List of Queen's University people

In addition to the following notable faculty members, Sir Sandford Fleming, former Prime Minister of Canada Sir Robert Laird Borden, and former Governor General of Canada Roland Michener have all served as Chancellor of the university, though this is a non-academic role.

• Donald Akenson – History
• Ralph Allen – Art
• W. B. Anderson - classics and Latin
• István Anhalt – Music (Juno Award winning composer)
• Robin Boadway – Economics (Member of the Canadian Royal Society, the Order of Canada and CESIfo Distinguished Fellow)
• Caroline Baillie – Engineering
• John W. Berry – Psychology
• Janine Brodie – Political science
• Rosa Bruno-Jofré – History
• John Burge – Music, (Juno Award winning composer)
• Meredith Chivers – Psychology
• James Cordy – Computing (ACM Distinguished Scientist and co-inventor of the Turing programming language)
• Thomas Courchene – Economics, Policy studies
• Wendy Craig - Psychology
• Anne Croy – Canada Research Chair, Biomedical and molecular sciences
• Lola Cuddy – Psychology
• Richard J. F. Day – Sociology
• Vibert Douglas – Astrophysics[18]
• Jacalyn Duffin – Medical history
• Gabor Fichtinger - Computing (Canada Research Chair, Computer-Integrated Surgery)
• Suzanne Fortier – Chemistry (President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC))
• Barry Frost – Psychology
• J. A. W. Gunn – Politics
• Tom Kent – Economics
• Audrey Kobayashi – Geography
• Will Kymlicka – Canada Research Chair, Philosophy
• Susan Lederman – Psychology
• William Lederman – Law
• William C. Leggett – Biology (Chairman of the Board of the Canada Foundation for Innovation) and former Principal of Queen's University (1994–2004)
• A. H. Lightstone – Mathematics
• James G. MacKinnon – Economics (Fellow of the Econometric Society)
• Art McDonald – Physics (winner of the Herzberg Prize, the Benjamin Franklin Prize in physics, the Nobel Prize in physics and a member of the Order of Canada)
• John McGarry – Politics
• Katherine McKittrick – Gender studies
• Marjan Mozetich – Music
• M. Ram Murty – Mathematics (Queen's Research Chair)
• Kim Richard Nossal – Politics
• Vernon Quinsey – Psychology
• Paulo Ribenboim – Mathematics
• Kai Salomaa – Computer science
• Bernice Weldon Sargent – Physics
• Sanjay Sharma – Medicine (ophthalmology, epidemiology)
• Elizabeth Smith Shortt – Medicine
• Ana Siljak – History
• John P. Smol – Biology (winner of the Herzberg Prize)
• L. S. Stavrianos – History
• Alastair M. Taylor – Georgraphy, Political studies
• David J. Thomson – Mathematics
• Helen Tiffin – English
• Jennie Kidd Trout – Medicine
• Craig Walker – Drama
• Noriko Yui – Mathematical Physics
• Clarke Mackey – Film and Media
• Malcolm Peat – Physiotherapy
• Gerald Bull – long-range artillery engineer

1. Rev Thomas Liddell (1841–1846) [19]
2. Rev John Machar (1846–1853) [19]
3. Rev James George (acting Principal 1853–1857) [19]
4. Rev John Cook (1857–1859) [19]
5. Rev William Leitch (1859–1864) [19]
6. Rev William Snodgrass (1864–1877) [19]
7. Rev George Monro Grant (1877–1902) [19]
8. Rev Daniel Miner Gordon (1902–1916) [19]
9. Rev Robert Bruce Taylor (1917–1929) [19]
10. Sir William Hamilton Fyfe (1930–1936) [19]
11. Robert Charles Wallace (1936–1951) [19]
12. William Archibald Mackintosh (1951–1961) [19]
13. James Alexander Corry (1961–1968) [19]
14. John James Deutsch (1968–1974) [19]
15. Ronald Lampman Watts (1974–1984) [19]
16. David Chadwick Smith (1984–1994) [19]
17. William Claude Leggett (1994–2004) [19]
18. Karen R. Hitchcock (2004–2008) [19]
19. Thomas R. Williams (2008–2009) [19]
20. Daniel Woolf (2009–2019) [19]
21. Patrick Deane (2019–Present)[19]

1. Rev John Cook (1877–1879) [20]
2. Sir Sandford Fleming (1880–1915) [20]
3. James Douglas (1915–1918) [20]
4. Sir Edward Beatty (1918–1923) [20]
5. Sir Robert Laird Borden (1924–1929) [20]
6. James Armstrong Richardson (1929–1939) [20]
7. Charles Avery Dunning (1940–1958) [20]
8. John Bertram Stirling (1960–1973) [20]
9. Roland Michener (1973–1980) [20]
10. Agnes Mccausland Benidickson (1980–1996) [20]
11. Peter Lougheed (1996–2002) [20]
12. A. Charles Baillie (2002–2008) [20]
13. David A. Dodge (2008–2014) [20]
14. James Leech (2014–present) [20]

1. Rev S. W. Dyde (1913)
2. James L. Robertson (1916)
3. Brigadier General A. E. Ross (1920)
4. William H. Coverdale (1925)
5. Oscar D. Skelton (1929)
6. R. B. Bennett (1935)
7. Norman McLeod Rogers (1937)
8. The Earl of Athlone (1940)
9. BK Sandwell (1944)
10. Leonard W. Brockington (1947)
11. M. Grattan O'Leary (1968)
12. Richard Alan Broadbent (1969, first student Rector[21])
13. Gary Michael Gannage (1972)
14. Bruce W. Trotter (1974)
15. Morris Chochla (1976)
16. Hugh Christie (1978)
17. Jeremy Freedman (1980)
18. James Harris (1982)
19. Richard Powers (1984)
20. Kelley McKinnon (1986)
21. Charis Kelso (1988)
22. Antoinette Mongillo (1990)
23. David Baar (1992)
24. Peter Gallant (1994)
25. Ian Michael (1996)
26. Michael Kealy (1998)
27. Daniel Sahl (2000)
28. Ahmed "KC" Kayssi (2002)
29. Grant R.A. Bishop (2004)
30. Johsa Marie G. Manzanilla (2006)
31. Leora Jackson (2008)
32. Nick Day (2010)
33. Nick Francis (2011)
34. Mike Young (2014)
35. Cameron Yung (2016)
36. Alexandra da Silva (2018)