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Purdue University Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and money ...

Notable alumni

Academia

College chancellors, presidents and vice-presidents

Robert Altenkirch Robert A. Altenkirch was the President of University of Alabama in Huntsville and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Life Altenkirch holds a B.S. from Purdue University, a M.S. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. from Purd ...

– former President of the

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and

University of Alabama in Huntsville The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is a public research university in Huntsville, Alabama. The university is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and comprises nine colleges: arts, humanities & social science ...

* Tony Frank – President,

Colorado State University Colorado State University (Colorado State or CSU) is a public land-grant research university in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is the flagship university of the Colorado State University System. Colorado State University is classified among "R1: ...

* Domenico Grasso – Chancellor,

University of Michigan-Dearborn A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, ...

* Richard J. Grosh – former President of

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute () (RPI) is a private research university in Troy, New York, with an additional campus in Hartford, Connecticut. A third campus in Groton, Connecticut closed in 2018. RPI was established in 1824 by Stephen Van ...

Arthur G. Hansen Arthur Gene "Art" Hansen (February 28, 1925 – July 5, 2010) was a philanthropist and former chancellor of several American universities. Education and early career Hansen joined the United States Marine Corps Reserve and was sent to Purdue Univ ...

– former President of the

Georgia Institute of Technology The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech or, in the state of Georgia, as Tech or The Institute, is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Established in 1885, it is part of ...

and

Edwin D. Harrison Edwin Davies Harrison (January 8, 1916 – October 23, 2001) was the sixth president of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), from 1957 to 1969. It was in Harrison's honor that the first Stealing the T, 'T' was stolen from the fac ...

– former President of the

Renu Khator Renu Khator is the fifth chancellor of the University of Houston System (UH System) and the thirteenth president of the University of Houston. In 2008, she became the first female chancellor in the state of Texas and the first Indian immigrant to ...

– Chancellor of the

University of Houston System The University of Houston System is a public university system in Texas, comprising four separate and distinct universities. It also owns and holds broadcasting licenses to a public television station (KUHT) and a public radio station (KUHF). Th ...

and President of the

University of Houston The University of Houston (UH) is a Public university, public research university in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1927, UH is a member of the University of Houston System and the List of universities in Texas by enrollment, university in Texas ...

Dorothy Leland Dr. Dorothy Leland became the 19th president, and the second female president, of Georgia College & State University on January 1, 2004. She was appointed as the third Chancellor for University of California, Merced, on May 18, 2011, replacing Su ...

– President,

Georgia College & State University Georgia College & State University (Georgia College or GC) is a public liberal arts university in Milledgeville, Georgia. The university enrolls approximately 7,000 students and is a member of the University System of Georgia and the Council ...

Duane Litfin A. Duane Litfin (born 1943) is an American academic administrator and evangelical minister. He was the seventh president of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. Early life and education Litfin was born on November 14, 1945. He holds an undergrad ...

– President, Wheaton College *

Sally Mason Sally Kay Mason (née Viparina on May 29, 1950) is an American academic administrator. She became the 20th President (and second female president) of University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa on August 1, 2007. She retired on August 1, 2015. Early li ...

– President of the

University of Iowa The University of Iowa (UI, U of I, UIowa, or simply Iowa) is a public university, public research university in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1847, it is the oldest and largest university in the state. The University of Iowa is org ...

, former Provost of

* Hanna Nasser – former President of Birzeit University, political figure *

Sunder Ramaswamy Dr. Sunder Ramaswamy is an international development economist, an educator, and higher education administrator with extensive experience in U.S and India. Dr. Sunder Ramaswamy is currently a Distinguished College Professor of International Econo ...

– President of the

Monterey Institute of International Studies The Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS), formerly known as the Monterey Institute of International Studies, is an American graduate school of Middlebury College, a private college in Middlebury, Vermont. Established ...

Kenneth "Buzz" Shaw Kenneth Alan "Buzz" Shaw (born January 31, 1939) is an American academic and university executive who served as the 10th Chancellor and President of Syracuse University, 4th President of the University of Wisconsin System, and 2nd President of the ...

– Chancellor of

Syracuse University Syracuse University (informally 'Cuse or SU) is a Private university, private research university in Syracuse, New York. Established in 1870 with roots in the Methodist Episcopal Church, the university has been nonsectarian since 1920. Locate ...

Gary Allan Sojka Gary Allan Sojka (born July 15, 1940) was president of Bucknell University from 1984 to 1995. Sojka received his BA from Coe College, and his MS and PhD from Purdue University. Sojka later became the President of the Pennsylvania Association of C ...

– President of

Bucknell University Bucknell University is a private liberal arts college in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1846 as the University at Lewisburg, it now consists of the College of Arts and Sciences, Freeman College of Management, and the College of Engineering. ...

* Hugo F. Sonnenschein – economist and educational administrator, President of the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

* James J. Stukel – former President of the

University of Illinois The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the University ...

Blake Ragsdale Van Leer Blake Ragsdale Van Leer (August 16, 1893 – January 23, 1956) was an engineer and university professor who served as the fifth president of Georgia Institute of Technology from 1944 until his death in 1956. Early life and education Van Leer was ...

– former President of the

* Larry N. Vanderhoef – Chancellor of the

University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institut ...

* Brent W. Webb – academic vice president of

Brigham Young University Brigham Young University (BYU, sometimes referred to colloquially as The Y) is a private research university in Provo, Utah. It was founded in 1875 by religious leader Brigham Young and is sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...

* John T. Wolfe Jr. – former President of

Savannah State University ) , established = , closed = , type = Public historically black university , parent = University System of Georgia , academic_affiliation = Space-grant , endowment ...

Deans

* Srinivas Aravamudan – Dean of the Humanities,

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 ...

* Arthur J. Bond –

Dean Dean may refer to: People * Dean (given name) * Dean (surname), a surname of Anglo-Saxon English origin * Dean (South Korean singer), a stage name for singer Kwon Hyuk * Dean Delannoit, a Belgian singer most known by the mononym Dean Titles * ...

of the School of Engineering and Technology at

Alabama A&M University Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University (Alabama A&M) is a public historically black land-grant university in Normal, Huntsville, Alabama. Founded in 1875, it took its present name in 1969. AAMU is a member-school of the Thurgood Marsha ...

and civil rights activist * Paul Weber – Dean of Faculties and interim president of the Georgia Institute of Technology

Professors

* Nolan B. Aughenbaugh – Antarctic explorer and Professor Emeritus of Geological Engineering at the University of Mississippi * James R. Barker – professor of Organizational Theory and Strategy, Waikato University *

Michael Baye Michael Roy Baye (born April 6, 1958) is the "Bert Elwert" Professor of Business Economics in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. Education and profession Baye received his B.S. from Texas A&M University in 1980 and earned a Ph.D ...

– Bert Elwert Professor of Business Economics, Indiana University * L. W. Beineke – professor of graph theory at Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne * Ronald A. Bosco – expert on Ralph Waldo Emerson, Puritan homiletics and poetics * Robert Owen Hutchins – professor organic chemistry at

Drexel University Drexel University is a private research university with its main campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Drexel's undergraduate school was founded in 1891 by Anthony J. Drexel, a financier and philanthropist. Founded as Drexel Institute of Art, S ...

* Ann E. Hagerman – professor of biochemistry at

University of Miami The University of Miami (UM, UMiami, Miami, U of M, and The U) is a private research university in Coral Gables, Florida. , the university enrolled 19,096 students in 12 colleges and schools across nearly 350 academic majors and programs, incl ...

Ronald Breaker Ronald R. Breaker, Ph.D. (born 1964) is a Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at Yale University. He is best known for the discovery of riboswitches. His current research is focused on understanding advanced funct ...

– Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

* Monty Buell – chair of the Department of History and Philosophy at Walla Walla University *

George Casella George Casella (January 22, 1951 – June 17, 2012) was a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Florida. He died from multiple myeloma. Academic career Casella completed his undergraduate education at For ...

– statistician at Rutgers University, Cornell University, and the University of Florida *

James Samuel Coleman James Samuel Coleman (May 12, 1926 – March 25, 1995) was an American sociologist, theorist, and empirical researcher, based chiefly at the University of Chicago. He was elected president of the American Sociological Association in 1991. He stud ...

– author of the Coleman Report on the sociology of education * Carl W. Condit – architectural historian, Northwestern University * Clarence Cory – the first Professor in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at

UC Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of Californi ...

; received BME degree from Purdue University in 1889 at the age of 16 and a Doctor of Engineering degree from Purdue University in 1914 * Bruce E. Dale – Professor of Chemical Engineering, Michigan State University * Kenneth E. deGraffenreid – Professor of Intelligence Studies, Institute of World Politics * Victor Denenberg – developmental psychobiologist * Ralph Faudree – mathematician, combinatorialist, provost at University of Memphis *

James Fieser James Fieser is professor of philosophy at the University of Tennessee at Martin. He received his B.A. from Berea College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from Purdue University Purdue University is a public land-grant research uni ...

– professor of philosophy at the University of Tennessee at Martin * Allan Friedman – Guy L. Odom Professor of Neurological Surgery at Duke University Medical Center * Kevin Granata – Adjunct Professor, Department of Engineering Science and

Mechanics Mechanics (from Ancient Greek: μηχανική, ''mēkhanikḗ'', "of machines") is the area of mathematics and physics concerned with the relationships between force, matter, and motion among physical objects. Forces applied to objects r ...

and

Mechanical Engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, and ...

Virginia Tech Virginia Tech (formally the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and informally VT, or VPI) is a Public university, public Land-grant college, land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. It also ...

; victim of the

Virginia Tech massacre The Virginia Tech shooting was a spree killer, spree shooting that occurred on April 16, 2007, comprising two attacks on the campus of the Virginia Tech, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, Blacks ...

Michael T. Goodrich Michael T. Goodrich is a mathematician and computer scientist. He is a distinguished professor of computer science and the former chair of the department of computer science in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the Uni ...

– mathematician, computer scientist, department chair at the University of California, Irvine * Larry Howell – professor of mechanical engineering, Brigham Young University * Peter C. Hu - professor molecular genetic technology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston *

Roger G. Ibbotson Roger G. Ibbotson (born May 27, 1943) is Professor Emeritus in Practice of Finance at thYale School of Management He is also chairman oZebra Capital Management LLC He has written extensively on capital market returns, cost of capital In econom ...

– professor of finance, Yale School of Management * Richard Ian Kimball – professor of history, Brigham Young University * Benn Konsynski – Goizueta Business School, Emory University *

Lawrence Landweber Lawrence Hugh Landweber is John P. Morgridge Professor Emeritus of computer science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He received his bachelor's degree in 1963 at Brooklyn College and his Ph.D. at Purdue University in 1967. His doct ...

– John P. Morgridge Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison *

Arthur H. Lefebvre Arthur Henry Lefebvre (14 March 1923 – 24 November 2003) was a British scientist and an innovative leader in the science and engineering of fuel sprays and combustion in gas turbines. Career During his career he developed several innovative atom ...

– professor; Head of the Department of

between 1976–1993; pioneer of

gas turbine A gas turbine, also called a combustion turbine, is a type of continuous flow internal combustion engine. The main parts common to all gas turbine engines form the power-producing part (known as the gas generator or core) and are, in the directi ...

technology and developer of fuel spray technology; professor at

Cranfield University , mottoeng = After clouds light , established = 1946 - College of Aeronautics 1969 - Cranfield Institute of Technology (gained university status by royal charter) 1993 - Cranfield University (adopted current name) , type = Public research uni ...

, UK * G. V. Loganathan – Professor, Department of

Civil Civil may refer to: *Civic virtue, or civility *Civil action, or lawsuit * Civil affairs *Civil and political rights *Civil disobedience *Civil engineering *Civil (journalism), a platform for independent journalism *Civilian, someone not a membe ...

and

Environmental Engineering Environmental engineering is a professional engineering discipline that encompasses broad scientific topics like chemistry, biology, ecology, geology, hydraulics, hydrology, microbiology, and mathematics to create solutions that will protect and a ...

