List of Carnegie Mellon University people

This is a list of notable people associated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States of America.

Notable students and alumni

Nobel laureates

John L. Hall (B.S. 1956, M.S. 1958, Ph.D. 1961), 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics
Finn E. Kydland (Ph.D. 1973, faculty member), 2004 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences
Dale Thomas Mortensen (Ph.D. 1967), 2010 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences
John Forbes Nash (B.S. 1948, M.S. 1948), 1994 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences, the subject of A Beautiful Mind
Edward C. Prescott (Ph.D. 1967, faculty member 1971–1980), 2004 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences
Clifford Shull (B.S. 1937), 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics
Oliver E. Williamson (Ph.D. 1963), 2009 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences

Turing Award recipients

Alan Perlis (B.S. 1943, faculty member 1956–1971), compiler construction, 1966; first Turing Award winner
Allen Newell (Ph.D 1957, faculty member 1961–1992), artificial intelligence, 1975
Ivan Sutherland (B.S. 1959), computer graphics, 1988
Edward Feigenbaum (B.S. 1956, Ph.D 1960), artificial intelligence, 1994
Shafi Goldwasser (B.S. 1979), cryptography, 2012

Wolf Prize recipients

Raoul Bott (Ph.D. 1949), Wolf Prize in Mathematics, 2000

Enrico Fermi Award winners

George Cowan (Ph.D. 1950), nuclear scientist who was involved in the Manhattan Project, the U.S. atomic initiative during World War II; founder of the Santa Fe Institute

Stockholm Prize in Criminology winners

Daniel Nagin (B.S, M.S. 1971, Ph.D. 1976, Professor), criminologist, 2014

National Medal of Science recipients

Raoul Bott (Ph.D. 1949), Mathematical, Statistical, and Computer Sciences, 1987
Allen Newell (Ph.D 1957, Professor), Mathematical, Statistical, and Computer Sciences, 1992
George Pake (B.S., M.S. 1945), Physical Sciences, 1987
Frederick Rossini (B.S. 1925, M.S. 1926, DSc (hon.) 1948), Chemistry

National Medal of Technology and Innovation recipients

Robert Dennard (Ph.D. 1958), dynamic random access memory (DRAM), 1988
Stephanie Kwolek (B.S. 1946), inventor of Kevlar, 1996
Mary Shaw (Ph.D. 1972), software architecture pioneer, 2012
Frank L. Stulen (1943), numerical control of machine tools, 1985

MacArthur Fellows

Luis von Ahn (Ph.D. 2005), Carnegie Mellon professor of computer science, 2006
Stefan Savage (B.S. 1991), professor at UC San Diego, 2017
Dawn Song (M.S. 1999), Carnegie Mellon professor of computer science (2002–2007), currently professor at UC Berkeley, 2010

Business

Paul Allaire (M.B.A 1966), former Xerox director (1986–1990) CEO (1990–2000) and Chairman (1991–2000)
Kushagra Bajaj (B.S.), Vice Chairman of Bajaj Group
Ted Decker, (M.B.A. 1993), CEO and president of The Home Depot^[1]
Francisco D'Souza (Master of Science in Industrial Administration 1992), CEO of Cognizant Technology Solutions
Dina Dublon (Master of Science in Industrial Administration 1979), former EVP and CFO of JP Morgan Chase; board member of Microsoft, Accenture, PepsiCo, and Carnegie Mellon University
Marc Ewing (B.S. 1992), co-founder of Red Hat Inc., maker of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Yoshiaki Fujimori (Master of Science in Industrial Administration 1981), President and CEO of Lixil Group
Scott Griffith (1981), Chairman and CEO of Zipcar
Cormac Kinney (B.S. 1993, Master of Science in Industrial Administration 1994), software inventor and entrepreneur
Alexander Knaster (B.S. 1980), billionaire private equity investor; founder and chairman of Pamplona Capital Management
Jim Levy (B.S. 1965, Master of Science in Industrial Administration 1966), founding CEO of Activision (1979–1986)
Andrew Ng (B.S. 1997), co-founder of education technology company Coursera, director of Stanford University's Artificial Intelligence Lab
Frank Marshall (B.S.), former Director of Juniper Networks, former Vice President of Cisco (1992–1997)
Gerald C. Meyers (B.S., M.S.), former Chairman of American Motors
Ted Nierenberg (B.S. 1944), founder of Dansk International Designs^[2]
David Tepper (Master of Science in Industrial Administration 1982), founder and Chairman of Appaloosa Management, owner of the NFL's Carolina Panthers, and the MLS's Charlotte FC
Madhavi Vuppalapati, CEO and Chairperson of Prithvi Information Solutions.^[3]
Romesh Wadhwani (M.S., Ph.D.), billionaire private equity investor; founder and chairman of Symphony Technology Group
Charles Erwin Wilson (1909), CEO of General Motors (1946–1953), President of General Motors (1941–1953) (See also: Government and politics section)
Sulajja Firodia Motwani, Indian woman entrepreneur
Sunil Wadhwani, co-founder of Mastech Digital and IGATE
Brian Olsavsky (M.B.A), CFO of Amazon^[4]

