List of Indiana University (Bloomington) people
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This is a list of notable current and former faculty members, alumni, and non-graduating attendees of Indiana University Bloomington
Indiana University Bloomington
Indiana University Bloomington is a public research university located in Bloomington, Indiana, in the United States. IU Bloomington is the flagship campus of the Indiana University system. Being the flagship campus, IU Bloomington is often referred to simply as IU or Indiana...

 in Bloomington, Indiana
Bloomington, Indiana
Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of Monroe County in the southern region of the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 80,405 at the 2010 census....

.

University presidents

  • Andrew Wylie
    Andrew Wylie (IU)
    Andrew Wylie was an American academic and theologian, who was president of Jefferson College and Washington College before becoming the first president of Indiana University ....

  • Alfred Ryors
    Alfred Ryors
    Alfred Ryors served as the second president of Indiana University and the fifth president of Ohio University.-Education:Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania Alfred Ryors (1812 – 1858) served as the second president of Indiana University and the fifth president of Ohio...

  • William Mitchel Daily
    William Mitchel Daily
    William Mitchel Daily served as the third president of Indiana University.- Professional Background :Professor at St. Charles College, Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives , trustee of Indiana University...

  • John Hiram Lathrop
    John Hiram Lathrop
    John Hiram Lathrop was a well-known American educator during the early 19th century . He served as the first President of both the University of Missouri and the University of Wisconsin as well as president of Indiana University.-Early life:John Lathrop was born in Sherburne, New York in 1799...

  • Cyrus Nutt
    Cyrus Nutt
    - Professional Background :Professor of languages at Asbury University , president of Fort Wayne Female College , president of Whitewater College , professor of mathematics at Asbury University - Biography :...

  • Lemuel Moss
    Lemuel Moss
    - Professional Background :Professor of Biology at Butler University , Professor of Biology and Zoology at Indiana University - Biography :...

  • David Starr Jordan
    David Starr Jordan
    David Starr Jordan, Ph.D., LL.D. was a leading eugenicist, ichthyologist, educator and peace activist. He was president of Indiana University and Stanford University.-Early life and education:...

  • John Merle Coulter
    John Merle Coulter
    John Merle Coulter, Ph. D. was an American botanist and educator, brother of Stanley Coulter, born at Ningpo, China. He received his education at Hanover College in Indiana. He served in the Rocky Mountains for two years as botanist to the United States Geological Survey...

  • Joseph Swain
    Joseph Swain
    Joseph Swain served as the ninth president of Indiana University.- Professional Background :Professor of mathematics and biology at Indiana University , professor of mathematics at Stanford University...

  • William Lowe Bryan
    William Lowe Bryan
    William Lowe Bryan was the 10th president of Indiana University, serving from 1902 to 1937. Having been born near Bloomington, Bryan graduated from IU with degrees in ancient classics and philosophy. His interests shifted toward psychology and Bryan went on to earn his Ph.D. in psychology from...

  • Herman B Wells
    Herman B Wells
    Herman B Wells was the 11th president of Indiana University. He served the university in a variety of capacities, most notably as president and as chancellor. He was pivotal in the development of Indiana University into a world class institution of higher learning.- Early life :Herman B Wells was...

  • Elvis Jacob Stahr, Jr.
  • Joseph Sutton
    Joseph Sutton
    Joseph Lee Sutton served as the thirteenth president of Indiana University. He was married to Jean Harkness and had four children: James Warner, Geoffrey Joseph, David Harkness and Abigail Jean. Grandchildren Brandon Sutton, Molly Sutton, Ryder Sutton, Caitlin Sutton, Rebecca Sutton and Amy...

  • John W. Ryan
    John W. Ryan
    John William Ryan was an American academic administrator who most notably served as the President of Indiana University for sixteen years.-Early life and career:...

  • Thomas Ehrlich
    Thomas Ehrlich
    Thomas Ehrlich was the 15th president of Indiana University, serving from 1987 to 1994. Upon his retirement in 1994, Thomas Ehrlich was named President Emeritus...

  • Myles Brand
    Myles Brand
    Myles Neil Brand, Ph. D. was the 14th president of the University of Oregon, president of the United States' National Collegiate Athletic Association , and 16th president of Indiana University.-Personal life:...

  • Adam Herbert
    Adam Herbert
    Adam William Herbert, Jr. is an American retired academic administrator. He served as President of the University of North Florida from 1989–1998, as Chancellor of the State University System of Florida from 1998–2001, and as President of Indiana University from 2003–2007. He was the first...

  • Michael McRobbie
    Michael McRobbie
    Michael McRobbie is the eighteenth president of Indiana University. He took office on July 1, 2007.Before his appointment as president, McRobbie served as interim provost and vice president of academic affairs of the Bloomington campus. Prior to this, he held the position of vice president for...


Academics

  • R.J.Q. Adams
    R.J.Q. Adams
    Ralph James Quincy Adams, usually known as R.J.Q. Adams , is an American historian, writer, historiographer, and professor. Earning a Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1972, Adams has focused his professional career in the history of Britain...

    , B.S., 1965, professor of British history at Texas A&M University
    Texas A&M University
    Texas A&M University is a coeducational public research university located in College Station, Texas . It is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The sixth-largest university in the United States, A&M's enrollment for Fall 2011 was over 50,000 for the first time in school...

  • Terry H. Anderson
    Terry H. Anderson
    Terry Howard Anderson is a professor of recent United States history at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, and the author of The Pursuit of Fairness: A History of Affirmative Action.-Background:...

    , Ph.D., 1978, professor of 20th century U.S. history at Texas A&M University
  • Richard T. Antoun
    Richard T. Antoun
    Professor Richard "Dick" T. Antoun was an American anthropologist who specialized in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies. He was a Professor Emeritus at Binghamton University....

    , professor emeritus of anthropology at Binghamton University
    Binghamton University
    Binghamton University, also formally called State University of New York at Binghamton, , is a public research university in the State of New York. The University is one of the four university centers in the State University of New York system...

  • Joseph C. Burke
    Joseph C. Burke
    Joseph C. Burke is an American educator who is most notable for having served as President of the State University of New York at Plattsburgh and Acting Chancellor of the State University of New York....

    , former President of State University of New York at Plattsburgh
    State University of New York at Plattsburgh
    The State University of New York at Plattsburgh is a four-year, public liberal arts college in Plattsburgh, New York. The college was founded in 1889 and opened in 1890. The college is currently part of the State University of New York system and is accredited by the Middle States Association of...

    , former Acting Chancellor of the State University of New York
    State University of New York
    The State University of New York, abbreviated SUNY , is a system of public institutions of higher education in New York, United States. It is the largest comprehensive system of universities, colleges, and community colleges in the United States, with a total enrollment of 465,000 students, plus...

  • Keith Fitzgerald
    Keith Fitzgerald
    Keith Fitzgerald is a former Democratic member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 69th District for two terms from 2007 to 2010.-Political career:...

    , political scientist
  • Metin Boşnak
    Metin Bosnak
    Metin Boşnak is a Turkish scholar of American Studies and Comparative Literature, and published poet. His academic publications include contributions to the fields of American culture and literature and Comparative Literature and cinematography.Metin Boşnak has a BA in TEFL from College of...

     (BA in Comparative Literature, 1990), Turkish linguist and academic
  • Elliot Sperling
    Elliot Sperling
    Elliot Sperling is Associate Professor of Central Eurasian Studies and an expert on the history of Tibet and Tibetan-Chinese relations at Indiana University.He earned his B.A. at Queens College , and his Ph.D...

    , Tibet scholar
  • Gilbert R. Tredway
    Gilbert R. Tredway
    Gilbert Riley Tredway is a retired historian from Indiana and Kentucky, who has authored two books relating to the American Civil War.-Early years, military, education:...

    , Ph.D., 1962, historian of the American Civil War
    American Civil War
    The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

  • Joann Kealiinohomoku
    Joann Kealiinohomoku
    Joann Wheeler Kealiinohomoku is an American anthropologist and educator, co-founder of the dance research organization Cross-Cultural Dance Resources...

     (Ph.D., 1976), anthropologist and dance researcher
  • Mark von Hagen
    Mark Von Hagen
    Mark von Hagen teaches Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian history at Arizona State University. He was formerly at Columbia University...

     (M.A., Slavic Languages and Literatures), director, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Arizona State University
    Arizona State University
    Arizona State University is a public research university located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area of the State of Arizona...


Arts and humanities

  • Tony Aiello
    Tony Aiello
    Tony Aiello is a television reporter for WCBS-TV in New York City. He joined the station in October, 2002 after spending more than four years at WNBC New York. Aiello is assigned to cover news in the northern suburbs from the WCBS-TV bureau in White Plains, NY.Aiello came to New York in 1996 to...

    , broadcast journalist
  • Ismail al-Faruqi
    Ismail al-Faruqi
    Isma'il Raji al-Faruqi was a Palestinian-American philosopher, widely recognised by his peers as an authority on Islam and comparative religion. He spent several years at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, then taught at several universities in North America, including McGill University in Montreal...

    , philosopher and epistemologist
  • David Anspaugh
    David Anspaugh
    David Anspaugh is an American television and film director.Born in Decatur, Indiana, Anspaugh studied at Indiana University and the USC School of Cinematic Arts, after which he taught high school in Colorado. His work as an associate producer on television movies led to his producing and directing...

    , movie director
  • Howard Ashman
    Howard Ashman
    Howard Elliott Ashman was an American playwright and lyricist. Ashman first studied at Boston University and Goddard College and then went on to achieve his master's degree from Indiana University in 1974...

    , playwright and lyricist
  • Radley Balko
    Radley Balko
    Radley Balko is an American libertarian journalist, blogger, and speaker.- Education :Balko earned a B.A. in journalism and political science in 1997 from Indiana University.- Employment and publications :...

    , journalist and writer
  • Mike Barz
    Mike Barz
    Mike Barz is an American broadcaster and weekday morning news anchor at WAWS-TV and WTEV-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. He was a morning news anchor at WFLD-TV, the Fox affiliate in Chicago, Illinois from 2007-2009....

    , broadcast journalist
  • Betty Jane Belanus
    Betty Jane Belanus
    Betty Jane Belanus is an American writer. Ms. Belanus completed her graduate work in folklore at Indiana University and currently holds a position at the Smithsonian's research center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.Dr. Betty J...

     (Ph.D, Folklore), employee of and curator of several Smithsonian Folklife Festival
    Smithsonian Folklife Festival
    The Smithsonian Folklife Festival, launched in 1967, is an international exhibition of living cultural heritage presented annually in the summer in Washington, D.C. in the United States. It is held for two weeks around the Fourth of July holiday...

