- Ralph Young
Ralph H. Young (died January 23, 1962) was the head coach of the Michigan State Spartans football program from 1923 to 1927. During his tenure, he compiled an 18-22-1 (.451) record. He served as the school's first athletic director from 1923 to 1954. He served three terms in the Michigan Legislature, representing the East Lansing district. In 1962, he was elected to the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame.
- John L. Smith
John L. Smith (b. November 15, 1948) was an American football coach, most recently the head coach at Michigan State. He was previously the head coach at Louisville, Utah State, and Idaho. Smith was born in Idaho Falls and raised in nearby Iona. He lettered in football, basketball, and track at Bonneville High School, graduating in 1967. He played college football at Weber State College in Ogden, Utah, as both a linebacker and quarterback.
- Tom Izzo
Tom Izzo (born January 30, 1955 in Iron Mountain, Michigan) is the men's basketball coach for Michigan State University. Under Izzo, the program has been one of the most successful in the country, having won a national championship in 2000 and sent many players to the NBA. The Spartans have reached the Final Four in four of the past eight seasons, more than any other team during that time. Izzo has won four national coach of the year awards.
- John Engler
John Mathias Engler (born October 12, 1948) is an American politician. He served as a Republican governor of Michigan from 1991 to 2003. Engler, a Roman Catholic, was born in Mount Pleasant and grew up on a cattle farm in Beal City. He attended Michigan State University, where he was chairman of the College Republicans. In 1971 he graduated with a degree in agricultural economics and was elected as a State Representative at the age of 23.
- Kwame Kilpatrick
Kwame M. Kilpatrick (born June 8, 1970) is the mayor of Detroit, Michigan. Elected at age 31, he is the youngest mayor in the history of Detroit, as well as the second youngest current mayor of any major U.S. city. Kilpatrick briefly addressed the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Prior to defeating City Council President Gil Hill (former Detroit police detective who also appeared in the Beverly Hills Cop films) in the 2001 mayoral election, …
- Debbie Stabenow
In her role as chair, Senator Stabenow will engage Democratic Senators and community leaders across the country in an active dialogue about the pressing issues facing our nation. Stabenow was unopposed in her bid to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, who did not seek re-election to the post.
- Magic Johnson
Earvin "Magic" Johnson is chairman and chief executive officer of Johnson Development Corporation and Magic Johnson Enterprises. Johnson Development Corporation is dedicated to urban revitalization by providing entertainment complexes, restaurants and retail centers in underserved communities nationwide. The company operates 103 Starbucks nationwide, and has also opened six AMC Magic Johnson Theater complexes across the United States.
- Richard Lenski
Richard E. Lenski (born August 13, 1956) is an American evolutionary biologist. He holds the office Hannah Distinguished Professor of Microbial ecology at Michigan State University. In 1996 Lenski won a MacArthur Fellowship (a so-called "genius award"). In 2006, he was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences Lenski is best known for his long-term "E. coli" evolution experiment, and his work with digital organisms, using Avida.
- Mark Wilson
Mark Wilson (born in Chicago, Illinois,1960s-) is a Detroit sports radio broadcaster and a former Associated Press and Michigan Association of Broadcasters' "Michigan Sportscaster of the Year" and columnist in Detroit's cultural weekly "Real Detroit" and "The Observer & Eccentric" newspapers. Wilson co-hosts "Parker & The Man" with Rob Parker (Wilson is the 'Man') on Detroit's 1200 AM WCHB from 9PM - Midnight five days a week.
- Ron Mason
Ron Mason (born January 14, 1940, in Blyth, Ontario, Canada) is a former collegiate ice hockey player and head coach. Mason is the winningest ice hockey coach in NCAA history with 924 career wins. He is currently athletic director at Michigan State University.
- Lou Anna Simon
Lou Anna Kimsey Simon is the 20th and current president of Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. She is married and lives in East Lansing.
