List of Memorial University of Newfoundland people

Chancellors

Presidents

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. 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 - CEO at Fortis Inc.
• Una Power - CFO at Nexen Inc.
• Larry Short, CPA - CBC Contributor, Executive Director, and Portfolio Manager at ShortFinancial
• 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
• 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

• Michael Crummey - novelist and poet
• Gwynne Dyer - journalist, syndicated columnist and military historian, Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
• 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

  Sports

• Brad Gushue - Olympic gold medallist
• Mark Nichols - Olympic gold medallist

  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

• 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
• 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

  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