List of Case Western Reserve University people

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This is a list of notable individuals associated with Case Western Reserve University, including students, alumni, and faculty.

Arts, journalism and entertainment[]

Directors Anthony Russo and Joe Russo have directed world-famous blockbusters Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.
Actor Rich Sommer appeared in Mad Men and The Devil Wears Prada.
  • Barbara Allyne Bennet – actress and member of Screen Actors Guild (SAG) national board of directors (2005–2007)[1]
  • James Card – longtime film curator at George Eastman House
  • Mary Carruthers – among the world's foremost scholars on medieval religious literature
  • Brenda Miller Cooper – operatic soprano
  • Franklin Cover – actor, Tom Willis in The Jeffersons
  • Jasmine Cresswell – best-selling author of over 50 romance novels
  • Anu Garg - author and speaker
  • Susie Gharib – co-anchor of Nightly Business Report
  • Gregg Gillis – musician; performs as Girl Talk
  • Dorothy Hart - film actress of 1940s and '50s
  • Jan Hopkins – journalist (CNN financial news show Street Sweep)
  • John Howard – actor, known for The Philadelphia Story and Bulldog Drummond films
  • M. Scott Peck – author of The Road Less Traveled and other self-help books
  • Harvey Pekar-comic book writer. Creator of American Splendor.
  • Jack Perkins – dubbed "America's most literate correspondent" by Associated Press; reporter, commentator, war correspondent, anchorman; seen on NBC's Nightly News and The Today Show, and on A&E as host of Biography
  • Alan Rosenberg – actor; played Ira Woodbine on TV series Cybill; Emmy-nominated for guest appearance on ER; elected president of Screen Actors Guild in 2005
  • Joe Russo and Anthony Russo – brothers, co-alumni, and directors of films Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Welcome to Collinwood, and TV series Arrested Development; producers of NBC's Community[2]
  • Alix Kates Shulman – author of Memoir of an Ex-Prom Queen and To Love What Is[3]
  • Rich Sommer – MFA theater alumnus; appeared in The Devil Wears Prada, Mad Men, and with Upright Citizens Brigade
  • Thrity Umrigar – journalist; author of Bombay Time
  • Andrew Vachss – lawyer and child protection consultant; author of the series
  • Roger Zelazny – science fiction and fantasy author; three-time Nebula Award winner and six-time Hugo Award winner; works include Lord of Light, Eye of Cat, and The Dream Master

Business and philanthropy[]

Craig Newmark (BS '75, MS '77), tech billionaire, philanthropist, founder of Craigslist
Richard Thaler (BA '67), one of the founders of behavioral economics and recipient of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics
Main article: Weatherhead School of Management

Education[]

  • Edna Allyn, first librarian of the Hawaii State Library
  • – youngest president in the history of Kent State University
  • Clara Breed, librarian, known for her "Dear Miss Breed" correspondence with children in Japanese American internment camps during World War II
  • Emile B. De Sauzé, language educator known for developing the conversational method of learning a language
  • Susan Helper, Frank Tracy Carlton Professor of Economics at the Weatherhead School of Management
  • Lena Beatrice Morton, literary scholar, head of the humanities division at Texas College; earned her PhD from Case Western in 1947

Government and military[]

Dennis Kucinich, U.S. Representative (1997-2013) and U.S. presidential candidate (2004 and 2008)
Don Thomas, former NASA Astronaut. (Physics BS '73)
Elioda Tumwesigye, Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister of Science Technology & Innovation, Republic of Uganda

History[]

Law[]

Main article: Case Western Reserve University School of Law
See Notable Graduates section
Attorney Fred Gray represented Rosa Parks, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and the Tuskegee syphilis experiment victims in his career. He marched in Selma to Montgomery.
  • John Hessin Clarke, undergraduate class of 1877, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
  • Fred Gray, attorney to the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s, later President of the National Bar Association and first African-American President of the Alabama State Bar
  • Edmund A. Sargus, Jr., U.S. District Court Judge
  • James Sokolove, undergraduate class of 1966, pioneer in legal television advertising; philanthropist

Science, technology, and medicine[]

