- Bobby Dodd
Bobby Dodd (November 11,1908 - June 21,1988) was an American college football coach at Georgia Tech. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame as a player and coach.
- G. Wayne Clough
Gerald Wayne Clough is the current president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, a position he has held since September of 1994. He is notable for being the first alumnus to hold that position.
- Thad Starner
Thad Starner is a founder and director of the Contextual Computing Group at Georgia Tech's College of Computing, where he is an Associate Professor, and one of the pioneers of wearable computing. He received a PhD from the MIT Media Lab in 1999, where he was one of the first six cyborgs involved with the MIT Wearable Computing Project. (See Interview with lab director, Nicholas Negroponte.) Starner is a strong advocate of continuous-access, everyday-use systems, …
- Calvin Johnson
Calvin Johnson (born September 25, 1985 in Tyrone, Georgia) is an American football player, formerly for the Georgia Institute of Technology. He played his first season for the Yellow Jackets in 2004 as a wide receiver. Johnson has a rare combination of size (6-5, 238), speed (4.35), strength, leaping ability (45" vertical), body control and hand-eye coordination. It is often mentioned that he is also a very humble and well-behaved person, …
- Calvin Johnson
Calvin Johnson (born September 25, 1985 in Tyrone, Georgia) is a professional American football player who was drafted by the Detroit Lions. He spent three years for the Yellow Jackets at Georgia Tech until declaring for the 2007 NFL Draft. He played his first season for the Yellow Jackets in 2004 as a wide receiver. Johnson has a rare combination of size (6 ft. 5 in., 239 lb/ 196 cm, 108 kg), speed (4.35 sec 40-yard dash), strength, …
- Chan Gailey
Thomas Chandler (Chan) Gailey, Jr. (born January 5, 1952 in Gainesville, Georgia) is the current head coach of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets' football team and former head coach of the Dallas Cowboys.
- Greg Turk
Greg Turk is a researcher in the field of computer graphics and an Associate Professor at Georgia Tech. He worked on developing the Stanford Bunny.
- James D. Meindl
James Meindl is the director of the Joseph M. Pettit Microelectronics Research Center and is the founding director of the Nanotechnology Research Center. He has been the Joseph M. Pettit Chair Professor of Microsystems at Georgia Institute of Technology since 1993. Professor Meindl was born in Pittsburgh, PA, and received his Ph.D., M.S., and B.S., in 1958, 1956, and 1955, respectively, in Electrical Engineering at Carnegie Institute of Technology (Carnegie-Mellon University).
- Phil Gingrey
John Phillip (Phil) Gingrey, M.D., (born July 10 1942), an American obstetrician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing the 11th District of Georgia.
- Dana Randall
Dana Randall is a professor of theoretical computer science at Georgia Tech. Her primary research interest is analyzing algorithms for counting problems (eg. counting matchings in a graph) using Markov chains. One of her important contributions to this area is a so called "decomposition theorem" for analyzing Markov chains. Her sister is Lisa Randall.
- Jay David Bolter
Jay David Bolter is a professor of Language, Communication and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Some of his main points of study include the evolution of media, the usage of technology in education, and the role of computers in the writing process.
- Michael Lacey
Michael Lacey is an American mathematician. Lacey received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1987, under the direction of Walter Philipp. His thesis was in the area of Probability in Banach Spaces, and solved a problem related to law of the iterated logarithm for the empirical characteristic functions. In the intervening years, his work has touched on the areas of Probability, Ergodic theory, and most importantly, Harmonic analysis.
- David A. Bader
David A. Bader (born May 4, 1969) is an Associate Professor and Executive Director of High-Performance Computing in the Georgia Tech College of Computing. In addition, Bader was selected as the director of the first Sony Toshiba IBM Center of Competence for the Cell Processor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is an National Science Foundation CAREER Award recipient and an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Speaker.
