Editing University of Victoria (section)

===Notable alumni===
The university has over 88,000 alumni. As of 2020, 7 [[Guggenheim Fellowship|Guggenheim Fellows]], 3 [[Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize|Killiam Prize]] winners, 14 members of the [[Order of Canada]], 11 [[Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes Scholars]] and 43 [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada|Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada]] have been affiliated with the university.<ref>{{cite web |title=Facts & figures – University of Victoria |url=https://www.uvic.ca/research/learnabout/facts/index.php#section0-3 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120123200205/http://www.uvic.ca/research/learnabout/facts/index.php#section0-3 |archive-date=2012-01-23 |access-date=2012-01-10 |website=Uvic.ca}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Andrew Weaver |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/andrew-weaver |access-date=April 13, 2019 |website=The Canadian Encyclopedia |archive-date=February 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190215050717/https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/andrew-weaver |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Kane |first=Laura |date=April 14, 2017 |title=For B.C. Green Party Leader Andrew Weaver, politics is a science |newspaper=[[The Globe and Mail]] |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/for-bc-green-party-leader-andrew-weaver-politics-is-a-science/article34714947/ |access-date=April 13, 2019 |archive-date=October 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022182642/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/for-bc-green-party-leader-andrew-weaver-politics-is-a-science/article34714947/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Honor Roll |url=https://www.uvic.ca/research/learnabout/home/awards/honours/index.php |website=University of Victoria |access-date=2020-09-04 |archive-date=2020-10-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029090558/https://www.uvic.ca/research/learnabout/home/awards/honours/index.php |url-status=live }}</ref> Listed below are some of UVic's noted alumni:

====Alumni in the arts====
*[[Kim Adams]], sculptor
*[[Bill Burns (artist)|Bill Burns]], conceptual artist
*[[Mark Chao]], Chinese/Taiwanese singer, actor and model
*[[Calvin Chen]], singer and actor as a member in the popular Taiwanese boy band [[Fahrenheit (Taiwanese band)|Fahrenheit]]
*[[Jim Coleman (journalist)|Jim Coleman]] (1911–2001), sports journalist, writer and press secretary<ref>{{cite book|last=Taylor|first=Jim|title=The best of Jim Coleman: fifty years of Canadian sport from the man who saw it all|publisher=Harbour Publishing|date=2005|location=Madeira Park, British Columbia|isbn=978-1-55017-359-8|page=13}}</ref>
*[[Kate Craig]], visual artist<ref>{{cite book|last=Canyon|first=Brice|year=1998|editor-last=Arnold|editor-first=Grant|title=Kate Craig: Skin|publisher=Vancouver Art Gallery: Vancouver, BC|pages=48–49|chapter=Kate Craig: But Is It Art?|isbn=1-895442-25-7}}</ref>
*[[Esi Edugyan]], novelist
*[[Nathan Fielder]], writer and comedian
*[[Leah Gibson]], actress
*[[Rick Gibson]], sculptor and performance artist
*[[Lori Hallier]], actress<ref name=times>{{cite news |work=[[Times Colonist]] |via=[[PressReader.com]] |url=https://www.pressreader.com/canada/times-colonist/20090127/282084862689701 |title=Her debut was gory, but it was Canadian |date=January 27, 2009 |access-date=March 15, 2018 |author=Reid, Michael D. |archive-date=September 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180929041125/https://www.pressreader.com/canada/times-colonist/20090127/282084862689701 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Aislinn Hunter]], poet and fiction author
*[[Erin Karpluk]], actress notable for starring as Erica Strange on CBC's ''[[Being Erica]].''
*[[W. P. Kinsella]], novelist well known for his 1982 novel ''[[Shoeless Joe (novel)|Shoeless Joe]]'' which was adapted into the movie ''[[Field of Dreams]]''
*[[Eva Markvoort]], author who chronicled her life with [[cystic fibrosis]] which became the subject of the film ''[[65 Redroses]]''
*[[Charles Montgomery (writer)|Charles Montgomery]], writer
*[[Janet Munsil]], playwright and theatre director<ref>{{Cite web |last=Threlfall |first=John |date=2019-12-12 |title=Art for everyone |url=https://www.uvic.ca/news/topics/2019+torch-tjosvold-embrace-arts+news |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=University of Victoria |language=en |archive-date=2022-10-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221011183056/https://www.uvic.ca/news/topics/2019+torch-tjosvold-embrace-arts+news |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Peter Outerbridge]], Genie-nominated actor in such movies as ''[[Kissed]]'' and ''[[Saw VI]]''
*[[Nilesh Patel (filmmaker)|Nilesh Patel]], filmmaker
*[[Eden Robinson]], novelist and short story writer 
*[[Melanie Siebert]], poet
*[[Bren Simmers]], poet
*[[Jessica Stockholder]], artist
*[[Richard Van Camp]], short story writer and novelist
*[[D.W. Wilson]], writer

