List of University of Washington people

This page lists notable students, alumni and faculty members of the University of Washington.

Notable alumni

Nobel laureates

Academic administration and teaching

Aeronautics and astronautics

Michael P. Anderson, NASA Astronaut and crew member of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
Scott Crossfield, test pilot

Art and architecture

Facade showing the signature style of architect Minoru Yamasaki
  • Deborah Aschheim (1990) – artist
  • Nancy Carman (1976) – ceramist
  • F. Lennox Campello (1981) – artist and critic
  • Dale Chihuly (1965) – sculptor
  • Chuck Close (1962) – painter
  • Alfredo Arreguín (1967) – painter
  • Roger Shimomura (1961) – painter
  • Dan Corson (1964) – artist
  • Fredericka Foster (1972) – artist and activist
  • George Nakashima (1929) – woodworker and architect
  • Martin Friedman – art historian
  • Steven Holl (1970) – architect and watercolorist
  • Diane Katsiaficas (M.F.A. 1976) – visual artist
  • Paul Kuniholm (P.B.D. 2012) – artist
  • Patricia J. Lancaster (M.A. 1981) – former commissioner of the New York City Department of Buildings
  • Martina López – photographer
  • John Pollini (1968) – art historian
  • Norie Sato (M.F.A. 1974) – artist
  • Alyson Shotz (M.F.A. 1991) – sculptor
  • Victor Steinbrueck (1940) – architect and preservationist
  • Paula Mary Turnbull – sculptor
  • Wang Chiu-Hwa (1946) – architect
  • Art Wolfe (1975) – photographer and conservationist
  • Minoru Yamasaki (1934) – architect, noted for the design of the World Trade Center

Business and law

Pulitzer Prize winners

National Book Award

  • Beverly Cleary (1939) – Children's Books, Fiction, Paperback 1981
  • Timothy Egan (1981) – Non-fiction 2006 for The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

General

If no class year is listed, author may not have graduated.

Robert Zubrin, science fiction writer
  • Ralph Angel (graduated, year not known) – poet
  • Linda Bierds (1969, 1971) – poet and MacArthur Fellowship recipient
  • Peter Blecha (1974, 1988) – historian, author, essayist
  • Matt Briggs (1995) – novelist and short story writer
  • Emily Compagno – attorney and television journalist
  • David Eddings (1961) – author of epic fantasy novels
  • P. T. Deutermann (1970) – fiction author
  • Joanna Fuhrman – poet
  • Tess Gallagher (1967, 1971) – poet
  • David Guterson (1978, 1982) – writer of novel Snow Falling on Cedars
  • Kristin Halbrook (2001) – fiction author
  • Kristin Hannah (1982) – author and New York Times best-seller
  • Frank Herbertscience fiction writer, Dune
  • Thom Jones (1970) – short story writer
  • Kitty Kelley (1964) – investigative journalist and author
  • Hank Ketcham – creator of the U.S. comic strip Dennis the Menace
  • Ada Limón (1998) – 24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress of the United States
  • Suzanne Matson (1987) – fiction writer
  • Donald E. McQuinn (circa 1951) – author of military and science fiction, retired U.S. Marine
  • John Okada, author of No-No Boy
  • John Patric (circa 1924, no degree awarded) – author of numerous books, magazine and newspaper articles, and libertarian periodicals
  • Jean-Paul Pecqueur – poet
  • Jerry Pournelle (1956, 1958, 1964) – science fiction author, technology journalist, and essayist
  • Tom Robbins – author, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
  • Ann Rule (1953) – true crime author
  • Marilyn Stablein (1981) – poet and author
  • Alex Steffen – writer and editor
  • John Straley (1977) – detective fiction author
  • Sophus Keith Winther (Ph.D. 1927) – novelist
  • Robert Zubrin (1984, 1992) – science fiction writer and Mars exploration advocate

Government, politics & diplomacy

Henry M. Jackson, United States Senator[10]

Prominent officers

Monument to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade on campus
Active duty
World War II
Other

