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List of Georgia Institute of Technology alumni

This list of Georgia Institute of Technology alumni includes graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of Georgia Tech. Notable administration, faculty, and staff are found on the list of Georgia Institute of Technology faculty. Georgia Tech alumni are generally known as Yellow Jackets. According to the Georgia Tech Alumni Association,[1]

Georgia Tech's first two graduates were Henry L. Smith (top row, center) and George G. Crawford (top row, far right).

[the status of "alumni"] is open to all graduates of Georgia Tech, all former students of Georgia Tech who regularly matriculated and left Georgia Tech in good standing, active and retired members of the faculty and administration staff, and those who have rendered some special and conspicuous service to Georgia Tech or to [the alumni association].

The first class of 128 students entered Georgia Tech in 1888, and the first two graduates, Henry L. Smith and George G. Crawford, received their degrees in 1890. Smith would later lead a manufacturing enterprise in Dalton, Georgia and Crawford would head Birmingham, Alabama's large Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railway Company.[2] Since then, the institute has greatly expanded, with an enrollment of 12,769 undergraduates and 6,464 postgraduate students as of spring 2011.[3]

Award winners

Nobel laureates

NameClass yearNotabilityReferences
Jimmy Carter194639th president of the United States (1977–1981); 2002 Nobel Peace laureate; Georgia Senator (1962–1966); 76th Governor of Georgia (1971–1975)[4][5]
Kary Mullis1964Won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of the Polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a central technique in biochemistry and molecular biology which allows the amplification of specified DNA sequences[6]
Jimmy Carter

Scholars

NameClass yearNotabilityReferences
Joy Buolamwini20122013 Rhodes Scholar, 2012 Fulbright Fellow (Zambia)[7]
David Eger20032003 Fulbright Scholar (Hungary)[8][9]
Will Roper20012002 Rhodes Scholar; 2001 Truman Scholar[10][11][12][13]

Public figures

Business

NameClass yearNotabilityReferences
Rawi Abdelal1993Professor of business administration at Harvard Business School[14]
Ronald W. Allen1964President, chairman and CEO of Delta Air Lines (1987–1997); chairman and CEO of Aaron's, Inc. (2012–2014)[15]
Gil Amelio1965CEO emeritus of National Semiconductor and Apple; IEEE Fellow[16]
Charles "Garry" Betty1979President and CEO of EarthLink (1996–2007)[17]
W. Frank Blount1961Businessman, chairman and CEO of venture capital firm JI Ventures, Inc.; former chairman and CEO of Cypress Communications Inc.; former director and CEO of Telstra in Australia[18]
John F. Brock1971Chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc.[19]
Paul J. Brown1989CEO at Inspire Brands[20]
Gary C. Butler1968CEO of Automatic Data Processing[21]
Brook Byers1968Venture capitalist of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers[22]
Ben Chestnut1998Co-founder and CEO, MailChimp[23]
George G. Crawford1890Headed the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company[2]
Cecil B. Day1958Founder of Days Inn Hotels[24]
David Dorman1975Chairman and CEO emeritus of AT&T Corporation[25]
Mike Duke1971Former President and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores[26]
Walter Ehmer1989President and CEO of Waffle House[27]
David C. Garrett Jr.1955CEO of Delta Air Lines (1978–1987)[28]
Jaime Gilinski1978Chairman of JGB Financial Holding Company[29]
Frank Gordy1929Founder of The Varsity chain, which includes the world's largest drive-in[30]
James Gulliver1950Founder of Argyll Foods, one of the United Kingdom's largest retail businesses[31]
Dennis Hayes1973Founder of Hayes Communications, an early developer of PC modems[32]
Ed Iacobucci1975Leader of the IBM OS/2 Design Team; founder of Citrix Systems; president and CEO of DayJet; member of SCO Group's board of directors[33]
Chris Klaus1994Founder and current CEO of Kaneva, Inc.; co-founder and former CTO of Internet Security Systems; His company was acquired by IBM for over $1.3 Billion. He donated $15 million to Georgia Tech toward the construction of the Klaus Advanced Computing Building which is named after him.[34]
Roger Krone1978CEO of Leidos Holdings Inc.[35]
Alan J. Lacy1975Last chairman and CEO of Sears, Roebuck and Company[36]
Mike Levy1969Founder and current CEO of Maxxpoint.com; founder and former president, chairman and CEO of Sportsline.com, now CBSSports.com[37]
David S. Lewis Jr.1939Major force in the aerospace and defense industry for three decades[38]
Calvin Mackie1996Award-winning mentor; motivational speaker; entrepreneur[39]
Scottie Mayfield1973President of Mayfield Dairy Farms[40]
Robert Milton1983Former chairman, president and CEO of Air Canada. Former chairman of the board of directors of United Continental Holdings which is the parent company of United Airlines.[41]
Charles Moorman1975Former CEO of Norfolk Southern, current CEO of Amtrak[42][43]
Blake Moret1985Current president and CEO of Rockwell Automation Inc.[44]
David Perdue1972Former CEO of Dollar General and Reebok International; Former Georgia US Senator[45]
J. Paul Raines1985CEO of GameStop[46]
Hazard E. Reeves1928Introduced magnetic stereophonic sound to motion pictures; was president of over 60 companies, including Cinerama[47]
Glen P. Robinson1948Researcher at the Georgia Tech Research Institute; went on to found Scientific Atlanta[48]
James D. Robinson III1957CEO of American Express Co. (1977–1993); director of The Coca-Cola Company (1975–present)[49]
Joe Rogers Jr.1968Longtime CEO of Waffle House[50]
Chuck Sannipoli1967Executive in the data networking industry; Senior Member of the IEEE[51]
Derek V. Smith1979CEO of ChoicePoint (1997–2008)[52][53]
Mark C. Smith1962Co-founder of ADTRAN, Inc.[54][55]
E. Roe Stamps1967Founding managing partner of venture capital firm Summit Partners; member of the Georgia Tech Foundation Board of Trustees[56]
Henry Grady Weaver1911Director of Customer Research Staff for General Motors Corporation, appeared on the cover of the November 14, 1938 issue of Time magazine[57]
George W. Woodruff1917Engineer, businessman, and philanthropist who gave generously to both Georgia Tech and Emory University; namesake of the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering[58]
Chris Klaus
Mike Levy
David S. Lewis Jr.

