- Greg McDermott
Greg McDermott (born November 25, 1964 in Cascade, Iowa) is the current Iowa State University Cyclones Men's Basketball head coach. He took over for fired coach Wayne Morgan. He left the University of Northern Iowa as the head basketball coach in Cedar Falls, Iowa. He took the job at Iowa State University as of March 21, 2006.
- Adam Haluska
Adam Haluska (born November 16, 1983 in Carroll, Iowa) is an American basketball player, formerly a shooting guard for the Iowa Hawkeyes. He has scored 1,847 career points. He was named to the first 2007 All-Big Ten Conference Team just weeks after being named the 2007 Academic All-American of the Year. Adam started his career at Iowa State University, but then transferred to the University of Iowa after his freshman year.
- Jack Trice
Johnny (Jack) Trice (born, Hiram, Ohio, 1902 - died, Ames, Iowa, October 8, 1923) was an African-American football player from Iowa State College (now Iowa State University), who died due to injuries suffered during a college football game against the University of Minnesota on October 6, 1923. Many suspected the injuries inflicted were racially motivated. Trice's death paralleled that of an on-field assault against an African-American, Drake University football player, …
- Cael Sanderson
"'Cael Norman Sanderson" (born June 20, 1979 in Salt Lake City, Utah), <i>(pronounced "kale")</i> is an American wrestler and current head wrestling coach at Iowa State. A 2004 Olympic champion, he also went undefeated in four years of college wrestling (159-0), including four consecutive NCAA titles (1999-2002) and was the first NCAA wrestler to go undefeated with more than 100 wins. Sports Illustrated named his college career as the No.
- Guillermo Gonzalez
Guillermo Gonzalez (born 1963 in Havana, Cuba) is an astrophysicist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Iowa State University. He is a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, considered the hub of the intelligent design movement, and a fellow with the International Society for Complexity, Information and Design, which also promotes intelligent design.
- Gene Chizik
Gene Chizik (born December 28, 1961 in Clearwater, Florida) is the current head football coach at Iowa State University. Chizik played linebacker for the University of Florida during the 1981 season, competing in the Peach Bowl. He graduated from Florida in 1985. He began his coaching career at Seminole High School in Saint Petersburg, FL, serving as their defensive coordinator and inside linebacker coach from 1986-1988.
- Vasant Honavar
Vasant Honavar is an American computer scientist, specializing in artificial intelligence. He received his Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he worked with Leonard Uhr. Vasant Honavar is a professor of Computer Science at Iowa State University. He heads the Iowa State University Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory. He is the founding director of the Iowa State University Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning and Discovery.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
Carrie Chapman Catt (January 91859 - March 9 1947) was a woman's suffrage leader. She was elected president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) twice; her first term was from 1900 to 1904 and her second term was from 1915 to 1920.
- Bill Fennelly
Bill Fennelly is the head women's basketball coach at Iowa State. He has guided the Cyclones to a record of 192-90 in 9 seasons. The program had only 5 winning seasons in the previous 22 years, prior to his arrival. After his arrival, his teams have reached the NCAA Tournament 8 times, including a 1999 NCAA Elite Eight appearance, and Sweet Sixteen Appearances in both 2000 and 2001. He has led the Cyclones to 7 20 win seasons.
- Dan McCarney
Dan McCarney (born July 28, 1953, in Iowa City, Iowa) was the head football coach at Iowa State University from 1995-2006. He was the longest tenured head coach in the Big 12 Conference when he stepped down on November 8, 2006. At his resignation press conference McCarney was quoted as saying, "Some people see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say why not? When I took this job, …
- John Vincent Atanasoff
John Vincent Atanasoff (October 4,1903 - June 15,1995) was an American physicist of Bulgarian descent. The 1973 decision of the patent suit "Honeywell v. Sperry Rand" named him the inventor of the first automatic electronic digital computer, a special-purpose machine that has come to be called the Atanasoff-Berry Computer.
- Tom Latham
Thomas Latham (born July 14 1948), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1995, representing the 4th District of Iowa (map). He was born in Hampton, Iowa, was educated at Iowa State University, and was a business owner before entering the House. In 1995 Latham became an honorary member Alpha Gamma Rho Fraternity at Iowa State University.