- Vijay Vazirani
Vijay Vazirani received his Bachelor's degree from MIT in 1979 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1983. He is a Professor of Computer Science at Georgia Tech, and is currently McKay Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to this he taught algorithms at the undergraduate level as a Professor of Computer Science at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi during the early to mid nineties.
- John Portman
John C. Portman, Jr. (born December 4, 1924) is an American architect and real estate developer known for creation of the multi-storied atrium hotel. A native of Walhalla, South Carolina, he graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1950. Portman also serves as the inspiration for the fictional character Charlie Croker, in Tom Wolfe's novel, "A Man in Full".
- Mostafa El-Sayed
Mostafa A. El-Sayed is an Egyptian-American chemical physicist, a leading nanoscience researcher and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is also known for the spectroscopy rule named after him, the El-Sayed rule.
- Leonid Bunimovich
Leonid Bunimovich is a Russian mathematician, currently residing in the USA, who specializes in dynamical systems and known for his discovery of focusing chaotic billiards (the "Bunimovich stadium") and (more recently) for the Bunimovich mushroom, a billiard with mixed regular and chaotic dynamics. He received his bachelor's degree in 1967 and doctorate in 1973 from the University of Moscow. His thesis advisor was Yakov Sinai.
- Joseph M. Pettit
Joseph M. Pettit (born July 15, 1916 in Rochester, Minnesota, died 1986) was president of the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1972 to 1986.
- David Wright
David Allen Wright (born December 20, 1982 in Norfolk, Virginia) is an All-Star Third Baseman in Major League Baseball for the New York Mets. Wright attended Hickory High School in Chesapeake, Virginia. In high school, he was a three-time All-State selection and, as a senior, was named the Virginia All-State Player of the Year. He finished his high school career with a .438 batting average, 13 home runs, and 50 RBI.
- Janet Murray
Janet H. Murray , Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, School of Literature, Communication and Culture, Ivan Allen College
- Tashard Choice
Tashard "Deuce" Choice (born November 20, 1984) is the starting running back for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. Choice began his collegiate career at Oklahoma University but transferred to Georgia Tech in 2005. Choice was born in Riverdale, Georgia. He played high school football for Lovejoy High School where he accounted for 40 career all-purpose touchdowns.
- Daniel Guggenheim
Daniel Guggenheim was an American industrialist and philanthropist, and a son of Meyer Guggenheim. Born in Philadelphia, Daniel Guggenheim won a lead-silver price war with ASARCO in 1900, and the Guggenheims took over ASARCO in 1901. Daniel moved aggressively to add mining and smelting properties to the Guggenheim's mining empire.
- James D. Foley
James D. Foley is a professor in the College of Computing and College of Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. He is perhaps best known as the co-author of several widely-used textbooks in the field of computer graphics, of which over 300,000 copies are in print. Foley presently does research with instructional technologies and distance education.
- Katia Sycara
Katia Sycara is a Research Professor in the Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She serves as the Sixth Century Chair (part time) in Computing Science at the University of Aberdeen. She directs the Laboratory for Agents Technology and Semantic Web Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University. Born in Greece, she went to U.S. to pursue advanced education through various scholarships, including a Fulbright.
- Lyman Hall
Lyman Hall (February 18, 1859 - August 16, 1905) was a professor and president of the Georgia School of Technology (now called the Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech). Lyman Hall was born in 1859 in Americus, Georgia, attended Mercer College, and graduated from West Point Military Academy in 1881. Health problems prevented him from serving in the Army, …
- George O'Leary
George O'Leary (born August 17, 1946 in Central Islip, New York) is the head football coach for the University of Central Florida. Before that, he served as the head coach at Georgia Tech and was briefly an assistant coach for the Minnesota Vikings of the NFL.
- Garry Betty
Charles Garrett "Garry" Betty (4 March [[1957] - 2 January 2007) was President and CEO of EarthLink, a large American Internet service provider, from 1996 until his death. Betty was born in Huntsville, Alabama and grew up in Columbus, Georgia. He attended the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia where he received a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering in 1979.
- Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts is an economist and a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration earning fame as the "Father of Reaganomics". He is a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Scripps Howard News Service. He is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology and he holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.
- Ralph Merkle
Dr. Merkle received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1979 where he co-invented public key cryptography.He joined Xerox PARC in 1988, where he pursued research in security and computational nanotechnology until 1999. He was a Nanotechnology Theorist at Zyvex until 2003, when he joined the Georgia Institute of Technology as a Professor of Computing until 2006.
- Ronald W. Schafer
Ronald Schafer (born February 17, 1938 in Tecumseh, Nebraska) is an electrical engineer notable for his contributions to digital signal processing. After receiving his Ph.D. degree at MIT in 1968, he joined the Acoustics Research Department at Bell Laboratories, where he did research on digital signal processing and digital speech coding. He came to the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1974. After spending most of his career at the Georgia Institute of Technology, …
- Marion L. Brittain
Marion Luther Brittain, Sr. (November 11, 1865 - July 13, 1953) was an American academic administrator and president of the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1922 to 1944.
- James H. McClellan
James H. McClellan is Byers Professor of Signal Processing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is widely known for his creation of the McClellan transform and for his co-authorship of the Parks-McClellan filter design algorithm.
- Rosalind Picard
Rosalind W. Picard is founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory and is co-director of the Things That Think Consortium, the largest industrial sponsorship organization at the lab. She holds a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering with highest honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Masters and Doctorate degrees, both in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, from MIT.
- William Alexander
William Alexander was the third head football coach at Georgia Tech. Alexander graduated from Tech in 1912 as valedictorian of his class. Alexander succeeded John Heisman as the head coach in April 1920. The "Technique" said of him: As a new coach, he led Georgia Tech to three SIAA titles (1920, 1921, 1922) and its second national championship in 1928. In 1944 he retired and was succeeded by one of his assistants, Bobby Dodd.
- Stephon Marbury
Stephon Xavier Marbury (born February 20, 1977 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American professional basketball player, currently playing point guard with the New York Knicks. Marbury has often gone by the nickname "Starbury", a name created during his youth. Marbury, the sixth of seven children, was born and raised on Coney Island and attended elementary school PS 238 During his teenage years he was often heralded as the next great New York City point guard, …
- Reggie Ball
Reginald Lewis Ball (born October 6, 1984) was an American football quarterback for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket football team, and future wide receiver in the National Football League. He was born in Stone Mountain, Georgia and played high school football for Stephenson High School. Reggie was the first true freshman to start at quarterback for Georgia Tech since 1980. He started for four straight years amassing 49 starts, 57 touchdowns, …
- Turgay Uzer
Professor Dr. Turgay Uzer is a Turkish-American theoretical physicist. Ph.D., Harvard University, 1979 Currently Regents' Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests are atomic and molecular physics, nonlinear dynamics and chaos. He contributed in those fields significantly. Specially his research on interplay between quantum dynamics and classical mechanics, …
- Chris Klaus
Chris Klaus (born 1973 in Sarasota, Florida) is the founder and current CEO of Kaneva, Inc. and founder and former CTO of Internet Security Systems (ISS). Klaus formed ISS in the early 1990s as a student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, eventually dropping out to focus on the growing company. In 2004 Chris Klaus stepped down from his role of Chief Technology Officer of ISS to pursue other interests, …
- David Finkelstein
David Finkelstein (born July 19, 1929, New York City) is currently an emeritus professor of physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Finkelstein obtained his Ph.D. in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1953. Later, from 1964 to 1976, he was professor of physics at Yeshiva University. Much of Finkelstein's work concentrates on the relation between logic and physics, and quantum analogues of classical mathematical structures.
- Kurt Wiesenfeld
Kurt Wiesenfeld is an American physicist working primarily on non-linear dynamics. His works primarily concern stochastic resonance, spontaneous synchronization of coupled oscillators, and non-linear laser dynamics. Since 1987, he has been professor of physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology.