Corneille Jean François Heymans (28 March 1892 – 18 July 1968) was a Belgian physiologist. He studied at the Jesuit College of Saint Barbara and then at Ghent University, where he obtained a doctor's degree in 1920. Heymans won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1938 for showing how blood pressure and the oxygen content of the blood are measured by the body and transmitted to the brain.

Thomas Heys was born in Bury, England. He came to Canada sometime after 1861, and settled in Toronto, where he married and worked as a chemist. In the 1880s, he was a professor at the Ontario School of Chemistry and Pharmacy.

Harold Hibbert was born in Manchester, England, and earned his B.Sc. (1897), M.Sc. (1900) and D.Sc. (1901) degrees from Victoria College in Manchester. In 1906 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Leipzig. From 1899 to 1904, Hibbert taught chemistry at the University College of Wales, and after 1906 became an instructor at Tufts College in Boston. Hibbert also worked as a research chemist at DuPont and Co. (1910-1914), the Mellon Institute (1914-1916) and at Yale University (1916-1919). He was Professor of Chemistry at Yale from 1919 until 1925, when he came to McGill as E.B. Eddy Professor of Cellulose Chemistry. Most of his research was conducted at the Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada on cellulose and lignin but he held patents for a wide variety of products (e.g. explosives, antifreeze, organic solvents) and served as a consultant for many types of enterprises ranging from mines to flour mills. He was also McGill's representative to the Pulp and Paper Institute of Canada. He retired in 1943 and passed away two years later.

William Henry Hicks was baptized on February 12, 1817, in Portsmouth, England.

He was an educator. He studied at the London training school of the National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church, graduating about 1839. He then taught at Bowyer School, Clapham, London, before joining the evangelical Colonial Church and School Society, formed in 1851 to maintain Anglican parochial schools in British North America. In 1853, he arrived in Montreal, Quebec, and founded a normal school at St. George’s Church. The school soon relocated to a building on Rue Bonaventure. He disapproved of the use of monitors and he advocated mixed schools. In 1856, he helped organize the Lower Canada Teachers’ Association. The success of Hicks’s school earned him an invitation to make it the nucleus of the recently established McGill Normal School. He accepted, and the new school opened its doors on March 3, 1857. The principal of McGill College, John William Dawson became principal of the normal school, and Hicks was given the chair of English literature. Hicks lectured on education throughout the province, was inspector of model schools under the Colonial Church and School Society, and contributed to the Journal of Education for Lower Canada (Montreal) from 1857 to 1879. In 1864, he was elected a vice-president of the Provincial Association of Protestant Teachers. In 1870, he became the principal of McGill Normal School.

In 1843, he married Isabella Barrow (1823- ). He died on August 7, 1899, in Montreal, Quebec.