List of University of Manitoba alumni
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Some of the University of Manitoba's most notable alumni include:
- Perry Rosemond, Film/TV Director and Producer, Order of Canada
- Izzy Asper, tax lawyer & media magnate (BA - 1953, LLB - 1957, LLM - 1964)
- William Moore Benidickson, former MP, federal cabinet minister and senator
- Richard Spink Bowles, a lawyer and former Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
- George Montegu Black II, a noted businessman, father of Conrad Black
- Harold Buchwald, a Canadian lawyer
- Don Callis, a Canadian former professional wrestler
- Norman Cantor, Medieval scholar and writer
- Richard Condie, Academy Award-nominated animator; creator of The Big Snit
- Brian Dickson, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Gerry Ducharme, a politician and a cabinet minister in the government of Progressive Conservative Premier Gary Filmon from 1988 to 1995
- Marcel Dzama, contemporary artist - (1997)
- Ed Evanko, a Canadian actor and singer
- Gary Filmon, Manitoba Premier from 1988 to 1999 (BSc Civil Engineering)
- Danny Finkleman, former CBC radio host
- Bruce Flatt, CEO of Brookfield Asset Management
- Steven Fletcher, a Canadian politician, serving in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004
- Phil Fontaine, Aboriginal Canadian leader (BA - 1981)
- Waldron Fox-Decent, mediator, professor, Crown Corporation chairman
- Monty Hall, television personality, president of Variety Clubs International, Order of Canada BSc
- S.I. Hayakawa, scholar and professor of semantics
- John Alexander Hopps, is the Canadian inventor of the world's first artificial pacemaker and is known as the "father of biomedical engineering in Canada"
- Gad Horowitz, Canadian Political Scientist, coiner of the term Red Tory
- Israel Idonije, Defensive Tackle for the Chicago Bears
- Francis Lawrence Jobin, former Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
- F. Ross Johnson, a noted businessman
- Sam Katz, mayor of Winnipeg from 2004 to present (BA - 1973)
- Guy Gavriel Kay, novelist and poet
- David Kilgour, a lawyer and the former Minister of Transport
- Allan Levine, a Canadian author, known mainly for his award-winning non-fiction and historical mystery writing
- Alan Lowe, Mayor of Victoria (BC)
- James Lunney, a Canadian politician, the Conservative Member of Parliament for the riding of Nanaimo—Alberni
- Bill Mason, author, filmmaker, environmentalist
- Pearl McGonigal, former Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
- William John McKeag, former Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
- Marshall McLuhan, media guru
- Ovide Mercredi, Aboriginal Canadian leader (LLB - 1977)
- W.O. Mitchell, writer
- W. L. Morton, historian
- Arnold Naimark, a Canadian physician, academic, and former President of the University of Manitoba
- William Norrie, mayor of Winnipeg from 1979 to 1992 (BA - 1950, LLB - 1955)
- Jim Peebles, physical cosmologist, studied and taught at Princeton University, is currently a professor emeritus. Was instrumental in predicting cosmic microwave background radiation.
- Leonard Peikoff, philosopher
- Frank Pickersgill, a war hero, SOE agent in World War II executed by the Nazis
- Barry Posner, a professor of McGill University, a Canadian physician and research scientist known for his diabetes research, specifically his peptide hormone research
- Clay Riddell, oil tycoon (BSc Honours - 1959)
- Dufferin Roblin, former Premier of Manitoba
- Marshall Rothstein, judge, Supreme Court of Canada
- Paul Sadler, North Korea analyst for BBC (also on CBC. ABC and CNN). Stock Broker on Boston exchange
- Edward Schreyer, Premier of Manitoba (1969–1977) and Governor General of Canada (1979–1984)
- Mitchell Sharp, former Liberal Minister of Finance
- Patricia Alice Shaw, a linguist specializing in phonology and known for her work on First Nations languages
- Louis Slotin, physicist/chemist who took part in the Manhattan Project (BSc - 1932, MSc -1933)
- Robert Steen, former Mayor of Winnipeg from 1977 to 1979
- John W.M. Thompson, Manitoba MLA and Provincial Cabinet Minister
- Miriam Toews, novelist
- Vic Toews, a Canadian politician, former Minister of Justice and Attorney General and the President of the Treasury Board in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper
- Donald Triggs, vintner, co-founder of Jackson-Triggs (BSc (honours) - 1966)
- Adele Wiseman, author
- Inky Mark, federal Conservative Member of Parliament for Dauphin—Swan River, Manitoba
- Donald Dewar of Dauphin, a Canadian politician
- Thorbergur Thorvaldson, notable cement chemist
