EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Founded 1967 with the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900) with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded 1913).

Location:
Pittsburgh, PA

Founding Date:
1900

Team:
Tartans

Mascot:
Scotty

Enrollment:
7500

Official Website:
http://www.cmu.edu/

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Hardie Albright	Actor	16-Dec-1903	7-Dec-1975	Angel on My Shoulder
Paul Allaire	Business	21-Jul-1938		Twice CEO of Xerox
René Auberjonois	Actor	1-Jun-1940		Changeling on Star Trek: DS9
Shari Belafonte	Actor	22-Sep-1954		Harry's daughter
Paul Ben-Victor	Actor	24-Jul-1965		The Wire
Carl Betz	Actor	9-Mar-1921	18-Jan-1978	The Donna Reed Show
Steven Bochco	Film/TV Producer	16-Dec-1943		Cop Rock
Matthew Bomer	Actor	11-Oct-1977		Neal Caffrey on White Collar
Christian Borle	Actor	1-Oct-1973		Tom Levitt on Smash
Barbara Bosson	Actor	1-Nov-1939		Fay Furillo on Hill Street Blues
Albert Brooks	Actor	22-Jul-1947		Broadcast News
Rodney Brooks	Scientist	30-Dec-1954		Robotics and artificial intelligence researcher
James L. Camaren	Business	c. 1955		CEO of Utilities Inc., 1996-2006
Robert H. Campbell	Business	c. 1937		CEO of Sunoco, 1991-2000
Jean Carson	Actor	28-Feb-1923	2-Nov-2005	Fun girl Daphne
Frank Converse	Actor	22-May-1938		Will Chandler on Movin' On
Gretchen Corbett	Actor	13-Aug-1947		Beth Davenport on The Rockford Files
David A. Coulter	Business	c. 1949		Vice Chairman of JP Morgan Chase, 2001-05
George A. Cowan	Physicist	15-Feb-1920	20-Apr-2012	Founder, Santa Fe Institute
John Patrick Crecine	Educator	22-Aug-1939	28-Apr-2008	President of Georgia Tech, 1987-94
James Cromwell	Actor	27-Jan-1940		Babe, L.A. Confidential
Ted Danson	Actor	29-Dec-1947		Bartender on Cheers
Erroll B. Davis, Jr.	Business	c. 1943		Chancellor, University System of Georgia
Nicole DeHuff	Actor	6-Jan-1974	16-Feb-2005	Meet the Parents
Dina Dublon	Business	1953		CFO of JP Morgan Chase, 1998-2004
William B. Ellis	Business	c. 1940		CEO of Northeast Utilities, 1983-93
Charles L. Evans	Economist	15-Jan-1958		President and CEO, Chicago Fed
William Eythe	Actor	7-Apr-1918	26-Jan-1957	The House on 92nd Street
Barbara Feldon	Actor	12-Mar-1933		Agent 99 on Get Smart
Sutton Foster	Actor	18-Mar-1975		Thoroughly Modern Millie
Cyrus F. Freidheim	Business	c. 1936		CEO of Sun Times Media Group, 2006-09
Josh Gad	Actor	23-Feb-1981		Frozen
Chuck Geschke	Business	11-Sep-1939		Co-Founder of Adobe
Jeff Goldblum	Actor	22-Oct-1952		The Fly
James Gosling	Computer Programmer	19-May-1955		Creator of Java
Victor E. Grijalva	Business	c. 1939		Vice Chairman of Schlumberger, 1999-2001
Josh Groban	Musician	27-Feb-1981		Album Closer 3x platinum
Charles Haid	Actor	2-Jun-1943		Renko on Hill Street Blues
John L. Hall	Physicist	21-Aug-1934		Quantum optics
Van Hansis	Actor	25-Sep-1981		As the World Turns
Mariette Hartley	Actor	21-Jun-1940		CBS Morning Program
Elizabeth Hartman	Actor	23-Dec-1943	10-Jun-1987	A Patch of Blue
David Haskell	Actor	4-Jun-1948	30-Aug-2000	Godspell
Lewis Hay III	Business	c. 1955		CEO of FPL Group
Megan Hilty	Actor	29-Mar-1981		Ivy Lynn on Smash
Holly Hunter	Actor	20-Mar-1958		The Piano
Barry C. Johnson	Business	c. 1944		Villanova Dean of Engineering, 2002-06
Anita K. Jones	Educator	c. 1942		Professor at University of Virginia
Cherry Jones	Actor	21-Nov-1956		The Heiress
Phil Karlton	Computer Programmer	28-Feb-1947	20-Jun-1997	Netscape Principal Curmudgeon
Arthur Kennedy	Actor	17-Feb-1914	5-Jan-1990	The Man from Laramie
Vinod Khosla	Business	28-Jan-1955		Venture capitalist
Jack Klugman	Actor	27-Apr-1922	24-Dec-2012	The Odd Couple
Kurt R. Krauss	Business	c. 1950		Former Partner, Booz Allen Hamilton
Stephanie Kwolek	Chemist	31-Jul-1923	18-Jun-2014	Invented Kevlar
Finn E. Kydland	Economist	Dec-1943		Dynamic macroeconomics
David L. Lander	Actor	22-Jun-1947		Squiggy on Laverne & Shirley
Paul C. Lauterbur	Scientist	6-May-1929	27-Mar-2007	Magnetic resonance imaging
Jim Levy	Business	c. 1944		CEO of Activision, 1979-86
Judith Light	Actor	9-Feb-1949		Angela Bower on Who's the Boss?
Arthur Lubin	Film Director	25-Jul-1898	12-May-1995	Phantom of the Opera
