This is a list of notable alumni of Lehigh University, a private research university located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Academia

* David Bader ( BSCompE, 1990;

MSEE A Master of Engineering (abbreviated MEng, M.E. or M.Eng.) is either an academic or professional master's degree in the field of engineering. International variations Australia In Australia, the Master of Engineering degree is a research deg ...

, 1991), Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and former Georgia Tech professor *

Anthony G. Collins Anthony G. Collins (born 1949) was the 16th President of Clarkson University in Potsdam (village), New York, Potsdam, New York. Early life, education, and career Collins grew up outside Melbourne, Australia. He earned an undergraduate civil engi ...

( D.Eng. Civil Eng., 1982), former Clarkson University president *

Peter Feaver Peter Douglas Feaver (born December 17, 1961) is an American professor of political science and public policy at Duke University. He is known for his scholarship on civil-military relations. Feaver has served as the director of the Triangle In ...

( BA, 1983),

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

professor and former member of the

National Security Council A national security council (NSC) is usually an executive branch governmental body responsible for coordinating policy on national security issues and advising chief executives on matters related to national security. An NSC is often headed by a na ...

in the

Clinton Clinton is an English toponymic surname, indicating one's ancestors came from English places called Glympton or Glinton.Hanks, P. & Hodges, F. ''A Dictionary of Surnames''. Oxford University Press, 1988 Clinton has frequently been used as a given ...

and George W. Bush administrations * James D. Foley ( BSEE, 1964), Georgia Tech professor and co-author, '' Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice'' * Kenneth French ( Mech. E., 1976), Dartmouth College finance department chairman and American Finance Association president *

Robert L. Ketter Robert L. Ketter (1929–1989), was an authority on earthquake engineering research and a former president of the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB). A graduate of Lehigh University, Ketter went to UB, then known as the University of B ...

, former University of Buffalo president *

Andrew H. Knoll Andrew Herbert Knoll (born 1951) is the Fisher Research Professor of Natural History and a Research Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. Born in West Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1951, Andrew Knoll graduated from Lehigh U ...

(1973), Harvard University paleontologist and geologist and member of the

National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nati ...

Ted London Ted London is an American scholar and teacher on Bottom of the pyramid, Base of the Pyramid (BoP) issues. He is the Ford Motor Company Clinical Professor of Business Administration at the Ross School of Business, Stephen M. Ross School of Busi ...

(BS Mech. Eng 1985),

Base of the Pyramid The bottom of the pyramid, bottom of the wealth pyramid or the bottom of the income pyramid is the largest, but poorest socio-economic group. In global terms, this is the 2.7 billion people who live on less than $2.50 a day. Management scho ...

expert at the

Stephen M. Ross School of Business The Stephen M. Ross School of Business, also known as Michigan Ross, is the business school of the University of Michigan, a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Founded in 1924, the school is ranked among the best business schools i ...

and William Davidson Institute senior research fellow *

Robert J. Nemiroff Robert J. Nemiroff is an Astrophysics, Astrophysicist and Professor of Physics at Michigan Technological University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in Astronomy and Astrophysics in 1987 and his B.S. from Lehigh Universit ...

(1987),

Michigan Technological University Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech, MTU, or simply Tech) is a public research university in Houghton, Michigan, founded in 1885 as the Michigan Mining School, the first post-secondary institution in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. ...

professor of physics and co-founder of the Astronomy Picture of the Day and

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* Paul C. Paris (1955), Washington University in St. Louis professor emeritus and expert on

fracture mechanics Fracture mechanics is the field of mechanics concerned with the study of the propagation of cracks in materials. It uses methods of analytical solid mechanics to calculate the driving force on a crack and those of experimental solid mechanics t ...

and material fatigue *

Walter C. Pitman, III Walter Clarkson Pitman III (21 October 1931 – 1 October 2019) was an American geophysicist and a professor emeritus at Columbia University. His measurements of magnetic anomalies on the ocean floor supported the Morley–Vine–Matthews hypothe ...

(1956), Columbia University professor emeritus and expert on sea floor spreading *

James R. Rice James Robert Rice (born December 3, 1940) is an American engineer, scientist, geophysicist,''Who's who in Frontier Science and Technology.'' Vol. 1. 1984. p 608 and Mallinckrodt Professor of Engineering Sciences and Geophysics at the Harvard Joh ...

(1962), Harvard University physicist and professor and member of the

and National Academy of Engineering. * Herman Schneider (1894), University of Cincinnati former president and developer of cooperative education *

James E. Talmage James Edward Talmage (21 September 1862 – 27 July 1933) was an English chemist, geologist, and religious leader who served as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) fro ...

( Geology, 1884), University of Utah former president, author, and LDS apostle * John Texter (1949), Eastern Michigan University professor emeritus, author, inventor, and co-founder of Strider Research Corporation *

Paul Torgersen Paul Ernest Torgersen (October 13, 1931 – March 29, 2015) was the 14th President of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Background Torgersen was born in Staten Island, New York. He earned a B.S. degree in industrial engineerin ...

