This list of University of Pittsburgh alumni includes notable graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of the University of Pittsburgh, a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Arts and entertainment
Geri Allen (A&S 1983G, faculty 2013–present) — jazz composer, educator, and pianist
Hervey Allen (1915) — author best known for Anthony Adverse
Joseph Bathanti (A&S 1976) — poet, writer, professor; NC Poet Laureate, 2012–2014
Peter Beagle (A&S 1959) — Hugo Award-winning fantasist and author of novels, nonfiction, and screenplays
Jeff Bergman (A&S 1983) — voice actor who provides the modern-day voices of classic cartoon characters including Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck
Mark Bulwinkle (BFA 1968) — graphic artist and sculptor
Michael Chabon (A&S 1984) — 2001 Pulitzer Prize-winning author of a number of books set in Pittsburgh
Bill Cullen — host of many television game shows
Stephen Dau — writer
Sharon G. Flake (A&S 1978) — award-winning author of young adult literature
Jack Gilbert (A&S 1954) — award-winning poet
Lester Goran (A&S 1951, MA 1961) — author
Ernie Hawkins (A&S 1973; degree in philosophy) — blues guitarist and singer
Terrance Hayes (MFA 1997, faculty 2013–present) — poet whose books have won the National Book Award for Poetry and the National Poetry Series
Samuel John Hazo (A&S 1957G) — novelist, playwright, first poet laureate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Paul Hertneky writer
Frederick A. Hetzel — University Press publisher
Eddie Ifft—stand-up comedian, University of Pittsburgh athlete (track and field, cross country)
John Irving — author, The Cider House Rules, The World According to Garp (did not graduate)
Nicole Johnson (Public Health 2007) — Miss America 1999 and diabetes advocate
Gene Kelly (A&S 1933) — Academy Award-winning dancer, actor, singer, film director, producer and choreographer perhaps best known today for his performance in Singin' in the Rain
Chris Kuzneski (A&S 1991, MEDU 1993) — New York Times best-selling author
Jeanne Marie Laskas (MFA) — award-winning columnist, journalist, and author
Lorin Maazel (A&S 1954) — conductor, violinist, and composer, New York Philharmonic
Herb Magidson — lyricist, won the first Academy Award for Best Original Song, in 1934
Kellee Maize - musician, rapper and hip hop artist
Allison McAtee (A&S 2001) — actress, model, known for roles in CSI: Miami, Life, Hell Ride, Bloomington, Elevator Girl
Bebe Moore Campbell (EDU 1971) — author and journalist
Jenna Morasca — actress, model and winner of Survivor: The Amazon
Thaddeus Mosley (A&S 1950) — sculptor who works mostly in wood
Ethelbert Nevin — pianist and composer, left school after one year
David Newell (CGS 1973) — actor best known as Mr. McFeely on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
Ryan O'Shea — host and producer of WTAE-TV's 4 the 412
Beth Ostrosky — model, actress, and wife of Howard Stern
Barbara Paul (PhD) — writer
Ed Roberson (A&S 1970, faculty) — award-winning poet
Leo Robin (law degree) — composer and songwriter
Fred Rogers — host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Zelda Rubinstein — actress best known for Poltergeist, earned bachelor's degree in bacteriology
Justin Sane (A&S 1998) — singer, guitarist of punk band Anti-Flag
Gerald Stern (BA, English) — National Book Award-winning poet
Bill Strickland — founder of Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, an agency that inspires teenagers through the arts; board member of the National Endowment for the Arts; awarded the MacArthur prize
Benjamin Tatar (Bachelor's degree in English and drama) — actor
Regis Toomey (A&S 1921) — Hollywood film and television actor who appeared in over 180 films
Jerome "Jero" White — Japanese pop artist known for a fusion of hip hop and enka
August Wilson (honorary, Board of Trustees member) — 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who wrote about the African-American experience in the 20th century
