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Here follows a list of notable alumni of
Purdue University .
Notable alumni
Academia
College chancellors, presidents and vice-presidents
Deans
Professors
Nolan B. Aughenbaugh – Antarctic explorer and professor emeritus of Geological Engineering at the University of Mississippi
James R. Barker – professor of Organizational Theory and Strategy, Waikato University
Michael Baye – Bert Elwert Professor of Business Economics, Indiana University
L. W. Beineke – professor of graph theory at Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne
Ibrahim (Abe) Baggili - professor of computer science and cyber security, Louisiana State University
Ronald A. Bosco – expert on Ralph Waldo Emerson, Puritan homiletics and poetics
Robert Owen Hutchins – professor organic chemistry at
Drexel University
Ann E. Hagerman – professor of biochemistry at
University of Miami
Ronald Breaker – Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at
Yale University
Monty Buell – chair of the Department of History and Philosophy at Walla Walla University
George Casella – statistician at Rutgers University, Cornell University, and the University of Florida
James Samuel Coleman – author of the Coleman Report on the sociology of education
Carl W. Condit – architectural historian, Northwestern University
Clarence Cory – the first Professor in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at
UC Berkeley ; received BME degree from Purdue University in 1889 at the age of 16 and a Doctor of Engineering degree from Purdue University in 1914
Bruce E. Dale – Professor of Chemical Engineering, Michigan State University
Kenneth E. deGraffenreid – Professor of Intelligence Studies, Institute of World Politics
Victor Denenberg – developmental psychobiologist
Ralph Faudree – mathematician, combinatorialist, provost at University of Memphis
James Fieser – professor of philosophy at the University of Tennessee at Martin
Allan Friedman – Guy L. Odom Professor of Neurological Surgery at Duke University Medical Center
Kevin Granata – Adjunct Professor, Department of Engineering Science and
Mechanics and
Mechanical Engineering at
Virginia Tech ; victim of the
Virginia Tech massacre
Michael T. Goodrich – mathematician, computer scientist, department chair at the University of California, Irvine
William D. Haseman - Computer Science professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and Carnegie Mellon University
Larry Howell – professor of mechanical engineering, Brigham Young University
Roger G. Ibbotson – professor of finance, Yale School of Management
Richard Ian Kimball – professor of history, Brigham Young University
Benn Konsynski – Goizueta Business School, Emory University
Lawrence Landweber – John P. Morgridge Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Arthur H. Lefebvre – professor; Head of the Department of
Mechanical Engineering between 1976 and 1993; pioneer of
gas turbine technology and developer of fuel spray technology; professor at
Cranfield University , UK
G. V. Loganathan – Professor, Department of
Civil and
Environmental Engineering at
Virginia Tech ; victim of the
Virginia Tech massacre
Fred Mannering – Professor, College of Engineering, University of South Florida
Donald Matthews – political scientist, University of Washington
James McDonald – economist at Brigham Young University
Deborah E. McDowell – English professor and author
Scott A. McLuckey – John A. Leighty Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University
Dorothy Runk Mennen – theatre professor, author and Founding president of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association.
