User:DUKyleXY/List of Iowa State University alumni

Editor Notes/Tips: I am pulling in a more complete list than the mainspace list currently composes. I am pulling names from Category:Iowa State University alumni. This re-structuring is being based on the Featured List: List of Dartmouth College alumni. At this time, I am not separating Iowa State Faculty and Staff into another list, although that is a likely outcome owing to the size of the ISU Alumni category. DUKyleXY (talk) 04:48, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

This list of Iowa State University alumni includes graduates, non-graduate former students, current students, faculty, staff and administration of Iowa State University. In 1872, the first class of 26 students graduated from Iowa Agricultural College. Today there are over 230,000 living Iowa State alumni.


 * Note: Individuals are listed under the first appropriate category and are not repeated.

=Alumni=

Miscellaneous
=Faculty and staff=

Journalism

 * Terry A. Anderson, BA 1974 – former Middle East Bureau Chief, The Associated Press
 * Helen Derr, BA – journalist
 * Arendo Joustra, attended Graduate School, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, 1979-1980 – Dutch writer and editor in chief Elsevier
 * Robert E. Kowalski, BA 1966, MS 197 7 – best-selling medical author
 * Sean McLaughlin, BA journalism – former Today Show weather anchor
 * Christine Romans, BA 1993 – CNN Chief Business Correspondent
 * Hugh Sidey, BS – journalist for Life and Time magazines

Performing arts

 * Mallory Snyder, (attended) – Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, actress, MTV's The Real World
 * Carol Wilson BA, operatic soprano

Science and technology

 * Clayton Anderson, MS 1983 – NASA astronaut; first Iowa Stater in space
 * Dale A. Anderson, MS 1959, PhD 1964 – pioneer in the field of computational fluid dynamics
 * Steve Bales, BS 1964 – Director, Space Operations Management Office at NASA; known for the Apollo 11 landing
 * Clifford E. Berry, BS 1939, MS 1941, PhD 1948 – co-developer of the first electronic digital computer (see Atanasoff–Berry Computer)
 * Griffith Buck, BS 1948, MS 1949, Ph.D. 1953 – professor of horticulture; developed nearly 100 new varieties of roses
 * Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid, mathematician, probability and Markov chain theorist
 * Arthur E. Bryson, Jr., the "father of modern optimal control theory"
 * George Washington Carver, BS 1894, MS 1896 – first African-American student and faculty member; plant scientist
 * Clarence Chamberlin (attended), aviation pioneer
 * Nancy Cox BS 1970 – American virologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2006 U.S. Federal Employee of the Year; one of the 2006 Time 100
 * Lawrence F. Dahl, Ph.D. 1956 – professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
 * Bob O. Evans, BS 1951 – computer pioneer and National Medal of Technology recipient
 * Velmer A. Fassel, PhD 1947 – creator of inductively coupled plasma for mass spectrometry
 * Wayne Fuller, B.S. 1955, M.S.1957, Ph.D. 1959 – statistician
 * Lyle Goodhue, B.S. 1928, M.S. 1929, Ph.D. 1934 - scientist and inventor
 * John Gustafson, MS 1981, PhD 1982 – inventor of Gustafson's law of parallel computing
 * Darleane C. Hoffman, BS 1948—nuclear chemist, part of the team that discovered Seaborgium
 * Sadanand Joshi, PhD 1980 – pioneer in horizontal well technology
 * Edward F. Knipling, PhD 1947 – noted entomologist and World Food Prize winner
 * Mark Mattson, BS 1979 - prominent neuroscientist.
 * Rose Marie Pangborn, MS – noted sensory scientist
 * Emil Steinberger, MD 1955 - endocrinologist, founding president of the American Society of Andrology
 * G. Malcolm Trout, BS 1923, MS 1924 – noted food scientist and creator of homogenized milk
 * Tom M. Whitney, BS 1961,  MS 1962, PhD 1964 – co-inventor of the first handheld calculator able to perform trigonometry, and former executive vice-president of engineering at Apple Inc.

Sports
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Baseball

 * Mike Busch, former Major League Baseball player
 * Mike Myers, Major League Baseball player
 * Jim Walewander, former Major League Baseball player

Basketball

 * Zaid Abdul-Aziz (born Donald A. Smith), NBA player
 * Victor Alexander, NBA player
 * Bill Cain, NBA player
 * Kelvin Cato, former NBA player
 * Marcus Fizer, NBA player
 * Jeff Grayer, NBA player
 * Fred Hoiberg, former NBA player and current head men's basketball coach, Iowa State University
 * Jeff Hornacek, former NBA all-star and current head coach, Phoenix Suns
 * Wes Johnson (Played two years for Iowa State prior to transferring to Syracuse ), NBA player
 * Loren Meyer, retired American professional basketball player
 * Paul Shirley, NBA player
 * Barry Stevens, NBA player
 * Jamaal Tinsley, NBA player
 * Jackson Vroman, NBA player
 * Will Blalock, NBA player
 * Dedric Willoughby, NBA player

