List of Lehigh University alumni

This is a list of notable alumni of Lehigh University, an American private research university located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Academia

• David A. Bader (BSCompE, 1990; MSEE, 1991), professor at Georgia Tech
• Anthony G. Collins (D.Eng. Civil Eng., 1982), President, Clarkson University
• Peter D. Feaver (BA, 1983), member of the National Security Council in the Clinton and Bush administrations and professor at Duke University
• James D. Foley (BSEE, 1964), professor at Georgia Tech
• Kenneth French (Mech. E., 1976), Finance Department Chairman of Dartmouth College; President of American Finance Association
• Robert L. Ketter, former president of the University of Buffalo
• Robert J. Nemiroff (1987), professor of physics at Michigan Technological University; cofounder of Astronomy Picture of the Day and Astrophysics Source Code Library
• Walter C. Pitman, III (1956), Professor emeritus at Columbia University, expert on sea floor spreading
• Herman Schneider (1894), President of the University of Cincinnati and key developer of the concept of cooperative education
• James E. Talmage (Geology, 1884), former president of the University of Utah, author, and LDS apostle
• Paul Torgersen (B.S. Industrial Engr., 1953), former president of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Architecture

• Wallis Eastburn Howe (1889), attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, became noted Rhode Island architect

Business

• William Amelio (BS Chem. Eng., 1979), CEO of Lenovo
• Tom Bayer, member of the board of directors of the Reserve Bank of Vanuatu^[1]
• Samuel Bonfante (1982), Founder of Bonfante Group and former Associate Publisher of The Chronicle of Higher Education
• William Butterworth, President and Chairman of the Board, John Deere and Company
• Jack Dreyfus (1934), founder of the Dreyfus Fund
• Cathy Engelbert (1986), CEO of Deloitte
• Vincent Forlenza (1975), Chairman and CEO, Becton Dickinson
• Eugene Grace (1899), former president of Bethlehem Steel
• Richard Hayne (BA Anthropology 1969), co-founder of Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie and Free People
• Marc Holtzman (1982), Vice-Chairman Barclays Capital
• Lee Iacocca (Industrial Eng. 1945, Hon D.Eng. 1965), former chairman of Chrysler Corporation
• Kevin J. Kennedy (1978), CEO of Avaya
• Lennart S. Lindegren (1965), Vice Chair, Price Waterhouse
• John E. McGlade, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Air Products & Chemicals
• Edward Avery McIlhenny (1896), CEO of McIlhenny Company, makers of Tabasco sauce
• James Ward Packard (Mech. E., 1884), co-founder of Packard Motor Company
• John R. Patrick (BS Electrical Engineering, 1967), former IBM vice president
• Joseph R. Perella (BS Business & Economics 1964), former chairman of Investment Banking, Morgan Stanley
• Paul Zane Pilzer (BA Journalism 1974), economist
• Fredrick D. Schaufeld (BA Government 1981), entrepreneur, venture capital investor
• Tsai Shengbai (1919), President of Mayar Silk Mills and developer of the modern silk industry in China
• Richard Rinella (1995), co-founder and Co-CEO of Restaurantware
• Robert Zoellner (BS 1954), investor and stamp collector; second person to have assembled a complete collection of United States postage stamps; benefactor and namesake of the school's Zoellner Arts Center^[2]

Entertainment

• Dick Berg (1942), screenwriter
• Claire Byrne (BA Theater), actress
• Tracy Byrnes (1993), TV Business Reporter on Fox Business News^[3]
• Geoffrey Ciani (BA Political Science, 1998), independent filmmaker
• Jim Davidson (1985), actor, TV show Pacific Blue
• Paul Guilfoyle (1972), actor, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
• Maria Jacquemetton (BA English, 1983), Emmy, Golden Globe, Writer's Guild of America, and Peabody Award-winning writer and supervising producer of TV show Mad Men
• Don Most (1972), actor, Happy Days (attended Lehigh University but did not graduate) ^[4]
• Lori Murphy (BA 1990), actress, producer, and director
• Joe Praino, comedian, co-host of Dirty Sports and Kooks of Comedy podcasts
• Robert Riley (BA Theater, 2003), actor
• Cicero Salmon III (2003), actor
• Robert Stahl, author of You're No Good To Me Dead: Behind Japanese Lines in the Philippines
• Louis Clyde Stoumen (1939), Academy Award-winning director and producer
• Andrea Tantaros (2001), political contributor on Fox News Channel^[5]
• Irwin Young (BS Industrial Engineering, 1950), Academy Award-winning producer of Alambrista and Nothing But a Man

