer and Commercial Relations, House Leader for the Ontario NDP Caucus[45][46]
Zahir Lalani | Consul and Senior Representative for New York at the Bank of Canada[47][48]
Floyd Laughren | former Ontario NDP MPP and finance minister[49][50]
Jack Layton | Leader of the federal New Democratic Party[51]
William Ross Macdonald | former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario[52][53]
John Matheson | former MP, retired judge, and political sponsor of the Canadian Flag,[54][55] which was designed by George Stanley
Roy McMurtry | former Attorney General of Ontario[56]
John McNee | former Ambassador of Canada to United Nations[57][58]
Rachel Notley | 17th Premier of Alberta[59]
Gordon O'Connor | Former Minister of National Defence of Canada[60][61]
James O'Reilly | Federal politician[62][63]
Lisa Raitt | Canadian Minister of Natural Resources[64][65]
John Robarts | 17th Premier of Ontario[66][67]
Ian Scott | former Attorney General of Ontario[68][69]
Ulric Shannon  | Consul General of Canada in Istanbul, Turkey[70]
Jagmeet Singh | Leader of the Federal New Democratic Party
Mohamud Siraji | Member of Parliament[citation needed]
Karen Kraft Sloan | former United Nations Ambassador of the environment[71][72]
Greg Sorbara | Ontario Minister of Finance[73][74]
John Tory | Mayor of Toronto, Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario[75][76]
Peter Van Loan | Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, former President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs[77][78]
Robert Stanley Welch | former Deputy Premier of Ontario, Former Attorney General of Ontario[79][80]
Sara Wilshaw  | former Consul General of Canada in Dallas, Texas, USA[81]
David Young | former Attorney General of Ontario[82][83]

### Judges

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Name  | Notability

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Archie Campbell | legal giant, led inquiry into SARS[84]
Kim Carter | former Chief Military Judge of the Canadian Forces, current Ombudsmen of British Columbia[85]
John Robert Cartwright | former Chief Justice of Canada[86]
Peter Cory | former puisne judge of the Supreme Court of Canada and former Chancellor of the university[87]
Asher Dan Grunis | former president of the Supreme Court of Israel[88]
Frank Joseph Hughes | Supreme Court Judge[89]
Wilfred Judson | former puisne judge of the Supreme Court of Canada[90]
Patrick Kerwin | former Chief Justice of Canada[91]
Harry S. Laforme | Ont. Court of Appeal, head of Aboriginal Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada[92]
Bora Laskin | former Chief Justice of Canada[93]
Patrick LeSage | former Chief Justice of Ontario[94]
Claire L'Heureux-Dube | former judge of the Supreme Court of Canada (LLD)[95]
Allen Linden | Federal Court of Appeal judge[96]
Goldwyn Arthur Martin | QC, former Justice of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, prominent criminal law scholar[97]
Roy McMurtry | former Chief Justice of Ontario[56]
Dennis O'Connor | of the Court of Appeal for Ontario and Associate Chief Justice of Ontario[98]
James O'Reilly | Federal Court of Canada[99]
John D. Richard | Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Appeal of Canada[100]
Wishart Spence | former puisne judge of the Supreme Court of Canada[101]
Warren Winkler | Chief Justice of Ontario[102]