Gary Milhollin – law professor, anti–nuclear weapons activist
William F. Miller – vice president and provost, Stanford University
William E. Moore – chemistry professor and vice chancellor for academic affairs at
Southern University ; Moore was the first Black PhD in chemistry to graduate from Purdue
Toby Moskowitz – financial economist, University of Chicago
David Mount – computer scientist, University of Maryland
J. Keith Murnighan – Harold H. Hines Jr. Distinguished Professor of Risk Management at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Donna J. Nelson – chemistry professor;
Nelson Diversity Surveys author, scientific workforce scholar (Postdoctorate 1980–1983)
Robert W. Newcomb – professor of electrical engineering at the University of Maryland
Dallin D. Oaks – linguistics professor at Brigham Young University
Peter N. Peregrine – anthropologist and archaeologist
Larry L. Peterson – computer scientist at Princeton University
Ronald L. Phillips – biologist, University of Minnesota
T. Pradeep – Professor of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
Steven Pray – Bernhardt Professor of Nonprescription Products and Devices at Southwestern Oklahoma State University
John C. Reynolds –
computer scientist
Sherwin Rosen – labor economist
Lyle F. Schoenfeldt – business management professor, known for a standard textbook on human resources
Granville Sewell – mathematician and intelligent design advocate
Thomas B. Sheridan – Professor of
Mechanical engineering at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology , pioneer of
robotics and
remote control technology
Carolyn Sherif – social psychologist
Stephen C. Smith PhD –
Sociology professor and researcher. Also practicing
family therapist
Murray Sperber – Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies at Indiana University, author of several books on college sports
Yizhi Jane Tao – Rice University biochemist who mapped the structure of the influenza A virus nucleoprotein to an atomic level
James Tour – synthetic organic chemist and nanotechnologist at Rice University
Ralph von Frese – geophysicist who identified the Wilkes Land mass concentration in Antarctica
Gregory Weeks – international relations scholar at Webster University Vienna
Jill Zimmerman – computer scientist and the James M. Beall Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at
Goucher College
John W. Sutherland – Professor and Fehsenfeld Family Head of Environmental and Ecological Engineering (EEE), Purdue University
Science and technology
Astronauts and aviators
Neil Armstrong –
Gemini 8 ,
Apollo 11 ; first man to walk on the
Moon
John Blaha –
STS-29 ,
STS-33 ,
STS-43 ,
STS-58 ,
STS-79 ,
STS-81
Roy D. Bridges –
STS-51-F
Mark N. Brown –
STS-28 ,
STS-48
John H. Casper –
STS-36 ,
STS-54 ,
STS-62 ,
STS-77
Eugene Cernan –
Gemini 9A ,
Apollo 10 ,
Apollo 17 ; most recent man to walk on the
Moon
Roger Chaffee – killed in
Apollo 1 accident
Richard O. Covey –
STS-51-I ,
STS-26 ,
STS-38 ,
STS-61
Andrew J. Feustel –
STS-125 ,
STS-134
Guy S. Gardner –
STS-27 ,
STS-35
Henry C. Gordon – Air Force colonel selected for
Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar program
Virgil I. Grissom –
second American in space ,
Gemini 3 , killed in
Apollo 1 accident
Guy Gruters – fighter pilot and prisoner of war in the Vietnam War
Gregory J. Harbaugh –
STS-39 ,
STS-54 ,
STS-71 ,
STS-82
Iven Carl Kincheloe Jr. – flying ace of the Korean War, first pilot to fly above 100,000 feet (30,480 m)
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Michael J. McCulley –
STS-34
Loral O'Hara – NASA astronaut selected in 2017
Gary E. Payton –
STS-51-C
Mark L. Polansky –
STS-98 ,
STS-116 ,
STS-127
Jerry L. Ross –
STS-61-B ,
STS-27 ,
STS-37 ,
STS-55 ,
STS-74 ,
STS-88 ,
STS-110 ; holds the US record for
spaceflights
Karl Schoen – one of the first U.S. flying aces of World War I
Loren J. Shriver –
STS-51-C ,
STS-31 ,
STS-46
Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger – pilot of
US Airways flight 1549 which successfully ditched in the
