List of Indiana University (Bloomington) people

	Presidents of Indiana University	Years as president
1	Andrew Wylie	1829–1851
2	Alfred Ryors	1852–1853
3	William Mitchel Daily	1853–1859
4	John Hiram Lathrop	1859–1860
5	Cyrus Nutt	1860–1875
6	Lemuel Moss	1875–1884
7	David Starr Jordan	1884–1891
8	John Merle Coulter	1891–1893
9	Joseph Swain	1893–1902
10	William Lowe Bryan	1902–1937
—	Herman B Wells (acting)	1937–1938
11	Herman B Wells	1938–1962
12	Elvis Jacob Stahr Jr.	1962–1968
—	Herman B Wells (interim)	1968
13	Joseph Sutton	1968–1971
14	John W. Ryan	1971–1987
15	Thomas Ehrlich	1987–1994
16	Myles Brand	1994–2002
17	Adam Herbert	2003–2007
18	Michael McRobbie	2007–2021
19	Pamela Whitten	2021–present

R.J.Q. Adams, B.S., 1965, professor of British history at Texas A&M University

Elijah Anderson, Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies at Yale University

Richard T. Antoun, professor emeritus of anthropology at Binghamton University

Jason Beckfield (PhD), Professor of Sociology at Harvard University^[1]

Metin Boşnak (BA in Comparative Literature, 1990), Turkish linguist and academic

Joseph C. Burke, former President of State University of New York at Plattsburgh, former Acting Chancellor of the State University of New York

Margaret K. Butler, mathematician specializing in computer software

Shiladitya DasSarma, molecular biologist and professor at University of Maryland School of Medicine

Lewis C. Dowdy, Ed.D., 1965, Sixth President & First Chancellor of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

Elisabeth Joan Doyle (1922–2009), historian, author, and educator

Keith Fitzgerald, political scientist

William Dudley Geer, first Dean of the School of Business at Samford University

William Germano, Ph.D., dean of the faculty of humanities at Cooper Union

Michael Harris (Hebrew : מייקל הריס), Israeli-American public policy scholar and university administrator

Israel Nathan Herstein, Ph.D., 1948, mathematician and professor at University of Chicago

Melvin N. Johnson, MBA 1979, DBA 1983, economist; president of Tennessee State University (2005–2011)^[2]

Joann Kealiinohomoku (Ph.D., 1976), anthropologist and dance researcher

Jeanne Knoerle, former president of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and program director of the Lilly Endowment

Paul Musgrave, professor of government and an expert in American foreign policy matters

William B. Pickett, historian and professor emeritus at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana

Sarah M. Pike, Ph.D., 1998, author and professor of comparative religionatCalifornia State University, Chico

Robert N. Proctor, B.S., 1976, Professor of History of Science at Harvard

Billy Rhoades (1928–2021), mathematician and professor at IU

Elliot Sperling, Tibet scholar

Mark von Hagen (M.A., Slavic Languages and Literatures), director, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Arizona State University

Aldred Scott Warthin, pathologist, "father of cancer genetics"

Tony Aiello, broadcast journalist

Ismail al-Faruqi, philosopher and epistemologist

David Anspaugh, movie director, Hoosiers and Rudy

Howard Ashman, playwright and lyricist

Elliott Baker, author, screenwriter, Emmy Award winner

Radley Balko, journalist and writer

Jonathan Banks, actor, "Mike Ehrmantraut" of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul

Mike Barz, broadcast journalist

Lyndall Bass, artist, shield cent designer

Betty Jane Belanus (Ph.D., Folklore), employee of and curator of several Smithsonian Folklife Festival programs

Daniel Bourne, poet

Todd Brewster, journalist and historian

Jan Harold Brunvand, American folklorist, one of the best-known researchers and anthologists of urban legends; earned PhD in folklore

Joe Buck, sportscaster, multiple Emmy Award winner

Meg Cabot, author The Princess Diaries

E. Jean Carroll, journalist and advice columnist

Siobhan Carroll, professor, scholar and writer

David Chalmers, leading philosopher in the area of philosophy of mind

Sarah Clarke, actress

Tan Kheng Hua, actress

Suzanne Collins, television writer, novelist known for The Hunger Games

Robert Coover, author

J. Lee, actor

Laverne Cox, actress and television producer

E. Wayne Craven, art historian

John Crowley, science fiction author, author of The Deep and Little, Big

Matthew Daddario, actor, "Alec Lightwood" of Shadowhunters

Tim Downs, author and comic artist for Downstown

Theodore Dreiser, author (dropped out)^{[citation needed]}

Michel du Cille, photographer, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner

