List of Ryerson University people

• Honourable David Crombie 1994 – 1999
• John Craig Eaton - 1999 – 2006
• G. Raymond Chang 2006 – 2012
• Lawrence Bloomberg 2012 – 2018
• Janice Fukakusa 2018 – present

• Howard Hillen Kerr 1948 –1966

• Frederick Jorgenson 1966 –1969
• Anthony Wilkinson 1969 –1970
• Donald Mordell 1970 –1974
• George Korey 1974 –1975
• Walter Pitman 1975 –1980
• Brian Segal 1980 –1988
• Terrence Wyly Grier 1988 –1990
• Dennis Mock (acting Aug –Jan) 1990 –1991
• Terrence Wyly Grier 1991 –1995
• Claude Lajeunesse 1995 –2005
• Sheldon Levy 2005 –2015
• Mohamed Lachemi 2015 –Present

In November 2005, Professor Arne Kislenko won TVOntario's first Best Lecturer Series. In 2006, Ryerson University had two professors in the semi-finals for TVO's second Best Lecturer Competition. Philosophy professor Dr. James Cunningham, and radio and television arts professor Dana Lee were semi-finalists. In 2006, Greg Inwood, professor in the department of Politics and Public Administration, was awarded the prestigious Donald Smiley Prize for his book Continentalizing Canada: The Politics and Legacy of the Macdonald Royal Commission. Criminal justice history and international relations professor Peter Vronsky published Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters (2004), a bestselling history of serial homicide, and more recently a controversial history of Canada's first modern battle, Ridgeway: The American Fenian Invasion and the 1866 Battle That Made Canada (2011).