List of Case Western Reserve University people

This is a list of famous individuals associated with Case Western Reserve University, including students, alumni, and faculty.

Government and military

• Victor Ciorbea – prime minister of Romania (1996–1997)
• Bruce Cole – eighth chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (2001-present)
• Benjamin O. Davis Jr. – airman; first African-American to receive star in US Air Force; awarded Distinguished Flying Cross in 1943; served as Assistant Secretary of Transportation under Richard Nixon
• Lincoln Diaz-Balart – U.S. Representative
• Alene B. Duerk – first female rear admiral in the United States Navy
• Dennis Kucinich – U.S. Representative; youngest person to be elected mayor of a major city (Cleveland) at age 31 (in 1977)
• Alfredo Palacio – interim president of Ecuador, completed a medical residency at CWRU
• David Satcher – 16th Surgeon General of the United States (1998–2002)
• Louis Stokes – former U.S. Representative
• Milton Shapp – Governor of Pennsylvania and 1976 presidential candidate
• Stephanie Tubbs Jones – U.S. Representative
• Michael R. Turner – U.S. Representative
• Milton A. Wolf – former U.S. ambassador to Austria
• Paul Hackett – Iraq War veteran and former congressional candidate
• Victoria Wells Wulsin – doctor and congressional candidate
• President James A. Garfield – Served on the Board of Trustees after the move from Hudson to Cleveland
• President Rutherford B. Hayes – Served on the Board of Trustees after the move from Hudson to Cleveland

History

• Ted Steinberg – two-time Pulitzer Prize Nominee (2000 nonfiction and 2002 history)

Education

• George A. Bowman – youngest President in the history of Kent State University

Law

• James Sokolove, class of 1966, pioneer in legal television advertising, philanthropist
• Edmund A Sargus, Jr., U.S. District Court judge in Ohio

Science/technology/medicine

• Peter C. Agre – co-winner of 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for discovery of water channels (or aquaporins) in cells
• Paul Berg – winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for biochemical characterization of recombinant DNA
• Herbert Dow – founder of Dow Chemical
• H. Jack Geiger – founding member and past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility (which shared the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize as part of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War) and Physicians for Human Rights (which shared the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize as part of International Campaign to Ban Landmines)
• Julie L. Gerberding – first woman director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Alfred Gilman – co-winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for co-discovery of G Proteins
• Donald A. Glaser – winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics, for invention of the bubble chamber
• Corneille J.F. Heymans – winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on carotid sinus reflex
• Siegfried S. Hecker – director of Los Alamos National Laboratory (1986–1997)
• Samuel G. Hibben – pioneer in blacklight technology; designed the lighting displays for the Statue of Liberty and other national monuments
• George H. Hitchings – co-winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for research leading to development of drugs to treat leukemia, organ transplant rejection, gout, herpes virus, and AIDS-related bacterial and pulmonary infections
• Robert W. Kearns - was the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper systems used on most automobiles from 1969 to the present. Kearns won one of the best known patent infringement cases against a major corporation.

• Donald Knuth – computer scientist
• Polykarp Kusch – winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics, for determining the magnetic moment of the electron
• Lawrence M. Krauss – physicist in the field of dark energy, and a bestselling author (The Physics of Star Trek)
• Paul C. Lauterbur – co-winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for discoveries leading to creation of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Zoltan Levay – prominent astronomer in the field of color visualization, most prominently used to convert Hubble Space Telescope images into colorful press photographs
• John J.R. Macleod – co-winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for discovery of insulin
• Albert A. Michelson – winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physics, for disproving existence of "ether"; first American to receive a Nobel Prize
• Edward Morley – performed interferometry experiment with Michelson
• Ferid Murad – co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for role in the discovery of nitric oxide in cardiovascular signaling
• George A. Olah – winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for contributions to carbocation chemistry
• Amit Patel – stem cell surgeon who demonstrated stem cell transplantation can treat congestive heart failure.
• M. Scott Peck – psychiatrist and author of The Road Less Traveled
• James Polshek – architect; designed William J. Clinton Presidential Library
• Edward C. Prescott – co-winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Economic Science, for theory on business cycles and economic policies
• Frederick Reines – co-winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics, for the detection of the neutrino
• Frederick C. Robbins – co-winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for work on polio virus, which led to development of polio vaccines; past president of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences
• M. Frank Rudy – inventor of the Nike air sole
• David Satcher – U.S. Surgeon General under President Bill Clinton, and first African-American director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Tom Shutt – current professor working on the detection of WIMPs
• Jesse Leonard Steinfeld – U.S. Surgeon General (1969 to 1973), most noted for achieving widespread fluoridation of water, requiring prescription drugs to be effective, and strengthening the Surgeon General's Warning on cigarettes
• Earl W. Sutherland – winner of 1971 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for establishing identity and importance of cyclic AMP in regulation of cell metabolism
• Peter Tippit – developer of the first anti-virus software, "Vaccine" (later sold and renamed Norton AntiVirus)

Arts, journalism and entertainment

• Jesse Barrett-Mills – filmmaker; director of 7 Men
• Jasmine Cresswell – best-selling author of over 50 romance novels
• Franklin Cover – actor; most noted role, Tom Willis in The Jeffersons
• Susie Gharib – co-anchor of the Nightly Business Report
• Gregg Gillis – musician; performs as Girl Talk
• Jan Hopkins – journalist (CNN Financial News show "Street Sweep")
• John Howard – actor
• M. Scott Peck – author of The Road Less Traveled and other self-help books
• Jack Perkins – dubbed "America's most literate correspondent" by the Associated Press; reporter, commentator, war correspondent, anchorman; seen on NBC's Nightly News and The Today Show, and on A&E as host of Biography
• Tom Piatak – lawyer and columnist, notably for The American Conservative and Chronicles Magazine
• Alan Rosenberg – actor; most noted role, Ira Woodbine in Cybill; Emmy-nominated for guest appearance on ER, elected president of the Screen Actors Guild in 2005
• Joe Russo & Anthony Russo – brothers, co-alumni, and directors of the films Pieces and Welcome to Collinwood and the television series Arrested Development
• Alix Kates Shulman – author of Memoir of an Ex-Prom Queen
• Reuben Sturman – famed pornographer
• Thrity Umrigar – journalist and author of Bombay Time
• Andrew Vachss – lawyer and child protection consultant; author of the Burke series of novels.
• Roger Zelazny – science fiction and fantasy author; three-time Nebula Award winner and six-time Hugo Award winner; works include Lord of Light, Eye of Cat, and The Dream Master

Business/philanthropy

• William F. Baker – president and CEO of public television's flagship station Thirteen/WNET in New York
• Robert J. Herbold – executive vice president at Microsoft
• Michael G. Cherkasky – CEO and board member at Marsh & McLennan Companies
• Barry Meyer – chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. (1999-present)
• Craig Newmark – founder of Craigslist
• Philip Orbanes – former VP with Parker Brothers; founding partner and President of Winning Moves Games
• T. William Samuels – CEO and chief distiller of Maker's Mark Whiskey
• Kent Hale Smith – founder of Lubrizol
• Tshilidzi Marwala – academic, businessman and community leader
• Peter Tippit – inventor of Norton (Symantec) Anti-Virus and CTO of CyberTrust
• Donald E. Washkewicz – CEO of Parker Hannifin Corporation

Sports

• Ray Mack – Major League Baseball player, All-Star second basemen in 1940
• Michael McCaskey – chairman of the board, Chicago Bears; grandson of George Halas, founder-owner-coach of Chicago Bears and record-holder of most games won (324) for nearly three decades
• Don Shula – former coach of the Miami Dolphins