List of University of Delaware people
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The following is a list of University of Delaware alumni and recipients of UD honorary degrees.
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[edit] Sports
- Mike Adams - Current professional football player
- Scott Brunner - Football player
- Bob Carpenter, Jr. - Former owner, Philadelphia Phillies
- Bill Cubit - Former wide receiver, Head Football Coach at Western Michigan University
- Richard Dean - fashion and advertising photographer, former player for Canadian Football League
- Pat Devlin - Quarterback for the Blue Hens
- Joe Flacco - Quarterback for the NFL Baltimore Ravens
- Rich Gannon - Football player / NFL Analyst CBS Sports
- John Grant, Jr. - Lacrosse Player
- Scott Green - NFL referee
- Bob Greene - Fitness guru
- Dallas Green - MLB player & manager
- Andy Hall - Football player
- Conway Hayman - Former offensive lineman for the Houston Oilers
- Mike Koplove - MLB player
- Jeff Komlo - Former NFL quarterback
- Scott Levy - Professional wrestler better known by the name "Raven"
- Kevin Mench - Baseball player
- Tom Mees - ESPN anchor
- Ben Patrick - American football player
- David Raymond - Original Phillie Phanatic
- Alex Smith - Lacrosse player
- Vic Willis - Hall of Fame Baseball Player
[edit] Business
- Steve Mosko- President of Sony Pictures Entertainment
- Kurt Akeley - Computer graphics engineer
- Kenneth Daly - CEO National Association of Corporate Directors
- Dave DeWalt - CEO, McAfee, Inc.
- David Heitzer - Vice President, Commercial & Industrial Marketing, Reliant Energy
- Nicholas Marsini - CFO of PNC Bank's Global Investment Services
- Kristin Nolt Wingard - Senior Vice President, Worldwide Public Affairs, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts
- Adam Osborne - Computing pioneer
- Larry Probst - Chairman of the Board - Electronic Arts (Formerly CEO)
- Ömer Sabancı - Turkish businessman
- Jon-Michel Sullivan- Entrepreneur and Financier, Logic Wireless
- Ken Whitney - Senior Managing Director of Blackstone Group
- Marna C. Whittington - COO of Allianz Global Investors
- Philip Green - Managing director Bank of New York
- Carl Truscott- Senior Vice President, ASERO Worldwide
- Andrew Fitzgerald - Current owner of Hersheypark and chocolate connoisseur
- Jon R. Caloia - Senior Researcher Merriam-Webster
- Colin Flaherty -- President, Flaherty Communications
- David V. Elkins - Executive Vice President/CFO, Becton Dickinson & Co.
[edit] Authors
- Maureen Johnson - Author
- Colin Flaherty -- Author
- Paul Cherry - Business Author
[edit] Artists
- Michael Barone (photographer) - Art Photographer
- Tim Kreider - Cartoonist
[edit] Politics
- Thurman Adams, Jr. - Delaware politician
- L. Heisler Ball – Former U.S. Senator and U.S. Congressman
- Jill Biden (B.A. 1976, D.Ed. 2007) - American educator and Second Lady of the United States as the wife of Vice President of the United States Joe Biden
- Joe Biden (B.A. 1965) – Vice President of the United States of America, former U.S. Senator, former chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
- J. Caleb Boggs – Former U.S. Senator, U.S. Congressman, Governor of Delaware
- Eric Buckson - Commissioner, Kent County Levy Court
- Daniel E. Button - Former U.S. Congressman
- Thomas R. Carper – Current U.S. Senator, former U.S. Congressman and Governor of Delaware
- Christopher Christie - Governor of New Jersey
- Thomas Clayton – Former U.S. Senator and U.S. Congressman
- Kendel Sibiski Ehrlich – Former First Lady of Maryland
- J. Allen Frear, Jr. – Former U.S. Senator
- Don B. Hughes – former Maryland State Delegate
- Horace G. Knowles - diplomat
- Thomas McKean – signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Louis McLane – Former U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
- David Plouffe – Campaign Manager of the Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008, Political Consultant
- George Read – signer of the Declaration of Independence
- George R. Riddle – Former U.S. Senator and U.S. Congressman
- Steve Schmidt - Campaign Manager of the John McCain presidential campaign, 2008 (note: did not graduate)
- James Smith – signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Nick Smith - Former U.S. Congressman from Michigan
[edit] Entertainment
- Tommy Conwell - Rock Musician
- Bryan Gordon - Television and film director
- Suzanne Graff, Actress
- Steve Harris - Actor
- Page Kennedy - Actor
- Mark McClafferty - Film and television producer and writer
- Matt O'Donnell - WPVI morning achorman
- Marvell Scott - Sports Reporter for WABC
- Susan Stroman - Broadway director, Choreographer, Performer
- George Thorogood - Blues-rock singer and guitarist
- Dilshad Vadsaria - Actress
- Thomas Wesley Weeks, III - Evangelical pastor
[edit] Education
- John L. Anderson - Current President of Illinois Institute of Technology
- Jill Tracy Biden - Professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College, Second Lady of the United States
- John C. Cavanaugh - Psychology professor, former president of University of West Florida
- David L. Chicoine - Current President of South Dakota State University
- Rakesh Jain - Professor of tumor biology at Harvard Medical School
- Mary Patterson McPherson - Former President of Bryn Mawr College
- James W. Wagner - Current President of Emory University
[edit] Judicial
- William B. Chandler, III - Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery
- Hugh M. Morris - Former Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
- Leonard Stark - Current Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
- Leo E. Strine, Jr. - Vice Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery
- John E. Wallace, Jr. - Current Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court
[edit] Journalism
- Jeff Pearlman - Journalist
- Colin Flaherty - Journalist
[edit] Military
- Robert W. Kirkwood - American Revolutionary War officer
