This is a list of notable individuals associated with Case Western Reserve University, including students, alumni, and faculty.
Arts, journalism and entertainment
- Barbara Allyne Bennet â actress and member of Screen Actors Guild (SAG) national board of directors (2005âÂÂ2007)
- James Card â longtime film curator at George Eastman House
- Mary Carruthers â among the world's foremost scholars on medieval religious literature
- Janis Carter â film actress of 1940s and '50s
- Gordon Cobbledick â recipient of J. G. Taylor Spink Award, the highest award given by the Baseball Writers' Association of America
- Brenda Miller Cooper â operatic soprano
- Franklin Cover â actor, Tom Willis in The Jeffersons
- Jasmine Cresswell â best-selling author of over 50 romance novels
- William Eleroy Curtis â journalist, diplomat, and advocate of Pan-Americanism
- Anu Garg â author and speaker
- Susie Gharib â co-anchor of Nightly Business Report
- Gregg Gillis â musician; performs as Girl Talk
- Dorothy Hart â film actress of 1940s and '50s
- Jan Hopkins â journalist (CNN financial news show Street Sweep)
- John Howard â actor, known for The Philadelphia Story and Bulldog Drummond films
- Hal Lebovitz â recipient of J. G. Taylor Spink Award, the highest award given by the Baseball Writers' Association of America
- Marc Parnell â second-most published ornithologist in the world, author of 41 bird-identification guides
- M. Scott Peck â author of The Road Less Traveled and other self-help books
- Harvey Pekar â comic book writer, creator of American Splendor
- Jack Perkins â dubbed "America's most literate correspondent" by 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
- Alan Rosenberg â actor; played Ira Woodbine on TV series Cybill; Emmy-nominated for guest appearance on ER; elected president of Screen Actors Guild in 2005
- Joe Russo and Anthony Russo â brothers, co-alumni, and directors of films ', ', ', ', Welcome to Collinwood, and TV series Arrested Development; producers of NBC's Community
- Alix Kates Shulman â author of Memoir of an Ex-Prom Queen and To Love What Is
- Rich Sommer â MFA theater alumnus; appeared in The Devil Wears Prada, Mad Men, and with Upright Citizens Brigade
- Emma Rood Tuttle â writer
- Thrity Umrigar â journalist; author of Bombay Time
- Andrew Vachss â lawyer and child protection consultant; author of the Burke series
- Roger Zelazny â 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 and philanthropy
Education
Government and military
- John V. Azzariti (CWRU 1988) â physician; state legislator; member, New Jersey General Assembly (2024âÂÂpresent)
- John E. Barnes Jr. â member of Ohio House of Representatives
- Janet Bewley â member of the Wisconsin Legislature
- Justin Bibb â 58th and current mayor of Cleveland
- Zdravka BuÃ
¡iàâ member of the European Parliament
- John Cairncross â Soviet spy and member of the Cambridge Five
- Gilbert S. Carpenter (1836âÂÂ1904) â US Army brigadier general
- Thomas J. Carran (1841âÂÂ1894) â Ohio state senator
- François-Philippe Champagne â Canadian member of Parliament for Saint-MauriceâÂÂChamplain
- Schive Chi â governor of Fujian Province and Minister without Portfolio, Republic of China (Taiwan)
- Victor Ciorbea â prime minister of Romania (1996âÂÂ1998)
- Bruce Cole â 8th chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities
- John Charles Cutler â acting chief of the venereal disease program in the United States Public Health Service and head of the Guatemala and the Tuskegee syphilis experiments
- William Daroff â chief executive officer at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations; former member of the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad
- Benjamin O. Davis Jr. â first African-American to receive star in US Air Force; awarded Distinguished Flying Cross in 1943; assistant secretary of transportation under Richard Nixon
- Lincoln DÃÂaz-Balart â U.S. representative
- Alene B. Duerk â first female rear admiral in the United States Navy
- James A. Garfield â served on the University Board of Trustees
- T. Keith Glennan â Case Institute of Technology president, first NASA administrator
- Subir Gokarn (Ph.D.) â deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India
- Paul Hackett â Iraq War veteran and former Congressional candidate
- Rutherford B. Hayes â 19th president of the United States, served on the University Board of Trustees
- John Hutchins â former U.S. representative
- Stephanie Tubbs Jones â former U.S. representative
- Ron Klein â U.S. representative
- Dennis Kucinich â former U.S. representative
- Clarence Lam â Maryland state senator
- James Thomas Lynn â United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Richard Nixon; Director of the Office of Management and Budget under Gerald Ford
- Josh Mandel (J.D.) â Ohio State Treasurer
- Nicole Nason (J.D.) â administrator of the Federal Highway Administration
- Ogiame Atuwatse III â 21st Olu of Warri Kingdom
- Salvatore Pais â inventor and aerospace engineer, U.S. Navy and Air Force
