Georgia Tech Alumni

Political and public service

Jimmy Carter (1946) Jimmy Carter; the 39th President of the United States, winner of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize;

G. Wayne Clough (1964) President of Georgia Institute of Technology, Director of the Smithsonian Institution;

Ivan Allen, Jr. (1933) Mayor of Atlanta;

Timothy C. Batten, Sr. (1981) U.S. Federal Court Judge;

Max Burns (1973) U.S. House of Representatives;

Howard Callaway (1945) U.S. House of Representatives, Department of the Army Secretary;

Phil Gingrey (1965), Member of the United States House of Representatives;

Stephen Pace (1912), Member of the United States House of Representatives;

Sam Nunn (1956), Member of the United States Senate;

Mario Canahuati (1977) Minister of Foreign Affairs of Honduras, former Ambassador to the United States;

J. Owen Forrester (1961) U.S. Federal Court Judge;

Jack Guynn (1969) Chairman of the Federal Reserve (Atlanta);

Paul Craig Roberts (1961) Economist, former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury;

Daniel Webster (1971) Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives;

Juan Carlos Varela (1985) Vice President of Panama;

Military

Admiral James A. Winnefeld, Jr. (1978) Navy four-star admiral, current Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff;

Edward C. Aldridge, Jr. (1962) 16th Secretary of the Air Force;

William L. Ball (1969) 67th Navy Secretary;

Philip M. Breedlove (1977) Air Force four-star general, Air Force Vice Chief of Staff;

John M. Brown III Commander, Army Pacific Command;

Pete Geren (1973) 20th Secretary of the Army;

John W. Hendrix (1965) Army four-star general, former commander of the U.S. Army Command.

Business

Gil Amelio (1965) Former CEO of National Semiconductor and Apple;

Charles Betty (1979) President of EarthLink;

John F. Brock (1971) Chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola;

George G. Crawford (1890) First graduate, founder of Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company;

Cecil B. Day (1958) Founder of the Days Inn hotel chain;

David Dorman (1975) Chairman and CEO of AT&T;

Mike Duke (1971) Wal-Mart President;

David C. Garrett, Jr. (1955) Former CEO of Delta Airlines;

Ed Iacobucci (1975) Director of IBM OS/2 R&D Group, founder of Citrix Systems, President of DayJet;

Robert Milton (1983) Former President of Air Canada;

James D. Robinson III (1957) CEO of American Express, Director of Coca-Cola Company ;

Science, Engineering and Mathematics

***Dozens of NASA astronauts have graduated from Georgia Tech;

James Henry Deese (1935) Director of NASA;

Bascom S. Deaver (1952) Physicist, famous for his research on the application of superconductivity; Vice Chairman of the Department of Physics at the University of Virginia;

Arnold Hardy (1945) Physicist, amateur photographer, 1947 Pulitzer Prize winner;

W. Jason Morgan (1957) made important contributions to the theory of plate tectonics and geodynamics, 2003 Winner of the National Medal of Science, Professor of Earth Sciences at Princeton University;

Kary Mullis (1964) Winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, invented the polymerase chain reaction (PCR);

Linda Griffith (1982) biomedical engineer, professor of bioengineering and mechanical engineering at MIT;

Michel G. Malti (1922) electrical engineer, famous for a series of treatises on circuit analysis;

Robert C. Michelson (1974) Roboticist, winner of the 2001 Pirelli Award, inventor of the Entomopter;

Herbert Saffir (1940) proposed the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale;

Herbert Keller (1945) applied mathematician, data analyst, honorary professor of the Department of Applied Mathematics at Caltech;

Daniel P. Sanders (1993) proposed a new efficient proof of the four-color problem;

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Li Luning (2011) (Double degree jointly trained by Shanghai Jiao Tong University) made contributions to the theory of laser and atomic and molecular interaction;

Computer Science

Jim Alkin ( Jim Allchin) (1984) Former Vice President and Platform Director of Microsoft, responsible for the development of Windows NT series, XP and Vista;

Krishna Bharat (1996) Google Research Scientist, developed Google News;<

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Tom Cross (1999) entrepreneur, computer security expert, hacker;

Jim Davies (1997) cognitive scientist, playwright and artist;

Chaim Gingold (2003) Participated in the development of Spore;

D. Richard Hipp (1984) SQLite architect and main developer;

Ed Iacobucci (1975) Director of the IBM OS/2 R&D team;

Craig Mundie (1972) Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Microsoft;

James F. O'Brien (2000) Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley;

Rosalind Picard (1984) founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at MIT;

Mike Pinkerton (1997) co-developer of Mozilla browser and Google Chrome browser;

Jeff Trinkle (1979) Chairman of the Department of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;

Art and Design

Michael Arad (1999) Designer of the World Trade Center Memorial in New York;

John C. Portman (1950) Designer of Shanghai Jin Mao Tower and SunTrust Plaza;

Hugh Stubbins Jr. (1933) Designer of Citizen Center;

Bones Howe (1956) Grammy Award winner;

Ed Dodd (1925) cartoonist;

Jorge Cham (1997) cartoonist, postdoctoral lecturer and researcher at Caltech;

Sports

Stephon Marbury (1995) professional basketball player, former NBA All-Star player, currently playing for the Beijing Shougang Basketball Team, serving as point guard

Chris Bosh (2002) Professional basketball player, famous NBA star, plays as a center for the Miami Heat