University of Montreal Admitted Student Profiles & Alumni

Alumni Name

Notable Achievement / Famous For

Degree

Graduating Year

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

15th Prime Minister of Canada

N/A

N/A

Michaëlle Jean

27th Governor General of Canada, Francophonie leader

N/A

N/A

Maurice Duplessis

Longest-serving Premier of Quebec

N/A

N/A

Louise Arbour

Supreme Court Justice; UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

LL.B

1970

Philippe Couillard

Premier of Quebec

MD

N/A

Roger Guillemin

Nobel Prize in Medicine (1977)

PhD

N/A

Yoshua Bengio

Turing Award laureate for deep learning

PhD

N/A

Gilles Brassard

Foundational figure in quantum cryptography and information theory

PhD

N/A

Ian Goodfellow

Inventor of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)

PhD

2014

Ishfaq Ahmad

Nuclear physicist; key figure in Pakistan's nuclear program

N/A

N/A

Jocelyn Faubert

Psychophysicist specializing in visual perception

N/A

N/A

Hubert Reeves

Astrophysicist and science communicator

PhD

N/A

Roger Lassonde

Business leader and philanthropist

N/A

N/A

Pierre Karl Péladeau

Businessman; CEO of Quebecor

N/A

N/A

Louis R. Chênevert

CEO of United Technologies Corporation

N/A

N/A

Denys Arcand

Oscar-winning filmmaker

N/A

N/A

Katharine Banham

First woman to earn a PhD in Psychology from UdeM

PhD

N/A

Blanche Lamontagne-Beauregard

One of Quebec’s earliest published female poets

N/A

N/A

Mathieu Bock-Côté

Political commentator and sociologist

BA (Sociology/Philosophy)

N/A

Gilbert Rozon

Founder of Just for Laughs festival

LL.B

1979