List of Indiana University (Bloomington) people

This is a list of notable current and former faculty members, alumni, and non-graduating attendees of Indiana University Bloomington in Bloomington, Indiana.

University presidents

Notable alumni

Academics

R.J.Q. Adams, B.S., 1965, professor of British history at Texas A&M University
Terry H. Anderson, Ph.D., 1978, professor of 20th century U.S. history at Texas A&M University
Richard T. Antoun, professor emeritus of anthropology at Binghamton University
Metin Boşnak (BA in Comparative Literature, 1990), Turkish linguist and academic
Joseph C. Burke, former President of State University of New York at Plattsburgh, former Acting Chancellor of the State University of New York
Keith Fitzgerald, political scientist
Lewis C. Dowdy, Ed.D., 1965, Sixth President & First Chancellor of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
William Dudley Geer, First Dean of the School of Business at Samford University
Michael Harris (academic) Academic, Scholar and Academic Leader
Israel Nathan Herstein, Ph.D., 1948, mathematician and professor at University of Chicago
Joann Kealiinohomoku (Ph.D., 1976), anthropologist and dance researcher
Jeanne Knoerle, former president of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and program director of the Lilly Endowment
Elliot Sperling, Tibet scholar
Gilbert R. Tredway, Ph.D., 1962, historian of the American Civil War
Mark von Hagen (M.A., Slavic Languages and Literatures), director, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Arizona State University
Aldred Scott Warthin, pathologist, "father of cancer genetics"
Margaret K. Butler, mathematician specializing in computer software

Arts and humanities

Lyndall Bass, artist, shield cent designer
Tony Aiello, broadcast journalist
Ismail al-Faruqi, philosopher and epistemologist
David Anspaugh, movie director
Howard Ashman, playwright and lyricist
Radley Balko, journalist and writer
Jonathan Banks, actor, "Mike Ehrmantraut" of Breaking Bad
Mike Barz, broadcast journalist
Betty Jane Belanus (Ph.D, Folklore), employee of and curator of several Smithsonian Folklife Festival Programs
Daniel Bourne, poet
Jan Harold Brunvand, American folklorist, one of the best-known researchers and anthologists of urban legends. Earned PhD in folklore.
Elliott Baker, author, screenwriter, Emmy Award winner
Joe Buck, sportscaster, multiple Emmy Award winner
Meg Cabot, author The Princess Diaries
David Chalmers, leading philosopher in the area of philosophy of mind
Sarah Clarke, actress
Suzanne Collins, television writer and novelist
Robert Coover, author
Laverne Cox, actress and television producer
John Crowley, science fiction author, author of The Deep and Little, Big
Alan Roger Currie, author, public speaker, radio personality
Matthew Daddario, actor, "Alec Lightwood" of Shadowhunters
Theodore Dreiser, author (flunked out)^{[citation needed]}
Michel duCille, photographer, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
Dick Enberg, sportscaster, 13-time Emmy Award winner
Scott Ferrall, sports talk radio host
John M. Ford, poet and science fiction author
Tom French, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, St. Petersburg Times
Jennifer Grotz, award-winning poet
David C. Giuntoli, actor
Joseph Hayes, playwright, novelist
Don Herold, author, humorist and illustrator
Edward D. Ives, folklorist
Andreas Katsulas, actor
Debra A. Kemp, author of Arthurian literature, such as The Firebrand
Charles Kimbrough, actor
Kevin Kline, Oscar-winning actor
Michael Koryta, novelist
Mark Lavie, journalist
Ross Lockridge, Jr., author of Raintree County
Bienvenido Lumbera, poet, critic, playwright, Ramon Magsaysay Award winner and National Artist of the Philippines
Lee Majors, actor.
Alfred McAdams, painter
Don Mellett, 1914, journalist, newspaper editor, Pulitzer Prize winner
Gene Miller, journalist, editor, two time Pulitzer Prize winner
Arian Moayed, Tony-nominated actor, co-founder of Waterwell and writer/director
Ryan Murphy Golden Globe winning television producer (Nip/Tuck)
Anthony Napoleon, Ph.D., Forensic Psychologist, Legal Analyst, Author
Dave Niehaus, broadcaster, Seattle Mariners
Nicole Parker, actress
Jane Pauley, broadcaster
Angelo Pizzo, screenwriter, producer, director
Ernie Pyle, journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1944
Catt Sadler, television personality on E! Entertainment Television
Scott Schuman, photographer and blogger
Alexander Shimkin, Vietnam war correspondent
Will Shortz, puzzle maker (enigmatologist)
Ranveer Singh, Bollywood actor
Tavis Smiley, National Public Radio and Public Television host
Gary Snyder, poet and environmental activist, Pulitzer Prize winner (did not graduate)
Lucy A. Snyder, author
Brian Stack, actor, Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Sage Steele, ESPN sports anchor
Jeri Taylor, screenwriter and television producer (Star Trek)
Nancy Weaver Teichert, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter
Michael Uslan, film producer (Batman)
Herb Vigran, actor
Clark Wissler, anthropology pioneer

