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Howard Murray was a prominent Nova Scotia educator born in New Glasgow on 17 July 1859 to George and Mary (Patterson) Murray. He taught school in Pictou before receiving a series of appointments as principal of Stellarton High School, Guysboro County Academy, and New Glasgow High School. From 1876-1880 he studied at Dalhousie University, where he was awarded the Gilchrist Scholarship, enabling him to pursue further studies at the University of Edinburgh and University College, London. He returned from England with his BA in 1887 and taught classics at Halifax County Academy and Dalhousie. In 1891 he was appointed principal of the academy, a position he held until 1894 when he became professor of classics at Dalhousie. He was appointed dean in 1901 and in 1907 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Toronto.

From 1906-1926 Murray served on the Nova Scotia Advisory Board of Education, including six years as chair. He was also chair of the Advisory Board of the Royal Military College of Kingston, Ontario, and between 1909-1921 he was a member of the Conservation Commission of Canada. He was twice president of the North British Society, a member of the United Church of Canada, and an elder of St. Matthew's Church. Murray died on 9 September 1930, survived by his wife Janet (Hattie) Murray.

Robert Murray was born on December 25, 1832 in Earltown, Nova Scotia. He graduated from the Old Free Church College in 1852 and was appointed editor of The Presbyterian Witness in 1855. He was also secretary for the Halifax Evangelical Alliance, an advocate of the free common school system in Nova Scotia, and one of the early members of the Dalhousie University Board of Governors, receiving an honorary LLD from Dalhousie in 1902. Murray was also a poet. He wrote the hymn "From Ocean Unto Ocean" as well as a Canadian stanza to "God Save the King."

In 1867 Murray married Elizabeth Carey, with whom he had five children: Antoinette, Robert Harper, John Carey, William Cunningham, and Norman Grant. The family lived on the Studley estate owned by Antoinette Nordbeck, where Elizabeth served as companion and caregiver to Antoinette and her sister Caroline. When the Nordbecks died, the estate was left to Elizabeth. On Robert Murray's death in 1910 Elizabeth sold the property to Dalhousie to help with its expansion. Dalhousie's Studley campus takes its name from this property.

Thomas John (Jock) Murray is an accomplished physician, educator, researcher and internationally renowned Multiple Sclerosis expert. Born in Halifax in 1938, he received his early education at Pictou Academy (1953-1958), before completing pre-med studies at St. Francis Xavier University and graduating from Dalhousie Medical School in 1963. Following two years of general practice, he pursued post-graduate studies at Victoria General Hospital (VGH) in Halifax, the National Hospital at the University of London, and Toronto General and St. Michael's.

In 1969 Dr. Murray joined the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University and became a Neurology Fellow at Victoria General Hospital. In 1972 he was promoted to Consultant of Neurology at VGH, Camp Hill Hospital, Grace Maternity Hospital and the Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre. Following academic promotions, Dr. Murray served as Head of the Department of Neurology for six years before being appointed Dean of Medicine in 1985. He was the first director of Dalhousie's Multiple Sclerosis Unit as well as the founder of both the Medical Humanities Program and Dalhousie Society for the History of Medicine.

Among his professional activities, Dr. Murray served as the first Canadian Chair of the American College of Physicians (ACP) Board of Regents. In 1995 he was honoured with the John B. Neilson Award for outstanding contributions to the history of medicine. He has received honorary degrees from St. Francis Xavier and Acadia and is a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Nova Scotia, and an inductee into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.

In 2018 Jock Murray was named one of 52 Dalhousie Originals, a list of individuals identified as having made a significant impact on the university and the broader community since Dalhousie's inception in 1818. See https://www.dal.ca/about-dal/dalhousie-originals/thomas-jock-murray.html

Alexander John William Myers was a Presbyterian minister, educator and writer. He was born in Lake Verde, Prince Edward Island, on 17 December 1877 to Margaret Sarah (Moore) and Charles Myers. He received his early education at West Kent School before earning a teaching diploma from Prince of Wales College in 1989. He taught school in Flat River before coming to Dalhousie University, where he obtained a BA in 1902, also studying divinity at Pine Hill College, Halifax, and Knox College, Toronto. In 1912 he was granted a PhD from Columbia University.