; victim of the

Fred Mannering Fred Mannering is an American scientist/engineer who is most known for the development and application of statistical and econometric methods to study highway safety, economics, travel behavior, and a variety of engineering-related problems. E ...

– Professor, College of Engineering, University of South Florida * Donald Matthews – political scientist, University of Washington * James McDonald – economist at Brigham Young University * Deborah E. McDowell – English professor and author * Scott A. McLuckey – John A. Leighty Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University * Dorothy Runk Mennen – theatre professor, author and Founding president of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association. * Gary Milhollin – law professor, anti–nuclear weapons activist * William F. Miller – vice president and provost, Stanford University *

Toby Moskowitz Tobias Jacob "Toby" Moskowitz (born February 3, 1971) is an American financial economist and a professor at the Yale School of Management. He was the winner of the 2007 American Finance Association (AFA) Fischer Black Prize, awarded to a leadi ...

– financial economist, University of Chicago *

David Mount David Mount is a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park department of computer science whose research is in computational geometry. Biography Mount received a B.S. in Computer Science at Purdue University in 1977 and received hi ...

– computer scientist, University of Maryland *

J. Keith Murnighan John Keith Murnighan "Keith" was an American social scientist and author, born on November 23, 1948 in Evanston, Illinois. He died of colon cancer on June 3, 2016 in Evanston, Illinois. He was the Harold H. Hines Jr. Distinguished Professor of Ris ...

– Harold H. Hines Jr. Distinguished Professor of Risk Management at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University * Donna J. Nelson – chemistry professor; Nelson Diversity Surveys author, scientific workforce scholar (Postdoctorate 1980–1983) * Robert W. Newcomb – professor of electrical engineering at the University of Maryland * Dallin D. Oaks – linguistics professor at Brigham Young University *

Peter N. Peregrine Peter N. Peregrine (born November 29, 1963) is an American anthropologist, registered professional archaeologist, and academic. He is well known for his promotion of the use of science in anthropology, and for his popular textbook ''Anthropology ...

– anthropologist and archaeologist *

Larry L. Peterson Larry L. Peterson is an American computer scientist, known primarily as the Director of the PlanetLab Consortium, co-author (with Bruce Davie) of the networking textbook "Computer Networks: A Systems Approach," and for his research on the TCP Vega ...

– computer scientist at Princeton University * Ronald L. Phillips – biologist, University of Minnesota * T. Pradeep – Professor of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India * Steven Pray – Bernhardt Professor of Nonprescription Products and Devices at Southwestern Oklahoma State University *

John C. Reynolds John Charles Reynolds (June 1, 1935 – April 28, 2013) was an American computer scientist. Education and affiliations John Reynolds studied at Purdue University and then earned a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in theoretical physics from Harvard U ...

–

computer scientist A computer scientist is a person who is trained in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...

Sherwin Rosen Sherwin Rosen (September 29, 1938 – March 17, 2001) was an American labor economist. He had ties with many American universities and academic institutions including the University of Chicago, the University of Rochester, Stanford University a ...

– labor economist * Lyle F. Schoenfeldt – business management professor, known for a standard textbook on human resources * Granville Sewell – mathematician and intelligent design advocate *

Thomas B. Sheridan Thomas B. Sheridan (born December 23, 1929) is American professor of mechanical engineering and Applied Psychology Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a pioneer of robotics and remote control technology. Early life and e ...

– Professor of

Mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, and ...

at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

, pioneer of

robotics Robotics is an interdisciplinary branch of computer science and engineering. Robotics involves design, construction, operation, and use of robots. The goal of robotics is to design machines that can help and assist humans. Robotics integrat ...

and

remote control In electronics, a remote control (also known as a remote or clicker) is an electronic device used to operate another device from a distance, usually wirelessly. In consumer electronics, a remote control can be used to operate devices such as ...

technology *

Carolyn Sherif Carolyn Wood Sherif (1922–1982) was an American social psychologist who helped to develop social judgment theory and contributed pioneering research in the areas of the self-system, group conflict, cooperation, and gender identity. She also a ...

– social psychologist * Stephen C. Smith PhD –

Sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of Empirical ...

professor and researcher. Also practicing

family therapist Family therapy (also referred to as family counseling, family systems therapy, marriage and family therapy, couple and family therapy) is a branch of psychology and clinical social work that works with families and couples in intimate relationsh ...

Murray Sperber Murray Sperber taught at Indiana University, Bloomington, from 1971-2004 and is a Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies of the school. He subsequently taught (2008-2017) in the Cultural Studies of Sport in Education program in the Gradu ...

– Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies at Indiana University, author of several books on college sports * Yizhi Jane Tao – Rice University biochemist who mapped the structure of the influenza A virus nucleoprotein to an atomic level *

James Tour James Mitchell Tour (born 1959) is an American chemist and nanotechnologist. He is a Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Materials Science and Nanoengineering, and Professor of Computer Science at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Tour is a top ...

– synthetic organic chemist and nanotechnologist at Rice University *

Ralph von Frese Ralph R. B. von Frese is an American geophysicist at the Ohio State University who identified the Wilkes Land mass concentration in Antarctica in collaboration with Laramie Potts. In 1969, Frese graduated B.A. ''cum laude'' from Park College in ...

– geophysicist who identified the Wilkes Land mass concentration in Antarctica * Gregory Weeks – international relations scholar at Webster University Vienna *

Jill Zimmerman Jill Loraine Zimmerman (born 23 March 1959) is an American computer scientist and the James M. Beall Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Goucher College. Since 2006, she has been the head of the Goucher Robotics Lab. Early life an ...

– computer scientist and the James M. Beall Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at

Goucher College Goucher College ( ') is a private liberal arts college in Towson, Maryland. It was chartered in 1885 by a conference in Baltimore led by namesake John F. Goucher and local leaders of the Methodist Episcopal Church.https://archive.org/details/h ...

John W. Sutherland John William Sutherland is professor and Fehsenfeld Family Head of Environmental and Ecological Engineering (EEE) at Purdue University who specializes in the application of sustainability principles to design, manufacturing, and other industrial i ...

– Professor and Fehsenfeld Family Head of Environmental and Ecological Engineering (EEE), Purdue University

Science and technology

Astronauts and aviators

Neil Armstrong Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who became the first person to walk on the Moon in 1969. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. ...

–

Gemini 8 Gemini 8 (officially Gemini VIII) With Gemini IV, NASA changed to Roman numerals for Gemini mission designations. was the sixth crewed spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program. It was launched on March 16, 1966, and was the 14th crewed American flig ...

Apollo 11 Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969) was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module ''Eagle'' on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC, an ...

; first man to walk on the

Moon The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and the largest and most massive relative to its parent planet, with a diameter about one-quarter that of Earth (comparable to the width of ...

John Blaha John Elmer Blaha (born August 26, 1942, in San Antonio, Texas) is a retired United States Air Force colonel and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of five space missions aboard the Space Shuttle and Mir. Blaha is married to the former Bren ...

– STS-29,

STS-33 STS-33 was a NASA Space Shuttle program, Space Shuttle mission, during which Space Shuttle Discovery, Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' deployed a payload for the United States Department of Defense (DoD). It was the 32nd shuttle mission overall, the ...

, STS-43,

STS-58 STS-58 was a NASA mission flown by Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 18 October 1993. The missions was primarily devoted to experiments concerning the physiological effects in space. This was the first ...

STS-79 STS-79 was the 17th flight of Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'', and the 79th mission of the Space Shuttle program. The flight saw ''Atlantis'' dock with the Russian space station Mir to deliver equipment, supplies and relief personnel. A variety of sc ...

STS-81 STS-81 was a January 1997 Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' mission to the Mir space station. Crew Mission highlights STS-81 was the fifth of nine planned missions to Mir and the second one involving an exchange of U.S. astronauts. Astronaut John B ...

* Roy D. Bridges –

STS-51-F STS-51-F (also known as Spacelab 2) was the 19th flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the eighth flight of Space Shuttle ''Challenger''. It launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on July 29, 1985, and landed eight days later on Aug ...

Mark N. Brown Mark Neil Brown (born November 18, 1951) is an American engineer, retired colonel in the United States Air Force and former NASA astronaut. Brown spent a total of ten days in space, over two Space Shuttle missions. Personal life Brown was born ...

– STS-28, STS-48 * John H. Casper – STS-36,

STS-54 STS-54 was a NASA ''Space Transportation System'' (Space Shuttle) mission using Space Shuttle ''Endeavour''. This was the third flight for ''Endeavour'', and was launched on January 13, 1993 with Endeavour returning to the Kennedy Space Center ...

STS-62 STS-62 was a Space Shuttle program mission flown aboard . The primary payloads were the USMP-02 microgravity experiments package and the OAST-2 engineering and technology payload, both in the orbiter's cargo bay. The two-week mission also featu ...

STS-77 STS-77 was the 77th Space Shuttle mission and the 11th mission of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, Space Shuttle ''Endeavour''. The mission began from launch pad 39B from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on 19 May 1996 lasting 10 days and 40 minutes an ...

Eugene Cernan Eugene Andrew Cernan (; March 14, 1934 – January 16, 2017) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot. During the Apollo 17 mission, Cernan became the eleventh human being to ...

–

Gemini 9A Gemini 9A (officially Gemini IX-A) With Gemini IV, NASA changed to Roman numerals for Gemini mission designations. was a 1966 crewed spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program. It was the seventh crewed Gemini flight, the 13th crewed American flight ...

Apollo 10 Apollo 10 (May 18–26, 1969) was a human spaceflight, the fourth crewed mission in the United States Apollo program, and the second (after Apollo8) to orbit the Moon. NASA described it as a "dress rehearsal" for the first Moon landing, and ...

Apollo 17 Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972) was the final mission of NASA's Apollo program, the most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon or traveled beyond low Earth orbit. Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on ...

; most recent man to walk on the

Roger Chaffee Roger Bruce Chaffee (; February 15, 1935 – January 27, 1967) was an American naval officer, aviator and aeronautical engineer who was a NASA astronaut in the Apollo program. Chaffee was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he became an Eag ...

– killed in

Apollo 1 Apollo 1, initially designated AS-204, was intended to be the first crewed mission of the Apollo program, the American undertaking to land the first man on the Moon. It was planned to launch on February 21, 1967, as the first low Earth orbita ...

accident *

Richard O. Covey Richard Oswalt Covey (born August 1, 1946) is a retired United States Air Force officer, former NASA astronaut, and a member of the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame. Early life Born August 1, 1946, in Fayetteville, Arkansas, he considers F ...

–

STS-51-I STS-51-I was the 20th mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the sixth flight of Space Shuttle ''Discovery''. During the mission, ''Discovery'' deployed three communications satellites into orbit. The mission launched from Kennedy Space C ...

STS-26 STS-26 was the 26th NASA Space Shuttle mission and the seventh flight of the orbiter ''Discovery''. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on September 29, 1988, and landed four days later on October 3, 1988. STS-26 was decla ...

STS-38 STS-38 was a Space Shuttle mission by NASA using the Space Shuttle ''Atlantis''. It was the 37th shuttle mission, and carried a classified payload for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). It was the seventh flight for ''Atlantis'' and the se ...

STS-61 STS-61 was the first NASA Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, and the fifth flight of the Space Shuttle ''Endeavour''. The mission launched on 2 December 1993 from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. The mission restored the spacebor ...

Andrew J. Feustel Andrew Jay "Drew" Feustel (; born August 25, 1965) is an American/Canadian NASA astronaut and geophysicist. Following several years working as a geophysicist, Feustel was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in July 2000. He is the vetera ...

–

STS-125 STS-125, or HST-SM4 (Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4), was the fifth and final Space Shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the last solo flight of the Space Shuttle Atlantis, Space Shuttle ''Atlantis''. The launch of ...

STS-134 STS-134 ( ISS assembly flight ULF6) was the penultimate mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the 25th and last spaceflight of . This flight delivered the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and an ExPRESS Logistics Carrier to the International ...

* Guy S. Gardner –

STS-27 STS-27 was the 27th NASA Space Shuttle mission, and the third flight of Space Shuttle ''Atlantis''. Launching on December 2, 1988, on a four-day mission, it was the second shuttle flight after the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster of Janu ...

