- Elizabeth Moon
Elizabeth Moon (born March 7, 1945) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. She lives in Florence, Texas (about 40 miles (70 km) northeast of Austin). She attained the rank of 1st Lieutenant during active service with the US Marine Corps, which she joined in 1968 having obtained a Bachelor's degree in History from Rice University. Later she additionally obtained a B.A. in Biology. She is also an experienced paramedic. - Alberto Gonzales
Alberto R. Gonzales (born August 4, 1955) was the 80th Attorney General of the United States. Gonzales was appointed to the post in February 2005 by President George W. Bush. While Bush was Governor of Texas, Gonzales had served as his general counsel (1994-1997). Subsequently he served as Secretary of State of Texas (1997-1999) and then on the Texas Supreme Court (1999-2000). From 2001 to 2005, Gonzales served in the Bush Administration as White House Counsel. - Bubba Crosby
Richard Stephen "Bubba" Crosby (born August 11, 1976, in Bellaire, Texas) is a Major League Baseball outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds. - John Bradshaw
John Elliot Bradshaw (born June 29, 1933 in Houston, Texas) is an American educator, counselor, motivational speaker and author best known for his PBS television programs on topics such as addiction, recovery, codependency and spirituality. Bradshaw is active in the self-help movement, and is credited with popularizing such ideas as the "wounded inner child" and the dysfunctional family. His books are mainly works of popular psychology. - Wade Townsend
Wade Daniel Townsend (born February 22, 1983 in Austin, Texas) is a minor-league baseball pitcher in the Tampa Bay Devil Rays organization. He was the Devil Rays' first-round draft pick out of Rice University in 2005, signing for a $1.5 million bonus. Townsend was initially drafted by the Baltimore Orioles with the eighth pick of the 2004 draft but returned to Rice to finish his degree and was ruled ineligible to continue negotiation with the Orioles. - John Doerr
L. John Doerr (born June 29, 1951 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a successful venture capitalist at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in Menlo Park, California, in the Silicon Valley. Doerr obtained a Bachelor of Science and master's degree in electrical engineering from Rice University and an MBA from Harvard University in 1976. Doerr joined Intel Corporation in 1974 just as the firm was developing the 8080 8-bit microprocessor. - Philip Humber
Philip Gregory Humber (born December 21, 1982 in Nacogdoches, Texas) is a minor-league baseball pitcher in the New York Mets organization. He was the Mets' first-round draft pick out of Rice University in 2004. The third overall pick in that draft, he received a $3.7 million signing bonus in January 2005 after a long holdout. He was drafted by the New York Yankees in the 29th round of the 2001 Major League Baseball Draft, but he did not sign. - Lance Berkman
William Lance Berkman (born February 10, 1976 in Waco, Texas) is a Major League Baseball player for the Houston Astros. His official listed height is six feet, one inch, and his weight is 220 pounds (100 kg). Berkman is a switch-hitting outfielder/first baseman who throws left-handed. He is also known as "Big Puma" or "Fat Elvis" (although he has stated that he dislikes the latter) - Jeff Niemann
Jeffrey Warren Niemann (born February 28, 1983 in Houston, Texas) is a starting pitcher who plays for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays organization. He is currently on the 40-man roster. Niemann was the Devil Rays' first-round draft pick out of Rice University in 2004 as the fourth overall pick. He signed a major-league contract in January 2005 worth $5.2 million. - Robert Curl
Robert Floyd Curl, Jr. (born August 23, 1933) the son of a Methodist Minister is an emeritus professor of chemistry at Rice University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of fullerene (with the late Richard Smalley, also of Rice University, and Harold Kroto of the University of Sussex). Born in Alice, Texas, United States, Curl received a B.A. from Rice University in 1954 and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, … - Mark Quinn
Mark David Quinn (born May 21, 1974 in La Mirada, California) is a Major League Baseball outfielder and right-handed batter who plays for the St. Louis Cardinals. Quinn was drafted by the Kansas City Royals in 1995. He played for the Royals between 1999-2002 - Larry McMurtry
Larry McMurtry (born June 3, 1936 in Wichita Falls, Texas) is a novelist, screenwriter, and essayist. McMurtry is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1985 novel "Lonesome Dove", a sweeping historical epic that follows ex-Texas Rangers as they drive their cattle from the Rio Grande to a new home in the frontier of Montana. It was adapted into a hit television miniseries. Much of his other fiction is also set in the "old west" or contemporary Texas. - David Aardsma
