University of New Brunswick - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

As of 2012, the University of New Brunswick reports 64,000 living alumni, half of whom live in New Brunswick.

• Alfred Bailey - educator, poet, anthropologist, ethno-historian
• Sandra Barr - UNB's female athlete of the year in 1968, president of the Geological Association of Canada
• Francesco Bellini - co-founder of BioChem Pharma and Officer of the Order of Canada.
• Elizabeth Brewster - poet and Member of the Order of Canada
• Rod Bryden - chief executive of World Heart Corporation, co-founder of the Ottawa high-tech firm Systemhouse, and until 2003, owner of the Ottawa Senators hockey team
• Bliss Carman - 19th-century Canadian poet
• Anne Compton - Governor General's Award winning poet
• Richard Currie - businessman, Chancellor of UNB
• Julie Dickson - civil servant
• Fredrik Stefan Eaton - department store executive
• J. Bruce Elliot - former CEO of Labatt Brewing Company and present CEO of Second Cup
• Hal Fredericks - author and management consultant
• David A. Ganong - President of Ganong Bros. Limited
• William Francis Ganong - botanist, historian, cartographer

• Sam Hinds - The Prime Minister of Guyana
• Ed Kavanagh - writer, musician, and teacher
• Gérard La Forest - former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
• Walter Learning - noted theatre director and founder of Theatre New Brunswick
• Alistair MacLeod - author whose first novel No Great Mischief won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
• Mike MacSween - Executive Vice President- Major Projects - Suncor Energy Inc.
• Allison McCain - Chair of the Board of McCain Foods Limited
• J. "Travis" McCoy - English/cultural studies professor, Kung Fu instructor, coach of Canadian National Kung Fu Team
• Frank McKenna - lawyer, politician, diplomat, banker
• Gerald Merrithew - educator, politician
• Anne Murray - Grammy Award-winning singer
• Robert Nielsen - journalist
• Troy Parfitt, travel writer and cultural critic
• Tony Proudfoot - all star CFL (Montreal Alouettes and BC Lions) player
• Sir Charles G.D. Roberts - 19th-century Canadian poet
• Andy Scott - former politician
• A. Edison Stairs - businessman, politician
• Clark Todd - award-winning journalist, killed on assignment in Lebanon
• Edward Ludlow Wetmore, jurist, politician
• Mary Matilda Winslow - The University's first black female graduate