List of Indiana University (Bloomington) people

This is a list of notable current and former faculty members, alumni, and non-graduating attendees of Indiana University Bloomington in Bloomington, Indiana.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

University presidents

• Andrew Wylie
• Alfred Ryors
• William Mitchel Daily
• John Hiram Lathrop
• Cyrus Nutt
• Lemuel Moss
• David Starr Jordan
• John Merle Coulter
• Joseph Swain
• William Lowe Bryan
• Herman B Wells
• Elvis Jacob Stahr, Jr.
• Joseph Sutton
• John W. Ryan
• Thomas Ehrlich
• Myles Brand
• Adam Herbert
• Michael McRobbie

Notable alumni

Academics

• R.J.Q. Adams, B.S., 1965, professor of British history at Texas A&M University
• Terry H. Anderson, Ph.D., 1978, professor of 20th-century U.S. history at Texas A&M University
• Richard T. Antoun, professor emeritus of anthropology at Binghamton University
• Jason Beckfield (PhD), Professor of Sociology at Harvard University
• Metin Boşnak (BA in Comparative Literature, 1990), Turkish linguist and academic
• Joseph C. Burke, former President of State University of New York at Plattsburgh, former Acting Chancellor of the State University of New York
• Margaret K. Butler, mathematician specializing in computer software
• Shiladitya DasSarma, molecular biologist and professor at University of Maryland School of Medicine
• Lewis C. Dowdy, Ed.D., 1965, Sixth President & First Chancellor of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
• Keith Fitzgerald, political scientist
• William Dudley Geer, first Dean of the School of Business at Samford University
• Michael Harris, political scientist and university administrator
• Israel Nathan Herstein, Ph.D., 1948, mathematician and professor at University of Chicago
• Melvin N. Johnson, MBA 1979, DBA 1983, economist; president of Tennessee State University (2005–2011)
• Joann Kealiinohomoku (Ph.D., 1976), anthropologist and dance researcher
• Jeanne Knoerle, former president of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and program director of the Lilly Endowment
• William B. Pickett, historian and professor emeritus at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana
• Sarah M. Pike, Ph.D., 1998, author and professor of comparative religion at California State University, Chico
• Robert N. Proctor, B.S., 1976, Professor of History of Science at Harvard
• Elliot Sperling, Tibet scholar
• Gilbert R. Tredway, Ph.D., 1962, historian of the American Civil War
• Mark von Hagen (M.A., Slavic Languages and Literatures), director, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Arizona State University
• Aldred Scott Warthin, pathologist, "father of cancer genetics"

