List of University of Delaware people
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The following is a list of University of Delaware people, which includes UD alumni, current and former UD faculty, and recipients of UD honorary degrees.
Contents
Alumni
Business
- Kurt Akeley - computer graphics engineer
- Mary Pat Christie - investment banker
- John P. Costas – CEO, UBS Investment Bank
- Michael F. Koehler - Chief Executive Officer, Teradata
- Arthur Gray Magness – real estate developer
- Adam Osborne - computing pioneer
- Larry Probst - Chairman of the Board, Electronic Arts (Formerly CEO); Chairman of the U.S. Olympic Committee and member of the International Olympic Committee
- Ömer Sabancı - Turkish businessman
- Carl Truscott - Senior Vice President, ASERO Worldwide
Authors
- Steve Alten – science fiction author
- Peter Bailey – author
- Jarret Brachman – terrorism author
- Paul Cherry - business author
- Edward Ezell – author
- Maureen Johnson - author
Artists
- Michael Barone - art photographer
- Craig Cutler - photographer
- Tim Kreider - cartoonist
Politics
- Thurman Adams, Jr. – Democratic member of the Delaware Senate[1]
- L. Heisler Ball – U.S. Senator and U.S. Congressman
- Jo Anne B. Barnhart – Commissioner of Social Security
- Jill Biden (B.A. 1976, D.Ed. 2007) – educator and Second Lady of the United States as the wife of Vice President of the United States Joe Biden
- Joe Biden (B.A. 1965) – Vice President of the United States of America, former U.S. Senator, former chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
- J. Caleb Boggs – U.S. Senator, U.S. Congressman, Governor of Delaware
- John F. Brady – Delaware politician
- David P. Buckson – Delaware politician
- Eric Buckson – Commissioner, Kent County Levy Court
- Daniel E. Button – U.S. Congressman
- Theophilus C. Callicot – Politician
- Thomas R. Carper – U.S. Senator, U.S. Congressman, and Governor of Delaware
- Christopher Christie – Governor of New Jersey
- Thomas Clayton – U.S. Senator and U.S. Congressman
- Carl Danberg – Delaware Attorney General and Commissioner of the Delaware Department of Correction
- Reha Denemeç – co-founder and deputy chairman (research and development) of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) in Turkey
- Kendel Sibiski Ehrlich – First Lady of Maryland
- J. Allen Frear, Jr. – U.S. Senator
- Don B. Hughes – Maryland State Delegate
- Horace G. Knowles – diplomat
- Thomas McKean – signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Louis McLane – U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
- Louise Mushikiwabo – Rwandan Foreign Minister
- David Plouffe – campaign manager of the Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008, political consultant, senior advisor to the president
- George Read – signer of the Declaration of Independence
- George R. Riddle – U.S. Senator and U.S. Congressman
- Caesar Rodney – signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Steve Schmidt – campaign manager of the John McCain presidential campaign, 2008 (attended but did not graduate)
- James Smith – signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Nick Smith – U.S. Congressman from Michigan
Entertainment
- Susan Barnett – KYW-TV news anchor
- Sheena Benton – Miss Delaware USA 2005
- Rebecca Bledsoe – Miss Delaware 2005
- Nicole Bosso – Miss Delaware USA 2007
- Colleen Broomall – actress
- Vincenza Carrieri-Russo - Miss Delaware USA 2008, Miss Delaware United States 2014
- Neil Casey - actor, comedian, writer
- Tommy Conwell - rock musician
- Junnie Cross – Miss Delaware 2000
- Antje Duvekot - singer/songwriter
- John Faye - rock musician
- Bryan Gordon - television and film director
- Suzanne Graff – actress
- Steve Harris -actor
- Page Kennedy - actor
- Amanda Longacre - Miss Delaware 2014
- Mark McClafferty - film and television producer and writer
- Matt O'Donnell - WPVI morning anchorman
- Marvell Scott - sports reporter for WABC-TV
- Susan Stroman - Broadway director, choreographer, performer
Education
- John L. Anderson - President of Illinois Institute of Technology
- Jill Tracy Biden - Professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College, Second Lady of the United States
- David L. Chicoine - President of South Dakota State University
- Lawrence A. Cunningham – scholar, author, and the Henry St. George Tucker III Research Professor of Law at George Washington University