(B.S. Industrial Engr., 1953), former Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University president

Architecture

Roland E. Borhek Roland Edward Borhek (1883 – May 7, 1955) was an architect in the state of Washington (state), Washington. Biography Borhek was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1883. He attended Lehigh University before working as chief draftsman for the f ...

(1883), designed the Rialto Theater and other buildings *

Wallis Eastburn Howe Wallis Eastburn Howe (1868–1960) was a notable American architect from Rhode Island. Biography Howe was born in Philadelphia in 1868 to a family with deep roots in Bristol, Rhode Island. He was the 18th and last child of Mark Antony De ...

(1889), architect

Business

William Amelio William J. "Bill" Amelio is an American business executive who was the CEO of Lenovo. He was also the CEO of Avnet. Education Amelio holds a master’s degree in Management from Stanford University, where he was a Sloan Fellow. He also earne ...

( BS Chem. Eng., 1979), Avnet CEO and former

Lenovo Lenovo Group Limited, often shortened to Lenovo ( , ), is a Chinese Multinational corporation, multinational technology company specializing in designing, manufacturing, and marketing consumer electronics, Personal computer, personal computers, ...

CEO * Tom Bayer, Reserve Bank of Vanuatu director *

Patrice Banks Patrice Banks is an engineer turned auto technician who in 2017 founded the Girls Auto Clinic Repair Center, a Pennsylvania-based auto repair center that caters to women clientele, is staffed by women mechanics, and has a nail salon for manicure a ...

, Girls Auto Clinic founder and author * Bob Born (1944), Just Born president * William Butterworth,

Deere and Company Deere & Company, doing business as John Deere (), is an American corporation that manufactures agricultural machinery, heavy equipment, forestry machinery, diesel engines, drivetrains (axles, transmissions, gearboxes) used in heavy equipment, ...

president and chairman *

Steve Chang Steve Chang, is a Taiwanese businessperson and the co-founder and former CEO of Trend Micro, the world's largest software security firm. He was named "Star of Asia" by the ''Business Week'' in 1999,Barnathan, J. (1999), 'The stars of Asia: 50 Asi ...

, Trend Micro co-founder and former CEO *

Stacey Cunningham Stacey Cunningham (born 1974 or 1975) is an American banker who served as the 67th president of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) from 2018 to 2022. She was the second female president of the NYSE, but the first to hold full leadership of the ...

( BS Industrial Engineering, 1996), 67th president of the New York Stock Exchange * Jack Dreyfus (1934),

Dreyfus Fund Dreyfus is an American investment management company that deals with investment products and strategies. It was established in 1951 and is currently headquartered in New York City. Dreyfus currently is a subsidiary of BNY Mellon Investment Man ...

founder * Cathy Engelbert (1986), former Deloitte U.S. president and current WNBA commissioner *

Murray H. Goodman Murray H. Goodman (born 1925) is an American real estate developer, philanthropist, and founder of Goodman Properties (also known as The Goodman Company). He is Lehigh University's most generous living benefactor, and the Goodman Campus and 16,00 ...

(born 1925), real estate developer * Eugene Grace (1899), former Bethlehem Steel president * Richard Hayne ( BA Anthropology 1969), Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, and Free People co-founder * Marc Holtzman (1982), Barclays Capital vice chairman and

Kazkommertsbank Kazkommertsbank ( kk, Қазкоммерцбанк, ''Qazkommertsbank'') was the largest private bank in Kazakhstan with a total market share of 24%. Kazkommertsbank merged with Halyk Bank on 27 July 2018. About Kazkommertsbank is a large provi ...

chairman *

Lee Iacocca Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca ( ; October 15, 1924 – July 2, 2019) was an American automobile executive best known for the development of the Ford Mustang, Continental Mark III, and Ford Pinto cars while at the Ford Motor Company in the 1960s, an ...

( Industrial Eng. 1945, Hon D.Eng. 1965), former

Chrysler Stellantis North America (officially FCA US and formerly Chrysler ()) is one of the " Big Three" automobile manufacturers in the United States, headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan. It is the American subsidiary of the multinational automoti ...

chairman * Kevin J. Kennedy (1978), Avaya CEO *

John E. McGlade John E. McGlade (born 1954) is an American businessman. He is the former chairman, chief executive officer, and president of Air Products.

Air Products Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. is an American international corporation whose principal business is selling gases and chemicals for industrial uses. Air Products' headquarters is in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of Pen ...

chairman, president, and CEO *

Reginald Lenna Reginald Alexander Lenna (rej' le-nā') (Jamestown, New York December 3, 1912 – Chautauqua Institution, New York, February 6, 2000) was an American Army officer and businessman. He was the Chief Executive Officer and chair of the Board of Black ...

( BS Industrial engineering, 1936),

Blackstone Inc. Blackstone Inc. is an American alternative investment management company based in New York City. Blackstone's private equity business has been one of the largest investors in leveraged buyouts in the last three decades, while its real estate bu ...

