List of Lehigh University alumni

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

Academia

 * David Bader (BSCompE, 1990; MSEE, 1991), Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and former Georgia Tech professor
 * Anthony G. Collins (D.Eng. Civil Eng., 1982), former Clarkson University president
 * Peter Feaver (BA, 1983), Duke University professor and former member of the National Security Council in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations
 * James D. Foley (BSEE, 1964), Georgia Tech professor and co-author, Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice
 * Kenneth French (Mech. E., 1976), Dartmouth College finance department chairman and American Finance Association president
 * Robert L. Ketter, former University of Buffalo president
 * Andrew H. Knoll (1973), Harvard University paleontologist and geologist and member of the National Academy of Sciences
 * Ted London (BS Mech. Eng 1985), Base of the Pyramid expert at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and William Davidson Institute senior research fellow
 * Robert J. Nemiroff (1987), Michigan Technological University professor of physics and co-founder of the Astronomy Picture of the Day and Astrophysics Source Code Library
 * Paul C. Paris (1955), Washington University in St. Louis professor emeritus and expert on fracture mechanics and material fatigue
 * Walter C. Pitman, III (1956), Columbia University professor emeritus and expert on sea floor spreading
 * James R. Rice (1962), Harvard University physicist and professor and member of the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering.
 * Herman Schneider (1894), University of Cincinnati former president and developer of cooperative education
 * James E. Talmage (Geology, 1884), University of Utah former president, author, and LDS apostle
 * John Texter (1949), Eastern Michigan University professor emeritus, author, inventor, and co-founder of Strider Research Corporation
 * Paul Torgersen (B.S. Industrial Engr., 1953), former Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University president

Architecture

 * Roland E. Borhek (1883), designed the Rialto Theater and other buildings
 * Wallis Eastburn Howe (1889), architect

Business

 * William Amelio (BS Chem. Eng., 1979), Avnet CEO and former Lenovo CEO
 * Tom Bayer, Reserve Bank of Vanuatu director
 * Patrice Banks, Girls Auto Clinic founder and author
 * Bob Born (1944), Just Born president
 * William Butterworth, Deere and Company president and chairman
 * Steve Chang, Trend Micro co-founder and former CEO
 * Stacey Cunningham (BS Industrial Engineering, 1996), 67th president of the New York Stock Exchange
 * Jack Dreyfus (1934), Dreyfus Fund founder
 * Cathy Engelbert (1986), former Deloitte U.S. president and current WNBA commissioner
 * Murray H. Goodman (born 1925), real estate developer
 * Eugene Grace (1899), former Bethlehem Steel president
 * Richard Hayne (BA Anthropology 1969), Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, and Free People co-founder
 * Marc Holtzman (1982), Barclays Capital vice chairman and Kazkommertsbank chairman
 * Lee Iacocca (Industrial Eng. 1945, Hon D.Eng. 1965), former Chrysler chairman
 * Kevin J. Kennedy (1978), Avaya CEO
 * John E. McGlade, Air Products chairman, president, and CEO
 * Reginald Lenna (BS Industrial engineering, 1936), Blackstone Inc. CEO
 * Edward Avery McIlhenny (1896), McIlhenny Company CEO]
 * Henry H. Minskoff, real estate developer
 * James Ward Packard (Mech. E., 1884), Packard co-founder
 * John R. Patrick (BS Electrical engineering, 1967), former IBM vice president
 * Joseph R. Perella (BS Business & Economics 1964), former investment banking chairman at Morgan Stanley
 * Paul Zane Pilzer (BA Journalism 1974), economist
 * Barry Rosenstein (BA, 1981), hedge fund manager
 * Fredrick D. Schaufeld (BA Government 1981), entrepreneur and venture capital investor
 * Tsai Shengbai (1919), Mayar Silk Mills president and developer of the modern silk industry in China
 * Fred Trump Jr. (1960), Trans World Airlines pilot and former executive and maintenance worker at The Trump Organization; older brother of Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States
 * Robert Zoellner (BS 1954), investor and stamp collector, the second person to have assembled a complete collection of United States postage stamps, and benefactor and namesake of the school's Zoellner Arts Center

