Here follows a list of notable alumni of Purdue University.

Notable alumni

Academia

College chancellors, presidents and vice-presidents

  • Robert Altenkirch – former president of the New Jersey Institute of Technology and University of Alabama in Huntsville
  • Rebecca Ehretsman – eighteenth president of Wartburg College
  • Hank Foley – current president of the New York Institute of Technology
  • Tony Frank – president, Colorado State University
  • Domenico Grasso – chancellor, University of Michigan-Dearborn
  • Richard J. Grosh – former president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Arthur G. Hansen – former president of the Georgia Institute of Technology and Purdue University
  • Edwin D. Harrison – former president of the Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Renu Khator – chancellor of the University of Houston System and president of the University of Houston
  • Dorothy Leland – president, Georgia College & State University
  • Duane Litfin – president, Wheaton College
  • Sally Mason – president of the University of Iowa, former provost of Purdue University
  • Hanna Nasser – former president of Birzeit University, political figure
  • Sunder Ramaswamy – president of the Monterey Institute of International Studies
  • Kenneth "Buzz" Shaw – chancellor of Syracuse University
  • Gary Allan Sojka – president of Bucknell University
  • Hugo F. Sonnenschein – economist and educational administrator, president of the University of Chicago
  • James J. Stukel – former president of the University of Illinois
  • Blake Ragsdale Van Leer – former president of the Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Larry N. Vanderhoef – chancellor of the University of California, Davis
  • Brent W. Webb – academic vice president of Brigham Young University
  • John T. Wolfe Jr. – former president of Savannah State University

Deans

  • Srinivas Aravamudan – dean of the Humanities, Duke University
  • Arthur J. Bond – dean of the School of Engineering and Technology at Alabama A&M University and civil rights activist
  • Paul Weber – dean of Faculties and interim president of the Georgia Institute of Technology