David A. Aardsma (born December 27, 1981) is a Major League Baseball player for the Chicago White Sox. Aardsma attended Cherry Creek High School in Colorado, which was also the high school of Major Leaguers like Josh Bard, John Burke, Brad Lidge, Darnell McDonald and Donzell McDonald. He graduated from Cherry Creek High School in 2000. He attended Penn State in his freshman year of college. - King Hill
King Hill, (born November 8, 1936) is a retired American football quarterback who played for the Chicago Cardinals (1958-1959), St. Louis Cardinals (1960), Philadelphia Eagles (1961-1967), Minnesota Vikings (1968), Philadelphia Eagles (1969), St. Louis Cardinals (1969). - George P. Bush
George Prescott Bush (born April 24,1976), is the eldest of three children of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and his wife Columba. He is the nephew of the President George W. Bush and the grandson of former President George H. W. Bush. His mother, Columba Garnica Gallo, was born in Mexico, and his heritage has made him a popular figure with Hispanic voters. - Joe Savery
Joseph Cain Savery (born November 4, 1985 in Houston, Texas) is a pitcher drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies. Savery was the Phillies' first-round draft pick out of Rice University in 2007 as the 19th overall pick. - Steve Sailer
Steven Ernest Sailer (born December 20, 1958) is an American journalist and movie critic for "The American Conservative", ex-correspondent for UPI, and VDARE.com columnist. He writes about race relations, gender issues, politics, immigration, IQ, genetics, movies, and sports. He is perhaps best known online as a blogger. Sailer grew up in Los Angeles and attended UCLA and Rice University. - Frank Ryan
Frank Beall Ryan, Ph.D. (born July 12, 1936 in Fort Worth, Texas) is a retired American football quarterback in the NFL who played for the Los Angeles Rams (1958-1961), Cleveland Browns (1962-1968) and Washington Redskins (1969-1970). Although he led the Browns to their last National Football League title in 1964, Ryan is best remembered for being perhaps the only Ph.D. in mathematics to play in the league. - George Mackey
George Whitelaw Mackey (born February 1, 1916 in St. Louis, Missouri, died March 15, 2006 in Belmont, Massachusetts) was an American mathematician. Mackey obtained his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1942 under the direction of Marshall H. Stone. He joined the Harvard University Mathematics Department in 1943, was appointed Landon T. Clay Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Science in 1969 and remained there until he retired in 1985. - Roy Hofheinz
Roy Mark Hofheinz (April 10, 1912-November 22, 1982), popularly known as Judge Hofheinz, was mayor of the city of Houston, Texas from 1953 to 1955. He previously served as the County Judge of Harris County, Texas. A flamboyant and successful orator, broadcaster, developer and sportsman, he was part of the group that brought a Major League Baseball franchise (which became the Houston Astros) to Houston, as well as built the Harris County Domed Stadium, … - Steve Jackson
Steve Jackson (born ~1953) is an American game designer. After working for many years at Metagaming designing such games as "Ogre" and "The Fantasy Trip", he left to found Steve Jackson Games (SJ Games) in the early 1980s. He designed many of the games published by SJ Games, such as "Car Wars", "GURPS", "Munchkin" and many others. - Leslie H. Southwick
Leslie H. Southwick (born February 10, 1950 in Edinburg, Texas) is a current nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and a former judge of the Mississippi Court of Appeals. - Tommy Kramer
Thomas Francis Kramer (born March 7, 1955 in San Antonio, Texas) is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the NFL from 1977-1990. Kramer graduated from Robert E. Lee High School in San Antonio. He played collegiately at Rice University and was selected by the Minnesota Vikings in the first round (27th overall) of the 1977 NFL Draft. - John G. Cramer
John G. Cramer (born 1934) is a Professor of Physics at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. When not teaching, he works with the STAR (Solenoidal Tracker At RHIC) detector at the new Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the particle accelerator at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. - Amanda Goad
Amanda Goad (born March 13, 1979) was the winner of the 1992 Scripps National Spelling Bee, where she represented "The Richmond News Leader". Her winning word was lyceum, which is defined as either "a public hall designed for lectures or concerts" or "a school at a stage between elementary school and college". In 1996, Goad was a contestant in the "Jeopardy!" Teen Tournament. - José Cruz Jr.