- Elizabeth Hoffman
Elizabeth (Betsy) Hoffman is executive vice president and provost at Iowa State University in Ames. Hoffman was named to this position in September 2006. Hoffman is best known as the former president of the three-campus University of Colorado System, a position to which she was appointed on September 1, 2000.
- Bruce Braley
Bruce Braley (born October 30, 1957) is the Democratic Congressman for Iowa's first Congressional District, first elected in the 2006 election. The district lies in northeastern Iowa and includes Davenport, Bettendorf, Cedar Falls and Waterloo. Braley was born in Grinnell, Iowa. His family owned a farm in nearby Brooklyn, Iowa. Braley attended college at Iowa State University, and he earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Iowa.
- Brian Smith
Brian Smith is an American photographer. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his photographs of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games in the "Orange County Register". In 1988, he was again a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his photographs of Haiti in Turmoil for the "Miami Herald". His photograph of Greg Louganis hitting his head on the diving board at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games won top awards from World Press Photo, …
- Wayne Morgan
Wayne Morgan (born October 7, 1950) was the Iowa State University men's basketball coach from (2003-2006). Morgan was hired after Larry Eustachy's resignation. He was fired abruptly in March 2006 for a poorly disciplined team and recruiting discrepancies.. He also coached at Long Beach State for six seasons previous to accepting the head coaching position at Iowa State
- Benjamin Allen
Benjamin Allen was an administrator with Iowa State University (ISU). On April 28, 2006 the Iowa Board of Regents announced that Allen would be the next President of the University of Northern Iowa (UNI), replacing retiring President Robert Koob.
- Mary Swander
Mary Swander is U.S. author of the recent memoirs "The Desert Pilgrim" and "Out of this World" as well as three books of poetry, "Heaven-and-Earth House", "Driving the Body Back", and "Succession". Swander has also co-authored a musical, "Dear Iowa", with composer Christopher Frank, which has been produced across the Midwest and on Iowa Public Television.
- Larry Eustachy
Larry Eustachy (born December 1, 1955 in Alameda, California) is the current head coach of The University of Southern Mississippi's men's basketball team. He was hired as head coach on March 25, 2004. He had previously been head coach of the men's basketball teams at the University of Idaho (1990-1993), Utah State (1993-1998) and Iowa State (1998-2003). Eustachy won the AP National Coach of the Year after leading Iowa State to the Elite Eight in the 2000 NCAA Tournament.
- Johnny Orr
John M. "Johnny" Orr (born June 10, 1927 in Yale, Kansas) is a retired American basketball player and coach, best known as the head coach of men's basketball at the University of Michigan and at Iowa State University.
- John Garang
John Garang de Mabior was the vice president of Sudan and former leader of the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army.
- Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist. Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, and graduated from John Burroughs School. She obtained a A.B. at Vassar College, then earned a M.F.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. While working towards her doctorate, she also spent a year studying in Iceland as a Fulbright Scholar.
- Ken Smith
Ken Smith grew up in Iowa, and attended Iowa State University, where he graduated with a Bachelor’s of Landscape Architecture in 1976. After graduation, he apprenticed with sculptor Paul Shao, and worked for the Iowa Conservation Commission in Parks and Recreation Planning. He attended the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and received his Master’s in Landscape Architecture in 1986. After working in the office of Peter Walker and Martha Schwartz, …
- James Wilson
James Wilson (August 16, 1835 - August 26, 1920) was a Scotland-born United States politician who served as United States Secretary of Agriculture from 1897 - 1913. He was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, on August 16, 1835. One of 14 children, he grew up in a farming community not far from the birthplace of Robert Burns. His family emigrated to America in 1852, settling in Connecticut before moving to Iowa in 1855, establishing a farm near Traer.
- Mark Ritchie
Mark Ritchie (born 1951) was elected to be the 21st Minnesota Secretary of State on November 7, 2006. He a member of the DFL. Mark Ritchie grew up in Iowa, and he graduated from Iowa State University in 1971. He and his wife, Nancy Gaschott, have lived in Minneapolis for 24 years.
- Carl Chang
Carl K. Chang is Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University. He received a PhD in computer science from Northwestern University. He worked for GTE Automatic Electric and Bell Laboratories before joining the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1984, where he directed the International Center for Software Engineering. He served as Professor and Director for the Institute for Mobile, Pervasive, …
- Sally Pederson
Sally Pederson (Born January 13, 1951 in Vinton, Iowa) was the 45th Lieutenant Governor of the state of Iowa. Pederson is a member of the Democratic Party and is a native of Vinton, Iowa. She graduated from Iowa State University. Prior to her becoming Lt. Governor, Pederson served as an executive with the Meredith Corporation in Des Moines, Iowa. She also worked as an editor for "Better Homes and Gardens".