Dick Enberg, sportscaster, 13-time Emmy Award winner

Judith Lynn Ferguson, cookbook author

Scott Ferrall, sports talk radio host

John M. Ford, poet and science fiction author

Sherron Francis, artist

Tom French, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, St. Petersburg Times

David C. Giuntoli, actor

Karen Glaser, photographer, known for her underwater photography

Jennifer Grotz, award-winning poet

Aishah Hasnie, broadcast journalist

Joseph Hayes, playwright, novelist

Don Herold, author, humorist and illustrator

Ben Higgins, former lead of The Bachelor franchise

Nancy Hiller, cabinetmaker, educator, and author ^[3]

Lissa Hunter, artist

Edward D. Ives, folklorist

Patricia Kalember, actress

Andreas Katsulas, actor

Debra A. Kemp, author of Arthurian literature, such as The Firebrand

Charles Kimbrough, actor

Kevin Kline, Academy Award-winning actor

Michael Koryta, novelist

Mark Lavie, journalist

Ross Lockridge Jr., author of Raintree County

Bienvenido Lumbera, poet, critic, playwright, Ramon Magsaysay Award winner and National Artist of the Philippines

Lee Majors, actor, The Six Million Dollar Man

Alfred McAdams, painter

Judith McCulloh (Ph.D., Folklore), folklorist, ethnomusicologist, and university press editor

David McLane, creator, promoter and producer of Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling

Don Mellett, 1914, journalist, newspaper editor, Pulitzer Prize winner

Gene Miller, journalist, editor, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner

Arian Moayed, Tony-nominated actor, co-founder of Waterwell and writer/director

Ryan Murphy, Golden Globe-winning television producer (Nip/Tuck); best known for American Horror Story

Dave Niehaus, broadcaster, Seattle Mariners

Komelia Hongja Okim, sculptor

Nicole Parker, actress

Jane Pauley, television personality and journalist

Angelo Pizzo, screenwriter, producer, director

Ernie Pyle, journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1944

Catt Sadler, television personality on E! Entertainment Television

Amanda Schull, actress

Scott Schuman, photographer and blogger

Alexander Shimkin, Vietnam war correspondent

Will Shortz, puzzle maker (enigmatologist)

Ranveer Singh, Indian actor

Tavis Smiley, National Public Radio and Public Television host

Gary Snyder, poet and environmental activist, Pulitzer Prize winner (did not graduate)

Lucy A. Snyder, author

Brian Stack, actor, Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Sage Steele, ESPN sports anchor

Jeri Taylor, screenwriter and television producer (Star Trek)

Nancy Weaver Teichert, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter

Michael Uslan, film producer (Batman)

Herb Vigran, actor

Aaron Waltke, Emmy-winning screenwriter and executive producer (Star Trek, Tales of Arcadia)

Clark Wissler, anthropology pioneer

Hiromi Yoshida, poet

Klaus Agthe, former Chairman and CEO of ASEA Brown Boveri

John Bitove, Chairman and CEO of XM Canada, Priszm and Scott's REIT; founder of Toronto Raptors(NBA)^[4]

John Chambers, president and CEOofCisco Systems

Bob Chapek, CEOofThe Walt Disney Company^[5]

Gayle Cook, co-founder of the Cook Group

Mark Cuban, technology entrepreneur; Dallas Mavericks owner; co-founder of Broadcast.com^[6] with Todd Wagner in 1995

William S. Dalton, current CEO of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute

Lance de Masi, President of the American University in Dubai

Donald Fehr, managing director, Major League Baseball Players Association

Jeff M. Fettig, chairman and CEO of the Whirlpool Corporation^[7]

Jared Fogle, former spokesman for Subway and convicted sex offender

E. W. Kelley, former chairman of Steak 'n Shake

Donald Knauss, former CEO of Clorox Company and COO of The Coca-Cola Company in North America

Harold Arthur Poling, retired chairman and CEO of Ford Motor Company

Frank Popoff, retired Chairman and CEO of Dow Chemical Company

Conrad Prebys, property developer based in San Diego

Patty Stonesifer, former CEO, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Chairwoman of Smithsonian Institution

