- Steve Pearce
Stevan E. "Steve" Pearce (born August 24, 1947) has represented (map) as a Republican in the United States House of Representatives since 2003. He is an Assistant Minority Whip. Steve is a leader on the House Natural Resources Committee where he is the Ranking Member on the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources and is a member of the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
- Clyde Tombaugh
Clyde William Tombaugh (1906-1997) was an American astronomer who discovered the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930. Tombaugh was born in Streator, LaSalle County, Illinois. After his family moved to Burdett, Kansas, Tombaugh built his first telescope and sent drawings of his observations of Jupiter and Mars to the Lowell Observatory. These resulted in a job offer. Tombaugh was employed at the Lowell Observatory from 1929 to 1945.
- Hal Mumme
Hal Clay Mumme (b. March 29, 1952 in San Antonio, Texas) is the current head football coach at New Mexico State University.
- Reggie Theus
Reggie Theus was fired as coach of the Sacramento Kings on Monday after a 6-18 start to his second season with the club. Assistant coach Kenny Natt took over the Kings at their shootaround before Monday night's victory over Minnesota, spokesman Troy...
- Garrey Carruthers
Dr. Garrey Carruthers is dean of the NMSU College of Business Administration and Economics. Carruthers previously served as president and CEO of the Cimarron Health Plan and was governor of New Mexico from 1987 to 1990. He is a former Assistant U.S. Secretary of the Interior and former special assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.
- David Boje
David M. Boje is an endowed Bank of America professor of management at New Mexico State University (NMSU) in Las Cruces and is noted for his contribution to storytelling Organization story post-modern Grotesque body Management Studies, developing the concept of antenarrative as a non-linear speculation which provides material to be constructed into sometimes coherent narrative structure. He has published over 100 journal articles, ten books, …
- Marvin Menzies
Marvin Menzies is the head men's basketball coach at New Mexico State University. He was named to the position on June 29, 2007 as the successor to Reggie Theus, who the previous week had accepted the head coaching position of the NBA's Sacramento Kings. Like Theus, Menzies came to NMSU after spending the previous two years as an assistant coach under Rick Pitino at the University of Louisville.
- Gary Ward
Gary Ward was the head baseball coach at Oklahoma State from 1978 to 1996. He compiled an impressive 953-313-1 record. He had won 17 Big Eight championships at OSU, including an impressive 16 in a row at one point. He led his team to 18 40 win seasons, and his teams have finished in the top 10 12 times. He later became the head baseball coach at New Mexico State. During his tenure, he became only the 24th coach in college baseball history to gain 1,000 career wins.
- Chase Holbrook
Chase Holbrook is a sophomore quarterback at New Mexico State University. Despite being 4-8 as a starter, he was second in the nation in passing. He completed 397 out of 567 passes for 4,619 yards and 34 touchdowns. He has the potential to end up in the top 3 all-time in NCAA history for passing yards, passing touchdowns, passing attempts, and passing completions, despite only playing 3 seasons. Only twice has he passed for under 300 yards in his career.
- Lou Henson
Lou Henson (born January 10, 1932 in Okay, Oklahoma, USA) is a former collegiate basketball coach. Henson began his coaching career at Las Cruces High School in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Henson was head coach of the varsity for four seasons, and won state championships in 1959, 1960, and 1961. He started coaching at the college ranks in 1962 at Hardin-Simmons University. In 1966, he took over at his alma mater, New Mexico State University.
- Tyrone Nelson
Tyrone Nelson (born July 16, 1985 in Brenham, Texas) is an American basketball player, currently with the New Mexico State University Aggies team (Western Athletic Conference) where he majors in Family and Child Sciences. Prior to college, Nelson played four years at Hempstead High School, where he averaged 29 points and 15 rebounds per game. After graduating high school, he played one season for Prairie View A&M, starting 23 games for the Panthers.
- Tony Samuel
Tony Samuel (born November 14, 1955) is the current head football coach for Southeast Missouri State. Samuel's previous head coaching position was with New Mexico State University from 1997-2004. He had a 34-57 record which puts him third all-time for wins by a NMSU head coach.
- Alena Sharp
Alena Sharp (born March 8, 1981 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) is a professional golfer from Canada, currently playing on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. A graduate of New Mexico State University, Sharp turned professional in 2003, playing two seasons on the Futures Tour and on other minor tours before joining the LPGA Tour in 2005.
- Baxter Black
Baxter Black (born January 2, 1945) is an American cowboy, poet, philosopher, former large-animal veterinarian, and radio commentator. Black grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He was trained as a large-animal veterinarian at New Mexico State University and Colorado State University, but began writing and speaking in the early 1980s. Black left his veterinary career soon afterwards, and since has published over a dozen books of fiction, poetry, and commentary.
