List of Iowa State University people

Pulitzer Prize

• Robert L. Bartley, BA 1959, recipient of the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing; editor of Wall Street Journal opinion page, vice-president of Dow Jones & Company
• Ted Kooser, BS 1962, U.S. Poet Laureate and recipient of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Academia

• Aureliano Brandolini, Italian agronomist and development cooperation scholar
• Henry Otley Beyer, father of Philippine anthropology and ethnology
• William R. Brinkley, dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine
• Nathaniel Oglesby Calloway, first African-American to receive a PhD from Iowa State University
• David P. Campbell, creator of Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory
• Michael M. Crow, president, Arizona State University^[1]
• James Lorraine Geddes, American Civil War general; Acting University President in 1875–77.
• Niels Ebbesen Hansen, Head of the Horticultural Department at South Dakota State University
• JoAnne L. Hewett, theoretical particle physicist on the faculty of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
• Harold Hume, noted horticulturalist and president of the University of Florida
• Mubyarto, Professor emeritus at Faculty of Economics and Business, Gadjah Mada University, The Republic of Indonesia
• Leonard Klinck, second president of the University of British Columbia
• Charles Boynton Knapp, BS 1968, president of the University of Georgia (1987–1997)^[2]
• Samuel Massie, science educator, first African American to teach at the U.S. Naval Academy
• James L. Oblinger, Chancellor, North Carolina State University
• Frederick Douglas Patterson, president of Tuskegee Institute and founder of the United Negro College Fund
• Roy Vernon Scott, historian of agriculture and railroads, Professor emeritus at Mississippi State University.^[3]
• Subra Suresh, former president of Carnegie Mellon University, former director of National Science Foundation, former MIT Dean of Engineering
• Edward M. Walsh Founder of the University of Limerick
• Earl G. Yarbrough, current president of Savannah State University

Art

• Bennett Bean, BA 1963, artist of studio pottery
• Conde McCullough, noted bridge architect

Business

• Stephanie A. Burns, chairman, president and CEO, Dow Corning, winner of 2011 International Palladium Medal
• Vance D. Coffman, retired chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin, member of National Academy of Engineering
• Charles W. "Chuck" Durham, founder of global architecture and engineering firm HDR, Inc. and noted philanthropist.
• Edward C. Droste, CEO and founder of Provident Management Corporation, cofounder of Hooters Restaurants
• Roswell Garst, established one of the world’s leading seed corn companies; hosted Nikita Khrushchev on his farm in 1959
• Porter Jarvis (1902–1991), president, then chairman of Swift & Company, 1955–1967
• Jerry Junkins, chairman and CEO of Texas Instruments
• Antti Herlin, fourth chairman of the board of KONE Corporation; richest man in Finland
• Shawne Kleckner, founder and owner of The Right Stuf International
• Murray Joslin, pioneer on nuclear energy, vice-president of Commonwealth Edison
• Dennis Muilenburg, chairman, president and chief executive officer of the Boeing Company
• Bruce Roth, inventor of Lipitor; vice president of chemistry, Pfizer
• Russell Stover, founder of Russell Stover Candies (attended year and a half but did not graduate)
• Sehat Sutardja, co-founder and CEO of Marvell Technology Group
• Thornton Wilson, former chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the Boeing Company
• Todd Snyder (fashion designer), founder of Todd Snyder clothing company and co-founder of Tailgate Clothing Company

Government and politics

Journalism

• Terry A. Anderson, BA 1974, former Middle East Bureau Chief, The Associated Press^[6]
• Helen Derr, BA, journalist^[7]
• Sally Jacobsen, B.A., journalist and foreign correspondent, first woman to serve as international editor of the Associated Press^[8]
• Arendo Joustra, attended Graduate School, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, 1979–1980 – Dutch writer and editor in chief Elsevier
• Robert E. Kowalski, BA 1966, MS 1977, best-selling medical author
• John Madson, 1951 (wildlife biology), freelance writer (outdoor sports periodicals); became independent scholar of tallgrass prairie ecology
• Sean McLaughlin, BA journalism, former Today Show weather anchor
• Christine Romans, BA 1993, CNN Chief Business Correspondent
• Hugh Sidey, BS, journalist for Life and Time magazines

Performing arts

• Mallory Snyder, (attended), Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, actress, MTV's The Real World
• Carol Wilson BA,^[9] operatic soprano
• Chris Soules B.Sc.(Agr.), actor, contestant on season 10 of ABC's The Bachelorette and Season 19 of The Bachelor

