List of Indiana University (Bloomington) people
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This is a list of notable current and former faculty members, alumni, and non-graduating attendees of Indiana University (Bloomington) in Bloomington, Indiana.
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[edit] Notable Alumni
[edit] Academics
- Joseph C. Burke, former President of State University of New York at Plattsburgh, former Acting Chancellor of the State University of New York
- Keith Fitzgerald, political scientist
- Barbara Hicks, political scientist
- Metin Boşnak (BA in Comparative Literature, 1990), Turkish linguist and academic
- Elliot Sperling, Tibet scholar
[edit] Arts and Humanities
- Tony Aiello, broadcast journalist
- Ismail al-Faruqi, philosopher and epistemologist
- Howard Ashman, playwright and lyricist
- Radley Balko, journalist and writer
- Mike Barz, broadcast journalist
- Daniel Bourne poet
- Jan Harold Brunvand, American folklorist, one of the most well-known researchers and anthologists of urban legends. Earned PhD in folklore.
- Joe Buck, sportscaster, multiple Emmy Award winner
- Meg Cabot, author The Princess Diaries
- David Chalmers, leading philosopher in the area of philosophy of mind
- Robert Coover, author
- John Crowley, science fiction author, author of The Deep and Little, Big
- Alan Roger Currie, author, Mode One: Let The Women Know What You're REALLY Thinking
- Theodore Dreiser, author (flunked out)
- Michel duCille, photographer, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
- Dick Enberg, sportscaster, 13-time Emmy Award winner
- Scott Ferrall, sports talk radio host
- John M. Ford, poet and science fiction author
- Jennifer Grotz, award-winning poet
- Tom French, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, St. Petersburg Times
- Don Herold, author, humorist and illustrator
- Andreas Katsulas, actor
- Charles Kimbrough, actor
- Kevin Kline, Oscar-winning actor
- Ross Lockridge, Jr., author of Raintree County
- Bienvenido Lumbera, poet, critic, playwright, Ramon Magsaysay Award winner and National Artist of the Philippines
- Lee Majors, actor.
- John McKenzie, broadcast journalist
- Don Mellett, journalist, newspaper editor, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Gene Miller, journalist, editor, two time Pulitzer Prize winner
- Jane Pauley, broadcaster
- Ernie Pyle, journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1944
- Will Shortz, puzzle maker (enigmatologist)
- Tavis Smiley, National Public Radio and Public Television host
- Gary Snyder, poet and environmental activist, Pulitzer Prize winner (did not graduate)
- Brian Stack, actor, Late Night with Conan O'Brien
- Kevin Stein, poet laureate of Illinois
- Sage Steele, ESPN sports anchor
- Matthew Straw, Acclaimed independent journalist and author
- Jeri Taylor, screenwriter and television producer (Star Trek)
- Nancy Weaver Teichert, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter
- Michael Uslan, film producer (Batman)
- Herb Vigran, actor
- Clark Wissler, anthropology pioneer
- Ryan Murphy Golden Globe winning television producer (Nip/Tuck)
[edit] Business
- Joe Barnette, retired chairman and CEO of Bank One
- Steve Bellamy, media and sports entrepreneur, founder The Ski Channel and The Tennis Channel Television Networks
- John Bitove, Chairman & CEO of XM Canada, Priszm and Scott's REIT, founder Toronto Raptors(NBA)
- John Chambers, president and CEO of Cisco Systems
- Mark Cuban, technology entrepreneur, Dallas Mavericks owner
- William S. Dalton, current CEO of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
- Lance de Masi - President of the American University in Dubai
- Donald Fehr, managing director, Major League Baseball Players Association
- Jeff Fettig, CEO of Whirlpool Corporation
- Katherine Hudson, president and CEO of Brady Corporation
- E. W. Kelley, founder and former chairman of Steak 'n' Shake
- Harold Arthur Poling, retired chairman and CEO of Ford Motor Company
- Richard P. Rosenzweig, Senior Account Executive, Yahoo! Media Sales Yahoo! Inc.
