- Nolan Bushnell
Nolan K. Bushnell is an American electrical engineer and entrepreneur who founded both Atari and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters chain. Bushnell has received a great deal of recognition, including being inducted into the Video Game Hall of Fame and the Consumer Electronics Association Hall of Fame, receiving the Nations Restaurant News “Innovator of the Year” award, and being named one of Newsweek's "50 Men That Changed America".
- Kevin B. Turner
Kevin Turner in is an American businessman known for his executive leadership roles at Wal-Mart and Microsoft. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Management from East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma where he was a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity.
- Gino Torretta
Gino Louis Torretta (born August 10, 1970 in Pinole, California) is a former American football quarterback for several teams in the National Football League from 1993 to 1997. Torretta is best known, however, for winning the Heisman Trophy in 1992 as the quarterback of the University of Miami, playing on the University of Miami's National Championship teams of 1989 and 1991. He joined the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity at Miami.
- Ted Koppel
Edward James "Ted" Koppel (born February 8, 1940) is an American journalist, best known as the former anchorman for ABC's "Nightline".
- Jeff Feagles
Jeffrey Allan Feagles (born March 7, 1966) is a punter currently playing for the New York Giants of the National Football League. 2006 marked Feagles' 19th NFL season. Prior to his affiliation with the New York Giants, he played for the New England Patriots, Philadelphia Eagles, Arizona Cardinals and Seattle Seahawks. He played his collegiate football at the University of Miami, joining the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity during his time as an undergraduate.
- Stephen Covey
Stephen R. Covey (born October 24 1932 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is the author of the international best selling book, "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People", first published in 1989. Other books he has written include "First Things First", "Principle-Centered Leadership" and "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families". His latest book is "The 8th Habit", published in 2004.
- Dan Issel
Daniel (Dan) Paul Issel (born October 25, 1948 in Batavia, Illinois) is an American former professional basketball player and coach.
- Lance Alworth
Lance Dwight Alworth (born August 3, 1940 in Houston, Texas) is a former American football wide receiver. He is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame. At the University of Arkansas, the six-foot (1.83 m), 180-pound (82 kg) Alworth was a running back who led all colleges in punt return yardage in 1960 and 1961. He also was a track star: running the 100 and 220 yard dashes (9.6 seconds and 21.3 seconds) and long jump.
- Esera Tuaolo
Esera Tavai Tuaolo, born July 11 1968 in Honolulu, Hawaii played professional football in the National Football League for nine years, including participation in the Super Bowl.
- Frank Sinkwich
Francis "Frank" Sinkwich (October 10,1920 - October 22,1990) won the Heisman Trophy in 1942, while playing at the University of Georgia, the first recipient from the Southeastern Conference. Twelve years later, after a brief but celebrated career in professional football that included being named the National Football League Most Valuable Player Award in 1944, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
- Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart is a nine-time Emmy-winning American comedian, satirist, actor, writer, author, and producer. He is perhaps best known as the host of Comedy Central’s "The Daily Show" and for his political satire. Stewart started off as a stand-up comedian but later moved on to television, hosting "Short Attention Span Theater" for Comedy Central. He then went on to host his own show on MTV, called "The Jon Stewart Show".
- Bob Losure
Bob Losure was a weekend anchor on "CNN Headline News" from 1986-1997. Prior to that, he worked as co-anchor of the evening news at KOTV, the CBS affiliate in his hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was also a reporter for CNN Newsource, a service supplying news reports to local television stations, a field in which he had begun his career. After leaving CNN, he wrote a biography, "Five Seconds to Air", made promotional speeches, and appeared in corporate videos.
