List of University of Delaware people

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The following is a list of University of Delaware people, which includes alumni, current and former faculty, and recipients of honorary degrees.

Alumni[]

Business[]

  • Kurt Akeley (b. 1958), computer graphics engineer
  • Mary Pat Christie (b. 1963), investment banker
  • John P. Costas (b. 1957), CEO, UBS Investment Bank
  • Michael F. Koehler, Chief Executive Officer, Teradata
  • Adam Osborne (1939–2003), computing pioneer
  • Larry Probst (b. 1950), Chairman of the Board, Electronic Arts (formerly CEO); Chairman of the U.S. Olympic Committee and member of the International Olympic Committee
  • Ömer Sabancı (b. 1959), Turkish businessman
  • Carl Truscott, Senior Vice President, ASERO Worldwide
  • Wang Xing (b. 1979), CEO, Meituan-Dianping

Authors[]

  • Steve Alten (b. 1959), science fiction author
  • Peter Bailey (b. 1980), author
  • Jarret Brachman, terrorism author
  • Siobhan Carroll (b. 1980), professor, scholar, writer
  • Paul Cherry, business author
  • Edward Ezell (1939–1993), author
  • Maureen Johnson (b. 1973), author
  • Thomas Leitch (b. 1951), author, academic
  • Esther Tuttle Pritchard (1840–1900), minister, editor

Artists[]

Politics[]

  • Thurman Adams, Jr., (1928–2009) Democratic member of the Delaware Senate
  • L. Heisler Ball (1861–1932), U.S. Senator and U.S. Congressman
  • Jo Anne B. Barnhart (b. 1950), Commissioner of Social Security
  • Jill Biden (b. 1951), educator and First Lady of the United States as the wife of President of the United States Joe Biden
  • Joe Biden (b. 1942), President of the United States, Vice President of the United States, former U.S. Senator, former chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee
  • J. Caleb Boggs (1909–1993), U.S. Senator, U.S. Congressman, Governor of Delaware
  • John F. Brady (b. 1959), Delaware politician
  • David P. Buckson (1920–2017), veteran of World War II and a member of the Republican Party, who served as the 15th Lieutenant Governor of Delaware, for nineteen days the 63rd Governor of Delaware and the 37th Attorney General of Delaware
  • Eric Buckson, Commissioner, Kent County Levy Court
  • Daniel E. Button (1917–2009), U.S. Congressman
  • Theophilus C. Callicot (1826–1920), politician
  • John Carney (b. 1956), U.S. Congressman, Governor of Delaware
  • Thomas R. Carper (b. 1947), U.S. Senator, U.S. Congressman, and Governor of Delaware
  • Christopher Christie (b. 1962), Governor of New Jersey
  • Thomas Clayton (1777–1854), U.S. Senator, U.S. Congressman
  • Carl Danberg (b. 1964), Delaware Attorney General and Commissioner of the Delaware Department of Correction
  • Reha Denemeç (b. 1961), co-founder and deputy chairman (research and development) of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) in Turkey
  • Kendel Sibiski Ehrlich (b. 1961), First Lady of Maryland
  • Lütfi Elvan (b. 1962), Minister of Finance and Treasury, Turkey
  • J. Allen Frear, Jr. (1903–1993), U.S. Senator
  • Don B. Hughes (b. 1940), Maryland State Delegate
  • Horace G. Knowles (1863–1937), diplomat
  • John G. McCullough (1835–1915), Attorney General of California and Governor of Vermont
  • Thomas McKean (1734–1817), Founding Father, signer of the Declaration of Independence
  • Louis McLane (1786–1857), veteran of the War of 1812, U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
  • Louise Mushikiwabo (b. 1961), Rwandan Foreign Minister
  • David Plouffe (b. 1967), campaign manager of the Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008, political consultant, senior advisor to the president
  • Mike Purzycki (b. 1945), 56th Mayor of Wilmington, Delaware[1]
  • George Read (1733–1798), Founding Father, signer of the Declaration of Independence
  • George R. Riddle (1817–1867), U.S. Senator, U.S. Congressman
  • Steve Schmidt (b. 1970), campaign manager of the John McCain presidential campaign, 2008, co-founder of The Lincoln Project, graduated in 2013[2]
  • James Smith (1719–1806), Founding Father, signer of the Declaration of Independence
  • Nick Smith (b. 1934), U.S. Republican Congressman from Michigan

Entertainment[]

Education[]

