This list includes both present and former faculty members.
| Name |
Known for |
Relationship to University at Buffalo |
| Ronald H. Coase |
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics (1991) |
Former Professor (1951-1958) |
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| Michel Foucault |
Historian and philosopher |
Visiting Professor (early 1970s) |
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| J.M. Coetzee |
South African author and Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2003) |
Former Professor (1968-1971) |
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| Craig Venter |
American geneticist, founder Celera Genomics |
Former Professor |
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| Robert Creeley |
poet |
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| Herbert A. Hauptman |
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1985) |
Research Professor of Biophysical Sciences, Director of the Medical Foundation of Buffalo |
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| Charles Haynie |
long-time faculty member in the Interdisciplinary Degree Programs. |
An award is granted in his name after his death at age 65 in 2001. |
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| Robert L. Ketter |
Professor |
first chairman of the Civil Engineering Department, dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and President of the University from 1970 through 1981. |
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| Paul Kurtz |
Founder and chairman of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, formerly the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), the Council for Secular Humanism, the Center for Inquiry and Prometheus Books. |
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy |
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| Jayant Patel |
Nicknamed "Dr. Death" by the Australian media |
Former Assistant Professor of Surgery in the 1980s |
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| Albert R. Shadle |
Professor |
Chairman of Biology Department (1919–1953) and Professor of Biology |
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| Bill Siemering |
Manager, University-sponsored radio station WBFO |
Founding Program Director, National Public Radio and recipient, MacArthur Foundation genius grant in 1993. |
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| Leo Smit |
Composer of contemporary classical music |
Former professor |
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| Ernst Witebsky |
Former Professor and Department Chair of Bacteriology and Immunology (1941-1967), and Director of the Center for Immunology (1967 until his death in 1969). |
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| Ta-You Wu |
Chinese physicist known as "Father of Chinese Physics" and President of Academia Sinica (1983-1994) |
Former Professor and Department Chair of Physics (1968-1983) |
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This list is in alphabetic order.
| Name |
Known for |
Relationship to University at Buffalo |
| John Alm |
Former CEO of Coca-Cola Enterprises |
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| Ellen Shulman Baker |
Astronaut on the Space Shuttle Atlantis and NASA medical officer |
BS in Geology, 1974[1] |
| Michael A. Battle |
Former U.S. District Attorney |
Buffalo Law, 1981[2] |
| Jay Beckenstein |
Saxophone player and founder of Spyro Gyra |
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| Wolf Blitzer |
Award-winning journalist for CNN |
BA in history, 1970[3] |
| Alan Brownstein |
Former CEO of the American Cancer Society |
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| Chaisang Chaturon |
Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand |
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| Bram Cohen |
Creator of the widely popular BitTorrent peer-to-peer client |
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| Angelo F. Coniglio |
Former Chief of Buffalo District, US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering and Planning Division; former long-time Adjunct Professor in Civil Engineering at UB |
First graduate of the UB School of Civil Engineering, 1961. |
| Millard S. Drexler |
CEO of J. Crew |
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| Jairo Estrada |
CEO of Garden Way, Inc., a Troy-Bilt affiliate company |
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| Jesse Fabian |
Autodesk Master Level instructor of Maya software |
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| Ira Flatow |
Science journalist, original host of the Emmy-winning Newton's Apple and current host of NPR's Science Friday |
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| Charles M. Fried |
President and CEO, TxMQ inc. |
| Shep Gordon |
Producer of Oscar winning and nominated films |
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| Wilson Greatbatch |
Developer of improved versions of the cardiac pacemaker |
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| Brad Grey |
CEO of Paramount |
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| Terry Gross |
Peabody Award-winning host of the radio interview program Fresh Air |
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| Orvan Hess |
Medical Doctor noted for early use of Penicillin and developing the Cardiotocograph |
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| John Hewitt |
Co-founder of Jackson Hewitt and founder of Liberty Tax Service |
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| Richard Hofstadter |
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian; author of such landmark works as "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life" and "The Age of Reform." |
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| Mark Huddleston |
President of the University of New Hampshire |
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| Jeremy Jacobs |
CEO of Delaware North Companies and owner of the Boston Bruins |
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| Gregory Jarvis |
Astronaut on the Space Shuttle Challenger |
Namesake of Jarvis Hall |
| Christopher Klucsarits [1] |
American professional wrestler In World Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Entertainment |
bachelor's degree in physical therapy |
| Howard Kurtz |
Media reporter and columnist at the Washington Post |
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| Robin Yanhong Li |
Founder of Baidu.com |
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| Robert Lieberman |
Director of Fire in the Sky and Table for Five |
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| Ihechukwu Madubuike |
Author of the Constitution for Nigeria |
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| Robert G. Morris |
Lord Abbett & Co. Partner and Chief Investment Officer |
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| Vice Admiral Robert B. Murrett |
Director National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) |
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| Willie Nile |
Singer/Songwriter - aka: Robert Noonan |
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| Henry Panasci |
Co-founder of Fay’s Drug Stores |
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| Gerry Philbin |
Member of the 1968 World Champion New York Jets |
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| Jeanine Pirro |
Westchester County, New York District Attorney |
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| Maynard Jack Ramsay |
entomologist |
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| Abbe Raven |
CEO and President of A&E Television Networks, founder of The History Channel |
BA in history, 1974[4] |
| Robert Rich |
Founder of Rich Products Corporation |
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| Richard M. Saullo |
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| John Schiumo |
Emmy-Winning Anchor on NY1 |
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| Christopher Scolese |
Chief Engineer of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
BS 1974[5] |
| Parry Shen |
A Chinese American actor |
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| Ron Silver |
Actor |
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| Ellen Spiro |
documentary filmmaker |
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| Tom Toles |
Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for the Washington Post |
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| John Walsh |
Host of America's Most Wanted |
1965[6] |
| Harvey Weinstein |
Miramax Films founder and executive |
Honorary PhD[7] |
| Dave Weldon |
Republican member of the United States House of Representatives |
MD |
| Jeffrey Wigand |
tobacco industry executive to become a whistle-blower against the industry, subject of the feature film The Insider (1999), starring Russell Crowe |
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| Zhou Ji |
Minister of Education for the People's Republic of China |
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| Alan Zweibel |
Comedy writer and one of the original writers for Saturday Night Live |
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| Jonathan Akpoborie |
Nigerian Soccer Player |
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| Keith Buckley |
Vocalist and lyricist of Ferret Records recording artist Every Time I Die. |
BA in English |
| Dominic Oppong |
Canadian Soccer Player |
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| Mark Zmijewski |
Leon Carroll Marshall Professor of Accounting; Deputy Dean of the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business |
BS '76, MBA '81, PhD '83 |
| Sung-Mo “Steve” Kang |
Chancellor of the University of California at Merced |
MS '72 |
From its inception until 1962, the private school was known as the University of Buffalo, and it was headed by a chancellor. Since it became the public State University of New York at Buffalo, it has been called the University at Buffalo, and the CEO is its president. [2]
