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This list of Iowa State University alumni includes graduates, non-graduate former students, current students, faculty, staff and administration of Iowa State University. In 1872, the first class of 26 students graduated from Iowa Agricultural College.[1] Today there are over 230,000 living Iowa State alumni.[2]

Alumni

Academia

Administrators

Professors and researchers

Name Class year Notability References
Ralph Palmer Agnew MA Mathematician studying summability of series, Chair of the Mathematics Department of Cornell University (1940-1950) [3]
Maurice L. Albertson 1941 BS Professor of Civil Engineering at Colorado State University (-), Co-founder of the United States Peace Corps [4]
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Arts

Business and finance

Entertainment

Name Class year Notability References
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Need Source for Iowa State Degree

Name Class year Notability References
Manish Acharya MS Indian film director and actor

Government, law and public policy

Journalism and media

Literature, writing and translation

Pulitzer Prize winners

Name Class year Notability References
Robert L. Bartley 1959 BA Recipient of the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing, Editor of the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal (1979-2002) [5]
Ted Kooser 1962 BS Recipient of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, United States Poet Laureate (2004-2006) [6]

Medicine

Military

Science and technology

Name Class year Notability References
Fred Adams 1983 BS Astrophysicist studying physical cosmology [7]
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[[:File:Clayton C. Anderson.jpg|thumb|170px|Clayton Anderson]] [[:File:George Washington Carver.jpg|thumb|170px|George Washington Carver]]

Sports

Basketball

Football

Olympic athletes

Other

Miscellaneous

Faculty and staff

Academia

Name Class year Notability References
Aureliano Brandolini Italian agronomist
Henry Otley Beyer Anthropologist specializing in the indigenous peoples of the Philippines
William R. Brinkley 1964 Ph.D Dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine
David P. Campbell 1955 BS, 1958 MS Creator of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory [8]
Michael M. Crow 1977 BA President of Arizona State University (current) [9]
James Lorraine Geddes American Civil War general, Acting President of Iowa State College (1875-1877) [10]
Niels Ebbesen Hansen 1887 BS, 1895 MS Pioneer in plant breeding, first Head of the Horticulture Department at South Dakota State College
Harold Hume 1889 BS, 1901 MS Noted Horticulturalist, Interim President of the University of Florida (1947), Provost of Agriculture at the University of Florida (1943-1949) Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).
Charles Boynton Knapp 1968 BS President of the University of Georgia (1987-1997) [11]
Samuel P. Massie 1946 PhD Third President of the North Carolina College at Durham (1963-1966), First African American Professor of Chemistry at the United States Naval Academy (1966-1994) [12][13]
James L. Oblinger 1970 MA, 1972 PhD Chancellor of North Carolina State University (2005-2009) [14]
Frederick Douglas Patterson 1923 DVM, 1927 MS President of the Tuskegee Institute (1935-1953, Founder of the United Negro College Fund [15]
Roy Vernon Scott 1952 BS Professor emeritus at Mississippi State University (current), Railroad and agricultural historian [16]
Subra Suresh 1979 MS President of Carnegie Mellon University (current), Director of the National Science Foundation (2010-2013), Dean of Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2007-2010) [17]
Edward M. Walsh MS, PhD Founder of the University of Limerick
Earl G. Yarbrough 1976 PhD President of Savannah State University (2007-2011) [18]
[[:File:Dr._Subra_Suresh,_Ninth_President_of_Carnegie_Mellon_University,_July_2013.jpg|thumb|170px|Subra Suresh]]

Art

Name Class year Notability References
Conde McCullough 1910 BS Architect [19]

Business

Name Class year Notability References
Vance D. Coffman 1967 BS Chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin (1998-2004) [20]
Charles W. "Chuck" Durham 1939 BS, 1940 BS, 1945 PhD Founder of HDR, Inc., noted philanthropist [21]
Edward C. Droste 1973 BS Founder and CEO of Provident Management Corporation, Co-Founder of Hooters Restaurants [22]
Roswell Garst Hosted Nikita Khrushchev during a visit to Iowa in 1959
Porter Jarvis 1924 BS President and Chairman of Swift & Company (1955-1967) [23]
Jerry Junkins 1959 BS Chairman and CEO of Texas Instruments [24]
Antti Herlin Chairman of KONE Corporation
Shawne Kleckner 1994 BS Founder of The Right Stuf International [25]
Murray Joslin 1923 BS Vice-President of the Commonwealth Edison (1953-1966), Pioneer in Nuclear Energy
Bruce Roth Inventor of Lipitor, Vice-President of Chemistry for Pfizer
Russell Stover Did not Graduate Founder of Russell Stover Candies
Sehat Sutardja Co-Founder and CEO of Marvell Technology Group
Thornton Wilson 1943 BS Chairman and CEO of the Boeing Company [26]