Wang Xiaobo (MS) — one of the most influential Chinese thinkers since the 1980s
Justin Honard (AS) — (otherwise known as Alaska 5000) drag performer, musician, and winner of RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars
Steven Adams — NBA starting center for the Oklahoma City Thunder
Kevan Barlow — NFL football player for the San Francisco 49ers
DeJuan Blair — power forward for the Dallas Mavericks; consensus first-team basketball All-American in 2008–09
Matthew Bloom — professional wrestler and San Diego Chargers football player
Gilbert Brown (born 1987) - basketball player for Ironi Nahariya of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Antonio Bryant — wide receiver for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Fred Biletnikoff Award winner
Clifford Carlson — Pitt basketball head coach, two national championships and one Final Four team ("Doc" Carlson also received the MD from Pitt)
Murray Chass (A&S 1960) — award-winning baseball journalist for The New York Times
Jason Conti — Major League Baseball player
Myron Cope — Hall of Fame Steelers broadcaster
Mark Cuban — owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA franchise
Mike Ditka — football player for Pitt and Chicago Bears, NFL coach, broadcaster, member of Pro Football Hall of Fame
Tony Dorsett — member of Pro Football Hall of Fame; Heisman Trophy, Maxwell Award, and Walter Camp Award winner
Herb Douglas (Edu. 1948, 1950G) — bronze medalist in the long jump at 1948 Summer Olympics
Larry Fitzgerald — wide receiver for the Arizona Cardinals, Walter Camp Award and Fred Biletnikoff Award winner
Joe Flacco — quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens, Super Bowl XLVII MVP
Bill Fralic — Atlanta Falcons offensive lineman, member of College Football Hall of Fame
Marshall Goldberg — All-Pro Chicago Cardinals defensive back, member of College Football Hall of Fame
Aaron Gray — center for the NBA's Detroit Pistons
Hugh Green — pro football player; Lombardi Award, Maxwell Award, and Walter Camp Award winner
Bobby Grier — Pitt football player and first African-American to play in the Sugar Bowl
Art Griggs — Major League Baseball player
Russ Grimm — four-time Super Bowl-winning offensive lineman with the Washington Redskins, assistant head coach of the Arizona Cardinals
Don Hennon — two-time All-American basketball guard and Helms Foundation Basketball Hall of Fame inductee
Dick Hoblitzel — Major League Baseball player for Cincinnati Reds and Boston Red Sox, MVP for the Reds
Hal Hunter — football coach
John Huzvar — football player
Chuck Hyatt — three-time basketball All-American (1927–1930) under Coach Doc Carlson, inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame
Russ Kemmerer — Major League Baseball player
Roger Kingdom (CGS 2002) — sprinter and hurdler, two-time Olympic gold medalist, former 110m high hurdles world record holder
Billy Knight — ABA and NBA basketball player, GM of the Atlanta Hawks
Andy Lee, football punter for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League
Bill Maas — defensive tackle for the Kansas City Chiefs and Green Bay Packers
Ken Macha — Major League Baseball player and manager
Bob Malloy — Major League Baseball pitcher
Dan Marino — member of Pro Football Hall of Fame
Curtis Martin — pro football running back, fourth leading rusher of all time
Mark May — ESPN sports commentator, football player, Outland Trophy winner
LeSean McCoy — running back for the Buffalo Bills
George "Doc" Medich — Major League Baseball player
Johnny Miljus — Major League Baseball player
Sean Miller — basketball player at Pitt and head basketball coach at the Arizona
Stan Olejniczak — football player
Bill Osborn (CGS 1989) — pro footballer, scout and color analyst
Cumberland Posey (Pharm. 1915) — member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, player, manager, and team owner in the Negro leagues, as well as a star professional basketball player and team owner.
