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 |