- List of University of Iowa people
Accomplished alumni
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Archie Alexander , firstAfrican-American graduate (in engineering); and, governor of theVirgin Islands
*B.J. Armstrong , formerNBA point guard for theChicago Bulls
* Tom Arnold, actor ("Roseanne",True Lies ) and host ofFox Sports Net 'stalk show ,Best Damn Sports Show Period
*M. M. Ayoub , a pioneer in the field ofergonomics
*Ed Banach , Light Heavyweight Olympic Gold medalist 1984 Olympic Games, Los Angeles, CA
*Lou Banach , Heavyweight Olympic Gold Medalist 1984 Olympic Games, Los Angeles, CA
*Brian Beecher , 12 timeCompetitive Eating champion.
*Mildred Benson , writer under pennameCarolyn Keene ofNancy Drew books
*Bret Bielema , former football player and assistant coach. Now head coach ofUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
*Chuck Blount , internationally syndicated newspaper poker columnist
*Fred H. Blume , Justice of theWyoming Supreme Court for 42 years.
*T.C. Boyle , PEN/Faulkner award-winning writer, "World's End " and "Drop City "
*Terry Brands , Olympic Bronze medalist 2000 Olympic Games, Sydney, Australia
*Tom Brands , Olympic Gold Medalist 1996 Olympic Games Atlanta, Georgia, currentlyUniversity of Iowa wrestling coach.
*Carter Bair , film and television actor.
*Terry E. Branstad , Former Governor of Iowa, and longest-tenured Governor in the nation
*Tom Brokaw , broadcast journalist, anchor NBC Nightly News, author "The Greatest Generation"
* "Downtown" Freddie Brown, formerNBA guard for theSeattle SuperSonics where he was captain of the 1978-79 World Championship team.
*Neil Brown, publisher St. Petersburg Times
*Robert Olen Butler Jr., Won the 1993Pulitzer Prize for fiction, among other literary awards
*Macdonald Carey , film and television actor ("Days of our Lives ")
*Elizabeth Catlett , Acclaimed painter who studied underGrant Wood and is the first African American woman to earn the MFA from the University of Iowa
*Marquis W. Childs ,Pulitzer Prize -winning commentator
*Sandra Cisneros , author "The House on Mango Street"
*Dallas Clark ,tight end for theNFL 'sIndianapolis Colts
* John Cochran,broadcast journalist and correspondent
*Diablo Cody , Screenwriter and winner of the 2008 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for "Juno"
*Norm Coleman , former Democraticmayor of St. Paul, now Junior RepublicanU.S. Senator ofMinnesota .
*Max Allan Collins , Writer of the comic strip "Dick Tracy ." (Chester Gould was the creator of the strip and Collins took over in 1977 when Gould retired.) Collins also writes mystery novels
*Paul Conrad , Former editorial cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times who won thePulitzer Prize in 1964, 1971, and 1984
*Sean Considine , Safety for thePhiladelphia Eagles .
*Francis X. Cretzmeyer , track and field coach 1948-1978, coachedTed Wheeler and Deacon Jones (1956 and 1960 Olympics)
*Michael Cunningham , award-winning American writer/novelist, best known for hisPulitzer Prize novel The Hours
*John Dalton , author ofHeaven Lake
* Barry Davis, Bantamweight Olympic Silver medalist 1984 Olympic Games, Los Angeles, CA
* Keno Davis, current men's basketball coach at Providence College
*Ricky Davis ,NBA player currently with theMiami Heat
*Ellen Dolan , soap opera actress inGuiding Light andAs the World Turns
*Martha Angle Dorsett , the first woman admitted to the Bar of Minnesota (in 1878)
*Rita Dove , 1993 Poet Laureate of the United States
*Duck's Breath Mystery Theater (Dan Coffey ,Bill Allard ,Merle Kessler ,Leon Martrell , and Jim Turner), touring comedy troupe also featured onNational Public Radio 'sAll Things Considered
*Wayne Duke , Former and now retired Commissioner of theBig Ten Conference 1971-1989.
*Tim Dwight ,NFL kick returner and occasional wide-receiver for theNew York Jets .