### Business leaders

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Name  | Notability

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Wajid Ali  | Senior Vice President and CFO at Synaptics[103]
Isabel Bassett | former MPP and chief executive officer of TVOntario
Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty | President of the Canadian Pacific Railway
Douglas G. Bergeron | billionaire, President and CEO of Verifone
George Butterfield | co-founder of luxury active travel company Butterfield & Robinson
Jason Falovitch  | co-founder of PlayLine and Leverage Game Media
Ivan Fecan | President and chief executive officer, CTV
Dennis Fotinos  | President and CEO of Enwave
Robert J. Gemmell  | former president and CEO of Citigroup Global Markets Canada Inc.
John S. Hunkin  | former CEO of CIBC
Colleen Johnston  | Group Head Finance and Chief Financial Officer at TD Bank Financial Group[104]
Vikas Kohli | founder of Fatlabs Recording Studio in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Gordon Lownds | co-founder of Sleep Country Canada
Sergio Marchionne | President and CEO of Fiat and Chrysler Group LLC
Rob McEwen | President and CEO of US Gold Corporation
Alan G. McNally  | former Chairman of Harris Bank
Eileen Mercier  | Chair of Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board
Larry Organ | Chief Executive Officer, ConsumerBase LLC, founder of FastWeb and JobsOnline
Denise Pickett  | President and CEO of American Express Canada
Steve Prentice | founder of the Bristall Group
Edward Samuel Rogers | business tycoon, President and CEO Rogers Communications
Bojana Sentaler | fashion designer and founder, president and creative director of Sentaler[105]
Alex Shnaider | Chairman of Royal Laser Corp. and co-founder of Midland Group Midland Group, Canada's youngest billionaire
Paul Tsaparis  | President and CEO of Hewlett-Packard Canada
Richard E. Waugh | President and chief executive officer, Scotiabank
David Wilson  | Chairman of the Ontario Securities Commission

### Artists and entertainers

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Name  | Notability

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Debra Anderson | writer
Jaime Angelopoulos | sculptor
Will Beauchamp | filmmaker, Warner Bros. Canada representative
Mark Bluvshtein | chess grandmaster
Christian Bök | poet, professor at University of Calgary
Arthur Bourinot | Governor General's Award for Poetry recipient
Elizabeth Bradley | Chair of Drama at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University
Shannon Bramer | poet
Natalie Brown | star of Sophie on CBC
Amanda Brugel | co-star on MVP: The Secret Lives of Hockey Wives on CBC
Jane Buyers | multimedia artist
Lisa Charleyboy | Indigenous writer, social entrepreneur, editor-in-chief of Urban Native Magazine
Juan Chioran | voice and stage actor at the Stratford Festival
Ins Choi | actor, playwright of Kim's Convenience
Sasha Clements | actress
Nora Fatehi | singer, actress, Indian film industry, Bollywood
Megan Crewe | writer of young adult books
deMarco DeCiccio  | vocalist with the contemporary, openly gay Christian and music duo Jason and deMarco
Gerry Dee | comedian (Last Comic Standing)
Bonnie Devine | artist, curator, and writer
Orville Lloyd Douglas | poet, writer
Robert Duncan | composer
Matt Dusk | jazz musician
