Scholars
- Arbour, Louise (born 1947) – jurist
- Brook, Timothy (?-) – professor, historian and writer
- Chambers, Jack (born 1938) – linguist
- Clark, Thomas H. (1893–1996) – McGill Geology professor, Thomasclarkite
- Cohen, Gerald (1941–2009) – Oxford Philosopher
- Frye, Northrop (1912–1991) – influential critic, Shakespeare and Blake scholar
- Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908–2006) – economist
- Grant, George (1918–1988) – philosopher
- Humphrey, John Peters (1905–1995) – legal scholar, principal drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Innis, Harold (1894–1952) – political economist; author of seminal works on Canadian economic history, media and communications
- McLuhan, Marshall (1911–1980) – communications theorist, coined phrase "the medium is the message" and "global village"
- Pinker, Stephen (born 1954) – psychologist, cognitive scientist, writer of popular science
- Saul, John Ralston (born 1947) – businessman, essayist, diplomat
- Scott, F. R. (1899–1985) – law professor, philosopher, poet
- Sylvestre, Guy (born 1918) – literary critic
- Sztybel, David (born 1967) – philosopher
- Taylor, Charles (born 1931) – philosopher
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