List of University of Utah people

Contents 1 Notable alumni 1.1 Law and government 1.2 Humanities and Fine Arts 1.3 Science and Engineering 1.4 Medicine 1.5 Media 1.6 Education 1.7 Business 1.8 Athletics 1.9 Criminal 1.10 Music/Entertainment 2 Notable faculty 2.1 Science and Engineering 2.2 Medicine 2.3 Sports 2.4 Law 2.5 Other 3 University Presidents 4 See also 5 References

Notable alumni

Famous U of U Alumni

Law and government

• Ross "Rocky" Anderson - former Mayor, Salt Lake City
• Robert Foster Bennett - U.S. Senator, R-UT
• Anson Vasco Call II - First Mayor of Afton, Wyoming (served nine terms) graduated with the first class in 1875
• E. Jake Garn - former U.S. Senator, R-UT, and Astronaut
• Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. - Former Governor of the State of Utah, former United States Ambassador to China
• Dale A. Kimball - judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah
• Myron E. Leavitt - Lieutenant Governor of Nevada; Justice, Nevada Supreme Court
• Frank Moss, former U.S. Senator, D-UT
• Karl Rove - Chief political strategist and adviser to George W. Bush attended the University of Utah but never graduated.
• Ted Stewart - judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah
• David N. Sundwall - Executive Director, Utah Department of Health and former Assistant Surgeon General
• Clark Waddoups - judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah
• Mark Maryboy - American politician from San Juan County, Utah, and a former Navajo Nation Council Delegate.

Humanities and Fine Arts

• Craig Arnold - poet
• Fawn Brodie - Historian and author.
• Vern Bullough - Historian and Sexologist
• Orson Scott Card - Science fiction author (Author of Ender's Game)
• Andrew Hunt - Historian and vegan/animal rights advocate
• Paul McCarthy - Artist
• Shelby Steele - Author and columnist, research fellow at the Hoover Institution
• Wallace Stegner - American novelist
• LeConte Stewart - American artist primarily known for his landscapes of rural Utah, later became head of the Art Department at the University of Utah from 1938 to 1956
• Larry Watson - Milkweed National Fiction Prize-winning author
• Robison Wells - Novelist
• Terry Tempest Williams - Author, environmentalist
• Susie Wind - Seattle artist, noted for urban realism

Science and Engineering

• Alan Kay - Computer scientist, recipient of the Turing Award, credited with the concept of the laptop computer.
• Alan Ashton - Computer scientist, co-founder of WordPerfect and Thanksgiving Point
• Bui Tuong Phong, Computer scientist, inventor of the Phong reflection model and the Phong shading interpolation method
• Henri Gouraud, Computer scientist, inventor of Gouraud shading
• Calvin Quate - One of the inventors of the atomic force microscope
• Ralph Hartley - Co-founder of Information Theory (along with Shannon and Hamming), inventor of Hartley Transform and Hartley Oscillator
• Wilbert L. Gore - Co-inventor of Gore-Tex fabrics
• Jim Blinn - Computer scientist and MacArthur Fellow, known for his work on Carl Sagan's Cosmos documentary and inventing the first method for representing surface textures in graphical images.^[1]
• David Evans - Computer scientist and graphics pioneer and co-founder of Evans & Sutherland
• Martin Newell - Computer scientist and graphics pioneer best known as the creator of the Utah Teapot
• Frank Crow - Computer scientist, developed anti-aliasing methods for computer graphics
• Jeffrey M. Bradshaw - Senior research scientist at The Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, known for his work in the field of artificial intelligence
• John Warnock - Computer scientist best known as a co-founder of Adobe Systems Inc.
• Jim Clark - Computer scientist, prolific entrepreneur and founder of several technology companies, including Silicon Graphics, Inc., Netscape Communications Corporation, myCFO and Healtheon
• Jim Kajiya - Computer scientist, developed the frame buffer concept for storing and displaying single-raster images and the rendering equation.
• Brian A. Barsky - Professor at the University of California, Berkeley working in computer graphics and geometric modeling as well as in optometry and vision science.
• Robert Adamson (software pioneer) - Computer scientist. Developed Gener/OL, one of the first interpretive languages.
• Simon Ramo - The father of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