Business

Klaus Agthe, former Chairman and CEO of ASEA Brown Boveri
John Bitove, Chairman & CEO of XM Canada, Priszm and Scott's REIT, founder Toronto Raptors(NBA)^[1]
John Chambers, president and CEO of Cisco Systems
Gayle Cook, co-founder of the Cook Group.
Mark Cuban, technology entrepreneur, Dallas Mavericks owner, co-founder of Broadcast.com^[2] with Todd Wagner in 1995.
William S. Dalton, current CEO of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
Jared Fogle, former spokesman for Subway sandwich chain
Lance de Masi - President of the American University in Dubai
Donald Fehr, managing director, Major League Baseball Players Association
E. W. Kelley, former chairman of Steak 'n Shake
Harold Arthur Poling, retired chairman and CEO of Ford Motor Company
Frank Popoff, retired Chairman and CEO of Dow Chemical Company
Patty Stonesifer, Former CEO, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Currently Chairwoman, Smithsonian Institution.
Todd Wagner, CEO of 2929 Entertainment; founder of Todd Wagner Foundation; co-founder of Broadcast.com^[3] with Mark Cuban in 1995.
Jimmy Wales, former CEO of Bomis, co-founder of Wikipedia, president of the Wikimedia Foundation (did not graduate)
Conrad Jackson, IPO Facilitator

Music

Kenny Aronoff, drummer
Jamey Aebersold, jazz educator
Emilie Autumn, gothic violinist and singer
David Baker, jazz composer
Noah Bendix-Balgley, violinist, concertmaster of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 1st concertmaster of Berlin Philharmonic
Klara Barlow, operatic soprano
Joshua Bell, Grammy Award-winning concert violinist
Jonathan Biss, pianist, professor at Curtis Institute of Music
Chris Botti, Grammy Award-winning jazz trumpeter
Cary Boyce, composer
Michael Brecker, jazz saxophonist
Angela Brown, soprano
Lawrence Brownlee, operatic tenor
Angelin Chang, Grammy Award-winning classical pianist
Hoagy Carmichael, songwriter and actor
Jim Cornelison, tenor
John Clayton, jazz and classical bassist, composer and arranger
Peter Erskine, jazz drummer and educator
Miriam Fried, violinist and pedagogue, professor at New England Conservatory, winner of Queen Elisabeth Music Competition
Vivica Genaux, mezzo soprano
Tom Gullion, jazz saxophonist
Jeff Hamilton, jazz drummer
Margaret Harshaw, mezzo-soprano and soprano at Metropolitan Opera
Hu Nai-yuan, violinist, winner of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels.
Booker T. Jones, songwriter, producer
Paul Katz, cellist, founding member of Cleveland Quartet, professor at New England Conservatory
Charles Kullman, tenor and chair of voice department at Metropolitan Opera
Sylvia McNair, internationally acclaimed soprano
Edgar Meyer, Grammy Award-winning bassist, a MacArthur Fellow, professor at Curtis Institute of Music
Shawn Pelton, session drummer
Larry Ridley, jazz bassist and music educator
Leonard Slatkin, composer and conductor, music director of Detroit Symphony Orchestra and BBC Symphony Orchestra
Eileen Strempel, soprano and educator
Michael Sweeney, concert band and jazz composer
Michael Weiss, jazz pianist, composer and educator
Pharez Whitted, jazz trumpet and composer
Pete Wilhoit, jazz and rock drummer and percussionist
Straight No Chaser, a cappella group at IU 1996-1999; re-Formed in 2008.