     Programs
  • Daniel Bourne
    Daniel Bourne
    Daniel Bourne is a poet, translator of poetry from Polish, editor, and professor of English at The College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio, where he has taught since 1988. He teaches Creative Writing and poetry. He attended Indiana University where he received his B.A. in Comparative Literature and...

    , poet
  • Jan Harold Brunvand
    Jan Harold Brunvand
    Jan Harold Brunvand is an American folklorist. A professor emeritus of the University of Utah, he best known for spreading the concept of the urban legend, a form of modern folklore...

    , American folklorist, one of the most well-known researchers and anthologists of urban legends. Earned PhD in folklore.
  • Elliott Baker
    Elliott Baker
    Elliott Baker , born Elliot Joseph Cohen, was a screenwriter and novelist.Baker was born in Buffalo, New York, and graduated from Indiana University. He was the author of the comic novel A Fine Madness, which was published in 1964 by G.P. Putnam's Sons...

    , author, screenwriter, Emmy Award
    Emmy Award
    An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...

     winner
  • Joe Buck
    Joe Buck
    Joseph Francis "Joe" Buck is an American sportscaster and the son of legendary sportscaster Jack Buck. He has won numerous Sports Emmy Awards for his play-by-play work with Fox Sports.-Education:...

    , sportscaster, multiple Emmy Award
    Emmy Award
    An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...

     winner
  • Meg Cabot
    Meg Cabot
    Meg Cabot is anAmerican author of romantic and paranormal fiction for teens and adults and used to write under several pen names, but now writes exclusively under her real name, Meg Cabot...

    , author The Princess Diaries
    The Princess Diaries
    The Princess Diaries is a series of epistolary novels by Meg Cabot in the chick-lit and young-adult fiction genre, and the title of the first volume, published in 2000....

  • David Chalmers
    David Chalmers
    David John Chalmers is an Australian philosopher specializing in the area of philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, whose recent work concerns verbal disputes. He is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University...

    , leading philosopher in the area of philosophy of mind
    Philosophy of mind
    Philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that studies the nature of the mind, mental events, mental functions, mental properties, consciousness and their relationship to the physical body, particularly the brain. The mind-body problem, i.e...

  • Sarah Clarke
    Sarah Clarke
    Sarah Clarke is an American actress, best known for her role as Nina Myers on 24, and also for her roles as Renée Dwyer, Bella Swan's mother, in the 2008 film Twilight as well as Erin McGuire on the short-lived TV show, Trust Me.-Early life:Clarke was born in St...

    , actress
  • Robert Coover
    Robert Coover
    Robert Lowell Coover is an American author and professor in the Literary Arts program at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction.-Life and works:...

    , author
  • John Crowley
    John Crowley
    John Crowley is an American author of fantasy, science fiction and mainstream fiction. He studied at Indiana University and has a second career as a documentary film writer...

    , science fiction author, author of The Deep
    The Deep (John Crowley)
    The Deep is an early short novel by John Crowley.A visitor arrives from elsewhere on a strange mediaeval world where the two factions, the "Reds" and the "Blacks", struggle for supremacy through battle, murder and treachery....

    and Little, Big
    Little, Big
    Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament is a modern fantasy novel by John Crowley, published in 1981. It won the World Fantasy Award in 1982.-Plot synopsis:...

  • Theodore Dreiser
    Theodore Dreiser
    Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of...

    , author (flunked out)
  • Michel duCille
    Michel duCille
    Michel duCille is an American photojournalist and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner. He shared his first Pulitzer in the 1986 Spot News Photography category with fellow Miami Herald staff photographer Carol Guzy for their coverage of the November 1985 eruption of Colombia's Nevado del Ruiz volcano...

    , photographer, two-time Pulitzer Prize
    Pulitzer Prize
    The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

     winner
  • Dick Enberg
    Dick Enberg
    Richard Alan "Dick" Enberg is an American sportscaster. He currently provides play-by-play for telecasts of San Diego Padres baseball on 4SD, following a long career calling various sports for such networks as NBC, CBS, and ESPN...

    , sportscaster, 13-time Emmy Award
    Emmy Award
    An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...

     winner
  • Scott Ferrall
    Scott Ferrall
    Scott Ferrall is an American sports talk radio personality who currently broadcasts for Sirius XM Radio on Howard 101. His voice is easily recognizable by his crackling....

    , sports talk radio host
  • John M. Ford
    John M. Ford
    John Milo "Mike" Ford was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, game designer, and poet.Ford was regarded as an extraordinarily intelligent, erudite and witty man. He was a popular contributor to several online discussions...

    , poet and science fiction author
  • Tom French, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, St. Petersburg Times
  • Jennifer Grotz
    Jennifer Grotz
    Jennifer Grotz is an American poet and translator who teaches English and creative writing at the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers and at the University of Rochester, where she is Assistant Professor...

    , award-winning poet
  • Joseph Hayes, playwright, novelist
  • Don Herold
    Don Herold
    Don Herold was an American humorist, writer, illustrator, and cartoonist who wrote and illustrated many books and was a contributor to national magazines. He was born in Bloomfield, Indiana to Otto F. Herold and Clara Huyer Herold...

    , author, humorist and illustrator
  • Edward D. Ives
    Edward D. Ives
    Edward Dawson Ives was a folklorist. His work concentrated on the oral traditions of Maine and the Maritime Provinces of Canada, particularly, as he said, "on local songs and their makers but also on cycles of tales about local heroes." He founded the Maine Folklore Center in 1992 and was its...

    , folklorist
  • Andreas Katsulas
    Andreas Katsulas
    Andrew "Andreas" Katsulas was a Greek-American actor known for his roles as Ambassador G'Kar in the science fiction television series Babylon 5, as the one-armed villain Sykes in the film The Fugitive , and as the Romulan Commander Tomalak on Star Trek: The Next Generation...

    , actor
  • Debra A. Kemp
    Debra A. Kemp
    Debra A. Kemp is an American author.She writes historical fiction. She draws inspiration for her House of Pendragon series from the Arthurian legends. She originally studied nursing and earned her degree from Indiana University in 1981.-Literary career:Kemp published her first Arthurian novel The...

    , author of Arthurian literature, such as The Firebrand
    The Firebrand (Kemp novel)
    The Firebrand is a fantasy historical novel by Debra A. Kemp and first published by Amber Quill Press. it is the first in the prosective The House of Pendragon series. It was followed by The Recruit published in January 2007.-Plot summary:...

  • Charles Kimbrough
    Charles Kimbrough
    Charles Kimbrough is an American character actor known for playing the straight-faced anchorman Jim Dial on Murphy Brown. In 1990, his performance in the role earned him a nomination for an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series".-Biography:Born in St. Paul, Minnesota,...

    , actor
  • Kevin Kline
    Kevin Kline
    Kevin Delaney Kline is an American theatre, voice, film actor and comedian. He has won an Academy Award and two Tony Awards, and has been nominated for five Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards and an Emmy Award.- Early life :...

    , Oscar-winning actor
  • Ross Lockridge, Jr.
    Ross Lockridge, Jr.
    Ross Franklin Lockridge, Jr., was an American novelist of the mid-20th century. He is noted for Raintree County , an expansive attempt at creating the "Great American Novel".-Biography:...

    , author of Raintree County
  • Bienvenido Lumbera
    Bienvenido Lumbera
    Bienvenido Lumbera is a prizewinning poet, critic and dramatist from the Philippines.He is a National Artist of the Philippines and a recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communications...

    , poet, critic, playwright, Ramon Magsaysay Award
    Ramon Magsaysay Award
    The Ramon Magsaysay Award is an annual award established to perpetuate former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay's example of integrity in government, courageous service to the people, and pragmatic idealism within a democratic society. The Ramon Magsaysay Award is often considered Asia's Nobel...

     winner and National Artist of the Philippines
    National Artist of the Philippines
    A National Artist of the Philippines is a title given to a Filipino who has been given the highest recognition for having made significant contributions to the development of Philippine arts...

  • Lee Majors
    Lee Majors
    Lee Majors is an American television, film and voice actor, best known for his starring role as Colonel Steve Austin in The Six Million Dollar Man and as Colt Seavers in The Fall Guy ....

    , actor.
  • John McKenzie
    John McKenzie
    John McKenzie may refer to:* John McKenzie , New Zealand politician* John McKenzie , Canadian ice hockey player* John C. McKenzie , United States Representative from Illinois...

    , broadcast journalist
  • Don Mellett
    Don Mellett
    Donald Ring Mellett was an American newspaper editor, who was assassinated after confronting local organized crime in his newspaper....

    , journalist, newspaper editor, Pulitzer Prize
    Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
    The Pulitzer Prize for Public Service has been awarded since 1918 for a distinguished example of meritorious public service by a newspaper or news site through the use of its journalistic resources. Those resources, as well as reporting, may include editorials, cartoons, photographs, graphics,...

     winner
  • Chad Millman, journalist, editor, author.
  • Gene Miller
    Gene Miller
    Gene Miller was a longtime investigative reporter at The Miami Herald who won two Pulitzer Prizes for reporting that helped save innocent men on Florida's Death Row from execution. He was also a legendary editor, mentoring generations of young reporters in how to write crisp, direct, and...

    , journalist, editor, two time Pulitzer Prize
    Pulitzer Prize
    The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

     winner
  • Ryan Murphy Golden Globe winning television producer (Nip/Tuck
    Nip/Tuck
    Nip/Tuck is an American drama series created by Ryan Murphy, which aired on FX in the United States. The series focuses on McNamara/Troy, a plastic surgery practice, and follows its founders, Sean McNamara and Christian Troy...

    )
  • Anthony Napoleon, Ph.D., Forensic Psychologist, Legal Analyst, Author
  • Dave Niehaus
    Dave Niehaus
    David Arnold Niehaus was an American sportscaster. He was the lead play-by-play announcer for the American League's Seattle Mariners from their inaugural season in until his death after the 2010 season. In 2008, the National Baseball Hall of Fame awarded Niehaus with the Ford C. Frick Award, the...

    , broadcaster, Seattle Mariners
    Seattle Mariners
    The Seattle Mariners are a professional baseball team based in Seattle, Washington. Enfranchised in , the Mariners are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. Safeco Field has been the Mariners' home ballpark since July...

  • Nicole Parker
    Nicole Parker
    Nicole Frances Parker is an Emmy Award-winning actress and singer best known for her work on Fox's sketch comedy show MADtv. In July 2009, she concluded her run as Elphaba in the Broadway production of Wicked...

    , actress
  • Jane Pauley
    Jane Pauley
    Margaret Jane Pauley is an American television journalist, and has been involved in news reporting since 1975...

