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Notable Alumni

Please note, “Ex” indicates a non-degree alum and the year of expected graduation.

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	Gordon Allot (A&S’27, Law’29) • U.S. Senator • Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, 1951-1955
	Dick Anderson (Mktg’68) • Football Player • Member of the legendary 1972 Miami Dolphins World Champion team
	Josephine Antoine (A&S’29, HonDocHum’35) • Opera singer
	Benjamin Bailar (Geol’55) • U.S. Postmaster General, 1975-1978
	Stephen Bechtel, JR. (Engrex’47, HonDocSci’81) • President of the Bechtel Group
	David Bolen (Mktg’50, MS’50) • The first CU student to make an Olympic team in 1948 • U.S. Ambassador to Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland • Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic
	Hank Brown (Acct’61, Law’69) • U.S. Senator • President of CU 2005-2008 • President of the University of Northern Colorado
	Ralph Carr (BA’10, Law’12) • Colorado Governor • Champion for Japanese American civil rights during WWII
	Carol Callan (MPE’77, MBA’87) • Assistant Executive Director, USA Basketball Women’s Programs
	Lynne Cheney (MEngLit’64) • Chair, National Endowment for the Humanities • Married to Vice President Cheney.
	William 'Bud' Davis (PE’51, EdD’63_ • President, Idaho State University 1965-1975 • President, University of New Mexico 1975-1982 • Chancellor, Oregon University system • Chancellor, Louisiana State University 1989-1996 • Author of Glory Colorado! A History of the University of Colorado, Volumes 1 & 2
	W. Edwards Deming (MS’24) • Renowned expert on quality in manufacturing • Revolutionized quality and dependability of Japan’s production
	Patricia Elliot (A&S’62) • Television and Broadway actress
	Ruth Flowers (A&S’24, MEdu’30) • Head of the North Carolina College Department of Romance Languages • CU’s second black female graduate after having been refused a diploma in 1920 from Boulder High School
	Chris Fowler (Jour’85) • Television Sportscaster- ESPN
	Michael Gelman (Jour’83) • Television Executive Producer for Live with Regis and Kelly • Youngest producer of a national talk show
	Tim Gill (ApMath’76) • Founder, Chair, and Chief Technology Officer, Quark Inc. • Created the Gill Foundation in support of gay and lesbian educational and social justice organizations.
	Valorie Goodall (MMus’59) • Co-Founder and Producing Director, Rutgers Opera Company
	Jim Gray (Jour’81) • Television sportscaster for ESPN, CBS, and NBC • Emmy Award Winner
	Barbara Grogan (Psych’69) • Founder and President, Western Industrial Contractors • First female chair of the Greater Denver Chamber of Commerce
	David Grusin (Mus’56, HonDocHum’89) • Composer
	Philip Hart (Soc’66) • Retired University of Massachusetts sociology professor • Author, filmmaker and expert on early black aviators
	James 'Jimmie' Heuga (PolSci’73) • U.S. Olympic skier
	Thomas Hornbein (A&S’52) • Medical Scientist • First person to ascend Mount Everest via the treacherous West Ridge • Designed breathing mask that made climbing at high altitudes possible
	Robert 'Bob' Howsam (A&S ex’40) • President and CEO of the Cincinnati Reds
	Vicki Huddleston (A&S’64) • U.S. Ambassador to Mali and the Republic of Madagascar • U.S. Diplomat to Cuba, leading the State Department’s Offices of Cuban Affairs
	William Hybl (Law’67) • President of the U.S. Olympic Committee from 1996 to 2000 • U.S. representative to the United Nations General Assembly in 2001 • CEO and chair of El Pomar Foundation since 1973
	Hale Irwin, JR. (Mktg’68) • Golfer
	Jeanne Jackson (Fin’74) • CEO, Banana Republic, 1995-2000 • CEO Walmart.com, 2000-2002
	Jo Ann Joselyn (ApMath’65, MAstro’67, PhD’78) • First female and first American secretary general of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
	William Jovanovich (Engl’41) • Publisher, Harcourt Brace & Jovanovich • Published such authors as George Orwell, Charles Lindbergh and Alice Walker
	Ruth Keesling (Jour’53) • President of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, 1987-1991