====Alumni in business====
*[[Stewart Butterfield]] (B.A. '96),<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://communications.uvic.ca/releases/release.php?display=release&id=975 |title=Flickr Co-Founder Among UVic Legacy Awards Recipients |publisher=University of Victoria |date=November 17, 2008 |access-date=March 8, 2014 |archive-date=March 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140308153548/http://communications.uvic.ca/releases/release.php?display=release&id=975 |url-status=live }}</ref> entrepreneur, businessman, co-founder of the photo sharing website [[Flickr]] and its parent company [[Ludicorp]];<ref>{{cite book |title=Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days |first=Jessica |last=Livingston |year=2008 |publisher=Apress |page=257 |isbn=9781430210771 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ktm885vGIXEC&pg=PT264}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Ludicorp Team |url=http://www.ludicorp.com/the_team.php |work=Ludicorp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031026002614/http://www.ludicorp.com/the_team.php |archive-date=2003-10-26}}</ref> founded the team communication app [[Slack (software)|Slack]]
*[[Ryan Holmes]], founder and CEO of the online social media dashboard, [[Hootsuite]]<ref name="Sell Out? G&M Piece">{{cite news |last=Ebner |first=David |title=Sell out? No thanks, HootSuite founder Ryan Holmes wants a legacy |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/careers-leadership/sell-out-no-thanks-hootsuite-founder-ryan-holmes-wants-a-legacy/article4200805/ |access-date=29 August 2013 |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=11 November 2011 |archive-date=11 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130911084536/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/careers-leadership/sell-out-no-thanks-hootsuite-founder-ryan-holmes-wants-a-legacy/article4200805/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Jeff Mallett]], former president and chief operating officer of [[Yahoo!]]
*[[Tim Price]], chair and director of Trilon Financial Corporation<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.yorku.ca/alumniandfriends/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080220081009/http://www.yorku.ca/alumni/awards/brydenwinners2004.htm|url-status=dead|title=Alumni and Friends &#124; York University|archivedate=February 20, 2008|website=Alumni and Friends}}</ref>
*[[Sheridan Scott]], vice-president of Bell Canada; former head of the Competition Bureau of Canada

====Alumni in government and public affairs====
*[[George Abbott (politician)|George Abbott]], former [[British Columbia Liberal Party|BC Liberal]] cabinet Minister and member of the [[Legislative Assembly of British Columbia]] for [[Shuswap (provincial electoral district)|Shuswap]].
*[[Rona Ambrose]], Interim leader of the [[Conservative Party of Canada|Conservative Party]] and [[Leader of the Official Opposition (Canada)|Leader of the Opposition]], and federal cabinet Minister under [[Stephen Harper]].
*[[Jody Wilson-Raybould]], former [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]] [[Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada]] and current MP for [[Vancouver Granville]]. She was Canada's first Indigenous Minister of Justice.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ccab.com/events/the-honourable-jody-wilson-raybould-bio/ |title=The Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould Bio |publisher=Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business |access-date=April 13, 2019 |archive-date=February 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190215050618/https://www.ccab.com/events/the-honourable-jody-wilson-raybould-bio/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/history/future-students/undergraduate/careers-in-history/profiles/wilsonraybould-jody.php |title=Jody Wilson-Raybould (Puglaas) |website=UVic.ca |publisher=University of Victoria |access-date=March 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306045034/https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/history/future-students/undergraduate/careers-in-history/profiles/wilsonraybould-jody.php |archive-date=March 6, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Russell Brown (judge)|Russell Brown]], judge<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.uvic.ca/law/home/news/archive/alumnijudicialappointments.php |title=Judicial appointments for three UVic Law alumni |publisher=University of Victoria Law School |access-date=April 13, 2019 |archive-date=February 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190215051309/https://www.uvic.ca/law/home/news/archive/alumnijudicialappointments.php |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly]], public policy scholar and editor of the ''Journal of Borderlands Studies''
*[[Murray Coell]], former [[British Columbia Liberal Party|BC Liberal]] cabinet Minister and member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia for [[Saanich North and the Islands]] and former mayor of [[Saanich, British Columbia|Saanich]]. 
*[[Fin Donnelly]], former [[New Democratic Party|NDP]] Member of Parliament for [[New Westminster-Coquitlam]] and current member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia for [[Coquitlam-Burke Mountain]].<ref>[http://www.findonnelly.ca/biography Fin Donnelly|Fin Donnelly] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130123064644/http://www.findonnelly.ca/biography |date=2013-01-23 }}. Findonnelly.ca. Retrieved on 2013-07-12.</ref>
*[[Rob Fleming]], [[British Columbia New Democratic Party|NDP]] provincial cabinet Minister and member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia for [[Victoria-Swan Lake]].
*[[Barbara Hall (politician)|Barbara Hall]], mayor of Toronto (1994–1997)
*[[Colin Hansen]], former [[British Columbia Liberal Party|BC Liberal]] Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia for [[Vancouver-Quilchena]]. 
*[[Judi Tyabji]], former [[British Columbia Liberal Party|BC Liberal]] member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia for Okanagan-East.
*[[Gary Lunn]], former [[Conservative Party of Canada|Conservative]] federal Minister, former Member of Parliament for [[Saanich-Gulf Islands]].
*[[Lorna Marsden]], former president of York University
*[[Rabbie Namaliu]], Prime Minister of [[Papua New Guinea]] (1988–1992)
*[[Barry Penner]], former [[British Columbia Liberal Party|BC Liberal]] provincial cabinet minister and member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia for [[Chilliwack-Hope (provincial electoral district)|Chilliwack-Hope]] and former president of the Pacific Northwest Economic Region (PNWER).
*[[Andrew Petter]], Canadian constitutional law scholar, former [[British Columbia New Democratic Party|NDP]] Attorney-General of British Columbia and member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia for [[Saanich South]], and current president of Simon Fraser University
*[[Carla Qualtrough]], [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]] Member of Parliament for [[Delta (federal electoral district)|Delta]] and federal Minister.
*[[Tamara Vrooman]], former Deputy Minister of Finance of British Columbia and current [[Vancity]] CEO

