List of Florida International University people

With more than 150,500 alumni around the world, the Florida International University Golden Panthers constitute one of the fastest-growing university alumni groups in the state of Florida. FIU graduates more than 8,000 students a year and confers more than half of all degrees awarded by universities in South Florida.

Baseball

Mike Lowell

Athlete	Notability
Brad Eldred	professional MLB baseball player[1]
Mike Lowell	professional MLB baseball player
Garrett Wittels	professional baseball player; 56-game college hitting streak[2]

Equestrian

Margie Goldstein-Engle

Athlete	Notability
Margie Goldstein-Engle	equestrian

Authors and entertainers

Carlos Alvarado-Larroucau

Alumnus	Notability
Carlos Alvarado-Larroucau	francophone writer, poet, essayist, professor[9]
Richard Blanco	inaugural poet, public speaker, author
Dennis Lehane	author of Mystic River[10]
Ana Menendez	fiction author and journalist[11]
Amy Serrano	filmmaker, author, public speaker

Authors, actors, television, musicians

Andy Garcia

Alumnus	Notability
Aimee Carrero	actress, Young & Hungry, Elena of Avalor
Andy García	Academy Award-nominated actor[12]
Ricki Noel Lander	actress, fashion designer[13]
Kimberly Leemans	model, America's Next Top Model contestant[14]
Syesha Mercado	singer, American Idol contestant (Season 7)[15]
Dawn Ostroff	president of entertainment of the CW Network[16]
Danny Pino	actor, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit on NBC[17]
Nadia Turner	singer, American Idol contestant (Season 4)[18]
Henry Vega	award-winning composer, musician
Natalia Navarro	Miss Colombia 2009, placed 12th at Miss Universe 2010
Vijay Yesudas	South Indian singer

Law and politics

Delegate Kirill Reznik

Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen

Foreign governments

Danny Danon

Alumnus	Notability
Danny Danon	Israeli politician and chairman of the U.N. Legal Committee

• Irtishad Ahmad, professor and chairperson of Florida International University Department of Construction Management and editor in chief of the Journal of Management in Engineering ASCE
• Thomas E. Baker, Professor of Constitutional Law in the College of Law
• Lynne Barrett, Professor of English and founder of Gulf Stream Magazine
• Rita Buck-Crockett, Assistant Athletic Director and head volleyball and beach volleyball coach
• William Darrow, Professor of Public Health
• John Dufresne, professor of creative writing, editor of Gulf Stream Magazine, author
• Elizabeth Price Foley, Professor of Law in the College of Law
• Orlando Jacinto García, Professor of Music and director of the Composition Program for the School of Music
• Steven Heine, Professor of Religion and History; Director of the Institute for Asian Studies
• Mark Hetzler, Professor of Music and Orchestra
• Abraham Lavender, Professor of Sociology; president of the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies
• Stephen Leatherman, director of the FIU Coastal Research Lab, nicknamed "Dr. Beach" for his annual ratings of American beaches (issued every Memorial Day weekend)
• Bruce Nissen, professor of labor studies and director of research at the Center for Labor Research and Studies and director of the FIU Research Institute on Social and Economic Policy
• Stewart Robertson, professor of orchestral studies and conductor of the FIU Symphony Orchestra