- Frank Popoff, retired chairman and CEO of Dow Chemical Company
- Fred Steingraber, retired chairman and CEO of consulting company A.T. Kearney
- Kenneth Suzuki, association executive and editor
- Corey Torrence, president and CEO of marketing company Epsilon
- Todd Wagner, CEO of 2929 Entertainment; founder of Todd Wagner Foundation; co-founder of Broadcast.com
- Jimmy Wales, former CEO of Bomis, founder of Wikipedia, president of the Wikimedia Foundation (did not graduate)
- Madeline Rychel, business major, founder of Rychel & Co. Steel Industry
[edit] Music
- Thomas Walsh, tuba Munich Philharmonic
- Ariel Jewsef Kaplan, singer and songwriter
- Jamey Aebersold, jazz educator
- Emilie Autumn, gothic violinist and singer (dropped out after her sophomore year)
- Jason Bahr, composer
- David Baker, jazz composer
- Joshua Bell, violinist
- Chris Botti, jazz trumpeter
- Cary Boyce, composer
- Michael Brecker, jazz saxophonist
- Angela Brown, soprano
- Larry Brownlee, tenor
- Hoagy Carmichael, songwriter and actor, author of the songs "Stardust" and "Georgia on My Mind"
- John Clayton, jazz and classical bassist, composer and arranger
- Peter Erskine, jazz drummer and educator
- Vivica Genaux, mezzo soprano
- Tom Gullion, jazz saxophonist
- Jeff Hamilton, jazz drummer
- Booker T. Jones, songwriter, producer and frontman of the band Booker T. and the MGs
- Gordon Lee, jazz pianist, educator and composer
- Thomas Loewenheim, cellist
- Sylvia McNair, internationally acclaimed soprano
- Edgar Meyer, bassist, MacArthur Fellow
- William Preucil violinist, concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra
- Larry Ridley, jazz bassist and music educator
- Leonard Slatkin, composer and conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra until 2004
- Michael Sweeney, concert band and jazz composer
- Pharez Whitted, jazz trumpet and composer
- DaXun Zhang, classical double bassist
[edit] Politics/Government
- Paramvir Singh
- Selim al-Hoss, former Lebanese prime minister
- Michael Badnarik, 2004 US Presidential candidate
- Evan Bayh, US Senator, former governor of Indiana
- LeRoy Edgar Burney, former Surgeon General of the United States
- Dan Coats, former US Senator, former US ambassador to Germany
- Robert Gates, US Secretary of Defense, former CIA director and National Security Council member
- Lee H. Hamilton, JD'56, Homeland Security Advisory Council, co-chair of the Iraq Study Group, vice chair of the 9/11 Commission
- William E. Jenner, former US Senator
- Charles Peter Kennedy, British politician and Member of Parliament, former leader of the British Liberal Democrat party
- Richard Monroe Miles, former US ambassador to Georgia, Bulgaria, Serbia and Azerbaijan
- Frank O'Bannon, former governor of Indiana
- Paul O'Neill, former US Secretary of Treasury
- Rod Paige, former US Secretary of Education
- Newell Sanders, former US Senator
- Salman Shah, Caretaker Minister of Finance, Pakistan
- Edgar Whitcomb, former governor of Indiana
- Wendell Willkie, 1940 Republican presidential candidate
- Chase Herschman, Speech writer to His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales
- Shri Deepender Hooda, Member of Parliament, India
[edit] Science and Technology
- Carl Otto Lampland, astronomer
- Wardell Pomeroy, sexologist
- Vesto Slipher, astronomer
- J. B. Bushong, biologist
- John T. Thompson, military officer, supervised development of the M1903 Springfield rifle and the M1911 pistol, inventor of the Thompson submachine gun
- Mansukh C. Wani, cancer researcher, discoverer of Taxol
- David Wolf, astronaut, space shuttle, Mir and ISS veteran
- James D. Watson, co-discoverer of DNA structure, author of The Double Helix, winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
[edit] Sports
See Main Article: Indiana Hoosiers
[edit] Other
- Ward Cunningham, Created the first wiki. Attended a summer journalism class in 1965 [1]
- Jared Fogle, spokesman for Subway restaurants
- Jim Jones, Peoples Temple founder and cult leader (did not graduate) [2]
- Arturo J. Marcano Guevara, lawyer, author, baseball critic
- Jeff Sagarin, statistician and creator of the various Sagarin Rating Systems [3]
[edit] Notable faculty
[edit] Former notable faculty
- Myles Brand, former university president, current president of the NCAA
- Vikram Pandit, CEO Citigroup
- Yuri Bregel, a defector from the U.S.S.R. who became the pioneer of Central Asian Historical Studies in the West.
- Edward Alsworth Ross, sociologist, educator, and President of the American Sociological Society who crusaded against unfair labor practices against Chinese immigrants and was indirectly responsible for the establishment of the tenure system
- Robert Daniel Carmichael, mathematician and discoverer of Carmichael numbers
- Lee Corso, former head football coach, current ESPN analyst
- Ray E. Cramer, professor of bands; former director of bands at Indiana University.
- Harry G. Day, the chemist who is responsible for the incorporation of fluoride in toothpaste and public drinking water,
- Carl H. Eigenmann, an ichthyologist who described over 150 species of fish with wife Rosa Smith Eigenmann
- Eileen Farrell, famous opera and concert singer, later professor of music at IU
- J. Rufus Fears, David Ross Boyd Professor of Classics and G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty. The University of Oklahoma,
- Anthony Cirone, internationally acclaimed percussionist and educator.
