List of Indiana University (Bloomington) people

This is a list of notable current and former faculty members, alumni, and non-graduating attendees of Indiana University Bloomington in Bloomington, Indiana.

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University presidents

• Andrew Wylie
• Alfred Ryors
• William Mitchel Daily
• John Hiram Lathrop
• Cyrus Nutt
• Lemuel Moss
• David Starr Jordan
• John Merle Coulter
• Joseph Swain
• William Lowe Bryan
• Herman B Wells
• Elvis Jacob Stahr, Jr.
• Joseph Sutton
• John W. Ryan
• Thomas Ehrlich
• Myles Brand
• Adam Herbert
• Michael McRobbie

Notable alumni

Academics

• R.J.Q. Adams, B.S., 1965, professor of British history at Texas A&M University
• Terry H. Anderson, Ph.D., 1978, professor of 20th century U.S. history at Texas A&M University
• Richard T. Antoun, professor emeritus of anthropology at Binghamton University
• Metin Boşnak (BA in Comparative Literature, 1990), Turkish linguist and academic
• Joseph C. Burke, former President of State University of New York at Plattsburgh, former Acting Chancellor of the State University of New York
• Keith Fitzgerald, political scientist
• Lewis C. Dowdy, Ed.D., 1965, Sixth President & First Chancellor of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
• William Dudley Geer, First Dean of the School of Business at Samford University
• Michael Harris (academic) Academic, Scholar and Academic Leader
• Israel Nathan Herstein, Ph.D., 1948, mathematician and professor at University of Chicago
• Joann Kealiinohomoku (Ph.D., 1976), anthropologist and dance researcher
• Jeanne Knoerle, former president of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and program director of the Lilly Endowment
• Elliot Sperling, Tibet scholar
• Gilbert R. Tredway, Ph.D., 1962, historian of the American Civil War
• Mark von Hagen (M.A., Slavic Languages and Literatures), director, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Arizona State University
• Aldred Scott Warthin, pathologist, "father of cancer genetics"
• Margaret K. Butler, mathematician specializing in computer software

Arts and humanities

• Lyndall Bass, artist, shield cent designer
• Tony Aiello, broadcast journalist
• Ismail al-Faruqi, philosopher and epistemologist
• David Anspaugh, movie director
• Howard Ashman, playwright and lyricist
• Radley Balko, journalist and writer
• Jonathan Banks, actor, "Mike Ehrmantraut" of Breaking Bad
• Mike Barz, broadcast journalist
• Betty Jane Belanus (Ph.D, Folklore), employee of and curator of several Smithsonian Folklife Festival Programs
• Daniel Bourne, poet
• Jan Harold Brunvand, American folklorist, one of the best-known researchers and anthologists of urban legends. Earned PhD in folklore.
• Elliott Baker, author, screenwriter, Emmy Award winner
• Joe Buck, sportscaster, multiple Emmy Award winner
• Meg Cabot, author The Princess Diaries
• David Chalmers, leading philosopher in the area of philosophy of mind
• Sarah Clarke, actress
• Suzanne Collins, television writer and novelist
• Robert Coover, author
• Laverne Cox, actress and television producer
• John Crowley, science fiction author, author of The Deep and Little, Big
• Alan Roger Currie, author, public speaker, radio personality
• Matthew Daddario, actor, "Alec Lightwood" of Shadowhunters
• Theodore Dreiser, author (flunked out)
• Michel duCille, photographer, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
• Dick Enberg, sportscaster, 13-time Emmy Award winner
• Scott Ferrall, sports talk radio host
• John M. Ford, poet and science fiction author
• Tom French, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, St. Petersburg Times
• Jennifer Grotz, award-winning poet
• David C. Giuntoli, actor
• Joseph Hayes, playwright, novelist
• Don Herold, author, humorist and illustrator
• Edward D. Ives, folklorist
• Andreas Katsulas, actor
• Debra A. Kemp, author of Arthurian literature, such as The Firebrand
• Charles Kimbrough, actor
• Kevin Kline, Oscar-winning actor
• Michael Koryta, novelist
• Mark Lavie, journalist
• Ross Lockridge, Jr., author of Raintree County
• Bienvenido Lumbera, poet, critic, playwright, Ramon Magsaysay Award winner and National Artist of the Philippines
• Lee Majors, actor.
• Don Mellett, 1914, journalist, newspaper editor, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Gene Miller, journalist, editor, two time Pulitzer Prize winner
• Arian Moayed, Tony-nominated actor, co-founder of Waterwell and writer/director
• Ryan Murphy Golden Globe winning television producer (Nip/Tuck)
• Anthony Napoleon, Ph.D., Forensic Psychologist, Legal Analyst, Author
• Dave Niehaus, broadcaster, Seattle Mariners
• Nicole Parker, actress
• Jane Pauley, broadcaster
• Angelo Pizzo, screenwriter, producer, director
• Ernie Pyle, journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1944
• Catt Sadler, television personality on E! Entertainment Television
• Scott Schuman, photographer and blogger
• Alexander Shimkin, Vietnam war correspondent
• Will Shortz, puzzle maker (enigmatologist)
• Ranveer Singh, Bollywood actor
• Tavis Smiley, National Public Radio and Public Television host
• Gary Snyder, poet and environmental activist, Pulitzer Prize winner (did not graduate)
• Lucy A. Snyder, author
• Brian Stack, actor, Late Night with Conan O'Brien
• Sage Steele, ESPN sports anchor
• Jeri Taylor, screenwriter and television producer (Star Trek)
• Nancy Weaver Teichert, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter
• Michael Uslan, film producer (Batman)
• Herb Vigran, actor
• Clark Wissler, anthropology pioneer