Politics and government

Arthur C. Mellette, former Governor of South Dakota
Jerry Abramson, former Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky
Selim al-Hoss, former Prime Minister of Lebanon
Michael Badnarik, Libertarian Party 2004 presidential candidate
Birch Bayh, former U.S. Senator
Evan Bayh, former U.S. Senator and governor of Indiana
James B. Bullard, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis
E. Jocob Crull, Montana State Representative and colonel who was Jennette Rankin 's (first female member of the U.S. Congress) chief primary rival
LeRoy Edgar Burney, Surgeon General of the United States
Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense, Director of Central Intelligence, National Security Council member
Lee H. Hamilton (J.D. '56), Homeland Security Advisory Council, co-chair of the Iraq Study Group, vice chair of the 9/11 Commission, U.S. Representative
Charles Abraham Halleck, member of the United States Congress; was House Majority Leader and Minority Leader
Michael D. Higgins, Ninth President of Ireland
Victor Jackovich, first U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia and Hercegovina; later became U.S. Ambassador to Slovenia
William E. Jenner, former U.S. Senator
Charles Peter Kennedy, British MP, Liberal Democrats leader
Frank McCloskey, mayor of Bloomington, Indiana, U.S. Representative
William Alexander Parsons Martin, American Presbyterian missionary to China and translator^[4]
Sherman Minton, United States Supreme Court Justice and U.S. Senator
Richard Monroe Miles, Ambassador to Georgia, Bulgaria, United States Ambassador to Serbia and Azerbaijan
Frank O'Bannon, governor of Indiana
Patrick O. O'Meara, author of Southern Africa in Crisis with Gwendolen M. Carter
Paul O'Neill, Secretary of the Treasury
Dennie Oxley former Indiana state representative and Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Indiana
Rod Paige, Secretary of Education
Dan Quayle, Vice President of the United States
Wiley Rutledge, United States Supreme Court Justice (attended, but did not graduate from the School of Law)
Newell Sanders, U.S. Senator
Feisal al-Istrabadi, former Iraqi politician and ambassador to the United Nations (2004-2007).
Salman Shah, Caretaker Minister of Finance, Pakistan
Edgar Whitcomb, governor of Indiana
Wendell Willkie, Republican 1940 presidential candidate
Kenneth W. Winters, Republican member of the Kentucky State Senate from Murray
Deepender Singh Hooda, member of the Lok Sabha

Science and technology

Samuel LaBudde, Goldman Award winning environmentalist and biologist^[5]
Carl Otto Lampland, astronomer
Wardell Pomeroy, sexologist
Jamie Hyneman, special effects expert best known for being the co-host of the television series MythBusters
Vesto Slipher, astronomer
John T. Thompson, military officer, supervised development of the M1903 Springfield rifle and the M1911 pistol, inventor of the Thompson submachine gun
Mansukh C. Wani, cancer researcher, discoverer of Taxol
James D. Watson, DNA researcher, author of The Double Helix, winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Scott A. Jones, an inventor and serial entrepreneur, widely known for inventing voicemail systems

Max Mapes Ellis, physiologist and explorer.

Sports

Other

Jan Crull Jr., enigmatic documentary filmmaker and attorney; was a Ph.D. student in English Language and Literature in the late 1970s; dropped out
Emily Harris, a founding member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
Jim Jones, Peoples Temple founder, cult leader and mass murderer^[6]
Maxine Mesinger (gossip columnist)^[7]
Norris W. Overton, U.S. Air Force Brigadier General
Jeff Sagarin, statistician and creator of the various Sagarin Rating Systems^[8]
James Johnston Thornton, lawyer, Military Reconstruction Judge, land developer

Notable faculty

Former notable faculty

Yuri Bregel, one of the pioneers of Central Asian Historical Studies in the West.
Lynton K. Caldwell, principal architect of the 1969 National Environmental Policy Act
Robert Daniel Carmichael, mathematician and discoverer of Carmichael numbers
Richard Dorson, folklorist
Frank K. Edmondson, astronomer
Denis Sinor, historian, former professor of Cambridge University, Central Asia scholar
Carl H. Eigenmann, an ichthyologist who described over 150 species of fish with wife Rosa Smith Eigenmann
Eileen Farrell, famous opera and concert singer, later professor of music at IU
J. Rufus Fears, David Ross Boyd Professor of Classics and G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty. The University of Oklahoma,
Paul Gebhard, anthropologist who later became part of Alfred Kinsey's original research team
Josef Gingold, violin teacher and founder of the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis^{[citation needed]}
Paul Hillier, choral conductor (most notably of Theatre of Voices)
David Starr Jordan, ichthyologist, educator and peace activist, and founding President of Stanford University
Alfred Kinsey, pioneer of the academic discipline of sexology in the United States, founder of the Kinsey Institute and author of the Kinsey Reports
Daniel Kirkwood, astronomer famous for his work on asteroids, discoverer of Kirkwood gaps
Bob Knight, head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team from 1971 to 2000
Yusef Komunyakaa, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet
John P. Lewis, economist, Economic Adviser appointed by John F. Kennedy
Alfred R. Lindesmith, sociologist, author of The Addict and the Law
Salvador Luria, pioneer of molecular biology, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine
Hermann Joseph Muller, geneticist, zoologist and winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine
Thubten Jigme Norbu, Buddhist monk and professor of Central Eurasian Studies; elder brother of the Dalai Lama
Elinor Ostrom, Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, co-recipient of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Richard Owen, professor of natural sciences, second state geologist of Indiana, first president of Purdue University
Vikram Pandit, CEO Citigroup
Edward Alsworth Ross, sociologist, educator, and President of the American Sociological Society who crusaded against unfair labor practices against Chinese immigrants and was indirectly responsible for the establishment of the tenure system
Thomas A. Sebeok, semiotician
Gyorgy Sebok, pianist
B.F. Skinner, psychologist, pioneer of operant conditioning model
János Starker, cellist
Edwin Sutherland, one of the most influential criminologists of the 20th century
James Alexander Thom, novelist, writer of historical fiction
Stith Thompson, folklorist
Kenneth P. Williams, mathematician and historian, author of Lincoln Finds a General
Iannis Xenakis, composer
Jerry Yeagley, coach of the Indiana Hoosiers men's soccer team from 1974 to 2003 with an NCAA record 544 wins
Virginia Zeani, world-famous operatic soprano
Max August Zorn, mathematician and originator of Zorn's lemma

