List of Brown University people

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The following is a partial list of notable Brown University people, known as Brunonians. It includes alumni, professors, and others associated with Brown University.

Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.

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[edit] Notable alumni

Note: "Class of" is used to denote the graduation class of individuals who attended Brown, but did not or have not graduated. When just the graduation year is noted, it is because it has not yet been determined which degree the individual earned.

[edit] Academia

David Schmittlein (A.B. 1977) Dean, MIT Sloan School of Management

[edit] Technology and innovation

  • Willis Adcock (Ph.D. 1948) — chemist, professor of electrical engineering, grew silicon boules for construction of the first silicon transistor at Texas Instruments
  • Brian Binnie (Sc. B. 1975, Sc. M. 1976) - test pilot, privately funded experimental spaceplane SpaceShipOne
  • John H. Crawford (1975) - chief architect, Intel386 and Intel486 microprocessors; co-managed the development of the Pentium microprocessor; Intel Fellow, Enterprise Platforms Group
  • James B. Garvin (Sc. B. 1978, Sc. M. 1981, Ph.D. 1984) - Chief Scientist, NASA Mars and lunar exploration programs
  • Lillian Moller Gilbreth (Ph.D. 1915) - one of the first working female engineers and is arguably the first true industrial/organizational psychologist. Mother of twelve children as described by the book Cheaper by the Dozen.
  • Herman B. Goldstein (1940) - developed permanent-press fabric treatment
  • Edwin Hart Ph.D. (1934) - known for contributions to radiation chemistry
  • Andy Hertzfeld (Sc. B. 1975) - key member of original Apple Macintosh development team; one of the primary software architects of the original Mac OS
  • Thomas O. Paine (A.B. 1942) - third NASA Administrator, oversaw first seven Apollo manned missions
  • Robert G. Parr (1942) - author of Density-Functional Theory of Atoms and Molecules
  • John Wilder Tukey (Sc. B. 1936, Sc. M. 1937) - co-developed the Cooley-Tukey fast Fourier transform algorithm; coined the terms bit, byte, software and cepstrum
  • Frank E. Winsor (Sc.B. 1892, A.M. 1896, Sc.D. 1929) Civil engineer, chief engineer for the Quabbin Reservoir project, the Scituate Reservoir project and Brown University Trustee
  • Randy Pausch (Sc.B. 1982) - Professor of Computer Science and Co-founder of The Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University; lecturer and best-selling writer, The Last Lecture

[edit] Government, law and public policy

[edit] Governors

[edit] Legislators

[edit] Mayors

[edit] Diplomats

[edit] Advisors

[edit] Activists

[edit] Jurists

Governor of New York (1907–1910); U.S. Secretary of State (1921–1925)

[edit] Business

[edit] Literature

[edit] Journalism

[edit] Performing arts

[edit] Music

[edit] Film

[edit] Television

[edit] Theater

[edit] Religion

[edit] Royalty

[edit] Visual arts

[edit] Athletics

[edit] Auto racing

  • Mark Donohue (1959) - professional racing driver, 1972 Indianapolis 500 champion, first to drive at Indy for record-setting car owner Roger Penske (1969), fatally injured in a crash in practice for the Formula One Austrian Grand Prix (1975), inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America and the International Motorsports Hall of Fame (1991)