Science and technology

Kimberly W. Anderson (Ph.D.), chemist, Gill Eminent Professor, Chemical and Materials Engineering, Associate Dean for Administration and Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering at the University of Kentucky.
Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau (B.S. 1991), author, professor, faculty member in the Computer Sciences Department at University of Wisconsin-Madison, ACM Fellow, winner of SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award.
Allen Barnett (1966), principal investigator of the DARPA-funded Consortium for Very High Efficiency Solar Cells
Andy Bechtolsheim (M.S. 1976), co-founder of Sun Microsystems; Managing Director of Cisco 1996–2002; Chief Architect of Sun Microsystems 2003–2005; an original investor in Google, and the first person to document the company name
Joshua Bloch (Ph.D. 1990), Chief Java Architect of Google, author of Jolt Award-winning book Effective Java
Nik Bonaddio (B.S. 2004, M.S. 2005), founder of numberFire
Nathaniel Borenstein (M.S. 1981, Ph.D. 1985), Chief Open Standards Strategist and Distinguished Engineer at IBM, co-creator of MIME for formatting multimedia email
Mark Canepa (B.S. 1976, M.S. 1977), Executive Vice President of Network Storage Products Group, then Data Management for Sun Microsystems
Jane C. Charlton (B.S. 1983), professor of astronomy and astrophysics, received her B.S. at age 18 ^[5]
Bob Colwell (Ph.D.), Chief Architect of Intel Pentium Pro
Robert Dennard (Ph.D. 1958), inventor of dynamic random access memory (DRAM); IBM Fellow; proved the theories leading to Moore's Law
Scott Fahlman (Professor), creator of the emoticon
Gerald Gardner (1922–2009), geophysicist and social activist whose statistical analysis led to the banning of classified advertising segregated by gender in a 1973 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court^[6]
Charles Geschke (Ph.D. 1973), co-founder of Adobe Systems
James J. Gillogly (Ph.D. 1978), cryptographer who was the first to publicly solve parts 1-3 of Kryptos
Virgil D. Gligor, pioneer in computer security and co-director of Carnegie Mellon's CYLAB
James Gosling (M.S. 1983, Ph.D. 1983), Vice President and Fellow of Sun Microsystems, creator of Java programming language
William Walter Hay (B.S. 1931) professor of railway engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign remembered with the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association Hay Award^[7]
Maynard Holliday, Robotics Engineer and former technology officer at The Pentagon
Feng-hsiung Hsu (Ph.D. 1990), co-creator of ChipTest (while at CMU), the predecessor of Deep Thought, which evolved into Deep Blue at IBM
Phil Karn (M.S. 1979), engineer; his name is on at least six RFCs; inventor of Karn's Algorithm, a method for calculating the round trip time for IP packet retransmission
Vinod Khosla (M.S. 1978), co-founder of Sun Microsystems, venture capitalist at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
James H. Kindelberger(1920), pioneer of aviation, Chairman of North American Aviation (1948–1960)
Kai-Fu Lee (Ph.D. 1988, Assistant Professor), former President of Google China
Ira N. Levine (B.A. 1958), author, professor and faculty member in the Chemistry Department at Brooklyn College.
Qi Lu (Ph.D. 1996), President of Online Services Division, Microsoft, former Executive Vice President at Yahoo!
Mao Yisheng (Ph.D. 1919), bridge engineering expert, first Ph.D. graduate of Carnegie Tech
Edgar Mitchell (B.S. 1952), astronaut, 6th man to walk on the Moon
James G. Mitchell (Ph.D. 1970), computer scientist, Vice President and Fellow of Sun Microsystems, developer of WATFOR compiler
Harvey C. Nathanson (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.), inventor of first MEMS device, former Chief Scientist at Northrop Grumman
Bruce J. Nelson (Ph.D. 1981), inventor of the Remote procedure call for computer communications
Andrew Ng (B.S. 1997), professor at Stanford University and co-founder of Coursera
John Ousterhout (Ph.D. 1980), inventor of the Tcl scripting language
David Parnas (M.S. 1964, Ph.D. 1965), early pioneer of software engineering
Randy Pausch (Ph.D. 1988, Professor), founder of Alice (software), and the man behind The Last Lecture
Drew D. Perkins (B.S. 1986), author of Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
Judith Resnik (B.S. 1970), astronaut who died in the Challenger accident during the launch of the mission STS-51-L
Mark Russinovich (B.S., Ph.D. 1994), Windows expert and technical fellow of Microsoft
Mahadev Satyanarayanan (Ph.D. 1983), principal computer architect of Coda and Andrew File System
Joshua Schachter (B.S. 1996), founder of del.icio.us
Jonathan I. Schwartz (transferred to Wesleyan University), CEO of Sun Microsystems
Harry Shum (Ph.D. 1996), Corporate Vice President, Microsoft
Pradeep Sindhu (Ph.D. 1982), co-founder and CTO of Juniper Networks
Javier Soltero (B.S. 1997), former founder and CEO of Hyperic, former CTO of SaaS at VMware, currently founder and CEO of Acompli
Ivan Sutherland (B.S. 1959), Vice President and Fellow of Sun Microsystems
Shanghua Teng, Professor of Computer Science at Boston University and winner of Gödel Prize
Avie Tevanian (M.S. 1985, Ph.D. 1988), former Apple CTO
Richard Wallace (Ph.D. 1989), Chairman and co-founder of the A.L.I.C.E. Artificial Intelligence Foundation; author of Artificial Intelligence Markup Language; Botmaster of the chatbot A.L.I.C.E.
Earl L. Warrick inventor of Silly Putty and developer of silicone rubber.
Red Whittaker (M.S. 1975, Ph.D. 1979), professor at CMU; led CMU teams that won second and third place in the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005 and first place in 2007
Dan Wilson (Ph.D. 2021), biologist and science communicator
Yishan Wong (B.S. 2001), chief executive officer of Reddit Inc.

