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Alumni & Giving
Since 1836, Victoria University has graduated over 40,000 students and members of its alumni community are located throughout the world. Included amongst Victoria’s graduates are literary critic and scholar Northrop Frye, Nobel laureate and prime minister Lester B. Pearson, pioneering doctor Augusta Stowe-Gullen, Nobel laureate and co-inventor of the laser Arthur Schawlow, authors Margaret Atwood, John Bemrose and David Gilmour, artist Robert Bateman, poet Dennis Lee, actor Donald Sutherland, former ambassador Kenneth Taylor, the Honorable Bill Blaikie, businessman H.N.R. Jackman and Victoria’s chancellor, filmmaker Norman Jewison.