Education

NameClass yearNotabilityReferences
G. Wayne Clough1964Georgia Tech president (1994–2008); secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (2008–2015)[59]
Robert H. Frank1966Chaired professor of management and economics at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University; contributor to the "Economic View" column, which appears every fifth Sunday in The New York Times[60]
Y. Frank Freeman1910Movie executive with Paramount Pictures; first winner of Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award; helped establish and was first president of both the Georgia Tech Alumni Association and the Georgia Tech Foundation[61]
George C. Griffin1922Long-time dean of students at Georgia Tech[62]
Evelynn M. Hammonds1976Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of History of Science and African American Studies at Harvard University and dean of Harvard College (2008–2013)[63]
Carolyn Meyers1979President of Jackson State University, previously the president of Norfolk State University from 2006 to 2010[64]
Deepak Hegde2004Seymour Milstein Professor of Strategy, New York University Stern School of Business[65][66]
G. Wayne Clough, former president of Georgia Tech

Politics and public service

NameClass yearNotabilityReferences
Dean Alford1976Member of the Georgia General Assembly (1983–1993); president and CEO of Allied Energy Services[67]
Ivan Allen Jr.1933Mayor of Atlanta (1962–1970)[68]
Raymond W. Baker1957Director of Global Financial Integrity, a think tank in Washington, DC[69]
Timothy Batten1981United States federal judge since his nomination by George W. Bush in 2005 and confirmation in 2006[70]
Max Burns1973Georgian Member of the US House of Representatives (2003–2005)[71]
Charles M. Brown1925Member of the Georgia State Senate (1957–1964); chairman of commission (1945–1947, 1976–1978, 1966, 1968, 1971, 1974); Fulton County commissioner (1941–1948, 1966–1979)[72][73]
Howard Callaway1945Businessman; US Secretary of Army (1973–1975); Georgian Member of US House of Representatives (1965–1967)[74][75]
Mario Canahuati1977Advisor of Honduras Government team during the negotiations of CAFTA; former Honduras Ambassador in the US; former Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Honduras; affiliated with PNH[76][77]
Jack Carter1972Businessman and politician; son of Jimmy Carter[78][79]
Jimmy Carter194639th president of the United States (1977–1981); 2002 Nobel Peace laureate; member of the Georgia State Senate (1962–1966); 76th Governor of Georgia (1971–1975)[4][5]
J. Owen Forrester1961United States federal judge since his appointment by Ronald Reagan in 1981[80]
Phil Gingrey1965Georgian Member of US House of Representatives (2003–2015)[81]
Johnny Grant1972Member of the Georgia State Senate representing the 25th district of Georgia[82][83]
Jack Guynn1969Former president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta; member of Oxford Industries' board of directors[25][84]
John W. Keys1964Director of the United States Bureau of Reclamation (2001–2006)[85]
Jon C. Kreitz1986Nominated by the President to serve as the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Reserve Affairs (September 2020)[86]
Tom Moreland195530+ year career with the Georgia Department of Transportation, Commissioner and/or Chief Engineer for the last 17 years; namesake of the Tom Moreland Interchange[87]
Sam Nunn1956Georgian Member of the US Senate (1972–1997); CEO of Nuclear Threat Initiative; received an honorary doctorate from Georgia Tech in 2008[88][89]
Stephen Pace1912Georgian Member of the US House of Representatives (1937–1951); member of the Georgia State Senate (1923–1924); member of the Georgia House of Representatives (1917–1920)[90]
