List of University of Delaware people

The following is a list of University of Delaware people, which includes alumni, current and former faculty, and recipients of honorary degrees.

Alumni

Business

• Kurt Akeley - computer graphics engineer
• Mary Pat Christie - investment banker
• John P. Costas - CEO, UBS Investment Bank
• Matthew J. Ingram, CPCU - Insurance
• Michael F. Koehler - Chief Executive Officer, Teradata
• Adam Osborne - computing pioneer
• Larry Probst - Chairman of the Board, Electronic Arts (formerly CEO); Chairman of the U.S. Olympic Committee and member of the International Olympic Committee
• Ömer Sabancı - Turkish businessman
• Carl Truscott - Senior Vice President, ASERO Worldwide
• Wang Xing - CEO, Meituan-Dianping

Authors

• Steve Alten - science fiction author
• Peter Bailey - author
• Jarret Brachman - terrorism author
• Siobhan Carroll, professor, scholar and writer
• Paul Cherry - business author
• Edward Ezell - author
• Maureen Johnson - author
• Thomas Leitch – author and academic
• Esther Tuttle Pritchard (1840–1900), minister, editor

Artists

• Michael Barone - art photographer
• Craig Cutler - photographer
• Tim Kreider - cartoonist

Politics

• Thurman Adams, Jr. - Democratic member of the Delaware Senate
• L. Heisler Ball - U.S. Senator and U.S. Congressman
• Jo Anne B. Barnhart - Commissioner of Social Security
• Jill Biden (B.A. 1976, D.Ed. 2007) - educator and First Lady of the United States as the wife of President of the United States Joe Biden
• Joe Biden (B.A. 1965) - President of the United States, Vice President of the United States, former U.S. Senator, former chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee
• J. Caleb Boggs - U.S. Senator, U.S. Congressman, Governor of Delaware
• John F. Brady - Delaware politician
• David P. Buckson - Delaware politician
• Eric Buckson - Commissioner, Kent County Levy Court
• Daniel E. Button - U.S. Congressman
• Theophilus C. Callicot - politician
• John Carney - U.S. Congressman, Governor of Delaware
• Thomas R. Carper - U.S. Senator, U.S. Congressman, and Governor of Delaware
• Christopher Christie - Governor of New Jersey
• Thomas Clayton - U.S. Senator and U.S. Congressman
• Carl Danberg - Delaware Attorney General and Commissioner of the Delaware Department of Correction
• Reha Denemeç - co-founder and deputy chairman (research and development) of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) in Turkey
• Kendel Sibiski Ehrlich - First Lady of Maryland
• Lütfi Elvan - Minister of Finance and Treasury, Turkey
• J. Allen Frear, Jr. - U.S. Senator
• Don B. Hughes - Maryland State Delegate
• Horace G. Knowles - diplomat
• John G. McCullough - Attorney General of California and Governor of Vermont
• Thomas McKean - signer of the Declaration of Independence
• Louis McLane - U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
• Louise Mushikiwabo - Rwandan Foreign Minister
• David Plouffe - campaign manager of the Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008, political consultant, senior advisor to the president
• Mike Purzycki - 56th Mayor of Wilmington, Delaware[1]
• George Read - signer of the Declaration of Independence
• George R. Riddle - U.S. Senator and U.S. Congressman
• Steve Schmidt - campaign manager of the John McCain presidential campaign, 2008, co-founder of The Lincoln Project, graduated in 2013[2]
• James Smith - signer of the Declaration of Independence
• Nick Smith - U.S. Congressman from Michigan

Entertainment

• Susan Barnett - KYW-TV news anchor
• Colleen Broomall - actress
• Vincenza Carrieri-Russo - Miss Delaware USA 2008, Miss Delaware United States 2014
• Neil Casey - actor, comedian, writer
• Tommy Conwell - rock musician
• Antje Duvekot - singer/songwriter
• John Faye - rock musician
• Bryan Gordon - television and film director
• Suzanne Graff - actress
• Steve Harris - actor
• Page Kennedy - actor
• Amanda Longacre - Miss Delaware 2014
• Mark McClafferty - film and television producer and writer
• Matt O'Donnell - WPVI morning anchorman
• Marvell Scott - sports reporter for WABC-TV
• Susan Stroman - Broadway director, choreographer, performer
• Scott Swift, father of singer/songwriter Taylor Swift
• Thomas Mulligan (72hrs) - Twitch Streamer, Digital athlete

Education

• John L. Anderson - President of Illinois Institute of Technology
• Jill Tracy Biden - Professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College, Second Lady of the United States, First Lady of the United States
• David L. Chicoine - President of South Dakota State University
• Lawrence A. Cunningham - scholar, author, and the Henry St. George Tucker III Research Professor of Law at George Washington University
• Rakesh Jain - professor of tumor biology at Harvard Medical School
• Steven Leath - President of Iowa State University
• Mary Patterson McPherson - former President of Bryn Mawr College
• James W. Wagner - President of Emory University

Judicial

• William B. Chandler, III - Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery
• Hugh M. Morris - Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
• Leonard Stark - Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
• Leo E. Strine, Jr. - Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery
• John E. Wallace, Jr. - Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court

Journalism

• Peter Bailey - journalist
• Katherine Boehret - journalist
• Colleen Broomall - journalist
• David E. Hoffman - writer. journalist, and Pulitzer Prize winner
• Jeff Pearlman - journalist

Military

• Charles Craig Cannon - United States Army officer who served as Aide-de-camp to Dwight D. Eisenhower after World War II
• John M. Custer III - United States Army officer
• Joseph H. Harper - World War II airborne officer, who later commanded the United States Army Infantry School
• Robert W. Kirkwood - American Revolutionary War officer
• Julian Smith - World War II United States Marine Corps General

Science

• Rakesh Agrawal - National Medal of Technology and Innovation Laureate and Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University
• Brian Atwater - geologist
• Terrell Ward Bynum - Director of the Research Center on Computing and Society at Southern Connecticut State University, Professor of Philosophy
• Carole Chaski - forensic linguist
• Roger Craig - computer scientist and Jeopardy! champion
• Robert W. Gore - inventor of Gore-Tex fabrics
• Walter Lafferty - optical physicist
• Holly Michael - hydrogeologist
• David L. Mills - Internet pioneer
• Daniel Nathans - biologist and Nobel Prize winner
• Siddhartha Roy, structural biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
• Peter Thejll - astrophysicist and climate expert
• Lodewijk van den Berg - astronaut

Sports

• Mike Adams - professional football player
• Robbie Agnone - football player
• Matt Alrich - lacrosse player
• Dawn Aponte – football executive[3]
• Petar Arsić - basketball player
• Josh Baker - football player
• Bryan Barrett - Lacrosse player
• Urban Bowman - American football and Canadian football coach
• Cliff Brumbaugh - MLB player
• Scott Brunner - football player
• Michael Byrne - football player
• Bob Carpenter, Jr. - former owner of the Philadelphia Phillies
• Brennan Carroll - football coach
• Larry Catuzzi - football coach
• Chris Collins - lacrosse player
• Bill Cubit - football coach
• Mondoe Davis - football and Canadian football player
• Richard Dean - fashion and advertising photographer, former player for Canadian Football League
• Elena Delle Donne - WNBA player with the Washington Mystics; played basketball and volleyball at Delaware
• Pat Devlin - quarterback for the NFL Miami Dolphins
• Anthony DiMarzo - lacrosse player
• Leon Dombrowski - football player
• Marc Egerson - basketball player
• Jamin Elliott - football player
• Joe Flacco - football player
• Eric Fromm - tennis player
• Keevin Galbraith - lacrosse player
• Rich Gannon - football player / NFL analyst CBS Sports
• Brian Gorman - MLB umpire
• Gino Gradkowski - football player
• John Grant, Jr. - lacrosse player
• Dallas Green - MLB player and manager
• Scott Green - NFL referee
• Bob Greene - fitness guru
• Andy Hall - football player
• Jordan Hall - lacrosse player
• Conway Hayman - football player
• Mickey Heinecken - football coach
• Tim Jacobs - football player
• Cindy A. Johnson - basketball player
• Dennis Johnson - football player
• Greg Justice - football player
• K. C. Keeler - football coach
• Jeff Komlo - football player
• Mike Koplove - MLB player
• Chad Kuhl - MLB player
• Peter Maestrales - baseball player and Olympian (2004)
• Kęstutis Marčiulionis - basketball player
• Joe McGrail - football player
• Joe McHale - football player
• Tom Mees - ESPN anchor
• Kevin Mench - baseball player
• Joe Minucci - football player
• Jeff Modesitt - football player
• Matt Nagy - football player and coach
• Harding Nana –basketball player
• Al Neiger - baseball player
• Mohamed Niang - basketball player
• Ben Patrick - football player
• Bob Patton - football player
• Mike Pegues - basketball player and coach
• Jim Quirk - football official
• Raven (born Scott Levy) - professional wrestler
• David Raymond - original Phillie Phanatic
• Dan Reeder - football player
• Steve Schlachter (born 1954) - American-Israeli basketball player
• George Schmitt - football player
• Alex Smith - lacrosse player
• Tyresa Smith - basketball player
• Tony Storti - football coach and college athletics administrator
• Jon Striefsky - football player
• Ivory Sully - football player
• Joe Susan - football coach
• Ronald Talley - football player
• Hal Thompson - football player
• Anthony Walters - football player
• Richard Washington - football player
• Vic Willis - Hall of Fame baseball player
• Paul Worrilow - football player