- Alfredo Palacio â president of Ecuador, completed medical residency at Case
- Raymond Stanton Patton (Ph.B.) â rear admiral and first flag officer of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps
- Trista Piccola â former director of the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth & Families
- Paul A. Russo â ambassador of the United States to Barbados, Dominica, St Lucia, Antigua, St. Vincent, and St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla
- David Satcher â 16th Surgeon General of the United States
- Milton Shapp â governor of Pennsylvania and 1976 Democratic presidential candidate
- Louis Stokes â former U.S. representative
- Don Thomas â former NASA astronaut
- Elioda Tumwesigye â member of Parliament Sheema North and Cabinet Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation Republic of Uganda
- Michael R. Turner â U.S. representative
- William H. Upson â former U.S. representative
- Andrew R. Wheeler â deputy administrator (and acting administrator) of the United States Environmental Protection Agency
- Milton A. Wolf â former U.S. ambassador to Austria
History
Law
See Notable Graduates section
Science, technology, and medicine
- Peter B. Armentrout â distinguished chemistry professor, University of Utah
- Roger Bacon â inventor of carbon fiber
- Hans Baumann â inventor and engineer
- Paul Berg â winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for biochemical characterization of recombinant DNA
- John Blangero â human geneticist; highly cited scientist in the field of complex disease genetics
- Murielle Bochud â Swiss physician, co-chief of the Department of Epidemiology and Health Systems at the Unisanté in Lausanne
- Francois Boller â Swiss neurologist
- Paul Buchheit â 23rd employee of Google and creator of Gmail
- Neil W. Chamberlain â economist and industrial relations scholar (A.B., 1937; M.A., 1939)
- Philippe G. Ciarlet â mathematician known for work on finite element method; received his Ph.D. from the Case Institute of Technology 1966 and was awarded the Légion d'honneur in 1999
- Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez â biomedical engineer who works on scaffolds for tissue regeneration
- M. Jamal Deen, CM â Order of Canada and Senior Canada Research Chair in Information Technology at McMaster University
- Conor P. Delaney â colorectal surgeon known for laparoscopy and developing enhanced recovery pathways
- Herbert Henry Dow â founder of Dow Chemical
- Slayton A. Evans Jr. â research chemist and professor
- Xyla Foxlin â engineer, entrepreneur and YouTuber
- Richard L. Garwin â physicist, designer of first hydrogen bomb, presidential advisor and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
- H. Jack Geiger â founding member and past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility and Physicians for Human Rights
- Julie Gerberding â first woman director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Alfred G. Gilman â co-winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for co-discovery of G proteins
- Donald A. Glaser â winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics, for invention of the bubble chamber
- Millicent Goldschmidt â microbiologist, worked on NASA Lunar Receiving Laboratory and University of Texas
- Siegfried S. Hecker â director of Los Alamos National Laboratory (1986âÂÂ1997)
- Joseph A. Helpern â emeritus professor at Medical University of South Carolina
- Corneille Heymans â winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on carotid sinus reflex
- Samuel Hibben â pioneer in blacklight technology; designed the lighting displays for the Statue of Liberty and other national monuments
- Bambang Hidayat â astronomer, former vice president of the International Astronomical Union
- George H. Hitchings â 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
- Dorothy Evans Holmes â psychoanalytic thinker known for her work on racial and cultural trauma
- Robert W. Kearns â inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper systems used on most automobiles since 1969; won one of the best-known patent infringement cases against a major corporation
- Jane Kessler â psychologist
- Donald Knuth â computer scientist and winner of the Turing Award (1974)
- Lawrence M. Krauss â physicist in the field of dark energy; bestselling author (The Physics of Star Trek)
- Polykarp Kusch â winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics, for determining the magnetic moment of the electron
- George Trumbull Ladd (1842âÂÂ1921) â philosopher, educator, and psychologist; first foreigner to receive the Second (conferred in 1907) and Third (conferred in 1899) Orders of the Rising Sun
- Paul C. Lauterbur â co-winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for discoveries leading to creation of MRI
- Matthew N. Levy â cardiac physiologist and textbook author
- John Macleod â co-winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for discovery of insulin
- Sidney Wilcox McCuskey â astronomer noted for his work on the Milky Way galaxy
