- Ward Churchill
Ward Churchill is a professor at the University of Colorado who has accumulated much press because of a scheduled appearance thankfully canceled at New York's Hamilton College. After discovering that he had written an essay whose title, Some People Push Back On the Justice of Roosting Chickens was a combination of Malcolm X's remark when asked by reporters for a comment on the assassination of John F. Kennedy , "...
- Hank Brown
George Hanks "Hank" Brown (born 1940) is a former Republican politician and Senator from Colorado who is currently president of the University of Colorado system. Brown was born in Denver in 1940, and graduated college in 1961 and law school 1969, both from the University of Colorado. He served as an officer in the Navy from 1962 to 1966 and in the Colorado Senate from 1972 to 1976, and was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1980, serving until 1991.
- Scott Carpenter
Malcolm Scott Carpenter is a retired American Naval officer and was one of the original seven astronauts selected in 1959 for Project Mercury. Created by the newly formed National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Project Mercury was the United States' answer to the Soviet Union's space program. This rivalry eventually became the space race — a contest between the two superpowers to land the first men on the moon and return them safely to earth.
- Paul Campos
Paul Campos is a law professor, author and journalist currently on the faculty of the University of Colorado in Boulder. His books include "Against the Law" (with Pierre Schlag and Steven D. Smith, 1996), a collection of essays regarding legal thought in contemporary America, "Jurismania" (1998), a scathing critique of the American legal system, and "The Diet Myth" (2005) (previously published as "The Obesity Myth" in 2004), …
- David Horowitz
The David Horowitz Freedom Center was founded in the 1988 by political activist David Horowitz and his long-time collaborato... ... The David Horowitz Freedom Center was founded in the 1988 by political activist David Horowitz and his long-time collaborato...
- Dan Hawkins
Dan Hawkins (born November 10, 1960 in Fall River Mills, CA) is the head football coach at the University of Colorado Buffaloes. He has also been an assistant and the head coach at Boise State University and the head coach at Willamette University.
- Elizabeth Hoffman
Elizabeth (Betsy) Hoffman is executive vice president and provost at Iowa State University in Ames. Hoffman was named to this position in September 2006. Hoffman is best known as the former president of the three-campus University of Colorado System, a position to which she was appointed on September 1, 2000.
- John Mark Karr
John Mark Karr is an American who worked as a substitute teacher and made a false confession regarding the unsolved murder of six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey. (Ramsey was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home in Boulder, Colorado, on December 26, 1996.) Karr said he was present when Ramsey died and called her death an "accident." Authorities were made aware of Karr via e-mails he exchanged over the course of four years with Michael Tracey, …
- Michael Tracey
Michael Tracey is an English born professor of journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder, who has gained notoriety for his controversial opinions about the unsolved murder of JonBenét Ramsey. Tracey has a history of identifying false leads in the murder investigation, and has been called "the Ward Churchill of the Journalism Department."
- Gary Hart
Gary Warren Hart (born Gary Warren Hartpence, November 28, 1936) is a politician and lawyer from the state of Colorado. He formerly served as a Democratic U.S. Senator representing Colorado (1975–1987), and ran in the U.S. presidential elections in 1984 and again in 1988, when he was considered a frontrunner for the Democratic nomination until withdrawing from the race because of a scandal.
- Bob Beauprez
Robert L. "Bob" Beauprez (born September 22, 1948) is an American politician who was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the 7th Congressional District of Colorado. Beauprez was the Republican nominee for governor of Colorado in 2006, and was endorsed by outgoing governor Bill Owens. He faced Bill Ritter in the November 7 election, conceding defeat at 10:15 PM that night.
- Katie Hnida
Katharine Anne Hnida, better known as Katie Hnida (born May 17, 1981), on August 30, 2003, became the first woman to score in a NCAA Division I football game. As a placekicker for the University of New Mexico she scored two extra points against Texas State University in the fourth quarter of a 72-8 New Mexico win. She attended Chatfield High School near Littleton, where she was a member of the football team. She was 3 for 3 in field goal attempts, …
- Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. He is known for his weekly review column (appearing in the "Chicago Sun-Times" since 1967, and later online, and for the television program "Siskel & Ebert", which he co-hosted for 23 years with Gene Siskel.
- Dalton Trumbo
Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 - September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist, and a member of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who refused to testify before the 1947 House Un-American Activities Committee about alleged communist involvement. Born in Montrose, Colorado, Trumbo attended the University of Colorado for two years. The central fountain at the University was named in his honor in the mid-1990s.
