- Kelvin Sampson
Kelvin Sampson (born October 5, 1955), a Lumbee Indian, is the men's basketball coach of the Indiana Hoosiers at Indiana University. He previously held the same position at Montana Tech (1981-85), Washington State University (1987-94) and University of Oklahoma (1994-2006). - Bob Knight
Robert Montgomery (Bob or Bobby) Knight (born October 25, 1940, in Massillon, Ohio, USA), also known as The General, is the head men's basketball coach at Texas Tech. He was previously head coach at Indiana and at Army. Knight has won more NCAA Division I men's basketball games than any other head coach. As of the 2007 NCAA tournament (3/27/07), that number stood at 890. Knight has won three NCAA championships (1976, 1981, 1987), … - Eric Gordon
Eric Gordon (born December 25, 1988 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American basketball player. The 6-4, 205 lb. Gordon played his High School basketball at North Central High School in Indianapolis, Indiana. He has committed to play college basketball at Indiana University and is considered one of the top incoming freshman in the nation. - Herman B Wells
Herman B Wells (June 7, 1902 - March 18, 2000) was the 11th president of Indiana University. He served the university in a variety of capacities, most notably as president and as chancellor. He was pivotal in the development of Indiana University into a world class institution of higher learning. His achievements and leadership permeate the university to this day. - Myles Brand
Myles Brand (born May 17, 1942) is president of the United States' National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and prior to that served as the sixteenth president of Indiana University. - David Baker
David Nathaniel Baker Jr. (born December 21, 1931 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is a leading symphonic jazz composer at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, David Baker attended Crispus Attucks High School. He was educated at Indiana University, receiving both his Masters in Music Education and his Doctorate from that institution. He thrived in the Indianapolis jazz scene of the time, … - Mike Davis
Mike Davis (born September 15, 1960 in Fayette, Alabama) is an American college basketball coach. He is currently the head men's basketball coach at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He formerly held the same position at Indiana University. - Alfred Kinsey
Alfred Charles Kinsey (June 23, 1894 - August 25, 1956), was an American biologist and professor of entomology and zoology who in 1947 founded the Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University, now called the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction. - Hoagy Carmichael
Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor and bandleader. He is best known for writing the melody to "Stardust" (1927), one of the most-recorded American songs of all time. Alec Wilder, in his study of the American popular song, concluded that Hoagy Carmichael was the "most talented, inventive, sophisticated and jazz-oriented" of the hundreds of writers composing pop songs in the first half of the 20th century. - Adam Herbert
Adam Herbert is the former President of Indiana University. He was the school's seventeenth president and first as an African American. On February 28, 2007, Herbert announced that he would resign, because a successor, Michael A. McRobbie, had been found. - Elinor Ostrom
Elinor Ostrom is the Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, and Co-Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University Bloomington. In 1973 she co-founded The Workshop in Political Theory and Public Policy at Indiana University with her husband, Vincent Ostrom. Considered an expert on collective action, trust, and the commons, … - Menahem Pressler
Menahem Pressler (born 16 December 1923, Magdeburg) is a Jewish-born German pianist. Menahem Pressler is the founding member of the Beaux Arts Trio, an ensemble widely considered to be the world's leading piano trio for more than 50 years. Pressler currently resides in Bloomington, Indiana with his wife Sara. There he teaches at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and holds the Dean Charles H. Webb Chair in Music. - Cam Cameron
Malcolm "Cam" Cameron (born February 6, 1961 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina) is currently head coach of the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. He was previously offensive coordinator for the San Diego Chargers and head coach at Indiana University. - John Pont
John Pont is an United States college football coach who has served as head coach at Miami University, Yale University, Northwestern University and Indiana University. He is the only Indiana University coach to take a team to the Rose Bowl. Later in his career, Pont was recruited to start a football program at Cincinnati's College of Mount St. Joseph. Pont later served as coach and consultant in creating a professional football league in Japan. - Markus Jakobsson
Björn Markus Jakobsson is a computer security researcher and entrepreneur, best known for his research on phishing and anti-phishing. Jakobsson was born in 1968 in Sweden, the eldest of four brothers. He received his master’s degree in Computer Engineering from the Lund University Faculty of Engineering in 1993 and received his doctorate in computer science from UCSD in 1997. - Leonard Slatkin