    , broadcaster
  • Angelo Pizzo
    Angelo Pizzo
    Angelo Pizzo is an American screen writer and film producer, best known for Hoosiers and Rudy. Pizzo grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, the son of a Sicilian immigrant, and attended Indiana University where he received his bachelor degree in political science. He and his family lived in Ojai,...

    , screenwriter
  • Ernie Pyle
    Ernie Pyle
    Ernest Taylor Pyle was an American journalist who wrote as a roving correspondent for the Scripps Howard newspaper chain from 1935 until his death in combat during World War II. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1944...

    , journalist, Pulitzer Prize
    Pulitzer Prize
    The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

     winner in 1944
  • Craig Shemon, National Sports Talk Show Host and Play-by-Play Announcer
  • Alexander Shimkin
    Alexander D. Shimkin
    Alexander Demitri "Alex" Shimkin was an American war correspondent who was killed in Vietnam. He is notable for his investigation of non-combatant casualties in Operation Speedy Express.-Early life and civil rights work:...

    , Vietnam war correspondent
  • Will Shortz
    Will Shortz
    Will Shortz is an American puzzle creator and editor, and currently the crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times.-Early life and education:...

    , puzzle maker (enigmatologist)
  • Ranveer Singh
    Ranveer Singh
    Ranveer Singh is an Indian actor working in the Hindi film industry. Born in Mumbai, India, Singh had always wanted to be an actor since his childhood. However, during his college days he felt that the idea of acting was far-fetched and focused on creative writing...

    , Bollywood actor
  • Tavis Smiley
    Tavis Smiley
    Tavis Smiley is a talk show host, author, liberal political commentator, entrepreneur, advocate and philanthropist. Smiley was born in Gulfport, Mississippi and grew up in Kokomo, Indiana. After attending Indiana University, he worked during the late 1980s as an aide to Tom Bradley, the mayor of...

    , National Public Radio and Public Television host
  • Randy Smock, Comedy Sportz and The Hot Karl, Comedian / Modern Day Troubadour
  • Gary Snyder
    Gary Snyder
    Gary Snyder is an American poet , as well as an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist . Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry...

    , poet and environmental activist, Pulitzer Prize
    Pulitzer Prize
    The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

     winner (did not graduate)
  • Lucy A. Snyder
    Lucy A. Snyder
    Lucy A. Snyder is an American science fiction, fantasy, humor, and nonfiction writer. Born in South Carolina, she grew up in San Angelo, Texas as a result of her father being stationed at Goodfellow Air Force Base and graduated from Angelo State University. She moved to Bloomington, Indiana for...

    , author
  • Brian Stack
    Brian Stack
    Brian Stack is an American actor, writer and comedian best known for his sketch comedy work on all three Conan O'Brien late-night talk shows, previously working on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, and currently on O'Brien's newest show, Conan on TBS.-Early...

    , actor, Late Night with Conan O'Brien
    Late Night with Conan O'Brien
    Late Night with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC between 1993 and 2009. The show featured varied comedic material, celebrity interviews, and musical and comedy performances. Late Night aired weeknights at 12:37 am...

  • Sage Steele
    Sage Steele
    Sage Steele is a SportsCenter anchor for the weekend morning editions of SportsCenter. She also hosts the 9:00 a.m. ET and 12:00 p.m. ET SportsCenter shows during the week.-Early life:...

    , ESPN sports anchor
  • Jeri Taylor
    Jeri Taylor
    Jeri Taylor is a television scriptwriter and producer who is known for her contributions to the Star Trek series. She is an alumna of Indiana University, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta.-Star Trek screenwriting:...

    , screenwriter and television producer (Star Trek
    Star Trek
    Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise...

    )
  • Nancy Weaver Teichert
    Nancy Weaver Teichert
    Nancy Weaver Teichert, A graduate of the Indiana University, writes for The Sacramento Bee.Weaver was part of a reporting team for the Jackson Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi, whose work was honored with the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service...

    , Pulitzer Prize
    Pulitzer Prize
    The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

    -winning reporter
  • Michael Uslan
    Michael Uslan
    Michael E. Uslan is the originator of the Batman movies and was the first instructor to teach "Comic Book Folklore" at an accredited university...

    , film producer (Batman
    Batman
    Batman is a fictional character created by the artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger. A comic book superhero, Batman first appeared in Detective Comics #27 , and since then has appeared primarily in publications by DC Comics...

    )
  • Herb Vigran
    Herb Vigran
    Herbert "Herb" Vigran was a well-known American character actor in Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1980s. Over his 50-year career, he made over 350 television and film appearances.-Career:...

    , actor
  • Clark Wissler
    Clark Wissler
    Clark Wissler was an American anthropologist.Born near Hagerstown, Indiana, Wissler graduated from Indiana University in 1897. He received his doctorate in psychology from Columbia University in 1901. After Columbia, Wissler left the field of psychology to focus on Anthropology...

    , anthropology
    Anthropology
    Anthropology is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos , "man", understood to mean mankind or humanity, and -logia , "discourse" or "study", and was first used in 1501 by German...

     pioneer
  • Stephanie Petsche, Fashionista, World-Renowned Author

Business

  • Barry Gosin, CEO of Newmark Knight Frank
    Newmark Knight Frank
    Newmark Knight Frank, founded in 1929, is a large independent multinational real estate service firm headquartered in New York City. Newmark Knight Frank and London-based partner, Knight Frank, operate from over 200 offices in established and emerging property markets on six continents...

  • Joe Barnette, retired chairman and CEO of Bank One
  • Steve Bellamy
    Steve Bellamy
    Steve Bellamy is a former rock musician, songwriter, and entrepreneur in sports and media as well as the writer/director for the film The Story starring Bode Miller, Lindsey Vonn and Hilary Swank...

    , media and sports entrepreneur, founder The Ski Channel and The Tennis Channel
    The Tennis Channel
    Tennis Channel is an American speciality channel with programming devoted to the game of tennis. Founded in 2003, the network is owned by a group of investors including sports marketing firm IMG. Well known tennis professionals Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi are two of the many investors in this...

     Television Networks
  • John Bitove
    John Bitove
    John I. Bitove, is a Canadian-Macedonian businessman and sportsman. He is the major shareholder and chairman of Scott's Real Estate Investment Trust and Sirius XM Canada. While controlling several public and private businesses, he has recently expanded into telecommunications with a company he...

    , Chairman & CEO of XM Canada, Priszm
    Priszm
    Priszm LP is the largest operator of Canadian fast food restaurants. The Priszm Income Fund, an income trust, owns 60.2% of Priszm.Priszm is one of the largest franchisees of Yum! Brands in the world, owning 446 restaurants of various Yum!-owned chains in Canada, namely KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell,...

     and Scott's REIT, founder Toronto Raptors
    Toronto Raptors
    The Toronto Raptors are a professional basketball team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are part of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association . The team was established in 1995, along with the Vancouver Grizzlies, as part of the NBA's re-expansion...

    (NBA)
  • Ben Canary, local "Soups On" Chef and winner of Iron Chef competition three years in a row
  • John Chambers
    John Chambers (CEO)
    John T. Chambers is Chairman of the Board and CEO of Cisco Systems, Inc. Chambers joined Cisco in 1991 as senior vice president, Worldwide Sales and Operations. Since January 1995, when he assumed the role of CEO, the company has grown from $1.2 billion in annual revenues to its current run-rate...

    , president and CEO of Cisco Systems
    Cisco Systems
    Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Jose, California, United States, that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking, voice, and communications technology and services. Cisco has more than 70,000 employees and annual revenue of US$...

  • Brian Cohn, President of SAC Capital Advisors
  • Thomas Cole, Co-Head of Global Banking HSBC
    HSBC
    HSBC Holdings plc is a global banking and financial services company headquartered in Canary Wharf, London, United Kingdom. it is the world's second-largest banking and financial services group and second-largest public company according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine...

  • Mark Cuban
    Mark Cuban
    Mark Cuban is an American business magnate and investor. He is the owner of the National Basketball Association's Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theatres, and Magnolia Pictures, and the chairman of the HDTV cable network HDNet....

    , technology entrepreneur, Dallas Mavericks
    Dallas Mavericks
    The Dallas Mavericks are a professional basketball team based in Dallas, Texas. They are members of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association , and the reigning NBA champions, having defeated the Miami Heat in the 2011 NBA Finals.According to a 2011...

     owner
  • William S. Dalton
    William S. Dalton
    William S. Dalton is an American physician and oncologist, who is is board certified in internal medicine and oncology. Since 2002 he has been the President, CEO, and Center Director of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute at the University of South Florida...

    , current CEO of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
  • Lance de Masi
    Lance de Masi
    Lance Edward de Masi is the current president of the American University in Dubai. Before joining the university, he served in management positions at BBDO Worldwide over more than two decades in the US, Italy, Spain, Cyprus, the UK and finally, Dubai, and became Executive Vice President and...

     - President of the American University in Dubai
    American University in Dubai
    The American University in Dubai is a private, non-sectarian institution of higher learning in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, founded in 1995. AUD was founded in 1995 as a branch campus of the American InterContinental University in Atlanta, Georgia, but turned into a private, non-sectarian...

  • John Metz, Head of Communications Banking at UBS
  • Donald Fehr
    Donald Fehr
    Donald M. Fehr is the executive director of the National Hockey League Players Association. He previously served as the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association from 1986-2009....

    , managing director, Major League Baseball Players Association
    Major League Baseball Players Association
    The Major League Baseball Players Association is the union of professional major-league baseball players.-History of MLBPA:The MLBPA was not the first attempt to unionize baseball players...

  • Jeff Fettig, CEO of Whirlpool Corporation
  • E. W. Kelley
    E. W. Kelley
    Estel Wood "Ed" Kelley is considered the "modern day" founder of Steak 'n Shake, a chain of sit-down, old-fashioned style restaurants known for their Steakburgers and hand-dipped milkshakes. In 1981, E.W. Kelley & Associates, a group led by E.W...

    , founder and former chairman of Steak 'n Shake
  • Harold Arthur Poling
    Harold Arthur Poling
    Harold Arthur "Red" Poling is a U.S. automobile businessman.He served as the president of the Ford Motor Company between 1985 and 1987, vice-chairman in 1988 and 1989,and as CEO and chairman from 1990 until 1993...

    , retired chairman and CEO of Ford Motor Company
    Ford Motor Company
    Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. In addition to the Ford and Lincoln brands, Ford also owns a small stake in Mazda in Japan and Aston Martin in the UK...

