List of Université Laval people explained
This is a list of people associated with Université Laval.
Notable alumni
Artists and media personalities
Athletes
Business leaders
Political Leaders
Canadian
- Prime Ministers of Canada Louis St. Laurent, Brian Mulroney and Jean Chrétien
- Premiers of Quebec Lucien Bouchard, Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Edmund James Flynn, Jean Lesage, René Lévesque, Pauline Marois, Simon-Napoléon Parent and Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
- Jean-Martin Aussant, former leader of Option nationale party
- Jean Bazin, senator
- Louise Beaudoin, former minister in Quebec
- Lawrence Cannon, Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, 2008–2011
- Thomas Chapais, lawyer and federal politician
- Raoul Dandurand, lawyer, federal politician, diplomat, president of the League of Nations Assembly for 1925
- Stéphane Dion, diplomat and former politician; former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
- Gilbert Finn, 26th Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick
- Eugène Fiset, former Surgeon General of Canada, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
- Michael Fortier, senator
- Wilfrid Gariépy, Alberta cabinet minister
- Clement Gignac, politician, former Quebec Minister of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade and chief economist at Industrial Alliance
- Daniel Joseph Greene, Premier of Newfoundland, 1894–95
- Michael Meighen, senator
- Christian Paradis
- Louis J. Robichaud, 24th premier of New Brunswick
- Raymond C. Setlakwe, senator
- Arthur Tremblay, senator
Senior public servants
Foreign
- Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria (1918–2007)
- Archduchess Charlotte of Austria, social worker and royal heiress
- Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1919–2010)
- Mahamat Ali Adoum, permanent representative of Chad to the United Nations; former Minister of foreign affairs (1992–93)
- Jacques-Édouard Alexis, prime minister of Haiti, 1999–2001 and 2006–2008
- Carme Chacón, Spanish Minister of Defence, 2008–2011
- Habiba Zehi Ben Romdhane, Tunisian Minister of health
- Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
- Pearlette Louisy, Governess-General of Saint Lucia, 1997-2017
Jurists
- Supreme Court Justices Suzanne Côté, Louis LeBel, Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, Charles Fitzpatrick, Arthur Cyrille Albert Malouin, Lawrence Arthur Dumoulin Cannon, Louis-Philippe Pigeon, Julien Chouinard, Robert Taschereau, Henri-Elzéar Taschereau, Thibaudeau Rinfret
- Marcel Crête (fr), jurist and former Chief Justice of Quebec (1980–88)
- Léon Gérin, lawyer and president of the Royal Society of Canada
- Paule Gauthier, lawyer, arbitrator, corporate director, former chair of the Security Intelligence Review Committee 1996–2004
- Frederick Edmund Meredith, lawyer and businessman, 8th chancellor of Bishop's University
- Adolphe-Basile Routhier, judge and writer
Public intellectuals and academics
- Fabrisia Ambrosio, academic
- Gérard Bouchard, academic and public intellectual
- Thomas De Koninck, philosopher
- Micheline Dumont (historian), historian
- Gustave Guillaume, linguist, philologist and Volney Prize laureate
- Yolande Henderson, Pakistani high school teacher
- Richard Hotte, professor of information technology at Université TÉLUQ and current UNESCO Chair in Global Smart Disruptive Learning
- Luc Langlois, philosopher, Ordre des Palmes Académiques laureate, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, 2002-2010
- Georges Larivière, researcher, writer, ice hockey coach[3]
- Laurent Picard, academic, former president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Rodrigue Tremblay, economist
- Niklaus Wirth, computer scientist, Turing Award winner
Religious leaders
Scientists and physicians
- Albéric Boivin, physicist known for his work in optics and lasers
- Claire Deschênes, mechanical engineer and professor of engineering at Laval
- Paul Fiset, microbiologist and developer of the Q fever vaccine
- Paul-Antoine Giguère, physical chemist
- Jean-Charles Gille, engineer, psychiatrist and professor of medicine.
- Larkin Kerwin, physicist, first president of the Canadian Space Agency, 1989–1992
- Fernand Labrie, physician and medical researcher
- Louis de Lotbiniere-Harwood, Dean of Medicine at Université de Montréal; President of the Hôpital Notre-Dame
- Paul Marmet, physicist
- Aimé Pelletier, surgeon; under pen name Bertrand Vac, influential Quebec novelist, particularly in the 1950s
- Ouida Ramón-Moliner, first female anaesthetist at Université Laval[4]
- Franco Rasetti, physicist and founding chairman of the Laval physics department, 1939–1947
- Jean-Paul Richard, physicist, academic and researcher
- Nicole Roy, professor of human nutrition in New Zealand
- David Saint-Jacques, astrophysicist and astronaut for the Canadian Space Agency
- David Servan-Schreiber, physician and author
- Réjean Thomas (fr), physician and founder of the Canadian division of Médecins du Monde
Rhodes Scholars
Recipients of honorary degrees
Approximately 1100 honorary doctorates have been granted since 1864.[5] Some notable recipients are:
- Janette Bertrand, journalist and feminist
- Lise Bissonnette, journalist and civil servant
- Marie-Claire Blais, writer
- Henri-Raymond Casgrain, historian and priest
- Céline Dion, singer
- Maurice Duplessis, 16th Premier of Quebec
- Germaine Guèvremont, writer
- Adélard Godbout, 15th Premier of Quebec
- Marc-André Hamelin, pianist
- Anne Hébert, writer
- Guy Laliberté, Cirque du Soleil founder
- Jean Lesage, 19th Premier of Quebec
- Julie Payette, astronaut
- Paul Sauvé, 17th Premier of Quebec
- Yoav Talmi, conductor
- Gilles Vigneault, poet and singer
Rectors
There has been 25 rectors since the granting of university status in 1852.[6]
Notes and References
- Claude Lagacé. Denise Ménard, Richard Gagné. The Canadian Encyclopedia. October 15, 2021.
- Web site: Executive Profile: Richard Fortin . Bloomberg LP . 23 April 2019.
- Web site: DeFoy. Marc. Marc de Foy. Pour une opposition variée . journaldemontreal.com . November 26, 2019. fr. August 26, 2011.
- News: Moliner. Marie. Anesthetist Ouida Ramon-Moliner was often the first woman amongst men. The Globe and Mail. 8 May 2020. 5 April 2022. 9 August 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200809153302/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article-anesthetist-ouida-ramon-moliner-was-often-the-first-woman-amongst-men/. live.
- Web site: Doctorats honoris causa de l'Université Laval . Université Laval . fr.
- Web site: Les recteurs de l'Université Laval depuis 1852. Université Laval . fr.