Will Ferguson | travel writer and novelist, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize
Melyssa Ford | model and actress, on-air personality for Sirius Satellite Radio
Friyie | musician
Thea Gill | actress (Queer as Folk)
Douglas Glover | writer, recipient of Governor General's Award for Fiction
Elaine Goble | visual artist
Kim Gordon | singer and bassist of experimental rock band Sonic Youth
Katherine Govier | novelist, winner of Marian Engel Award
Larysa Harapyn | entertainment reporter for CityTV
Nene Humphrey | artist
Mark Irwin | cinematographer (Me, Myself & Irene, Scream, There's Something About Mary)
Tanja Jacobs | actor and director
K-os | musician
Allen Kaeja | dance artist
Amrit Kaur | Canadian actress (The Sex Lives of College Girls)
Jillian Keiley | director
Kid Twist | musician
K'naan | musician
Vikas Kohli | producer and founder of Fatlabs
Bruce LaBruce | underground filmmaker and icon of the gay arts community (JD's, Vinyl)
Ringo Lam | Hong Kong action director, inspired Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs
Jerry Levitan | producer and star of Oscar Award-nominated animated short I Met the Walrus
Canisia Lubrin | poet
Charmaine Lurch | artist and educator
Kate Lushington | theatre artist and teacher
Peter Lynch | filmmaker (Project Grizzly)
Rachel McAdams | actress
Steve McCaffery | poet
Allyson Mitchell | Toronto-based artist
Michelle Mohabeer | filmmaker, later also a professor at York
Annemarie Morais | filmmaker (How She Move)
Jeffrey Morgan | authorized biographer of Alice Cooper and Iggy Pop & The Stooges
Mike Murley | jazz musician, recipient of Juno Award
George Murray | poet
Mathew Murray | web series creator, filmmaker
Ruba Nadda | film director
Kardinal Offishall | Canadian musician
Steven Page | musician, former lead singer for the Barenaked Ladies
Zoie Palmer | actress
Ramona Pringle | actor (Shoot 'Em Up)
Dina Pugliese | television personality, co-host of CityTV's Breakfast Television
Simone Rapisarda Casanova | filmmaker
Michael Redhill | poet, playwright, and novelist, editorial board of Coach House Press
Nino Ricci | writer, recipient of Governor General's Award for Fiction
Spencer Rice | actor, director (Kenny vs. Spenny)
Diane Roberts | English-born, Canadian-based theatre director, co-founder of Obsidian Theatre
Peter Robinson | English-born Canadian-based detective novelist
Lina Rodriguez | filmmaker and screenwriter
Sophy Romvari | film director, writer, and actress
Don Ross | fingerstyle guitar champion, lauded by Bruce Cockburn
Anusree Roy | actor and playwright
Nora Samosir | Indonesian actress[106]
Jacqueline Samuda | actress and author
Albert Schultz | actor
Eddie Schwartz | songwriter/producer (The Doobie Brothers, Pat Benatar)
Ushna Shah | Pakistani actress
Lilly Singh | YouTube celebrity
Sarah Slean | singer-songwriter
Ron Sparks | comedian/actor/writer (Video on Trial)
Joel A. Sutherland | author
Susan Swan | author
Priya Thomas | musician
Raymond Thompson | creator of hit New Zealand teen/sci-fi television series The Tribe
Scott Thompson | comedian/actor (The Kids in the Hall, The Larry Sanders Show, My Fabulous Gay Wedding)
Larry Towell | celebrated photographer
Laura Vandervoort | actress (Smallville, Instant Star, Into the Blue 2)
Maurice Dean Wint | actor, nominated for a Dora Award
Kristy Yang | Chinese-born Canadian actress
Katheryn Winnick | actress and martial artist

