List of Lehigh University alumni

This is a list of notable alumni of Lehigh University, an American private research university located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Academia

• David A. Bader (BSCompE, 1990; MSEE, 1991), professor at Georgia Tech
• Anthony G. Collins (D.Eng. Civil Eng., 1982), President, Clarkson University
• Peter D. Feaver (BA, 1983), member of the National Security Council in the Clinton and Bush administrations and professor at Duke University
• James D. Foley (BSEE, 1964), professor at Georgia Tech
• Kenneth French (Mech. E., 1976), Finance Department Chairman of Dartmouth College; President of American Finance Association
• Robert L. Ketter, former president of the University of Buffalo
• Robert J. Nemiroff (1987), professor of physics at Michigan Technological University; cofounder of Astronomy Picture of the Day and Astrophysics Source Code Library
• Walter C. Pitman, III (1956), Professor emeritus at Columbia University, expert on sea floor spreading
• Herman Schneider (1894), President of the University of Cincinnati and key developer of the concept of cooperative education
• James E. Talmage (Geology, 1884), former president of the University of Utah, author, and LDS apostle
• Paul Torgersen (B.S. Industrial Engr., 1953), former president of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Architecture

• Wallis Eastburn Howe (1889), attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, became noted Rhode Island architect

Business

• William Amelio (BS Chem. Eng., 1979), CEO of Lenovo
• Tom Bayer, member of the board of directors of the Reserve Bank of Vanuatu^[1]
• William Butterworth, President and Chairman of the Board, John Deere and Company
• Jack Dreyfus (1934), founder of the Dreyfus Fund
• Cathy Engelbert (1986), CEO of Deloitte
• Eugene Grace (1899), former president of Bethlehem Steel
• Richard Hayne (BA Anthropology 1969), co-founder of Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie and Free People
• Marc Holtzman (1982), Vice-Chairman Barclays Capital and Chairman of the Board of Kazkommertsbank in Kazakhstan
• Lee Iacocca (Industrial Eng. 1945, Hon D.Eng. 1965), former chairman of Chrysler Corporation
• Kevin J. Kennedy (1978), CEO of Avaya
• John E. McGlade, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Air Products & Chemicals
• Edward Avery McIlhenny (1896), CEO of McIlhenny Company, makers of Tabasco sauce
• James Ward Packard (Mech. E., 1884), co-founder of Packard Motor Company
• John R. Patrick (BS Electrical Engineering, 1967), former IBM vice president
• Joseph R. Perella (BS Business & Economics 1964), former chairman of Investment Banking, Morgan Stanley
• Paul Zane Pilzer (BA Journalism 1974), economist
• Fredrick D. Schaufeld (BA Government 1981), entrepreneur, venture capital investor
• Tsai Shengbai (1919), President of Mayar Silk Mills and developer of the modern silk industry in China
• Robert Zoellner (BS 1954), investor and stamp collector; second person to have assembled a complete collection of United States postage stamps; benefactor and namesake of the school's Zoellner Arts Center^[2]

Entertainment

• Dick Berg (1942), screenwriter
• Claire Byrne (BA Theater), actress
• Tracy Byrnes (1993), TV Business Reporter on Fox Business News^[3]
• Geoffrey Ciani (BA Political Science, 1998), independent filmmaker
• Jim Davidson (1985), actor, TV show Pacific Blue
• Paul Guilfoyle (1972), actor, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
• Maria Jacquemetton (BA English, 1983), Emmy, Golden Globe, Writer's Guild of America, and Peabody Award-winning writer and supervising producer of TV show Mad Men
• Don Most (1972), actor, Happy Days (attended Lehigh University but did not graduate) ^[4]
• Lori Murphy (BA 1990), actress, producer, and director
• Joe Praino, comedian, co-host of Dirty Sports and Kooks of Comedy podcasts
• Robert Riley (BA Theater, 2003), actor
• Cicero Salmon III (2003), actor
• Robert Stahl, author of You're No Good To Me Dead: Behind Japanese Lines in the Philippines
• Louis Clyde Stoumen (1939), Academy Award-winning director and producer
• Andrea Tantaros (2001), political contributor on Fox News Channel^[5]
• Irwin Young (BS Industrial Engineering, 1950), Academy Award-winning producer of Alambrista and Nothing But a Man

