This is a list of notable alumni of Lehigh University, a private research university located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Academia
- David Bader (BSCompE, 1990; MSEE, 1991), Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and former Georgia Tech professor
- Anthony G. Collins (D.Eng. Civil Eng., 1982), former Clarkson University president
- Peter Feaver (BA, 1983), Duke University professor and former member of the National Security Council in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations
- James D. Foley (BSEE, 1964), Georgia Tech professor and co-author, Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice
- Kenneth French (Mech. E., 1976), Dartmouth College finance department chairman and American Finance Association president
- Robert L. Ketter, former University of Buffalo president
- Andrew H. Knoll (1973), Harvard University paleontologist and geologist and member of the National Academy of Sciences
- Ted London (BS Mech. Eng 1985), Base of the Pyramid expert at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and William Davidson Institute senior research fellow
- Robert J. Nemiroff (1987), Michigan Technological University professor of physics and co-founder of the Astronomy Picture of the Day and Astrophysics Source Code Library
- Paul C. Paris (1955), Washington University in St. Louis professor emeritus and expert on fracture mechanics and material fatigue
- Walter C. Pitman, III (1956), Columbia University professor emeritus and expert on sea floor spreading
- James R. Rice (1962), Harvard University physicist and professor and member of the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering.
- Herman Schneider (1894), University of Cincinnati former president and developer of cooperative education
- James E. Talmage (Geology, 1884), University of Utah former president, author, and LDS apostle
- John Texter (1949), Eastern Michigan University professor emeritus, author, inventor, and co-founder of Strider Research Corporation
- Paul Torgersen (B.S. Industrial Engr., 1953), former Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University president
Architecture
- Roland E. Borhek (1883), designed the Rialto Theater and other buildings
- Wallis Eastburn Howe (1889), architect
Business
- William Amelio (BS Chem. Eng., 1979), Avnet CEO and former Lenovo CEO
- Tom Bayer, Reserve Bank of Vanuatu director[1]
- Patrice Banks, Girls Auto Clinic founder and author
- William Butterworth, Deere and Company president and chairman
- Steve Chang, Trend Micro co-founder and former CEO
- Stacey Cunningham (BS Industrial Engineering, 1996), 67th president of the New York Stock Exchange[2]
- Jack Dreyfus (1934), Dreyfus Fund founder
- Cathy Engelbert (1986), former Deloitte U.S. president and current WNBA commissioner
- Murray H. Goodman (born 1925), real estate developer[3]
- Eugene Grace (1899), former Bethlehem Steel president
- Richard Hayne (BA Anthropology 1969), Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, and Free People co-founder
- Marc Holtzman (1982), Barclays Capital vice chairman and Kazkommertsbank chairman
- Lee Iacocca (Industrial Eng. 1945, Hon D.Eng. 1965), former Chrysler chairman
- Kevin J. Kennedy (1978), Avaya CEO
- John E. McGlade, Air Products chairman, president, and CEO
- Reginald Lenna (BS Industrial engineering, 1936), Blackstone Inc. CEO
- Edward Avery McIlhenny (1896), McIlhenny Company CEO]
- Henry H. Minskoff, real estate developer
- James Ward Packard (Mech. E., 1884), Packard co-founder
- John R. Patrick (BS Electrical engineering, 1967), former IBM vice president
- Joseph R. Perella (BS Business & Economics 1964), former investment banking chairman at Morgan Stanley
- Paul Zane Pilzer (BA Journalism 1974), economist
- Barry Rosenstein (BA, 1981), hedge fund manager[4]
- Fredrick D. Schaufeld (BA Government 1981), entrepreneur and venture capital investor
- Tsai Shengbai (1919), Mayar Silk Mills president and developer of the modern silk industry in China
- Fred Trump Jr. (1960), Trans World Airlines pilot and former executive and maintenance worker at The Trump Organization; older brother of Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States
- Robert Zoellner (BS 1954), investor and stamp collector, the second person to have assembled a complete collection of United States postage stamps, and benefactor and namesake of the school's Zoellner Arts Center[5]
Entertainment
- Dick Berg (1942), screenwriter
- Jim Davidson (1985), actor, Pacific Blue
- Paul Guilfoyle (1972), actor, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
- Maria Jacquemetton (BA English, 1983), Emmy, Golden Globe, Writers Guild of America, and Peabody Award-winning writer and supervising producer of Mad Men
- Don Most (1972), actor, Happy Days (attended but did not graduate)[6]
- Louis Clyde Stoumen (1939), Academy Award-winning director and producer
Journalism and literature
- Martin Baron (BA Journalism and MBA, both 1976), Washington Post editor and former Boston Globe editor[7]
- Tracy Byrnes (1993), Fox Business television reporter[8]
- William E. Coles, Jr. (BA English, 1953), novelist and professor
- Richard Harding Davis (1886), war correspondent, journalist, and writer of fiction and drama
- Robert Gibb (MA English, 1976), poet, short-story writer, essayist, critic, editor, and professor
- Michael Golden (1971), The International Herald Tribune publisher and vice chairman of The New York Times Company
- William P. Gottlieb (BS business and economics, 1939), jazz author and photographer
- Russell Lee (1925), photojournalist
- Edwin Lefèvre (1893), one of the first journalists specialized on covering business
- David A. Randall (English, 1928), book dealer and librarian
- Len Roberts (PhD English, 1976), poet, translator, and professor
- Stephanie Ruhle (1997), MSNBC anchor and NBC News correspondent
- Michael Smerconish (BA Government, 1984), author and radio commentator
- Andrea Tantaros (2001), former Fox News Channel co-host and political contributor[9]
- Les Whitten (BA English and Journalism, 1950), investigative reporter and novelist
Law
- Edward N. Cahn (1955), United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania judge; The Edward Cahn Federal Building and Courthouse was named in his honor.
