List of University of North Texas alumni
The following is a list of people who have attended or taught at the University of North Texas.
Athletics
- Patrick Cobbs, NFL running back for the New Orleans Saints
- Bruce Chambers, Texas Longhorns football assistant coach (1998–present)
- Toby Gowin, NFL punter
- "Mean" Joe Greene, NFL Hall of famer, NFL defensive tackle and assistant coach
- Cedric Hardman, former NFL football player, defensive end, 1970 first round draft pick San Francisco 49ers
- Abner Haynes, AFL and NFL running back
- Don January, PGA Senior Tour golfer
- Billy Maxwell, PGA Senior Tour golfer
- Ray Renfro, NFL wide receiver
- Kal Segrist, MLB second baseman and Texas Tech Red Raiders baseball head coach (1968-83)[1]
- Hurles Scales, NFL defensive back
- Ron Shanklin, NFL receiver and former All-Pro player
- Tra "Trauma" Telligman, UFC Fighter
- Erric Pegram, NFL running back
- Brian Waters, NFL Offensive Lineman
- Stone Cold Steve Austin, professional wrestler
Arts and media
- Jay Boy Adams, attended 1967-1969, singer, songwriter, guitarist
- Larry Austin, composer
- "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, professional wrestler
- Joe Don Baker, film actor
- Bob Belden, jazz musician, Grammy Award-winning composer
- Joan Blondell, film and television actress
- Pat Boone, pop and gospel singer, actor and television personality
- Billy Lee Brammer, novelist and journalist
- Brave Combo, Grammy-winning polka rock band
- Eden Brent, blues pianist and vocalist
- Jeff Coffin, Jazz saxophones member of Dave Matthews band (temporary), and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
- Rogers Cadenhead, author of computer books, Web publisher and member of the RSS Advisory Board
- Matt Chamberlain, session drummer
- Thomas Haden Church, film and television actor
- Joseph Patrick Cranshaw film actor, best known as "Blue" from movie "Old School"
- Ivan Davis, Classical concert pianist
- Bob Dorough, Bebop and Jazz pianist/vocalist who wrote and sang many of the Schoolhouse Rock songs
- George Dunham, sports radio talk-show host and "voice of the Mean Green Radio Network"
- Greg Edmonson, musician
- Rob Erdle, watercolorist, regents' professor
- Charlie Fern, White House speechwriter, journalist
- Bobby Fuller, Rock singer/guitarist best known for his band's cover of "I Fought the Law"
- O'Neil Ford, major regional architect whose works include San Antonio's Tower of the Americas
- Phyllis George, Miss America 1971, actress and broadcaster
- Jimmy Giuffre, Jazz musician
- James Hampton, actor and director
- Kyle Hebert, voice actor
- Don Henley, singer-songwriter and drummer, both solo and with The Eagles
- Diane Heusted, stage actress and director
- Sara Hickman, Folk singer/songwriter
- Ray Wylie Hubbard, Country music singer
- Timothy Huskey, decorated soldier (Distinguished Flying Cross and Bronze Star) and author
- Norah Jones, Grammy-winning pianist and singer-songwriter
- Joe Kirkland, member of Punk Rock band Artist vs Poet
- Scott Kurtz, creator of the webcomic PvP
- Michael Lark, comic book artist
- Lecrae, Christian Hip-Hop artist
- T. Lewis, illustrator of the comic strip Over the Hedge
- Tom "Bones" Malone, jazz trombonist; played with the Saturday Night Live and Late Show house bands, and with The Blues Brothers
- "Blue Lou" Marini, saxophonist; played with the Saturday Night Live house band and The Blues Brothers
- Jim Marrs, conspiracy theorist and author of Crossfire: the Plot that Killed Kennedy (the basis for the Oliver Stone film, "JFK")
- Lyle Mays, composer/keyboardist with the Pat Metheny Group
- Dr. Phil McGraw, television personality and psychologist
- Larry McMurtry, novelist, essayist and screenwriter; won a Pulitzer Prize for the novel Lonesome Dove, and an Academy Award for the screenplay of Brokeback Mountain
- Meat Loaf, Rock singer and film actor
- Bill Mercer, former sports and professional wrestling announcer
- Jim Metcalf, news reporter and Peabody Award recipient
- R.K. Milholland, creator of webcomics Something Positive, New Gold Dreams and Midnight Macabre
- Bill Moyers, journalist and commentator