Journalism and literature

• Martin Baron (BA Journalism & MBA, both 1976), editor of The Washington Post, former editor of The Boston Globe^[6]
• William E. Coles, Jr. (BA English, 1953), novelist and professor
• Richard Harding Davis (1886), war correspondent, journalist and writer of fiction and drama
• Robert Gibb (MA English, 1976), poet, short-story writer, essayist, critic, editor, and professor
• Michael Golden (1971), publisher of The International Herald Tribune; Vice Chairman of The New York Times Company
• William P. Gottlieb (BS Business & Economics, 1939), jazz author and photographer
• Russell Lee (1925), photojournalist
• Edwin Lefèvre (1893), journalist, one of the first specializing in business coverage
• Erika Liodice (BS Business & Economics, 2003), novelist
• Serdar Özkan (BA Business Administration & Psychology), novelist
• David A. Randall (English, 1928), book dealer and librarian
• Len Roberts (PhD English, 1976), poet, translator, and professor
• Michael Smerconish (BA Government, 1984), author and radio commentator
• Les Whitten (BA English & Journalism, 1950), investigative reporter and novelist

Law

• Robert L. Clifford (1946), Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court
• James Cullen Ganey (1920), U.S. Federal Judge
• Ronald A. Guzman (1970), U.S. Federal Judge in Illinois
• Edwin Kneedler (1967), Deputy Solicitor General of the United States
• Malcolm Muir (1936), U.S. Federal Judge
• Donald F. Parsons (1973), Vice Chancellor of the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware
• Stephen Victor Wilson (1963), U.S. Federal Judge in California

Medicine

• Dr. Harry J. Buncke, plastic surgeon, called the "father of microsurgery"
• Dr. Steven J. Burakoff, cancer specialist; head of Mount Sinai Medical Center's Cancer Institute
• Dr. Gail Saltz, psychiatrist and TV commentator
• Dr. Sandra Welner, specialist in disabled women's healthcare

Military

• Maj. Gen. Peter Bayer (1984), US Army
• Maj. Ralph Cheli (1941), USAAF, awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for valor in World War II
• Rear Adm. Colin Kilrain (1982), US Navy SEAL, anti-terrorism expert, military attache to Mexico, PACCOM Special Ops Commander, NATO Special Ops Commander^[7][8]
• Maj. David M. Peterson (1915), fighter ace with the Lafayette Escadrille and US Army Air Service; credited with six victories; awarded the Distinguished Service Cross twice^[9]
• Brig Gen Edwin H. Simmons USMC (1942), veteran of the Battle of Chosin Reservoir and USMC Chief Historian
• Capt. Frank "Chuck" Spinney (BS Mech. Eng, 1967), USAFR, military analyst
• Gen. John H. Tilelli, Jr. (MBA 1972), Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army

Politics

• Pongpol Adireksarn (1964), Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand
• William David Blakeslee Ainey, United States Congressman
• Ali Al-Naimi (BS Geology 1962), Saudi Arabia Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources and Chairman of Aramco
• Carville Benson (1890), United States Congressman
• William A. Collins, state representative and four-term mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut, 1977-1981 and 1983-1987
• Charlie Dent (MPA, 1993), United States Congressman
• Geoff Diehl (1992), member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
• Clarence Ditlow III, (Bachelor of Science (BS) Chemical Engineering), advocate for automotive safety^[10]
• Manuel V. Domenech (1888), Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico; Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
• Lori Ehrlich (1985), member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
• Peter D. Feaver (BA, 1983), member of the National Security Council in the Clinton and Bush administrations; professor at Duke University
• Robert L. Freeman (MA History, 1984), member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives^[11]
• Walter O. Hoffecker (1877), U.S. House of Representatives
• Robert A. Hurley (1917), 73rd Governor of Connecticut
• Leonard Lance (Bachelor of Arts (BA), 1974), U.S. House of Representatives, 2008-, NJ-7 GOP
• Norton Lewis Lichtenwalner, U.S. House of Representatives
• Jennifer Mann (1991), member and Majority Caucus Secretary of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
• Robert Martin (Master of Arts (MA) History, 1971), New Jersey State Senator
• Paul F. McHale, Jr. (Bachelor of Arts (BA) Government, 1972), Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and former United States Congressman.
• Sal Panto Jr. (Master's 1980), Mayor of Easton, Pennsylvania
• Rufus King Polk (1887), U.S. House of Representatives
• Donald L. Ritter (Bachelor of Science (BS) Metallurgy, 1961), United States Congressman from the Fifteenth District, Pennsylvania, 1979–1993
• Richard Schmierer (1974), United States Ambassador to Oman
• David Sidikman (1956), New York State Assemblyman
• Donald William Snyder (MBA 1976), member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1981–2000; Majority Whip^[12]
• Edward J. Stack (1931), U.S. House of Representatives
• Guy Talarico (B.S.), member of the New Jersey General Assembly^[13]
• Richard Rahul Verma (BS Industrial Engineering,1990), United States Ambassador to India
• Francis E. Walter (1916), U.S. House of Representatives