Government and politics

Presidents and vice-presidents

Name Class year Notability References
Parviz Davoodi 1981 PhD First Vice President of Iran (2005-2009)
Lee Teng-hui 1953 MS President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) (1988-2000)
Henry Agard Wallace 1910 BS Vice President of the United States (1941-1945), United States Secretary of Agriculture (1933-1940), United States Secretary of Commerce (1945-1946), founder of Pioneer Hi-Bred
John Garang MS PhD Vice President of Sudan (2005), Commander of Sudan People's Liberation Army (-)
[[:File:Henry-A.-Wallace-Townsend.jpeg|thumb|170px|Henry Agard Wallace]]

Executive council members

Name Class year Notability References
Luis Ernesto Derbez Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico (-), Secretary of Economic of Mexico (-)
Lauro Cavazos United States Secretary of Education (-)
Ezra Taft Benson United States Secretary of Agriculture (-), President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (-)
Steven VanRoekel Federal Chief Information Officer of the United States
Henry C. Wallace United States Secretary of Agriculture (1921-1924)
James Wilson United States Secretary of Agriculture (-)

Legislators

Name Class year Notability References
Berkley Bedell United States Representative from Iowa's 6th congressional district (1975-1987)
Bruce Braley United States Representative from Iowa's 1st congressional district (2007-2015)
Joni Ernst United States Senator from Iowa (current)
Tom Harkin United States Senator from Iowa (1985-2015), author of Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA)
Tom Latham United States Representative from Iowa's 4th congressional district (current)
Dave Loebsack United States Representative from Iowa's 2nd congressional district (current)
Elaine Szymoniak Iowa State Senator (1988-2000)

Governors

Name Class year Notability References
Garrey Carruthers Governor of New Mexico (1987-1991); President and CEO of Cimarron Health Plan
Bourke B. Hickenlooper Governor of Iowa (1943-1944), United States Senator from Iowa (1945-1969)
John Edward Jones Governor of Nevada (-) [27]
Sally Pederson Lieutenant Governor of Iowa (-)

Ambassadors

Name Class year Notability References
Charles Manatt United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic (-)
Dan Mozena United States Ambassador to Angola (-)

Others

Name Class year Notability References
Carrie Chapman Catt Founder of the League of Women Voters, leader of the Women's Suffrage Movement in the United States
Frank J. Christensen General President of the International Union of Elevator Constructors (current)
Vine Deloria, Jr. 1958 BS Executive Director of the National Congress of American Indians (1964-1967), Native American rights activist and author
Spencer Haven 1890 BS Attorney General of Wisconsin (1918-1919) [28]
Jon Lindgren 1960 BS Mayor of Fargo, North Dakota (1978-1994), advocate of LGBT Rights
Thomas Harris MacDonald 1904 BS Chief of the United States Bureau of Public Roads (1919-1939), Commissioner of the United States Bureau of Public Roads (1939-1953), leader in the development of the Interstate Highway System
Elwood Mead 1883 phD Commissioner of the United States Bureau of Reclamation (-), Namesake of Lake Mead
Bill Northey 1981 BA Iowa Secretary of Agriculture (current)
Trudy Huskamp Peterson 1967 BS Archivist of the United States (1993-1995)
Robert W. Sennewald 1951 BA Commanding General, United States Army Forces Command (1984-1986)
Scott Stanzel 1995 BA Deputy White House Press Secretary under the George W. Bush Administration [29]
Anthony Worth Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire (2008-2015)
[[:File:Carrie_Chapman_Catt.jpg|170px|Carrie Chapman Catt]]

Journalism

Performing arts

Science and technology

Name Class year Notability References
Clayton Anderson 1983 MS NASA astronaut, first Iowa State graduate in space [33]
Dale A. Anderson 1959 MS, 1964 PhD pioneer in the field of computational fluid dynamics [34]
John Vincent Atanasoff 1926 MS Inventor of the first electronic digital computer (Atanasoff-Berry Computer)
thumb|170px|Clayton Anderson

Sports

[[:File:Sep102006 633 Mike Myers.jpg|thumb|170px|Mike Myers]] [[:File:2009-0805-SRosenfels.jpg|thumb|170px|Sage Rosenfels]]

Baseball

Basketball

Football

Mixed martial arts

Olympics

Track

Cross Country

  • Lisa Uhl,four-time NCAA Division One champion, current NCAA record holder in the 10,000 metres

Wrestling

Notable faculty and staff

[[:File:Nobel Prize 2011-Press Conference KVA-DSC 7721.jpg|thumb|170px|Dan Shechtman]]

Nobel laureates

Pulitzer Prize

Science and technology

Literature

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 only coach with three consecutive 20-win seasons.
  • Johnny Orr, the most successful coach in Iowa State and Michigan men's basketball history

Football

Martial arts

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

Presidents of Iowa State University

References

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