Todd Wagner, CEO of 2929 Entertainment; founder of Todd Wagner Foundation; co-founder of Broadcast.com^[8] with Mark Cuban in 1995

Jimmy Wales, former CEO of Bomis, co-founder of Wikipedia, president of the Wikimedia Foundation (did not graduate)

Peter Wong, CEO of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), Asia-Pacific

Heads of state and government

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Michael D. Higgins (M.A. 1967), President of Ireland (2011–present)

Selim Hoss (Ph.D. 1961), Prime Minister of Lebanon (1976–1980, 1987–1990, 1998–2000)

Supreme Court justices

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Sherman Minton (B.A. 1913, LL.B. 1915), Supreme Court justice (1949–1956)

Wiley Blount Rutledge (attended), Supreme Court justice (1943–1949)

U.S. Senators

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Birch Bayh (LL.B. 1960), U.S. senator (D-Indiana, 1963–1981)

Evan Bayh (B.S. 1978), U.S. senator (D-Indiana, 1999–2011)

Vance Hartke (J.D. 1948), U.S. senator (D-Indiana, 1959–1977)

William E. Jenner (B.A. 1930, LL.B. 1932), U.S. senator (R-Indiana, 1944–1945, 1947–1959)

Newell Sanders (B.S. 1873), U.S. senator (R-Tennessee, 1912–1913)

U.S. Representatives

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Jim Banks (B.A. 2004), U.S. representative (R-Indiana, 2017–present)

John H. Foster (B.A. 1882), U.S. representative (R-Indiana, 1905–1909)

Katie Hall (M.S. 1968), U.S. representative (D-Indiana, 1982–1985)

Charles A. Halleck (B.A. 1922, LL.B. 1924), U.S. representative (R-Indiana, 1935–1969)

Lee H. Hamilton (J.D. 1956), U.S. representative (D-Indiana, 1965–1999)

Elwood Hillis (B.S. 1949, J.D. 1952), U.S. representative (D-Indiana, 1971–1987)

Frank McCloskey (B.A. 1968, J.D. 1971), U.S. representative (D-Indiana, 1983–1995)

Francis B. Posey (LL.B. 1869), U.S. representative (R-Indiana, 1889)

J. Edward Roush (LL.B. 1949), U.S. representative (D-Indiana, 1959–1969, 1971–1977)

Jill Long Thompson (M.B.A. 1978, Ph.D. 1984), U.S. representative (D-Indiana, 1989–1995)

Simeon K. Wolfe (LL.B. 1850), U.S. representative (D-Indiana, 1873–1875)

Governors, other state officials and mayors

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Curtis Hill (B.S. 1983, J.D. 1987), Indiana Attorney General (2017–2021)

Joe Hogsett (B.A. 1978, J.D. 1981), Mayor of Indianapolis (2016–present)

Thomas M. Honan (1899), Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives (1908–1910) and Indiana Attorney General (1911–1915)^[9]

Laura Kelly (M.S.), Governor of Kansas (2019–present)

Mark Kohler (M.A. 1984), Secretary of the State of Connecticut (2022–2023)

Mindy McAlindon, member of the Arkansas House of Representatives

Arthur C. Mellette (B.A. 1863, M.A. 1864, LL.B. 1866), Governor of South Dakota (1889–1893)

Richard M. Milburn (attended), Indiana Attorney General (January 1915–November 1915)^[10]

Elise Nieshalla (M.A. 2000), Indiana State Auditor (2023–present)

Frank O'Bannon (B.A. 1952, J.D. 1957), Governor of Indiana (1997–2003)

William L. Taylor (B.A. 1877), Indiana Attorney General (1898–1903)

Jonathan Weinzapfel (B.A. 1988), MayorofEvansville (2004–2011)

Edgar Whitcomb (attended), Governor of Indiana (1969–1973)

Greg Zoeller (J.D. 1982), Indiana Attorney General (2009–2017)

Cabinet members, chairpersons/administrators and advisers

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Jerry Abramson (B.S. 1968), White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs (2014–2017)

Otis Bowen (B.A. 1939), Secretary of Health and Human Services (1985–1989)

Leroy Edgar Burney (B.S. 1928, M.D. 1930), Surgeon General of the United States (1956–1961)