### Scientists

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Name  | Notability

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Ellen Bialystok | psychologist, winner of the Killiam Prize
Nigel Lockyer | director of TRIUMF, Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics
Steve MacLean | astronaut
Rosalind C. Morris | anthropologist and cultural critic at Columbia University, 2022 recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship
Helen Rodd | zoologist
Bridget Stutchbury | natural scientist and writer; author of Silence of the Songbirds and The Bird Detective[107]
Debra W. Soh | sex science writer[108]
Scott D. Tanner | chemist, co-inventor of mass cytometry and the collision/reaction cell

### Athletes

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Name  | Notability

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Alon Badat | Israeli-Canadian soccer player
Karen Cockburn | Olympic medallist, trampoline (silver in 2008 & 2004, bronze in 2000)
Andre Durie | Canadian football player
Ricky Foley | Canadian football player
Sean Foudy | Canadian football player
Bill Hatanaka | Canadian football player
Adam Henrich | professional ice hockey player
Frank Hoffmann | Canadian football player
Melissa Humana-Paredes | Canadian beach volleyball player (4th at the 2017 Beach Volleyball World Championships)
Jeff Johnson | Canadian football player
Tuğba Karademir | two time Olympian, representing Turkey in figure skating at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics[109][unreliable source]
Carlos Newton | mixed martial artist (former UFC Welterweight Champion)
Dontae Richards-Kwok | Canadian sprinter
Trish Stratus | former professional wrestler, known for most Women's Championship reigns (seven)
Ari Taub | Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler
Alexandria Town | freestyle wrestler, first Canadian to win a gold medal at the World U23 Wrestling Championships
James Tuck | Canadian football player
Mathieu Turgeon | Olympic medallist, trampoline (bronze in 2000)
Taylor Wilde | former professional wrestler (Youngest TNA Women's Knockout Champion (2008) and first Knockout in TNA history to win the singles and tag team Knockout titles (2009))
Brandie Wilkerson | Canadian beach volleyball player (5th at the 2017 Beach Volleyball World Championships)