CEO * Edward Avery McIlhenny (1896),

McIlhenny Company McIlhenny or McElhenny is an Irish surname commonly found in Donegal and Derry. They are a Sept of the Cenel Eogain race, son of Niall high king of Ireland. In Gaelic the name translates "servant of Saint Canice". Notable people with the surname in ...

CEO] *

Henry H. Minskoff Henry H. Minskoff (May 27, 1911 – August 13, 1984) was an American real estate developer. Biography Minskoff was born to a Jewish family in New York City the second of six children of Sam Minskoff and Esther Kernstein Minskoff, immigrants from ...

, real estate developer * James Ward Packard ( Mech. E., 1884),

Packard Packard or Packard Motor Car Company was an American luxury automobile company located in Detroit, Michigan. The first Packard automobiles were produced in 1899, and the last Packards were built in South Bend, Indiana in 1958. One of the "Thr ...

co-founder *

John R. Patrick John Russell Patrick (born August 5, 1945) is a business executive and author in the information technology industry. During his tenure as a vice president at IBM, he helped launch the IBM ThinkPad and the OS/2, OS/2 operating system and was later ...

( BS

Electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

, 1967), former IBM vice president *

Joseph R. Perella Joseph R. Perella (born September 20, 1941) is an American financier. Early life Perella was born in Newark, New Jersey, to an accountant. Perella attended Lehigh University on a full scholarship. During his time at Lehigh, Perella was a member ...

( BS

Business Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or Trade, buying and selling Product (business), products (such as goods and Service (economics), services). It is also "any activity or enterprise entered into for pr ...

& Economics 1964), former investment banking chairman at Morgan Stanley * Paul Zane Pilzer ( BA Journalism 1974), economist * Barry Rosenstein (BA, 1981), hedge fund manager *

Fredrick D. Schaufeld Fredrick D. Schaufeld (born September 23, 1959) is an entrepreneur, venture capital investor, sports team owner, philanthropist and patent holder. Mr. Schaufeld is a co-Founder and Managing Director of SWaN & Legend Venture Partners (SWaN). He i ...

( BA Government 1981), entrepreneur and venture capital investor *

Tsai Shengbai Tsai Shengbai (); also known as: Tsai Hsiung (), (27 September 1894 – 15 April 1977) was a pioneering Chinese industrialist. During 1915 to 1919, Tsai Shengbai studied at Lehigh University. In the initial phase of Chinese industrial expansion ...

(1919), Mayar Silk Mills president and developer of the modern silk industry in

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

Fred Trump Jr. Frederick Crist Trump Jr. (October 14, 1938 – September 26, 1981; nicknamed "Freddy") was an American airplane pilot and maintenance worker. The eldest son to realtor Fred Trump Sr., he fell out of his father's favor when he chose to become ...

(1960),

Trans World Airlines Trans World Airlines (TWA) was a major American airline which operated from 1930 until 2001. It was formed as Transcontinental & Western Air to operate a route from New York City to Los Angeles via St. Louis, Kansas City, and other stops, with F ...

pilot and former executive and maintenance worker at The Trump Organization; older brother of Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States *

Robert Zoellner Robert Emil Zoellner (April 26, 1932 – December 23, 2014) was an American investor and stamp collector who was the second person to have formed a complete collection of United States postage stamps, following Benjamin K. Miller, who had assemb ...

(BS 1954), investor and stamp collector, the second person to have assembled a complete collection of

United States postage stamps Postal service in the United States began with the delivery of stampless letters whose cost was borne by the receiving person, later encompassed pre-paid letters carried by private mail carriers and provisional post offices, and culminated in ...

, and benefactor and namesake of the school's

Zoellner Arts Center Zoellner Arts Center is an arts center located on the campus of Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It opened in 1997, having been endowed by a $6 million gift from Robert Zoellner ('54) and his wife Victoria.Staff ...

Entertainment

* Dick Berg (1942), screenwriter * Jim Davidson (1985), actor, '' Pacific Blue'' * Paul Guilfoyle (1972), actor, ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'' * Maria Jacquemetton ( BA English, 1983), Emmy, Golden Globe, Writers Guild of America, and Peabody Award-winning writer and supervising producer of '' Mad Men'' * Don Most (1972), actor, '' Happy Days'' (attended but did not graduate) * Louis Clyde Stoumen (1939), Academy Award-winning director and producer

Journalism and literature

* Martin Baron ( BA Journalism and MBA, both 1976), '' Washington Post'' editor and former '' Boston Globe'' editor *

Tracy Byrnes Tracy Byrnes (born 1970) is an American television business news anchor, journalist, and accountant who worked for the Fox Business Network. Byrnes appeared as a recurring panelist on Fox Business Channel stocks and investment news programs ''Cash ...

(1993),

Fox Business Fox Business (officially known as Fox Business Network, or FBN) is an American business news channel and website publication owned by the Fox News Media division of Fox Corporation. The channel broadcasts primarily from studios at 1211 Avenue ...

television reporter * William E. Coles, Jr. ( BA English, 1953), novelist and professor * Richard Harding Davis (1886), war correspondent, journalist, and writer of fiction and drama *

Robert Gibb Robert Gibb RSA (28 October 1845 – 11 February 1932) was a Scottish painter who was Keeper of the National Gallery of Scotland from 1895 to 1907 and was Painter and Limner to the King from 1908 until his death. He built his reputation on ...

