This list of Florida Atlantic University people includes graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of Florida Atlantic University and its graduate programs. Since its opening in 1964, Florida Atlantic has awarded over 100,000 degrees to more than 95,000 alumni worldwide.
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| Athlete | Notability |
|---|---|
| Yolanda Griffith | professional basketball player in the WNBA[1] |
| Athlete | Notability |
|---|---|
| Charles Pierre | professional football player for the BC Lions |
| Rusty Smith | professional football player for the Tennessee Titans |
| Rob Housler | professional football player for the Arizona Cardinals |
| Mike Lockley | professional football player for the Jacksonville Jaguars |
| Lestar Jean | professional football player for the Houston Texans |
| Athlete | Notability |
|---|---|
| Daniel Bomback[2] | Professional MLB player |
| Anthony Bradley[2] | Professional MLB player |
| Carmen Cali | Professional MLB pitcher[3] |
| Brandon Cooney[2] | Professional MLB player |
| Jeff Fiorentino | Professional MLB outfielder[4] |
| Tim Harikkala | Professional MLB pitcher[5] |
| Justin Martin[2] | Professional MLB player |
| Tommy Murphy | Professional MLB outfielder[6] |
| Justin Phillabaum[2] | Professional MLB player |
| Robbie Widlansky[2] | Professional MLB player |
| Athlete | Notability |
|---|---|
| Mark Zupan | Captain of the United States quadriplegic wheelchair rugby team[7] |
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Fern "Peachy" Kellymeyer (M.A. 1974) |
Professional tennis player, administrator, and 1999 ITA Hall of Fame inductee[8] |
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Richard DiMarchi (B.S. 1974) |
Former Vice President at Eli Lilly and Company, and current Chairman in Biomolecular Sciences and Professor of Chemistry at Indiana University[9] |
| Patricia McKay (B.B.A. 1978) |
Executive Vice President, and Chief Financial Officer of Office Depot[10] |
| Robert "Skip" Orr (B.A. 1978) |
Former President of Boeing Japan, and former Vice President of Motorola[11] |
| Maynard Webb (B.A. 19??) |
Member of the Board of Directors of Salesforce.com, and former Chief Operating Officer, and President of Technologies for eBay[12] |
| Phil Zimmermann (B.S. 1978) |
Creator of Pretty Good Privacy[13] |
| George Zoley (B.A. 1972, M.P.A. 1975) |
Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, & Founder of The GEO Group, Inc. a publicly traded company that became independent from The Wackenhut Corporation[14] |
| Ralph de la Vega (B.S.M.E. 19??) |
Chief Operating Officer of Cingular Wireless, and former President of BellSouth's Latin American operations[15]\ |
| Daniel B. O'Connor (B.S. 1998) |
Project Director at Sprint Nextel, mobile advertising innovator and creator of first mobile advertising system in the world. Currently holds patent for mobile web log filtering - enabling behavioral profiling of mobile users. |
| Mark Dean (M.S.E.E. 1982) |
Vice President Technical Strategy and WorldWide Operations for IBM Research. Holds three of the original 9 patents on the IBM PC as well as developing the Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) "bus," which permitted add-on devices like the keyboard, disk drives and printers to be connected to the motherboard |
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Arthur C. Brooks (M.A., 1995) |
Social scientist, economist, professor, author, and professional musician |
| Alberto "Al" Cardenas (B.A. 1969) |
Attorney, Republican lobbyist, and trustee of Florida A&M[18] |
| Keith Hamm (M.A., 1973) |
Edwards Professor of Political Science at Rice University |
| George L. Hanbury (Ph.D. 19??) |
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Nova Southeastern University[19] |
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Kevin Allesee (B.A. 2005) |
Actor [20][21] |
| Ana M. Azcuy (B.A. 1976) |
First Hispanic television anchor in South Florida, and three time Emmy Award winner[22] |
| Allen Berman (B.A. 1977) |
Former Senior Producer for CBS Evening News, and Executive Producer for Media Street Productions[22] |
| Don Brewer (B.B.A. 1990) |
Drummer and founding member of the band Grand Funk Railroad[22] |
| Mary Carey (A.A. 2002) |
Adult entertainer[23] |
| Chris Carrabba | Singer-songwriter, Dashboard Confessional |
| Marc Kudisch (B.F.A. 1988) |
Broadway actor and two-time Tony Award nominee[24] |
| Dean Peterson | Internationally-known opera star[25] |
| Carrot Top (B.B.A. 1989) |
Prop comedian famous for his red hair and television commercials [26] |
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Frank Brogan (M.Ed. 1981) |
Chancellor of the State University System of Florida, Former Lieutenant Governor of Florida and President of Florida Atlantic University[27] |
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| R. David Paulison (B.A. 19??) |
Current Under Secretary of the Federal Emergency Management Agency[28] |
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Carrie P. Meek (Hon Ph.D. 19??) |
Former U.S. Congresswoman from Florida's 17th district[29] |
| Daniel A. Mica (B.A. 1966, Hon Ph.D. 19??) |
Former U.S. Congressman, President and CEO of the Credit Union National Association.[30] |
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Carol W. Hunstein (B.S. 1972) |
Presiding Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia[31] |
| Scott Henderson (B.A. 19??) |
Famous Jazz/Blues/Fusion Guitarist [1] Tribal Tech [32] [33] |
| Ken Jenne (B.A. 1968) |
Former Sheriff of Broward County, Florida and former state legislator[34] |
| Henry Latimer (M.A. 19??) |
First African American circuit court judge in Broward County, Florida[35] |
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Charles Ghigna | Poet and children's author known as "Father Goose" [2] |
| Judith Ortiz Cofer (M.A. 1977) |
Puerto Rican author[36] |
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Steven Swanson (M.A. 1986) |
NASA astronaut[37] |
| Dr. Christopher McKay (B.A.) |
Currently a planetary scientist at NASA Ames Research Center [38] |
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Theresa LePore | Former Supervisor of Elections for Palm Beach County, Florida, most notable for her role in the 2000 Presidential Election controversy |
| Mirta Ojito | Cuban-born Pulitzer Prize winning journalist for the New York Times and professor of journalism at the University of Miami |
| Gerard John Schaefer | Former Martin County sheriff's deputy and serial killer convicted of two murders in 1973 and believed responsible for over thirty others |
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