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14 / Principal Search / Upper Canada College<br />
Illustrious<br />
Alumni<br />
We’ve a well-earned reputation for producing leaders in every walk of life, for close to<br />
200 years. Among our ranks we count six lieutenant-governors, four premiers, seven<br />
chief justices, 24 Rhodes Scholars and 10 Olympic medalists. Each year we graduate<br />
ambitious, high-potential graduates.<br />
Lionel Gelber ’26: scholar, diplomat and<br />
founder of the world’s most influential award<br />
for academic work in international relations,<br />
The Lionel Gelber Prize<br />
Robertson Davies ’32: One of the leading<br />
figures in Canada’s literary canon, the Oxfordeducated<br />
writer is best known for his Deptford<br />
Trilogy, which includes Fifth Business<br />
Ted Rogers ’51: The CEO of Rogers<br />
Communications introduced Canadians to<br />
cellphones and high-speed Internet in the<br />
1980s and ’90s<br />
Michael Wilson ’55: The former U.S.<br />
ambassador was minister of finance in 1984<br />
in Brian Mulroney’s government, a position he<br />
held until 1991<br />
Bill Graham ’57: former federal minister of<br />
foreign affairs, then national defence<br />
Michael Ignatieff ’65: author, historian,<br />
leader of the Liberal Party and leader of the<br />
opposition from 2008 until 2011<br />
David Gilmour ’68: novelist and CBC<br />
broadcaster<br />
Jim Cuddy ’74: The singer-songwriter’s band<br />
Blue Rodeo has won multiple Juno Awards<br />
and sold millions worldwide<br />
Michael Evans ’84: A vice-chair of Goldman<br />
Sachs and global head of growth markets, he<br />
was also an Olympic rower and member of<br />
the men’s eight, the first Canadian team to<br />
capture gold at the 1984 Olympics<br />
Brendan Fraser ’87: The famous Hollywood<br />
actor’s roles have included the lead in George<br />
of the Jungle and Journey to the Centre of the<br />
Earth, and the adventurer Rick O’Connell in<br />
The Mummy series of films<br />
Jameel Jaffer ’90: He is deputy legal director<br />
of the American Civil Liberties Union and<br />
director of its Center for Democracy<br />
Galen Weston Jr. ’93: CEO of Loblaw<br />
Companies<br />
Tom Szaky ’01: CEO of TerraCycle, one of<br />
the world’s leading environmental, wastereduction<br />
companies<br />
Colin Greening ’05: Ottawa Senators<br />
hockey player<br />
To browse a comprehensive list of our history-making grads over<br />
the past two centuries, please look at a special issue of our alumni<br />
magazine archives, Old Times, called “Leaders & Legends” available<br />
at https://archive.org/details/oldtimeswin2005ucco
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