List of Case Western Reserve University people

This is a list of famous individuals associated with Case Western Reserve University, including students, alumni, and faculty.

Government and military

Dennis Kucinich, U.S. Representative (1997-present) and U.S. presidential candidate (2004 and 2008)

Subir Gokarn (PhD alumnus), current Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (equivalent to the U.S. Federal Reserve)

• Victor Ciorbea – Prime Minister of Romania (1996–1998)
• Bruce Cole – eighth chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (2001–present)
• Benjamin O. Davis Jr. – airman; first African-American to receive star in US Air Force; awarded Distinguished Flying Cross in 1943; served as Assistant Secretary of Transportation under Richard Nixon
• Lincoln Diaz-Balart – U.S. Representative
• Alene B. Duerk – first female rear admiral in the United States Navy
• President James A. Garfield – served on the Board of Trustees after the move from Hudson to Cleveland
• T. Keith Glennan – Case Institute of Technology President, member of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, first NASA Administrator
• Paul Hackett – Iraq War veteran and former congressional candidate
• President Rutherford B. Hayes – served on the Board of Trustees after the move from Hudson to Cleveland
• Dennis Kucinich – U.S. Representative; youngest person to be elected mayor of a major city (Cleveland) at age 31 (in 1977)
• Alfredo Palacio – interim President of Ecuador, completed a medical residency at CWRU
• Paul A. Russo - Ambassador of the United States to Barbados, Dominica, St Lucia, Antigua, St. Vincent, and St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla from 1986 to 1988.
• David Satcher – 16th Surgeon General of the United States (1998–2002)
• Louis Stokes – former U.S. Representative (1969-1999)
• Milton Shapp – Governor of Pennsylvania and 1976 presidential candidate
• Stephanie Tubbs Jones – former U.S. Representative
• Michael R. Turner – U.S. Representative
• Janet Bewley (Wisconsin Politician) - Member of the Wisconsin Legislature
• Milton A. Wolf – former U.S. ambassador to Austria
• Subir Gokarn (PhD alumnus) – current Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (equivalent to the U.S. Federal Reserve)

History

• Sara Alpern (born 1942), professor of women's history at Texas A&M University (B.A., 1964)
• Melvin Kranzberg - (1917–1995), professor of history (1952-1971).
• James Alexander Robertson (1873–1939), academic historian, archivist, and bibliographer (Ph.D., 1896)
• Ted Steinberg – two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee (2000 nonfiction and 2002 history)

Education

• George A. Bowman – youngest President in the history of Kent State University

Law

Main article: Case Western Reserve University School of Law

See Notable Graduates section

• Ned M. Rosenberg, New Jersey Superior Court Judge
• Edmund A Sargus, Jr., U.S. District Court Judge
• James Sokolove, undergraduate class of 1966, pioneer in legal television advertising, philanthropist

Science/technology/medicine

Main article: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

John J.R. Macleod, 1923 Nobel Prize winner for discovering insulin and Western Reserve University Professor of Physiology

Ferid Murad, 1998 Nobel Laureate and Case Medical School MD/PhD alumnus

• Peter B. Armentrout – distinguished chemistry professor, University of Utah
• Steve Wood – Sixth employee at Microsoft
• Paul Berg – winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for biochemical characterization of recombinant DNA
• Paul Buchheit – 23rd employee of Google and creator of Gmail
• Philippe G. Ciarlet – mathematician known for work on finite element method; received his Ph.D. from the Case Institute of Technology 1966 and was awarded the Légion d'honneur in 1999

Case alum Herbert Henry Dow, founder of Dow Chemical

• Herbert Henry Dow – founder of Dow Chemical
• H. Jack Geiger – founding member and past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility (which shared the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize as part of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War) and Physicians for Human Rights (which shared the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize as part of International Campaign to Ban Landmines)
• Julie L. Gerberding – first woman director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Alfred Gilman – co-winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for co-discovery of G Proteins
• Donald A. Glaser – winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics, for invention of the bubble chamber
• Corneille J.F. Heymans – winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on carotid sinus reflex
• Siegfried S. Hecker – director of Los Alamos National Laboratory (1986–1997)
• Samuel G. Hibben – pioneer in blacklight technology; designed the lighting displays for the Statue of Liberty and other national monuments
• George H. Hitchings – co-winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for research leading to development of drugs to treat leukemia, organ transplant rejection, gout, herpes virus, and AIDS-related bacterial and pulmonary infections
• Larry Hornbeck – developed Digital Light Processing technology at Texas Instruments
• Robert W. Kearns – the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper systems used on most automobiles from 1969 to the present. Kearns won one of the best-known patent infringement cases against a major corporation.
• Lars Georg Svensson - instrumental in the development of minimally invasive keyhole surgery and leader in aortic valve surgery
• Donald Knuth – computer scientist and winner of the Turing Award (1974)
• Polykarp Kusch – winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics, for determining the magnetic moment of the electron
• Lawrence M. Krauss – physicist in the field of dark energy, and a bestselling author (The Physics of Star Trek)
• George Trumbull Ladd (1842–1921) – American philosopher, educator, and psychologist. He was the first foreigner to receive the Second (conferred in 1907) and Third (conferred in 1899) Orders of the Rising Sun.
• Paul C. Lauterbur – co-winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for discoveries leading to creation of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Zoltan Levay – prominent astronomer in the field of color visualization, most prominently used to convert Hubble Space Telescope images into colorful press photographs
• John J.R. Macleod – co-winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for discovery of insulin
• Albert A. Michelson – winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physics, for disproving existence of "ether"; first American to receive a Nobel Prize
• Edward Morley – performed interferometry experiment with Michelson
• Ferid Murad – co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for role in the discovery of nitric oxide in cardiovascular signaling
• George A. Olah – winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for contributions to carbocation chemistry
• Amit Patel – stem cell surgeon who demonstrated stem cell transplantation can treat congestive heart failure
• M. Scott Peck – psychiatrist and author of The Road Less Traveled
• James Polshek – architect; designed William J. Clinton Presidential Library
• Edward C. Prescott – co-winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, for theory on business cycles and economic policies
• Frederick Reines – co-winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics, for the detection of the neutrino
• Barry Richmond – developer of the iThink simulation environment.
• Frederick C. Robbins – co-winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for work on polio virus, which led to development of polio vaccines; past president of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences
• M. Frank Rudy – inventor of the Nike air sole
• John Ruhl – physicist currently studying cosmic microwave background radiation
• David Satcher – U.S. Surgeon General under President Bill Clinton, and first African-American director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Jesse Leonard Steinfeld – U.S. Surgeon General (1969 to 1973), most noted for achieving widespread fluoridation of water, requiring prescription drugs to be effective, and strengthening the Surgeon General's Warning on cigarettes
• Earl W. Sutherland – winner of 1971 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for establishing identity and importance of cyclic AMP in regulation of cell metabolism
• Peter Tippett – developer of the first anti-virus software, "Vaccine" (later sold and renamed Norton AntiVirus)
• Hans Baumann, inventor and engineer