Robert Gates (M.A. 1966), Secretary of Defense (2006–2011)

Paul H. O'Neill (M.P.A. 1966), Secretary of the Treasury (2001–2002)

Rod Paige (M.Ed. 1962, Ed.D. 1970), Secretary of Education (2001–2005)

Jill Ruckelshaus (B.A. 1958), Assistant to the President for Women's Affairs (1974)

Diplomats

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Feisal al-Istrabadi (B.A. 1986, J.D. 1988), Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations (2004–2007)

Victor Jackovich (B.A. 1970, M.A. 1971), U.S. ambassador to Slovenia (1995–1998), U.S. ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina (1993–1995)

Paul V. McNutt (B.A. 1913), United States Ambassador to the Philippines (1946–1947)

Richard Miles (M.A. 1964), Chargé d'affairesinKyrgyzstan (2015), Chargé d'affaires in Turkmenistan (2008–2009), U.S. ambassador to Georgia (2002–2005), U.S. ambassador to Bulgaria (1999–2002), U.S. ambassador to Azerbaijan (1992–1993)

Judges and attorneys

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Linda Dunikoski (B.A. 1988), Senior Assistant District Attorney of Cobb County Georgia

Christopher M. Goff (J.D. 1996), Associate Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court (2017–present)

Mark Massa (B.A. 1983), Associate Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court (2012–present)

Loretta Rush (J.D. 1983), Chief Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court (2014–present), Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court (2012–present)

Geoffrey G. Slaughter (B.A. 1985, M.B.A. 1989, J.D. 1989), Associate Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court (2016–present)

James Johnston Thornton, lawyer, Military Reconstruction judge, land developer

Other

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Michael Badnarik (attended), Libertarian Party presidential nominee (2004)

Ghoulem Berrah (M.S. 1961, Ph.D. 1963), Special Assistant to President Félix Houphouët-Boigny (1965–1993)

James B. Bullard (Ph.D. 1990), President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (2008–present)

Deepender Singh Hooda (M.B.A. 2003), Member of Parliament Rajya Sabha (2020–present)

Charles Kennedy (attended), Leader of the Liberal Democrats (1999–2006), Member of Parliament for Ross, Skye and Lochaber (1983–2015)

Mike Schreiner (M.A. 1994), Leader of the Green Party of Ontario (2009–present)

Salman Shah (Ph.D. 1984), caretaker Finance Minister of Pakistan (2007–2008)

Dandara Touré (M.P.H.), Minister for the Promotion of Women, Children and the Family (2012)

Wendell Willkie (B.A. 1913, LL.B. 1916), Republican Party presidential nominee (1940)

Jamey Aebersold, jazz educator

Kenny Aronoff, drummer

Emilie Autumn, gothic violinist and singer

David Baker, jazz composer

Klara Barlow, operatic soprano

Jamie Barton, operatic mezzo-soprano

Joshua Bell, Grammy Award-winning concert violinist

Noah Bendix-Balgley, violinist, concertmaster of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 1st concertmaster of Berlin Philharmonic

Jonathan Biss, pianist, professor at Curtis Institute of Music

Tom Borton, jazz saxophonist and composer^[11]

Chris Botti, Grammy Award-winning jazz trumpeter

Cary Boyce, composer

Michael Brecker, jazz saxophonist

Angela Brown, soprano

Lawrence Brownlee, operatic tenor

Hoagy Carmichael, songwriter and actor, "Stardust", "Georgia on My Mind"

Angelin Chang, Grammy Award-winning classical pianist

John Clayton, jazz and classical bassist, composer and arranger

Jim Cornelison, tenor

Dorian, hip-hop recording artist and record producer

Peter Erskine, jazz drummer and educator

Miriam Fried, violinist and pedagogue, professor at New England Conservatory, winner of Queen Elisabeth Music Competition

Vivica Genaux, mezzo-soprano

Tom Gullion, jazz saxophonist

Jeff Hamilton, jazz drummer

Margaret Harshaw, mezzo-soprano and soprano at Metropolitan Opera

Booker T. Jones, songwriter, producer

Paul Katz, cellist, founding member of Cleveland Quartet, professor at New England Conservatory