### Broadcasters

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Name  | Notability

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Barbara Budd | senior journalist with the CBC
Daniel Dale | fact-checker for CNN, formerly Washington bureau chief for the Toronto Star
Ken Daniels | former Hockey Night in Canada host, current Detroit Red Wings commentator on FSN Detroit
Melissa DiMarco | TV personality and actress, has her own show and a role on Degrassi: The Next Generation
Nancy Durham | journalist and foreign correspondent for the CBC, married to Oxford philosopher Bill Newton-Smith
Matt Galloway | CBC Radio One host, Metro Morning
Jian Ghomeshi | CBC host, musician, writer and producer
Michael Harris | Ottawa Sun columnist, Woodrow Wilson Scholar
Chantal Hebert | journalist for The Toronto Star, Le Devoir, National Post and others; commentator on Canadian politics; appears often on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Michael Hirsh | co-founder of Nelvana international animation company based in Toronto (Babar, Hergé's Adventures of Tintin, Bob and Margaret)
Mark Jones | ESPN and ABC play-by-play sports broadcaster
Paul Jones | play-by-play commentator for the Toronto Raptors
Patrick Loubert | co-founder of Nelvana
Hazel Mae | news anchor and personality on Sportsnet
Jonathan Mann | journalist for CNN International
Ginella Massa | television presenter, newscaster, and journalist
Brian Milner | senior columnist for The Globe and Mail
Jacquie Perrin | host of CBC's Saturday Report, accomplished pilot
B.W. Powe | writer and columnist for The Globe and Mail
Dina Pugliese | co-host of Breakfast Television on CityTV in Toronto
Sandie Rinaldo | CTV news anchor for all of Canada
Paula Todd | journalist and host of TVOntario's Person to Person and CTV's The Verdict

### Other

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Name  | Notability

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Gord Ash | former Toronto Blue Jays General Manager (1995–2001) and current Milwaukee Brewers assistant to the General Manager
Harry Black | humanitarian, former executive director of UNICEF Canada
Gwen Boniface | former Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police
Guy Bujold | President of the Canadian Space Agency
Marlys Edwardh | civil rights lawyer who represented Maher Arar
Ward P.D. Elcock | former Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service
Susan Eng | former chair of the Toronto Police Services Board, Director of Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Melyssa Ford | model and BET personality
Cecil Foster | novelist, essayist and sociologist
Mitchell Goldhar | founder, SmartCentres REIT
Edward Greenspan | criminal defense lawyer (clients include Conrad Black among others)
Alexander Haditaghi  | founder, owner and chairman of Pacific Mortgage Company
Wilson A. Head | human rights activist
Edmund Ho | Chief Executive of Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
Ahmed Hussen | President of the Canadian Somali Congress
Faisal Kutty | lawyer, law professor, writer and human rights activist
Sheldon Levy | President and Vice-Chancellor of Ryerson University
Gavin MacKenzie | Treasurer (the head) of the Law Society of Upper Canada
James MacKinnon | head of the Economics department at Queen's University
Jay Manuel | creative director of America's Next Top Model as well as Canada's Next Top Model
Michael Marder | philosopher
Deborah McCawley | former chief executive officer for the Law Society of Manitoba, currently sitting as a Manitoba judge
Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang | First female Vice President, Republic of Ghana
Joseph Pivato | literary critic, professor and Italian-Canadian writer
Julian Porter | former Commissioner of the Toronto Transit Commission and President of the Canadian National Exhibition
Victoria Pratt | actress, fitness model, fitness writer
Pat Quinn | former coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs NHL hockey team; member of the Hockey Hall of Fame
David Rocco | celebrity chef, actor and producer
Clayton Ruby | criminal defense lawyer
Bea Rose Santiago | Miss International 2013
David Saunders | former Dean of Smith School of Business, Queen's University
Kim Sawchuk | academic and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies for the Faculty of Arts and Science at Concordia University
Lyal S. Sunga  | specialist in international human rights, humanitarian law and international criminal law
Tom Traves | President and Vice-Chancellor of Dalhousie University
Sylvana Windsor, Countess of St Andrews | academic and historian
Tom Wright | former commissioner of the Canadian Football League, former President of Adidas Canada
Shadya Yasin | social activist, poet and teacher
Alan Young | Canadian constitutional lawyer and civil rights activist

