List of Lehigh University people
This is a list of Lehigh University people, including former presidents, faculty, and alumni of Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, U.S..
Alumni
Academia
- David Bader, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and former Georgia Tech professor
- Anthony G. Collins, former Clarkson University president
- Peter Feaver, Duke University professor and former member of the National Security Council in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations
- James D. Foley, Georgia Tech professor and co-author, Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice
- Kenneth French, Dartmouth College finance department chairman and American Finance Association president
- Robert L. Ketter, former University of Buffalo president
- Andrew H. Knoll, Harvard University paleontologist and geologist and member of the National Academy of Sciences
- Ted London, Base of the Pyramid expert at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and William Davidson Institute senior research fellow
- Robert J. Nemiroff, Michigan Technological University professor of physics and co-founder of the Astronomy Picture of the Day and Astrophysics Source Code Library
- Paul C. Paris, Washington University in St. Louis professor emeritus and expert on fracture mechanics and material fatigue
- Walter C. Pitman, III, Columbia University professor emeritus and expert on sea floor spreading
- James R. Rice, Harvard University physicist and professor and member of the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering.
- Herman Schneider, University of Cincinnati former president and developer of cooperative education
- James E. Talmage, University of Utah former president, author, and LDS apostle
- John Texter, Eastern Michigan University professor emeritus, author, inventor, and co-founder of Strider Research Corporation
- Paul Torgersen, former
- Robert M. Gordon (psychologist)
Architecture
- Roland E. Borhek, designed the Rialto Theater and other buildings
- Wallis Eastburn Howe, architect
Business
- William Amelio, Avnet CEO and former Lenovo CEO
- Tom Bayer, Reserve Bank of Vanuatu director
- Patrice Banks, Girls Auto Clinic founder and author
- Scott A. Belair, Urban Outfitters co-founder
- Bob Born, Just Born president
- William Butterworth, Deere and Company president and chairman
- Steve Chang, Trend Micro co-founder and former CEO
- Stacey Cunningham, 67th president of the New York Stock Exchange
- Jack Dreyfus, Dreyfus Fund founder
- Cathy Engelbert, first female CEO of Deloitte and 1st Commissioner of the WNBA
- Murray H. Goodman, real estate developer
- Eugene Grace, former Bethlehem Steel president
- Richard Hayne, Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, and Free People co-founder
- Marc Holtzman, Barclays Capital vice chairman and Kazkommertsbank chairman
- Lee Iacocca, former Chrysler chairman
- Kevin J. Kennedy, Avaya CEO
- John E. McGlade, Air Products chairman, president, and CEO
- Reginald Lenna, Blackstone Inc. CEO
- Edward Avery McIlhenny, McIlhenny Company CEO]
- Henry H. Minskoff, real estate developer
- James Ward Packard, Packard co-founder
- John R. Patrick, former IBM vice president
- Joseph R. Perella, former investment banking chairman at Morgan Stanley
- Paul Zane Pilzer, economist
- Barry Rosenstein, hedge fund manager
- Ronald E. Sander, current Head of FX at Webster Bank
- Fredrick D. Schaufeld, entrepreneur and venture capital investor
- Tsai Shengbai, Mayar Silk Mills president and developer of the modern silk industry in China
- Fred Trump Jr., Trans World Airlines pilot and former executive and maintenance worker at The Trump Organization; older brother of Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States
- Fred Trump III, American author and advocate for people with disabilities, nephew of Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States
- Robert Zoellner, investor and stamp collector, the second person to have assembled a complete collection of United States postage stamps, and benefactor and namesake of the school's Zoellner Arts Center
Entertainment
- Dick Berg, screenwriter
- Jim Davidson, actor, Pacific Blue
- Brooke Eby, business development manager and social media personality