STS-35 STS-35 was the tenth flight of Space Shuttle ''Columbia'', the 38th shuttle flight, and a mission devoted to astronomical observations with ASTRO-1, a Spacelab observatory consisting of four telescopes. The mission launched from Kennedy Spac ...

Henry C. Gordon Henry Charles Gordon (December 23, 1925 – September 24, 1996), (Col, USAF), was an American aeronautical engineer, U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and astronaut in the X-20 Dyna-Soar program. Early life and education Gordon was born in V ...

– Air Force colonel selected for

Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar The Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar ("Dynamic Soarer") was a United States Air Force (USAF) program to develop a spaceplane that could be used for a variety of military missions, including aerial reconnaissance, bombing, space rescue, satellite mainten ...

program * Virgil I. Grissom – second American in space,

Gemini 3 Gemini 3 was the first crewed mission in NASA's Project Gemini and was the first time two American astronauts flew together into space. On March 23, 1965, astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young flew three low Earth orbits in their spacecraft, ...

, killed in

accident * Guy Gruters – fighter pilot and prisoner of war in the Vietnam War * Gregory J. Harbaugh –

STS-39 STS-39 was the twelfth mission of the NASA Space Shuttle ''Discovery'', and the 40th orbital shuttle mission overall. The primary purpose of the mission was to conduct a variety of payload experiments for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). ...

STS-71 STS-71 was the third mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program and the first Space Shuttle docking to Russian space station ''Mir''. It started on June 27, 1995, with the launch of Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' from launchpad 39A at the Kenn ...

STS-82 STS-82 was the 22nd flight of the Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' and the 82nd mission of the Space Shuttle program. It was NASA's second mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope, during which ''Discovery's'' crew repaired and upgraded the tel ...

* Iven Carl Kincheloe, Jr. – flying ace of the Korean War, first pilot to fly above 100,000 feet (30,480 m) *

Michael J. McCulley Michael James "Mike" McCulley (born August 4, 1943), ( Capt, USN, Ret.), is a retired American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, metallurgical engineer, and former NASA astronaut, and was the first submariner in space. He served as pilo ...

– STS-34 *

Loral O'Hara Loral Ashley O'Hara (born May 3, 1983) is an American engineer and NASA astronaut. Early life and education Loral Ashley O'Hara was born on May 3, 1983, in Houston, Texas, to Cindy and Steve O'Hara. She grew up in Sugar Land, Texas, where she ...

– NASA astronaut selected in 2017 * Gary E. Payton –

STS-51-C STS-51-C (formerly STS-10) was the 15th flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the third flight of Space Shuttle ''Discovery''. It launched on January 24, 1985, and made the fourth shuttle landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on Janu ...

Mark L. Polansky Mark Lewis "Roman" Polansky (born June 2, 1956, in Paterson, New Jersey) is an American aerospace engineer and research pilot and a former NASA astronaut. Polansky received the nickname "Roman" as a joke, because he shares a last name with direct ...

–

STS-98 STS-98 was a 2001 Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle '' Atlantis''. It was the first human spaceflight launch of the 21st century. STS-98 delivered to the station the ''Destiny'' Laboratory Mod ...

STS-116 STS-116 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle '' Discovery''. ''Discovery'' lifted off on 9 December 2006 at 20:47:35 EST. A previous launch attempt on 7 December had been canceled due to cl ...

STS-127 STS-127 ( ISS assembly flight 2J/A) was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS). It was the twenty-third flight of . The primary purpose of the STS-127 mission was to deliver and install the final two components of t ...

* Jerry L. Ross –

STS-61-B STS-61-B was NASA's 23rd Space Shuttle mission, and its second using Space Shuttle ''Atlantis''. The shuttle was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on November 26, 1985. During STS-61-B, the shuttle crew deployed three communications ...

STS-37 STS-37, the thirty-ninth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the eighth flight of the Space Shuttle Atlantis, Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'', was a six-day mission with the primary objective of launching the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO), the sec ...

STS-55 STS-55, or Deutschland 2 (D-2), was the 55th overall flight of the NASA Space Shuttle and the 14th flight of Shuttle '' Columbia''. This flight was a multinational Spacelab flight involving 88 experiments from eleven different nations. The expe ...

STS-74 STS-74 was the fourth mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, and the second docking of the Space Shuttle with '' Mir''. Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' lifted off from Kennedy Space Center launch pad 39A on 12 November 1995. The mission end ...

STS-88 STS-88 was the first Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS). It was flown by Space Shuttle ''Endeavour'', and took the first American module, the ''Unity'' node, to the station. The seven-day mission was highlighted by ...

STS-110 STS-110 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on 8–19 April 2002 flown by Space Shuttle ''Atlantis''. The main purpose was to install the S0 Truss segment, which forms the backbone of the truss structure on the ...

; holds the US record for

spaceflight Spaceflight (or space flight) is an application of astronautics to fly spacecraft into or through outer space, either with or without humans on board. Most spaceflight is uncrewed and conducted mainly with spacecraft such as satellites in or ...

s *

Karl Schoen First Lieutenant Karl John Schoen (20 October 1894 – 29 October 1918) was a World War I flying ace credited with seven aerial victories while flying a Spad XIII for the United States Army Air Service, USAAS during World War I. As such, he was on ...

– one of the first U.S. flying aces of World War I * Loren J. Shriver –

, STS-31, STS-46 * Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger – pilot of

US Airways flight 1549 US Airways Flight 1549 was a regularly scheduled US Airways flight from New York City (LaGuardia Airport), to Charlotte, North Carolina, Charlotte and Seattle, in the United States. On January 15, 2009, the Airbus A320 serving the flight bir ...

which successfully ditched in the

Hudson River The Hudson River is a river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York. It originates in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York and flows southward through the Hudson Valley to the New York Harbor between N ...

Scott D. Tingle Scott David Tingle (born July 19, 1965) is a NASA astronaut. He was selected in June 2009 as a member of the NASA Astronaut Group 20, qualifying in 2011. Serving as a flight engineer as part of Expedition 54 and 55, Tingle launched into space ...

–

Soyuz MS-07 Soyuz MS-07 was a Soyuz spaceflight launched on 17 December 2017 at 07:21 UTC. It transported three members of the Expedition 54 crew to the International Space Station. Soyuz MS-07 was the 136th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. The crew consiste ...

Janice E. Voss Janice Elaine Voss (October 8, 1956 – February 6, 2012) was an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. Voss received her B.S. in engineering science from Purdue University, her M.S. in electrical engineering from MIT, and her PhD in aeronautic ...

–

STS-57 STS-57 was a NASA Space Shuttle-Spacehab mission of that launched 21 June 1993 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Crew Spacewalk * '' Low and Wisoff '' – EVA 1 * EVA 1 Start: 25 June 1993 * EVA 1 End: 25 June 1993 * Duration: 5 hours ...

, STS-63,

STS-83 STS-83 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission flown by ''Columbia''. It was a science research mission that achieved orbit successfully, but the planned duration was a failure due to a technical problem with a fuel cell that resulted in the abort of t ...

STS-94 STS-94 was a mission of the United States Space Shuttle '' Columbia'', launched on 1 July 1997. Crew Mission highlights This was a reflight of the STS-83 Microgravity Science Laboratory (MSL) mission. MSL was originally launched on 4 April ...

STS-99 STS-99 was a Space Shuttle mission using ''Endeavour'', that launched on 11 February 2000 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The primary objective of the mission was the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) project. This was also the last s ...

* Charles D. Walker –

STS-41-D STS-41-D (formerly STS-14) was the 12th flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the first mission of Space Shuttle ''Discovery''. It was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 30, 1984, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base, ...

STS-51-D STS-51-D was the 16th flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the fourth flight of Space Shuttle ''Discovery''. The launch of STS-51-D from Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida, on April 12, 1985, was delayed by 55 minutes, after a boat st ...

* Mary E. Weber – STS-70,

STS-101 STS-101 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle '' Atlantis''. The mission was a 10-day mission conducted between 19 May 2000 and 29 May 2000. The mission was designated 2A.2a and was a resuppl ...

* George Welch – World War II fighter pilot and test pilot; best known for shooting down four Japanese planes during the

attack on Pearl Harbor The attack on Pearl HarborAlso known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, j ...

Donald E. Williams Captain Donald Edward Williams (February 13, 1942 – February 23, 2016) was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, mechanical engineer and NASA astronaut. He logged a total of 287 hours and 35 minutes in space. Early life and edu ...

–

, STS-34 * David A. Wolf –

STS-86 STS-86 was a Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' mission to the Mir space station. This was the last ''Atlantis'' mission before it was taken out of service temporarily for maintenance and upgrades, including the glass cockpit. Crew Spacewalk *'' Pa ...

, Mir 24,

STS-89 STS-89 was a Space Shuttle mission to the ''Mir'' space station flown by Space Shuttle Space Shuttle Endeavour, '' Endeavour'', and launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on 22 January 1998. Crew Crew notes STS-89 was originally schedule ...

STS-112 STS-112 ( ISS assembly flight 9A) was an 11-day Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by . Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' was launched on 7 October 2002 at 19:45 UTC from the Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39B to del ...

Engineers

Mohamed Atalla Mohamed M. Atalla ( ar, محمد عطاالله; August 4, 1924 – December 30, 2009) was an Egyptian-American engineer, physicist, cryptographer, inventor and entrepreneur. He was a semiconductor pioneer who made important contributions to ...

– Distinguished Engineering Alumnus, inventor of

MOSFET The metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET, MOS-FET, or MOS FET) is a type of field-effect transistor (FET), most commonly fabricated by the controlled oxidation of silicon. It has an insulated gate, the voltage of which d ...

(metal-oxide-semiconductor

field-effect transistor The field-effect transistor (FET) is a type of transistor that uses an electric field to control the flow of current in a semiconductor. FETs (JFETs or MOSFETs) are devices with three terminals: ''source'', ''gate'', and ''drain''. FETs contro ...

), pioneer in

silicon Silicon is a chemical element with the symbol Si and atomic number 14. It is a hard, brittle crystalline solid with a blue-grey metallic luster, and is a tetravalent metalloid and semiconductor. It is a member of group 14 in the periodic tab ...

semiconductors A semiconductor is a material which has an electrical resistivity and conductivity, electrical conductivity value falling between that of a electrical conductor, conductor, such as copper, and an insulator (electricity), insulator, such as glas ...

and

security systems Security is protection from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted coercive change) caused by others, by restraining the freedom of others to act. Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security may be of persons and social ...

, founder of

Atalla Corporation Utimaco Atalla, founded as Atalla Technovation and formerly known as Atalla Corporation or HP Atalla, is a security vendor, active in the market segments of data security and cryptography. Atalla provides government-grade end-to-end products in ...

Stephen Bechtel, Jr. Stephen Davison Bechtel Jr. (May 10, 1925 – March 15, 2021) was an American billionaire, businessman, civil engineer, and co-owner of the Bechtel Corporation. He was the son of Stephen Davison Bechtel Sr. and grandson of Warren A. Bechtel, w ...

– Chairman emeritus of Bechtel Group * Don R. Berlin – chief designer of several military aircraft of World War II *

Afua Bruce Afua Bruce is an American engineer, data executive, professor, and former U.S. government official who has held appointments at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and on President Joe Biden� ...

– Executive Director of the National Science and Technology Council in the Office of Science Technology and Policy at the

White House The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. It is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., and has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams in 1800. ...

, Chief Program Officer at DataKind *

Orestes H. Caldwell Orestes Hampton Caldwell (March 8, 1888 – August 27, 1967) was one of the first five members of the Federal Radio Commission. He may have been the first person to coin the term electronics. Biography He was born on March 8, 1888 in Lexington, ...

– one of the first five members of the

Federal Radio Commission The Federal Radio Commission (FRC) was a government agency that regulated United States radio communication from its creation in 1927 until 1934, when it was succeeded by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FRC was established by t ...

Abraham Burton Cohen Abraham Burton Cohen (March 9, 1882 – February 11, 1956) was an American civil engineer notable for his role in designing innovative and record-breaking concrete bridges such as the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's Tunkhannock Viaduct ...