Medicine

• R Adams Cowley - Prominent researcher in emergency medicine; pioneer in shock trauma treatment.
• William DeVries - Performed the first successful permanent artificial heart implant.
• Robert Jarvik- Inventor of artificial heart
• Russell M. Nelson - renowned physician and cardiothoracic surgeon, also a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Cecil O. Samuelson - current president of Brigham Young University

Media

• Keene Curtis — Stage, Film and Television Actor
• Bill Marcroft — Radio and television broadcaster; Former play by play radio announcer for the Utah Utes.
• Bob Trumpy — Former NFL tight end and current Sports broadcasting color commentator
• Bronzell Miller — Actor, NFL player
• Joseph Kearns — Radio, Film and Television Actor
• Mills Lane — Famous television judge and legendary boxing referee
• George Ouzounian (aka Maddox) — Humorist (attended but did not graduate)
• Laura Chukanov — Miss Utah USA 2009
• Holly Rowe — Sideline reporter for ESPN^[2]

Education

• Lily Eskelsen - vice-president of the National Education Association
• Sterling M. McMurrin - Former E.E. Erickson Professor of Philosophy and U of Utah administrator, U.S. Commissioner of Education, Mormon philosopher
• Ann Weaver Hart - First female president of Temple University
• Gordon Gee - Has been the president of more universities than any other American.
• Milton Bennion - long time dean of the school of education

Business

• Alan Ashton - Co-founder of WordPerfect Corp.
• Dave Checketts - American businessman, founder Sports Capital Partners
• David Neeleman - JetBlue founder, chairman and former CEO
• Robert A. "Bob" McDonald - CEO of Procter & Gamble
• Edwin Catmull - Co-founder of Pixar
• J. Willard Marriott - Founder, Marriott International
• James H. Clark - Founder, Silicon Graphics
• John Warnock - Co-founder of Adobe Systems
• Nolan Bushnell - Founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese
• Stephen R. Covey - Business author, consultant
• Kendall Garff - founder of Garff Automotive

Athletics

• Jamal Anderson - Former NFL running back
• Mike Anderson - Baltimore Ravens running back and 2002 NFL Rookie of the Year.
• Daria Bijak - German Gymnast, 4-time German World Championships Team member (2002, 2003, 2005, 2006) and 2008 Olympic Team member
• Andrew Bogut - Milwaukee Bucks forward, 1st overall pick in the 2005 NBA Draft left early for the NBA and did not graduate.
• Blake Burdette - USA Rugby - Current member of the United States National Rugby Team - 4 Time All-American at Utah
• Jerry Chambers - former NBA player and winner of the NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player award in 1966
• Tom Chambers - Former NBA all-star
• Norm Chow - College Football Coach Utah, Offensive Coordinator; NCAA All-America honorable mention as an offensive line
• Michael Doleac - NBA player; AP All-American Honorable Mention and GTE First Team Academic All-American
• Andre Dyson - NFL defensive back
• Kevin Dyson - Former NFL wide receiver
• Luther Elliss - Former NFL defensive lineman
• Arnie Ferrin - Former NBA player, four-time NCAA All-American
• Marv Fleming - NFL tight end, won 5 Super Bowl rings in the 1960s-70s
• Manny Fernandez - Former NFL player for the Miami Dolphins defensive lineman
• Chris Fuamatu-Ma'afala - former NFL running back
• Jordan Gross - Carolina Panthers offensive lineman
• Alan Holmes - All American basketball player
• John Madsen - wide receiver Oakland Raiders
• Billy McGill - All American basketball player and NBA
• Andre Miller - NBA player, NCAA All-American
• Scott Mitchell - back-up quarterback to Dan Marino on the Miami Dolphins and later started at QB for the Detroit Lions
• Charles K. Monfort - Chairman and CEO of the Colorado Rockies Major League Baseball
• Mike Newlin - Former NBA player with the Houston Rockets, New Jersey Nets, and New York Knicks
• Terry Nofsinger - NFL quarterback for St. Louis in 1960s
• Ralph Olsen - Former NFL defensive end
• Ed Pine - NFL center for San Francisco 49ers
• Ashley Postell - American Gymnast, Balance Beam Champion, 2002 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Debrecen, Hungary
• Jeff Rolan - 1975 NCAA Swimming Champion, 100 yard Butterfly
• Dick Romney - member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• George Seifert - former NFL head coach of the San Francisco 49ers and the Carolina Panthers
• Chris Shelton - MLB baseball player (1B)
• Alex Smith - San Francisco 49ers Quarterback, 1st overall pick in the 2005 NFL Draft.
• Dave Smith - Former NFL running back
• Kim Smith - Sacramento Monarchs, four-Time Mountain West Conference Player of the Year, 13th pick of 2006 WNBA Draft
• Steve Smith - Carolina Panthers wide receiver
• Shona Thorburn - Minnesota Lynx 7th Overall pick of 2006 WNBA Draft
• Keith Van Horn - Former NBA player
• Danny Vranes - Former NBA player
• Tom Wallisch - Accomplished newschool skier, Winner of the Dumont Cup 2009, SuperUnknown 2007 and AFP World Champion (Men's Slopestyle)
• Eric Weddle - safety for the San Diego Chargers
• Larry Wilson - NFL Hall of Fame member and All-Pro free safety