- Paul Guilfoyle, actor, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
- Maria Jacquemetton, Emmy, Golden Globe, Writers Guild of America, and Peabody Award-winning writer and supervising producer of Mad Men
- Romy Mars actress and singer, daughter of Sofia Coppola and Thomas Mars
- Don Most, actor, Happy Days
- Ian Riccaboni, host of All Elite Wrestling's Ring of Honor
- Louis Clyde Stoumen, Academy Award-winning director and producer
Journalism and literature
- Martin Baron, Washington Post editor and former Boston Globe editor
- Tracy Byrnes, Fox Business television reporter
- William E. Coles, Jr., novelist and professor
- Richard Harding Davis, war correspondent, journalist, and writer of fiction and drama
- Robert Gibb, poet, short-story writer, essayist, critic, editor, and professor
- Michael Golden, The International Herald Tribune publisher and vice chairman of The New York Times Company
- William P. Gottlieb, jazz author and photographer
- Russell Lee, photojournalist
- Edwin Lefèvre, one of the first journalists specialized on covering business
- David A. Randall, book dealer and librarian
- Len Roberts, poet, translator, and professor
- Stephanie Ruhle, MSNBC anchor and NBC News correspondent
- Michael Smerconish, author and radio commentator
- Andrea Tantaros, former Fox News Channel co-host and political contributor
- Les Whitten, investigative reporter and novelist
Law
- Edward N. Cahn, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania judge; The Edward Cahn Federal Building and Courthouse was named in his honor.
- Robert L. Clifford, New Jersey Supreme Court associate justice
- James Cullen Ganey, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit judge
- Ronald A. Guzman, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois judge
- Alina Habba, attorney for former U.S. president Donald Trump
- Edwin Kneedler, deputy solicitor general of the United States
- Paul Lewis Maloney, United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan judge
- Malcolm Muir, United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania judge
- Maryellen Noreika,United States District Court for the District of Delaware judge
- Donald F. Parsons, Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware vice chancellor
- Stephen Victor Wilson, United States District Court for the Central District of California judge
Medicine
- Harry J. Buncke, plastic surgeon called the "father of microsurgery"
- Steven J. Burakoff, cancer specialist and head of Mount Sinai Medical Center's cancer institute
- Frank L. Douglas, former TheVax Genetics Vaccine Company CEO and founder and first executive director of MIT's Center for Biomedical Innovation
- Stephen K. Klasko, Jefferson Health CEO
- Gail Saltz, psychiatrist and television commentator
- Sandra Welner, specialist in disabled women's healthcare
Military
- Ralph Cheli, USAAF, awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for valor in World War II
- General Timothy D. Haugh, USAF, Director, National Security Agency
- Colin J. Kilrain, U.S. Navy SEAL, anti-terrorism expert, military attache to Mexico, PACCOM Special Ops Commander, NATO Special Ops Commander
- Daniel J. O'Neill,, US Army major general
- David M. Peterson, fighter ace with the Lafayette Escadrille and U.S. Army Air Service credited with six victories, twice awarded the Distinguished Service Cross
- Edwin H. Simmons USMC, veteran of the Battle of Chosin Reservoir and USMC chief historian
- Franklin C. Spinney, U.S. Air Force Reserve and military analyst
- John H. Tilelli, Jr., U.S. Army vice chief of staff
Politics
- Pongpol Adireksarn, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand
- William David Blakeslee Ainey, U.S. Congressman
- Ali Al-Naimi, Saudi Arabia Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources and Aramco chairman
- Carville Benson, U.S. Congressman
- William A. Collins, Connecticut State Representative and four-term mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut
- Charlie Dent, U.S. Congressman
- Geoff Diehl, Massachusetts House of Representatives member
- Clarence Ditlow III,, advocate for automotive safety
- Manuel V. Domenech, Ponce, Puerto Rico member and Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
- Lori Ehrlich,Massachusetts House of Representatives member