Science and technology

• Clayton Anderson, MS 1983, NASA astronaut; first Iowa Stater in space^[10]
• Dale A. Anderson, MS 1959, Ph.D. 1964, pioneer in the field of computational fluid dynamics^[11]
• Steve Bales, BS 1964, director, Space Operations Management Office at NASA; known for the Apollo 11 landing
• Julian Banzon, Ph.D. 1940, biochemist, National Scientist of the Philippines
• Clifford E. Berry, BS 1939, MS 1941, Ph.D. 1948^[12]– co-developer of the first electronic digital computer (see Atanasoff–Berry Computer)
• Griffith Buck, BS 1948, MS 1949, Ph.D. 1953, professor of horticulture; developed nearly 100 new varieties of roses
• Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid, mathematician, probability and Markov chain theorist
• Arthur E. Bryson, Jr., "father of modern optimal control theory"
• George Washington Carver, BS 1894, MS 1896^[13]– first African-American student and faculty member; botanist
• Clarence Chamberlin (attended), aviation pioneer
• Gertrude Cox BS 1929, American statistician, president of American Statistical Association in 1956 and the first woman elected into International Statistical Institute
• Nancy Cox BS 1970, American virologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2006 U.S. Federal Employee of the Year; one of the 2006 Time 100^[14]
• Lawrence F. Dahl, Ph.D. 1956, professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Bob O. Evans, BS 1951, computer pioneer and National Medal of Technology recipient
• Velmer A. Fassel, Ph.D. 1947, creator of inductively coupled plasma for mass spectrometry
• Wayne Fuller, B.S. 1955, M.S.1957, Ph.D. 1959, statistician
• Lyle Goodhue, B.S. 1928, M.S. 1929, Ph.D. 1934, scientist and inventor
• John Gustafson, MS 1981, Ph.D. 1982, inventor of Gustafson's law of parallel computing
• Darleane C. Hoffman, BS 1948, nuclear chemist, part of the team that discovered Seaborgium
• Sadanand Joshi, Ph.D. 1980, pioneer in horizontal well technology
• Edward F. Knipling, Ph.D. 1947,^[15] noted entomologist and World Food Prize winner
• Jennie McCowen (MD 1876), physician, writer, lecturer, medical journal editor, suffragist
• Mark Mattson, BS 1979, prominent neuroscientist
• Rose Marie Pangborn, MS, noted sensory scientist
• Emil Steinberger, MD 1955, endocrinologist, founding president of the American Society of Andrology
• G. Malcolm Trout, BS 1923, MS 1924, noted food scientist and creator of homogenized milk
• Tom M. Whitney, BS 1961, MS 1962, Ph.D. 1964, co-inventor of the first handheld calculator able to perform trigonometry, and former executive vice-president of engineering at Apple Inc.^[16]

Sports

Mike Myers

Sage Rosenfels

Nobel laureates

• Dan Shechtman, (2011, Nobel Prize in Chemistry), for '"'the discovery of quasicrystals"^[27]
• Theodore Schultz, (1979, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics), for "pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries""^[28]
• Leonid Hurwicz, (2007, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics), for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory
• George Stigler, (1982, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics), for his contribution on capture theory

Pulitzer Prize

• Jane Smiley, recipient of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for fiction

Science and technology

• John Vincent Atanasoff (see also Atanasoff–Berry Computer), inventor of the first electronic digital computer
• James Millikin Bevans, U.S. Air Force Major General
• Carolina Cruz-Neira, a pioneer of virtual reality (VR) technology, former ISU faculty and 2002 co-founder of the VRAC^[29]
• L. K. Doraiswamy, Chemical engineer, proponent of Organic synthesis engineering and Padma Bhushan winner
• Wayne Arthur Fuller, statistician noted for his textbooks on econometrics and survey sampling
• Henry Gilman, known as the "father of organometallic chemistry"
• Oscar Kempthorne, Distinguished Professor of Science and Humanities at Iowa State University
• Jay L. Lush, pioneer of modern animal breeding
• Allan Mackintosh, noted solid-state physicist, director of Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics
• Elsa Murano, former Iowa State University assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Preventative Medicine; 23rd President of Texas A&M University
• George W. Snedecor, statistician and pioneer of modern applied statistics in the U.S., namesake of Snedecor Award
• Frank Spedding, noted Ames Laboratory chemist, namesake of Spedding Prize
• Albert M. Ten Eyck, President of the American Society of Agronomy
• J. (Hans) van Leeuwen, Vlasta Klima Balloun professor and 2009 R&D Innovator of the Year, developer of MycoMeal fungal feed and purified alcohol
• John B. Balinsky, biochemist, physiologist, chair of zoology

Literature

• Charlotte H. Bruner, scholar and translator of African women's literature
• Fern Kupfer, novelist
• Christian Petersen, sculptor, whose works appear around campus

Basketball

• Larry Eustachy, former men's basketball coach, 2000 NCAA National Coach of the Year
• Tim Floyd, former men's basketball coach with 81–49 record and first coach with three consecutive 20-win seasons.
• Johnny Orr, the most successful coach in Iowa State and Michigan men's basketball history

Football

• Mack Brown, head coach at University of Texas (at Iowa State 1979–1982)
• Pete Carroll, head coach of the Seattle Seahawks, former coach at University of Southern California (at Iowa State 1978)
• Tom Herman, head coach at University of Texas (at Iowa State 2009–2011)
• Johnny Majors, renowned football head coach (at Iowa State 1968–1972)

Martial arts

• Yong Chin Pak, Grandmaster, instructs taekwondo, hapkido, and judo

Sociology

• Steve Padgitt, professor