List of University of Delaware people
The following is a list of University of Delaware people, which includes alumni, current and former faculty, and recipients of honorary degrees.
Alumni
Business
- Kurt Akeley - computer graphics engineer
- Mary Pat Christie - investment banker
- John P. Costas - CEO, UBS Investment Bank
- Michael F. Koehler - Chief Executive Officer, Teradata
- Adam Osborne - computing pioneer
- Larry Probst - Chairman of the Board, Electronic Arts (formerly CEO); Chairman of the U.S. Olympic Committee and member of the International Olympic Committee
- Ömer Sabancı - Turkish businessman
- Carl Truscott - Senior Vice President, ASERO Worldwide
Authors
- Steve Alten - science fiction author
- Peter Bailey - author
- Jarret Brachman - terrorism author
- Paul Cherry - business author
- Edward Ezell - author
- Maureen Johnson - author
- Thomas Leitch – author and academic
- Esther Tuttle Pritchard (1840–1900), minister, editor
Artists
- Michael Barone - art photographer
- Craig Cutler - photographer
- Tim Kreider - cartoonist
Politics
- Thurman Adams, Jr. - Democratic member of the Delaware Senate
- L. Heisler Ball - U.S. Senator and U.S. Congressman
- Jo Anne B. Barnhart - Commissioner of Social Security
- Jill Biden (B.A. 1976, D.Ed. 2007) - 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 and Senate Judiciary Committee
- J. Caleb Boggs - U.S. Senator, U.S. Congressman, Governor of Delaware
- John F. Brady - Delaware politician
- David P. Buckson - Delaware politician
- Eric Buckson - Commissioner, Kent County Levy Court
- Daniel E. Button - U.S. Congressman
- Theophilus C. Callicot - politician
- John Carney - U.S. Congressman, Governor of Delaware
- Thomas R. Carper - U.S. Senator, U.S. Congressman, and Governor of Delaware
- Christopher Christie - Governor of New Jersey
- Thomas Clayton - U.S. Senator and U.S. Congressman
- Carl Danberg - Delaware Attorney General and Commissioner of the Delaware Department of Correction
- Reha Denemeç - co-founder and deputy chairman (research and development) of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) in Turkey
- Kendel Sibiski Ehrlich - First Lady of Maryland
- J. Allen Frear, Jr. - U.S. Senator
- Don B. Hughes - Maryland State Delegate
- Horace G. Knowles - diplomat
- John G. McCullough - Attorney General of California and Governor of Vermont
- Thomas McKean - signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Louis McLane - U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
- Louise Mushikiwabo - Rwandan Foreign Minister
- David Plouffe - campaign manager of the Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008, political consultant, senior advisor to the president
- Mike Purzycki - 56th Mayor of Wilmington, Delaware[1]
- George Read - signer of the Declaration of Independence
- George R. Riddle - U.S. Senator and U.S. Congressman
- Steve Schmidt - campaign manager of the John McCain presidential campaign, 2008 (attended but did not graduate)
- James Smith - signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Nick Smith - U.S. Congressman from Michigan
Entertainment
- Susan Barnett - KYW-TV news anchor
- Colleen Broomall - actress
- Vincenza Carrieri-Russo - Miss Delaware USA 2008, Miss Delaware United States 2014
- Neil Casey - actor, comedian, writer
- Tommy Conwell - rock musician
- Antje Duvekot - singer/songwriter
- John Faye - rock musician
- Bryan Gordon - television and film director
- Suzanne Graff - actress
- Steve Harris - actor
- Page Kennedy - actor
- Amanda Longacre - Miss Delaware 2014
- Mark McClafferty - film and television producer and writer
- Matt O'Donnell - WPVI morning anchorman
- Marvell Scott - sports reporter for WABC-TV
- Susan Stroman - Broadway director, choreographer, performer
Education
- John L. Anderson - President of Illinois Institute of Technology
- Jill Tracy Biden - Professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College, Second Lady of the United States
- David L. Chicoine - President of South Dakota State University
- Lawrence A. Cunningham - scholar, author, and the Henry St. George Tucker III Research Professor of Law at George Washington University
- Rakesh Jain - professor of tumor biology at Harvard Medical School
- Steven Leath - President of Iowa State University
- Mary Patterson McPherson - former President of Bryn Mawr College
- James W. Wagner - President of Emory University
Judicial
- William B. Chandler, III - Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery
- Hugh M. Morris - Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
- Leonard Stark - Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
- Leo E. Strine, Jr. - Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery
- John E. Wallace, Jr. - Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court
Journalism
- Peter Bailey - journalist
- Katherine Boehret - journalist
- Colleen Broomall - journalist
- David E. Hoffman - writer. journalist, and Pulitzer Prize winner
- Jeff Pearlman - journalist
Military
- Charles Craig Cannon - United States Army officer who served as Aide-de-camp to Dwight D. Eisenhower after World War II