Performing arts, film, television and video games

William Atherton (1969), film, stage and television actor, Die Hard, The Day of the Locust, The Girl Next Door
Jason Antoon (1994), actor, No Ordinary Family
Hale Appleman, actor, (The Magicians)
René Auberjonois (1962), actor, Benson, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Boston Legal
William Ball, director, founder of American Conservatory Theater
Brent Barrett, film and Broadway actor, singer; Chicago, Phantom: The Las Vegas Spectacular, The Producers
Shari Belafonte, actress, singer, Hotel, Cane River, The Heidi Chronicles
Natalie Venetia Belcon, actress, singer, originated role of Gary Coleman in Broadway musical Avenue Q
Benny Benack, orchestra leader, "King of Pittsburgh Dixieland"
Lourdes Benedicto, actress, NYPD Blue, ER, Dawson's Creek, 24
Denée Benton (2014), actress, Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 (Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role), The Book of Mormon
Paul Ben-Victor (1987), actor, The Wire, The Shield, Entourage
Steven Bochco (1966), writer, producer, Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, NYPD Blue; ten-time Emmy Award winner
Matthew Bomer (2000), actor, White Collar, The Normal Heart, Magic Mike
Liam Bonner (2004), baritone opera singer
Christian Borle, actor, Legally Blonde; Tony Award winner in 2012 for Peter and the Starcatcher and in 2015 for Something Rotten!, NBC's Smash
Barbara Bosson (1970), actress, Hill Street Blues, Murder One
Abby Brammell (2001), actress, The Unit
Albert Brooks (attended for two years), actor, screenwriter and director, Finding Nemo, Broadcast News, Lost in America
Michael Campayno (2014) actor, The Sound of Music LIVE", The Cher Show", "Wicked the musical"
Lori Cardille (1976), actress, Day of the Dead
Jean Carson (1945), actress, The Andy Griffith Show
Anthony Carrigan (2006),^[8] actor, Barry
Arthur Chadwick (1997), set designer for Accidentally on Purpose
Donna Lynne Champlin (1993), actress, Crazy Ex Girlfriend
Carol Channing (1943), Tony Award-winning actress, Hello Dolly!
Gaius Charles (2005), actor, Friday Night Lights
François Clemmons (1969), founder/director of Harlem Spiritual Ensemble, special guest, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Kat Coiro, director and writer
Rhys Coiro (2002), actor, HBO's Entourage
Frank Converse (1962), actor, Coronet Blue, The Rowdyman, N.Y.P.D.
Casey Cott (2016), actor, Riverdale
Corey Cott (2012), actor, Disney's Newsies, Bandstand, Gigi
Ellen Crawford (1975), actress, Boston Legal
James Cromwell (1964), actor, known for L.A. Confidential, The General's Daughter, Babe; Oscar nominee and winner of the 2013 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
Bob Cummings (1930), actor, known for films (Dial M for Murder, Saboteur) and television's The Bob Cummings Show
Ted Danson (1972), actor, Cheers, Three Men and a Baby, The Good Place; two-time Emmy Award winner; three-time Golden Globe Award winner
Joan Darling (1957), actress, Mary Hartman, MASH
Cote de Pablo (2000), actress, NCIS
Nicole DeHuff, actress, Meet The Parents, Unbeatable Harold
Kim Director (2000), actress, Orange is the New Black
Neal Dodson, film producer
Dagmara Dominczyk (1998), actress, The Count of Monte Cristo
Neil Druckmann (2005), writer and creative director at Naughty Dog^[9]
Peggy Eisenhauer (1983), Tony Award-winning lighting designer
Esteban (1970), flamenco guitarist
Abe Feder (1930), lighting designer, lighting director
Barbara Feldon (1955), actress, Get Smart, Fitzwilly, Mad About You
Jules Fisher (1960), lighting designer; won a Tony Award
Seth Fisher (2004), director, The Good Wife
Sutton Foster (left after freshman year), actress, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Anything Goes, Shrek; won two Tony Awards
Robert Foxworth (1965), actor, Falcon Crest, Six Feet Under
Mark Frost (1975), producer, Twin Peaks
Sidney Furie (1955), director and screenwriter, The Ipcress File, The Entity
Josh Gad (2003), actor, "Olaf" in Frozen, The Book of Mormon, The Wedding Ringer
Herb Gardner (1956), Tony Award-winning playwright, A Thousand Clowns, I'm Not Rappaport
Yusuf Gatewood (2002), The Originals (TV series), The Umbrella Academy^[10]
Michael Goldenberg (1986), screenwriter and director Harry Potter
Renée Elise Goldsberry (1993), actress, Tony Award for Hamilton, The Lion King, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rent
Frank Gorshin (1955), actor, best known as "The Riddler" in the Batman live action television series
Ralph Guggenheim (1974), producer, Toy Story
Javier Grillo-Marxuach (1991), television screenwriter, producer, best known for his work on the first two seasons of Lost
Josh Groban (left after freshman year), singer and Broadway actor, Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Tony Nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role)
Demetrius Grosse (2003), Justified
Charles Haid (1968), actor and director, NYPD Blue, L. A. Law, Doogie Howser, M.D.
Van Hansis (2004), actor, Luke Snyder of As the World Turns; three-time Emmy Award nominee
Ian Harding (2009), actor, Pretty Little Liars
Mariette Hartley (1965), Emmy Award-winning actress, Ride the High Country, Peyton Place, The Incredible Hulk
Elizabeth Hartman, actress
Lisa Hartman-Black (1978), actress, Tabitha
David Haskell (1970), actor (Godspell)
Anne Marie Cummings (B.F.A. 1990), 4X Emmy-nominated TV creator, actress, writer, director of Conversations in L.A.
Ethan Hawke (briefly attended), actor
Sian Heder (1999) writer, filmmaker; Orange Is The New Black, Tallulah
Grey Henson (2012) actor, The Book of Mormon, Mean Girls
Megan Hilty (2004), actress, played Glinda in Wicked, Ivy in TV series Smash, Doralee in Nine to Five
Leonard "Hub" Hubbard, Grammy Award winner, composer, bassist, The Roots
Chuck Hittinger (2005), Screamfest, Boogeyman 3
David Hornsby (1998), actor, screenwriter, producer; It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Holly Hunter (1980), actress; won an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award
Sam Hyde (attended for one year), actor, writer, comedian and co-creator of Million Dollar Extreme Presents: World Peace
Peter Hylenski (1997), sound designer, Tony Award for Best Sound Design winner^[11]
James Jacks (1969), producer, Raising Arizona, The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, Mallrats, Michael, Tombstone
Cherry Jones (1978), actress; won an Emmy Award and a Tony Award
Caren Kaye (1973) (M.S., Ph.D. in Psychology), lead actress, My Tutor
Arthur Kennedy (1936), actor, 5-time Oscar nominee, Lawrence of Arabia, All My Sons, Elmer Gantry
Jack Klugman (1948), Emmy Award-winning actor, best known for The Odd Couple, Quincy, M.E.
Frederick Koehler (1997), actor, Kate and Allie and All My Children
Michael Kooman, musical theater composer, half of Kooman and Dimond, whose works have been performed at The Kennedy Center, Williamstown Theater Festival, and American Conservatory Theater
David Lander (1969), actor, Squiggy on the sitcom Laverne and Shirley
David Larsen (1999), actor, The Book of Mormon
William Law (1966), How to Make an American Quilt, Iron Man Returns
Eugene Lee (1962), two-time Tony Award-winning scenic designer
Telly Leung (2002), actor, Allegiance
Kara Lindsay (2006), actress, Newsies, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Judith Light (1970), Daytime Emmy Award and two-time Tony Award-winning actress, One Life to Live, Who's the Boss?
Keith Lockhart (1983), conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra
Arthur Lubin (1920), film director and producer of the 1943 film Phantom of the Opera and the 1960s TV series Mister Ed
Gabriel Macht (1994), actor, Suits
Erin Mackey (2008), Broadway, television, and film actress, known for playing Glinda in Wicked
Henry Mancini (1947), composer; nominated for 72 Grammy Awards, winning 20; also nominated for 18 Academy Awards, winning four
Joe Manganiello (2000), actor
Sonia Manzano (1972), actress, writer, Maria Rodriguez on Sesame Street
Nancy Marchand (1949), actress, known for Lou Grant and HBO's The Sopranos; four-time Emmy Award winner
Rob Marshall (1982), director; nominated for two Academy Awards (Chicago, Memoirs of a Geisha)
Henry Mazer, conductor and recording artist for Taipei Philharmonic Orchestra and Chicago Symphony Orchestra^[12]
Gilmer McCormick (1969), actress, Godspell
John McDaniel, producer, composer, conductor, known for leading the band on The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Michael McKean (1969), actor and ensemble comedian (Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, This Is Spinal Tap, Better Call Saul); played Lenny on Laverne and Shirley
Kennedy McMann (2018), actress,^[13] Nancy Drew
Michael McMillian (2002), True Blood
James Meena (1973), conductor and opera administrator
Patina Miller (2006), Tony Award-winning actress (Pippin, Sister Act, All My Children)
Katy Mixon (2003), actress, Mike & Molly, American Housewife
Roger Morgan (1961), The Crucifer of Blood
Greg Mottola (BFA, Art), director, Superbad, The Daytrippers, several episodes of Undeclared and Arrested Development
Jeffrey Mylett (1971), actor, Godspell
David Norona (1994), The Mentalist
Vince O'Brien (1949), Broadway, television, and film actor
Leslie Odom, Jr. (2003), actor, Hamilton, Red Tails
Rory O'Malley (2003), actor, The Book of Mormon, Hamilton
Oopali Operajita (1995), choreographer and classical Odissi and Bharatanatyam dancer
Stephanie Palmer (1997), Hollywood executive, author of Good in a Room
Van Dyke Parks, composer, arranger, producer, musician most notably with Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys
John Pasquin (1969), Emmy Award-winning director
Victoria Pedretti (2017), actress ^[14]
George Peppard (1951), actor, best known for Breakfast at Tiffany's and as John "Hannibal" Smith on The A-Team
Fern Persons (1934), actress, Risky Business, Hoosiers, Field of Dreams
Martin Platt (1971), producer, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
John C. Picardi (1996). playwright, The Sweepers, Seven Rabbits on a Pole. Novel; Oliver Pepper's Pickle
Stephen Prince (1991), voice actor, Bleach, Naruto, Love Hina, Cowboy Bebop, Digimon
Erin Quill, actress, writer, and singer
Zachary Quinto (1999), actor, played Sylar on Heroes, and Spock in Star Trek (2009 and later films)
Sally Jessy Raphaël, talk show host; briefly attended
Lester Rawlins (1950), A Man for All Seasons
Norman René (1974), theatre and film director; Obie Award winner
Darren Ritchie (1999), actor/singer
Kali Rocha (1993), actress, Sledge
Lori Rom (1997), actress, Love's Enduring Promise
George A. Romero (1960), film director, Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead
Ann Roth (1953), film and Broadway costume designer; won an Academy Award and two Emmy Awards
Polly Rowles (1936), film and TV actor, Springtime in the Rockies, Auntie Mame
Laura San Giacomo (1984), actress, Just Shoot Me!, Quigley Down Under, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Pretty Woman
Lou Scheimer (1952), Flash Gordon
Mary Kate Schellhardt (BFA 2001), actress, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Free Willy 2, Apollo 13
Robert Schmertz (1921), architect and folk musician, CMU faculty and author of the CMU fight song
Pablo Schreiber (2000), actor, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Stephen Schwartz (1968), composer of shows including Wicked, Godspell, and Pippin (originally a Carnegie Mellon production, presented by the Scotch'n'Soda theatrical club on campus under the title Pippin Pippin)
Roxanne Seeman, songwriter and lyricist
Kyle Selig (2014), actor, The Book of Mormon, Mean Girls
Sushma Seth, (1960) Bollywood actress, Junoon, Ram Teri Ganga Maili
John Shaffer (1976), art director, The Big Bang Theory, Friends, Dharma & Greg
Mel Shapiro (1961), An Actor Performs, Two Gentlemen of Verona
Leigh Silverman (1996), producer, Violet
Emily Skinner (1992), musical theater actress; nominated for a Tony Award alongside Side Show co-star Alice Ripley
Josef Sommer (1957), actor, Dirty Harry, Absence of Malice, Witness
Aaron Staton (2004), actor, Mad Men
Patricia Tallman (1979), actress and stunt woman, played Lyta Alexander on Babylon 5, Barbara in 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead
John-Michael Tebelak (1971)(MFA), playwright and director (Godspell; originally a Carnegie Mellon production)
Irene Tedrow (1929), actress, Eleanor and Franklin, James at 16, Bonanza
Jim Tetlow (1977), lighting designer and theatre consultant; won an Emmy Award for lighting design
Thom Thomas (1963), playwright, Without Apologies
Sada Thompson (1949), actress, Family
Michael Tucker (1966), actor, L.A. Law
Tamara Tunie (1981), actress, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Susan Tsu
William J. G. Turner (1974), composer, director, dramatist, producer, and actor
Blair Underwood (1988), actor, L.A. Law, LAX, Gattaca, Sex and the City
Michelle Veintimilla (2014), actress, Not Cool
Paula Wagner (1969), film producer and executive
Loudon Wainwright III, musician; withdrew in 1967
Bruce Weitz (1966), actor, Hill Street Blues, Deep Impact
John Wells (1970), writer, producer, China Beach, ER, The West Wing, Third Watch; won an Emmy Award
Ming-Na Wen (1986), actress, ER, The Joy Luck Club; Annie Award winner as voice of "Mulan" in Mulan; voice of Aki Ross in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Daniel Wilson (2003, 2004, 2005), TV host, The Works, writer, How to Survive a Robot Uprising
Patrick Wilson (1995), actor; nominated for a Tony Award, an Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award
George Wood (1945), actor, Harold and Maude
Bud Yorkin (1948), producer, director, writer, actor (All in the Family, Maude, Good Times, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, Diff'rent Strokes)

