The University of Waterloo, located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, is a comprehensive public university that was founded in 1957 by Drs. Gerry Hagey and Ira G. Needles.^[1] It has grown into an institution of more than 42,000 students, faculty, and staff.^[2] The school is notable for being the first accredited university in North America to create a Faculty of Mathematics, which is now the world's largest,^[3][4] and to have the largest cooperative education program in the world.^[5] The school is also known for having more companies formed by its faculty, students, and alumni than any other Canadian university, and as such, the university has been called the "MIT of the North".^[6]

The list includes notable faculty, alumni, staff, and former university presidents. The enrollment for 2020 was 36,057 undergraduate and 6,231 graduate students, with 1,350 faculty members and 2,596 staff. About 221,000 people have graduated from the university, and now reside in over 150 countries.^[2]

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Faculty

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Name	Relationship	Discipline	Known for	Notes
Gordon Agnew	Professor	Cryptography	Professor	[163]
George Alfred Barnard	Lecturer	Mathematics	Statistics and quality control	[164]
Walter Benz	Professor	Mathematics	Geometer	[165]
Vijay Bhargava	Professor	Electrical engineering	Professor at the University of British Columbia	[166]
Jonathan Borwein	Researcher	Mathematics	Mathematics researcher	[167]
Phelim Boyle	Chairman	—	J Page R Wadsworth chairman at the University of Waterloo	[168]
Tim Bray	Manager	—	Software developer and entrepreneur	[169]
Thomas Brzustowski	Professor	Mechanical engineering	Engineer, academic, and civil servant	[170]
Arthur Carty	Professor	Chemistry	National Science Advisor to the Government of Canada	[171]
Ken Coates	Dean	History	Dean of the Faculty of Arts	[172]
C. B. Collins	Professor	Mathematics	Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas	[173]
Gordon Cormack	Professor	Computer science	Dynamic Markov Compression co-creator	[174]
David G. Cory	Professor	Chemistry	Canada Excellence Research Chair in Quantum Information Processing	[175]
Douglas E. Cowan	Professor	Religious studies	Professor at the University of Waterloo	[176]
Purdy Crawford	Governor	—	Governor of the University of Waterloo	[177]
Paul H. Cress	Lecturer	Computer science	WATFIV creator	[178]
Kenneth Davidson	Professor	Mathematics	Fields Institute director	[179]
Jon Dellandrea	Professor	Literature	Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Oxford	[180]
Jack Edmonds	Professor	Mathematics	Mathematician	[181]
Mohamed Elmasry	Professor	Engineering	Writer for The Globe and Mail	[182]
John R. English	Professor	Politics	Liberal Member of Parliament for Kitchener	[183]
Carla Fehr	Professor	Philosophy
Eugene Forsey	Professor	History	Member of the Canadian Senate	[184]
Bertram Fraser-Reid	Professor	Chemistry	2007 Musgrave gold medal winner from the Institute of Jamaica	[185]
Keith Geddes	Professor	Mathematics	Maple co-creator	[186]
Ian Goldberg	Professor	Cryptography	Radialpoint chief scientist	[187]
Ian Goulden	Dean	Mathematics	Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics	[188]
Art Green	Professor	Arts	Professor at the University of Waterloo	[189]
Richard Gwyn	Chancellor	—	Chancellor of St. Jerome's University at the University of Waterloo	[190]
Peter L. Hammer	Professor	Mathematics	Operations research and applied discrete mathematics	[191]
Hiroshi Haruki	Professor	Mathematics	Mathematician	[192]
Geraldine Heaney	Coach	—	Head coach for the University of Waterloo women's hockey team	[193]
Ric Holt	Professor	Computer science	Turing creator	[194]
Thomas Homer-Dixon	Professor	Environmental studies	Professor at the University of Waterloo	[195]
Harold Horwood	Writer	—	Novelist and non-fiction writer	[196]
David M. Jackson	Professor	Mathematics	Professor of combinatorics and optimization	[197]
James Jupp	Professor	Political science	Political scientist and author	[198]
James J. Kay	Associate professor	Ecology	Associate professor of environment and research studies	[199]
Bryce Kendrick	Assistant professor	Biology	Assistant professor at the University of Waterloo	[200]
Murray S. Klamkin	Professor	Mathematics	Mathematician	[201]
Tuffy Knight	Coach	—	Football coach at the University of Waterloo	[202]
Neal Koblitz	Professor	Cryptography	Professor at the University of Washington	[203]