## Notable faculty

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### Engineering

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Name  | Notability

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Michael Daly  | Engineer, namesake of an asteroid (2016)[110] and lead scientist on the NASA-led mission OSIRIS-REx mission[111]
Ping Wang | Engineer, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for "her contributions to radio resource allocation and performance modeling of heterogeneous wireless networks."[112]

### Other

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Name  | Notability

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Irving Abella | history
James Alcock | psychology professor, author, and parapsychology skeptic
Louise Arbour | Professor of Law, currently UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Harry Arthurs | law and former President of York University
Paul Axelrod | education
Joel Bakan | law, author of The Corporation
Shannon Bell | performance philosopher, political scientist, feminist
James Beveridge | filmmaker and educator; founder of York's Department of Film
Hédi Bouraoui | French and English literature
Rob Bowman | ethnomusicology
Ed Broadbent | former leader of the federal New Democratic Party (1960s)
Jean-Gabriel Castel | Professor Emeritus of Law
Jerome Ch'en | Professor Emeritus of History
G. Ramsay Cook | Professor Emeritus of History
Christopher Dewdney | author, Professor of English Literature
Susan Dion | Professor of Education
Lynne Fernie | film studies
Markus Giesler | Schulich Marketing Professor, named one of the 40 best business school professors under the age of 40 in the world
Stephen Gill | Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Wenona Giles | professor emerita in the Department of Anthropology, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Barbara Godard | Professor of English and the Avie Bennett Historica Chair in Canadian Literature
Jack Granatstein | Professor Emeritus of History
Christopher D. Green | Professor of Psychology and Philosophy, President-elect of the Society for the History of Psychology (APA Division 26)
Leslie Green | Professor, Law, Philosophy, and Social and Political Thought, permanent chair in Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford
Michael Greyeyes | Actor/Choreographer
John Greyson | film director
Peter Hogg | Professor Emeritus of Law, constitutional expert, former Dean of Osgoode
David A. Hood | Professor of Exercise Physiology
Michiel Horn | Professor Emeritus of History, University Historian
Jacques Israelievitch | violinist, member of the Order of Canada[113]
Carl E. James | Sociologist, professor of education
Ali Kazimi | filmmaker
Ruth Koleszar-Green | Professor of Social Work, Indigenous activist
Gabriel Kolko | Professor Emeritus of History
Bonita Lawrence | Associate Professor, Department of Equity Studies, Indigenous rights activist
Irving Layton | poet
Jack Layton | leader of the New Democratic Party
James Laxer | author, columnist and commentator, Professor of Canadian Politics
Lee Lorch | Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, civil rights activist, member of Cuban Academy of Sciences
Edelgard Mahant | political science
Aryn Martin | Associate Dean, sociologist, medical historian, and scholar of feminist science and technology studies
Deborah McGregor | Whitefish River Ojibway environmentalist, educator[114]
David T. McNab | Métis historian
Patrick J. Monahan | Professor of Law
Heather Monroe-Blum | Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University
Jonathan Nitzan | Professor of Political Economy
David F. Noble | Historian of Technology
Michael Ondaatje | author and filmmaker, Professor of English Literature
Leo Panitch | Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science (Canada Research Chair in Political Economy), editor of the Socialist Register
Andreas Papandreou | Greek Prime Minister, Economics Professor (1969–1974)
William Phillips | Professor of Economics, notable for his contribution in economics with the Phillips Curve
Joseph Pivato | Visiting professor, Mariano Elia Chair in Italian-Canadian Studies (1987–88), writer, scholar, Professor at Athabasca University
Sergei M. Plekhanov | Professor of Political Science, member of Soviet Academy of Sciences
B. W. Powe | Professor of English
John Ridpath | Objectivist philosopher and retired associate professor of Economics and Intellectual History
Paul Roazen | Professor Emeritus of Social and Political Science, founder of meta-psychotherapy
Neil Leon Rudenstine | Professor Emeritus of Political Science, former president of Harvard University
Anne E. Russon | Professor of Psychology, expert on Orangutan innovation and intelligence
Marlis Schweitzer | Chair of the Department of Theatre
Trichy Sankaran | Indian carnatic percussionist
J.T. Saywell | Professor Emeritus of History
Sam Schachter | Olympic volleyball player; volleyball coach
Signa Daum Shanks | Professor of Law
Vivian Stamatopoulos | Teaching Award winner, long-term care advocate
David N. Stamos | Professor of Philosophy
Grant Strate | founder of York's Dance department and first resident choreographer of National Ballet of Canada
Orest Subtelny | Professor of History
Priscila Uppal | professor of creative writing nominated for Griffin Poetry Prize
Ingrid Veninger | actress, writer, director, producer, and film professor
Deanne Williams | author and historian
Ellen Wood | historian and critic of political theory
Neal Wood | historian
Robin Wood | Professor Emeritus of Film and Video, film critic
Gillian E Wu | Professor Emerita of Science, former Dean of Pure and Applied Science, immunologist

