List of Rochester Institute of Technology alumni

Rochester Institute of Technology has over 145,000 alumni from all 50 U.S. states and over 100 countries. This is a list of some notable alumni.

Government

• John Cebrowski – member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
• Brian Chontosh (2000) – United States Marine Corps officer, Navy Cross recipient
• Robert J. Duffy (1993) – lieutenant governor of New York (2011–2014); mayor, City of Rochester (2006–2010); past chief of police, City of Rochester
• David Egan (1962) – New York State Supreme Court justice
• Fiona Ma – California State Assembly majority whip, San Francisco politician
• Tom McMahon – mayor of Reading, Pennsylvania
• Rodney C. Moen – Wisconsin state senator

Science and engineering

• Steve Capps (1980) – noted computer programmer and designer of the original Apple Macintosh computer
• Kate Gleason – engineer and businesswoman known both for being a revolutionary in the predominantly male field of engineering and for her philanthropy
• Alex Kipman (2001) – primary inventor of Kinect and HoloLens
• Rick Kittles (1989) – biologist specializing in human genetics
• Elan Lee (1998) – founder and creator of Exploding Kittens game; former chief design officer at Xbox Entertainment Studios; alternate reality game designer
• Patricia Moore (1974) – industrial designer, gerontologist and author of Disguised: A True Story (1985); recognized by i-D magazine as one of the "40 Most Socially Conscious Designers" in the world
• Ralph Peo – engineer, inventor, chairman and CEO of Houdaille Industries, 1957 alumnus of the year
• John Resig (2009) – creator of jQuery
• Grant Tremblay (2011) – astrophysicist specializing in black holes
• Steven Van Slyke (1988) – co-inventor of the organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays used in smartphones, digital cameras, HD and Ultra HDTVs

Humanities

• Kwaku Alston (1994) – celebrity portrait photographer
• Barbara Astman (1970) – artist, photographer
• Ralph Avery (1928) – artist
• Bernie Boston (1955) – photojournalist, twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, including his 1967 Flower Power photo
• Marilyn Bridges (1979, 1981) – aerial photographer
• Dean Chamberlain (1977) – effect photographer
• Emma Lampert Cooper (1897) – painter
• Jeff Daly – chief designer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Bruce Davidson – photographer
• Stan Grossfeld (1973) – two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist with the Boston Globe in 1984 and 1985
• James D. Havens (ca 1920) – woodblock printmaker, painter, and first American insulin recipient
• N. Katherine Hayles (1966) – critical theorist
• Tom Hussey – photographer specializing in commercial advertising and lifestyle photography
• Kenneth Josephson (1932) – photographer; founder of the Society for Photographic Education
• Jeannette Klute – Kodak research photographer who helped develop the Dye-transfer process and demonstrated color photography as an art form
• Bryan Kocis – founder of Cobra Video
• Leon Lim – artist, contestant on '
• Mary Lum – visual artist, recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship, professor at Bennington College
• Zwelethu Mthethwa (1989) – South African painter and photographer
• David Muench – landscape and nature photographer
• Elli Perkins – professional glass artist
• Fredericka Douglass Sprague Perry – activist, philanthropist
• Wallace Seawell (1940) – Hollywood photographer
• Daria Semegen – composer of classical music
• Ronald Senungetuk – Inupiat artist
• William Snyder (1981) – four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist; director of photography, Dallas Morning News
• David Spindel – photographer
• Anthony Suau (1978) – Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist for feature photography with the Denver Post in 1978
• Marc Tedeschi (1976) – martial artist, designer, photographer, writer, educator
• Emily Thompson (1984) – associate professor of history, University of San Diego; 2005 MacArthur Foundation Fellow
• Jerry Uelsmann (1957) – photographer, darkroom artist and professor emeritus of the University of Florida
• Craig Varjabedian – photographer
• Eloise Wilkin (1923) – illustrator of Little Golden Books