List of Rice University people

The list of Rice University people includes notable alumni, former students, faculty, and presidents of Rice University.

Alumni

Athletics

* Lance Berkman, 1997, All-Star Major League baseball player for Houston Astros
* Adi Bichman, 2001, Israeli freestyle and medley swimmer
* Bubba Crosby, Major league baseball player for the New York Yankees
* Norm Charlton, 1984, Major league baseball player
* José Cruz, Jr., 1993, Major league baseball player
* Earl Cooper, fullback, San Francisco 49ers, Super Bowl Champions 1981, 1984, appeared on "Sports Illustrated" covers, December 21, 1981 and February 2, 1982 [http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/CoopEa00.htm Pro Football Reference]
* Buddy Dial, end, [http://www.collegefootball.org/famersearch.php?id=50086 College Football Hall of Fame] 1993, [http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/DialBu00.htm All-Pro 1961, 1963]
* Fred Hansen, 1963, gold medalist in pole vault at 1964 Summer Olympics
* John Heisman, for whom the coveted Heisman Trophy is named; football coach, 1924-1927. [http://www.collegefootball.org/famersearch.php?id=10038 College Football Hall of Fame] 1954
* King Hill, quarterback, [http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/HillKi00.htm Pro Football Reference]
* Weldon Humble, guard, College Football Hall of Fame 1961
* Tommy Kramer, NFL quarterback, named to Pro Bowl while playing for the Minnesota Vikings.
* Larry Izzo, 3 time Pro Bowl LB/special teams captain for the New England Patriots, Super Bowl Champions 2002, 2004, 2005
* N.D. Kalu, NFL defensive end for the Houston Texans
* Heather McDermid, 1991, silver medalist in women's 8 at 1996 Olympics
* Dicky Maegle, 1954, halfback, inducted into Cotton Bowl Hall of Fame in 1998. In the 1954 Cotton Bowl, Maegle was tackled by Tommy Lewis from the Alabama sideline. and was awarded a 95-yard touchdown run. [http://www.collegefootball.org/famersearch.php?id=50087 College Football Hall of Fame] 1979
* Jess Neely, football coach 1940-1966. [http://www.collegefootball.org/famersearch.php?id=40054 College Football Hall of Fame] 1971
* Ricky Pierce, 1983, NBA guard, 1983-1998, NBA All-Star 1991, NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award 1987 and 1990.
* Tobin Rote, quarterback of 1957 NFL Champion Detroit Lions and 1963 AFL Champion San Diego Chargers
* Frank Beall Ryan, 1958, PhD 1965, NFL quarterback, textbook author, Yale athletic director, appeared on cover of "Sports Illustrated", January 4, 1965
* Harold Solomon, professional tennis player ranked as high as # 5 in the world
* Bill Wallace, halfback, [http://www.collegefootball.org/famersearch.php?id=30146 College Football Hall of Fame] 1978, 28th selection in the first 1936 NFL Draft
* Mike Wilks, 2001, NBA guard 2002-Present, currently is a free agent.
* James "Froggy" Williams, end, [http://www.collegefootball.org/famersearch.php?id=40110 College Football Hall of Fame] 1965
*Patrick Dendy, NFL football player on Green Bay Packers.
*Will McClay, Coach of the Dallas Desperados, an Arena Football League team.
*Morris Almond, 2007, NBA guard, 25th overall pick of the Utah Jazz.

Business

*Howard Hughes, (attended), was the richest man in the world in 1976.
* Karl ten Brink, 1937, former president, Texaco
* Garrett Boone, 1966, founder and Chairman, The Container Store
* George R. Brown, 1920, founder, Brown and Root; he built it into the world's largest construction and engineering giant
* Thomas H. Cruikshank, former Chairman and CEO of Halliburton
* Fred C. Koch, founder of Koch Industries, the largest private company in the United States.
* L John Doerr, 1973, influential venture capitalist at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, CEO of Silicon Compilers and co-founder of the @Home Network, on the Board of Directors of Intuit, Amazon.com, PalmOne, Sun Microsystems, Google, and Segway, among others
* Jack Boyd Buckley, 1948, civil engineer from Houston who designed many tall buildings throughout the world and the air conditioning system of the Astrodome
* Dell Butcher, 1934, former president, American Commercial Lines
* Charles Duncan, 1947, former president, Coca-Cola; former Secretary of Energy under Jimmy Carter (1979–1981)
* Robert L. Clarke, 1963, Senior Partner of Bracewell & Patterson LLP; U.S. Comptroller of the Currency under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush; consultant to the World Bank
* Steve Jackson (US), 1974, founder of Steve Jackson Games
* Terry Koonce, 1960, president of ExxonMobil
* Burton McMurtry, 1956, influential venture capitalist in the Silicon Valley, helped fund such ventures as Microsoft, Sun, Compaq, Adaptec, Altera, and Synopsys .
* Hector Ruiz, 1972, President and CEO of AMD
* William Vaughn, former president, Eastman Kodak
* Sam K. Reed, 1969, Chairman of [http://biz.yahoo.com/t/13/968.html Treehouse Foods] , #2 in Illinois CEO pay in 2005 [http://www.wherethemoneygoes.com/off_message.htm link]
* Wylie Bernard Pieper, 1946, former president, Brown & Root
* Ken Kennedy, 1967, founder of Center for Research on Parallel Computation, the High Performance Fortran Forum; co-chair of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee with Bill Joy of Sun Microsystems
* James Treybig, 1963 and 1964, founder of Tandem Computers
* Charles Tandy, 1939, founder, chairman, president of Tandy Corporation
* James A. Fite, Jr., 1933, Former Coordinator of Credit Card Business for Exxon; helped lead the rescue of the crew of the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) in World War II.
* Yıldırım Ali Koç, Koç Holding member and Turkish multisport club Fenerbahçe S.K. vice-president.