- Rakesh Jain - professor of tumor biology at Harvard Medical School
- Steven Leath - President of Iowa State University
- Mary Patterson McPherson - former President of Bryn Mawr College
- James W. Wagner - President of Emory University
Judicial
- William B. Chandler, III - Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery
- Hugh M. Morris - Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
- Leonard Stark - Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
- Leo E. Strine, Jr. - Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery
- John E. Wallace, Jr. - Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court
Journalism
- Peter Bailey – journalist
- Katherine Boehret – journalist
- Colleen Broomall – journalist
- Jeff Pearlman - journalist
Military
- Charles Craig Cannon – United States Army officer who served as Aide-de-camp to Dwight D. Eisenhower after World War II
- John M. Custer III – United States Army officer
- Joseph H. Harper - World War II airborne officer, who later commanded the United States Army Infantry School
- Robert W. Kirkwood - American Revolutionary War officer
- Julian Smith - World War II United States Marine Corps General
Science
- Rakesh Agrawal - National Medal of Technology and Innovation Laureate and Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University
- Brian Atwater – geologist
- Terrell Ward Bynum – Director of the Research Center on Computing and Society at Southern Connecticut State University, Professor of Philosophy
- Carole Chaski – forensic linguist
- Roger Craig - computer scientist and Jeopardy! champion
- Robert W. Gore - inventor of Gore-Tex fabrics
- Walter Lafferty - optical physicist
- David L. Mills - Internet pioneer
- Daniel Nathans - biologist and Nobel Prize winner
- Peter Thejll - astrophysicist and climate expert
- Lodewijk van den Berg - astronaut
Sports
- Mike Adams - professional football player
- Robbie Agnone – football player
- Matt Alrich – lacrosse player
- Petar Arsić – basketball player
- Josh Baker – football player
- Bryan Barrett – Lacrosse player
- Urban Bowman – American football and Canadian football coach
- Scott Brunner - football player
- Michael Byrne – football player
- Bob Carpenter, Jr. - former owner of the Philadelphia Phillies
- Brennan Carroll – football coach
- Larry Catuzzi – football coach
- Chris Collins – lacrosse player
- Bill Cubit - football Coach
- Mondoe Davis – football and Canadian football player
- Richard Dean - fashion and advertising photographer, former player for Canadian Football League
- Elena Delle Donne – WNBA player with the Chicago Sky; played basketball and volleyball at Delaware
- Pat Devlin - quarterback for the NFL Miami Dolphins
- Anthony DiMarzo – lacrosse player
- Leon Dombrowski - football player
- Marc Egerson – basketball player
- Jamin Elliott – football player
- Joe Flacco - football player
- Eric Fromm – tennis player
- Keevin Galbraith – lacrosse player
- Rich Gannon - football player / NFL analyst CBS Sports
- Gino Gradkowski – football player
- John Grant, Jr. - lacrosse player
- Dallas Green - MLB player and manager
- Scott Green - NFL referee
- Bob Greene - fitness guru
- Andy Hall - football player
- Jordan Hall – lacrosse player
- Conway Hayman - football player
- Mickey Heinecken – football coach
- Tim Jacobs – football player
- Cindy A. Johnson – basketball player
- Dennis Johnson – football player
- Greg Justice – football player
- K. C. Keeler – football coach
- Jeff Komlo - football player
- Mike Koplove - MLB player
- Kęstutis Marčiulionis – basketball player
- Joe McGrail – football player
- Joe McHale – football player
- Tom Mees - ESPN anchor
- Kevin Mench - baseball player
- Joe Minucci – football player
- Jeff Modesitt – football player
- Matt Nagy – football player and coach
- Harding Nana –basketball player
- Al Neiger – baseball player
- Mohamed Niang – basketball player
- Ben Patrick - football player
- Bob Patton – football player
- Mike Pegues – basketball player and coach
- Jim Quirk – football official
- Raven (born Scott Levy) - professional wrestler
- David Raymond - original Phillie Phanatic
- Dan Reeder – football player
- George Schmitt – football player
- Alex Smith - lacrosse player
- Tyresa Smith – basketball player
- Tony Storti – football coach and college athletics administrator
