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This page lists noted students, alumni and faculty members of the University of Washington.
[edit] Notable UW students and alumni
[edit] Nobel Laureates
[edit] Academic administration and teaching
[edit] Aeronautics and astronautics
- Michael P. Anderson (1981) - NASA astronaut, crewmember in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
- Michael R. Barratt (BS 1981) - NASA astronaut and physician
- Albert Scott Crossfield (BS 1949, MS 1950) - First man to fly faster than Mach 2. Assisted in the design of, and piloted X-15
- Suzanna Darcy-Henneman (BS 1981) - Boeing Test Pilot, Boeing 777 senior test pilot
- Ron Dittemore (BS 1974, MS 1975) - Space Shuttle program manager of NASA.
- Bonnie Dunbar (BS 1971, MS 1975) - NASA astronaut, crewmember on five space shuttle missions and more than 1,200 hours (50 days) in space.
- Peter Davenport - Director of the National UFO Reporting Center.
- John M. Fabian (PhD 1974) - NASA astronaut, crewmember on two space shuttle missions.
- Richard F. Gordon, Jr. (BS 1951) - NASA astronaut, crewmember of Gemini 11 and Apollo 12.
- Robert J. Helberg (BS 1932) - Director of the Lunar Orbiter program.
- George Jeffs (BS 1945, MS 1948) - Former executive at Rockwell International. Directed the Rockwell's Apollo and Space Shuttle programs.
- Stanley G. Love (MS 1989, PHD 1993) - NASA astronaut, crew member of STS-122; planetary scientist.
- George Martin (BS 1931) - Former Vice President of Engineering at Boeing. Project engineer on the Boeing B-47 and chief project engineer of the Boeing B-52.
- George "Pinky" Nelson (MS 1974, PhD 1978) - NASA Astronaut, crewmember on three space shuttle missions.
- Maynard Pennell (BS 1931) - Former Vice President of Product Development at Boeing. Responsible for the design of the Boeing 707, Boeing 720, and Boeing 727.
- John "Jack" Steiner (BS 1940) - Former Vice President of Product Development at Boeing. "Father of the 727", also played a major role in the design of every commercial airplane from the 307 Stratoliner to the Boeing 767.
- Joseph Sutter (BS 1943) - Chief designer of the Boeing 747.
- Milton O. Thompson (BS 1953) - NASA research pilot selected as an astronaut for the X-20 Dyna-Soar.
- Dafydd Williams - Canadian astronaut and crewmember of one space shuttle mission.
[edit] Art and architecture
[edit] Business and law
- Peter Adkison (1997) - Founder and former CEO of Wizards of the Coast, publisher of Magic: The Gathering and Pokémon in the U.S..
- Paul M. Anderson - CEO of Duke Energy.
- William S. Ayer (MBA 1978) - President and CEO of Alaska Airlines.
- David Bonderman (1963) - investment banker, acquired Continental Airlines and founder of Texas Pacific Group
- Donald Bren (1956) - Chairman and sole shareholder of the Irvine Company, the largest real estate developer in California. Bren is the wealthiest real estate developer in the United States and 23rd richest American ($13.0 billion US Dollars) according to Forbes magazine.
- Andrew Brimmer (1950, 1951) - First African American on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors
- Tom Burt - Vice president and head of Microsoft's legal division.
- Edward Carlson - Former CEO of United Airlines and Westin Hotels.
- Rick Devenuti - Chief information officer of Microsoft.
- Ed Edelman - Founder and CEO of Ambient Weather.
- Mary Maxwell Gates (1949) - First female chairperson of United Way (1985-1987), Seattle community leader, philanthropist and mother of Bill Gates.
- William H. Gates, Sr. (1949, JD 1950) - Prominent Seattle lawyer, philanthropist and father of Bill Gates.
- Ivar Haglund (1928) - Founder of Ivar's restaurant and folk singer.
- Edmund P. Jensen (1959) - CEO of Visa International from 1993-1998.
- A. Kirk Lanterman - Former Chairman and CEO of Holland America Lines.
- Mike McGavick (1983) - Former chairman and CEO of Safeco Insurance; 2006 Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate from Washington.
- Yoshihiko Miyauchi (MBA 1960) - Chairman and CEO of ORIX Corporation, the world's largest leasing conglomerate.
- The Nordstrom Family - Elmer, Everett, Lloyd, Bruce, James F. Jr., John N., Blake, Peter, Erik, Daniel and William.
- Dan O'Neill (1972), Founder of Mercy Corps, an international humanitarian relief and development organization
- Wayne Perry - J.D., L.L.M., CEO of Edge Wireless LLC, former President and Vice Chairman of McCaw Cellular, former Vice Chairman of AT&T Wireless, Western Region President of the Boy Scouts of America
- Donald Petersen (1946) - President of Ford Motor Company from 1985-1989 and credited for its turnaround.