Darrelle Revis — defensive back for the New York Jets
Richard Rydze (Mpd 1975) — Olympic silver medalist in the diving at the 1972 Summer Olympics, men's 10 meter platform
Joe Schmidt — head coach of the Detroit Lions from 1967 to 1973
Marty Schottenheimer — NFL head coach
Jackie Sherrill — head football coach at Pitt from 1977 to 1981
Trecia-Kaye Smith — long jump and triple jump, seven-time NCAA national champion, 15-time All-American, 4 national indoor titles, 2004 Olympics fourth place, 2007 IAFF Champion, named to the USTF Silver Anniversary Team in 2007
Shawntae Spencer — defensive back for the San Francisco 49ers
LaRod Stephens-Howling — running back and special teams player for the Arizona Cardinals
Sal Sunseri — pro football coach
Jock Sutherland — Hall of Fame football coach, All-American football player; Pitt Professor of Dentistry
Steve Swetonic — Major League Baseball player
Joe Walton — head coach of the New York Jets from 1983 to 1989
Dave Wannstedt — coach for several NFL and college teams, including the University of Pittsburgh
John Woodruff (Col. 1939) — gold medalist in the 800 meters at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Sam Young — small forward for the Indiana Pacers; 2008 Big East Tournament MVP
Walter Arnheim — Mobil Oil executive, corporate and non-profit advisor
Susan Arnold (MBA, Katz 1980) — Vice Chairman of P&G, ranked 10th among the 50 most powerful women in business by Fortune
George Barco (Law 1934) — cable television executive who played a key role in development of the industry
Yolanda Barco (1949) — cable television executive
Erik Buell (ENGR 1979) — engineer, founder and chairman of Buell Motorcycle Company, a subsidiary of Harley-Davidson
Marc Chandler (MPIA, GSPIA 1985) — foreign exchange market analyst, writer, and speaker
George Hubbard Clapp (Ph.B. Col. 1877) — aluminium industry pioneer
Pat Croce (SHRS 1977) — entrepreneur, author, TV personality, and former president of the Philadelphia 76ers
William S. Dietrich II (A&S 1980G, 1984G) — industrialist and philanthropist
Ning Gaoning (MBA, Katz 1985) — Chairman of COFCO International Limited, 2009 CNBC Asia Pacific's Asia Business Leader of the Year
Frances Hesselbein (UPJ) — President and CEO of Leader to Leader Institute, former CEO for the Girl Scouts of the USA, and Presidential Medal of Freedom winner
Dawne Hickton (1983 JD degree, school of law) — Vice Chair, President, CEO of RTI International Metals
Kevin March (CGS 1983, MBA 1984) — CFO and Senior Vice-President of Texas Instruments
Andrew W. Mellon (1874) — banker, philanthropist, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, university trustee, donor, and founder of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research
Richard B. Mellon (1876) — Banker, philanthropist, university trustee, donor, and founder of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research
Thomas Mellon (Col. 1837) — founder of Mellon Financial, judge
Larry Merlo — (Pharm BS 1978) — President and CEO of CVS Health
Arturo C. Porzecanski (MA 1974, PhD 1975) — 2005 Legacy Laureate, economist and pioneer in emerging markets research on Wall Street, and former Chief Economist for emerging markets at ABN AMRO
Al Primo (A&S 1958) — television news executive who was credited with creating the "Eyewitness News" format
Art Rooney II (A&S 1978) — president and co-owner of the NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers
Brent Saunders (A&S, UCIS 1992) — CEO of Bausch & Lomb; former President of Schering-Plough Healthcare Products
Kevin W. Sharer (MBA, Katz 1983) — Chairman of Amgen
Jagdish Sheth (MBA 1962, PhD 1966) — internationally recognized business consultant, author and educator
Raymond W. Smith (MBA 1969) — Chairman of the private equity firm Arlington Capital Partners; retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bell Atlantic (now Verizon)
Sung Won Sohn — member of Council of Economic Advisers during the Nixon administration
John A. Swanson (ENGR PhD 1966) — founder and retired President of ANSYS, a leading innovator of finite element simulation software and technologies designed to optimize product development processes; winner of the John Fritz Medal in engineering
Burton Tansky — President and Chief Executive Officer, The Neiman Marcus Group, Inc.
