White House Press Secretary for President
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the ...
(2014–2017)
*
Stephen Hahn 1980, Commissioner of the
Food and Drug Administration
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA or US FDA) is a List of United States federal agencies, federal agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Health and Human Services. The FDA is respon ...
(2019–2021)
*
Benjamin J. Rhodes, 2000, speechwriter and national security adviser to
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the ...
U.S. Senators and Congressmen
*
Bill Archer
William Reynolds Archer Jr. (born March 22, 1928) is a retired American lawyer and politician. Archer served two terms, from 1967 to 1971, in the Texas House of Representatives – changing from the Democratic to the Republican party in 1969 ...
(attended),
United States Congressman
The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they ...
(1971–2001)
*
Jim Bridenstine
James Frederick Bridenstine (born June 15, 1975) is an American military officer and politician who served as the 13th administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Bridenstine was the United States representative f ...
, 1998, U.S. Representative,
Oklahoma's 1st congressional district
Oklahoma's 1st congressional district is in the northeastern corner of the state and borders Kansas. Anchored by Tulsa, it is largely coextensive with the Tulsa metropolitan area. It includes all of Tulsa, Washington and Wagoner counties, and ...
(2013–2018); Administrator of
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil List of government space agencies, space program ...
(2018–2021)
*
John Kline, 1969, United States Congressman (2003–2017)
*
Pete Olson
Peter Graham Olson (born December 9, 1962) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 2009 to 2021. His district included much of southern Houston, as well as most of the city's southwestern suburbs such as Katy, ...
, 1985, United States Congressman (2009–2021)
*
Albert Thomas, 1920, U.S. Representative,
Texas's 8th congressional district
Texas's 8th congressional district of the United States House of Representatives includes parts of Montgomery County, Walker County, Harris County, Polk County, and all of San Jacinto County. It includes much of the northern outlying areas ...
(1937–1966)
Governors
*
Glenn Youngkin, 1990,
Governor of Virginia
The governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia serves as the head of government of Virginia for a four-year term. The incumbent, Glenn Youngkin, was sworn in on January 15, 2022.
Oath of office
On inauguration day, the Governor-elect takes th ...
(2022-present)
*
James V. Allred
James Burr V AllredThe "V" was a name, not an initial. (March 29, 1899 – September 24, 1959) was the 33rd governor of Texas. He later served, twice, as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern Distri ...
(attended),
Governor of Texas (1935–1939)
Mayors
*
George Chang, Ph.D. 1966, mayor of
Tainan
Tainan (), officially Tainan City, is a special municipality in southern Taiwan facing the Taiwan Strait on its western coast. Tainan is the oldest city on the island and also commonly known as the "Capital City" for its over 200 years of his ...
,
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
(1997–2001)
*
Roy Hofheinz
Roy Mark Hofheinz (April 10, 1912 – November 22, 1982), popularly known as Judge Hofheinz or "The Judge", was a Texas state representative from 1934 to 1936, county judge of Harris County, Texas from 1936 to 1944, and mayor of the city ...
, 1932 (attended), mayor of the
City of Houston
Houston (; ) is the most populous city in Texas, the most populous city in the Southern United States, the fourth-most populous city in the United States, and the sixth-most populous city in North America, with a population of 2,304,580 i ...
(1953–1955)
*
Annise Parker
Annise Danette Parker (born May 17, 1956) is an American politician who served as the 61st Mayor of Houston, Texas, from 2010 until 2016. She also served as an at-large member of the Houston City Council from 1998 to 2003 and city controller fro ...
, 1978, mayor of the
City of Houston
Houston (; ) is the most populous city in Texas, the most populous city in the Southern United States, the fourth-most populous city in the United States, and the sixth-most populous city in North America, with a population of 2,304,580 i ...
(2010–2016)
*
Starke Taylor, 1943, mayor of the
City of Dallas (1983–1987)
State and local officials
*
George P. Bush
George Prescott Bush (born April 24, 1976) is an American politician and attorney who served as the commissioner of the Texas General Land Office from 2015 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party, Bush unsuccessfully campaigned for the party's ...
, 1998, commissioner of the
Texas General Land Office
The Texas General Land Office (GLO) is a state agency of the U.S. state of Texas, responsible for managing lands and mineral rights properties that are owned by the state. The GLO also manages and contributes to the state's Permanent School Fund ...
; son of
Florida Governor
The governor of Florida is the head of government of the state of Florida and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. The governor has a duty to enforce state laws and the power to either approve or veto bills passed by the Florida ...
Jeb Bush
John Ellis "Jeb" Bush (born February 11, 1953) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. Bush, who grew up in Houston, was the second son of former President George H. W. Bush ...
; nephew of former
President
President most commonly refers to:
*President (corporate title)
* President (education), a leader of a college or university
* President (government title)
President may also refer to:
Automobiles
* Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ...
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush family, and son of the 41st president George H. W. Bush, he ...
