List of Toronto Metropolitan University people

The following is a list of notable people associated with Toronto Metropolitan University.

Notable alumni

Media and arts

Entertainment

• Mikey Bustos - Filipino-Canadian YouTuber, founder of AntsCanada, Actor and Singer
• Paul Chato - comedian and member of The Frantics comedy troupe
• Kyle Forgeard - YouTuber and co-founder of NELK
• Natalie Glebova - Miss Universe 2005
• Sabrina Jalees - comedian
• Dominic Panganiban - Filipino-Canadian YouTuber and animator known for his YouTube channel "Domics"
• Lauren Riihimaki - YouTube Celebrity

Film and theatre

• Brad Abraham - screenwriter, RoboCop: Prime Directives
• Barry Avrich - film director, film producer, playwright, author
• Liane Balaban - star of the film New Waterford Girl
• Marjorie Beaucage - Métis filmmaker
• Kristin Booth - actress
• Alex Bulmer - playwright and theatre artist
• Chad Connell - actor
• Brandon Cronenberg - film director and son of David Cronenberg
• Nicole Dorsey - director and screenwriter
• Shelley Gillen - producer, screenwriter and songwriter
• Alicia K. Harris - director and screenwriter
• Michael Healey - playwright
• Zoe Leigh Hopkins - filmmaker, actor; her 2004 film Prayer for a Good Day premiered at Sundance Film Festival
• Kenneth Joel Hotz - filmmaker, actor, journalist, photographer, writer; Kenny vs. Spenny and South Park
• Kate Kelton - actress
• Michael Kennedy - film and television director, Little Mosque on the Prairie
• Julia Kwan - Canadian screenwriter and director
• Hawick Lau - actor
• Mena Massoud - actor cast to play Aladdin in Disney's live-action remake of Aladdin.
• Bruce McDonald - feature film and television director, Hard Core Logo, Pontypool and The Tracey Fragments
• Haley McGee - actress and playwright
• Debra McGrath - actress and comedian
• Denis McGrath - screenwriter (Across the River to Motor City, Skyland, Charlie Jade)
• Pat Mills - director and screenwriter
• Michelle Mohabeer - filmmaker, film professor
• Andrew Moir - filmmaker
• Christopher Moloney - writer and photographer
• Jasmin Mozaffari - film director and screenwriter
• John Paskievich - Genie Award-winning filmmaker
• David J. Phillips - actor and producer
• Jeremy Podeswa - film and television director
• Kazik Radwanski - film director and screenwriter
• Keerthi Reddy - Indian Bollywood and Tollywood actress
• Katherine Ryan - Comedian, writer, presenter and actress based in the United Kingdom
• Kenn Scott - WGC award-winning screenwriter
• Nia Vardalos - writer and actress, Academy Award-nominated writer and star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding
• Evan Williams - Canadian actor and musician
• Ellen Wong - actress
• Elizabeth Yake - filmmaker

Journalism and publishing

• David Anaglate - Ghanaian Journalist, formerly head of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC)
• Glen Baxter - journalist, FashionTelevisionChannel, formerly with Citytv
• Christie Blatchford - columnist for The Globe and Mail^[1]
• Susan Bonner - CBC radio and television journalist, anchor of The World at Six
• Tyler Brûlé - journalist, founder of Wallpaper* and Monocle (Did not graduate)
• Dianne Buckner - television journalist
• Joan Donaldson - journalist, formerly of CBC, and CTV, founding head of CBC Newsworld
• Francis D'Souza - journalist, Citytv
• Natasha Fatah - journalist and producer, CBC Radio One
• Gemma Files - horror writer
• Matthew Fraser - editor-in-chief of National Post
• J.M. Frey, science fiction and fantasy writer
• Michael Friscolanti - senior writer for Maclean's magazine, and author
• Gayleen Froese - horror/mystery author
• Liza Fromer - former co-host of Breakfast Television on Citytv
• Kimberly Halkett - Al Jazeera's White House correspondent
• Bill Haugland - Canadian journalist and former news anchor for CFCF-TV in Montreal
• Helen Anne Henderson - journalist and disability rights advocate
• Tanya Huff - fantasy author
• Paul Hunter - television journalism, CBC News
• Maureen Jennings, novelist^[2]
• Nil Köksal - journalist, CBC Television
• Tanya Kim - entertainment news journalist, TV host
• Marcia MacMillan - anchor, CTV News Channel
• Sam Maggs - author, entertainment journalist, and comic book and video game writer
• Heather Mallick - columnist and author, formerly with The Globe and Mail
• Carol Anne Meehan - anchor of CTV Ottawa
• Suhana Meharchand - television host and journalist, CBC
• Wendy Mesley - television anchor and host, CBC
• Tony Parsons - broadcaster, formerly of CTV and CHUM, former host of Canada Tonight on Global
• Louise Penny - mystery novelist
• Monita Rajpal - news anchor for CNN International
• Robert J. Sawyer - Hugo Award-winning science-fiction writer
• Alison Smith - journalist, CBC Newsworld
• Graeme Smith - Moscow bureau chief for The Globe and Mail
• Brian Stewart - Senior Correspondent, The National, CBC News
• Betty Thompson - news presenter at CKCO in Kitchener, Ontario
• Robyn Urback (born 1988) - journalist and political commentator
• Isobel Warren - journalist
• Marcia Young - broadcast journalist, host of The World This Hour on CBC Radio