- Ricardo Patton
Ricardo Maurice Patton (born October 23, 1958) is the current head men's basketball coach at Northern Illinois University. Prior to this, he was the head coach at the University of Colorado. He was hired as head coach for the Buffaloes on March 5 1996, just days before the Big Eight Conference Tournament. Patton guided the Buffaloes to six post season appearances.
- Dathan Ritzenhein
Dathan Ritzenhein born December 30, 1982 in Grand Rapids, Michigan is an American track and cross-country athlete. He attended Rockford High School in Michigan and the University of Colorado in Boulder, and is arguably one of the greatest American hopes for distance running in the last 20 years.
- John Suthers
John W. Suthers (born October 18 1951) is the current Attorney General of Colorado. He is a practicing Catholic and member of the Republican Party.
- Steve Jones
Steve Jones (born December 27, 1958) is an American professional golfer who is best known for winning the U.S. Open in 1996. Jones was born in Artesia, New Mexico. He was a semi-finalist at the U.S. Junior Amateur in 1976. He attended the University of Colorado and turned professional in 1981. In the early years of his professional career he did not have much success. He played the PGA Tour in 1982, but only made three cuts.
- Albert Bartlett
Albert A. Bartlett is an emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. Professor Bartlett has lectured over 1,500 times on "Arithmetic, Population, and Energy". Bartlett is a modern-day Malthusian. Professor Bartlett often explains how sustainable growth is an oxymoron. His view is based on the fact that a modest percentage growth can equate to huge escalations over short periods of time.
- Charles Johnson
Charles Everett Johnson (born January 3, 1972 in San Bernardino, California) is an American former professional football player who was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1st round (17th overall) of the 1994 NFL Draft. A 6'0", 202-lb. wide receiver from the University of Colorado, Johnson played in 9 NFL seasons from 1994 to 2002 for the Steelers, Philadelphia Eagles, New England Patriots, and Buffalo Bills.
- Adam Goucher
Adam Goucher (born February 18 1975) is an American cross-country and track and field athlete. He primarily competes in middle distance events and is featured in "Running With The Buffaloes", a book revolving around the 1998 season of the University of Colorado cross country team. Goucher attended Doherty High School in Colorado Springs, Colorado and graduated in 1994. He won the Foot Locker National High School Cross Country Championship in 1993, …
- Vine Deloria Jr.
Vine Deloria, Jr. was an author, theologian, historian, and activist. Deloria was the grandson of Tipi Sapa "(Black Lodge)" aka Rev. Philip Joseph Deloria, an Episcopal priest and a leader of the Yankton band of the Nakota Nation. Vine Jr. was born in Martin, South Dakota, near the Pine Ridge Oglala Lakota Indian Reservation, and was first educated at reservation schools. Deloria's father, Vine Sr., studied English and Christian theology, …
- Thomas Cech
Thomas Robert Cech (December 8, 1947 in Chicago) is a Nobel Laureate in chemistry. He grew up in Iowa City, Iowa. In 1966, he entered Grinnell College where he obtained a B.A. in 1970. In 1975, Cech completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley and in the same year, he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge where he engaged in postdoctoral research.
- J. Allen Hynek
Josef Allen Hynek (May 1, 1910 - April 27, 1986) was a U.S. astronomer, professor, and ufologist. He is probably best remembered for his UFO research: Hynek acted as scientific advisor to three consecutive UFO studies undertaken by the U.S. Air Force: Project Sign (1947-1949), Project Grudge (1949-1952), and finally, Project Blue Book (1952 to 1969); for decades afterwards, he conducted his own independent UFO research.
- Kalpana Chawla
Kalpana Chawla (Punjabi:ਕਲਪਨਾ ਚਾਵਲਾ) (7 March 1962 – 1 February 2003), was an Indian-born American astronaut and space shuttle mission specialist. She was one of seven crewmembers lost aboard Space Shuttle Columbia during mission STS-107 when the shuttle disintegrated upon reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. Kalpana Chawla is a posthumous recipient of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
- Michael Lewis
Michael Milton Lewis (born April 8, 1980 in Richmond, Texas) was a Pro Bowl strong safety for the Philadelphia Eagles in 2004. He was drafted in the 2nd round of the 2002 NFL Draft out of the University of Colorado. He was once considered one of the NFL's rising stars, his production has plummeted in the last year. Lewis led the team in tackles (129) in 2005 and was named to his first Pro Bowl in 2004, …
- Chauncey Billups
Chauncey Ray Billups (born September 25, 1976 in Denver, Colorado) is an American professional basketball player. Billups is the starting point guard and team captain for the National Basketball Association's Detroit Pistons. He played college basketball at the University of Colorado. He was honored by the university in 2004 as the fifth player to have his jersey (number 4) retired. His nickname is "Mr. Big Shot." He was the 2004 NBA Finals Most Valuable Player.