- Robert L. Clifford (1946), New Jersey Supreme Court associate justice
- James Cullen Ganey (1920), United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit judge
- Ronald A. Guzman (1970), United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois judge
- Alina Habba (2005), attorney for former U.S. president Donald Trump
- Edwin Kneedler (1967), deputy solicitor general of the United States
- Paul Lewis Maloney (1972), United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan judge
- Malcolm Muir (1935), United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania judge
- Maryellen Noreika (1988),United States District Court for the District of Delaware judge
- Donald F. Parsons (1973), Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware vice chancellor
- Stephen Victor Wilson (1963), United States District Court for the Central District of California judge
Medicine
- Harry J. Buncke, plastic surgeon called the "father of microsurgery"
- Steven J. Burakoff, cancer specialist and head of Mount Sinai Medical Center's cancer institute
- Frank L. Douglas, former TheVax Genetics Vaccine Company CEO and founder and first executive director of MIT's Center for Biomedical Innovation
- Stephen K. Klasko, Jefferson Health CEO
- Gail Saltz, psychiatrist and television commentator
- Sandra Welner, specialist in disabled women's healthcare
Military
- Ralph Cheli (1941), USAAF, awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for valor in World War II
- Timothy D. Haugh (BA 1991), current commander, Sixteenth Air Force
- Colin J. Kilrain (1982), U.S. Navy SEAL, anti-terrorism expert, military attache to Mexico, PACCOM Special Ops Commander, NATO Special Ops Commander[10][11]
- David M. Peterson (1915), fighter ace with the Lafayette Escadrille and U.S. Army Air Service credited with six victories, twice awarded the Distinguished Service Cross[12]
- Edwin H. Simmons USMC (1942), veteran of the Battle of Chosin Reservoir and USMC chief historian
- Franklin C. Spinney (BS Mech. Eng, 1967), U.S. Air Force Reserve and military analyst
- John H. Tilelli, Jr. (MBA 1972), U.S. Army vice chief of staff
Politics
- Pongpol Adireksarn (1964), Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand
- William David Blakeslee Ainey, U.S. Congressman
- Ali Al-Naimi (BS Geology 1962), Saudi Arabia Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources and Aramco chairman
- Carville Benson (1890), U.S. Congressman
- William A. Collins, Connecticut State Representative and four-term mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut
- Charlie Dent (MPA, 1993), U.S. Congressman
- Geoff Diehl (1992), Massachusetts House of Representatives member
- Clarence Ditlow III, (Bachelor of Science (BS) Chemical Engineering), advocate for automotive safety[13]
- Manuel V. Domenech (1888), Ponce, Puerto Rico member and Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
- Lori Ehrlich (1985),Massachusetts House of Representatives member
- Peter D. Feaver (BA, 1983), member of the National Security Council in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations and Duke University professor
- Robert L. Freeman (MA History, 1984), Pennsylvania House of Representatives member[14]
- Walter O. Hoffecker (1877), U.S. Congressman
- Robert A. Hurley (1917), 73rd governor of Connecticut
- Leonard Lance (Bachelor of Arts (BA), 1974), U.S. Congressman
- Norton Lewis Lichtenwalner, U.S. Congressman
- Jennifer Mann (1991), Majority Caucus Secretary and member of Pennsylvania House of Representatives
- Robert Martin (Master of Arts (MA) History, 1971), New Jersey State Senator
- Paul F. McHale, Jr. (Bachelor of Arts (BA) Government, 1972), Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and former U.S. Congressman
- Rufus King Polk (1887), U.S. Congressman
- Donald L. Ritter (Bachelor of Science (BS) Metallurgy, 1961), former U.S. Congressman
- Richard Schmierer (1974), U.S. ambassador to Oman
- David Sidikman (1956), New York State Assembly member
- Donald Snyder (MBA 1976), Pennsylvania House of Representatives Majority Whip[15]
- Edward J. Stack (1931), U.S. Congressman
- Guy Talarico (B.S.), New Jersey General Assembly member[16]
- Joseph Uliana (1987), Pennsylvania State Representative and State Senator
- Richard Verma (BS Industrial engineering, 1990), U.S. ambassador to India