- John M. Custer III - United States Army officer
- Joseph H. Harper - World War II airborne officer, who later commanded the United States Army Infantry School
- Robert W. Kirkwood - American Revolutionary War officer
- Julian Smith - World War II United States Marine Corps General
Science
- Rakesh Agrawal - National Medal of Technology and Innovation Laureate and Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University
- Brian Atwater - geologist
- Terrell Ward Bynum - Director of the Research Center on Computing and Society at Southern Connecticut State University, Professor of Philosophy
- Carole Chaski - forensic linguist
- Roger Craig - computer scientist and Jeopardy! champion
- Robert W. Gore - inventor of Gore-Tex fabrics
- Walter Lafferty - optical physicist
- Holly Michael - hydrogeologist
- David L. Mills - Internet pioneer
- Daniel Nathans - biologist and Nobel Prize winner
- Siddhartha Roy, structural biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Peter Thejll - astrophysicist and climate expert
- Lodewijk van den Berg - astronaut
Sports
- Mike Adams - professional football player
- Robbie Agnone - football player
- Matt Alrich - lacrosse player
- Dawn Aponte – football executive[2]
- Petar Arsić - basketball player
- Josh Baker - football player
- Bryan Barrett - Lacrosse player
- Urban Bowman - American football and Canadian football coach
- Cliff Brumbaugh - MLB player
- Scott Brunner - football player
- Michael Byrne - football player
- Bob Carpenter, Jr. - former owner of the Philadelphia Phillies
- Brennan Carroll - football coach
- Larry Catuzzi - football coach
- Chris Collins - lacrosse player
- Bill Cubit - football coach
- Mondoe Davis - football and Canadian football player
- Richard Dean - fashion and advertising photographer, former player for Canadian Football League
- Elena Delle Donne - WNBA player with the Washington Mystics; played basketball and volleyball at Delaware
- Pat Devlin - quarterback for the NFL Miami Dolphins
- Anthony DiMarzo - lacrosse player
- Leon Dombrowski - football player
- Marc Egerson - basketball player
- Jamin Elliott - football player
- Joe Flacco - football player
- Eric Fromm - tennis player
- Keevin Galbraith - lacrosse player
- Rich Gannon - football player / NFL analyst CBS Sports
- Brian Gorman - MLB umpire
- Gino Gradkowski - football player
- John Grant, Jr. - lacrosse player
- Dallas Green - MLB player and manager
- Scott Green - NFL referee
- Bob Greene - fitness guru
- Andy Hall - football player
- Jordan Hall - lacrosse player
- Conway Hayman - football player
- Mickey Heinecken - football coach
- Tim Jacobs - football player
- Cindy A. Johnson - basketball player
- Dennis Johnson - football player
- Greg Justice - football player
- K. C. Keeler - football coach
- Jeff Komlo - football player
- Mike Koplove - MLB player
- Chad Kuhl - MLB player
- Peter Maestrales - baseball player and Olympian (2004)
- Kęstutis Marčiulionis - basketball player
- Joe McGrail - football player
- Joe McHale - football player
- Tom Mees - ESPN anchor
- Kevin Mench - baseball player
- Joe Minucci - football player
- Jeff Modesitt - football player
- Matt Nagy - football player and coach
- Harding Nana –basketball player
- Al Neiger - baseball player
- Mohamed Niang - basketball player
- Ben Patrick - football player
- Bob Patton - football player
- Mike Pegues - basketball player and coach
- Jim Quirk - football official
- Raven (born Scott Levy) - professional wrestler
- David Raymond - original Phillie Phanatic
- Dan Reeder - football player
- George Schmitt - football player
- Alex Smith - lacrosse player
- Tyresa Smith - basketball player
- Tony Storti - football coach and college athletics administrator
- Jon Striefsky - football player
- Ivory Sully - football player
- Joe Susan - football coach
- Ronald Talley - football player
- Hal Thompson - football player
- Anthony Walters - football player
- Richard Washington - football player
- Vic Willis - Hall of Fame baseball player
- Paul Worrilow - football player
Honorary degree recipients
- Byong Man Ahn - 2004 - academic[3]
- Robert Ballard - 2001 - oceanographer, discoverer of the RMS Titanic[3]
- Joseph Biden - 2004 - Vice President of the United States, former United States Senator (D-Delaware)[4]
- John C. Bogle - 1999 - founder and CEO of The Vanguard Group[3]
- Ben Carson, M.D. - 1997 - neurosurgeon[3]
- Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. - 2002 - business historian[3]
- Rita R. Colwell - 2003 - former Director of the National Science Foundation[3]
- Louis Freeh - 1999 - former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)[3]
- Adrian Hall - 2007 - British actor, thespian[5]
- Daisaku Ikeda - 2000 - Buddhist religious leader, President of Soka Gakkai International[3]
- Paul R. Jones - 2004 - art collector, Paul R. Jones Collection of African American Art[6]
- Audrey F. Manley - 2002 - former United States Surgeon General; President of Spelman College[3]
