It’s always fun to brag about who used to go to your school. Lucky for us, Dalhousie has an abundance of successful alumni. Below are a few that we found particularly cool!<\/p>\n
Brad Peyton is a famous film director. You probably know his works:\u00a0San Andreas, Journey 2, Cats and Dogs<\/em>, etc. He’s recently been getting into more horror genres, but definitely brag worthy! After all, he’s probably partially to thank for the rekindling of your Josh Hutchinson crush.<\/p>\n Especially more recently, Montgomery should get a lot more attention. She’s actually part of the reason I decided to attend Dal! Montgomery is a novelist, most famous for her book\u00a0Anne of Green Gables<\/em>. CBC has recently decided to turn her book into a tv show. I for one am super excited and love to share that Lucy Maud Montgomery went to\u00a0my\u00a0<\/em>school.<\/p>\n Everyone loves Michel’s big brother, Justin, AKA our Prime Minister, AKA Trudaddy! Well Michel Trudeau attended Dal, way back when. He would be doing big things today, if it weren’t for his early death during an avalanche in BC.<\/p>\n You may recognize this name from your television. Jones is a world champion\u00a0curler who attended Dal! Since her curling days, she has started writing books about her time as a curler. Seriously cool!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Robert MacNeil is another famous novelist. He also had a small role on the movie\u00a0Hamlet\u00a0<\/em>where he co-starred with Julia Styles, Bill Murray, and other noteworthy celebrities.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n George Elliott Clarke is a poet graduated from Dalhousie University. You can read some of his work in his book\u00a0Execution Poems<\/em>. Whether you’re a poet, yourself, or you just enjoy the occasional poem here and there, check out Clarke and marvel at his magnificence!<\/p>\n Though we might not have been able to have seen him rule as Prime Minister as we were either not born yet, or fresh out the womb, PM Brian Mulroney attended Dal. How’s that for cool? Not only do we have a Trudeau, we have a past PM!<\/p>\n Clark was the 16th Prime Minister of Canada. How cool is that? He also wrote a few books. Admittedly,\u00a0one of his books is about governing Canada, and another is about building websites; but you’d be surprise to find that he wrote a children’s book, published a photography book, wrote an entire book on the History of Australian Baseball<\/em>, and, my personal favourite: The Unlimited Book of Whiskey<\/em>.<\/p>\n Wow.\u00a0Yet another past PM! This one, maybe our grand parents or great-grand parents would remember, but it’s more for the history buffs, or for those of you wanting to go out an be the next Prime Minister of Canada. Obviously, Dal\u00a0is the school to go to for success.<\/p>\n Talk about girl power! Sullivan is an American geologist who graduated from\u00a0Dal back in 1978. She went on to be an astronaut for NASA! She took part in the crew for three different space shuttle missions! Coolest part? Sullivan was the first American woman to walk in space!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n John Buchanan was a Canadian senator, as well as an author. His favourite to write, seemingly, is historical fiction. If you want a good time travel via books, check out his novel The Road to Valley Forge.<\/em><\/p>\n While\u00a0he isn’t known for writing poetry or fiction, or being a senator or PM, Hebb is a very influential psychologist. He was particularly interested in the topic of neuropsychology. He was the man that put the research into discovering how neurons function in relation to psychological processes (how you best learn.) So if you are grateful for teachers that teach topics in various ways so that you can better understand, you have Mr. Hebb to thank for it.<\/p>\n Ever turn on CBC to see CBC News Now with Ian Hanomansing? Now you can tell all your friends and family “that guy went to Dal.” He has won several awards for “Best News Anchor” in the past, and continues to work hard at his job as a broadcasting journalist.<\/p>\n McDonald is a renown astrophysicist! He has won several awards, including a Nobel Prize in Physics! That’s impressive. He graduated from Dalhousie University in 1965 where he later attended California Institute of Technology where he met his advisor, William Alfred Fowler-a nuclear physicist and, later, astrophysicist. Fowler, too, won a Nobel Prize in Physics, as well as a National Medal of Science. Pretty cool to have a mentor like that with humble beginnings of North Sydney, NS.<\/p>\n Though he may have taught at McGill, he studied at Dal, and we all know which is better and\u00a0\u00a0more important. MacLennan is yet another author who attended Dal. His novel,\u00a0Two Solitudes\u00a0<\/em>was later turned into a movie, if you’re not much of a reader. He was awarded the “Governor General’s Award for English-Language Fiction” several times for several of his novels, as well as being awarded the “Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts”.<\/p>\n But, of course, there are so many more famous alumni to check out! Google it for yourself; you might be surprised. And if any of these struck an interest or sense of pride, go ahead and flaunt it around! We all know what school winners come from.<\/p>\n It’s always fun to brag about who used to go to your school. Lucky for us, Dalhousie has an abundance of successful alumni. Below are a few that we found particularly cool! 1. Brad Peyton Brad Peyton is a famous film director. You probably know his works:\u00a0San Andreas, Journey 2, Cats and Dogs, etc. He’s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20691,"featured_media":115449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9605,9569,9639],"tags":[9601,9678,9677,9679,9689],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-115448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life","category-college-life","category-school","tag-campus","tag-dalhouse-university","tag-dalhousie","tag-dalhousie-life","tag-famous-alumni"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n2. Lucy Maud Montgomery<\/h2>\n
3. Michel Trudeau<\/h2>\n
4. Colleen Jones<\/h2>\n
5. Robert MacNeil<\/h2>\n
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6. George Elliott Clarke<\/h2>\n
7. Brian Mulroney<\/h2>\n
8. Joe Clark<\/h2>\n
9. R.B. Bennett<\/h2>\n
10. Kathryn D. Sullivan<\/h2>\n
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11. John Buchanan<\/h2>\n
12. Donald O. Hebb<\/h2>\n
13. Ian Hanomansing<\/h2>\n
14. Arthur B. McDonald<\/h2>\n
15. Hugh MacLennan<\/h2>\n
Who are your favorite famous alumni from Dalhousie University? Comment below!<\/h5>\n
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