- Francis E. Walter (1916), U.S. Congressman
Pulitzer Prize winners
- Martin Baron (1976), editor of The Washington Post, former editor of The Boston Globe, 2003 Pulitzer Prize winner
- Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe (1886) 1925 Pulitzer Prize winner
- Joe Morgenstern (BA English, 1953), 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner
Science and engineering
- Ali Al-Naimi (BS Geology, 1962), Saudi Aramco CEO and Saudi Arabia's Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources
- Walter C. Bachman (1933), chief engineer at Gibbs & Cox and ship propulsion expert
- John-David F. Bartoe (BS Physics 1966), Space Shuttle astronaut and International Space Station research manager for NASA
- Stephen James Benkovic (1960), chemist
- William Bowie (C.E. 1895), geodetic engineer and namesake of Bowie Seamount
- Morris Llewellyn Cooke (BS Mech. E., 1895), rural electrification leader during the 1920s and 1930s
- Paul Corkum (PhD Theoretical Physics, 1972), attosecond physics and laser science expert
- Albert P. Crary (MS Physics), Antarctic explorer
- Harry Diamond, engineer who developed Proximity Fuse
- Philip Drinker (Chem Eng., 1917), co-inventor of the modern respirator[17]
- Lt. Col. Terry Hart, USAF (BS Mech. E., 1968, Hon. D.Eng., 1988), NASA Space Shuttle astronaut
- Captain Nicholas H. Heck (AB 1903, BSCE 1904), geophysicist, seismologist, oceanographer, hydrographic surveyor, and United States Coast and Geodetic Survey officer
- Lester Hogan (PhD Physics 1950), microwave and semiconductor pioneer
- Gary G. Lash (MS, PhD 1980), geologist known for Marcellus Shale calculations
- Bill Maloney (1980), mine drilling expert and participant in the Plan B rescue of miners during the 2010 Chilean mine disaster
- Daniel McFarlan Moore (1889), Moore Light inventor
- William S. Murray (1895), electrical power generation and railroad electrification expert
- Jesse W. Reno (BS Mech Eng., 1883), builder of the world's first escalator
- Robert Serber (BS Engineering physics, 1930), physicist in the Manhattan Project
- Lewis B. Stillwell (1885), expert on electrical distribution, President of the IEEE and 1935 winner of the IEEE Edison Medal
- John Texter (1949; BSEE, 1971; MS Chem, 1973; MS Mathematics, 1976; PhD Chemistry, 1976), engineer and scientist in applied dispersion technology and small particle science, co-initiator of polymerized ionic liquids, and designer of thermodynamically stable dispersions
- John M. Thome (1870), director of the Argentina's national observatory, Observatorio Astronómico de Córdoba
- Richard Hawley Tucker (BS Civil Eng., 1887), astronomer; namesake of Tucker Crater on the Moon
- Claude Allen Porter Turner (BS Civil Eng., 1890), developed early reinforced concrete techniques
- Aneesh Varma (2006), founder of Aire and expert on behavior prediction algorithms
- William Wiswesser (1936; honorary doctorate 1970), chemist and pioneer in chemical informatics and inventor of Wiswesser line notation
- J. Lamar Worzel (1941), geophysicist and oceanographer
- Zhou Ming-Zhen, Chinese paleontologist, Chinese Academy of Sciences academic and recipient of the Romer-Simpson Medal
Sports
- Rabih Abdullah (1998), former professional football player, Chicago Bears, New England Patriots, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- Joe Alleva (BS finance, 1975; MBA, 1976), Louisiana State University athletic director and former Duke University athletic director[18]
- Craig Anderson (1960), former professional baseball player, New York Mets and St. Louis Cardinals
- Lon Babby (BA Political Science, 1973), Phoenix Suns president[19]
- Adam Bergen (2004), professional football player, Arizona Cardinals and Dallas Cowboys
- Jordan Cohen ('20), Israel Basketball Premier League player
- Snooks Dowd, former professional baseball player
- Cathy Engelbert (1986), WNBA Commissioner
- Sam Fishburn, professional baseball player
- John Fitch (BS Civil Eng., 1938), winner of Mille Miglia and Argentine Grand Prix[20]
- Paul Hartzell (1976), former professional baseball player, Baltimore Orioles, California Angels, and Minnesota Twins
- Bill Hoffman, football player
- Al Holbert (Mech. E. 1968), five-time IMSA GT Champion and member of International Motorsports Hall of Fame