Music

• Stefan Babcock - musician, lead singer and guitarist of the punk band PUP
• Simina Grigoriu (born 1981), Romanian born Canadian-German electronic musician
• Hayden - folk singer-songwriter
• Tyler Stewart - musician, drummer for the Barenaked Ladies
• Chris Stiliadis - Commercial music producer & rapper
• Karoline Podolak - Operatic soprano

Radio and television

• Raymond Ablack - actor, Degrassi: The Next Generation
• Emily Andras - showrunner, Wynonna Earp
• Ralph Benmergui - radio and television personality, host of Friday Night! with Ralph Benmergui and Benmergui Live on CBC-TV
• Rick Brace - president of CTV
• Kevin Brauch - host of The Thirsty Traveler
• Milan Chvostek - TV director and producer
• Dave Devall - former CFTO-TV weather personality
• Nina Dobrev - actress, star of The CW show The Vampire Diaries and Degrassi: The Next Generation
• Raina Douris - radio personality
• David James Elliott - star of JAG
• Martin Gero - writer and producer, Stargate Atlantis
• Jessica Holmes - comedian-actress on Royal Canadian Air Farce
• Ross Hull - star of the TV series Student Bodies
• Jason Jones - The Daily Show correspondent
• Dan Levy - actor, director Schitt's Creek
• Eric McCormack - Emmy Award winner, star of Will & Grace
• Stuart McLean - Canadian radio broadcaster, humorist, monologist, and author
• Ari Millen - actor (Orphan Black)
• Shay Mitchell - actress Pretty Little Liars
• Joseph Motiki - television personality, former co-host of the TVOKids Crawlspace
• Zarqa Nawaz - creator of Little Mosque on the Prairie
• Candice Olson - host of Divine Design
• Terry O'Reilly - host of Under the Influence on CBC Radio One
• Valerie Pringle - broadcaster, former co-host of Canada AM
• Mike Sheerin - Gemini nominated documentary director (Secret Mulroney Tapes)
• Cliff Solway - producer and director, CBC Television
• Hannah Simone - MuchMusic VJ; actor on New Girl
• Patty Sullivan - children's television host, Kids' CBC
• Torri Webster - actress, star of TV series Life with Boys
• Tonya Lee Williams - actress, notably of The Young and the Restless
• Jeff Wincott - actor of TV series Night Heat and Sons Of Anarchy
• Ellen Wong - actress, notably Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and GLOW.
• Jacqueline MacInnes Wood - actress, star of CBS show The Bold and the Beautiful

Sports

• Tom Anselmi - sports executive, former president and COO of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE)
• Jamie Campbell - Sportsnet broadcaster
• Steve Dangle - Born Steve Glynn, CEO of SDPN, YouTube Creator for Rogers Sportsnet, sports analyst, author
• Michelle Duff - as Mike Duff, raced in World Championship motorcycle events
• Martine Gaillard - sports anchor on Rogers Sportsnet, formerly with The Score
• Gail Kim - professional wrestler
• Monika Klisara - karateka and professional wrestler
• Michael Landsberg - Host of TSN's Off The Record
• Steve McAllister - sports editor for Yahoo! Canada, formerly with The Globe and Mail
• Bob McKenzie - sports broadcaster on TSN, formerly of The Hockey News and The Toronto Star
• Jay Onrait - TSN SportsCentre host
• Keith Pelley - sports media executive
• Cabbie Richards - TSN personality
• Paul Romanuk - sportscaster
• Rob Rusnov - Olympic athlete for Team Canada in archery
• Kevin Sally - Olympic athlete for Team Canada in archery
• Doug Sellars - sports television executive for CBC Sports and Fox Sports
• Adnan Virk - sports anchor for ESPN