Hudson River
Scott D. Tingle –
Soyuz MS-07
Janice E. Voss –
STS-57 ,
STS-63 ,
STS-83 ,
STS-94 ,
STS-99
Charles D. Walker –
STS-41-D ,
STS-51-D ,
STS-61-B
Mary E. Weber –
STS-70 ,
STS-101
George Welch – World War II fighter pilot and test pilot; best known for shooting down four Japanese planes during the
attack on Pearl Harbor
Donald E. Williams –
STS-51-D ,
STS-34
David A. Wolf –
STS-58 ,
STS-86 ,
Mir 24 ,
STS-89 ,
STS-112 ,
STS-127
Engineers
Researchers
Fernley H. Banbury – inventor of the
Banbury mixer in 1916
Robert C. Baker – inventor of the chicken nugget
Myron L. Bender – biochemist, recipient of the Midwest Award of the American Chemical Society
Seymour Benzer –
physicist and
biologist , winner of the
Wolf Prize in
Medicine in 1991
Henry Luke Bolley – botanist, plant pathologist, and football coach
Richard Bootzin – clinical and research psychologist
Robert D. Cess – atmospheric scientist
Rita R. Colwell – environmental
microbiologist and scientific administrator; Director of
National Science Foundation
Ward Cunningham – inventor of the
wiki concept
Harry Daghlian –
physics , the first peacetime fatality of
nuclear fission
Joel Emer –
microprocessor architect and Intel Fellow
Dan Farmer – computer security researcher
Martin Feinberg – mathematician and chemical engineer
Elizabeth J. Feinler – information scientist and Internet pioneer
Gloria Niemeyer Francke – pharmacist and science writer
William H. Gerstenmaier – associate administrator at NASA
Norman E. Gibbs – software engineering researcher
Millicent Goldschmidt – microbiologist and 2006 "Outstanding Alumni", Purdue Department of Biological Sciences
Jonathan Grudin – researcher of human–computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work
Kun-Liang Guan – biochemist
Clarence Hansell – research engineer who pioneered investigation into the biological effects of ionized air
Obed Crosby Haycock – researcher of the upper atmosphere
Jesse E. Hobson – director of
SRI International
Deng Jiaxian – physicist, "father of the Chinese A-bomb"
Bradford Keeney – psychotherapist, ethnographer, cybernetician
Gerhard Klimeck – nanotechnologist
Harry Kloor – physicist, chemist, screenwriter
Bertram Kostant – mathematician
Markus Kuhn – computer scientist
Matthew Luckiesh – "Father of the Science of Seeing"
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Robert W. Lucky – electrical engineer, inventor, and research manager
Andrew Majda – ISI highly cited researcher in mathematics
Herbert Newby McCoy – chemist
Elwood Mead – former Head,
Bureau of Reclamation ; oversaw the construction of
Hoover Dam
Marilyn T. Miller – pediatric ophthalmologist
Ben Roy Mottelson – Nobel Laureate in
Physics in 1975
Ian Murdock – founder of the
Debian Project
David E. Nichols –
pharmacologist , world-renowned expert on
psychedelics , founder of the
Heffter Institute
Alex Golden Oblad – chemist and chemical engineer who worked on catalysis
Edward Mills Purcell – Nobel Laureate in
Physics in 1952
C. N. R. Rao – solid-state and materials chemist
Malcolm Ross – director of the US Navy manned balloon program
Project Strato-Lab ; set the current altitude record for manned balloon flight with
Victor Prather in 1961
Yitang Zhang – mathematician known for his work with twin primes
Ming-Ming Zhou – structural and chemical biologist
Farhan Baqai - camera engineer at Apple Inc. and IEEE fellow
Arts and entertainment
Brynn Whitfield – Television breakout star of The Real Housewives of New York City reboot
Robert K. Abbett – book-cover illustrator and outdoor painter
George Ade – humorist
Ted Allen – Host of
Chopped and
Queer Eye
Max Armstrong – agriculture broadcaster in Chicago
Donald Bain – author and ghostwriter (Murder, She Wrote , Coffee, Tea or Me )
Karen Black – actress
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Monte Blue – actor of the silent film era, later a character actor
Millie Bobby Brown – actress, known for her role in the television series
Stranger Things as well as in the
Enola Holmes films.