Business

• Klaus Agthe, former Chairman and CEO of ASEA Brown Boveri
• John Bitove, Chairman & CEO of XM Canada, Priszm and Scott's REIT, founder Toronto Raptors(NBA)
• John Chambers, president and CEO of Cisco Systems
• Gayle Cook, co-founder of the Cook Group.
• Mark Cuban, technology entrepreneur, Dallas Mavericks owner, co-founder of Broadcast.com with Todd Wagner in 1995.
• William S. Dalton, current CEO of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
• Jared Fogle, former spokesman for Subway sandwich chain
• Lance de Masi - President of the American University in Dubai
• Donald Fehr, managing director, Major League Baseball Players Association
• E. W. Kelley, former chairman of Steak 'n Shake
• Harold Arthur Poling, retired chairman and CEO of Ford Motor Company
• Frank Popoff, retired Chairman and CEO of Dow Chemical Company
• Patty Stonesifer, Former CEO, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Currently Chairwoman, Smithsonian Institution.
• Todd Wagner, CEO of 2929 Entertainment; founder of Todd Wagner Foundation; co-founder of Broadcast.com with Mark Cuban in 1995.
• Jimmy Wales, former CEO of Bomis, co-founder of Wikipedia, president of the Wikimedia Foundation (did not graduate)
• Conrad Jackson, IPO Facilitator

Music

• Kenny Aronoff, drummer
• Jamey Aebersold, jazz educator
• Emilie Autumn, gothic violinist and singer
• David Baker, jazz composer
• Noah Bendix-Balgley, violinist, concertmaster of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 1st concertmaster of Berlin Philharmonic
• Klara Barlow, operatic soprano
• Joshua Bell, Grammy Award-winning concert violinist
• Jonathan Biss, pianist, professor at Curtis Institute of Music
• Chris Botti, Grammy Award-winning jazz trumpeter
• Cary Boyce, composer
• Michael Brecker, jazz saxophonist
• Angela Brown, soprano
• Lawrence Brownlee, operatic tenor
• Angelin Chang, Grammy Award-winning classical pianist
• Hoagy Carmichael, songwriter and actor
• Jim Cornelison, tenor
• John Clayton, jazz and classical bassist, composer and arranger
• Peter Erskine, jazz drummer and educator
• Miriam Fried, violinist and pedagogue, professor at New England Conservatory, winner of Queen Elisabeth Music Competition
• Vivica Genaux, mezzo soprano
• Tom Gullion, jazz saxophonist
• Jeff Hamilton, jazz drummer
• Margaret Harshaw, mezzo-soprano and soprano at Metropolitan Opera
• Hu Nai-yuan, violinist, winner of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels.
• Booker T. Jones, songwriter, producer
• Paul Katz, cellist, founding member of Cleveland Quartet, professor at New England Conservatory
• Charles Kullman, tenor and chair of voice department at Metropolitan Opera
• Sylvia McNair, internationally acclaimed soprano
• Edgar Meyer, Grammy Award-winning bassist, a MacArthur Fellow, professor at Curtis Institute of Music
• Shawn Pelton, session drummer
• Larry Ridley, jazz bassist and music educator
• Leonard Slatkin, composer and conductor, music director of Detroit Symphony Orchestra and BBC Symphony Orchestra
• Eileen Strempel, soprano and educator
• Michael Sweeney, concert band and jazz composer
• Michael Weiss, jazz pianist, composer and educator
• Pharez Whitted, jazz trumpet and composer
• Pete Wilhoit, jazz and rock drummer and percussionist
• Straight No Chaser, a cappella group at IU 1996-1999; re-Formed in 2008.

