List of George Mason University people
Appearance
This list includes alumni and faculty of George Mason University.
Notable faculty
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Nobel laureates
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- James M. Buchanan, Nobel Prize-winning economist (1986)
- Vernon L. Smith, Nobel Prize-winning economist (2002)
Pulitzer Prize winners
- Steven Pearlstein, Pulitzer Prize winner for Commentary in 2008
- Martin Sherwin, Pulitzer Prize winner for his biography of Robert Oppenheimer
- Roger Wilkins, Pulitzer Prize winner for coverage of the Watergate scandal (along with Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein) while he was working at The Washington Post; retired
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
- William Sims Bainbridge
- Shaul Bakhash, scholar of Persian studies; husband of Haleh Esfandiari
- Mary Catherine Bateson, former Clarence J. Robinson Professor in Anthropology and English; Professor Emerita
- Robert Bausch, novelist
- Rei Berroa, poet
- Andrés Boiarsky
- Courtney Angela Brkic, poet
- Michael Bunn
- Alan Cheuse, novelist
- Arthur W. Chickering
- Wilfrid Desan
- Bùi Diễm, South Vietnam's Ambassador to the United States
- Robert J. Elder, Jr, Air Force Commander
- Marita Golden, novelist
- Gerald L. Gordon
- Joshua Greenberg
- Hugh Gusterson
- Helon Habila
- Deanna Hammond
- Frances V. Harbour
- Hugh Heclo, professor of American politics and winner of John Gaus award
- Carma Hinton, documentary filmmaker, The Gate of Heavenly Peace
- Susan Hirsch, legal and linguistic anthropologist
- Mark N. Katz
- Peter Klappert, poet
- Gary L Kreps
- Thelma Z. Lavine, philosopher
- Suzannah Lessard, writer
- Lawrence W. Levine, historian
- Samuel Robert Lichter, former professor at Princeton University, Georgetown University, George Washington University, Yale, and Columbia University
- Peter Mandaville, professor of international affairs and scholar of political Islam
- Nadine Meyer, poet
- Robert Nadeau, English professor
- Eric Pankey, poet
- Roy Rosenzweig
- Richard E. Rubenstein
- Clare Shore
- Susan Shreve
- Richard Norton Smith, presidential historian; former director of five presidential libraries[1]
- Rod Smith, poet
- Peter Stearns, American historian and former provost
- Lev Vekker, psychologist
- Rex A. Wade, professor of Russian history
- Margaret R. Yocom
- Mary Kay Zuravleff, novelist
- Jeremy Crampton, cartographer
Department of Economics
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- Peter Boettke
- Donald J. Boudreaux
- Henry N. Butler
- Bryan Caplan
- Tyler Cowen
- Christopher Coyne
- Richard H. Fink, Executive Vice President of the Koch Industries
- Joseph L. Fisher, U.S. Congressman from Virginia
- Jack A. Goldstone
- Wendy Lee Gramm
- Robin Hanson
- Laurence Iannaccone
- Manuel H. Johnson, former Vice Governor of the Federal Reserve
- Daniel B. Klein
- Arnold Kling
- Don Lavoie
- Peter T. Leeson
- Kevin McCabe
- Maurice McTigue, former Minister for Labor in New Zealand
- James C. Miller III, Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan
- Jennifer Roback Morse
- Russ Roberts, host of EconTalk
- George Selgin
- Alex Tabarrok
- Robert Tollison
- Gordon Tullock, developed the public choice theory
- Richard E. Wagner
- Lawrence H. White
- Walter E. Williams, John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics
- Bart Wilson
- Bruce Yandle, Executive Director of the Federal Trade Commission
School of Art
School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution
- Kevin Avruch, Henry Hart Rice Professor of Conflict Resolution and Professor of Anthropology and Dean of S-CAR
- Marc Gopin, James H. Laue Professor of World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution
- Susan Hirsch, Professor of Conflict Resolution and Anthropology
- Richard E. Rubenstein, University Professor of Conflict Resolution and Public Affairs
Schar School of Policy and Government
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- Zoltan Acs
- David S. Alberts, Director of Research for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense.
- Kenneth Button
- Thomas M. Davis, former U.S. Congressman from Virginia.
- Robert Deitz, former Chief Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency.
- Desmond Dinan
- Richard Florida
- William Conrad Gibbons
- Marc Gopin
- Stephen Haseler
- Michael Hayden, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency.
