List of University of Iowa people
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[edit] Accomplished alumni
- Archie Alexander, first African-American graduate (in engineering); and, governor of the Virgin Islands
- B.J. Armstrong, former NBA point guard for the Chicago Bulls
- Tom Arnold, actor (Roseanne, True Lies) and host of Fox Sports Net's talk show, Best Damn Sports Show Period
- Bret Bielema, former football player and assistant coach. Now head coach of University of Wisconsin
- Mildred Benson, writer under penname Carolyn Keene of Nancy Drew books
- Chuck Blount, internationally syndicated newspaper poker columnist
- T.C. Boyle, PEN/Faulkner award-winning writer, World's End and Drop City
- Terry E. Branstad, Former Governor of Iowa, and longest-tenured Governor in the nation
- Terry Brands, Olympic Bronze medalist 2000 Olympic Games, Sydney, Australia
- Tom Brands, Olympic Gold Medalist 1996 Olympic Games Atlanta, Georgia.
- "Downtown" Freddie Brown, former NBA guard for the Seattle Supersonics where he was captain of the 1978-79 World Championship team.
- Robert Olen Butler Jr., Won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, among other literary awards
- Macdonald Carey, film and television actor (Days of our Lives)
- Elizabeth Catlett, Acclaimed painter who studied under Grant Wood and is the first African American woman to earn the MFA from the University of Iowa
- Marquis W. Childs, Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator
- Sandra Cisneros, author "The House on Mango Street"
- Dallas Clark, tight end for the NFL's Indianapolis Colts
- John Cochran, broadcast journalist and correspondent
- Norm Coleman, former Democratic mayor of St. Paul, now Junior Republican U.S. Senator of Minnesota.
- Max Allan Collins, Writer of the comic strip "Dick Tracy." (Chester Gould was the creator of the strip and Collins took over in 1977 when Gould retired.) Collins also writes mystery novels
- Sean Considine, Saftey for the Phildelphia Eagles.
- Michael Cunningham, award-winning American writer/novelist, best known for his Pulitzer Prize novel The Hours
- Paul Conrad, Former editorial cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1964, 1971, and 1984
- Francis X. Cretzmeyer, track and field coach 1948-1978, coached Ted Wheeler and Deacon Jones (1956 and 1960 Olympics)
- John Dalton, author of Heaven Lake
- Ellen Dolan, soap opera actress in Guiding Light and As the World Turns
- Martha Angle Dorsett, the first woman admitted to the Bar of Minnesota (in 1878)
- Rita Dove, 1993 Poet Laureate of the United States
- Duck's Breath Mystery Theater (Dan Coffey, Bill Allard, Merle Kessler, Leon Martrell, and Jim Turner), touring comedy troupe also featured on National Public Radio's All Things Considered
- Wayne Duke, Former and now retired Commissioner of the Big Ten Conference 1971-1989.
- Tim Dwight, NFL kick returner and occasional wide-receiver for the New York Jets.
- Cal Eldred, retired Major League Baseball pitcher who played for 14 years
- Simon Estes, bass baritone opera singer, formerly of the New York Metropolitan Opera
- R. William Field, Associate Professor, College of Public Health, University of Iowa
- John D. Freyer, artist and author of All My Life for Sale
- Robert Gallery, Offensive Tackle for the Oakland Raiders
- George Gallup, founder of the Gallup Poll
- Dennis Green, head coach of NFL's Arizona Cardinals
- Charles Guggenheim, A Washington, D.C.—based documentary filmmaker who has won three Academy Awards and been nominated for eight others
- Merton Hanks, former NFL defensive back (4-time Pro Bowl selection)
- Jay Hilgenberg, former NFL center for Chicago Bears (7-time Pro Bowl selection)
- Lou Holtz, assistant football coach (1960), only football coach in NCAA history to lead six different programs to bowl games
- Leo A. Hoegh, former Governor of Iowa and National Security Council member
- Chuck Horner, USAF General who commanded Coalition Air Forces during the Gulf War
- Mary Beth Hurt, actress in The World According to Garp and Interiors
- Toby Huss, actor, creator of Artie, the Strongest Man in the World from The Adventures of Pete and Pete which he created at No Shame Theatre at the university.
