List of Iowa State University people

Alumni

• Clayton Anderson, NASA astronaut; first Iowa Stater in space^[1]
• Dale A. Anderson, pioneer in the field of computational fluid dynamics^[2]
• Terry A. Anderson, former Middle East Bureau Chief, The Associated Press^[3]
• Chris Ash, Defensive Backs Coach of the Wisconsin Badgers football team
• Steve Bales, famous NASA engineer
• Robert L. Bartley, editor of Wall Street Journal opinion page, vice-president of Dow Jones & Company
• Aureliano Brandolini, Italian agronomist and development cooperation scholar
• Luis Ernesto Derbez, former Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Secretary of Economics
• Bennett Bean, studio potter
• Berkley Bedell, United States Congressman
• Ezra Taft Benson, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, and 13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Clifford E. Berry, co-developer of the first electronic digital computer (see Atanasoff–Berry Computer)
• Henry Otley Beyer, father of Philippine anthropology and ethnology
• Bruce Braley, U.S. representative, Iowa's 1st district
• William R. Brinkley, Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine
• Arthur E. Bryson, Jr., the "father of modern optimal control theory"
• Griffith Buck, alumnus and professor of horticulture; developed nearly 100 new varieties of roses
• David P. Campbell, creator of Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory
• Garrey Carruthers, Governor of New Mexico (1987–1991); President and CEO of Cimarron Health Plan
• George Washington Carver, first African-American student and faculty member; plant scientist
• Carrie Chapman Catt, leader of women's suffrage movement and founder of the League of Women Voters
• Lauro Cavazos, former U.S. Secretary of Education
• Clarence Chamberlin, aviation pioneer
• Vance D. Coffman, retired Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin
• Nancy Cox, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2006 U.S. Federal Employee of the Year
• Michael M. Crow, President, Arizona State University
• Lawrence F. Dahl (Ph.D. 1956), professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Parviz Davoodi, First Vice President of Iran
• Vine Deloria, Jr., Native American rights leader and author
• Helen Derr, journalist^[4]
• Charles W. "Chuck" Durham, founder of global architecture and engineering firm HDR, Inc. and noted philanthropist.
• Edward M. Walsh Founder of the University of Limerick
• Ed Droste, CEO and founder of Provident Management Corporation, cofounder of Hooters Restaurants
• Eugene B. Ely, pioneering aviator who made the first take-off and landing of an aircraft from a ship.
• Bob O. Evans, computer pioneer and National Medal of Technology recipient
• Velmer A. Fassel, creator of inductively coupled plasma for mass spectrometry
• John Garang, former commander of SPLA and former vice president of Sudan
• Roswell Garst, established one of the world’s leading seed corn companies; hosted Nikita Khrushchev on his farm in 1959
• James Lorraine Geddes, American Civil War general; Acting University President in 1875–77.
• John Gustafson, inventor of Gustafson's law of parallel computing
• Niels Ebbesen Hansen, Head of the Horticultural Department at South Dakota State University
• Tom Harkin, current United States Senator from Iowa and author of Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA)
• Spencer Haven, Attorney General of Wisconsin
• Bourke B. Hickenlooper, Governor of Iowa (1943–1944) and longtime U.S. Senator (1945–1969)
• Harold Hume, noted horticulturalist and president of the University of Florida
• Murray Joslin, pioneer on nuclear energy, vice-president of Commonwealth Edison
• Jerry Junkins, Chairman and CEO of Texas Instruments
• Antti Herlin, fourth chairman of the Board of KONE Corporation; richest man in Finland
• Leonard Klinck, second president of the University of British Columbia
• Charles Boynton Knapp, former president, University of Georgia
• Edward F. Knipling, noted entomologist and World Food Prize winner
• Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner
• Robert E. Kowalski, best-selling medical author
• Tom Latham, current United States Representative from Iowa's 4th congressional district
• Dave Loebsack, U.S. representative, Iowa's 2nd district
• Jay L. Lush, pioneer of modern animal breeding
• Thomas Harris MacDonald led the development of the Interstate Highway System.
• Charles Manatt, former chair of Democratic National Committee, former U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic
• Samuel Massie, noted scientist, first African American to teach at the U.S. Naval Academy
• Elwood Mead, Commissioner of U.S. Bureau of Reclamation during construction of the Hoover Dam, namesake of Lake Mead
• Conde McCullough, noted bridge architect
• Sean McLaughlin, former Today Show weather anchor
• Dan Mozena US Ambassador to Angola
• Jackie Norris, Chief of Staff to Michelle Obama
• Bill Northey, Secretary of Agriculture for the State of Iowa
• James L. Oblinger, Chancellor, North Carolina State University
• Rose Marie Pangborn, noted sensory scientist
• Charles Partridge, Defensive Line and Specialists Coach of the Wisconsin Badgers football team
• Frederick Douglas Patterson, president of Tuskegee Institute and founder of the United Negro College Fund
• Sally Pederson, former Lieutenant Governor of Iowa
• Trudy Huskamp Peterson, Archivist of the United States (1993–1995)
• Christine Romans, CNN financial reporter
• Bruce Roth, inventor of Lipitor; Vice President of Chemistry, Pfizer
• Roy Vernon Scott, historian of agriculture and railroads, Professor emeritus at Mississippi State University.^[5]
• Hugh Sidey, journalist for Life and Time magazines
• Mallory Snyder, Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, actress, MTV's The Real World
• Robert W. Sennewald, Commanding General, United States Army Forces Command
• Graham Spanier, Professor and Former President, Pennsylvania State University
• Scott Stanzel, deputy press secretary, The White House
• Russell Stover, founder of Russell Stover Candies (attended year and a half but did not graduate)
• Subra Suresh, Director of National Science Foundation, MIT Dean of Engineering
• Sehat Sutardja, founder and CEO of Marvell Technology Group
• Elaine Szymoniak, former Iowa State Senator
• Lee Teng-hui, former President of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
• G. Malcolm Trout, noted food scientist and creator of homogenized milk
• Steven VanRoekel, second Federal Chief Information Officer of the United States
• Bryan M. Walker, CEO Walker Industries and founder of Midwest Pickup Consultants, Inc.
• Henry Agard Wallace, Vice President of the United States and founder of Pioneer Hi-Bred
• Henry C. Wallace, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, 1921–1924
• Carol Wilson, operatic soprano
• James Wilson, professor who later became United States Secretary of Agriculture
• Tom Whitney, inventor, pocket calculator
• Thornton Wilson, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Boeing Company
• Earl G. Yarbrough, current president of Savannah State University