E. Earl Patton1949Georgia state senator and Atlanta businessman; first Republican to run for US senator from Georgia (1968) since Reconstruction[91]
Paul Craig Roberts1961Economist and political pundit; served as Undersecretary of the Treasury under Ronald Reagan[92]
Chip Rogers1991Politician in the Georgia General Assembly since 2002; selected as Georgia State Senate Majority Leader in 2009[93]
Mark D. Sickles1984Politician in the Virginia House of Delegates since November 2003[94]
Orson Swindle1959Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission of the United States (1997–2005); decorated Vietnam War prisoner of war[95]
Juan Carlos Varela1985Former Vice President of Panama from 2009 to 2014; current President of Panama since 2014[96][97]
Daniel Webster1971Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives; longest-serving Florida legislator[98]
Rufus W. Youngblood1950United States Secret Service agent who shielded Lyndon B. Johnson in the assassination of John F. Kennedy[99]
Sam Nunn, former U.S. Senator and CEO of the NTI

Military service

NameClass yearNotabilityReferences
Edward C. Aldridge Jr.1962Served in many top U.S. Defense Department and defense industry jobs, including as the 16th Air Force secretary[100]
William L. Ball196967th Secretary of the Navy (March 28, 1988 – May 15, 1989)[101]
John Boyd1964USAF fighter pilot, engineer and military strategist[102]
Philip M. Breedlove1977Retired Four-star general in the United States Air Force and former Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force[103]
John M. Brown III1969Commander of United States Army Pacific Command[104]
Ray Davis1938Assistant Commandant of the USMC; Korean War Medal of Honor recipient[105]
James O. Ellis1970Retired 4-star admiral; former Commander of United States Strategic Command, Offutt Air Force Base[106]
Pete Geren1973Served as the 20th United States Secretary of the Army from July 16, 2007 to September 16, 2009; former member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas; currently president of the Sid W. Richardson Foundation in Fort Worth, Texas[107][108]
Russell D. Hale1969United States Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Financial Management & Comptroller) (1981–1984)[109]
Haywood S. Hansell1924USAF major general; air combat commander and strategist of the United States Army Air Forces during World War II[110]
Hugh W. Hardy1944United States Marine Corps Reserves major general; geoscientist[111]
John W. Hendrix1965Retired United States Army four-star general who served as Commander, United States Army Forces Command (1999–2001)[112]
Jon C. Kreitz1986United States Navy Rear Admiral[113]
Orlando Llenza1951Second Puerto Rican to reach the rank of Major General in the USAF[114]
Thomas McGuire1941Second leading USAAF ace of World War II with 38 victories; Medal of Honor recipient[115]
Peter M. Rhee1983Surgeon, medical professor, and military veteran; spent 24 years in the United States Navy serving as a battlefield casualty physician in Afghanistan and Iraq[116]
William G. Thrash1939Retired United States Marine Corps three-star general; highly decorated Naval Aviator[117]
James A. Winnefeld Jr.1978United States Navy four-star admiral who served as the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; former fourth commander, U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) and 21st commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)[118]
Leonard Wood1894Medal of Honor recipient, Governor-General of the Philippines and Cuba, 5th Chief of Staff of the Army[119]
General Ray Davis
Admiral James O. Ellis
Major General Leonard Wood

