- Fisher Deberry
Fisher DeBerry is the former head football coach at the United States Air Force Academy, a position he held for 23 years. He has led 17 of his 22 teams to winning records and 12 have captured a bowl bid. His career record of 169-107-1 is the best in school history in terms of games won and winning percentage. He retired on December 15, 2006 as the winningest head football coach in Air Force history.
- Walter Netsch
Walter Netsch (1920-) is a German-American architect based in Chicago. He designed the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, which was named a National Historic Landmark in 2004. He is most closely associated with the Brutalist style of architecture, as well as the firm of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill. His signature aesthetic is known as Field Theory and is based on rotating squares into complex shapes.
- Heather Wilson
Heather A. Wilson (born December 30 1960), is a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing. She is the first and so far only woman veteran elected to the United States Congress. Much of her legislative focus has been on national security issues.
- John F. Regni
Lieutenant General John F. Regni is the seventeenth Superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- Richard T. Schlosberg
Richard T. Schlosberg is an American business leader who has served as publisher and CEO of the Denver Post; as president, publisher and CEO of the Los Angeles Times and as president and CEO of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Schlosberg graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1965. As a young Air Force officer, Schlosberg served two tours of duty in Southeast Asia where he flew over 200 combat support missions as a KC-135 pilot.
- Troy Calhoun
Troy Calhoun is the head football coach for the United States Air Force Academy, replacing Air Force legend Fisher DeBerry. He was previously the offensive coordinator for the NFL's Houston Texans and a Quarterback for Air Force.
- Robin Olds
Robin Olds was an American fighter pilot and general officer in the U.S. Air Force. He was a "triple ace", with a combined total of 16 victories in World War II and the Vietnam War. He retired in 1973 as a brigadier general. Born into a regular Army family, educated at West Point, and the product of an upbringing in the early years of the U.S. Army Air Corps, Olds epitomized the youthful World War II fighter pilot.
- Lance Sijan
Lance Peter Sijan (April 13, 1942 - January 22, 1968) was a United States Air Force officer and fighter pilot. He was awarded the Medal of Honor, the United States' highest military award, for his selflessness and courage in the face of lethal danger. Sijan was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1942 from a Serbian father and Irish mother. He graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1965, and after attending pilot training, …
- John W. Rosa
Lieutenant General John W. Rosa Jr. is a retired United States Air Force officer currently serving as president of The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. While on active duty, Rosa also served as the sixteenth Superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy.
- Charles Phillips
Charles Phillips is President of Oracle Corporation and a member of the company's Board of Directors. Phillips' responsibilities encompass global field operations including consulting, marketing, sales, alliances and channels, and customer programs, as well as corporate strategy. Prior to joining Oracle, Mr. Phillips was a Managing Director with Morgan Stanley in its technology group. With the firms Kidder Peabody (now defunct) and Sound View Technologies.
- Hubert R. Harmon
Lieutenant General Hubert Reilly Harmon (April 3, 1892-February, 1957), after a distinguished combat career in World War II, was instrumental in developing plans for the establishment of the United States Air Force Academy. He was the first superintendent of the academy and was one of the persons most influential in establishing it as a successful educational institution.
- Duncan McNabb
General Duncan J. McNabb is Commander, Air Mobility Command, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. General McNabb graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1974. He has held command and staff positions at squadron, wing, major command and Department of Defense levels.
- Robert F. McDermott
Brigadier General Robert Francis McDermott was the first permanent Dean of the Faculty at the United States Air Force Academy, and later served as Chairman and CEO of USAA. He is often referred to as the "Father of Modern Military Education" for his contributions to that field.
