List of University of Rochester people

Here follows a list of notable alumni and faculty of the University of Rochester. University of Rochester has more than 103,000 alumni as of 2011.^[1]

Notable alumni

Nobel laureates

• Vincent du Vigneaud (Ph.D. 1927), Nobel laureate (1955, chemistry)
• Arthur Kornberg (M.D. 1941, D.Sc. 1962), Nobel laureate (1959, physiology or medicine)
• Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (B.S. 1943), Nobel laureate (1976, physiology or medicine)
• Steven Chu (B.A. math and B.S. physics 1970), Nobel laureate (1997, physics), U.S. Secretary of Energy (2009-2013)
• Masatoshi Koshiba (Ph.D 1955), Nobel laureate (2002, physics)

Higher education leaders

• Myles Brand (PhD 1967) Former President, NCAA
• Robert J. Dolan (Ph.D. 1977), Dean of University of Michigan Business School (Ross)
• Karen R. Hitchcock (Ph.D.), Principal and Vice Chancellor of Queen's University, Canada
• Susan Hockfield (B.A. 1973), Former Dean and Provost of Yale University, President of MIT
• Joseph B. Martin (Ph.D. 1971), Dean of Harvard Medical School
• Brian C. Mitchell (Ph.D.), President of Bucknell University
• Deborah Flemister Mullen (B.A. 1972) Dean of Faculty/Executive Vice President of and Associate Professor of American Christianity and Black Church Studies at Columbia Theological Seminary
• Hugo Sonnenschein (B.A. 1961), President Emeritus and Adam Smith Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at University of Chicago
• David C. Sweet (B.A.), President of Youngstown State University 2000–2010
• Gary Schuster (Ph.D. 1971), Former Provost and Vice President of Georgia Institute of Technology 2006 - 2009
• Nils Yngve Wessell (Ph.D. 1938), President of Tufts University 1953-1966

Academia

• Charles M. Achilles (B.A. 1959, M.S. 1962, Ed.S 1965, Ed.D. 1967), Professor of Educational Administration at Eastern Michigan University and Seton Hall University. Principal researcher Tennessee STAR (Student-Teacher Achievement Ratio) experiment on Class-size reduction
• Frederick R. Bieber (M.S. 1976), medical geneticist. Harvard University professor
• Hany Farid (B.S. 1989), William H. Neukom 1964 Distinguished Professor of Computational Science of Dartmouth College.
• Morris Fiorina (Ph.D. 1972), Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Author of Divided Government and Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America.
• Kenneth French (M.B.A. 1978, M.S. 1981, Ph.D. 1983), M. Heidt Professor of Finance at Dartmouth College and efficient markets theorist
• Grove Karl Gilbert (geologist)
• Steven Hahn (B.A. 1978), Pulitzer Prize winning historian on faculty at University of Pennsylvania.
• N. Katherine Hayles, (Ph.D. 1977), critical literary theorist
• Zvi Hercowitz (Ph.D. 1980), macroeconomist at Tel Aviv University
• Peter van Inwagen (Ph.D.), philosopher specializing in metaphysics, John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame
• Bruce Kingma (Ph.D. 1989), Professor of Entrepreneurship at Syracuse University.
• Richard McKelvey (Ph.D. 1971), political scientist and game theorist
• Arthur R. Miller (BA 1956) Phi Beta Kappa Graduate, Harvard Law graduate magna cum laude 1958, renowned law professor at Harvard University and since 2007 at NYU
• Patricia Numann, Professor of Surgery at State University of New York Upstate Medical University
• Mark Rosenzweig (B.A. 1943, M.S. 1944), research psychologist whose studies showed that the brain develops into adulthood based on life experiences.^[2]
• Ivan Sag (B.A. 1971), Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University
• José Scheinkman (Ph.D. 1974), Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics at Princeton University
• Richard Thaler (Ph.D. 1974), Economist known for pioneering behavioral finance
• H. Allen Orr, Evolutionary Biologist
• Albion W. Tourgée (1859), lawyer, civil rights activist. Represented Homer Plessy in the trial of Plessy v. Ferguson.
• David Sloan Wilson (B.A. 1971), Professor of Biology and Anthropology, Binghamton University and noted author.
• Steven M. Weinreb (Ph.D. 1967) Russell and Mildred Marker Professor of Natural Products Chemistry Chair, Pennsylvania State University, developer of the Weinreb ketone synthesis.