Science and engineering

NASA and aerospace

NameClass yearNotabilityReferences
Eric Boe1997NASA astronaut (STS-126, STS-133)[120]
Michael R. Clifford1982NASA astronaut (STS-53, STS-59, STS-76); former US Army lieutenant colonel[121]
Jan Davis1975Retired NASA astronaut (STS-47, STS-60, STS-85); current director of the Safety and Mission Assurance directorate at Marshall Space Flight Center[122]
James Henry Deese1935NASA administrator[123]
Ben T. Epps1904Known as "Georgia's First Aviator"; aviation pioneer; in 1907, he built a monoplane of his own design, now known as the Epps 1907 Monoplane, followed by other original monoplane and biplane designs[124]
Gabriel Georgiades1979Professor of aerospace engineering at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona[125]
L. Blaine Hammond1974Retired NASA astronaut (STS-39, STS-64)[126]
Charlie Hillard1958Aerobatics pilot; first American to win the world aerobatics title[127]
Scott J. Horowitz1982Retired NASA astronaut (STS-75, STS-82, STS-101, STS-105)[128]
Ellis L. Johnson1960Coca-Cola Chaired Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech[129]
Susan Still Kilrain1985Retired NASA astronaut (STS-83, STS-94)[130]
Robert S. Kimbrough1998NASA astronaut (STS-127); Among the first candidates selected for astronaut training in the United States following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster[131]
Charles Kohlhase1957Worked for forty years at NASA/JPL leading the design of several robotic deep-space planetary missions[132]
Timothy Kopra1995NASA astronaut (STS-127); flight engineer and science officer of the International Space Station; US Army lieutenant colonel[133]
Sandra Magnus1996NASA astronaut (STS-112, STS-126, STS-119, STS-135); member of the ISS Expedition 18[134][135]
William S. McArthur1983NASA astronaut (STS-58, STS-74, STS-92); veteran of three Space Shuttle missions; veteran of one mission to the International Space Station via the Russian Soyuz capsule[136]
Yvonne Pendleton1979Chief Scientist and first director of NASA’s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute; first director of the NASA Lunar Science Institute[137]
Alan G. Poindexter1986NASA astronaut (STS-122, STS-131)[138]
James R. Thompson Jr.1958Director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama (1986–1989); NASA's deputy director (1989–1991)[139]
Joe F. Thompson1971Aerospace engineer and chaired professor at Mississippi State University known for contributions to the field of computational fluid dynamics[140]
Sabrina Thompson2009Aerospace engineer at Goddard Space Flight Center and founder of fashion brand Girl in Space Club[141]
Richard H. Truly1959Retired NASA Astronaut (Approach and Landing Tests, STS-2, STS-8); Retired Vice Admiral in the United States Navy; 8th Administrator of NASA (1989–1992); head of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (1993–1998)[142]
Douglas H. Wheelock1992NASA astronaut (STS-120, Soyuz TMA-19, Expedition 24/25)[143][144]
John Young1952Retired NASA astronaut (Gemini 3, Gemini 10, Apollo 10, Apollo 16, STS-1, STS-9); first commander of the Space Shuttle, walked on the Moon during Apollo 16[145]
William S. McArthur, astronaut
Richard H. Truly, retired Vice Admiral, former head of NASA and GTRI

Physics

NameClass yearNotabilityReferences
Bascom S. Deaver1952Physicist known for his research into superconductor applications; professor and assistant chairman for undergraduate studies of the physics department at the University of Virginia[146]
Robert V. Gentry1963Nuclear physicist and young Earth creationist, known for his claims that radiohalos provide evidence for a young age of the Earth; entered the physics doctoral program at Georgia Tech, but left when he was refused permission to work on the age of the Earth for his dissertation[147][148]
Arnold Hardy1945Physicist and amateur photographer who won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Photography[149]
Hagen Kleinert1964Professor of theoretical physics at the Free University of Berlin[150]
Kenneth Lane1964Physicist; physics professor at Boston University[151]
Earl W. McDaniel1948Regents Professor of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Georgia Tech Research Institute; known for his contributions to the field of ion-mobility spectrometry[152]
W. Jason Morgan1957Geophysicist who has made seminal contributions to the theory of plate tectonics and geodynamics; 2003 National Medal of Science recipient; geosciences professor at Princeton University[153]
W. Jason Morgan, 2003 National Medal of Science recipient
Kenneth Lane, theoretical particle physicist