Pulitzer Prize winners

• Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe (1886) 1925 Pulitzer Prize winner
• Joe Morgenstern (BA English, 1953), 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner
• Martin Baron (1976), editor of The Washington Post, former editor of The Boston Globe, 2003 Pulitzer Prize winner

Science and engineering

• Ali Al-Naimi (BS Geology, 1962), CEO, Saudi Aramco, formerly Arabian American Oil Company, 1984–1995; Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Saudi Arabia, 1995–present
• Walter C. Bachman (1933), authority on ship propulsion and Chief Engineer at Gibbs & Cox
• John-David F. Bartoe (BS Physics 1966), Space Shuttle astronaut and ISS research manager for NASA
• Stephen James Benkovic (1960), chemist
• William Bowie (C.E. 1895), geodetic engineer; namesake of Bowie Seamount
• Morris Llewellyn Cooke (BS Mech. E., 1895), known for his rural electrification efforts in the U.S. during the 1920s and 1930s
• Paul Corkum (PhD Theoretical Physics, 1972), attosecond physics and laser science
• Albert P. Crary (MS Physics), Antarctic explorer
• Philip Drinker (Chem Eng., 1917), co-inventor of the modern respirator^[14]
• William Elliott ( Civil Eng., 2018), perfected the peanut butter jelly sandwich
• Lt. Col. Terry Hart, USAF (BS Mech. E., 1968, Hon. D.Eng., 1988), NASA Space Shuttle astronaut
• Captain Nicholas H. Heck (AB 1903, BSCE 1904), geophysicist, seismologist, oceanographer, hydrographic surveyor, and United States Coast and Geodetic Survey officer
• Lester Hogan (PhD Physics 1950), microwave and semiconductor pioneer
• Gary G. Lash (MS, PhD 1980), geologist known for Marcellus Shale calculations, 2011 Foreign Policy Top 100 Global Thinkers
• Nelson J. Leonard (BS Chem. E., 1937), organic chemist elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 1955. Leonard was also an accomplished bass baritone vocalist.
• Bill Maloney (1980), mine drilling expert and participant in the Plan B rescue of miners during the 2010 Chilean mine disaster
• Daniel McFarlan Moore (1889), inventor of the Moore Light, predecessor to the neon and fluorescent lamp
• William S. Murray (1895), expert in electrical power generation and electrification of railroads
• Jesse W. Reno (BS Mech Eng., 1883), builder of the world's first escalator
• Robert Serber (BS Engineering Physics, 1930), physicist who participated in the Manhattan Project
• Lewis B. Stillwell (1885), expert on electrical distribution, President of the IEEE and 1935 winner of the IEEE Edison Medal
• John Texter (1949), engineer known for his work in applied dispersion technology and small particle science
• John M. Thome (1870) Director of the Argentine National Observatory (today Observatorio Astronómico de Córdoba)
• Richard Hawley Tucker (BS Civil Eng., 1887), astronomer; namesale of Tucker Crater on the Moon
• Claude Allen Porter Turner (BS Civil Eng., 1890), developed many early reinforced concrete techniques
• Aneesh Varma (2006), founder of Aire, known for work in behavior prediction algorithms
• J. Lamar Worzel (1941), geophysicist and oceanographer
• Zhou Ming-Zhen, Chinese paleontologist, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, recipient of the Romer-Simpson Medal