Visual arts

Mel Bochner (1962), pioneer of postminimal arts and conceptual art
Jonathan Borofsky (1964), 20th-century conceptual artist and sculptor
Mia Brownell (1993), painter
Sheila Butler (1960), visual artist
Virgil Cantini (1946), artist and professor at the University of Pittsburgh
Elizabeth Carpenter (1976), author, clothing designer, creator of educational children's puzzles
John Currin (1984), contemporary figure and portrait painter
Ken Ferguson (1952), ceramist
Raymond Kaskey (1967), sculptor
Joyce Kozloff (1942), artist and founder of Pattern and Decoration movement
Katharine Kuharic (1984), figurative painter and educator
Burton Morris (1986), pop artist
Shalom Neuman (1970), painter and sculptor
Philip Pearlstein (1949), figure painter
Abigail Satinsky (2003), art curator
Jacqueline Thurston (1961), artist, writer and educator
Andy Warhol (1949), painter and major figure in the pop art movement

Architecture and design

Roger Duffy, architect
Dan Friedman, graphic designer
Tasso Katselas, architect
David M. Kelley (B.S. 1973), co-founder of IDEO
Christian Schwartz, type designer
Steven Song, architect and theoretician
Nader Ardalan, Architect of Harvard Business School (ICMS) in Tehran, Iran (1975).^[15]

