List of Rice University people
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This is a list of encyclopedic people associated with Rice University in the United States of America.
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[edit] Presidents
- Edgar Odell Lovett
- William V. Houston
- Kenneth Pitzer
- Norman Hackerman
- George Rupp
- Malcom Gillis
- David Leebron
[edit] Nobel laureates
- Robert Curl, 1954, awarded 1996 in chemistry for the discovery of fullerenes
- Richard Smalley, awarded 1996 in chemistry for the discovery of fullerenes
- Robert Woodrow Wilson, 1957, awarded 1978 in physics for the discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation
[edit] Notable faculty
- Sid Burrus
- Edward Djerejian
- Franklin Chang-Diaz
- J. Dennis Huston
- Ken Kennedy '67 (see "Notable alumni')
- Stephen Klineberg
- Neal Lane
- Bob Stein
- Earl Black
- Richard Tapia
- Bill Wilson
[edit] Notable alumni
[edit] Architecture
- Charles Renfro (BA 1987, BArch 1989) of Diller Scofidio + Renfro
[edit] Education
- Nancy Cole, 1964, educational psychologist.
[edit] Government & politics
- Bill Archer (attended), United States Congressman
- Mitch Bainwol, 1983, former chair, Republican National Committee
- George P. Bush, 1999, son of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, grandson of former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, nephew of current U.S. President George W. Bush
- Karen Padgett Davis, 1965, president of the Commonwealth Fund
- Charles Duncan, 1947, U.S. Secretary of Energy (1979-1981)
- Alberto Gonzales, 1979, U.S. Attorney General
- George Greanias, 1970, former City Controller and former City Council member, Houston; playwright
- William P. Hobby, Jr., Lieutenant Governor of Texas (1973-1991); former chancellor of the University of Houston system; former president and executive editor at The Houston Post
- John Kline, 1969, United States Congressman
- Michael S. Owen, 1973 U.S. Consul General in Mumbai, India
- William Luther Pierce, 1955, National Alliance founder
[edit] Business
- Karl ten Brink, 1937, former president, Texaco
- Garrett Boone, 1966, Founder and Chairman, The Container Store
- George R. Brown, 1920, founder, Brown and Root; he built it into the world's largest construction and engineering giant
- Tom Carter (1976), founder and CEO, TrellisWare Technologies
- Mark Dankberg (1976), founder and CEO, Viasat
- John Doerr, 1973, influential venture capitalist at Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield & Byers, CEO of Silicon Compilers and co-founder of the @Home Network, on the Board of Directors of Intuit, Amazon.com, PalmOne, Sun Microsystems, Google, and Segway, among others
- Dell Butcher, 1934, former president, American Commercial Lines
- Charles Duncan, 1947, former president, Coca-Cola; former Secretary of Energy under Jimmy Carter (1979 - 1981)
- Robert L. Clarke, 1963, Senior Partner of Bracewell & Patterson LLP; U.S. Comptroller of the Currency under Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush; consultant to the World Bank
- Steve Jackson (US), 1974, founder of Steve Jackson Games
- Terry Koonce, 1960, president of ExxonMobil
- Walter Loewenstern (1958), co-founder, ROLM
- Ken Oshman (1962), co-founder, ROLM
- Burton McMurtry, 1956, influential venture capitalist in the Silicon Valley, helped fund such ventures as Microsoft, Sun, Compaq, Adaptec, Altera, and Synopsys .
- Hector Ruiz, 1972, President and CEO of AMD
- William Vaughn, former president, Eastman Kodak
- Sam K. Reed, 1969, Chairman of Treehouse Foods, #2 in Illinois CEO pay in 2005 [link]
- Wylie Bernard Pieper, 1946, former president, Brown & Root
- Ken Kennedy, 1967, founder of Center for Research on Parallel Computation, the High Performance Fortran Forum; co-chair of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee with Bill Joy of Sun Microsystems
- James Treybig, 1963 and 1964, founder of Tandem Computers
- Charles Tandy, 1939, founder, chairman, president of Tandy Corporation
- James A. Fite, Jr., 1933, Former Coordinator of Credit Card Business for Exxon; helped lead the rescue of the crew of the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) in World War II.