Myers wrote primarily on the subject of religious education. From 1912-1917 he was Educational Secretary of the Board of Sabbath Schools and Young People’s Societies of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. He was subsequently appointed head of the Department of Religious Education at the Hartford Seminary Foundation in Connecticut, where he stayed until 1942, when he returned to Canada to take up church ministry in Belleville, Scarborough, and Toronto, Ontario. He retired in 1947.

In 1912 Myers married his first wife, Mae Ethel Dickenson; she died in 1948. In 1952 Myers married fellow islander Helen Penelope Ramsay. He died 2 December 1975.

Dr. Ransom Aldrich Myers Jr., also known as RAM and Randy, son of a cotton planter and one of four children (brother Abbott, sisters Joan and Susan) was born in Lula, Mississippi, on 13 June 1953. He was married to Rita Kindl Myers, with whom he had five children: Emily, Rosemary, Sophia, Carlo and Gioia. Outside his work as a marine biologist and conservationist, Myers was passionate about the arts, especially theatre and opera.

He completed a BA in physics at Rice University in 1974 and worked in Kuwait's oil fields from 1974–1976. In 1977 Myers spent a year traveling through Africa before sailing across the Atlantic on a 8.5-metre sailboat and starting graduate school at Dalhousie, where he earned an MSc in mathematics (1980) and a PhD in biology (1983).

Myers worked as a research scientist for the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans in St. John’s, Newfoundland. In 1989 he joined the Resource Assessment and Survey Methodology Centre of Disciplinary Expertise, a group created to serve as a national resource for government scientists. Following his 1993 publication on the collapse of the Atlantic cod stocks, Myers became one of many scientists to raise public awareness of the government’s suppression of scientific work, and in 1997 was formally reprimanded. Myers then left the DFO to assume the inaugural Dalhousie Killam Chair of Ocean Studies.

Myers co-authored many papers in the late 1990s and early 2000s that influenced public understanding of the ocean’s natural resources, including Myers and Boris Worm’s "Rapid worldwide depletion of predatory fish communities" (Nature, 2003), which brought to light declines in marine fish biodiversity and provided Myers the opportunity to communicate with global decision-makers. He served as a witness at two US Senate Committee hearings on over-fishing and at the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans in 2003 and 2005.

In his work at Dalhousie Myers supervised several Masters, PhD and post-doctoral students and started the Myers Lab, which sought to catalogue and understand changes in marine biodiversity since the advent of industrialized fishing. He and his colleagues collected and compiled global fish population datasets, which they published in an open database, now known as the RAM Legacy Stock Assessment Database.

During his career Myers spoke at over 80 conferences and lecture series worldwide and accumulated numerous awards and accolades, including The Wilfred Templeman Publication Award (1994); a Visiting Fellowship at the Centre of Population Biology, Silwood Park, Imperial College (1996); and assignment to the Board of Directors and advisory boards of many organizations, including the International Oceans Institute of Canada, Atlantic Policy Congress, Sierra Club of Canada and International Union for Conservation of Nature (ICUN) Shark Specialist Group. Myers also worked to build the Future of Marine Animal Populations (FMAP). He was elected to the editorial board of Ecology Letters (2003) and to the board of science experts of the Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea (2005). Myers worked as a consultant for several projects and litigation proceedings under the incorporated name Ransom A. Myers & Associates Limited Natural Resources Consultants. In October 2005 he was named to Fortune magazine’s "Ten to Watch" list.

The scope of Myers’ research and contributions to science are considerable, focusing on many subjects, most notably life history evolution, oceanography, recruitment variability and population modeling, and conservation biology. By the time of his death he had co-authored over 150 research contributions, not including his work as a consultant, his works in progress, and government research documents. He died from a brain tumor in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 27 March 2007, aged 54.