	Billy Kidd (Econ’69) • Olympic skier • Won Silver in 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria
	Richard Knowlton (Econ/Geog’54) • Chair, Hormel Foods Corporation
	Cynthia Lawrence (Mus’83, MFA’87) • Opera singer
	Larry Linville (Engr ex’61) • Actor
	Charles Lory (Phys’01, MS’02, HonDocLaw’09) • President of Colorado State University, 1909-1940
	Doug Looney (Jour’63) • Senior Writer, Sports Illustrated
	Theodore Maiman (EngrPhys’49) Developed the first laser
	Bill Marlot (Bus’67) • President and CEO, U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association
	Sanford McDonnell (MechEngr’48) • President and CEO, McDonnell Douglas Corporation
	R.C. Mercure, JR. (Phys’51, MS’56, PhD’57) • Co-Founder and President, Ball Brothers Research Corporation
	Glenn Miller (A&S ex’26, HonDocHum’84) • Formed the Glenn Miller Orchestra • Member of the Army Air Force band during WWII • Won the first gold record awarded by the recording industry for selling 1.2 million copies of Chattanooga Choo Choo
	Jerry McMorris (Mgmt’62) • Former Owner, Colorado Rockies Baseball Team
	William Mooney (A&S’58) • Actor • Played Paul Martin on All My Children
	Earl Morris (A&S’14, MA’15, HonDocSci’42) • Archaeologist
	Tony Ortega (BA’80, MFA’95) • Artist
	Alva A. 'Gov' Paddock (A&S’10) • Editor • Historian
	Bob Palmer (Jour’60) • News anchor
	Trey Parker (A&S ex’93) • Co-Creator and Executive Producer, South Park
	Glenn Porzak (PolSci’70, Law’73) • Led the first American team to climb two peaks over 26,000 feet on the same trip: Mt. Everest and Mt. Lhotse • Fourth American to climb the “Seven Summits”
	Roberta Ramo (Hum’64) • First female president of the American Bar Association
	Robert Redford (A&S ex’58, HonDocHum’87) • Actor, Director and Producer • Founded the Sundance Institute
	Dean Reed (A&S’60) • Musician and Actor
	Rick Reilly (Jour’81) • Back page columnist for ESPN The Magazine • Author of “Life of Reilly” column in Sports Illustrated • Co-author of the movie “Leatherheads” • Founder of the anti-malaria effort Nothing But Nets
	Roy Romer (Law’52) • Governor of Colorado • Chair, Democratic National Committee • Superintendent, Los Angeles Unified School District
	Joe Romig (Phys’63, PhD AstroPhys’75) • Astrophysicist • 2-time All-American football player • Rhodes Scholar
	Luis Rovira (Econ/PolSci’48, Law’50) • Colorado Supreme Court Chief Justice
	Ken Rutherford (PolSci’85, ExecMBA’93) • Co-Founder of the Landmine Survivor’s Network, part of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines which won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 • Professor of political science at Missouri State University
	Wiley Rutledge (Law’22, HonDocLaw’40) • Supreme Court Justice, 1943-1949
	Spencer Silver (ChemPhD’66) • Inventor, Post-it® Notes adhesive
	Mary Decker Slaney (ex’79) • World-class runner
	Leroy Smith (IntlAf’62) • U.S. Embassy Counsel • First Secretary, Paris, France.
	Jean Wilson Stafford (A&S’36, MA’38, HonDocHum’72) • Pulitzer Prize-winning author
	Matt Stone (Art, Math’93) • Co-Creator and Executive Producer, South Park
	Peter Teets (ApMath’63, MS’65, HonDocSci’90) • President, Lockheed Martin Corporation, 1997-1999 • Under Secretary of the United States Air Force in 2001
	William Toomey (Jour’62) • U.S. Olympic decathlete
	Llewellyn Thompson (A&S’28, HonDocLaw’58) • U.S. Ambassador to the USSR, 1957-1962
	Dalton Trumbo (A&S ex’29) • Screenplay writer
	Marilyn Van Derbur (Engl’60) • Miss America 1958
	Byron White (A&S’38, HonDoc’63US) • Supreme Court Justice • Rhodes Scholar • All-American football player
	Clayton White (Psych’34, MD’42) • Medical scientist • Rhodes Scholar • Worked to develop the field of blast biology
	Muriel Sibell Wolle (MA’30) • CU Professor • Artist.
	John Wooten (PE’59) • Football player
	Steve Wozniak (Engr ex’69, HonDocSci’89) • Co-founder, Apple Computer.
	Marlene Tseng Yu (Art’67) • Artist

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Notable Alumni

Please note, “Ex” indicates a non-degree alum and the year of expected graduation.