Chemistry and biology

NameClass yearNotabilityReferences
Anthony J. Arduengo III1974Chemist known for his work in the field of stable carbene research[154]
Paul K. Calaway1933Chemical engineer and the director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (1954–1957)[155]
Ronald Collé1969Specialist in nuclear and radiochemistry and radionuclidic metrology[156]
James R. Fair1942Chemical engineer who worked in a variety of industrial positions, primarily for Monsanto Company; then joined academia and held a named chair at the University of Texas at Austin School of Chemical Engineering[157]
Irving Geis1927Artist who worked closely with biologists; his hand-drawn work depicts many structures of biological macromolecules, such as DNA and proteins[158]
Linda Griffith1982Biomedical engineer and professor of biological engineering and mechanical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology[159]
Kary Mullis1964Won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of the Polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a central technique in biochemistry and molecular biology which allows the amplification of specified DNA sequences[6]
David Rasnick1978Biochemist; AIDS denialist; former president of the Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV-AIDS Hypothesis[160]
Wyatt C. Whitley1934Chemist, professor of chemistry and director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (1963–1968)[161]
Kary Mullis, who won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Engineering

NameClass yearNotabilityReferences
Joe Brooks1982Director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute's Electronic Systems Laboratory[162]
Wallace H. Coulter1934Electrical engineer; inventor; businessman; discovered the Coulter principle, which provides a methodology for counting, measuring and evaluating microscopic particles suspended in fluid; namesake of Georgia Tech and Emory's Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering[163]
Ali Erdemir1982Turkish materials scientist specializing in surface engineering and tribology[164]
David Frakes2003Distinguished Faculty Fellow in biomedical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.[165]
Don Giddens1963Dean of Georgia Tech's College of Engineering (1992–2011)[166][167]
Samuel Graham1999Eugene C. Gwaltney Jr. School Chair and Professor at Georgia Tech[168]
Linda Griffith1982Biological engineer; MacArthur "Genius" Fellow, National Academy of Engineering[169]
Paula T. Hammond1988Polymer engineer; Head of the MIT Department of Chemical Engineering; Fellow of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine[170]
John Calvin Jureit1949Inventor of the Gang-Nail connector plate[171]
Dean Kamen2008Entrepreneur and inventor; received honorary doctorate from Georgia Tech in 2008[89]
Michel G. Malti1922Electrical engineer known for his work in circuit analysis[172]
Gary S. May1985Former dean of the Georgia Tech College of Engineering; notable in the field of computer-aided manufacturing of integrated circuits[173]
Tom McDermott1982Deputy director and director of research at the Georgia Tech Research Institute since 2007; previously chief engineer and program manager for Lockheed Martin's F-22 Raptor Avionics Team[174]
Robert C. Michelson1974Roboticist; recipient of the 2001 Pirelli Award; recipient of 2001 Top Pirelli Prize; inventor of the Entomopter[175][176][177]
Lane Mitchell1929Ceramic engineer at Georgia Tech and the founder of its Department of Ceramic Engineering, now known as Georgia Tech's School of Materials Science and Engineering[178]
Bryan Nesbitt1988Automobile designer; head of General Motors Corporation International Operations Design; transferred to Art Center College of Design after his first year at Georgia Tech[179]
Sanjay Raman1987Dean of the University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Engineering[180] [181]
Herbert Saffir1940Developer of the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale[182]
Jeff S. Shamma1983Control theorist, professor and Julian T. Hightower Chair in Systems and Controls in Georgia Tech's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering[183]
W. Harry Vaughan1923Professor of ceramic engineering at Georgia Tech and the founder and first director of what is now the Georgia Tech Research Institute[184]
Harrison Wadsworth Jr.1949Professor of industrial engineering at Georgia Tech; supply sergeant during World War II and the Korean War[185]
B. N. Wilson1896Professor, engineer, and college football coach; professor of mechanical engineering and the head football coach at Arkansas Industrial University (now known as the University of Arkansas)[186]
Gary S. May, Current President of the University of California Davis, and Former Dean of the Georgia Tech College of Engineering
Paula T. Hammond