Education

* Nancy Cole, 1964, educational psychologist.

Government and politics

* Bill Archer (attended), United States Congressman
* Mitch Bainwol, 1983, former chair, Republican National Committee
* James Baker, former Secretary of State and Treasury, chair of the James A. Baker III Institute for Foreign Policy.
* George P. Bush, 1999, son of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, grandson of former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, nephew of current U.S. President George W. Bush
* Karen Padgett Davis, 1965, president of the Commonwealth Fund
* Charles Duncan, 1947, U.S. Secretary of Energy (1979–1981)
* Alberto Gonzales, 1979, U.S. Attorney General
* George Greanias, 1970, former City Controller and former City Council member, Houston; playwright
* William P. Hobby, Jr., Lieutenant Governor of Texas (1973–1991); former chancellor of the University of Houston System; former president and executive editor at "The Houston Post"
* Andy Karsner, 1989, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, United States Department of Energy, 2005-2008
* John Kline, 1969, United States Congressman
* Michael S. Owen, 1973 U.S. Consul General in Mumbai, India
* William Luther Pierce, 1955, National Alliance founder
* Leslie H. Southwick, 1972, Federal Judge on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
* Scott Hochberg, Member of the Texas House of Representatives
* Eliot Shapleigh, 1974, Member of the Texas Senate
*Gary H. Stern, chief executive of the Ninth Federal Reserve Bank, at Minneapolis
* A. Starke Taylor, 1943, Mayor of Dallas 1983-1987

History, literature, journalism, architecture, art and music

* Austin Bay, author and [http://www.austinbay.net/blog/ milblogger]
* Ron Bozman, 1969, Executive Producer of "The Silence of the Lambs", "Beloved", and "Philadelphia"
* William Broyles, Jr., 1966, Founder of "Texas Monthly", former editor in chief at "Newsweek" and screenwriter of "Apollo 13", "Cast Away", "Unfaithful," " Flags of Our Fathers"
* Rebecca Carrington, British "music comedian", completed her Masters of Music at Rice
* Carl P. Daw Jr., American Episcopalian priest and director of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada, famed researcher and authority on sacred music.
* Carol Flake, 1969, founding editor of reborn "Vanity Fair"
* John Graves, 1942, Nature writer
* Eva Hoffman, 1967, author "Lost in Translation", "", "The Secret", "After Such Knowledge"
* Mary Johnston, 1941, editor of "Fortune", responsible for origination of the Fortune 500
* Larry McMurtry, 1960, Pulitzer Prize winning author, won Oscar for "Brokeback Mountain" screenplay
* Mike MacRae, 1999, Voice actor, comedian
* Elizabeth Moon, 1968, author, "The Deed of Paksenarrion", "Winning Colors"
* S. I. Morris, 1935, architect of Astrodome, Houston Public Library, One Houston Center, and Wortham Theater
* Steve Sailer, 1980, writer for "The American Conservative" and VDARE.com
* LeAnne Schreiber, 1967, first woman sports editor of a major daily ("New York Times")
* Vivian Vahlberg, 1970, first woman president of the National Press Club
*Robert Henson award-winning author and journalist
*Daniel Albright. 1967, Harvard University English professor
* Charles Renfro, 1987, Will Rice, architect, partner in Diller Scofidio + Renfro, designed the new Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
* Rosa Levin Toubin, Jewish Texan historian, civic leader and philanthropist

Nobel laureates

* Robert Curl, 1954, awarded 1996 in chemistry for the discovery of fullerenes
* Richard Smalley, awarded 1996 in chemistry for the discovery of fullerenes
* Robert Woodrow Wilson, 1957, awarded 1978 in physics for the discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation

Radio, television and film

* Candace Bushnell (attended), author of "Sex and the City"
* Howard Hughes (attended), Writer/Director/Producer/Actor/Aviator/Billionaire
* Prebble McLaughlin (faculty- swimming coach), radio personality
* Jamie Story, 2002, SRC, 2004 Miss Texas
* Amy Hobby, 1986, Will Rice, Producer for "Thirteen Conversations About One Thing", "Secretary", and "Coney Island Baby" (which she also directed)
*Libra Thompson, houseguest on Big Brother 10

Religion

* Carl P. Daw Jr. - Executive Director of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada.

cience and technology

* Andrew Dessler, climate change meteorologist
* Dave Hyatt, browser developer at Netscape and Apple
* N. Wayne Hale, 1976, NASA Space Shuttle program manager
* James H. Newman, 1982 and 1984, NASA Astronaut
* Peggy Whitson, 1985 NASA Astronaut
* Shannon Walker, 1987, 1992, 1993 NASA Astronaut
* James A. Kahle, IBM Fellow and chief architect of the POWER4 and Cell microprocessors.

Faculty

*Edward Djerejian
*Franklin Chang-Diaz
*Neal Lane
*Earl Black
*Douglas Brinkley
*George Marcus
*Paul Ellison
*Richard Tapia
*Bill Wilson
*Ken Kennedy (computer scientist)
*Justin Cronin
*B. Jill Carroll

Presidents

*Edgar Odell Lovett
*William V. Houston
*Kenneth Pitzer
*Norman Hackerman
*George Rupp
*Malcom Gillis
*David Leebron

see also: http://www.rice.edu/fondren/woodson/presidents.html