- Ira A. Fulton
Ira A. Fulton is an Arizona philanthropist, land developer, and businessman. BusinessWeek has listed Fulton 36th on its list of "The 50 Most Generous Philanthropists" for 2006. The Arizona Legislature has also recognized his generosity. According to BusinessWeek, Fulton and his wife have given away about $265 million, approximately 60% of their net worth. Major recipients include Arizona State University (ASU), Brigham Young University (BYU), the University of Utah, …
- Michael Crow
Michael M. Crow - educator, science and technology policy scholar, and knowledge enterprise architect - is the 16th and current (as of 2007) president of Arizona State University, having succeeded Lattie Coor as of July 1, 2002. Crow is guiding the transformation of ASU in hopes of turning it into one of the nation's leading public metropolitan research universities, one which he intends to be directly engaged in the economic vitality of the region.
- Phil Gordon
Phil Gordon is an American politician, and the 51st and current mayor of Phoenix, Arizona. He was sworn in as mayor on January 2, 2004. The former city councilman was elected mayor in the non-partisan mayoral race on September 9, 2003, garnering 72 percent of the vote. Gordon's stated accomplishments include the Arizona State University downtown Phoenix campus, the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, a new downtown hotel, …
- Barry Bonds
Barry Lamar Bonds (born July 24 1964 in Riverside, California) is a Major League Baseball player with the San Francisco Giants. He is the son of former Major League All-Star Bobby Bonds, cousin of Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson, and the godson of Hall of Famer Willie Mays. Bonds holds the single season major league records for home runs (73), on base percentage (.609), slugging percentage (.863), and walks (232).
- Pat Murphy
Pat Murphy (born November 28, 1958 in New York) is the head baseball coach at Arizona State University. He has been successful, never having failed to produce 35 wins in a season. In 1998 he won the "Baseball America Coach of the Year", and in 2000 and 2007 he won Pac-10 coach of the year. Also in 2000 he was the head coach of the Dutch Men's Baseball Team at the Summer Olympics in Sydney. He left Notre Dame to take the Arizona State job in August of 1994.
- Phil Christensen
Dr. Phil Christensen, Ph.D., is a geologist and Mars scientist. Read how the young grad student, who sat in the back of the room watching Mars scientists vote on Viking landing sites in 1976, became the Principal Investigator for four instruments at Mars (2 in orbit and two more roving around on the surface of the planet).
- Aaron Brown
Aaron Brown (born November 10, 1948) is an American broadcast journalist. He is the former host of "NewsNight with Aaron Brown" on CNN. He is currently the John J. Rhodes Professor in Public Policy and American Institutions at Arizona State University.
- Dustin Pedroia
Dustin Luis Pedroia (born August 17, 1983) is a Major League Baseball player for the Boston Red Sox, and played college baseball at the Arizona State University. Pedroia made his major league debut and collected his first major league hit on August 22, 2006 against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Pedroia is listed by Major League Baseball and the Boston Red Sox at 5'9". Pedroia collected his first major league home run on 9 September, …
- Gene V. Glass
Gene V. Glass is Professor in the Divisions of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies and Psychology in Education at Arizona State University. His Ph.D. is from the University of Wisconsin. He held academic positions at the University of Illinois and the University of Colorado before joining the faculty of ASU. He has published articles and books on research and evaluation methods, psychotherapy and education policy.
- Robert Cialdini
Robert B. Cialdini is a well known social psychologist who is currently a Regents' Professor of psychology at Arizona State University.
- Frank Kush
Frank Kush (born January 20, 1929) was a football coach who most prominently served as head coach at Arizona State University for more than two decades, and also worked in the same capacity for three different professional leagues. He is of Polish descent and was inducted into the National Polish American Sports Hall of Fame. He was born in Windber, Pennsylvania. Kush's no-nonsense approach to coaching was shaped as one of 14 children of a Pennsylvania coal miner.
- Paul Davies
Paul Charles William Davies (born April 22, 1946) is a British-born, physicist, writer and broadcaster, who holds the position of College Professor at Arizona State University. He has held previous academic appointments at the University of Cambridge, University of London, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, University of Adelaide and Macquarie University. His research interests are in the fields of cosmology, quantum field theory, and astrobiology.
- Herb Sendek
Herbert J. Sendek (born February 22, 1963 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States) is the head basketball coach at Arizona State University.
