This page lists notable students, alumni and faculty members of the University of Washington.
Notable alumni
Nobel laureates
Academic administration and teaching
Aeronautics and astronautics
upright|thumb|right|[[Michael P. Anderson, NASA astronaut and crew member of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster]]
upright|thumb|right|[[Scott Crossfield, test pilot]]
Art and architecture
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Business and law
Literature
Pulitzer Prize winners
National Book Award
- Beverly Cleary (1939) – Children's Books, Fiction, Paperback 1981
- Timothy Egan (1981) – Non-fiction 2006 for The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
General
If no class year is listed, author may not have graduated.
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Government, politics & diplomacy
thumb|upright|Henry M. Jackson, United States senator
Military
Prominent officers
upright|thumb|Monument to the [[Abraham Lincoln Brigade on campus]]
Active duty
- Peter W. Chiarelli (1980) – four-star general; vice chief of staff of the United States Army
- Bruce W. Clingan (1977) – admiral, United States Navy, and commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe commander, U.S. Naval Forces Africa, commander, Allied Joint Force Command, Naples
World War II
- Leslie Groves – major general, United States Army Corps of Engineers, head of the Manhattan Project
- William H. Holloman III (1924–2010) – U.S. Army Air Force officer and combat fighter pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen; U.S. Air Force's first African American helicopter pilot; University of Washington professor of Black Studies
- Tatsuji Suga – lieutenant colonel, Imperial Japanese Army, commander of all prisoner-of-war (POW) and civilian internment camps in Borneo
Other
- Frank E. Garretson – brigadier general, U.S. Marine Corps; Navy Cross recipient
- Tracy L. Garrett – major general, first female inspector general of the United States Marine Corps
- Harley D. Nygren (B.S. 1945, BSME 1947) – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) rear admiral, first director of the NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps
- Kelly E. Taggart – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) rear admiral, second Director of the NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps
- Ronald R. Van Stockum – brigadier general' director, Marine Corps Reserve 1962–1964
Medal of Honor recipients
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Religion
- Sanford Brown – social justice advocate, ordained United Methodist minister, and executive director of the Church Council of Greater Seattle
Science and technology
thumb|[[Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, PhD 1982, science-fiction writer and professor of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology]]
Social science and humanities
Football
upright|thumb|right|[[Warren Moon, Hall of Fame NFL Quarterback]]
Soccer
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Track and field
- Don Kardong (1974) – fourth-place finisher at the 1976 Olympic marathon and former president of the Road Runners Club of America
- Brad Walker (2003) – two-time NCAA pole vault champion; gold medalist at the 2006 World Indoor Championships and 2007 World Championships
Other sports
Music
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Television, film, and other arts
upright|right|thumb|[[Bruce Lee]]
upright|right|thumb|[[Kyle MacLachlan]]
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Crime
- Ted Bundy – serial killer, 1974–1978; admitted to killing 30 people; some sources say he could have killed as many as 100
- Amanda Knox; convicted of the murder of her roommate in Italy, conviction later overturned
Notable faculty
Nobel laureates
Pulitzer Prize winners
- Elizabeth Bishop – Poetry, 1956
- Stephen Dunn – Poetry, 2001
- Richard Eberhart – Poetry, 1966
- Vernon Louis Parrington – History, 1928
- Theodore Roethke – Poetry, 1954
Biology and medicine
Business and law
- William R. Greiner – president of the University at Buffalo, 1991–2004
- Paul Heyne – economist and author of The Economic Way of Thinking
- Terence Mitchell – Gold member of Academy of Management Hall of Fame; one of three Gold members out of over 10,000 members
- Fredrick Muyia Nafukho – Presidential Term Professor at the University of Washington