This list of University of Toronto alumni includes notable graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of the University of Toronto from its three campuses and 11 colleges in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada.
To avoid redundancy, alumni who hold or have held faculty positions in the University of Toronto are placed on this list of alumni, and do not appear on the list of faculty. Individuals are ordered by the year of their first degree from the university.
If the campus or college is known, it is indicated after degree years with shorthands listed below:
St. George campus
Mississauga campus
Scarborough campus
Nobel laureates
Government
Heads of state and government
International
Governors-general and prime ministers
Supreme Court judges
Lieutenant-governors, premiers and mayors
Ministers, diplomats, party leaders and other political figures
Natural sciences, mathematics, medicine and engineering
Mathematics and statistics
Medicine and dentistry
Physics, chemistry and astronomy
Biology and ecology
Engineering and computer science
Earth science
Social sciences
Anthropology, geography and archaeology
Sociology
- Simone Browne (Ph.D. 2007; professor of sociology at University of Texas) â author of Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
- Jean Burnet (B.A. Vic.) â sociologist specializing in ethnic studies, founder of the Glendon Sociology Department at York University
- Samuel Delbert Clark (Ph.D. 1938; professor of sociology, 1938âÂÂ76) â sociologist known for studies on Canadian social development and political economics
- Erving Goffman (B.A. 1945) â sociologist, author of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, taught at Cal and UPenn, 73rd president of the American Sociological Association
- Daniel G. Hill (M.A. 1951, Ph.D. 1960) â sociologist, human rights specialist and Black Canadian historian, Ontario Ombudsman, 1984âÂÂ89, founder of the Ontario Black History Society
- Himani Bannerji (Ph.D.) â writer, academic, professor of sociology at York University, known for her activist work and poetry
- Barry Wellman (Ph.D. 1969) â Director of NetLab and retired S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, Fellow Royal Society of Canada
- Elliott Leyton (Ph.D. 1972) â sociologist, educator and author on serial homicide and juvenile delinquency; Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland
Psychology and linguistics
Economics, management and political science
Humanities
Philosophy
Literature
History
Law (excluding the Supreme Court judges mentioned above)
Theology
Media and arts
Journalism and publishing
Film, television, radio, and theatre
Music, fine arts and architecture
Education
Business
Humanitarianism, social work and others
Athletics
Criminals
- Paul Bernardo (UTSC) â also known as the "Scarborough Rapist"
- Russell Williams (UTSC) â graduated with a degree in economics and political science and became a colonel in the Royal Canadian Air Force; later convicted of the rape of and murder of multiple women
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