List of Florida Atlantic University people
This list of Florida Atlantic University people includes graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of Florida Atlantic University and its graduate programs. Since its opening in 1964, Florida Atlantic has awarded over 100,000 degrees to more than 95,000 alumni worldwide.
Alumni
Athletics
Basketball
| Athlete | Notability |
|---|---|
| Yolanda Griffith | professional basketball player in the WNBA[1] |
Football
| Athlete | Notability |
|---|---|
| Trevon Coley | Professional football player for the Cleveland Browns |
| Adarius Glanton | Professional football player for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| Trey Hendrickson | Professional football player for the New Orleans Saints |
| Mike Lockley | Former professional football player for the Jacksonville Jaguars |
| Alfred Morris | Professional football player for the Dallas Cowboys |
| Sharrod Neasman | Professional football player for the Atlanta Falcons |
| Greg Joseph | Professional football player for the Tennessee Titans |
| Ed Newman | National Football League All-Pro football player |
| Keith Reaser | Professional football player for the Kansas City Chiefs |
| Rusty Smith | Former professional football player for the Tennessee Titans |
| Lucky Whitehead | Former professional football player for the New York Jets |
| Athlete | Notability |
|---|---|
| Carmen Cali | Professional MLB pitcher[2] |
| Jeff Fiorentino | Professional MLB outfielder[3] |
| Tim Harikkala | Professional MLB pitcher[4] |
| Tommy Murphy | Professional MLB outfielder[5] |
| Robbie Widlansky | Professional MLB player[6] |
Rugby
| Athlete | Notability |
|---|---|
| Mark Zupan | Captain of the United States quadriplegic wheelchair rugby team[7] |
Tennis
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Fern "Peachy" Kellymeyer (M.A. 1974) |
Professional tennis player, administrator, and 1999 ITA Hall of Fame inductee[8] |
Mixed Martial Arts
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Tecia Torres | Professional mixed martial artist, current UFC Strawweight[9] |
eSports
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Zachary "Sneaky" Scuderi | Professional League of Legends player, for Cloud 9[10] |
Other
- Daniel Bluman (born 1990), Colombian-born Israeli Olympic show jumping rider
- Ben Silverman (born 1987), professional golfer
Business
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Ralph de la Vega (B.S.M.E. 19??) |
Chief Operating Officer of Cingular Wireless, and former President of BellSouth's Latin American operations[11] |
| Mark Dean (M.S.E.E. 1982) |
Vice President Technical Strategy and WorldWide Operations for IBM Research; holds three of the original 9 patents on the IBM PC as well as developing the Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) "bus," which permitted add-on devices like the keyboard, disk drives and printers to be connected to the motherboard[12] |
| Richard DiMarchi (B.S. 1974) |
Former Vice President at Eli Lilly and Company, and current Chairman in Biomolecular Sciences and Professor of Chemistry at Indiana University[13] |
| Patricia McKay (B.B.A. 1978) |
Executive Vice President, and Chief Financial Officer of Office Depot[14] |
| Luis Alberto Moreno (B.B.A. 1975) |
4th and current President of the Inter-American Development Bank |
| Robert "Skip" Orr (B.A. 1978) |
Former President of Boeing Japan, and former Vice President of Motorola[15] |
| Maynard Webb (B.A. 19??) |
Member of the Board of Directors of Salesforce.com, and former Chief Operating Officer, and President of Technologies for eBay[16] |
| Phil Zimmermann (B.S. 1978) |
Creator of Pretty Good Privacy[17] |
| George Zoley (B.A. 1972, M.P.A. 1975) |
Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and founder of the GEO Group, Inc. a publicly traded company that became independent from The Wackenhut Corporation[18] |
Education
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Wilson G. Bradshaw (B.S., 19??; M.S., 19??) |
President of Florida Gulf Coast University[19] |
| Arthur C. Brooks (M.A., 1995) |
Social scientist, economist, professor, author, and professional musician |
| Alberto "Al" Cardenas (B.A. 1969) |
Attorney, Republican lobbyist, and trustee of Florida A&M[20] |
| Keith Hamm (M.A., 1973) |
Edwards Professor of Political Science at Rice University |
| George L. Hanbury (Ph.D. 19??) |
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Nova Southeastern University[21] |
Entertainment
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Don Brewer (B.B.A. 1990) |
Drummer and founding member of the band Grand Funk Railroad[22] |
| Mary Carey (A.A. 2002) |
Pornographic actress[23] |
| Chris Carrabba | Singer-songwriter, Dashboard Confessional |
| Carrot Top (B.B.A. 1989) |
Prop comedian known for his red hair and television commercials[24] |
| Scott Henderson (B.A. 19??) |
Jazz, blues, and fusion guitarist, Tribal Tech[25] |
| Marc Kudisch (B.F.A. 1988) |
Broadway actor and two-time Tony Award nominee[26] |
| Mike Lawrence (B.A. 2007) |
Stand-up comedian |
| Lycia Naff (Journalism) |
Actress who portrayed the three-breasted mutant prostitute in the original movie Total Recall[27] |
| Shannon Spake (B.A Communications) |
TV reporter and sports analyst currently hosting NASCAR RaceHub [28] |
Government
U.S. senators, governors, and lt. governors
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Frank Brogan (M.Ed. 1981) |
Chancellor of the State University System of Florida, Former Lieutenant Governor of Florida and President of Florida Atlantic University[29] |
Cabinet members and federal officials
