List Of Université Laval People

Artists and media personalities

• Victor Bouchard, pianist and composer
• Édith Butler, Acadian singer
• Christiane Chabot, artist
• Claude Lagacé, organist
• Gaston Miron, poet and author
• Renée Morisset, pianist
• Ben Mulroney, television host and son of former prime minister Brian Mulroney
• Gilles Vigneault, artist

Athletes

• Boris Bede, gridiron football player
• Pierre Harvey, Olympic cyclist and cross-country skier
• Pierre Lavertu, CFL player
• Ed Millaire, professional hockey player, Montreal Canadiens

Business leaders

• Marcel Aubut, president of the Canadian Olympic Committee
• Conrad Black, former media magnate
• Manon Brouillette, President and CEO of Videotron
• Richard Fortin (born 1949/50), former chairman of Couche-Tard
• Louis Garneau, businessman and Olympic cyclist
• Marc Laliberté, CEO of Via Rail Canada
• Jean Leclerc, chairman, Leclerc biscuits and former provincial politician
• Charles Sirois, businessman and venture capitalist

Political Leaders

Canadian

• Prime Ministers of Canada Louis St. Laurent, Brian Mulroney and Jean Chrétien
• Premiers of Quebec Lucien Bouchard, Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Edmund James Flynn, Jean Lesage, René Lévesque, Pauline Marois, Simon-Napoléon Parent and Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
• Jean-Martin Aussant, former leader of Option nationale party
• Jean Bazin, senator
• Louise Beaudoin, former minister in Quebec
• Lawrence Cannon, Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, 2008–2011
• Thomas Chapais, lawyer and federal politician
• Raoul Dandurand, lawyer, federal politician, diplomat, president of the League of Nations Assembly for 1925
• Stéphane Dion, diplomat and former politician; former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
• Gilbert Finn, 26th Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick
• Eugène Fiset, former Surgeon General of Canada, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
• Michael Fortier, senator
• Wilfrid Gariépy, Alberta cabinet minister
• Clement Gignac, politician, former Quebec Minister of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade and chief economist at Industrial Alliance
• Daniel Joseph Greene, Premier of Newfoundland, 1894–95
• Michael Meighen, senator
• Christian Paradis
• Louis J. Robichaud, 24th premier of New Brunswick
• Raymond C. Setlakwe, senator
• Arthur Tremblay, senator

Senior public servants

• Johanne Bélisle, former Commissioner of Patents, Registrar of Trademarks and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)
• Raymond Chrétien, former diplomat and lawyer
• Ernest Côté, diplomat and civil servant.
• Marc Lortie, diplomat
• Gérard Veilleux, former senior civil servant, president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (1989–1993)
• Jennie Carignan, Brigadier General

Foreign

• Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria (1918–2007)
• Archduchess Charlotte of Austria, social worker and royal heiress
• Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1919–2010)
• Mahamat Ali Adoum, permanent representative of Chad to the United Nations; former Minister of foreign affairs (1992–93)
• Jacques-Édouard Alexis, prime minister of Haiti, 1999–2001 and 2006–2008
• Carme Chacón, Spanish Minister of Defence, 2008–2011
• Habiba Zehi Ben Romdhane, Tunisian Minister of health
• Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
• Pearlette Louisy, Governess-General of Saint Lucia, 1997-2017

Jurists

• Supreme Court Justices Suzanne Côté, Louis LeBel, Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, Charles Fitzpatrick, Arthur Cyrille Albert Malouin, Lawrence Arthur Dumoulin Cannon, Louis-Philippe Pigeon, Julien Chouinard, Robert Taschereau, Henri-Elzéar Taschereau, Thibaudeau Rinfret
• Marcel Crête (fr), jurist and former Chief Justice of Quebec (1980–88)
• Léon Gérin, lawyer and president of the Royal Society of Canada
• Paule Gauthier, lawyer, arbitrator, corporate director, former chair of the Security Intelligence Review Committee 1996–2004
• Frederick Edmund Meredith, lawyer and businessman, 8th chancellor of Bishop's University
• Adolphe-Basile Routhier, judge and writer

Public intellectuals and academics

• Fabrisia Ambrosio, academic
• Gérard Bouchard, academic and public intellectual
• Thomas De Koninck, philosopher
• Gustave Guillaume, linguist, philologist and Volney Prize laureate
• Yolande Henderson, Pakistani high school teacher
• Richard Hotte, professor of information technology at Université TÉLUQ and current UNESCO Chair in Global Smart Disruptive Learning
• Luc Langlois, philosopher, Ordre des Palmes Académiques laureate, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, 2002-2010
• Georges Larivière, researcher, writer, ice hockey coach
• Laurent Picard, academic, former president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
• Rodrigue Tremblay, economist
• Niklaus Wirth, computer scientist, Turing Award winner

