List of New Mexico State University people

This is a list of notable people affiliated with New Mexico State University.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Faculty and staff
  • Reta Beebe - professor emeritus in the Astronomy Department, best known for participation in the Voyager mission
  • David Boje - author; current NMSU endowed Bank of America professor of management[1]
  • James Cuffey - former professor in astronomy, known for photoelectric photometry[2]
  • Garrey Carruthers - former NMSU President and Dean of College of Business; former governor of New Mexico
  • Frank Harary - mathematician, specialized in graph theory
  • Delano Lewis - founding director of New Mexico State University's International Relations Institute
  • Mark Medoff - playwright, screenwriter, film and theatre director, actor, and professor
  • Antonya Nelson - English professor at NMSU; author
  • Burl Noggle - professor, American historian
  • Cyrus Nowrasteh - screenwriter and director
  • Fred T. Plog, III-archaeologist, anthropologist, author
  • Gerald W. Thomas - NMSU President Emeritus, 1970–1984
  • Edward O. Thorp - mathematician best known for writing the book Beat the Dealer[3] and co-inventing the first wearable computer; Associate Professor of Mathematics 1961–65[4]
  • Clyde Tombaugh - astronomer best known for his discovery of Pluto; former professor of astronomy[5]

Alumni

Science, medicine, and technology

Law, politics, military and government

Business

Academia, arts, and literature
  • Lee K. Abbott - writer; professor emeritus of English at Ohio State University
  • Subhankar Banerjee - photographer, author and activist
  • Denise Chavez - author, playwright and stage director
  • Leroy Quintana - poet, Vietnam veteran
  • Willard Hughes Rollings - author and scholar of Native American history and of the Maori, the indigenous people of New Zealand
  • Larry Torres - linguist and lecturer on Southwestern culture
  • Martin Guevara Urbina - writer, professor, and researcher; as a sociologist and criminologist, works on Latina and Latino issues in the United States

Athletics

Entertainment, film, news and television

Other

References
  1. Boje, David. "David Boje | New Mexico State University - Academia.edu". Nmsu.academia.edu. Retrieved October 12, 2010.
  2. https://aas.org/obituaries/james-cuffey-1911-1999 Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. Beat the Dealer: A Winning Strategy for the Game of Twenty-One (9780394703107): Edward O. Thorp: Books. ISBN 0394703103.
  4. "About Edward O. Thorp". Archived from the original on July 10, 2011. Retrieved October 12, 2010.
  5. Gottwald, Melissa; Kenny, Maura. "Clyde W. Tombaugh Biographical Outline". Archives.nmsu.edu. Archived from the original on October 13, 2008. Retrieved October 12, 2010.
  6. "Founder Biography". Klipsch.com. May 5, 2002. Retrieved October 12, 2010.
  7. "Scientific American: Interview with Jaron Lanier", September 1996
  8. "Kathy Lueders Selected to Lead NASA’s Human Spaceflight Office," NASA Press Release, June 2020
  9. Fulghieri, Carl; Bloom, Sharon (2014). "Sarah Elizabeth Stewart". Emerging Infectious Diseases. 20 (5): 893–895. doi:10.3201/eid2005.131876. ISSN 1080-6040. PMC 4012821. PMID 24751102.
  10. Greenwood, John, ed. (2008). Normandy to Victory: The War Diary of General Courtney H. Hodges. p. 429.
  11. "Former Aggies to be inducted into intercollegiate athletic hall of fame". The Round Up. January 10, 2002. Archived from the original on September 12, 2004.
  12. Hinojosa, Alex (2014-08-16). "Barbara Funkhouser, former El Paso Times editor, dies at 84". El Paso Times. Retrieved 2014-09-21.
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