Medal of Honor recipients

Religion

  • Sanford Brown – social justice advocate, ordained United Methodist minister, and executive director of the Church Council of Greater Seattle

Science and technology

Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, PhD 1982, science-fiction writer and professor of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology

Social science and humanities

Olympic medal winners

  • Gold medal, men's rowing, 1936 Berlin Olympic Games
  • Gold medal, men's rowing, 1948 London Olympic Games
    • Gordy Giovanelli
    • Bob Martin
    • Allen Morgan
    • Warren Westlund
    • Bob Will
  • David Calder (silver medal, rowing, Canada, 2008 Beijing Olympic Games)
  • Will Crothers (silver medal, rowing, Canada, 2012 London Olympic Games)
  • Anna Cummins (gold medal, rowing, 2008 Beijing, silver medal, 2004 Athens Olympic Games)
  • Rob Gibson (silver medal, rowing, Canada, 2012 London Olympic Games)
  • Pan Cheng-tsung (bronze medal, golf, 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games)
  • Adrienne Martelli (bronze medal, rowing, 2012 London Olympic Games)
  • Conlin McCabe (silver medal, rowing, Canada, 2012 London Olympic Games)
  • Hope Solo (women's soccer; gold medals, 2008 Beijing and 2012 London)
  • Mary Whipple (gold medal, rowing, 2012 London, 2008 Beijing; silver medal, 2004 Athens Olympic Games)

Baseball

Basketball

Nate Robinson

Football

Soccer

Track and field

  • Brad Walker (2003) – two-time NCAA pole vault champion; gold medalist at the 2006 World Indoor Championships and 2007 World Championships

Other sports

Music

Television, film, and other arts

Crime

  • Theodore Robert Bundy – commonly known as "Ted" Bundy; serial killer, 1974–1978; admitted to killing 30 people; some sources say he could have killed as many as 100
  • Amanda Knox; convicted of the murder of her roommate in Italy, conviction later overturned

Notable faculty

Nobel Laureates

Pulitzer Prize winners

Biology and medicine

Business and law

  • William R. Greiner – President of the University at Buffalo, 1991–2004
  • Paul Heyne – economist and author of The Economic Way of Thinking
  • Terence Mitchell – Gold member of Academy of Management Hall of Fame; one of three Gold members out of over 10,000 members[57]

Politics and administration

  • George Sumner Bridges – current President of Evergreen State College
  • David de KretserGovernor of Victoria, Australia, 2006-2011
  • Denice Denton – Dean of the University of Washington College of Engineering, 1996–2005; first woman in the United States to lead an engineering college of a major research university
  • William Gerberding – President of the University of Washington, 1979–1995
  • Margaret Levi – 2005 President of the American Political Science Association
  • Charles Odegaard – President of the University of Washington, 1958–1973
  • Dixy Lee Ray – seventeenth governor of the state of Washington, the first woman to hold that position
  • Paul Schell – former mayor of Seattle; former Dean of the University of Washington School of Architecture and Urban Planning, 1992–1995
  • Henry Suzzallo – Croatian-American and president of the University of Washington, 1915–1926