Notable faculty and administrators

• John Vincent Atanasoff (see also Atanasoff–Berry Computer), inventor of the first electronic digital computer
• James Millikin Bevans, U.S. Air Force Major General
• Wayne Arthur Fuller, statistician noted for his textbooks on econometrics and survey sampling
• Henry Gilman, known as the "father of organometallic chemistry"
• Oscar Kempthorne, Distinguished Professor of Science and Humanities at Iowa State University
• Allan Mackintosh, noted solid-state physicist, director of Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics
• Elsa Murano, President, Texas A&M University
• Christian Petersen, sculptor, whose works appear around campus
• Jane Smiley, winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for fiction
• George W. Snedecor, statistician and pioneer of modern applied statistics in the U.S., namesake of Snedecor Award
• Frank Spedding, noted Ames Laboratory chemist, namesake of Spedding Prize
• Dan Shechtman, winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Theodore Schultz, the 1979 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
• Yong Chin Pak, Grandmaster, instructs taekwondo, hapkido, and judo

Accomplished athletes and coaches

• Chris Anthony, wide receiver for the New York Dragons of the Arena Football League
• Mack Brown, head coach at University of Texas (at Iowa State 1979–1982)
• Mike Busch, former Major League Baseball player
• Pete Carroll, head coach of the Seattle Seahawks, former coach at University of Southern California (at Iowa State 1978)
• Kelvin Cato, former NBA player
• John Cooper, football captain and MVP and later head football coach at Ohio State
• ((James Robert Doran, former NFL Detroit Lion, MVP NFL 1953 Championship Game Played on 51,53 and 57 Championship Teams))
• Larry Eustachy, former men's basketball coach, 2000 NCAA National Coach of the Year
• Tim Floyd, former men's basketball coach with 81–49 record and only coach with three consecutive 20-win seasons.
• Dan Gable, 1972 Olympic gold medalist, became wrestling coach at the University of Iowa
• Weylan Harding, Arena Football League head coach and former player
• Fred Hoiberg, former NBA player and current head men's basketball coach, Iowa State University
• Jeff Hornacek, retired NBA all-star
• Johnny Majors, renowned football head coach (at Iowa State 1968–1972)
• Nawal El Moutawakel, first African woman and first Muslim woman to earn Olympic gold
• Mike Myers, Major League Baseball player
• Yobes Ondieki, 10000-meter world record-holder, 1993.
• Johnny Orr, the most successful coach in Iowa State and Michigan men's basketball history
• Darryl Peterson, NCAA all American and former professional wrestler
• Cael Sanderson, NCAA wrestling champion and 2004 Summer Olympics gold medalist, head coach of Penn State wrestling
• Jack Trice, football player and pioneer for minorities in sports, died of injuries sustained in a football game
• Jim Walewander, former Major League Baseball player
• MMA Fighters: Mike Van Arsdale, Justin Eilers
• NBA Players: Zaid Abdul-Aziz (born Donald A. Smith), Victor Alexander, Bill Cain, Kelvin Cato, Marcus Fizer, Jeff Grayer, Fred Hoiberg, Jeff Hornacek, Loren Meyer, Paul Shirley, Barry Stevens, Jamaal Tinsley, Jackson Vroman, Will Blalock and Dedric Willoughby
• NFL Players: David Archer, Matt Blair, Jordan Carstens, Dennis Gibson, Troy Davis, Tim Dobbins, Reggie Hayward, Ennis Haywood, LaMarcus Hicks, Ellis Hobbs, Keith Krepfle, J.J. Moses, James Reed, Bruce Reimers, Marcus Robertson, Sage Rosenfels, Oliver Ross, Keith Sims, Tom Vaughn, Seneca Wallace, Chris Washington, Tom Watkins, and Tony Yelk

Presidents of Iowa State University

References