Arts and humanities

• Tony Aiello, broadcast journalist
• Ismail al-Faruqi, philosopher and epistemologist
• David Anspaugh, movie director, Hoosiers and Rudy
• Howard Ashman, playwright and lyricist
• Elliott Baker, author, screenwriter, Emmy Award winner
• Radley Balko, journalist and writer
• Jonathan Banks, actor, "Mike Ehrmantraut" of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul
• Mike Barz, broadcast journalist
• Lyndall Bass, artist, shield cent designer
• Betty Jane Belanus (Ph.D, Folklore), employee of and curator of several Smithsonian Folklife Festival programs
• Daniel Bourne, poet
• Jan Harold Brunvand, American folklorist, one of the best-known researchers and anthologists of urban legends; earned PhD in folklore
• Joe Buck, sportscaster, multiple Emmy Award winner
• Meg Cabot, author The Princess Diaries
• David Chalmers, leading philosopher in the area of philosophy of mind
• Sarah Clarke, actress
• Suzanne Collins, television writer, novelist known for The Hunger Games
• Robert Coover, author
• Laverne Cox, actress and television producer
• John Crowley, science fiction author, author of The Deep and Little, Big
• Alan Roger Currie, author, public speaker, radio personality
• Matthew Daddario, actor, "Alec Lightwood" of Shadowhunters
• Theodore Dreiser, author (flunked out)
• Michel du Cille, photographer, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
• Dick Enberg, sportscaster, 13-time Emmy Award winner
• Judith Lynn Ferguson, author of 65 cookery books
• Scott Ferrall, sports talk radio host
• John M. Ford, poet and science fiction author
• Tom French, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, St. Petersburg Times
• David C. Giuntoli, actor
• Jennifer Grotz, award-winning poet
• Joseph Hayes, playwright, novelist
• Don Herold, author, humorist and illustrator
• Lissa Hunter, artist
• Edward D. Ives, folklorist
• Andreas Katsulas, actor
• Debra A. Kemp, author of Arthurian literature, such as The Firebrand
• Charles Kimbrough, actor
• Kevin Kline, Academy Award-winning actor
• Michael Koryta, novelist
• Mark Lavie, journalist
• Ross Lockridge, Jr., author of Raintree County
• Bienvenido Lumbera, poet, critic, playwright, Ramon Magsaysay Award winner and National Artist of the Philippines
• Lee Majors, actor, The Six Million Dollar Man
• Alfred McAdams, painter
• David McLane, creator, promoter and producer of Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
• Don Mellett, 1914, journalist, newspaper editor, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Gene Miller, journalist, editor, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
• Arian Moayed, Tony-nominated actor, co-founder of Waterwell and writer/director
• Ryan Murphy, Golden Globe-winning television producer (Nip/Tuck); best known for American Horror Story
• Anthony Napoleon, forensic psychologist, legal analyst, author
• Dave Niehaus, broadcaster, Seattle Mariners
• Komelia Hongja Okim, sculptor
• Nicole Parker, actress
• Jane Pauley, television personality and journalist
• Angelo Pizzo, screenwriter, producer, director
• Ernie Pyle, journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1944
• Catt Sadler, television personality on E! Entertainment Television
• Scott Schuman, photographer and blogger
• Alexander Shimkin, Vietnam war correspondent
• Will Shortz, puzzle maker (enigmatologist)
• Ranveer Singh, Indian actor
• Tavis Smiley, National Public Radio and Public Television host
• Gary Snyder, poet and environmental activist, Pulitzer Prize winner (did not graduate)
• Lucy A. Snyder, author
• Brian Stack, actor, Late Night with Conan O'Brien
• Sage Steele, ESPN sports anchor
• Jeri Taylor, screenwriter and television producer (Star Trek)
• Nancy Weaver Teichert, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter
• Michael Uslan, film producer (Batman)
• Herb Vigran, actor
• Clark Wissler, anthropology pioneer

Business

• Klaus Agthe, former Chairman and CEO of ASEA Brown Boveri
• John Bitove, Chairman and CEO of XM Canada, Priszm and Scott's REIT; founder of Toronto Raptors(NBA)
• John Chambers, president and CEO of Cisco Systems
• Gayle Cook, co-founder of the Cook Group
• Mark Cuban, technology entrepreneur; Dallas Mavericks owner; co-founder of Broadcast.com with Todd Wagner in 1995
• William S. Dalton, current CEO of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
• Lance de Masi, President of the American University in Dubai
• Donald Fehr, managing director, Major League Baseball Players Association
• Jeff M. Fettig, chairman and CEO of the Whirlpool Corporation
• E. W. Kelley, former chairman of Steak 'n Shake
• Donald Knauss, former CEO of Clorox Company and COO of The Coca-Cola Company in North America
• Harold Arthur Poling, retired chairman and CEO of Ford Motor Company
• Frank Popoff, retired Chairman and CEO of Dow Chemical Company
• Patty Stonesifer, former CEO, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Chairwoman of Smithsonian Institution
• Todd Wagner, CEO of 2929 Entertainment; founder of Todd Wagner Foundation; co-founder of Broadcast.com with Mark Cuban in 1995
• Jimmy Wales, former CEO of Bomis, co-founder of Wikipedia, president of the Wikimedia Foundation (did not graduate)
• Zachary Wendler, consultant Ankura
• Peter Wong, CEO of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), Asia-Pacific