Computer and information science

NameClass yearNotabilityReferences
Jim Allchin1984Former high-level executive at Microsoft[187]
Eric Allender1985Computer Science professor at Rutgers University, where he chaired the Department of Computer Science from 2006 to 2009[188]
Annie Antón1997Chair and professor, School of Interactive Computing (Georgia Tech); professor of software engineering at NCSU; privacy expert[189]
Krishna Bharat1996Google research scientist; creator of Google News[190]
Fabian E. Bustamante2001Computer science professor at Northwestern University[191]
Joe Celko1982Relational database expert from Austin, Texas; participated in the ANSI X3H2 Database Standards Committee; helped write the SQL-89 and SQL-92 standards[192]
Dorothy M. Crosland1961Long-time head librarian of the Georgia Tech Library, awarded honorary degree in 1961[193]
Tom Cross1999Entrepreneur; computer security expert; hacker[194][195]
Jim Davies1997Cognitive scientist, playwright, artist; assistant professor of cognitive science at the Institute of Cognitive Science at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, where he is the director of the Science of Imagination Laboratory[196]
Richard DeMillo1974Former dean of the Georgia Tech College of Computing; Distinguished Professor of Computing; previous director of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center[197][198]
Anind Dey1995Computer scientist, currently an associate professor and the director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University[199]
W. Keith Edwards1989Director of the GVU Center (Georgia Tech); professor of School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech; former manager of the Ubiquitous Computing group at PARC[200]
Chaim Gingold2003Noted for his work with Spore[201]
D. Richard Hipp1984Architect and primary author of SQLite[202]
Ed Iacobucci1975Leader of the IBM OS/2 design team; founder of Citrix Systems; president and CEO of DayJet; member of SCO Group's board of directors[33]
Craig Mundie1972Chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft[203]
Elizabeth Mynatt1989Executive director, Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) at Georgia Tech; director of the GVU Center at Georgia Tech; associate dean of strategic planning, Georgia Tech College of Computing[204]
James F. O'Brien2000Computer science professor at University of California, Berkeley[205]
Jeff Offutt1988Computer science professor of software engineering at George Mason University; software testing expert; editor-in-chief of Software Testing, Verification & Reliability journal[206]
Shwetak Patel2003Computer science entrepreneur and professor at University of Washington
Rosalind Picard1984Founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at MIT[207][208]
Mike Pinkerton1997Software developer working on the Mozilla browsers and Google Chrome browser; lectures on "Development of Open Source Software" at George Washington University[209]
Anand Sivasubramaniam1995Computer science Distinguished professor at The Pennsylvania State University[210]
Alex Snoeren1997Computer science professor at University of California, San Diego[211]
Gene Spafford1981Computer science professor at Purdue University; computer security expert[212]
Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa1981Computer science professor at California Institute of Technology; machine learning expert[213]
James Mickens2001Computer science professor at Harvard; distributed systems expert[214]
Jim Allchin, former executive at Microsoft
Rosalind Picard
Gene Spafford

Mathematics

NameClass yearNotabilityReferences
Hermann Flaschka1967Mathematical physicist and professor of mathematics at the University of Arizona, known for contributions to completely integrable systems (soliton equations)[215]
Herbert Keller1945Applied mathematician; numerical analyst; professor of applied mathematics, emeritus, at the California Institute of Technology[216]
Daniel P. Sanders1993Created a new, efficient proof for the four color theorem[217]

Humanities

Architecture and design

NameClass yearNotabilityReferences
Cecil Alexander1937Architect; transferred to Yale after his first year at Georgia Tech[218]
Michael Arad1999Designer architect of the World Trade Center Memorial in New York City, selected from 5,201 competitors as the winning designer with "Reflecting Absence"[219]
Bill Finch1936Architect and founder of architectural firm FABRAP[220]
Preston Geren Jr.1947Fort Worth architect who designed Burnett Plaza[221]
George T. Heery1951Atlanta architect who developed several important architectural concepts and founded Heery International[222]
Jan Lorenc1994Designer; co-owner of Lorenc+Yoo Design[223]
John C. Portman Jr.1950Architect who designed several high-profile buildings, including SunTrust Plaza, and the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel[224]
L. W. "Chip" Robert Jr.1908Founder of Atlanta engineering and architectural firm Robert and Company; namesake of the L. W. "Chip" Roberts, Jr. Alumni House, which houses the offices of the Georgia Tech Alumni Association; Assistant Treasurer of the United States (1933–1936)[225]
Hugh Stubbins1933Architect who designed several high-profile buildings, including Yokohama Landmark Tower, Citigroup Center, and Kongresshalle[226]
Vern Yip1995Designer on reality program Trading Spaces[227]