Gabriel Macht	Actor	22-Jan-1972		Behind Enemy Lines
Rachel P. Maines	Scholar	8-Jul-1950		The Technology of Orgasm
Joe Manganiello	Actor	28-Dec-1976		Alcide Herveaux on True Blood
Nancy Marchand	Actor	19-Jun-1928	18-Jun-2000	Mrs. Pynchon on Lou Grant
Frank J. Marshall	Business	c. 1947		Former Cisco VP
Declan McCullagh	Journalist	1971		CNET Senior Editor
Michael C. McFarland	Educator	1948		President, College of the Holy Cross
Michael McKean	Actor	17-Oct-1947		This Is Spinal Tap, SNL
Ming-Na	Actor	20-Nov-1963		ER, voice of Mulan
Edgar Mitchell	Astronaut	17-Sep-1930	4-Feb-2016	6th to walk on the Moon
Katy Mixon	Actor	30-Mar-1981		Victoria Flynn on Mike & Molly
Vaughn Monroe	Singer	7-Oct-1911	21-May-1973	Racing with the Moon
Dale Mortensen	Economist	2-Feb-1939	9-Jan-2014	Job creation and destruction
Greg Mottola	Film Director	11-Jul-1964		Superbad
Richard A. Noll	Business	c. 1957		CEO of Hanesbrands
Jenny O'Hara	Actor	24-Feb-1942		Dixie Randazzo on My Sister Sam
Cote de Pablo	Actor	12-Nov-1979		Ziva David on NCIS
George Pake	Scientist	1-Apr-1924	4-Mar-2004	First director of Xerox PARC
Okey L. Patteson	Politician	14-Sep-1898	3-Jul-1989	Governor of West Virginia, 1949-53
Randy Pausch	Educator	23-Oct-1960	25-Jul-2008	The Last Lecture
George Peppard	Actor	1-Oct-1928	8-May-1994	The A Team
Jack Plotnick	Actor	30-Oct-1968		Xandir on Drawn Together
J. Thomas Presby	Business	c. 1940		COO of Deloitte and Touche, 1995-2001
Edward C. Prescott	Economist	26-Dec-1940		Dynamic macroeconomics
Zachary Quinto	Actor	2-Jun-1977		Sylar on Heroes
Sally Jessy Raphael	Talk Show Host	25-Feb-1935		Controversialist talk show host
Carl Benton Reid	Actor	14-Aug-1893	16-Mar-1973	The Little Foxes
Judith Resnik	Astronaut	5-Apr-1949	28-Jan-1986	Challenger astronaut
Leo Robin	Songwriter	6-Apr-1900	29-Dec-1984	Thanks For The Memory
Kali Rocha	Actor	5-Dec-1971		Karen Rooney on Liv and Maddie
George Romero	Film Director	4-Feb-1940		Night of the Living Dead
Kenneth L. Rose	Business	c. 1937		Henkels & McCoy
Mark Russinovich	Computer Programmer	c. 1966		Microsoft Windows Internals
Laura San Giacomo	Actor	14-Nov-1962		Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Richard Sanders	Actor	23-Aug-1940		Les Nessman on WKRP
Howard A. Schmidt	Government	?		White House cybersecurity chief
Jonathan I. Schwartz	Business	20-Oct-1965		CEO of Sun Microsystems
Clifford G. Shull	Physicist	23-Sep-1915	31-Mar-2001	Neutron scattering
Howard Da Silva	Actor	4-May-1909	16-Feb-1986	Bartender in The Lost Weekend
Lester P. Silverman	Business	1947		Former Partner, McKinsey & Co.
Pradeep Sindhu	Business	1953		Co-Founder of Juniper Networks
Lane Smith	Actor	29-Apr-1936	13-Jun-2005	The Final Days
D. Michael Steuert	Business	c. 1948		CFO of Fluor
Ivan Sutherland	Engineer	16-May-1938		Father of computer graphics
Robin Thomas	Actor	12-Feb-1949		Louis Perillo on The Division
Sada Thompson	Actor	27-Sep-1929	4-May-2011	Kate Lawrence on Family
Sebastian Thrun	Scientist	1967		Stanford AI Laboratory
Regis Toomey	Actor	13-Aug-1898	12-Oct-1991	Burke's Law
Michael Tucker	Actor	6-Feb-1945		Stuart Markowitz on L.A. Law
Tamara Tunie	Actor	14-Mar-1959		Jessica Griffin on As the World Turns
Blair Underwood	Actor	25-Aug-1964		Malibu's Most Wanted
Kurt Vonnegut	Novelist	11-Nov-1922	11-Apr-2007	Slaughterhouse Five
Loudon Wainwright III	Singer/Songwriter	5-Feb-1947		Rufus was a Tit-Man
John H. Walker	Business	c. 1958		CEO of Global Brass and Copper
Carl Ware	Business	30-Sep-1943		Former Coca-Cola executive
Andy Warhol	Artist	6-Aug-1928	22-Feb-1987	Pop Art movement
Bruce Weitz	Actor	27-May-1943		Sgt. Belker on Hill Street Blues
Oliver E. Williamson	Economist	27-Sep-1932		Transaction cost economics
Charles E. Wilson	Government	18-Jul-1890	26-Sep-1961	US Secretary of Defense, 1953-57
Patrick Wilson	Actor	3-Jul-1973		The Phantom of the Opera
Nicholas Worth	Actor	4-Sep-1938	7-May-2007	Don't Answer the Phone!
John B. Yasinsky	Business	c. 1939		CEO of OMNOVA Solutions, 1999-2000
Bud Yorkin	Film Director	22-Feb-1926	18-Aug-2015	Start the Revolution Without Me
Jeffrey Zaslow	Author	6-Oct-1958	10-Feb-2012	Replaced Ann Landers