–

civil engineer A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructure while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing ...

notable for designing record-breaking concrete bridges such as the

Tunkhannock Viaduct Tunkhannock Creek Viaduct (also known as the Nicholson Bridge and the Tunkhannock Viaduct) is a concrete deck arch bridge on the Nicholson Cutoff rail segment of the Norfolk Southern Railway Sunbury Line that spans Tunkhannock Creek in Nichol ...

* John P. Costas – electrical engineer, inventor of the

Costas loop A Costas loop is a phase-locked loop (PLL) based circuit which is used for carrier frequency recovery from suppressed-carrier modulation signals (e.g. double-sideband suppressed carrier signals) and phase modulation signals (e.g. BPSK, QPSK). It ...

and the

Costas array In mathematics, a Costas array can be regarded geometrically as a set of ''n'' points, each at the center of a square in an ''n''×''n'' square tiling such that each row or column contains only one point, and all of the ''n''(''n'' &minu ...

Wayne Hale N. Wayne Hale Jr. (born July 5, 1954) is a former NASA engineer. Previously a flight director and Space Shuttle program manager, Hale served as NASA's Deputy Associate Administrator for Strategic Partnerships prior to his retirement on July 31, ...

– NASA engineer * Mamoon Hamid – Managing Member and General Partner at

Kleiner Perkins Kleiner Perkins, formerly Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), is an American venture capital firm which specializes in investing in incubation, early stage and growth companies. Since its founding in 1972, the firm has backed entrepreneurs ...

* Richard E. Hayden – acoustics engineer, won the

Wright Brothers Medal The Wright Brothers Medal was conceived of in 1924 by the Dayton Section of the Society of Automotive Engineers, and the SAE established it in 1927 to recognize individuals who have made notable contributions in the engineering, design, developmen ...

in 1973 for a research paper on noise reduction for

STOL A short takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft is a conventional fixed-wing aircraft that has short runway requirements for takeoff and landing. Many STOL-designed aircraft also feature various arrangements for use on airstrips with harsh conditio ...

aircraft * John H. McMasters – aeronautical engineer * John Joseph Martin – mechanical engineer, author of ''Atmospheric Entry'' *

Elwood Mead Elwood Mead (January 16, 1858 – January 26, 1936) was an American professor, government official, and engineer known for heading the United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) from 1924 until his death in 1936. During his tenure, he oversaw ...

– Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation for construction of

Grand Coulee Grand Coulee is an ancient river bed in the U.S. state of Washington. This National Natural Landmark stretches for about 60 miles (100 km) southwest from Grand Coulee Dam to Soap Lake, being bisected by Dry Falls into the Upper and Lower ...

, Hoover and Owyhee Dams; namesake of

Lake Mead Lake Mead is a reservoir formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River in the Southwestern United States. It is located in the states of Nevada and Arizona, east of Las Vegas. It is the largest reservoir in the US in terms of water capacity. ...

. * Benjamin Franklin Miessner – engineer and inventor (did not graduate) * Daniel Raymer – aerospace engineer * Henry Sampson – inventor and nuclear engineer *

Malcolm Slaney Malcolm Slaney is an American electrical engineer, whose research has focused on machine perception and multimedia analysis. He is a Fellow of the IEEE for "contributions to perceptual signal processing and tomographic imaging". He is a consulti ...

– American Electrical Engineer and Research Scientist at

Google Google LLC () is an American multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics. ...

Games Slayter Games Slayter (9 December 1896 – 15 October 1964) was a prolific U.S. engineer and inventor. He is best known for developing fiberglass, starting with a new method of producing glass wool in 1933. Biography Slayter was born in Argos, Ind ...

– chemical engineer, inventor of

fiberglass Fiberglass (American English) or fibreglass (Commonwealth English) is a common type of fiber-reinforced plastic using glass fiber. The fibers may be randomly arranged, flattened into a sheet called a chopped strand mat, or woven into glass cloth ...

Researchers

* Fernley H. Banbury – inventor of the

Banbury mixer In industrial process engineering, mixing is a unit operation that involves manipulation of a heterogeneous physical system with the intent to make it more homogeneous. Familiar examples include pumping of the water in a swimming pool to homo ...

in 1916 *

Robert C. Baker Robert C. Baker (December 29, 1921 – March 13, 2006) was an American inventor and Cornell University professor. He invented the chicken nugget as well as many other poultry-related inventions. Due to his contributions to the poultry sciences, ...

– inventor of the chicken nugget *

Myron L. Bender Myron Lee Bender (1924–1988) was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He obtained his B.S. (1944) and his Ph.D. (1948) from Purdue University. The latter was under the direction of Henry B. Hass. After postdoctoral research under Paul D. Barlett (Har ...

– biochemist, recipient of the Midwest Award of the American Chemical Society *

Seymour Benzer Seymour Benzer (October 15, 1921 – November 30, 2007) was an American physicist, molecular biologist and behavioral geneticist. His career began during the molecular biology revolution of the 1950s, and he eventually rose to prominence in the ...

–

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate caus ...

and

biologist A biologist is a scientist who conducts research in biology. Biologists are interested in studying life on Earth, whether it is an individual Cell (biology), cell, a multicellular organism, or a Community (ecology), community of Biological inter ...

, winner of the

Wolf Prize The Wolf Prize is an international award granted in Israel, that has been presented most years since 1978 to living scientists and artists for ''"achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among people ... irrespective of natio ...

Medicine Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care pract ...

in 1991 *

Henry Luke Bolley Henry Luke Bolley (February 1, 1865 – November 9, 1956) was an American botanist and plant pathologist known for his work that led to the control or eradication of several major crop diseases. He was also a pioneering college football player and ...

– botanist, plant pathologist, and football coach * Richard Bootzin – clinical and research psychologist *

Robert D. Cess Robert Donald Cess (March 3, 1933 – March 22, 2022) was a professor of atmospheric sciences at Stony Brook University. He was born in Portland, Oregon. Cess earned his bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from Oregon State Unive ...

– atmospheric scientist *

Rita R. Colwell Rita Rossi Colwell (born November 23, 1934) is an American environmental microbiologist and scientific administrator. Colwell holds degrees in bacteriology, genetics, and oceanography and studies infectious diseases. Colwell is the founder and ...

– environmental

microbiologist A microbiologist (from Ancient Greek, Greek ) is a scientist who studies microscopic life forms and processes. This includes study of the growth, interactions and characteristics of Microorganism, microscopic organisms such as bacteria, algae, f ...

and scientific administrator; Director of

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National I ...

* Ward Cunningham – inventor of the

wiki A wiki ( ) is an online hypertext publication collaboratively edited and managed by its own audience, using a web browser. A typical wiki contains multiple pages for the subjects or scope of the project, and could be either open to the pu ...

concept *

Harry Daghlian Haroutune Krikor Daghlian Jr. (May 4, 1921 – September 15, 1945) was an American physicist with the Manhattan Project, which designed and produced the atomic bombs that were used in World War II. He accidentally irradiated himself on August ...

–

physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

, the first peacetime fatality of

nuclear fission Nuclear fission is a reaction in which the nucleus of an atom splits into two or more smaller nuclei. The fission process often produces gamma photons, and releases a very large amount of energy even by the energetic standards of radio ...

* Joel Emer –

microprocessor A microprocessor is a computer processor where the data processing logic and control is included on a single integrated circuit, or a small number of integrated circuits. The microprocessor contains the arithmetic, logic, and control circu ...

architect and Intel Fellow *

Dan Farmer Dan Farmer (born April 5, 1962) is an American computer security researcher and programmer who was a pioneer in the development of vulnerability scanners for Unix operating systems and computer networks. Life and career Farmer developed his ...

– computer security researcher *

Martin Feinberg Martin Feinberg is an American chemical engineer and mathematician known for his work in chemical reaction network theory. Life Born in New York, Feinberg received his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from The Cooper Union for the ...

– mathematician and chemical engineer *

Elizabeth J. Feinler Elizabeth Jocelyn "Jake" Feinler (born March 2, 1931) is an American information scientist. From 1972 until 1989 she was director of the Network Information Systems Center at the SRI International, Stanford Research Institute (SRI International). ...

– information scientist and Internet pioneer * Gloria Niemeyer Francke – pharmacist and science writer *

William H. Gerstenmaier William H. Gerstenmaier (born September 26, 1954) is an aerospace engineer and policymaker who is Vice President, Build and Flight Reliability at SpaceX. He previously served as NASA's Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations b ...

– associate administrator at NASA * Norman E. Gibbs – software engineering researcher * Millicent Goldschmidt – microbiologist and 2006 "Outstanding Alumni", Purdue Department of Biological Sciences * Jonathan Grudin – researcher of human–computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work * Kun-Liang Guan – biochemist *

Clarence Hansell Clarence Weston Hansell (January 20, 1898 – ) was an American research engineer who pioneered investigation into the biological effects of ion air. He was granted over 300 US patents, including, in the 1930s, a precursor to the modern ink jet pri ...

– research engineer who pioneered investigation into the biological effects of ionized air * Obed Crosby Haycock – researcher of the upper atmosphere *

Jesse E. Hobson Jesse Edward Hobson (May 2, 1911 – November 5, 1970) was the director of SRI International from 1947 to 1955. Prior to SRI, he was the director of the Armour Research Foundation. Early life and education Hobson was born in Marshall, Indiana, Mar ...

– director of

SRI International SRI International (SRI) is an American nonprofit scientific research institute and organization headquartered in Menlo Park, California. The trustees of Stanford University established SRI in 1946 as a center of innovation to support economic d ...

Deng Jiaxian Deng Jiaxian (; June 25, 1924 – July 29, 1986) was a Chinese nuclear physicist and academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He was a leading organizer and key contributor to the Chinese nuclear weapon programs. Biography Deng was b ...

– physicist, "father of the Chinese A-bomb" *

Bradford Keeney Bradford Keeney, Ph.D. (3 April 1951) is a creative therapist, cybernetician, anthropologist of cultural healing traditions, improvisational performer, and spiritual healer. Bradford Keeney has served as a professor, founder, and director of clini ...

– psychotherapist, ethnographer, cybernetician *

Gerhard Klimeck Gerhard Klimeck is a German-American scientist and author in the field of nanotechnology. He is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. As the director of nanoHUB, he ...

– nanotechnologist * Harry Kloor – physicist, chemist, screenwriter *

Bertram Kostant Bertram Kostant (May 24, 1928 – February 2, 2017) was an American mathematician who worked in representation theory, differential geometry, and mathematical physics. Early life and education Kostant grew up in New York City, where he gradua ...

– mathematician * Markus Kuhn – computer scientist *

Matthew Luckiesh Matthew Luckiesh DSc, DE, (September 14, 1883 Maquoketa, Iowa – November 2, 1967 Shaker Heights, Ohio) was a physicist and, as the Director of General Electric's Lighting Research Laboratory at its Nela Park National Lamps Works facility in East ...

– "Father of the Science of Seeing" *

Robert W. Lucky Robert Wendell Lucky (January 9, 1936 – March 10, 2022) was an electrical engineer, inventor, and research manager at Bell Labs and Bell Communications Research (Bellcore). He is best known for his writings and speeches about technology, soci ...

– electrical engineer, inventor, and research manager *

Andrew Majda Andrew Joseph Majda (30 January 1949 – 12 March 2021) was an American mathematician and the Morse Professor of Arts and Sciences at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. He was known for his theoretical contribu ...

– ISI highly cited researcher in mathematics *

Herbert Newby McCoy Herbert Newby McCoy (June 29, 1870, Richmond, Indiana – May 7, 1945, Los Angeles, California) was an American chemist who taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Utah and was the vice-president of Lindsay Light & Chemical Comp ...

– chemist *

– former Head,

Bureau of Reclamation The Bureau of Reclamation, and formerly the United States Reclamation Service, is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of the Interior, which oversees water resource management, specifically as it applies to the oversight and opera ...

; oversaw the construction of

Hoover Dam Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on Se ...

