- Michael Behe
Michael J. Behe , who received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978, is a professor of biological sciences at Pennsylvania's Lehigh University. His current research involves the roles of design and natural selection in building protein structure. His book Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution is available in paperback (Touchstone Books, 1998).
- Asa Packer
Asa Packer (December 29 1805 - May 17,1879) was an American businessman who pioneered railroad construction, was active in Pennsylvania politics, and founded Lehigh University.
- Billy Taylor
Billy Taylor is the head men's basketball coach at Lehigh University.
- Greg Strobel
Greg Strobel is an American wrestler and coach. He is currently the head coach at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania-based Lehigh University, one of the top wrestling programs in the country. Strobel won two NCAA titles and was a three-time All-American at Oregon State, finishing his college career with a 126-8-1 record before starting his coaching career. He was an assistant coach at Oregon State University, a head high school coach, …
- Alice Gast
Alice Petry Gast (born May 25, 1958) is the 13th President of Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She is Lehigh's first female president. Born in Houston, Texas, Gast graduated as valedictorian from the University of Southern California in 1980 with a B.Sc. in chemical engineering. She completed her postgraduate work at Princeton University, receiving a M.A. (1981) and Ph.D. (1984) in chemical engineering. From 1985 to 2001 she taught at Stanford University, …
- William Amelio
William J. AMELIO Presidente y Consejero Delegado William J. Amelio ha sido nombrado Presidente y Consejero Delegado de Lenovo Group Limited. Amelio trabajó anteriormente en Dell Inc., donde ocupó el cargo de Vicepresidente Ejecutivo de la región de Asia Pacífico y Japón desde 2001, siendo responsable de la estrategia y operaciones desarrolladas en dicha región.
- Gregory C. Farrington
Gregory C. Farrington was the 12th President of Lehigh University. Prior to his appointment in 1998, he served as Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Farrington earned a B.S. in chemistry from Clarkson University in 1968 and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard University in 1972. In 1984, he was awarded an honorary Ph.D. by the University of Uppsala, Sweden.
- Roger Penske
Roger S. Penske , Chairman
- Huai-Dong Cao
Huai-Dong Cao is A. Everett Pitcher Professor of Mathematics in Lehigh University. He collaborated with Xi-Ping Zhu of Zhongshan University in verifying Grigori Perelman's proof of the Poincaré conjecture. The Cao-Zhu team is one of three teams formed for this purpose.
- Charlie Dent
Charles "Charlie" Dent (born May 24, 1960 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is a Republican Member of Congress, representing Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district (map), including the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania.
- Peter Likins
Peter Likens was president of the University of Arizona from 1997 until his retirement in summer 2006. He was previously president of Lehigh University. Before moving to Lehigh, he was provost for professional schools at Columbia University and had previously been dean of Columbia's engineering school. At each of these universities, Likins was a professor of electrical engineering.
- Steven L. Goldman
Steven Louis Goldman (born 1941) is the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Lehigh University
- Charles Dent
I am a US House Representative for the state of PA. I am a Republican. My religion is Protestant. I am Married. I received my BA from Penn State University. I received my MPA from Lehigh University. I live in Allentown. I was born in Allentown, PA. For issues within my power to resolve, write me at "701 W. Broad St., Ste. 200, Bethlehem, PA 18017".
- Robert Martin
Robert J. Martin (born January 13, 1947) is an American Republican Party politician, who has served as a member of the New Jersey State Senate since 1993, where he represents the 26th Legislative District. Before entering the Senate, Martin served in the United States Army as a First Lieutenant (1969-1971). Martin served in the New Jersey General Assembly, the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature, from 1985 to 1993, …
- Donald T. Campbell
Donald Thomas Campbell (November 20 1916 - May 5, 1996) was an American social scientist. He is noted for his work in methodology. He coined the term "evolutionary epistemology" and developed a selectionist theory of human creativity. He made contributions in a wide range of disciplines like psychology, sociology, anthropology, biology and philosophy. He taught at Lehigh University, which established the Donald T. Campbell Social Science Research Prizes.