  • John L. Anderson (b. 1945), President of Illinois Institute of Technology
  • David L. Chicoine, President of South Dakota State University
  • Lawrence A. Cunningham (b. 1962), scholar, author, and the Henry St. George Tucker III Research Professor of Law at George Washington University
  • Rakesh Jain (b. 1950), professor of tumor biology at Harvard Medical School
  • Steven Leath (b. 1957), President of Iowa State University
  • Mary Patterson McPherson (c. 1935), former President of Bryn Mawr College
  • James W. Wagner (b. 1953), President of Emory University

Judicial[]

  • William B. Chandler, III, Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery
  • Hugh M. Morris (1878–1966), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
  • Leonard Stark (b. 1969), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
  • Leo E. Strine, Jr. (b. 1964), Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery
  • John E. Wallace, Jr. (b. 1942), Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court

Journalism[]

Military[]

Science[]

  • Rakesh Agrawal, National Medal of Technology and Innovation Laureate and Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University
  • Brian Atwater (b. 1951), geologist
  • Terrell Ward Bynum (b. 1941), Director of the Research Center on Computing and Society at Southern Connecticut State University, Professor of Philosophy
  • Carole Chaski (b. 1955), forensic linguist
  • Roger Craig (c. 1977), computer scientist and Jeopardy! champion
  • Robert W. Gore (1937–2020), inventor of Gore-Tex fabrics
  • Walter Lafferty (1875–1964), optical physicist
  • Holly Michael, hydrogeologist
  • David L. Mills (b. 1938), Internet pioneer
  • Daniel Nathans (1928–1999), biologist and Nobel Prize winner
  • Siddhartha Roy (b. 1954), structural biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
  • Mohsen Shahinpoor (b. 1943), engineer
  • Peter Thejll (b. 1956), astrophysicist, climate expert
  • Lodewijk van den Berg (b. 1932), astronaut

Sports[]

Honorary degree recipients[]

  • Byong Man Ahn (b. 1941), 2004 - academic[5]
  • Robert Ballard (b. 1942), 2001 - oceanographer, discoverer of the RMS Titanic[5]
  • Joseph Biden (b. 1942), 2004 - President of the United States, Vice President of the United States, former United States Senator (D-Delaware)[6]
  • John C. Bogle (1929–2019), 1999 - founder and CEO of The Vanguard Group[5]
  • Ben Carson (b. 1951), M.D. - 1997 - neurosurgeon[5]
  • Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1918–2007), 2002 - business historian[5]
  • Rita R. Colwell (b. 1934), 2003 - former Director of the National Science Foundation[5]
  • Louis Freeh (b. 1950), 1999 - former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)[5]
  • Adrian Hall (b. 1959), 2007 - British actor, thespian[7]
  • Daisaku Ikeda (b. 1928), 2000 - Buddhist religious leader, President of Soka Gakkai International[5]
  • Paul R. Jones (1928–2010), 2004 - art collector, Paul R. Jones Collection of African American Art[8]
  • Audrey F. Manley (b. 1934), 2002 - former United States Surgeon General; President of Spelman College[5]
  • Geoffrey Marcy (b. 1954), 2004 - astronomer, discoverer of the first extrasolar planet, 51 Pegasi b[9]
  • J. W. Marriott, Jr. (b. 1932), 2005 - Marriott International[10]
  • Mary McAleese (b. 1951), 2002 - President of Ireland[11]
  • George J. Mitchell (b. 1933), 2003 - Former United States Senator (D-Maine)[5]
  • Joseph Neubauer (b. 1941), 2006 - CEO of ARAMARK[12]
  • Russell W. Peterson (1916–2011), 2006 - former Governor of Delaware, scientist[13]
  • Martin A. Pomerantz (1916–2008), 2001 - physicist and astronomer[5]
  • Cal Ripken Jr. (b. 1960), 2008 - baseball player[14]
  • William V. Roth (1921–2003), 2003 - former United States Senator (R-Delaware)[5]
  • W.D. Snodgrass (1926–2009), 2005 - Pulitzer Prize-winning poet[15]
  • Walter K. Stapleton (b. 1934), 1998 - Federal Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit[5]
  • Susan Stroman (b. 1954), 2005 - Tony Award-winning Broadway director, choreographer, film director, and performer.[16]
  • E. Norman Veasey (b. 1933), 2003 - Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court[5]
  • Craig Venter (b. 1946), 2004 - biologist, founder of The Institute for Genomic Research[17]
  • Paul A. Volcker (1927–2019), 2001 - former Chairman of the Federal Reserve[5]
  • John J. Williams (1904–1988), 1975 - former United States Senator (R-Delaware)[5]
  • Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946), 2002 - realist painter[5]

Faculty[]