Professors

  • Nolan B. Aughenbaugh – Antarctic explorer and professor emeritus of Geological Engineering at the University of Mississippi
  • Ibrahim (Abe) Baggili – CSE Division chair and Roger Richardson professor of computer science and cybersecurity, Louisiana State University
  • James R. Barker – professor of Organizational Theory and Strategy, Waikato University
  • Michael Baye – Bert Elwert Professor of Business Economics, Indiana University
  • L. W. Beineke – professor of graph theory at Purdue University Fort Wayne
  • Ronald A. Bosco – expert on Ralph Waldo Emerson, Puritan homiletics and poetics
  • Ronald Breaker – Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at Yale University
  • Monty Buell – chair of the Department of History and Philosophy at Walla Walla University
  • George Casella – statistician at Rutgers University, Cornell University, and the University of Florida
  • James Samuel Coleman – author of the Coleman Report on the sociology of education
  • Carl W. Condit – architectural historian, Northwestern University
  • Clarence Cory – first professor in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at UC Berkeley; received BME degree from Purdue University in 1889 at age 16 and a Doctor of Engineering degree from Purdue University in 1914
  • Bruce E. Dale – professor of Chemical Engineering, Michigan State University
  • Kenneth E. deGraffenreid – professor of Intelligence Studies, Institute of World Politics
  • Victor Denenberg – developmental psychobiologist
  • Ralph Faudree – mathematician, combinatorialist, provost at University of Memphis
  • James Fieser – professor of philosophy at the University of Tennessee at Martin
  • Allan Friedman – Guy L. Odom Professor of Neurological Surgery at Duke University Medical Center
  • Michael T. Goodrich – mathematician, computer scientist, department chair at the University of California, Irvine
  • Kevin Granata – adjunct professor, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech; victim of the Virginia Tech massacre
  • Ann E. Hagerman – professor of biochemistry at University of Miami
  • William D. Haseman – computer science professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and Carnegie Mellon University
  • Larry Howell – professor of mechanical engineering, Brigham Young University
  • Robert Owen Hutchins – professor organic chemistry at Drexel University
  • Roger G. Ibbotson – professor of finance, Yale School of Management
  • Richard Ian Kimball – professor of history, Brigham Young University
  • Benn Konsynski – Goizueta Business School, Emory University
  • Lawrence Landweber – John P. Morgridge Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • Arthur H. Lefebvre – professor; head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering 1976–1993; pioneer of gas turbine technology and developer of fuel spray technology; professor at Cranfield University, UK
  • G. V. Loganathan – professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech; victim of the Virginia Tech massacre
  • Fred Mannering – professor, College of Engineering, University of South Florida
  • Donald Matthews – political scientist, University of Washington
  • James McDonald – economist at Brigham Young University
  • Deborah E. McDowell – English professor and author
  • Scott A. McLuckey – John A. Leighty Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University
  • Dorothy Runk Mennen – theatre professor, author, founding president of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association
  • Gary Milhollin – law professor, anti–nuclear weapons activist
  • William F. Miller – vice president and provost, Stanford University
  • William E. Moore – chemistry professor and vice chancellor for academic affairs at Southern University; first Black PhD in chemistry to graduate from Purdue
  • Toby Moskowitz – financial economist, University of Chicago
  • David Mount – computer scientist, University of Maryland
  • J. Keith Murnighan – Harold H. Hines Jr. Distinguished Professor of Risk Management at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  • Donna J. Nelson – chemistry professor; Nelson Diversity Surveys author, scientific workforce scholar (postdoctorate 1980–1983)
  • Robert W. Newcomb – professor of electrical engineering at the University of Maryland
  • Dallin D. Oaks – linguistics professor at Brigham Young University
  • Peter N. Peregrine – anthropologist and archaeologist
  • Larry L. Peterson – computer scientist at Princeton University
  • Ronald L. Phillips – biologist, University of Minnesota
  • T. Pradeep – professor of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
  • Steven Pray – Bernhardt Professor of Nonprescription Products and Devices at Southwestern Oklahoma State University
  • John C. Reynolds – computer scientist
  • Sherwin Rosen – labor economist
  • Lyle F. Schoenfeldt – business management professor, known for a standard textbook on human resources
  • Granville Sewell – mathematician and intelligent design advocate
  • Thomas B. Sheridan – professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, pioneer of robotics and remote control technology
  • Carolyn Sherif – social psychologist
  • Stephen C. Smith PhD – sociology professor and researcher; family therapist
  • Murray Sperber – professor emeritus of English and American Studies at Indiana University, author of several books on college sports
  • John W. Sutherland – professor and Fehsenfeld Family Head of Environmental and Ecological Engineering (EEE), Purdue University
  • Yizhi Jane Tao – Rice University biochemist who mapped the structure of the influenza A virus nucleoprotein to an atomic level
  • James Tour – synthetic organic chemist and nanotechnologist at Rice University
  • Ralph von Frese – geophysicist who identified the Wilkes Land mass concentration in Antarctica
  • Gregory Weeks – international relations scholar at Webster University Vienna
  • Donald Weeks – Maxcy Professor Emeritus of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln
  • Jill Zimmerman – computer scientist and the James M. Beall Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Goucher College