*Cal Eldred , retiredMajor League Baseball pitcher who played for 14 years
*Simon Estes , bass baritone opera singer, formerly of the New York Metropolitan Opera
*Jeannette Eyerly , writer of young adult fiction
*Joshua Ferris , novelist
*R. William Field , Associate Professor, College of Public Health,University of Iowa
*Tanna Frederick , stage and independent film actress
*John D. Freyer , artist and author ofAll My Life for Sale
*Wesley Fry , formergeneral manager for theOakland Raiders
*Robert Gallery ,Offensive Tackle for the Oakland Raiders
*George Gallup , founder of theGallup Poll
*Dennis Green , head coach ofNFL 'sArizona Cardinals
*Charles Guggenheim , A Washington, D.C.—based documentary filmmaker who has won threeAcademy Awards and been nominated for eight others
*Merton Hanks , former NFL defensive back (4-time Pro Bowl selection)
*Bob Hansen , formerNBA player for theUtah Jazz
*Jay Hilgenberg , formerNFL center forChicago Bears (7-time Pro Bowl selection)
*Candace Hilligoss , actress in 1960 filmCarnival of Souls
*Leo A. Hoegh , former Governor of Iowa and National Security Council member
*Lou Holtz , assistant football coach (1960), only football coach inNCAA history to lead six different programs to bowl games
*Matt Hoover , winner of The Biggest Loser 2; member of four NCAA Championship wrestling teams (1994 to 1999)
*Chuck Horner ,USAF General who commanded Coalition Air Forces during theGulf War
*Mary Beth Hurt , actress in "The World According to Garp " and "Interiors "
*Toby Huss , actor, creator ofArtie, the Strongest Man in the World fromThe Adventures of Pete and Pete which he created atNo Shame Theatre at the university.
*Harvey Ingham , co-owner and editor of the "Des Moines Register "
*John Irving , writer, "A Widow for One Year " and "The World According to Garp "
*Amy Jacobson , reporter
*Al Jarreau ,Grammy Award -winning vocalist
*Denis Johnson , author of Jesus' Son
* John Johnson, formerNBA player on 1978-1979Seattle SuperSonics championship team* Deacon Jones, 1956 and 1960 Olympics, track and field
*Donald Justice ,Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry
*Nate Kaeding , currentNFL place kicker for theSan Diego Chargers
*Harry Kalas , sportscaster and unmistakable voice of NFL Films
*Aaron Kampman , currentNFL defensive end for theGreen Bay Packers .
*Alex Karras , actor andfootball player
*Marshall Kay , geologist andPenrose Medal winner
*Barry Kemp , producer of television programs Coach andNewhart (Hayden Fox, the title character of Coach, was named after Iowa football coachHayden Fry )
* James Kennedy, professor of thehistory of the Netherlands at theUniversity of Amsterdam
*Tracy Kidder , Author ofThe Soul of a New Machine , "Among Schoolchildren", "House" and "Old Friends"
*Kerry Killinger , chairman and CEO ofWashington Mutual
*Nile Kinnick , Iowa's 1939Heisman trophy winner with Iowa'sKinnick Stadium named for him in 1972.
*W.P. Kinsella , author whose works include Shoeless Joe, the book on whichField of Dreams was based
*Ashton Kutcher , actor, husband ofDemi Moore
*William Lashner , author ofPast Due and others
*Jolette Law , current head coach ofUniversity of Illinois ' women's basketball team.
*Donald P. Lay , judge of theEighth Circuit
*Randall Lewis , Featherweight Olympic Gold medalist 1984 Olympic Games, Los Angeles, CA
*E.F. Lindquist , co-founder of the ACT examination
*Chuck Long , closest everHeisman Trophy runner-up in 1985. Currently head football coach atSan Diego State University
*Charles F. Lynch , Medical Director of the Iowa Cancer Registry
*John Walter Grant MacEwan , Western Canadian icon
*Richard W. Maibaum , author of over a dozenJames Bond scripts
*Nicholas Meyer , director of
*Deane Montgomery , mathematician
*Greg Morris , actor played Barney Collier in original "" TV Series
*Bharati Mukherjee , Bengali-American writer
*Jayaprakash Narayan ,India n freedom fighter, social reformer, politician
*Don Nelson , formerNBA player for theBoston Celtics and coach for theGolden State Warriors
*Kent Norman , Cognitive Psychologist and expert oncomputer rage
*Flannery O'Connor , Novelist and author of numerous short stories
*John E. Osborn, lawyer, business executive, Commissioner, U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
*Terry O'Quinn , star of movies and television including ABC's hit "Lost"
*Wes Obermueller ,Major League Baseball pitcher
*Chris Offutt , short story writer and essayist
*Kay A. Orr , first Republican woman Governor in the United States
*Ed Podolak , formerNFL star with theKansas City Chiefs
* Charles Ray, contemporary American artist
* Eddie Robinson, winningest coach in football history atGrambling State University from 1942 until 1997
*Reggie Roby , formerNFL punter (3-time Pro Bowl Selection) for theMiami Dolphins
*Brandon Routh , actor,Superman Returns
*Coleen Rowley , shared 2002 "Time " "Person of the Year " award and was the FBI whistleblower who helped bring in terrorist suspectZacarias Moussaoui , and issued a memo that exposed agency missteps leading up to September 11th.