  • Frank Popoff
    Frank Popoff
    Frank Popoff or Frank Popov is the Chairman of Chemical Financial Corporation, a bank holding company, from April 2004 to present. He was the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Dow Chemical Company from December 2000 to April 2004, and Chairman of the Board from 1995 to November 2000...

    , retired chairman and CEO of Dow Chemical Company
  • Marcus Schrenker
    Marcus Schrenker
    Marcus Schrenker is a financial manager known for attempting to fake his own death and the multi-state, three-day manhunt that followed. Schrenker lived and worked in Fishers, Indiana.-Background:...

    , financial manager known for faking his own death to avoid prosecution.
  • Fred Steingraber, retired chairman and CEO of consulting company A.T. Kearney
    A.T. Kearney
    A.T. Kearney is a global management consulting firm, focusing on strategic and operational CEO-agenda concerns. It was founded in 1926, and its head office is in Chicago, Illinois...

  • Patty Stonesifer
    Patty Stonesifer
    Patty Stonesifer is the former Co-chair and chief executive officer of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. On February 7, 2008, she announced that she would step aside from her role at the end of the year. In May 2008, Jeff Raikes, a Microsoft executive, was tapped as her replacement...

    , Former CEO, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Currently Chairwoman, Smithsonian Institution
    Smithsonian Institution
    The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...

    .
  • Todd Wagner
    Todd Wagner
    Todd R. Wagner co-founded Broadcast.com and now co-owns 2929 Entertainment with Mark Cuban, along with other entertainment properties and has also founded the Todd Wagner Foundation.- Early life :...

    , CEO of 2929 Entertainment
    2929 Entertainment
    2929 Entertainment is a media company with holdings in film and television production, film distribution, theatrical exhibition, home entertainment, television, and syndication. Billionaires Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban founded and currently own the privately held company...

    ; founder of Todd Wagner Foundation; co-founder of Broadcast.com
    Broadcast.com
    Broadcast.com was a web radio company founded as "AudioNet" in September 1995 by Chris Jaeb. Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban later led the organization to hugely capitalize on the Dot-com bubble and be sold to Yahoo.com.-History:...

  • Jimmy Wales
    Jimmy Wales
    Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and promoter of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and the Wikia company....

    , former CEO of Bomis
    Bomis
    Bomis was a dot-com company founded in 1996 by Jimmy Wales and Tim Shell. Its primary business was the sale of advertising on the Bomis.com search portal, and to provide support for the free encyclopedia projects Nupedia and Wikipedia...

    , co-founder of Wikipedia
    Wikipedia
    Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site,...

    , president of the Wikimedia Foundation
    Wikimedia Foundation
    Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is an American non-profit charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, and organized under the laws of the state of Florida, where it was initially based...

     (did not graduate)

Music

  • Jamey Aebersold
    Jamey Aebersold
    Jamey Aebersold is an American jazz saxophonist and music educator. His "Play-A-Long" series of instructional book and CD collections, using the chord-scale system, the first of which was released in 1967, are an internationally renowned resource for jazz education...

    , jazz educator
  • Emilie Autumn
    Emilie Autumn
    Emilie Autumn Liddell , better known by her stage name Emilie Autumn, is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and violinist. Autumn draws influence for her music—the style of which she has alternatively labeled as "Victoriandustrial" and glam rock—from plays, novels, and history, particularly the...

    , gothic violinist and singer (dropped out after her sophomore year)
  • David Baker, jazz composer
  • Klara Barlow
    Klara Barlow
    Klara Barlow was an American opera singer who had an active international career from the mid 1960s through the 1990s. A dramatic soprano, Barlow particularly excelled in portraying Strauss and Wagnerian heroines...

    , operatic soprano
  • Joshua Bell
    Joshua Bell
    Joshua David Bell is an American Grammy Award-winning violinist.-Childhood:Bell was born in Bloomington, Indiana, United States, the son of a psychologist and a therapist. Bell's father is the late Alan P...

    , violinist
  • Chris Botti
    Chris Botti
    Christopher Stephen "Chris" Botti , is an American trumpeter and composer. In 2007, Botti was nominated for two Grammy Awards including Best Pop Instrumental Album. On December 4, 2009, he was nominated for three more Grammy Awards including Best Pop Instrumental Album and Best Long Form Music Video...

    , jazz trumpeter
  • Cary Boyce
    Cary Boyce
    Cary Boyce is artistic co-director and composer-in-residence of the production company and musical ensemble Aguavá New Music Studio, which specializes in producing projects involving contemporary music....

    , composer
  • Michael Brecker
    Michael Brecker
    Michael Leonard Brecker was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Acknowledged as "a quiet, gentle musician widely regarded as the most influential tenor saxophonist since John Coltrane," he has been awarded 15 Grammy Awards as both performer and composer and was inducted into Down Beat Jazz...

    , jazz saxophonist
  • Angela Brown
    Angela Brown
    Angela M. Brown is an African-American dramatic soprano particularly admired for her portrayal of Verdi heroines.-Early life and education:...

    , soprano
  • Angelin Chang
    Angelin Chang
    Angelin Chang is a Grammy® Award-winning classical pianist and professor of music at Cleveland State University. She heads the university's keyboard studies program and coordinates the university's chamber music program...

    , Grammy Award-winning classical pianist and music educator
  • Hoagy Carmichael
    Hoagy Carmichael
    Howard Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for writing "Stardust", "Georgia On My Mind", "The Nearness of You", and "Heart and Soul", four of the most-recorded American songs of all time.Alec Wilder, in his study of the...

    , songwriter and actor, author of the songs "Stardust
    Stardust (song)
    "Stardust" is an American popular song composed in 1927 by Hoagy Carmichael with lyrics added in 1929 by Mitchell Parish. Originally titled "Star Dust", Carmichael first recorded the song at the Gennett Records studio in Richmond, Indiana...

    " and "Georgia on My Mind
    Georgia on My Mind
    "Georgia on My Mind" is a song written in 1930 by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell . It is the official state song of the U.S. state of Georgia. Gorrell wrote the lyrics for Hoagy's sister, Georgia Carmichael. However, the lyrics of the song are ambiguous enough to refer either to the state or...

    "
  • Jim Cornelison
    Jim Cornelison
    James Cornelison is a tenor who sings The Star-Spangled Banner and O Canada at the beginning of home games for the Chicago Blackhawks. Cornelison started singing the anthem for the Blackhawks part time in 1996; he has been singing the national anthem for the Blackhawks full time since 2007...

    , award-winning tenor known for "Star Spangled Banner" performances before multiple Chicago sporting events
  • John Clayton
    John Clayton (bassist)
    John Travis Clayton Jr. is an American jazz and classical double bassist.-Music:John Travis Clayton Jr. began seriously undertaking the study of double bass at age 16, studying with bass legend Ray Brown...

    , jazz and classical bassist, composer and arranger
  • Peter Erskine
    Peter Erskine
    Peter Erskine is an American jazz drummer and composer. He has enjoyed a long and successful career as a session drummer, recording and touring with many famous jazz and rock artists, including Steely Dan and Weather Report...

    , jazz drummer and educator
  • Vivica Genaux
    Vivica Genaux
    Vivica Genaux is an American coloratura mezzo-soprano. Her father, an American of Belgian-Welsh descent, was a biochemistry professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and her mother, Mexican-born of Swiss-German extraction, was a language teacher...

    , mezzo soprano
  • Tom Gullion
    Tom Gullion
    Tom Gullion is an American Saxophonist.Gullion studied with David Baker at the world-renowned Indiana University Jacobs School of Music as well as Northwestern University....

    , jazz saxophonist
  • Jeff Hamilton
    Jeff Hamilton (drummer)
    Jeff Hamilton is an American jazz drummer. He is co-director of the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra and leader of his own trio.-Career:...

    , jazz drummer
  • Margaret Harshaw
    Margaret Harshaw
    Margaret Harshaw was an American opera singer and voice teacher who sang for 22 consecutive seasons at the Metropolitan Opera from November 1942 to March 1964. She began her career as a mezzo-soprano in the early 1930s but then began performing roles from the soprano repertoire in 1951...

    , Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano and soprano. The Margaret Harshaw Scholarship is given in her honor at the Jacobs School of Music.
  • Booker T. Jones
    Booker T. Jones
    Booker T. Jones is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer and arranger, best known as the frontman of the band Booker T. and the MGs. He has also worked in the studios with many well-known artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, earning him a Grammy Award for lifetime...

    , songwriter, producer and frontman of the band Booker T. and the MGs
  • Charles Kullman
    Charles Kullman
    Charles Kullman , originally Charles Kullmann, was an American tenor who enjoyed a wide-ranging career, both in Europe and America.- Life and career :...

    , Metropolitan Opera tenor and chair of voice department
  • Gordon Lee, jazz pianist, educator and composer
  • Sylvia McNair
    Sylvia McNair
    Sylvia McNair is an American opera singer and classical recitalist who has also achieved notable success in the Broadway and cabaret genres. McNair, a soprano, has made several critically acclaimed recordings and has won two Grammy Awards....

    , internationally acclaimed soprano
  • Edgar Meyer
    Edgar Meyer
    Edgar Meyer is a prominent contemporary bassist and composer. His styles include classical, bluegrass, newgrass, and jazz. Meyer has worked as a session musician in Nashville, part of various chamber groups, a composer, and an arranger...

    , bassist, MacArthur Fellow
  • William Preucil violinist, concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra
    Cleveland Orchestra
    The Cleveland Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Cleveland, Ohio. It is one of the five American orchestras informally referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1918, the orchestra plays most of its concerts at Severance Hall...

  • Larry Ridley
    Larry Ridley
    Larry Ridley is an American jazz bassist and music educator.-Biography:Ridley was born and reared in Indianapolis, IN. He began performing professionally while still in high school in the 1950s. Ridley studied at the Indiana University School of Music and later at the Lenox School of Jazz...

    , jazz bassist and music educator
  • Leonard Slatkin
    Leonard Slatkin
    Leonard Edward Slatkin is an American conductor and composer.-Early life and education:Slatkin was born in Los Angeles to a musical family that came from areas of the Russian Empire now in Ukraine. His father Felix Slatkin was the violinist, conductor and founder of the Hollywood String Quartet,...

    , composer and conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    The BBC Symphony Orchestra is the principal broadcast orchestra of the British Broadcasting Corporation and one of the leading orchestras in Britain.-History:...

     until 2004
  • Eileen Strempel
    Eileen Strempel
    Eileen Strempel is an operatic soprano and academic from Syracuse, New York.-Background:In 1984, Strempel began her undergraduate education at the Eastman School of Music and received her bachelor's degree in 1984. In 1991, she studied on full scholarship at Indiana University for her master's degree...