Journalism and literature

• Martin Baron (1976), editor of The Washington Post, former editor of The Boston Globe
• William E. Coles, Jr. (BA English, 1953), novelist and professor
• Richard Harding Davis (1886), war correspondent, journalist and writer of fiction and drama
• Robert Gibb (MA English, 1976), poet, short-story writer, essayist, critic, editor, and professor
• Michael Golden (1971), publisher of The International Herald Tribune; Vice Chairman of The New York Times Company
• William P. Gottlieb (BS Business & Economics, 1939), jazz author and photographer
• Russell Lee (1925), photojournalist
• Edwin Lefèvre (1893), journalist, one of the first specializing in business coverage
• Erika Liodice (BS Business & Economics, 2003), novelist
• Serdar Özkan (BA Business Administration & Psychology), novelist
• David A. Randall (English, 1928), book dealer and librarian
• Len Roberts (PhD English, 1976), poet, translator, and professor
• Michael Smerconish (BA Government, 1984), author and radio commentator
• Les Whitten (BA English & Journalism, 1950), investigative reporter and novelist

Law

• Robert L. Clifford (1946), Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court
• James Cullen Ganey (1920), U.S. Federal Judge
• Ronald A. Guzman (1970), U.S. Federal Judge in Illinois
• Edwin Kneedler (1967), Deputy Solicitor General of the United States
• Malcolm Muir (1936), U.S. Federal Judge
• Donald F. Parsons (1973), Vice Chancellor of the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware
• Stephen Victor Wilson (1963), U.S. Federal Judge in California

Medicine

• Dr. Harry J. Buncke, plastic surgeon, called the "father of microsurgery"
• Dr. Steven J. Burakoff, cancer specialist; head of Mount Sinai Medical Center's Cancer Institute
• Dr. Gail Saltz, psychiatrist and TV commentator
• Dr. Sandra Welner, specialist in disabled women's healthcare

Military

• Maj. Gen. Peter Bayer (1984), US Army
• Maj. Ralph Cheli (1941), USAAF, awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for valor in World War II
• Rear Adm. Colin Kilrain (1982), US Navy SEAL, anti-terrorism expert, and military attache to Mexico^[6]
• Maj. David M. Peterson (1915), fighter ace with the Lafayette Escadrille and US Army Air Service; credited with six victories; awarded the Distinguished Service Cross twice^[7]
• Brig Gen Edwin H. Simmons USMC (1942), veteran of the Battle of Chosin Reservoir and USMC Chief Historian
• Capt. Frank "Chuck" Spinney (BS Mech. Eng, 1967), USAFR, military analyst
• Gen. John H. Tilelli, Jr. (MBA 1972), Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army

Politics

• Pongpol Adireksarn (1964), Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand
• William David Blakeslee Ainey, United States Congressman
• Ali Al-Naimi (BS Geology 1962), Saudi Arabia Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources and Chairman of Aramco
• Carville Benson (1890), United States Congressman
• William A. Collins, state representative and four-term mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut, 1977-1981 and 1983-1987
• Charlie Dent (MPA, 1993), United States Congressman
• Geoff Diehl (1992), member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
• Manuel V. Domenech (1888), Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico; Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
• Lori Ehrlich (1985), member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
• Peter D. Feaver (BA, 1983), member of the National Security Council in the Clinton and Bush administrations; professor at Duke University
• Robert L. Freeman (MA History, 1984), member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives^[8]
• Walter O. Hoffecker (1877), US House of Representatives
• Robert A. Hurley (1917), 73rd Governor of Connecticut
• Leonard Lance (BA, 1974), US House of Representatives, 2008-, NJ-7 GOP
• Norton Lewis Lichtenwalner, US House of Representatives
• Jennifer Mann (1991), member and Majority Caucus Secretary of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
• Robert Martin (MA History, 1971), New Jersey State Senator
• Paul F. McHale, Jr. (BA Government, 1972), Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and former United States Congressman.
• Sal Panto Jr. (Master's 1980), Mayor of Easton, Pennsylvania
• Rufus King Polk (1887), US House of Representatives
• Donald L. Ritter (BS Metallurgy, 1961), United States Congressman from the Fifteenth District, Pennsylvania, 1979–1993
• Richard Schmierer (1974), United States Ambassador to Oman
• David Sidikman (1956), New York State Assemblyman
• Donald William Snyder (MBA 1976), member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1981–2000; Majority Whip^[9]
• Edward J. Stack (1931), US House of Representatives
• Guy Talarico (B.S.), member of the New Jersey General Assembly^[10]
• Richard Rahul Verma (BS Industrial Engineering,1990), United States Ambassador to India
• Francis E. Walter (1916), US House of Representatives

Pulitzer Prize winners

• Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe (1886) 1925 Pulitzer Prize winner
• Joe Morgenstern (BA English, 1953), 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner

Science and engineering

• Ali Al-Naimi (BS Geology, 1962), CEO, Saudi Aramco, formerly Arabian American Oil Company, 1984–1995; Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Saudi Arabia, 1995–present
• Walter C. Bachman (1933), authority on ship propulsion and Chief Engineer at Gibbs & Cox
• John-David F. Bartoe (BS Physics 1966), Space Shuttle astronaut and ISS research manager for NASA
• Stephen James Benkovic (1960), chemist
• William Bowie (C.E. 1895), geodetic engineer; namesake of Bowie Seamount
• Morris Llewellyn Cooke (BS Mech. E., 1895), known for his rural electrification efforts in the U.S. during the 1920s and 1930s
• Paul Corkum (PhD Theoretical Physics, 1972), attosecond physics and laser science
• Albert P. Crary (MS Physics), Antarctic explorer
• Philip Drinker (Chem Eng., 1917), co-inventor of the modern respirator^[11]
• Lt. Col. Terry Hart, USAF (BS Mech. E., 1968, Hon. D.Eng., 1988), NASA Space Shuttle astronaut
• Lester Hogan (PhD Physics 1950), microwave and semiconductor pioneer
• Gary G. Lash (MS, PhD 1980), geologist known for Marcellus Shale calculations, 2011 Foreign Policy Top 100 Global Thinkers
• Nelson J. Leonard (BS Chem. E., 1937), organic chemist elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 1955. Leonard was also an accomplished bass baritone vocalist.
• Bill Maloney (1980), mine drilling expert and participant in the Plan B rescue of miners during the 2010 Chilean mine disaster
• Daniel McFarlan Moore (1889), inventor of the Moore Light, predecessor to the neon and fluorescent lamp
• William S. Murray (1895), expert in electrical power generation and electrification of railroads
• Jesse W. Reno (BS Mech Eng., 1883), builder of the world's first escalator
• Robert Serber (BS Engineering Physics, 1930), physicist who participated in the Manhattan Project
• Lewis B. Stillwell (1885), expert on electrical distribution, President of the IEEE and 1935 winner of the IEEE Edison Medal
• John Texter (1949), engineer known for his work in applied dispersion technology and small particle science
• John M. Thome (1870) Director of the Argentine National Observatory (today Observatorio Astronómico de Córdoba)
• Richard Hawley Tucker (BS Civil Eng., 1887), astronomer; namesale of Tucker Crater on the Moon
• Claude Allen Porter Turner (BS Civil Eng., 1890), developed many early reinforced concrete techniques
• Aneesh Varma (2006), founder of Aire, known for work in behavior prediction algorithms
• J. Lamar Worzel (1941), geophysicist and oceanographer
• Zhou Ming-Zhen, Chinese paleontologist, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, recipient of the Romer-Simpson Medal

Sports

• Rabih Abdullah (1998), former NFL running back for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Chicago Bears, and New England Patriots
• Joe Alleva (1975,1976G), athletics director at Louisiana State University; former the athletics director at Duke University^[12]
• Craig Anderson (1960), former MLB pitcher for the New York Mets and St. Louis Cardinals
• Lon Babby (1973), President of Phoenix Suns
• Adam Bergen (2004), National Football League tight end for Arizona Cardinals and Dallas Cowboys
• Timur Chernykh (2014), led Lehigh to first ever tennis patriot league championship in 2013, known as "the Russian legend"
• Snooks Dowd, Lehigh football star in 1918; Major League Baseball player
• John Fitch (BS Civil Eng., 1938), winner of Mille Miglia and Argentine Grand Prix^[13]
• Ben Gilman (2015), had more than 100 wins in singles and doubles on the men's tennis team
• Paul Hartzell (1976), former MLB pitcher, California Angels, Minnesota Twins, and Baltimore Orioles
• Bill Hoffman, football player
• Al Holbert (Mech. E. 1968), five-time IMSA GT Champion and member of International Motorsports Hall of Fame
• John Hill (1972), former National Football League Center for the New York Giants and New Orleans Saints
• Jarrod Johnson (1991), former National Football League Center/Offensive Guard for the Pittsburgh Steelers and San Diego Chargers
• Tim Mayer (1991), motorsports organizer and official; COO of IMSA and ALMS, ACCUS, FIA former CART official
• Matt McBride, Major League Baseball outfielder for the Colorado Rockies
• C.J. McCollum, NBA; led Lehigh to victory over Duke; first Lehigh player selected in the NBA Draft
• Kim McQuilken (1973), Lehigh football player and a former quarterback in the NFL for the Atlanta Falcons and Washington Redskins
• Rich Owens (1994), former National Football League defensive end for the Washington Redskins, Miami Dolphins, Kansas City Chiefs and Seattle Seahawks
• Vincent "Pat" Pazzetti (1912), Lehigh quarterback elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1961 and General Manager of Bethlehem Steel's Bethlehem plant
• Roger Penske (1959), NASCAR and IRL team owner; member of International Motorsports Hall of Fame
• Will Rackley (2011), National Football League offensive guard for the Jacksonville Jaguars
• Julius Seligson (1930), NCAA and ITA National Tennis Champion, Member, ITA Hall of Fame
• Scott Semptimphelter, football player
• Lake Underwood (Mech. E.), sports car racer
• Bobby Weaver (1981), gold medal winner, wrestling, 1984 Summer Olympics
• Finn Wentworth (1980), former owner of New Jersey Nets and President YankeeNets
• Adam Williamson (2005), MLS soccer player for the New England Revolution

Sociology

• Fayette Avery McKenzie (1895), prominent educator of the Progressive Era

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