- Ellen Laipson, former CEO of The Stimson Center.
- Seymour Martin Lipset
- Andrew McCabe, former acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- Patrick Mendis, American diplomat and expert on Sino-American relations.
- Patrick Michaels, climatologist.
- Thomas J. Miller, former United States Ambassador to Greece, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Michael Morell, former acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
- Saskia Popescu, infectious disease epidemiologist
- Bill Schneider, Los Angeles Times contributor and former CNN senior political analyst.
- Jeremy Shearmur
- Louise Shelley
- Richard Norton Smith
- John N. Warfield
College of Science
- Yakir Aharonov (Professor from 2006 to 2008), physicist, known for Aharonov–Bohm effect, winner of National Medal of Science (2009)
- David Albright
- Ken Alibek, Colonel in the Soviet Union in charge of biodefense
- Robert Axtell
- Peter J. Denning
- Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein, mathematician and cryptanalyst.
- Klaus Fischer, mathematician.
- Peter A. Freeman
- Robert Hazen, Clarence Robinson Professor of Earth Science; author.
- Abul Hussam, inventor of the Sono arsenic filter, for which he received the 2007 sustainability prize awarded by the National Academy of Engineering.
- Thomas Lovejoy
- Angela Orebaugh
- Suresh V. Shenoy
- Jagdish Shukla, meteorologist
- Fred Singer
- John P. Snyder, cartographer
- James Trefil, physicist, and author
- Ernst Volgenau, chairman and founder of SRA International
- Edward Wegman, statistician
- Boris Willis
School of Systems Biology
School of Business
- Teresa J. Domzal, dean of the School of Business
- Jim Larranaga, Mason's head men's basketball coach from 1997-2011
- Anthony Sanders, Distinguished Professor of Real Estate Finance
- Raymond W. Smith
Antonin Scalia Law School
- Jonathan H. Adler, legal commentator and law professor
- Peter Berkowitz
- David Bernstein
- Lawrence J. Block, Federal Judge
- Frank H. Buckley
- Henry N. Butler, Republican candidate for member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 11th congressional district
- Susan Dudley, Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs under President George W. Bush
- Victoria Espinel, United States Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator
- Adrian S. Fisher, lawyer, diplomat, and politician during the 1960s and 1970s
- Sandra Froman, President of the National Rifle Association of America
- Sigrid Fry-Revere, founder and president of Center for Ethical Solutions
- Ernest Gellhorn
- Douglas H. Ginsburg, judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; Ronald Reagan's nominee to the United States Supreme Court
- Irving Kayton, founder of the Patent Resources Group, Inc. (PRG)
- William Kovacic, former member of the Federal Trade Commission
- Michael I. Krauss, former Commissioner for Québec's Human Rights Commission
- William H. Lash, former United States Assistant Secretary of Commerce
- James LeMunyon, former United States Assistant Secretary of Commerce
- Robert A. Levy, chairman of the Cato Institute
- Leonard Liggio, Vice President of Atlas Economic Research Foundation
- Deborah Platt Majoras, former chairman of the Federal Trade Commission
- Henry Manne
- James C. Miller III, Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission; Budget Director for President Ronald Reagan
- John Warwick Montgomery[2]
- Timothy Muris, former chairman of the Federal Trade Commission
- Paul F. Nichols, former delegate to the Virginia General Assembly
- Raymond O'Brien
- Daniel D. Polsby, Dean of Law
- Jeremy A. Rabkin
- Steve Ricchetti, served as White House Deputy Chief of Staff in the Clinton administration; counselor to Vice President Joe Biden
- Chuck Robb, former Governor of Virginia; former U.S. Senator
- Kyndra Miller Rotunda, Army JAG officer
- Hans-Bernd Schäfer
- Loren A. Smith, Federal Judge
- Michael Uhlmann
- Clay T. Whitehead, former director of the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy
- Todd Zywicki, former Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission
School of Recreation, Health, and Tourism
- Steve Baumann, Chief Executive of the National Soccer Hall of Fame
- Charley Casserly, General Manager of the Washington Redskins and Houston Texans
- Craig Esherick, former head coach of the Georgetown basketball team
Notable alumni
Corporate/non-profit
