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Purdue University

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
West Lafayette, IN

Founding Date:
1869

Team:
Boilermakers

Enrollment:
69,000

Official Website:
http://www.purdue.edu/

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
George Ade	Author	9-Feb-1866	16-May-1944	Fables in Slang
Alex Agase	Football	27-Mar-1922	3-May-2007	Head Coach at Northwestern, Purdue
Samuel R. Allen	Business	c. 1954		CEO of John Deere
Ted Allen	TV Personality	20-May-1965		Food & Wine Queer Eye guy
Neil Armstrong	Astronaut	5-Aug-1930	25-Aug-2012	First man on the Moon
William G. Bares	Business	c. 1941		CEO of Lubrizol, 1996-2003
Julia Barr	Actor	8-Feb-1949		Brooke English in All My Children
Joe Barton	Politician	15-Sep-1949		Congressman, Texas 6th
Birch Bayh	Politician	22-Jan-1928		US Senator from Indiana, 1963-81
Juan Ernesto de Bedout	Business	c. 1945		President, Kimberly-Clark Latin America
William E. Bindley	Business	6-Oct-1940		Founder of Bindley Western Industries
Michael J. Birck	Business	25-Jan-1938	6-Jul-2015	CEO of Tellabs, 1975-2004
Norman P. Blake, Jr.	Business	c. 1942		CEO of USF&G Corporation, 1990-97
Drew Brees	Football	15-Jan-1979		New Orleans Saints QB
David T. Brown	Business	c. 1948		CEO of Owens Corning, 2002-07
Earl Butz	Government	3-Jul-1909	2-Feb-2008	Ford's disgraced Secretary of Agriculture
Herman Cain	Business	13-Dec-1945		Godfather's Pizza
William W. Canfield	Business	c. 1938		TALX Corporation
James I. Cash, Jr.	Educator	c. 1948		Harvard Business School, 1976-2003
Jack Cashill	Author	15-Dec-1947		What's The Matter With California?
James E. Cayne	Business	c. 1934		CEO of Bear Stearns, 1992-2008
Gene Cernan	Astronaut	14-Mar-1934		Last man on the moon (Apollo 17)
Lee A. Chaden	Business	c. 1941		Chairman of Hanesbrands, 2006-08
Curtis J. Clawson	Government	28-Sep-1959		CEO of Hayes Lemmerz
James S. Coleman	Sociologist	12-May-1926	25-Mar-1995	Foundations of Social Theory
Dick Covey	Astronaut	1-Aug-1946		Shuttle astronaut
Ward Cunningham	Computer Programmer	26-May-1949		Wiki inventor
Harry K. Daghlian	Physicist	4-May-1921	15-Sep-1945	Casualty of the Manhattan Project
Len Dawson	Football	20-Jun-1935		KC Chiefs Quarterback
Donald DeFosset	Business	c. 1948		CEO of Walter Industries, 2000-05
Dorothy Denning	Scientist	12-Aug-1945		Professor, interest in encryption
Doug DeVos	Business	c. 1964		CEO of Alticor
Brent E. Dickson	Judge	1941		Justice, Indiana Supreme Court
Kenneth B. Dunn	Business	2-Nov-1951		Dean, Tepper School of Business, CMU
John A. Edwardson	Business	c. 1949		CEO of CDW
Thomas J. Engibous	Business	31-Jan-1953		CEO of Texas Instruments, 1996-2004
Michael L. Eskew	Business	28-Jun-1949		CEO of United Parcel Service, 2002-07
Dan Farmer	Computer Programmer	5-Apr-1962		Cowrote SATAN security auditing tool
Forest J. Farmer	Business	15-Jan-1941		Trillium Teamologies
Kirk Fordice	Politician	10-Feb-1934	7-Sep-2004	Governor of Mississippi, 1992-2000
Paul W. Glad	Historian	15-Aug-1926		The Trumpet Soundeth
Patricia A. Graham	Educator	1935		Dean of Harvard GSE, 1982-91
Gary A. Grappo	Diplomat	c. 1950		US Ambassador to Oman
Mike Gray	Author	26-Oct-1935	30-Apr-2013	The China Syndrome
Bob Griese	Football	3-Feb-1945		Dolphins QB #12
Abbie J. Griffin	Educator	c. 1952		Business Professor at UIUC
Gus Grissom	Astronaut	3-Apr-1926	27-Jan-1967	Second American in space
David A. Hager	Business	14-Oct-1956		COO of Kerr-McGee, 2005-06
John H. Hager	Politician	28-Aug-1936		Lt. Governor of Virginia, 1998-2002
Nancy H. Handel	Business	c. 1950		CFO of Applied Materials, 2004-06
Arthur G. Hansen	Educator	28-Feb-1925	5-Jul-2010	President of Purdue University, 1971-82
Clifford M. Hardin	Government	9-Oct-1915	4-Apr-2010	US Secretary of Agriculture, 1969-71
Victoria F. Haynes	Business	c. 1947		CEO of RTI International
A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.	Judge	25-Feb-1928	14-Dec-1998	Chief Justice, 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals
Wayne T. Hockmeyer	Business	c. 1944		MedImmune
Thomas R. Hodgson	Business	c. 1941		President of Abbott Laboratories, 1990-98
Jack Horkheimer	Astronomer	11-Jun-1938	20-Aug-2010	Naked-eye astronomer