Entertainment

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

Journalism and literature

 * Martin Baron (BA Journalism and MBA, both 1976), Washington Post editor and former Boston Globe editor
 * Tracy Byrnes (1993), Fox Business television reporter
 * William E. Coles, Jr. (BA English, 1953), novelist and professor
 * Richard Harding Davis (1886), war correspondent, journalist, and writer of fiction and drama
 * Robert Gibb (MA English, 1976), poet, short-story writer, essayist, critic, editor, and professor
 * Michael Golden (1971), The International Herald Tribune publisher and vice chairman of The New York Times Company
 * William P. Gottlieb (BS business and economics, 1939), jazz author and photographer
 * Russell Lee (1925), photojournalist
 * Edwin Lefèvre (1893), one of the first journalists specialized on covering business
 * David A. Randall (English, 1928), book dealer and librarian
 * Len Roberts (PhD English, 1976), poet, translator, and professor
 * Stephanie Ruhle (1997), MSNBC anchor and NBC News correspondent
 * Michael Smerconish (BA Government, 1984), author and radio commentator
 * Andrea Tantaros (2001), former Fox News Channel co-host and political contributor
 * Les Whitten (BA English and Journalism, 1950), investigative reporter and novelist

Law

 * Edward N. Cahn (1955), United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania judge; The Edward Cahn Federal Building and Courthouse was named in his honor.
 * Robert L. Clifford (1946), New Jersey Supreme Court associate justice
 * James Cullen Ganey (1920), United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit judge
 * Ronald A. Guzman (1970), United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois judge
 * Alina Habba (2005), attorney for former U.S. president Donald Trump
 * Edwin Kneedler (1967), deputy solicitor general of the United States
 * Paul Lewis Maloney (1972), United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan judge
 * Malcolm Muir (1935), United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania judge
 * Maryellen Noreika (1988),United States District Court for the District of Delaware judge
 * Donald F. Parsons (1973), Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware vice chancellor
 * Stephen Victor Wilson (1963), United States District Court for the Central District of California judge

Medicine

 * Harry J. Buncke, plastic surgeon called the "father of microsurgery"
 * Steven J. Burakoff, cancer specialist and head of Mount Sinai Medical Center's cancer institute
 * Frank L. Douglas, former TheVax Genetics Vaccine Company CEO and founder and first executive director of MIT's Center for Biomedical Innovation
 * Stephen K. Klasko, Jefferson Health CEO
 * Gail Saltz, psychiatrist and television commentator
 * Sandra Welner, specialist in disabled women's healthcare

Military

 * Ralph Cheli (1941), USAAF, awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for valor in World War II
 * Timothy D. Haugh (BA 1991), current commander, Sixteenth Air Force
 * Colin J. Kilrain (1982), U.S. Navy SEAL, anti-terrorism expert, military attache to Mexico,  PACCOM Special Ops Commander, NATO Special Ops Commander
 * David M. Peterson (1915), fighter ace with the Lafayette Escadrille and U.S. Army Air Service credited with six victories, twice awarded the Distinguished Service Cross
 * Edwin H. Simmons USMC (1942), veteran of the Battle of Chosin Reservoir and USMC chief historian
 * Franklin C. Spinney (BS Mech. Eng, 1967), U.S. Air Force Reserve and military analyst
 * John H. Tilelli, Jr. (MBA 1972), U.S. Army vice chief of staff

