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Dr. Frederick Andermann was born on September 26, 1930, in Czernowitz, Bukovina (then Romania, now Chernivtsi, Ukraine).

He was a Canadian neurologist, epileptologist, professor, and author. When the area he lived in was annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, his family fled to Bucharest. Later, they lived in Switzerland, Vienna, and Paris. In 1950, they immigrated to Montreal, where Dr. Andermann studied medicine at the Université de Montréal and neurology at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital. He became a professor at the Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery and Pediatrics at McGill University and the director of the Epilepsy Unit and Clinic of the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital. He was a founding member and president of the Canadian League Against Epilepsy, the Canadian Neurological Society, the Canadian Society for Clinical Neurophysiology, and the Canadian Association of Child Neurologists. He worked closely with his wife Eva (also a neurologist). He showed a remarkable ability to identify rare neurological syndromes, assemble multidisciplinary teams of researchers, and provide patients and families with hope for treatment. The results of his inquiries have been published in nine books and over 500 scientific papers. The Andermanns were also credited with having described a rare genetically inherited neurological condition associated with agenesis of the corpus callosum and peripheral neuropathy, now known as Andermann Syndrome. Dr. Andermann has been recognized for his outstanding achievements. He was the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, e.g. an Officer of the Order of Canada and the Order of Quebec and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

In 1965, he married Dr. Eva Deutch. He died on June 16, 2019, in Montreal, Quebec.

James Meschter Anders was born on July 22, 1854, in Fairview Village, Pennsylvania.

He was an American physician and author. He studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (M.D., 1877; PhD.). From 1892 to 1918, he was Professor of Medicine and Clinical Medicine at the Medico-Chirurgical College, which became the Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. He was active in several hospitals in Philadelphia. In 1900, Dr. Anders was elected Chair of the Medical Section of the American Medical Association, and in 1908, became the President of the International Congress on Tuberculosis. Dr. Anders is the author of the books, "House-plants as sanitary agents" (1887) and "Textbook of medical diagnosis" (1911). He was awarded Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in France in 1923.

In 1903, he married Margaret Gertrude Wunderlich (1876-1952). He died on August 29, 1936, in Blue Hill Falls, Maine.

Alexander Anderson was born in 1836 in Aberdeen, Scotland.

He was a Canadian educator and administrator. In 1854, he won a scholarship to Moray House Training College for teachers in Edinburgh and later entered the University of Edinburgh, where he won gold medals in mathematics, natural philosophy, and chemistry. He immigrated to Prince Edward Island in 1862 to take the position of second professor at Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown. There, among other duties, Anderson trained students studying for their Third-Class Teaching licence, which was the highest teaching degree offered at Prince of Wales College. In 1868, he became Principal of Prince of Wales College, and he instituted many changes to the curriculum, particularly in the sciences. In 1879, the government decided to save money by amalgamating Prince of Wales and the Normal School, and Anderson became its first Principal. He remained with Prince of Wales College until 1902, when he was appointed Superintendent of Education for the Island. His dedication to education was apparent over his many years of service. He fostered the development of countless teachers, professors, and administrators and turned Prince of Wales into an institution recognized by some of the best universities on the continent. He retired in 1912 and moved to Halifax with his wife to live with their daughter.

In 1862, he married Catherine Stewart Robertson. He died on January 13, 1925, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Beryl Lapham Anderson was born on April 15, 1925, in Nova Scotia.

She was a Canadian educator and librarian. She earned her B.A. (1946) and M.A. (1949) in classics from Dalhousie University. She began her teaching career in Quebec and Nova Scotia (1946-1949). She was a lecturer in Classics at Dalhousie University from 1950 to 1955 before graduating from McGill University (B.L.S., 1956) and becoming Associate Professor at its Graduate Library School (1956-1973). In 1973, Anderson was appointed Chief of the Library Documentation Centre of the National Library of Canada. In 1980, she received her PhD. from Walden University, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her major research and publishing work has been in the field of special libraries. Anderson was a long-time member of the Canadian Library Association, the Archaeological Institute of America, the Canadian Institute in Greece and Friends of the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, where she volunteered for many years. She enjoyed several trips to excavation sites in Greece and Turkey with the Archaeological Institute.

She died on May 6, 2020, in Ottawa, Ontario.

Bruce Anderson is an architect who studied at McGill (B.Arch. 1964) and at Harvard. He is a member of the Order of Architects of Quebec and a Fellow of the Royal Architecture Institute of Canada. His firm, Anderson Architects (Westmount, QC), was established in 1983. He is an Emeritus Professor of Architecture, McGill University.