Religious leaders

• Louis-Nazaire Bégin, Canadian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• Charles Sandwith Campbell, benefactor of Montreal; Governor of McGill University
• Gérald Lacroix, ISPX, cardinal, archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec and Primate of Canada
• Marc Ouellet, cardinal, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops and president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America

Scientists and physicians

• Albéric Boivin, physicist known for his work in optics and lasers
• Claire Deschênes, mechanical engineer and professor of engineering at Laval
• Paul Fiset, microbiologist and developer of the Q fever vaccine
• Paul-Antoine Giguère, physical chemist
• Jean-Charles Gille, engineer, psychiatrist and professor of medicine.
• Larkin Kerwin, physicist, first president of the Canadian Space Agency, 1989–1992
• Fernand Labrie, physician and medical researcher
• Louis de Lotbiniere-Harwood, Dean of Medicine at Université de Montréal; President of the Hôpital Notre-Dame
• Paul Marmet, physicist
• Aimé Pelletier, surgeon; under pen name Bertrand Vac, influential Quebec novelist, particularly in the 1950s
• Ouida Ramón-Moliner, first female anaesthetist at Université Laval
• Franco Rasetti, physicist and founding chairman of the Laval physics department, 1939–1947
• Jean-Paul Richard, physicist, academic and researcher
• David Saint-Jacques, astrophysicist and astronaut for the Canadian Space Agency
• David Servan-Schreiber, physician and author
• Réjean Thomas (fr), physician and founder of the Canadian division of Médecins du Monde

Rhodes Scholars

• Marius Barbeau 1910
• Edgar Rochette 1914
• Roger Gaudry 1937
• Julien Chouinard 1951
• Thomas De Koninck 1956
• Gregory Kates 1966
• Jean-François Garneau 1982
• Leo Bureau-Blouin 2016

Approximately 1100 honorary doctorates have been granted since 1864. Some notable recipients are:

• Janette Bertrand, journalist and feminist
• Lise Bissonnette, journalist and civil servant
• Marie-Claire Blais, writer
• Henri-Raymond Casgrain, historian and priest
• Céline Dion, singer
• Maurice Duplessis, 16th Premier of Quebec
• Germaine Guèvremont, writer
• Adélard Godbout, 15th Premier of Quebec
• Marc-André Hamelin, pianist
• Anne Hébert, writer
• Guy Laliberté, Cirque du Soleil founder
• Jean Lesage, 19th Premier of Quebec
• Julie Payette, astronaut
• Paul Sauvé, 17th Premier of Quebec
• Yoav Talmi, conductor
• Gilles Vigneault, poet and singer

There has been 25 rectors since the granting of university status in 1852.

• 1852–1860 M. l'abbé Louis-Jacques Casault
• 1860–1866 M. l'abbé Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau
• 1866–1869 Mgr Michel-Édouard Méthot
• 1869–1871 M. l'abbé Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau
• 1871–1880 Mgr Thomas-Étienne Hamel
• 1880–1883 Mgr Michel-Édouard Méthot
• 1883–1886 Mgr Thomas-Étienne Hamel
• 1886–1887 Mgr Michel-Édouard Méthot
• 1887–1893 Mgr Benjamin Pâquet
• 1893–1899 Mgr Joseph-Clovis-Kemner Laflamme
• 1899–1908 Mgr Olivier-E. Mathieu
• 1908–1909 Mgr Joseph-Clovis-Kemner Laflamme
• 1909–1915 Mgr Amédée-Edmond Gosselin
• 1915–1921 Mgr François Pelletier
• 1921 M. l'abbé Pierre Hébert
• 1921–1924 Mgr Charles-Napoléon Gariépy
• 1924–1927 Mgr Camille Roy
• 1927–1929 Mgr Amédée-Edmond Gosselin
• 1929 Mgr Camille Roy
• 1929–1932 Mgr Philéas-J. Filion
• 1932–1938 Mgr Camille Roy
• 1938–1939 Mgr Arthur Robert
• 1939–1940 Mgr Alexandre Vachon
• 1940–1943 Mgr Camille Roy
• 1943–1945 Mgr Cyrille Gagnon
• 1945–1954 Mgr Ferdinand Vandry
• 1954–1960 Mgr Alphonse-Marie Parent
• 1960–1972 Mgr Louis-Albert Vachon
• 1972–1977 Larkin Kerwin
• 1977–1987 Jean-Guy Paquet
• 1987–1997 Michel Gervais
• 1997–2002 François Tavenas
• 2002–2007 Michel Pigeon
• 2007–2017 Denis Brière
• 2017–present Sophie D'Amours