[edit] Baseball

[edit] Football

[edit] Olympics

[edit] Swimming

  • Emrah Gultekin (1995) - Captain of the Turkish National Swimming Team

[edit] Other sports

[edit] Unclassified

[edit] Notable faculty

Visiting Professor of Africana Studies and Literary Arts
  • Susan Alcock - Archaeologist, MacArthur Award recipient
Professor of Classics, Director of the Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
  • Nancy Armstrong - literary critic and author of Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel
Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Comparative Literature, English, Modern Culture & Media, and Gender Studies
  • Thomas Banchoff - American mathematician specializing in geometry. He is very well known for his research in differential geometry in three and four dimensions.
Professor of Mathematics
  • David Berson - discovered third photoreceptor in the eye (in addition to rods and cones)
Professor of Medical Science, Associate Professor of Neuroscience
  • Tracy Breton - winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting
Visiting Professor of English
Professor-at-large of International Studies
Distinguished Visiting Fellow in International Relations
Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Professor of Physics
  • Robert Coover - post-modern writer, Spanking the Maid, The Origin of the Brunists; notable for his metafiction; electronic writing pioneer
T. B. Stowell University Professor, Adjunct Professor of English
Professor of English
  • Philip J. Davis - applied mathematician and philosopher of mathematics; co-author of The Mathematical Experience
Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics
Associate Professor of Community Health
  • John Donoghue (Ph.D. 1979) - founder of Cyberkinetics, a company that won FDA approval to test brain/robot interfaces (such as BrainGate) on humans
Professor and Chair of Neuroscience
  • David F. Duncan - epidemiologist and addictionologist, author of "Drugs and the Whole Person"
"Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine"
Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
Professor of English
Professor-at-large of Hispanic Studies
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Professor of English
  • James Head (Ph.D. 1969) - planetary geologist who trained Apollo astronauts and led imaging teams for NASA's interplanetary unmanned probes, from the Viking program to Mars
Louis and Elizabeth Scherck Distinguished Professor of Geological Sciences
  • Dwight B. Heath - anthropologist, foremost anthropological researcher and scholar in field of alcohol studies.
Research Professor of Anthropology
Professor-at-Large of International Studies
Professor of Anthropology
Provost, Paul Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Science, Professor of Anthropology, and Professor of Italian Studies
Senior Fellow in International Studies
  • Jaegwon Kim - philosopher of mind, action theorist, author of Mind in a Physical World
William Herbert Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy
  • J. Michael Kosterlitz - of The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition (Condensed Matter Physics)
Professor of Physics
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Professor-at-large of International Studies
  • George Lamming - Barbadian author, "In the Castle of My Skin", "Natives of My Person"
Visiting Professor of Africana Studies and Literary Arts
" Donald G. Millar Distinguished Professor of Alcohol and Addiction"
  • Glenn Loury - Once regarded as 'one of the most prominent black conservatives in the nation' now considered much more 'progressive.'
Professor of Economics
Professor of Biology
Professor of Applied Mathematics
Professor of Music (retired)
Professor of the History of Mathematics
  • David Pingree - Professor of the History of Mathematics and of Classics, MacArthur Fellow (1981)
  • William Poole - President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis (1998–Present); Served on Reagan's White House Council of Economic Advisors[3]
Herbert H. Goldberger Professor of Economics (1974–1998)
Professor of Classics and History
Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Modern Culture and Media
Professor of Mathematics
  • Ernest Sosa - philosopher, epistemologist
  • Leslie Thornton - experimental filmmaker, Peggy and Fred in Hell
Professor of Modern Culture and Media
Thomas J. Watson, Jr. University Professor of Technology and Education, Professor of Computer Science, former (and first) Vice President for Research
  • Paula Vogel - Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, How I Learned to Drive
Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of English
Visiting Senior Fellow in International Studies
  • Darrell West (political scientist) - John Hazen White Professor of Public Policy and Political Science and director of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy; author of Patrick Kennedy: The Rise to Power; Air Wars; Celebrity Politics, and Digital Government; developer of website, www.InsidePolitics.org
  • John Edgar Wideman - writer (two time PEN/Faulkner Award winner), Philadelphia Fire
Asa Messer Professor and Professor of Africana Studies and Literary Arts
Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History
Israel J. Kapstein Professor of English
  • Charles Larmore - political philosopher, formerly at Chicago Law School, famous for critique of Rawlsian liberalism. Winner of the Grand Prix de Philosophie, Academie Francais 2004
  • Roderick Chisholm (died 1999) - philosopher. He was the most notable logical positivist and foundationalist (epistemologian) in the latter half of the 20th century.

