List of University of Saskatchewan alumni

Agriculture

• Lorne Babiuk, O.C., S.O.M., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.C. M.Sc. soil microbiology, D.Sc. Department of Veterinary Microbiology - immunologist, pathogenesist, virologist, molecular virology, and vaccinologist
• Howard Fredeen - animal breeding researcher
• Lawrence Kirk, B.A. B.Sc., M.Sc. in agriculture - agronomist best known for introducing crested wheatgrass
• The Honourable J.W. Grant MacEwan - Director of the School of Agriculture, Professor of Animal Husbandry, and Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta
• Kenneth Norrie - Canadian economic historian specializing in the economy of Western Canada, especially prairie wheat farming
• Cecil Frederick Patterson, BSc, Ph.D. - introduced 52 new varieties of hardy fruits for the prairies and over 18 varieties of hybrid hardy lilies
• Clayton Oscar Person, BSc, Honours in Biology, MA - international authority on the genetics of host-parasite relations

  Arts and entertainment

• Robert Boyer, B.Ed. - Canadian visual artist of aboriginal heritage; BEd from the Regina Campus of the U of S in 1971
• Richard Epp - playwright
• Stephen Fox, MSc physics - clarinet maker
• John V. Hicks - Canadian poet; honorary doctorate in Literature from U of S
• William G. Hobbs - physician, surgeon, major Canadian artist
• Maureen Hunter - playwright
• Laurel Johannesson, BFA - artist
• Joseph Schull - playwright and historian
• Deborah Theaker - actress known as Casey Edison on the science fiction comedy show Manic Mansion
• Gordon Thiessen, OC, B.A., Ph.D, LL.D - Governor of the Bank of Canada; one of the "100 Alumni of Influence" from the U of S

  Business

• Tom Anselmi - President and COO of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment
• Marilyn Atkinson - President of Erickson Coaching International
• H. Douglas Barber, B.Sc., M.Sc. - founder of Electrical Engineering Canadian; CEO of Gennum Corporation
• N. Murray Edwards, B.Comm - billionaire
• John E. Floyd, B.Comm - economist
• Chad Hamre, B.Sc. - entrepreneur
• Daryl "Doc" Seaman, OC, B.Sc Mechanical Engineering, LL.D, honorary Doctor of Laws - businessman; one of the "100 Alumni of Influence" from the U of S
• Arnold Tremere, M.Sc., Ph.D. - Executive Director, government official
• Steven Gregory Woods, B.Sc. - entrepreneur
• Victor J. Zaleschuk, B.Comm - chair of the board of Cameco Corporation

  Computers, engineering, and technology

• Permanand Mohan, M.Sc. in Computer Science - Chief Examiner for the Caribbean Examinations Council's CAPE Examinations in Computer Science
• W. Brett Wilson, B.Eng., MBA, Hon. LL.D. O.C., S.O.M. - entrepreneur, philanthropist; former Dragon's Den panelist; co-founder of FirstEnergy Capital; founder, President, and Chairman of Prairie Merchant Capital; Chairman of Canoe Financial

  Educators

• Dominique Abrioux, B.A. - former President of Athabasca University
• John Hall Archer, B.A., M.A., O.C., S.O.M. - librarian, historian, civil servant, first President of the University of Regina
• Reginald John Godfrey Bateman, Master of Arts of Dublin - professor of English
• George Fredrick Curtis, LL.B. - dean of the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law
• R. Peter MacKinnon, Master of laws - lawyer, legal academic, President of the U of S
• Darin Nesbitt, B.A., M.A. - instructor of political science at Douglas College in New Westminster, B.C.
• Paul Thagard - Professor of Philosophy, with cross appointment to Psychology and Computer Science, and Director of the Cognitive Science Program, at the University of Waterloo
• Professor Henry George Thode, CC, MBE, B.Sc, M.Sc, Ph.D., LL.D., FRSC - president and vice-chancellor of McMaster University; one of the "100 Alumni of Influence" from the U of S

  Environmentalists

• Richard St. Barbe Baker - English forester, environmental activist, and author
• Jim MacNeill B.Sc Bachelor of Engineering - consultant, environmentalist, and international public servant