- James Brown
James Hemphill Brown, an ecologist, is Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of New Mexico. His work has focused on two distinct aspects of ecology: the population and community ecology of rodents and harvester ants in the Chihuahuan Desert and large-scale questions relating to the distribution of body size, abundance and geographic range of animals, leading to the development of the field of macroecology, …
- Mark Dantonio
Mark Dantonio (born March 9, 1956) is the current head football coach at Michigan State University. He was hired on November 27, 2006 to replace John L. Smith following a 4-8 season. Dantonio became the 24th head coach at Michigan State. Dantonio compiled an 18-17 overall record in his 3 years as the head coach of the University of Cincinnati including one bowl appearance (a win in the 2004 Fort Worth Bowl).
- Mateen Cleaves
Mateen Cleaves (born September 7 1977 in Flint, Michigan) is an American professional basketball player who most recently played for the NBA's Seattle SuperSonics. Cleaves is most remembered for his brilliant career at Michigan State. Cleaves' No. 12 jersey was officially retired at Michigan State University on February 3, 2007 before the Michigan State-Ohio State game.
- Eric Smith
Eric Smith (born March 17, 1983) is a American football safety for the New York Jets. He was the last player drafted in the third round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He played college football at Michigan State University. In his debut game against the Cleveland Browns, he caught an interception for one yard. Smith will compete for the starting strong safety job with Erik Coleman for the 2007 NFL season.
- John Thompson
John Thompson was an influential Canadian poet. Born in Timperley, Cheshire, England, his father was killed in the Second World War. He was educated at Sheffield University, and received a Ph.D from Michigan State University in 1966. That same year he began teaching at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, where he lived in a farmhouse at Wood Point overlooking the Tantramar Marshes.
- Nick Smith
Nick H. Smith (born November 5 1934), is a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan, who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1993 until 2005, representing from the 7th District of Michigan. Smith was born in Addison, Michigan. He earned a B.A. from Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, in 1957 and an M.S. in Economics from the University of Delaware in 1959.
- M. Peter McPherson
M. Peter McPherson, JD, MBA (born October 27, 1940) was a special assistant to President Gerald Ford, head of USAID under President Ronald Reagan, president of Michigan State University from 1993 to 2004 and Chairman of Dow Jones beginning in 2007.
- Duffy Daugherty
Hugh "Duffy" Daugherty (born September 8, 1915 in Emeigh, Pennsylvania; died September 25, 1987 in Santa Barbara, California) was the head coach of the Michigan State University Spartans football team from 1954 to 1972, where he compiled a career record of 109-65-5. He was best known for his wit, good humor, and wisdom. His 19 seasons at the helm of Spartan football are still the longest of any head coach in the program's history.
- Marc Breedlove
Dr. Marc Breedlove , professor of psychology* specialising in the sexual differentiation of the brain. * The original episode guide described Dr. Breedlove as a "professor of psychology at UCLA." Dr. Breedlove noted in 2008 "I am not, and have never been, a professor of psychology or of anything else at UCLA." Breedlove earned his Ph.D. at UCLA but taught at UC Berkeley before taking an appointment at Michigan State .
- Richard Ford
Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel "The Sportswriter" and its sequels, "Independence Day" and "The Lay of the Land", and the widely anthologized story collection "Rock Springs".
- Drew Neitzel
Drew Neitzel (born May 7, 1985) is an American collegiate men's basketball player in the NCAA. He is a junior at Michigan State University and wears the number 11. Neitzel's primary position is guard. He is listed at 6-0, 180 lbs.
- Charlie Bell
Charlie Will Bell III (born March 12, 1979 in Flint, Michigan) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks. He began playing basketball at Flint Southwestern Academy High School, and had an excellent college career at Michigan State University, appearing in 3 NCAA Final Fours, and being named Michigan State Defensive Player of the Year in each of the four years he played.
- Rick Comley
Rick Comley (born January 20, 1947) is a former collegiate ice hockey player and current head coach at Michigan State University. Following the 2005-06 season, Comley has an overall coaching record of 714-548-90 (.561). In 2007, he became the third coach in NCAA history to win a national championship at two different schools.