Criminal

• Ted Bundy - Notorious serial killer briefly attended Utah's law school prior to his arrest and conviction for kidnapping in 1975.

Music/Entertainment

• Josh Rosenthal (musician) - performing singer/songwriter
• Peter Breinholt - folk recording artist
• Ryan Raddon - DJ who performs under the name Kaskade

Notable faculty

Famous U of U Faculty

Science and Engineering

• Peter Stang - Editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society and recipient of the National Metal of Science.
• Henry Eyring - Renowned theoretical chemist and twenty-year dean of the graduate school
• Suhas Patil - Computer scientist, prolific entrepreneur and founder of Cirrus Logic, a fabless semiconductor company.
• Joseph F. Merrill - first native Utahn to receive a PhD, first principal of the College of Engineering
• David Evans - founder of the computer science department at the U, graphics pioneer and co-founder of Evans & Sutherland
• Stephen Jacobsen - Distinguished professor and founder of Sarcos, a robotics company that is now part of Raytheon
• Ivan Sutherland - Winner of the Turing Award in 1988 for Sketchpad, co-founder of Evans and Sutherland
• Thomas Stockham - founder of Soundstream Inc., one of the experts selected to investigate President Richard Nixon's White House tapes.

Medicine

• Mario Capecchi - 2007 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
• Dr. Erik Jorgensen - Head of Jorgensen Lab and University of Utah Brain Institute, lead researcher in the genetics field.
• Willem Johan Kolff - the father of artificial organs pioneer of hemodialysis as well as in the field of artificial organs
• Russell M. Nelson - renowned physician and cardiothoracic surgeon, also a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Stefan M. Pulst - Chairman of the Department of Neurology at the University of Utah and chair of the science committee of the American Academy of Neurology

Sports

• Greg Marsden - current coach of the women's gymnastics team
• Kyle Whittingham - current coach of the football team

Law

• Paul G. Cassell - former United States federal judge
• Willis W. Ritter - former United States federal judge

Other

• Maud Babcock - The first female member of the university's faculty
• Jan Harold Brunvand - Emeritus Professor of English, a well-known American folklorist and urban legends researcher
• Charles E. Dibble (1909–2002) - Distinguished Professor of Anthropology (1939–78), noted Mesoamericanist scholar
• Jesse D. Jennings - renowned archaeologist and anthropologist
• Lyle Campbell - linguist and leading expert on American Indian languages, Leonard Bloomfield Book Award winner
• E. K. Hunt - Emeritus Professor of Economics, a well-known expert on political economy and the author of History of Economic Thought: A Critical Perspective
• Minqi Li - renowned Political economist

University Presidents

See also

• University of Utah
• University of Utah College of Engineering
• University of Utah School of Medicine
• David Eccles School of Business
• S.J. Quinney College of Law

References

1. ^ http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/history/#blinn-ref
2. ^ "Holly Rowe Bio". ESPN MediaZone. http://www.espnmediazone3.com/us/2009/11/rowe_holly/. Retrieved 2010-04-24. 

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