- Muna Abu-Sulayman, Secretary General and Executive Director, Alwaleed Philanthropies
- Erden Eruç, President, CEO, Around-n-Over
- Zainab Salbi, President, Women for Women International
- Will Seippel, executive
- Roy Speckhardt, Executive Director, American Humanist Association
- Martin Andrew Taylor, former Senior Executive Corporate VP of Windows Live and MSN
Government and politics
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- Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, President of Puntland and former Prime Minister of Somalia
- David Bobzien, member of the Nevada Assembly
- Denise Bode, energy expert, member of President George W. Bush's Energy Transition Advisory Team
- Anna E. Cabral, Treasurer of the United States under President George W. Bush
- Kathleen L. Casey, Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- Sandra Cauffman, NASA
- Sean Connaughton, Virginia Secretary of Transportation and former U.S. Maritime Administrator
- Garrison Courtney, Chief Public Affairs of the Drug Enforcement Administration
- Ken Cuccinelli, Attorney General of Virginia
- Bob Deuell, Texas State Senator
- Christine Fox, former acting U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
- Michael Frey, member of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors
- Nancy Garland, member of the Ohio house of representatives
- Juleanna Glover, press secretary to Vice President Dick Cheney
- Bethany Hall-Long, Lieutenant Governor of Delaware
- William D. Hansen, US Deputy Secretary of Education under President George W. Bush
- Deborah Hersman, National Transportation Safety Board
- Cathy Hudgins, member of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors
- David Jolly, member of the United States House of Representatives
- Mohammad Khazaee, Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the UN
- Kaye Kory, Virginia House Delegate
- Sherri Kraham, deputy VP at the Millennium Challenge Corporation
- Nathan Larson, former politician, arrested in Denver, Colorado and faces child kidnapping and child pornography charges
- Mark B. Madsen, Utah State Senator
- Mike Mazzei, Oklahoma State Senator
- William W. Mercer, United States Attorney for the District of Montana
- John Morlu, Liberian presidential candidate
- Liam O'Grady, United States federal judge
- Paul F. Nichols, Virginia House Delegate
- Nancy Pfotenhauer, adviser to the 2008 John McCain presidential campaign
- David Ramadan, member of the Virginia House of Delegates[3]
- Steve Ricchetti, former Deputy Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton
- Denise Turner Roth, former Administrator of the GSA
- James M. Scott, Virginia House Delegate
- William P. Winfree, NASA
- Richard L. Young, United States federal judge
- Chris Wood, director of the Central Intelligence Agency's Counterterrorism Center
Literary and media
- Richard Bausch, novelist
- Robert Bausch, novelist
- David Michael Conner, author
- Stuart Cosgrove, Scottish journalist, broadcaster and television executive
- Sharon Creech, novelist
- Chad Ford, sports journalist and founder of ESPN Insider
- Angie Goff, news anchor, NBC 4 Washington WRC-TV
- Hala Gorani, news anchor, CNN International
- Topher Hall, musician
- Brian Krebs, journalist
- Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, Poet Laureate of Virginia[4][5]
- J. Michael Martinez, poet
- Nadine Meyer, poet
- Stephen Moore, journalist, policy analyst, The Wall Street Journal and Fox News
- Evan Oakley, poet
- Nancy K. Pearson, poet
- Susan Rook, news anchor, CNN
- Clayton Swisher, journalist, Al Jazeera English
- Rebecca Wee, poet
- Mark Winegardner, author
Sports and entertainment
- Julius Achon, Ugandan distance runner, 800m American collegiate record holder
- Joe Addo, soccer player
- Mark Adickes, football player
- Murielle Ahouré, NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships All-American in the 60-meter dash
- Jorge Andres, Anchor & NFL Analyst for NBC Universal, Former Sportscenter Anchor for ESPN
- Negar Assari, artist
- Abdi Bile, Olympic runner
- Justin Bour, baseball player, Miami Marlins
- Brent Brockman, soccer player
- Bill Brown, George Mason baseball coach
- Lamar Butler, basketball player
- Shawn Camp, baseball player, Toronto Blue Jays
- Folarin Campbell, basketball player
- Rebecca Cardon, actress
- Terri Dendy, Olympic track and field athlete
- Jennifer Derevjanik, basketball player