Main article: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Case alum Herbert Henry Dow, founder of Dow Chemical
Julie Gerberding, former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
John J.R. Macleod, 1923 Nobel Prize winner for discovering insulin and Western Reserve University Professor of Physiology
Ferid Murad, 1998 Nobel Laureate and Case Medical School MD/PhD alumnus
David Satcher, former Surgeon General of the United States
  • Peter B. Armentrout – distinguished chemistry professor, University of Utah
  • M. Jamal Deen, CM - Order of Canada and Senior Canada Research Chair in Information Technology at McMaster University[7]
  • Roger Bacon – inventor of carbon fiber
  • Hans Baumann – inventor and engineer[8]
  • Paul Berg – winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for biochemical characterization of recombinant DNA
  • Paul Buchheit – 23rd employee of Google and creator of Gmail
  • Neil W. Chamberlain – economist and industrial relations scholar (A.B., 1937; M.A., 1939)
  • Philippe G. Ciarlet – mathematician known for work on finite element method; received his Ph.D. from the Case Institute of Technology 1966 and was awarded the Légion d'honneur in 1999
  • Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez – biomedical engineer who works on scaffolds for tissue regeneration
  • Conor P. Delaney – colorectal surgeon known for laparoscopy and developing enhanced recovery pathways
  • Herbert Henry Dow – founder of Dow Chemical
  • Slayton A. Evans, Jr. – research chemist and professor
  • Xyla Foxlin – engineer, entrepreneur and YouTuber[9]
  • H. Jack Geiger – founding member and past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility and Physicians for Human Rights
  • Julie Gerberding – first woman director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Alfred G. Gilman – co-winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for co-discovery of G proteins
  • Donald A. Glaser – winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics, for invention of the bubble chamber
  • Millicent Goldschmidt - microbiologist, worked on NASA Lunar Receiving Laboratory and University of Texas
  • Corneille Heymans – winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on carotid sinus reflex
  • Siegfried S. Hecker – director of Los Alamos National Laboratory (1986–1997)
  • Samuel Hibben – pioneer in blacklight technology; designed the lighting displays for the Statue of Liberty and other national monuments
  • Bambang Hidayat - astronomer, former Vice-President of the International Astronomical Union
  • George H. Hitchings – co-winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for research leading to development of drugs to treat leukemia, organ transplant rejection, gout, herpes virus, and AIDS-related bacterial and pulmonary infections
  • Robert W. Kearns – the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper systems used on most automobiles from 1969 to the present. Kearns won one of the best-known patent infringement cases against a major corporation
  • Donald Knuth – computer scientist and winner of the Turing Award (1974)[10]
  • Lawrence M. Krauss – physicist in the field of dark energy; bestselling author (The Physics of Star Trek)
  • Polykarp Kusch – winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics, for determining the magnetic moment of the electron
  • George Trumbull Ladd (1842–1921) – philosopher, educator, and psychologist; first foreigner to receive the Second (conferred in 1907) and Third (conferred in 1899) Orders of the Rising Sun
  • Paul C. Lauterbur – co-winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for discoveries leading to creation of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Matthew N. Levy – cardiac physiologist and textbook author
  • John J.R. Macleod – co-winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for discovery of insulin
  • Sidney Wilcox McCuskey – astronomer noted for his work on the Milky Way galaxy
  • Drew Meyer- John Teagle Professorial Fellow in Chemistry
  • Albert A. Michelson – winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physics, for disproving existence of "ether"; first American to receive a Nobel Prize
  • Edward Morley – performed interferometry experiment with Michelson
  • Ferid Murad – co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for role in the discovery of nitric oxide in cardiovascular signaling
  • George A. Olah – winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for contributions to carbocation chemistry
  • Amit Patel – stem cell surgeon who demonstrated stem cell transplantation can treat congestive heart failure
  • Raymond Stanton Patton (Ph.B.), engineer, rear admiral and first flag officer of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps and second Director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (1929-1937)
  • M. Scott Peck – psychiatrist and author of The Road Less Traveled
  • David Pedlar — Director of Research at the National Headquarters of Veterans Affairs Canada
  • James Polshek – architect; designed William J. Clinton Presidential Library
  • Edward C. Prescott – co-winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, for theory on business cycles and economic policies
  • Charles Burleigh Purvis - (1865) leading physician at Howard University and the Freedmen's Hospital
  • Frederick Reines – co-winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics, for the detection of the neutrino
  • Barry Richmond – developer of the iThink simulation environment
  • Frederick C. Robbins – co-winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for work on polio virus, which led to development of polio vaccines; past president of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences
  • M. Frank Rudy – inventor of the Nike air sole
  • John Ruhl – physicist currently studying cosmic microwave background radiation
  • David Satcher – U.S. Surgeon General under President Clinton; first African-American director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Terry Sejnowski - pioneer in the field of neural networks and computational neuroscience; one of only ten living scientists to have been elected to all three national academies (IOM, NAS and NAE)
  • Jesse Leonard Steinfeld – U.S. Surgeon General (1969-1973), noted for achieving widespread fluoridation of water, requiring prescription drugs to be effective, and strengthening the Surgeon General's warning on cigarettes
  • Earl W. Sutherland – winner of 1971 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for establishing identity and importance of cyclic AMP in regulation of cell metabolism
  • Lars Georg Svensson - instrumental in the development of minimally invasive keyhole surgery and leader in aortic valve surgery
  • Peter Tippett – developer of the first anti-virus software, "Vaccine" (later sold and renamed Norton AntiVirus)

Sports[]

Case alum Don Shula (MA Physical Education '53), former coach of the Miami Dolphins
Main article: Case Western Reserve Spartans

See also[]

  • List of Case Western Reserve University Nobel laureates

References[]

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  5. ^ "Carran's Death: How the Sad News Was Received in Los Angeles". Los Angeles Times. June 22, 1894. p. 10 – via www.newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Clarence K. Lam, Maryland State Senator". Maryland Manual On-Line. Maryland State Archives. February 12, 2019. Retrieved February 14, 2019.
  7. ^ "Jamal Deen | Faculty of Engineering". www.eng.mcmaster.ca. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
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  9. ^ BJ Colangelo (May 21, 2018). "Miss Greater Cleveland and Mechanical Engineer Xyla Foxlin is Revolutionizing What it Means to be a Beauty Queen". Cleve Scene magazine. Retrieved July 8, 2021. ...Xyla Foxlin is a mechanical and aerospace engineering major at Case Western Reserve University, a robotics whiz kid, the founder and inventor of Parihug, a pilot, ...
  10. ^ "A. M. Turing Award". ACM. Archived from the original on 2009-12-12. Retrieved 2007-11-05.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  11. ^ ALUMNI PROFILE: WENDY COHN ’88 AND MARK TERMINI ’84 (31 March 2021). Cleveland Marshall College of Law. Cleveland State University https://www.law.csuohio.edu/newsevents/news/alumni-profile-wendy-cohn-88-and-mark-termini-84. Retrieved 8 June 2021. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. ^ "Don Shula". Encyclopædia Britannica.
  13. ^ Mayock, Emily. "BIG SHOT: A CWRU Hall of Famer's Heavy-Hitting—but Lesser-Known—Role in Some of Basketball's Biggest Deals". THINK. Case Western Reserve University. Retrieved 5 June 2021.

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