- Joe Paterno
Joseph Vincent Paterno (born December 21, 1926, in Brooklyn, New York), nicknamed JoePa, is the head coach of Pennsylvania State University's college football team, a position he has held since 1966.
- Evan Pugh
Evan Pugh was the first president of the Pennsylvania State University, serving from 1859 until his death in 1864. An agricultural chemist, he was responsible for securing Penn State's designation in 1863 as a land-grant institution under the Morrill Land Grant Act.
- Philip Jenkins
Philip Jenkins is a professor of history and religious studies and Pennsylvania State University. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1978. In his career he has published 20 books. He has written about pedophile priests, religious prejudice, cults, and terrorism. Unlike other academic historians, he often cites popular culture sources (such as movies, music, television, and best-selling books) in his works.
- Richard Alley
Dr. Richard B. Alley (1957-present) is an American geologist and Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at the Pennsylvania State University. He has authored more than 170 refereed scientific publications about the relationships between Earth's cryosphere and global climate change and is recognized by the Institute for Scientific Information as a "highly cited researcher." In 1999, Dr. Alley was invited to testify about climate change by Vice President Al Gore, …
- Elliot Abrams
Elliot Abrams (born May 31, 1947), a meteorologist, is a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Abrams is an employee of AccuWeather.com since 1967, after graduating from Pennsylvania State University with both a bachelor's and a master's degree in meteorology. A charter member of the Chi Epsilon Pi (national meteorology honor society), he is now a Senior Vice President at AccuWeather Inc.
- C. Lee Giles
Dr. C. Lee Giles is the David Reese Professor at the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University. He is also Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems, and Director of the Intelligent Systems Research Laboratory. He has been associated with Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, the University of Pisa, …
- Michael Mann
Michael Mann is a well-known American climatologist and author of more than 80 peer-reviewed journal publications. He has attained public prominence as lead author of a number of articles on paleoclimate which feature a graph of temperature trends dubbed the "hockey stick graph" for the shape of the trend line. In August 2005 he was appointed Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University, in the Department of Meteorology and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, …
- Rustum Roy
Rustum Roy (born July 3, 1924) is a materials scientist, science policy analyst, advocate of interdisciplinary education and alternative medicine, and science and religion. Roy holds professorships in materials science at Arizona State University and in medicine at the University of Arizona, as well as emeritus honors at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) in three fields.
- Tony Stewart
Tony Alexander Stewart (born August 9, 1979 in Lohne, Germany) is a tight end for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League. Stewart was originally drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the 5th round of the 2001 NFL draft out of Penn State. He now plays with the Oakland Raiders.
- Paul Weiss
Paul S. Weiss is a leading nanoscientist at the Pennsylvania State University. He holds numerous positions, including Distinguished Professor of Physics and Chemistry, and committee membership on professional organizations relating to physics/chemistry. Weiss has co-authored over 180 research publications and US patents. He is married to and collaborates with Anne Andrews, an Assistant Professor of Molecular Toxicology in the Penn State Neuroscience Institute.
- Milton S. Eisenhower
Milton Stover Eisenhower (September 15, 1899 - May 2, 1985) served as president of three major American universities: Kansas State University, the Pennsylvania State University, and the Johns Hopkins University. He was the younger brother of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In 1930 he had a son, Milton Stover "Bud" Eisenhower, Jr. and in 1937, a daughter, Ruth Eisenhower.
- Masatoshi Nei
Masatoshi Nei is Professor of Biology at Pennsylvania State University and Director of the Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics. Nei is co-founder of the journal "Molecular Biology and Evolution", together with Walter M. Fitch. He was born in 1931 in Miyazaki Prefecture, in Kyushu Island, Japan. He made important contributions to the fields of the evolutionary genetics and molecular evolution, and coined the term Molecular Population Genetics, …
- Abhay Ashtekar
Abhay Ashtekar (born July 5 1949) is an indian physicist who completed his undergraduate education in India. He studied under Robert Geroch in the University of Chicago, receiving his Ph.D. in 1974 (thesis: "Asymptotic Structure of the Gravitational Field at Spatial Infinity"). He is the Eberly Professor of Physics and the Director of the Institute for Gravitational Physics and Geometry at the Pennsylvania State University.
- Valerie Plame
Valerie Plame was no CIA paper-pusher. She was searching out intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
- John Yen
John Yen is a professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University. He is the Professor in Charge of the College of IST, and the Director of the Intelligent Agents Laboratory there. Yen's long-term research interest is the capturing and modeling of human knowledge in software agents for supporting decision making, for improving the productivity and adaptibility of global enterprises, …
- Alan Walker
Professor Alan Walker (born August 23, 1938), is the Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Biology at Pennsylvania State University. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1988.
- George W. Atherton
George Washington Atherton (June 20, 1837 - July 26, 1906) was president of the Pennsylvania State University from 1882 until his death in 1906. He earned a degree from Yale in 1863 and taught at universities such as the University of Illinois and Rutgers before accepting the position of president at Penn State. There, he was faced with the challenge of transforming the school from an unrecognized agricultural college into a respected land-grant college.
- Rene Portland
Maureen "Rene" Muth Portland is a former head women's basketball coach best known for her 27-year tenure with the Penn State Lady Lions basketball team. Her career resume includes 21 NCAA tournament appearances including a Final Four appearance in 2000, five Big Ten Conference championships and two conference tournament titles. Portland is one of nine women's basketball coaches to have won 600 or more games at a single school, with a career record of 606-236 at Penn State.
