List of Canadian Jews
This list of Canadian Jews includes notable Canadian Jews or Canadians of Jewish descent, arranged by field of activity. == Academic figures == === Biology and medicine === Eric Berne (1910–1970), psychiatrist John Bienenstock (1936– ), immunologist Daniel Borsuk (1978– ), plastic surgeon Éric Cohen (1958– ), molecular virologist Max Cynader (1947– ), ophthalmologist and neuroscientist Dorothy Dworkin (1889–1976), nurse and founder of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto William Feindel (1918–2014), neurosurgeon Samuel Freedman (1928– ), clinical immunologist Phil Gold (1936– ), medical researcher Larry Goldenberg (1953– ), medical researcher Carl Goresky (1932–1996), physician and scientist Michael Hayden (1951– ), geneticist Sara Hestrin-Lerner (1918–2017), physiologist Abram Hoffer (1917–2009), physician and psychiatrist Charles Hollenberg (1930–2003), physician and medical researcher Harold Kaplan (1928–1998), psychiatrist George Karpati (1934–2009), neurologist Gideon Koren (1947– ), pediatrician Gabor Maté (1944– ), physician Harry Medovy (1904–1995), paediatrician Henry Morgentaler CM (1923–2013), doctor and abortion activist Richard Goldbloom (1924–2021), paediatrician Mel Rosenberg (1951– ), microbiologist Sydney Segal (1920–1997), pediatrician and neonatologist Louis Siminovitch CC (1920–2021), molecular biologist Nahum Sonenberg (1946– ), microbiologist and biochemist Ralph Steinman (1943–2011), medical researcher; Nobel Prize in Medicine (2011) Karl Stern (1906–1975), neurologist and psychiatrist Mark Wainberg OC (1945–2017), HIV/AIDS researcher Zena Werb (1945–2020), cell biologist === Computing and mathematics === Dror Bar-Natan (1966– ), topologist Yoshua Bengio (1964– ), computer scientist David Borwein (1924–2021), mathematician Jonathan Borwein (1951–2016), mathematician Peter Borwein (1953–2020), mathematician Nathan Divinsky (1925–2012), mathematician and chess master Ian Goldberg (1973– ), cryptographer Calvin Gotlieb (1921–2016), computer scientist Michael Gurstein (1944–2017), computer scientist Israel Halperin (1911–2007), algebraist Hans Heilbronn (1908–1975), mathematician William Kahan (1933– ), computer scientist and mathematician; Turing Award (1989) Irving Kaplansky (1917–2006), mathematician Yael Karshon (1964– ), symplectic geometer Cecilia Krieger (1894–1974), mathematician Nathan Mendelsohn (1917–2006), combinatorialist and group theorist Pierre Milman (1945– ), algebraic and differential geometer Louis Nirenberg (1925–2020), analyst; Abel Prize (2015) Anatol Rapoport (1911–2007), applied mathematician Robert Steinberg (1922–2014), algebraist George Zames (1934–1997), control theorist === Engineering === Norbert Berkowitz (1924–2001), engineering researcher Gregory Chamitoff (1962– ), NASA astronaut and engineer Valery Fabrikant (1940– ), mechanical engineer and convicted murderer Charles Hershfield (1910–1990), structural engineer Josef Kates (1921–2018), engineer Leon Katz (1924–2015), biomedical engineer Cyril Leonoff (1925–2016), geotechnical engineer === History === Irving Abella CM (1940– ), historian Norman Cantor (1929–2004), historian Natalie Zemon Davis (1928– ), historian David Feuerwerker (1912–1980), historian Jan Grabowski (1962– ), historian and writer Jack Granatstein OC (1939– ), political and military historian Ronald Hamowy (1937–2012), historian and political theorist Gabriel Kolko (1932–2014), historian Michael Marrus (1941– ), historian David Noble (1945–2010), historian of technology Derek Penslar (1958– ), historian Harold Troper (1942– ), historian Daniel Woolf (1958– ), historian === Humanities === Gregory Baum (1923–2017), priest and theologian Leon Edel (1907–1997), literary critic; Pulitzer Prize (1963) Archie Green (1917–2009), folklorist Marvin Herzog (1927–2013), professor of Yiddish language Norma Joseph (1944– ), professor of Jewish Studies Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (1942– ), scholar of Jewish studies Allan Nadler (1954– ), professor of Jewish studies Adele Reinhartz (1953– ), professor of Biblical literature David Roskies (1948– ), literary scholar Abraham de Sola (1825–1882), professor of Semitic languages and literature Ruth Wisse (1936– ), professor of Yiddish literature === Philosophy === Howard Adelman (1938– ), philosopher Gerald Cohen (1941–2009), political philosopher S. Morris Engel (1931– ), philosopher Emil