====Alumni in the sciences====
*[[Robert Campbell Aitken]], a [[Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers]]
* [[Frances Oldham Kelsey|Frances Kelsey]] (1914–2015), Canadian pharmacologist and physician who prevented the approval of [[thalidomide]] in the United States<ref>{{Cite web |title=Frances Kelsey: From Cobble Hill tomboy to thalidomide hero |url=https://www.timescolonist.com/archive/frances-kelsey-from-cobble-hill-tomboy-to-thalidomide-hero-4617095 |access-date=2023-04-12 |website=Times Colonist |date=18 December 2014 |language=en |archive-date=2023-04-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412033031/https://www.timescolonist.com/archive/frances-kelsey-from-cobble-hill-tomboy-to-thalidomide-hero-4617095 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Laurel Schafer]], [[Canada Research Chair]] in Catalyst Development
*[[Mark A. Lewis|Mark Lewis]], [[Canada Research Chair]] in Mathematical Biology, Gilbert and Betty Kennedy Chair in Mathematical Biology
*[[Bernadine Strik]] (1962–2023), [[Horticulture|horticulturist]].<ref name=":02">{{Cite news |last=Slotnik |first=Daniel E. |date=2023-05-12 |title=Bernadine Strik, Whose Insights Helped Blueberries Thrive, Dies at 60 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/12/science/bernadine-strik-dead.html |access-date=2023-05-13 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=2023-05-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230513010424/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/12/science/bernadine-strik-dead.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

====Alumni in sports====
*[[Kirsten Barnes]], winner of two Olympic gold medals in rowing in 1992 in Barcelona<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.uvic.ca/alumni/index.php|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070630225212/http://alumni.uvic.ca/awards/alumni/barnes.htm|url-status=dead|title=UVic Alumni Relations – University of Victoria|archivedate=June 30, 2007|website=UVic.ca}}</ref>
*[[Ryan Cochrane (swimmer)|Ryan Cochrane]], 2008 Olympic bronze medalist in men's 1500m freestyle swimming, and 2012 Olympic silver medalist in 1500m freestyle swimming
*[[Stephanie Dixon]], swimmer, gold medalist in the Paralympic Games in Athens (2004) and Sydney (2000), and numerous medals in the Pan American Games
*[[Kyle Hamilton (rower)|Kyle Hamilton]], gold medalist at the 2008 Summer Olympics in men's eights in rowing
*[[Sarah Kaufman (fighter)|Sarah Kaufman]], former [[Strikeforce Women's Bantamweight Championship]] holder, professional [[mixed martial artist]], formerly with the [[Ultimate Fighting Championship]], current [[Invicta FC]] Bantamweight Champion
*[[Gareth Rees (rugby union)|Gareth Rees]], CEO for Rugby Canada and Canada's all-time leading goal scorer in rugby
*[[Ken Shields (Canadian basketball)|Ken Shields]], former head coach of the Canadian national basketball team
*[[Alison Sydor]], three-time world mountain bike champion and recipient of the Velma Springstead Trophy as Canada's top female athlete in 1995 and 1996
*[[Lauren Woolstencroft]], eight-time Paralympics gold medalist in alpine skiing