( MA English, 1976), poet, short-story writer, essayist, critic, editor, and professor * Michael Golden (1971), '' The International Herald Tribune'' publisher and vice chairman of The New York Times Company *

William P. Gottlieb William Paul Gottlieb (January 28, 1917 – April 23, 2006) was an American photographer and newspaper columnist who is best known for his classic photographs of the leading performers of the Golden Age of American jazz in the 1930s and 1940s. Go ...

( BS business and economics, 1939), jazz author and photographer * Russell Lee (1925), photojournalist * Edwin Lefèvre (1893), one of the first journalists specialized on covering business *

David A. Randall David Anton Randall (5 April 1905 – 25 May 1975) was an American book dealer, librarian and bibliographic scholar. He was head of Scribner's rare book department from 1935 to 1956, librarian of the Lilly Library and Professor of Bibliography at ...

(English, 1928), book dealer and librarian *

Len Roberts Len Roberts (March 13, 1947 Cohoes, New York – May 25, 2007 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) was an American poet. Life He graduated from Siena College, the University of Dayton with a master's degree, and from Lehigh University with a Ph.D. He presen ...

(

PhD PHD or PhD may refer to: * Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), an academic qualification Entertainment * '' PhD: Phantasy Degree'', a Korean comic series * ''Piled Higher and Deeper'', a web comic * Ph.D. (band), a 1980s British group ** Ph.D. (Ph.D. albu ...

English, 1976), poet, translator, and professor *

Stephanie Ruhle Stephanie Ruhle Hubbard (born December 24, 1975) is the host of '' The 11th Hour'' and a Senior Business Analyst for NBC News. Previously, Ruhle was managing editor and news anchor for Bloomberg Television and editor-at-large for Bloomberg News. ...

(1997), MSNBC anchor and NBC News correspondent * Michael Smerconish ( BA Government, 1984), author and radio commentator * Andrea Tantaros (2001), former

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co-host and political contributor *

Les Whitten Les Whitten (February 21, 1928 – December 2, 2017) was an American investigative reporter at the ''Washington Merry-Go-Round'' under Jack Anderson (columnist), Jack Anderson, as well as translator of French poetry by Baudelaire and influentia ...

( BA English and Journalism, 1950), investigative reporter and novelist

Law

Edward N. Cahn Edward Norman Cahn (born June 29, 1933) is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Education and career Cahn was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He attended Lehigh U ...

(1955), United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania judge; The Edward Cahn Federal Building and Courthouse was named in his honor. *

Robert L. Clifford Robert L. Clifford (December 17, 1924 – November 29, 2014) was an associate justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court. He was born in 1924 in Passaic, New Jersey, and attended Montclair Academy, graduating in the class of 1942. He received a Bac ...

(1946), New Jersey Supreme Court associate justice *

James Cullen Ganey James Cullen Ganey (April 22, 1899 – February 7, 1972) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Ea ...

(1920), United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit judge * Ronald A. Guzman (1970), United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois judge *

Alina Habba Alina Saad Habba (born March 25, 1984) is an American lawyer and managing partner of Habba, Madaio & Associates LLP, a law firm based in Bedminster, New Jersey, with an office in New York City. Since 2021, Habba has been a legal spokesperson fo ...

(2005), attorney for former U.S. president Donald Trump * Edwin Kneedler (1967), deputy solicitor general of the United States *

Paul Lewis Maloney Paul Lewis Maloney (born December 15, 1949) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan. Education and career Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Maloney received a Bachelor of Arts degree fro ...

(1972), United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan judge * Malcolm Muir (1935), United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania judge * Maryellen Noreika (1988), United States District Court for the District of Delaware judge *

Donald F. Parsons Donald F. Parsons, Jr. (born 20th century) is an American former judge who served from October 22, 2003 until October 2015 on the Delaware Court of Chancery with the title of Vice Chancellor. Education He is a 1977 graduate of the Georgetown ...

(1973), Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware vice chancellor * Stephen Victor Wilson (1963), United States District Court for the Central District of California judge

Medicine

Harry J. Buncke Harry J. Buncke (1922 – May 18, 2008) was an American plastic surgeon who has been called "The Father of Microsurgery" for his contributions in the history and development of reconstructive microsurgical procedures. He is a past president of the ...

, plastic surgeon called the "father of microsurgery" *

Steven J. Burakoff Steven J. Burakoff is a cancer specialist and the author of both ''Therapeutic Immunology'' (2001) and ''Graft-Vs.-Host Disease: Immunology, Pathophysiology, and Treatment'' (1990). He served as Director of The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sin ...

, cancer specialist and head of Mount Sinai Medical Center's cancer institute *

Frank L. Douglas Frank Lennox Douglas (born April 30, 1943) is a Guyanese-American biomedical researcher and business executive. Education and career Douglas was born April 30, 1943, in Georgetown, Guyana. He graduated with a BS in Engineering from Lehigh Unive ...