Jim Jontz	Politician	18-Dec-1951	14-Apr-2007	Congressman from Indiana, 1987-93
Kevin T. Kabat	Business	c. 1956		CEO of Fifth Third Bancorp
William E. Kassling	Business	c. 1945		Twice CEO of Wabtec
Terrence J. Keating	Business	c. 1950		CEO of Accuride, 2002-08
Renu Khator	Educator	29-Jun-1955		President, University of Houston
Karl J. Krapek	Business	1948		COO of United Technologies, 1999-2002
Mercedes Lackey	Novelist	24-Jun-1950		Valdemar series
Brian Lamb	Talk Show Host	9-Oct-1941		Founded C-SPAN
Howard L. Lance	Business	1955		CEO of Harris Corporation
Marshall O. Larsen	Business	c. 1948		CEO of Goodrich
Harry G. Leslie	Politician	6-Apr-1878	10-Dec-1937	Governor of Indiana, 1929-33
Floyd D. Loop	Doctor	c. 1936		Cleveland Clinic Foundation
William P. Madar	Business	c. 1939		CEO of Nordson Corp., 1986-97
Marjorie Magner	Business	1949		Former Citibank executive
Sally Mason	Educator	c. 1950		President, University of Iowa
Matthew E. Massengill	Business	12-Apr-1961		CEO of Western Digital, 2000-05
George Barr McCutcheon	Novelist	26-Jul-1866	23-Oct-1928	Brewster's Millions
John McKay	Football	5-Jul-1923	10-Jun-2001	USC Trojans Head Coach, 1960-75
E. Marie McKee	Business	c. 1950		Senior VP at Corning
David McKinley	Politician	28-Mar-1947		Congressman, West Virginia 1st
Daniel J. Meyer	Business	c. 1936		CEO of Milacron, 1990-2001
Cynthia A. Montgomery	Educator	c. 1952		Professor at Harvard Business School
Ben R. Mottelson	Physicist	9-Jul-1926		Determined shapes of nuclei
Ei-ichi Negishi	Chemist	14-Jul-1935		Palladium-catalyzed cross couplings
Matt Painter	Basketball	27-Aug-1970		Purdue Head Coach
George Peppard	Actor	1-Oct-1928	8-May-1994	The A Team
Bart Peterson	Politician	15-Jun-1958		Mayor of Indianapolis
E. M. Purcell	Physicist	30-Aug-1912	7-Mar-1997	Nuclear magnetic resonance
Marilyn Quayle	First Lady	29-Jul-1949		Wife of Dan Quayle
C. N. R. Rao	Chemist	30-Jun-1934		Chemistry of superconductivity
Orville Redenbacher	Scientist	16-Jul-1907	19-Sep-1995	Popcorn maker
James T. Rhodes	Business	c. 1941		CEO of Virginia Electric & Power, 1989-97
Donald B. Rice	Business	4-Jun-1939		Secretary of the US Air Force, 1989-93
Michael T. Riordan	Business	c. 1950		CEO of Fort Howard Corporation, 1996-97
Shabbir Safdar	Activist	c. 1965		Internet PR guru
Michael M. Sears	Business	16-Jul-1947		CFO of Boeing, 2000-03
Robert F. Sharpe, Jr.	Business	c. 1952		EVP at ConAgra
Bradley T. Sheares	Business	1957		CEO of Reliant Pharmaceuticals
Wayne H. Shortridge	Attorney	1938		Partner, Carlton Fields
Albert K. W. Siu	Business	?		Chief Learning Officer at AT&T, 1996-2002
Richard F. Smith	Business	c. 1960		CEO of Equifax
Hugo F. Sonnenschein	Economist	1941		President, University of Chicago, 1993-2000
Sidney Souers	Government	30-Mar-1892	14-Jan-1973	CIA Director, 1946
Scott M. Sperling	Business	c. 1958		Thomas H. Lee Partners
Kevin Stallings	Basketball	1-Oct-1960		Vanderbilt Head Coach
Hank Stram	Football	3-Jan-1923	4-Jul-2005	Hall-of-fame NFL coach, KC Chiefs
John M. Stropki	Business	c. 1950		CEO of Lincoln Electric Holdings
Chesley Sullenberger	Aviator	23-Jan-1951		Landed Flight 1549 on the Hudson River
Akira Suzuki	Chemist	12-Sep-1930		Palladium-catalyzed cross couplings
Richard J. Swift	Business	c. 1944		CEO of Foster Wheeler, 1994-2001
Booth Tarkington	Novelist	29-Jul-1869	19-May-1946	The Magnificent Ambersons
Donald Thompson	Business	1963		President, McDonalds USA
James A. Thomson	Administrator	21-Jan-1945		President and CEO, Rand Corporation
Michael C. Thurk	Business	c. 1953		COO of Avaya
David M. Upton	Business	c. 1959		Professor at HBS
Larry N. Vanderhoef	Educator	20-Mar-1941	15-Oct-2015	Chancellor of UC Davis, 1994-2009
Daniel von Bargen	Actor	5-Jun-1950	1-Mar-2015	Kruger on Seinfeld
Donald L. Wass	Business	29-Jul-1932		William Oncken Company
Bettina M. Whyte	Business	c. 1949		Alvarez & Marsal Holdings LLC
Claude R. Wickard	Government	28-Feb-1893	29-Apr-1967	US Secretary of Agriculture, 1940-45
Carolyn Y. Woo	Educator	c. 1953		Dean, Mendoza College of Business
John Wooden	Basketball	14-Oct-1910	4-Jun-2010	Winningest-ever college basketball coach
William Young	Business	c. 1965		Goldman Sachs
William D. Young	Scientist	c. 1944		Monogram Biosciences

