EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Founded 1887 with the union of Toronto Baptist College and Woodstock College.

Location:
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Founding Date:
1887

Official Website:
http://www.mcmaster.ca/

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Robert K. Burgess	Business	c. 1957		CEO of Macromedia, 1996-2005
John Candy	Actor	31-Oct-1950	4-Mar-1994	Uncle Buck
Sheila Copps	Politician	27-Nov-1952		Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, 1993-97
Michael Craton	Historian	20-Aug-1931		History of the Bahamas
Robert C. Dynes	Educator	8-Nov-1942		President, University of California, 2003-08
Stephen Elop	Business	31-Dec-1963		CEO of Nokia
Anthony S. Fell	Business	c. 1941		Chairman, RBC Capital Markets
Jonathan Frid	Actor	2-Dec-1924	14-Apr-2012	Dark Shadows
Doug Henning	Magician	3-May-1947	7-Feb-2000	Extremely flamboyant magician
Harold Innis	Scholar	5-Nov-1894	8-Nov-1952	Empire and Communications
Suzanne B. Labarge	Business	1946		Vice Chairman of RBC, 1999-2004
Michael Lee-Chin	Business	1951		Jamaican billionaire
Stephen J. J. Letwin	Business	c. 1955		EVP at Enbridge Energy Partners
Eugene Levy	Comic	17-Dec-1946		Earl Camembert from SCTV
Dalton McGuinty	Politician	19-Jul-1955		Premier of Ontario
Ivan Reitman	Film Director	27-Oct-1946		Ghost Busters
Myron S. Scholes	Economist	1-Jul-1941		Black-Scholes options pricing model
Martin Short	Comic	26-Mar-1950		SNL and Primetime Glick
Dave Thomas	Comic	20-May-1949		SCTV

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Bertram N. Brockhouse	Physicist	15-Jul-1918	13-Oct-2003	Triple-axis crystal spectrometry
Matt Cohen	Novelist	30-Dec-1942	2-Dec-1999	Emotional Arithmetic
George Grant	Philosopher	13-Nov-1918	27-Sep-1988	Propagator of Red Toryism
David C. Hodge	Educator	27-Sep-1948		President, Miami University of Ohio

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Suzanne B. Labarge	Business	1946		Vice Chairman of RBC, 1999-2004
Stephen J. J. Letwin	Business	c. 1955		EVP at Enbridge Energy Partners

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