Performing arts

• George Abbott (B.A. 1911), Broadway writer, producer, and director
• Ron Carter (B.A. 1959), jazz double-bassist
• William Dooley (B.A. 1954), operatic baritone
• Doug Besterman (B.A. 1986), orchestrator and arranger
• Frederick Fennell (B.A. 1937, M.A. 1939), conductor and promotor of the wind ensemble as a performing group
• Renée Fleming (M.A.S. 1983), soprano opera singer
• Robert Forster (B.A. 1964), nominated actor
• Emil J. Kang (B.A. 1990), arts administrator, educator, and curator
• Michael Kanfer (1980) Academy Award-winning visual effects artist for special effects
• Chuck Mangione (B.M. 1963), jazz performer and composer
• J. Greg Miller, horn player
• Anthony Dean Griffey (M.M. 2001), opera singer
• Debra Jo Rupp (B.A. 1974), actress
• Tony Levin, bass player
• Steve Gadd, drummer
• Herve D. Wilkins (B.A.1866, M.A. 1870), organist and composer

Government

• Steven Chu (B.A. math and B.S. physics 1970), former United States Secretary of Energy, Nobel Prize winner - Physics
• Mark Ferrandino, (B.A. 1999; M.A. 2000) Colorado House of Representatives 2007–Present
• Vittorio Grilli, (Ph.D. 1986), Italy's Finance and Economy Minister (Monti Cabinet)
• Mary Ellen Jones, (B.A., 1958, M.A.), former New York State senator
• Lewis A. Kaplan, (A.B. 1966) Federal judge for New York's Southern District
• David T. Kearns, (B.A. 1952) former CEO of Xerox Corporation and former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education
• Kenneth Keating, U.S. Representative and Senator from New York
• Tadas Klimas, (B.A. 1973) Former FBI agent (1983-1995), recipient of the National Intelligence Medal of Achievement (1993), chief legal counsel to the chairman of the parliament of Lithuania (1998–99)
• Lawrence Kudlow (1969), Associate Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan, CNBC host
• Chris Lee, Former Congressman, New York's 26th Congressional district.
• Allison M. Macfarlane, (B.S. Geological Sciences 1986) current chair of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission^[3]
• Dan Rosenthal, (B.A. 1988) Assistant to the President in the White House under Bill Clinton
• Linda Rosenthal, (B.A. 1980) New York State Assembly 2006–Present, District 67
• Robert D. Sack, (B.A. 1960) Judge United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
• George F. Ward (B.A.), former United States Ambassador to Namibia^[4]
• Donald C. Winter, (B.S. 1969) Secretary of the Navy (2006–2009)
• Robert H. Conn, Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1981–1988)
• Jimmie V. Reyna, (B.A. 1975) Federal judge for United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit^[5]
• Heather Higginbottom, (B.A. 1999) Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources (2013–present)

Literature

• Francis Bellamy (1876), wrote the original Pledge of Allegiance
• Robert Leslie Conly (B.A. English), author
• Richard M. Dolan (M.A. History), historian and author
• Dudley Doust, sports journalist and author
• Bill Kauffman, political journalist and author
• Galway Kinnell (M.A.), poet and Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets
• Janet Maslin (1970), film and music critic for The New York Times
• Thomas Perry (Ph.D Literature, 1974), mystery writer
• Thomas Thackeray Swinburne, poet, composed the College's alma mater The Genesee