- Harvey Ingham, co-owner and editor of the Des Moines Register
- John Irving, writer, A Widow for One Year and The World According to Garp
- Al Jarreau, Grammy Award-winning vocalist
- Denis Johnson, author of Jesus' Son
- John Johnson, former NBA player on 1978-1979 Seattle SuperSonics championship team
- Deacon Jones, 1956 and 1960 Olympics, track and field
- Donald Justice, Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry
- Nate Kaeding, current NFL place kicker for the San Diego Chargers
- Harry Kalas, sportscaster and unmistakable voice of NFL Films
- Aaron Kampman, current NFL defensive end for the Green Bay Packers.
- Alex Karras, actor and football player
- Barry Kemp, producer of television programs Coach and Newhart (Hayden Fox, the title character of Coach, was named after Iowa football coach Hayden Fry)
- Tracy Kidder, Author of The Soul of a New Machine, Among Schoolchildren, House and Old Friends
- Kerry Killinger, chairman and CEO of Washington Mutual
- Nile Kinnick, Iowa's 1939 Heisman trophy winner with Iowa's Kinnick Stadium named for him in 1972.
- W.P. Kinsella, author whose works include Shoeless Joe, the book on which Field of Dreams was based
- William Lashner, author of Past Due and others
- E.F. Lindquist, co-founder of the ACT examination
- Chuck Long, football player and newly selected head football coach at San Diego State University
- Charles F. Lynch, Medical Director of the Iowa Cancer Registry
- John Walter Grant MacEwan, Western Canadian icon
- Richard W. Maibaum, author of over a dozen James Bond scripts
- Nicholas Meyer, director of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- Deane Montgomery, mathematician
- Greg Morris, actor played Barney Collier in original Mission Impossible TV Series
- Bharati Mukherjee, Bengali-American writer
- Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian freedom fighter, social reformer, politician
- Don Nelson, former NBA player for the Boston Celtics and coach for the Dallas Mavericks
- Kent Norman, Cognitive Psychologist and expert on computer rage
- Flannery O'Connor, Novelist and author of numerous short stories
- Chris Offutt, short story writer and essayist
- Kay A. Orr, first Republican woman Governor in the United States
- Ed Podolak, former NFL star with the Kansas City Chiefs
- Terry O'Quinn, star of movies and television including ABC's hit Lost
- Charles Ray, contemporary American artist
- Eddie Robinson, winningest coach in football history at Grambling State University from 1942 until 1997
- Reggie Roby, former NFL punter (3-time Pro Bowl Selection) for the Miami Dolphins
- Brandon Routh, actor, Superman Returns
- Coleen Rowley, shared 2002 Time "Person of the Year" award and was the FBI whistleblower who helped bring in terrorist suspect Zacarias Moussaoui, and issued a memo that exposed agency missteps leading up to September 11th. Now running for congress in Minnesota's 2nd district.
- Bob Sanders, starting safety for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League
- Wilbur L. Schramm, founder of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the Institute of Communications Research at Stanford University
- Jean Seberg, actress
- Joe Sharpnack, editorial cartoonist
- Jim Simmerman, poet, refused to perform the University's MFA poetry thesis reading requirement but still graduated, then stole and tore up his own MFA thesis from the library; founded the creative writing program at Northern Arizona University
- Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize winning American Novelist
- Mary Louise Smith, Former chair of the National Republican Committee, and former vice chair of the United States Commission on Civil Rights
- William De Witt Snodgrass, confessional poet and 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner
- Larry Station, two-time All-American football player
- Wallace Stegner, author
- Bob Stoops, football player and coach. Now head coach of the University of Oklahoma
- Mike Stoops, football player and coach. Now head coach of the University of Arizona
- Juanita Kidd Stout, First woman appointed as a federal judge; Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice
- Mark Strand, poet, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1999 for "A Blizzard of One"
- Andre Tippett, former NFL linebacker for the New England Patriots
- Oswald Veblen, mathematician
- Frank R. Wallace (pen name for Wallace Ward), 1957, enterpreneur, publisher, writer, and developer of the Neo-Tech philosophy
- Ted Waitt, founder of Gateway, Inc.
- Ted Wheeler, 1956 Olympics, track and field
- Gene Wilder, Comedic film and television actor whose credits include "Silver Streak," "Young Frankenstein," and "Stir Crazy."
- Tennessee Williams, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer
[edit] Notable faculty and administrators
Retired and former faculty
- Frank Conroy, author, former head of Iowa Writers' Workshop
- Philip Greeley Clapp, director of school of music 1919-53
- Antonio Damasio, neurologist, former M.W. Van Allen Professor and Head of Neurology 1989-2004, Director of USC Institute for the Neurological Study of Emotion and Creativity
- Paul Engle, poet and director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop for 24 years. Engle also founded the International Writing Program.