Jack Cashill – author, journalist, blogger, contributor to
WorldNetDaily
Kenneth Choi – actor, known for his role as
Jim Morita in
Captain America: The First Avenger , also
Red Dawn and sitcoms
Kate Collins – author (Flower Shop Mysteries)
Trevor Collins – Manager at
Achievement Hunter
Thomas James De la Hunt – Indiana historian and columnist
Eric Dill – musician, member of the band
The Click Five
Simone Elkeles – young-adult romance writer
Dick Florea – television personality in Fort Wayne, Indiana
William R. Forstchen – novelist
Jim Gaffigan – comedian and actor
JoAnn Giordano – textile artist
Mass Giorgini –
punk rock producer of bands such as
Rise Against and
Anti-Flag and bassist for
Screeching Weasel and
Squirtgun
Gerald Jay Goldberg – novelist
Harold Gray – creator of
Little Orphan Annie comic strip
Jeff Grubb – author and game designer
Gabriel Gudding – essayist and poet
Moira Gunn – host of
National Public Radio programs Tech Nation and BioTech Nation
John Guzlowski – author
Jack Horkheimer – host of astronomy television program Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer
[5]
Steve Horton – New York Times bestselling graphic novelist
Rick Karr – journalist
Callie Khouri – screenwriter, director, and film producer
Jane King – business journalist
Michael King – political commentator, columnist, television producer
Harry Kloor – screenwriter, physicist, chemist
Mercedes Lackey – fantasy novelist
Wayne Lamb –
Broadway and television dancer and
Professor Emeritus of Theatre
John T. McCutcheon – cartoonist, recipient of a
Pulitzer Prize in 1931
Delita Martin – printmaker and mixed media artist
Hoshang Merchant – poet
Felicia Middlebrooks – radio news broadcaster
Gavin Mikhail – pianist, singer-songwriter
Karen Marie Moning – novelist
Tom Moore – theater director
Carrie Newcomer – singer and songwriter
Clifton Nicholson – sculptor and jewelry designer
Mark O'Hare – writer and cartoonist who has worked on various
Nickelodeon and
Cartoon Network programs
Bree Olsen – adult film actress
Chubby Parker – folk musician
George Peppard (attended) – actor
Bob Peterson – animator, screenwriter, director and voice actor at Pixar
Julian Phillips – Emmy Award winner, co-host of weekend Fox & Friends , Fox TV
Carol Plum-Ucci – young-adult novelist and essayist
Pat Proctor – war game developer, U.S. Army lieutenant colonel
Bruce Rogers – typographer, inventor of the Centaur typeface
Dulquer Salmaan – Indian Actor, appeared in
Malayalam ,
Tamil ,
Telugu and
Hindi language movies.
Peter Schneider - film executive, The Walt Disney Company
Dave Schulthise – punk rock bass guitarist for the Dead Milkmen
Gary Mark Smith – artist, author, master global street photographer
Richard Sprague – author and researcher of the John F. Kennedy assassination
Martha Hopkins Struever – dealer and scholar of American Indian art
Elizabeth Stuckey-French – short story writer and novelist
Booth Tarkington – novelist
Stephanie S. Tolan – children's book author
Martin Walls – poet
Don West – pitchman, television personality, wrestling broadcaster
Perry Wilson - Movie Critic, thecinemapsycho.com
Lebbeus Woods – artist and architect
Ian McCollum – YouTuber, Firearm Historian, owner and host of the website and YouTube channel, Forgotten Weapons.
[6]
Business and industry
Samuel R. Allen – CEO of
John Deere
[7]
Chuck Armstrong – president of the
Seattle Mariners
Joyce Beber – advertising executive, promoter of hotelier
Leona Helmsley
Stephen Bechtel Jr. – chairman emeritus and director of
Bechtel Group, Inc.
Paul Bevilaqua – chief engineer, Advanced Development Projects,
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works
Gordon Binder – former CEO of
Amgen (1988–2000).
Michael Birck – chairman and founder of
Tellabs, Inc.
Charles F. Bowman – co-founder of Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet Popping Corn
Beth Brooke – global vice chair of Public Policy for
Ernst & Young
Susan Bulkeley Butler – first female partner at
Accenture ; author of Become the CEO of You, Inc.
Herman Cain (MS '71) – businessman, politician, and columnist; former chairman and CEO of
Godfather's Pizza
James Cash Jr. – member of the boards of directors at
General Electric ,
Microsoft , and
Walmart
JoMei Chang – co-founder of
Tibco Software
Allen Chao – co-founder of
Watson Pharmaceuticals
Richard E. Dauch – co-founder of
American Axle & Manufacturing
Rodger Dean Duncan – author and business consultant
Michael L. Eskew – chairman and CEO,
UPS
Gen Fukunaga – president of
FUNimation
Greg Hayes (1982) – CEO and chair of
RTX Corporation ;
Business Roundtable member
Gerald D. Hines (BSME 1948) – real estate developer and principal of
Hines
John R. Horne (BS 1960) – former CEO of
Navistar
[8]
Brian Lamb – co-founder, chairman, and CEO of
C-SPAN
Howard Lance – CEO of
Maxar Technologies
Marshall Larsen – former chairman, president, and CEO of
Goodrich Corporation
Cook Lougheed –
entrepreneur and philanthropist
Bala S. Manian – medical technology entrepreneur
Preston McAfee – economist at
Google
Steven McGeady – former
Intel executive
Wade Miquelon – executive vice president and
chief financial officer for
Walgreens
Herman H. Pevler – former president of the
Norfolk and Western Railway and of the
Wabash Railroad
Patricia Kessler Poppe – president & CEO,
CMS and
Consumers Energy
Orville Redenbacher – business leader and agriculturalist; co-founder of
Orville Redenbacher's
popcorn
Donald Rice – CEO of Agensys and board member of
Wells Fargo Bank
Lee Schmidt –
golf course architect , co-founder of Lee-Schmidt Design, Inc.
