List of University of Wyoming people
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This is a list of University of Wyoming people who have some significant affiliation with the school. Individuals listed may have only attended the university at one point and not necessarily have graduated.
- Merav Ben-David (Hebrew: מירב בן-דוד; January 17, 1959–) – chair of the Department of Zoology and Physiology and Democratic nominee in the 2020 United States Senate election in Wyoming
- Ana Paula Höfling – professor of dance
- Elizabeth Orpha Sampson Hoyt (1828–1912) – philosopher, author, lecturer
- Samuel Howell Knight – geology professor, 1916–1966
- Randi Martinsen – former president of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Foundation
- Gale W. McGee (1915–1992) – professor of history and international affairs, U.S. senator (D-WY) (1959–1977), and U.S. ambassador to the Organization of American States (1977–1981)
- Aven Nelson (1859–1952) – botanist and UW president (1918–1922)
- Glen Anderson Rebka, Jr. (1931–2015) – head of Physics Department
- Robert Russin (1914–2007) – sculptor
- Kenneth Sims – professor of Isotope Geology, National Geographic explorer, Papadopoulos Fellow
- Allan Arthur Willman (1909–1989) – composer, head of the Music Department
Alumni
Athletics
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- Josh Allen – football player, 2024 NFL MVP[1]
- Gideon Ariel – athlete[2]
- Rigo Beltrán – former Major League Baseball pitcher[3]
- Charles Bradley – basketball player[4]
- Francis Chesley – football player[5]
- Darnell Clash – football player[6]
- Derek Cooke – basketball player
- Hayden Dalton (born 1996) – basketball player
- Josh Davis – basketball player[7]
- Fennis Dembo – basketball player[8][9]
- Conrad Dobler – football player
- Lloyd Eaton – football coach
- Aaron Elling – football player[10]
- Bob Fitzke – football player[11]
- Malcom Floyd – football player[12]
- Ted Gilmore – football coach[13]
- Adam Goldberg – football player
- Art Howe – baseball player
- Jeff Huson – baseball player[14]
- Korey Jones – football player[15]
- Jim Kiick – football player[16]
- Eric Leckner – basketball player[17]
- Derrick Martin – football player[18]
- Dale Memmelaar – football player[19]
- Angelo Mosca – football player, professional wrestler[20]
- Larry Nance Jr. – basketball player
- Jay Novacek – football player[9][21]
- Chuck Pagano – football coach
- John Pilch – former NBA player[22]
- Chris Prosinski – football player
- Bill Quayle – athletics director for Emporia State University 1979–1999
- Theo Ratliff – center for the Charlotte Bobcats of the NBA[23]
- Jeron Roberts (born 1976) – American-Israeli basketball player
- Ken Sailors – inventor of the jump shot; former NBA player[9]
- Justin Salas – wrestler[24]
- Shakir Smith – basketball player
- Truett Smith – football player
- Billie Sutton – professional bronc rider and candidate for governor of South Dakota
- Scott Usher – Olympic swimmer
- Scottie Vines – football player[25]
- Jack Weil – football player[26]
- Justin Williams – basketball player[27]
- Tony Windis – basketball player[28]
Arts & entertainment
- Steve Cochran – actor
- Harold Garde – artist
- Curt Gowdy – sportscaster[29]
- Hazel Homer-Wambeam – beauty queen, Miss Wyoming 2022
- Karyl McBride – psychotherapist and author[30]
- Rodger McDaniel – attorney, author, member of both houses of Wyoming legislature
- Blake Neubert – artist[31]
- Wayde Preston – television actor[32]
- Chancey Williams – country music singer/songwriter[33]
- Penny Wolin – photographer
- Tak Chiu Wong – saxophonist
Politics
- Jim Anderson – politician[34][35]
- Rodney Anderson – politician[36]
- Eli Bebout – Wyoming state politician
- Lynn Birleffi – politician
- Douglas K. Bryant – politician[37]
- Dick Cheney – 46th vice president of the United States
- Floyd Esquibel – politician[38]
- Dave Freudenthal – former governor of Wyoming[39]
- John Frullo – politician[40]
- Clifford Hansen – politician[41]
- Harry L. Harris – politician[42]
- John J. Hickey – politician[43]
- David N. Hitchcock – politician[44]
- Daniel L. Kinnaman – politician[45]
- Tom Lubnau – politician[46]
- Cynthia Lummis – politician
- Leonard McEwan – former member of the Wyoming Supreme Court and the Fourth District Court in Sheridan[citation needed]
- M. Margaret McKeown – judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit[citation needed]
- Mary Mead – politician[47]
- Matt Mead – politician[48]
- Joseph B. Meyer – Wyoming attorney general and state treasurer[49]
- Bob Nicholas – politician[50]
- Owen Petersen – politician[51][52]
- Alan K. Simpson – former U.S. senator
- Pete Simpson – former state representative, UW administrator and Hall of Fame member
- Gail D. Zimmerman – state legislator[53]
Other
- Florence F. Arenberg (M.S. 1939) – botanist and educator[54]
- Jillian Balow – Wyoming superintendent of public instruction, effective 2015[55]
- Jerry Buss – businessman[56]
- W. Edwards Deming – engineer and professor
- Floyd Dominy – Bureau of Reclamation commissioner 1959–1969[57]
- Rick Edgeman – engineer and professor
- Gary E. Gibson – neuroscientist[58]
- Gretchen Hofmann – professor of ecological physiology of marine organisms[59]
- John A. List – economics professor[60][61]
- Stephen Nicholas – physician
- Susan Pamerleau – sheriff[62]
- Samuel C. Phillips – director of NASA's Apollo program from 1964–1969, director of the National Security Agency 1972–1973; commander of the Air Force Systems Command 1973–1975[63]
- Ken Pomeroy – statistical specialist[64]
- Peter J. Schoomaker – military general
- Marlan Scully – physicist
- Matthew Shepard – LGBT activist, murdered; did not graduate[65]
- Carol Tomé – CEO of UPS
- James Watt – secretary of the Interior in the Reagan administration
- Alvin Wiederspahn (1949–2014) – Cheyenne lawyer, historical preservationist, rancher, and member of both houses of the Wyoming State Legislature[66]
References
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- ↑ "Tony Windis". Basketball-Reference.com. Retrieved November 6, 2012.