David Tepper (A&S 1978) — speculator, hedge fund manager; gave naming donation to Tepper School of Business
Dennis Unkovic (1973) — international business advisor, partner at Meyer, Unkovic & Scott; author of six books
Thomas Usher (undergraduate, master's and Ph.D degrees) — Chairman of U.S. Steel and Marathon Oil; Director of the Extra Mile Education Foundation and Boy Scouts of America
Tung Chao Yung — Chinese shipping magnate, founder of the Orient Overseas Line (now OOCL), and owner of the largest ship ever built
Bowman Foster Ashe (BS 1910, faculty) — first president of the University of Miami, Florida
Stanley F. Battle (M.P.H. 1979, Ph.D 1980) — educator, author, civic activist and former leader of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Coppin State University and Southern Connecticut State University
Steven C. Beering — President Emeritus, Purdue University and former Dean of the Indiana University School of Medicine
Todd H. Bullard — former president of Potomac State College and Bethany College
Carol A. Cartwright — President of Kent State University 1991-2006
Paul Russell Cutright — American historian and biologist
Adam Herbert — President of Indiana University
Young Woo Kang (EDUC 1973G, 1976G) — special education expert; author; former policy advisor of the National Council on Disability
Ambrose King (Yeo-Chi King) — former vice-chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jacqueline Liebergott — President of Emerson College
Michael Lovell (ENGR 1989, 1991, 1994) — former chancellor of University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, President of Marquette University
Barry McCarty — former President of Cincinnati Christian University and national radio host
Jay F. W. Pearson (AB, MA, faculty) — former President of the University of Miami
M. Richard Rose — former President of Alfred University and the Rochester Institute of Technology
Brian Segal (Social Work 1971) — publisher and former President of Ryerson Polytechnical Institute and the University of Guelph
Michael Slinger — Director of Law Library at Widener Law, former President of ALL-SIS and Ohio Regional Association of Law Libraries
Leonard Baker (A&S 1952) — Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer
Paul Russell Cutright (PhD, faculty) — American historian and biologist
Gust Avrakotos (A&S 1962) — CIA agent responsible for arming the Afghan mujaheddin in the 1980s
Samuel W. Black (A&S 1834) — Colonel, hero of the Mexican and Civil wars
Jack E. Foley (A&S 1946) — World War II Captain in Easy Company of the 101st Airborne Division portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers
Patricia Horoho (NURS 1992G) — the United States Army's 43rd Surgeon General and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Medical Command
Roscoe Robinson, Jr. (GSPIA 1965) — first African-American four-star General
James Martinus Schoonmaker — Civil War Medal of Honor winner
Joseph "Colonel Joe" H. Thompson (Col. 1905, Law 1908) — Medal of Honor recipient and College Football Hall of Fame inductee
Boyd Wagner (Eng 1938) — first United States Army Air Forces fighter ace of World War II; Distinguished Service Cross recipient
Nancy Cartwright (A&S 1966) — MacArthur Fellowship-winning philosopher noted for her work in philosophy of science, philosophy of economics, and philosophy of physics
Patricia Churchland (MA 1966) — 1991 MacArthur Prize-winning philosopher noted for her work in philosophy of mind and neurophilosophy; associated with a school of thought called eliminativism or eliminative materialism
Sandra Mitchell (PhD 1987, faculty) — professor and chair of the department of History and Philosophy of Science
Holmes Rolston III (MS A&S 1968) — Templeton Prize-winning philosopher best known for his contributions to environmental ethics and the relationship between science and religion
Ernest Sosa (PhD 1964) — international leader in virtue epistemology, inaugural winner of the Rescher Prize in Philosophy
Politics, law, and activism
Ruggero J. Aldisert — Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; adjunct professor at University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Eugene Atkinson — Member of the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
