University of Toronto Scarborough - Noted People

Noted People

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Noted professors and researchers at the University of Toronto Scarborough include poet Daniel Scott Tysdal, historian and author Modris Eksteins, and Laura-Ann Petitto, a multiple award-winning American cognitive neuroscientist and psychologist who has performed a number of influential research in various branches of neuroscience using humans and chimpanzees.

The campus has educated a fair number of noted persons involved in a variety of fields. Politicians include the 28th and current Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario David Onley, Member of Parliament for Scarborough—Guildwood John McKay, Member of Provincial Parliament for Scarborough—Guildwood Margarett Best, and former Member of Provincial Parliament Mary Anne Chambers. Sports personalities who graduated from the University of Toronto Scarborough include marathon swimmer Cindy Nicholas, sports broadcaster and fomer Toronto Maple Leafs general manager Gord Stellick, and youngest-ever Canadian national cricket team player Ruvindu Gunasekera. Toronto-based artist Doris McCarthy also graduated from the campus.

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