Edmund Schweitzer – president of
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories
Ruth Siems – home economist with
General Foods , inventor of
Stovetop Stuffing
Venu Srinivasan – chairman of
TVS Motor
Don Thompson – CEO of
McDonald's
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James A. Thomson – president and CEO,
Rand Corporation
Paul C. Varga – former chief executive officer and Chairman of
Brown–Forman
Gregory Wasson – president and
chief operating officer ,
Walgreens corporation
Sanjiva Weerawarana – co-founder, chairman and CEO of
WSO2
Government and law
National office
Akinwumi Adesina – President of the African Development Bank
Rashid al-Rifai – ambassador and government minister in Iraq
Joseph Kingsley Baffour-Senkyire , Ghanaian academic, politician and diplomat; member of parliament in the first republic of Ghana and formerly
Ghana's ambassador to the United States of America
Jim Baird – U.S. Representative from Indiana's 4th district (R)
Donald W. Banner – former U.S. Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks
[10]
Joe L. Barton –
U.S. Representative from 6th District of
Texas (R)
Birch Bayh – former
United States Senator from
Indiana (D)
Earl L. Butz – former Secretary of the
United States Department of Agriculture (R)
Chang Chia-juch – former
Minister of Economic Affairs of
Taiwan
Bob Charles – former member of the
Australian House of Representatives
Mark Chen – former Secretary-General and former
Minister of Foreign Affairs of
Taiwan
Curt Clawson –
U.S. Representative from
Florida's 19th congressional district (R)
Chuck Conner – Acting Secretary of the
United States Department of Agriculture
Margaret E. Curran – United States Attorney for Rhode Island
Harry Allison Estep –
Republican member of the
U.S. House of Representatives from
Pennsylvania (R)
Fahmi Fadzil – member of Malaysian
House of Representatives and
Minister of Communications and Digital
Mauricio Fernández Garza – former Mayor of
San Pedro Garza García (1989–1991) and former Mexican Senator from
Nuevo León (1994–2000)
Gary A. Grappo – U.S. Ambassador to Oman
John H. Hager – Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education (R)
Keith Hall – former Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Clifford M. Hardin – former Secretary of the
United States Department of Agriculture (R)
Ralph Harvey – U.S. Representative from Indiana (R)
Adnan Kahveci – Turkish Minister of State and Minister of Finance, founding member of the
Motherland Party
Keith J. Krach – former
U.S. Under Secretary of State ; Chairman/CEO of
DocuSign and
Ariba ; Chairman of Purdue Board of Trustees
Suwat Liptapanlop – government minister in Thailand
David McKinley – U.S. Representative for West Virginia (R)
Ted McKinney - U.S. Under Secretary, Trade & Foreign Agricultural Affairs, USDA; CEO of National Association of State Departments of Agriculture-NASDA
Anthony W. Miller –
United States Deputy Secretary of Education
Marwan Muasher – Deputy Prime Minister, Hashemite Kingdom of
Jordan
Essam Sharaf – former Prime Minister of
Egypt
Ann Stock – U.S.
Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
Kevin Sullivan – White House Communications Director
Claude R. Wickard – former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
Richard Llewellyn Williams – first U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia
Muhammad Lutfi , Indonesian diplomat, businessman, trade minister
, ambassador to Japan, ambassador to the United States of America
Military
Sub-national office
Local office
Isaac Colton Ash – Los Angeles, California, City Council member
Jane Baker – first female mayor of
San Mateo, California
John J. Barton – former mayor of Indianapolis, Indiana (D)
Marty Blum – former mayor of Santa Barbara, California
Elgin English Crull – longest serving city manager of Dallas, Texas to date (1952 to 1966); was city manager when John F. Kennedy was assassinated
A.E. Henning – Los Angeles, California, City Council member, 1929–33
Robert J. LaFortune , former mayor of
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Bart Peterson – former mayor of
Indianapolis, Indiana (D)
David H. Rodgers – former mayor of Spokane, Washington (R)
Other political and legal figures
Sports
Baseball
Basketball
Brian Cardinal – NBA Champion
Dallas Mavericks , former professional
NBA basketball player from 2000 to 2012
Joe Barry Carroll – NCAA Final Four 1980, former NBA basketball player, 1st pick overall in NBA Draft (1980)
Terry Dischinger – former NBA basketball player, (1962–73) NBA Rookie of the Year; Olympic Gold in basketball (1960)
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Katie Douglas – former
basketball player in the
WNBA
Ray Eddy – former
Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball head coach
Carsen Edwards – NBA player
Boston Celtics , twice named an All-American
Herm Gilliam – NBA Champion
Portland Trail Blazers , NBA player (1969–77), NCAA Finals 1969
Paul Hoffman – former NBA player,
BAA Rookie of the Year (1947), NBA Champion (1948), former general manager for the
Baltimore Bullets
Robbie Hummel – 1st Team All-Big Ten; professional basketball player for the
Minnesota Timberwolves
JaJuan Johnson – Big-Ten Player of the Year; current professional basketball for the
Idaho Stampede of the
NBA Development League
Carl Landry – 1st Team All-Big Ten; current professional NBA player for the
Sacramento Kings
Billy Keller – NCAA Finals 1969, 3-time
ABA Champion, former
University of Indianapolis men's basketball coach
Frank Kendrick – former NBA player and NBA Champion (1975),
Golden State Warriors
Alan Major – former head coach of the
Charlotte 49ers
Cuonzo Martin – current head coach of the
Missouri Tigers men's basketball
Brad Miller – former NBA basketball player, two-time NBA All-Star
E'Twaun Moore – 1st Team All-Big Ten; currently an NBA free agent, last played for the
Phoenix Suns
Rick Mount – three-time All-American at Purdue and two-time Big Ten Player of the Year; NCAA Finals 1969; former American Basketball Association basketball player
Matt Painter – current
Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball head coach, former coach at
Southern Illinois University , 5 NCAA Tournament appearances
Glenn Robinson – 1994 NCAA Player of the Year (John R. Wooden Award, Naismith Awards and four other polls), two-time 1st Team All-American; former NBA player, 1st pick overall in NBA draft (1994); NBA champion (2005) with
San Antonio Spurs
Amy Ruley –
North Dakota State University women's basketball coach
Dave Schellhase – first-team All-American at Purdue; former
Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball head coach, former
Minnesota State-Moorhead head coach
Jerry Sichting – NBA Champion
Boston Celtics , NBA player (1980–90), NCAA Final Four 1980
Kevin Stallings – current
Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball head coach, former coach at
Illinois State University
Caleb Swanigan —NCAA National Player of the year 2017, NBA first round draft pick, Big Ten Player of the year 2017
Howie Williams – Olympic Gold in basketball (1952),
[13] AAU National Champion (1952, 1953)
