List of Memorial University of Newfoundland people explained

This is a list of people involved with Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Chancellors

Name	Years in office
The Rt. Hon. Viscount Rothermere of Hemsted	1952–1961
The Rt. Hon. Lord Thomson of Fleet	1961–1968
Dr. G. Alain Frecker	1971–1979
Dr. Paul Desmarais	1979–1988
	1994–2008
	2008–2012
Dr. Susan Dyer Knight	2012–2022
Earl Ludlow	2022 to present

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Presidents

Name	Years active
John Lewis Paton	1925–1933
Albert Hatcher	1933–1952
Raymond Gushue	1952–1966
	1966–1967
	1967–1973
Moses Morgan	1973–1981
Leslie Harris	1981–1990
Arthur May	1990–1999
Axel Meisen	1999–2007
	2007–2009
Christopher Loomis	2009–2010
Gary Kachanoski	2010–2020
	2020-2023
Neil Bose (pro tempore)	2023 to present

Founders

• Vincent Patrick Burke

Notable alumni

Academics and scholars

• David Agnew, president, Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology, former Secretary of Cabinet, Government of Ontario
• Gary Botting, poet, playwright, lawyer and legal scholar
• Donald B. Dingwell, D.Sc. (h.c. mult.) FMSA FGAC MAE FAGU FRSC BVK ACATECH ML FAAAS, award-winning experimental geoscientist, past President of the European Geosciences Union, 3rd Secretary-General of the European Research Council, President of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior
• Robert Gellately, historian
• John Gosse
• George Ivany, President, University of Saskatchewan
• Mary C. Lobban, British physiologist
• Brian Pratt, award-winning paleontologist and sedimentologist, Fellow of the Geological Society of America, and past president of the Geological Association of Canada
• Harold Williams, geologist and world expert on the tectonics of mountain belts

Business

• Moya Greene - President and CEO of Royal Mail
• Jane Rowe - President of Teachers Private Capital, the private equity arm of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan

Politics and government

• KM Chan - biochemistry professor and politician
• Gen. Rick Hillier - Chief of the Defence Staff, Canadian Forces
• Dale Kirby - Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development
• Allan Rowe - MPP for Dartmouth South and liberal caucus whip, former television host
• Marit Stiles (born 1969) - Member of Provincial Parliament for Davenport in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP) and the leader of the Opposition
• Clyde Wells - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador, former Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador
• Danny Williams - former Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador

Film and television

• Perry Chafe - TV producer and writer, Republic of Doyle & Son of A Critch
• Bill Gillespie - former Security Correspondent, CBC Radio
• Tristan Homer - children's television producer
• Bhreagh MacNeil - Canadian Screen Award nominated actress
• Mark McKinney - comedian, member of The Kids in the Hall
• Scott Oake - sportscaster for CBC Sports

Press and literature

• Anne Chislett - playwright
• Michael Crummey - novelist and poet
• Gwynne Dyer - journalist, syndicated columnist and military historian, Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (1973–1977)
• Tom Harrington - journalist
• Wayne Johnston - novelist
• Rex Murphy - journalist and commentator

Art and music

• Alan Doyle - musician
• Duo Concertante -Nancy Dahn on violin and Tim Steeves on piano
• Bob Hallett - musician
• Andy Jones - comedian
• Séan McCann - musician
• Fergus O'Byrne - musician
• Shelley Posen - folklorist and singer-songwriter
  • Erin Power - musician, The Swinging Belles Laura Winter - musician, The Swinging Belles

Science

• Carolyn Relf - geologist^[2]

Sports

• Brad Gushue - Olympic gold medallist (curling)
• Mark Nichols - Olympic gold medallist (curling)

Medicine

• Dr. Norman R.C. Campbell – Professor of Medicine, Community Health Sciences and Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Calgary
• Ranjit Chandra - Former professor of Medicine, forced to resign after allegations of scientific misconduct and data fabrication
• Jawahar Kalra – physician, clinical researcher, and academic

Crime

• Shirley Turner – Murderer whose murder of her son Zachary gave rise to the movie Dear Zachary^[3]

Notable faculty, past and present

University Research Professors

(Note: "University Research Professor" is the name for MUN's highest academic honour. One can be a full professor, even conducting research, at the university without being a "University Research Professor.")