* Marilyn T. Miller – pediatric ophthalmologist *

Ben Roy Mottelson Ben Roy Mottelson (9 July 1926 – 13 May 2022) was an American-Danish nuclear physicist. He won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the non-spherical geometry of atomic nuclei. Early life Mottelson was born in Chicago, Illinois on ...

– Nobel Laureate in

Physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

in 1975 *

Ian Murdock Ian Ashley Murdock (April28, 1973 – December 28, 2015) was an American software engineer, known for being the founder of the Debian project and Progeny Linux Systems, a commercial Linux company. Life and career Although Murdock's parents were ...

– founder of the

Debian Project Debian (), also known as Debian GNU/Linux, is a Linux distribution composed of free and open-source software, developed by the community-supported Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock on August 16, 1993. The first version of Deb ...

David E. Nichols David Earl Nichols (born December 23, 1944, Covington, Kentucky) is an Americans, American pharmacologist and medicinal chemist. Previously the Robert C. and Charlotte P. Anderson Distinguished Chair in Pharmacology at Purdue University, Nichol ...

–

pharmacologist Pharmacology is a branch of medicine, biology and pharmaceutical sciences concerned with drug or medication action, where a drug may be defined as any artificial, natural, or endogenous (from within the body) molecule which exerts a biochemica ...

, world-renowned expert on

psychedelic Psychedelics are a subclass of hallucinogenic drugs whose primary effect is to trigger non-ordinary states of consciousness (known as psychedelic experiences or "trips").Pollan, Michael (2018). ''How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of ...

s, founder of the Heffter Institute * Alex Golden Oblad – chemist and chemical engineer who worked on catalysis *

Edward Mills Purcell Edward Mills Purcell (August 30, 1912 – March 7, 1997) was an American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for his independent discovery (published 1946) of nuclear magnetic resonance in liquids and in solids. Nuclear magne ...

– Nobel Laureate in

in 1952 *

C. N. R. Rao Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao BR, (born 30 June 1934), is an Indian chemist who has worked mainly in solid-state and structural chemistry. He has honorary doctorates from 84 universities from around the world and has authored around 1,77 ...

– solid-state and materials chemist * Malcolm Ross – director of the US Navy manned balloon program

Project Strato-Lab Project Strato-Lab was a high-altitude manned balloon program sponsored by the United States Navy during the 1950s and early 1960s. The Strato-Lab program lifted the first Americans into the upper reaches of the stratosphere since World War II ...

; set the current altitude record for manned balloon flight with

Victor Prather Lieutenant commander (United States), Lieutenant Commander Victor Alonzo Prather Jr. (June 4, 1926 – May 4, 1961) was an American flight surgeon famous for taking part in "Project RAM", a government project to develop the space suit. On May 4 ...

in 1961 *

Yitang Zhang Yitang Zhang (; born February 5, 1955) is a Chinese American mathematician primarily working on number theory and a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara since 2015. Previously working at the University of New ...

– mathematician known for his work with twin primes *

Ming-Ming Zhou Ming-Ming Zhou, Ph.D., is an expert in structural and chemical biology, NMR spectroscopy and drug design. He is currently the Dr. Harold and Golden Lamport Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pharmacological Sciences and Co-Director of the ...

– structural and chemical biologist

Arts and entertainment

* Robert K. Abbett – book-cover illustrator and outdoor painter *

George Ade George Ade (February 9, 1866 – May 16, 1944) was an American writer, syndicated newspaper columnist, and playwright who gained national notoriety at the turn of the 20th century with his "Stories of the Streets and of the Town", a column that ...

– humorist *

Ted Allen Edward Reese Allen (born May 20, 1965) is an American author and television personality. He was the food and wine connoisseur on the Bravo network's television program '' Queer Eye'', and has been the host of the TV cooking competition series '' ...

– Host of 2-time James Beard Award-winning cooking competition ''

Chopped Chopped can have the following meanings: * Chopped and screwed Chopped and screwed (also called screwed and chopped or slowed and throwed) is a music genre and technique of remixing music that involves slowing down the tempo and deejaying. It ...

'' on Food Network; former food and wine connoisseur on the

Bravo Bravo(s) or The Bravo(s) may refer to: Arts and entertainment Music Groups and labels *Bravo (band), a Russian rock band * Bravo (Spanish group), represented Spain at Eurovision 1984 *Bravo Music, an American concert band music publishing company ...

's Emmy-winning television program '' Queer Eye''; Esquire magazine writer, author and TV host * Max Armstrong – agriculture broadcaster in Chicago * Donald Bain – author and ghostwriter (''Murder, She Wrote'', ''Coffee, Tea or Me'') *

Karen Black Karen Blanche Black (née Ziegler; July 1, 1939 – August 8, 2013) was an American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter. She rose to prominence for her work in various studio and independent films in the 1970s, frequently portrayi ...

– actress *

Monte Blue Gerard Montgomery Blue (January 11, 1887 – February 18, 1963) was an American film actor who began his career as a romantic lead in the silent era; and for decades after the advent of sound, he continued to perform as a supporting player ...

– actor of the silent film era, later a character actor *

Millie Bobby Brown Millie Bobby Brown (born 19 February 2004) is a British actress and producer. She gained recognition for playing Eleven in the Netflix science fiction series ''Stranger Things'' (2016–present), for which she received nominations for two Prime ...

- actor, known for her role in the television series ''

Stranger Things ''Stranger Things'' is an American science fiction horror drama television series created by the Duffer Brothers, who also serve as showrunners and are executive producers along with Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen. Produced by Monkey Massacre Prod ...

'' as well as in the '' Enola Holmes'' films. *

Jack Cashill Jack Cashill (born December 15, 1947) is an American author, blogger and conspiracy theorist. He is a weekly contributor to '' WorldNetDaily'' and Executive Editor of ''Ingram's Magazine'', a business publication based in Kansas City, Missouri. ...

– author, journalist, blogger, contributor to ''

WorldNetDaily ''WND'' (formerly ''WorldNetDaily'') is an American far-right fake news website. It is known for promoting falsehoods and conspiracy theories, including the false claim that former President Barack Obama was not born in the United States. Th ...

'' *

Kenneth Choi Kenneth Choi (born October 20, 1971) is an American actor. He is known for playing Henry Lin on the television series ''Sons of Anarchy'' (2008–2014), Chester Ming in Martin Scorsese's '' The Wolf of Wall Street'' (2013), and Judge Lance It ...

– actor, known for his role as

Jim Morita ''Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos'' was a comic book series created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee and published by Marvel Comics from 1963 to 1981. The main character, Sgt. Nick Fury, later became the leader of Marvel's super-spy agency, S.H.I ...

in '' Captain America: The First Avenger'', also ''

Red Dawn ''Red Dawn'' is a 1984 American action drama film directed by John Milius with a screenplay by Milius and Kevin Reynolds. The film depicts a fictional World War III centering on a land invasion of the continental United States by an alliance o ...

'' and sitcoms * Kate Collins – author (Flower Shop Mysteries) * Trevor Collins – Manager at

Achievement Hunter Achievement Hunter is an American video gaming division of Rooster Teeth Productions. Founded by Geoff Ramsey and Jack Pattillo on July 6, 2008, the website is largely based on the achievement mechanic in video games. Since its founding, Achieve ...

* Thomas James De la Hunt – Indiana historian and columnist * Eric Dill – musician, member of the band

The Click Five The Click Five (often abbreviated as TC5) was an American rock band from Boston, Massachusetts. The original members, most of them students at Berklee College of Music, started on January 1, 2004, and played in various local venues. They then q ...

Simone Elkeles Simone Elkeles (born April 24, 1970) is an American author known for the teen romance ''Perfect Chemistry'' trilogy and ''How To Ruin'' trilogy. She is a New York Times Bestselling young adult author. Simone has won the 2010 RITA Award for Best ...

– young-adult romance writer * Dick Florea – television personality in Fort Wayne, Indiana * William R. Forstchen – novelist *

Jim Gaffigan James Christopher Gaffigan (born July 7, 1966) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer. His material often addresses fatherhood, laziness, food, religion, and general observations. He is regarded as a "clean" comic, using l ...

– comedian and actor * JoAnn Giordano – textile artist *

Mass Giorgini Massimiliano Adelmo Giorgini (born 1968) is an American bassist and record producer who rose to fame when several of the bands he produced experienced huge gains in popularity during the pop-punk boom of the mid-'90s. Among these bands was Giorg ...

– punk rock producer of bands such as

Rise Against Rise Against is an American punk rock band from Chicago, formed in 1999. The group's current line-up comprises vocalist/rhythm guitarist Tim McIlrath, lead guitarist Zach Blair, bassist Joe Principe and drummer Brandon Barnes. Rooted in hardcor ...

and

Anti-Flag Anti-Flag is an American punk rock band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The band is known for its left-wing political activism. Their current members include Justin Sane (vocals, guitar), Chris Head (guitar), Pat Thetic (drums), and Chris Ba ...

and bassist for

Screeching Weasel Screeching Weasel is an American punk rock band consisting of Ben Weasel (vocals), Mike Kennerty (guitar), Mike Hunchback (guitar), Zach "Poutine" Brandner (bass) and Pierre Marche (drums). Screeching Weasel is originally from the Chicago subur ...

and

Squirtgun Squirtgun is an American punk rock band from Lafayette, Indiana formed by record producer Mass Giorgini in 1993. History 1993–1998 Squirtgun originally consisted of Mass Giorgini (Bass, Vocals), Matt Hart (Vocals, Guitar), Flav Giorgini (Gu ...

Gerald Jay Goldberg Gerald Jay Goldberg (December 30, 1929 - June 2, 2020) was an American author. He was a professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he taught English and American literature and Creative Writing. An acclaimed novelist, he ...

– novelist *

Harold Gray Harold Lincoln Gray (January 20, 1894 – May 9, 1968) was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the newspaper comic strip ''Little Orphan Annie''. Early life Harold Gray was born in Kankakee, Illinois on January 20, 1894, to Este ...

– creator of ''

Little Orphan Annie ''Little Orphan Annie'' is a daily American comic strip created by Harold Gray and syndicated by the Tribune Media Services. The strip took its name from the 1885 poem "Little Orphant Annie" by James Whitcomb Riley, and it made its debut on Aug ...

'' comic strip *

Jeff Grubb Jeff Grubb (born August 27, 1957) is an author who writes novels, short stories, and comics and a computer and role-playing game designer in the fantasy genre. Grubb worked on the ''Dragonlance'' campaign setting under Tracy Hickman, and the ''F ...

– author and game designer * Gabriel Gudding – essayist and poet *

Moira Gunn Moira Gunn is both an academic and a professional journalist. She is perhaps best known as the host of the public radio program technation.com, Tech Nation, its regular segment BioTech Nation, as well as the weekly tech-sci commentary, Five Minut ...

– host of

National Public Radio National Public Radio (NPR, stylized in all lowercase) is an American privately and state funded nonprofit media organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California. It differs from other n ...

programs ''Tech Nation'' and ''BioTech Nation'' *

John Guzlowski John Guzlowski (born 1948) is a Polish-American author. Personal life John Guzlowski was born the son of parents who met in a Nazi concentration camps, Nazi slave labor camp in Nazi Germany, Germany. His mother Tekla Hanczarek came from a small ...

– author *

Jack Horkheimer Jack Horkheimer (born Foley Arthur Horkheimer; June 11, 1938 – August 20, 2010) was the executive director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium. He was best known for his astronomy show '' Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler'', which started airi ...

– host of astronomy television program ''Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer'' *

Rick Karr Rick G. Karr is a journalist and educator who reports primarily on media and technology's impact on culture. He served as correspondent for the PBS series ''Bill Moyers Journal''. Prior to that, he reported and co-wrote the documentary ''Net @ Ri ...

– journalist *

Callie Khouri Carolyn Ann "Callie" Khouri (born November 27, 1957) is an American film and television screenwriter, producer, and director. In 1992, she won the Academy Award for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for the film ''Thelma & Louise' ...

