List of University of Colorado Boulder alumni

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The following is a list of notable people who attended or graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Nobel laureates[]

  • Sidney Altman, Nobel laureate in Chemistry in 1989
  • Thomas R. Cech, Nobel laureate in Chemistry in 1989
  • Stanley Cohen, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1986
  • Eric Allin Cornell, Nobel laureate in Physics in 2001
  • John L. Hall, Nobel laureate in Physics in 2005
  • Herbert Kroemer, Nobel laureate in Physics in 2000
  • Craig Mello, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 2006
  • Norman Ramsey, Nobel laureate in Physics in 1989
  • Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011
  • Carl Wieman, Nobel laureate in Physics in 2001
  • David J. Wineland, Nobel laureate in Physics in 2012
  • Jennifer Doudna, Nobel laureate in Chemistry in 2020
  • Muhammad Yunus, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006

Notable faculty and staff[]

  • Waleed Abdalati, scientist, Chief Scientist of NASA
  • Patricia A. Adler, professor emerita of sociology
  • Bernard Amadei, civil engineer, founder of Engineers Without Borders
  • Mark Amerika, artist and author
  • Fred Anderson, historian, author of The Crucible of War
  • Albert Allen Bartlett, physicist, popular writer on exponential growth in populations and energy resources
  • Petr Beckmann, physicist, engineer
  • Stan Brakhage, filmmaker
  • Sara Branham Matthews, microbiologist
  • Storm Bull, Professor Emeritus at the College of Music and Head of the Division of Piano
  • Adolf Busemann, pioneering aerospace engineer
  • Sarvadaman Chowla, mathematician
  • Ward Churchill, former ethnic studies professor noted for inflammatory statements dealing with 9/11, dismissed from CU-Boulder 2007
  • Robert T. Craig, communication theorist and author of Communication Theory as a Field
  • William Duane, physicist
  • Max Mapes Ellis, explorer and physiologist
  • Larry Esposito, discoverer of Saturn's fourth ring
  • Charbel Farhat, Chairman of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Stanford University
  • George Gamow, physicist and cosmologist
  • Alice F. Healy, psychologist
  • Clayton Heathcock, Professor of Chemistry and Dean of the College of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley
  • Robert Hill, harpsichordist and fortepianist
  • Linda Hogan, Native American poet, storyteller, academic, playwright, novelist, environmentalist and writer of short stories
  • Janet L. Jacobs, gender and religion sociologist
  • Deborah S. Jin, physicist
  • Daniel Kellogg, composer
  • Patricia Nelson Limerick, historian and occasional New York Times columnist
  • Morris Massey, Professor of Marketing, marketing innovator, and Fortune 500 consultant
  • Margaret Murnane, physicist, pioneer of femto-second laser research; MacArthur fellow
  • Carter Pann, composer
  • Steven Pollock, physicist, U.S. Professor of the Year
  • Hobart Muir Smith, most published herpetologist of all time; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Joseph R. Tanner, former astronaut
  • John Taylor, physicist
  • Stanislaw Ulam, mathematician
  • James F. Williams, Dean of Libraries
  • Muriel Sibell Wolle, artist and author
  • James Voss, former astronaut
  • Betty Woodman, ceramic artist
  • George Woodman, ceramicist, painter, and photographer
  • Melanie Yazzie, sculptor, painter, and printmaker

Notable alumni[]

Academia, science and technology[]