Politics and government

• Arthur C. Mellette, former Governor of South Dakota
• Jerry Abramson, former Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky
• Selim al-Hoss, former Prime Minister of Lebanon
• Michael Badnarik, Libertarian Party 2004 presidential candidate
• Birch Bayh, former U.S. Senator
• Evan Bayh, former U.S. Senator and governor of Indiana
• James B. Bullard, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis
• E. Jocob Crull, Montana State Representative and colonel who was Jennette Rankin 's (first female member of the U.S. Congress) chief primary rival
• LeRoy Edgar Burney, Surgeon General of the United States
• Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense, Director of Central Intelligence, National Security Council member
• Lee H. Hamilton (J.D. '56), Homeland Security Advisory Council, co-chair of the Iraq Study Group, vice chair of the 9/11 Commission, U.S. Representative
• Charles Abraham Halleck, member of the United States Congress; was House Majority Leader and Minority Leader
• Michael D. Higgins, Ninth President of Ireland
• Victor Jackovich, first U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia and Hercegovina; later became U.S. Ambassador to Slovenia
• William E. Jenner, former U.S. Senator
• Charles Peter Kennedy, British MP, Liberal Democrats leader
• Frank McCloskey, mayor of Bloomington, Indiana, U.S. Representative
• William Alexander Parsons Martin, American Presbyterian missionary to China and translator
• Sherman Minton, United States Supreme Court Justice and U.S. Senator
• Richard Monroe Miles, Ambassador to Georgia, Bulgaria, United States Ambassador to Serbia and Azerbaijan
• Frank O'Bannon, governor of Indiana
• Patrick O. O'Meara, author of Southern Africa in Crisis with Gwendolen M. Carter
• Paul O'Neill, Secretary of the Treasury
• Dennie Oxley former Indiana state representative and Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Indiana
• Rod Paige, Secretary of Education
• Wiley Rutledge, United States Supreme Court Justice (attended, but did not graduate from the School of Law)
• Newell Sanders, U.S. Senator
• Feisal al-Istrabadi, former Iraqi politician and ambassador to the United Nations (2004-2007).
• Salman Shah, Caretaker Minister of Finance, Pakistan
• Edgar Whitcomb, governor of Indiana
• Wendell Willkie, Republican 1940 presidential candidate
• Kenneth W. Winters, Republican member of the Kentucky State Senate from Murray
• Deepender Singh Hooda, member of the Lok Sabha

Science and technology

• Samuel LaBudde, Goldman Award winning environmentalist and biologist
• Carl Otto Lampland, astronomer
• Wardell Pomeroy, sexologist
• Jamie Hyneman, special effects expert best known for being the co-host of the television series MythBusters
• Vesto Slipher, astronomer
• John T. Thompson, military officer, supervised development of the M1903 Springfield rifle and the M1911 pistol, inventor of the Thompson submachine gun
• Mansukh C. Wani, cancer researcher, discoverer of Taxol
• James D. Watson, DNA researcher, author of The Double Helix, winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Scott A. Jones, an inventor and serial entrepreneur, widely known for inventing voicemail systems

Sports

Main article: Indiana Hoosiers

Other

• Jan Crull Jr., enigmatic documentary filmmaker and attorney; was a Ph.D. student in English Language and Literature in the late 1970s; dropped out
• Emily Harris, a founding member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
• Jim Jones, Peoples Temple founder, cult leader and mass murderer [1]
• Maxine Mesinger (gossip columnist)
• Norris W. Overton, U.S. Air Force Brigadier General
• Jeff Sagarin, statistician and creator of the various Sagarin Rating Systems [2]
• James Johnston Thornton, lawyer, Military Reconstruction Judge, land developer

