List of Colorado School of Mines people

This is a list of some notable people associated with the Colorado School of Mines, located in Golden, Colorado, United States.

Notable alumni

 * Arthur S. Adams, academic, former president of the University of New Hampshire
 * Tesho Akindele, Canadian soccer player, 2014 MLS Rookie of the Year
 * John P. Allen, systems ecologist, engineer, metallurgist, adventurer, and writer
 * William Arbegast, American metallurgical engineer, mechanical engineer and friction stir welding expert
 * Souad Naji Al-Azzawi, Iraqi environmentalist & academic researcher, first Arab to receive the Nuclear-Free Future Award
 * Charles Arthur Banks, 17th lieutenant governor of British Columbia
 * Arden L. Bement, Jr., former director of the National Science Foundation
 * Fred Chester Bond, mining engineer, developed the Bond Work Index
 * George R. Brown, entrepreneur
 * Shane Carwin (mechanical engineering), wrestler; former mixed martial artist who won the UFC Interim Heavyweight Championship
 * Sabré Cook, engineer and racing driver competing in the W Series
 * Antônio Ermírio de Moraes, Brazilian businessman, chairman of the Votorantim Group, and ranked one of the richest men in Brazil by Forbes magazine
 * Kenneth S. Deffeyes, geologist who worked with M. King Hubbert, the creator of the Hubbert peak theory, at the Shell Oil Company research laboratory
 * James H. Dickinson, commander of the United States Space Command
 * Wendell Fertig, civil engineer and World War II hero
 * Jeffrey Goodman, independent archaeologist
 * Gerald Grandey, former resident and chief executive officer of Cameco Corporation
 * Jack J. Grynberg, Polish-born American businessman
 * Vance Haynes, archaeologist, geologist and author who specializes in the archaeology of the American Southwest
 * Judson Dean Howard, speleologist known for helping establish Lava Beds National Monument in California
 * Derrick Jensen, author, Deep Green Resistance, mineral engineering physics
 * Marty Jertson, golf club designer who made the cut in the 2019 PGA Championship
 * William M. Ketchum, U.S. Representative from California
 * Howard W. Leaf, United States Air Force lieutenant general, assistant vice chief of staff at the Pentagon
 * Fred Meissner, geologist and engineer
 * Jan D. Miller, metallurgical engineer and member of the National Academy of Engineering
 * Steven L. Newman, businessman, former chief executive of Transocean
 * Erol Ozensoy, Turkish entrepreneur, industrialist and businessmen, who founded Kimetsan
 * Bryce Poe II, United States Air Force four-star general who served as commander of the Air Force Logistics Command 1978–1981
 * Fitch Robertson, former mayor of Berkeley, California (1943–1947)
 * Roger Rueff, dramatist, BSc 1978, MSc '83 and PhD '85 in chemical and petroleum refining engineering
 * George Saunders, writer, journalist and professor, winner of the Man Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo, BSc 1981 in geophysical engineering
 * Marc Schiechl, NFL Jacksonville Jaguars, AFL LA Kiss
 * August Schomburg, former commander of the United States Army Ballistic Missile Command
 * Craig Schurig, football coach and former player
 * Sao Kya Seng, politician, mining engineer, agriculturalist and the last Saopha of Hsipaw State, Myanmar, 1947–1959
 * Frank Shakespeare, diplomat and media executive, former president of CBS Television, United States Ambassador to Portugal (1985–1986) and United States Ambassador to the Holy See (1986-1989)
 * Cleave Simpson, Colorado state senator from Alamosa, Colorado
 * Kat Steele, University of Washington professor
 * Robert H. Waterman Jr., co-author of In Search of Excellence, geophysical engineer 1958, medalist '84
 * Joseph Robert Wright Jr., businessman, 27th Director of the Office of Management and Budget
 * Purnomo Yusgiantoro, 25th Minister of Defense of Indonesia