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| R. David Paulison (B.A. 19??) |
Current Undersecretary of the Federal Emergency Management Agency[30] |
U.S. Congressmen
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Carrie P. Meek (Hon Ph.D. 19??) |
Former U.S. Congresswoman from Florida's 17th district[31] |
| Daniel A. Mica (B.A. 1966, Hon Ph.D. 19??) |
Former U.S. Congressman, President and CEO of the Credit Union National Association[32] |
Judges, lawyers, and state officials
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Carol W. Hunstein (B.S. 1972) |
Presiding Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia[33] |
| Ken Jenne (B.A. 1968) |
Former Sheriff of Broward County, Florida, and former state legislator[34] |
| Henry Latimer (M.A. 19??) |
First African American circuit court judge in Broward County, Florida[35] |
Non-U.S. politicians
| Alumni | Country | Notability |
|---|---|---|
| Alexis Jeffers | Saint Kitts and Nevis | Member of the Nevis Island Assembly, candidate for the National Assembly in the 2010 federal election[36][37] |
Literature
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Judith Ortiz Cofer (M.A. 1977) |
Puerto Rican author[38] |
| Kevin Crawford | Shakespeare scholar[39] |
| Charles Ghigna | Poet and children's author known as "Father Goose"[40] |
Medicine, science and technology
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Christopher McKay (B.A.) |
Planetary scientist at NASA Ames Research Center[41] |
| Steven Swanson (M.A. 1986) |
NASA astronaut[42] |
Others
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Theresa LePore | Former supervisor of elections for Palm Beach County, Florida, most notable for her role in the 2000 presidential election controversy |
| Mirta Ojito | Cuban-born Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist for the New York Times and professor of journalism at the University of Miami |
| Gerard John Schaefer | Former Martin County sheriff's deputy and serial killer convicted of two murders in 1973 and believed responsible for over thirty others |
Faculty
- David F. Bjorklund, psychology professor, author, pioneer in evolutionary developmental psychology
- Maria Fadiman, associate professor, an ethnobotanist and member of the 2006 National Geographic Emerging Explorers[43]
- J. A. Scott Kelso, neuroscientist, founder of the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences
- Salvatore D. Morgera, former Chair of Electrical Engineering, Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the AAAS, Tau Beta Pi Eminent Engineer; pioneer of the highly multidisciplinary Bioengineering Graduate Program at FAU; Chair and Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida
- Walid Phares, author, national media commentator, and expert on global terrorism and Middle Eastern affairs
- Richard Shusterman, Professor of Philosophy, pragmatist philosopher, Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities, and Founder and Director of the FAU Center for Body, Mind, and Culture
- Martin K. Solomon, computer science professor, author, assistant chair of the Computer Science Engineering Department, expert on Oracle and databases
- Robert P. Watson, alumnus of FAU, author, national media commentator, former candidate for the United States House of Representatives; formerly associate professor of political science at FAU
- Jie Wu, professor in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, Program Director for the Networking Technology and Systems (NeTS) program of the National Science Foundation[44][45][46][47]
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- ^ "Mark Zupan - The short story!". Quadfather.net. Archived from the original on March 10, 2007. Retrieved 2007-06-10.
- ^ "ITA - Fern 'Peachy' Kellmeyer". ITA Women's Hall of Fame McCormack-Nagelsen Tennis Center. Archived from the original on 2006-08-31. Retrieved 2006-11-24.
- ^ "Congrats! UFC's Tecia Torres Earns Her Masters Degree - MMA Imports". mmaimports.com. 2017-05-08.
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- ^ "Department of Chemistry at Indiana University - Richard D. DiMarchi". Indiana University Department of Chemistry. Retrieved 2006-11-24.
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- ^ "Boeing Names Robert Orr President of Boeing Japan" (Press release). Boeing Inc. 2002-02-12. Archived from the original on 2006-02-26. Retrieved 2006-11-24.
- ^ "Salesforce.com Appoints Maynard Webb to Board of Directors" (Press release). Salesforce.com Inc. 2006-09-08. Retrieved 2017-08-11.
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- ^ "Office of the President". Florida Gulf Coast University. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
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- ^ "Office of the President - Executive Officers". Nova Southeastern University. Retrieved 2006-11-25.
- ^ "Florida Atlantic University Lady Owls Softball 2003 - Press Package" (PDF) (Press release). Florida Atlantic University Athletic Department. 2003. Retrieved 2006-11-26.
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- ^ "R. David Paulison: Director and Under Secretary for Federal Emergency Management". Federal Emergency Management Agency. Archived from the original on October 15, 2006. Retrieved 2006-11-26.
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- ^ "The Father Goose FAQ - children's author, childrens poet, school assembly, speakers schools assemblies, school author visits". www.charlesghigna.com.
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- ^ "FAU Professor Named Program Director for National Science Foundation".
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