- Irv Robbins (1939) - cofounder of Baskin & Robbins
- Steven Rogel (1965) - CEO of Weyerhauser.
- Patrick Rogge, Chief Innovation Officer of Response Media in Atlanta, Georgia
- John W. Slocum - Gold member of Academy of Management Hall of Fame. One of 3 Gold members out of 10,000 over members.
- Orin C. Smith (1965) - CEO of Starbucks from 2000-2005 and president from 1994-2005.
- James Sun (1999), contestant on The Apprentice and CEO and co-founder of Zoodango
- Ivan Taslimson (1999) - Founder of Solstice Group, U.S.
- Takuji Yamashita (1902) - Early civil rights pioneer [3]
[edit] Literature
[edit] Pulitzer Prize winners
- William Bolcom (1958) - Music, 1988. American composer and winner of three Grammy Awards in 2006.
- Richard Eberhart - Poetry, 1966. American poet.
- Timothy Egan (1981) - Journalism, 2001. Journalist and author.
- Ed Guthman (1941, 1944) - Journalism, 1949. Journalist, former press secretary for Robert F. Kennedy and currently a professor at the University of Southern California.
- David Horsey (1975) - Editorial Cartooning (2), 1999, 2003. Editorial cartoonist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
- Mike Luckovich (1982) - Editorial Cartooning, 1995. Editorial cartoonist for the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
- Marilynne Robinson (1968, 1977) - Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2005. American novelist, author of Gilead and Housekeeping.
- Theodore Roethke - Poetry, 1954. Roethke taught at the University of Washington from 1947 until his death in 1963.
- James Wright (1954, 1959) - Poetry, 1972. American poet.
- Beverly Cleary (1939) - Children's Books, Fiction, Paperback 1981
- Richard Eberhart (1966) - Poetry 1977
- Timothy Egan (1981) - Nonfiction 2006 for The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl.
[edit] General
If no class year is listed, author did not graduate.
[edit] Politics
Henry M. Jackson, United States Senator
- Brock Adams (1949) - US Senator, (1987–1993), and US Representative, (1965–1977) for the state of Washington.
- Fouad Ajami (1969, 1973), director of the Middle East Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University.
- Norman D. Dicks (1963, JD 1968) - Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, (1977–).
- Jennifer Dunn (transferred 1962) - US Representative, (1993–2005) and former chair of the Washington State Republican Party.
- Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme (1955, 1957) - Vice-President of Nigeria, (1979–1983)
- Daniel J. Evans (BS 1948, MS 1949) - Governor of Washington, (1965–1977) and United States Senator, (1983–1989) for the state of Washington.
- Tom Foley (1951, JD 1957) - US Representative, (1965–1995) and Speaker of the House (1989–1995).
- Booth Gardner (BA 1958) - Governor (1985–1993) of the state of Washington.
- Christine Gregoire (BA 1969, 1971) - Governor, (2004–) and former Attorney General of the state of Washington.
- Michael Hardt (MA 1986, PhD 1990) - literary theorist and political philosopher based at Duke University.
- Gordon Hirabayashi (BA 1946, MA 1949, PhD 1952) - Human rights activist.
- an American literary theorist and political philosopher based at Duke University
- Doug Isaacson (BA 1984) - Mayor (2006- ) of the City of North Pole, Alaska.
- Henry M. Jackson (JD 1935) - US Representative (1941-1953), US Senator (1953–1983) for the state of Washington and chairman of the Democratic National Committee (1960-1961).
- Walter Jenny (1978) - Secretary, Oklahoma Democratic Party and attorney for the State of Oklahoma.
- Tom Lantos (BA 1949, MA 1950) - US Representative, (1981–2008), for the state of California and Holocaust Survivor.
- Wing Luke - Seattle City Council member and Washington state Assistant Attorney General.
- Rob McKenna (BA 1985, BA 1985) - Washington Attorney General (2004–).
- Warren G. Magnuson (1926, JD 1929) - US Senator, (1944 - 1981), for the state of Washington.
- Clarence D. Martin (1906) - Governor, (1933–1940) of the state of Washington and namesake of Martin Stadium at Washington State University.
- Greg Nickels - Mayor, (2002–), of the city of Seattle.
- Jeannette Rankin - US Representative, (1917–1919), (1940–1943) for the state of Montana; first female member of Congress.
- Norm Rice (1972, 1974) - Former mayor of the city of Seattle.
- Albert Rosellini (1932, 1933) - Governor of Washington, (1957–1965).
- Lou Stewart - Prominent Washington state labor leader
- Lynn Woolsey - Democratic US Representative, (1993–), from California and former welfare recipient.