[edit] Athletics
- Kenny Austin, 1983, NBA forward, Detroit Pistons, 1984
- Lance Berkman, 1997, All-Star Major League baseball player for Houston Astros
- Adi Bichman, 2001, Israeli freestyle and medley swimmer
- Marla Brumfield, 2000, WNBA guard, Minnesota Lynx 2000, Miami Sun 2001, Charlotte Sting 2003
- Norm Charlton, 1984, Major league baseball player
- José Cruz, Jr., 1993, Major league baseball player
- Earl Cooper, fullback, San Francisco 49ers, Super Bowl Champions 1981, 1984, appeared on Sports Ilustrated covers, Dec. 21, 1981 and Feb. 2, 1982 Pro Football Reference
- Buddy Dial, end, College Football Hall of Fame1993, All-Pro 1961, 1963
- Michael Downs, defensive back, Dallas Cowboys 1981-88
- Darryl Grant, defensive tackle, Washington Redskins, Super Bowl Champions 1982, 1987
- Fred Hansen, 1963, gold medalist in pole vault at 1964 Olympics
- King Hill, quarterback, Pro Football Reference
- Weldon Humble, guard, College Football Hall of Fame 1961
- Tommy Kramer, NFL quarterback, named to Pro Bowl while playing for the Minnesota Vikings.
- Larry Izzo, NFL linebacker/special teams player for the New England Patriots
- N.D. Kalu, NFL defensive end for the Houston Texans
- John McCauley, 10th selection in the first 1936 NFL Draft
- Heather McDermid, 1991, silver medalist in women's 8 at 1996 Olympics
- Dicky Maegle, 1954, halfback, inducted into Cotton Bowl Hall of Fame in 1998. In the 1954 Cotton Bowl, Maegle was tackled by Tommy Lewis from the Alabama sideline. and was awarded a 95-yard touchdown run. College Football Hall of Fame 1977
- Ricky Pierce, 1983, NBA guard, 1983-1998, NBA All-Star 1991, NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award 1987 and 1990.
- Tobin Rote, quarterback of 1957 NFL Champion Detroit Lions and 1963 AFL Champion San Diego Chargers
- Frank Beall Ryan, 1958, PhD 1965, NFL quarterback, textbook author, Yale athletic director, appeared on cover of Sports Illustrated, Jan. 4, 1965
- Harold Solomon, professional tennis player ranked as high as # 5 in the world
- Bill Wallace, halfback, College Football Hall of Fame1978, 28th selection in the first 1936 NFL Draft
- Mike Wilks, 2001, NBA guard 2002-Present, currently plays for the Seattle Supersonics
- James "Froggy" Williams, end, College Football Hall of Fame1965
- Patrick Dendy, NFL football player on Green Bay Packers.
[edit] History, literature, journalism, art & music
- Autin Bay, author and milblogger
- Ron Bozman, 1969, Executive Producer of The Silence of the Lambs, Beloved, and Philadelphia
- William Broyles, Jr., Founder of Texas Monthly, former editor in chief at Newsweek and screenwriter of Apollo 13, Cast Away, Unfaithful
- Carl P. Daw Jr., American Episcopalian priest and director of the Hymn Society, famed researcher and authority on sacred music.
- Carol Flake, 1969, founding editor of reborn Vanity Fair
- John Graves, 1942, Nature Writer
- Eva (Wydra) Hoffman, 1967, author Lost in Translation, Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews, The Secret, After Such Knowledge
- Mary Johnston, 1941, editor of Fortune, responsible for origination of the Fortune 500
- Larry McMurtry, 1960, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author, won Oscar for Brokeback Mountain screenplay
- Elizabeth Moon, 1968, author, The Deed of Paksenarrion, Winning Colors
- S. I. Morris, 1935, architect of Astrodome, Houston Public Library, One Houston Center, and Wortham Theater
- Steve Sailer, 1980, writer for The American Conservative and VDARE.com
- LeAnne Schreiber, 1967, first woman sports editor of a major daily (New York Times)
- Vivian Vahlberg, 1970, first woman president of the National Press Club
[edit] Radio, Television & film
- Candace Bushnell (attended), author of Sex and the City
- Howard Hughes (attended), Writer/Director/Producer/Actor/Aviator/Billionaire
- Prebble McLaughlin (faculty- swimming coach), radio personality
- Jamie Story, 2002, SRC, 2004 Miss Texas
[edit] Science & technology
- Dave Hyatt, browser developer at Netscape and Apple
- N. Wayne Hale, 1976, NASA Space Shuttle program manager
- James H. Newman, 1982 and 1984, NASA Astronaut
- Peggy Whitson, 1985 NASA Astronaut
- Shannon Walker, 1987,1992,1993 NASA Astronaut
