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Notable Alumni Charles Taylor • Sir William Osler, Baronet • Louis Dudek • Francis Reginald Scott • Justin Trudeau • Wilfrid Laurier • William Shatner • Jack Layton • Conrad Black • Tom Mulcair • John O’Keefe • Zbigniew Brzezinski • Steven Pinker • Moshe Safdie • Louis Nirenberg • Timothy Parsons • Robert Thirsk • Vaira Vike-Freiberga • Julie Payette • Willard Boyle • Jay Macpherson • Leon Edel • David Hunter Hubel • Charles H. Goren • Val Logsdon Fitch • Andrew V. Schally • A.M. Klein • Rudolph A. Marcus • Jacob Viner • A.J.M. Smith • Irving Layton • Sir John Abbott • S.I. Hayakawa • Charles Richard Drew • Frederick Mark Becket • Dame Elizabeth Kathleen Lane
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