- Alan Hale
Alan Hale (born 1958) is an American astronomer. Hale was born in Tachikawa, Japan, in 1958, but grew up in Alamogordo, New Mexico. He served in the US Navy from 1976-1983, when he left the Navy. His next job was at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) where he worked until 1986. While at the JPL, he worked as an engineering contractor for the Deep Space Network. While working as a contractor, he was involved with several projects involving spacecraft, …
- Edgar Mitchell
Edgar Dean Mitchell, Sc.D. (born September 17, 1930) was the sixth man to walk on the Moon. He did this with Alan Shepard as part of the Apollo 14 mission on February 9 1971. The mission was NASA's third manned Moon landing. Mitchell was active in the Boy Scouts of America where he achieved its second highest rank, Life Scout. He obtained a Doctor of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. He also has two Bachelor of Science degrees, …
- Joe Jackson
Joe "Joey" Jackson was a former Minnesota Vikings and New York Jets defensive end. He finished second in quarterback sacks as a rookie. He is a currently an Evangelist to athletes in Arizona. He attended and played for the New Mexico State University and also elected to the New Mexico State University hall of fame. He was later drafted in the 5th round by the New York Jets. He was in the Superstar Sports Magazine all rookie team.
- Randy Brown
Randy Brown (born May 22 1968, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American former professional basketball player. A 6'2" (1.88 m) guard who played at New Mexico State University, Brown was selected by the Sacramento Kings in the second round of the 1991 NBA Draft. He played four seasons in Sacramento, scoring 1,349 points, but he would become best known for his tenure with the Chicago Bulls.
- Rich Beem
Rich Beem (born August 24, 1970) is an American golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. Beem was born in Phoenix, Arizona, grew up in El Paso, Texas, and played golf at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He turned professional in 1994. His early career was largely unassuming, and even broken up by a spell in Seattle selling car stereos and cell phones to make ends meet. This changed in 1999 when Beem won the Kemper Open as an unheralded rookie.
- Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (born Rome, Italy, January 10, 1961) is an Italian-born classical violinist, author, and teacher. She is a United States citizen.
- Paul Wilbur Klipsch
Paul Wilbur Klipsch (March 9 1904 - May 5 2002) was a high fidelity audio pioneer known for developing the high-efficiency folded horn loudspeaker. Paul Klipsch was born in Elkhart, Indiana. He received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from New Mexico College of Agricultural and Mechanical Arts (later renamed to New Mexico State University) in 1926, a Master's of Science degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1934, …
- Charley Johnson
Charley Johnson (born November 22, 1938) was a quarterback in the NFL. During his 15-year career he played for 3 teams; the St. Louis Cardinals, Houston Oilers, and Denver Broncos. During his collegiate career at New Mexico State he became the only person to date to be named Most Valuable Player of the Sun Bowl in consecutive years, winning the award in 1959 and 1960.
- Alvy Ray Smith
Alvy Ray Smith III (born 8 September 1943) is a noted pioneer in computer graphics. In 1965, he received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from New Mexico State University. In 1970 he received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University, with a dissertation on cellular automata. From 1969 to 1973 he was an associate professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at New York University.
- Woody Widenhofer
Woody Widenhofer is a former college football head coach and longtime NFL assistant. Widenhofer is best known for helping the Pittsburgh Steelers "Steel Curtain" defense that won four Super Bowls in the 1970s. He later served unsuccessful tenures as head coach at Missouri and Vanderbilt University. Widenhofer attended Riverview High School in Riverview, Michigan and played linebacker at Missouri from 1961-1964.
- David Coss
David Coss is a U.S. politician who is the current mayor of the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was elected to a four-year term in March 2006 after serving on the Santa Fe City Council from 2002-2006. As a City Councilor, he co-sponsored Santa Fe's Living Wage Ordinance and supported a subsequent minimum wage increase to $9.50 per hour. Coss also supported the Santa Fe Homes Program, …
- John Williamson
John Lee Williamson was an American basketball player. Williamson played high school basketball at Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven, Connecticut and played college basketball at New Mexico State University. He was a 6'2" guard. Williamson was drafted by the Atlanta Hawks in the 6th round (10th pick) of the 1973 NBA draft but had other plans.
- Kenton Keith
Kenton Jermaine Keith (born July 14, 1980 in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA) is a running back for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League. He signed with the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 2001. In the spring of 2004, he signed with the New York Jets of the National Football League, but never made the team, and returned to the CFL. Keith signed with the Indianapolis Colts early 2007.
- Ken Hammond
Kenneth J. Hammond is an associate professor of history at New Mexico State University. Hammond was a student and Students for a Democratic Society leader at Kent State University from 1967 to 1970. He later returned to Kent to complete his degree in Political Science, then studied foreign language at the Beijing Foreign Languages Normal School in Beijing. Hammond received an M.A. in East Asian Studies and a Ph.D in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University.