• Ian Jordaan - engineer and world expert on design of offshore structures in harsh environments
• Harold Williams - geologist and world expert on the tectonics of mountain belts

Other faculty

• Jean Briggs - anthropologist and expert on Inuit languages^[4]
• Lindsay Cahill - chemist
• John Frederick Dewey - structural geologist. Fellow of the Royal Society and member of the United States National Academy of Sciences; Wollaston Medal & Penrose Medal recipient.
• Donald Hillman - paediatrician and professor of pediatrics best known for working in Third World countries in international child health and development
• Francesca M. Kerton - chemist
• Elliott Leyton - renowned for studies of serial murderers
• Elizabeth Miller - 19th century British Gothic literature
• Ward Neale - geologist
• Robert Paine - Anthropologist studying the Inuit and Saami peoples.
• Patrick Parfrey - nephrologist and clinical epidemiologist
• Augustus Rowe - former Minister of Health of Newfoundland and Labrador; former chairman of Memorial University's Department of Family Medicine^[5]
• Wei Qiu, architecture professor

Rhodes Scholars

• Matthew Downer - 2019
• Laura Pittman - 2013 - engineer
• Sean Connors - 1987 - physician
• Robert Joy - 1973 - actor
• Danny Williams - 1969 - Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador
• Rex Murphy - 1968 - TV commentator
• Bill Rowe - 1964
• Fabian O'Dea - 1939
• Moses Morgan - 1938

Honorary degree recipients

• Sarah Anala - Canadian social worker
• Anne, Princess Royal - member of the Canadian Royal family
• Lloyd Axworthy - Canadian politician
• Jean Chrétien - 20th Prime Minister of Canada
• Bob Cole - CBC hockey commentator
• John Frederick Dewey - geologist
• Craig Dobbin - businessman
• Gwynne Dyer - journalist
• John Kenneth Galbraith - economist
• Loyola Hearn - former Minister of Fisheries and Oceans
• Ron Hynes - folk musician
• David Lloyd Johnston - Governor General of Canada
• Cathy Jones - comedian and actress
• Aung San Suu Kyi - pro-democracy advocate
• HRH Princess Mary - member of the Canadian Royal Family
• Rick Mercer - Canadian comedian and television personality
• Brian Mulroney - 18th Prime Minister of Canada
• Ward Neale - geologist
• Lester B. Pearson - 14th Prime Minister of Canada, Nobel Peace Prize winner
• Raymond Price - geologist
• Edward Shackleton - geographer and politician
• David Suzuki - Canadian science broadcaster and environmental activist
• Mary Walsh - comedian
• John Tuzo Wilson - geophysicist

Notes and References

1. Web site: 8.8 Chancellors of the University. www.mun.ca.
2. Web site: Carolyn Relf, Director . Government of Yukon . 9 November 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151121034001/http://www.geology.gov.yk.ca/bios/555.html . 21 November 2015 .
3. Web site: After Canadian mother killed herself and their only grandchild, U.S. couple started 10-year fight to change Canada's bail laws. nationalpost.
4. News: Lisa. Gushue. Eminent anthropologist Jean Briggs, Inuit language expert, dead at 87 . . 2016-07-29 . 2016-08-20.
5. News: Andrew. Robinson. Former N.L. health minister dead at 92. The Telegram. 2013-07-23. 2013-08-18. dead. https://archive.today/20130723100400/http://www.thetelegram.com/News/Local/2013-07-23/article-3324288/Former-NL-health-minister-dead-at-92/1. 2013-07-23.