Science and technology

• John Clarke Slater (B.S. 1920), known for contributions to the theory of the electronic structure of atoms, molecules and solids, such as, Slater determinant, Slater's rules etc.
• Bryce Bayer (M.S. 1960 Industrial Statistics), made contributions to the field of digital imaging and invented the Bayer filter
• George Sudarshan (Ph.D. 1958 Physics), made contributions to the field of quantum optics and advanced the idea of the theoretical tachyon
• Robert Dicke (Ph.D. 1939), inventor of lock-in amplifier, and who made contributions to the fields of astrophysics, atomic physics, cosmology and gravity
• Stan Frankel (Ph.D. 1942), Manhattan Project scientist and computer designer
• Amit Goyal (Ph.D. 1991), Corporate Fellow & Distinguished Scientist and Distinguished Inventor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Rochester Distinguished Scholar Medal recipient
• Elon Howard Eton (B.A. 1890), Ornithologist
• Edward Gibson (B.S. 1959), former NASA astronaut who set an American record for space travel with 84 days in orbit
• Shawn Domagal-Goldman (M.S. ), Astrobiologist at NASA
• G.K. Gilbert (1862), geologist and Wollaston Medal recipient
• Donald Henderson (M.D. 1954), physician and epidemiologist
• Jay Last (B.S. 1951), member of the Traitorous eight that founded Silicon Valley
• J.C.R. Licklider (Ph.D. 1942), psychologist and computer science visionary, father of the concept of a worldwide computer network or what came to be the Internet. Computing's Johnny Appleseed.
• William F. May (B.S. 1937), chemical engineer who co-founded the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 1969.^[6]
• Kenneth Ouriel (M.D. 1977), medical researcher and prominent vascular surgeon who operated on Bob Dole^[7][8][9]
• Park Jong-sei (Ph.D.), head of South Korea's Food and Drug Administration from 1998 to 1999^[10]
• James A. Pawelczyk (B.S. 1982), NASA astronaut
• Richard Rashid (M.S. 1977, Ph.D. 1980 Computer Science), invented the Mach operating system, currently head of Microsoft Research
• Bruce Schneier (B.S. Physics 1985), computer security expert
• Gary Starkweather (M.S. Optics 1966), inventor of the laser printer
• Eric Topol (M.D. 1979), Scripps Health Chief Academic Officer, pioneer in cardiovascular medicine
• Avie Tevanian (B.A. Math 1983), figure in the development of the NeXT Computer and its successor, Mac OS X at Apple
• Joseph C. Wilson (B.A. 1931), Xerox founder who brought xerography to the world
• Herbert York (B.S. and M.S.), Manhattan Project physicist
• Corinna Cortes (PhD) Danish computer scientist known for her contributions to machine learning. Head of Google Research, New York. Paris Kanellakis Award in 2008 for her work on support vector machines.

Business

• Gerald Gitner (1968), former CEO of Trans World Airlines
• Robert Goergen (1960), CEO of Blyth, Inc.
• Richard Handler, Chairman, CEO & President of Jefferies, Inc.
• Dawne Hickton, graduated 1979, Vice Chair, President, CEO of RTI International Metals^[11]
• Barry Meyer (1964), Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Warner Bros.^[12]
• Paul Singer, founder and CEO of hedge fund Elliott Management Corporation and founder of the Paul E. Singer Family Foundation
• Robert L. Stark (born 1951), American real estate developer and CEO of Stark Enterprises.
• Gerald B. Zornow, former Chairman of the Board of Eastman Kodak Company
• Chang Dae Hwan, president of the Maeil Business Newspaper,^[13] South Korea's main business daily