; grandson of former President
George H. W. Bush
*
William P. Hobby Jr., 1953, Lieutenant Governor of
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...
(1973–1991); former 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 ...
; former president and executive editor at ''The Houston Post''
*
Scott Hochberg, member of the Texas House of Representatives
*
M. J. Khan,
Master of Business Administration
A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accoun ...
, former
Houston City Council
The Houston City Council is a city council for the city of Houston in the U.S. state of Texas.
Currently, there are sixteen members, 11 elected from council districts and five at-large. The members of the Council are elected every four years, w ...
member
[Dooley, Tara. "Khan inspires Muslims with election to council." '']Houston Chronicle
The ''Houston Chronicle'' is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States. , it is the third-largest newspaper by Sunday circulation in the United States, behind only ''The New York Times'' and the ''Los Angeles Times''. With i ...
''. Saturday, December 13, 2003. Religion p. 1. NewsBank
NewsBank is a news database resource that provides archives of media publications as reference materials to libraries.
History
John Naisbitt, the author of the book ''Megatrends'', founded NewsBank.Andrews 1998, p. 17. The company was launched ...
Record Number: 3716921. Available from the Houston Public Library
Houston Public Library is the public library system serving Houston, Texas, United States.
History Houston Lyceum and the Carnegie Library
The Houston Public Library system traces its founding to the creation of the second Houston Lyceum in 1 ...
website with a library card.
*
Eliot Shapleigh, 1974, Texas state senator
Judges
*
Lamar John Ryan Cecil
Lamar John Ryan Cecil (November 2, 1902 – February 14, 1958) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
Education and career
Born in Houston, Texas, Cecil received a Bachelor of ...
, 1923, United States District Judge of the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (in case citations, E.D. Tex.) is a federal court in the Fifth Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to ...
(1954-1958)
*
Finis E. Cowan
Finis E. Cowan (October 16, 1929 – November 15, 2023) was a United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas and was an Attorneys in the United States, attorney in ...
, 1951, United States District Judge of the
(1977-1979)
*
Harold R. DeMoss Jr., 1952, Federal Judge on the
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (in case citations, 5th Cir.) is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following federal judicial districts:
* Eastern District of Louisiana
* M ...
(1991-2015)
*
Hugh Gibson, 1940,
United States district judge
The United States district courts are the trial courts of the U.S. federal judiciary. There is one district court for each federal judicial district, which each cover one U.S. state or, in some cases, a portion of a state. Each district cou ...
of the
(1979-1998)
*
Sam E. Haddon, 1959,
United States district judge
The United States district courts are the trial courts of the U.S. federal judiciary. There is one district court for each federal judicial district, which each cover one U.S. state or, in some cases, a portion of a state. Each district cou ...
of the
United States District Court for the District of Montana (2012–present)
*
Sharon Keller, 1975, Presiding Judge of the
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (CCA) is the court of last resort for all criminal matters in Texas. The Court, which is based in the Supreme Court Building in Downtown Austin, is composed of a Presiding Judge and eight judges.
Article V of ...
(2001–present)
*
James Aubrey Parker
James Aubrey Parker (January 8, 1937 – September 16, 2022) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico.
Education and career
Born in Houston, Texas, Parker received a Bachelor of Arts ...
, 1959, Senior Judge of the
United States District Court for the District of New Mexico
The United States District Court for the District of New Mexico (in case citations, D.N.M.) is the federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises the state of New Mexico. Court is held in Albuquerque, Las Cruces, Las Vegas, Roswell, Santa ...
(2003–present)
*
Karen Gren Scholer, 1979, United States District Judge of the
United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas (2018–present)
*
Anuraag Singhal, 1986, United States District Judge of the
(2019–present)
*
Leslie H. Southwick, 1972, Federal Judge on the
5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Other
*
Mitch Bainwol, 1983, former chair,
Republican National Committee
The Republican National Committee (RNC) is a U.S. Political action committee, political committee that assists the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party of the United States. It is responsible for developing and promoting the Republi ...
*
William Luther Pierce
William Luther Pierce III (September 11, 1933 – July 23, 2002) was an American neo-Nazi, white supremacist, and far-right political activist. For more than 30 years, he was one of the highest-profile individuals of the white nationalist movemen ...
, 1955,
National Alliance founder, noted neo-Nazi, and author of the Turner Diaries
*
Gary H. Stern
Gary Hilton Stern (born November 3, 1944) is an American economist and banker. On March 16, 1985, he took office as the eleventh chief executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and retired from the position on September 1, 2009.
Lif ...
, chief executive of the Ninth Federal Reserve Bank, at Minneapolis
Arts and letters
Architecture
*
E. Fay Jones
Euine Fay Jones (January 31, 1921 – August 30, 2004) was an American architect and designer. An apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright during his professional career, Jones is the only one of Wright's disciples to have received the AIA Gold Medal (19 ...