Sports

• Rabih Abdullah (1998), former NFL running back for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Chicago Bears, and New England Patriots
• Joe Alleva (BS Finance, 1975; MBA, 1976), athletics director at Louisiana State University; former the athletics director at Duke University^[15]
• Craig Anderson (1960), former MLB pitcher for the New York Mets and St. Louis Cardinals
• Lon Babby (BA Political Science, 1973), President of Phoenix Suns^[16]
• Adam Bergen (2004), National Football League tight end for Arizona Cardinals and Dallas Cowboys
• Timur Chernykh (2014), led Lehigh to first ever tennis patriot league championship in 2013, known as "the Russian legend"
• Snooks Dowd, Lehigh football star in 1918; Major League Baseball player
• John Fitch (BS Civil Eng., 1938), winner of Mille Miglia and Argentine Grand Prix^[17]
• Paul Hartzell (1976), former MLB pitcher, California Angels, Minnesota Twins, and Baltimore Orioles
• Bill Hoffman, football player
• Al Holbert (Mech. E. 1968), five-time IMSA GT Champion and member of International Motorsports Hall of Fame
• John Hill (1972), former National Football League Center for the New York Giants and New Orleans Saints
• Jarrod Johnson (1991), former National Football League Center/Offensive Guard for the Pittsburgh Steelers and San Diego Chargers
• Sean Keller (2013), Golf Captain of the 2013 season leading to 3 total team victories including a Patriot League Title at Saucon Valley CC and first NCAA regional bid
• Tim Mayer (1991), motorsports organizer and official; COO of IMSA and ALMS, ACCUS, FIA former CART official
• Matt McBride, Major League Baseball outfielder for the Colorado Rockies
• C. J. McCollum (BA Journalism, 2013), NBA; led Lehigh to victory over Duke; first Lehigh player selected in the NBA Draft^[18]
• Kim McQuilken (1973), Lehigh football player and a former quarterback in the NFL for the Atlanta Falcons and Washington Redskins
• Rich Owens (1994), former National Football League defensive end for the Washington Redskins, Miami Dolphins, Kansas City Chiefs and Seattle Seahawks
• Vincent "Pat" Pazzetti (1912), Lehigh quarterback elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1961 and General Manager of Bethlehem Steel's Bethlehem plant
• Roger Penske (1959), NASCAR and IRL team owner; member of International Motorsports Hall of Fame
• Will Rackley (BA Design, 2011), National Football League offensive guard for the Jacksonville Jaguars^[19]
• Julius Seligson (1930), NCAA and ITA National Tennis Champion, Member, ITA Hall of Fame
• Scott Semptimphelter, football player
• Lake Underwood (Mech. E.), sports car racer
• Bobby Weaver (1981), gold medal winner, wrestling, 1984 Summer Olympics
• Finn Wentworth (1980), former owner of New Jersey Nets and President YankeeNets
• Adam Williamson (2005), MLS soccer player for the New England Revolution

Sociology

• Fayette Avery McKenzie (1895), prominent educator of the Progressive Era

References

1. "Going Worldwide from Vanuatu". Global Custodian. Winter 2001. Archived from the original on 2001-12-26. Retrieved 2013-12-14.
2. Staff. "Robert E. Zoellner ’54 dies at age 82", Lehigh University, December 31, 2014. Accessed December 31, 2014. "Zoellner, who graduated from Lehigh in 1954 with bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and engineering physics and later served as a Lehigh trustee, was a lifelong supporter of the university. In the early 1990s, he and his wife Victoria committed $6 million to establish the Zoellner Arts Center, a 105,000-square-foot performing arts venue on the Asa Packer campus that brought measurable change to the university and provides students and the surrounding community with unique opportunities for learning, performing and the visual arts."
3. Anchors & Reporters
4. http://www.genesiscreations.biz/Donny_Most_Bio.html
5. On Air Personalities
6. MacMillan, Amanda. "Marty Baron '76: The Baron of D.C.," Lehigh University Department of Journalism & Communication.
7. http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/U-S-Navy-Seal-becomes-military-attache-to-Mexico-3400982.php
8. http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/06/09/kilrain-promoted-special-ops-commander-nato-belgium.html
9. http://www.post254.us/major_david_mckelvey_peterson.htm
10. "Clarence M. Ditlow III, Auto Safety Crusader, Dies at 72)". The New York Times. November 13, 2016.
11. Official Pennsylvania House of Representatives Profile
12. "Donald William Snyder (Republican)". Official Pennsylvania House of Representatives Profile. Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Archived from the original on February 1, 2000.
13. Assemblyman Guy F. Talarico, New Jersey Legislature, backed up by the Internet Archive as of February 25, 1998. Accessed June 13, 2010.
14. Distinguished Alumni
15. Joe Alleva (biography) – Louisiana State University Athletics.
16. Cohen, Paula Hubbs. "Attorney of the Month: Lon Babby," Attorney At Law Magazine (Greater Phoenix Edition), March 2011.
17. http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Columns/articleId=116561
18. Olojede, Zion. "Lehigh alum C.J. McCollum named Kia NBA Most Improved Player," Lehigh University Athletics, Friday, April 22, 2016.
19. "Lehigh senior student-athletes conclude college careers," Lehigh University, Tuesday, May 24, 2011.