Politics

 * Pongpol Adireksarn (1964), Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand
 * William David Blakeslee Ainey, U.S. Congressman
 * Ali Al-Naimi (BS Geology 1962), Saudi Arabia Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources and Aramco chairman
 * Carville Benson (1890), U.S. Congressman
 * William A. Collins, Connecticut State Representative and four-term mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut
 * Charlie Dent (MPA, 1993), U.S. Congressman
 * Geoff Diehl (1992), Massachusetts House of Representatives member
 * Clarence Ditlow III, (Bachelor of Science (BS) Chemical Engineering), advocate for automotive safety
 * Manuel V. Domenech (1888), Ponce, Puerto Rico member and Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
 * Lori Ehrlich (1985),Massachusetts House of Representatives member
 * Peter D. Feaver (BA, 1983), member of the National Security Council in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations and Duke University professor
 * Robert L. Freeman (MA History, 1984), Pennsylvania House of Representatives member
 * Walter O. Hoffecker (1877), U.S. Congressman
 * Robert A. Hurley (1917), 73rd governor of Connecticut
 * Leonard Lance (Bachelor of Arts (BA), 1974), U.S. Congressman
 * Norton Lewis Lichtenwalner, U.S. Congressman
 * Jennifer Mann (1991), Majority Caucus Secretary and member of Pennsylvania House of Representatives
 * Robert Martin (Master of Arts (MA) History, 1971), New Jersey State Senator
 * Paul F. McHale, Jr. (Bachelor of Arts (BA) Government, 1972), Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and former U.S. Congressman
 * Rufus King Polk (1887), U.S. Congressman
 * Donald L. Ritter (Bachelor of Science (BS) Metallurgy, 1961), former U.S. Congressman
 * Richard Schmierer (1974), U.S. ambassador to Oman
 * David Sidikman (1956), New York State Assembly member
 * Donald Snyder (MBA 1976), Pennsylvania House of Representatives Majority Whip
 * Edward J. Stack (1931), U.S. Congressman
 * Guy Talarico (B.S.), New Jersey General Assembly member
 * Joseph Uliana (1987), Pennsylvania State Representative and State Senator
 * Richard Verma (BS Industrial engineering, 1990), U.S. ambassador to India
 * Francis E. Walter (1916), U.S. Congressman

Pulitzer Prize winners

 * Martin Baron (1976), editor of The Washington Post, former editor of The Boston Globe, 2003 Pulitzer Prize winner
 * Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe (1886) 1925 Pulitzer Prize winner
 * Joe Morgenstern (BA English, 1953), 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner

Science and engineering

 * Ali Al-Naimi (BS Geology, 1962), Saudi Aramco CEO and Saudi Arabia's Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources
 * Walter C. Bachman (1933), chief engineer at Gibbs & Cox and ship propulsion expert
 * John-David F. Bartoe (BS Physics 1966), Space Shuttle astronaut and International Space Station research manager for NASA
 * Stephen James Benkovic (1960), chemist
 * William Bowie (C.E. 1895), geodetic engineer and namesake of Bowie Seamount
 * Morris Llewellyn Cooke (BS Mech. E., 1895), rural electrification leader during the 1920s and 1930s
 * Paul Corkum (PhD Theoretical Physics, 1972), attosecond physics and laser science expert
 * Albert P. Crary (MS Physics), Antarctic explorer
 * Harry Diamond, engineer who developed Proximity Fuse
 * Philip Drinker (Chem Eng., 1917), co-inventor of the modern respirator
 * Lt. Col. Terry Hart, USAF (BS Mech. E., 1968, Hon. D.Eng., 1988), NASA Space Shuttle astronaut
 * Captain Nicholas H. Heck (AB 1903, BSCE 1904), geophysicist, seismologist, oceanographer, hydrographic surveyor, and United States Coast and Geodetic Survey officer
 * Lester Hogan (PhD Physics 1950), microwave and semiconductor pioneer
 * Gary G. Lash (MS, PhD 1980), geologist known for Marcellus Shale calculations
 * Bill Maloney (1980), mine drilling expert and participant in the Plan B rescue of miners during the 2010 Chilean mine disaster
 * Daniel McFarlan Moore (1889), Moore Light inventor
 * William S. Murray (1895), electrical power generation and railroad electrification expert
 * Jesse W. Reno (BS Mech Eng., 1883), builder of the world's first escalator
 * Robert Serber (BS Engineering physics, 1930), physicist in the Manhattan Project
 * Lewis B. Stillwell (1885), expert on electrical distribution, President of the IEEE and 1935 winner of the IEEE Edison Medal
 * John Texter (1949; BSEE, 1971; MS Chem, 1973; MS Mathematics, 1976; PhD Chemistry, 1976), engineer and scientist in applied dispersion technology and small particle science, co-initiator of polymerized ionic liquids, and designer of thermodynamically stable dispersions
 * John M. Thome (1870), director of the Argentina's national observatory, Observatorio Astronómico de Córdoba
 * Richard Hawley Tucker (BS Civil Eng., 1887), astronomer; namesake of Tucker Crater on the Moon
 * Claude Allen Porter Turner (BS Civil Eng., 1890), developed early reinforced concrete techniques
 * Aneesh Varma (2006), founder of Aire and expert on behavior prediction algorithms
 * William Wiswesser (1936; honorary doctorate 1970), chemist and pioneer in chemical informatics and inventor of Wiswesser line notation
 * J. Lamar Worzel (1941), geophysicist and oceanographer
 * Zhou Ming-Zhen, Chinese paleontologist, Chinese Academy of Sciences academic and recipient of the Romer-Simpson Medal