Charles Kullman, tenor and chair of voice department at Metropolitan Opera

Frankie Masters, big band leader

Sylvia McNair, internationally acclaimed soprano

Edgar Meyer, Grammy Award-winning bassist, MacArthur Fellow, professor at Curtis Institute of Music

Hu Nai-yuan, violinist, winner of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition

Shawn Pelton, session drummer

Larry Ridley, jazz bassist and music educator

Leonard Slatkin, composer and conductor, music director of Detroit Symphony Orchestra and BBC Symphony Orchestra

Straight No Chaser, a cappella group at IU 1996–1999; re-formed in 2008

Eileen Strempel, soprano and educator

Patrick Summers, conductor, artistic director Houston Grand Opera

Michael Weiss, jazz pianist, composer and educator

Pharez Whitted, jazz trumpet and composer

Pete Wilhoit, jazz and rock drummer and percussionist

Wendy Boss, botanist at North Carolina State University

Marion Durbin Ellis, ichthyologist and entomologist

Max Mapes Ellis, physiologist and explorer

John Diederich Haseman, zoologist, geologist, and explorer

Stephani Hatch, psychiatric epidemiologist at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience

Jamie Hyneman, special effects expert; best known as co-host of the television series MythBusters

Scott A. Jones, inventor and serial entrepreneur, widely known for inventing voicemail systems

Kayla C. King, Professor of evolutionary ecology at University of Oxford, UK

Britt Koskella, evolutionary biologist professor at University of California, Berkeley

Samuel LaBudde, Goldman Award-winning environmentalist and biologist

Carl Otto Lampland, astronomer

Wardell Pomeroy, sexologist

Vesto Slipher, astronomer

John T. Thompson, military officer, supervised development of the M1903 Springfield rifle and the M1911 pistol, inventor of the Thompson submachine gun

Horace M. Trent, physicist best known for finding that a bull whip's crack is a sonic boom and for writing the currently accepted force-current analogy in physics known as the Trent analogy

Mansukh C. Wani, cancer researcher, discoverer of Taxol

James D. Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA; author of The Double Helix; winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Silas Warner, game developer, creator of Wolfenstein

Gene Monahan, New York Yankees trainer, Hendrick Motorsports consultant^[12]
Jeff Sagarin, statistician and creator of various Sagarin Rating Systems^[13]

Jan Crull Jr., documentary filmmaker and attorney; Ph.D. student in English Language and Literature in late 1970s; dropped out
Emily Harris, a founding member of Symbionese Liberation Army
Jim Jones, Peoples Temple founder, cult leader and mass murderer^[14]
Maxine Mesinger, gossip columnist^[15]
Norris W. Overton, U.S. Air Force brigadier general

Former notable faculty

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David Aiken, opera singer; first baritone to appear on television with NBC's 1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame production of Amahl and the Night Visitors

Yuri Bregel, a pioneer of Central Asian Historical Studies in the West

Lynton K. Caldwell, principal architect of the 1969 National Environmental Policy Act

Robert Daniel Carmichael, mathematician and discoverer of Carmichael numbers

Ralph Erskine Cleland, former President of the Botanical Society of America; cytogeneticist and botanist

Richard Dorson, folklorist

Frank K. Edmondson, astronomer

Albert Elsen, art historian

Carl H. Eigenmann, ichthyologist who described over 150 species of fish with wife Rosa Smith Eigenmann

Eileen Farrell, famous opera and concert singer, later professor of music at IU

J. Rufus Fears, David Ross Boyd Professor of Classics and G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty, the University of Oklahoma

Robert H. Ferrell, historian and author

Paul Gebhard, anthropologist; part of Alfred Kinsey's original research team

Josef Gingold, violin teacher and founder of the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis

Scott Russell Sanders, essayist^{[citation needed]}

Eliot S. Hearst, psychologist and professional chess player, Guggenheim Fellow

Paul Hillier, choral conductor (most notably of Theatre of Voices)

David Starr Jordan, ichthyologist, educator and peace activist, and founding President of Stanford University

Alfred Kinsey, pioneer of the academic discipline of sexology in the United States, founder of the Kinsey Institute and the Kinsey Scale, author of the Kinsey Reports

Daniel Kirkwood, astronomer famous for his work on asteroids, discoverer of Kirkwood gaps

Bob Knight, head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball 1971–2000