### Distinguished Research Professors / University Professors

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The ranks of "Distinguished Research Professor"[115] and "University Professor"[116] are the highest a professor can achieve at York University. There may be at most thirty of either type at any time.[117] The title of Distinguished Research Professor is awarded to faculty who have made outstanding contributions to the university through their work in research,[118] while a University Professor has "demonstrated a commitment to participation in University life and/or contribution to the University as a community" as well as teaching and scholarship.[119]

Name  | Year of award & notability

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Eshrat Arjomandi | 2006: Computer Science & Engineering, Science & Engineering
Pat Armstrong | 2010: Sociology, Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Gerald O. Aspirall | 1988: Chemistry, Science
Isabella C. Bakker | 2014: Political Science, Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Norbert Bartel | 2006: Physics & Astronomy, Science & Engineering
Dawn Bazely[120] | 2017: Biology, Science[121]
Russell Belk | 2014: Schulich School of Business
Ellen Bialystok | 2003: Psychology, Arts
Diethard Bohme | 1995: Chemistry, Pure & Applied Science
John Bosher | 1989: History, Arts
Deborah Britzman | 2006: Education
James Carley | 2000: English, Arts
Jean-Gabriel Castel | 1986: Osgoode Hall Law School
Jerome Ch’en | 1984: History, Arts
Lorraine Code | 1998: Philosophy, Arts
J. Douglas Crawford | 2013: Psychology, Health
Kenneth Davey | 1984: Biology, Science
Sheila Embleton | 2009: Languages, Literatures & Linguistics, Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Norman Endler | 1996: Psychology, Arts
Stephen Gill | 2006: Political Science, Arts
Jack Granatstein | 1994: History, Arts
Leslie S. Greenberg | 2010: Psychology, Health
Philip Gulliver | 1985: Anthropology, Arts
Henry S. Harris | 1984: Philosophy, Glendon
Robert Haynes | 1986: Biology, Science
Michael Herren | 1999: Humanities, Atkinson
Eric Hessels | 2006: Physics & Astronomy, Science & Engineering
Richard Hornsey[122] | 2015: Electrical Engineering, Lassonde School of Engineering[123]
Ian Howard | 1988: Psychology, Arts
Allan Hutchinson | 2006: Osgoode Hall Law School
Christopher Innes | 1997: English, Arts
Ian Jarvie | 1993: Philosophy, Arts
Michael Kater | 1992: History, Atkinson
Gabriel Kolko | 1986: History, Arts
A. B. P. Lever | 1998: Chemistry, Pure & Applied Science
Clifford Leznoff | 2003: Chemistry, Pure & Applied Science
Paul Lovejoy | 1997: History, Arts
John C. McConnell | 2005: Earth & Space Science & Engineering, Science & Engineering
Kent McNeil | 2008: Osgoode Hall Law School
Peter Moens | 1991: Biology, Pure & Applied Science
Gareth Morgan | 1992: Administrative Studies
H. V. Nelles | 2001: History, Arts
Ralph W. Nicholls | 1983: Physics, Science
John O’Neill | 1983: Sociology, Arts
Hiroshi Ono | 2001: Psychology, Arts
Leo Panitch | 1999: Political Science, Arts
Debra Pepler | 2008: Psychology, Health
Huw Pritchard | 1983: Chemistry, Science
David M. Regan | 1992: Psychology, Arts
Marcia H. Rioux | 2013: Health Policy & Management, Health
Nicholas Rogers | 2011: History, Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Beryl Rowland | 1983: English, Arts
Stuart Shanker | 2005: Psychology, Atkinson Faculty of Liberal & Professional Studies
Gordon Shepherd | 1993: Earth & Space Science, Pure & Applied Science
K. W. Michael Siu | 2008: Chemistry, Science & Engineering
Brian Slattery | 2008: Osgoode Hall Law School
Donald Smiley | 1984: Political Science, Arts
Martin Steinbach | 2000: Psychology, Atkinson Faculty of Liberal & Professional Studies
Bridget Stutchbury | 2009: Biology, Science & Engineering
James Tenney | 1995: Music, Fine Arts
George Tourlakis | 2007: Computer Science & Engineering, Science & Engineering
John Tsotsos | 2008: Computer Science & Engineering, Science & Engineering
Reginald Whitaker | 2001: Political Science, Arts
Jianhong Wu | 2011: Mathematics & Statistics, Science & Engineering

## Presidents

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Name  | Notability  | Term

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Murray G. Ross | academic  | 1959–1970
David Slater | economist and civil servant  | 1970–1973
H. Ian Macdonald | economist and civil servant  | 1973–1984
Harry W. Arthurs | lawyer and academic  | 1985–1992
Susan Mann | historian and academic  | 1993–1997
Lorna Marsden | academic and politician  | 1997–2008
Mamdouh Shoukri | academic  | 2008–2017[124]
Rhonda Lenton | academic  | 2017–present[125]

## Chancellors

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Name  | Notability  | Term

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Wilfred A. Curtis | RCAF air marshal  | 1959–1968
Floyd S. Chalmers | publisher  | 1968–1973
Walter L. Gordon | federal cabinet minister  | 1973–1977
John P. Robarts | premier of Ontario  | 1977–1982
John S. Proctor | banker  | 1982–1983
J. Tuzo Wilson | geophysicist  | 1983–1986
Larry Clarke | founder of SPAR Aerospace | 1986–1991
Oscar Peterson | jazz piano great  | 1991–1994
Arden Haynes | businessman  | 1994–1998
Avie J. Bennett | businessman  | 1998–2004
Peter deCarteret Cory | jurist  | 2004–2008
Roy McMurtry | politician and judge  | 2008–2014
Greg Sorbara | former Ontario Minister of Finance  | 2014–2023[126]
Kathleen Taylor | businesswoman  | 2023–present

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