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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.[ 1] Today there are over 230,000 living Iowa State alumni.[ 2]
Note: Individuals are listed under the first appropriate category and are not repeated.
Professors and researchers
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Name
Class year
Notability
References
Fred Adams
1983 BS
Astrophysicist studying physical cosmology , Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan
[ 5]
Ralph Palmer Agnew
MA
Mathematician studying summability of series , Chair of the Mathematics Department of Cornell University (1940-1950)
[ 6]
Maurice L. Albertson
1941 BS
Professor of Civil Engineering at Colorado State University (-), Co-founder of the United States Peace Corps
[ 7]
Don E. Albrecht
1982 PhD
Director of the Western Rural Development Center at Utah State University (current), Professor of Rural Sociology and Rural Studies at Texas A&M University (1982-2008)
[ 8]
Larned B. Asprey
1940 BS
Chemist , involved with the Manhattan Project , developed the PUREX process.
[ 9]
John Vincent Atanasoff
1926 MS
Inventor of the Atanasoff-Berry Computer at Iowa State College
[ 10]
Julian Banzon
1940 PhD
Biochemist , Professor and Chair of the Department of Agricultural Chemistry at the University of the Philippines , National Scientist of the Philippines for Biophysical Chemistry
[ 11]
Rodney Benson
1983 BA
Assistant Professor in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University (current), author
Henry Otley Beyer
Anthropologist specializing in the indigenous peoples of the Philippines , head of the Department of Anthropology at the University of the Philippines
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Business and finance
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Government, law and public policy
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Literature, writing and translation
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Pulitzer Prize winners
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Science and technology
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Name
Class year
Notability
References
Aureliano Brandolini
Italian agronomist
Henry Otley Beyer
Anthropologist specializing in the indigenous peoples of the Philippines
William R. Brinkley
1964 Ph.D
Dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine
David P. Campbell
1955 BS, 1958 MS
Creator of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory
[ 23]
Michael M. Crow
1977 BA
President of Arizona State University (current)
[ 24]
James Lorraine Geddes
American Civil War general, Acting President of Iowa State College (1875-1877)
[ 25]
Niels Ebbesen Hansen
1887 BS, 1895 MS
Pioneer in plant breeding, first Head of the Horticulture Department at South Dakota State College
Harold Hume
1889 BS, 1901 MS
Noted Horticulturalist, Interim President of the University of Florida (1947), Provost of Agriculture at the University of Florida (1943-1949)
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Charles Boynton Knapp
1968 BS
President of the University of Georgia (1987-1997)
[ 26]
Samuel P. Massie
1946 PhD
Third President of the North Carolina College at Durham (1963-1966), First African American Professor of Chemistry at the United States Naval Academy (1966-1994)
[ 27] [ 28]
James L. Oblinger
1970 MA, 1972 PhD
Chancellor of North Carolina State University (2005-2009)
[ 29]
Frederick Douglas Patterson
1923 DVM , 1927 MS
President of the Tuskegee Institute (1935-1953, Founder of the United Negro College Fund
[ 30]
Roy Vernon Scott
1952 BS
Professor emeritus at Mississippi State University (current), Railroad and agricultural historian
[ 31]
Subra Suresh
1979 MS
President of Carnegie Mellon University (current), Director of the National Science Foundation (2010-2013), Dean of Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2007-2010)
[ 32]
Edward M. Walsh
MS, PhD
Founder of the University of Limerick
Earl G. Yarbrough
1976 PhD
President of Savannah State University (2007-2011)
[ 33]
[[:File:Dr._Subra_Suresh,_Ninth_President_of_Carnegie_Mellon_University,_July_2013.jpg|thumb|170px|Subra Suresh ]]
Government and politics
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Presidents and vice-presidents
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Executive council members
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Terry A. Anderson , BA 1974 – former Middle East Bureau Chief, The Associated Press [ 45]
Helen Derr , BA – journalist[ 46]
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
Science and technology
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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[ 50] – 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[ 51] – 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 [ 52]
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[ 53] – 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. [ 54]
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[[:File:2009-0805-SRosenfels.jpg|thumb|170px|Sage Rosenfels ]]
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[ 55]
Paul Shirley , NBA player
Barry Stevens , NBA player
Jamaal Tinsley , NBA player
Jackson Vroman , NBA player
Will Blalock , NBA player
Dedric Willoughby , NBA player
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
Glen Brand , 3x All-American wrestler; 1948 Summer Olympics Gold Medalist in freestyle wrestling[ 58]
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 [ 59]
Kevin Jackson , 1992 Olympic Freestyle Wrestling Champion, former mixed martial artist ,[ 60] 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[ 61]
Cael Sanderson , 4x NCAA undefeated wrestling champion (159-0) and 2004 Summer Olympics gold medalist, head coach of the Penn State wrestling team[ 62]
Jake Varner , 2012 Summer Olympics Gold Medalist
Lisa Uhl ,four-time NCAA Division One champion, current NCAA record holder in the 10,000 metres
Notable faculty and staff
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[[:File:Nobel Prize 2011-Press Conference KVA-DSC 7721.jpg|thumb|170px|Dan Shechtman ]]
Dan Shechtman , ( 2011, Nobel Prize in Chemistry ), for '"'the discovery of quasicrystals"[ 64]
Theodore Schultz , (1979, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics ), for "pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries"" [ 65]
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
Science and technology
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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
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
Yong Chin Pak , Grandmaster, instructs taekwondo, hapkido, and judo
Presidents of Iowa State University
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^ "Department Chairs 1868-present" . Department of Mathematics History . Cornell University. Retrieved 27 May 2015 .
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^ "Past winners & finalists: Poetry" . The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2015-05-21 .
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