- Seneca Wallace
Seneca Wallace (born August 6, 1980 in Sacramento, California) is an American football quarterback for the NFL's Seattle Seahawks.
- Marcus Fizer
Darnell Marcus Lamar Fizer (born August 10, 1978 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American professional basketball player. An NBA/D-League power forward, he has completed his fifth season in the league. On June 20th, 2007 he signed on a two year deal (900,000 $ a year) with the European power house Maccabi Tel-Aviv and will be playing there next year. After three years at Iowa State, where Fizer was a Sporting News All-America Second Team selection as a junior, …
- John Cooper
John Cooper (born July 2, 1937 in Knoxville, Tennessee) was the head coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes college football team from 1988 to 2000. Cooper grew up in the Knoxville suburb of Powell, Tennessee and joined the United States Army after high school. After serving for two years, he enrolled at Iowa State University where he played football for four years eventually becoming team captain and MVP. Cooper spent time as an assistant coach at Iowa State, Oregon State, UCLA, …
- Robert Parks
W. Robert Parks (1915 - 2003) was the 11<sup>th</sup> president of Iowa State University.
- Will Blalock
William (Will) Anthony Blalock (born September 8, 1983 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American professional basketball player. He is a former Iowa State Cyclones player. He was chosen with the last pick in the 2006 NBA Draft at 60th overall by the Detroit Pistons. In the 2006-2007 NBA season he played in 14 games and averaged 11.9 MPG, 1.8 PPG, 1.1 RPG, and 1.2 APG. He was a junior who declared for the draft early. He usually plays the point guard position.
- George W. Snedecor
George Waddel Snedecor (October 20, 1881 - February 15, 1974) was an American mathematician and statistician. He contributed to the foundations of analysis of variance, data analysis, experimental design, and statistical methodology. Snedecor's F distribution and the George W. Snedecor Award of the American Statistical Association are named after him. Snedecor founded the first academic department of statistics in the United States, at Iowa State University.
- Jack Lutz
Jack Lutz is a theoretical computer scientist and computational theorist best known for developing the concept of resource bounded measure. He is currently a professor at Iowa State University.
- 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.
- Mike Myers
Michael Stanley Myers (born June 26, 1969 in Arlington Heights, Illinois) is a left-handed relief pitcher who plays for the New York Yankees. Myers attended high school at Crystal Lake Central High School in Illinois and later pitched at Iowa State University. Through the 2006 season, Myers has compiled a 20-22 record with 14 saves and a 4.19 ERA in 778 appearances (leading all major league pitchers since 1996).
- Chris Taylor
Chris Taylor was an American freestyle wrestler who competed at 1972 Munich Olympics. At 412 pounds (187 kg) he was the heaviest Olympian ever. (This was well before weight limits were imposed on the highest level of amateur wrestling.) The 6 ft 5 in (196 cm) Taylor, wrestled for Dowagiac High School in Dowagiac, Michigan, Iowa State University (winning the NCAA heavyweight championship in 1972 by defeating Greg Wojciechowski), …
- Herman Quirmbach
Herman C. Quirmbach, Ph.D. is the Iowa State Senator from the 23rd District. He has served in the Iowa Senate since 2002 and served on the Ames City Council from 1995-2003. He received his BA from Harvard and his MA and Ph.D. from Princeton University and is an associate professor of economics at Iowa State University.
- Jay Lush
Jay Lawrence Lush (January 3, 1896 - 1982) was a pioneering animal geneticist who made important contributions to livestock breeding. He is sometimes known as the father of modern scientific animal breeding. Lush received National Medal of Science in 1968 and the Wolf Prize in 1979. Lush advocated breeding not based on subjective appearance of the animal, but on quantitative statistics and genetic information.
- Earle Bruce
Earle Bruce (born March 8, 1931) is a former college football and arena football coach from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Bruce played running back at The Ohio State University until 1951, when he suffered a torn meniscus, ending his football career. Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes asked Bruce to join the coaching staff, which he did until his graduation in 1953. He was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity while attending Ohio State University.