- Peter D. Feaver, member of the National Security Council in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations and Duke University professor
- Robert L. Freeman, Pennsylvania House of Representatives member
- Walter O. Hoffecker, U.S. Congressman
- Robert A. Hurley, 73rd governor of Connecticut
- Leonard Lance, U.S. Congressman
- Norton Lewis Lichtenwalner, U.S. Congressman
- Jennifer Mann, Majority Caucus Secretary and member of Pennsylvania House of Representatives
- Robert Martin, New Jersey State Senator
- Paul F. McHale, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and former U.S. Congressman
- Rufus King Polk, U.S. Congressman
- Donald L. Ritter, former U.S. Congressman
- Richard Schmierer, U.S. ambassador to Oman
- David Sidikman, New York State Assembly member
- Donald Snyder, Pennsylvania House of Representatives Majority Whip
- Edward J. Stack, U.S. Congressman
- Guy Talarico, New Jersey General Assembly member
- Joseph Uliana, Pennsylvania State Representative and State Senator
- Richard Verma, U.S. ambassador to India
- Francis E. Walter, U.S. Congressman
Pulitzer Prize winners
- Martin Baron, editor of The Washington Post, former editor of The Boston Globe, 2003 Pulitzer Prize winner
- Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe 1925 Pulitzer Prize winner
- Joe Morgenstern, 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner
Science and engineering
- Ali Al-Naimi, Saudi Aramco CEO and Saudi Arabia's Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources
- Walter C. Bachman, chief engineer at Gibbs & Cox and ship propulsion expert
- John-David F. Bartoe, Space Shuttle astronaut and International Space Station research manager for NASA
- Stephen James Benkovic, chemist
- William Bowie, geodetic engineer and namesake of Bowie Seamount
- Morris Llewellyn Cooke, rural electrification leader during the 1920s and 1930s
- Paul Corkum, attosecond physics and laser science expert
- Albert P. Crary, Antarctic explorer
- Harry Diamond, engineer who developed Proximity Fuse
- Philip Drinker, co-inventor of the modern respirator
- Lt. Col. Terry Hart, USAF, NASA Space Shuttle astronaut
- Captain Nicholas H. Heck, geophysicist, seismologist, oceanographer, hydrographic surveyor, and United States Coast and Geodetic Survey officer
- Lester Hogan, microwave and semiconductor pioneer
- Gary G. Lash, geologist known for Marcellus Shale calculations
- Bill Maloney, mine drilling expert and participant in the Plan B rescue of miners during the 2010 Chilean mine disaster
- Daniel McFarlan Moore, Moore Light inventor
- William S. Murray, electrical power generation and railroad electrification expert
- Lam M. Nguyen, computer scientist and applied mathematician; Research Scientist at IBM Research; known for his contributions to optimization methods for machine learning.
- Jesse W. Reno, builder of the world's first escalator
- Robert Serber, physicist in the Manhattan Project
- Lewis B. Stillwell, expert on electrical distribution, President of the IEEE and 1935 winner of the IEEE Edison Medal
- John Texter, engineer and scientist in applied dispersion technology and small particle science, co-initiator of polymerized ionic liquids, and designer of thermodynamically stable dispersions
- John M. Thome, director of the Argentina's national observatory, Observatorio Astronómico de Córdoba
- Richard Hawley Tucker, astronomer; namesake of Tucker Crater on the Moon
- Claude Allen Porter Turner, developed early reinforced concrete techniques
- Aneesh Varma, founder of Aire and expert on behavior prediction algorithms
- William Wiswesser, chemist and pioneer in chemical informatics and inventor of Wiswesser line notation
- J. Lamar Worzel, geophysicist and oceanographer
- Zhou Ming-Zhen, Chinese paleontologist, Chinese Academy of Sciences academic and recipient of the Romer-Simpson Medal
Sports
- Rabih Abdullah, former professional football player, Chicago Bears, New England Patriots, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- Joe Alleva, Louisiana State University athletic director and former Duke University athletic director
- Craig Anderson, former professional baseball player, New York Mets and St. Louis Cardinals
- Lon Babby, Phoenix Suns president