- J. Arthur Younger (1915) - Republican US Representative, (1952–1967) from California
[edit] Military
[edit] Prominent Officers
[edit] Active Duty
[edit] Spanish Civil War
[edit] World War II
[edit] Medal of Honor Recipients
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[edit] Science and technology
- Tom M. Apostol (1944, 1946) - Analytic number theorist and textbook author at the California Institute of Technology
- Bill Atkinson - Designer of much of the graphic subsystem for the Apple Macintosh and creator of Hypercard and MacPaint.
- Rita R. Colwell (1961) - Director of the United States National Science Foundation
- Melvin Defleur - Social scientist most noted in the area of mass communication.
- Ed Felten (MS 1991, PhD 1993) - Leading Computer scientist in the field of security and authentication.
- William Foege (1961) - Former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
- David Goodstein - Physicist and former Vice-provost of the California Institute of Technology.
- Victor Grinich - Pioneer in the semiconductor industry and a member of the Traitorous Eight that founded Silicon Valley.
- Mohamed Hashish - Founder of the abrasive waterjet cutter and fellow in the department of Mechanical Engineering
- William Hutchinson - Founder of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
- Gary Kildall - Inventor of the CP/M operating system.
- Victor Mills - Inventor of disposable diapers.
- Victor Klee - Mathematician who specialized in convex sets, functional analysis, analysis of algorithms, optimization, and combinatorics. President of the Mathematical Association of America from 1971 to 1973, he was a University of Washington faculty member for 54 years.
- PZ Myers (BS 1979) - Biologist and noted science blogger.
- Tim Paterson (1978) - Original author of the MS-DOS operating system.
- Howard Percy Robertson (1922, 1923) - Noted cosmologist.
- Waldo Semon - Inventor of vinyl and synthetic rubber.
- Waldo R. Tobler - Influential American-Swiss geographer and cartographer.
- Bud Tribble - Vice president and director of software technology at Apple Computer and one of the founders of NeXT computer.
- Bob Wallace - Inventor of the term shareware, creator of the word processing program PC-Write, and founder of the software company Quicksoft.
- Kent R. Weeks (1963, 1966)- One of the world's foremost Egyptologists.
- Ted Woolsey - American video game translator for Squaresoft during the SNES era
[edit] Sports
[edit] Olympic Medal Winners
- Gold Medal, men's rowing, 1936 Berlin Olympic Games
[edit] Baseball
[edit] Basketball
[edit] Football
[edit] Track and field
[edit] Other sports
[edit] Television, film, and other acting arts
- Robert Armstrong - Movie actor who portrayed Carl Denham in the 1933 version of King Kong.[6]
- John Aylward - successful stage, TV, and Movie actor, know by most for his roles in ER and The West Wing.
- Angus Bowmer - Founder of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon.
- The Brothers Four - Popular musical group from the 1960s.
- Dyan Cannon - Film and television actress and twice nominee for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
- Loren Carpenter (1974, 1976) - Co-founded Pixar Animation Studios and currently the Chief Creative Officer of Disney
- James Caviezel - Actor who played Jesus in the controversial film, "The Passion of the Christ"
- Lee Shallat Chemel - Successful TV show director. Most known for her work on Murphy Brown
- Earl Cole - First African-American male winner of Survivor.
- Jeffrey Combs - Horror film actor and Star Trek regular.
- Larry Coryell - American jazz guitarist
- Imogen Cunningham (1907) - Among the best known American female photographers.
- Patrick Duffy (1971) - Television actor most famous for roles in Dallas and Step by Step.
- Anna Faris (1999) - Movie actress most noted for her role in Scary Movie
- Frances Farmer (1935) - American film and theater actress.
- Mignon Coughlin Fogarty (1990) - Creator and host of the Grammar Girl podcast.
- Kenny G (1978) - Popular smooth Jazz Saxophonist.
- Leann Hunley - Actress, Days of Our Lives, Dynasty, and Dawson's Creek"
- Ken Jennings - Holds the record for the longest winning streak on Jeopardy!
- Richard Karn (1979) - Television actor most famous for role as "Al Borland" on Home Improvement.
- Erika Krievins - Actress, The X-Files, Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus
- Bruce Lee - Martial artist and actor.
- Jeff J. Lin - guitarist, pianist, violinist of music group Harvey Danger.
- Kyle MacLachlan (1982) - Film and television actor most famous for roles in Twin Peaks, "Desperate Housewives", Dune and Sex and the City.
- Mary Mapes - Controversial former producer of the CBS television show 60 Minutes.
- Joel McHale - Host of The Soup on E! and former cast member on Almost Live!
- John Myrick - First Manager of Electronic News Gathering KABC Television Los Angeles.
- Robert Osborne (1954) - film historian
- Jean Smart (1974) - Television actress most famous for roles in Designing Women and Kim Possible.