- Albert A. Michelson â winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physics, for disproving existence of "ether"; first American to receive a Nobel Prize
- Edward Morley â performed interferometry experiment with Michelson
- Ferid Murad â 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 â winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for contributions to carbocation chemistry
- Amit Patel â stem cell surgeon who demonstrated stem cell transplantation can treat congestive heart failure
- Raymond Stanton Patton (Ph.B.) â engineer, rear admiral and first flag officer of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps and second director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (1929âÂÂ1937)
- M. Scott Peck â psychiatrist; author of The Road Less Traveled
- David Pedlar â director of research at the National Headquarters of Veterans Affairs Canada
- James Polshek â architect; designed William J. Clinton Presidential Library
- Edward C. Prescott â co-winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, for theory on business cycles and economic policies
- Charles Burleigh Purvis (1865) â leading physician at Howard University and the Freedmen's Hospital
- Frederick Reines â co-winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics, for the detection of the neutrino
- Barry Richmond â developer of the iThink simulation environment
- Frederick C. Robbins â 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 â inventor of the Nike air sole
- John Ruhl â physicist currently studying cosmic microwave background radiation
- David Satcher â U.S. Surgeon General under President Clinton; first African-American director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Terry Sejnowski â pioneer in the field of neural networks and computational neuroscience; one of only ten living scientists to have been elected to all three national academies (IOM, NAS and NAE)
- Jesse Leonard Steinfeld â U.S. Surgeon General (1969âÂÂ1973), 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 â winner of 1971 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for establishing identity and importance of cyclic AMP in regulation of cell metabolism
- Lars Georg Svensson â instrumental in the development of minimally invasive keyhole surgery and leader in aortic valve surgery
- Peter Tippett â developer of the first anti-virus software, "Vaccine" (later sold and renamed Norton AntiVirus)
- Alfred Wilhelmi â biochemist, medical researcher, and academic
Sports
- Ed Andrews â Major League Baseball player
- John Badaczewski â professional football player for the Washington Redskins and Chicago Bears
- Steve Belichick â professional football player for the Detroit Lions and college football coach; father of NFL coach Bill Belichick
- Manute Bol â at one time the tallest player to play in the National Basketball Association
- Dick Booth â professional football player for the Detroit Lions
- Esther Erb â marathon runner
- Ed Kagy â professional football player and founder of Gyro International
- William Kerslake â Olympic wrestler and co-inventor of the first ion thruster for space propulsion
- Sandy Knott â Olympic runner for outdoor track and field
- Warren Lahr â NFL All-Pro defensive back who played 11 seasons with the Cleveland Browns
- Bill Lund â professional football player for the Cleveland Browns
- Ray Mack â professional baseball player for the Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees, and Chicago Cubs; All-Star second baseman in 1940
- Michael McCaskey â chairman of the board, Chicago Bears
- Paul O'Dea â outfielder for the Cleveland Indians
- Peggy Parratt â professional football player credited for throwing the first forward pass in professional football
- Milton C. Portmann â professional football player, CWRU Hall of Fame class of 1976 for football, track, and hockey; selected to the WRU 50-Year Football All-Star Team at offensive tackle
- Phil Ragazzo â professional football player for the Cleveland Rams, Philadelphia Eagles, and New York Giants
- Mike Rodak â professional football player for the Cleveland Rams, Detroit Lions, and Pittsburgh Steelers
- George Roman â professional football player for the New York Giants
- Frank Ryan â professional football player; quarterback for the Cleveland Browns; holds a PhD in math
- Mickey Sanzotta â professional football player for the Detroit Lions
- Don Shula (MA Physical Education '53) â former coach of the Miami Dolphins, member of Pro Football Hall of Fame
- Denny Shute â professional golfer, British Open and PGA Championship champion
- Bianca Smith â first black woman hired to coach for Major League Baseball, hired for the Boston Red Sox
- Mark Termini â Hall of Fame basketball player for Case Western Reserve University, sports attorney and NBA agent/contract negotiator
- Del Wertz â professional football and baseball player
- Dan Whalen â Arena Football League quarterback for the Cleveland Gladiators and Orlando Predators
- Johnny Wilson â professional football player for the Cleveland Rams
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