Maurice Kugler	Professor	Anthropology	Social anthropology	[204]
Ziva Kunda	Professor	Arts	Psychologist	[205]
Anita Layton	Professor	Applied Mathematics	Researcher and professor	[206]
Anthony James Leggett	Researcher	Physics	Physics professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign	[207]
Melvin J. Lerner	Professor	Psychology	Just-world phenomenon	-
Robert J. LeRoy	Professor	Chemistry	Chemist	[208]
Kenneth D. Mackenzie	Professor	Mathematics	Author of Organizational Hologram	[209]
Lorenzo Magnani	Researcher	Philosophy	Philosopher	[210]
Charles Malik	Lecturer	Philosophy	Diplomat	[211]
Lee Maracle	Professor	Canadian culture	First Nations poet and author	[212]
Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara	Professor	Physics	Theoretical physicist	[213]
Alfred Menezes	Professor	Cryptography	Certicom research associate, MQV co-inventor	[214]
Wendy Mitchinson	Chairman	History	Canada Research Chair in gender history and medicine history	[215]
John Moffat	Professor	Physics	Professor emeritus at the University of Toronto	[216]
Bruce Muirhead	Professor	Arts	Historian	[217]
Robert Mundell	Chairman	Economics	Nobel laureate in economics (1999), known for the Mundell–Fleming model. Was the Chairman of the Department of Economics at the University of Waterloo, 1972–1974	[218]
Barton Myers	Professor	Architecture	President of Barton Myers Associates	[219]
Robert Myers	Professor	Physics	Theoretical physicist, Royal Society of Canada Fellow	[220]
Jan Narveson	Professor	Arts	Philosopher	[221]
Crispin Nash-Williams	Professor	Combinatorics	Mathematician	[222]
Brian Orend	Professor	Arts	Philosopher	[223]
Josef Paldus	Professor	Mathematics	Professor of mathematics at the University of Waterloo	[224]
Joe Paopao	Coach	—	Offensive coordinator for the Waterloo Warriors	[225]
François Paré	Chairman	French literature	Chair of French Studies	[226]
Raj Pathria	Professor (retired)	Physics	Distinguished Professor Emeritus	[227]
William Richard Peltier	Professor	Earth sciences	Physics professor at the University of Toronto	[228]
Vladimir Platonov	Professor	Mathematics	Professor of mathematics	[229]
Victor Hugo Quintana	Professor (retired)	Engineering	Distinguished Professor Emeritus	[230]
Ronald C. Read	Professor	Mathematics	Professor of mathematics at the University of Waterloo	[231]
A. James Reimer	Professor	Theology	Professor at Conrad Grebel University College at UW	[232]
Giacinto Scoles	Professor	Chemistry	Molecular beam methods for studying weak van der Waals forces	[233]
Adel Sedra	Dean	Engineering	Dean of the University of Waterloo Faculty of Engineering	[234]
Jeffrey Shallit	Professor	Computer science	Professor	[235]
Gordon Slethaug	Professor	English	Professor of English at the University of Southern Denmark	[236]
Lee Smolin	Professor	Physics	Theoretical physicist	[237]
Paul G. Socken	Professor	Jewish studies	Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Waterloo	[238]
Doug Stinson	Professor	Mathematics	Member of Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research	[239]
Donna Strickland	Professor	Physics	Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, together with Gérard Mourou, for the practical implementation of chirped pulse amplification	[240]
John Stubbs	Professor	History	President of Trent University and Simon Fraser University	[241]
Paul Thagard	Professor	Arts	Philosopher and cognitive scientist	[242]
Robert Tibshirani	Undergraduate	Mathematics	Stanford professor and fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Mark Tilden	Professor	—	Robotics researcher	[243]
Frank Tompa	Professor	Computer Science	Database researcher	[244]
W. T. Tutte	Professor	Mathematics	World War II code breaker and founder of the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo
Robert Jan van Pelt	Professor	History	Architectural historian	[245]
Scott Vanstone	Professor	Cryptography	Certicom founder, MQV co-inventor	[246]
Sally Weaver	Professor	Anthropology	Chair of Anthropology	[247]
Paul S. Wesson	Professor	Physics	Professor of physics at the University of Waterloo	[248]
Lynne Woolstencroft	Professor	Political science	Former mayor of Waterloo, Ontario	[249]
Douglas T. Wright	Professor	Civil engineering	Civil engineer, UW President emeritus	[250]
Mark Zanna	Professor	Arts	Social psychologist	[251]
Anne Zeller	Professor	Anthropology	Chair of Anthropology	[247]

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