, former TheVax Genetics Vaccine Company CEO and founder and first executive director of MIT's Center for Biomedical Innovation * Stephen K. Klasko, Jefferson Health CEO * Gail Saltz, psychiatrist and television commentator * Sandra Welner, specialist in disabled women's healthcare

Military

Ralph Cheli Ralph Cheli (pronounced "Kelly" ; October 29, 1919 – March 6, 1944) was a major in the United States Army Air Forces and a recipient of the Medal of Honor. He served as the commanding officer of the 405th Bombardment Squadron (Medium) in the ...

(1941), USAAF, awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for valor in World War II *

Timothy D. Haugh Timothy D. Haugh (born January 11, 1969) is a United States Air Force general who serves as the commander of the United States Cyber Command, director of the National Security Agency, and chief of the Central Security Service. He previously ...

(BA 1991), current commander, Sixteenth Air Force *

Colin J. Kilrain Colin James Kilrain (born 1958) is a retired United States Navy vice admiral who last served as the assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from October 20, 2021 to February 2023. He previously served as the associate director for ...

(1982), U.S. Navy SEAL, anti-terrorism expert, military attache to Mexico, PACCOM Special Ops Commander, NATO Special Ops Commander *

David M. Peterson Major David McKelvey Peterson was a 1915 Lehigh University graduate who became a World War I flying ace. He achieved six aerial victories, one of which was earned in the Lafayette Escadrille; five were officially credited during his tenure with t ...

(1915),

fighter ace A flying ace, fighter ace or air ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat. The exact number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an ace is varied, but is usually co ...

with the Lafayette Escadrille and

U.S. Army Air Service The United States Army Air Service (USAAS)Craven and Cate Vol. 1, p. 9 (also known as the ''"Air Service"'', ''"U.S. Air Service"'' and before its legislative establishment in 1920, the ''"Air Service, United States Army"'') was the aerial warf ...

credited with six victories, twice awarded the Distinguished Service Cross *

Edwin H. Simmons Edwin Howard Simmons (August 25, 1921 – May 5, 2007) was a United States Marine Corps brigadier general. He was a career officer who served in combat during three wars — including landing at Inchon and fighting at the Chosin Reservoir in ...

USMC (1942), veteran of the Battle of Chosin Reservoir and USMC chief historian * Franklin C. Spinney (BS Mech. Eng, 1967),

U.S. Air Force Reserve The Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) is a major command (MAJCOM) of the United States Air Force, with its headquarters at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. It is the federal Air Reserve Component (ARC) of the U.S. Air Force, consisting of commiss ...

and military analyst *

John H. Tilelli, Jr. John Harold Tilelli Jr. (born October 2, 1941) is a retired United States Army four-star general who served as Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1994 to 1995; Commanding General, United States Army Forces Command from 1995 to 199 ...

(MBA 1972), U.S. Army vice chief of staff

Politics

Pongpol Adireksarn Pongpol Adireksarn ( th, ปองพล อดิเรกสาร, pen name Paul Adirex; born March 23, 1942) is a Thai novelist, documentarist and former politician. Early life and education Pongpol's father, Pramarn Adireksarn, was a Major ...

(1964), Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand * William David Blakeslee Ainey, U.S. Congressman * Ali Al-Naimi ( BS Geology 1962), Saudi Arabia Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources and Aramco chairman *

Carville Benson Carville Dickinson Benson (August 24, 1872 – February 8, 1929) was a U.S. Congressman who represented the second Congressional district of Maryland from 1918 to 1921. Early life Carville Benson was born near Halethorpe in Baltimore County, ...

(1890), U.S. Congressman *

William A. Collins William A. Collins (1935 – 21 July 2022) was a Democratic former two-term member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from the 140th assembly district and four-term mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut, from 1977 to 1981 and from 1983 to 1 ...

, Connecticut State Representative and four-term mayor of

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* Charlie Dent ( MPA, 1993), U.S. Congressman * Geoff Diehl (1992), Massachusetts House of Representatives member * Clarence Ditlow III, (Bachelor of Science (BS) Chemical Engineering), advocate for automotive safety *

Manuel V. Domenech Manuel V. Domenech Ferrer (23 March 1869 – 15 March 1942) was a Puerto Rican politician and engineer. He was mayor of Ponce in 1904, and designer of Casa Armstrong-Poventud, Rosaly-Batiz House, and the 1898 Casas Gemelas (Twin Houses) built ...

(1888), Ponce, Puerto Rico member and Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico *

Lori Ehrlich Lori A. Ehrlich (born June 9, 1963) is the State Representative for the Massachusetts 8th Essex District. Ehrlich won her seat on a March 4, 2008 special election after her predecessor, Doug Petersen, resigned. Peterson was appointed Commissione ...

(1985),Massachusetts House of Representatives member *

Peter D. Feaver Peter Douglas Feaver (born December 17, 1961) is an American professor of political science and public policy at Duke University. He is known for his scholarship on civil-military relations. Feaver has served as the director of the Triangle In ...