Gust Avrakotos — case officer and division chief for the CIA; best known for the massive arming of Afghan Mujahideen in the 1980s in the Soviet war in Afghanistan, chronicled in the book Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History by George Crile
Max Baer (A&S 1971) — Justice on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (2003–present)
Derrick Bell (Law 1957) — law professor, first tenured black professor at Harvard Law School, dean of U. of Oregon Law School
Michael Bilirakis — Republican member of the United States House of Representatives
Samuel W. Black (A&S 1834) — seventh Governor of the Nebraska Territory
Frank Buchanan— Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives and Mayor of McKeesport, Pennsylvania (1924–1928 and 1931–1942)
Joseph Buffington (Col 1825) — a two-term Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Linda Drane Burdick (A&S 1986, Law 1989) — Chief Assistant State Attorney at the Orange and Osceola County State Attorney's Office in Orlando, Florida; lead prosecutor on the State of Florida vs. Casey Anthony case
Ralph J. Cappy (A&S 1965, Law 1968) — Justice (1990–2008) and Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (2003–2008)
Ben Cardin (A&S 1964) — United States Senator from Maryland
Omri Ceren (A&S 2004) — political blogger
Steven Choi (SIS 1976G) — mayor of Irvine, California (2012-present)
Earl Chudoff (1932) — U.S. Representative (1949–1958)
Robert J. Cindrich (Law 1968) — former US attorney and US District judge
David I. Cleland (A&S 1954, KGSB 1958, faculty) — engineer and educator; the "Father of Project Management"
Bill Cobey (EDU 1968G) — former U.S. representative from North Carolina's 4th congressional district, director of the Jesse Helms Center
Robert J. Corbett — Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
William Corbett (A&S 1924, Law 1927) — former acting governor of Guam
Father James Cox — U.S. presidential candidate in 1932 and labor activist
Adrian Cronauer (A&S 1959) — disc jockey, attorney, activist, basis for the movie Good Morning, Vietnam; helped to found the WPGH AM radio station
Cornelius Darragh — (Col. 1826) — United States district attorney for the western district of Pennsylvania, abolitionist, and a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Harmar D. Denny, Jr. (1911) — U.S. Representative (1951–1953)
Patrick R. Donahoe — United States Postmaster General
James H. Duff (1907) — Pennsylvania Governor (1947–1951), U.S. Senator (1951–1957)
Harry Allison Estep (1913) — U.S. Representative (1927–1933)
Tom Feeney (law degree) — U.S. representative
Jay Fisette (GSPIA 1983) — member of Arlington County, Virginia's Board of Supervisors
David Frederick — appellate attorney who has argued twenty-one cases in the Supreme Court of the United States
George Otto Gey (A&S 1921, faculty) — scientist who first propagated the HeLa cell line
George W. Guthrie (1866) — Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1906 to 1909 and United States Ambassador to Japan
Melissa Hart (law degree) — U.S. representative
Orrin Hatch (law degree) — U.S. senator
Janice M. Holder (A&S 1971) — first woman Chief Justice of Tennessee
Mark R. Hornak (EDU 1978, Law 1981) — Judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
Frank Houben — Dutch provincial governor
K. Leroy Irvis (Law 1954) — Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives; first African American Speaker of the House of any U.S. state legislature since reconstruction
William W. Irwin (Col 1824) — Mayor of Pittsburgh and a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
Mahmoud Jibril (MA 1980, PhD 1985) — Head of the Executive Team (Interim Prime Minister) of the newly formed National Transitional Council of the Libyan Republic
Judith Krug (A&S 1962) — librarian and anti-censorship activist who co-founded Banned Books Week
William Lerach (undergraduate and law degree) — securities class-action lawyer; leading attorney in corporate and securities litigation cases including Enron, WorldCom and AOL/Time Warner
Roozbeh Aliabadi (MPIA 2008) — Advisor to Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Iran and Political Commentator