- Chad Hennings
Chad William Hennings (born October 20, 1965) played defensive lineman for the Air Force Academy Falcons. Hennings went on to play in the National Football League with the Dallas Cowboys, winning three Super Bowls. He was born in Elberon, Iowa. While in high school, Hennings became the state heavyweight wrestling champion his senior year. After graduating from the United States Air Force Academy in 1988, Hennings entered the Euro-NATO program, …
- Dana H. Born
Brigadier General Dana H. Born is the Dean of the Faculty at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She is the first woman to hold that position. General Born was a distinguished graduate of the United States Air Force Academy in 1983 with a degree in behavioral sciences. She holds a Master of Science degree in experimental psychology from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, …
- Gregg Popovich
Gregg Popovich is the head coach of the National Basketball Association's San Antonio Spurs
- Norton A. Schwartz
General Norton A. Schwartz, USAF, is Commander, U.S. Transportation Command, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. General Schwartz attended the United States Air Force Academy and graduated in 1973. He is an alumnus of the National War College, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a 1994 Fellow of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Seminar XXI. He has served as Commander of the Special Operations Command-Pacific, as well as Alaskan Command, …
- Jeff Bzdelik
Jeff Bzdelik (born December 1, 1952) is a former National Basketball Association coach, who coached the Denver Nuggets for slightly over two seasons, from 2002 through 2004. He is best remembered for leading the 2003-04 Nuggets to a 43-39 record, a 26-game improvement over the 2002-03 campaign when the team went 17-65. He is currently the head basketball coach for the Colorado Buffaloes. He was hired April 3 2007. Bzdelik is the highest paid coach ever at Colorado, …
- Curtis Brown
Curtis Lee "Curt" Brown, Jr. (b. March 11, 1956) is a former NASA astronaut and retired United States Air Force Colonel. He was born in Elizabethtown, North Carolina. He is unmarried with one son. He enjoys water and snow skiing, scuba diving, air racing, restoring old cars, sailing, and aerobatic flying. Colonel Brown graduated from East Bladen High School, Elizabethtown, North Carolina, …
- Michael E. Ryan
General Michael E. Ryan was Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force. He served as the senior uniformed Air Force officer responsible for the organization, training and equipage of 700,000 active-duty, Guard, Reserve and civilian forces serving in the United States and overseas. As a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he and the other service chiefs functioned as military advisers to the Secretary of Defense, National Security Council and the president.
- Brent Scowcroft
Brent Scowcroft (born March 19 1925 in Ogden, Utah) was the United States National Security Advisor under Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush and a Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force. He also served as Military Assistant to President Richard Nixon and as Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs in the Nixon and Ford administrations.
- Susan Y. Desjardins
Brigadier General Susan Y. Desjardins is the Commandant of Cadets and Commander, 34th Training Wing, United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado. She is the first woman to hold that position. General Desjardins graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1980. She holds a Master's Degree in industrial psychology from Louisiana Tech University, and a Master's Degree in national security and strategic studies from the Naval Command and Staff College.
- Bill Stealey
John Wilbur 'Wild Bill' Stealey Sr. (born 1947) is a retired United States Air Force Lt. Colonel and Command Pilot and is currently CEO of iEntertainment Network. He is also an Air Force Academy Graduate. Stealey founded MicroProse together with Sid Meier in 1982, at a time when he was a Major. Stealey was the marketing guy, financier, and one of the most enthusiatic game testers in the game industry.
- Winfield W. Scott Jr.
Lieutenant General Winfield W. Scott, Jr. was the tenth Superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado. Scott was born in 1927, in Honolulu. He graduated from high school in Lewisburg, West Virginia, in 1945 and entered the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1946. Upon graduation from the academy in 1950, he received a bachelor of science degree in military science and a commission as a second lieutenant.
- Ruben A. Cubero
Brigadier General Ruben A. Cubero (born December 17, 1939) was a highly decorated member of the United States Air Force who became the first Hispanic graduate of the United States Air Force Academy to be named Dean of the Faculty of the academy.
- Michael J. Bloomfield
Michael John "Bloomer" Bloomfield (born 16 March 1959) is a former American astronaut and a veteran of three space shuttle missions. Raised in Lake Fenton, Michigan, Bloomfield received his bachelor's degree from the United States Air Force Academy and trained as an F-15 and F-16 fighter pilot. He earned his master's degree from Old Dominion University before being selected as an astronaut candidate in 1994. He first flew as a pilot aboard STS-86 in 1997, …
- John Casper
John Howard Casper (born July 9 1943) is an American astronaut. Although born in South Carolina, he considers Gainesville, Georgia to be his hometown. He was active in the Boy Scouts of America where he achieved its second highest rank, Life Scout. He graduated with a bachelor of science in engineering science from the United States Air Force Academy in 1966 and a master of science in astronautics from Purdue University in 1967.
- James D. Halsell
James Donald Halsell, Jr. (born 29 September 1956) is a United States Air Force officer and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of five Space Shuttle missions. He has been quoted as saying he loves floating in zero gravity. "The coolest thing about being an astronaut is getting to throw Skittles and M&Ms and whatnot around and watching them float," Halsell has said. Hassell was born and raised in West Monroe, Louisiana and attended the United States Air Force Academy.