( BA, 1983), member of the

in the

and George W. Bush administrations and

professor *

Robert L. Freeman Robert L. Freeman (born March 9, 1956) is a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. He currently serves as the Democratic Chair of the House Local Government Committee. In 2003, the political website PoliticsPA named him ...

( MA History, 1984),

Pennsylvania House of Representatives The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Pennsylvania General Assembly, the legislature of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. There are 203 members, elected for two-year terms from single member districts. It ...

member *

Walter O. Hoffecker Walter Oakley Hoffecker (September 20, 1854 – January 23, 1934) was an American engineer, businessman and politician from Smyrna in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the Republican Party and served as U.S. Representative from Delaw ...

(1877), U.S. Congressman *

Robert A. Hurley Robert Augustine Hurley (August 25, 1895 – May 3, 1968) was an American politician and the 73rd Governor of Connecticut. Biography Hurley, a second generation Irish-American, was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on August 25, 1895, to Robe ...

(1917), 73rd governor of Connecticut * Leonard Lance (Bachelor of Arts (BA), 1974), U.S. Congressman *

Norton Lewis Lichtenwalner Norton Lewis Lichtenwalner (June 1, 1889 – May 3, 1960) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Early life and education Norton L. Lichtenwalner was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to Fred H. and Jenni ...

, U.S. Congressman *

Jennifer Mann Jennifer L. Mann (born May 17, 1969) is an American businesswoman and former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 132nd District, having served from 1999 to 2013. Early life and education Jennifer L. Mann was ...

(1991), Majority Caucus Secretary and member of

* Robert Martin (Master of Arts (MA) History, 1971),

New Jersey State Senator The New Jersey Senate was established as the upper house of the New Jersey Legislature by the Constitution of 1844, replacing the Legislative Council. There are 40 legislative districts, representing districts with an average population of 232, ...

Paul F. McHale, Jr. Paul Francis McHale Jr. (born July 26, 1950) is an American lawyer and politician. From 2003 to 2009, he served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense. Additionally, from 1993 to 1999, he represented Pennsylvania's 15th co ...

(Bachelor of Arts (BA) Government, 1972), Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and former U.S. Congressman * Rufus King Polk (1887), U.S. Congressman * Donald L. Ritter (Bachelor of Science (BS)

Metallurgy Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are known as alloys. Metallurgy encompasses both the sc ...

, 1961), former U.S. Congressman * Richard Schmierer (1974), U.S. ambassador to Oman *

David Sidikman David S. Sidikman (born July 1, 1934) is an American lawyer and politician from New York (state), New York. Biography He was born on July 1, 1934, in Brooklyn, New York City. He attended Abraham Lincoln High School (Brooklyn), Abraham Lincoln Hig ...

(1956),

New York State Assembly The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York State Legislature, with the New York State Senate being the upper house. There are 150 seats in the Assembly. Assembly members serve two-year terms without term limits. The Assem ...

member *

Donald Snyder Donald William Snyder (December 24, 1951 – March 4, 2023) was an American politician who was a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Formative years Snyder graduated from Parkland High School in 1969. He then earned ...

(MBA 1976),

Majority Whip * Edward J. Stack (1931), U.S. Congressman *

Guy Talarico Guy F. Talarico (born August 28, 1955) is an American Republican Party politician, who served two full terms in the New Jersey General Assembly, where he represented the 38th Legislative District. Biography Talarico earned his undergraduate d ...

(B.S.), New Jersey General Assembly member *

Joseph Uliana Joseph M. Uliana (born November 19, 1965) is an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 135th district from 1991 to 1994 and the Pennsylvania State Senate Th ...

(1987), Pennsylvania State Representative and State Senator * Richard Verma ( BS Industrial engineering, 1990), U.S. ambassador to India *

Francis E. Walter Francis Eugene Walter (May 26, 1894 – May 31, 1963) was a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Walter was a prominent member of the House Un-American Activities Committee ...

(1916), U.S. Congressman

Pulitzer Prize winners

* Martin Baron (1976), editor of '' The Washington Post'', former editor of '' The Boston Globe'', 2003

Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made h ...

winner * Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe (1886) 1925

winner * Joe Morgenstern ( BA English, 1953), 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner

Science and engineering

* Ali Al-Naimi ( BS Geology, 1962),

Saudi Aramco Saudi Aramco ( ar, أرامكو السعودية '), officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (formerly Arabian-American Oil Company) or simply Aramco, is a Saudi Arabian public petroleum and natural gas company based in Dhahran. , it is one of ...

CEO and Saudi Arabia's Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources * Walter C. Bachman (1933), chief engineer at Gibbs & Cox and ship propulsion expert *

John-David F. Bartoe John-David Francis Bartoe (born November 17, 1944 in Abington, Pennsylvania) is an American astrophysicist. He is the Research Manager for the International Space Station (ISS) at NASA's Johnson Space Center. He provides oversight for the Pro ...

