More Information About List of Purdue University people
Here follows a list of notable alumni and faculty of Purdue University.
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Notable alumni
Academia
College chancellors, presidents and vice-presidents
Deans
Professors
Science and technology
Astronauts
- Neil Armstrong - Gemini 8, Apollo 11; first man to walk on the Moon
- John Blaha - STS-29, STS-33, STS-43, STS-58, STS-79, STS-81
- Roy D. Bridges - STS-51-F
- Mark N. Brown - STS-28, STS-48
- John H. Casper - STS-36, STS-54, STS-62, STS-77
- Eugene Cernan - Gemini 9A, Apollo 10, Apollo 17; most recent man to walk on the Moon
- Roger Chaffee - killed in Apollo 1 accident
- Richard O. Covey - STS-51-I, STS-26, STS-38, STS-61
- Andrew J. Feustel - STS-125
- Guy S. Gardner - STS-27, STS-35
- Virgil I. Grissom - second American in space, Gemini 3, killed in Apollo 1 accident
- Gregory J. Harbaugh - STS-39, STS-54, STS-71, STS-82
- Michael J. McCulley - STS-34
- Gary E. Payton - STS-51-C
- Jerry L. Ross - STS-61-B, STS-27, STS-37, STS-55, STS-74, STS-88, STS-110; holds the US record for spaceflights
- Mark L. Polansky - STS-98, STS-116, STS-127
- Loren J. Shriver - STS-51-C, STS-31, STS-46
- Janice E. Voss - STS-57, STS-63, STS-83, STS-94, STS-99
- Charles D. Walker - STS-41-D, STS-51-D, STS-61-B
- Mary E. Weber - STS-70, STS-101
- Donald E. Williams - STS-51-D, STS-34
- David A. Wolf - STS-58, STS-86, Mir 24, STS-89, STS-112, STS-127
Engineers
Researchers
Arts and entertainment
- George Ade - humorist
- Ted Allen - he was the food and wine connoisseur on the Bravo channel's Emmy-winning television program Queer Eye. He is a writer, author and TV Host.
- Eric Dill - musician, member of the band The Click Five
- Jim Gaffigan - comedian and actor, appeared in an episode of HBO's "Sex and the City". He is best known for his Comedy Central Presents specials, a recurring role on the show My Boys and several nationwide commercials
- Mass Giorgini - punk rock producer of bands such as Rise Against and Anti-Flag and bassist for Screeching Weasel and Squirtgun.
- Harold Gray - creator of Little Orphan Annie comic strip
- Callie Khouri - screenwriter, director, and film producer. Academy Award and Golden Globe winner.
- John T. McCutcheon - cartoonist, recipient of a Pulitzer Prize in 1931
- Karen Marie Moning - novelist
- Tom Moore - director, nominated for three Primetime Emmys. best known as the director of "'Night Mother" (with Kathy Bates and Anne Pitoniak) which won the Pulitzer prize, and for which he received his second Tony nomination, and for the original "Grease", which ran for eight years and is one of the longest running shows in the history of Broadway.
- Mark O'Hare - writer and cartoonist who has worked on various Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network programs.
- George Peppard (attended) - actor, best known for his role as John "Hannibal" Smith on The A-Team and Paul Varjak, Audrey Hepburn's love interest in Breakfast at Tiffany's
- Julian Phillips - Emmy Award winner, co-host of weekend Fox & Friends, Fox TV
- Gary Mark Smith - artist, author, master global street photographer
- Booth Tarkington - novelist
Business and industry
- Stephen Bechtel, Jr. - Chairman Emeritus and Director of Bechtel Group, Inc.
- Michael Birck - Chairman and Founder of Tellabs, Inc.
- Susan Bulkeley Butler - first female partner at Accenture and author of Become the CEO of You, Inc.