Walter H. Lowrie (Col 1826, faculty 1846-1851) — chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Wangari Maathai — 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner
Christopher Lyman Magee (1864) — powerful 19th-century Pittsburgh political boss
Wilson McCandless (Col 1826) — United States federal judge and candidate for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency of the United States
Samuel J. R. McMillan (Col 1846) — Republican U.S. Senator from Minnesota
Andrew W. Mellon (1874) — longest serving U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1921–1932), banker, and philanthropist
Dalia Mogahed (KGSB 2004) — Muslim scholar
Jim Moran — Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives
Clayton Morris (1999) — co-anchor of Fox and Friends on the Fox News Channel
John Murtha (CAS 1961) — U.S. representative, 1974-2010
Susan Richard Nelson (Law 1978) — Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota
Dan Onorato (Law 1989) — Chief Executive of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania and former Democratic nominee for Governor of Pennsylvania
Ralph Pampena (M.S. in Public Administration) — Pittsburgh Police Chief, 1987-1990
David A. Reed (1903) — U.S. Senator (1922–1935)
James Hay Reed (A.M. 1872) — lawyer and U.S. federal judge
Rick Santorum (MBA) — U.S. Senator
Richard Mellon Scaife (A&S 1957) — conservative activist, newspaper publisher, philanthropist
Elmer Eric Schattschneider — political scientist
Bud Shuster (A&S 1954) — Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania (1973–2001)
Richard M. Simpson — Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
Edgar Snyder (1966) — prominent personal injury attorney, Pennsylvania "Super Lawyer"
Jon Soltz (GSPIA 2010) — chairman and co-founder of VoteVets.org
Wilkins F. Tannehill (Academy student) — author, Whig politician, and first mayor of Nashville, Tennessee
Richard Thornburgh (law degree) — U.S. Attorney General, Governor of Pennsylvania
Harve Tibbott — Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
Tshering Tobgay (ENGR 1990) — Prime Minister of Bhutan (2013–present)
Debra Todd (Law 1982) — Justice on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (2007–present)
James A. Traficant Jr. — convicted U.S. representative from Ohio
Aliyu Wamakko - former governor of Sokoto State in Nigeria (2007-2015)
William Wilkins — student in the Pittsburgh Academy (forerunner to Pitt), United States Senator (1831–1834); minister to Russia (1834–35); Secretary of War (1844–45)
James A. Wright (1927) — U.S. Representative (1941–1945)
Albert Wynn (A&S 1973) — Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives
Joseph "Chip" Yablonski (1965) — attorney, NFL Players Association; son of murdered labor leader Joseph Yablonski
Young Woo Kang (master's and Ph.D degrees) — member of National Council On Disability
Chris Zurawsky (A&S 1987, GSPIA 2005) — journalist; Director of Communications and Public Affairs for the Association of American Cancer Institutes; political candidate
Science, medicine, and technology
Harry Bisel (MD 1942) — pioneering medical oncologist, founding member of American Association of Clinical Oncology, American Society of Preventative Oncology and American Association for Cancer Education
Christine L. Borgman (SIS 1974) — information sciences scholar
Herbert Boyer (PhD) — biochemist; 1990 recipient of the National Medal of Science; co-founder of Genentech
Jane A. Cauley (MPH 1980, DrPH 1983) — epidemiologist, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
John Choma (ENGR 1963, 1964, MS 1965, PHD 1969) — Professor and Chair of Electrical Engineering-Electrophysics at the University of Southern California
Bob Colwell (ENGR 1977) — electrical engineer who was the chief architect on the Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, and Pentium 4 microprocessors
Sidney Dancoff (MS 1936) — theoretical physicist best known for the Tamm–Dancoff approximation method and for nearly developing a renormalization method for solving quantum electrodynamics