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Elizabeth E. Bailey	Educator	1938		Professor, the Wharton School
John Patrick Crecine	Educator	22-Aug-1939	28-Apr-2008	President of Georgia Tech, 1987-94
Clinton Davisson	Physicist	22-Oct-1881	1-Feb-1958	Diffraction of electrons
Kenneth B. Dunn	Business	2-Nov-1951		Dean, Tepper School of Business, CMU
Martha J. Farah	Psychologist	c. 1955		Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, UPenn
James Goodby	Diplomat	20-Dec-1929		US Ambassador to Finland, 1980-81
John Heinz	Politician	23-Oct-1938	4-Apr-1991	US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1977-91
Alfred D. Hershey	Scientist	4-Dec-1908	22-May-1997	Molecular structure of viral genes
Walter Kohn	Chemist	9-Mar-1923	19-Apr-2016	Density-functional theory
Finn E. Kydland	Economist	Dec-1943		Dynamic macroeconomics
Robert Lucas	Economist	15-Sep-1937		Theory of rational expectations
Merton H. Miller	Economist	16-May-1923	3-Jun-2000	Modigliani-Miller theorem
Franco Modigliani	Economist	18-Jun-1918	25-Sep-2003	Life-cycle theory
Thomas Gale Moore	Economist	6-Nov-1930		Council of Economic Advisers, 1985-89
C. D. Mote, Jr.	Educator	c. 1937		President, University of Maryland
Randy Pausch	Educator	23-Oct-1960	25-Jul-2008	The Last Lecture
John A. Pople	Chemist	31-Oct-1925	15-Mar-2004	Quantum mechanics of molecules
Edward C. Prescott	Economist	26-Dec-1940		Dynamic macroeconomics
Raj Reddy	Educator	13-Jun-1937		Professor of Computer Science, CMU
Kathryn L. Shaw	Economist	c. 1954		Council of Economic Advisers, 1999-2001
Herbert A. Simon	Economist	15-Jun-1916	9-Feb-2001	Administrative Behavior
Anna Deavere Smith	Actor	18-Sep-1950		Nancy McNally on The West Wing
Otto Stern	Physicist	17-Feb-1888	17-Aug-1969	Molecular beam experiment
Sebastian Thrun	Scientist	1967		Stanford AI Laboratory

