List of University of Cincinnati people

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This is a list of encyclopedic people associated with the University of Cincinnati in the United States of America.


Notable alumni[]

Those listed include graduates of the University, as well as attendees.

  • David Applebaum, Israeli physician
  • Frank P. Austin, celebrity interior designer
  • Jeff Austin, musician, Yonder Mountain String Band
  • Juan N. Babauta, graduate, governor of United States Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands
  • Charlie Bailey, design graduate, chief special-effects model-maker for Industrial Light and Magic (Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean, E.T, Jurassic Park)
  • Judith Baker, jukoda
  • Theda Bara, silent-film actress
  • John Bardo, educator, President of Wichita State University, Chancellor of Western Carolina University.
  • John Barrett, graduate, CEO and President of Western & Southern Financial Group
  • Rachel Barton Butler, playwright
  • Kathleen Battle, graduate, Grammy Award-winning singer of New York Metropolitan Opera
  • Shoshana Bean, musical theater graduate, Broadway actress
  • Stanley Rossiter Benedict, inventor of Benedict's reagent
  • Thomas Berger, A&S graduate, author of Little Big Man
  • Matt Berninger, lead vocalist and founder of band The National
  • Theodore Berry, graduate, Mayor of Cincinnati 1972-76; member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity
  • Michael Bierut, DAAP graduate, partner at Pentagram New York
  • John Shaw Billings, M.D. 1860, began process to organize world's medical literature, now PubMed
  • Eula Bingham, occupational health scientist
  • Lee Bowman, graduate, actor in films such as Love Affair, Cover Girl and Bataan
  • Frank Brogan, Chancellor of State University System of Florida; former President of Florida Atlantic University
  • Henry T. Brown, chemical engineer; first African American to earn a BS degree in chemical engineering at the University of Cincinnati
  • Robert Burck, "naked cowboy" of Times Square in New York City; NYC mayoral candidate[1]
  • Liz Callaway, singer and actress
  • David Canary, A&S graduate, multiple Emmy-winning actor on All My Children since 1983
  • Salmon P. Chase, 23rd Governor of Ohio, U.S. Treasury Secretary 1861-64, Chief Justice 1864-73
  • Robin T. Cotton, ENT specialist and professor
  • Dennis Courtney, aka Denis Beaulne, Broadway actor (Peter Pan, Starlight Express, director, choreographer
  • Chase Crawford, actor and producer
  • E. Jocob Crull, Montana politician and colonel, rival of Jennette Rankin (first female member of U.S. Congress)
  • Cherien Dabis, filmmaker, screenwriter, The L Word, Amreeka
  • David Daniels, singer
  • Charles G. Dawes, law graduate, 30th Vice President of the United States, winner of Nobel Peace Prize
  • Scott Devendorf, bass guitarist, founder of band The National
  • Jonathan Dever, former member of Ohio House of Representatives
  • Vinod Dham, graduate, "father" of Pentium computer chip (MS Eng, 77)
  • John Price Durbin, Chaplain of the Senate, president of Dickinson College
  • Jennifer Eberhardt, social psychologist, MacArthur Fellow
  • Randy Edelman, music graduate, composer of movie scores, received BMI’s Outstanding Career Achievement Award
  • Margaret Elizabeth Egan, librarian and communication scholar
  • Suzanne Farrell, prima ballerina, recipient of Kennedy Center Honors and Presidential Medal of Freedom
  • Hattie V. Feger, professor of education at Clark Atlanta University, 1931-1944
  • Mark "Markiplier" Fischbach, YouTube personality/media star
  • Stephen Flaherty, music graduate, Tony-winning composer (Ragtime, Once on This Island)
  • Frederick W. Franz, Jehovah's Witness, president of Watchtower Society
  • Paul Gilger, architecture graduate, architect, conceived Jerry Herman musical revue Showtune, designed Industrial Light & Magic film studio for George Lucas
  • Leon Goldman, pioneer in laser medicine
  • Alexander D. Goode, one of Four Chaplains
  • Michael Graves, architecture graduate, architect
  • Michael Gruber, stage actor, singer, and dancer
  • Beth Gylys, poet and professor
  • Albert Hague, music graduate, composer of score for How the Grinch Stole Christmas, won nine Tony Awards for Redhead in 1959
  • Victor W. Hall, U.S. Navy Rear Admiral
  • Hollis Hammonds, artist and academic
  • Earl Hamner, graduate, writer, creator of The Waltons
  • Walt Handelsman, A&S graduate, Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist
  • Dorian Harewood, drama graduate, film and television actor, voice artist
  • Randy Harrison, drama graduate, actor, Queer as Folk
  • Bob Herbold, former Microsoft COO
  • Louise McCarren Herring, engineering graduate, pioneer of non-profit cooperative credit union movement
  • Al Hirt, trumpeter and bandleader
  • Ronald Howes, inventor of Easy-Bake Oven[2]
  • Sarah Hutchings, composer
  • Bruce Edwards Ivins, microbiologist; key suspect in 2001 anthrax terror attacks, leaving five people dead
  • Ali Jarbawi, Palestinian politician and academic
  • James Kaiser, electrical engineer who developed Kaiser window for digital signal processing, winner of IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal
  • Jerry Kathman, President and CEO of LPK
  • Charles Keating, criminal (Keating Five scandal); virulent anti-pornography activist
  • Robert Kistner, gynecologist
  • Bradley M. Kuhn, M.S. 2001, software freedom activist
  • James Michael Lafferty, division CEO in Procter and Gamble, Coca-Cola, and British American Tobacco; current CEO of Fine Hygienic Holding. Olympic Track and Field Coach.
  • Sean Lahman, historian and sports writer
  • Kenesaw Mountain Landis, federal judge and first Commissioner of Major League Baseball
  • William Lawrence, Congressman, first vice president of American Red Cross
  • Christopher W. Lentz, U.S. Air Force Brigadier General
  • Liang Sili, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Abraham Lubin, hazzan
  • Charlie Luken, law graduate, politician and former Mayor of Cincinnati
  • Judah Leon Magnes, rabbi, Chancellor/President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1925-1948
  • Michael Malatin, entrepreneur in field of hospital valet parking
  • Beverly Malone, nurse and president of American Nurses Association
  • Steven L. Mandel, anesthesiologist
  • Jack Manning, actor, stage director, acting teacher[3]
  • Marco Marsan, author
  • Kevin McCollum, graduate, Tony-winning Broadway producer (Rent, Avenue Q, The Drowsy Chaperone)
  • Gregory Mixon, (Ph.D. 1989), American historian
  • Lena Beatrice Morton, literary scholar
  • Pamela Myers, musical theater graduate, Tony-nominated stage and screen actor
  • Sandra Novack, author
  • Santa J. Ono, biomedical scientist, 28th President of University of Cincinnati, 15th President of University of British Columbia
  • Michele Pawk, musical theater graduate, Tony-winning Broadway actress (Hollywood Arms, Cabaret)
  • Archimedes Plutonium, (B.A. as Ludwig Hansen, 1972), notable Usenet personality
  • Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever
  • Jennie Porter, first black individual to receive a Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati and become the first black female public school principal in Cincinnati
  • James B. Preston, neurophysiologist
  • Faith Prince, musical theater graduate, Tony-winning Broadway actress (Guys and Dolls)
  • Lee Roy Reams, musical theater graduate, Tony-nominated actor, dancer
  • Dennis L. Riley (born 1945), politician in New Jersey General Assembly, represented 4th Legislative District 1980-90[4]
  • Diana Maria Riva, drama graduate, screen actor
  • Anne Mason Roberts (1910-1971), HUD official in the 1960s
  • Michael Robinson, activist for civil right and human rights
  • Jerry Rubin, activist
  • Nipsey Russell, actor, comedian, game show panelist, Tin Man in film version of The Wiz
  • Rajiv Satyal, comedian, host and speaker; named the university's radio-station-turned-media group "BearCast"
  • Linda Schele, art and education major, expert on Mayan inscriptions and hieroglyphics
  • Jean Schmidt, Congresswoman from Ohio, 2005–13
  • Teddi Siddall, drama graduate, screen actor
  • Yvette Simpson, law graduate, 2011-2017 Cincinnati City Councilwoman
  • George Speri Sperti, inventor
  • Joseph B. Strauss, engineering graduate, designed Golden Gate Bridge
  • Thomas Szasz, psychiatrist and author of The Myth of Mental Illness
  • Bob Taft, law graduate, 1999-2007 Governor of Ohio
  • William Howard Taft, law graduate, 27th President of the United States, Supreme Court Chief Justice
  • Christian Tetzlaff, professional violinist
  • Paul Tibbets, pilot of B-29 plane that dropped atom bomb over Hiroshima
  • Dwight Tillery, politician, former Mayor of Cincinnati
  • Tom Tsuchiya, sculptor, works include bronze statues for Great American Ball Park and NFL
  • Tom Uttech, painter
  • Anne Valente, novelist and short-story writer
  • Rodney Van Johnson, education graduate, actor (soap opera Passions)
  • Sigismund von Braun, German diplomat, older brother of Wernher von Braun
  • David J. Williams, Director of Architecture, musician
  • Clarence A. Winder, civic leader, Mayor of Pasadena, California in 1950s[5]
  • Chris Wanstrath, co-founder and former CEO of GitHub

Athletics[]

Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax
Kevin Youkilis
  • Kevin Youkilis, 3-time All-Star, Gold Glove winner, 2-time World Series champion, MLB player 2004-13
  • Curtis Young, NFL defensive end, Green Bay Packers

Notable faculty[]

  • Neil Armstrong (until death), astronaut, professor of aerospace engineering
  • Kamala Balakrishnan, immunologist, professor of transplantation medicine
  • Carl Blegen, first scientific explorer of Troy
  • Tanya Froehlich, pediatrician
  • Karen L. Gould (born 1948), President of Brooklyn College
  • Michael Griffith, author
  • Neil Rackham, author of Spin Selling
  • George Rieveschl, inventor of diphenhydramine (Benadryl)
  • Albert Sabin, developed the oral live polio vaccine
  • Vernon L. Scarborough, Mesoamerican archaeologist, professor, and anthropology department head
  • Herman Schnieder, father of co-operative education
  • Donald Shell, inventor of Shell sort
  • Amy Townsend-Small, Director of the Environmental Studies Program[23]
  • Carol Tyler, cartoonist

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