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This list of University of Toronto alumni includes notable graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of the University of Toronto from its three campuses in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada.

To avoid redundancy, alumni who hold or have held faculty positions in the University of Toronto are placed on this list of alumni, and do not appear on the list of faculty. Individuals are ordered by the year of their first degree from the university.

If the campus or college is known, it is indicated after degree years with shorthands listed below:

Mississauga
Scarborough
St. George

Nobel laureates

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Government

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Heads of state and government

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Name Year Notability
William Des Vœux[4]B.A. 1858Governor of Fiji, 1880–85; governor of Newfoundland, 1886–87; governor of Hong Kong, 1887–91
William Lyon Mackenzie KingA.M. 1897Prime minister of Canada (1935–48)
Vincent Massey(U.C. 1910)Governor general of Canada (1952–59)
Dame Eugenia CharlesB.A. 19462nd prime minister of Dominica, 1980–95
Noor Hassanali[5]LL.B. 19472nd president of Trinidad and Tobago, 1987–97
Vaira Vīķe-FreibergaB.A. 1958 (Vic.), M.A. 1960[6]President of Latvia, 1999–2007
Lester B. Pearson[7]B.A. 1919 Vic., professor of history14th prime minister of Canada
Adrienne Clarkson[8][9] M.A. 1962,[9][10] Ph.D. Vic.,[8] LLD Hon. 2001[9])B.A. 1960 Trin., M.A. 1962, Ph.D.26th governor general of Canada
Paul Martin[11]B.A. 1961 St.M., LL.B. 196521st prime minister of Canada
Stephen HarperAttended college; did not graduate22nd prime minister of Canada 2006–2015
Julie PayetteMaster of Applied Science degree in computer engineering29th governor general of Canada 2017–2021

International

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Governors-general and prime ministers

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Supreme Court judges

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Lieutenant-governors, premiers, senators, and mayors

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Ministers, diplomats, party leaders and other political figures

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Natural sciences, mathematics, medicine and engineering

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Mathematics and statistics

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Medicine and dentistry

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Physics, chemistry and astronomy

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Biology and ecology

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Engineering and computer science

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Earth science

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Social sciences

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Anthropology, geography and archaeology

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Sociology

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Psychology and linguistics

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Economics, management and political science

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Humanities

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Philosophy

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Literature

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History

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Law (excluding the Supreme Court judges mentioned above)

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Theology

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Media and arts

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Journalism and publishing

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Film, television, radio, and theatre

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Music, fine arts and architecture

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Education

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Business

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Humanitarianism, social work and others

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Athletics

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Criminals

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References

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