- Julian Smith - World War II United States Marine Corps General
- Joseph H. Harper - World War II airborne officer, who later commanded the United States Army Infantry School
[edit] Science
- Lodewijk van den Berg - Astronaut
- Peter Thejll - Astrophysicist and climate expert
- Robert W. Gore - Inventor of Gore-Tex
- Daniel Nathans - Biologist and Nobel Prize Winner
- Roger Craig - Computer scientist and Jeopardy! champion
[edit] Honorary degree recipients
- Robert Ballard - 2001 - Oceanographer, discoverer of the RMS Titanic[1]
- Joseph Biden - 2004 - Current Vice President of the United States, then-United States Senator (D-Delaware)[2]
- Edward G. Boehne - 2001 - President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia[1]
- John C. Bogle - 1999 - Founder and CEO of the The Vanguard Group[1]
- Ben Carson, M.D. - 1997 - American neurosurgeon[1]
- Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. - 2002 - Business historian[1]
- Rita R. Colwell - 2003 - Former Director of the National Science Foundation[1]
- William B. DeLauder - 2005 - Former president of Delaware State University[3]
- Louis Freeh - 1999 - Former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)[1]
- Adrian Hall - 2007 - British actor, thespian[4]
- Daisaku Ikeda - 2000 - Buddhist religious leader, President of Soka Gakkai International[1]
- Paul R. Jones - 2004 - Art collector, Paul R. Jones Collection of African American Art[5]
- Audrey F. Manley - 2002 - Former United States Surgeon General, Current President of Spelman College[1]
- Geoffrey Marcy - 2004 - Astronomer, discoverer of the first extrasolar planet 51 Pegasi b[6]
- J. W. Marriott, Jr. - 2005 - Marriot International[7]
- Mary McAleese - 2002- Current President of Ireland[8]
- Sen. George J. Mitchell - 2003 - Former United States Senator (D-Maine)[1]
- Joseph Neubauer - 2006 - CEO of ARAMARK [9]
- Russell W. Peterson - 2006 - Former Governor of Delaware, scientist [10]
- Martin A. Pomerantz - 2001 - American physicist and astronomer[1]
- Cal Ripken Jr. - 2008 - American baseball player [11]
- Sen. William V. Roth - 2003 - Former United States Senator (R-Delaware)[1]
- Walter K. Stapleton - 1998 - Federal Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit [1]
- Susan Stroman - 2005 - Tony Award-winning Broadway director, choreographer, film director, and performer.[12]
- W.D. Snodgrass - 2005 - American poet[13]
- Chief Justice E. Norman Veasey - 2003 - Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court[1]
- Craig Venter - 2004 - American biologist, Founder of the The Institute for Genomic Research[14]
- Paul A. Volcker - 2001 - Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve[1]
- Sen. John J. Williams - 1975 - Former United States Senator (R-Delaware)[1]
- Jamie Wyeth - 2002 - American realist painter[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q "Honorary Degrees / UD Alumni Relations". UDConnection.com. 2008. http://www.udconnection.com/Awards/University/Honorary-Degrees. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
- ^ "Biden urges grads to be informed participants in the world". Udel.edu. http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2004/bidenaddress052904.html. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
- ^ "William DeLauder awarded honorary degree". Udel.edu. 2005-05-28. http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2005/mar/degree053105.html. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
- ^ "Thespian Adrian Hall receives honorary degree". Udel.edu. 2007-01-23. http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2007/jan/degree012307.html. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
- ^ "UD welcomes Class of 2008". Udel.edu. http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2005/jul/convo083004.html. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
- ^ "UD trustees select nine individuals for special honors". Udel.edu. 2004-05-25. http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2004/honors052504.html. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
- ^ Richard L. Johnson. "The University of Delaware Conferrs Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree on J. Willard Marriott Jr. / February 2005". Hotel-online.com. http://www.hotel-online.com/News/PR2005_1st/Feb05_MarriottHens.html. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
- ^ "President of Ireland receives honorary doctor of laws degree". Udel.edu. 2002-10-11. http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/01-02/eirepresident101102.html. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
- ^ "ARAMARK CEO awarded honorary degree". Udel.edu. 2006-05-04. http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2006/may/neubauer050406.html. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
- ^ "Environmentalist Russell W. Peterson receives honorary degree". Udel.edu. 2006-05-27. http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2006/may/peterson052706.html. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
- ^ "Seven leaders, scholars receive honorary degrees". Udel.edu. 2008-05-31. http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2008/may/honoraries053108.html. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
- ^ "Susan Stroman receives honorary doctorate". Udel.edu. 2005-10-31. http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2006/oct/degree103105.html. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
- ^ "W.D. Snodgrass receives doctor of humane letters". Udel.edu. 2005-05-28. http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2005/mar/snodgrass052805.html. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
- ^ "Human genome icon speaks at UD April 16". Udel.edu. 2004-04-08. http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2004/venter040804.html. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
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