- Tim McGraw
Tim McGraw (born Samuel Timothy McGraw on May 1, 1967) is an American country music singer who has achieved many number one hits on the country singles and album charts, with total sales in excess of 25 million units. He is married to country singer Faith Hill and is the son of baseball player Tug McGraw. His trademark hit songs include "Indian Outlaw", "Don't Take the Girl", "I Like It, I Love It", "It's Your Love" (featuring his wife, Faith Hill), …
- Eric Winston
Eric Winston (born November 17, 1983 in Midland, Texas) is an offensive tackle for the Houston Texans of the National Football League. He was selected by the Texans with the 66th overall pick in the 2006 NFL Draft
- Wayne Morse
Wayne Lyman Morse was a United States Senator from Oregon from 1945 until 1969. He made a filibuster for 22 hours and 26 minutes in 1953 protesting the Tidelands Oil legislation, which at the time was the longest filibuster in Senate history. Morse was born to a farming family in Verona, Wisconsin, who imbued the political beliefs of Robert M. LaFollette, Sr. in their children.
- Howard Schnellenberger
Howard Schnellenberger (born March 16, 1934) is an American football coach at both the professional and college level. He is currently married to Mrs. Beverlee Schnellenberger and is head coach of Florida Atlantic University. He previously held head coaching positions with the University of Oklahoma, University of Louisville, University of Miami, and the Baltimore Colts. He has also worked extensively as an assistant coach at the college and pro levels, …
- Jeremy Piven
Jeremy Samuel Piven (born July 26, 1965) is an Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated American actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Ari Gold on the HBO series "Entourage".
- Fess Parker
Fess Elisha Parker Jr. (born August 16, 1924) is an American film and television actor, as well as a wine maker and resort owner-operator.
- Chris Myers
Chris Myers (born September 15, 1981 in Miami, Florida) is a professional football offensive lineman with the Denver Broncos of the National Football League.
- Todd Frary
Todd B. D. Frary (born 18 December 1962 in Rockford, Illinois) is an American radio personality, writer, music critic, and public historian.
- Eric Lloyd
Eric Lloyd (born David Eric Lloyd Morelli on May 19, 1986 in Glendale, California), is an American actor whose films include "The Santa Clause" trilogy. His other film credits include "Batman & Robin", "Dunston Checks In" and "My Giant". Also, Blanky in The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (1998) and The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue (1999) since Timothy E. Day only did Blanky in The Brave Little Toaster.
- Jeff Taylor
Jeff Taylor is a founder of the online jobs site Monster.com. He attended UMass Amherst and joined the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. He worked as a DJ before working on the startup in the mid 90s. In August 2005, he left Monster to found a new venture called Eons, Inc., a website for people over age 50.
- Dustin Colquitt
Dustin Farr Colquitt (born May 6, 1982) is an American football punter who currently plays for the Kansas City Chiefs of the NFL. He is from Knoxville, Tennessee and played high school football at a local Knoxville school, Bearden High School. He played college football at the University of Tennessee where he joined the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. Comes from a distinguished lineage of punters in the Colquitt family, including his father Craig, …
- Mason Gamble
Mason Wilson Gamble (born January 16, 1986 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor best known for his portrayal of Dennis Mitchell in the 1993 film "Dennis the Menace" and as Jason Schwartzman's sidekick, Dirk Calloway, in Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson's critically acclaimed 1998 film, "Rushmore". He also appeared in "Anya's Bell" with Della Reese, starring as a dyslexic boy.
- Bobby Bowden
Robert Cleckler Bowden (born November 8, 1929 in Birmingham, Alabama), better known as "Bobby Bowden", is the winningest coach in NCAA Division I football history with 366 career wins. Bowden is currently the head coach at the Florida State University, where he has been since 1976.
- Happy Chandler
Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler, Sr. (July 14 1898 - June 15 1991) was twice governor of Kentucky, a U.S. Senator, the 2nd Commissioner of Major League Baseball, and a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. His jovial attitude earned him the nickname "Happy," which stuck for the remainder of his life. Chandler's first term as governor is still regarded as one of the most productive of any Kentucky governor.