Football

 * Chris Anthony, wide receiver for the New York Dragons of the Arena Football League
 * David Archer, NFL player
 * Chris Ash, Defensive Backs Coach of the Wisconsin Badgers football team
 * Tony Baker, NFL player
 * Matt Blair, NFL player
 * Joe Beauchamp, NFL player
 * Carl Brettschneider, NFL player
 * Stan Campbell, NFL player
 * Jordan Carstens, NFL player
 * Pat Curran, NFL player
 * John Cooper, football captain and MVP and later head football coach at Ohio State
 * Jim Doran, former NFL player for the Detroit Lions and the Dallas Cowboys. MVP NFL 1953 Championship Game Played on 51,53 and 57 Championship Teams. 1960 Pro Bowler.
 * Troy Davis, NFL player
 * Tim Dobbins, NFL player
 * Dennis Gibson, NFL player
 * Kelly Goodburn, NFL player
 * Weylan Harding, Arena Football League head coach and former player
 * Reggie Hayward, NFL player
 * Ennis Haywood, NFL player
 * LaMarcus Hicks, NFL player
 * Ellis Hobbs, NFL player
 * Keith Krepfle, NFL player
 * J.J. Moses, NFL player
 * Kelechi Osemele, NFL player, Super Bowl XLVII champion
 * Charles Partridge, Defensive Line and Specialists Coach of the Wisconsin Badgers football team
 * James Reed,  NFL player
 * Bruce Reimers, NFL player
 * Darius Reynolds, Arena Football League player
 * Marcus Robertson, NFL player
 * Sage Rosenfels, NFL player
 * Oliver Ross, NFL player
 * Keith Sims, NFL player
 * Mike Stensrud, NFL player
 * Jack Trice, football player and pioneer for minorities in sports, died of injuries sustained in a football game
 * Tom Vaughn,  NFL player
 * Seneca Wallace, NFL player
 * Chuck Walton, NFL & CFL player
 * Chris Washington, NFL player
 * Tom Watkins, NFL player
 * Don Webb, NFL player
 * Gene Williams, NFL player
 * Tony Yelk, NFL player

Mixed martial arts

 * Mike Van Arsdale - 1988 NCAA Division 1 Wrestling Champion; current MMA coach
 * Justin Eilers - collegiate Football player; retired professional MMA fighter

Olympics

 * Glen Brand, 3x All-American wrestler; 1948 Summer Olympics Gold Medalist in freestyle wrestling
 * Dan Gable, Lost only one collegiate wrestling match; 1972 Olympic gold medalist and 1971 World Wrestling Champion, became top wrestling coach in the country at the University of Iowa
 * Kevin Jackson, 1992 Olympic Freestyle Wrestling Champion, former mixed martial artist, current head coach for ISU Cyclone Wrestling
 * Nawal El Moutawakel, first African woman and first Muslim woman to earn Olympic gold
 * Ben Peterson, 2x NCAA Champion wrestler; 1972 & 1976 Olympic Gold and Silver medalist respectfully
 * Cael Sanderson, 4x NCAA undefeated wrestling champion (159-0) and 2004 Summer Olympics gold medalist, head coach of the Penn State wrestling team
 * Jake Varner, 2012 Summer Olympics Gold Medalist

Track

 * Yobes Ondieki, 10000-meter world record-holder, 1993.

Cross Country

 * Lisa Uhl,four-time NCAA Division One champion, current NCAA record holder in the 10,000 metres

Wrestling

 * Darryl Peterson, NCAA all American and former professional wrestler
 * Trevor Smith, ISU wrestler; professional mixed martial artist currently competing in the UFC's Middleweight Division

Notable faculty and staff
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Nobel laureates

 * Dan Shechtman, ( 2011, Nobel Prize in Chemistry), for '"'the discovery of quasicrystals"''
 * Theodore Schultz, (1979, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics), for "pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries""
 * Leonid Hurwicz, (2007, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics), for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory
 * George Stigler, (1982, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics), for his contribution on capture theory

Pulitzer Prize

 * Jane Smiley, recipient of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for fiction

Science and technology

 * John Vincent Atanasoff (see also Atanasoff–Berry Computer), inventor of the first electronic digital computer
 * James Millikin Bevans, U.S. Air Force Major General
 * Wayne Arthur Fuller, statistician noted for his textbooks on econometrics and survey sampling
 * Henry Gilman, known as the "father of organometallic chemistry"
 * Oscar Kempthorne, Distinguished Professor of Science and Humanities at Iowa State University
 * Jay L. Lush, pioneer of modern animal breeding
 * Allan Mackintosh, noted solid-state physicist, director of Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics
 * Elsa Murano, former Iowa State University assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Preventative Medicine; 23rd President of Texas A&M University
 * George W. Snedecor, statistician and pioneer of modern applied statistics in the U.S., namesake of Snedecor Award
 * Frank Spedding, noted Ames Laboratory chemist, namesake of Spedding Prize
 * J. (Hans) van Leeuwen, Vlasta Klima Balloun professor and 2009 R&D Innovator of the Year, developer of MycoMeal fungal feed and purified alcohol
 * John B. Balinsky, biochemist, physiologist, Chair of zoology

Literature

 * Fern Kupfer, novelist
 * Christian Petersen, sculptor, whose works appear around campus

Basketball

 * Larry Eustachy, former men's basketball coach, 2000 NCAA National Coach of the Year
 * Tim Floyd, former men's basketball coach with 81–49 record and only coach with three consecutive 20-win seasons.
 * Johnny Orr, the most successful coach in Iowa State and Michigan men's basketball history

Football

 * Mack Brown, head coach at University of Texas (at Iowa State 1979–1982)
 * Pete Carroll, head coach of the Seattle Seahawks, former coach at University of Southern California (at Iowa State 1978)
 * Johnny Majors, renowned football head coach (at Iowa State 1968–1972)

Martial arts

 * Yong Chin Pak, Grandmaster, instructs taekwondo, hapkido, and judo