- Paul Gebhard, anthropologist who later became part of Alfred Kinsey's original research team
- Josef Gingold, violin teacher and founder of the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis
- Darrell P. Hammer, political scientist, Russian and Soviet expert.
- Paul Hillier, choral conductor (most notably of Theatre of Voices)
- David Starr Jordan, ichthyologist, educator and peace activist
- Alfred Kinsey, pioneer of the academic discipline of sexology in the United States, founder of the Kinsey Institute and author of the Kinsey Reports,
- Daniel Kirkwood, astronomer famous for his work on asteroids, discoverer of Kirkwood gaps
- Bob Knight, head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team from 1971 to 2000,
- Yusef Komunyakaa, Pulitzer-Prize winning poet.
- Alfred R. Lindesmith, sociologist, author of The Addict and the Law.
- Salvador Luria, pioneer of molecular biology, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine,
- Hermann Joseph Muller, geneticist, zoologist and winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine
- Craig Nelson, evolutionary biologist and 2000 U.S. Professor of the Year
- Thubten Jigme Norbu, Buddhist monk and professor of Central Eurasian Studies; elder brother of the Dalai Lama
- Henry Remak, first director of the Living-Learning Center, now Collins Living-Learning Center; close friend of Alfred Kinsey and Germanic studies professor
- B.F. Skinner, psychologist, pioneer of operant conditioning model,
- James Alexander Thom, novelist, writer of historical fiction
- Edwin Sutherland, one of the most influential criminologists of the 20th century
- Iannis Xenakis, composer
- Jerry Yeagley, coach of the Indiana Hoosiers men's soccer team from 1974 to 2003 with an NCAA record 544 wins.
- Max August Zorn, mathematician and originator of Zorn's lemma
[edit] Current notable faculty
- Martina Arroyo, operatic soprano
- David Baker, notable jazz cellist and educator
- James Naremore, film scholar
- Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, applied linguist
- Joshua Bell, Grammy Award-winning violinist
- Matei Călinescu, Romanian literary critic and author of Five Faces of Modernity
- James Campbell, clarinetist
- Richard DiMarchi, Linda & Jack Gill Chair in Biomolecular Sciences, played an integral part in the creation of humalog, the first synthetic insulin analog.
- R. Kent Dybvig, computer scientist, creator of Chez Scheme
- Eli Eban, clarinetist and professor of music
- Frank K. Edmondson, astronomer
- Daniel P. Friedman, computer scientist
- George M. von Furstenberg, economist
- Glenn C. Gass, musician and rock music historian; Beatles expert
- Henry Glassie, folklorist. Author of Irish Folktales, The Potter's Art, and many other books; former member of President's Council for the Humanities
- Douglas Hofstadter, Pulitzer prize winner, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach, an IU professor of Cognitive Science, among other things.
- Andy Hollinden, musician and rock music professor
- Peter Jacobi, journalism professor emeritus and adjunct Riley lecturer, music critic, media expert
- Roger Janelli, folklorist, Koreanologist
- Chris Kirkpatrick, professor of cosmetology and choreography with a specialization in interpretive dance
- George Kuh, Higher Education Scholar, founder of the National Survey of Student Engagement
- Paul Kuznets, economist.
- Jaime Laredo, Grammy Award-winning violinist and conductor
- Sylvia McNair, Grammy Award-winning soprano
- Timothy Noble, baritone
- Ron Osgood, Emmy Award-winning producer
- Elinor Ostrom, political science professor
- Menahem Pressler, pianist of Beaux Arts Trio fame
- Chris Raphael, leading AI music researcher
- Rudolf Raff, Evolutionary biologist. Founder of the biological sub-discipline of Developmental Evolution (Evo-devo). Author of The Shape of Life and commentator on PBS special of the same name.
- Dennis Reardon, playwright
- Michael E. Robinson, historian, Koreanologist
- Scott Russell Sanders, essayist
- Sven-David Sandström, composer
- Gyorgy Sebok, pianist
- Elliot Sperling, scholar of Tibet
- Olaf Sporns, professor of Cognitive Science, Psychology, and Neuroscience, worked at the Neurosciences Institute [4] with Gerald Edelman
- Raymond Smullyan, philosophy professor emeritus, logician, mathematician
- János Starker, cellist
- David Ward-Steinman, composer
- Giorgio Tozzi, operatic bass and actor
- Carol Vaness, soprano
- André Watts, Grammy Award-winning classical pianist
- Patricia Wise, soprano