- Rick Dees
Rigdon Osmond "Rick" Dees III (born March 14, 1950 in Jacksonville, Florida) is a radio disc jockey who currently lives in the San Fernando Valley community of Toluca Lake in Los Angeles, California, USA. Dees is best known for his syndicated radio show "Rick Dees Weekly Top 40" and for the novelty song "Disco Duck." Rick Dees does mornings at the new Movin' 93-9 FM in Los Angeles, along with Patti "Long Legs" Lopez, and Mark Wong
- William Sanderson
William Sanderson is an American character actor (born January 10, 1948 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA). He portrayed "Larry" in the United States TV show "Newhart" from 1982 to 1990, famous for the catch phrase, "Hi, I'm Larry. This is my brother Darryl, and this is my other brother Darryl." He has returned to prominence playing E. B. Farnum in the HBO television series "Deadwood". His role is a tragicomic hotelier and first mayor of Deadwood.
- Matt Doherty
Matt Doherty (born February 25, 1962) is the head men's basketball coach at Southern Methodist University. Doherty accepted the job in April 2006 after a year as head coach at Florida Atlantic University. He is best known for his tumultuous three-year stint as the head basketball coach at North Carolina from 2000 to 2003.
- Samuel K. Skinner
Samuel Knox Skinner (born June 10 1938) is an American politician and businessman. Skinner served as US Secretary of Transportation, and, briefly, as Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush for a short time in 1992 before being replaced by James Baker. Skinner was instrumental in developing President Bush's National Transportation Policy and the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA), which served as the catalyst for the whole ITS industry.
- Morgan Woodward
Morgan Woodward (born 16 September 1925 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American actor. He is probably best known for his recurring role in "Dallas" as "Punk" Anderson, but he has many television guest appearances to his name in shows such as "Gunsmoke", "Bonanza", "Wagon Train", "Rawhide", "The Big Valley", "Branded", "The Virginian", "The High Chaparral", …
- Horace Grant
Horace Junior Grant (born July 4 1965 in Augusta, Georgia) is a retired American basketball player. He attended and played college basketball at Clemson University, before playing professionally in the National Basketball Association (NBA), where he became a 4-time NBA champion. Horace Grant is the twin brother of Harvey Grant, who also played in the NBA. Horace Grant was selected by the Chicago Bulls with the 10th overall pick of the 1987 NBA Draft.
- Strom Thurmond
James Strom Thurmond was an American politician who served as governor of South Carolina and as a United States Senator. He also ran for the presidency of the United States in 1948 under the segregationist States Rights Democratic Party banner. He garnered 39 electoral votes in that race, making him the first third party presidential candidate to receive electoral votes since Robert LaFollette in 1924.
- Will Shortz
Will Shortz (born August 26, 1952) is a U.S. puzzle creator and editor.
- Everett McKinley Dirksen
Dirksen was born in Pekin, Illinois -about 120 miles southwest of Chicago, Illinois -where he grew up on a small farm. He served in the United States Army during World War I . His political career began in 1927 , when he was elected to the Pekin city council. After an unsuccessful first run for the House of Representatives 1929 , he was elected to that body in 1932 .
- Thad Cochran
William Thad Cochran (born December 7, 1937) is the senior United States Senator from Mississippi. He is a Republican.
- Neal Patterson
Neal L. Patterson is CEO of Cerner Corporation, a Kansas City-based medical software corporation. Cerner was founded in 1979 by Patterson with Paul Gorup and Cliff Illig. Patterson was featured in a "USA Today" article, Scandals lead execs to 'Atlas Shrugged', as a member of a friendly group of CEOs who have a working knowledge of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. He was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha at Oklahoma State University.
- Kyle Orton
Kyle Raymond Orton (born November 14, 1982 in Altoona, Iowa) is an American football player and a quarterback in the National Football League. He was selected by the Chicago Bears as the 106th pick of the 2005 NFL Draft.
- S. Truett Cathy
Samuel Truett Cathy (born March 14, 1921 in Eatonton, Georgia) is the founder and chairman of Chick-fil-A, a fast-food restaurant chain based in suburban Atlanta, Georgia.
- Steve Prefontaine
Steve Roland Prefontaine (commonly referred to as Pre by runners and fans) was an American Olympic runner born in Coos Bay, Oregon. Prefontaine was primarily a long distance runner, and at one point held the American record in every running event from the 2000 meters to the 10,000 meters. Prefontaine had one leg longer than the other (a common condition that does not affect running speed), …