    , soprano and educator
  • Michael Sweeney
    Michael Sweeney
    Michael Sweeney is an ASCAP award-winning U.S. citizen composer and musician.-Biography:Sweeney studied music education and composition at the Indiana University Bloomington Work...

    , concert band and jazz composer
  • Thomas Walsh, tuba Munich Philharmonic
  • Pharez Whitted
    Pharez Whitted
    -Biography:Since 1982, Whitted has performed throughout the United States and overseas, including gigs at the 1988 Presidential Inauguration, The Arsenio Hall Show, The Billboard Music Awards, Carnegie Hall, and the MoTown Music Showcase....

    , jazz trumpet and composer
  • Pete Wilhoit
    Pete Wilhoit
    Pete Wilhoit is an American percussionist and session musician, best known as drummer and backing vocalist for UK rock band Fiction Plane. Although the band is based in London, Wilhoit resides in New York.-Early years:...

    , jazz and rock drummer and percussionist
  • Straight No Chaser
    Straight No Chaser (a cappella group)
    Straight No Chaser is the name of two related but separate a cappella men's singing groups. The Indiana University group is composed of 10 to 12 undergraduate men whose lineup changes every year. The professional group, known simply as Straight No Chaser, is composed of former members, mostly...

    , A Capella Group that attended and performed at IU from 1996-1999. Re-Formed in 2008 and are currently signed with Atlantic Records.

Politics and government

  • Arthur C. Mellette
    Arthur C. Mellette
    Arthur Calvin Mellette was the last Governor of the Dakota Territory and was the first Governor of the State of South Dakota.-Biography:...

    , former Governor of South Dakota
    Governor of South Dakota
    The Governor of South Dakota is the head of the executive branch of the government of South Dakota. They are elected to a four year term on even years when there is no Presidential election. The current governor is Dennis Daugaard, a Republican elected in 2010....

  • Jerry Abramson, former Mayor
    Mayor
    In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....

     of Louisville, Kentucky
    Louisville, Kentucky
    Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...

  • Selim al-Hoss
    Selim al-Hoss
    Selim Ahmed El-Hoss is a veteran Lebanese politician. He was a Prime Minister of Lebanon and a longtime Member of Parliament representing his hometown, Beirut.-Education:...

    , Prime Minister of Lebanon
  • Michael Badnarik
    Michael Badnarik
    Michael J. Badnarik is an American software engineer, political figure, and former radio talk show host. He was the Libertarian Party nominee for President of the United States in the 2004 elections, and placed fourth in the race, behind independent candidate Ralph Nader...

    , Libertarian Party
    Libertarian Party (United States)
    The Libertarian Party is the third largest and fastest growing political party in the United States. The political platform of the Libertarian Party reflects its brand of libertarianism, favoring minimally regulated, laissez-faire markets, strong civil liberties, minimally regulated migration...

     2004 presidential candidate
    United States presidential election, 2004
    The United States presidential election of 2004 was the United States' 55th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 2004. Republican Party candidate and incumbent President George W. Bush defeated Democratic Party candidate John Kerry, the then-junior U.S. Senator...

  • Birch Bayh
    Birch Bayh
    Birch Evans Bayh II is a former United States Senator from Indiana, having served from 1963 to 1981. He was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president in the 1976 election, but lost to Jimmy Carter. He is the father of former Indiana Governor and former U.S. Senator Evan Bayh.-Life...

    , former U.S. Senator
    United States Senate
    The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...

  • Evan Bayh
    Evan Bayh
    Birch Evans "Evan" Bayh III is a lawyer, advisor and former Democratic politician who served as the junior U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1999 to 2011. He earlier served as the 46th Governor of Indiana from 1989 to 1997. Bayh is a current Fox News contributor as of March 14, 2011.Bayh first held...

    , former U.S. Senator
    United States Senate
    The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...

     and governor of Indiana
    Governor of Indiana
    The Governor of Indiana is the chief executive of the state of Indiana. The governor is elected to a four-year term, and responsible for overseeing the day-to-day management of the functions of many agencies of the Indiana state government. The governor also shares power with other statewide...

  • James B. Bullard
    James B. Bullard
    James B. Bullard is the 12th president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. He is currently serving a term that began on March 1, 2011. Dr. Bullard succeeded William Poole as president of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank on April 1, 2008....

    , President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank
    Federal Reserve Bank
    The twelve Federal Reserve Banks form a major part of the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States. The twelve federal reserve banks together divide the nation into twelve Federal Reserve Districts, the twelve banking districts created by the Federal Reserve Act of...

     in St. Louis
  • LeRoy Edgar Burney
    Leroy Edgar Burney
    Leroy Edgar Burney was an American physician and public health official. He was appointed the eighth Surgeon General of the United States from 1956 to 1961.-Early years:...

    , Surgeon General of the United States
    Surgeon General of the United States
    The Surgeon General of the United States is the operational head of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and thus the leading spokesperson on matters of public health in the federal government...

  • Robert Gates
    Robert Gates
    Dr. Robert Michael Gates is a retired civil servant and university president who served as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011. Prior to this, Gates served for 26 years in the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, and under President George H. W....

    , Secretary of Defense
    United States Secretary of Defense
    The Secretary of Defense is the head and chief executive officer of the Department of Defense of the United States of America. This position corresponds to what is generally known as a Defense Minister in other countries...

    , Director of Central Intelligence
    Director of Central Intelligence
    The Office of United States Director of Central Intelligence was the head of the United States Central Intelligence Agency, the principal intelligence advisor to the President and the National Security Council, and the coordinator of intelligence activities among and between the various United...

    , National Security Council
    United States National Security Council
    The White House National Security Council in the United States is the principal forum used by the President of the United States for considering national security and foreign policy matters with his senior national security advisors and Cabinet officials and is part of the Executive Office of the...

     member
  • Lee H. Hamilton
    Lee H. Hamilton
    Lee Herbert Hamilton is a former member of the United States House of Representatives and currently a member of the U.S. Homeland Security Advisory Council. A member of the Democratic Party, Hamilton represented the 9th congressional district of Indiana from 1965 to 1999...

     (J.D. '56), Homeland Security Advisory Council
    Homeland Security Advisory Council
    The Homeland Security Advisory Council is part of the Executive Office of the President. It was created by an Executive Order on March 19, 2002.-Council Members:* William H. Webster , Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, LLP...

    , co-chair of the Iraq Study Group
    Iraq Study Group
    The Iraq Study group , was a ten-person bipartisan panel appointed on March 15, 2006, by the United States Congress, that was charged with assessing the situation in Iraq and the US-led Iraq War and making policy recommendations...

    , vice chair of the 9/11 Commission
    9/11 Commission
    The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9/11 Commission, was set up on November 27, 2002, "to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks", including preparedness for and the immediate response to...

    , U.S. Representative
  • Charles Abraham Halleck, member of the United States Congress
    United States Congress
    The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C....

    ; was House Majority Leader and Minority Leader
  • Michael D. Higgins
    Michael D. Higgins
    Michael Daniel Higgins is the ninth and current President of Ireland, having taken office on 11 November 2011 following victory in the 2011 Irish presidential election. Higgins is an Irish politician, poet, sociologist, author and broadcaster. Higgins was President of the Labour Party until his...

    , Ninth President of Ireland
    President of Ireland
    The President of Ireland is the head of state of Ireland. The President is usually directly elected by the people for seven years, and can be elected for a maximum of two terms. The presidency is largely a ceremonial office, but the President does exercise certain limited powers with absolute...

  • Victor Jackovich
    Victor Jackovich
    Victor Jackovich is an American diplomat and former ambassador who was the first United States Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina. He later became Ambassador to Slovenia.-Early life and education:...

    , first U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia and Hercegovina; later became U.S. Ambassador to Slovenia
  • William E. Jenner
    William E. Jenner
    William Ezra Jenner was a U.S. Republican Indiana State and U.S. Senator.Jenner was born in Marengo, Crawford County, Indiana. He graduated with a Law degree from Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington in 1930, and set up practice in Paoli, Indiana...

    , former U.S. Senator
  • Charles Peter Kennedy, British MP, Liberal Democrats leader
  • Frank McCloskey
    Frank McCloskey
    Francis Xavier "Frank" McCloskey was a six-term Democratic representative from Indiana from January 3, 1983 to January 3, 1995, widely remembered for his advocacy on behalf of Bosnian Muslims. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and later moved to Bloomington, Indiana after receiving an...

    , mayor of Bloomington, Indiana
    Bloomington, Indiana
    Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of Monroe County in the southern region of the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 80,405 at the 2010 census....

    , U.S. Representative
  • Sherman Minton
    Sherman Minton
    Sherman "Shay" Minton was a Democratic United States Senator from Indiana and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was the most educated justice during his time on the Supreme Court, having attended Indiana University, Yale and the Sorbonne...

    , United States Supreme Court Justice and U.S. Senator
    United States Senate
    The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...

  • Richard Monroe Miles, Ambassador to Georgia
    United States Ambassador to Georgia
    This is a list of ambassadors of the United States to Georgia.The United States recognized Georgia's independence on December 25, 1991, and established diplomatic relations March 29, 1993.The U.S...

    , Bulgaria
    United States Ambassador to Bulgaria
    The United States Ambassador to Bulgaria is the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary from the United States to Bulgaria.- Ambassadors :* Diplomatic Agent* Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary...

    , United States Ambassador to Serbia
    United States Ambassador to Serbia
    This is a list of Ambassadors of the United States to Serbia.Serbia had been under the domination of the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, communist Yugoslavia and lastly Serbia-Montenegro Federation proclaiming independence on June 5, 2006....

     and Azerbaijan
    United States Ambassador to Azerbaijan
    This is a list of Ambassadors of the United States to Azerbaijan.The United States recognized Azerbaijan's independence on Dec 25, 1991, and announced the establishment of diplomatic relations on February 19, 1992....

  • Frank O'Bannon
    Frank O'Bannon
    Frank Lewis O'Bannon was an American politician who was the 47th Governor of Indiana from 1997 until his death in 2003.-Background:...

    , governor of Indiana
  • Paul O'Neill, Secretary of the Treasury
    United States Secretary of the Treasury
    The Secretary of the Treasury of the United States is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, which is concerned with financial and monetary matters, and, until 2003, also with some issues of national security and defense. This position in the Federal Government of the United...

  • Dennie Oxley
    Dennie Oxley
    Dennie Ray Oxley II was a Democratic member of the Indiana House of Representatives, representing the 73rd District from 1998 until 2008. He had served as Democratic Whip. Oxley was succeeded by his father, also named Dennie...

     former Indiana state representative and Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Indiana
  • Rod Paige
    Rod Paige
    Roderick Raynor "Rod" Paige served as the 7th United States Secretary of Education from 2001 to 2005. Paige, who grew up in Mississippi, built a career on a belief that education equalizes opportunity, moving from classroom teacher to college dean and school superintendent to be the first African...