  • Gene Ball, Computer Science
  • Allen Barnett (b. 1940), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Ralph Begleiter (b. 1949), Communications & Political Science, Distinguished Journalist in Residence
  • Mark Bowden (b. 1951), Distinguished Writer in Residence
  • Bill Fleischman (1939–2019), sports journalist and adjunct professor in journalism (1981–2009)[18][19]
  • Xiang Gao, world-class violinist
  • Linda Gottfredson (b. 1947), Educational Psychology
  • Richard Hanley, Philosophy
  • Donald West Harward, Philosophy, former president of Bates College
  • Richard F. Heck (1931–2015), Chemistry, discoverer of Heck reaction, 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Laureate
  • Christine Leigh Heyrman, History
  • William Innes Homer (1929–2012), Art History
  • Muqtedar Khan (b. 1966), Political Science
  • Peter Kolchin (b. 1943), History
  • Mark Samuels Lasner (b. 1952), Senior Research Fellow
  • David Legates, Climatology
  • Leo Lemay (1935–2008), English
  • David L. Mills (b. 1938), Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Frederick Nelson (1932–2009), Professor of Geography and Director of University of Delaware's Permafrost Group
  • David L. Norton (1930–1995), Philosophy
  • R. Byron Pipes (b. 1941), Mechanical Engineering
  • William Poole (b. 1937), 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 (b. 1940), Chemistry
  • W. David Sincoskie (1954–2010), Computer Engineering
  • David Smith (b. 1948), Biology
  • Elaine Salo (1962–2016), Anthropology and gender studies
  • Jacob Joseph Taubenhaus (1884–1937), Plant Pathology (1909 to 1916)
  • Charles Tilly (1929–2008), social scientist
  • Don A. J. Upham (1809–1877), Mathematics; owner and editor of The Delaware Gazette for three years[20]
  • Barbara A. Williams, Astrophysics
  • Shien Biau Woo (b. 1937), Physics and Astronomy, former Lieutenant Governor of Delaware
  • Ben Yagoda (b. 1954), English

References[]

  1. ^ "Mayor Michael S. Purzycki". The City of Wilmington, Delaware. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
  2. ^ "PSIR Convocation".
  3. ^ Schudel, Matt (July 16, 2011). "Rod Beaton, USA Today sportswriter, dies at 59". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. Retrieved January 12, 2022.; Schudel, Matt (July 23, 2011). "Sportswriter was part of original staff of USA Today". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. p. 11.icon of an open green padlock
  4. ^ Volin, Ben (April 14, 2013). "Club's secret weapon is tough 'capologist'". The Palm Beach Post. Retrieved June 7, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q "Honorary Degrees / UD Alumni Relations". UDConnection.com. 2008. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
  6. ^ "Biden urges grads to be informed participants in the world". Udel.edu. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
  7. ^ "Thespian Adrian Hall receives honorary degree". Udel.edu. 2007-01-23. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
  8. ^ "UD welcomes Class of 2008". Udel.edu. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
  9. ^ "UD trustees select nine individuals for special honors". Udel.edu. 2004-05-25. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
  10. ^ Johnson, Richard L. "The University of Delaware Conferrs [sic] Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree on J. Willard Marriott Jr. / February 2005". Hotel-online.com. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
  11. ^ "President of Ireland receives honorary doctor of laws degree". Udel.edu. 2002-10-11. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
  12. ^ "ARAMARK CEO awarded honorary degree". Udel.edu. 2006-05-04. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
  13. ^ "Environmentalist Russell W. Peterson receives honorary degree". Udel.edu. 2006-05-27. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
  14. ^ "Seven leaders, scholars receive honorary degrees". Udel.edu. 2008-05-31. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
  15. ^ "W.D. Snodgrass receives doctor of humane letters". Udel.edu. 2005-05-28. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
  16. ^ "Susan Stroman receives honorary doctorate". Udel.edu. 2005-10-31. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
  17. ^ "Human genome icon speaks at UD April 16". Udel.edu. 2004-04-08. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
  18. ^ Nails, Katie (2019). "In memoriam: William R. "Bill" Fleischman. Jr". The Review. University of Delaware. Retrieved January 8, 2022.
  19. ^ Bies, Jessica; Tresolini, Kevin (May 2, 2019). "Bill Fleischman, former reporter for The News Journal and Philadelphia Daily News, dies". The News Journal. Wilmington, Delaware. Retrieved January 8, 2022.
  20. ^ Gilman, Marcus Davis (1897). The Bibliography of Vermont: Or, A List of Books and Pamphlets Relating in Any Way to the State. With Biographical and Other Notes. Free Press association. p. 290.
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