, Master of Architecture degree 1951, architect, named in 2000 by the
American Institute of Architects
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is a professional organization for architects in the United States. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the AIA offers education, government advocacy, community redevelopment, and public outreach to su ...
as "one of the ten most influential architects of the twentieth century"
*
Eric Kuhne, 1973, British architect
*
Charles Renfro, BArch 1989, architect, partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Fashion
*
James Mischka, 1985, designer and co-founder of
Badgley Mischka
Badgley Mischka is an American fashion label designed by Mark Badgley (born January 12, 1961 in East St. Louis, MO) and James Mischka (born December 23, 1960 in Burlington, WI). Their collections are said to be largely influenced by the style ...
Film and television
*
Elizabeth Avellán, 1992, film producer and co-founder of
Troublemaker Studios
Troublemaker Studios is a film production company founded and owned by filmmaker Robert Rodriguez and producer Elizabeth Avellán. The company is based in Austin, Texas and is at the former site of the Robert Mueller Municipal Airport. It shares ...
*
Ron Bozman
Ron Bozman is an American film producer who won an Academy Award for Best Picture in 1991 for the film '' The Silence of the Lambs''.
Personal life
Bozman was born in Dallas, Texas. He grew up in Garland, Texas, graduating from Garland High ...
, 1969,
Academy Award
The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment ind ...
-winning film producer (''
The Silence of the Lambs'')
*
John William Corrington, M.A. 1960, screenwriter
*
James Craig, actor (''
Kitty Foyle'')
*
Germaine Franco
Germaine Franco is an American film composer, conductor, songwriter, arranger, record producer, and percussionist. Franco is the first woman to score a Disney animated feature film with ''Encanto'' (2021), for which she was nominated for a Gol ...
, 1984, film composer (''
Coco'')
*
Amy Hobby, 1986,
Academy Award
The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment ind ...
-nominated producer
*
Howard Hughes
Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American business magnate, record-setting pilot, engineer, film producer, and philanthropist, known during his lifetime as one of the most influential and richest people in th ...
(attended), filmmaker known for ''
Hell's Angel's'' (1930) and ''
Scarface'' (1932); life and career served as the basis for the 2004 film ''
The Aviator''
*
Tim League, 1992, founder of
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is an American cinema chain founded in 1997 in Austin, Texas, which is famous for serving dinner and drinks during the movie, as well as its strict policy of requiring its audiences to maintain proper cinema-going etiq ...
, a high end theatre chain, and
Drafthouse Films, film distributor
*
Mike MacRae
Mike MacRae (born July 29, 1977) is an American actor, stand-up comedian, producer, director and writer.
Early life and career
A native of St. Louis, Missouri, MacRae moved to Houston, Texas, in 1995 where he graduated from Rice University in ...
, 1999, voice actor, comedian
*
Gus Sorola
Gustavo Raul "Gus" Sorola III (born February 22, 1978) is an American actor and podcast host. He is best known for his work with Rooster Teeth.
Early life
Sorola was born in Austin, and raised in Eagle Pass, Texas, near the Mexico–United S ...
(attended), Machinima artist and founding member of
Rooster Teeth
Rooster Teeth Productions, LLC is an American digital media company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2003 by Burnie Burns, Matt Hullum, Geoff Ramsey, Jason Saldaña, Gus Sorola, and Joel Heyman, Rooster Teeth is a subsidiary of W ...
.
History and journalism
*
William Broyles Jr.
William Dodson Broyles Jr.
Filmreference.com. Accessed November 28, 2022.
, 1966, founder of ''
Texas Monthly
''Texas Monthly'' (stylized as ''TexasMonthly'') is a monthly American magazine headquartered in Downtown Austin, Texas. ''Texas Monthly'' was founded in 1973 by Michael R. Levy and has been published by Emmis Publishing, L.P. since 1998 and is ...
''; former editor in chief at ''
Newsweek
''Newsweek'' is an American weekly online news magazine co-owned 50 percent each by Dev Pragad, its president and CEO, and Johnathan Davis, who has no operational role at ''Newsweek''. Founded as a weekly print magazine in 1933, it was widely ...
''; screenwriter of ''
Apollo 13'', ''
Cast Away
''Cast Away'' is a 2000 American survival drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, and Nick Searcy. Hanks plays a FedEx troubleshooter stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes in ...
'', ''
Unfaithful'', ''
Flags of Our Fathers
''Flags of Our Fathers'' (2000) is a book by James Bradley with Ron Powers about his father, Navy corpsman John Bradley, and five United States Marines, who were made famous by Joe Rosenthal’s '' Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima'' photograph. Th ...
''
*
Gwynne Dyer
Michael Gwynne Dyer (born 17 April 1943) is a British-Canadian military historian, author, professor, journalist, broadcaster, and retired naval officer. Dyer rose to prominence in the 1980s with the release of his television series ''War'' in 1 ...