Science and technology

Astronauts and aviators

  • Neil Armstrong – Gemini 8, Apollo 11; first man to walk on the Moon
  • John Blaha – STS-29, STS-33, STS-43, STS-58, STS-79, STS-81
  • Roy D. Bridges – STS-51-F
  • Mark N. Brown – STS-28, STS-48
  • John H. Casper – STS-36, STS-54, STS-62, STS-77
  • Eugene Cernan – Gemini 9A, Apollo 10, Apollo 17; most recent man to walk on the Moon
  • Roger Chaffee – killed in Apollo 1 accident
  • Richard O. Covey – STS-51-I, STS-26, STS-38, STS-61
  • Andrew J. Feustel – STS-125, STS-134
  • Guy S. Gardner – STS-27, STS-35
  • Henry C. Gordon – Air Force colonel selected for Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar program
  • Virgil I. Grissom – second American in space, Gemini 3, killed in Apollo 1 accident
  • Guy Gruters – fighter pilot and prisoner of war in the Vietnam War
  • Gregory J. Harbaugh – STS-39, STS-54, STS-71, STS-82
  • Iven Carl Kincheloe Jr. – flying ace of the Korean War, first pilot to fly above 100,000 feet (30,480 m)
  • Michael J. McCulley – STS-34
  • Loral O'Hara – Soyuz MS-24
  • Gary E. Payton – STS-51-C
  • Mark L. Polansky – STS-98, STS-116, STS-127
  • Jerry L. Ross – STS-61-B, STS-27, STS-37, STS-55, STS-74, STS-88, STS-110; holds the US record for spaceflights
  • Karl Schoen – one of the first U.S. flying aces of World War I
  • Loren J. Shriver – STS-51-C, STS-31, STS-46
  • Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger – pilot of US Airways flight 1549 which successfully ditched in the Hudson River
  • Scott D. Tingle – Soyuz MS-07
  • Janice E. Voss – STS-57, STS-63, STS-83, STS-94, STS-99
  • Charles D. Walker – STS-41-D, STS-51-D, STS-61-B
  • Mary E. Weber – STS-70, STS-101
  • George Welch – World War II fighter pilot and test pilot; best known for shooting down four Japanese planes during the attack on Pearl Harbor
  • Donald E. Williams – STS-51-D, STS-34
  • David A. Wolf – STS-58, STS-86, Mir 24, STS-89, STS-112, STS-127

Engineers

  • Joy Lim Arthur – first female engineer at White Sands Missile Range
  • Mohamed Atalla – Distinguished Engineering Alumnus, inventor of MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor), pioneer in silicon semiconductors and security systems, founder of Atalla Corporation
  • Stephen Bechtel Jr. – chairman emeritus of Bechtel Group
  • Don R. Berlin – chief designer of several military aircraft of World War II
  • Afua Bruce – executive director of the National Science and Technology Council in the Office of Science Technology and Policy at the White House, chief program officer at DataKind
  • Orestes H. Caldwell – one of the first five members of the Federal Radio Commission
  • Abraham Burton Cohen – civil engineer notable for designing record-breaking concrete bridges such as the Tunkhannock Viaduct
  • John P. Costas – electrical engineer, inventor of the Costas loop and the Costas array
  • Wayne Hale – NASA engineer
  • Mamoon Hamid – managing member and general partner at Kleiner Perkins
  • Richard E. Hayden – acoustics engineer, won the Wright Brothers Medal in 1973 for a research paper on noise reduction for STOL aircraft
  • John Joseph Martin – mechanical engineer, author of Atmospheric Entry
  • John H. McMasters – aeronautical engineer
  • Elwood Mead – commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation for construction of Grand Coulee, Hoover and Owyhee dams; namesake of Lake Mead
  • Benjamin Franklin Miessner – engineer and inventor (did not graduate)
  • Daniel Raymer – aerospace engineer
  • Henry Sampson – inventor and nuclear engineer
  • Malcolm Slaney – electrical engineer and research scientist at Google
  • Games Slayter – chemical engineer, inventor of fiberglass
  • Bill Young – chemical engineer and pharmaceutical industry executive