Government and politics

Jairam Ramesh (Master of Science in Public Policy and Public Management), Former Minister of Rural Development, Government of India.^[16]
Gust Avrakotos (attended for two years), Directorate of Operations, Central Intelligence Agency
Nilofar Bakhtiar (M.S.), Senator and Federal Minister for Tourism in Pakistan
Peter Corroon (B.S.), Mayor of Salt Lake County, Utah
Carmen Yulín Cruz (MS in Public Policy), member of the 28th House of Representatives of Puerto Rico (2009–2013); Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico (2013–present)^[17]^[18]
Peter J. De Muth (BS 1914), U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania
Oopali Operajita (MAPW 1995), Senior Parliamentary Adviser, India
Charles L. Evans (M.S., Ph.D. in Economics), President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 2007–present
Rich Fitzgerald (BSME 1981), President, Allegheny County Council, Pennsylvania (January 2001–present)
Larry Giammo (MBA 1992), mayor of Rockville, Maryland (2001–2007)
Anita K. Jones (Ph.D. 1973), Director of Defense Research and Engineering of the U.S. Department of Defense
Sydney Kamlager (MA, 1994), Trustee-Elect to the Los Angeles Community College District Seat 3, District Director for California State Senator Holly Mitchell
Susie Lee (BS, 1989; MS, 1990), United States Representative for Nevada’s 3rd District
Salim Saifullah Khan (BS Mechanical Engineering, 1968), Senator and Federal Minister for Petroleum & Natural Resources, Commerce, Housing & Works, Inter-Provincial Coordination in Pakistan
Vasili Kuznetsov, Soviet political figure
Keith B. McCutcheon (B.S. 1937), four-star general and Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps (1970)
Bill Peduto (attended), Mayor of Pittsburgh
Dennis B. Sullivan, U.S. Air Force general
Jeffrey W. Talley (Ph.D. 2000), Lieutenant General retired, 32nd Chief of Army Reserve (CAR) and 7th Commanding General, United States Army Reserve Command (USARC) 2012-2016
Charles Erwin Wilson (1909), United States Secretary of Defense (1953–1957) under President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Yarone Zober (MPM 2000), Chief of Staff, Mayor's Office, City of Pittsburgh (September 2006–present); former Deputy Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh (August to September 2006)
Nara Lokesh, Former Member of Legislative Council (28 March 2017 – 29 March 2023) Government of Andhra Pradesh, Republic of India.
Henry J. Schultz (B.S. 1932) Mayor of Easton, Pennsylvania (1976–1980)

Academia

Educators

Padmanabhan Balaram (Ph.D. 1973), Director of Indian Institute of Science, India
John P. Crecine (B.S. 1961, M.S. 1963, Ph.D. 1966), former Dean of the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon and President of Georgia Institute of Technology (1987–1994)
James W. Dean Jr., PhD, President of the University of New Hampshire^[19]
Michael D. C. Drout (B.A. 1990), professor at Wheaton College and scholar specializing in Anglo-Saxon and medieval literature, science fiction and fantasy, especially the works of J. R. R. Tolkien and Ursula K. Le Guin
Marvin L. Goldberger (B.S. 1943), former President of the California Institute of Technology (1978–1987), former director of Institute for Advanced Study (1987–1991), former dean of the natural science at University of California, San Diego (1994–1999)
John Graham (Ph.D. 1983), former Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School and current Dean of the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Robert Kibbee (died 1982), Chancellor of the City University of New York
Robert Lepper, art professor who developed the country's first industrial design degree program
Rob Linsenmeier, Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering and Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology, Northwestern University
Michael C. McFarland (M.S. 1979, Ph.D. 1981), President of College of the Holy Cross, former Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Gonzaga University (1996–2000)
Joseph S. B. Mitchell (B.S. 1981, M.S. 1981), Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Stony Brook University
William F. Pounds (B.S. 1950, M.S. 1959, Ph.D. 1964), Dean of MIT Sloan School of Management (1966–1980)
Suh Nam Pyo (Ph.D. 1964), President of KAIST, South Korea
Madhav V. Rajan (PhD 1990), former associate professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, full professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and dean of the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago^[20]
Mendu Rammohan Rao (M.S. 1968, Ph.D. 1969), Dean Emeritus of Indian School of Business, India
Jon Strauss (Ph.D. 1964), Dean of Engineering, Whitacre College of Engineering, Texas Tech University, former President of Bainbridge Graduate Institute (2008–2009), Harvey Mudd College (1997–2006) and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1985–1994)
Richard L. Van Horn (Ph.D. 1976), former President of the University of Houston and the University of Oklahoma
Hugh D. Young (Ph.D. 1959), longtime Professor who taught Physics for over 50 years at Carnegie Mellon. Professor Young was co-author of the later editions of the highly regarded textbook University Physics, now in its 15th edition, and received many of Carnegie Mellon's highest awards.
Suresh P. Sethi (Ph.D. 1972) Eugene McDermott Professor at the Naveen Jindal School of Management at The University of Texas at Dallas, former General Motors professor at the University of Toronto, Alumni Achievement Award from Tepper School, fellow of Royal Society of Canada, AAAS, INFORMS, IEEE

Members of National Academy of Sciences

Frederick Rossini (B.S. 1925, M.S. 1926, DSc (hon.) 1948), Chemistry, 1951
Marvin L. Goldberger (B.S. 1943), Physics, 1963
Raoul Bott (Ph.D. 1949), Mathematics, 1964
Philip Morrison (B.S. 1936), Physics, 1971
Allen Newell (Ph.D 1957, Professor), Computer and Information Sciences, 1972
Frederick Mosteller (B.S. 1938, M.S. 1939), Mathematics, 1974
Clifford Shull (B.S. 1937), Physics, 1975
Ivan Sutherland (B.S. 1959), Computer and Information Sciences, 1978
John L. Hall (B.S. 1956, M.S. 1958, Ph.D. 1961), Physics, 1984
Leonard Lerman (B.S. 1945), Genetics, 1986
Oliver Williamson (Ph.D. 1963), Economic Sciences, 1994
Stephen Fienberg (B.S. 1979), Applied mathematical sciences, 1999
Shafrira Goldwasser (B.S. 1979), Computer and Information Sciences, 2004

Members of National Academy of Engineering

Alan Perlis (B.S. 1943, Professor), Computer Science & Engineering, 1977
James D. Meindl (B.S. 1955, M.S. 1956, Ph.D. 1958), Electronics Engineering, 1978
Mao Yisheng (Ph.D. 1919), Civil Engineering, Materials Engineering, 1982
Robert Dennard (Ph.D. 1958), Electronics Engineering, 1984
Angel Jordan (M.S. 1959, Ph.D. 1959, Professor), Electronics Engineering, 1986
H. T. Kung (Ph.D. 1973), Computer Science & Engineering, 1993
Anita K. Jones (Ph.D. 1973), Computer Science & Engineering, 1994
Charles Geschke (Ph.D. 1973), Computer Science & Engineering, 1995
Andy Bechtolsheim (M.S. 1976), Electronics Engineering, 2000
Stephanie Kwolek (B.S. 1946), Chemical Engineering, 2001
John Ousterhout (Ph.D. 1980), Computer Science & Engineering, 2001
Bernard Cohen (Ph.D. 1950), Electric Power/Energy Systems Engineering, 2003
James Gosling (Ph.D. 1983), Computer Science & Engineering, 2004
Jonathan Rothberg (B.S. 1985), Bioengineering, 2004
Shafrira Goldwasser (B.S. 1979), Computer Science & Engineering, 2005
Pradeep K. Khosla (Dowd University Professor), Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Robotics, 2006
Bob Colwell (Ph.D.), Computer Science & Engineering, 2006
Stuart Card (M.S. 1970, Ph.D. 1978), Computer Science & Engineering, 2007
Shree K. Nayar (Ph.D. 1991), Computer Science and Engineering, 2008
William L. Whittaker (M.S. 1975, Ph.D. 1979, Professor), Computer Science & Engineering, 2009
Manuela M. Veloso (Ph.D. 1992, Professor), Computer Science & Engineering, 2022

