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This is a list of notable individuals associated with Case Western Reserve University , including students, alumni, and faculty.
[ edit ] Directors Anthony Russo and Joe Russo have directed world-famous blockbusters Captain America: The Winter Soldier Captain America: Civil War Avengers: Infinity War Avengers: Endgame Actor Rich Sommer appeared in Mad Men The Devil Wears Prada Barbara Allyne Bennet – actress and member of Screen Actors Guild (SAG) national board of directors (2005–2007)[ 1] James Card – longtime film curator at George Eastman House Mary Carruthers – among the world's foremost scholars on medieval religious literatureJanis Carter – film actress of 1940s and '50sGordon Cobbledick – J. G. Taylor Spink Award , the highest award given by the Baseball Writers' Association of America Brenda Miller Cooper – operatic sopranoFranklin Cover – actor, Tom Willis in The Jeffersons Jasmine Cresswell – best-selling author of over 50 romance novels William Eleroy Curtis – journalist, diplomat, and advocate of Pan-Americanism Anu Garg – author and speakerSusie Gharib – co-anchor of Nightly Business Report Gregg Gillis – musician; performs as Girl Talk Dorothy Hart – film actress of 1940s and '50sJan Hopkins – journalist (CNN financial news show Street Sweep )John Howard – actor, known for The Philadelphia Story Bulldog Drummond filmsHal Lebovitz – J. G. Taylor Spink Award , the highest award given by the Baseball Writers' Association of America Marc Parnell – second-most published ornithologist in the world, author of 41 bird-identification guidesM. Scott Peck – author of The Road Less Traveled self-help booksHarvey Pekar – comic book writer, creator of American Splendor Jack Perkins – dubbed "America's most literate correspondent" by Associated Press; reporter, commentator, war correspondent, anchorman; seen on NBC 's Nightly News and The Today Show A&E as host of Biography Alan Rosenberg – actor; played Ira Woodbine on TV series Cybill ER Screen Actors Guild in 2005Joe Russo and Anthony Russo – brothers, co-alumni, and directors of films Captain America: The Winter Soldier Captain America: Civil War Avengers: Infinity War Avengers: Endgame Welcome to Collinwood Arrested Development NBC 's Community [ 2] Alix Kates Shulman – author of Memoir of an Ex-Prom Queen and To Love What Is [ 3] Rich Sommer – MFA theater alumnus; appeared in The Devil Wears Prada Mad Men Upright Citizens Brigade Emma Rood Tuttle – writerThrity Umrigar – journalist; author of Bombay Time Andrew Vachss – lawyer and child protection consultant; author of the Burke Roger Zelazny – science fiction and fantasy author; three-time Nebula Award winner and six-time Hugo Award winner; works include Lord of Light Eye of Cat The Dream Master Business and philanthropy [ edit ] Craig Newmark (BS '75, MS '77), tech billionaire, philanthropist, founder of Craigslist Richard Thaler (BA '67) – one of the founders of behavioral economics and recipient of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics Government and military [ edit ] Dennis Kucinich , U.S. Representative (1997–2013) and U.S. presidential candidate (2004 and 2008 ) Don Thomas , former NASA Astronaut . (Physics BS '73) Elioda Tumwesigye , Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister of Science Technology & Innovation, Republic of Uganda John E. Barnes Jr. – member of Ohio House of Representatives Janet Bewley – member of the Wisconsin Legislature Justin Bibb – 58th and current mayor of Cleveland Zdravka Bušić – member of the European Parliament John Cairncross – Soviet spy and member of the Cambridge Five Thomas J. Carran (1841-1894) – Ohio State Senator[ 6] François-Philippe Champagne – Canadian Member of Parliament for Saint-Maurice—Champlain Schive Chi – governor of Fujian Province and Minister without Portfolio, Republic of China (Taiwan)Victor Ciorbea – Prime Minister of Romania (1996–1998)Bruce Cole – 8th chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities John Charles Cutler – acting chief of the venereal disease program in the United States Public Health Service and head of the Guatemala and the Tuskegee syphilis experiments Benjamin O. Davis Jr. – first African-American to receive star in US Air Force; awarded Distinguished Flying Cross in 1943; Assistant Secretary of Transportation under Richard Nixon Lincoln Díaz-Balart – U.S. Representative Alene B. Duerk – first female rear admiral in the United States Navy James A. Garfield – served on the University Board of TrusteesT. Keith Glennan – Case Institute of Technology President, first NASA AdministratorSubir Gokarn (Ph.D. ) – deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India Paul Hackett – Iraq War veteran and former Congressional candidateRutherford B. Hayes – 19th President of the United States of America, served on the University Board of TrusteesJohn Hutchins – former U.S. Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones – former U.S. Representative Ron Klein – U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich – former U.S. Representative Clarence Lam – Maryland State Senator [ 7] James Thomas Lynn – United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Richard Nixon ; Director of the Office of Management and Budget under Gerald Ford Josh Mandel (J.D. ) – Ohio State Treasurer Nicole Nason (J.D. ) – Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration Ogiame Atuwatse III – 21st Olu of Warri kingdomSalvatore Pais – Inventor and Aerospace Engineer, U.S. Navy and AirforceAlfredo Palacio – President of Ecuador , completed medical residency at CaseRaymond Stanton Patton (Ph.B. ) – rear admiral and first flag officer of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps Trista Piccola – former Director of the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth & Families Paul A. Russo – Ambassador of the United States to Barbados , Dominica , St Lucia , Antigua , St. Vincent , and St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla David Satcher – 16th Surgeon General of the United States Milton Shapp – governor of Pennsylvania and 1976 Democratic presidential candidateLouis Stokes – former U.S. RepresentativeDon Thomas – former NASA astronaut Elioda Tumwesigye – Member of Parliament Sheema North and Cabinet Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation Republic of Uganda Michael R. Turner – U.S. RepresentativeWilliam H. Upson – former U.S. RepresentativeAndrew R. Wheeler – Deputy Administrator (and Acting Administrator ) of the United States Environmental Protection Agency Milton A. Wolf – former U.S. Ambassador to AustriaSee Notable Graduates section Attorney Fred Gray represented Rosa Parks , Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. , and the Tuskegee syphilis experiment victims in his career. He marched from Selma to Montgomery . [ edit ] Case alum Herbert Henry Dow , founder of Dow Chemical Julie Gerberding , former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention John Macleod , 1923 Nobel Prize winner for discovering insulin and Western Reserve University Professor of PhysiologyFerid Murad , 1998 Nobel Laureate and Case Medical School MD/PhD alumnusDavid Satcher , former Surgeon General of the United States Peter B. Armentrout – distinguished chemistry professor, University of Utah Roger Bacon – inventor of carbon fiber Hans Baumann – inventor and engineer[ 8] Paul Berg – winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry , for biochemical characterization of recombinant DNA John Blangero – human geneticist; highly cited scientist in the field of complex disease geneticsMurielle Bochud – Swiss physician, co-chief of the Department of Epidemiology and Health Systems at the Unisanté in LausannePaul Buchheit – 23rd employee of Google and creator of Gmail Neil W. Chamberlain – economist and industrial relations scholar (A.B., 1937; M.A., 1939)Philippe G. Ciarlet – mathematician known for work on finite element method ; received his Ph.D. from the Case Institute of Technology 1966 and was awarded the Légion d'honneur in 1999Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez – biomedical engineer who works on scaffolds for tissue regenerationM. Jamal Deen , CM – Order of Canada and Senior Canada Research Chair in Information Technology at McMaster University [ 9] Conor P. Delaney – colorectal surgeon known for laparoscopy and developing enhanced recovery pathwaysHerbert Henry Dow – founder of Dow Chemical Slayton A. Evans Jr. – research chemist and professorXyla Foxlin – engineer, entrepreneur and YouTuber[ 10] H. Jack Geiger – founding member and past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility and Physicians for Human Rights Julie Gerberding – first woman director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Alfred G. Gilman – co-winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , for co-discovery of G proteins Donald A. Glaser – winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics , for invention of the bubble chamber Millicent Goldschmidt – microbiologist, worked on NASA Lunar Receiving Laboratory and University of Texas Siegfried S. Hecker – director of Los Alamos National Laboratory (1986–1997)Joseph A. Helpern – emeritus professor at Medical University of South Carolina Corneille Heymans – winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on carotid sinus reflex Samuel Hibben – pioneer in blacklight technology; designed the lighting displays for the Statue of Liberty and other national monumentsBambang Hidayat – astronomer, former Vice-President of the International Astronomical Union George H. Hitchings – co-winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for research leading to development of drugs to treat leukemia, organ transplant rejection, gout, herpes virus, and AIDS-related bacterial and pulmonary infectionsRobert W. Kearns – inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper systems used on most automobiles since 1969; won one of the best-known patent infringement cases against a major corporationDonald Knuth – computer scientist and winner of the Turing Award (1974)[ 11] Lawrence M. Krauss – physicist in the field of dark energy ; bestselling author (The Physics of Star Trek Polykarp Kusch – winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics, for determining the magnetic moment of the electronGeorge Trumbull Ladd (1842–1921) – philosopher, educator, and psychologist; first foreigner to receive the Second (conferred in 1907) and Third (conferred in 1899) Orders of the Rising Sun Paul C. Lauterbur – co-winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , for discoveries leading to creation of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Matthew N. Levy – cardiac physiologist and textbook authorJohn Macleod – co-winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for discovery of insulin Sidney Wilcox McCuskey – astronomer noted for his work on the Milky Way galaxyAlbert