- Adam Bergen, professional football player, Arizona Cardinals and Dallas Cowboys
- Jordan Cohen, Israel Basketball Premier League player
- Snooks Dowd, former professional baseball player
- Cathy Engelbert, WNBA Commissioner
- Sam Fishburn, professional baseball player
- John Fitch, winner of Mille Miglia and Argentine Grand Prix
- Paul Hartzell, former professional baseball player, Baltimore Orioles, California Angels, and Minnesota Twins
- Bill Hoffman, football player
- Al Holbert, five-time IMSA GT Champion and member of International Motorsports Hall of Fame
- John Hill, former professional football player, New York Giants and New Orleans Saints
- Jarrod Johnson, former professional football player, Pittsburgh Steelers and San Diego Chargers
- Steve Kreider, former professional football player, Cincinnati Bengals
- Tim Mayer, IMSA chief operating officer
- CJ McCollum, first Lehigh basketball player to be selected in the NBA draft
- Kim McQuilken, former professional football player, Atlanta Falcons and Washington Redskins
- Rich Owens, former professional football player, Miami Dolphins, Kansas City Chiefs, Seattle Seahawks, and Washington Redskins
- Vincent "Pat" Pazzetti, member of College Football Hall of Fame
- Roger Penske, NASCAR and IndyCar team owner, member of International Motorsports Hall of Fame, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Will Rackley, professional football player, Jacksonville Jaguars
- Julius Seligson, NCAA and ITA national tennis champion and member of ITA Hall of Fame
- Scott Semptimphelter, football player
- Lake Underwood, professional sports car racer
- Bobby Weaver, gold medal winner, wrestling, 1984 Summer Olympics
- Finn Wentworth, former New Jersey Nets owner and YankeeNets president
- Adam Williamson, Major League Soccer soccer player, New England Revolution
- Matt McBride, Major League Baseball player, Oakland Athletics
- Levi Stoudt, Major League Baseball player, Baltimore Orioles
- Mason Black, Major League Baseball player, San Francisco Giants
- Ryan Spadola, former National Football League wide receiver
- Kevin Jefferson, former National Football League linebacker
- Marty Horn, former National Football League quarterback
Visual Arts
- Tal Avitzur, sculptor
Faculty
Engineering
- Ferdinand P. Beer French mechanical engineer, first chair of the department of mechanical engineering
- Helen M. Chan, British-born American materials scientist
- , Turkish mechanical engineer, member of the National Academy of Engineering
- Dan M. Frangopol, Romanian-born American civil engineer
- Joseph I. Goldstein, materials scientist, mechanical engineer
- Terry Hart mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, astronaut
- George Rankine Irwin, materials scientist
- Miles Rock civil engineer, astronomer
Mathematics
- Huai-Dong Cao, Chinese-born American mathematician
- D. H. Lehmer mathematician, significant to the development of computational number theory
- Alexander Macfarlane Scottish physicist and mathematician
- Ronald Rivlin British-born American physicist, mathematician, rheologist, a noted expert on rubber
- Miranda Teboh-Ewungkem Cameroonian-born American mathematician
- André Weil, French mathematician
- Albert Wilansky, Canadian-American mathematician, discoverer of the mathematical property of Smith numbers
Writers
- John Grogan journalist and non-fiction writer
- Stephanie Powell Watts, author, novelist
Others
- Sirry Alang, Cameroonian-born American professor of sociology and public health researcher
- Michael Behe, biochemist, and intelligent design advocate
- Donald T. Campbell, social scientist
- Maurice Ewing geophysicist and oceanographer
- Lawrence H. Gipson, historian of American history and British history
- John E. Hare British classicist, philosopher, ethicist
- Daniel Chonghan Hong, Korean-born American theoretical physicist
- Thomas Hyclak, economist
- Gordon Moskowitz social psychologist
- Rajan Menon, political scientist
- Francis J. Quirk, painter, professor of art from 1950 to 1973
- Dork Sahagian, Armenian American climate scientist, and Nobel Laureate
- Greg Strobel, wrestler and coach
- Ricardo Viera, Cuban-born American visual artist, educator, curator, and museum director
- George D. Watkins, solid-state physicist, member of the National Academy of Sciences