List of University of Michigan alumni

Academic unit key
SymbolAcademic unit
ARCHTaubman College
BUSRoss School of Business
COECollege of Engineering
DENTSchool of Dentistry
GFSPPGerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
HHRSHorace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies
LAWLaw School
LSACollege of LS&A
MEDMedical School
SMTDSchool of Music, Theatre and Dance
PHARMSchool of Pharmacy
SOESchool of Education
SNRESchool of Natural Resources
SOADThe Stamps School of Art & Design
SOISchool of Information
SONSchool of Nursing
SOKSchool of Kinesiology
SOSWSchool of Social Work
SPHSchool of Public Health
TCAUPArchitecture and Urban Planning
MDNGMatriculated, did not graduate

There are more than 500,000 living alumni of the University of Michigan. Notable alumni include computer scientist and entrepreneur Larry Page, actor James Earl Jones, and President of the United States Gerald Ford.

Alumni

Nobel laureates

The Nobel Prize
A golden medallion with an embossed image of Alfred Nobel facing left in profile. To the left of the man is the text "ALFR•" then "NOBEL", and on the right, the text (smaller) "NAT•" then "MDCCCXXXIII" above, followed by (smaller) "OB•" then "MDCCCXCVI" below.
Awarded for Outstanding contributions in Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physiology or Medicine, and Economic Sciences
Website nobelprize.org

Activists

Aerospace

SR-71 "Blackbird"
Dryden's SR-71B Blackbird, NASA 831, slices across the snow-covered southern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California after being refueled by an Air Force tanker during a 1994 flight. SR-71B was the trainer version of the SR-71. The dual cockpit allows the instructor to fly.
An SR-71B trainer over the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California in 1994. The raised second cockpit is for the instructor.
Role Strategic reconnaissance aircraft
National origin United States
Manufacturer Lockheed, Skunk Works division
Designer Brady R. Shagena
First flight 22 December 1964
Introduction 1966
Retired 1998 (USAF), 1999 (NASA)
Status Retired
Primary users United States Air Force
NASA
Number built 32
Unit cost
$34 million[2]
Developed from Lockheed A-12

Art, architecture, and design

See List of University of Michigan arts alumni

Arts and entertainment

See List of University of Michigan arts alumni

Astronauts

National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Seal

Flag

A campus plaza was named for McDivitt and White in 1965 to honor their accomplishments on the Gemini IV spacewalk. (At the time of its dedication, the plaza was near the engineering program's facilities, but the College of Engineering has since been moved. The campus plaza honoring them remains.) Two NASA space flights have been crewed entirely by University of Michigan degree-holders: Gemini IV by James McDivitt and Ed White in 1965 and Apollo 15 by Alfred Worden, David Scott (honorary degree) and James Irwin in 1971. The Apollo 15 astronauts left a 45-word plaque on the moon establishing its own chapter of the University of Michigan Alumni Association.[3]

Belles lettres

See List of University of Michigan arts alumni

Business

See List of University of Michigan business alumni

Churchill Scholarship or Marshall Scholarship

Churchill Scholarships are annual scholarships offered to graduates of participating universities in the United States and Australia, to pursue studies in engineering, mathematics, or other sciences for one year at Churchill College in the University of Cambridge.

  • 2011–2012: David Montague, Pure Mathematics
  • 2009–2010: Eszter Zavodszky, Medical Genetics
  • 2007–2008: Lyric Chen, BA in Political Science and Economics from the University of Michigan, Marshall Scholar 2007
  • 2006–2007: Charles Crissman, Pure Mathematics
  • 2005–2006: Christopher Hayward, Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
  • 2005–2006: Jacob Bourjaily, graduated with honors, degree in Mathematics, Physics Marshall Scholar 2005
  • 1996–1997: Amy S. Faranski, Engineering
  • 1993–1994: Ariel K. Smits Neis, Clinical Biochemistry
  • 1990–1991: David J. Schwartz, Chemistry
  • 1989–1990: Eric J. Hooper, Physics
  • 1987–1988: Michael K. Rosen, Chemistry
  • 1985–1986: Laird Bloom, Molecular Biology
  • 1984–1985: Julia M. Carter, Chemistry
  • 1979–1980: David W. Mead, Engineering, Chemical

Computers, engineering, and technology

Turing and Grace Murray Hopper Award winners

ACM Turing Award
Awarded for Outstanding contributions in computer science
Country United States
Presented by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Reward(s) US $1,000,000[4]
First awarded 1966
Last awarded 2015
Website amturing.acm.org