Notable faculty

Former notable faculty

• Yuri Bregel, one of the pioneers of Central Asian Historical Studies in the West.
• Lynton K. Caldwell, principal architect of the 1969 National Environmental Policy Act
• Robert Daniel Carmichael, mathematician and discoverer of Carmichael numbers
• Richard Dorson, folklorist
• Frank K. Edmondson, astronomer
• Denis Sinor, historian, former professor of Cambridge University, Central Asia scholar
• Carl H. Eigenmann, an ichthyologist who described over 150 species of fish with wife Rosa Smith Eigenmann
• Eileen Farrell, famous opera and concert singer, later professor of music at IU
• J. Rufus Fears, David Ross Boyd Professor of Classics and G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty. The University of Oklahoma,
• Paul Gebhard, anthropologist who later became part of Alfred Kinsey's original research team
• Josef Gingold, violin teacher and founder of the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis
• Paul Hillier, choral conductor (most notably of Theatre of Voices)
• David Starr Jordan, ichthyologist, educator and peace activist, and founding President of Stanford University
• Alfred Kinsey, pioneer of the academic discipline of sexology in the United States, founder of the Kinsey Institute and author of the Kinsey Reports
• Daniel Kirkwood, astronomer famous for his work on asteroids, discoverer of Kirkwood gaps
• Bob Knight, head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team from 1971 to 2000
• Yusef Komunyakaa, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet
• John P. Lewis, economist, Economic Adviser appointed by John F. Kennedy
• Alfred R. Lindesmith, sociologist, author of The Addict and the Law
• Salvador Luria, pioneer of molecular biology, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine
• Hermann Joseph Muller, geneticist, zoologist and winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine
• Thubten Jigme Norbu, Buddhist monk and professor of Central Eurasian Studies; elder brother of the Dalai Lama
• Elinor Ostrom, Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, co-recipient of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
• Richard Owen, professor of natural sciences, second state geologist of Indiana, first president of Purdue University
• Vikram Pandit, CEO Citigroup
• Edward Alsworth Ross, sociologist, educator, and President of the American Sociological Society who crusaded against unfair labor practices against Chinese immigrants and was indirectly responsible for the establishment of the tenure system
• Thomas A. Sebeok, semiotician
• Gyorgy Sebok, pianist
• B.F. Skinner, psychologist, pioneer of operant conditioning model
• János Starker, cellist
• Edwin Sutherland, one of the most influential criminologists of the 20th century
• James Alexander Thom, novelist, writer of historical fiction
• Stith Thompson, folklorist
• Kenneth P. Williams, mathematician and historian, author of Lincoln Finds a General
• Iannis Xenakis, composer
• Jerry Yeagley, coach of the Indiana Hoosiers men's soccer team from 1974 to 2003 with an NCAA record 544 wins
• Virginia Zeani, world-famous operatic soprano
• Max August Zorn, mathematician and originator of Zorn's lemma

Current notable faculty

• Martina Arroyo, operatic soprano
• David Baker, notable jazz cellist and educator
• Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, applied linguist
• Willis Barnstone, poet and translator
• Marcia Baron, Rudy Professor of Philosophy
• Joshua Bell, Grammy Award-winning violinist
• Matei Călinescu, Romanian literary critic and author of Five Faces of Modernity
• James Campbell, clarinetist
• Raymond J. DeMallie, anthropologist
• Richard DiMarchi, Linda & Jack Gill Chair in Biomolecular Sciences, played an integral part in the creation of humalog, the first synthetic insulin analog.
• R. Kent Dybvig, computer scientist, creator of Chez Scheme
• Eli Eban, clarinetist and professor of music
• Michelle Facos, art historian
• Daniel P. Friedman, computer scientist
• George M. von Furstenberg, economist
• Henry Glassie, folklorist, author; former member of President's Council for the Humanities
• Susan Gubar, literary scholar of feminist theory and literature written by women
• Douglas Hofstadter, Pulitzer prize winner, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach, an IU professor of Cognitive Science, among other things.
• Dawn Johnsen, President Barack Obama's nominee for Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel.
• Lewis Kaplan, violinist, co-founder of the Bowdoin International Music Festival, professor at Juilliard School
• Jaime Laredo, Grammy Award-winning violinist and conductor
• Maurice Manning, Poet
• Sylvia McNair, Grammy Award-winning soprano
• John Holmes McDowell, Professor of Folklore Studies, Latin American Studies Scholar
• James Naremore, film scholar
• James L. Perry, Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs
• Menahem Pressler, pianist of Beaux Arts Trio fame
• Scott Russell Sanders, essayist
• Sven-David Sandström, composer
• Nazif Shahrani, anthropologist, professor of Central Eurasian Studies
• Elliot Sperling, scholar of Tibet
• Olaf Sporns, professor of Cognitive Science, Psychology, and Neuroscience, worked at the Neurosciences Institute' [3]
• Raymond Smullyan, philosophy professor emeritus, logician, mathematician
• Giorgio Tozzi, operatic bass and actor
• Carol Vaness, soprano
• David Ward-Steinman, composer
• André Watts, Grammy Award-winning classical pianist