Music

• Jamey Aebersold, jazz educator
• Kenny Aronoff, drummer
• Emilie Autumn, gothic violinist and singer
• David Baker, jazz composer
• Klara Barlow, operatic soprano
• Joshua Bell, Grammy Award-winning concert violinist
• Noah Bendix-Balgley, violinist, concertmaster of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 1st concertmaster of Berlin Philharmonic
• Jonathan Biss, pianist, professor at Curtis Institute of Music
• Chris Botti, Grammy Award-winning jazz trumpeter
• Cary Boyce, composer
• Michael Brecker, jazz saxophonist
• Angela Brown, soprano
• Lawrence Brownlee, operatic tenor
• Hoagy Carmichael, songwriter and actor, "Stardust", "Georgia on My Mind"
• Angelin Chang, Grammy Award-winning classical pianist
• John Clayton, jazz and classical bassist, composer and arranger
• Jim Cornelison, tenor
• Dorian, hip-hop recording artist and record producer
• Peter Erskine, jazz drummer and educator
• Miriam Fried, violinist and pedagogue, professor at New England Conservatory, winner of Queen Elisabeth Music Competition
• Vivica Genaux, mezzo-soprano
• Tom Gullion, jazz saxophonist
• Jeff Hamilton, jazz drummer
• Margaret Harshaw, mezzo-soprano and soprano at Metropolitan Opera
• Hu Nai-yuan, violinist, winner of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition
• Booker T. Jones, songwriter, producer
• Paul Katz, cellist, founding member of Cleveland Quartet, professor at New England Conservatory
• Charles Kullman, tenor and chair of voice department at Metropolitan Opera
• Sylvia McNair, internationally acclaimed soprano
• Edgar Meyer, Grammy Award-winning bassist, MacArthur Fellow, professor at Curtis Institute of Music
• Shawn Pelton, session drummer
• Larry Ridley, jazz bassist and music educator
• Leonard Slatkin, composer and conductor, music director of Detroit Symphony Orchestra and BBC Symphony Orchestra
• Straight No Chaser, a cappella group at IU 1996–1999; re-formed in 2008
• Eileen Strempel, soprano and educator
• Michael Weiss, jazz pianist, composer and educator
• Pharez Whitted, jazz trumpet and composer
• Pete Wilhoit, jazz and rock drummer and percussionist

Politics and government

• Jerry Abramson, former Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky
• Selim al-Hoss, former Prime Minister of Lebanon
• Feisal al-Istrabadi, Iraqi politician, ambassador to United Nations 2004–2007
• Michael Badnarik, Libertarian Party 2004 presidential candidate
• Birch Bayh, former U.S. Senator
• Evan Bayh, former U.S. Senator and Governor of Indiana
• Otis Bowen, physician, Governor of Indiana, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
• James B. Bullard, President and CEO of Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis
• LeRoy Edgar Burney, 1956–61 Surgeon General
• Joseph O. Butcher, Major General in the Marine Corps
• E. Jocob Crull, Montana politician and colonel
• Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense 2006-11, Director of Central Intelligence, National Security Council member
• Charles Abraham Halleck, Congressman, former House Majority Leader and Minority Leader
• Lee H. Hamilton (J.D. '56), Homeland Security Advisory Council, co-chair of Iraq Study Group, vice chair of 9/11 Commission, U.S. Representative
• Michael D. Higgins, ninth President of Ireland
• Deepender Singh Hooda, member of the Lok Sabha
• Victor Jackovich, first U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia and Hercegovina; later U.S. Ambassador to Slovenia
• William E. Jenner, former U.S. Senator
• Charles Peter Kennedy, British MP, former leader of the Liberal Democrats
• William Alexander Parsons Martin, Presbyterian missionary to China and translator
• Frank McCloskey, mayor of Bloomington, Indiana, U.S. Representative
• Arthur C. Mellette, former Governor of South Dakota
• Richard Monroe Miles, Ambassador to Georgia, Bulgaria, United States Ambassador to Serbia and Azerbaijan
• Sherman Minton, Supreme Court Justice 1949–56 and U.S. Senator
• Frank O'Bannon, 1997–2003 Governor of Indiana
• Patrick O. O'Meara, co-author of Southern Africa in Crisis
• Paul O'Neill, 2001-02 Secretary of the Treasury
• Dennie Oxley, state representative, 2008 lieutenant governor nominee
• Rod Paige, 2001–05 Secretary of Education
• Dan Quayle, 1989–93 Vice President of the United States
• Wiley Rutledge, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (attended, did not graduate from School of Law)
• Newell Sanders, U.S. Senator of Tennessee 1912–13
• Mike Schreiner (MA '94), Leader of the Green Party of Ontario 2009-present
• Salman Shah, caretaker Minister of Finance, Pakistan
• Dandara Touré, Malian politician
• Edgar Whitcomb, 1969–73 Governor of Indiana
• Wendell Willkie, Republican 1940 presidential candidate
• Kenneth W. Winters, Republican member of Kentucky State Senate