Current notable faculty

Martina Arroyo, operatic soprano
David Baker, notable jazz cellist and educator
Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, applied linguist
Willis Barnstone, poet and translator
Marcia Baron, Rudy Professor of Philosophy
Joshua Bell, Grammy Award-winning violinist
Matei Călinescu, Romanian literary critic and author of Five Faces of Modernity
James Campbell, clarinetist
Raymond J. DeMallie, anthropologist
Richard DiMarchi, Linda & Jack Gill Chair in Biomolecular Sciences, played an integral part in the creation of humalog, the first synthetic insulin analog.
R. Kent Dybvig, computer scientist, creator of Chez Scheme
Eli Eban, clarinetist and professor of music
Michelle Facos, art historian
Daniel P. Friedman, computer scientist
George M. von Furstenberg, economist
Henry Glassie, folklorist, author; former member of President's Council for the Humanities
Susan Gubar, literary scholar of feminist theory and literature written by women
Douglas Hofstadter, Pulitzer prize winner, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach, an IU professor of Cognitive Science, among other things.
Dawn Johnsen, President Barack Obama's nominee for Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel.
Lewis Kaplan, violinist, co-founder of the Bowdoin International Music Festival, professor at Juilliard School
Jaime Laredo, Grammy Award-winning violinist and conductor
Maurice Manning, Poet
Sylvia McNair, Grammy Award-winning soprano
John Holmes McDowell, Professor of Folklore Studies, Latin American Studies Scholar
James Naremore, film scholar
James L. Perry, Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs
Menahem Pressler, pianist of Beaux Arts Trio fame
Scott Russell Sanders, essayist
Sven-David Sandström, composer
Nazif Shahrani, anthropologist, professor of Central Eurasian Studies
Elliot Sperling, scholar of Tibet
Olaf Sporns, professor of Cognitive Science, Psychology, and Neuroscience, worked at the Neurosciences Institute' [1]
Raymond Smullyan, philosophy professor emeritus, logician, mathematician
Giorgio Tozzi, operatic bass and actor
Carol Vaness, soprano
David Ward-Steinman, composer
André Watts, Grammy Award-winning classical pianist

References

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^ "William Alexander Parsons Martin". Biographical Directory of Chinese Christianity. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
^ Goldman Environmental Foundation: Samuel LaBudde. "Goldman Environmental Foundation". Retrieved March 19, 2016. Wikipedia: Samuel LaBudde. "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia". Retrieved March 19, 2016.
^ http://www.indianasstoryteller.com/library/manuscripts/collection_guides/m0205.html
^ "Maxine Mesinger Papers, 1965-2001." University of Houston. Retrieved on November 20, 2011.
^ http://www.usatoday.com/sports/sagarin.htm

[1] "Founder of Toronto Raptors". NBA.com. Retrieved 21 July 2015.

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[4] "William Alexander Parsons Martin". Biographical Directory of Chinese Christianity. Retrieved October 4, 2012.

[5] Goldman Environmental Foundation: Samuel LaBudde. "Goldman Environmental Foundation". Retrieved March 19, 2016. Wikipedia: Samuel LaBudde. "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia". Retrieved March 19, 2016.

[6] ttp://www.indianasstoryteller.com/library/manuscripts/collection_guides/m0205.html

[Papers-7] "Maxine Mesinger Papers, 1965-2001." University of Houston. Retrieved on November 20, 2011.

[8] ttp://www.usatoday.com/sports/sagarin.htm

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