Notable University of Arizona Alumni

Joan Ganz Cooney, founder of the Children’s Television Workshop and Sesame Street
The late Barry M. Goldwater, U.S. senator; the late Morris K. Udall, U.S. Congressperson; Raúl H. Castro, governor of Arizona and ambassador to Argentina; Dennis DeConcini, U.S.
Senator; Paul Fannin, governor of Arizona; Samuel Pearson Goddard Jr., governor of
Arizona; Stewart Udall, U.S. Congressperson and secretary of the interior;
Raúl M. Grijalva, U.S. Congressperson; Betsy Bayless, former Arizona secretary of state; Jon Kyl, U.S. Senator, John Shadegg, U.S. Congressperson
Robert A. Eckert, chair of the board and chief executive officer of Mattel, Inc.; Jeffrey Rein,
president and chief operating officer of Walgreens Company; Terry Lundgren, president,
CEO, and chair of Federated Department Stores; Ray Oglethorpe, former president, AOL;
Karl Eller, Advertising Hall of Fame member
Andrew Greeley, priest, writer, professor, television personality; J. A. Jance, mystery writer; Kevin Leman, writer, psychologist Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winner for his novel Empire Falls; Barbara Kingsolver, author; Aline Kominsky-Crumb, underground comic book creator; David Foster Wallace, author; Brian Garfield, author; Kitty Kelley, author
Travis Edmonson, Linda Ronstadt, and Harvey Mason, musicians; Greg Kinnear,
Craig T. Nelson, and Valerie Perrine, actors; Garry Shandling and Caroline Rhea, comedians; Geraldo Rivera, talk-show host and television journalist
The late Fritz Scholder, Native American artist; the late Hal Empie, artist; the late
Ted DeGrazia, artist; the late Linda Eastman McCartney, photographer and musician
Richard Carmona, U.S. Surgeon General; Aleena Hernandez, director of the Department of
Education of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe; Ned Norris, former vice chair of the Tohono O’odham
Nation, Stanley Feldman, former Arizona Supreme Court justice; John Roll, U.S. chief judge
for Arizona
Jerry Bruckheimer, film and television producer; Gary LeMel, CEO Warner Sunset Records and president of Worldwide Music for Warner Bros.; Ron Shelton, film director and screenwriter• The late Richard “Dick” Scobee, astronaut, and Joe Acaba, Don Pettit, and Thomas Jones, NASA astronauts
Bernie Seery, deputy associate administrator for programs in NASA’s Office of Biological and Physical Research; Janet Fender, science advisor and commander of the U.S.A.F. Air Combat Command; Chris Lewicki, senior flight systems engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Peter H. Smith, principal investigator for the Phoenix Mars Lander
UA alumni who have won Pulitzer Prizes include Jack McElroy, Frank Sotomayor,
Jose Galvez, Nancy Cleeland, Virginia Escalante, and Russo. Alumnus David Fitzsimmons has been nominated
Arturo Moreno, owner of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Major League Baseball team and outdoor advertising entrepreneur; Robert Sarver, managing partner, majority owner of the Phoenix Suns basketball team and director, SkyWest Airlines and Meritage Corporation
Gilbert Arenas, Mike Bibby, Sean Elliott, Channing Frye, Andre Iguodala, Richard Jefferson, Steve Kerr, Damon Stoudamire, Salim Stoudamire, Jason Terry, Tom Tolbert, and Luke Walton, current and former NBA stars; Jennie Finch, Olympic gold medalist and professional women's softball pitcher; Jim Furyk, Natalie Gulbis, and Annika Sorrenstam, golfers; Ted Bruschi and Chris McAllister, NFL stars; Terry Francona, Boston Red Sox manager; Cheri Blauwet, Paralympics champion and Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation Sports for Life spokesperson; Jason Bates, Chip Hale, Ron Hassey,
Jack Howell, and Kenny Lofton, current and former MLB stars; Michael Bates, Olympic bronze medal winner; and Ryk Neethling, Olympic gold medalist and world-record holder

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