Donald Gordon Grady Kerr (1913-1976) was a professor of history at the University of Western Ontario, and formerly at Mount Allison University.

James A. Gibson (1912-2003) was a Canadian academic, federal bureaucrat and private secretary to prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. Gibson was appointed as the founding president of Brock University in 1963, and held that office for 11 years before his retirement.