Fackenheim (1916–2003), philosopher and theologian Raymond Klibansky (1905–2005), historian of philosophy Lou Marinoff (1951– ), philosopher Roger Nash (1946– ), philosopher Michael Neumann (1946– ), philosopher Jay Newman (1948–2007), philosopher Leonard Peikoff (1933– ), philosopher Hillel Steiner (1942– ), political philosopher === Physics and chemistry === Isaac Abella (1934–2016), physicist Sidney Altman (1939–2022), molecular biologist; Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1989) Alfred Bader (1924–2018), chemist Myer Bloom (1928–2016), physicist Jacques Distler (1961– ), physicist Ursula Franklin (1921–2016) metallurgist and physicist Helen Freedhoff (1940–2017), theoretical physicist Stanton Friedman (1934–2019 ), nuclear physicist and ufologist Jack Halpern (1925–2018), inorganic chemist Shlomo Hestrin (1914–1962), biochemist Leopold Infeld (1898–1958), physicist Werner Israel (1931–2022), physicist Martin Kamen (1913–2002), chemist Leon Katz (1909–2004), physicist Victoria Kaspi (1967– ), astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss (1954– ), theoretical physicist David Levy (1948– ), astronomer Rudolph Marcus (1923– ), chemist; Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1997) Maya Paczuski (1963– ), physicist John Polanyi CC (1929– ), chemist; Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1986) Juda Hirsch Quastel CC (1899–1987), biochemist Sara Seager (1971– ), astronomer Moshe Shapiro (1944–2013), chemist and physicist David Shugar (1915–2015), physicist Louis Slotin (1910–1946), physicist and chemist Joe Schwarcz, science writer and chemist Theodore Sourkes (1919–2015), biochemist Rudolf Vrba (1924–2006), biochemist Leo Yaffe (1916–1997), nuclear chemist and university administrator === Social sciences === Bernard Avishai (1949– ), professor of business Ellen Bialystok (1948– ), psychologist Paul Bloom (1963– ), psychologist Reuven Brenner (1947– ), economist Michel Chossudovsky (1946– ), economist Stanley Coren (1942– ), psychologist Kurt Freund (1914–1996), sexologist Rochel Gelman (1942– ), psychologist Reva Gerstein (1917–2020), psychologist Erving Goffman (1922–1982), sociologist Myrna Gopnik, (1935–), linguist Ida Halpern (1910–1987), ethnomusicologist Samuel Hollander (1937– ), economist Gad Horowitz (1936– ), political scientist Helmut Kallmann (1922–2012), musicologist Ivan Kalmar (1948– ), anthropologist James Laxer (1941–2018), political economist Daniel Levitin (1957– ), cognitive psychologist Ronald Melzack (1929–2019), psychologist Henry Mintzberg (1939– ), business theorist Sylvia Ostry (1927–2020), economist Leo Panitch (1945–2020), political scientist Norman Penner (1921–2009), political scientist and historian Steven Pinker (1954– ), cognitive psychologist and linguist Susan Pinker (1957– ), psychologist and writer Frances Fox Piven (1932– ), political scientist Gad Saad (1964– ), evolutionary psychologist Myron Scholes (1941– ), financial economist; Nobel Prize in Economics (1997) Vera Shlakman (1909–2017), economist Lionel Tiger, anthropologist Jacob Viner (1892–1970), economist Kenneth Zucker (1950– ), psychologist and sexologist Shlomo Weber (1949– ), economist === University administration === Isaac Hellmuth (1819–1901), founder of the University of Western Ontario Myer Horowitz (1932–2022), president of the University of Alberta Sheldon Levy (1949– ), president and vice-chancellor of Ryerson University Jack N. Lightstone (1951– ), provost of Concordia University; president of Brock University Frederick Lowy (1933– ), president and vice-chancellor of Concordia University Arnold Naimark (1933– ), president of the University of Manitoba Mordechai Rozanski (1946– ), president of the University of Guelph Bernard Shapiro (1935– ), principal and vice-chancellor of McGill University Harold Shapiro (1935– ), president of Princeton University Daniel Woolf (1958– ), principal and vice-chancellor of Queen's University Max Wyman (1916–1991), president of the University of Alberta == Activists == Manuel Batshaw (1915–2016), social worker Marjorie Blankstein , community activist Judy Feld Carr (1938– ), human rights activist Sabina Citron (1928–2023 ), activist and author Martha Cohen CM (1920–2015), community activist Betty Dubiner (1912–2008), disabilities activist Bernie Farber (1951– ), Jewish community leader and social activist Abraham Feinberg (1899–1986), human rights activist.