John Wooden –
Basketball Hall of Fame honoree as both player and coach; 10-time NCAA Champion coach at UCLA; 1932 National champion and All-American as player
Mike Alstott – former NFL and Super Bowl Champion
fullback for the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers , Purdue's all-time leading rusher
Cliff Avril – NFL defensive end of the
Seattle Seahawks ; Champion
Super Bowl XLVIII and participated in XLIX
Ryan Baker – NFL defensive end for the
Miami Dolphins , 2009–2012
David Blough – NFL Quarterback for the
Arizona Cardinals
Drew Brees (Class of 2000) – Super Bowl Champion,
Super Bowl MVP ,
All-Pro ,
Pro Bowl
quarterback ,
San Diego Chargers and
New Orleans Saints ;
Maxwell Award ; 2 x
Heisman Trophy Finalist; Rose Bowl Game
George Bolan – Chicago Staleys (1921), Bears (1922–24)
Dave Butz – 16-year, 2x Super Bowl Champion NFL Lineman with the
Washington Redskins and selected to the all NFL 1980s Team
Scott Campbell – played quarterback for six seasons for the
Pittsburgh Steelers and
Atlanta Falcons
Rosevelt Colvin – 2x Super Bowl Champion, professional football player in the
NFL with the
Chicago Bears and
New England Patriots
Gary Danielson – former NFL quarterback; current TV announcer, College Football
Len Dawson –
Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback with the
Kansas City Chiefs ,
Super Bowl IV
MVP
Jim Everett –
Pro Bowl NFL quarterback;
Saint Louis Rams ,
New Orleans Saints ,
San Diego Chargers
Tim Foley – Former Defensive Back for Purdue and Defensive Back for Miami Dolphins Super Bowl Champions
Gilbert Gardner – NFL
linebacker , member of the
Super Bowl XLI -winning
Indianapolis Colts
Wayne Gift – NFL player with the
Cleveland Rams
Bob Griese –
Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback with the
Miami Dolphins ; lead Dolphins to 17-0-0 perfect season; 2x
Super Bowl Champion quarterback;
College Football Hall of Fame ,
Rose Bowl Champion quarterback
Steve Griffin – former NFL and Arena Football League player
Nick Hardwick – former NFL center of the
San Diego Chargers
Matt Hernandez – NFL offensive tackle
Mark Herrmann – former NFL quarterback with the
Indianapolis Colts and San Diego Chargers; 3-time Bowl game MVP with Purdue, Heisman Trophy finalist
Paul Humphrey – NFL center for the
Brooklyn Dodgers
Clarence Janecek – NFL offensive guard of the
Pittsburgh Pirates
Dustin Keller – NFL tight end of the Miami Dolphins
Ryan Kerrigan – NFL linebacker of the
Washington Redskins / Football Team and
Philadelphia Eagles ; 1st Team All-American
Ed Klewicki – Detroit Lions, 1930s
Jon Krick – Arena Football League player
John Letsinger – Pittsburgh Pirates, 1933
Matt Light – NFL
left tackle of the
New England Patriots ; 3x Super Bowl Champion Super Bowl (XXXVI, XXXVIII, XXXIX), and participated in XLII
Jim Looney – NFL linebacker of the San Francisco 49ers
Marc May – NFL
tight end of the
Minnesota Vikings
Rondale Moore – NFL
wide receiver of the
Arizona Cardinals
Raheem Mostert – NFL
running back for the
San Francisco 49ers
Wave Myers – former coach at Ball State
Mike Neal – NFL defensive tackle of the
Green Bay Packers
Rob Ninkovich – linebacker for the New England Patriots; has also played for the New Orleans Saints and the Miami Dolphins
Kyle Orton – quarterback, drafted by the
Chicago Bears had played for several NFL teams.
Curtis Painter – backup quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts, drafted in 2009 to succeed
Peyton Manning
Shaun Phillips – NFL defensive end of the
Tennessee Titans
Mike Phipps –
College Football Hall of Fame former NFL Quarterback,
Cleveland Browns ,
Chicago Bears ,
Heisman Trophy Runner-up
Bernard Pollard – NFL safety of the
Tennessee Titans
Ed Rate – former NFL blocking back for the
Milwaukee Badgers
Karl Singer – AFL tackle for the
Boston Patriots
Joe Skibinski – former NFL guard for the
Cleveland Browns and
Green Bay Packers
Ed Skoronski – NFL player
Blane Smith – former NFL linebacker for the Green Bay Packers
Anthony Spencer – NFL
linebacker drafted by the
Dallas Cowboys in 2007.
