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Iowa State University

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
Ames, IA

Founding Date:
1858

Team:
Cyclones

Enrollment:
26,380

Official Website:
http://www.iastate.edu/

STUDENTS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Robert L. Bartley
Editor
12-Oct-1937 10-Dec-2003 Editor of the Wall Street Journal, 1979-2003
Berkley W. Bedell
Politician
5-Mar-1921   Congressman from Iowa, 1975-87
Ezra Taft Benson
Religion
4-Aug-1899 30-May-1994 President of the Mormon Church, 1985-94
Robert D. Blue
Politician
24-Sep-1898 13-Dec-1989 Governor of Iowa, 1945-49
Marvin D. Brailsford
Business
31-Jan-1939   Retired US Army Lt. General
Bruce Braley
Politician
30-Oct-1957   Congressman, Iowa 1st
Stephanie A. Burns
Business
c. 1955   CEO of Dow Corning
Garrey Carruthers
Politician
29-Aug-1939   Governor of New Mexico, 1987-91
George Washington Carver
Inventor
12-Jul-1864 5-Jan-1943 God's gift to peanut farmers
Lauro F. Cavazos
Government
4-Jan-1927   US Secretary of Education, 1988-90
Vance D. Coffman
Business
3-Apr-1944   CEO of Lockheed Martin, 1998-2004
John Cooper
Football
2-Jul-1937   OSU Head Coach, 1988-2000
Michael M. Crow
Educator
c. 1955   President, Arizona State University
Dave Ditzel
Engineer
c. 1956   Founder of Transmeta
Harvey B. Gantt
Politician
14-Jan-1943   Mayor of Charlotte, 1983-87
Tom Harkin
Politician
19-Nov-1939   US Senator from Iowa
Isaiah Harris, Jr.
Business
c. 1952   Former BellSouth executive
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Politician
21-Jul-1896 4-Sep-1971 Governor and Senator from Iowa
Thomas M. Hoenig
Economist
6-Sep-1946   President and CEO, Kansas City Fed
David W. Joos
Business
c. 1952   CEO of CMS Energy
DeAnne S. Julius
Economist
14-Apr-1949   Chairman, Royal Institute of International Affairs
C. Robert Kidder
Business
c. 1945   CEO of Borden Chemical, 1995-2002
Barbara A. King
Business
c. 1947   Landscape Structures, Inc.
Charles B. Knapp
Educator
13-Aug-1946   President, University of Georgia, 1987-97
Ted Kooser
Poet
25-Apr-1939   Poet Laureate of the United States
Cheryl Gordon Krongard
Business
c. 1956   Partner, Apollo Management, 2002-04
Tom Latham
Politician
14-Jul-1948   Congressman, Iowa 4th
David Loebsack
Politician
23-Dec-1952   Congressman, Iowa 2nd
Charles T. Manatt
Attorney
9-Jun-1936   DNC Chairman, 1981-85
Richard D. McCormick
Business
4-Jul-1940   CEO of US West, 1992-98
Edward R. McCracken
Business
c. 1944   CEO of Silicon Graphics, 1984-98
John Melcher
Politician
6-Sep-1924   US Senator from Montana, 1977-89
Charles E. Merriam
Scholar
15-Nov-1874 8-Jan-1953 American Political Ideas
Flannery O'Connor
Author
25-Mar-1925 3-Aug-1964 A Good Man Is Hard To Find
Jeff Plagge
Business
c. 1956   Midwest Heritage Bank
David W. Raisbeck
Business
c. 1949   Vice Chairman of Cargill
Jean Seberg
Actor
13-Nov-1938 8-Sep-1979 Saint Joan
Harold Frend See, Jr.
Judge
7-Nov-1943   Justice, Alabama Supreme Court
Richard B. Shull
Actor
24-Feb-1929 14-Oct-1999 Holmes and Yo-Yo
Hugh Sidey
Journalist
3-Sep-1927 21-Nov-2005 Time magazine
Graham B. Spanier
Educator
18-Jul-1948   President, Penn State University
David B. Speer
Business
c. 1951   CEO of Illinois Tool Works
Scott Stanzel
Government
15-Jan-1973   Deputy White House Press Secretary
Robert Sulentic
Business
c. 1958   CEO of Trammell Crow, 2002-06
Bob Walkup
Politician
14-Nov-1936   Mayor of Tucson
Henry A. Wallace
Politician
7-Oct-1888 18-Nov-1965 US Vice President, 1941-45
George A. Wilson
Politician
1-Apr-1884 8-Sep-1953 Governor of Iowa, 1939-43

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Kenneth E. Boulding
Economist
18-Jan-1910 18-Mar-1993 The Image: Knowledge of Life in Society
Michael M. Crow
Educator
c. 1955   President, Arizona State University
Kurt Lewin
Psychologist
9-Sep-1890 12-Feb-1947 Field theorist, group dynamicist
Edwin G. Nourse
Economist
20-May-1883 7-Apr-1974 Council of Economic Advisers, 1946-49
Theodore W. Schultz
Economist
30-Apr-1902 26-Feb-1998 Investment in Human Capital
Robert N. Shelton
Educator
1948   President, University of Arizona
Jane Smiley
Novelist
26-Sep-1949   A Thousand Acres
George J. Stigler
Economist
17-Jan-1911 1-Dec-1991 Economic Theory of Regulation
Henry C. Wallace
Government
11-May-1866 25-Oct-1924 US Secretary of Agriculture, 1921-24

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Gregory L. Geoffroy
Educator
c. 1946   President, Iowa State University
Ray L. Heffner
Educator
7-May-1925   President of Brown University, 1966-69
Cheryl Gordon Krongard
Business
c. 1956   Partner, Apollo Management, 2002-04
James Wilson
Government
16-Aug-1835 26-Aug-1920 US Secretary of Agriculture, 1897-1913

COACHES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Mack Brown
Football
27-Aug-1951   Head Coach, UT-Austin
Earle Bruce
Football
8-Mar-1931   OSU Head Coach, 1979-87
Pete Carroll
Football
15-Sep-1951   USC Trojans Head Coach
Tim Floyd
Basketball
25-Feb-1954   USC Head Coach
John Fox
Football
8-Feb-1955   Head Coach, Carolina Panthers
Johnny Majors
Football
21-May-1935   College football coach
Jackie Sherrill
Football
28-Nov-1943   MSU Head Coach, 1991-2003


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