  Fiction/non-fiction writers

• William Barr - Arctic historian; U of S faculty member
• Dennis Cooley - poet
• Lorna Crozier, a.k.a. Lorna Uher - poet
• Michael Helm - novelist
• Eli Mandel, PhD, D.Litt - poet and literary academic
• William Sarjeant, geologist and novelist
• Guy Clarence Vanderhaeghe, OC, SOM - fiction author; one of the "100 Alumni of Influence" from the U of S
• William Whitehead, B.A. M.A. - writer, actor and filmmaker

  Historians

• Frank Kusch - historian of American history; Ph.D. in History

  Journalism/publishing/broadcasting

• Eric Malling, B.A. - television journalist
• Sally Merchant - television personality and political figure

  Law, government, and public policy

• Don Atchison - mayor of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
• Pat Atkinson, B.A. Sociology B.ED - politician
• Chris Axworthy - politician
• The Honourable Gordon Barnhart - University Secretary, professor in Canadian Politics, former Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan
• Dave Batters - politician
• Edward Dmytro Bayda, B.A., LL.B. - Chief Justice of Saskatchewan
• Clément Chartier, LL.B, QC - Métis Canadian leader
• Brooke Claxton, PC, DCM, KC, BCL, LL.D - veteran of World War I, federal Minister of National Health and Welfare and Minister of National Defence honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the U of S
• Eric Cline B.A. Political Science, LL.B. - politician
• Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire, OC, CMM, GOQ, MSC, CD, B.Sc, LL.D - senator, humanitarian, author and retired general; honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the U of S
• Grant Devine - Progressive Conservative Premier
• The Right Honourable John Diefenbaker, CH, PC, QC, BA, MA, LL.B, LL.D, DCL, FRSC, FRSA, D.Litt, DSL - 13th Prime Minister of Canada; university's chancellor; he and his wife were buried at the university, near the Diefenbaker Canada Centre
• Noah Evanchuk, LL.B - politician and candidate for Parliament
• Laurie Evans, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. - politician
• Clarence Fines - provincial treasurer of Saskatchewan
• Jon Gerrard, PC, MLA, BA, Ph.D, MD - politician and medical doctor
• Ralph Goodale, PC, MP, BA, LL.B - Canada's Minister of Finance
• Alvin Hamilton, PC - politician
• Robert Hanbidge, honorary Doctor of Laws - lawyer, municipal, provincial and federal politician, and Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan
• The Honourable Dr. Lynda M. Haverstock - Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan ; Leader of the Saskatchewan Liberal Party
• Benjamin D. Heppner, B.A., BEd - school teacher, businessman and politician
• Dr. John Hewson - Australian politician
• The Right Honourable Ray Hnatyshyn - 24th Governor General of Canada
• Constance D. Hunt, LL.B - lawyer, legal academic, and judge
• Gerard Jennissen - politician
• The Honourable Fredrick W. Johnson - 16th Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan
• Gordon Kirkby, BSc, LLB - politician, mayor and lawyer
• Otto Lang, PC, OC, QC, LL.D, BCL, LL.B, BA - politician
• Léonard Hilarion Joseph Legault, B.A., LL.B. - diplomat
• James Ludwar, LL.B. - politician and founder of Bayda Ludwar Law Firm
• Murdoch MacPherson, QC - Attorney-General of Saskatchewan; honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree from U of S
• Jim Maddin, Business Administration certificate - Mayor of Saskatoon
• James Mallory - jurist; academic; constitutional expert; instructor in political science at U of S
• Anthony Merchant, Q.C. - Saskatchewan lawyer
• Edward Cyril Malone - Saskatchewan lawyer and politician
• Harold Hugh MacKay, OC, QC, LL.B. - lawyer and corporate director
• William McIntyre, BA, LL.B CC - retired Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
• Stewart McLean, B.A., LL.B - Manitoba politician
• Gary Merasty, M.P., B.Ed., M.Educ. - politician; one of the "100 Alumni of Influence" from the U of S
• The Honourable George Porteous - 14th Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan
• Robert Gordon Robertson, PC, CC, MA, DU, FRSC - Commissioner of the Northwest Territories
• Roy Romanow, PC, OC, SOM, QC, B.A., LL.B, DU - politician and former Premier of Saskatchewan; one of the "100 Alumni of Influence" from the U of S
• David Rodney B.A. - politician, teacher, and professional speaker
• Tillie Taylor, B.A., LL.B - judge, first chair of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission
• Andrew Thomson, B.A. Political Science - Minister of Finance of Saskatchewan
• William Ferdinand Alphonse Turgeon, honorary Doctor of Laws - politician and diplomat
• John Thomas Wolfe - Canadian provincial politician
• Stephen Worobetz, OC, MC, SOM, MD, LL.D, F.R.C.S. - physician and former Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan; one of the "100 Alumni of Influence" from the U of S
• Clifford Wright - mayor of Saskatoon; honorary Doctor of Laws
• Iva Yeo - politician