A. Michelson – winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physics, for disproving existence of "ether"; first American to receive a Nobel PrizeEdward Morley – performed interferometry experiment with MichelsonFerid Murad – co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for role in the discovery of nitric oxide in cardiovascular signalingGeorge A. Olah – winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for contributions to carbocation chemistryAmit Patel – stem cell surgeon who demonstrated stem cell transplantation can treat congestive heart failure Raymond Stanton Patton (Ph.B. ) – engineer, rear admiral and first flag officer of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps and second Director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (1929–1937)M. Scott Peck – psychiatrist and author of The Road Less Traveled David Pedlar – Director of Research at the National Headquarters of Veterans Affairs Canada James Polshek – architect; designed William J. Clinton Presidential Library Edward C. Prescott – co-winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences , for theory on business cycles and economic policiesCharles Burleigh Purvis (1865) – leading physician at Howard University and the Freedmen's HospitalFrederick Reines – co-winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics, for the detection of the neutrino Barry Richmond – developer of the iThink simulation environmentFrederick C. Robbins – co-winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for work on polio virus, which led to development of polio vaccines; past president of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of SciencesM. Frank Rudy – inventor of the Nike air soleJohn Ruhl – physicist currently studying cosmic microwave background radiation David Satcher – U.S. Surgeon General under President Clinton ; first African-American director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Terry Sejnowski – pioneer in the field of neural networks and computational neuroscience; one of only ten living scientists to have been elected to all three national academies (IOM, NAS and NAE)Jesse Leonard Steinfeld – U.S. Surgeon General (1969–1973), noted for achieving widespread fluoridation of water, requiring prescription drugs to be effective, and strengthening the Surgeon General's warning on cigarettesEarl W. Sutherland – winner of 1971 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for establishing identity and importance of cyclic AMP in regulation of cell metabolismLars Georg Svensson – instrumental in the development of minimally invasive keyhole surgery and leader in aortic valve surgeryPeter Tippett – developer of the first anti-virus software, "Vaccine" (later sold and renamed Norton AntiVirus )Alfred Wilhelmi – biochemist, medical researcher, and academicCase alum Don Shula (MA Physical Education '53), former coach of the Miami Dolphins Ed Andrews – Major League Baseball playerJohn Badaczewski – professional football player for the Washington Redskins and Chicago Bears Steve Belichick – professional football player for the Detroit Lions and college football coach; father of NFL coach Bill Belichick Manute Bol – at one time the tallest player to play in the National Basketball Association Dick Booth – professional football player for the Detroit Lions Wendy Cohn (Termini) – sports attorney[ 12]
Esther Erb – marathon runnerEd Kagy – professional football player and founder of Gyro International William Kerslake – Olympic wrestler and co-inventor of the first ion thruster for space propulsionSandy Knott – Olympic runner for outdoor track and fieldWarren Lahr – NFL All-Pro defensive back who played 11 seasons with the Cleveland Browns Bill Lund – professional football player for the Cleveland Browns Ray Mack – professional baseball player for the Cleveland Indians , New York Yankees , and Chicago Cubs ; All-Star second baseman in 1940Michael McCaskey – chairman of the board, Chicago Bears Paul O'Dea – outfielder for the Cleveland Indians Peggy Parratt – professional football player credited for throwing the first forward pass in professional footballMilton C. Portmann – professional football player, CWRU Hall of Fame class of 1976 for football, track, and hockey; selected to the WRU 50-Year Football All-Star Team at offensive tacklePhil Ragazzo – professional football player for the Cleveland Rams , Philadelphia Eagles , and New York Giants Mike Rodak – professional football player for the Cleveland Rams , Detroit Lions , and Pittsburgh Steelers George Roman – professional football player for the New York Giants Frank Ryan – professional football player; quarterback for the Cleveland Browns ; holds a PhD in mathMickey Sanzotta – professional football player for the Detroit Lions Don Shula (MA Physical Education '53) – former coach of the Miami Dolphins , member of Pro Football Hall of Fame [ 13] Denny Shute – professional golfer, British Open and PGA Championship championBianca Smith – first black woman hired to coach for Major League Baseball , hired for the Boston Red Sox Mark Termini – Hall of Fame basketball player for Case Western Reserve University, sports attorney and NBA agent/contract negotiator[ 14] Del Wertz – professional football and baseball playerDan Whalen – Arena Football League quarterback for the Cleveland Gladiators and Orlando Predators Johnny Wilson – professional football player for the Cleveland Rams
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