Researchers

  • Robert C. Baker – inventor of the chicken nugget
  • Fernley H. Banbury – inventor of the Banbury mixer in 1916
  • Farhan Baqai – camera engineer at Apple Inc. and IEEE fellow
  • Myron L. Bender – biochemist, recipient of the Midwest Award of the American Chemical Society
  • Seymour Benzer – physicist and biologist, winner of the Wolf Prize in Medicine in 1991
  • Henry Luke Bolley – botanist, plant pathologist, and football coach
  • Richard Bootzin – clinical and research psychologist
  • Robert D. Cess – atmospheric scientist
  • Rita R. Colwell – environmental microbiologist and scientific administrator; director of National Science Foundation
  • Ward Cunningham – inventor of the wiki concept
  • Harry Daghlian – physics, the first peacetime fatality of nuclear fission
  • Joel Emer – microprocessor architect and Intel Fellow
  • Dan Farmer – computer security researcher
  • Martin Feinberg – mathematician and chemical engineer
  • Elizabeth J. Feinler – information scientist and Internet pioneer
  • Gloria Niemeyer Francke – pharmacist and science writer
  • William H. Gerstenmaier – associate administrator at NASA
  • Norman E. Gibbs – software engineering researcher
  • Millicent Goldschmidt – microbiologist and 2006 "Outstanding Alumni", Purdue Department of Biological Sciences
  • Jonathan Grudin – researcher of human–computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work
  • Kun-Liang Guan – biochemist
  • Clarence Hansell – research engineer who pioneered investigation into the biological effects of ionized air
  • Obed Crosby Haycock – researcher of the upper atmosphere
  • Jesse E. Hobson – director of SRI International
  • Deng Jiaxian – physicist, "father of the Chinese A-bomb"
  • Bradford Keeney – psychotherapist, ethnographer, cybernetician
  • Gerhard Klimeck – nanotechnologist
  • Harry Kloor – physicist, chemist, screenwriter
  • Bertram Kostant – mathematician
  • Markus Kuhn – computer scientist
  • Matthew Luckiesh – "father of the science of seeing"
  • Robert W. Lucky – electrical engineer, inventor, and research manager
  • Andrew Majda – ISI highly cited researcher in mathematics
  • Herbert Newby McCoy – chemist
  • Elwood Mead – former head, Bureau of Reclamation; oversaw the construction of Hoover Dam
  • Marilyn T. Miller – pediatric ophthalmologist
  • Ben Roy Mottelson – Nobel laureate in Physics in 1975
  • Ian Murdock – founder of the Debian Project
  • David E. Nichols – pharmacologist, world-renowned expert on psychedelics, founder of the Heffter Institute
  • Alex Golden Oblad – chemist and chemical engineer who worked on catalysis
  • Edward Mills Purcell – Nobel laureate in Physics in 1952
  • C. N. R. Rao – solid-state and materials chemist
  • Malcolm Ross – director of the US Navy manned balloon program Project Strato-Lab; set the current altitude record for manned balloon flight with Victor Prather in 1961
  • Stacy Sims – exercise physiologist with a focus on women's health and fitness
  • Joel Spira – inventor of the electronic solid-state dimmer
  • Yitang Zhang – mathematician known for his work with twin primes
  • Ming-Ming Zhou – structural and chemical biologist