  • Len Ackland, professor at the University of Colorado and co-director of the Center for Environmental Journalism
  • Elaine Anderson, paleontologist
  • George J. Armelagos, Goodrich C. White Professor of Anthropology at Emory University
  • John Christian Bailar, statistician, Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago
  • Janet Bonnema, civil engineer
  • Kathryn Bullock, electrochemist
  • Steve Chappell, aerospace engineer and NASA scientist
  • Erica Chenoweth, political scientist, expert on civil resistance movements and faculty member at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies[1]
  • Robert Corruccini, biological anthropologist and author of numerous monographs and articles on the theory of malocclusion
  • Hilda Counts, electrical engineer
  • Patrick Curran, professor of quantitative psychology at the University of North Carolina and Director of the L. L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory
  • Ward Darley, president, University of Colorado
  • William E. Davis, former university president and United States Senate candidate
  • Vine Deloria, Jr., academic and political author on Native American subjects
  • W. Edwards Deming, manufacturing quality expert
  • Patricia Louise Dudley, zoologist specializing in copepods
  • Elsie Eaves, civil engineer
  • Steve H. Hanke, professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University, adviser to presidents, currency reformer and commodity and currency trader
  • David Haussler, professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Gretchen Hofmann, professor of ecological physiology of marine organisms at the University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Tom Hornbein, developed the standard breathing mask after climbing Mt. Everest in 1963
  • Charles Hoskinson, Mathematician, founder of Cardano and co-founder of Ethereum
  • Moriba Jah, astrodynamicist; associate professor of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin; Core Faculty of the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences; former spacecraft navigator for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory[2]
  • Alan Kay, computer scientist, Turing Award winner
  • Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist and the author of the groundbreaking book On Death and Dying
  • Ron Larson, professor of mathematics at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
  • Emory Lindquist, Rhodes scholar, Swedish American historian, President of Bethany College and Wichita State University
  • Christopher McKay, planetary scientist at NASA Ames Research Center
  • Theodore Harold Maiman, demonstrated the first laser
  • Tom Maniatis, Edelma Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
  • Lou Alta Melton, civil engineer and bridge engineer
  • Kenneth Miller, biologist at Brown University
  • Ralph Prator, first president of California State University, Northridge
  • Philip Radovic, podiatric surgeon
  • Kay Schallenkamp, President of Emporia State University, and later Black Hills State University
  • Leon Silver, geologist at California Institute of Technology, past president of Geological Society of America, trained Apollo astronauts in field geology
  • Gary Stormo, geneticist and pioneer of bioinformatics and genomics
  • Michael T. Voorhees, entrepreneur, engineer, designer, geographer, and aeronaut

Arts and film[]

  • 3OH!3, electronic music group
  • Josephine Antoine, coloratura soprano with the Metropolitan Opera
  • Brandon Barnes, drummer for the band Rise Against and Pinhead Circus
  • Rodney Carswell, painter
  • Chairlift, electronic-pop group
  • Derek Cianfrance, screenwriter and film director
  • Lydia Cornell, actress, author
  • Eli Craig, screenwriter and film director
  • Eric Darnell, director
  • Joey Diaz, comedian
  • Brian Dietzen, actor
  • Lisa Donovan, actress and writer
  • Patricia Elliott, actress
  • Joe Flanigan, actor
  • Tanner Foust, television host, stunt driver, professional racing driver
  • Nicole Fox, model, winner of America's Next Top Model, Cycle 13
  • Drew Goddard, film and television screenwriter, director and producer
  • Dave Grusin, composer, winner of three Academy and three Grammy awards
  • Heather Hach, wrote the screenplay for the 2003 remake of Freaky Friday and the book of the Broadway musical Legally Blonde
  • Erinn Hayes, actress
  • Jonah Hill, actor
  • David "GrandPooBear" Hunt, speedrunner and streamer well-known for retro Super Mario games
  • Angus T. Jones, actor
  • Shawn King, drummer, percussionist, trumpeter, accordionist, organist for the band DeVotchKa
  • R. J. Kern, artist and photographer
  • Chaney Kley, actor
  • Land of the Loops, electronica musician
  • William Lewis, opera tenor and academic
  • Larry Linville, actor (M*A*S*H)
  • Low vs Diamond, rock band
  • Erin Macdonald, science consultant for Star Trek
  • Ross Marquand, actor
  • Christopher Meloni, actor
  • Glenn Miller, composer, big band leader
  • Nathaniel Motte, singer, songwriter, producer, performer, film composer, instrumentalist, and playwright
  • Thomas Noel, historian
  • Peter O'Fallon, director, producer and writer
  • Trey Parker, co-creator of South Park
  • Robert Redford, actor (did not graduate), Oscar winner, founder of the Sundance Film Festival
  • Dean Reed, actor, singer and songwriter, director, and social activist
  • Joe Safdie, poet
  • Aaron Simpson, Emmy-nominated animation producer
  • Susan Arnout Smith, award-winning playwright and novelist
  • Paul Soldner, artist
  • Matt Stone, co-creator of South Park
  • Eric Stough, producer and the director of animation on South Park
  • Steve Taylor, singer/songwriter and film director
  • Dalton Trumbo, writer, Academy Award winner
  • Joan Van Ark, actress
  • Townes Van Zandt, country-folk singer-songwriter, withdrew in his sophomore year
  • Malia White, Below Deck Med cast member
  • Linda Williams, professor of film studies at the University of California, Berkeley
  • Chris Wood, electronic musician
  • Pamela Z, composer, performer, and media artist
  • Dean Zanuck, motion picture executive and producer

