List of Washington State University people

The Washington State University Alumni Association defines an alumnus as anyone who was a student at WSU and is no longer attending. This page lists accomplished alumni and faculty members of WSU.

Notable alumni

Academe

Animal husbandry

The arts, literature and media

Business
  • Paul Allen, 1977 (1973–75), co-founder of Microsoft; owner of Vulcan Enterprises, Seattle Seahawks and Portland Trail Blazers; philanthropist; received WSU Regents' Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1999
  • Scott E. Carson, B.A. business administration, president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airlines
  • Clint Cole, co-founder of Heartstream, creator of first automatic external defibrillator (AED) for commercial use; co-founder of Digilent, a Pullman electronics manufacturer
  • J. Patrick Foley, 1955 B.A. education, president of Hyatt Hotels Corporation (1978–1984); chief executive officer of Braniff Airlines (1984–1988); served as chairman, president and chief executive officer of DHL Corporation Inc./DHL Airways Inc. (1988–1999)
  • Robert L. Phillips, 1976 B.A. economics and B.A. mathematics. Author, entrepreneur and professor.
  • Mark Suwyn, 1967 Ph.D. inorganic chemistry, CEO of NewPage Corp.; former chair and CEO of Louisiana-Pacific Corp., 1996–2004; former executive at International Paper and E.I. DuPont; member and former chair of WSU Foundation Board of Trustees
  • Nick Huzar, 1999 B.A. MIS. CEO of OfferUp

Government, law and politics

Humanities

Military

Science, space and technology

Sports and athletics

Notable faculty
  • Olusola Adesope, Boeing Distinguished Professor of STEM Education
  • James Asay, Institute of Shock Physics researcher; member of the National Academy of Engineering
  • LeRoy Ashby, regents professor of history; twice Washington Professor of the Year; author of With Amusement for All: A History of American Popular Culture Since 1830
  • Brett Atwood, print and online journalist; co-founder of Rolling Stone Radio; former managing editor at Amazon.com, RealNetworks and Billboard magazine
  • Buck Bailey, WSU baseball coach
  • V. N. Bhatia, former WSU Honors Program director; Knight of Denmark, Dannebrog Order
  • Anjan Bose, electrical engineering professor and former dean; developed training simulators and computational tools for reliable power-system operation; member of the National Academy of Engineering
  • Asif J. Chaudhry, Vice President of International Programs, United States Ambassador to Moldova 2008-2011, also WSU Ag Econ PhD graduate 1988
  • Walter Clore, horticulture researcher; "father of the Washington wine industry"
  • Clint Cole, co-founder of Heartstream, creator of the first automatic external defibrillator (AED) for commercial use; co-founder of Digilent, a local Pullman electronics manufacturer
  • R. James Cook, plant pathologist, cropping systems and biotechnology researcher; led first field test of a genetically modified organism in the Pacific Northwest; member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Alfred W. Crosby, professor of history 1966-1977; Crosby coined the term Columbian exchange in his 1972 book The Columbian Exchange. His is considered a founder of the field of environmental history.[4]
  • Rodney Croteau, leader in biosynthesis of cancer-fighting Taxol; expert on terpenoids; member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • J. Thomas Dickinson, physicist, known for work in fracture, tribology and laser interactions with materials; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • William Henry Dietz ("Lone Star Dietz"), WSU football coach; won first annual Rose Bowl; professional football coach
  • Don A. Dillman, sociologist; Regents Professor; Foley Distinguished Professor of Government and Public Policy; major contributor to modern survey methods; past president of the American Association of Public Opinion Research; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Elson S. Floyd, professor of Higher Education Administration; president of Washington State University
  • Roald H. Fryxell, WSU professor of geoarchaeology in the Department of Anthropology; namesake of the Fryxell crater on the Moon
  • Norman S. Golding, food scientist, inventor of Cougar Gold cheese
  • Jeffrey Gramlich, professor of accounting
  • Yogendra Gupta, physicist, director of WSU Institute for Shock Physics; Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • John Hirth, mechanical and materials engineer; characterized and modeled the behavior of materials at atomic and microstructural levels, including thin film formation useful to the semiconductor industry; member of the National Academy of Engineering
  • Alexander Kuo, humanities and creative writing professor; author; writer-in-residence
  • Mark G. Kuzyk, physicist, discoverer of the Kuzyk limit and the Kuzyk quantum gap
  • Kelvin Lynn, materials scientist, renowned for "positron annihilation" research; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • John M. Madsen, former dean and general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • Amy Mazur, Claudius O. and Mary W. Johnson Distinguished Professor in Political Science[5]
  • Frances K. McSweeney, psychologist known for work on behavior and reinforcement, with findings on short-term changes in reinforcer effectiveness; WSU Meyer Distinguished Professor of Psychology; Fellow of the Association for Behavior Analysis
  • Sue Peabody, Meyer Distinguished Professor of history
  • Charles Pezeshki (Dr. Chuck), WSU professor of mechanical and materials engineering, 1998–present; past chair of the University Faculty Senate; founder and director of the Industrial Design Clinic
  • Bhakta B. Rath, assistant professor of metallurgy and material Science; material physicist; head of the Materials Science and Component Technology of the United States Naval Research Laboratory
  • V. Lane Rawlins, professor of economics and WSU president emeritus
  • Clarence A. "Bud" Ryan Jr., isolated and synthesized systemin, first polypeptide hormone found in plants, and discovered that plants produce natural insecticides in response to pest attacks; member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Michael Skinner, molecular and reproduction biologist; made discoveries in epigenetics including reduction in male fertility for four generations; his findings appeared in Discover magazine's "100 top science stories of 2005"
  • Samuel H. Smith, WSU President Emeritus; former NATO post-doctoral fellow
  • William Jasper Spillman, WSU professor of agriculture; wheat breeder; independently rediscovered Mendel's Law of Heredity; "father of agricultural economics
  • Clyfford Still, abstract expressionist painter, Clyfford Still Museum, Denver
  • Matthew Avery Sutton, WSU Professor of History. Scholar of American Evangelism.
  • Orville Vogel, WSU and USDA wheat breeder; developer of semi-dwarf wheat varieties that fueled the Green Revolution; recipient of the National Medal of Science
  • Diter von Wettstein, plant geneticist; internationally recognized for genetically modifying barley for brewing processes and disease resistance; National Academy of Sciences foreign associate; member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences
  • Allen I. White, WSU professor of pharmacy faculty 1940–1960; dean of the WSU College of Pharmacy 1960–1979; pioneered off-campus training for the college7
  • Susmita Bose, Notable Indian-American Scientist and Herman and Brita Lindholm Endowed Chair Professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University.

Notable regents

References
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  2. Esteban, Michelle (10 October 2014). "D.B. Tuber dedicates life to warn others of dangers of drugs". KOMO news.
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  4. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/alfred-crosby-environmental-historian-of-columbian-exchange-dies-at-87/2018/04/05/d16963e2-38de-11e8-9c0a-85d477d9a226_story.html
  5. Aumen, Adrian (2016-04-13). "WSU professor leads international study of women's rights". WSU Insider. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
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