Famous Alumni
- Louise Arbour, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, a former judge, Supreme Court of Canada and a former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. (LL.M '71 in the Civil Law Section)
- Richard Wagner, puisne justice, Supreme Court of Canada (LL.L '79)
- Michel Bastarache, judge, Supreme Court of Canada (LL.B '78)
- Maxime Bernier, politician, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and current Member of Parliament for the Conservative Party of Canada (LL.L '88)
- Martin Cauchon, politician and former Member of Parliament (MP) for the Liberal Party of Canada and former federal Cabinet minister as Minister of Justice (LL.L '84)
- Louise Charron, judge, Supreme Court of Canada (LL.B '75)
- Bob Chiarelli, former mayor of Ottawa (LL.B '67)
- France Chrétien Desmarais, a Canadian lawyer and businesswoman. Daughter of former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, and married to André Desmarais, president of the Montreal-based Power Corporation of Canada. (LL.L.)
- William J.S. Elliott, former Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (LL.B '79)
- Howard Hampton, politician and former leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party (LL.B '83)
- Faisal Kutty, lawyer, writer, human rights activist and academic teaching at Osgoode Hall Law School and at Valparaiso University (LL.B '94)
- Jean-Paul L'Allier, politician and longtime mayor of Quebec City, from 1989-2005 (LL.L '62)
- Jean Lapierre, politician and former MP for both the Liberal and Bloc Québécois parties, and former Cabinet minister (LL.L '78)
- John Manley, politician and former MP for the Liberal Party and former federal Cabinet minister (LL.B '76)
- Marc Mayrand, civil servant, former Superintendent of Bankruptcy and current Chief Electoral Officer of Elections Canada (LL.L '76)
- Réal Ménard, politician, gay rights activist, former member of the Canadian House of Commons for the Quebec riding of Hochelaga (LL.L '07)
- Dalton McGuinty, politician and former Premier of Ontario (LL.B '81)
- David McGuinty, politician and current Liberal MP for Ottawa South (LL.B '86)
- Maureen McTeer, author, lawyer and wife of former Prime Minister Joe Clark (LL.B '76)
- Paul Okalik, politician and Premier of Nunavut and first Inuktitut-speaking person to be called to the Bar of that territory (LL.B '97)
- Allan Rock, politician and former MP for the Liberal Party, former federal Cabinet minister, former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations, and President of the University of Ottawa (LL.B '71)
- Gérald Tremblay, politician and former mayor of Montreal, Canada's second-largest city (LL.L '69)
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“London, thou art of townes A per se.
Soveraign of cities, semeliest in sight,
Of high renoun, riches, and royaltie;
Of lordis, barons, and many goodly knyght;
Of most delectable lusty ladies bright;
Of famous prelatis in habitis clericall;
Of merchauntis full of substaunce and myght:
London, thou art the flour of Cities all”
—William Dunbar (c. 1465–c. 1530)