- Don Most
Don Most (b. August 8, 1953, in Brooklyn, New York, USA) is an American actor best known for his role as Ralph Malph on the long-running television series "Happy Days". He is also known for his voice roles on several Saturday morning cartoon series. Among them, Ralph Malph on "Fonz and the Happy Days Gang" (1980); Eric the Cavalier in "Dungeons & Dragons" (1983); and Stiles on "Teen Wolf" (1986-1989).
- Muffet McGraw
Muffet McGraw is head coach of the Notre Dame Women's Basketball team. She has been head coach at Notre Dame since 1987. The architect of Notre Dame's rise to prominence on the national women's basketball landscape, McGraw is preparing to begin her 16th season as the head coach of the Fighting Irish.
- Maurice Ewing
William Maurice "Doc" Ewing (May 12 1906 - May 4 1974) was an American geophysicist and oceanographer. Ewing has been described as a pioneering geophysicist who worked on the research of seismic reflection and refraction in ocean basins, ocean bottom photography, submarine sound transmission, deep sea coring of the ocean bottom, theory and observation of earthquake surface waves, fluidity of the earth's core, generation and propagation of microseisms, …
- Drew Endy
Drew Endy is a synthetic biologist. He was a junior fellow for 3 years and later an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Engineering at MIT. As of September 2008, he continued his research and teaching as an assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering at Stanford University.
- Penny Smith
Penelope Smith is a mathematician at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA who in 2006 announced a solution to one of the Clay Mathematics Institute's Millenium problems, namely Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness. Unfortunately, she had to withdraw her ArXiv preprint on October 8th, 2006 because of a 'serious flaw' in one of her earlier already published papers that the preprint relied on..
- Ted London
Ted London is the director of the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) research initiative at the William Davidson Institute. He also teaches an MBA course on the topic, "Business Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid", at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
- Sam Bishop
Sam Bishop, born March 1, 1983 in Washington DC, United States is a goalkeeper currently playing for American USL Second Division side Harrisburg City Islanders. He joined the Islanders in 2005 after graduating from Lehigh University.
- Adam Williamson
Adam Williamson (born August 4, 1984 in Petersburg, New Jersey) is an American soccer player, who currently plays midfielder for the Wilmington Hammerheads in the USL Second Division. Williamson played college soccer for Lehigh University from 2002 to 2005. In 62 games he scored 12 goals and notched 15 assists. He was selected in the third round, 35th overall in the 2006 MLS Supplemental Draft by the New England Revolution, but waived at the end of the season.
- Richard Harding Davis
Richard Harding Davis was a popular writer of fiction and drama, and a journalist famous for his coverage of the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. Davis, a managing editor of Harper's Weekly, was one of the world's leading war correspondents at the time of the Second Boer War in South Africa. As an American, he had the unique opportunity to see the war first-hand from both the English and Boer perspectives.
- Francis E. Walter
Francis Eugene Walter (May 26 1894 - May 31 1963) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Francis Walter was born in Easton, Pennsylvania. He attended Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and George Washington University and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. During both World War I and World War II he served in the air service of the United States Navy.
- Leonard Lance
Leonard Lance (born June 25, 1952) is an American Republican Party politician, who has served as a member of the New Jersey Senate since 2002, where he represents the 23rd Legislative District. Before entering the Senate, Lance served in the New Jersey General Assembly for 10 years (1991-2001), where he served as the Appropriations Chair from 2000 to 2001 and the Budget Vice Chairman from 1995 to 1999. Currently, Senator Lance is the Minority Leader of the Senate, …
- John Fitch
John Cooper Fitch (born August 4 1917) is a racecar driver born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was the first American to race automobiles successfully in Europe in the postwar era. After obtaining an engineering degree from Lehigh University, he began racing in Europe. In the course of a driving career which spanned 18 years, Fitch won such notable sports car races as the Argentine Grand Prix 1951, Mille Miglia 1955 (production car class), Dunrod Tourist Trophy, …
- Kenneth French
Kenneth R. French (born March 10, 1954) is the Carl E. and Catherine M. Heidt Professor of Finance at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. He has previously been a faculty member at MIT, the Yale School of Management, and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Along with contributing articles to major journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the American Economic Review, …
- Steve Mocco
Steve Mocco (born December 28, 1981) is an American amateur wrestler. Starting his collegiate wrestling career at the University of Iowa, Mocco was the 285-pound NCAA Division I runner-up in 2002 and champion in 2003. After taking an Olympic redshirt year, Mocco transferred to Oklahoma State University to wrestle for coach John Smith. In his first year at OSU, Mocco won the 285 title in 2005 without losing a match.
