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This is a list of notable individuals associated with Case Western Reserve University , including students, alumni, and faculty.
Directors Anthony Russo and Joe Russo have directed world-famous blockbusters Captain America: The Winter Soldier Captain America: Civil War Avengers: Infinity War Avengers: Endgame Actor Rich Sommer appeared in Mad Men The Devil Wears Prada Barbara Allyne Bennet – actress and member of Screen Actors Guild (SAG) national board of directors (2005–2007)[ 1] James Card – longtime film curator at George Eastman House Mary Carruthers – among the world's foremost scholars on medieval religious literatureBrenda Miller Cooper – operatic sopranoFranklin Cover – actor, Tom Willis in The Jeffersons Jasmine Cresswell – best-selling author of over 50 romance novels Anu Garg - author and speakerSusie Gharib – co-anchor of Nightly Business Report Gregg Gillis – musician; performs as Girl Talk Dorothy Hart - film actress of 1940s and '50sJan Hopkins – journalist (CNN financial news show Street Sweep )John Howard – actor, known for The Philadelphia Story Bulldog Drummond filmsM. Scott Peck – author of The Road Less Traveled self-help booksHarvey Pekar -comic book writer. Creator of American Splendor .Jack Perkins – dubbed "America's most literate correspondent" by Associated Press; reporter, commentator, war correspondent, anchorman; seen on NBC 's Nightly News and The Today Show A&E as host of Biography Alan Rosenberg – actor; played Ira Woodbine on TV series Cybill ER Screen Actors Guild in 2005Joe Russo and Anthony Russo – brothers, co-alumni, and directors of films Captain America: The Winter Soldier Captain America: Civil War Avengers: Infinity War Avengers: Endgame Welcome to Collinwood Arrested Development NBC 's Community [ 2] Alix Kates Shulman – author of Memoir of an Ex-Prom Queen and To Love What Is [ 3] Rich Sommer – MFA theater alumnus; appeared in The Devil Wears Prada Mad Men Upright Citizens Brigade Thrity Umrigar – journalist; author of Bombay Time Andrew Vachss – lawyer and child protection consultant; author of the Burke Roger Zelazny – science fiction and fantasy author; three-time Nebula Award winner and six-time Hugo Award winner; works include Lord of Light Eye of Cat The Dream Master
Business and philanthropy
Craig Newmark (BS '75, MS '77), founder of Craigslist Richard Thaler (BA '67), one of the founders of behavioral economics and recipient of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics
Education
Government and military
Dennis Kucinich , U.S. Representative (1997-2013) and U.S. presidential candidate (2004 and 2008 ) Don Thomas , former NASA Astronaut . (Physics BS '73) Elioda Tumwesigye , Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister of Science Technology & Innovation, Republic of Uganda John E. Barnes, Jr. - member of Ohio House of Representatives Janet Bewley - member of the Wisconsin Legislature Zdravka Bušić - member of the European Parliament John Cairncross - Soviet spy and member of the Cambridge Five Thomas J. Carran (1841-1894) - Ohio State Senator[ 5] François-Philippe Champagne - Canadian Member of Parliament for Saint-Maurice—Champlain .Schive Chi - Governor of Fujian Province and Minister without Portfolio, Republic of China (Taiwan)Victor Ciorbea – Prime Minister of Romania (1996–1998)Bruce Cole – 8th Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities John Charles Cutler – Acting Chief of the venereal disease program in the United States Public Health Service and head of the Guatemala and the Tuskegee syphilis experiments .Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. – first African-American to receive star in US Air Force; awarded Distinguished Flying Cross in 1943; Assistant Secretary of Transportation under Richard Nixon Lincoln Díaz-Balart – U.S. Representative Alene B. Duerk – first female Rear Admiral in the United States Navy James A. Garfield – served on the University Board of TrusteesT. Keith Glennan – Case Institute of Technology President, first NASA AdministratorSubir Gokarn (Ph.D. ) – Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India Paul Hackett – Iraq War veteran and former Congressional candidateRutherford B. Hayes – 19th President of the United States of America, served on the University Board of TrusteesJohn Hutchins - former U.S. Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones – former U.S. Representative Ron Klein - U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich – former U.S. Representative Clarence K. Lam , Maryland State Senator [ 6] James Thomas Lynn - United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Richard Nixon ; Director of the Office of Management and Budget under Gerald Ford Josh Mandel (J.D. ) – Ohio State Treasurer Nicole Nason (J.D. ) – Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration Alfredo Palacio – President of Ecuador , completed medical residency at CaseRaymond Stanton Patton (Ph.B. ), rear admiral and first flag officer of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps Trista Piccola - former Director of the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth & Families Paul A. Russo - Ambassador of the United States to Barbados , Dominica , St Lucia , Antigua , St. Vincent , and St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla David Satcher – 16th Surgeon General of the United States Milton Shapp – Governor of Pennsylvania and 1976 Democratic presidential candidateLouis Stokes – former U.S. RepresentativeDon Thomas – former NASA astronaut Elioda Tumwesigye – Member of Parliament Sheema North and Cabinet Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation Republic of Uganda Michael R. Turner – U.S. RepresentativeWilliam H. Upson - former U.S. RepresentativeAndrew R. Wheeler - Deputy Administrator (and Acting Administrator ) of the United States Environmental Protection Agency Milton A. Wolf – former U.S. Ambassador to Austria
History
Law
See Notable Graduates section
