List of Lamar University alumni
The List of Lamar University alumni includes notable former students of Lamar University. The term Lamar Cardinal, which comes from Lamar's mascot the Cardinal, refers to current and former students of Lamar University. The class year of each former student indicates the year four years after their enrollment year, and does not necessarily represent the graduation year.
Lamar University was previously known as Lamar College and Lamar State College of Technology (Lamar Tech) this list includes students who graduated when Lamar held different names than the one it holds today.
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Academia
- Richard Allen Ashmore, Photographer and Geologist
- Bonner Denton - Analytical Chemist, record holder World's Fastest Sports car, University of Arizona Professor
- John E. Gray, Prominent banker and President of Lamar University
- Bobby K. Marks - President of Sam Houston State University (1995-2001)[1]
- Bette Stead - Business faculty member, University of Houston
- Hershel Parker - H. Fletcher Brown Professor Emeritus at the University of Delaware
Business
- C.W. Conn - Founder of Conn's
- William C. Childs - Founder of Precision Tune
- Stephen Grace - President of H. S. Grace and Co., Inc.
- Tom Giannopoulos - President and CEO MICROS
- Claude H. Nash - CEO of Bloodstone Ventures, Researcher
- Joe Domino - President and CEO of Entergy Texas
- Dan Smith (BS Chemical Engineering) - Former President & CEO Lyondell Chemical Company
- David J. Beck - Founding Partner, Beck, Redden & Sechrest, LLP
- Joe Tortorice - Founder, Jason's Deli and President of Deli Management, Inc.
- Phillip Drayer - DEO Kalydus Equity Research Partners, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist
- Paul Fregia - President/CEO and Founder of Grandma Mauds, founding Executive Director, Tiger Woods Foundation
Politics
Inventor
- Charles Cutler - Inventor of Model-based Multi-variable Process Control
- Charles Garrett - Inventor of metal detectors for security purposes as well as treasure hunters, President/CEO Garrett Metal Detectors
Military
Media
Artist
Visual art
Writer
Music
Cinema
Athletes and coaches
Tennis
Sherwood Stewart
Golf
Women's golf
Baseball
Basketball
Track and field
- Thomas Eriksson (athlete)
- Midde Hamrin - Olympian marathon runner
- Brian Davis (South Africa), 1600-meter relay, Olympian at the 1960 Rome Olympics
- Christer Gullstrand '83 (Sweden), 400-meter Hurdles, Olypmian 1980 Moscow Olympics
- Doug Hings '82 (Canada), 1600-meter relay, Olympian at the 1980 Moscow Olympics
- Pedro Caceres '84 (Argentina), Steeplechase, 1984 Los Angeles Olympian
- Christer Gullstrand '83 (Sweden), 400-meter Hurdles & 4x400-meter relay, 1984 Los Angeles Olympian
Women's basketball
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