- ↑ "UW Profiles: Curt E. Gowdy, Sr. – 1942". Uwyo.edu. Archived from the original on October 12, 2012. Retrieved April 12, 2012.
- ↑ "Karyl McBride Ph.D." www.psychologytoday.com. Retrieved February 7, 2021.
- ↑ "Transitional Creative Arts & Mentor Program site". Retrieved May 3, 2012.
- ↑ "UW Notable Alumni". Uwyo.edu. Archived from the original on October 12, 2012. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Chancey Williams and the Younger Brothers Band - Worth the Whiskey". Archived from the original on January 6, 2016. Retrieved January 26, 2015.
- ↑ "Senate District 2 Member – Jim Anderson". www.wyoleg.gov. Archived from the original on August 28, 2009.
- ↑ "Senate biography". Legisweb.state.wy.us. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Rodney 'Pete' Anderson's Biography". Project Vote Smart. Retrieved November 6, 2012.
- ↑ Wyoming Blue Book (PDF). Vol. IV. Wyoming State Archives, Department of Commerce. 1991. p. 197.
- ↑ "Senator Floyd A. Esquibel". State of Wyoming Legislature. Archived from the original on April 9, 2009. Retrieved November 6, 2012.
- ↑ "Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal". National Governors Association. Retrieved October 30, 2012.
- ↑ "Texas House of Representatives". house.texas.gov. Retrieved September 23, 2017.
- ↑ Martin, Douglas (October 21, 2009). "Clifford Hansen, Former Wyoming Governor and U.S. Senator, Is Dead at 97". The New York Times. Retrieved October 26, 2014.
- ↑ "Harry Lee Harris". Casper Star-Tribune. Casper, Wyoming. May 31, 2013. p. 5. Retrieved January 14, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "HICKEY, John Joseph, (1911–1970)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 30, 2012.
- ↑ Wyoming Blue Book (PDF). Vol. IV. Wyoming State Archives, Department of Commerce. 1991. p. 212.
- ↑ "Daniel L. Kinnaman". Casada Funeral Home & Crematory. Retrieved May 3, 2025.
- ↑ "Tom Lubnau, II". legisweb.state.wy.us. Archived from the original on April 7, 2014. Retrieved August 9, 2013.
- ↑ "Mary Mead" (PDF). barbcranch.com. Archived from the original on December 24, 2012. Retrieved October 31, 2012.
- ↑ "Politico.com's Profile". Politico.com. Archived from the original on September 6, 2012. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Joan Barron, "Wyoming State Treasurer Joe Meyer's career arc left tracks", October 9, 2012". Wyoming Tribune Eagle. Retrieved October 16, 2012.
- ↑ "Legislator Information: Representative Bob Nicholas". Wyoming State Legislature. Archived from the original on February 19, 2011. Retrieved December 11, 2011.
- ↑ "Legislature biography". Legisweb.state.wy.us. November 29, 1942. Archived from the original on August 28, 2009. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
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- ↑ "TRIBUTE TO DR. GAIL ZIMMERMAN; Congressional Record Vol. 165, No. 154". www.congress.gov. September 24, 2019. Retrieved January 19, 2024.
- ↑ Arenberg, Florence F. (January 1, 1941). "Agaricaceae from the Medicine Bow Mountains of Wyoming". Mycologia. 33 (1): 50–53. doi:10.1080/00275514.1941.12020790. ISSN 0027-5514.
- ↑ "Jillian Balow: Biographical Profile and Positions on the Issues". vote-wy.org. Archived from the original on December 13, 2014. Retrieved December 11, 2014.
- ↑ "Lakers owner Jerry Buss dies". FoxNews.com. February 18, 2013.
- ↑ Pisani, Donald J. "Floyd E. Dominy". WaterHistory.org.
- ↑ "Gary E. Gibson, Ph.D." Burke Neurological Institute. Retrieved November 16, 2024.
- ↑ "Gretchen Hofmann: EEMB Department Chair".
- ↑ "John List | Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics | The University of Chicago". economics.uchicago.edu. Retrieved May 6, 2022.
- ↑ Akerlof, George; Oliver, Adam; Sunstein, Cass (January 2021). "Editorial Introduction: field experiments and public policy". Behavioural Public Policy. 5 (1): 1. doi:10.1017/bpp.2020.16. ISSN 2398-063X. S2CID 229355469.
- ↑ "A Lifetime of Dedicated Service: Sheriff Susan Lewellyn Pamerleau, Major General (Ret.)". University of Wyoming. September 2013. Archived from the original on October 7, 2015. Retrieved October 6, 2015.
- ↑ Astronautix
- ↑ Thamel, Pete (March 23, 2013). "Meteorologist Becomes a Go-To Guy". The New York Times. Retrieved December 29, 2015.
- ↑ "The truth behind America's most famous gay-hate murder". TheGuardian.com. October 26, 2014. Retrieved May 3, 2017.
- ↑ "Alvin Wiederspahn". Wyoming Tribune Eagle. Archived from the original on October 29, 2014. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
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