Some of the University of Manitoba's most notable alumni include:
- Izzy Asper, tax lawyer & media magnate (BA - 1953, LLB - 1957, LLM - 1964)
- G. Michael Bancroft, chemist and synchrotron scientist, first director of the Canadian Light Source
- William Moore Benidickson, former MP, federal cabinet minister and senator
- Richard Spink Bowles, lawyer and former Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
- Fred Sandhu, Manitoba Provincial Court Judge
- George Montegu Black II, businessman, father of Conrad Black
- Charles Bouchard, Lieutenant General Canadian Forces Air Command, commander of NATO Forces in Operation Unified Protector
- Harold J Brodie, mycologist
- Harold Buchwald, lawyer
- Constantine of Irinoupolis, American Orthodox hierarch, Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA - St. Andrew's College 1959
- Don Callis, professional wrestler
- Norman Cantor, medieval scholar and writer
- Richard Condie, Academy Award-nominated animator; creator of The Big Snit
- Brian Dickson, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Gerry Ducharme, politician and a cabinet minister in the government of Progressive Conservative Premier Gary Filmon from 1988 to 1995
- Marcel Dzama, artist - (1997)
- Ed Evanko, actor and singer
- Gary Filmon, Manitoba Premier from 1988 to 1999 (BSc Civil Engineering)
- Danny Finkleman, former CBC radio host
- Steven Fletcher, politician, serving in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004
- Phil Fontaine, Aboriginal Canadian leader (BA - 1981)
- Waldron Fox-Decent, mediator, professor, Crown Corporation chairman
- Erving Goffman, sociologist.
- Monty Hall, television personality, president of Variety Clubs International, Order of Canada BSc
- S.I. Hayakawa, scholar and professor of semantics, United States Senator
- John Alexander Hopps, inventor of the world's first artificial pacemaker and known as the "father of biomedical engineering in Canada"
- Gad Horowitz, political scientist, coiner of the term Red Tory
- Israel Idonije, defensive tackle for the Chicago Bears
- Francis Lawrence Jobin, former Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
- F. Ross Johnson, businessman, CEO of RJR Nabisco
- Sam Katz, mayor of Winnipeg from 2004 to present (BA - 1973)
- Guy Gavriel Kay, novelist and poet
- David Kilgour, former Minister of Transport
- Amanda Lang, journalist, senior business correspondent for CBC News.
- Allan Levine, author, known mainly for his award-winning non-fiction and historical mystery writing
- James Lunney, politician, the Conservative Member of Parliament for the riding of Nanaimo—Alberni
- Paul Mahon, President and COO, Great West Life
- Donald Marchand, CFO, TransCanada Corp
- Inky Mark, federal Conservative Member of Parliament for Dauphin—Swan River, Manitoba
- Bill Mason, author, filmmaker, environmentalist
- Pearl McGonigal, former Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
- William John McKeag, former Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor
- Marshall McLuhan, media guru
- Harry Medovy, pediatrician and academic
- Ovide Mercredi, Aboriginal Canadian leader (LLB - 1977)
- W.O. Mitchell, writer
- W. L. Morton, historian
- Arnold Naimark, physician, academic, and former President of the University of Manitoba
- William Norrie, mayor of Winnipeg from 1979 to 1992 (BA - 1950, LLB - 1955)
- Rey Pagtakhan, physician, academic, former MP and federal cabinet minister.
- Jim Peebles, astrophysicist
- Leonard Peikoff, philosopher
- Frank Pickersgill, SOE agent in World War II executed by the Nazis
- Jon Pylypchuk, artist
- Barry Posner, physician and research scientist on diabetes
- Clay Riddell, oil tycoon (BSc Honours - 1959)
- Dufferin Roblin, former Premier of Manitoba
- Marshall Rothstein, judge, Supreme Court of Canada
- Edward Schreyer, Premier of Manitoba (1969–1977) and Governor General of Canada (1979–1984)
- Mitchell Sharp, former Liberal Minister of Finance
- Patricia Alice Shaw, linguist specializing in phonology and known for her work on First Nations languages
- Louis Slotin, physicist/chemist who took part in the Manhattan Project (BSc - 1932, MSc -1933)
- Robert Steen, former Mayor of Winnipeg from 1977 to 1979
- John W.M. Thompson, Manitoba MLA and Provincial Cabinet Minister
- Thorbergur Thorvaldson, cement chemist
- Miriam Toews, novelist
- Vic Toews, politician, former Minister of Justice and Attorney General and the President of the Treasury Board in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper
- Adele Wiseman, author
- Meaghan DeWarrenne-Waller, fashion model, winner of Canada's Next Top Model, Cycle 3.
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