- George Andrews
George Eyre Andrews is an American mathematician working in analysis and combinatorics. He is currently a Evan Pugh Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University. He received his PhD in 1964 at University of Pennsylvania where his advisor was Hans Rademacher. Andrews's contributions include several monographs and over 250 research and popular articles on q-series, special functions, combinatorics and applications.
- Edwin Erle Sparks
Edwin Erle Sparks was the eighth president of the Pennsylvania State University, serving from 1908 until 1920.
- Michael Bérubé
Michael Bérubé is the Paterno Family Professor in Literature, teaching cultural studies at Pennsylvania State University, and the author of several books on cultural studies, disability rights, liberal politics, and professional issues of higher education. From 2004-7 he ran a popular blog covering the same topics.
- Derrick Williams
Derrick Williams (b. July 6, 1986) is an American football player at Pennsylvania State University. Williams was widely regarded as one of the top high school football prospects of 2005, coming out of Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt, Maryland. As a freshman, Williams was spectacular at both running back and wideout.
- Clay Calvert
Clay Calvert is currently a professor at the Pennsylvania State University, specializing in First Amendment Law. Originally a member of the California State Bar Association, he published numerous articles for law journals. He has also written several books dealing with the First Amendment, the most recognizable being "Voyeur Nation".
- Josip Novakovich
Josip Novakovich is a Croatian-American writer. He has published a novel ("April Fool's Day"), three short story collections, two collections of narrative essays, and a textbook ("Fiction Writer's Workshop"). Mr. Novakovich is the recipient of the Whiting Writer's Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, two fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Award, and an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.
- Niel Brandt
William Nielsen Brandt (born June 10, 1970; also known as Niel Brandt) is a professor in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the Pennsylvania State University. He is best known for his work studying the X-ray properties of active galaxies, X-ray binaries, and other cosmic X-ray sources.
- Paul Posluszny
Paul Michael Posluszny (born October 10, 1984 in Butler, Pennsylvania), commonly known as "Poz", is a linebacker for the Buffalo Bills.
- James A. Beaver
James Addams Beaver (21 October 1837-31 January 1914) was an American politician who served as Governor of Pennsylvania from 1887 to 1891. Beaver, an attorney, served in the Union army during the American Civil War and rose to command the 148th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. He was wounded at the Second Battle of Ream's Station, in 1864, an injury that resulted his amputation of his right leg. Following the war, Beaver pursued his law career, …
- Gary Lilien
Dr. Gary L. Lilien is the non Professor of Management Science at The Pennsylvania State University. He has co-authord twelve books, including the very popular Marketing Models with Phil Kotler and Marketing Engineering with Arvind Rangaswamy. He is also the co-founder of ISBM ISBM (Institute for the Study of Business Markets), one of US's leading research institutes for B2B markets.
- Henry Giroux
Henry Giroux, born September 18 1943, is a US cultural critic. He is one of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States. He is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory.
- Iris Marion Young
Iris Marion Young (2 January, 1949 - 1 August, 2006) was Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, and affiliated with the Center for Gender Studies and the Human Rights program. Her research covered contemporary political theory, feminist social theory, and normative analysis of public policy. Young's books include "Justice and the Politics of Difference" (1990), …
- John E. Peterson
John E. Peterson (born December 25, 1938) is a Republican politician from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Since 1997, he has represented the state's mainly rural and largely Republican 5th Congressional district (map) in the U.S. House
- Alphonso Lingis
Alphonso Lingis (born November 23, 1933 in Crete, Illinois) is an American philosopher, writer and translator, currently Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. His areas of specialization include phenomenology, existentialism, modern philosophy, and ethics.
- Wilbur Zelinsky
Wilbur Zelinsky (born 1921) is recognized as one of America's most prominent cultural geographers. He is a professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University. An Illinoisan by birth, but a "northeasterner by choice and conviction," Zelinsky received his education at University of California, Berkeley, where he was a student of Carl Sauer. He received his doctorate in 1953. Zelinsky has made numerous important geographical studies of American popular culture, …
- Robert Plomin
Robert Plomin is an American psychologist best known for his work in twin studies and behavior genetics. Plomin has made two of the most important discoveries in that field. First, he has shown the importance of non-shared environment, a term that he coined to refer to the environmental reasons why children growing up in the same family are so different.
- Paul Clark
Paul F. Clark (August 18, 1954) is a professor of labor studies at Pennsylvania State University. He is head of the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations (until July 1, 2006, the Labor Studies and Industrial Relations). He also holds a professorship in the Department of Health Policy and Administration.
- Richard Herman
Richard Herman began serving as the Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005, having previously served there since 1998 as Provost and Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs. Before coming to Illinois, he served as Dean of the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park and Chair of the Department of Mathematics at the Pennsylvania State University.
- Anthony Scirrotto
Anthony Scirrotto is a college football player for Penn State under Joe Paterno, and a 2006 First Team All-Big Ten Conference selection.
- Eric A. Walker
Eric Arthur Walker born April 29, 1910 in Long Eaton, England, died February 17, 1995 was president of Penn State University from 1956 to 1970 and founding member of the National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Walker earned a Bachelors Degree from Harvard University in Electrical Engineering, a Masters Degree in business administration, and doctorate in general science and engineering from Harvard.
- Hendrik Tennekes
Hendrik (Henk) Tennekes (born 1936) was the former director of research at the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute (Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut, or KNMI), and is a professor of aeronautical engineering at Pennsylvania State University. Tennekes pioneered methods of multi-modal forecasting. He authored "The Simple Science of Flight" and "A First Course in Turbulence". Tennekes was a strong proponent of scientific modeling, …
- John Fraser
John Fraser was the third president of the Pennsylvania State University, serving from 1866 until 1868.