- Edward C. Prescott
Edward C. Prescott (born 26 December, 1940) is an American economist. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2004, sharing the award with Finn E. Kydland, "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles".
- Dirk Koetter
Dirk Koetter is an American football coach currently serving as the offensive coordinator of the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars. He is best known for his six years as the head coach of Arizona State Sun Devils. Under Koetter, the Sun Devils became known for a vertical passing attack. Koetter came under fire for his lack of focus on defense, questionable halftime adjustments, and failure to win numerous big games. He holds a 1-11 (W vs.
- David Berliner
David C. Berliner is an educational psychologist and professor of education at Arizona State University. Berliner received a Doctorate of Education from Stanford University. He has authored more than 150 articles, books and chapters in the fields of educational psychology and educational policy, including the best-seller "The Manufactured Crisis" (co-authored with B. J. Biddle) and the textbook "Educational Psychology" (co-authored with N. L. Gage).
- Ed Pastor
Edward Lopez "Ed" Pastor, American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1991, representing (map). The district includes most of downtown and southern Phoenix, along with most of Glendale. He was born in Claypool, Arizona, was educated at Arizona State University and was an assistant to Arizona Governor Raúl Castro and a Maricopa County Supervisor before entering the House.
- Bruce Snyder
Bruce Snyder (born March 14, 1940 in Santa Monica, California) was the head football coach of Utah State University from 1976 to 1982. He was the head football coach of the University of California from 1987 to 1991. And from 1992 to 2000, he served as the head football coach at Arizona State University. At Arizona State he compiled a 58-45 record. Snyder was chosen as the NCAA Coach of the Year in 1996, …
- Robert Balling
Robert C. Balling, Jr. is the former director of the Office of Climatology and is a professor of geography at Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. in geography from the University of Oklahoma in 1979. Balling is a declared "global warming skeptic." However, in Balling and Sen Roy (2005) he writes: "There is substantial evidence that a non-solar control has become dominant in recent decades. The buildup of greenhouse gases and/or some other global-scale feedback, …
- Rob Evans
Rob Evans (born September 7 1946 in Hobbs, New Mexico) is a college basketball coach with his most recent head coaching stint at Arizona State University. Evans was hired as the Sun Devils head coach prior to the 1998-99 season and was fired after the 2005-06 season. Prior to coming to Arizona State, he coached at Ole Miss where, in 1997 and 1998, he led the Rebels to back-to-back 20-win seasons for the first time since 1937-38.
- Donald Johanson
Donald Carl Johanson (born June 28, 1943 in Brisbane) is an American paleoanthropologist. Along with Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White, he is well known for the discovery of the skeleton of the female hominid australopithecine known as "Lucy", in the Afar Triangle of Ethiopia. Johanson earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1966. He earned his master's degree in 1970 and his PhD in 1974 from the University of Chicago. Dr.
- Rachel Bess
Rachel Bess is an American artist working out of Phoenix, Arizona. Bess is known for her highly realistic, sometimes surrealistic, oil paintings. Her work has drawn comparisons to that of the Dutch Masters (a proclaimed favorite of hers), as well as to certain sub-genres of the lowbrow art movement. Rachel's love of science and mathematics is evident in her work and, not surprisingly, she nearly went for a double major in Anthropology and Art.
- Rudy Burgess
Rudolph Donnavon Burgess (born September 19, 1984 in Brooklyn, New York) is a college football player attending the Arizona State University (ASU).
- Neil Giuliano
Neil G. Giuliano is an American politician and activist. Giuliano was the former four-term mayor (1994-2004) of Tempe, Arizona. He chaired the commission in charge of hosting the third debate of the 2004 United States presidential elections. He has served as President of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) since September 1, 2005.
- Paul Casey
Paul Alexander Casey (born 21 July 1977) is an English golfer who is a member of the world's top two professional golf tours, the U.S. based PGA Tour and the European Tour.
- Kevin White
Dr. Kevin White (born September 25, 1950) is the Director of Athletics at University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. He has held this position since March 13, 2000. He held similar positions at Arizona State University, Tulane University, the University of Maine, and Loras College. White is a career educator, having started as a high school coach and teacher at Gulf High School, in New Port Richey, Florida.