Science and technology

Social science, arts, and humanities

  • James A. Banks – scholar; the "father of multicultural education"
  • David P. Barash – Professor of Psychology
  • Laurence BonJour – Professor of Philosophy
  • Ruthanna Boris – Dance: Ballet
  • Michael Brame – Professor of Linguistics
  • Jon Bridgman – American historian
  • Shawn Brixey – digital art, telematics, physics, bioart
  • Patricia Shehan Campbell – Professor of Music Education and Ethnomusicology
  • Susan Casteras – Professor of Art History
  • Francis D.K. Ching – author of books on architectural graphics
  • Sidney S. Culbert – psychologist and Esperantist; major influence in the design of cockpit instrument panels in the Boeing 707 jet aircraft through his research in perception
  • Stuart Dempster – composer, trombonist, and Guggenheim Fellowship recipient
  • Joël-François Durand – composer; Professor of Composition; Associate Director, UW School of Music
  • August Dvorak – educational psychologist most noted for the invention of the Dvorak keyboard layout
  • Peter Erös – symphony and opera conductor
  • Kathryn O. Galbraith – children's book writer
  • Sarah Nash Gates – costume designer, historian of costuming, president of USITT
  • John Goodlad – education researcher, author of A Place Called School
  • Regan Gurung – Indian-American professor of psychology and author
  • Richard Haag – designer of Gas Works Park; founded the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington
  • Victor Hanzeli – former Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literature
  • Nancy Hartsockfeminist philosopher noted for her work in feminist epistemology and standpoint theory
  • Huck Hodge – composer, winner of the Gaudeamus Prize
  • Hsu Dau-lin – Chinese legal historian
  • Charles R. Johnson – scholar, a MacArthur Fellow, recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and winner of the National Book Award for writing Middle Passage
  • Richard Karpen – composer; Director, UW School of Music
  • Richard Kenney – poet
  • W. Hudson Kensel – historian of the American West
  • Jeffrey Kurtzman, musicologist
  • Jacob Lawrence – among the best known African American painters of the 20th century
  • Fang-kuei Li – linguist with expertise in Chinese and Native American languages
  • Elizabeth Loftuspsychologist who works on human memory and how it can be changed by facts, ideas, suggestions and other forms of post-event information
  • Fred Lukoff – linguist and scholar of Korean studies
  • Alan Marlatt – psychologist who pioneered harm reduction
  • Edward Melcarth - painter, sculptor, and photographer
  • Heather McHugh – poet
  • Roy Andrew Miller – linguist notable for his advocacy of Japanese and Korean as members of the Altaic group of languages
  • Bryan Monroe – editor, CNN Politics; editor-in-chief, Ebony magazine
  • Frederick Newmeyer – linguist and 2002 President of the Linguistic Society of America
  • James Palais – historian in the field of Korean history
  • Lionel Pries – teacher of Minoru Yamasaki, A. Quincy Jones, and many Northwest Modern architects
  • Kenneth B. Pyle – Japanese historian and former director of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
  • Tommy Rall – dancer; tap, men's ballet techniques, ballet partnering
  • W.J. Rorabaugh – American historian; managing editor of Pacific Northwest Quarterly; author of The Alcoholic Republic
  • Roger Sale – literary critic and author, noted for his influence on literary criticism on children's literature
  • Steven Shaviro – cultural critic and author of Doom Patrols
  • Spencer Shaw – librarian; Professor of Library Science, Information School
  • Craig Sheppard – pianist; Professor of Piano; Chair of the Keyboard Department, UW School of Music
  • Vilem Sokol – music professor, string teacher, and conductor of the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras from the 1960s to the 1980s
  • Robin Stacey – history professor, author of numerous articles and books on early medieval Britain and Ireland
  • Pepper Schwartz – sociologist, author or co-author of numerous books, magazines, website columns, and a television personality on the subject of sexuality
  • Daris Swindler – anthropologist; primate expert; his An Atlas of Primate Gross Anatomy is a standard work in the field
  • Carole Terry – organist and harpsichordist; Professor of Organ and Harpsichord
  • David Wagoner – poet and novelist
  • Melia Watras – violist and composer; Professor of Viola; Chair of the Strings Department, UW School of Music
  • Daniel Waugh – director of the Seattle Silk Road Project; editor of the journal of the Silkroad Foundation
  • Karl Wittfogel – sinologist and historian; author of Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power
  • Turrell V. Wylie – Tibetologist and linguist: created the Wylie transliteration for the Tibetan language

Athletics

  • Hiram Boardman Conibear – rowing coach
  • Gil Dobie – undefeated (58-0-3) football coach of the University of Washington from 1908 to 1916, whose tenure largely comprised the NCAA Division I-A record for an unbeaten streak (64 games) and who oversaw the entirety of the NCAA Division I-A's second longest winning streak (40 games); elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951
  • Marv Harshman – head basketball coach of the University of Washington from 1971 to 1985
  • Don James – head football coach from 1974 to 1992
  • Lorenzo Romar – former head basketball coach of the University of Washington

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