, M.A. 1966, journalist, syndicated columnist and military historian; Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (1973–1977)
*
John Graves, 1942, nature writer, ''
Goodbye to a River''
*
Jo Ling Kent, 2006,
NBC News
NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC. The division operates under NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, a division of NBCUniversal, which is, in turn, a subsidiary of Comcast. The news division's var ...
correspondent
*
Michael Noer, 1992, executive news editor for Forbes.com
*
Steve Sailer
Steven Ernest Sailer (born December 20, 1958) is an American paleoconservative journalist, movie critic, blogger, and columnist. He is a former correspondent for UPI and a columnist for ''Taki's Magazine'' and VDARE, a website associated with w ...
, 1980, writer for ''
Taki's Magazine
''Taki's Magazine'', called ''Takimag'' for short, is an online magazine of politics and culture published by the Greek paleoconservative commentator and socialite Taki Theodoracopulos and edited by his daughter Mandolyna Theodoracopulos. Initia ...
'' and
VDARE
*
Rosa Levin Toubin, Jewish Texan historian, civic leader and philanthropist
*
Lamar White, 2005, investigative journalist known for his work on racism and political corruption in the Deep South
*
Zack Kopplin, 2015, political activist, journalist, and television personality who came to fame during high school for publicly campaigning against the
Louisiana Science Education Act, a creationism law. He currently serves as an investigator for the
Government Accountability Project
The Government Accountability Project (GAP) is a nonprofit whistleblower protection and advocacy organization in the United States. It was founded in 1977.
Activities
In 1992, GAP represented Aldric Saucier, who had lost his job and security c ...
.
Literature
*
Candace Bushnell
Candace Bushnell (born December 1, 1958) is an American author, journalist, and television producer. She wrote a column for ''The New York Observer'' (1994–96) that was adapted into the bestselling ''Sex and the City'' anthology. The book was ...
(attended), author of ''
Sex and the City
''Sex and the City'' is an American romantic comedy-drama television series created by Darren Star for HBO. An adaptation of Candace Bushnell's newspaper column and 1996 book anthology of the same name, the series premiered in the United Stat ...
''
*
Eva Hoffman
Eva Hoffman (born Ewa Wydra on 1 July 1945) is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning writer and academic.
Early life and education
Eva Hoffman was born in Kraków, Poland, shortly after World War II. Her parents, Boris and Maria Wydra, surv ...
, 1967, author, ''
Lost in Translation'', ''Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews'', ''The Secret: A Novel'', ''After Such Knowledge''
*
Larry McMurtry
Larry Jeff McMurtry (June 3, 1936March 25, 2021) was an American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or contemporary Texas. , M.A. 1960,
Pulitzer Prize-winning author, known for ''
Lonesome Dove
''Lonesome Dove'' is a 1985 Western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry. It is the first published book of the ''Lonesome Dove'' series, but the third installment in the series chronologically.
The story revolves around the relationships b ...
'', ''The Last Picture Show'', and ''Terms of Endearment''; won
Oscar
Oscar, OSCAR, or The Oscar may refer to:
People
* Oscar (given name), an Irish- and English-language name also used in other languages; the article includes the names Oskar, Oskari, Oszkár, Óscar, and other forms.
* Oscar (Irish mythology) ...
for ''
Brokeback Mountain
''Brokeback Mountain'' is a 2005 American neo-Western romantic drama film directed by Ang Lee and produced by Diana Ossana and James Schamus. Adapted from the 1997 short story of the same name by Annie Proulx, the screenplay was written by ...
'' screenplay
*
Elizabeth Moon
Elizabeth Moon (born March 7, 1945) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Her other writing includes newspaper columns and opinion pieces. Her novel '' The Speed of Dark'' won the 2003 Nebula Award. Prior to her writing career, s ...
, 1968, author, ''The Deed of Paksenarrion'', ''Winning Colors''
*
Joyce Carol Oates (attended), author; Princeton creative writing professor; dropped out of English PhD program after publishing in ''Best American Short Stories''
*
John Pipkin, PhD 1997, novelist
Music
*
Lola Astanova
Lola Astanova (russian: link=no, Лола Астанова; born on 3 July 1982 in Tashkent, USSR) is a Russian-American pianist noted for her visual performance and piano transcriptions.
Career
Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, at the age of six Asta ...
, Master's 2005, summa cum laude, Russian-born classical pianist
*
Rebecca Carrington, Masters in Music, British "music comedian"
*
Carl P. Daw Jr.,
Episcopalian priest; director of the
Hymn Society in the United States and Canada
The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada – founded in 1922 as The Hymn Society of America and renamed in 1991 – is a not-for-profit organization for those people who:
* believe that congregational song is an integral component of worsh ...
; researcher and authority on
sacred music
Religious music (also sacred music) is a type of music that is performed or composed for religious use or through religious influence. It may overlap with ritual music, which is music, sacred or not, performed or composed for or as ritual. Relig ...
