List of Texas Tech University people

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The following is a list of encyclopedic people associated with Texas Tech University.

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[edit] Notable faculty

  • Rodolfo Arredondo Jr., member of the Advisory Committee to the White House Conference on Aging
  • M.M. Ayoub, a pioneer in the field of ergonomics
  • Donna Bacchi, director of the Center for Tobacco Prevention and Control, president of the Texas American Heart Association.
  • B.B. Bell, US Army general, formerly a Texas Tech ROTC instructor
  • Thomas Butler, professor who lost samples of the bacteria that causes bubonic plague in 2003 [1]
  • Sankar Chatterjee, a well-known paleontologist
  • J. William Davis, Prof. of Government and departmental chairman, author of NCAA Letter Of Intent (1964), Southwest Conference president 1969-1970, and NCAA vice-president, 1967.
  • Michael Dini, professor requiring acceptance of evolution to obtain his recommendation
  • Timothy Floyd, defender of Gulf War veteran Louis Jones, Jr.
  • Larry Hays, head baseball coach
  • William Curry Holden, archaeologist and historian
  • Shelby D. Hunt, prized marketing professor
  • Stephen Graham Jones, Blackfeet author
  • Bobby Knight, Hall of Fame head men's basketball coach
  • Mike Leach, head football coach
  • Walter McDonald, poet and former Texas Poet Laureate
  • Kishor C. Mehta, Tech's first member of the National Academy of Engineering
  • E. Roland Menzel, director of the Center for Forensic Studies
  • Grover E. Murray, Tech President 1966-1976
  • Glen Provost, member of the Advisory Committee to the White House Conference on Aging
  • Gabor B. Racz[2] MD, FIPP, Pioneer in the treatment of Chronic Pain.
  • Dr. Robert Ricketts, accounting and tax policy; candidate for United States House of Representatives in Texas' 19th district
  • Marsha Sharp, former head women's basketball coach (a new freeway running through the center of Lubbock will be named in her honor upon completion; this designation was made before her announced retirement in 2006)
  • Jimmy Smith, Director of the Murdough Center for Engineering Professionalism
  • Mary Jeanne van Appledorn, composer
  • Peter H. Westfall, James and Marguerite Niver and Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Statistics, Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association, 1997.
  • Michael Gelfond, co-creator of the A-Prolog programming language, which is widely used for artificial intelligence in Europe.
  • Robert J. Freeman, former Vice Chairman of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board

[edit] Notable alumni

[edit] Athletics

[edit] Arts and media

[edit] Business

[edit] Education, science and technology

[edit] Law, politics, and government

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