Arts and entertainment

NameClass yearNotabilityReferences
Robert L. Bidez1912First director of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket Marching Band, which he founded in 1908 as a student[228]
Jim Butterworth1984Technology entrepreneur and documentary filmmaker; director and producer of the award-winning film Seoul Train, holder of numerous U.S. and foreign patents in the field of streaming media[229]
Jorge Cham1997Creator of Piled Higher and Deeper comics; post-doctoral instructor and researcher at Caltech[230]
Jeff Crouse2006Artist and hacker/creative technologist who works with live data feeds from the internet to make artwork[231]
James Crumley1958Author of violent hardboiled crime novels and several volumes of short stories and essays, as well as published and unpublished screenplays[232]
Ed Dodd192520th-century cartoonist; known for his Mark Trail comic strip[233]
Lamar Dodd1928Painter known for work portraying the American South[234]
Jeff Foxworthy1979Comedian and creator/producer of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour; host of both the network and syndicated versions of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?[235]
Phil Gordon1991Professional poker player[236]
Bones Howe1956Grammy-award-winning record producer and recording engineer associated with 1960s and 1970s hits, mostly of the sunshine pop genre, including most of the hits of The 5th Dimension and The Association[237]
Mark Lee1995Member of the Christian band Third Day[238]
Nicole Jordan1976Best-selling author of romance novels[239]
Nagesh Kukunoor1993Bollywood movie director and actor[240]
Edlyn Lewis19981998 Miss Georgia USA; competitor in the Miss USA 1998 pageant[241][242]
Vivek Maddala1995Composer and musician[243]
Matt Moulthrop2004Woodturner and artist[244]
Arthur Murray1923Dance instructor and businessman[245]
Wallace Potts1970Independent film director; archivist for the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation[246]
Andy Runton1998BS 1998, MS 2000, both in Industrial Design; creator of the Owly graphic novels[247]
John Salley1988Co-host of The Best Damn Sports Show Period and former NBA player[248]
Danny Gonzalez2016Popular Youtuber and Vine Personality[249]
Jarvis Johnson2014Popular commentary youtuber[250]
Randolph Scott1924Movie star of the 1940s and 1950s[251]
Jeff Foxworthy, comedian
Randolph Scott

Athletics

Despite their highly technical backgrounds, Tech graduates are no strangers to athletics; approximately 150 Tech students have gone into the NFL, with many others going into the NBA or MLB. Well-known American football athletes include former students Calvin Johnson, Daryl Smith, and Keith Brooking, former Tech head football coaches Pepper Rodgers and Bill Fulcher, and all-time greats such as Joe Hamilton, Pat Swilling, Billy Shaw, and Joe Guyon. Tech's recent entrants into the NBA include Javaris Crittenton, Thaddeus Young, Jarrett Jack, Luke Schenscher, Stephon Marbury, Derrick Favors, Iman Shumpert, Chris Bosh, and Travis Best. Award-winning baseball stars include Kevin Brown, Mark Teixeira, Nomar Garciaparra, Jason Varitek, Erskine Mayer, and Jay Payton. In golf, the legendary Bobby Jones founded The Masters, David Duval was ranked No. 1 in the world in 2001, Stewart Cink was the 2009 Open Championship winner, was ranked in the top ten, and Matt Kuchar won the U.S. Amateur.

Fictional people

NameClass yearNotabilityReferences
George P. BurdellNAFictitious student officially enrolled in 1927, and who has been continuously enrolled since his "graduation" in 1930[252]
Charlie CrokerNACharacter in Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full[253]
Robert W. GravesNAG.I. Joe character known as "Grunt"[254]
S.R. HaddenNABusiness magnate and character in Contact[255]
Barbara "Bobbi" MorseNAMarvel Comics superheroine Mockingbird; former Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., and a member of the New Avengers[256][257]
Two Bits ManNAAnonymous humor columnist; typically majoring in a computer-related discipline[258]
WikiWorld Illustration of George P. Burdell

See also

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