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词条 List of Memorial University of Newfoundland people
释义

  1. Chancellors

  2. Presidents

  3. Founders

  4. Notable alumni

     Academics and scholars  Business  Politics and government  Film and television  Press and literature  Art and music  Science  Sports   Medicine  

  5. Notable faculty, past and present

     University Research Professors  Other faculty 

  6. Rhodes Scholars

  7. Honorary degree recipients

  8. References

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

Chancellors

NameYears in office
The Rt. Hon. Viscount Rothermere of Hemsted1952–1961
The Rt. Hon. Lord Thomson of Fleet1961–1968
Dr. G. Alain Frecker1971–1979
Dr. Paul Desmarais1979–1988
His Honour the Honourable John C. Crosbie1994–2008
Dr. Rick Hillier2008–2012
Dr. Susan Dyer Knight2012–present
[1]

Presidents

Name Years active
John Lewis Paton 1925–1933
Albert Hatcher 1933–1952
Raymond Gushue 1952–1966
Moses Morgan 1966–1967
The Rt. Hon. the Lord Taylor of Harlow 1967–1973
Moses Morgan 1973–1981
Leslie Harris 1981–1990
Arthur May 1990–1999
Axel Meisen 1999–2007
Eddy Campbell 2007–2009
Christopher Loomis 2009–2010
Gary Kachanoski 2010–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
  • Alan Haskvitz, educator, National Teachers Hall of Fame, Reader's Digest Hero in Education
  • 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

  • Nick Careen - Vice President at Air Canada
  • Moya Greene - President and CEO of Royal Mail
  • Lorraine Mitchelmore - President and Country Chair and Executive Vice President Heavy Oil for Shell Canada Limited
  • Barry Perry - CFO at Fortis Inc.
  • Una Power - CFO at Nexen Inc.
  • Larry Short - CBC Contributor and Portfolio Manager for Hollis Wealth
  • 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
  • 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

  • Bill Gillespie - former Security Correspondent, CBC Radio
  • Tristan Homer - children's television producer
  • Mark McKinney - comedian, member of The Kids in the Hall
  • Scott Oake - sportscaster for CBC Sports

Press and literature

  • 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

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[3]
  • 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
  • Elliott Leyton - renowned for studies of serial murderers
  • Elizabeth Miller - 19th century British Gothic literature
  • Ward Neale - geologist
  • 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[4]

Rhodes Scholars

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

Honorary degree recipients

  • Anne, Princess Royal - member of the British 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
  • David Lloyd Johnston - Governor General
  • Cathy Jones - comedian and actress
  • Aung San Suu Kyi - pro-democracy advocate
  • HRH Princess Mary - member of the British 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

References

1. ^https://www.mun.ca/regoff/calendar/sectionNo=GENINFO-0407
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.geology.gov.yk.ca/bios/555.html |title=Carolyn Relf, Director |publisher=Government of Yukon |accessdate=9 November 2015 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151121034001/http://www.geology.gov.yk.ca/bios/555.html |archivedate=21 November 2015 |df= }}
3. ^{{cite news|first=Lisa|last=Gushue|title=Eminent anthropologist Jean Briggs, Inuit language expert, dead at 87 |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/anthropologist-jean-briggs-dead-at-87-1.3700470 |work=CBC News |date=2016-07-29 |accessdate=2016-08-20}}
4. ^{{cite news|first=Andrew|last=Robinson|title=Former N.L. health minister dead at 92|url=http://www.thetelegram.com/News/Local/2013-07-23/article-3324288/Former-NL-health-minister-dead-at-92/1|work=The Telegram|publisher=|date=2013-07-23|accessdate=2013-08-18|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://archive.is/20130723100400/http://www.thetelegram.com/News/Local/2013-07-23/article-3324288/Former-NL-health-minister-dead-at-92/1|archivedate=2013-07-23|df=}}
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