Other

• Suzanne Arms, author, photo-journalist, speaker, and activist on birthing issues
• Mariann Budde, diocesan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington
• Arunas A. Chesonis, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of PAETEC Holding Corp.^[14]
• Walter Cooper (scientist), research scientist, education reformer and civil rights activist
• John DiBartolomeo (born 1991), basketball player for Maccabi Haifa of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
• Paul Frommer (B.S. 1965), Creator of Na'vi, the native language of the humanoid heroes in the film Avatar (film)
• Jeremy Glick, a passenger on United Airlines Flight 93
• Terry Gurnett (1977), coach of women's soccer at Rochester^[15]
• Harold Hodge, toxicologist
• Nasser Saidi (PhD), Lebanese cabinet minister and economist
• Mabel Sine Wadsworth, birth control activist
• Jennifer Roback Morse (PhD), founder of the Ruth Institute^[16]

Notable faculty

Nobel laureates

• George Hoyt Whipple (Prof. 1914-1976), Nobel laureate (1934, physiology or medicine)
• Henrik Dam (Prof. 1942-1945), Nobel laureate (1943, physiology or medicine)
• Robert Fogel (Prof. 1960-1965, 1968–1975), Nobel laureate (1993, economics)

Current

• Janet Catherine Berlo, art historian, Professor of Art History / Visual and Cultural Studies.^[17]
• Douglas Crimp, art historian, Fanny Knapp Alexander Professor of Art History / Visual and Cultural Studies.
• Stanley Engerman, economist/historian, served as President of the Social Science History Association as well as President of the Economic History Association.
• Richard Fenno, political scientist and former President of the American Political Science Association.
• C. R. Hagen, Professor of theoretical physics, co-theorist of Higgs boson and Higgs mechanism. Recipient of 2010 Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics.
• Robert L. Holmes, Secular pacifist and expert on nonviolent action.
• Th. Emil Homerin, Arabic Literature/Islamic Studies scholar, Professor of Religion, and former Chair of the Department of Religion and Classics.^[18]
• Steven Landsburg, economist, Slate magazine columnist and popular author on microeconomics.
• Walter Oi, Labor economist, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• H. Allen Orr, University Professor of Biology, winner of the Darwin–Wallace Medal awarded every 50 years for outstanding contributions in evolutionary biology.
• Michael L. Scott, computer scientist and winner of the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing.
• Emil Wolf, physicist and co-author, along with Max Born, of one of the standard textbooks of optics, Principles of Optics. Also predicted Wolf effect.
• Ching W. Tang, chemist, inventor of Organic light-emitting diode and heterojunction organic solar cells,^[19] member of National Academy of Engineering, recipient of 2011 Wolf Prize in Chemistry.
• Lionel W. McKenzie, economist, general equilibrium, co-creator of the Arrow–Debreu–McKenzie model.
• Joseph H. Eberly, Andrew Carnegie Professor of Physics and Optics. Past president of Optics Society of America, and winner of Townes Award.
• Daven Presgraves, Associate Professor of Biology. Winner of Dobzhansky Prize in Evolutionary Biology.
• Edward L. Deci, Professor of Psychology, Gowen Professor in the Social Sciences. Co-founder of self-determination theory (SDT) with Richard Ryan.
• Esther Conwell, Professor of Chemistry and Physics. Winner of the National Medal of Science and member of both the National Academy of Science and National Academy of Engineering.^[20]
• Henry Kautz, Professor of Computer Science, former AAAI President and member of their editorial board.

Heads of the University of Rochester^[21]

	Presidents of the University of Rochester	Birth-Death	Years as President
1	Rev. Martin Brewer Anderson	(1815-1890)	(1853-1888)
2	Rev. David Jayne Hill	(1850-1932)	(1889-1896)
3	Rev. Benjamin Rush Rhees	(1860-1939)	(1900-1935)
4	Alan Chester Valentine	(1901-1980)	(1935-1950)
5	Cornelis Willem de Kiewiet	(1902-1986)	(1951-1961)
6	Wilson Allen Wallis	(1912-1998)	(1962-1970)
7	Robert Lamb Sproull	(1918-2014)	(1970-1984)
8	George Dennis O'Brien	(1931-)	(1984-1994)
9	Thomas H. Jackson	(1950-)	(1994-2005)
10	Joel Seligman	(1950-)	(2005-)

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