Lee Davenport (MS 1940, PhD 1946) — physicist responsible for the development and deployment of the SCR-584 radar system in World War II
Catherine D. DeAngelis (MD 1969) — pediatrician; medical educator; first woman editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association
G. Michael Deeb (A&S 1971, MD 1975) — cardiothoracic surgeon, Herbert Sloan Collegiate Professor of Surgery, and Director of the Multidisciplinary Aortic Clinic at the University of Michigan Medical Center
Emilio del Valle Escalante (PhD 2004) — professor of Latin American/indigenous literature, culture and social movements at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bernard Fisher (MD, faculty) — pioneer breast cancer researcher
Patrick D. Gallagher (MS 1987, PhD 1991) — physicist and the 14th director of the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology
Kevin Guskiewicz (MS EDUC 1992) — sports medicine scholar and MacArthur "Genius" Fellow; among the first to identify the long-term threats to athletes of multiple concussions
David Halliday (A&S 1938, MS 1939, PhD 1941) — physicist widely known for his physics textbooks, Physics and Fundamentals of Physics
Jacob Pieter Den Hartog (PhD 1929) — Timoshenko Medal winner for distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics
Philip Hench (Med 1920) — 1950 Nobel Prize co-winner in medicine with Mayo Clinic colleague Dr. Kendall, for his work on adrenal cortex hormones
Norman H Horowitz (A&S 1936) — geneticist, worked on genome organization and tests for the famous one gene-one enzyme hypothesis, and space scientist for the Mariner and Viking missions to Mars
Abul Hussam (PhD Chem 1982) — inventor of Sono arsenic filter
William Kelly — metallurgy graduate, industrialist and independent developer of the Bessemer process
Ravindra Khattree (PhD) — statistician; of Fountain-Khattree-Peddada Theorem fame; author/editor of several books
Charles Glen King (MS 1920, PhD 1923, faculty) — biochemist noted for isolating vitamin C
Paul Lauterbur (PhD) — 2003 Nobel Prize winner in medicine for his invention of the MRI machine
Benjamin Lee (MS) — elementary particle physicist and head of the Theoretical Physics Department at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Bert W. O'Malley (A&S 1959, Med 1963) — molecular endocrinologist and 2008 National Medal of Science laureate
Bennet Omalu (MPH 2004) — pathologist noted for his discovery of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in football players while at Pitt
Emily Rice - astronomy professor at the City University of New York
Washington Roebling (attended in ?-1849, not a graduate) — civil engineer best known for his work on the Brooklyn Bridge
John Wistar Simpson (MS) — pioneer in nuclear energy; recipient of the Edison Medal
Rebecca Skloot (MFA) — a freelance science writer and best selling author who specializes in science and medicine.
Jesse Leonard Steinfeld (BS) — Surgeon General of the United States from 1969 to 1973
Lap-chee Tsui (PhD) — geneticist who identified the defective gene that causes cystic fibrosis; president of HUGO, the international organization of scientists involved in the Human Genome Project; former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong
William E. Wallace (PhD Chem 1941 & faculty) — physical chemist and Guggenheim Fellow who worked on the Manhattan Project
Edward J. Wasp (A&S MS 1962) — Elmer A. Sperry Award-winning engineer and inventor known for developing long distance slurry pipelines
Cyril Wecht (A&S 1952, Med 1956, LLB 1962, faculty) — nationally renowned, controversial forensic pathologist
Jerome Wolken (BS 1946, MS 1948, Ph.D. 1949) — biophysicist
Wu Yundong (PhD 1986) — theoretical organic chemist
Nancy Zahniser (PhD 1977) — pharmacologist
Vladimir Zworykin (A&S PhD 1926) — inventor, engineer, and pioneer of television technology, sometimes called the "Father of Television"
Marie Hochmuth Nichols (BS, MS GAS 1936) — influential rhetorical critic
Charles D. Provan (student, never graduated) — author of controversial books and articles on Christian topics and holocaust denial
Harry K. Thaw — murderer and son of coal and railroad baron William Thaw (never graduated)
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