Case alum Herbert Henry Dow , founder of Dow Chemical Julie Gerberding , former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention John J.R. Macleod , 1923 Nobel Prize winner for discovering insulin and Western Reserve University Professor of PhysiologyFerid Murad , 1998 Nobel Laureate and Case Medical School MD/PhD alumnusDavid Satcher , former Surgeon General of the United States Peter B. Armentrout – distinguished chemistry professor, University of Utah Roger Bacon – inventor of carbon fiber Hans Baumann – inventor and engineer[ 7] Paul Berg – winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry , for biochemical characterization of recombinant DNA Paul Buchheit – 23rd employee of Google and creator of Gmail Neil W. Chamberlain – economist and industrial relations scholar (A.B., 1937; M.A., 1939)Philippe G. Ciarlet – mathematician known for work on finite element method ; received his Ph.D. from the Case Institute of Technology 1966 and was awarded the Légion d'honneur in 1999Conor P. Delaney – colorectal surgeon known for laparoscopy and developing enhanced recovery pathwaysHerbert Henry Dow – founder of Dow Chemical Slayton A. Evans, Jr. – research chemist and professorH. Jack Geiger – founding member and past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility and Physicians for Human Rights Julie Gerberding – first woman director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Alfred G. Gilman – co-winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , for co-discovery of G proteins Donald A. Glaser – winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics , for invention of the bubble chamber Corneille Heymans – winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on carotid sinus reflex Siegfried S. Hecker – director of Los Alamos National Laboratory (1986–1997)Samuel Hibben – pioneer in blacklight technology; designed the lighting displays for the Statue of Liberty and other national monumentsBambang Hidayat - astronomer, former Vice-President of the International Astronomical Union George H. Hitchings – co-winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for research leading to development of drugs to treat leukemia, organ transplant rejection, gout, herpes virus, and AIDS-related bacterial and pulmonary infectionsRobert W. Kearns – the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper systems used on most automobiles from 1969 to the present. Kearns won one of the best-known patent infringement cases against a major corporationDonald Knuth – computer scientist and winner of the Turing Award (1974)[ 8] Lawrence M. Krauss – physicist in the field of dark energy ; bestselling author (The Physics of Star Trek Polykarp Kusch – winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics, for determining the magnetic moment of the electronGeorge Trumbull Ladd (1842–1921) – philosopher, educator, and psychologist; first foreigner to receive the Second (conferred in 1907) and Third (conferred in 1899) Orders of the Rising Sun Paul C. Lauterbur – co-winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , for discoveries leading to creation of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Matthew N. Levy – cardiac physiologist and textbook authorJohn J.R. Macleod – co-winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for discovery of insulin Sidney Wilcox McCuskey – astronomer noted for his work on the Milky Way galaxyDrew Meyer- John Teagle Professorial Fellow in Chemistry
Albert A. Michelson – winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physics, for disproving existence of "ether"; first American to receive a Nobel PrizeEdward Morley – performed interferometry experiment with MichelsonFerid Murad – co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for role in the discovery of nitric oxide in cardiovascular signalingGeorge A. Olah – winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for contributions to carbocation chemistryAmit Patel – stem cell surgeon who demonstrated stem cell transplantation can treat congestive heart failure Raymond Stanton Patton (Ph.B. ), engineer, rear admiral and first flag officer of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps and second Director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (1929-1937)M. Scott Peck – psychiatrist and author of The Road Less Traveled David Pedlar — Director of Research at the National Headquarters of Veterans Affairs Canada James Polshek – architect; designed William J. Clinton Presidential Library Edward C. Prescott – co-winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences , for theory on business cycles and economic policiesCharles Burleigh Purvis - (1865) leading physician at Howard University and the Freedmen's HospitalFrederick Reines – co-winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics, for the detection of the neutrino Barry Richmond – developer of the iThink simulation environmentFrederick C. Robbins – co-winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for work on polio virus, which led to development of polio vaccines; past president of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of SciencesM. Frank Rudy – inventor of the Nike air soleJohn Ruhl – physicist currently studying cosmic microwave background radiation David Satcher – U.S. Surgeon General under President Clinton ; first African-American director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Terry Sejnowski - pioneer in the field of neural networks and computational neuroscience; one of only ten living scientists to have been elected to all three national academies (IOM, NAS and NAE)Jesse Leonard Steinfeld – U.S. Surgeon General (1969-1973), noted for achieving widespread fluoridation of water, requiring prescription drugs to be effective, and strengthening the Surgeon General's warning on cigarettesEarl W. Sutherland – winner of 1971 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for establishing identity and importance of cyclic AMP in regulation of cell metabolismLars Georg Svensson - instrumental in the development of minimally invasive keyhole surgery and leader in aortic valve surgeryPeter Tippett – developer of the first anti-virus software, "Vaccine" (later sold and renamed Norton AntiVirus )
Sports
Case alum Don Shula (MA Physical Education '53), former coach of the Miami Dolphins
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