– screenwriter, director, and film producer * Jane King – business journalist * Michael King – political commentator, columnist, television producer * Harry Kloor – screenwriter, physicist, chemist *

Mercedes Lackey Mercedes Ritchie Lackey (born June 24, 1950) is an American writer of fantasy novels. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Valdemar. Her Valdemar novels include i ...

– fantasy novelist *

Wayne Lamb Michael "Wayne" Lamb (October 24, 1920 – June 5, 2001) was a Broadway dancer, choreographer, theatre director and professor of dance. Beginnings in Kansas Lamb was born in Centerville, Kansas and attended the University of Wichita and the U ...

–

Broadway Broadway may refer to: Theatre * Broadway Theatre (disambiguation) * Broadway theatre, theatrical productions in professional theatres near Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, U.S. ** Broadway (Manhattan), the street **Broadway Theatre (53rd Stree ...

and television dancer and

Professor Emeritus ''Emeritus'' (; female: ''emerita'') is an adjective used to designate a retired chair, professor, pastor, bishop, pope, director, president, prime minister, rabbi, emperor, or other person who has been "permitted to retain as an honorary title ...

of Theatre * John T. McCutcheon – cartoonist, recipient of a

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 ...

in 1931 *

Delita Martin Delita Martin (born 1972) is an American multimedia artist based in Huffman, Texas. Early life and education Delita Martin was born in 1972 in Conroe, Texas. She attended Texas Southern University in Houston, receiving a BFA in drawing in 2002 ...

– printmaker and mixed media artist *

Hoshang Merchant Hoshang Dinshaw Merchant (born 1947) is a poet from India. Most of his writings are in English. He is best known for his anthology on gay writing titled ''Yaarana''. Early years and education Hoshang Merchant was born in 1947 to a working clas ...

– poet * Felicia Middlebrooks – radio news broadcaster *

Gavin Mikhail Gavin Mikhail (born March 26, 1975) is an American composer, pianist and singer-songwriter from Nashville, Tennessee. The winner of the 2007 "Lay It Down and Mix It Up in the UK" fan-vote contest, he has released more than 30 albums and singles ...

– pianist, singer-songwriter *

Karen Marie Moning Karen Marie Moning is an American author. Many of her novels have appeared on the ''New York Times'' Bestseller List with ''Shadowfever'' reaching the number one position on multiple national best sellers lists. She is a winner of the prestigio ...

– novelist * Tom Moore – theater director *

Carrie Newcomer Carrie Newcomer is an American singer, songwriter and author. She has produced 19 solo CDs and has received numerous awards for her music and related charitable activities. She has done numerous collaborations with authors, academics, philosop ...

– singer and songwriter *

Clifton Nicholson Clifton 'Cliff' Nicholson is an American sculptor and jewelry designer. Early life and education Clifton Nicholson grew up in Indiana where, from an early age, he developed his sculpting skills by carving soap. Nicholson studied engineering be ...

– sculptor and jewelry designer *

Mark O'Hare Mark Sean O'Hare (born July 18, 1968) is an American cartoonist, writer, animator, and storyboard artist who created the comic strip '' Citizen Dog''. O'Hare is well known for his work on animated television shows as a writer and storyboard art ...

– writer and cartoonist who has worked on various

Nickelodeon Nickelodeon (often shortened to Nick) is an American pay television television channel, channel which launched on April 1, 1979, as the first cable channel for children. It is run by Paramount Global through its List of assets owned by Param ...

and

Cartoon Network Cartoon Network (often abbreviated as CN) is an American cable television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. It is a part of The Cartoon Network, Inc., a division that also has the broadcasting and production activities of Boomerang, Car ...

programs *

Bree Olsen Rachel Marie Oberlin (born October 7, 1986), known professionally as Bree Olson, is an American actress, model, and former pornographic actress. She performed in over 600 pornographic films from 2006 to 2011. Since leaving the adult film industr ...

– adult film actress * Chubby Parker – folk musician *

George Peppard George Peppard (; October 1, 1928 – May 8, 1994) was an American actor. He is best remembered for his role as struggling writer Paul Varjak in the 1961 film '' Breakfast at Tiffany's'', and for playing commando leader Col. John "Hannibal ...

(attended) – actor * Bob Peterson – animator, screenwriter, director and voice actor at Pixar * Julian Phillips – Emmy Award winner, co-host of weekend ''Fox & Friends'', Fox TV *

Carol Plum-Ucci Carol Plum-Ucci (born August 16, 1957 in Atlantic City, New Jersey) is a young adult novelist and essayist. Plum-Ucci's most famous work to date is ''The Body of Christopher Creed'', for which she won a Michael L. Printz Award in 2002 and was n ...

– young-adult novelist and essayist * Pat Proctor – war game developer, U.S. Army lieutenant colonel * Bruce Rogers – typographer, inventor of the Centaur typeface *

Dulquer Salmaan Dulquer Salmaan (born 28 July 1986) is an Indian actor, playback singer and film producer who predominantly works in Malayalam and Tamil films, in addition to Telugu and Hindi films. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in business management ...

– Indian Actor, appeared in

Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India. Malayalam was des ...

Tamil Tamil may refer to: * Tamils, an ethnic group native to India and some other parts of Asia **Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka also called ilankai tamils **Tamil Malaysians, Tamil people native to Malaysia * Tamil language, nativ ...

Telugu Telugu may refer to: * Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India *Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India * Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language ** Telugu (Unicode block), a block of Telugu characters in Unicode S ...

and

Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...

language movies. *

Dave Schulthise David Schulthise (September 16, 1956 – March 10, 2004), also known as Dave Blood, was the bass guitarist for the punk band The Dead Milkmen. Schulthise was born in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania. He helped form the band in 1983 along with fello ...

– punk rock bass guitarist for the Dead Milkmen *

Gary Mark Smith Gary Mark Smith (born April 27, 1956) is an American street photographer.Near, Mitchell J. (2002-01-03) The MAG: Cover Story – The Art of War, A Lawrence artist captures street photography in world's hot spots. The Art MAG. http://www2.ljwor ...

– artist, author, master global street photographer * Richard Sprague – author and researcher of the John F. Kennedy assassination *

Martha Hopkins Struever Martha Hopkins Struever (1931–2017) was an American Indian art dealer, author, and leading scholar on historic and contemporary Pueblo Indian pottery and Pueblo and Navajo Indian jewelry. In June 2015, a new gallery in the Wheelwright Muse ...

– dealer and scholar of American Indian art * Elizabeth Stuckey-French – short story writer and novelist *

Booth Tarkington Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels ''The Magnificent Ambersons'' (1918) and '' Alice Adams'' (1921). He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitze ...

– novelist *

Stephanie S. Tolan Stephanie S. Tolan (born 1942 in Ohio) is an American author of children's books. Her book Surviving the Applewhites received a Newbery Honor in 2003. She obtained a master's degree in English at Purdue University. Tolan is a senior fellow at the ...

– children's book author * Martin Walls – poet * Don West – pitchman, television personality, wrestling broadcaster * Perry Wilson - Movie Critic, thecinemapsycho.com *

Lebbeus Woods Lebbeus Woods (May 31, 1940 – October 30, 2012) was an American architect and artist known for his unconventional and experimental designs. Known for his rich, yet mainly unbuilt work and its nonetheless significant impact on the architec ...

– artist and architect

Business and industry

* Karan Adani – CEO of Adani Ports & SEZ * Samuel R. Allen – CEO of

John Deere 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, ...

* Chuck Armstrong – president of the

Seattle Mariners The Seattle Mariners are an American professional baseball team based in Seattle. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) American League West, West division. The team joined the American League ...

Joyce Beber Joyce Beber, born Joyce Sacks, (November 20, 1929 – September 17, 2010) was an advertising executive who co-founded the Beber Silverstein Group and created numerous memorable campaigns for the Helmsley group of hotels,. The campaigns successful ...

– advertising executive, promoter of hotelier

Leona Helmsley Leona Roberts Helmsley (July 4, 1920 – August 20, 2007) was an American businesswoman. Her flamboyant personality and reputation for tyrannical behavior earned her the nickname Queen of Mean. After allegations of non-payment were made by co ...

– chairman emeritus and director of

Bechtel Group, Inc. Bechtel Corporation () is an American engineering, procurement, construction, and project management company founded in San Francisco, California, and headquartered in Reston, Virginia. , the ''Engineering News-Record'' ranked Bechtel as the sec ...

Paul Bevilaqua Paul Bevilaqua is an aeronautics engineer at Lockheed Martin in California. In 1990, he invented the lift fan for the Joint Strike Fighter F-35B along with fellow Skunk Works engineer Paul Shumpert. In 2005, Bevilaqua was elected as a member o ...

– chief engineer, Advanced Development Projects,

Lockheed Martin Skunk Works Skunk Works is an official pseudonym for Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs (ADP), formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development Projects. It is responsible for a number of aircraft designs, beginning with the P-38 Lightning in 1 ...

* Gordon Binder – former CEO of

Amgen Amgen Inc. (formerly Applied Molecular Genetics Inc.) is an American multinational biopharmaceutical Corporation, company headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California. One of the world's largest independent biotechnology companies, Amgen was esta ...

(1988–2000). *

Michael Birck Michael J. Birck (January 25, 1938 – July 6, 2015) was a co-founder and chairman of Tellabs Inc. He began his career at Bell Telephone Laboratories, and helped found Tellabs in 1975. He served as the CEO of the company from 2002 to 2004. He was ...

– chairman and founder of Tellabs, Inc. * Charles F. Bowman – co-founder of Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet Popping Corn * Beth Brooke – global vice chair of Public Policy for

Ernst & Young Ernst & Young Global Limited, trade name EY, is a multinational professional services partnership headquartered in London, England. EY is one of the largest professional services networks in the world. Along with Deloitte, KPMG and Pricewaterh ...

* Susan Bulkeley Butler – first female partner at

Accenture Accenture plc is an Irish-American professional services company based in Dublin, specializing in information technology (IT) services and consulting. A ''Fortune'' Global 500 company, it reported revenues of $61.6 billion in 2022. Accentur ...

; author of ''Become the CEO of You, Inc.'' *

Herman Cain Herman Cain (December 13, 1945July 30, 2020) was an American businessman and Tea Party movement activist within the Republican Party. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Cain grew up in Georgia and graduated from Morehouse College with a bachelor's d ...

(MS '71) – businessman, politician, and columnist; former chairman and CEO of

Godfather's Pizza Godfather's Pizza is an American privately owned restaurant chain headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, that operates fast casual Italian franchises and Pizza Express locations. History Godfather's Pizza was founded in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1973. Wil ...

* James Cash, Jr. – member of the boards of directors at

General Electric General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, and incorporated in New York state and headquartered in Boston. The company operated in sectors including healthcare, aviation, power, renewable energ ...

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washing ...

, and

Walmart Walmart Inc. (; formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, and grocery stores from the United States, headquarter ...

JoMei Chang JoMei Chang is a computer scientist and technology business executive in Silicon Valley and China. Chang was named a leading CEO by Fortune Magazine and an Entrepreneur of the Year by BusinessWeek. Life Born circa 1952 in Taiwan, Chang was accep ...

– co-founder of

Tibco Software TIBCO Software Inc. is an American business intelligence software company founded in 1997 in Palo Alto, California. It has headquarters in Palo Alto, California, and offices in North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and South A ...

Allen Chao Allen Y. Chao is a Taiwanese-American businessman who founded Watson Pharmaceuticals and served as chief executive officer from 1984 to 2008 and chairman. Born in Shanghai, he spent his childhood in Taiwan. Chao went to Taipei Medical College, w ...

– co-founder of

Watson Pharmaceuticals Actavis Generics (formerly known as Watson Pharmaceuticals and Actavis plc, prior to the acquisition of Irish-based Allergan Inc) is a global pharmaceutical company focused on acquiring, developing, manufacturing and marketing branded pharmaceuti ...

* Richard E. Dauch – co-founder of American Axle & Manufacturing * Rodger Dean Duncan – author and business consultant *

Michael L. Eskew Michael L. Eskew (born June 28, 1949) is an American businessman who is the former chairman and chief executive officer of UPS from 2002 to 2007. He is on the board of 3M, IBM, and Eli Lilly and Company. Eskew received his bachelor's degre ...