[edit] Presidents of Brown University

[edit] Trustees of Brown University

  • Frank E. Winsor (Ph.B. 1892, A.M. 1896, Sc.D. 1929) Civil Engineer
  • Alain J.P. Belda Chairman of the Board & CEO of Alcoa
  • Thomas W. Berry (A.B. 1969, Brown; M.B.A., Harvard Graduate School of Business) Investment Banker
  • Mark S. Blumenkranz (A.B., M.S. 1976, M.D. 1976, Brown) Chairman of Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford School of Medicine
  • Julie N. Brown
  • James J. Burke, Jr. (A.B. 1973, Brown; M.B.A. 1979, Harvard Graduate School of Business) Investment Banker, Stonington Partners
  • Spencer R. Crew (A.B. 1971, M.A. 1973, Ph.D. 1979, Brown) CEO, National Underground Railroad Center
  • Charles M. Davis (A.B. 1982) Chairman & CEO, Fandango
  • Cornelia Dean (A.B., magna cum laude, 1969, Brown; M.A. 1981, Boston University) Science Editor, New York Times
  • Katherine G. Farley (A.B. 1971, Brown; M.Arch. 1976, Harvard Graduate School of Design) Senior Managing Director, Tishman Speyer
  • Richard A. Friedman (A.B. 1979, Brown; M.B.A. 1981, University of Chicago) Co-Head of Merchant Banking, Goldman Sachs & Co.
  • Fredric B. Garonzik (A.B. 1964, Brown) Advisory Director, Goldman Sachs Group
  • Martin J. Granoff (L.H.D. Honoris causa 2006, Brown) Textile company owner
  • Cathy Frank Halstead (B.A., New York University) President, Sideny Frank Importing Co.
  • Galen V. Henderson (M.D. 1993, Brown) Professor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School
  • H. Anthony Ittleson (A.B. 1960, Brown) Chairman & President, The Ittleson Foundation
  • Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (Sc.B. 1992, Brown) Governor, Louisiana
  • Debra L. Lee (A.B. 1976, Brown; M.P.P. 1980, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; J.D. Harvard Law School) President & COO, BET Holdings, Inc.
  • Karen M. Levy (A.B., honors, Brown; J.D. 1977, New York University School of Law)
  • Matthew J. Mallow (A.B. 1964, Brown; J.D. 1967, New York University) Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
  • Samuel M. Mencoff (A.B. 1978, Brown) Partner, Madison Dearborn Partners, Inc.
  • Annette L. Nazareth (A.B. 1978, Brown) United States Securities & Exchange Commission commissioner
  • Jonathan M. Nelson (A.B. 1977, Brown) CEO, Providence Equity Partners, Inc.
  • Kenneth J. O'Keefe (A.B. 1976, Brown)
  • Theresia G. Ranzetta (A.B. 1990, Brown) Managing Partner, Accel Partners
  • Alison S. Ressler (A.B., magna cum laude, 1980, Brown; J.D. 1983, Columbia University Law School) Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell
  • Carmen Garcia Rodriguez (A.B. 1983, Brown; J.D. 1986, Columbia University School of Law)
  • Hannelore Rodriguez-Farrar (A.B. 1987, A.M. 1990, Brown) Ph.D. candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education
  • Ralph F. Rosenberg (A.B. 1986, Brown) Managing Partner, R6 Capital Management
  • Charles M. Royce (A.B. 1961, Brown; M.B.A. 1963, Columbia University) President & Chief Investment Officer, Royce & Associates, LLC
  • Eileen M. Rudden (A.B. 1972, Brown) Technology Sector Advisor
  • Joan Wernig Sorensen (A.B. 1972, Brown) Development and Public Relations
  • Laurinda H. Spear (B.F.A. 1972, Brown) Architect
  • Anita V. Spivey (A.B. 1974, Brown; J.D. Georgetown) Attorney
  • Barry S. Sternlicht (A.B., magna cum laude with honors, 1960, Brown; M.B.A., with distinction, Harvard Business School) Chairman & CEO, Starwood Capital Group
  • Marta Tienda (B.A. 1972, Michigan State University; Ph.D. 1977, University of Texas-Austin) Maurice P. During '22 Professor in Demographic Studies & Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
  • Thomas J. Tisch (A.B. 1976, Brown; J.D. 1979, New York University) Managing Partner, Four Partners
  • Ambassador William H. Twaddell (A.B. 1963, Brown)
  • Jerome C. Vascellaro (A.B. 1974, Brown; M.B.A., Harvard Business School) Partner, Texas Pacific Group
  • Peter S. Voss (A.B. 1968, Brown) Chairman & CEO, IXIS Asset Management Group
  • William P. Wood (A.B. 1978, Brown) Co-founder, Austin Ventures

[edit] Honoris Causa Laureates

[edit] Fictitious alumni and faculty

[edit] References

  1. ^ James MacAlister papers. Drexel University Archives and Special Collections (November 16, 2005). Retrieved on 2008-02-24.
  2. ^ {{cite web |url = http://web.princeton.edu/sites/amstudies/Shesolbio.htm |publisher = Program in American Studies at Princeton |accessdate = 2007-06-25 }
  3. ^ Bios - St. Louis Fed