Leonard Slatkin (born September 1 1944) is an American conductor. His father was the violinist, conductor and founder of the Hollywood String Quartet, Felix Slatkin, and his mother was Eleanor Aller, the cellist with the quartet. His brother, Frederick Zlotkin, is a cellist. He studied at Indiana University and Los Angeles City College before attending the Juilliard School where he studied conducting under Jean Paul Morel. His conducting debut came in 1966, and in 1968, … - Dan Burton
Danny "Dan" Lee Burton (born June 21 1938), American politician, is a member of the United States House of Representatives for. A Republican, his first term in the United States Congress began in January 1983. He was elected to his twelfth term in November 2006. Burton remains one of the most controversial members of Congress. The 5th District is in central Indiana and includes all of Tipton, Grant, Miami, Wabash, Huntington, Hamilton, and Hancock counties, … - Mike Pence
Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana, chairman of the House Republican Conference, called the Democratic bill "a catchall of traditional pet programs and more government." Do Republicans have an alternative plan? Pence said, "If you allow American families to keep more of their hard-earned money and provide businesses incentives to create jobs, and you decrease spending at the federal level, you grow the economy." But Republicans don't have the votes to pass an alternative plan. - David Effron
David Effron is an American conductor and educator. After earning a Bachelor of Music degree in piano from the University of Michigan and a Master of Music degree in piano from Indiana University, he worked as an assistant to Wolfgang Sawallisch at the Cologne Opera. Upon returning to the United States he served as a member of the conducting staff at the New York City Opera for eighteen years. - Josef Gingold
Josef Gingold was born in Brest-Litovsk, Russian Empire and emigrated to the United States in 1920 where he studied violin with Vladimir Graffman in New York City and then moved to Belgium for several years to study with master violinist Eugène Ysaÿe. In 1937 he won a spot in the NBC Symphony Orchestra with Arturo Toscanini as its conductor, then was the concertmaster (and occasional soloist) of the Detroit Orchestra, … - Atar Arad
Atar Arad is an Israeli violist and professor. Arad was a member of the Cleveland Quartet from 1980 to 1987 taking the seat of Martha Strongin Katz. He was later succeeded by James Dunham. Arad currently teaches at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, and at the Steans Institute Ravinia Festival in Chicago as well as the Domaine Forget academy for the arts in Quebec. - Howard Klug
Howard Klug has been a chamber musician, soloist, and clinician throughout the United States, Great Britain, Belgium, Portugal, Austria, Venezuela, China and Israel. A former member of the U.S. Air Force Band in Washington, D.C., where he soloed on flute, clarinet and saxophone, Mr. Klug has also been principal clarinet of the Fresno Philharmonic, Bear Valley Festival Orchestra, Sinfonia da Camera and the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra. - Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 - December 28, 1945) was an American naturalist author known for dealing with the gritty reality of life. He was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, to Sarah and John Paul Dreiser, a strict Catholic. John, his father, was a German immigrant and Sarah was from the Mennonite farming community near Dayton, Ohio; she was disowned for marrying John and converting to Catholicism. - Michael Lynch
Michael Lynch is Distinguished Professor of Evolution, Population Genetics and Genomics at Indiana University. Besides many highly acclaimed papers, especially in population genetics, he has written a two volume textbook with Bruce Walsh, widely considered the "Bible" of quantitative genetics. - Steve Carter
Steve Carter is the current attorney general of the state of Indiana, United States, elected 2000, reelected 2004. He previously served as the Chief of Staff to Indiana Lt. Governor John M. Mutz. A.G. Carter is a past President of the National Association of Attorneys General. - John Bancroft
Dr John H.J. Bancroft was Director of The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction at Indiana University from 1995 to 2004. He is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Indiana University School of Medicine. Bancroft received his B.A. in 1960 and his M.D. in 1970 from Cambridge University. Bancroft was succeeded as Director of the Kinsey Institute in 2004 by Julia Heiman. - Josh Smith
Joshua Smith (born December 5, 1985 in College Park, Georgia, U.S.) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Atlanta Hawks of the NBA. - Thomas Ehrlich
Thomas Erlich was the 15th president of Indiana University, serving from 1987 to 1994. Upon his retirement in 1994, Thomas Ehrlich was named President Emeritus. After retiring from Indiana University, he became a faculty member of California State University. He is currently a senior scholar at the Carnegie Foundation. - Susan Gubar