- Raymar Morgan
Raymar Morgan (born August 8, 1988 in Canton, Ohio) is a college basketball player for Michigan State University and wears the number 2. Morgan attended Canton McKinley High School.
- Flintstones
"The Flintstones" were a group of four basketball players from Flint, Michigan who helped lead the Michigan State Spartans to the 2000 National Championship. *Morris Peterson *Mateen Cleaves *Charlie Bell *Antonio Smith
- Charles Rogers
Charlie Rogers (born May 23, 1981 in Saginaw, Michigan) is an American football wide receiver, currently a free agent in the NFL. He was originally selected by the Detroit Lions with the second overall pick of the 2003 NFL Draft out of Michigan State University. He is nicknamed "Mister Rogers" after the children's TV personality Fred Rogers.
- Jason Richardson
Jason Anthoney "J-Rich" Richardson (born January 20 1981, in Saginaw, Michigan) is an American professional basketball player, currently playing shooting guard for the National Basketball Association's Charlotte Bobcats. He recently played for the Golden State Warriors, from whom he was traded June 28, 2007 after six years with the team. The Warriors drafted him with the 5th overall pick in the 2001 NBA Draft out of Michigan State University.
- Pat Narduzzi
Patrick Narduzzi is currently the defensive coordinator at Michigan State University. Narduzzi was a candidate for the head coaching position at Cincinnati, but Central Michigan University head coach Brian Kelly was named head coach on December 3rd, 2006. Narduzzi had informed University of Cincinnati officials that if he was not offered permanent head coach position, he would follow Mark Dantonio to Michigan State University as defensive coordinator.
- George Perles
George J. Perles is a retired American football coach. He was a defensive line coach, defensive coordinator, and assistant head coach for the NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers from 1971-1981 and the head coach of the Michigan State Spartans from 1982-1994. He was later elected to the MSU Board of Trustees on November 11, 2006
- David Hollister
David Hollister (born 1942) served as the mayor of Lansing, Michigan from 1993 to 2003, until he resigned to be the director of the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Growth under Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm's administration. During his tenure as mayor, he was instrumental in convincing General Motors Corporation to build the Grand River Assembly Plant downtown, …
- Justin Abdelkader
Justin Abdelkader (Born February 25, 1987 in Muskegon, Michigan), is a college ice hockey forward for the Michigan State University Spartans of the CCHA.
- Charles Ofria
Dr. Charles A. Ofria is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the director of the Digital Evolution (DEvo) Lab at Michigan State University. Ofria's research focuses on the interplay between computer science and Darwinian evolution. Avida is an artificial life software platform to study the evolutionary biology of self-replicating and evolving computer programs (digital organisms).
- Gary Habermas
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- Jud Heathcote
George Melvin "Jud" Heathcote is a former college basketball coach. He was a head coach for 24 seasons at the collegiate level: five at Montana (1971-76) and 19 at Michigan State (1976-95).
- Liberty Hyde Bailey
Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954) was an American horticulturist, botanist and cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science. Born in South Haven, Michigan, he was educated and taught at the Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) before moving to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he was director of the College of Agriculture. He edited "The Cyclopedia of American Agriculture" (1907-09), …
- Rod Coronado
Rodney Adam Coronado is an American eco-anarchist and animal rights activist who has been convicted of arson, conspiracy and other crimes in connection with his activism but now advocates non-violent action. He is an advocate and former activist for the Animal Liberation Front and a spokesperson for the Earth Liberation Front.
- Morris Peterson
Morris Peterson (born August 26 1977 in Flint, Michigan) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the New Orleans Hornets of the NBA.
- Walter Adams
Walter Adams (August 27 1922 - September 8 1998) was an American economist and college professor. He served as the 13th President of Michigan State University and served as an expert witness before 36 congressional committees.
- James Blanchard
James Johnston Blanchard (b. August 8 1942, Detroit, Michigan) is a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. A Democrat, Blanchard has served in the United States House of Representatives, as Governor of Michigan, and as United States Ambassador to Canada. Blanchard attended the public schools in Ferndale. He received a B.A. from Michigan State University in 1964 and an MBA from the same school in 1965.