- Ben Dogra, sports agent
- John Driscoll, actor
- Chad Dukes, radio host, WJFK-FM
- Jerry Dunn, basketball coach
- Ryan Ellis, NASCAR driver
- George Evans, basketball player
- Mike Garrett, soccer player
- Denis Hamlett, soccer coach
- Luke Hancock, former George Mason basketball player; current Louisville basketball player
- Nikki Hornsby, Grammy voting singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist, founder of CJP-NHRecords
- Jake Kalish, baseball player
- King Kamali, Iranian bodybuilder
- Archie Kao, actor
- Joelle Khoury, musician (pianist and composer)[6]
- Sarah Kozer, television personality, appeared on Joe Millionaire
- Jai Lewis, basketball player
- Bob Lilley, soccer player and head coach
- Tamir Linhart, soccer player
- Jason Miskiri, former NBA basketball player for the Charlotte Hornets
- Dayton Moore, general manager, senior VP, Kansas City Royals
- Mike Morrison, basketball player
- Paige Moss, actress
- Rob Muzzio, decathlon champion, Olympic athlete
- Anthony Noreiga, soccer player
- Gabe Norwood, Philippine Basketball Association player
- Ryan Pearson, basketball player
- Richard Phillips, Jamaican sprinter; competed in the 110 metres hurdles at the 2004, 2008, and the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Jennifer Pitts, Miss Virginia, Miss Virginia USA
- Mark Pulisic, soccer player
- Charlie Raphael, soccer player
- Rob Rose, former NBA basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers
- Dianna Russini, ESPN anchor
- Kenny Sanders, basketball player
- Rhea Seehorn, actress
- Ritch Shydner, comedian
- Tony Skinn, basketball player
- Tommy Steenberg, ice skater
- Shawn Stiffler, college baseball coach at VCU
- Will Thomas, basketball player
- David Verburg, 400m sprinter; won the gold medal in the 2013 World Championship 4 × 400 m relay
- Alan Webb, American record holder in the mile
- Chris Widger, former MLB baseball player
- Aimee Willard, lacrosse player
- Ricky Wilson, former NBA basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs and the New Jersey Nets
- Carlos Yates, basketball player
- Jesse Young, basketball player; member of the Canada national team that participated in the 1999 and 2003 Pan American Games
- Kate Ziegler, world record distance swimmer
Other
- Amir Ansari, venture capitalist
- Anousheh Ansari, space tourist
- Sandy Antunes, astronomer
- Randall C. Berg, Jr., lawyer
- M. Brian Blake, professor
- Mark A. Calabria, Director of Financial Regulation Studies at the Cato Institute
- Alan M. Davis, engineer and businessman
- Chris DiBona, Google Public Sector Director
- Taylor Edgar, stand-up comic and musician
- Sibel Edmonds, former Federal Bureau of Investigation translator
- Fred E. Foldvary, economist
- Graham Foust, professor and poet
- Steven Horwitz, economist
- Raynard Jackson, Republican political consultant
- Matt Kibbe, President and CEO of FreedomWorks
- Jonathan Klick, professor
- Robert A. Levy, Chairman of the Cato Institute
- Jeb Livingood, professor and writer
- Daniel Mann, lawyer
- George Michael, professor
- Kendrick Moxon, lawyer and Scientologist
- Sareh Nouri, Luxury Bridal Designer
- Angela Orebaugh, cyber security technologist and professor
- Mark Perry, professor
- Brad Pfaff, USDA Wisconsin Farm Service Agency executive director
- David Prychitko, economist
- Jose Rodriguez, political activist
- Eric Schansberg, economics professor
- Stephen Slivinski, economist for the Goldwater Institute
- Victoria Stiles, makeup artist
- Edward Stringham, professor
- Jeffery Taubenberger, virologist
- Deborah Willis, photographer and professor
- Ali al-Tamimi, convicted terrorist
References
- ^ Biography of Richard Norton Smith. Georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov (2005-09-06). Retrieved on 2011-03-11.
- ^ Rivera, Carla (11 January 1989). "A Flair for Controversy". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
- ^ Ramadan, David. "David's Story". David Ramadan – official website. Archived from the original on 4 June 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2012.
- ^ Virginia Law and Library of Congress List of Poets Laureate of Virginia
- ^ Official Site of Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda – Poet, Artist, Educator, Poet Laureate of Virginia. Carolynforonda.com. Retrieved on 2011-03-11.
- ^ Joelle Khoury listed as graduate of George Mason University on page at brunel.ac.uk