*
Caroline Shaw
Caroline Adelaide Shaw (born August 1, 1982) is an American composer, violinist, and singer. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2013 for her a cappella piece '' Partita for 8 Voices'' and the 2022 Grammy Award for Best Contemporar ...
, 2004, Pulitzer Prize-winning musician
*
Kate Soper, 2003, Pulitzer Prize-finalist musician
Visual art
*
Robert S. Martin, 1971, librarian; member of National Council for the Humanities; former director of
Institute of Museum & Library Services; 2008 recipient of
Presidential Citizens Medal
*
Mark Flood, 1981, contemporary artist
Business
*
Brian Armstrong, 2005 and 2006, founder and CEO of
Coinbase
Coinbase Global, Inc., branded Coinbase, is an American publicly traded company that operates a cryptocurrency exchange platform. Coinbase is a distributed company; all employees operate via remote work and the company lacks a physical headq ...
* George R. Brown, 1920, founder of Brown and Root, one of the world's largest construction firms
* Thomas H. Cruikshank, former chairman and CEO of Halliburton
* John Doerr, L. John Doerr, 1973, venture capitalist at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers; CEO of Silicon Compilers; co-founder of the At Home Network, @Home Network; on the board of directors of Intuit, Amazon.com, PalmOne, Sun Microsystems, Google, and Segway Inc., Segway
*
Charles Duncan Charles Duncan may refer to:
Politics and law
* Charles T. Duncan (1838–1915), American lawyer and Virginia state judge
* Charles Duncan (politician)
Charles Duncan (8 June 1865 – 6 July 1933) was a British Labour Party politician and t ...
, 1947, former president, Coca-Cola; former Secretary of Energy under Jimmy Carter (1979–1981)
* Mark Dankberg, 1976, co-founder and CEO, ViaSat
* Mark Durcan, 1984, CEO of Micron Technology
* Lynn Elsenhans, chairman and CEO of Sunoco
* Kevin Harvey (venture capitalist), Kevin Harvey, 1987, founding member and general partner at Benchmark (venture capital firm), Benchmark, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm.
*
Howard Hughes
Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American business magnate, record-setting pilot, engineer, film producer, and philanthropist, known during his lifetime as one of the most influential and richest people in th ...
(attended), richest man in the world in 1976
* Steve Jackson (US), Steve Jackson, 1974, founder of Steve Jackson Games
* Ken Kennedy (computer scientist), Ken Kennedy, 1967, founder of Center for Research on Parallel Computation, the Fortran#FORTRAN, High Performance Fortran Forum; co-chair of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee with Bill Joy of Sun Microsystems
* Ali Koç, Ali Yıldırım Koç, 1990, Koç Holding member; List of Fenerbahçe S.K. presidents, 37th president of Turkey, Turkish multisport club Fenerbahçe S.K.
* Fred C. Koch (attended), founder of Koch Industries, one of the largest private companies in the United States
* James E. Lyon, Houston developer and Republican politician
* Cal McNair, 1995, chairman and CEO of the Houston Texans NFL franchise
* Arun Netravali, 1969 and 1971, pioneer of digital technology including HDTV; former president of Bell Laboratories and Chief Scientist for Lucent Technologies
* David Rhodes (CBS News President), David Rhodes, 1996, president of CBS News; former head of U.S. television for Bloomberg.
* Hector Ruiz, 1972, president and CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, AMD
* James Treybig, 1963 and 1964, founder of Tandem Computers
* Jim Turley, 1977 and 1978, chairman and CEO of Ernst & Young
* Jim Whitehurst, 1989, president and CEO of Red Hat
*
Glenn Youngkin, 1990, former co-CEO of The Carlyle Group
Science and technology
Astronauts
* John S. Bull, 1957, BS in mechanical engineering,
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil List of government space agencies, space program ...
astronaut
* Takao Doi, PhD 2004, NASA astronaut
* Jeffrey A. Hoffman, Masters in materials science, 1988, NASA astronaut
* Nichole Ayers, 2021, NASA astronaut candidate for NASA Astronaut Group 23.