Science and technology

• Max Mapes Ellis, physiologist and explorer
• Jamie Hyneman, special effects expert; best known as co-host of the television series MythBusters
• Scott A. Jones, inventor and serial entrepreneur, widely known for inventing voicemail systems
• Samuel LaBudde, Goldman Award-winning environmentalist and biologist
• Carl Otto Lampland, astronomer
• Wardell Pomeroy, sexologist
• Vesto Slipher, astronomer
• John T. Thompson, military officer, supervised development of the M1903 Springfield rifle and the M1911 pistol, inventor of the Thompson submachine gun
• Horace M. Trent, physicist best known for finding that a bull whip's crack is a sonic boom and for writing the currently accepted force-current analogy in physics known as the Trent analogy
• Mansukh C. Wani, cancer researcher, discoverer of Taxol
• James D. Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA; author of The Double Helix; winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Sports

Main article: Indiana Hoosiers

Other

• Jan Crull Jr., documentary filmmaker and attorney; Ph.D. student in English Language and Literature in late 1970s; dropped out
• Emily Harris, a founding member of Symbionese Liberation Army
• Jim Jones, Peoples Temple founder, cult leader and mass murderer
• Maxine Mesinger, gossip columnist
• Norris W. Overton, U.S. Air Force Brigadier General
• Jeff Sagarin, statistician and creator of various Sagarin Rating Systems
• James Johnston Thornton, lawyer, Military Reconstruction Judge, land developer

Notable faculty

Former notable faculty

• David Aiken, opera singer; first baritone to appear on television with NBC's 1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame production of Amahl and the Night Visitors
• Yuri Bregel, a pioneer of Central Asian Historical Studies in the West
• Lynton K. Caldwell, principal architect of the 1969 National Environmental Policy Act
• Robert Daniel Carmichael, mathematician and discoverer of Carmichael numbers
• Ralph Erskine Cleland, former President of the Botanical Society of America; cytogeneticist and botanist
• Richard Dorson, folklorist
• Frank K. Edmondson, astronomer
• Carl H. Eigenmann, ichthyologist who described over 150 species of fish with wife Rosa Smith Eigenmann
• Eileen Farrell, famous opera and concert singer, later professor of music at IU
• J. Rufus Fears, David Ross Boyd Professor of Classics and G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty, the University of Oklahoma
• Robert H. Ferrell, historian and author
• Paul Gebhard, anthropologist; part of Alfred Kinsey's original research team
• Josef Gingold, violin teacher and founder of the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis
• Paul Hillier, choral conductor (most notably of Theatre of Voices)
• David Starr Jordan, ichthyologist, educator and peace activist, and founding President of Stanford University
• Alfred Kinsey, pioneer of the academic discipline of sexology in the United States, founder of the Kinsey Institute and the Kinsey Scale, author of the Kinsey Reports
• Daniel Kirkwood, astronomer famous for his work on asteroids, discoverer of Kirkwood gaps
• Bob Knight, head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball 1971–2000
• Yusef Komunyakaa, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
• John P. Lewis, economist, economic adviser appointed by John F. Kennedy
• Alfred R. Lindesmith, sociologist, author of The Addict and the Law
• Salvador Luria, pioneer of molecular biology, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine
• Hermann Joseph Muller, geneticist, zoologist and winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine
• Thubten Jigme Norbu, Buddhist monk and professor of Central Eurasian Studies; elder brother of the Dalai Lama
• Elinor Ostrom, Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, co-recipient of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
• Richard Owen, professor of natural sciences, second state geologist of Indiana, first president of Purdue University
• Vikram Pandit, CEO of Citigroup
• Edward Alsworth Ross, sociologist, educator, and President of the American Sociological Society who crusaded against unfair labor practices against Chinese immigrants and was indirectly responsible for the establishment of the tenure system
• Thomas A. Sebeok, semiotician
• Gyorgy Sebok, pianist
• Denis Sinor, historian, former professor of Cambridge University, Central Asia scholar
• B.F. Skinner, psychologist, pioneer of operant conditioning model
• Raymond Smullyan, philosophy professor emeritus, logician, mathematician
• János Starker, cellist
• Edwin Sutherland, one of the most influential criminologists of the 20th century
• James Alexander Thom, novelist, writer of historical fiction
• Stith Thompson, folklorist
• Michael Uslan, producer of the Batman movies
• Kenneth P. Williams, mathematician and historian, author of Lincoln Finds a General
• Iannis Xenakis, composer
• Jerry Yeagley, coach of the Indiana Hoosiers men's soccer team 1974–2003 with an NCAA record 544 wins
• Virginia Zeani, world-famous operatic soprano
• Max August Zorn, mathematician and originator of Zorn's lemma