Astronauts[]

  • Loren Acton, NASA astronaut
  • Patrick Baudry, CNES astronaut
  • Vance D. Brand, NASA astronaut
  • Scott Carpenter, NASA astronaut in second orbital flight (fourth crewed) of Project Mercury
  • Kalpana Chawla, NASA astronaut, died on Columbia
  • Takao Doi, NASA astronaut
  • Samuel T. Durrance, NASA astronaut
  • John Herrington, NASA astronaut
  • Richard Hieb, NASA astronaut
  • Marsha Ivins, NASA astronaut
  • John M. Lounge, NASA astronaut
  • George Nelson, NASA astronaut
  • Ellison Onizuka, NASA astronaut, died on Challenger in January 1986
  • Stuart Roosa, NASA astronaut, flew on Apollo 14
  • Ronald M. Sega, NASA astronaut
  • Steven Swanson, NASA astronaut
  • Jack Swigert, NASA astronaut, flew on Apollo 13
  • James Voss, NASA astronaut

Athletics[]

Business and economy[]

  • Mohamed Al-Mady, President of SABIC
  • Jake Burton Carpenter, founder of Burton Snowboards
  • John Dendahl, retired business executive and member of the 1960 US Olympic ski team
  • Steve Ells, founder, Chairman, and CEO of Chipotle Mexican Grill
  • Thorleif Enger, former boss of Yara International; indicted in 2012 in relation to the company's business practices in Libya[4]
  • Richard S. Fuld, former Lehman Brothers, Chairman and CEO
  • Tim Gill, founder and former Chairman of Quark, Inc.
  • Ron Gordon, former president of Atari
  • Brent Handler, entrepreneur and pioneer of the destination club industry
  • Michael Karlan, founder of the nation's largest social and networking group, Professionals in the City
  • David Kennedy, co-founder of Wieden + Kennedy advertising agency, known for its 1980s "Just Do It" campaign for Nike
  • Matt Larson, founder and CEO of Confio Software
  • Sanford McDonnell, President of McDonnell Aircraft Corporation
  • Chris Myers, former Vice President of Business Development at Lockheed Martin and former Mayor of Medford, New Jersey
  • Scott Oki, former senior vice-president of sales and marketing for Microsoft who conceived and built Microsoft's international operations
  • Lucy Sanders, CEO and co-founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology[5]

Journalism[]

  • John Branch, sports writer for The New York Times and recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
  • Dave Briggs, co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend, Fox News Channel
  • Benedict Carey, medical and science writer for The New York Times
  • Dan Carlin, television/radio journalist and podcaster
  • Linda Chavez, political analyst and Fox News commentator
  • Kevin Corke, White House correspondent, Fox News
  • Tom Costello, NBC News, Washington-based correspondent
  • Chris Fowler, ESPN
  • Jim Gray, sports reporter
  • Tom Keene, editor-at-large for Bloomberg News
  • Herb Keinon, columnist and journalist for The Jerusalem Post
  • Joe Kernen, CNBC anchor
  • Zachery Kouwe, former financial journalist
  • Robert Palmer, Emmy Award winner, news editor and executive editor
  • Carl Quintanilla, CNBC News anchor
  • Lara Jo Regan, documentary and fine art photographer, photojournalist, author, winner of World Press Photo of the Year
  • Rick Reilly, ESPN commentator and former Sports Illustrated writer, ten-time National Sportswriter of the Year
  • Jonathan Weil, columnist for Bloomberg News and former writer for the Wall Street Journal