( BS Physics 1966), Space Shuttle astronaut and International Space Station research manager for NASA * Stephen James Benkovic (1960), chemist * William Bowie (C.E. 1895), geodetic engineer and namesake of

Bowie Seamount Bowie Seamount is a large submarine volcano in the northeastern Pacific Ocean, located west of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada. The seamount is also known as Bowie Bank. In the Russian language, Bowie is called Гора Бауи (Gora Ba ...

Morris Llewellyn Cooke Morris Llewellyn Cooke (May 11, 1872 – March 5, 1960) was an American engineer, best known for his work on Scientific Management and Rural Electrification. Biography Born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as one of eight children of William Harvey Co ...

( BS Mech. E., 1895), rural electrification leader during the 1920s and 1930s * Paul Corkum ( PhD Theoretical Physics, 1972), attosecond physics and

laser science Laser science or laser physics is a branch of optics that describes the theory and practice of lasers. Laser science is principally concerned with quantum electronics, laser construction, optical cavity design, the physics of producing a popul ...

expert * Albert P. Crary ( MS Physics),

Antarctic The Antarctic ( or , American English also or ; commonly ) is a polar region around Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole. The Antarctic comprises the continent of Antarctica, the Kerguelen Plateau and other ...

explorer * Harry Diamond, engineer who developed Proximity Fuse *

Philip Drinker Philip Drinker (December 12, 1894 – October 19, 1972) was an industrial hygienist. With Louis Agassiz Shaw, he invented the first widely used iron lung in 1928. Family and early life Drinker's father was railroad man and Lehigh University ...

( Chem Eng., 1917), co-inventor of the modern respirator *Lt. Col. Terry Hart, USAF ( BS Mech. E., 1968, Hon. D.Eng., 1988), NASA Space Shuttle astronaut *Captain

Nicholas H. Heck Captain Nicholas Hunter Heck (1 September 1882 – 21 December 1953) was a career officer of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps. A leading geophysicist of his time, Heck made important contributions in the study of seismology and o ...

(AB 1903, BSCE 1904),

geophysicist Geophysics () is a subject of natural science concerned with the physical processes and physical properties of the Earth and its surrounding space environment, and the use of quantitative methods for their analysis. The term ''geophysics'' som ...

seismologist Seismology (; from Ancient Greek σεισμός (''seismós'') meaning "earthquake" and -λογία (''-logía'') meaning "study of") is the scientific study of earthquakes and the propagation of elastic waves through the Earth or through other ...

, oceanographer, hydrographic surveyor, and United States Coast and Geodetic Survey officer * Lester Hogan (

Physics 1950), microwave and semiconductor pioneer *

Gary G. Lash Dr. Gary Lash is an American geologist and member of AAPG. He was a professor emeritus at SUNY Fredonia and former adjunct professor at the University at Buffalo. He nominated by Foreign Policy for 2011 FP Top 100 Global Thinkers with Dr. Terry ...

(MS, PhD 1980), geologist known for Marcellus Shale calculations * Bill Maloney (1980), mine drilling expert and participant in the Plan B rescue of miners during the 2010 Chilean mine disaster * Daniel McFarlan Moore (1889), Moore Light inventor *

William S. Murray William Spencer Murray, Sr. (August 4, 1873 – January 9, 1942) was an American engineer. Lake Murray in South Carolina is named after him. Biography He was born August 4, 1873, in Annapolis, Maryland. He was the fourth child of Elizabeth Murr ...

(1895), electrical power generation and railroad electrification expert *

Jesse W. Reno Jesse Wilford Reno (August 4, 1861 – June 2, 1947) was an American inventor and engineer. He invented the first working escalator in 1891 (patented March 15, 1892) used at the Old Iron Pier, Coney Island, New York City. His invention was ...

( BS Mech Eng., 1883), builder of the world's first escalator * Robert Serber ( BS Engineering physics, 1930), physicist in the Manhattan Project *

Lewis B. Stillwell Lewis Buckley Stillwell (March 12, 1863 – January 19, 1941) was an American electrical engineer and the president of American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) from 1909 to 1910. He received the AIEE Lamme Medal (1933) and the AIEE Edis ...

(1885), expert on electrical distribution, President of the IEEE and 1935 winner of the IEEE Edison Medal * John Texter (1949; BSEE, 1971; MS Chem, 1973; MS Mathematics, 1976; PhD Chemistry, 1976), engineer and scientist in applied dispersion technology and small particle science, co-initiator of polymerized ionic liquids, and designer of thermodynamically stable dispersions *

John M. Thome John Macon Thome (August 22, 1843 – September 27, 1908) was an American- Argentine astronomer. Some sources say John Macom Thome. He is sometimes known as ''Juan M. Thome''. He was born in Palmyra, Pennsylvania, and attended Lehigh Univer ...

(1870), director of the Argentina's national observatory, Observatorio Astronómico de Córdoba *

Richard Hawley Tucker Richard Hawley Tucker (October 29, 1859 – March 31, 1952) was an American astronomer. Biography He was born in Wiscasset, Maine, to a ship-owning and seafaring family. After a brief stint at sea starting at age 14, he attended Lehigh Univers ...