- Joseph I. Goldstein
Joe Goldstein is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and emeritus Dean of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He had previously been Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Vice President for Research at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA. The author of this text (Graham Cliff) met Joe in 1975 during his sabbatical year at Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK.
- Eugene Grace
Eugene Gifford Grace (August 27, 1876-July 7, 1960) was the president of Bethlehem Steel Corporation from 1916 to 1945, and chairman of the board from 1945 until his retirement in 1957. He also served as president of the American Iron and Steel Institute, and sat on the board of trustees for Lehigh University. Born in Cape May, New Jersey, the son of a sea captain John W. Grace, and Rebecca Grace. He married Marion Brown, daughter of Charles Brown, …
- Michael A. Smerconish
- Joseph R. Perella
Joseph R. Perella was born in 1942 in Newark, New Jersey, son of an accountant father. He graduated from Lehigh University in 1964 on a full scholarship, becoming an accountant. Then he attended and graduated from Harvard Business School in May, 1972. In the fall of 1972 he was hired as an associate at First Boston, where he worked in the mergers and acquisitions department.
- Geraint Johnes
Geraint Johnes is Professor of Economics at Lancaster University Management School. He was previously Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader in Economics at Lancaster, and has spent periods as a visitor to institutions in the USA (Dartmouth College, Lehigh University) and Australia (Australian National University). He is also currently an honorary visiting professor at Beijing Normal University, and is an associate fellow of SKOPE at Oxford University and Cardiff University.
- Andrew H. Knoll
Andrew H. Knoll is the Fisher Professor of Natural History and a Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. He is best known for his work on Precambrian microfossils and using stable isotopes for stratigraphic correlation, but has longstanding interests in geobiology, paleobotany and the planetary evolution of Mars. He is a member of the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Earth and Planetary Sciences faculty at Harvard, …
- Catherine Drinker Bowen
Catherine Drinker Bowen, born January 1, 1897 in Haverford, PA, was an American biographer. She won the 1958 National Book Award in nonfiction for "The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke". In addition, Bowen received the 1957 Philadelphia Award and the 1962 Women's National Book Association award. She died November 1, 1973 in Haverford, PA.
- Fran McCaffery
Fran McCaffery (born May 23, 1959) is the current head men's basketball program at Siena. He previously was the head coach at Lehigh and UNC-Greensboro. McCaffery played college basketball for a season at Wake Forest before transferring to Penn. He began his college coaching career with a stint at Penn as an assistant coach, moving to Lehigh in 1983. When Lehigh promoted him to head coach in 1985, he was the youngest head coach in Division I. Following his career at Lehigh, …
- Craig Anderson
Norman Craig Anderson (born July 1, 1938 in Washington, DC) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He played for the St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Mets. Anderson signed with the St. Louis Cardinals as an amateur free agent prior to the 1960 season. Anderson made his major league debut on June 23, 1961 as a member of the Cardinals. Anderson was selected by the New York Mets in the 1961 MLB Expansion Draft on October 10, 1961.
- Jesse W. Reno
Jesse W. Reno (1861-1947) invented the first working escalator in 1891 (patented March 15 1892) used at the Old Iron Pier, Coney Island, New York City. An earlier escalator machine, termed "revolving stairs" by its inventor Nathan Ames, was patented March 9, 1859, but was never built. Reno graduated from Lehigh University in 1883 with an engineering degree.
- Ali Al-Naimi
Ali I. Al-Naimi (1935 - Present) is the Saudi Arabian Oil Minister. Al-Naimi, joined Aramco as a young man, was educated in the United States at Lehigh University under the educational programme of the company. He later earned his Master's Degree in Geology at Stanford University. After joining ARAMCO in 1947 and climbing the managerial ladder, he first became Supervisor in Abqaiq Production Department.