Arts and entertainment

  • Robert K. Abbett – book-cover illustrator and outdoor painter
  • George Ade – humorist
  • Ted Allen – host of Chopped and Queer Eye
  • Max Armstrong – agriculture broadcaster in Chicago
  • Donald Bain – author and ghostwriter (Murder, She Wrote, Coffee, Tea or Me)
  • John Bevere – author and televangelist
  • Karen Black – actress
  • Monte Blue – actor of the silent film era, later a character actor
  • Millie Bobby Brown – actress, known for her role in the television series Stranger Things and Enola Holmes films
  • Jack Cashill – author, journalist, blogger, contributor to WorldNetDaily
  • Kenneth Choi – actor, known for his role as Jim Morita in Captain America: The First Avenger, also Red Dawn and sitcoms
  • Kate Collins – author of Flower Shop Mysteries
  • Trevor Collins – manager at Achievement Hunter
  • Thomas James De la Hunt – Indiana historian and columnist
  • Eric Dill – musician, member of the band The Click Five
  • Simone Elkeles – young-adult romance writer
  • Dick Florea – television personality in Fort Wayne, Indiana
  • William R. Forstchen – novelist
  • Jim Gaffigan – comedian and actor
  • JoAnn Giordano – textile artist
  • Mass Giorgini – punk rock producer of bands such as Rise Against and Anti-Flag and bassist for Screeching Weasel and Squirtgun
  • Gerald Jay Goldberg – novelist
  • Harold Gray – creator of Little Orphan Annie comic strip
  • Jeff Grubb – author and game designer
  • Gabriel Gudding – essayist and poet
  • Moira Gunn – host of National Public Radio programs Tech Nation and BioTech Nation
  • John Guzlowski – author
  • Stephen McKinley Henderson – actor
  • Jack Horkheimer – host of astronomy television program Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer
  • Benjamin Bean Horner – architect and photographer
  • Steve Horton – New York Times bestselling graphic novelist
  • Rick Karr – journalist
  • Callie Khouri – screenwriter, director, and film producer
  • Jane King – business journalist
  • Michael King – political commentator, columnist, television producer
  • Harry Kloor – screenwriter, physicist, chemist
  • Mercedes Lackey – fantasy novelist
  • Wayne Lamb – Broadway and television dancer and professor emeritus of Theatre
  • Delita Martin – printmaker and mixed media artist
  • Ian McCollum – YouTuber, firearm historian; owner and host of the website and YouTube channel Forgotten Weapons
  • John T. McCutcheon – cartoonist, recipient of a Pulitzer Prize in 1931
  • Hoshang Merchant – poet
  • Felicia Middlebrooks – radio news broadcaster
  • Gavin Mikhail – pianist, singer-songwriter
  • Karen Marie Moning – novelist
  • Tom Moore – theater director
  • Carrie Newcomer – singer and songwriter
  • Clifton Nicholson – sculptor and jewelry designer
  • Mark O'Hare – writer and cartoonist who has worked on various Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network programs such as Rocko's Modern Life
  • Bree Olsen – adult film actress
  • Chubby Parker – folk musician
  • George Peppard (attended) – actor
  • Bob Peterson – animator, screenwriter, director and voice actor at Pixar
  • Julian Phillips – Emmy Award winner, co-host of weekend Fox & Friends, Fox TV
  • Carol Plum-Ucci – young-adult novelist and essayist
  • Pat Proctor – war game developer, U.S. Army lieutenant colonel
  • Bruce Rogers – typographer, inventor of the Centaur typeface
  • Dulquer Salmaan – Indian actor and film producer
  • Peter Schneider – film executive, the Walt Disney Company
  • Dave Schulthise – punk rock bass guitarist for the Dead Milkmen
  • Gary Mark Smith – artist, author, master global street photographer
  • Richard Sprague – author and researcher of the John F. Kennedy assassination
  • Martha Hopkins Struever – dealer and scholar of American Indian art
  • Elizabeth Stuckey-French – short story writer and novelist
  • Booth Tarkington – novelist
  • Stephanie S. Tolan – children's book author
  • Martin Walls – poet
  • Don West – pitchman, television personality, wrestling broadcaster
  • Perry Wilson – movie critic, thecinemapsycho.com
  • Lebbeus Woods – artist and architect