Criminals, murderers, and infamous newsmakers

  • François Duvalier (Public Health, 1944–45), repressive dictator, excommunication from the Catholic Church; estimates of those killed by his regime are as high as 30,000
  • Theodore Kaczynski (PhD 1967), better known as the Unabomber, one of UM's most promising mathematicians; earned his Ph.D. by solving, in less than a year, a math problem that his advisor had been unable to solve; abandoned his career to engage in a mail bombing campaign
  • Jack Kevorkian (MED: MD Pathology 1952), guilty of second-degree homicide after committing euthanasia by administering a lethal injection to Thomas Youk; spent eight years in prison
  • Nathan F. Leopold, Jr., thrill killer of Leopold and Loeb, transferred from Michigan in 1922 to the University of Chicago, before murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks
  • Richard A. Loeb (B.A. 1923), thrill killer of Leopold and Loeb, youngest graduate in the University of Michigan's history, murdered 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks
  • Herman Webster Mudgett, a.k.a. H.H. Holmes (MED: MD 1884), 19th-century serial killer; one of the first documented American serial killers; confessed to 27 murders, of which nine were confirmed; actual body count could be as high as 250; took an unknown number of his victims from the 1893 Chicago World's Fair; his story was novelized by Erik Larson in his 2003 book The Devil in the White City[5]

Educators

University presidents

Fiction, nonfiction

See List of University of Michigan arts alumni.

Fictional Wolverines

Finance

Journalism, publishing, and broadcasting

Law, government, and public policy

MacArthur Foundation award winners

As of 2018, 27 Michigan alumni — 17 undergraduate students and 10 graduate students — have been awarded a MacArthur fellowship.

  • James Blinn (BS Physics 1970; MSE 1972; Communications Science 1970; MS Information and Control Engineering 1972)
  • Caroline Walker Bynum (BA 1962), Medieval scholar; MacArthur Fellow
  • Eric Charnov (B.S. 1969), evolutionary ecologist
  • William A. Christian (Ph.D. 1971), religious studies scholar
  • Shannon Lee Dawdy (M.A. 2000, Ph.D. 2003), 2010 fellowship winner; assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago
  • Philip DeVries (B.S. 1975), biologist
  • William H. Durham (Ph.D. 1973), anthropologist
  • Aaron Dworkin (B.A. 1997, M.A. 1998), Fellow, founder, and president of Detroit-based Sphinx Organization, which strives to increase the number of African-Americans and Latinos having careers in classical music
  • Steven Goodman (B.S. 1984), adjunct research investigator in the U-M Museum of Zoology's bird division; conservation biologist in the Department of Zoology at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History
  • David Green (B.A. 1978; MPH 1982), Executive Director of Project Impact
  • Ann Ellis Hanson (B.A. 1957; M.A. 1963), visiting associate professor of Greek and Latin
  • John Henry Holland (M.A. 1954; Ph.D. 1959), professor of electrical engineering and computer science, College of Engineering; professor of psychology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
  • Vonnie McLoyd (M.A. 1973, Ph.D. (1975), developmental psychologist
  • Denny Moore (B.A.), linguist, anthropologist
  • Nancy A. Moran (Ph.D. 1982), evolutionary biologist; Yale professor; co-founder of the Yale Microbial Diversity Institute
  • Dominique Morisseau (B.F.A. 2000) is an American playwright and actor from Detroit, Michigan
  • Cecilia Muñoz (B.A. 2000), Senior Vice President for the Office of Research, Advocacy and Legislation at the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs
  • Dimitri Nakassis (B.A. 1997), a 2015 MacArthur Fellow; joined the faculty of the University of Toronto in 2008; currently an associate professor in the Department of Classics
  • Richard Prum (Ph.D. 1989), William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology; Head Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University
  • Mary Tinetti (B.A. 1973; M.D. 1978), physician; Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University; Director of the Yale Program on Aging
  • Amos Tversky (PhD. 1965), psychologist
  • Karen K. Uhlenbeck (B.A. 1964), mathematician
  • Jesmyn Ward (M.F.A. 2005), writer of fiction
  • Julia Wolfe (B.A. 1980), classical composer
  • Henry Tutwiler Wright (B.A. 1964), Albert Clanton Spaulding Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology; Curator of Near Eastern Archaeology in the Museum of Anthropology at the University of Michigan; 1993 MacArthur Fellows Program
  • Tara Zahra (M.A. 2002; Ph.D. 2005); fellow with the Harvard Society of Fellows (2005–2007) prior to joining the faculty of the University of Chicago; 2014 MacArthur Fellow
  • George Zweig (B.A. 1959), physicist who conceptualized quarks ("aces" in his nomenclature)