  Medicine

• Hulda Regehr Clark, B.A., Magna Cum Laude, M.A., with a High Honors major in biology - naturopath, author, and controversial practitioner of alternative medicine
• Emmett Matthew Hall, CC, QC, LL.B, LL.D - jurist and civil libertarian; considered one of the fathers of the Canadian system of Medicare
• Franklin M. Loew, DVM, PhD in nutrition - one of the team that developed canola oil; recipient of the Queen's Jubilee Medal
• John R. Pfeifer, M.D. - professor of surgery and founding director of the new division of venous disease at the University of Michigan
• Charles Randal Smith - head pediatric forensic pathologist

  Nobel Prize winners

• Gerhard Herzberg - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1970; was offered a position in 1935 to flee Nazi Germany, and remained at the university for ten years
• Henry Taube, Ph.D, M.Sc, B.Sc, FRSC - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1983

  Philosophy

• Zenon Pylyshyn, M.Sc. in Control Systems, Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology - cognitive scientist and philosopher

  Science

• The Honourable Sylvia Fedoruk - University Chancellor, professor in Oncology, Associate Member in Physics, and Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan
• William Sarjeant - geologist and novelist
• Raymond Thorsteinsson, B.Sc. in geology - Canadian geologist of the high Arctic; one of the "100 Alumni of Influence" from the U of S]
• Dr. Thorbergur Thorvaldson, internationally known scientist and first dean of graduate studies at the U of S
• Dr. James Till O.C., O.Ont., F.R.S.C. - biophysicist, medical researcher who demonstrated the existence of stem cells; one of the "100 Alumni of Influence" from the U of S

  Sociologists

• Samuel Delbert Clark, B.A. political science and history, M.A. - sociologist

  Sports

• Kelly Bates - B.C. Lions, CFL and U of S Saskatchewan Huskies football player
• Rod Bryden - owner of the Ottawa Senators; professor of law at U of S
• Tyson Craiggs - B.C. Lions, CFL and U of S Saskatchewan Huskies football player
• Cyprian Enweani, degree in medicine - sprinter
• George Genereux, B.A. - physician and trap shooting gold medal winner
• Charles Cecil Hay, honorary doctorate - ice hockey player, organizer, and administrator
• Diane Jones-Konihowski, C.M., B.Ed. - pentathlete
• Dave King - hockey coach
• Gene Makowsky - Saskatchewan Roughriders lineman of the CFL
• Shannon Miller - hockey coach
• Sandra Schmirler, SOM, BSPE - curler; Olympic and triple World Champion; one of the '100 Alumni of Influence" from the U of S
• Don Wittman - nationally recognized sports broadcaster in Canada
• Viola Yanik - wrestler

  Theology

• Archbishop Maurice Baudoux, O.C., S.J.D., D. esL, Ph.D., D.D., L.L.D., D.Can.L. - priest and Archbishop of Saint Boniface, Manitoba
• The Very Rev. Walter H. Farquharson - noted hymn-writer
• Herbert V. Günther - Buddhist; professor and Head of the Department of Far Eastern Studies at the U of S
• Muzaffar Iqbal, Ph.D. in Chemistry - founding president of the Center for Islam and Science
• Raymond L. Schultz, B.A. M.Div. - National Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

  Honorary degree recipients

• Arnold Davidson Dunton, CC, Doctor of Laws, honoris causa - educator and public administrator
• Charles Cecil Hay, honorary doctorate - ice hockey player, organizer, and administrator