- Jon Striefsky – football player
- Ivory Sully – football player
- Joe Susan – football coach
- Sobhan Tadjalli – soccer player
- Ronald Talley – football player
- Hal Thompson - football player
- Anthony Walters – football player
- Richard Washington – football player
- Vic Willis - Hall of Fame baseball player
- Paul Worrilow - football player
Honorary degree recipients
- Byong Man Ahn – 2004 – academic[2]
- Robert Ballard - 2001 - oceanographer, discoverer of the RMS Titanic[2]
- Joseph Biden - 2004 - Vice President of the United States, former United States Senator (D-Delaware)[3]
- Edward G. Boehne - 2001 - President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia[2]
- John C. Bogle - 1999 - founder and CEO of The Vanguard Group[2]
- Ben Carson, M.D. - 1997 - neurosurgeon[2]
- Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. - 2002 - business historian[2]
- Rita R. Colwell - 2003 - former Director of the National Science Foundation[2]
- William B. DeLauder - 2005 - former president of Delaware State University[4]
- Louis Freeh - 1999 - former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)[2]
- Adrian Hall - 2007 - British actor, thespian[5]
- Daisaku Ikeda - 2000 - Buddhist religious leader, President of Soka Gakkai International[2]
- Paul R. Jones - 2004 - art collector, Paul R. Jones Collection of African American Art[6]
- Audrey F. Manley - 2002 - former United States Surgeon General; President of Spelman College[2]
- Geoffrey Marcy - 2004 - astronomer, discoverer of the first extrasolar planet, 51 Pegasi b[7]
- J. W. Marriott, Jr. - 2005 - Marriott International[8]
- Mary McAleese - 2002 - President of Ireland[9]
- George J. Mitchell - 2003 - Former United States Senator (D-Maine)[2]
- Joseph Neubauer - 2006 - CEO of ARAMARK [10]
- Russell W. Peterson - 2006 - former Governor of Delaware, scientist [11]
- Martin A. Pomerantz - 2001 - physicist and astronomer[2]
- Cal Ripken Jr. - 2008 - baseball player [12]
- William V. Roth - 2003 - former United States Senator (R-Delaware)[2]
- W.D. Snodgrass - 2005 - poet[13]
- Walter K. Stapleton - 1998 - Federal Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit [2]
- Susan Stroman - 2005 - Tony Award-winning Broadway director, choreographer, film director, and performer.[14]
- E. Norman Veasey - 2003 - Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court[2]
- Craig Venter - 2004 - biologist, founder of The Institute for Genomic Research[15]
- Paul A. Volcker - 2001 - former Chairman of the Federal Reserve[2]
- John J. Williams - 1975 - former United States Senator (R-Delaware)[2]
- Jamie Wyeth - 2002 - realist painter[2]
Faculty
- Gene Ball - Computer Science
- Allen Barnett - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Ralph Begleiter - Communications & Political Science, Distinguished Journalist in Residence
- John Byrne - Distinguished Professor of Energy & Climate Policy and director of UD's Center for Energy and Environmental Policy
- Xiang Gao - world-class violinist
- Linda Gottfredson - Educational Psychology
- Richard Hanley - Philosophy
- Donald West Harward - Philosophy, former president of Bates College
- Richard F. Heck - Chemistry, discoverer of Heck reaction, 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Laureate
- William Innes Homer - Art History
- Muqtedar Khan - Political Science
- Mark Samuels Lasner - Senior Research Fellow
- David Legates - Climatology
- Leo Lemay - English
- David L. Mills - Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Frederick Nelson - Professor of Geography and Director of University of Delaware's Permafrost Group
- David L. Norton - Philosophy
- R. Byron Pipes - Mechanical Engineering
- William Poole - Economics; former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; scholar in residence; former professor at Brown University and Johns Hopkins University
- Martin Postle - Art History
- Ramnarayan Rawat - History
- Arnold L. Rheingold - Chemistry
- W. David Sincoskie - Computer Engineering
- David Smith - Biology
- Jacob Joseph Taubenhaus - Plant Pathology (1909 to 1916)
- Charles Tilly - social scientist
- Don A. J. Upham - Mathematics; owner and editor of the The Delaware Gazette for three years[16]
- Shien Biau Woo - Physics and Astronomy, former Lieutenant Governor of Delaware
- Ben Yagoda - English
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