List of Rice University people

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The list of Rice University people includes notable alumni, former students, faculty, and presidents of Rice University.

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

Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.

1 Alumni
2 Faculty
3 Presidents

[edit] Alumni

Selected Rice Alumni

Lance Berkman, MLB player

Alberto Gonzales, former U.S. Attorney General

Howard Hughes, former aviator, engineer, industrialist, film producer and director

John Kline, U.S. Congressman

Peggy Whitson, NASA astronaut

[edit] Athletics

Lance Berkman, 1997, All-Star Major League baseball player for Houston Astros
Adi Bichman, 2001, Israeli freestyle and medley swimmer
Bubba Crosby, Major league baseball player for the New York Yankees
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 Illustrated covers, December 21, 1981 and February 2, 1982 Pro Football Reference
Buddy Dial, end, College Football Hall of Fame1993, All-Pro 1961, 1963
Fred Hansen, 1963, gold medalist in pole vault at 1964 Summer Olympics
John Heisman, for whom the coveted Heisman Trophy is named; football coach, 1924-1927. College Football Hall of Fame 1954
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, 3 time Pro Bowl LB/special teams captain for the New England Patriots, Super Bowl Champions 2002, 2004, 2005
N.D. Kalu, NFL defensive end for the Houston Texans
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 1979
Jess Neely, football coach 1940-1966. College Football Hall of Fame 1971
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, January 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 is a free agent.
James "Froggy" Williams, end, College Football Hall of Fame1965
Patrick Dendy, NFL football player on Green Bay Packers.
Will McClay, Coach of the Dallas Desperados, an Arena Football League team.
Morris Almond, 2007, NBA guard, 25th overall pick of the Utah Jazz.

[edit] Business

Howard Hughes, (attended), was the richest man in the world in 1976.
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
L John Doerr, 1973, influential venture capitalist at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & 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
Jack Boyd Buckley, 1948, civil engineer from Houston who designed many tall buildings throughout the world and the air conditioning system of the Astrodome
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 Ronald 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
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.
Yıldırım Ali Koç, Koç Holding member and Turkish multisport club Fenerbahçe S.K. vice-president.

[edit] Education

Nancy Cole, 1964, educational psychologist.

[edit] Government and politics

Bill Archer (attended), United States Congressman
Mitch Bainwol, 1983, former chair, Republican National Committee
James Baker, former Secretary of State and Treasury, chair of the James A. Baker III Institute for Foreign Policy.
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
Andrew Karsner, 1988, Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, United States Department of Energy, 2005-present
John Kline, 1969, United States Congressman
Michael S. Owen, 1973 U.S. Consul General in Mumbai, India
William Luther Pierce, 1955, National Alliance founder
Leslie H. Southwick, 1972, Federal Judge on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Scott Hochberg, Member of the Texas House of Representatives
Eliot Shapleigh, 1974, Member of the Texas Senate
Gary H. Stern, chief executive of the Ninth Federal Reserve Bank, at Minneapolis

[edit] History, literature, journalism, architecture, art and music

Austin Bay, author and milblogger
Ron Bozman, 1969, Executive Producer of The Silence of the Lambs, Beloved, and Philadelphia
William Broyles, Jr., 1966, Founder of Texas Monthly, former editor in chief at Newsweek and screenwriter of Apollo 13, Cast Away, Unfaithful, Flags of Our Fathers
Rebecca Carrington, British "music comedian", completed her Masters of Music at Rice
Carl P. Daw Jr., American Episcopalian priest and director of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada, famed researcher and authority on sacred music.
Carol Flake, 1969, founding editor of reborn Vanity Fair
John Graves, 1942, Nature writer
Eva 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
Robert Henson award winning author and journalist
Daniel Albright. 1967, Harvard University English professor
Charles Renfro, 1987, Will Rice, architect, partner in Diller Scofidio + Renfro, designed the new Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Rosa Levin Toubin, Jewish Texan historian, civic leader and philanthropist

[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] Radio, television and 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
Amy Hobby, 1986, Will Rice, Producer for Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, Secretary, and Coney Island Baby (which she also directed)

[edit] Religion

Carl P. Daw Jr. - Executive Director of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada.

[edit] Science and technology

Andrew Dessler, climate change meteorologist
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
James A. Kahle, IBM Fellow and chief architect of the POWER4 and Cell microprocessors.

[edit] Faculty

[edit] Presidents