Other prominent faculty

Bob Altemeyer (PhD 1965), Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Manitoba
Costas Azariadis (MBA 1971, Ph.D. 1975), Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
William A. Barnett (M.A. 1970, Ph.D. 1974), Oswald Distinguished Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Kansas
Timothy Devinney (B.S., 1977), Chair and Professor of International Business University of Manchester, Fellow of Academy of Management, Fellow of Academy of International Business
Ravi Jagannathan (M.S. 1981, Ph.D. 1983), Chicago Mercantile Exchange/John F. Sandner Professor of Finance at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, former director of American Finance Association (2002–2005)
Kevin Lane Keller (MSIA 1980), E.B. Osborn Professor of Marketing at Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
John E. Laird (Ph.D. 1983), John L. Tishman Professor of Engineering at University of Michigan, co-creator of Soar cognitive architecture
Rose Hum Lee (B.S. 1942), first woman and the first Chinese American to head a US university sociology department, at Roosevelt University
Charles E. Leiserson (Ph.D. 1981), Professor of Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, co-author of the Introduction to Algorithms
Ronald D. Macfarlane (M.S. 1957, Ph.D. 1959), Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Texas A&M University
Nolan McCarty (M.S. 1992, Ph.D. 1993), Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University
Greg Morrisett (M.S. 1991, Ph.D. 1995), Allen B. Cutting Professor of Computer Science and Associate Dean for Computer Science and Engineering, Harvard University
Michael S. Scott Morton (B.S. 1961), Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management (Emeritus) at MIT Sloan School of Management
Jan Mossin (Ph.D.), made significant contribution to capital asset pricing model
John Muth (Ph.D., Professor 1956–1964), father of the rational expectations revolution in economics
Jay Nunamaker (B.S. 1964), Regents Professor of Management Information Systems, Computer Science, and Communication at University of Arizona
Jeffrey Pfeffer (B.S. 1968, MSIA 1968), Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business
Demetri Psaltis (B.S. 1974, M.S. 1975, Ph.D. 1977), Thomas G. Myers Professor of Electrical Engineering at California Institute of Technology
Millicent Sullivan (Ph.D. 2003), Alvin B. & Julie O. Stiles Professor Of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware^[21]
Jerry D. Thompson (Doctor of Arts in history), Regents Professor of History, Texas A&M International University, Laredo, Texas; specialist on American Southwest
Sheridan Titman (M.S. 1978, Ph.D. 1981), Walter W. McAllister Centennial Professor of Finance at McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, President of Western Finance Association
Andrew B. Whinston (M.S. 1960, Ph.D. 1962), Hugh Roy Cullen Centennial Professor in Business Administration at McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Abul Hasnat (M.S. 1950), Late Professor of Department of Civil Engineering, Bangladesh University of Science and Technology (BUET), Bangladesh; University of Basrah, Iraq and King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah

Literature

Michael Chabon (attended), Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Christina Crawford (attended), author of Mommie Dearest
Iris Rainer Dart (1966), author of Beaches
E. L. Konigsburg (1952), author of children's books
Jewell Parker Rhodes (B.A. 1975, M.A. 1976, D.A. 1979), novelist
William Roos, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter^[22]
Manil Suri (Ph.D. 1983), mathematician and writer
Astro Teller (Ph.D. 1998), author of Exegesis
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (briefly attended), author, Slaughterhouse Five
Jeffrey Zaslow, columnist for the Wall Street Journal; co-author of The Last Lecture

Sports

Nada Arkaji, the first woman to represent Qatar at the Olympic Games
Dwight "Dike" Beede, college football coach who created and introduced the penalty flag
Howard Harpster (1928), All-American quarterback, inducted into College Football Hall of Fame, led defeat of Knute Rockne's Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Rich Lackner (1979), current Carnegie Mellon head football coach
Hans Lobert, Major League Baseball player, manager
John McGraw (born Roy Elmer Hoar), Major League Baseball player, not to be confused with hall-of-famer John McGraw
Aron Ralston (1997), mountain climber, subject of the film 127 Hours
Herb Sendek (1985), men's basketball head coach, Santa Clara, Arizona State, and North Carolina State

NFL

Merl Condit, end, Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Steelers (1940–1946)^[23]
Bull Karcis, fullback, Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants (1932–1943)^[23]
Hap Moran, end, Frankford Yellow Jackets, New York Giants (1926–1933)^[23]
Bill Rieth, center, Cleveland Rams (1941–1945)^[23]
Jimmy Robertson, fullback, halfback, Akron Pros (1924–1925)^[23]
Joe Rudolph, guard, Philadelphia Eagles, San Francisco 49ers (1995, 1997)
Hugh Sprinkle, tackle, Akron Pros (1923–1925)^[23]
Ray Tesser, end, Pittsburgh Pirates (1933–1934)^[23]

Notable faculty

Nobel laureates

Clinton Davisson (Professor), Nobel Prize in Physics, 1937
Otto Stern (Professor), Nobel Prize in Physics, 1943
Paul Flory (Research Associate, Mellon Institute), Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1974
Herbert A. Simon (Professor, 1949–2001), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences, 1978
Franco Modigliani (Professor), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences, 1985
Merton Miller (Professor), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences, 1990
Robert Lucas Jr (Professor), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences, 1995
John Pople (Professor 1964–1993), Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1998
Lars Peter Hansen (Professor), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences, 2013
Walter Kohn (Professor), Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1998
Paul Lauterbur (Research Associate, Mellon Institute, 1951–1953), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2003
Finn E. Kydland (Ph.D. 1973, Professor), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences, 2004
Edward C. Prescott (Ph.D. 1967, Professor 1971–1980), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences, 2004
Ada Yonath (Postdoctoral researcher, 1969), Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2009

Turing Award recipients

Alan Perlis (B.S. 1943, Professor 1956–1971), compiler construction, 1966 – first Turing Award winner
Allen Newell (Ph.D 1957, Professor 1961–1992) and Herbert A. Simon (Professor), artificial intelligence, 1975
Dana S. Scott (Professor 1981–2003), nondeterministic machines, 1976
Robert Floyd (Professor 1963–1968), methodologies for the creation of efficient and reliable software, 1978
Raj Reddy (Professor 1969–present), artificial intelligence, 1994
Manuel Blum (Professor 1999–2018), computational complexity theory, 1995
Edmund M. Clarke (Professor 1982–2020), model checking, 2007
Leslie Valiant (Professor 1973–1974), machine learning, 2010
William Mattis (Professor 1976-1993), artificial intelligence, 2012