    , Secretary of Education
    United States Secretary of Education
    The United States Secretary of Education is the head of the Department of Education. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet, and 16th in line of United States presidential line of succession...

  • Wiley Rutledge, United States Supreme Court Justice (attended, but did not graduate from the School of Law)
  • Newell Sanders
    Newell Sanders
    Newell Sanders was a Chattanooga businessman who served for a relatively brief time as a United States Senator from Tennessee.-Biography:...

    , U.S. Senator
  • Salman Shah
    Salman Shah
    Dr. Salman Shah was the former caretaker Finance Minister of Pakistan. He has also served as an advisor to the Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz on finance, economic affairs, statistics and revenues. He is the son-in-law of former Chief of Army Staff General Asif Nawaz Janjua. He has two sons and...

    , Caretaker Minister of Finance, Pakistan
    Pakistan
    Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

  • Edgar Whitcomb
    Edgar Whitcomb
    Edgar Doud Whitcomb was the 43rd Governor of Indiana. His term as governor began a major rift in the Indiana Republican Party as urban Republicans became more numerous then rural Republicans, leading to a shift in the priorities of the party leadership. Whitcomb found himself opposed by speaker of...

    , governor of Indiana
  • Wendell Willkie
    Wendell Willkie
    Wendell Lewis Willkie was a corporate lawyer in the United States and a dark horse who became the Republican Party nominee for the president in 1940. A member of the liberal wing of the GOP, he crusaded against those domestic policies of the New Deal that he thought were inefficient and...

    , Republican
    Republican Party (United States)
    The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

     1940 presidential candidate
    United States presidential election, 1940
    The United States presidential election of 1940 was fought in the shadow of World War II as the United States was emerging from the Great Depression. Incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt , a Democrat, broke with tradition and ran for a third term, which became a major issue...

  • Kenneth W. Winters
    Kenneth W. Winters
    Kenneth W. Winters is a Republican member of the Kentucky State Senate from Murray in western Kentucky, who formerly served as president of Baptist-affiliated Campbellsville University....

    , Republican member of the Kentucky State Senate from Murray
    Murray, Kentucky
    Murray is a city in Calloway County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 17,741 at the 2010 census and has a micropolitan area population of 37,191. It is the 22nd largest city in Kentucky...

  • Deepender Singh Hooda
    Deepender Singh Hooda
    Deepender Singh Hooda is a member of the 15th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Rohtak constituency of Haryana and is a member of the Indian National Congress political party. He is son of Haryana chief minister Chaudhary Bhupinder Singh Hooda.-References:...

    , member of the Lok Sabha
    Lok Sabha
    The Lok Sabha or House of the People is the lower house of the Parliament of India. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by direct election under universal adult suffrage. As of 2009, there have been fifteen Lok Sabhas elected by the people of India...


Science and technology

  • Carl Otto Lampland
    Carl Otto Lampland
    Carl Otto Lampland was an American astronomer.Carl Otto Lampland was born near Hayfield in Dodge County, Minnesota. He was born into a family of ten children...

    , astronomer
  • Wardell Pomeroy
    Wardell Pomeroy
    Wardell Baxter Pomeroy was an American sexologist and co-author with Alfred C. Kinsey. He was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He graduated from Indiana University and earned a Ph.D. in psychology in 1954 from Columbia University...

    , sexologist
  • Jamie Hyneman
    Jamie Hyneman
    James Franklin "Jamie" Hyneman is an American special effects expert, best known for being the co-host of the television series MythBusters. He is also the owner of M5 Industries, the special effects workshop where MythBusters is filmed...

    , special effects expert best known for being the co-host of the television series MythBusters
    MythBusters
    MythBusters is a science entertainment TV program created and produced by Beyond Television Productions for the Discovery Channel. The series is screened by numerous international broadcasters, including Discovery Channel Australia, Discovery Channel Latin America, Discovery Channel Canada, Quest...

  • Vesto Slipher
    Vesto Slipher
    Vesto Melvin Slipher was an American astronomer. His brother Earl C. Slipher was also an astronomer and a director at the Lowell Observatory....

    , astronomer
  • John T. Thompson
    John T. Thompson
    John Taliaferro Thompson, , was a United States Army officer best remembered as the inventor of the Thompson submachine gun.-Early life:...

    , military officer, supervised development of the M1903 Springfield rifle and the M1911 pistol, inventor of the Thompson submachine gun
    Thompson submachine gun
    The Thompson is an American submachine gun, invented by John T. Thompson in 1919, that became infamous during the Prohibition era. It was a common sight in the media of the time, being used by both law enforcement officers and criminals...

  • Mansukh C. Wani
    Mansukh C. Wani
    Professor Mansukh C. Wani, Ph.D. is a principal scientist at the Research Triangle Institute in North Carolina. He is co-discoverer of Taxol and camptothecin, two anti-cancer drugs considered standard in the treatment to fight ovarian, breast, lung and colon cancers. In 2000, Dr. Wani received an...

    , cancer researcher, discoverer of Taxol
  • James D. Watson
    James D. Watson
    James Dewey Watson is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick...

    , groundbreaking researcher of DNA structure, author of The Double Helix
    The Double Helix
    The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA is an autobiographical account of the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA written by James D. Watson and published in 1968. It was and remains a controversial account...

    , winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...

  • Scott A. Jones
    Scott A. Jones
    Scott A. Jones is an American inventor. Scott graduated with honors from Indiana University in 1984, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in computer science.-1980s:He is known for his work in the early days of voicemail...

    , an inventor and serial entrepreneur, widely known for inventing voicemail
    Voicemail
    Voicemail is a computer based system that allows users and subscribers to exchange personal voice messages; to select and deliver voice information; and to process transactions relating to individuals, organizations, products and services, using an ordinary telephone...

     systems

Other

  • Jan Crull Jr., enigmatic documentary filmmaker and attorney; was a Ph.D. student in English Language and Literature in the late 1970s; dropped out
  • Jared Fogle
    Jared Fogle
    Jared S. Fogle , also known as The Subway Guy, is a spokesman employed by Subway Restaurants in its advertising campaigns...

    , spokesman
    Spokesman
    A spokesperson or spokesman or spokeswoman is someone engaged or elected to speak on behalf of others.In the present media-sensitive world, many organizations are increasingly likely to employ professionals who have received formal training in journalism, communications, public relations and...

     for Subway restaurants
  • Emily Harris
    Emily Harris
    Emily Harris was, along with her husband William Harris , a founding member of the Symbionese Liberation Army , a leftist United States group involved in bank robberies, kidnapping and murder. In the 1970s, she was convicted of kidnapping Patty Hearst...

    , a founding member of the Symbionese Liberation Army
    Symbionese Liberation Army
    The Symbionese Liberation Army was an American self-styled left-wing urban militant group active between 1973 and 1975 that considered itself a revolutionary vanguard army...

     (SLA)
  • Jim Jones
    Jim Jones
    James Warren "Jim" Jones was the founder and leader of the Peoples Temple, which is best known for the November 18, 1978 mass suicide of 909 Temple members in Jonestown, Guyana along with the killings of five other people at a nearby airstrip.Jones was born in Indiana and started the Temple in...

    , Peoples Temple
    Peoples Temple
    Peoples Temple was a religious organization founded in 1955 by Jim Jones that, by the mid-1970s, included over a dozen locations in California including its headquarters in San Francisco...

     founder and cult leader (did not graduate) http://www.indianasstoryteller.com/library/manuscripts/collection_guides/m0205.html
  • Maxine Mesinger
    Maxine Mesinger
    Maxine Mesinger was a celebrity gossip columnist of the Houston Chronicle who was active between 1965 and 2000. Her works were published in the "Big City Beat," her social column. She had the nickname "Miss Moonlight"...

     (gossip columnist)
  • Arturo J. Marcano Guevara
    Arturo J. Marcano Guevara
    Arturo J. Marcano Guevara, a native of Caracas, Venezuela, is an author on the topic of professional baseball in Latin America.With Professor David P. Fidler of Indiana University, Marcano has been at the forefront of generating awareness in the United States, Canada, and Latin America about...

    , lawyer, author, baseball critic
  • Jeff Sagarin
    Jeff Sagarin
    Jeff Sagarin is an American sports statistician well-known for his development of a methodology for ranking and rating sports teams in a variety of sports...

    , statistician and creator of the various Sagarin Rating Systems http://www.usatoday.com/sports/sagarin.htm

Former notable faculty

  • Myles Brand
    Myles Brand
    Myles Neil Brand, Ph. D. was the 14th president of the University of Oregon, president of the United States' National Collegiate Athletic Association , and 16th president of Indiana University.-Personal life:...

    , former university president, president of the NCAA
  • Yuri Bregel
    Yuri Bregel
    Yuri Bregel is a prominent academic in the field of Central Asian studies. He is one of the world's leading historians of Islamic Central Asia, and has published a number of import works on the subject.-Biography:...

    , a defector from the U.S.S.R. who became the pioneer of Central Asian Historical Studies in the West.
  • Robert Daniel Carmichael
    Robert Daniel Carmichael
    Robert Daniel Carmichael was a leading American mathematician. Carmichael was born in Goodwater, Alabama. He attended Lineville College, briefly, and he earned his bachelor's degree in 1898, while he was studying towards his Ph.D. degree at Princeton University. Carmichael completed the...

    , mathematician and discoverer of Carmichael numbers
  • Lee Corso
    Lee Corso
    Leland "Lee" Corso is a sports broadcaster and football analyst for ESPN. He has been featured on ESPN's College GameDay program since its inception and he appeared annually as a commentator in EA Sports' NCAA Football through NCAA Football 11...

    , former head football coach, current ESPN analyst
  • Harry G. Day, the chemist who is responsible for the incorporation of fluoride
    Fluoride
    Fluoride is the anion F−, the reduced form of fluorine when as an ion and when bonded to another element. Both organofluorine compounds and inorganic fluorine containing compounds are called fluorides. Fluoride, like other halides, is a monovalent ion . Its compounds often have properties that are...

     in toothpaste and public drinking water
  • Richard Dorson
    Richard Dorson
    Richard Mercer Dorson was an American folklorist, author, professor, and director of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University.Dorson was born in New York City. He studied at the Phillips Exeter Academy from 1929 to 1933....

    , folklorist
  • Frank K. Edmondson
    Frank K. Edmondson
    Frank K. Edmondson was an American astronomer.-Life and career:Edmondson was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and grew up in Seymour, Indiana...