Honorary degree recipients

• Byong Man Ahn - 2004 - academic[4]
• Robert Ballard - 2001 - oceanographer, discoverer of the RMS Titanic[4]
• Joseph Biden - 2004 - Vice President of the United States, former United States Senator (D-Delaware)[5]
• John C. Bogle - 1999 - founder and CEO of The Vanguard Group[4]
• Ben Carson, M.D. - 1997 - neurosurgeon[4]
• Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. - 2002 - business historian[4]
• Rita R. Colwell - 2003 - former Director of the National Science Foundation[4]
• Louis Freeh - 1999 - former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)[4]
• Adrian Hall - 2007 - British actor, thespian[6]
• Daisaku Ikeda - 2000 - Buddhist religious leader, President of Soka Gakkai International[4]
• Paul R. Jones - 2004 - art collector, Paul R. Jones Collection of African American Art[7]
• Audrey F. Manley - 2002 - former United States Surgeon General; President of Spelman College[4]
• Geoffrey Marcy - 2004 - astronomer, discoverer of the first extrasolar planet, 51 Pegasi b[8]
• J. W. Marriott, Jr. - 2005 - Marriott International[9]
• Mary McAleese - 2002 - President of Ireland[10]
• George J. Mitchell - 2003 - Former United States Senator (D-Maine)[4]
• Joseph Neubauer - 2006 - CEO of ARAMARK[11]
• Russell W. Peterson - 2006 - former Governor of Delaware, scientist[12]
• Martin A. Pomerantz - 2001 - physicist and astronomer[4]
• Cal Ripken Jr. - 2008 - baseball player[13]
• William V. Roth - 2003 - former United States Senator (R-Delaware)[4]
• W.D. Snodgrass - 2005 - poet[14]
• Walter K. Stapleton - 1998 - Federal Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit[4]
• Susan Stroman - 2005 - Tony Award-winning Broadway director, choreographer, film director, and performer.[15]
• E. Norman Veasey - 2003 - Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court[4]
• Craig Venter - 2004 - biologist, founder of The Institute for Genomic Research[16]
• Paul A. Volcker - 2001 - former Chairman of the Federal Reserve[4]
• John J. Williams - 1975 - former United States Senator (R-Delaware)[4]
• Jamie Wyeth - 2002 - realist painter[4]

Faculty

• Gene Ball - Computer Science
• Allen Barnett - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Ralph Begleiter - Communications & Political Science, Distinguished Journalist in Residence
• Mark Bowden - Distinguished Writer in Residence
• Xiang Gao - world-class violinist
• Linda Gottfredson - Educational Psychology
• Richard Hanley - Philosophy
• Donald West Harward - Philosophy, former president of Bates College
• Richard F. Heck - Chemistry, discoverer of Heck reaction, 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Laureate
• Christine Leigh Heyrman - History
• William Innes Homer - Art History
• Muqtedar Khan - Political Science
• Peter Kolchin - History
• Mark Samuels Lasner - Senior Research Fellow
• David Legates - Climatology
• Leo Lemay - English
• David L. Mills - Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Frederick Nelson - Professor of Geography and Director of University of Delaware's Permafrost Group
• David L. Norton - Philosophy
• R. Byron Pipes - Mechanical Engineering
• William Poole - Economics; former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; scholar in residence; former professor at Brown University and Johns Hopkins University
• Martin Postle - Art History
• Ramnarayan Rawat - History
• Arnold L. Rheingold - Chemistry
• W. David Sincoskie - Computer Engineering
• David Smith - Biology
• Jacob Joseph Taubenhaus - Plant Pathology (1909 to 1916)
• Charles Tilly - social scientist
• Don A. J. Upham - Mathematics; owner and editor of The Delaware Gazette for three years[17]
• Barbara A. Williams - Astrophysics
• Shien Biau Woo - Physics and Astronomy, former Lieutenant Governor of Delaware
• Ben Yagoda - English

References

1. "Mayor Michael S. Purzycki". The City of Wilmington, Delaware. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
2. http://www1.udel.edu/udaily/2013/may/schmidt-convocation-052513.html
3. Volin, Ben (April 14, 2013). "Club's secret weapon is tough 'capologist'". The Palm Beach Post. Retrieved June 7, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
4. "Honorary Degrees / UD Alumni Relations". UDConnection.com. 2008. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
5. "Biden urges grads to be informed participants in the world". Udel.edu. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
6. "Thespian Adrian Hall receives honorary degree". Udel.edu. 2007-01-23. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
7. "UD welcomes Class of 2008". Udel.edu. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
8. "UD trustees select nine individuals for special honors". Udel.edu. 2004-05-25. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
9. Johnson, Richard L. "The University of Delaware Conferrs [sic] Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree on J. Willard Marriott Jr. / February 2005". Hotel-online.com. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
10. "President of Ireland receives honorary doctor of laws degree". Udel.edu. 2002-10-11. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
11. "ARAMARK CEO awarded honorary degree". Udel.edu. 2006-05-04. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
12. "Environmentalist Russell W. Peterson receives honorary degree". Udel.edu. 2006-05-27. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
13. "Seven leaders, scholars receive honorary degrees". Udel.edu. 2008-05-31. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
14. "W.D. Snodgrass receives doctor of humane letters". Udel.edu. 2005-05-28. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
15. "Susan Stroman receives honorary doctorate". Udel.edu. 2005-10-31. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
16. "Human genome icon speaks at UD April 16". Udel.edu. 2004-04-08. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
17. Gilman, Marcus Davis (1897). The Bibliography of Vermont: Or, A List of Books and Pamphlets Relating in Any Way to the State. With Biographical and Other Notes. Free Press association. p. 290.