- Rick Steves (1978) - Host, writer and producer of public television's Rick Steve's Europe and bestselling travel author.
- Julia Sweeney (1982) - Saturday Night Live actress.
- Kim Thayil (1985) - Soundgarden guitarist.
- Robb Weller (1961) - Entertainment Tonight host and inventor of the wave
- Dawn Wells (1960) - Mary Ann of Gilligan's Island.
- Rainn Wilson - Most known for his roles on The Office and Six Feet Under
- Art Wolfe (1975) - Award winning nature photographer and star of PBS show Travels to the Edge With Art Wolfe
- Theodore Robert Bundy - Commonly known as "Ted" Bundy, was an American serial killer between 1974-1978. He admitted to killing 30 people. Some sources say he could have killed as many as 100 people.
- Amanda Knox - Gained international media attention for the death of her flatmate.
[edit] Notable current and former faculty and staff
[edit] Nobel Laureates
[edit] Pulitzer Prize winners
[edit] Biology and medicine
[edit] Business and law
- Paul Heyne - American economist and author of The Economic Way of Thinking.
- Terence Mitchell - Gold member of Academy of Management Hall of Fame. One of 3 Gold members out of 10,000 over members.[7]
[edit] Politics and administration
[edit] Science and technology
[edit] Social science, arts and humanities
- James A. Banks - American scholar widely regarded as the "father of multicultural education".
- David P. Barash -- Professor of Psychology
- Elizabeth Bishop - American poet and writer, increasingly regarded as one of the finest 20th century poets writing in English.
- Laurence BonJour - Professor of Philosophy.
- Jon Bridgman - American historian and among the most popular lecturers in the University.
- Francis D.K. Ching - Award-winning author of influential books on architectural graphics.
- Sidney S. Culbert - Psychologist and Esperantist as well as a major influence in the design of cockpit instrument panels in the Boeing 707 jet aircraft through his research in perception.
- Stuart Dempster - Composer, trombonist, and Guggenheim Fellowship recipient.
- August Dvorak - Educational psychologist most noted for the invention of the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard.
- Peter Erös - Internationally renowned symphony and opera conductor.
- Richard Haag - Founded the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington.
- Nancy Hartsock - Feminist philosopher noted for her work in feminist epistemology and standpoint theory.
- Charles R. Johnson - American scholar, a MacArthur Fellow, recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and winner of the National Book Award for writing Middle Passage.
- Walter Johnson - World-renowned scholar of Scandinavian literature, Guggenheim scholar and member of the Swedish Order of the North Star.
- Abraham Kaplan - Director of choral studies and director of choral conducting at Juilliard School.
- Richard Kenney - Award winning poet.
- Dale Kinkade - linguist, specialist on Salishan languages
- Jacob Lawrence - Among the best known twentieth century African American painters
- Elizabeth Loftus - Psychologist who works on human memory and how it can be changed by facts, ideas, suggestions and other forms of post-event information.
- Fred Lukoff - Linguist and scholar of Korean studies.
- Alan Marlatt - Psychologist who pioneered harm reduction.
- Heather McHugh - Award winning poet.
- Roy Andrew Miller - Linguist notable for his advocacy of Japanese and Korean as members of the Altaic group of languages.
- Frederick Newmeyer - Linguist and 2002 President of the Linguistic Society of America.
- James Palais - Noted Historian in the field of Korean History.
- Walter C. Parker - American scholar renowned for his studies of democracy and civic engagement in education.
- Lionel Pries - Influential teacher of Minoru Yamasaki, A. Quincy Jones, and many Northwest Modern architects.
- Kenneth B. Pyle - Japanese Historian and former director of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.
- W.J. Rorabaugh - American historian, managing editor of Pacific Northwest Quarterly, and author of The Alcoholic Republic.
- Roger Sale - American literary critic and author most noted for his influence on literary criticism on children's literature.
- Steven Shaviro - Cultural critic and author of Doom Patrols.
- Jan Sjåvik – Scholar of Scandinavian, especially Norwegian, literature and author of many books and articles within Scandinavian Studies.
- Vilem Sokol - Music professor, string teacher, and legendary conductor of the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras 1960s to 1980s.
- Daris Swindler - Anthropologist generally acknowledged as a leading primate expert; his An Atlas of Primate Gross Anatomy is a standard work in the field.
- Douglas Wadden, Visual Communication Design professor, currently Executive Vice Provost
- Daniel Waugh, current director of the Seattle Silk Road Project and editor of the journal of the Silkroad Foundation
- Karl Wittfogel - Sinologist and Historian author of "Oriental Despotism."
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[edit] Other staff
- Kenneth S. Allen - Associate director of the University of Washington Libraries from 1960-1982 and father of Paul Allen.