    , astronomer
  • Carl H. Eigenmann
    Carl H. Eigenmann
    Carl H. Eigenmann was an ichthyologist who, along with his wife Rosa Smith Eigenmann, described many of the fishes of North America and South America for the first time....

    , an ichthyologist who described over 150 species of fish with wife Rosa Smith Eigenmann
    Rosa Smith Eigenmann
    Rosa Smith Eigenmann was the first notable female ichthyologist; first publishing in her own right, she later collaborated with her husband Carl H. Eigenmann, and some 150 species of fish are today credited "Eigenmann & Eigenmann" as a result.She was born in Monmouth, Illinois, the last of nine...

  • Eileen Farrell
    Eileen Farrell
    Eileen Farrell was an American soprano who had a nearly 60 year long career performing both classical and popular music in concerts, theatres, on radio and television, and on disc. While she was active as an opera singer, her concert engagements far outnumbered her theatrical appearances...

    , famous opera and concert singer, later professor of music at IU
  • J. Rufus Fears
    J. Rufus Fears
    J. Rufus Fears is an American historian, scholar, teacher and author on the subjects of ancient history, the history of liberty, and the lessons of history....

    , David Ross Boyd Professor of Classics and G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty. The University of Oklahoma,
  • Paul Gebhard
    Paul Gebhard
    Paul H. Gebhard, born , was an American anthropologist and sexologist. Born in Rocky Ford, Colorado, he earned a B.S. and a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1940 and 1947, respectively. Gebhard followed Alfred Kinsey as the second director of the Kinsey Institute and served in that capacity from 1956 to...

    , anthropologist who later became part of Alfred Kinsey
    Alfred Kinsey
    Alfred Charles Kinsey was an American biologist and professor of entomology and zoology, who in 1947 founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, now known as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, as well as producing the Kinsey Reports and the Kinsey...

    's original research team
  • Josef Gingold
    Josef Gingold
    Josef Gingold was a Russian-Jewish-born classical violinist and teacher, who lived most of his life in the United States...

    , violin teacher and founder of the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis
  • Paul Hillier
    Paul Hillier
    Paul Douglas Hillier is a conductor, music director and baritone. He specializes in early music and contemporary art music, especially that by composers Steve Reich and Arvo Pärt. He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford and the Guildhall School of Music, beginning his professional career while a...

    , choral conductor (most notably of Theatre of Voices
    Theatre of Voices
    Theatre of Voices is a vocal ensemble founded by baritone Paul Hillier in 1992; it focuses on early music and new music.The ensemble was formed by Paul Hillier while he was teaching at the University of California, Davis, as an avenue to performing more contemporary music while his other group, the...

    )
  • David Starr Jordan
    David Starr Jordan
    David Starr Jordan, Ph.D., LL.D. was a leading eugenicist, ichthyologist, educator and peace activist. He was president of Indiana University and Stanford University.-Early life and education:...

    , ichthyologist, educator and peace activist, and founding President of Stanford University
  • Alfred Kinsey
    Alfred Kinsey
    Alfred Charles Kinsey was an American biologist and professor of entomology and zoology, who in 1947 founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, now known as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, as well as producing the Kinsey Reports and the Kinsey...

    , pioneer of the academic discipline of sexology
    Sexology
    Sexology is the scientific study of human sexuality, including human sexual interests, behavior, and function. The term does not generally refer to the non-scientific study of sex, such as political analysis or social criticism....

     in the United States, founder of the Kinsey Institute and author of the Kinsey Reports
    Kinsey Reports
    The Kinsey Reports are two books on human sexual behavior, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female , by Dr. Alfred Kinsey, Wardell Pomeroy and others and published by Saunders...

  • Daniel Kirkwood
    Daniel Kirkwood
    Daniel Kirkwood was an American astronomer.Born in Harford County, Maryland, he was graduated in mathematics from the York County Academy in York, Pennsylvania in 1838...

    , astronomer famous for his work on asteroids, discoverer of Kirkwood gap
    Kirkwood gap
    A Kirkwood gap is a gap or dip in the distribution of main-belt asteroids with semi-major axis , as seen in the histogram below...

    s
  • Bob Knight, head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers
    Indiana Hoosiers
    The Indiana Hoosiers are the athletic teams for the Bloomington campus of Indiana University . Athletic teams sponsored by IU Bloomington include cross country, track, baseball, golf, tennis, rowing, volleyball, soccer, football and basketball...

     men's basketball team from 1971 to 2000
  • Yusef Komunyakaa
    Yusef Komunyakaa
    Yusef Komunyakaa is an American poet who currently teaches at New York University and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Komunyakaa is a recipient of the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, for Neon Vernacular and the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He also received the Ruth Lilly...

    , Pulitzer-Prize winning poet
  • Alfred R. Lindesmith
    Alfred R. Lindesmith
    Alfred Ray Lindesmith was an Indiana University professor of sociology. He was among the early scholars providing a rigorous and thoughtful account of the nature of addiction....

    , sociologist, author of The Addict and the Law
  • Salvador Luria, pioneer of molecular biology
    Molecular biology
    Molecular biology is the branch of biology that deals with the molecular basis of biological activity. This field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry...

    , winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine
    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...

  • Hermann Joseph Muller
    Hermann Joseph Muller
    Hermann Joseph Muller was an American geneticist, educator, and Nobel laureate best known for his work on the physiological and genetic effects of radiation as well as his outspoken political beliefs...

    , geneticist
    Geneticist
    A geneticist is a biologist who studies genetics, the science of genes, heredity, and variation of organisms. A geneticist can be employed as a researcher or lecturer. Some geneticists perform experiments and analyze data to interpret the inheritance of skills. A geneticist is also a Consultant or...

    , zoologist and winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine
    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...

  • Craig Nelson, evolutionary biologist and 2000 U.S. Professor of the Year
  • Thubten Jigme Norbu, Buddhist monk and professor of Central Eurasian Studies; elder brother of the Dalai Lama
    Dalai Lama
    The Dalai Lama is a high lama in the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" branch of Tibetan Buddhism. The name is a combination of the Mongolian word далай meaning "Ocean" and the Tibetan word bla-ma meaning "teacher"...

  • Vikram Pandit
    Vikram Pandit
    Vikram S. Pandit is an Indian-born American business executive. He is the current CEO of Citigroup.-Early life:Vikram Pandit was born in Nagpur, India to an affluent Marathi family . His father, S B Pandit was an executive director at Sarabhai Chemicals in Baroda. He completed his schooling at the...

    , CEO Citigroup
    Citigroup
    Citigroup Inc. or Citi is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. Citigroup was formed from one of the world's largest mergers in history by combining the banking giant Citicorp and financial conglomerate...

  • Edward Alsworth Ross, sociologist, educator, and President of the American Sociological Society who crusaded against unfair labor practices against Chinese immigrants and was indirectly responsible for the establishment of the tenure system
  • Gyorgy Sebok
    Gyorgy Sebok
    György Sebők was an internationally renowned pianist and Distinguished Professor at the Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington USA....

    , pianist
  • B.F. Skinner, psychologist
    Psychologist
    Psychologist is a professional or academic title used by individuals who are either:* Clinical professionals who work with patients in a variety of therapeutic contexts .* Scientists conducting psychological research or teaching psychology in a college...

    , pioneer of operant conditioning
    Operant conditioning
    Operant conditioning is a form of psychological learning during which an individual modifies the occurrence and form of its own behavior due to the association of the behavior with a stimulus...

     model
  • Edwin Sutherland
    Edwin Sutherland
    Edwin H. Sutherland was an American sociologist. He is considered as one of the most influential criminologists of the twentieth century...

    , one of the most influential criminologists of the 20th century
  • James Alexander Thom
    James Alexander Thom
    James Alexander Thom is an American author, most famous for his works in the Western genre and colonial American history; known for their historical accuracy borne of his painstaking research. Born in Gosport, Indiana, he graduated from Butler University and served in the United States Marine Corps...

    , novelist, writer of historical fiction
  • Stith Thompson
    Stith Thompson
    Stith Thompson was an American scholar of folklore. He is the "Thompson" of the Aarne-Thompson classification system.- Biography :...

    , folklorist
  • Iannis Xenakis
    Iannis Xenakis
    Iannis Xenakis was a Romanian-born Greek ethnic, naturalized French composer, music theorist, and architect-engineer. He is commonly recognized as one of the most important post-war avant-garde composers...

    , composer
  • Jerry Yeagley
    Jerry Yeagley
    Jerry Yeagley was the coach of the Indiana University men's soccer team from 1973 to 2003. His teams won six NCAA Championships and a Division I record 544 games...

    , coach of the Indiana Hoosiers
    Indiana Hoosiers
    The Indiana Hoosiers are the athletic teams for the Bloomington campus of Indiana University . Athletic teams sponsored by IU Bloomington include cross country, track, baseball, golf, tennis, rowing, volleyball, soccer, football and basketball...

     men's soccer
    College soccer
    College soccer is a term used to describe association football played by teams who are operated by colleges and universities as opposed to a professional league operated for exclusively financial purposes...

     team from 1974 to 2003 with an NCAA
    National Collegiate Athletic Association
    The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States...

     record 544 wins
  • Virginia Zeani
    Virginia Zeani
    Virginia Zeani is a Romanian soprano, particularly associated with the Italian repertory, especially the role of in "La traviata".-Early life:Zeani was born Virginia Zehan, in Solovăstru, Romania...

    , world-famous operatic soprano
  • Max August Zorn
    Max August Zorn
    Max August Zorn was a German-born American mathematician. He was an algebraist, group theorist, and numerical analyst. He is best known for Zorn's lemma, a powerful tool in set theory that is applicable to a wide range of mathematical constructs such as vector spaces, ordered sets, etc...

    , mathematician and originator of Zorn's lemma
    Zorn's lemma
    Zorn's lemma, also known as the Kuratowski–Zorn lemma, is a proposition of set theory that states:Suppose a partially ordered set P has the property that every chain has an upper bound in P...


Current notable faculty

  • Martina Arroyo
    Martina Arroyo
    Martina Arroyo is an operatic soprano of Puerto Rican and African-American descent who had a major international opera career during the 1960s through the 1980s...

    , operatic soprano
  • David Baker, notable jazz cellist and educator
  • Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig
    Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig
    Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig is Professor and Chair of Second Language Studies at Indiana University ....

    , applied linguist
  • Willis Barnstone
    Willis Barnstone
    Willis Barnstone is an American poet, memoirist, translator, Hispanist, and comparatist. He has translated the Ancient Greek poets and the complete fragments of the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus . He is also a New Testament and Gnostic scholar.-Life:Born in Lewiston, Maine, Barnstone grew...