Business and industry

  • Samuel R. Allen (BS 1977) – CEO of John Deere
  • Chuck Armstrong – president of the Seattle Mariners
  • Joyce Beber – advertising executive, promoter of hotelier Leona Helmsley
  • Stephen Bechtel Jr. – chairman emeritus and director of Bechtel Group, Inc.
  • Paul Bevilaqua – chief engineer, Advanced Development Projects, Lockheed Martin Skunk Works
  • Gordon Binder – former CEO of Amgen (1988–2000)
  • Michael Birck – chairman and founder of Tellabs, Inc.
  • Charles F. Bowman – co-founder of Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet Popping Corn
  • Beth Brooke – global vice chair of Public Policy for Ernst & Young
  • Susan Bulkeley Butler – first female partner at Accenture; author of Become the CEO of You, Inc.
  • Herman Cain (MS '71) – businessman, politician, and columnist; former chairman and CEO of Godfather's Pizza
  • James Cash Jr. – member of the boards of directors at General Electric, Microsoft, and Walmart
  • JoMei Chang – co-founder of Tibco Software
  • Allen Chao – co-founder of Watson Pharmaceuticals
  • Richard E. Dauch – co-founder of American Axle & Manufacturing
  • Rodger Dean Duncan – author and business consultant
  • Michael L. Eskew – chairman and CEO, UPS
  • Robert M. Feustel – leader of various railroad and energy companies; later served on Purdue University's Board of Trustees.
  • Gen Fukunaga – president of FUNimation
  • Greg Hayes (1982) – CEO and chair of RTX Corporation; Business Roundtable member
  • Gerald D. Hines (BSME 1948) – real estate developer and principal of Hines
  • John R. Horne (BS 1960) – former CEO of Navistar
  • Brian Lamb – co-founder, chairman, and CEO of C-SPAN
  • Howard Lance – CEO of Maxar Technologies
  • Marshall Larsen – former chairman, president, and CEO of Goodrich Corporation
  • Cook Lougheed – entrepreneur and philanthropist
  • Bala S. Manian – medical technology entrepreneur
  • Preston McAfee – economist at Google
  • Steven McGeady – former Intel executive
  • Wade Miquelon – executive vice president and chief financial officer for Walgreens
  • Herman H. Pevler – former president of the Norfolk and Western Railway and of the Wabash Railroad
  • Patricia Kessler Poppe – president & CEO, CMS and Consumers Energy, CEO of Pacific Gas & Electric Company
  • Orville Redenbacher – business leader and agriculturalist; co-founder of Orville Redenbacher's popcorn
  • Donald Rice – CEO of Agensys and board member of Wells Fargo Bank
  • Lee Schmidt – golf course architect, co-founder of Lee-Schmidt Design, Inc.
  • Edmund Schweitzer – president of Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories
  • Ruth Siems – home economist with General Foods, inventor of Stovetop Stuffing
  • Venu Srinivasan – chairman of TVS Motor
  • Don Thompson – CEO of McDonald's
  • James A. Thomson – president and CEO, Rand Corporation
  • Paul C. Varga – former chief executive officer and chairman of Brown–Forman
  • Gregory Wasson – president and chief operating officer, Walgreens corporation
  • Sanjiva Weerawarana – co-founder, chairman and CEO of WSO2

Government and law

National office

  • Akinwumi Adesina – president of the African Development Bank
  • Rashid al-Rifai – ambassador and government minister in Iraq
  • Joseph Kingsley Baffour-Senkyire – Ghanaian academic, politician and diplomat; member of parliament in the first republic of Ghana and formerly Ghana's ambassador to the United States
  • Jim Baird – U.S. representative from Indiana's 4th district (R)
  • Donald W. Banner – former U.S. commissioner of Patents and Trademarks
  • Joe L. Barton – U.S. representative from 6th District of Texas (R)
  • Birch Bayh – former United States senator from Indiana (D)
  • Earl L. Butz – former secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture (R)
  • Chang Chia-juch – former minister of economic affairs of Taiwan
  • Bob Charles – former member of the Australian House of Representatives
  • Mark Chen – former secretary-general and former minister of foreign affairs of Taiwan
  • Curt Clawson – U.S. representative from Florida's 19th congressional district (R)
  • Chuck Conner – acting secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture
  • Margaret E. Curran – United States attorney for Rhode Island
  • Harry Allison Estep – Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania (R)
  • Fahmi Fadzil – member of Malaysian House of Representatives and minister of Communications and Digital
  • Mauricio Fernández Garza – former mayor of San Pedro Garza García (1989–1991) and former Mexican senator from Nuevo León (1994–2000)
  • Gary A. Grappo – U.S. ambassador to Oman
  • John H. Hager – lieutenant governor of Virginia, U.S. assistant secretary of Education (R)
  • Keith Hall – former commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
  • Clifford M. Hardin – former secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture (R)
  • Ralph Harvey – U.S. representative from Indiana (R)
  • Adnan Kahveci – Turkish minister of state and minister of finance, founding member of the Motherland Party
  • Keith J. Krach – former U.S. under secretary of state; chairman/CEO of DocuSign and Ariba; chairman of Purdue Board of Trustees
  • Suwat Liptapanlop – government minister in Thailand
  • David McKinley – U.S. representative for West Virginia (R)
  • Ted McKinney – U.S. under secretary, Trade & Foreign Agricultural Affairs, USDA; CEO of National Association of State Departments of Agriculture-NASDA
  • Anthony W. Miller – United States deputy secretary of education
  • Marwan Muasher – deputy prime minister, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
  • Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu – member of Parliament in India
  • Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa<!--Commonly referred to by full name, so goes under P. --> – minister of finance of Indonesia
  • Essam Sharaf – former prime minister of Egypt
  • Jefferson Shreve – U.S. representative from Indiana's 6th congressional district
  • Ann Stock – U.S. assistant secretary of state for educational and cultural affairs
  • Kevin Sullivan – White House communications director
  • Claude R. Wickard – former U.S. secretary of agriculture
  • Richard Llewellyn Williams – first U.S. ambassador to Mongolia