* Tamara E. Jernigan, PhD 1988, NASA astronaut
* James H. Newman, 1982 and 1984, NASA astronaut
* John D. Olivas, PhD 1996, NASA astronaut
* Janice Voss, graduate work in Space Physics 1977–1978, NASA astronaut
* Shannon Walker, Baker 1987, MA 1992, PhD 1993, NASA astronaut
* Peggy Whitson, PhD 1986 NASA astronaut
NASA flight directors
* Kwatsi Alibaruho MBA 2011, first African-American flight director in NASA history and the lead flight director for the STS-135, last space shuttle mission
* Wayne Hale, Hanszen 1976, mechanical engineering, Space Shuttle Flight Director for 40 missions between 1988 and 2003
Nobel laureates
* Robert Woodrow Wilson, 1957, co-discoverer of cosmic microwave background radiation
* Robert F. Curl Jr., 1954, co-discoverer of fullerenes
Other sciences
* Jay Bailey, BA 1966, PhD 1969, pioneer of biochemical engineering
* Andrew Dessler, Lovett 1986 climate change meteorologist
* Mark Durcan, 1979–1984, Master of Chemical Engineering and a BS chemical engineering, chief executive officer at Micron Technology
* David Eagleman, 1993, neuroscientist at Stanford University and author of ''Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives''
* James E. Gunn (astronomer), James E. Gunn, Baker 1961, astronomer at Princeton University, 1977 National Academy of Sciences 2009 recipient of the National Medal of Science
* Wanda Gass, 1978, electrical engineer who helped develop the first commercially viable digital signal processor at Texas Instruments
* He Jiankui, PhD 2010, widely condemned geneticist who claimed to have created the world's first genome edited babies, He Jiankui affair, Nana and Lulu
* Dave Hyatt, Baker 1994, browser developer at Netscape Communications Corporation, Netscape and Apple Computer, Apple
* Howard Johnson (electrical engineer), Howard Johnson, PhD 1982, electrical engineer
* Riki Kobayashi, 1943, B.S., chemical engineering.
* Larry Lake (engineer), Larry Lake, PhD 1973, petroleum engineer and member of the National Academy of Engineering
* Amy Leventer, 1988, Ph.D., geology, marine biologist, micropaleontologist, Antarctic researcher
* Frank L. Lewis, 1971, MEE.
* George Mackey, George Whitelaw Mackey, 1938, mathematician, 1962 National Academy of Sciences
* Diana McSherry, 1967, M.A., 1969, Ph.D., computer scientist, biophysicist
* Jack Morava, 1968, mathematician
* John Morgan (mathematician), John Morgan, 1968, mathematician, 2013 National Academy of Sciences
* Harold E. Rorschach Jr., professor of physics at Rice (1952-1993), was the chairman of the physics department three times and principal investigator of the NASA interdisciplinary laboratory at Rice
* Steven Schafersman, 1983 PhD in geology, president of Texas Citizens for Science
* Dorry Segev, Israeli-born Marjory K. and Thomas Pozefsky Professor of Surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Professor of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Associate Vice Chair of the Department of Surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital
* Fred I. Stalkup, 1957 BS in chemical engineering, 1961 Ph.D. chemical engineering noted for work in enhanced oil recovery, member of the National Academy of Engineering
* Dennis Sullivan, 1963 BA in mathematics, mathematician at Stony Brook University and CUNY grad school; recipient of the 2004 National Medal of Science; 2010 Wolf Prize in Mathematics; 2022 Abel Prize
*Powtawche Valerino, PhD 2005, mechanical engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory who worked on the Cassini–Huygens, Cassini mission
Academia
* Daniel Albright, 1967, Harvard University English professor
* Walter L. Buenger, Ph.D. 1979, historian at Texas A&M University
* Nancy Cole, 1964, educational psychologist
*
Gwynne Dyer
Michael Gwynne Dyer (born 17 April 1943) is a British-Canadian military historian, author, professor, journalist, broadcaster, and retired naval officer. Dyer rose to prominence in the 1980s with the release of his television series ''War'' in 1 ...
, 1973–1977, Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
* Cristle Collins Judd B.M./M.M. 1983, 11th President of Sarah Lawrence College
* R. Bowen Loftin, Ph.D. 1975, chancellor of the University of Missouri
* Bennett McCallum, B.A. 1957, B.S. 1958, Ph.D. 1969, monetary economist and professor at the Tepper School of Business
* Robert K. Ritner, 1975, Egyptologist at the University of Chicago
* Roland W. Schmitt, Ph.D. 1951, President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1988–1993)
* Namita Gupta Wiggers, 1989, expert in the field of contemporary craft, curator, educator and writer
* Kannan Moudgalya, PhD 1985, professor of Chemical engineering, Chemical Engineering at IITB
* Shriram Krishnamurthi, PhD 2000, professor of computer science at Brown University and developer of the Racket (programming language), Racket programming language
*Nikta Fakhri, PhD 2011, Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Religion
* Scott Field Bailey, The Rt. Rev. Scott Field Bailey, 1938, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas
* Carl P. Daw Jr., The Rev. Carl P. Daw Jr., Will Rice 1966, executive director of the
Hymn Society in the United States and Canada
The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada – founded in 1922 as The Hymn Society of America and renamed in 1991 – is a not-for-profit organization for those people who:
* believe that congregational song is an integral component of worsh ...