- John Hill (1972), former professional football player, New York Giants and New Orleans Saints
- Jarrod Johnson (1991), former professional football player, Pittsburgh Steelers and San Diego Chargers
- Steve Kreider (1978), former professional football player, Cincinnati Bengals
- Tim Mayer (1991), IMSA chief operating officer
- Matt McBride, professional baseball player
- CJ McCollum (BA Journalism, 2013), first Lehigh basketball player to be selected in the NBA Draft[21]
- Kim McQuilken (1973), former professional football player, Atlanta Falcons and Washington Redskins
- Rich Owens (1994), former professional football player, Miami Dolphins, Kansas City Chiefs, Seattle Seahawks, and Washington Redskins
- Vincent "Pat" Pazzetti (1912), member of College Football Hall of Fame
- Roger Penske (1959), NASCAR and IRL team owner, member of International Motorsports Hall of Fame, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Will Rackley (BA Design, 2011), professional football player, Jacksonville Jaguars[22]
- Julius Seligson (1930), NCAA and ITA national tennis champion and member of ITA Hall of Fame
- Scott Semptimphelter, football player
- Levi Stoudt, former professional baseball player, Cincinnati Reds
- Lake Underwood (Mech. E.), professional sports car racer
- Bobby Weaver (1981), gold medal winner, wrestling, 1984 Summer Olympics
- Finn Wentworth (1980), former New Jersey Nets owner and YankeeNets president
- Adam Williamson (2005), Major League Soccer soccer player, New England Revolution
References
- ↑ "Going Worldwide from Vanuatu". Global Custodian. Winter 2001. Archived from the original on December 26, 2001. Retrieved December 14, 2013.
- ↑ "The New York Stock Exchange's new president is a woman, at last". USA TODAY. Retrieved May 23, 2018.
- ↑ "The Goodman Company - A History of Shopping Center Excellence".
- ↑ "Barry Rosenstein". Brown University. Retrieved May 11, 2017.
- ↑ Staff. "Robert E. Zoellner '54 dies at age 82", Lehigh University, December 31, 2014. Accessed December 31, 2014. "Zoellner, who graduated from Lehigh in 1954 with bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering and engineering physics and later served as a Lehigh trustee, was a lifelong supporter of the university. In the early 1990s, he and his wife Victoria committed $6 million to establish the Zoellner Arts Center, a 105,000-square-foot performing arts venue on the Asa Packer campus that brought measurable change to the university and provides students and the surrounding community with unique opportunities for learning, performing and the visual arts."
- ↑ "Donny Most Bio".
- ↑ MacMillan, Amanda. "Marty Baron '76: The Baron of D.C.," Lehigh University Department of Journalism & Communication.
- ↑ "Anchors & Reporters". Fox Business. Archived from the original on July 15, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2012.
- ↑ On Air Personalities
- ↑ "U.S. Navy Seal becomes military attaché to Mexico". March 13, 2012.
- ↑ "Military Daily News".
- ↑ "Major David McKelvey Peterson". Archived from the original on October 2, 2006. Retrieved November 24, 2006.
- ↑ "Clarence M. Ditlow III, Auto Safety Crusader, Dies at 72)". The New York Times. November 13, 2016.
- ↑ Official Pennsylvania House of Representatives Profile
- ↑ "Donald William Snyder (Republican)". Official Pennsylvania House of Representatives Profile. Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Archived from the original on February 1, 2000.
- ↑ Assemblyman Guy F. Talarico, New Jersey Legislature, backed up by the Internet Archive as of February 25, 1998. Accessed June 13, 2010.
- ↑ Distinguished Alumni Archived June 15, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Joe Alleva (biography) – Louisiana State University Athletics". Archived from the original on October 30, 2013. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
- ↑ Cohen, Paula Hubbs. "Attorney of the Month: Lon Babby," Attorney At Law Magazine (Greater Phoenix Edition), March 2011.
- ↑ "Car News - Latest Auto News, First Looks and First Drives".
- ↑ Olojede, Zion. "Lehigh alum CJ McCollum named Kia NBA Most Improved Player," Lehigh University Athletics, Friday, April 22, 2016.
- ↑ "Lehigh senior student-athletes conclude college careers," Lehigh University, Tuesday, May 24, 2011.
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