John Standeford – NFL
wide receiver of the
Detroit Lions , member of the
Super Bowl XLI -winning
Indianapolis Colts
Darryl Stingley – former NFL wide receiver with the
New England Patriots
Hank Stram –
Pro Football Hall of Fame coach of the
Kansas City Chiefs
Taylor Stubblefield – NCAA Division 1 football career receptions leader, played for the
St. Louis Rams
Kevin Sumlin (Class of 1989)– Former the Head coach of the
Arizona Wildcats and currently associate head coach, co-offensive coordinator, and tight ends coach for the
University of Maryland
Michael Terrizzi – played briefly for the
San Francisco 49ers
Calvin Williams – NFL wide receiver of the
Philadelphia Eagles ; rookie of the year
Clem Woltman – former NFL tackle for the
Philadelphia Eagles
Rod Woodson – Super Bowl Champion (XXXV)
Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive back, 11-time Pro-Bowler (at three different positions) and former NFL
cornerback
Other sports
Stephan Bonnar – appeared on the first season of
The Ultimate Fighter , retired professional
mixed martial artist ,
[14] two-time
Golden Gloves Champion,
UFC Hall of Fame member
[15]
David Boudia – Olympic diver (2008, gold 2012, silver 2016)
[13]
Larry Burton – Olympic runner (1976)
[13]
Keith Carter – Olympic swimmer (silver, 1948)
[13]
Joe Corso – Olympic wrestler (1976)
[13]
Javier Díaz – Olympic swimmer for Mexico (2000, 2004)
Dick the Bruiser – professional wrestling champion. Real name was William Afflis. Also played in the NFL.
Amanda Elmore – Olympic rower (gold 2016)
[16]
Ray Ewry – ten-time
Olympic champion in track and field (gold, 1900, 1904, 1906, 1908)
[13]
Jon Fitch – Boilermaker team captain wrestler; professional mixed martial artist, formerly with the
Ultimate Fighting Championship
[17]
Cliff Furnas – Olympic runner (1920)
[13]
Ray Gunkel – AAU Champion wrestler, NCAA semifinalist and professional champion.
Ed Glover – Olympic pole-vaulter (bronze, 1906)
[13]
Matt Hamill (attended) – three-time
NCAA Division III National Champion in wrestling, silver and gold medalist of the 2001 Summer
Deaflympics ; mixed martial artist who fought in the
Ultimate Fighting Championship ;
[18] retired
Lacey Hearn – Olympic athlete (1904)
[13]
Chris Huffins – Olympic decathlete (1996, 2000)
[12]
[19]
Steele Johnson – Olympic diver (silver 2016)
[20]
Pariya Junhasavasdikul – Thai professional golfer who plays on the
Asian Tour
Shiv Kapur – Professional golfer
Gerald Koh – Olympic swimmer (2000)
[12]
Gyöngyvér Lakos – Olympic swimmer (2000)
[12]
Matt Mitrione – former
NFL player and current Heavyweight fighter for
Bellator MMA
[21]
Nate Moore – boilermaker team captain wrestler; current MMA competitor, formerly fighting for
Strikeforce (mixed martial arts)
[22]
Nedzad Mulabegovic – shot put for Croatia (2012)
[13]
Betty Mullen-Brey – 100-meter butterfly (1956)
[13]
Ryan Newman - 2008 Daytona 500 Champion, 2002 Winston Cup Rookie of the Year
Coralie O'Connor – swimming (1952)
[13]
Jake O'Brien – Boilermaker wrestler; current MMA fighter, previously the
WEC and the
UFC
[23]
Ike Olekaibe – Olympic athlete (2000)
[13]
Carol Pence-Taylor – Olympic swimmer (1948)
[13]
Kara Patterson – Javelin (2012)
[13]
Eric Rodwell – professional bridge player
Joan Rosazza – Olympic swimmer (silver, 1956)
[24]
Chris Schenkel – sportscaster
Lauren Sesselmann – Women's Soccer for Canada (2012)
[13]
Doug Sharp – Olympic bobsledder (2002)
Miguel Torres (attended), wrestler; current professional mixed martial arts fighter, former
WEC Bantamweight Champion
[25]
Frank Verner – Olympic athlete (1904)
[12]
Fred Wampler – PGA Tour golfer
Beth Whittall – 100-meter butterfly for Canada (1956)
[13]
Jeanne Wilson-Vaughn – Olympic swimmer (1948)
[13]
Fred Wilt – Olympic runner (1948)
[13]
Other alumni
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