- Michael L. Eskew - Chairman and CEO, UPS
- Gen Fukunaga - President of FUNimation
- Jeffery R. Gardner - President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Operating Officer of Windstream Corporation
- Gerald D. Hines (BSME 1948) - Real estate developer and principal of Hines
- Keith J. Krach - President of 3points LLC; Co-founder of Ariba Inc., served as Chairman and CEO
- Brian Lamb - Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of C-SPAN
- Orville Redenbacher - business leader and agriculturalist, of the popcorn fame
- Donald Rice - CEO of Agensys and boardmember of Wells Fargo Bank
- Edmund Schweitzer - President of Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories
- Ruth Siems - home economist with General Foods, inventor of Stovetop Stuffing
- James A. Thomson - President and Chief Executive Officer, Rand Corporation
- Gregory Wasson - President and Chief Operating Officer, Walgreens corporation
- Paul Bevilaqua - Chief Engineer, Advanced Development Projects, Lockheed Martin Skunk Works
Government and law
Sports
Baseball
Basketball
- Mike Alstott - former NFL fullback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Purdue's all-time leading rusher
- Drew Brees - Super Bowl Champion, Super Bowl MVP, All-Pro, Pro Bowl quarterback, New Orleans Saints; Maxwell Award; 2 x Heisman Trophy Finalist
- Dave Butz - 16 year NFL Lineman with the Washington Redskins and selected to the all NFL 1980's Team
- Rosevelt Colvin - professional football player in the NFL with the Chicago Bears and New England Patriots
- Gary Danielson - former NFL quarterback; current TV announcer, College Football
- Len Dawson - Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback with the Kansas City Chiefs, Super Bowl IV MVP
- Jim Everett - Pro Bowl NFL quarterback; Saint Louis Rams, New Orleans Saints, San Diego Chargers
- Bob Griese - Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback with the Miami Dolphins; 2 x Super Bowl Champion quarterback; College Football Hall of Fame, Rose Bowl Champion quarterback
- Nick Hardwick- NFL center of the San Diego Chargers
- Mark Herrmann - former NFL quarterback with the Indianapolis Colts and San Diego Chargers
- Dustin Keller - NFL tight end of the New York Jets
- Kyle Orton - quarterback, drafted by the Chicago Bears in 2005, current Denver Broncos quarterback
- Mike Phipps - College Football Hall of Fame former NFL Quarterback, Cleveland Browns, Chicago Bears, Heisman Trophy Runner-up
- Shaun Phillips - NFL defensive end of the San Diego Chargers
- Bernard Pollard - NFL safety of the Kansas City Chiefs
- Darryl Stingley - former NFL Wide Receiver with the New England Patriots
- Hank Stram - Pro Football Hall of Fame coach of the Kansas City Chiefs
- Taylor Stubblefield - NCAA Division 1 football career receptions leader, played for the St. Louis Rams
- Rod Woodson - Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive back, 11-time Pro-Bowler (at three different positions) and former NFL cornerback
- Anthony Spencer - NFL linebacker drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in 2007.
- John Standeford - NFL wide receiver of the Detroit Lions, member of the Super Bowl XLI winning Indianapolis Colts
- Gilbert Gardner - NFL linebacker, member of the Super Bowl XLI winning Indianapolis Colts
- Matt Light - NFL left tackle of the New England Patriots; participated in Super Bowl XXXVI, XXXVIII, XXXIX, and XLII
- Curtis Painter - Reserve quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts, drafted in 2009
Olympics
Other
Notable faculty
Engineering
Science and mathematics
- Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar - Professor of Mathematics, known for his contributions to singularity theory
- Jeffrey Bennetzen - Professor of Genetics
- Carl R. de Boor - assistant professor at Purdue University, won the John Von Neumann Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 1996
- Louis de Branges de Bourcia - Professor of Mathematics, proved the Bieberbach conjecture
- Herbert C. Brown - Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 1979
- Alok R. Chaturvedi is a professor at the Department of Computer Sciences; the Director of Purdue Homeland Security Institute; and the technical lead for the Sentient World Simulation project
- Paul Erdos - Professor of Mathematics, winner of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1983/4
- Otto F. Hunziker - early head of Dairy department, supervised construction of Smith Hall
- László Lempert, Professor of mathematics, winner of Stefan Bergman Prize, 2001
- Bernard J. Liska - American food scientist
- Albert Overhauser - Professor of Physics, discovered the Overhauser Effect
- Alan Perlis - Professor of Mathematics, the first person to win the Turing Award in 1966
- Michael G. Rossmann - Professor of Biological Sciences, Member of National Academy of Sciences, mapped human common cold virus, pointed out the Rossmann fold
- Julian Schwinger - Nobel Laureate in Physics in 1965
- Eugene Spafford - Professor of Computer Science and Director of CERIAS, computer security expert
- Clarence Abiathar Waldo - Professor of Mathematics, noted for his role in defeating the Indiana Pi Bill of 1897
Other
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