List of University of Minnesota people

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This is a list of notable people associated with the University of Minnesota.

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[edit] Nobel Laureates

[edit] Pulitzer Prize winners

The Pulitzer Prize is the highest honor in American print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions.

[edit] Notable alumni

[edit] Arts and entertainment

[edit] Education

  • Guy Bond - educational psychologist
  • Charles Edward Stevens- Fulbright scholar, and Internationally recognized expert in the field of comparative physiology and digestive systems

[edit] Athletics

See also: Minnesota Golden Gophers
  • Nine players from the University played on Herb Brooks' 1980 Miracle on Ice ice hockey team that beat the USSR and won the gold medal:

Bill Baker, Neal Broten, Steve Christoff, Steve Janaszak, Rob McClanahan, Mike Ramsey, Buzz Schneider, Eric Strobel and Phil Verchota.

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Glen Perkins - Pitcher for MN Twins

[edit] Law, politics, and government

[edit] Science

[edit] Leadership

[edit] Academia

University of Minnesota Presidents

[edit] Regents

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[edit] Chancellors

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[edit] Faculty

  • Hyman "Hy" Berman – History professor (retired), local political commentator
  • Daphne Berdahl–Anthropology professor (deceased)
  • John Berryman – Literature Professor, American poet
  • Norman Borlaug – creator of the Green Revolution
  • Michael Dennis Browne – Professor of creative writing, American poet
  • Marilyn Carroll – Neuroscience professor
  • Eli Coleman – Director of the Program in Human Sexuality, Editor of the Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality
  • Barbara Frey - Former member of United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
  • Seymour Geisser – Founder of the School of Statistics, DNA evidence expert
  • Maria Gini – Computer Science - artificial intelligence, robotics
  • Florence Goodenough – Psychology
  • Lawrence R. Jacobs – Political science professor, local political commentator
  • Frederick Klaeber - noted Beowulf scholar
  • George Morrison – Art professor
  • PZ Myers – Biology professor - Biologist and noted science blogger
  • Katherine Nash – Sculpture professor
  • Michael Osterholm – School of Public Health professor
  • Eugene Rousseau – Saxophone instructor
  • Sachin Sapatnekar – Electrical engineering
  • Naomi Scheman – Philosophy professor
  • Ephraim Sparrow – Mechanical engineering - thermodynamics and heat transfer
  • Allen Tate – Literature professor, American poet
  • David Weissbrodt - Former head of United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and U.N. Special Rapporteur on the rights of non-citizens
  • James Wright – Literature professor, American poet
  • S V Patankar – Mechanical engineering - mechanical engineering - computational thermofluids
  • T W Simon – Mechanical engineering - thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and heat transfer
  • Jack Zipes – German professor, translator and scholar of fairy tales

[edit] Present Regents Professors

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  • Ellen Berscheid - Psychology
  • John Chipman - Economics
  • Thomas Clayton - English
  • Ted Davis - Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
  • Sara Evans - History
  • Apostolos Georgopoulos - Neuroscience
  • Richard Goldstein - Mechanical Engineering
  • Megan Gunnar - Child Psychology, Institute for Child Development
  • Ashley Haase - Microbiology
  • Patricia Hampl - English
  • Robert Hebbel - Medicine
  • Allen Issacman - History
  • Alfred Michael - Pediatrics
  • Ronald Phillips - Agronomy and Plant Genetics
  • Lanny D Schmidt - Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
  • Kathryn Sikkink - Political Science
  • John Sullivan - Political Science
  • Richard A. Swanson - Professor of Human Resource Resource Development
  • David Tilman - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
  • Donald Truhlar - Chemistry
  • David Weissbrodt - Law
  • James White - Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
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