Visual arts and fashion

• Lida Baday - fashion designer
• Brian Bailey - mentor to designers on Project Runway Canada
• Edward Burtynsky - landscape photographer
• Walter Chin - commercial photographer
• Yuri Dojc - commercial photographer
• Sunny Fong - fashion designer
• Jeremy Laing - fashion designer, won a scholarship to Toronto Metropolitan and now shows at New York Fashion Week^[3][4]
• Todd Lynn - fashion designer ^[5]
• Scott Moore - sports television executive at CTV/Rogers Sportsnet, CBC Sports, and Hockey Night in Canada
• Erdem Moralıoğlu - fashion designer
• Marian Penner Bancroft - artist and photographer
• Bill Reid - Haida artist and wood carver

Politics

• Omar Alghabra - politician
• Gary Carr - politician, Chair of Halton Region, former Ontario PC Party MPP and Liberal Party MP
• Olivia Grange - Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture in Jamaica, Member of Jamaican Parliament
• Paul Godfrey - Canadian politician and businessman (honorary)
• Jim Jones - city councillor, former Member of the Canadian Parliament
• Ted Moses - politician
• Mario Racco - Councillor in the City of Vaughan and former Ontario MPP for Thornhill
• Wayne Thomson - mayor of Niagara Falls
• Adam Vaughan - Member of the Canadian Parliament; former city councillor for Ward 20 Trinity—Spadina; journalist, formerly of Citytv and CKLN-FM

Activism

• Cathy Crowe - "street nurse" and social activist

Science and technology

• Nasra Agil - civil engineer and entrepreneur
• Wendy Walsh - clinical psychotherapist, Ph.D.

Business

• Patrick Dovigi - founder and CEO of GFL Environmental
• Sue Gardner - executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation
• Tony Gagliano - president of St. Joseph Communications; chairman of the Art Gallery of Ontario; winner of Canadian of the Year 2008
• Robert D. Richards - space entrepreneur, co-founder of the International Space University (ISU)
• Isadore Sharp - founder of the Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts
• Klaus Woerner - founder and former CEO of ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc.; 1997 Canadian Entrepreneur of the Year

Faculty

• Eugene Chan - Professor in marketing
• Olivia Chow - former professor; mayor of the City of Toronto
• Jack Layton - former politics professor; former leader of the NDP, former leader of the opposition
• Gregory Levey - professor, entrepreneur, author
• Laurie Petrou - associate professor in the RTA School of Media; author
• Donna E. Young - dean of the Lincoln Alexander School of Law
• Madeh Piryonesi - writer, poet and translator

Administration

Principals and Presidents

No.	Name	Term	Notes
1	Howard Hillen Kerr	1948‍–‍1966 (18 years)	Founder of the Ryerson Institute of Technology, previously Director of the Training and Re-Establishment Institute. Namesake of Kerr Hall. Changed name to Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in 1964
2	Fred Jorgenson	1966‍–‍1969 (3 years)	Renamed the office to President in 1964. Namesake of Jorgenson Hall
–	Anthony Wilkinson (acting)	1969‍–‍1970 (1 year)
3	Donald Mordell	1970‍–‍1974 (4 years)
–	George Korey (acting)	1974‍–‍1975 (1 year)
4	Walter Pitman	1975‍–‍1980 (5 years)	Namesake of Pitman Hall
5	Brian Segal	1980‍–‍1988 (8 years)
6	Terrence W. Grier	1988‍–‍1995[a] (7 years)	First to be both President and Vice-Chancellor, made the institution a university in 1994
7	Claude Lajeunesse	1995‍–‍30 September 2005 (10 years)	Changed name to Ryerson University in 2002
8	Sheldon Levy [6][7]	1 August 2005‍–‍1 December 2015 (11 years)	Namesake of the Sheldon & Tracy Levy Student Learning Centre
9	Mohamed Lachemi [8]	30 September 2016‍–‍present[b] (8 years)	Changed name to Toronto Metropolitan University in 2022

Chancellors

No.	Name	Term	Notes
1	David Crombie	1994‍–‍1999 (5 years)	56th Mayor of Toronto
2	John Craig Eaton II	1999‍–‍2006 (7 years)
3	G. Raymond Chang	2006‍–‍18 October 2012 (6 years)	Namesake of the Chang School of Continuing Education
4	Lawrence Bloomberg [9]	19 October 2012‍–‍9 October 2018 (6 years)
5	Janice Fukakusa [10]	10 October 2018‍–‍9 October 2024 (6 years)
6	Donette Chin-Loy Chang [11]	10 October 2024‍–‍present

Notes

1. Dennis Mock served as acting president from August 1990‍–‍January 1991
2. Lachemi served as Acting President from the time of Sheldon Levy's departure on 1 December 2015 until his appointment as full president