This is a list of notable people associated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States.
Notable students and alumni
Nobel laureates
Turing Award recipients
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
- Stefan Savage (B.S. 1991), professor at UC San Diego, 2017
- Dawn Song (M.S. 1999), Carnegie Mellon professor of computer science (2002–2007), current professor at UC Berkeley, 2010
- Luis von Ahn (Ph.D. 2005), Carnegie Mellon professor of computer science, 2006
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
- 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)
- 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
- Sulajja Firodia Motwani, Indian woman entrepreneur
- Andrew Ng (B.S. 1997), co-founder of education technology company Coursera, director of Stanford University's Artificial Intelligence Lab
- Ted Nierenberg (B.S. 1944), founder of Dansk International Designs
- Brian Olsavsky (M.B.A), CFO of Amazon
- Ratul Puri, chairman of Hindustan Powerprojects Private Limited
- John Swearingen, petroleum industry executive
- 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
- Romesh Wadhwani (M.S., Ph.D.), billionaire private equity investor; founder and chairman of Symphony Technology Group
- Sunil Wadhwani, co-founder of Mastech Digital and IGATE
- Charles Erwin Wilson (1909), CEO of General Motors (1946–1953), president of General Motors (1941–1953) (See also: Government and politics section)
Science and technology
Performing arts, film, television and video games
Visual arts
Architecture and design
- Nader Ardalan, architect of the Iran Center for Management Studies
- 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
Government and politics
Academia
Educators
Members of National Academy of Sciences
Members of National Academy of Engineering
Other prominent faculty
Literature
Sports
NFL
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
- Lorrie Cranor (professor), expert in information privacy and Chief Technologist of the Federal Trade Commission
- Edward Creutz (professor), physics, the Manhattan Project
- Anthony Daniels (adjunct professor), actor, portrayed 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), pioneer in software architecture and self-adaptive software systems
- Francesca Gino, Italian-American behavioral scientist
- 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 of 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Britt Ransom (associate professor), artist and sculptor
- 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
- Joel A. Tarr (professor), noted environmental historian in the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Joe William Trotter Jr. (professor), eminent scholar of African American labor and urban life in the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and 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
- Clarence Zener (professor, 1968–1993), theoretical physicist, namesake of the Zener diode, Zener voltage, and Zener pinning
Presidents of Carnegie Mellon University
The following persons have served as president of Carnegie Mellon University:
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|Arthur Hamerschlag
|1903
|1922
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|Thomas Baker
|1922
|1935
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|Robert Doherty
|1936
|1950
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|John Warner
|1950
|January 31, 1965
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|Guyford Stever
|February 1, 1965
|January 31, 1972
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|Edward R. Schatz
|February 1, 1972
|June 30, 1972
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|Richard Cyert
|July 1, 1972
|June 30, 1990
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|7
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|Robert Mehrabian
|July 1, 1990
|June 30, 1997
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|Jared Cohon
|July 1, 1997
|June 30, 2013
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|Subra Suresh
|July 1, 2013
|June 30, 2017
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|rowspan="2" bgcolor="#ffffff"|Farnam Jahanian
|July 1, 2017
|March 8, 2018
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|March 8, 2018
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Table notes:
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
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The Mellon Family of Pittsburgh:
- Andrew W. Mellon, United States secretary of the treasury 1921–1932; 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
- Ben Bruckner, main character in Queer as Folk
- Delilah Fielding-McGee, Department of Defense employee and the girlfriend/wife of Timothy McGee in NCIS, as revealed in S22 E17
- Theodore Donald Finch, a computer hacker in The Core
- 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, main character in Queer as Folk
- Gabriel LaRoche, NCIS deputy director in NCIS, as revealed in S22 E17
- Johanna 'Jo' Mitchell, main character of film Mean Girls 2
- 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
See also
- :Category:Carnegie Mellon University faculty