Dr. Susan M. Gubar (born 1944) is a Distinguished Professor of English and Women's Studies. She has taught at Indiana University for more than twenty years. She is co-author with Dr. Sandra Gilbert of the groundbreaking feminist text, "The Madwoman in the Attic" (1979) and other works. - Ray McCallum
Ray McCallum (born March 6, 1961 in West Memphis, Arkansas) is a former player and head coach of Ball State University's men's basketball team. He is currently an assistant coach at Indiana University. McCallum won Indiana High School Athletic Association Championships in both his junior and senior year at Muncie Central High School. At Ball State he scored 2,109 points during his career and was Player of the Year in the Mid-American Conference his senior year. - Julia Heiman
Dr Julia R. Heiman is an American sexologist and psychologist, the fifth Director of The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction at Indiana University from 2004 to present time. She received a Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) in 1970 from Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, then Ph.D in Clinical Psychology in 1975 from State University of New York at Stony Brook. - Bracey Wright
Bracey Wright (born July 1, 1984, The Colony, Texas) is an American professional basketball player for the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves. Wright attended The Colony High School in The Colony. He was drafted by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the 2005 NBA Draft, after a college career at Indiana University. The Timberwolves designated him to the Florida Flame of the D-League for the 2005-06 season. The Timberwolves exercised his contract option on June 30, … - Walter Kaufmann
Walter Kaufmann (April 1 1907 - September 9 1984) was a composer, conductor, musicologist, and educator. Born in Karlsbad, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, Kaufmann enjoyed a career that crossed international boundaries, taking him to Berlin, Bombay (now Mumbai), London, and Canada, before he settled in Bloomington, Indiana, USA in 1957. Kaufmann was noted for his study of Asian music, specializing in the music of India, Tibet, and China. - Mark Kaplan
Mark Kaplan is an American violinist who studied at the Juilliard School under Dorothy DeLay. He is currently a professor at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music. Before teaching at Indiana, Mr. Kaplan taught at UCLA in California. Mark Kaplan has performed in all the principal cities of Europe, including London, Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Prague, Zurich, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Milan, as well as the Far East and Australia. - Jeff Meyer
Jeff Meyer is an assistant men's basketball coach at Indiana University. Previously, he served as head coach at Liberty University. - Murray Sperber
Murray Sperber taught at Indiana University, Bloomington, from 1971-2004 and is now a Professor Emeritus of English and American studies of the school. At Indiana, he published seven books, most recently, "Beer & Circus: How Big-Time College Sports is Crippling Undergraduate Education." His previous books on college sports include: "College Sports Inc.: The Athletic Department vs. - Birch Bayh
Birch Evans Bayh II (born January 22, 1928) was a U.S. Senator from Indiana between 1963 and 1981. He was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president in the 1976 election but lost to Jimmy Carter. He is the father of former Indiana governor and current U.S. Senator Evan Bayh. Bayh was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, to Leah Ward Hollingsworth and Birch Evans Bayh, Sr. After serving in the United States Army, … - John Chambers
John T. Chambers is Chairman of the Board and CEO of Cisco Systems, Inc.. Chambers joined Cisco in 1991 as senior vice president, Worldwide Sales and Operations. Since January 1995, when he assumed the role of CEO, Chambers has grown the company from $1.2 billion in annual revenues to its current run-rate of approximately $30 billion. In November 2006, he was named Chairman of the Board, in addition to his CEO role. - Daniel P. Friedman
Daniel P. Friedman is a professor of Computer Science at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana where he is known for his distinctive tan fedora. His research focuses on programming languages, and he is a prominent author in the field. With David Wise, he wrote an influential ICALP 1976 paper on programming with lazy streams, entitled "Cons should not evaluate its arguments." Friedman's books include the "Little" series: "The Little LISPer", … - Andrew Ross
Andrew Ross (born 1956) is Professor of American Studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. A writer for "Artforum", "The Nation" and "The Village Voice", he is also the author and/or editor of numerous books. Much of his writing focuses on labor and the work force, from the Western world of business and technology to sweatshop labor in the Third World. Making some use of social theory as well as ethnography, …
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