Kyoto Prize recipients

Takeo Kanade (Professor), information science, 2016

Wolf Prize recipients

John Pople (Professor 1964–1993), Wolf Prize in Chemistry, 1992
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (Professor), Wolf Prize in Chemistry, 2011

Stockholm Prize in Criminology winners

Alfred Blumstein (Professor), operations researcher and criminologist, 2007

National Medal of Science recipients

Herbert A. Simon (Professor), Behavior and Social Sciences, 1986
Paul Lauterbur (Research Associate, Mellon Institute, 1951–1953), Physical Sciences, 1987
Allen Newell (Ph.D 1957, Professor), Mathematical, Statistical, and Computer Sciences, 1992

National Medal of Technology recipients

Paul Lauterbur (Research Associate, Mellon Institute, 1951–1953), magnetic resonance technology, 1988
Watts Humphrey (Professor), software engineering, 2003
Mary Shaw (Professor), software engineering, 2014

MacArthur Fellows

Luis von Ahn (Ph.D. 2005), assistant professor of computer science, 2006
Yoky Matsuoka, assistant professor affiliated with the Robotics Institute, the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (2001–2006), 2007
Anna Deavere Smith, acting instructor (1970–1971), 1996
Dawn Song (M.S. 1999), professor of computer science (2002–2007), 2010
Terrance Hayes, professor of poetry (2001–2013)

Members of National Academy of Sciences

Otto Stern (Professor 1933–1945), Physics, 1945
Herbert A. Simon (Professor), Computer and Information Sciences, 1967
Walter Kohn (Professor 1950–1960), Physics, 1969
Richard Duffin (Professor 1946–1988), Applied Mathematical Sciences, 1972
Allen Newell (Ph.D 1957, Professor), Computer and Information Sciences, 1972
James G. March (Professor 1953–1964), Social and Political Sciences, 1973
Franco Modigliani (Professor 1952–1960), Economic Sciences, 1973
Brian Berry (Professor 1981–1986), Human Environmental Sciences, 1975
Harrison White (Professor 1957–1959), Social and Political Sciences, 1975
Lincoln Wolfenstein (Professor), Physics, 1978
Robert Lucas Jr (Professor 1963–1974), Economic Sciences, 1981
Paul Lauterbur (Research Associate, Mellon Institute, 1951–1953), Physics, 1985
Robert Griffiths (Professor), Computer and Information Sciences, 1987
Dana Scott (Professor), Computer and Information Sciences, 1988
John Anderson (Professor), Psychology, 1999
Stephen Fienberg (Professor), Applied Mathematical Sciences, 1999
James McClelland (Professor 1984–2006), Psychology, 2001
Manuel Blum (Professor), Computer and Information Sciences, 2002
Robert Parr (Professor 1948–1962), Chemical Sciences, 2004
Gordon Bell (Professor 1966–1972), Computer and Information Sciences, 2007
Marlene Behrmann (Professor 1993–present), Psychology, 2015

Members of National Academy of Engineering

Daniel Berg (Professor 1977–1983), Special Fields & Interdisciplinary Engineering, 1976
Steven J. Fenves (Professor), Civil Engineering, 1976
Gordon Bell (Professor 1966–1972), Computer Science & Engineering, 1977
Alan Perlis (B.S. 1943, Professor), Computer Science & Engineering, 1977
Allen Newell (Ph.D 1957, Professor), Computer Science & Engineering, 1980
Raj Reddy (Professor), Computer Science & Engineering, 1984
Joseph F Traub (Professor 1971–1979), Computer Science & Engineering, 1985
George Bugliarello (Professor 1959–1969), Civil Engineering, 1987
Arthur W. Westerberg (Professor), Chemical Engineering, 1987
C. D. Mote, Jr. (Professor 1965–1967), Mechanical Engineering, 1988
John L. Anderson (Professor), Chemical Engineering, 1992
William Wulf (Professor 1968–1981), Computer Science & Engineering, 1993
Mark Kryder (Professor), Electronics Engineering, 1994
Hubert Aaronson (B.S. 1948, Ph.D. 1954, Professor), Materials Engineering, 1997
Takeo Kanade (Professor), Computer Science & Engineering, 1997 ^[24]
Alfred Blumstein (Professor), Industrial, Manufacturing & Operational Systems Engineering, 1998
Ignacio E. Grossmann (Professor), Chemical Engineering, 2000
Daniel P. Siewiorek (Professor), Computer Science & Engineering, 2000
Guy L. Steele Jr. (Professor 1980–1994), Computer Science & Engineering, 2001
Randal Bryant (Professor), Computer Science & Engineering, 2003
Richard Rashid (Professor, 1979–1991), Computer Science & Engineering, 2003
Alfred Spector (Professor, 1981–1992), Computer Science & Engineering, 2004
Edmund M. Clarke (Professor), Computer Science & Engineering, 2005
Egon Balas (Professor, 1967-2019), Industrial, Manufacturing & Operational Systems Engineering, 2006
Manuel Blum (Professor), Computer Science & Engineering, 2006
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (Professor), Materials Engineering, 2006
David A. Dzombak (Professor), Civil Engineering, 2008
Bhakta B. Rath (Professor), Materials engineering, 2008
Tom M. Mitchell (Professor), Computer Science & Engineering, 2010
Jacobo Bielak (Professor), Civil Engineering, 2010
Chris T. Hendrickson (Professor), Civil Engineering, 2011
Nadine Aubry (Professor), Mechanical Engineering, 2011
Jared L. Cohon (Professor), Civil Engineering, 2012
Lorenz Biegler (Professor), Chemical Engineering, 2013
José M. F. Moura (Professor), Computer Science & Engineering, 2013
Gérard Cornuéjols (Professor), Industrial, Manufacturing & Operational Systems Engineering, 2016
Sridhar Tayur (Professor), Industrial, Manufacturing & Operational Systems Engineering, 2017
Manuela M. Veloso (Professor), Computer Science & Engineering, 2022

