List of Drexel University alumni

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This list of Drexel University alumni includes former undergraduate students and former graduate students. The 16th largest private university in the nation,^[1] Drexel University is made up of 10 colleges and 3 schools most of which serve both undergraduate and graduate students. There are 70 undergraduate degree programs, 77 master's programs, and 21 doctoral programs offered by the university.^[2] Degrees are available in areas from Engineering and Business to Culinary art and Music industry. Drexel began awarding undergraduate degrees in 1915, starting with the Bachelor of Science in engineering, prior to that Drexel granted diplomas in the field of enrollment. In 1931 Drexel began offering graduate degrees through the School of Home Economics.^[3] Since its founding in 1891 the university has had more than 100,000 alumni.^[4]

In 1991, the university's centennial anniversary, Drexel created an association called the Drexel 100, for living alumni who have demonstrated excellence in work, philanthropy, or public service.^[5] After the creation of the association 100 alumni were inducted in 1992 and since then the induction process has been on a biennial basis. In 2006 164 total alumni had been inducted into the association.^[6]

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness.

Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.

Contents 1 Business 2 Humanities 2.1 Architects 2.2 Arts and entertainment 2.3 Education 3 NASA 4 Politics and public service 5 Science and engineering 6 Sports 7 References

[edit] Business

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference
Ramani Ayer †	1973	CEO of Hartford Financial Services	[7][8]
Douglas Briggs †	1970	President and CEO of QVC	[9]
John C. Browne †	1965	Former Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory	[10]
Dominic Caruso	1980	Vice president of finance at Johnson & Johnson	[11]
Kenneth C. Dahlberg †	1967	CEO of SAIC and previously Executive Vice President of General Dynamics	[12]
Elaine Garzarelli †	1977	Financial analyst credited with predicting Black Monday, the stock market crash of 1987	[13]
Wayne Gattinella	1974	CEO of WebMD Health Corporation	[5]
Raj Gupta †	1972	Chairman, president and CEO of Rohm and Haas Company	[14]
Robert Hall †	1967	Publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News	[15]
Bennett S. LeBow †	1960	CEO of the Vector Group and Liggett Group	[16]
Jiang Mianheng	1991	Vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and co-founder of Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation	[17]
William Schleyer †	1973	Former CEO of the defunct Adelphia Communications Corporation	[18][19]
Harold Shaub †	1939	Former president and CEO of Campbell Soup Company	[20]
Steven Snyder	unknown	Former CEO of Net Perceptions	[21]
Anne Stevens	1980	2004 Forbes most powerful women in business	[22]

[edit] Humanities

[edit] Architects

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference
Juan M. de Guzmán Arellano	1911	Filipino architect	[23][24]
Douglas Ellington	1912	American architect known for his work in the Art Deco style and the first American to win the Rougevin prize	[25]
Rudolph Weaver	1905 1919	American architect, founding dean of 3 architecture schools and official architect for 2 universities and one state system of 3 universities	[26]

[edit] Arts and entertainment

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference
Chuck Barris †	1953	Entertainer; creator of The Gong Show	[27]
Howard Benson	1980	Grammy nominated music producer	[28]
Elizabeth Shippen Green	1894	Illustrator	[29]
Chris McKendry	1990	ESPN anchor and journalist	[30]
Honorable Earle I. Mack †	1959	Former U.S. ambassador to Finland, partner of The Mack Company, and award-winning film producer	[31]
Violet Oakley	1948	Artist	[32]
Maxfield Parrish	1894	Illustrator	[29]
Ray Sahelian, M.D.	1980	Author	[33]
Frank Schoonover	1896	Illustrator	[34][35]
Susan Seidelman †	1973	Filmmaker	[36][37]
Jessie Willcox Smith	1894	Illustrator	[29]
Corinne Trang	2003	Award-winning author of several Asian themed cookbooks	[38]
Stephen M. Wolownik	unknown	Pioneer in the Russian and Eastern European music community in the United States	[39]
Victoria Zdrok	1994	Model and sex columnist	[40]

[edit] Education

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference
Michael Behe	1974	Biochemist, professor, leading proponent of Intelligent Design, and a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture	[41]
George Campbell Jr. †	1968	President of The Cooper Union	[42]
Albert Carnesale †	1961	Chancellor of the University of California at Los Angeles	[43]
Eli Fromm †	1962 1964 (M.S.)	Award winning research professor in Engineering	[6]
Peter J. Liacouras †	1953	Former president of Temple University	[44]
Alia Sabur	2006	Child prodigy and the worlds youngest professor	[45]
Elizabeth Gray Vining †	1925	Former tutor to Emperor Akihito	[46]

[edit] NASA

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference
James P. Bagian †	1973	Astronaut, medical doctor, colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, and the pararescue flight surgeon for the 939th Air Rescue Wing	[47]
Christopher Ferguson	1984	American astronaut and pilot	[48]
Paul W. Richards	1987	American astronaut and mechanical engineer	[49]

[edit] Politics and public service

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference
Gary R. Chiusano	1973	New Jersey General Assembly assemblyman for the 24th legislative district	[50][51]
Ruth Hale	1916	Fought for women's rights in 1920s; member of the Algonquin Round Table	[52][53]
Honorable Earle I. Mack †	1959	Former U.S. ambassador to Finland, partner of The Mack Company, and award-winning film producer	[31]
William H. Milliken, Jr.	unknown	Former U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania	[54]
Peter Mafany Musonge	1967	Former prime minister of Cameroon	[9][55]
Arthur Raymond Randolph †	1966	Federal judge	[56]

[edit] Science and engineering

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference
Paul Baran †	1949	A founding father of the Internet and inventor of the airport metal detector	[57]
Walter Golaski	1946	Developer of the first practical artificial blood vessel replacements	[58]
John Gruber	unknown	Creator of the computer markup language Markdown and the website Daring Fireball	[59]
Jon Hall	1973	Open Source Developer and Advocate	[60]
Bruce E. Maryanoff †	1969	Medicinal and organic chemist responsible for the drug Topiramate	[61]
Bernard Silver	1947	Early developer of bar code technology with Norman Joseph Woodland	[62][63]
Norman Joseph Woodland †	1947	Inventor of bar code technology	[62][63]

[edit] Sports

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference
Michael Anderson	1988	NBA Player	[64]
Jim Casciano	1977	Head men's basketball coach at the New Jersey Institute of Technology	[65]
Travis Mohr	2004	Gold and Silver medal winner in swimming events at the 2004 Paralympic Games, and holds 3 world records	[66]
Jeff Parke	2003	Professional soccer player with the New York Red Bulls	[67][68]
Malik Rose	1996	NBA Player	[69][70]

† indicate membership in the Drexel 100^[6]

[edit] References

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