Sports

 * Rabih Abdullah (1998), former professional football player, Chicago Bears, New England Patriots, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers
 * Joe Alleva (BS finance, 1975; MBA, 1976), Louisiana State University athletic director and former Duke University athletic director
 * Craig Anderson (1960), former professional baseball player, New York Mets and St. Louis Cardinals
 * Lon Babby (BA Political Science, 1973), Phoenix Suns president
 * Adam Bergen (2004), professional football player, Arizona Cardinals and Dallas Cowboys
 * Jordan Cohen ('20), Israel Basketball Premier League player
 * Snooks Dowd, former professional baseball player
 * Cathy Engelbert (1986), WNBA Commissioner
 * Sam Fishburn, professional baseball player
 * John Fitch (BS Civil Eng., 1938), winner of Mille Miglia and Argentine Grand Prix
 * Paul Hartzell (1976), former professional baseball player, Baltimore Orioles, California Angels, and Minnesota Twins
 * Bill Hoffman, football player
 * Al Holbert (Mech. E. 1968), five-time IMSA GT Champion and member of International Motorsports Hall of Fame
 * John Hill (1972), former professional football player, New York Giants and New Orleans Saints
 * Jarrod Johnson (1991), former professional football player, Pittsburgh Steelers and San Diego Chargers
 * Steve Kreider (1978), former professional football player, Cincinnati Bengals
 * Tim Mayer (1991), IMSA chief operating officer
 * Matt McBride, professional baseball player
 * CJ McCollum (BA Journalism, 2013), first Lehigh basketball player to be selected in the NBA draft
 * Kim McQuilken (1973), former professional football player, Atlanta Falcons and Washington Redskins
 * Rich Owens (1994), former professional football player, Miami Dolphins, Kansas City Chiefs, Seattle Seahawks, and Washington Redskins
 * Vincent "Pat" Pazzetti (1912), member of College Football Hall of Fame
 * Roger Penske (1959), NASCAR and IRL team owner, member of International Motorsports Hall of Fame, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
 * Will Rackley (BA Design, 2011), professional football player, Jacksonville Jaguars
 * Julius Seligson (1930), NCAA and ITA national tennis champion and member of ITA Hall of Fame
 * Scott Semptimphelter, football player
 * Levi Stoudt, former professional baseball player, Cincinnati Reds
 * Lake Underwood (Mech. E.), professional sports car racer
 * Bobby Weaver (1981), gold medal winner, wrestling, 1984 Summer Olympics
 * Finn Wentworth (1980), former New Jersey Nets owner and YankeeNets president
 * Adam Williamson (2005), Major League Soccer soccer player, New England Revolution