List of Colorado School of Mines people

The following is a list of individuals associated with the Colorado School of Mines through attending as a student.

Notable alumni[]

• Arthur S. Adams, American academic, former president of the University of New Hampshire
• Souad Naji Al-Azzawi, Iraqi environmentalist & academic researcher, first Arab to receive the Nuclear-Free Future Award
• John P. Allen, systems ecologist, engineer, metallurgist, adventurer, and writer
• Tesho Akindele, Canadian soccer player for FC Dallas in Major League Soccer, 2014 MLS Rookie of the Year.
• William Arbegast, American metallurgical engineer, mechanical engineer and friction stir welding expert
• Charles Arthur Banks, 17th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
• Arden L. Bement, Jr., former director of the National Science Foundation.^[1]
• Fred Chester Bond, mining engineer, developed the Bond Work Index
• George R. Brown, entrepreneur
• Shane Carwin (mechanical engineering), wrestler; former mixed martial artist who won the UFC Interim Heavyweight Championship.^[2]
• Sabré Cook, engineer and racing driver competing in the W Series.
• James H. Dickinson, commander of the United States Space Command
• Kenneth S. Deffeyes, geologist who worked with M. King Hubbert, the creator of the Hubbert peak theory, at the Shell Oil Company research laboratory
• Antônio Ermírio de Moraes, Brazilian businessman, chairman of the Votorantim Group, and ranked one of the richest men in Brazil by Forbes magazine.
• Wendell Fertig, civil engineer and World War II hero.
• Jeffrey Goodman, independent archaeologist
• Gerald Grandey, former resident and chief executive officer of Cameco Corporation
• Jack J. Grynberg, Polish-born American businessman
• Vance Haynes, archaeologist, geologist and author who specializes in the archaeology of the American Southwest
• Sao Kya Seng, mining engineer, politician, agriculturalist and the last saopha of Hsipaw State, Myanmar
• Derrick Jensen, author, Deep Green Resistance, Mineral Engineering Physics
• Marty Jertson, golf club designer who made the cut in the 2019 PGA Championship
• William M. Ketchum, U.S. Representative from California
• Howard W. Leaf, United States Air Force lieutenant general, assistant vice chief of staff at the Pentagon
• Fred Meissner, American geologist and engineer
• Jan Miller, metallurgical engineer and member of the National Academy of Engineering
• Steven L. Newman, businessman, former chief executive of Transocean
• Erol Ozensoy, Turkish entrepreneur, industrialist and businessmen, who founded Kimetsan
• Bryce Poe II, United States Air Force four-star general who served as commander of the Air Force Logistics Command from 1978 to 1981
• Fitch Robertson, former mayor of Berkeley, California (1943-1947)
• Roger Rueff, dramatist, BSc 1978, MSc '83 and PhD '85 in chemical and petroleum refining engineering.
• George Saunders, writer, journalist and professor, winner of the Man Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo, BSc 1981 in geophysical engineering.
• Marc Schiechl, NFL Jacksonville Jaguars, AFL LA Kiss.
• August Schomburg, former commander of the United States Army Ballistic Missile Command
• Craig Schurig, American football coach and former player
• Sao Kya Seng, politician, mining engineer, agriculturalist and the last Saopha of Hsipaw State, Myanmar, from 1947 to 1959.
• Frank Shakespeare, American diplomat and media executive, former president of CBS Television, United States Ambassador to Portugal (1985-1986) and United States Ambassador to the Holy See (1986-1989)
• Kat Steele, University of Washington professor
• Cleave Simpson, Colorado state senator from Alamosa, Colorado
• Robert H. Waterman Jr., co-author of In Search of Excellence, geophysical engineer 1958, medalist '84
• Joseph Robert Wright Jr., businessman, 27th Director of the Office of Management and Budget
• Purnomo Yusgiantoro, 25th Minister of Defense of Indonesia

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