Mathematics

Medicine

  • Wallace Calvin Abbott (MED: MD 1885), founder of Abbott Laboratories, one of the first American physicians to adopt a new technique to distill alkaloids (the parts of medicinal plants that have therapeutic effect) into a solid form
  • John Jacob Abel (PHARM: Ph.D. 1883), North American "father of pharmacology"; discovered epinephrine; first crystallized insulin; founded the department of pharmacology at Michigan; in 1893 established the department of pharmacology at the newly founded Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; first full-time professor of pharmacology in the United States
  • Rhoda Alani, dermatologist, chair of the dermatology department at Boston University
  • Susan Anderson (1897), one of the first female physicians in Colorado[18]
  • Robert C. Atkins (BA 1951), developed the Atkins Diet
  • William Henry Beierwaltes (B.S. 1938, MED: MD 1941), champion of the use of radioiodine together with surgery in thyroid diagnosis and care; lead author of first book on nuclear medicine, 1957's Clinical Use of Radioisotopes
  • Elissa P. Benedek (M.D. 1960), child and adolescent psychiatrist, forensic psychiatrist, adjunct clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan
  • David Botstein (PhD 1967); leader in the Human Genome Project; director of Princeton's Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
  • Alexa Canady (AB 1971, MED: MD 1975), became first African-American female neurosurgeon in the country when she was 30; chief of neurosurgery at Children's Hospital of Michigan in Detroit for almost 15 years
  • Benjamin S. Carson (MED: MD 1977), former director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital
  • Arul Chinnaiyan (MED: MD 1999), cancer researcher; recipient of the 28th annual American Association for Cancer Research Award for Outstanding Achievement
  • Thomas Benton Cooley (MED: 1895), pediatrician; hematologist; professor of hygiene and medicine at the University of Michigan; son of Thomas McIntyre Cooley, first Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission
  • Ronald M. Davis (A.B. 1978), 162nd President of the American Medical Association; Director of the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit
  • Mary Gage Day (MED: MD 1888), physician, medical writer
  • Paul de Kruif (PhD 1916), author of Microbe Hunters
  • Julio Frenk (SPH: M.P.H. 1981, MA 1982, Ph.D. 1983), Minister of Health for Mexico
  • Seraph Frissell (MED: MD 1875), physician, medical writer
  • Raymond Gist, president of the American Dental Association
  • Sanjay Gupta (MD: 1993), CNN anchor, reporter and senior medical correspondent; former neurosurgeon
  • Cyril H. Haas (MED: M.D. 1904), medical missionary to Turkey 1910–1951; built clinic in Adana and treated over 20,000 patients annually; Silver Medal of Turkish Tuberculosis Association, 1962 (posthumous)[19]
  • Lucy M. Hall (MED: M.D. 1878), first woman ever received at St Thomas' Hospital's bedside clinics
  • Alice Hamilton (MED: M.D. 1893), specialist in lead poisoning and industrial diseases; known as the "Mother of Industrial Health;" in 1919 became the first woman on the faculty at Harvard Medical School; the first woman to receive tenure there; honored with her picture on the 55-cent postage stamp; winner of the Lasker Award
  • Nancy M. Hill (MED: MD 1874), Civil War nurse and one of the first female doctors in the US[20]
  • Jerome P. Horwitz (PhD 1950), synthesized AZT in 1964, a drug now used to treat AIDS
  • Joel Lamstein (B.S. 1965), co-founder and president of John Snow, Inc. (JSI) and JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc., international public health research and consulting firms
  • Josiah K. Lilly Jr. (1914 college of pharmacy), Chairman and President of Eli Lilly
  • Howard Markel (MED: MD 1986), physician, medical historian, best-selling author, medical journalist, and member of the National Academy of Medicine, George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan, Guggenheim Fellow
  • William James Mayo (MED: MD 1883), co-founder of the Mayo Clinic
  • Richard T. Miyamoto (MED: MD 1970), elected a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2005
  • Leonard Andrew Scheele (BA 1931), US Surgeon General 1948–1956
  • Eric B. Schoomaker (BS 1970, MED: MD 1975), Major General; Commander of the North Atlantic Regional Medical Command and Walter Reed Army Medical Center; former commanding general of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command at Fort Detrick
  • Thomas L. Schwenk (MED: MD 1975), dean of the University of Nevada School of Medicine
  • John Clark Sheehan (MS 1938, PhD 1941), chemist who pioneered the first synthetic penicillin breakthrough in 1957
  • Norman Shumway (MDNG), heart transplantation pioneer; entered the University of Michigan as a pre-law student, but was drafted into the Army in 1943
  • Parvinder Singh (PHARM: Ph.D. 1967), Chairman of Ranbaxy in 1993 until his death in 1999; the market capitalization of the Company went up from Rs.3.5 to over Rs. 7300 Crores during this period
  • Dr. Homer Stryker (MED: M.D. 1925), founder of Stryker Corporation
  • Dr. William Erastus Upjohn (MED: M.D. 1875), inventor of the first pill that dissolved easily in the human body

