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This is right from The University of Guelph website.
Notable Guelph Alumni
1906: Harvey R. MacMillan,
built the global forestry business MacMillan Bloedel
1910: Francis (Frank) Schofield, veterinarian, recipient of the Republic of Korea Median and the Order of Merit
1931: John Kenneth Galbraith, Harvard University economist, recipient of the Order of Canada
1950: Ken Murray, CEO J.M. Schneider Inc. (retired), recipient of the Order of Canada
1952: Jean Steckle, recipient of the UN Medal (1995) for career work with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in West Africa
1956: Lorna Milne, Canadian senator
1957: Suzanne Francis, with pairs skating partner Wallace Distelmayer, the first to perform the death spiral in competition; world and Olympic bronze medalists, 1948
1966: Lyle Vanclief, federal minister of agriculture
1968: Roberta Bondar, female Canadian astronaut, payload specialist 1992 shuttle Discovery
1971: Donald Ziraldo, founder and CEO Inniskillin Wines
Jane Urquhart, author, recipient of Canadian Governor-Generals' Award for fiction
1977: Peter Vaughan, CEO Canadian Medical Association
Vandanah Shiva, Director of India's Research Foundation of Science and Technology
1978: Brian Evans, Canada's chief veterinary officer
1982: Helen Murphy, senior vice-president, Polygram International, New York
1994: Mike O'Shea, Canadian Football League rookie of the year (1993, Hamilton Tiger-Cats)
David Urban, internationally exhibiting painter
1997: Cassie Campbell, Captain, 2002 Olympic gold-medal Canadian women's national hockey team
1998: Marty Beecroft, recipient of 2000 Genie Award
1999: Nancy Sweetnam, purchasing coordinator, Quaker Oats Co. of Canada
2001: Alison Bachlet, one of eleven Canadian Rhodes Scholars (2001)
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