Military

  • Terry M. Cross – former vice commandant of the United States Coast Guard
  • Fahmi Fadzil – member of Parliaments in Malaysia
  • Nelson F. Gibbs – U.S. assistant secretary of the Air Force
  • Sun Liren – Chinese Nationalist general who excelled in the Burma Campaign during World War II
  • Carter B. Magruder – four-star general, U.S. Army
  • Glen W. Martin – inspector general of the U.S. Air Force
  • Frank C. McConnell – US Army brigadier general
  • B. J. Penn – former assistant secretary of the U.S. Navy
  • Carol M. Pottenger – vice admiral, U.S. Navy
  • Jerald D. Slack – U.S. Air National Guard major general, adjutant general of Wisconsin
  • David D. Thompson – United States Space Force general who has served as the first vice chief of space operations
  • Derek Tournear – director of the Space Development Agency
  • Carol I. Turner – former chief of the United States Navy Dental Corps
  • James C. Van Sice – former superintendent of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy
  • Russell R. Waesche – commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II

Sub-national office

  • Ron Alting – Indiana state senator (R)
  • Brian Bosma – speaker of the Indiana General Assembly
  • Robert J. Burkhardt – former secretary of state of New Jersey (D)
  • Suzanne Crouch – 52nd lieutenant governor of Indiana (R)
  • Sue Ellspermann – lieutenant governor of Indiana (R)
  • Kirk Fordice – former governor of Mississippi (R)
  • Kent Gaffney – former member of the Illinois House of Representatives (R)
  • Chuck Goodrich – member of the Indiana House of Representatives
  • Elaine Hopson (BA 1959) – Oregon state representative (D)
  • Matt Hostettler – member of the Indiana House of Representatives (R)
  • Delores G. Kelley – Maryland state senator (D)
  • Sheila Klinker – member of the Indiana House of Representatives (D)
  • J. Tom Lendrum – member of the Ohio House of Representatives (R)
  • Harry G. Leslie – former governor of Indiana (R)
  • Robert Presley O'Bannon – member of the Indiana Senate (D)
  • Alan Olsen – Oregon state senator (R)
  • Paul Parks – Massachusetts secretary of education (D)
  • Zach Payne – member of the Indiana House of Representatives
  • Scott Reske – member of the Indiana House of Representatives (D)
  • William Ridenour – member of the West Virginia House of Delegates (R)
  • Larry Ross – member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives (R)
  • Darlene Senger – member of the Illinois House of Representatives (R)
  • Wayne Townsend – member of both houses of the Indiana legislature and the Democratic candidate for governor in 1984 (D)
  • Frank Watson – member of the Illinois Senate (R)