* Claude E. Payne, The Rt. Rev. Claude Edward Payne, 1954, 1955, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas
* Steven Tighe, The Rt. Rev. Steven Tighe, 1978, bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the Southwest
Sports
Baseball
* David Aardsma, 2003, MLB pitcher, 22nd overall pick of the San Francisco Giants
* Lance Berkman, 1997, six-time Major League Baseball All-Star Game, All-Star Major League Baseball, Major League baseball player for the Houston Astros
* Norm Charlton, 1984, Major League Baseball player
* Bubba Crosby, 1998, Major League Baseball player for the New York Yankees
* José Cruz Jr., 1993, Major League Baseball player
* Tyler Duffey, Major League Baseball player for the Minnesota Twins
* Brock Holt, 2009, Major League Baseball utility player for the Boston Red Sox
* Philip Humber, 2004, Major League Baseball player, 3rd overall pick of the New York Mets; Philip Humber's perfect game, pitched a perfect game in 2012
* Jeff Niemann, 2004, Major League Baseball pitcher, 4th overall pick of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays
* Anthony Rendon, 2011, Major League Baseball first-round draft choice of the Washington Nationals
Basketball
* Morris Almond, 2007, NBA guard, 25th overall pick of the Utah Jazz
*Suleiman Braimoh (born 1989), Nigerian-American basketball player in the Israel Basketball Premier League
*Egor Koulechov (born 1994), Israeli-Russian professional basketball player for Israeli team Ironi Nahariya
* Ricky Pierce, 1983, NBA guard, 1983–1998; NBA All-Star 1991; NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award 1987 and 1990
* Mike Wilks (basketball), Mike Wilks, 2001, NBA guard 2002–09
Football
* Tony Barker, 1992, former NFL player for the Washington Redskins
* O.J. Brigance, 1991, former NFL player
* Chris Boswell, NFL placekicker, Pittsburgh Steelers
* James Casey (American football), James Casey, NFL tight end/fullback for the Houston Texans
* Patrick Dendy, NFL player, Green Bay Packers
* Buddy Dial, end, College Football Hall of Fame inductee 1993, All-Pro 1961, 1963
* Jarett Dillard, 2008, Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver
* Michael Downs 1981, NFL All-Pro Safety (American and Canadian football position), safety, Dallas Cowboys
* Emmanuel Ellerbee, 2018, National Football League, NFL linebacker for the Atlanta Falcons
* Jack Fox (American football), 2019, NFL Punter for the Detroit Lions
* Courtney Hall, 1989, NFL offensive lineman, 1989 2nd round draft pick of the San Diego Chargers
* King Hill, quarterback, top pick in first round of 1958 NFL Draft
* Billy Howton, NFL's former all-time receiving leader, Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys
* Weldon Humble, guard, College Football Hall of Fame Inductee, 1961
* Larry Izzo, 3 time Pro Bowl LB/special teams captain for the New England Patriots, Super Bowl Champions 2002, 2004, 2005
* N.D. Kalu, NFL defensive end for the Houston Texans
* Tommy Kramer, NFL quarterback, named to Pro Bowl while playing for the Minnesota Vikings
* Dicky Moegle, 1954, Halfback (American football), halfback, inducted into Cotton Bowl Classic Hall of Fame in 1998; College Football Hall of Fame Inductee, 1979
* Don Maynard, wide receiver, Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee
* Will McClay, coach of the Dallas Desperados, an Arena Football League (1987–2008), Arena Football League team
* Vance McDonald, 2013, NFL tight end
* Cheta Ozougwu, defensive end for Chicago Bears, 2011 Mr. Irrelevant
* Tobin Rote, quarterback of 1957 NFL Champion Detroit Lions and 1963 AFL Champion San Diego Chargers
* Frank Ryan (American football), Frank Beall Ryan, 1958, PhD 1965, NFL quarterback; textbook author; Yale University, Yale athletic director; appeared on cover of ''Sports Illustrated'', January 4, 1965
* James Williams (end), James Williams, end and kicker
* Luke Willson, 2013, NFL tight end
Tennis
* Sam Match (1923–2010), tennis player; won the NCAA doubles championship with Rice University in 1947
* Harold Solomon (born 1952), professional tennis player ranked as high as number 5 in the world
Track and field
* Andrea Blackett 1997, Barbados Olympic hurdler and 1998 Commonwealth Games 400 m hurdles champion
* Jason Colwick, 2010, two-time NCAA champion in pole vault
* Fred Hansen, 1963, NCAA champion in pole vault, gold medalist at 1964 Summer Olympics, world record holder
* David Roberts (athlete), Dave Roberts, 1974, bronze medalist in pole vault at 1976 Summer Olympics, and former world record holder (twice) in pole vault
* Sean Wade, Master runner of the Year and Coach of the Cross Country team at The Kinkaid School
Other
* Adi Bichman, 2001, Israeli freestyle and medley swimmer
*Sam McGuffie, 2013, member of the 2018 U.S. Olympic Men's Bobsleigh Team as a push crewman for the four man bobsled and brakeman for the two-man bobsled
