List of University of Idaho people

Alumni

Academia

• Ali Abdelghany - prominent Egyptian academic and marine biologist; Ph.D. '86

  Business

• William Agee - business executive; Class of '60
• Jack Lemley - construction manager for Europe's Channel Tunnel or "Chunnel," the undersea rail tube linking England and France; Class of '60
• Frank Shrontz - former chairman and CEO of Boeing; Class of '54

  Criminals

• Anthony Curcio - former Vandal football player; real estate investor; masterminded one of the most elaborate armored car heists in history

  Government

Journalism

• Michael Kirk, documentary filmmaker and co-creator of Frontline; Class of '71
• Kelli Johnson, sports anchor for NBC Sports Bay Area, Class of 1998
• Otis Livingston, sportscaster for WCBS-TV in New York
• David Neiwert, Seattle-based investigative journalist and blogger ; contributing writer for the Southern Poverty Law Center; author of Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us ; Class of 1984

  Literature and the arts

Science

• Steven Amstrup - polar bear researcher and conservationist; M.S. '75
• Malcolm Renfrew - polymer chemist, inventor, and professor emeritus; contributor to the development of Teflon; Class of '32, M.S. '34
• Bob Twiggs - Rocket scientist; inventor of the CubeSat technology; Class of '61
• Thomas Mueller - American rocket engineer and rocket engine designer. He is a founding employee of SpaceX, a space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California.

  Sports

Olympics

• Kristin Armstrong, cyclist; 2008 and 2012 Olympic gold medalist ; Class of '95
• Hec Edmundson, state's first Olympian in 1912 ; Class of 1910
• Dan O'Brien, 1996 Olympic gold medalist, three-time world champion; Class of '93
• Joachim Olsen, 2004, Olympic bronze medalist for Denmark and NCAA champion; Class of '02
• Chris Stokes, five-time Olympic bobsledder for Jamaica; Class of '87
• Angela Whyte, 2004 Olympic finalist ; 2008 representative for Canada; four-time NCAA All-American; Class of '03

  Baseball

• Bob Dillinger - MLB third baseman; three-time AL stolen base champion; Class of '40
• Frank Reberger - MLB pitcher ; Class of '66
• Ken Schrom - MLB pitcher ; former Vandal quarterback; Class of '77
• Bill Stoneman - MLB pitcher ; threw two MLB no-hitters; GM of L.A. Angels ; Class of '66

  Basketball

• Steve Belko - head coach at Idaho State and Oregon; third commissioner of Big Sky Conference; also starred in football for Vandals; Class of '39
• Hec Edmundson - basketball and track coach at UI and Washington; Class of 1910
• Gus Johnson - NBA star ; played for Vandals during the 1962–63 season; Class of '64
• Dan Monson - head coach at Long Beach State; formerly at Gonzaga and Minnesota; Class of '85
• Don Monson - head coach at UI and Oregon; father of Dan Monson; Class of '55
• Don Newman - head coach at Arizona State and NBA assistant coach ; Big Sky player of the year

  Football

Faculty

• Douglas Q. Adams - Emeritus Professor of English
• Kim Barnes - Professor of English
• Daniel Bukvich - Professor of Music
• Ruprecht Machleidt - Professor of Physics
• Scott Minnich - Associate Professor of Microbiology, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
• Daniel Orozco - Associate Professor of English
• J. Michael Scott - Emeritus Professor of Fish & Wildlife
• Jean'ne Shreeve - Professor of Chemistry
• Jack Ernest Vincent - Emeritus Professor of Political Science
• Robert Wrigley - Professor of English

• John Merton Aldrich - zoology
• Darrell Bolz - agricultural extension
• David Comer - electrical engineering
• James Gill - painting
• Gustaf Wilhelm Hammar - political science
• Ralph C. Hancock - political science
• Lawrence H. Johnston - physics
• Robert Peters - creative writing
• Malcolm Renfrew - chemistry
• Vern Rutsala - creative writing
• Roderick Sprague - anthropology and archaeology
• David B. Steinman - engineering
• Yvor Winters - creative writing
• Gordon Woods - veterinary science

  Presidents of the University of Idaho