Current notable faculty

• David B. Allison, scientist, researcher
• Martina Arroyo, operatic soprano
• David Audretsch, economist
• Edward Auer, pianist
• Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, applied linguist
• Willis Barnstone, poet and translator
• Marcia Baron, Rudy Professor of Philosophy
• Joshua Bell, Grammy Award-winning violinist
• Katy Börner, engineer, specialist in data visualization
• Hal E. Broxmeyer, biologist
• J. Peter Burkholder, musicologist
• Matei Călinescu, Romanian literary critic
• James Campbell, clarinetist
• Jamsheed Choksy, researcher on Middle Eastern religion and culture
• Lynda Delph, biologist
• Raymond J. DeMallie, anthropologist
• Richard DiMarchi, Linda & Jack Gill Chair in Biomolecular Sciences
• R. Kent Dybvig, computer scientist, creator of Chez Scheme
• Eli Eban, clarinetist and professor of music
• Michelle Facos, art historian
• Daniel P. Friedman, computer scientist
• Sumit Ganguly, political scientist, expert in South Asia
• Henry Glassie, folklorist, author; former member of President's Council for the Humanities
• Susan Gubar, literary scholar of feminist theory and literature
• Douglas Hofstadter, Pulitzer prize winner; author of Gödel, Escher, Bach; IU professor of Cognitive Science
• Larry Humes, audiologist
• Dawn Johnsen, President Barack Obama's nominee for Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel
• Jorge V. José, physicist
• Lewis Kaplan, violinist, co-founder of the Bowdoin International Music Festival, professor at Juilliard School
• Jaime Laredo, Grammy Award-winning violinist and conductor
• J. Scott Long, statistician
• Maurice Manning, poet
• John Holmes McDowell, professor of folklore studies, Latin American studies scholar
• Sylvia McNair, Grammy Award-winning soprano
• James Naremore, film scholar
• William R. Newman, historian
• James L. Perry, Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs
• Menahem Pressler, pianist of Beaux Arts Trio fame
• Krishnan Raghavachari, chemist
• Scott Russell Sanders, essayist
• Sven-David Sandström, composer
• Nazif Shahrani, anthropologist, professor of Central Eurasian Studies
• Elliot Sperling, scholar of Tibet
• Olaf Sporns, professor of cognitive science, psychology, and neuroscience, worked at the Neurosciences Institute
• Giorgio Tozzi, operatic bass and actor
• Carol Vaness, soprano
• George M. von Furstenberg, economist
• David Ward-Steinman, composer
• André Watts, Grammy Award-winning classical pianist
• Allen W. Wood, philosopher and scholar of Kant's moral philosophy