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Herbert C. Brown	Chemist	22-May-1912	19-Dec-2004	Discovered organoboranes
Earl Butz	Government	3-Jul-1909	2-Feb-2008	Ford's disgraced Secretary of Agriculture
Jean-Lou Chameau	Educator	1953		President, California Institute of Technology
Leon Chua	Scientist	28-Jun-1936		Hypothesized the memristor
Dorothy Denning	Scientist	12-Aug-1945		Professor, interest in encryption
Joseph S. Francisco	Chemist	1955		Atmospheric chemist
William H. Gass	Novelist	30-Jul-1924		The Tunnel
Mark Harris	Novelist	19-Nov-1922	30-May-2007	Bang the Drum Slowly
Jeffrey M. Lacker	Economist	27-Sep-1955		President and CEO, Richmond Fed
Frank Lambert	Historian	17-Apr-1943		The Barbary Wars
Leslie Lenkowsky	Government	30-Mar-1946		Philanthropic Studies
Frederick W. Marks III	Historian	13-Nov-1940		Independence on Trial
Sally Mason	Educator	c. 1950		President, University of Iowa
Robert E. May	Historian	6-Jul-1943		The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire
Ei-ichi Negishi	Chemist	14-Jul-1935		Palladium-catalyzed cross couplings
Wolfgang Pauli	Physicist	25-Apr-1900	15-Dec-1958	Pauli Exclusion Principle
Steven B. Sample	Educator	29-Nov-1940	29-Mar-2016	President, University of Southern California, 1991-2010
William Saroyan	Author	31-Aug-1908	18-May-1981	The Time of Your Life
Julian Schwinger	Physicist	12-Feb-1918	16-Jul-1994	Quantum electrodynamics
Vernon L. Smith	Economist	1-Jan-1927		Experimental economics
Lewis C. Solmon	Economist	17-Jul-1942	17-Dec-2007	Education reformer
Gene Spafford	Computer Programmer	c. 1957		Spaf
Carolyn Y. Woo	Educator	c. 1953		Dean, Mendoza College of Business

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Steven C. Beering	Educator	20-Aug-1932		President of Purdue, 1983-2000
Michael J. Birck	Business	25-Jan-1938	6-Jul-2015	CEO of Tellabs, 1975-2004
Roger D. Branigin	Politician	26-Jul-1902	19-Nov-1975	Governor of Indiana, 1965-69
Earl Butz	Government	3-Jul-1909	2-Feb-2008	Ford's disgraced Secretary of Agriculture
France A. Córdova	Educator	5-Aug-1947		President, Purdue University
Arthur G. Hansen	Educator	28-Feb-1925	5-Jul-2010	President of Purdue University, 1971-82
Sally Mason	Educator	c. 1950		President, University of Iowa
Warren T. McCray	Politician	4-Feb-1865	19-Dec-1938	Governor of Indiana, 1921-24
Joseph P. Micatrotto	Business	c. 1951		CEO of Buca di Beppo, 1996-2004
Carolyn Y. Woo	Educator	c. 1953		Dean, Mendoza College of Business

COACHES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Alex Agase	Football	27-Mar-1922	3-May-2007	Head Coach at Northwestern, Purdue
Gene Keady	Basketball	21-May-1936		Purdue Head Coach, 1980-2005
Steve Lavin	Basketball	4-Sep-1964		UCLA Head Coach, 1996-2003
John Mackovic	Football	1-Oct-1943		NFL and NCAA football coach
Matt Painter	Basketball	27-Aug-1970		Purdue Head Coach
Fred Schaus	Basketball	30-Jun-1925	10-Feb-2010	Lakers Head Coach, 1960-67
Kevin Stallings	Basketball	1-Oct-1960		Vanderbilt Head Coach
Bruce Weber	Basketball	19-Oct-1956		Head Coach, Fighting Illini

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