Other prominent faculty

Igor Ansoff (Professor), "father of strategic management" and Professor of Industrial Administration
Jerome Apt (Professor), former NASA astronaut and now Professor of Technology; Executive Director of Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center, Graduate School of Industrial Administration
Elizabeth Bailey (Professor 1983–1991), former Dean and Professor of Economics, Industrial Administration and Public Policy, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, now John C. Hower Professor of Business and Public Policy at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Lenore Blum (Professor), renowned for being a National Science Foundation Career Advancement Award winner and for her contributions to Computer Science, wife of Manuel Blum
Peter Braam (Professor), computer scientist, founder of Lustre file system, Intermezzo file system
Kathleen Carley (Professor), Computational sociologist and pioneer of dynamic network analysis
William W. Cooper (Professor), professor of operations research and accounting at the Tepper School of Business and founding Dean of the Heinz College
Edward Creutz (Professor), physics, the Manhattan Project
Lorrie Cranor (Professor), expert in information privacy and Chief Technologist of the Federal Trade Commission
Anthony Daniels (Adjunct Professor), Actor famous for portraying C-3PO in the Star Wars films
Robyn Dawes (Professor), pioneer in the field of mathematical psychology
Scott Dodelson (Professor, 2017–present), astrophysicist and former Fermilab scientist
David Farber (Professor, 2003–present), co-creator of ARPANET and former Chief Technologist for the FCC
Richard Florida (Professor, 1987–2005), economist and author of Rise of the Creative Class
David Garlan (Professor, 1990–present), a pioneer in software architecture and self-adaptive software systems
James Goodby (Professor, 1989–present), Distinguished Service Professor of Engineering and Public Policy, former U.S. Foreign Service Officer including US Ambassador to Finland (1980–1981)
William D. Haseman (faculty member, 1975-1980), IBM Professor of Information Technology Management at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, founding Director for the Center for Technology Innovation in Milwaukee, and author
John Heinz III (faculty member, 1970–1971), Senator from Pennsylvania
Robert Hess (1938–1994), President of Brooklyn College
Israel Hicks (1943–2010), stage director who presented August Wilson's entire 10-play Pittsburgh Cycle^[25]
Henry Hornbostel (Professor), helped found the Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture; designed the original buildings on campus
Watts Humphrey (Professor), former Vice President of IBM, Fellow of Software Engineering Institute
Jeffrey Hunker (Professor), Senior Director for Critical Infrastructure for the United States National Security Council (1999–2001), Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Commerce (1996–1998), senior Department of Commerce official for environmental policy (1996–1998), former Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of Commerce (1993–1996), former Dean of the Heinz College
Robert Kaplan (Professor), co-creator of the Balanced Scorecard
Michael Keaton (Adjunct Professor), actor known for films such as Beetlejuice, Batman, and Batman Returns
Roberta Klatzky (Professor), cognitive scientist and leading researcher in haptics
Mordecai Lawner, actor and former faculty member for the theater program^[26]
Jennifer Lerner, decision scientist and psychologist in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Golan Levin, new media artist and current faculty member of the School of Art
Margot Livesey, author of six novels, short stories, and essays on fiction
George Loewenstein (Professor), pioneer in the field of Behavioural Economics and faculty in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Alex John London^[27] (Clara L. West Professor of Ethics and Philosophy), Director of the Center for Ethics and Policy^[28] at Carnegie Mellon University, Elected Fellow of the Hastings Center; prominent bioethicist
Brian MacWhinney (Professor), leading language acquisition researcher and creator of CHILDES database
Allan Meltzer (Professor), chairperson of a special U.S. congressional commission that studied how the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund operated; it made its recommendations for changes in March 2000 in its report to the U.S. Congress
Richard Rashid (Professor, 1979–1991), computer scientist, Microsoft Research SVP
Robert V. Rice (Professor), biochemist and leading researcher in smooth muscle myosin
Scott Sandage (Professor), noted cultural historian in the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Robert Schmertz (Professor), folk artist and professor of architecture
Walter Dill Scott (Professor, 1916–1918), pioneer in applied psychology, President of the American Psychological Association, President of Northwestern University
Mel Shapiro (Head of Drama Department), Tony Award-winning writer and director
Robert S. Siegler (Professor), Teresa Heinz Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University and recipient of the American Psychological Association's 2005 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award
Daniel Sleator (Professor), Paris Kanellakis Award-winning professor of computer science known for inventing data structures such as the splay tree
Alfred Spector (Professor), Vice President of Research and Special Initiatives at Google
Latanya Sweeney (Professor), former Chief Technologist of the Federal Trade Commission
Joe William Trotter Jr. (Professor), eminent scholar of African American labor and urban life in the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Honus Wagner, baseball and basketball coach, one of the first five members of the Baseball Hall of Fame
Arnold R. Weber (Professor and Provost), professor in economics and public policy at Carnegie Mellon and President of the University of Colorado and Northwestern University
Jerome Wolken (1917–1999), biophysicist and head of biology department^[29]
Clarence Zener (Professor, 1968–1993), theoretical physicist, namesake of the Zener diode, Zener voltage, and Zener pinning

Presidents of Carnegie Mellon University

Arthur Hamerschlag, 1903–1922
Thomas Baker, 1922–1935
Robert Doherty, 1936–1950
John Warner, 1950–1965
Guyford Stever, 1965–1972
Richard Cyert, 1972–1990
Robert Mehrabian, 1990–1997
Jared Cohon, 1997–2013
Subra Suresh, 2013–2017
Farnam Jahanian, 2018–present

Founders and major benefactors of Carnegie Mellon University

Andrew Carnegie, industrialist and philanthropist who founded and endowed the university as the Carnegie Technical Schools in 1900
William S. Dietrich II, steel industrialist whose gift prompted the renaming of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences to the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Teresa Heinz, and the Heinz family, heirs to the H.J. Heinz Company fortune; political family who renamed the School of Urban and Public Affairs to the Heinz College after United States Senator H. John Heinz III
David Tepper, billionaire Wall Street hedge fund manager whose gift renamed the Graduate School of Industrial Administration to the Tepper School of Business

The Mellon Family of Pittsburgh:

Andrew W. Mellon, United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1921 to 1932; co-founded the Mellon Institute of Research in 1913
Paul Mellon, philanthropist, horse breeder, facilitator of the merger between the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the Mellon Institute to form Carnegie Mellon University
Richard B. Mellon, president of Mellon Bank; co-founded the Mellon Institute of Research in 1913
Richard King Mellon, president and chairman of Mellon Bank, known for his urban renewal program in Pittsburgh and the founder of the School of Urban and Public Affairs
William Larimer Mellon, Sr., founder of Gulf Oil and the Graduate School of Industrial Administration

Fictional alumni

Eleanor Bartlet, first daughter of the United States in The West Wing
Will Bailey, Communications Director in The West Wing
Doctor Colette Green, research associate from the PC game Half-Life: Decay
Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, scientist from The Muppet Show who graduated from "Carnegie-Melonhead University"
Brian Kinney and Ben Bruckner, main characters in Queer as Folk
Randall and Beth Pearson, characters on This is Us, met while attending the school
Sebastian Shaw, the Black King of the Hellfire Club of the Marvel Universe (Earth-616)
Bethany Sloane, main character of the film Dogma
Jaime Sommers, title character of The Bionic Woman

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