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

Art and architecture

Business and law

Literature

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.

Government, politics & diplomacy

Military

Prominent officers

Active duty

• Peter W. Chiarelli (1980) – four-star general and the Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army
• Bruce W. Clingan (1977) – admiral, United States Navy, and commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Africa, Commander, Allied Joint Force Command, Naples

World War II

• Leslie Groves – major general, United States Army Corps of Engineers, head of the Manhattan Project
• William H. Holloman III (1924–2010) – U.S. Army Air Force officer and combat fighter pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen; U.S. Air Force's first African American helicopter pilot; University of Washington professor of Black Studies
• Tatsuji Suga – lieutenant colonel, Imperial Japanese Army, commander of all prisoner-of-war (POW) and civilian internment camps in Borneo

Other

• Frank E. Garretson – brigadier general, U.S. Marine Corps; Navy Cross recipient
• Tracy L. Garrett – major general, first female Inspector General of the United States Marine Corps
• Harley D. Nygren (B.S. 1945, BSME 1947) – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) rear admiral, first director of the NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps
• Kelly E. Taggart – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) rear admiral, second Director of the NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps
• Ronald R. Van Stockum – brigadier general' director, Marine Corps Reserve 1962–1964

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

Social science and humanities

Sports

Olympic medal winners

Baseball

Basketball

Football

Soccer

Track and field

• Don Kardong (1974) – fourth-place finisher at the 1976 Olympic marathon and former president of the Road Runners Club of America
• 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

• 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

• Elizabeth Bishop – Poetry, 1956
• Stephen Dunn – Poetry, 2001
• Richard Eberhart – Poetry, 1966
• Vernon Louis Parrington – History, 1928
• Theodore Roethke – Poetry, 1954

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
• Fredrick Muyia Nafukho - Presidential Term Professor at the University of Washington

Politics and administration

Science and technology

Social science, arts, and humanities

Athletics

References