Military

Newsmakers

  • Bill Ayers (B.A. 1968), co-founder of the radical Weathermen
  • Rick Bayless (doctoral student, linguistics), chef who specializes in traditional Mexican cuisine with modern interpretations; known for his PBS series Mexico: One Plate at a Time
  • Benjamin Bolger (BA 1994), holds what is said to be the largest number of graduate degrees held by a living person
  • Mamah Borthwick (BA 1892), mistress of architect Frank Lloyd Wright who was murdered at his studio, Taliesin
  • Napoleon Chagnon (Ph.D.), anthropologist, professor of anthropology
  • Rima Fakih (BA), 2010 Miss USA
  • Geoffrey Fieger (BA, MA), attorney based in Southfield, Michigan
  • Robert Groves (PhD 1975), 2009 Presidential nominee to head the national census; nomination stalled by Republican opposition to use of "sampling" methodology, which Groves had already stated would not be used
  • Janet Guthrie (COE: B.Sc. Physics 1960), inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2006; first woman to race in the Indianapolis 500; still is the only woman to ever lead a Nextel Cup race; top rookie in five different races in 1977 including the Daytona 500 and at Talladega; author of autobiography Janet Guthrie: A Life at Full Throttle
  • Alireza Jafarzadeh, whistle-blower of Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program when he exposed in August 2002 the nuclear sites in Natanz and Arak, and triggered the inspection of the Iranian nuclear sites by the UN for the first time; author of The Iran Threat: President Ahmadinejad and the Coming Nuclear Crisis
  • Carol Jantsch (BFA 2006), the sole female tuba player on staff with a major U.S. orchestra, believed to be the first in history; at 21, the youngest member of the Philadelphia Orchestra
  • Morris Ketchum Jessup (MS Astronomy), author of ufological writings; played role in "uncovering" the so-called "Philadelphia Experiment"
  • Adolph Mongo (BGS 1976), political consultant
  • Jerry Newport (B.A. Mathematics), author with Asperger syndrome whose life was the basis for the 2005 feature-length movie Mozart and the Whale; named "Most Versatile Calculator" in the 2010 World Calculation Cup
  • Tony Ridder (LS&A: B.A. 1962), CEO of Knight Ridder 1995–2006
  • Jane Scott, rock critic for The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio; covered every major local rock concert; until her retirement in 2002 she was known as "The World’s Oldest Rock Critic;" influential in bringing the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to Cleveland[21]
  • Michael Sekora (B.S. 1977), founder and director of Project Socrates, the intelligence community's classified program that was tasked with determining the cause of America's economic decline[22][23]
  • Robert Shiller (B.A. 1967), economist; author of Irrational Exuberance
  • Jerome Singleton (COE: IEOR), Paralympic athlete, competing mainly in category T44 (single below knee amputation) sprint events
  • Jerald F. ter Horst (BA 1947), briefly President Ford's press secretary

Not-for-profit

Pulitzer Prize winners

As of 2017, 35 of Michigan's matriculants have been awarded a Pulitzer Prize. By alumni count, Michigan ranks fifth (as of 2018) among all schools whose alumni have won Pulitzers.

Pulitzer Prize, U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition

Rhodes Scholars

Rhodes House in Oxford, designed by Sir Herbert Baker

Science

National Medal of Science Laureates/National Medal of Technology and Innovation

National Medal of Science
Obverse of the medal
Awarded for Outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, biology, mathematics, engineering, or social and behavioral sciences.
Location Washington, D.C.
Country United States
Presented by President of the United States
First awarded 1963
Website https://www.nsf.gov/od/nms/medal.jsp

Sports

See List of University of Michigan sporting alumni

References

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