Arts, journalism and entertainment

Actor Rich Sommer appeared in Mad Men and The Devil Wears Prada

• Jasmine Cresswell – best-selling author of over 50 romance novels
• Franklin Cover – actor; most noted role, Tom Willis in The Jeffersons
• Susie Gharib – co-anchor of the Nightly Business Report
• Gregg Gillis – musician; performs as Girl Talk
• Jan Hopkins – journalist (CNN Financial News show "Street Sweep")
• John Howard – actor
• Brenda Miller Cooper – operatic soprano
• M. Scott Peck – author of The Road Less Traveled and other self-help books
• Jack Perkins – dubbed "America's most literate correspondent" by the Associated Press; reporter, commentator, war correspondent, anchorman; seen on NBC's Nightly News and The Today Show, and on A&E as host of Biography
• Tom Piatak – lawyer and columnist, notably for The American Conservative and Chronicles Magazine
• Alan Rosenberg – actor; most noted role, Ira Woodbine in Cybill; Emmy-nominated for guest appearance on ER, elected president of the Screen Actors Guild in 2005
• Joe Russo and Anthony Russo – brothers, co-alumni, and directors of the films Pieces and Welcome to Collinwood, as well as the television series Arrested Development. They are also producers of NBC's Community.
• Alix Kates Shulman – author of Memoir of an Ex-Prom Queen and To Love What Is.
• Rich Sommer – MFA theater alumnus; appeared in The Devil Wears Prada, Mad Men, and in sketches by the Upright Citizens Brigade
• Thrity Umrigar – journalist and author of Bombay Time
• Andrew Vachss – lawyer and child protection consultant; author of the Burke series of novels.
• Buckley Jones - CEO and Founder of Doghound Records
• Roger Zelazny – science fiction and fantasy author; three-time Nebula Award winner and six-time Hugo Award winner; works include Lord of Light, Eye of Cat, and The Dream Master
• Tom Degnan - MFA theater alumnus, acted in As The World Turns before its cancellation.
• Charles Michener - Professor of English (specifically narrative journalism); former editor-in-chief of The New Yorker and senior editor of Newsweek

Business/philanthropy

Craig Newmark (BS '75, MS '77), founder of Craigslist

• William F. Baker – president and CEO of public television's flagship station Thirteen/WNET in New York
• Michael G. Cherkasky – CEO and board member at Marsh & McLennan Companies
• Ou Chin-der – former deputy mayor of Taipei, Taiwan and the current chairman and CEO of the Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation
• William Daroff – vice president for public policy at the Jewish Federations of North America member of the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad
• Robert J. Herbold – executive vice president at Microsoft
• Tshilidzi Marwala – academic, businessman and community leader
• Barry Meyer – chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. (1999–present)
• Craig Newmark – founder of Craigslist
• Philip Orbanes – former VP with Parker Brothers; founding partner and President of Winning Moves Games
• T. William Samuels – CEO and chief distiller of Maker's Mark bourbon whiskey
• Kent Hale Smith – founder of Lubrizol
• Peter Tippett – inventor of Norton (Symantec) Anti-Virus and CTO of CyberTrust
• Tom Tribone – founder and CEO of Guggenheim Global Infrastructure Company
• Donald E. Washkewicz – CEO of Parker Hannifin Corporation
• Bob Herbold – Former COO of Microsoft

Sports

Case alum Don Shula (MA Physical Education '53), former coach of the Miami Dolphins

• Manute Bol – at one time the tallest player to play in the National Basketball Association
• Ray Mack – Major League Baseball player, All-Star second basemen in 1940
• Michael McCaskey – chairman of the board, Chicago Bears; grandson of George Halas, founder-owner-coach of Chicago Bears and record-holder of most games won (324) for nearly three decades
• Don Shula (MA Physical Education '53) – former coach of the Miami Dolphins

See also

• List of Case Western Reserve University Nobel laureates