– chairman and CEO,

UPS UPS or ups may refer to: Companies and organizations * United Parcel Service, an American shipping company ** The UPS Store, UPS subsidiary ** UPS Airlines, UPS subsidiary * Underground Press Syndicate, later ''Alternative Press Syndicate'' or ...

Gen Fukunaga is a Japanese–born American engineer and businessman. He established Funimation, a company that distributes anime in Canada and the United States. He served as its president and chairman until 2019, where he stepped down. As of October 2011, F ...

– president of

FUNimation Crunchyroll, LLC, previously known as Funimation from 1994 to 2022, is an American entertainment company owned by Japanese conglomerate Sony as a joint venture between Sony Pictures and Sony Music Entertainment Japan's Aniplex that specializes ...

* Greg Hayes (1982) – CEO and chair of

United Technologies United Technologies Corporation (UTC) was an American multinational conglomerate headquartered in Farmington, Connecticut. It researched, developed, and manufactured products in numerous areas, including aircraft engines, aerospace systems ...

;

Business Roundtable The Business Roundtable (BRT) is a nonprofit lobbyist association based in Washington, D.C. whose members are chief executive officers of major United States companies. Unlike the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, whose members are entire businesses, BRT ...

member *

Gerald D. Hines Gerald Douglas Hines (August 15, 1925August 23, 2020) was an American real estate developer based in Houston. He was the founder and chairman of Hines, a privately held real estate firm with its headquarters in that city. At the time of his d ...

(BSME 1948) – real estate developer and principal of Hines * John R. Horne (BS 1960) – former CEO of

Navistar Navistar, Inc is an American holding company created in 1986 as the successor to International Harvester. Navistar operates as the owner of International-branded trucks and diesel engines. The company also produces buses under the IC Bus br ...

Brian Lamb Brian Patrick Lamb (; born October 9, 1941) is an American journalist. He is the founder, executive chairman, and the now-retired CEO of C-SPAN, an American cable network that provides coverage of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Sen ...

– co-founder, chairman, and CEO of

C-SPAN Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN ) is an American cable and satellite television network that was created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a nonprofit public service. It televises many proceedings of the United States ...

Howard Lance Howard L. Lance (born December 15, 1955, in East Peoria, Illinois) is founder and managing director since 2019 of Lance Advisors LLC, an advisory company focused on supporting institutional investors and private equity clients. On April 14, 2016, ...

– CEO of

Maxar Technologies Maxar Technologies Inc. is a space technology company headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, United States, specializing in manufacturing communication, Earth observation, radar, and on-orbit servicing satellites, satellite products, and relat ...

* Marshall Larsen – former chairman, president, and CEO of

Goodrich Corporation The Goodrich Corporation, formerly the B.F. Goodrich Company, was an American manufacturing company based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Founded in Akron, Ohio in 1870 as Goodrich, Tew & Co. by Benjamin Goodrich, the company name was ch ...

Cook Lougheed Cook Olin Pierre "O.P." Lougheed (April 8, 1922April 23, 2008) was a Fort Wayne entrepreneur, Allen County Councilman, civil leader and philanthropist. He was well known for his lengthy service to the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo, Parkview Hospita ...

–

entrepreneur Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values th ...

and philanthropist * Bala S. Manian – medical technology entrepreneur *

Preston McAfee Randolph Preston McAfee (born July 7, 1956) is an American economist and distinguished scientist at Google. Previously, he served as chief economist at Microsoft. He has also served as an economist at Google, vice president and research fellow ...

– economist at

Steven McGeady Steven McGeady is a former Intel executive best known as a witness in the Microsoft antitrust trial. His notes and testimony contained colorful quotes by Microsoft executives threatening to "cut off Netscape's air supply" and Bill Gates' guess ...

– former

Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers of the x86 seri ...

executive * Wade Miquelon – executive vice president and chief financial officer for Walgreens * Herman H. Pevler – former president of the Norfolk and Western Railway and of the Wabash Railroad * Patricia Kessler Poppe – president & CEO, CMS Energy, CMS and Consumers Energy * Orville Redenbacher – business leader and agriculturalist; co-founder of Orville Redenbacher's popcorn * Donald Rice – CEO of Agensys and board member of Wells Fargo Bank * Lee Schmidt – American Society of Golf Course Architects, golf course architect, co-founder of Lee-Schmidt Design, Inc. * Edmund Schweitzer – president of Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories * Ruth Siems – home economist with General Foods, inventor of Stovetop Stuffing * Venu Srinivasan – chairman of TVS Motor * Don Thompson (executive), Don Thompson – CEO of McDonald's * James Thomson (executive), James A. Thomson – president and CEO, Rand Corporation * Gregory Wasson – president and chief operating officer, Walgreens corporation * Sanjiva Weerawarana – co-founder, chairman and CEO of WSO2

Government and law

National office

* Akinwumi Adesina – President of the African Development Bank * Rashid al-Rifai – ambassador and government minister in Iraq *Joseph Kingsley Baffour-Senkyire, Ghanaian academic, politician and diplomat; member of parliament in the first republic of Ghana and formerly Embassy of Ghana in Washington, D.C.#List of Ambassadors, Ghana's ambassador to the United States of America *Jim Baird (American politician), Jim Baird – U.S. Representative from Indiana's 4th district (R) * Donald W. Banner – former U.S. Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks * Joe L. Barton – U.S. Representative from 6th District of Texas (R) * Birch Bayh – former United States Senator from Indiana (D) * Earl L. Butz – former Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture (R) * Chang Chia-juch – former Minister of Economic Affairs of Taiwan * Bob Charles (politician), Bob Charles – former member of the Australian House of Representatives * Mark Chen – former Secretary-General and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan * Curt Clawson – U.S. Representative from Florida's 19th congressional district (R) * Chuck Conner – Acting Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture * Margaret E. Curran – United States Attorney for Rhode Island * Harry Allison Estep – Republican Party (United States), Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania (R) * Fahmi Fadzil – member of Malaysian Dewan Rakyat, House of Representatives and Minister of Communications and Digital (Malaysia), Minister of Communications and Digital * Mauricio Fernández Garza – former Mayor of San Pedro Garza García (1989–1991) and former Mexican Senator from Nuevo León (1994–2000) * Gary A. Grappo – U.S. Ambassador to Oman * John H. Hager – Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education (R) * Keith Hall (Commissioner), Keith Hall – former Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics * Clifford M. Hardin – former Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture (R) * Ralph Harvey – U.S. Representative from Indiana (R) * Adnan Kahveci – Turkish Minister of State and Minister of Finance, founding member of the Motherland Party (Turkey), Motherland Party * Keith J. Krach – former Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment, U.S. Under Secretary of State; Chairman/CEO of DocuSign and Ariba; Chairman of Purdue Board of Trustees * Suwat Liptapanlop – government minister in Thailand * David McKinley – U.S. Representative for West Virginia (R) * Ted McKinney - U.S. Under Secretary, Trade & Foreign Agricultural Affairs, USDA; CEO of National Association of State Departments of Agriculture-NASDA * Anthony W. Miller – United States Deputy Secretary of Education * Marwan Muasher – Deputy Prime Minister, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan * Essam Sharaf – former Prime Minister of Egypt * Ann Stock – U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs * Kevin Sullivan (operative), Kevin Sullivan – White House Communications Director * Claude R. Wickard – former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture * Richard Llewellyn Williams – first U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia * Muhammad Lutfi, Indonesian diplomat, businessman, trade minister Embassy of Indonesia in Washington, D.C.#List of Ambassadors, , ambassador to Japan, ambassador to the United States of America

Military

* Terry M. Cross – former Vice Commandant of the United States Coast Guard * Nelson F. Gibbs – U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Air Force * Sun Liren – Chinese Nationalist General who excelled in the Burma Campaign during World War II * Carter B. Magruder – four-star General, U.S. Army * Glen W. Martin – Inspector General of the U.S. Air Force * B. J. Penn (United States Navy), B. J. Penn – former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Navy * Carol M. Pottenger – Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy * Jerald D. Slack – U.S. Air National Guard Major General, Adjutant General of Wisconsin * Carol I. Turner – former Chief of the United States Navy Dental Corps * James C. Van Sice – former Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy * Russell R. Waesche – Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II * Fahmi Fadzil – Member of Parliaments in Malaysia

Sub-national office

* Ron Alting – Indiana State Senator (R) * Brian Bosma – Speaker of the Indiana General Assembly * Robert J. Burkhardt – former Secretary of State of New Jersey (D) * Suzanne Crouch – 52nd Lieutenant Governor of Indiana (R) * Sue Ellspermann – Lieutenant Governor of Indiana (R) * Kirk Fordice – former Governor of Mississippi (R) * Kent Gaffney – former member of the Illinois House of Representatives (R) * Jerry E. Hinshaw (Class of 1940) – former member of the Arkansas House of Representatives (R) * Matt Hostettler – member of the Indiana House of Representatives (R) * Ralph S. Johnson (Class of 1930) – aviator; former member of the Wyoming House of Representatives (R) * Delores G. Kelley – Maryland State Senator (D) * Sheila Klinker – member of the Indiana House of Representatives (D) * J. Tom Lendrum – member of the Ohio House of Representatives (R) * Harry G. Leslie – former Governor of Indiana (R) * Alan Olsen – Oregon State Senator (R) * Paul Parks – Massachusetts Secretary of Education (D) * Zach Payne – member of the Indiana House of Representatives * Scott Reske – member of the Indiana House of Representatives (D) * Darlene Senger – member of the Illinois House of Representatives (R) * Wayne Townsend – member of both houses of the Indiana legislature and the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic candidate for governor in 1984 (D) * Frank Watson (American politician), Frank Watson – member of the Illinois Senate (R)

Local office

* Isaac Colton Ash – Los Angeles, California, City Council member * Jane Baker (mayor), Jane Baker – first female mayor of San Mateo, California * John J. Barton – former mayor of Indianapolis, Indiana (D) * Marty Blum – former mayor of Santa Barbara, California * Elgin English Crull – longest serving city manager of Dallas, Texas to date (1952 to 1966); was city manager when John F. Kennedy was assassinated * A.E. Henning – Los Angeles, California, City Council member, 1929–33 * Robert J. LaFortune, former mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma * Bart Peterson – former mayor of Indianapolis, Indiana (D) * David H. Rodgers – former mayor of Spokane, Washington (R)

Other political and legal figures

* Nels Ackerson – lawyer, 2008 candidate for U.S. Congress from Indiana (D) * Allen Alley – Oregon Republican Party chairman * Uthum Herat – Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and Alternate Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund. * Jeffrey M. Lacker – president of Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond * Fred Meyer (Texas politician), Fred Meyer (Class of 1949) – state chairman of the Texas Republican Party, 1988 to 1994; Dallas businessman * Marilyn Quayle – lawyer, novelist, and political figure, wife of former U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle * Charles Mok – Hong Kong Legislative Council member * Ram Mohan Naidu - Member of Parliament

Sports

Baseball

* Bernie Allen – 12-year career infielder with the Minnesota Twins, History of the Washington Senators, Washington Senators, New York Yankees and Montreal Expos; also played for the Boilermakers * Jermaine Allensworth – former Major League Baseball player * Roger Bossard – head groundskeeper for the Chicago White Sox, sports turf consultant for MLB, National Football League, NFL, Major League Soccer * Jay Buente – relief pitcher for the Florida Marlins * Michael Duursma – shortstop for the Netherlands national baseball team * Bob Friend – former Major League Baseball, MLB pitcher; 4-time All-Star, World Series Champion * Josh Lindblom – relief pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies * Joseph McCabe (baseball), Joe McCabe – former Major League baseball player * Cameron Perkins – infielder for the Philadelphia Phillies * Kevin Plawecki – catcher for the Boston Red Sox * Moose Skowron – former Major League Baseball player; 6-time All-Star, 5-time World Series Champion * Nick Wittgren – Relief Pitcher for the Miami Marlins

