Notable Queen's Faculty and Affiliates
In addition to the following notable faculty members, Sir Sandford Fleming, former Prime Minister of Canada Sir Robert Laird Borden, and former Governor General of Canada Roland Michener have all served as Chancellor of the university, though this is a non-academic role.
- Donald Akenson – History
- István Anhalt – Music (Juno Award winning composer)
- Robin Boadway - Economics (Member of the Canadian Royal Society, the Order of Canada and CESIfo Distinguished Fellow)
- Caroline Baillie – Engineering
- John Burge – Music (Juno Award winning composer)
- James Cordy – Computing (co-inventor of the Turing programming language)
- Thomas Courchene - Economics, Policy Studies
- Yvon Dandurand - Criminology, Sociology of Law
- Richard J. F. Day – Sociology
- Suzanne Fortier – Chemistry (President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC))
- J. A. W. Gunn - Politics
- Leo Jonker – Mathematics (Queen's Chair of Teaching and Learning)
- Tom Kent – Economics
- Will Kymlicka – Canada Research Chair, Philosophy
- William C. Leggett – Biology (Chairman of the Board of the Canada Foundation for Innovation) and former Principal of Queen's University (1994–2004)
- James G. MacKinnon - Economics (Fellow of the Econometric Society)
- Art McDonald – Physics (winner of the Herzberg Prize, Canada's most prestigious honour in science), as well as the Benjamin Franklin Prize in Physics and a member of the Order of Canada
- John McGarry – Politics
- M. Ram Murty – Mathematics (Queen's Research Chair)
- Morten O. Nielsen - Economics (formerly Professor at Cornell U.)
- Kim Richard Nossal – Politics
- Paulo Ribenboim – Mathematics (retired faculty)
- John Smol – Biology (winner of the Herzberg Prize, Canada's most prestigious honour in science)
- David J. Thomson - Mathematics
- Helen Tiffin – English
- Craig Walker – Drama
- Noriko Yui – Mathematical Physics
- Clarke Mackey – Film and Media
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