* Robert L. Leuschner Jr., 1957, graduated as a chemical engineer, but after joining the NROTC at Rice, pursued a distinguished career in the U.S. Navy, attaining the rank of rear admiral
Miscellaneous
* Bill Arhos, KLRU station manager, program director; ''Austin City Limits'' executive producer
* John Bradshaw (author), John Bradshaw, author and motivational speaker
* Amanda Goad, Scripps National Spelling Bee champion
* Henry Masterson III, National Medal of Arts recipient
Faculty and staff
Nobel laureates
* Robert F. Curl Jr. (also an alumnus of Rice), professor of chemistry, awarded 1996 in chemistry for the discovery of fullerenes
* Hermann Joseph Muller, professor of biology, awarded 1946 in Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, physiology or medicine for the discovery for X-ray mutagenesis
* Richard Smalley, professor of chemistry, awarded 1996 in chemistry for the discovery of fullerenes
* Robert Woodrow Wilson, senior scientist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; awarded 1978 in Nobel Prize in Physics, physics for the discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation
* Roger Penrose, former Rice University’s Edgar Odell Lovett Professor of Mathematics, awarded 2020 in Nobel Prize in Physics, physics for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity
Other faculty
* Hanan Ashrawi, Palestinian scholar and activist
* Richard Baraniuk, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
* Tani E. Barlow, feminist scholar
* Earl Black (political scientist), Earl Black, political science professor
* Elias Bongmba, professor of Religious Studies
* Douglas Brinkley, award-winning historian
* Solomon Bochner, mathematician
* Bun B (guest lecturer), rapper
* C. Sidney Burrus, electrical engineer
* B. Jill Carroll, professor of Religious Studies
* Suchan Chae, Korean politician and economics professor
* Franklin Chang-Diaz, former NASA astronaut
* Justin Cronin, author and professor of English
* Rajdeep Dasgupta, professor of Planetary Studies
* Gerald R. Dickens, professor of Earth Science
* Edward Djerejian, American diplomat
* Jack Dongarra, 2021 Turing Award Winner and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
* Elaine Howard Ecklund, professor of Sociology
* Paul Ellison, bass musician
* Mark Embree, mathematician
* Matthias Felleisen, former professor of computer science who co-invented A-normal form and led the development of the Racket (programming language), Racket programming language
* Ariel Fernandez, physical chemist
* Naomi Halas, professor of biochemical engineering, chemistry and physics
* Mauro Hamza, fencing coach
* Julian Huxley, evolutionary biologist
* Ken Kennedy (computer scientist), Ken Kennedy, computer scientist
* Anne C. Klein, professor of Religious Studies and Buddhist scholar
* Riki Kobayashi, chemical engineer
* Jeffrey Kurtzman, pianist and musicologist
* Sydney Lamb, linguist
* Neal Francis Lane, Neal Lane, physicist and former director of the National Science Foundation
* Robert Lewis (actor), Robert Lewis, actor, director and co-founder of the Actors Studio
* Qilin Li, environmental engineer
* Cho-Liang Lin, American violinist and soloist
* D. Michael Lindsay, sociologist
* Andreas Luttge, professor of Earth Science and Chemistry
* George E. Marcus, George Marcus, anthropologist
* Guy T. McBride, chemical engineer
* Brian O'Brien (space scientist), Brian O'Brien, space scientist
* Ann Saterbak, professor of Biomedical engineering
* Scott Sonenshein, organizational psychologist
* Monroe K. Spears (1916-1998), Libbie Shearn Moody Professor of English at Rice University from 1964 to 1986.
* Robert M. Stein, political scientist
* Robert B. Stobaugh, economics writer
* Yizhi Jane Tao, biochemist
* Richard A. Tapia, Richard Tapia, mathematician and winner of the National Medal of Science
* James Tour, chemist and nanotechnologist
* Frank Vandiver, American Civil War historian and university president
* Moshe Vardi, Israeli mathematician and computer scientist
* William F. Walker, engineer and university president
* Martin Wiener, historian
* Peter Guy Wolynes, Peter Wolynes, professor of Chemistry
* Susan Wood (poet), Susan Wood, poet and professor of English
* Stephen A. Zeff, accounting historian
* Mikki Hebl, professor of psychology and management
Staff
* John Heisman, for whom the coveted Heisman Trophy is named; football coach, 1924–1927, College Football Hall of Fame inductee, 1954
* Jess Neely, football coach 1940–1966, College Football Hall of Fame inductee, 1971
[[ Jess Neely] College Football Hall of Fame]
Presidents of Rice
#Edgar Odell Lovett (president founding to 1946)
#William V. Houston (president 1946–1961)
#Kenneth Pitzer (president 1961–1968)
#Norman Hackerman (president 1970–1985)
#George Erik Rupp, George Rupp (president 1985–1993)
#S. Malcolm Gillis, Malcolm Gillis (president 1993–2004)
#David Leebron (president 2004 to 2022)
#Reginald DesRoches (president 2022 to present)
References
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