Cardwell Ross Anderson was born in Toronto in 1927. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in architecture from the University of Toronto in 1952 and 1956. From 1956 to 1963 he practiced architecture in Toronto and the United States. From 1958 to 1961 he taught at the University of Kansas. From 1963 to 1972 he taught at the School of Architecture, Laval University. He was very interested in the preservation of architecture and thus was involved as Coordinating Restoration Architect from 1971-74 at the Acadian Village and in 1971 at King's Landing, both in New Brunswick. From 1975-91 he was Senior Restoration Architect for Canada Parcs Services, Environment Canada.

Cardwell Ross Anderson est né à Toronto en 1927. En 1952, il obtient son B.Sc. (Arch.) de l'Université de Toronto et en 1956, sa maîtrise en architecture de la même université. De 1956 à 1963, il exerce sa profession d'architecte à Toronto et aux États-Unis. De 1958 à 1961, il enseigne à l'Université du Kansas. De 1963 à 1972, il a enseigné à l'Ecole d'architecture de l'Université Laval. Il s'est beaucoup intéressé à la conservation du patrimoine architectural. C'est ainsi que, de 1971 à 1974, il travailla au Village acadien et à King's Landing au Nouveau-Brunswick en tant qu'architecte-coordonnateur de restauration. De 1975 à 1991, il fut architecte principal de restauration aux Services des parcs canadiens, Environnement Canada.

Dr. Duncan Peter Anderson, born at Chaudiere Basin, Quebec, graduated from McGill University with a B.A. in 1890 and a M.D.,C.M. in 1897. After graduation he lectured at McGill and at one time was assistant pathologist at the Montreal General Hospital. With Dr. Albert Vipond he founded the Montreal Children's Hospital. Dr. Anderson was Assistant-Demonstrator in Pathology, 1898-1901 and Demonstrator in 1904. (Canadian Medical Association Journal v. 68, pg. 184, 1953)

Rev. George Washington Anderson was born on May 15, 1816, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

He was a Baptist clergyman. He was educated at Madison (now Colgate) University (B.A., 1844), Hamilton Theological Seminary (1846), and the University of Lewisburg (now Bucknell University) (D.D., 1869). He was ordained in 1854 and held pastorates at Duchess County, New York (1854–58); Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (1858–64); and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1850s?). Anderson wrote several works on Baptists and missions and contributed to the Baptist Quarterly, edited the Christian Chronicle, and was literary editor of the American Baptist Publication Society.

In 1847, he married Maria Frances Hill (1819-1895). He died on July 3, 1903, in Rosemont, Pennsylvania.

Isabelle T. Anderson was born in Conifer, Colorado in 1905. She graduated from University of Colorado in 1927 with an AB in English after which she was an assistant in the School of Medicine Library at the University of Colorado. In 1930, she received her BS Library Science from the University of Illinois.

She served in many capacities as a medical librarian. From 1930-1947 she was the Ramsey County Medical Society librarian in St. Paul, Minnesota. She was Director of University of Utah Medical School Library from 1947-1956. She was a founding member of the Colorado Council of Medical Librarians in 1957. From 1956-1960 she was Library Director of the Denver Medical Society. She was then employed at the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, first as Reference librarian and then Circulation Department, administering a large inter-library loan program. She was an associate of Dr. Estelle Brodman, at Washington University, School of Medicine Library, St. Louis, MO, where she went in 1961 to work again as assistant librarian. She was Librarian of the Medical and Neurological Sciences Library at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Phoenix, AZ from 1965 to 1970.

She was associated with the Medical Library Association from 1931 until her death, serving on several committees, including the committee for the Handbook of Medical Library Practice and Standards for Medical Librarianship. She was president in 1958/59. She also lectured at library schools such as at the University of Minnesota, the University of Denver, Catholic University, Washington, and the College of St. Catherine.

James Anderson was born on July 5, 1834, in Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland.

He was a Presbyterian minister. He was educated at the University of St. Andrews and ordained in 1865 by the Presbytery of Nairn. In 1866, he was inducted as minister at Wallace and Pugwash, Nova Scotia. In 1873, Anderson was called from there to St. James Church, Newcastle, New Brunswick, which had about 180 families in the congregation and over 200 communicants. In the summer of 1875, he spent three months in Scotland in company with his wife, who was ill and thought to be dying. He resumed his ministry in the fall and carried on until October 1879. He then resigned and returned to his homeland. He was the minister of Alvie parish church in Inverness-shire from 1880 until his retirement a few years before his death.

In 1865, he married Barbara Hay Grant (1833–1883), and in 1888, he remarried Jessie Munro (1860-1952). He died on July 14, 1913, in Alvie, Inverness-shire, Scotland.