Law[]

  • Christine Arguello (born 1955), federal court judge, Denver, CO
  • Roger S. Burdick, Chief Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court
  • Howard Jenkins Jr., labor lawyer and civil servant
  • Louis O. Kelso, inventor of the employee stock ownership plan
  • William Lee Knous, former associate justice of the Colorado Supreme Court
  • Ashby Pate, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Palau
  • Wiley Rutledge, former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
  • John Suthers, former Attorney General of Colorado
  • Bethuel M. Webster, lawyer and founder of Webster & Sheffield
  • Byron White, former associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

Literature[]

  • Molly Bloom, author
  • Ed Dorn, poet
  • John Fante, author of Ask the Dust
  • Mark Leyner, author
  • Jean Stafford, Pulitzer prize winner
  • Luís Alberto Urrea, Mexican American poet, novelist, and essayist
  • Carrie Vaughn, author
  • Jack Williamson PhD, science fiction author and educator

Military[]

  • Ben Connable, retired Marine Major, professor at the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School
  • Roger A. Lalich, U.S. National Guard general
  • Harold R. Vague, Air Force major general and Judge Advocate General of the United States Air Force
  • David D. Barrett, Army Colonel, representative of the Dixie Mission in China, and professor at the University of Colorado.

Politics[]

  • Joe Neguse, U.S. Representative for Colorado
  • Gordon L. Allott, former U.S. Senator from Colorado (1955–1973)
  • Bob Beauprez, former U.S. Representative
  • Donald G. Brotzman, former U.S. Representative for Colorado
  • Hank Brown, U.S. Senator; U.S. Representative; former president of the University of Northern Colorado, and the University of Colorado system
  • Kate Brown, 38th Governor of Oregon and former Secretary of State
  • George Alfred Carlson, 20th Governor of Colorado
  • Morgan Carroll, Colorado State Senate Majority Leader
  • Mary Ann Casey, Ambassador to Algeria, Tunisia
  • Mike Coffman, U.S. Representative for Colorado
  • John J. Easton, Jr., Attorney General of Vermont
  • Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, leader of non-violent revolution that brought democracy to Mongolia, President of Mongolia, Prime Minister of Mongolia
  • Maria Handley, member-at-large of the Democratic National Committee
  • Greg Harris, member of Illinois House of Representatives
  • Vicki Huddleston, Ambassador to Madagascar, Mali, Chief of U.S. Interests Section Havana, Cuba
  • Wayne Harold Johnson (Master of Public Administration), Republican member of both houses, consecutively, of the Wyoming State Legislature from Cheyenne, 1993 to 2017
  • Karen Middleton, member, Colorado House of Representatives
  • Ed Perlmutter, U.S. Representative for Colorado
  • Bill Ritter (Colorado Law School), Denver District Attorney, Advisor to the U.S. Attorney General, Governor of Colorado (D)
  • Roy Romer (Colorado Law School), former Colorado governor
  • Kenneth Rutherford, activist in the International Campaign to Ban Landmines
  • Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia
  • Richard A. Sossi, Maryland politician
  • John Suthers, Mayor of Colorado Springs
  • Llewellyn Thompson, Ambassador to USSR, consul to Moscow, received the Medal of Freedom
  • Purnomo Yusgiantoro, Minister of Defense of Indonesia, former secretary general of OPEC

Other[]

  • Lynne Cheney, wife of former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney; author of children's books
  • Stanley Grenz, Christian theologian and ethicist in the Baptist tradition
  • J. Edward Guinan, community activist, author of the first DC Statehood referendum, and founder of the Community for Creative Non-Violence
  • Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of punk rock singer Sid Vicious

References[]

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  2. ^ "ESA Science & Technology - Mars Express".
  3. ^ "Eliot Marshall UFC Bio". Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  4. ^ Skygget unna Enger - DN.no
  5. ^ "Lucy Sanders". International Computer Science Institute. 2016.
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