    , poet and translator
  • Joshua Bell
    Joshua Bell
    Joshua David Bell is an American Grammy Award-winning violinist.-Childhood:Bell was born in Bloomington, Indiana, United States, the son of a psychologist and a therapist. Bell's father is the late Alan P...

    , Grammy Award-winning violinist
  • Matei Călinescu
    Matei Calinescu
    Matei Călinescu was a Romanian literary critic and professor of comparative literature at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana....

    , Romanian literary critic and author of Five Faces of Modernity
  • James Campbell
    James Campbell (clarinetist)
    James Campbell is a Canadian/American clarinetist. James Campbell has followed his muse to five television specials, more than 40 recordings, over 30 works commissioned, a Juno Award , a Roy Thomson Hall Award, Canada's Artist of the Year and the Order of Canada...

    , clarinetist
  • Raymond J. DeMallie
    Raymond J. DeMallie
    Raymond J. DeMallie is an American anthropologist whose work focuses on the cultural history of the peoples of the Northern Plains, particularly the Lakota. His work is informed by interrelated archival, museum-based, and ethnographic research in a manner characteristic of the ethnohistorical...

    , anthropologist
  • Richard DiMarchi
    Richard DiMarchi
    Richard D. DiMarchi is the current Chairman in Biomolecular Sciences and Professor of Chemistry at Indiana University. He is most notable for his work as a former Vice President at Eli Lilly and Company....

    , Linda & Jack Gill Chair in Biomolecular Sciences, played an integral part in the creation of humalog, the first synthetic insulin analog.
  • R. Kent Dybvig
    R. Kent Dybvig
    R. Kent Dybvig is a professor of Computer Science at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.His research focuses on programming languages, and he is known in the Lisp community as the principal developer of the Chez Scheme compiler and run-time system. Together with Daniel P...

    , computer scientist, creator of Chez Scheme
    Chez Scheme
    Chez Scheme is a proprietary Scheme implementation by R. Kent Dybvig, first released in 1985, which uses incremental native-code compilation to produce native binaries for the PowerPC, SPARC; x86 and x86-64 processor architectures...

  • Eli Eban
    Eli Eban
    Eli Eban is an Israeli-American clarinetist and son of the venerable late Israeli diplomat Abba Eban.-Education:Eli Eban was born in New York and received his early musical training in Israel, studying the clarinet with Richard Lesser and Yona Ettlinger...

    , clarinetist and professor of music
  • Janette Fishell, world renowned concert organist
  • Daniel P. Friedman
    Daniel P. Friedman
    Daniel Paul Friedman is a professor of Computer Science at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. His research focuses on programming languages, and he is a prominent author in the field....

    , computer scientist
  • George M. von Furstenberg
    George M. von Furstenberg
    Professor Doctor George M. von Furstenberg is a noted economist, currently serving as the James H. Rudy Professor of Economics at Indiana University and best known for his work in the areas of monetary policy, free trade policy and international finance....

    , economist
  • Henry Glassie
    Henry Glassie
    Henry H. Glassie III is a folklorist and emeritus College Professor of Folklore at Indiana University Bloomington. With specializations in folk art, folklife, vernacular architecture and material culture, Glassie has written nearly twenty books on folklore of the areas of Ireland, Turkey,...

    , folklorist. Author of Irish Folktales, The Potter's Art, and many other books; former member of President's Council for the Humanities
  • Susan Gubar
    Susan Gubar
    Dr. Susan D. Gubar is an American academic and Distinguished Professor of English and Women's Studies at Indiana University. She is co-author with Dr. Sandra M. Gilbert of the standard feminist text, The Madwoman in the Attic and a trilogy on women's writing in the twentieth century.Her book...

    , literary scholar of feminist theory and literature written by women
  • Douglas Hofstadter
    Douglas Hofstadter
    Douglas Richard Hofstadter is an American academic whose research focuses on consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics...

    , Pulitzer prize winner, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach
    Gödel, Escher, Bach
    Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid is a book by Douglas Hofstadter, described by his publishing company as "a metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll"....

    , an IU professor of Cognitive Science
    Cognitive science
    Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary scientific study of mind and its processes. It examines what cognition is, what it does and how it works. It includes research on how information is processed , represented, and transformed in behaviour, nervous system or machine...

    , among other things.
  • Dawn Johnsen
    Dawn Johnsen
    Dawn Elizabeth Johnsen is an American lawyer and professor of Constitutional law, who is currently on the faculty at Maurer School of Law at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana...

    , President Barack Obama
    Barack Obama
    Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...

    's nominee for Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel.
  • Jaime Laredo
    Jaime Laredo
    Jaime Laredo is a violinist and conductor. Currently the conductor and Music Director of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, he began his musical career when he was five years old. In 1948 he came to North America and took lessons from Antonio DeGrass...

    , Grammy Award-winning violinist and conductor
  • Maurice Manning
    Maurice Manning (poet)
    Maurice Manning is an American poet. His first collection of poems, Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions was awarded the Yale Younger Poets Award, chosen by W.S. Merwin....

    , Poet
  • Sylvia McNair
    Sylvia McNair
    Sylvia McNair is an American opera singer and classical recitalist who has also achieved notable success in the Broadway and cabaret genres. McNair, a soprano, has made several critically acclaimed recordings and has won two Grammy Awards....

    , Grammy Award-winning soprano
  • John Holmes McDowell
    John Holmes McDowell
    John Holmes McDowell is a Professor in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University Bloomington. He also serves as Director of the Minority Languages and Cultures of Latin America Project at Indiana University. Broadly speaking his work is centered on performance and...

    , Professor of Folklore Studies, Latin American Studies Scholar
  • James Naremore
    James Naremore
    James Naremore, born James Otis Naremore, is a film and comparative literature scholar based at Indiana University. Now retired, he retains the titles of Chancellor's Professor of Speech Communication, Chancellor's Professor of Comparative Literature, Chancellor's Professor of English, and...

    , film scholar
  • Elinor Ostrom
    Elinor Ostrom
    Elinor Ostrom is an American political economist. She was awarded the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, which she shared with Oliver E. Williamson, for "her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons." She was the first, and to date, the only woman to win the prize in...

    , Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, co-recipient of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
    Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
    The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics, but officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel , is an award for outstanding contributions to the field of economics, generally regarded as one of the...

  • James L. Perry
    James L. Perry
    James L. Perry began his career in academia in 1974 at University of California, Irvine. After an 11-year career at UC – Irvine, which included positions as Associate Dean and Doctoral Program Coordinator, Perry began his tenure at Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs...

    , Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs
  • Menahem Pressler
    Menahem Pressler
    Menahem Pressler is a German-born American pianist, founding member of the Beaux Arts Trio.-Professional career:...

    , pianist of Beaux Arts Trio
    Beaux Arts Trio
    The Beaux Arts Trio was a noted piano trio. They made their debut on July 13, 1955 at the Berkshire Music Festival, known today as the Tanglewood Music Center. Their final American concert was held at Tanglewood on August 21, 2008. It was webcast live and archived on NPR Music...

     fame
  • Rudolf Raff, Evolutionary biologist. Founder of the biological
    Biology
    Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...

     sub-discipline of Developmental Evolution
    Evolutionary developmental biology
    Evolutionary developmental biology is a field of biology that compares the developmental processes of different organisms to determine the ancestral relationship between them, and to discover how developmental processes evolved...

     (Evo-devo). Author of The Shape of Life and commentator on PBS special of the same name.
  • Scott Russell Sanders, essayist
  • Sven-David Sandström
    Sven-David Sandström
    Sven-David Sandström is a Swedish composer best known for his compositions operas, oratorios, battets, and choral works, as well as orchestral works.Sandström studied art history and musicology at Stockholm University...

    , composer
  • Elliot Sperling
    Elliot Sperling
    Elliot Sperling is Associate Professor of Central Eurasian Studies and an expert on the history of Tibet and Tibetan-Chinese relations at Indiana University.He earned his B.A. at Queens College , and his Ph.D...

    , scholar of Tibet
  • Olaf Sporns
    Olaf Sporns
    Olaf Sporns is Professor and Associate Department Chair at Indiana University.Dr. Sporns received his degree from Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen in Tübingen, West Germany before going to New York to study at the Rockefeller University under Gerald Edelman...

    , professor of Cognitive Science
    Cognitive science
    Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary scientific study of mind and its processes. It examines what cognition is, what it does and how it works. It includes research on how information is processed , represented, and transformed in behaviour, nervous system or machine...

    , Psychology
    Psychology
    Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...

    , and Neuroscience
    Neuroscience
    Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system. Traditionally, neuroscience has been seen as a branch of biology. However, it is currently an interdisciplinary science that collaborates with other fields such as chemistry, computer science, engineering, linguistics, mathematics,...

    , worked at the Neurosciences Institute http://www.nsi.edu with Gerald Edelman
    Gerald Edelman
    Gerald Maurice Edelman is an American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system. Edelman's Nobel Prize-winning research concerned discovery of the structure of antibody molecules...

  • Raymond Smullyan
    Raymond Smullyan
    Raymond Merrill Smullyan is an American mathematician, concert pianist, logician, Taoist philosopher, and magician.Born in Far Rockaway, New York, his first career was stage magic. He then earned a BSc from the University of Chicago in 1955 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1959...

    , philosophy professor emeritus, logician, mathematician
  • János Starker
    János Starker
    János Starker |Kingdom of Hungary]]) is a Hungarian-American cellist. Since 1958 he has taught at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he holds the title of Distinguished Professor.- Child prodigy :...

    , cellist
  • Giorgio Tozzi
    Giorgio Tozzi
    Giorgio Tozzi was for many years a leading bass with the Metropolitan Opera, as well as playing lead roles in nearly every major opera house worldwide.-Career:Tozzi was born George John Tozzi in Chicago, Illinois...

    , operatic bass and actor
  • Carol Vaness
    Carol Vaness
    Carol Vaness is an American lyric soprano.Carol Vaness was born in San Diego and launched her professional career in 1977 with the San Francisco Opera...

    , soprano
  • David Ward-Steinman
    David Ward-Steinman
    David Ward-Steinman is an American composer and music professor.Ward-Steinman studied at Florida State University and the University of Illinois, where he received the Kinley Memorial Fellowship for foreign study. After receiving his doctorate, he was a fellow at Princeton University from 1970...

    , composer
  • André Watts
    André Watts
    André Watts is a classical pianist and professor at the Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University.-Life and early performances:...

    , Grammy Award-winning classical pianist
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