- Roy Gerela
Roy Gerela (born April 2, 1948, Sarrail, Alberta) is a former American football placekicker best known for his years with the Pittsburgh Steelers, with whom he won three Super Bowl rings. Gerela graduated from Kalani High School in Honolulu, and played college football at New Mexico State University. He was selected in the fourth round of the 1969 AFL Draft by the Houston Oilers and played for them in the American Football League in 1969 and in the NFL 1970.
- Edwin L. Mechem
Edwin Leard Mechem (2 July 1912 - 27 November 2002), Republican politician from New Mexico, three-term Governor of New Mexico 1951-1955, 1957-1959, and 1961-1962, United States Senator from New Mexico 1962 to 1964. Born in Alamogordo, he attended Alamogordo and Las Cruces, NM schools. He attended New Mexico A & M (now New Mexico State University), 1930-31 and 1935. He worked as a land surveyor for the U.S. Reclamation Service in Las Cruces from 1932 to 1935.
- Tom Byrum
Tom Byrum (born September 28, 1960) is an American golfer. Byrum was born in Onida, South Dakota. He attended the University of New Mexico and New Mexico State University before turning professional in 1984. He has played over five hundred events on the PGA Tour, and his sole victory came at the 1989 Kemper Open. Byrum owns two top ten finishes in major championships: T8 in the 2002 US Open at Bethpage and a 9th in the 1997 PGA Championship at Winged Foot.
- Scott Bailey
Scott Bailey (born December 16, 1978 in Florissant, Missouri) is an American actor. He plays Roman Martin on the MyNetworkTV limited-run serial "Saints & Sinners". Bailey played the role of Sandy Foster on the CBS soap opera "Guiding Light" from August 2003 until he announced he would not renew his contract with the show and the character was killed off in March 2006. He also had a brief run on the MTV series Undressed, …
- Tony Stubblefield
Tony Stubblefield is an assistant men's basketball coach at the University of Cincinnati. He previously held the same job at New Mexico State University, where he also served as head coach during the 2004–2005 season due to Lou Henson's illness.
- Jim Hess
Jim Hess was a head football coach at Stephen F. Austin University and at New Mexico State. From 1982 to 1988, he coached at SFA, where he compiled a 47-30-2 record. His final season there ended with an impressive 10-3 record. From 1990 to 1996, he coached at New Mexico State, where he compiled a 22-55(.286) record. He was fired in 1996 after his second 1-10 season at the school.
- Sam Lacey
Samuel "Sam" Lacey (b. March 28 1948, Indianola, Mississippi) is a retired American basketball player. A 6'10" center from New Mexico State University, Lacey played 13 seasons (1970-1983) in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Cincinnati Royals, Kansas City Kings, New Jersey Nets, and Cleveland Cavaliers. Lacey averaged over 10 rebounds per game in his first six seasons, and was the third leading rebounder in the 1974-75 season.
- Jimmy Collins
James E. "Jimmy" Collins (born) is a retired American basketball player and current coach. He has been the head coach of the men's basketball team at the University of Illinois at Chicago since 1996. Prior to that, he was an assistant coach at the University of Illinois. He played college ball at New Mexico State University and had a brief professional career with the Chicago Bulls of the NBA and the Carolina Cougars of the ABA. He was raised in Syracuse, New York.
- Siddeeq Shabazz
Siddeeq Shabazz (born February 5, 1981 in Frankfurt, Germany) is an American football player who currently plays linebacker for the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League. He was a two-time All-Sunbelt Conference first team and Verizon Academic All-District selection registered 233 tackles with 1 sack, four interceptions, seven pass break-ups, three fumble recoveries and five forced fumbles in 46 games (24 starts) at New Mexico State University.
- Chris Bachelder
Chris Bachelder (born 1971) is an American writer, e-book pioneer and frequent contributor to the publications "McSweeney's Quarterly Concern" and "The Believer". Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he grew up in Christiansburg, Virginia. He attended Virginia Tech (BA, 1992) and the University of Florida at Gainesville (MFA, 2002). Bachelder has taught fiction writing and literature courses at Colorado College (Assistant Professor), …
- Pervis Atkins
Pervis R. Atkins (born November 24, 1935 in Ruston, Louisiana)was an American football player. He played college football at New Mexico State University, where he was a halfback, flanker, and placekicker. He played professionally in the American Football League for the Oakland Raiders in 1965 and 1966. He had previously played for the Los Angeles Rams and Washington Redskins.
- Roosevelt Skerrit
Roosevelt Skerrit (born June 8, 1972) is the Honourable Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica as well the Member of Parliament for the Vielle Case constituency. In addition to being Prime Minister, he holds the ministerial portfolios of Finance, Planning, National Security and Overseas Nationals. Regionally, he is the Caricom Lead Head of Government with respect to Free Movement as part of the implementation of the CSME.