( BS Civil Eng., 1887), astronomer; namesake of Tucker Crater on the Moon * Claude Allen Porter Turner ( BS Civil Eng., 1890), developed early reinforced concrete techniques *

Aneesh Varma Aneesh Varma is a London-based serial entrepreneur, inventor and angel investor. He is best known as the founder of Aire - a fintech company that built a new process to a simplify credit decisions for consumers. He previously co-founded FabriQa ...

(2006), founder of Aire and expert on behavior prediction algorithms *

William Wiswesser William Joseph Wiswesser (December 3, 1914 – December 17, 1989) was an American chemist best known as the creator of the Wiswesser line notation (WLN), which was an innovative way to represent chemical structures in a linear string of characte ...

(1936; honorary doctorate 1970), chemist and pioneer in

chemical informatics Cheminformatics (also known as chemoinformatics) refers to use of physical chemistry theory with computer and information science techniques—so called "''in silico''" techniques—in application to a range of descriptive and prescriptive problem ...

and inventor of Wiswesser line notation * J. Lamar Worzel (1941), geophysicist and oceanographer *

Zhou Ming-Zhen Zhou Mingzhen (; 9 November 1918 – 4 January 1996), also known as Minchen Chow, was a Chinese paleomammalogist and vertebrate paleontologist. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a research professor for mammalian paleon ...

, Chinese paleontologist, Chinese Academy of Sciences academic and recipient of the

Romer-Simpson Medal The Romer-Simpson Medal is the highest award issued by the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology for "sustained and outstanding scholarly excellence and service to the discipline of vertebrate paleontology". The award is named in honor of Alfred S. Ro ...

Sports

* Rabih Abdullah (1998), former professional football player,

Chicago Bears The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago. The Bears compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) North division. The Bears have won nine NF ...

New England Patriots The New England Patriots are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston area. They compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) AFC East, East divisio ...

, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers * Joe Alleva ( BS

finance Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of fina ...

, 1975; MBA, 1976), Louisiana State University athletic director and former

athletic director * Craig Anderson (1960), former professional baseball player, New York Mets and St. Louis Cardinals * Lon Babby ( BA Political Science, 1973),

Phoenix Suns The Phoenix Suns are an American professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. They compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA), as a member of the league's Western Conference Pacific Division. The Suns are the only team in t ...

president * Adam Bergen (2004), professional football player,

Arizona Cardinals The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The Cardinals compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) West division, and play t ...

and Dallas Cowboys *

Jordan Cohen Jordan Cohen (ג'ורדן כהן; born July 31, 1997) is an American-Israeli basketball player for Maccabi Haifa in the Israel Basketball Premier League, who plays the point guard position. Early life Cohen was born in Tarzana, California, and ...

('20), Israel Basketball Premier League player *Snooks Dowd, former professional baseball player * Cathy Engelbert (1986), WNBA Commissioner *Sam Fishburn (baseball), Sam Fishburn, professional baseball player *John Fitch (driver), John Fitch (BS Civil Eng., 1938), winner of Mille Miglia and Argentine Grand Prix motor racing, Grand Prix *Paul Hartzell (1976), former professional baseball player, Baltimore Orioles, California Angels, and Minnesota Twins *Bill Hoffman (American football), Bill Hoffman, football player *Al Holbert ( Mech. E. 1968), five-time IMSA GT Championship, IMSA GT Champion and member of International Motorsports Hall of Fame *John Hill (American football), John Hill (1972), former professional football player, New York Giants and New Orleans Saints *Jarrod Johnson (1991), former professional football player, Pittsburgh Steelers and San Diego Chargers *Steve Kreider (1978), former professional football player, Cincinnati Bengals *Tim Mayer (1991), International Motor Sports Association, IMSA chief operating officer *Matt McBride, professional baseball player *CJ McCollum (BA Journalism, 2013), first Lehigh basketball player to be selected in the NBA draft *Kim McQuilken (1973), former professional football player, Atlanta Falcons and Washington Redskins *Rich Owens (1994), former professional football player, Miami Dolphins, Kansas City Chiefs, Seattle Seahawks, and Washington Redskins *Vince Pazzetti, Vincent "Pat" Pazzetti (1912), member of College Football Hall of Fame *Roger Penske (1959), NASCAR and Indy Racing League, IRL team owner, member of International Motorsports Hall of Fame, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom *Will Rackley (BA Design, 2011), professional football player, Jacksonville Jaguars"Lehigh senior student-athletes conclude college careers," Lehigh University, Tuesday, May 24, 2011.
/ref> *Julius Seligson (1930), NCAA and ITA national tennis champion and member of ITA Hall of Fame *Scott Semptimphelter, football player *Levi Stoudt, former professional baseball player, Cincinnati Reds *Lake Underwood ( Mech. E.), professional sports car racer *Bobby Weaver (1981), gold medal winner, Olympic wrestling, wrestling, 1984 Summer Olympics *Finn Wentworth (1980), former New Jersey Nets owner and YankeeNets president *Adam Williamson (2005), Major League Soccer soccer player, New England Revolution

References

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