This is a list of notable people affiliated with the
University of Texas at Arlington. Since its inception, the university has produced over 200,000 alumni, with approximately 130,000 living in the
North Texas region.
Jim Wilkinson (BBA '93) - Managing Partner, International Business and Finance, Brunswick Group LLC; former Chief of Staff for Treasury Secretary
Henry M. Paulson[14]
Mo-Shing Chen - Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering; founder and Director of the Energy Systems Research Center, 1968–2003
Ramez Elmasri - Associate Chair, Computer Science and Engineering Department; died suddenly on May 14, 2022; best known for research that resulted in US Patent 5,440,730, Time Index Access Structure for Temporal Databases Having Concurrent Multiple Versions, with G. Wuu Bellcore, 1995, and related research
Charles T. McDowell - Professor Emeritus and former director of the Center for Post-Soviet and Eastern European Studies
Nils O Myklestad - professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering; an authority on mechanical vibration
David R Nygren - Presidential Distinguished Professor; experimental particle physicist; member of the National Academy of Sciences; inventor of the Time Projection Chamber; recipient of the 2018 Marie Curie award of the IEEE
Stanley Palmer - professor of history; scholar of British history; member of the UT Arlington Academy of Distinguished Teachers (1996)
Vasant K. Prabhu - electrical engineering professor;
IEEE Life Fellow; inventor of communication system designs
K. R. Rao - electrical engineering professor; IEEE Fellow; inventor of discrete cosine transform
Allan Saxe - political science professor, author, philanthropist