McGill University, a prestigious research university in Montreal, Canada, founded in 1821. Also a Scottish surname meaning 'son of the stranger'.
From Scottish Gaelic Mac an Ghoill meaning 'son of the foreigner/stranger'. James McGill, the university's benefactor, was a Scottish-Canadian merchant who left his estate to establish the institution.
McGill University has produced more Nobel Prize winners than any other Canadian institution and was where the sport of basketball was invented by James Naismith in 1891. The university's medical school was also the first in the world to admit women on equal terms with men in 1918.
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