- Jorie Graham, alumna, Pulitzer Prize winning poet and MacArthur Fellow on the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop
- Walter Albert Jessup, president 1916-34
- Wendell A. Johnson, (1904-1965) former head of the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology; Pioneer in the field. See http://nicholasjohnson.org/wjohnson/
- Lester Longman, chairman of the art department 1936-58
- Edward C. Mabie, director of theatre arts 1925-56
- Harold McCarty, First chair of Dept. of Geography, pioneered regression analysis within economic geography
- J. Roger Porter, chair Dept. of Microbiology 1949-1977, internationally known microbiologist
- Wiley B. Rutledge, United States Supreme Court Justice; Dean of College of Law, 1935-1939
- Palagummi Sainath, visiting instructor in International Programs. An award winning Indian development journalist described as one of the world's greatest experts on famine and hunger.
- Carl Seashore, dean of the graduate college 1908-37
- James Van Allen, physicist and discoverer of two radiation belts (the Van Allen Belts) that surround the earth, Emeritus Carver Professor of Physics
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., American novelist and satirist, Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty 1965-66
- Grant Wood, American painter who painted American Gothic, instructor and director of WPA art projects
- Mauricio Lasansky, renowned printmaker, creator of The Nazi Drawings
- Steve Alford, Former men's basketball coach
Current notable faculty
- Nancy C. Andreasen, alumna and psychiatrist, 2000 National Medal of Science Recipient, Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry, Director of Mental Health Clinical Research Center
- Stephen Berry, 1993 Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting for a story he co-authored while at the Orlando Sentinel, associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication
- John M. Buatti, radiation oncologist, Professor and Head of Radiation Oncology
- Kevin Campbell, muscular dystrophy scientist, Investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Professor and Head of Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
- Keith Carter, ophthalmologist, Head of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- George De La Pena, actor, Associate Professor of Dance
- Bruce Jay Gantz, Head of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Brian F McCabe Distinguished Chair in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
- Kirk Ferentz, Iowa's Head football coach
- Matthew A. Howard, Head of Neurosurgery, Director of Human Brain Research Laboratory (HBRL)
- Nicholas Johnson, former FCC commissioner 1966-1973, U.S. Maritime Administrator. Professor, Department of Communication Studies and founding member of the Iowa Progressive Caucus.
- Douglas Jones, electronic voting reform expert and cofounder of the Open Voting Consortium, Professor of Computer Science
- David Klemm, philosophical theologist, Professor of Religious Studies
- Erik Lie, Associate Professor of Finance, Henry B. Tippie Research Fellow. Discovered the stock options backdating scandal
- James Alan McPherson, Pulitzer Prize winning author and MacArthur Fellow, faculty in the Iowa Writers' Workshop
- Marilynne Robinson, 2005 Pulitzer Prize winning author for Gilead: A Novel, faculty in the Iowa Writers' Workshop
- Michael M. Todd, Head of Anesthesiology, Editor-in-chief of the journal Anesthesiology
- David W. Murhammer, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
[edit] University of Iowa Presidents
- Amos Dean, 1855-59
- Silas Totten, 1859-62
- Oliver M. Spencer, 1862-67
- Acting President: Nathan Ransom Leonard, 1867-68
- James Black, 1868-70
- Acting President: Nathan Ransom Leonard, 1870-71
- George Thacher, 1871-77
- Acting President: Christian W. Slagle, 1877-78
- Josiah Little Pickard, 1878-87
- Charles Ashmead Schaeffer, 1887-98
- Acting President: Amos Noyes Currier, 1898-99
- George Edwin MacLean, 1899-1911
- John Gabbert Bowman, 1911-14
- Thomas Huston Macbride, 1914-16
- Walter Albert Jessup, 1916-34
- Eugene Allen Gilmore, 1934-40
- Acting President: Chester Arthur Phillips, 1940
- Virgil Melvin Hancher, 1940-64
- Howard Rothmann Bowen, 1964-69
- Willard L. Boyd., 1969-81
- Acting President: Duane C. Spriestersbach, 1981-82
- James O. Freedman, 1982-1987
- Acting President: Richard D. Remington, 1987-1988
- Hunter R. Rawlings III, 1988-1995
- Acting President: Peter E. Nathan, 1995
- Mary Sue Coleman, 1995-2002
- Interim President: Willard L. Boyd
- David J. Skorton, 2003-2006
- Interim President: Gary Fethke, 2006-present