Basketball

* Brian Cardinal – NBA Champion Dallas Mavericks, former professional National Basketball Association, NBA basketball player from 2000–2012 * Joe Barry Carroll – NCAA Final Four 1980, former NBA basketball player, 1st pick overall in NBA Draft (1980) * Terry Dischinger – former NBA basketball player, (1962–73) NBA Rookie of the Year; Olympic Gold in basketball (1960) * Katie Douglas (basketball), Katie Douglas – basketball player in the Women's National Basketball Association, WNBA * Ray Eddy – former Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball head coach * Carsen Edwards – NBA player Boston Celtics, twice named an All-American * Herm Gilliam – NBA Champion Portland Trail Blazers, NBA player (1969-77), NCAA Finals 1969 * Paul Hoffman (basketball), Paul Hoffman – former NBA player, Basketball Association of America, BAA Rookie of the Year (1947), NBA Champion (1948), former general manager for the Baltimore Bullets (1963–73), Baltimore Bullets * Robbie Hummel – 1st Team All-Big Ten; professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves * JaJuan Johnson – Big-Ten Player of the Year; current professional basketball for the Idaho Stampede of the NBA Development League * Carl Landry – 1st Team All-Big Ten; current professional NBA player for the Sacramento Kings * Billy Keller – NCAA Finals 1969, 3-time American Basketball Association (2000–present), ABA Champion, former University of Indianapolis men's basketball coach * Frank Kendrick – former NBA player and NBA Champion (1975), Golden State Warriors * Alan Major – former head coach of the Charlotte 49ers * Cuonzo Martin – current head coach of the University of Missouri, Missouri Tigers men's basketball * Brad Miller (basketball), Brad Miller – former NBA basketball player, two-time NBA All-Star * E'Twaun Moore – 1st Team All-Big Ten; current professional NBA player for the New Orleans Pelicans * Rick Mount – three-time All-American at Purdue and two-time Big Ten Player of the Year; NCAA Finals 1969; former American Basketball Association basketball player * Matt Painter – current Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball head coach, former coach at Southern Illinois University, 5 NCAA Tournament appearances * Glenn Robinson – 1994 NCAA Player of the Year (John R. Wooden Award, Naismith Awards and four other polls), two-time 1st Team All-American; former NBA player, 1st pick overall in NBA draft (1994); NBA champion (2005) with San Antonio Spurs * Amy Ruley – North Dakota State Bison basketball, North Dakota State University women's basketball coach * Dave Schellhase – first-team All-American at Purdue; former Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball head coach, former Minnesota State-Moorhead head coach * Jerry Sichting – NBA Champion Boston Celtics, NBA player (1980-90), NCAA Final Four 1980 * Kevin Stallings – current Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball head coach, former coach at Illinois State University * Caleb Swanigan, Biggie Swanigan -- NCAA National Player of the year 2017, NBA first round draft pick, Big Ten Player of the year 2017 * Howie Williams (basketball), Howie Williams – Olympic Gold in basketball (1952), AAU National Champion (1952, 1953) * John Wooden – Basketball Hall of Fame honoree as both player and coach; 10-time NCAA Champion coach at UCLA; 1932 National champion and All-American as player

Football

* Mike Alstott – former NFL and Super Bowl Champion Fullback (American football), fullback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Purdue's all-time leading rusher * Cliff Avril – NFL defensive end of the Seattle Seahawks; Champion Super Bowl XLVIII and participated in XLIX * Ryan Baker – NFL defensive end for the Miami Dolphins, 2009–2012 * David Blough – NFL Quarterback for the Detroit Lions * Drew Brees – Super Bowl Champion, Super Bowl MVP, All-Pro, Pro Bowl quarterback, San Diego Chargers and New Orleans Saints; Maxwell Award; 2 x Heisman Trophy Finalist; Rose Bowl Game * George Bolan – Chicago Staleys (1921), Bears (1922-24) * Dave Butz – 16-year, 2x Super Bowl Champion NFL Lineman with the Washington Redskins and selected to the all NFL 1980s Team * Scott Campbell (American football), Scott Campbell – played quarterback for six seasons for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Atlanta Falcons * Rosevelt Colvin – 2x Super Bowl Champion, professional football player in the National Football League, NFL with the Chicago Bears and New England Patriots * Gary Danielson – former NFL quarterback; current TV announcer, College Football * Len Dawson – Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback with the Kansas City Chiefs, Super Bowl IV Super Bowl MVP, MVP * Jim Everett – Pro Bowl NFL quarterback; Los Angeles Rams, Saint Louis Rams, New Orleans Saints, San Diego Chargers * Tim Foley – Former Defensive Back for Purdue and Defensive Back for Miami Dolphins Super Bowl Champions * Gilbert Gardner – NFL linebacker, member of the Super Bowl XLI-winning Indianapolis Colts * Wayne Gift – NFL player with the Cleveland Rams * Bob Griese – Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback with the Miami Dolphins; lead Dolphins to 17-0-0 perfect season; 2x Super Bowl Champion quarterback; College Football Hall of Fame, Rose Bowl Game, Rose Bowl Champion quarterback * Steve Griffin – former NFL and Arena Football League player * Nick Hardwick (American football), Nick Hardwick – former NFL center of the San Diego Chargers * Matt Hernandez – NFL offensive tackle * Mark Herrmann – former NFL quarterback with the Indianapolis Colts and San Diego Chargers; 3-time Bowl game MVP with Purdue, Heisman Trophy finalist * Paul Humphrey (American football), Paul Humphrey – NFL center for the Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL), Brooklyn Dodgers * Clarence Janecek – NFL offensive guard of the Pittsburgh Pirates (NFL), Pittsburgh Pirates * Dustin Keller – NFL tight end of the Miami Dolphins * Ryan Kerrigan – NFL linebacker of the Washington Commanders, Washington Redskins / Football Team and Philadelphia Eagles; 1st Team All-American * Ed Klewicki – Detroit Lions, 1930s * Jon Krick – Arena Football League player * John Letsinger – Pittsburgh Pirates, 1933 * Matt Light – NFL left tackle of the New England Patriots; 3x Super Bowl Champion Super Bowl (XXXVI, XXXVIII, XXXIX), and participated in XLII * Jim Looney – NFL linebacker of the San Francisco 49ers * Marc May – NFL tight end of the Minnesota Vikings * Raheem Mostert – NFL running back for the San Francisco 49ers * Wave Myers – former coach at Ball State * Mike Neal – NFL defensive tackle of the Green Bay Packers * Rob Ninkovich – linebacker for the New England Patriots; has also played for the New Orleans Saints and the Miami Dolphins * Kyle Orton – quarterback, drafted by the Chicago Bears had played for several NFL teams. * Curtis Painter – backup quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts, drafted in 2009 to succeed Peyton Manning * Shaun Phillips – NFL defensive end of the Tennessee Titans * Mike Phipps – College Football Hall of Fame former NFL Quarterback, Cleveland Browns, Chicago Bears, Heisman Trophy Runner-up * Bernard Pollard – NFL safety of the Tennessee Titans * Ed Rate – former NFL blocking back for the Milwaukee Badgers * Karl Singer – AFL tackle for the Boston Patriots * Joe Skibinski – former NFL guard for the Cleveland Browns and Green Bay Packers * Ed Skoronski – NFL player * Blane Smith – former NFL linebacker for the Green Bay Packers * Anthony Spencer – NFL linebacker drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in 2007. * John Standeford – NFL wide receiver of the Detroit Lions, member of the Super Bowl XLI-winning Indianapolis Colts * Darryl Stingley – former NFL wide receiver with the New England Patriots * Hank Stram – Pro Football Hall of Fame coach of the Kansas City Chiefs * Taylor Stubblefield – NCAA Division 1 football career receptions leader, played for the St. Louis Rams * Kevin Sumlin – Head coach of the Arizona Wildcats football, Arizona Wildcats * Michael Terrizzi – played briefly for the San Francisco 49ers * Calvin Williams – NFL wide receiver of the Philadelphia Eagles; rookie of the year * Clem Woltman – former NFL tackle for the Philadelphia Eagles * Rod Woodson – Super Bowl Champion (XXXV) Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive back, 11-time Pro-Bowler (at three different positions) and former NFL cornerback

Other sports

* Stephan Bonnar – appeared on the first season of The Ultimate Fighter, retired professional mixed martial artist, two-time Golden Gloves Champion, UFC Hall of Fame member * David Boudia – Olympic diver (2008, gold 2012, silver 2016) * Larry Burton – Olympic runner (1976) * Keith Carter (swimmer), Keith Carter – Olympic swimmer (silver, 1948) * Joe Corso – Olympic wrestler (1976) * Javier Díaz (swimmer), Javier Díaz – Olympic swimmer for Mexico (2000, 2004) * Dick the Bruiser – professional wrestling champion. Real name was William Afflis. Also played in the NFL. * Amanda Elmore – Olympic rower (gold 2016) * Ray Ewry – ten-time Olympic Games, Olympic champion in track and field (gold, 1900, 1904, 1906, 1908) * Jon Fitch – Boilermaker team captain wrestler; professional mixed martial artist, formerly with the Ultimate Fighting Championship * Cliff Furnas – Olympic runner (1920) * Ray Gunkel – AAU Champion wrestler, NCAA semifinalist and professional champion. * Edward Glover (athlete), Ed Glover – Olympic pole-vaulter (bronze, 1906) * Matt Hamill (attended) – three-time NCAA Division III National Champion in wrestling, silver and gold medalist of the 2001 Summer Deaflympics; mixed martial artist who fought in the Ultimate Fighting Championship; retired * Lacey Hearn – Olympic athlete (1904) * Chris Huffins – Olympic decathlete (1996, 2000) * Steele Johnson – Olympic diver (silver 2016) * Pariya Junhasavasdikul – Thai professional golfer who plays on the Asian Tour * Shiv Kapur – Professional golfer * Gerald Koh (swimmer), Gerald Koh – Olympic swimmer (2000) * Gyöngyvér Lakos – Olympic swimmer (2000) * Matt Mitrione – former National Football League, NFL player and current Heavyweight fighter for Bellator MMA * Nate Moore – boilermaker team captain wrestler; current MMA competitor, formerly fighting for Strikeforce (mixed martial arts) * Nedzad Mulabegovic – shot put for Croatia (2012) * Betty Mullen-Brey – 100-meter butterfly (1956) * Ryan Newman (racing driver), Ryan Newman - 2008 Daytona 500 Champion, 2002 Winston Cup Rookie of the Year * Coralie O'Connor – swimming (1952) * Jake O'Brien (fighter), Jake O'Brien – Boilermaker wrestler; current MMA fighter, previously the World Extreme Cagefighting, WEC and the Ultimate Fighting Championship, UFC * Ike Olekaibe – Olympic athlete (2000) * Carol Pence-Taylor – Olympic swimmer (1948) * Kara Patterson – Javelin (2012) * Eric Rodwell – professional bridge player * Joan Rosazza – Olympic swimmer (silver, 1956) * Chris Schenkel – sportscaster * Lauren Sesselmann – Women's Soccer for Canada (2012) * Doug Sharp – Olympic bobsledder (2002) * Miguel Torres (fighter), Miguel Torres (attended), wrestler; current professional mixed martial arts fighter, former World Extreme Cagefighting, WEC Bantamweight Champion * Frank Verner – Olympic athlete (1904) * Fred Wampler (golfer), Fred Wampler – PGA Tour golfer * Beth Whittall – 100-meter butterfly for Canada (1956) * Jeanne Wilson-Vaughn – Olympic swimmer (1948) * Fred Wilt – Olympic runner (1948)

Other alumni

* David A. Bednar – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, LDS Church Apostle (Latter Day Saints), Apostle; former President of BYU-Idaho * Vikram Buddhi – imprisoned for threatening the life of U.S. President George W. Bush * Theodore M. Burton – LDS Church leader * Kathy Calvin – chief executive officer, United Nations Foundation * Russell Mawby – chairman emeritus, W.K. Kellogg Foundation * Sarah Jo Pender, convicted murderer and prison escapee. * Eric Justin Toth – fugitive on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list * Richard Leroy Walters – homeless philanthropist

References

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