José Luis Cruz, Jr. is a Major League Baseball outfielder for the San Diego Padres. Over his nine year playing career Cruz has played for eight different teams. Cruz stands 6'0" tall and weighs 210 pounds. He is a switch hitter who throws right-handed. He is the son of former major league outfielder and current Houston Astros first base coach José Cruz, and the nephew of former big leaguers Héctor and Tommy Cruz. - Larry Izzo
Lawrence Alexander Izzo (born September 26, 1974 in Fort Belvoir, Virginia) is an American football linebacker for the New England Patriots of the National Football League. - Tim Byrdak
Timothy Christopher Byrdak (born October 31, 1973 in Oak Forest, Illinois) is a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who plays for the Detroit Tigers. His previous major league experience came from 1998 to 2000, when Byrdak played for the Kansas City Royals. On August 30, 2006, the Orioles designated Byrdak for assignment. On November 17, 2006 the Tigers signed him to a minor league deal. Prior to the 2007 season, Byrdak developed a forkball, … - Paul Burka
Paul Burka joined the staff of TEXAS MONTHLY one year after the magazine's founding. A lifelong Texan, he was born in Galveston, graduated from Rice University with a B.A. in history, and received a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law. Burka is a member of the State Bar of Texas and spent five years as an attorney with the Texas Legislature, where he served as counsel to the Senate Natural Resources Committee. - Kevin Joseph
Kevin Joseph (born August 1, 1976 in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania) is a former pitcher who last played professional baseball in 2002. Joseph attended Trinity Christian Academy before going off to college. When left high school, he went to Rice University, which has had many alumni become Major Leaguers. In 1997, he was drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the 6th round (178th overall). He started his professional career that same year in A-ball. - Eddie Dyer
Edwin Hawley Dyer was an American left-handed pitcher, manager and farm system official in Major League Baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1922-44 and 1946-50. In 1946, Dyer's first season at the helm of the Cardinals, the Redbirds defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers in a thrilling National League season that featured the first postseason playoff in baseball history, then bested the favored Boston Red Sox in a seven-game World Series. - Willis Wilson
Willis Thomas Wilson, Jr. (born March 22, 1960 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is a college basketball head coach, currently in his 15th season at Rice University. Similar to the nickname of basketball coaching legend John Wooden ("The Wizard of Westwood"), Willis is nicknamed "The Wizard of West U" ("West U" referring to West University Place, a city near Rice University). - John Irwin
John T. Irwin is the Decker Professor in the Humanities and Professor in The Writing Seminars and the English department at Johns Hopkins University. - N. D. Kalu
Ndukwe Kalu (born August 3, 1975 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American football defensive end for the Houston Texans of the NFL. He attended John Marshall High School in San Antonio, Texas and graduated in 1993. He was originally selected with the 22nd pick of the fifth round of the 1997 NFL Draft out of Rice University. He has also played for the Washington Redskins and the Philadelphia Eagles. Kalu is of Nigerian descent. Kalu's full name is Ndukwe Kalu. - Weldon Humble
Weldon Gaston Humble (April 24, 1921 - April 14, 1998) was an American football offensive linemen who was named to the College Football Hall of Fame, in addition to receiving a distinguished military honor. He was born Nixon, TX and attended Brackenridge High School in San Antonio, Texas. - Brandon Green
Brandon Green (born September 5, 1980 in Victoria, Texas) is an American football defensive end for the Seattle Seahawks. He was selected out of Rice University by the Jacksonville Jaguars as the 3rd pick of the 6th round of the 2003 NFL Draft. - Mario Ramos
Mario Martin Ramos is a Major League Baseball player. Ramos was born in Aurora, Illinois. He went to Pflugerville High School in Pflugerville, Texas, where he also resides today. He was a 5'11", 180-pound pitcher. Before being drafted, Ramos attended Rice University. In 1996, the Kansas City Royals drafted him in the 48th round (1399th overall). He decided not to sign and continued to pitch for Rice. - Héctor Ruiz
Dr. Héctor de Jesús Ruiz is the current Chairman and CEO of semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD). Ruiz was born in the border town of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico. As a teenager, he walked across the United States-Mexico border every day to attend a high school in nearby Eagle Pass, Texas, from which he graduated as valedictorian just three years after beginning to learn English. - Allan Ramirez
Daniel Allan Ramirez was born May 1, 1957 in Victoria, Texas. He attended Rice University and was a Major League Baseball pitcher who threw and hit right-handed. He wasn't a very imposing threat - 5'10", 180 pounds - but he was still talented. In 1975, Ramirez was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 23rd round (535th overall). He opted not to sign. Three years later, he was drafted by the Texas Rangers in the 10th round (254th), but still did not sign. - Donald Hollas
Donald Wayne Hollas (born November 22, 1967 in Kingsville, Texas) is a former professional American football quarterback in the NFL. He was selected in the 4th round of the 1991 NFL Draft by the Cincinnati Bengals. He played 20 games between 1991-1994 for the Bengals. He was out of the league between 1995-1997, until the Oakland Raiders brought him back in 1998. He retired after the season. Hollas is currently the coach of the Intense Football League team, …
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