- Matt Fong
Matt Fong is a Republican political leader from California and former state treasurer. Fong, the adopted son of former Democratic California Secretary of State March Fong Eu, graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1975, Pepperdine University MBA in 1982 and from law school at the Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles in 1985.
- Thomas S. Moorman
Lieutenant General Thomas Samuel Moorman was the fifth Superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, Colorado. General Moorman was born at the Presidio of Monterey, California in 1910. He attended John J. Phillips High School in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1933 he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York and entered the Air Corps flying training school at Randolph Field, Texas.
- Albert P. Clark
Lieutenant General Albert P. Clark was the sixth superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy near Colorado Springs, Colorado. General Clark was born at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, in 1913. He is a 1936 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York and completed flying training at Randolph Field, Texas, in 1937. He then served at Selfridge Field, Michigan and in June 1942, went to England as second in command of the 31st Fighter Group, …
- Steven W. Lindsey
Steven Wayne Lindsey (born August 24, 1960) is an American astronaut, a Colonel in the United States Air Force, and currently serves as Chief of the NASA Astronaut Corps. Lindsey was born in Arcadia, California, although he considers Temple City, California to be his hometown. Lindsey graduated from Temple City High School. Lindsey is an Eagle Scout. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering sciences from the United States Air Force Academy in 1982, …
- Joe Scott
Joe Scott (born July 28, 1965) is an American college men's basketball coach. The Pelican Island, New Jersey native is the current head coach at the University of Denver, replacing Terry Carroll on March 20, 2007. Scott had a 38-45 record through three seasons at Princeton. The team finished sixth in the Ivy League in 2004-05, his first season, with a 6-8 record, before rebounding to a 10-4 mark good for second place in the conference in 2005-06.
- John J. Clune
Colonel John J. Clune was the long-time Director of Athletics at the United States Air Force Academy. The Clune Arena at the Academy is named in his memory. A native of Jersey City, New Jersey, Clune graduated from St. Peter's High School where he earned all-state honors in basketball. He was a 1954 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, where he earned All-American honors in basketball, and held scoring records that lasted for 30 years.
- Chris Mooney
Chris Mooney (born August 7, 1972) is the head men's basketball coach at the University of Richmond. Prior to taking the helm of the Spiders basketball program, he was the head coach at Air Force. In his only year there, he led the Falcons to their second best record in school history (18-12). He played college basketball at Princeton. As a four year starter at Princeton, he ranks 20th on the schools all-time leading scoring list with 1,071 points, …
- Jeffrey Feinstein
Colonel (Ret.) Jeffrey S. Feinstein was an officer in the United States Air Force. In 1972 during the Vietnam War, while flying as a weapon systems officer (WSO) aboard F-4 Phantoms, Feinstein downed five enemy aircraft, thereby becoming a flying ace, the last ace produced by the USAF. Feinstein graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1968. His actions, for which he was awarded the Silver Star, …
- Alonzo Babers
Alonzo C. Babers (born October 31, 1961) is a former American athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics, in the 400m and the 4x400m relay. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, Alonzo Babers attended the United States Air Force Academy from 1979 to 1983, where he ran track and played one season of football. The international athletics career of Alonzo Babers consisted of a spectacular rise to fame, followed by a decisive and abrupt end.
- Kim Campbell
Kim Reed-Campbell (b. 1975) is a pilot in the U.S. Air Force. Campbell, daughter of the Mayor of San Jose (and former U.S. Air Force Captain) Chuck Reed, gained favorable notice when she successfully piloted her A-10 Warthog back to base in southern Iraq despite receiving heavy damage during a combat mission over Baghdad. She joined the Civil Air Patrol when she was 13 and made her first solo flight over the skies of San Jose at the age of 16.
- Ken Hatfield
Ken Hatfield is an American football head coach. His last position was at Rice University, where he compiled a 55-78-1 record before resigning on November 30, 2005, following a 1-10 season. A graduate of the University of Arkansas, where he starred at defensive back for the 1964 NCAA Division I-A national football championship team alongside such pro football luminaries as Jimmy Johnson and Jerry Jones, …
- Kris Jamsa
Kris Jamsa is an author of computer science books. Jamsa received a bachelor's degree in computer science from the United States Air Force Academy. He also. received a master's degree in computer science from Las Vegas University of Nevada, a doctoral degree from Arizona State University, an MBA from San Diego State University, and a master's degree in Education from Aspen University.