*Bob Sanders , starting safety for theIndianapolis Colts of theNational Football League
*Wilbur L. Schramm , founder of theIowa Writers' Workshop and the Institute of Communications Research atStanford University
*Jean Seberg , actress
*Joe Sharpnack , editorial cartoonist
*Jim Simmerman , poet, refused to perform the University's MFA poetry thesis reading requirement but still graduated, then stole and tore up his own MFA thesis from the library; founded the creative writing program atNorthern Arizona University
*Jane Smiley ,Pulitzer Prize winning AmericanNovelist
* Mary Louise Smith, Former chair of the National Republican Committee, and former vice chair of theUnited States Commission on Civil Rights
*William De Witt Snodgrass ,confessional poet and 1960Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner
*C. Maxwell Stanley ,engineer ,entrepreneur ,philanthropist , founder ofStanley Consultants , The Stanley Foundation and co-founder of HON Industries.
*Larry Station , two-timeAll-American football player
*Wallace Stegner , author
*Bob Stoops , football player and coach. Now head coach of theUniversity of Oklahoma
*Mike Stoops , football player and coach. Now head coach of theUniversity of Arizona
*Juanita Kidd Stout , First woman appointed as a federal judge; Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice
*Mark Strand , poet,Pulitzer Prize winner in1999 for "A Blizzard of One"
*Andre Tippett , formerNFL linebacker for theNew England Patriots
*Roger Thurow, Wall Street Journal reporter
*Oswald Veblen , mathematician
*Ted Waitt , founder ofGateway, Inc.
*Frank R. Wallace (pen name for Wallace Ward), 1957, enterpreneur, publisher, writer, and developer of the Neo-Tech philosophy
*Susan Werner , singer-songwriter
*Ted Wheeler , 1956 Olympics, track and field
*Gene Wilder , Comedic film and television actor whose credits include "Silver Streak," "Young Frankenstein ," and "Stir Crazy."
*Tennessee Williams ,Pulitzer Prize -winning writer
*Wu Jin ,Minister of Education ofTaiwan 1996 - 1998 cite news |first=|last=|title=Former Education Minister Wu Jin dies at 74 |url=http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/2008/01/16/139270/Former-Education.htm |work=China Post |publisher=|date=2008-01-16 |accessdate=2008-01-21]
* Dave Strackany, noted musician ofPaleo Notable faculty, administrators, and staff
Retired and former faculty and staff
*Frank Conroy , author, former head ofIowa Writers' Workshop
*Philip Greeley Clapp , director of school of music 1919-53
*Antonio Damasio ,neurologist , former M.W. Van Allen Professor and Head of Neurology 1989-2004, Director of USC Institute for the Neurological Study of Emotion and Creativity
*Paul Engle , poet and director of theIowa Writers' Workshop for 24 years. Engle also founded the International Writing Program.
*Jorie Graham , alumna, Pulitzer Prize winning poet and MacArthur Fellow on the faculty of theIowa Writers' Workshop
*Walter Albert Jessup , president 1916-34
*Wendell Johnson , (1904-1965) former head of the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology; Pioneer in the field. See http://nicholasjohnson.org/wjohnson/
*Everett Franklin Lindquist , developer of the ITBS and ACT exams.
*Lester Longman , chairman of the art department 1936-58
*Edward C. Mabie , director of theatre arts 1925-56
*Harold McCarty , First chair of Dept. of Geography, pioneered regression analysis within economic geography
*Lute Olson , head basketball coach 1974-1983
*J. Roger Porter , chair Dept. of Microbiology 1949-1977, internationally known microbiologist
*Wiley B. Rutledge , United States Supreme Court Justice; Dean of College of Law, 1935-1939
* Palagummi Sainath, [http://www.uiowa.edu/~fyi/issues/issues97-98/112098web/poverty_112098.html visiting instructor] in International Programs. An award winningIndia n developmentjournalist described as one of the world's greatest experts onfamine andhunger .
*Carl Seashore , dean of the graduate college 1908-37
*Vivian Stringer , former women's basketball coach who is only coach in NCAA history to take three different teams to final four.