- Geoffrey Marcy - 2004 - astronomer, discoverer of the first extrasolar planet, 51 Pegasi b[7]
- J. W. Marriott, Jr. - 2005 - Marriott International[8]
- Mary McAleese - 2002 - President of Ireland[9]
- George J. Mitchell - 2003 - Former United States Senator (D-Maine)[3]
- Joseph Neubauer - 2006 - CEO of ARAMARK[10]
- Russell W. Peterson - 2006 - former Governor of Delaware, scientist[11]
- Martin A. Pomerantz - 2001 - physicist and astronomer[3]
- Cal Ripken Jr. - 2008 - baseball player[12]
- William V. Roth - 2003 - former United States Senator (R-Delaware)[3]
- W.D. Snodgrass - 2005 - poet[13]
- Walter K. Stapleton - 1998 - Federal Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit[3]
- Susan Stroman - 2005 - Tony Award-winning Broadway director, choreographer, film director, and performer.[14]
- E. Norman Veasey - 2003 - Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court[3]
- Craig Venter - 2004 - biologist, founder of The Institute for Genomic Research[15]
- Paul A. Volcker - 2001 - former Chairman of the Federal Reserve[3]
- John J. Williams - 1975 - former United States Senator (R-Delaware)[3]
- Jamie Wyeth - 2002 - realist painter[3]
Faculty
- Gene Ball - Computer Science
- Allen Barnett - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Ralph Begleiter - Communications & Political Science, Distinguished Journalist in Residence
- Mark Bowden - Distinguished Writer in Residence
- Xiang Gao - world-class violinist
- Linda Gottfredson - Educational Psychology
- Richard Hanley - Philosophy
- Donald West Harward - Philosophy, former president of Bates College
- Richard F. Heck - Chemistry, discoverer of Heck reaction, 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Laureate
- Christine Leigh Heyrman - History
- William Innes Homer - Art History
- Muqtedar Khan - Political Science
- Peter Kolchin - History
- Mark Samuels Lasner - Senior Research Fellow
- David Legates - Climatology
- Leo Lemay - English
- David L. Mills - Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Frederick Nelson - Professor of Geography and Director of University of Delaware's Permafrost Group
- David L. Norton - Philosophy
- R. Byron Pipes - Mechanical Engineering
- William Poole - Economics; former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; scholar in residence; former professor at Brown University and Johns Hopkins University
- Martin Postle - Art History
- Ramnarayan Rawat - History
- Arnold L. Rheingold - Chemistry
- W. David Sincoskie - Computer Engineering
- David Smith - Biology
- Jacob Joseph Taubenhaus - Plant Pathology (1909 to 1916)
- Charles Tilly - social scientist
- Don A. J. Upham - Mathematics; owner and editor of The Delaware Gazette for three years[16]
- Barbara A. Williams - Astrophysics
- Shien Biau Woo - Physics and Astronomy, former Lieutenant Governor of Delaware
- Ben Yagoda - English
References
- ^ "Mayor Michael S. Purzycki". The City of Wilmington, Delaware. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
- ^ Volin, Ben (April 14, 2013). "Club's secret weapon is tough 'capologist'". The Palm Beach Post. Retrieved June 7, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ 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. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
- ^ "Biden urges grads to be informed participants in the world". Udel.edu. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
- ^ "Thespian Adrian Hall receives honorary degree". Udel.edu. 2007-01-23. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
- ^ "UD welcomes Class of 2008". Udel.edu. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
- ^ "UD trustees select nine individuals for special honors". Udel.edu. 2004-05-25. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
- ^ Johnson, Richard L. "The University of Delaware Conferrs [sic] Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree on J. Willard Marriott Jr. / February 2005". Hotel-online.com. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
- ^ "President of Ireland receives honorary doctor of laws degree". Udel.edu. 2002-10-11. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
- ^ "ARAMARK CEO awarded honorary degree". Udel.edu. 2006-05-04. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
- ^ "Environmentalist Russell W. Peterson receives honorary degree". Udel.edu. 2006-05-27. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
- ^ "Seven leaders, scholars receive honorary degrees". Udel.edu. 2008-05-31. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
- ^ "W.D. Snodgrass receives doctor of humane letters". Udel.edu. 2005-05-28. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
- ^ "Susan Stroman receives honorary doctorate". Udel.edu. 2005-10-31. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
- ^ "Human genome icon speaks at UD April 16". Udel.edu. 2004-04-08. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
- ^ Gilman, Marcus Davis (1897). The Bibliography of Vermont: Or, A List of Books and Pamphlets Relating in Any Way to the State. With Biographical and Other Notes. Free Press association. p. 290.