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Elizabeth E. Bailey	Educator	1938		Professor, the Wharton School
Frank V. Cahouet	Business	25-May-1932		CEO of Mellon Financial, 1987-98
Jared L. Cohon	Educator	c. 1947		President, Carnegie Mellon University
John Patrick Crecine	Educator	22-Aug-1939	28-Apr-2008	President of Georgia Tech, 1987-94
Erroll B. Davis, Jr.	Business	c. 1943		Chancellor, University System of Georgia
Dina Dublon	Business	1953		CFO of JP Morgan Chase, 1998-2004
Kenneth B. Dunn	Business	2-Nov-1951		Dean, Tepper School of Business, CMU
William B. Ellis	Business	c. 1940		CEO of Northeast Utilities, 1983-93
Paul J. Flory	Chemist	19-Jun-1910	9-Sep-1985	Studied polymers
Claire W. Gargalli	Business	c. 1942		President of Equimark, 1984-90
Ira J. Gumberg	Business	c. 1953		CEO of J. J. Gumberg Co.
Alfred D. Hershey	Scientist	4-Dec-1908	22-May-1997	Molecular structure of viral genes
Richard B. Kelson	Business	20-Nov-1946		CFO of Alcoa, 1997-2006
Martin G. McGuinn	Business	c. 1942		CEO of Mellon Financial, 1999-2006
Robert Mehrabian	Business	31-Jul-1941		CEO of Teledyne
Elizabeth Paté-Cornell	Educator	17-Aug-1948		Risk analysis expert, Stanford professor
Raj Reddy	Educator	13-Jun-1937		Professor of Computer Science, CMU
Eric Schmidt	Business	27-Apr-1955		CEO of Google, 2001-11
H. Guyford Stever	Educator	24-Oct-1916	9-Apr-2010	President of CMU, 1965-72
Wesley W. von Schack	Business	c. 1947		CEO of Energy East
Helge H. Wehmeier	Business	1943		CEO of Bayer Corporation, 1995-2002

COACHES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Honus Wagner	Baseball	24-Feb-1874	6-Dec-1955	Pittsburgh shortstop on valuable baseball card

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