*James Van Allen , physicist and discoverer of two radiation belts (theVan Allen Belts ) that surround the earth, Emeritus Carver Professor of Physics
*Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. , American novelist and satirist,Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty 1965-66
*Grant Wood , American painter who painted "American Gothic ", instructor and director of WPA art projects
*Mauricio Lasansky , renowned printmaker, creator of "The Nazi Drawings "
*Steve Alford , Former men's basketball coach
*Kyle Braheny , top Men's basketball managerCurrent notable faculty
*Nancy C. Andreasen , alumna andpsychiatrist , 2000National Medal of Science Recipient, Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry, Director of the Psychiatric Iowa Neuroimaging Consortium
*Stephen Berry , 1993Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting for a story he co-authored while at the "Orlando Sentinel ", associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication
*John M. Buatti ,radiation oncologist , Professor and Head ofRadiation Oncology
* Kevin Campbell,muscular dystrophy scientist, Investigator for theHoward Hughes Medical Institute , and Professor and Head of Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
* Keith Carter,ophthalmologist , Head ofOphthalmology and Visual Sciences
*George De La Pena ,actor , Associate Professor ofDance
*Bruce Jay Gantz , Head ofOtolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Brian F McCabe Distinguished Chair in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
*Matthew A. Howard , Head ofNeurosurgery , Director of Human Brain Research Laboratory (HBRL)
*Nicholas Johnson , former [http://ftp.fcc.gov/commissioners/commish-list.html FCC commissioner 1966-1973] , U.S. Maritime Administrator. Professor, Department of Communication Studies and [http://www.backbonecampaign.org/cabinet/NomineeRate.cfm?ID=210 founding member of the Iowa Progressive Caucus] .
*Douglas W. Jones , electronic voting reform expert and cofounder of the [http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=1 Open Voting Consortium] , Professor ofComputer Science
*David Klemm , philosophicaltheologist , Professor of Religious Studies
*Erik Lie , Associate Professor of Finance, Henry B. Tippie Research Fellow. Discovered the stock options backdating scandal
*Kembrew McLeod , media activist and prankster
*James Alan McPherson ,Pulitzer Prize winning author and MacArthur Fellow, faculty in the Iowa Writers' Workshop
*Marilynne Robinson , 2005Pulitzer Prize winning author for "", faculty in the Iowa Writers' Workshop
*Michael M. Todd , Head ofAnesthesiology ,Editor-in-chief of the journal Anesthesiology
*Ingo R. Titze , University of Iowa Foundation Distinguished Professor, Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology and the School of Music; Executive Director of theNational Center for Voice and Speech , centered at theDenver Center for the Performing Arts ; father ofvocology , a specialty withinspeech-language pathology ; creator ofPavorobotti , a singing (voice simulation) robot featured onNational Public Radio
*David W. Murhammer , Professor of Chemical and Biochemical EngineeringCurrent notable staff
*Kirk Ferentz , Iowa's Head football coachUniversity of Iowa Presidents
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Amos Dean , 1855-59
*Silas Totten , 1859-62
*Oliver M. Spencer , 1862-67
**Acting President: Nathan Ransom Leonard, 1867-68
*James Black, 1868-70
**Acting President: Nathan Ransom Leonard, 1870-71
*George Thacher , 1871-77
**Acting President: Christian W. Slagle, 1877-78
*Josiah Little Pickard , 1878-87
*Charles Ashmead Schaeffer , 1887-98
**Acting President: Amos Noyes Currier, 1898-99
*George Edwin MacLean , 1899-1911
*John Gabbert Bowman , 1911-14
*Thomas Huston Macbride , 1914-16
*Walter Albert Jessup , 1916-34
*Eugene Allen Gil more, 1934-40
**Acting President: Chester Arthur Phillips, 1940
*Virgil Melvin Hancher , 1940-64
*Howard Rothmann Bowen , 1964-69
*Willard L. Boyd ., 1969-81
**Acting President: Duane C. Spriestersbach, 1981-82
*James O. Freedman , 1982-1987
**Acting President: Richard D. Remington, 1987-1988
*Hunter R. Rawlings III , 1988-1995
**Acting President: Peter E. Nathan, 1995
*Mary Sue Coleman , 1995-2002
**Interim President: Willard L. Boyd
*David J. Skorton , 2003-2006
**Interim President:Gary Fethke , 2006-2007
*Sally Mason , 2007-External links
* [http://www.uiowa.edu/facts/alumni/notable.htm Notable University of Iowa Alums]
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