- Andre Ethier
Andre Everett Ethier (born April 10, 1982 in Phoenix, Arizona) is a Major League Baseball outfielder who plays for the Los Angeles Dodgers. He graduated from St. Mary's High School in Phoenix, Arizona. After briefly attending Chandler-Gilbert Community College, he then went on to Arizona State University.
- David Hestenes
David Orlin Hestenes, Ph.D. (born 1933) is a physicist. For more than 30 years, he was employed in the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Arizona State University (ASU), where he retired with the rank of Research Professor and is now emeritus. Hestenes has worked in mathematical and theoretical physics, geometric calculus, geometric algebra, neural networks, and cognitive research in science education.
- Eddie House
Edward L. House (born May 14, 1978 in Berkeley, California) is an American professional basketball player currently with the NBA's New Jersey Nets. House attended Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. Though Arizona State could not recruit a good supporting cast, House became the all-time scoring leader at Arizona State with 2,044 points in his career and is the only player to score more than 2,000.
- Grace Park
Grace Park was born Park Ji-eun on March 6, 1979 in Seoul, South Korea, and is a professional golfer on the LPGA Tour.
- Ike Diogu
Ikechukwu Somtochukwu Diogu, better known as Ike Diogu (born September 11, 1983 in Buffalo, New York), is an American professional basketball player for the NBA's Indiana Pacers. His parents are natives of Nigeria and moved to the United States in 1980 to pursue further education. He later moved from Buffalo, New York to Garland, Texas and enrolled in Garland High School. Diogu stands at 6 feet, 8 inches (2.03 m) tall, …
- David Spade
David Wayne Spade (born July 22 1964) is an Emmy-Award and Golden Globe-nominated American actor, comedian, television personality who gained fame in the 1990s as a castmember on "Saturday Night Live". He currently stars as single man Russell on CBS's sitcom, "Rules of Engagement" and is also hosting the third season of his entertainment parody show, "The Showbiz Show with David Spade" on Comedy Central.
- Andrew Walter
Andrew Walter (born May 11, 1982) is a professional quarterback with the Oakland Raiders of the NFL. Walter was selected by the Raiders in the third round of the 2005 NFL Draft out of Arizona State University. He is listed at 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) and 234 lb (107 kg).
- Paolo Soleri
Paolo Soleri (June 21, 1919, Turin, Italy) is an Italian-American visionary architect with a life-long commitment to research and experimentation in design and town planning. He established Arcosanti and the educational Cosanti Foundation. Soleri is a distinguished lecturer in the College of Architecture at Arizona State University and a National Design Award recipient in 2006.
- Zach Miller
Zachary Harvest Miller (born December 11 1985) is an American football tight end for the Oakland Raiders.
- Jeff Larish
Jeffrey David Larish (born October 11, 1982 in Tempe, Arizona, USA) is a power-hitting left-handed first baseman who was chosen by the Detroit Tigers in the fifth round (150th overall) of the 2005 Major League Baseball Amateur Draft. Larish currently attends Arizona State University, and on June 21, 2005, Larish became the third College World Series player in history to hit three home runs in a single game.
- Danny White
Wilford Daniel "Danny" White (born February 9, 1952) is an American football coach in the Arena Football League and also occasionally appears as an analyst on broadcasts of college football games. He was named the head coach of the Arena Football League expansion Utah Blaze, which began play in 2006. Prior to that, he served as the head coach of the Arizona Rattlers from 1992 to 2004, winning the ArenaBowl championship in 1994 and 1997.
- Jewell Parker Rhodes
Jewell Parker Rhodes (b.1954 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American novelist. Rhodes is professor of Creative Writing and American Literature and former Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Arizona State University. Born and raised in Manchester, a largely African-American neighborhood on the North Side of Pittsburgh, she received a Bachelor of Arts in Drama Criticism, a Master of Arts in English, …
- Allison Dubois
Allison DuBois (born January 24, 1972) author and controversial research medium who states that she has psychic abilities with which she can communicate with the dead. According to DuBois, she uses her psychic abilities to help law enforcement agencies across the country solve crimes, such as the Texas Rangers and the Glendale, Arizona police department, and that she also works as a jury consultant, …
- Kate Spade
Kate Spade (born Katherine Noel Brosnahan in Kansas City, Missouri in 1962) is the co-founder and namesake of the designer brand Kate Spade New York.