Yusef Komunyakaa, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet

Yanna Krupnikov, political scientist

John P. Lewis, economist, economic adviser appointed by John F. Kennedy

Alfred R. Lindesmith, sociologist, author of The Addict and the Law

Salvador Luria, pioneer of molecular biology, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Hermann Joseph Muller, geneticist, zoologist and winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Thubten Jigme Norbu, Buddhist monk and professor of Central Eurasian Studies; elder brother of the Dalai Lama

Elinor Ostrom, Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, co-recipient of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Richard Owen, professor of natural sciences, second state geologist of Indiana, first president of Purdue University

Vikram Pandit, CEO of Citigroup

Menahem Pressler, pianist who played in the Beaux Arts Trio

Edward Alsworth Ross, sociologist, educator, and President of the American Sociological Society who crusaded against unfair labor practices against Chinese immigrants and was indirectly responsible for the establishment of the tenure system

Sven-David Sandström, composer

Thomas A. Sebeok, semiotician

Gyorgy Sebok, pianist

Denis Sinor, historian, former professor of Cambridge University, Central Asia scholar

B.F. Skinner, psychologist, pioneer of operant conditioning model

Raymond Smullyan, philosophy professor emeritus, logician, mathematician

Elliot Sperling, scholar of Tibet

János Starker, cellist

Edwin Sutherland, one of the most influential criminologists of the 20th century

James Alexander Thom, novelist, writer of historical fiction

Stith Thompson, folklorist

Michael Uslan, producer of the Batman movies

Kenneth P. Williams, mathematician and historian, author of Lincoln Finds a General

Iannis Xenakis, composer

Jerry Yeagley, coach of the Indiana Hoosiers men's soccer team 1974–2003 with an NCAA record 544 wins

Virginia Zeani, world-famous operatic soprano

Max August Zorn, mathematician and originator of Zorn's lemma

Current notable faculty

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David B. Allison, scientist, researcher

Martina Arroyo, operatic soprano

David Audretsch, economist

Edward Auer, pianist

Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, applied linguist

Willis Barnstone, poet and translator

Marcia Baron, Rudy Professor of Philosophy

Abhijit Basu, geologist

Joshua Bell, Grammy Award-winning violinist

Katy Börner, engineer, specialist in data visualization

Fritz Alwin Breithaupt, Provost Professor of Germanic Studies and Cognitive Science

Hal E. Broxmeyer, biologist

J. Peter Burkholder, musicologist

Matei Călinescu, Romanian literary critic

James Campbell, clarinetist

Jamsheed Choksy, researcher on Middle Eastern religion and culture

Lynda Delph, biologist

Raymond J. DeMallie, anthropologist

Richard DiMarchi, Linda & Jack Gill Chair in Biomolecular Sciences

R. Kent Dybvig, computer scientist, creator of Chez Scheme

Eli Eban, clarinetist and professor of music

Michelle Facos, art historian

Daniel P. Friedman, computer scientist

Sumit Ganguly, political scientist, expert in South Asia

Henry Glassie, folklorist, author; former member of President's Council for the Humanities

Susan Gubar, literary scholar of feminist theory and literature

Douglas Hofstadter, Pulitzer prize winner; author of Gödel, Escher, Bach; IU professor of Cognitive Science

Larry Humes, audiologist

Dawn Johnsen, President Barack Obama's nominee for Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel

Jorge V. José, physicist

Lewis Kaplan, violinist, co-founder of the Bowdoin International Music Festival, professor at Juilliard School

Alan Kostelecky, physicist

Jaime Laredo, Grammy Award-winning violinist and conductor

J. Scott Long, statistician

Maurice Manning, poet

John Holmes McDowell, professor of folklore studies, Latin American studies scholar

Sylvia McNair, Grammy Award-winning soprano

Vicky J. Meretsky, biologist, director of Environmental Master's Program

James Naremore, film scholar

William R. Newman, historian

James L. Perry, Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs

Krishnan Raghavachari, chemist

Nazif Shahrani, anthropologist, professor of Central Eurasian Studies

Olaf Sporns, professor of cognitive science, psychology, and neuroscience, worked at the Neurosciences Institute^[16]

Giorgio Tozzi, operatic bass and actor^[17]

Carol Vaness, soprano

George M. von Furstenberg, economist

David Ward-Steinman, composer

André Watts, Grammy Award-winning classical pianist

Allen W. Wood, philosopher and scholar of Kant's moral philosophy

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