- Warren Carl Norwood author of at least 13 Science-Fiction novels
- Roy Orbison, Rock singer-songwriter
- Jessie Pavelka, television star and model
- Patricia Racette American opera diva
- Anne Rice, American author
- Brandon Rogers, American Idol (season 6) finalist
- Ann Sheridan, film actress
- Clinton Howard Swindle, journalist and author
- Mark Trojanowski, drummer for Sister Hazel
- Xiaoze Xie, artist
- Paul Varghese, stand-up comedian, seen on NBC's "Last Comic Standing"
- Jennifer Vasquez, "Big Brother" (season 6) contestant and film actor in Idiocracy and Prison Break season 2, as well as Friday Night Lights season 1
- David Von Erich, deceased professional wrestler dubbed the "Yellow Rose of Texas," brother of Kevin Von Erich
- Kevin Von Erich, professional wrestler dubbed "the Golden Warrior", brother of David Von Erich
- Peter Weller, film actor and star of RoboCop
- Noble Willingham, television and film actor, starring in Walker, Texas Ranger
- Donny Howard, former touring pianist/backing vocalist for Reba McEntire (1985-1989) and pianist on her album Merry Christmas to You
Science and education
- Robert A. Calvert, B.A., M.A., UNT faculty (1967-1973), historian
- Anita Jose, Ph.D, business strategist, essayist, and professor at Hood College
- Gary S. Metcalf (1957) organizational theorist and management consultant
- Lorene Lane Rogers, Ph.D. (1914–2009), president of The University of Texas, first woman president of a major public university
- Jean A. Stuntz, M.A. (1996), Ph.D. (2000), historian at West Texas A&M University
Politics
- Adel al-Jubeir, Saudi ambassador to Washington, former adviser to the Royal Court of Saudi Arabia
- Dick Armey, former Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives, Texas District 26, which includes UNT, former economics professor and department chair at UNT
- Robert Lee Bobbitt, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives (1927-1929), Attorney General of Texas (1929-1930), state court judge (1935-1937), chairman of the Texas Highway Department (1937-1943)[2]
- Michael C. Burgess, current U.S. representative for the 26th Texas district, which includes UNT
- Jack Cox, Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1962; Houston oil industrialist
- Warren G. Harding, former Texas State Treasurer (1977-1983) and Dallas County Treasurer (1950-1977); former President of North Texas State University.
- O.H. "Ike" Harris (Class of 1954), state senator (1967-1995) from Dallas County
- Jim Hightower, populist activist and former Texas Commissioner of Agriculture
- Ray Roberts, former Congressman from Denton; nearby Lake Ray Roberts is named for him
- Gwyn Shea, former Texas secretary of state (2002-2003) and a member of the Texas House of Representatives (1983-1993) from Irving; UNT regent since 2007
- Barbara Staff, co-chairman of the 1976 Texas Ronald Reagan presidential primary campaign[3][4]
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Campus
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Hurley Administration Building • Library Mall • Murchison Performing Arts Center • Rafes Urban Astronomy Center • Discovery Park • Student Housing |
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Traditions
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Boomer the Cannon • Eagle Claw • Glory to the Green and White • History of UNT • Lighting McConnell Tower • North Texas Exes • North Texas Fight Song • Scrappy
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References
- ^ http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/text/sports/m-basebl/auto_pdf/BB2011MediaSupplement.pdf Pg. 129
- ^ "Robert Lee Bobbitt". freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com. http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bobbittfamilydna/bookeighteen/pp539-5730025.htm. Retrieved October 8, 2010.
- ^ Julia Sweeney, "Barbara Staff picks GOP over Jamaica," the defunct Dallas Times Herald, August 20, 1976, p. E3
- ^ Billy Hathorn, "Mayor Ernest Angelo, Jr., of Midland and the 96-0 Reagan Sweep of Texas, May 1, 1976," West Texas Historical Association Yearbook Vol. 86 (2010), p. 81-82