Local office

  • Isaac Colton Ash – Los Angeles, California, City Council member
  • Jane Baker – first female mayor of San Mateo, California
  • John J. Barton – former mayor of Indianapolis, Indiana (D)
  • Marty Blum – former mayor of Santa Barbara, California
  • Elgin English Crull – longest serving city manager of Dallas, Texas to date (1952–1966); was city manager when John F. Kennedy was assassinated
  • A.E. Henning – Los Angeles, California, City Council member, 1929–1933
  • Robert J. LaFortune – former mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma
  • Bart Peterson – former mayor of Indianapolis, Indiana (D)
  • David H. Rodgers – former mayor of Spokane, Washington (R)
  • Nels Ackerson – lawyer, 2008 candidate for U.S. Congress from Indiana (D)
  • Allen Alley – Oregon Republican Party chairman
  • Roberto Feliberti Cintrón – associate justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
  • Uthum Herat – deputy governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and alternate executive director of the International Monetary Fund
  • Jeffrey M. Lacker – president of Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
  • Charles Mok – Hong Kong Legislative Council member
  • Marilyn Quayle – lawyer, novelist, and political figure, wife of former U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle
  • Kyle Roche, cryptocurrency lawyer

Sports

Baseball

  • Bernie Allen – 12-year career infielder with the Minnesota Twins, Washington Senators, New York Yankees and Montreal Expos; also played for the Boilermakers
  • Jermaine Allensworth – former Major League Baseball player
  • Roger Bossard – head groundskeeper for the Chicago White Sox, sports turf consultant for MLB, NFL, Major League Soccer
  • Jay Buente – relief pitcher for the Florida Marlins
  • Michael Duursma – shortstop for the Netherlands national baseball team
  • Bob Friend – former MLB pitcher; 4-time All-Star, World Series Champion
  • Josh Lindblom – relief pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies
  • Joe McCabe – former Major League baseball player
  • Cameron Perkins – infielder for the Philadelphia Phillies
  • Kevin Plawecki – catcher for the Boston Red Sox
  • Moose Skowron – former Major League Baseball player; 6-time All-Star, 5-time World Series Champion
  • Nick Wittgren – relief pitcher for the Miami Marlins

Basketball

  • Brian Cardinal – NBA Champion Dallas Mavericks, former professional NBA basketball player 2000–2012
  • Joe Barry Carroll – NCAA Final Four 1980, former NBA basketball player, 1st pick overall in NBA draft (1980)
  • Terry Dischinger – former NBA basketball player (1962–1973); NBA Rookie of the Year; Olympic gold in basketball (1960) two-time Golden Gloves Champion, UFC Hall of Fame member
  • David Boudia – Olympic diver (2008, gold 2012, silver 2016)
  • Ray Ewry – ten-time Olympic champion in track and field (gold, 1900, 1904, 1906, 1908)
  • Jon Fitch – Boilermaker team captain wrestler; professional mixed martial artist, formerly with the Ultimate Fighting Championship
  • Cliff Furnas – Olympic runner (1920) retired
  • Lacey Hearn – Olympic athlete (1904)
  • Steele Johnson – Olympic diver (silver 2016)
  • Pariya Junhasavasdikul – Thai professional golfer who plays on the Asian Tour
  • Shiv Kapur – professional golfer
  • Gerald Koh – Olympic swimmer (2000)
  • Nate Moore – Boilermaker team captain wrestler; current MMA competitor, formerly fighting for Strikeforce
  • Nedzad Mulabegovic – shot put for Croatia (2012)
  • Coralie O'Connor – swimming (1952)
  • Chris Schenkel – sportscaster
  • Lauren Sesselmann – women's soccer for Canada (2012)
  • Frank Verner – Olympic athlete (1904)
  • Eric Justin Toth – fugitive on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list
  • Richard Leroy Walters – homeless philanthropist

See also

  • List of Purdue Boilermakers head football coaches

References