- Mark Amerika
Mark Amerika is an American artist and author.
- Gene V. Glass
Gene V. Glass is Professor in the Divisions of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies and Psychology in Education at Arizona State University. His Ph.D. is from the University of Wisconsin. He held academic positions at the University of Illinois and the University of Colorado before joining the faculty of ASU. He has published articles and books on research and evaluation methods, psychotherapy and education policy.
- Fred Anderson
Fred Anderson is an American historian of early North American history. Anderson received his B.A. from Colorado State University in 1971 and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1981. He has taught at Harvard and at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he is currently Professor of History. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Charles Warren Center of Harvard university, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.
- Kara Goucher
Kara Goucher, formerly Kara Wheeler, (born 9 July 1978 in Queens, NY) is an American middle and long-distance runner. Kara grew up in Minnesota and graduated from the University of Colorado in 2001. She later moved to Eugene, Oregon with her husband (fellow American runner Adam Goucher) and is coached by American running legend Alberto Salazar.
- Jeff Sutherland
Jeff Sutherland is one of the inventors of the Scrum software development process. Together with Ken Schwaber, he created Scrum as a formal process at OOPSLA'95. They have extended and enhanced Scrum at many software companies and IT organizations. Jeff is a Distinguished Graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, a Top Gun of his USAF RF-4C Aircraft Commander class and flew 100 missions over North Vietnam.
- George Gamow
George Gamow (March 4, 1904 - August 19, 1968), born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov (Георгий Антонович Гамов), was a Russian born theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He discovered quantum tunneling and worked on radioactive decay of the atomic nucleus, star formation, stellar nucleosynthesis, big bang nucleosynthesis, nucleocosmogenesis and genetics.
- Gilbert F. White
Gilbert Fowler White (November 26, 1911 in Chicago - October 5, 2006 in Boulder, Colorado) was a prominent American geographer, sometimes termed the "father of floodplain management". White is known predominantly for his work on natural hazards, particularly flooding, and the importance of sound water management in contemporary society. He was raised in Chicago, and studied at the University of Chicago, where he earned his B.S. in 1932 and his PhD in 1942.
- Hale Irwin
Hale S. Irwin (born June 3, 1945) is an American golfer. He is the uncle of Heath Irwin. Irwin was born in Joplin, Missouri. He graduated from the University of Colorado in 1967, where he was a two-time All-Big Eight defensive back, as well as an academic All-American in football. He won the individual NCAA Division I Championship in golf in 1967 and turned professional the following year.
- Kim Dickey
Kim Dickey is an active ceramic artist. She is also an associate Professor of Ceramics at the University of Colorado, in Boulder, Colorado. She obtained her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, in Providence, Rhode Island, followed by an MFA in ceramics from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Dickey's most familiar and controversial works are a series of functional handheld female urinals, constructed from porcelain.
- Edward Condon
Edward Uhler Condon (March 2 1902 - March 26 1974) was a distinguished American nuclear physicist, a pioneer in quantum mechanics, a participant in the development of radar and nuclear weapons in World War II, research director of Corning Glass, director of the National Bureau of Standards, and president of the American Physical Society (as well as, late in his life, professor of physics at the University of Colorado, …
- Mack Brown
William Mack Brown (born August 27, 1951) is head coach of the University of Texas Longhorn football team. During the 2005 season, Coach Brown led the Longhorns to a Rose Bowl victory and a National Championship. With the 2006 season, Brown led his team to win 10 games or more for six straight years, which is the best current ten-win streak in the NCAA. Prior to coaching at Texas, Brown coached at Appalachian State, Tulane, and North Carolina.
- Tim Gill
Tim Gill (born October 18, 1953 in Hobart, Indiana) is an American computer software entrepreneur and gay rights activist. Early in his life, Gill showed both interest and talent in computer science first at Wheat Ridge High School in Jefferson County, Colorado, eventually studying the subject at University of Colorado at Boulder. After two jobs in high-tech at HP and a consulting services firm, Gill started his company, Quark, with a $2000 loan from his parents.
- Hazel Barnes
Hazel Estella Barnes "(b. 1915)" is an American philosopher, author, and translator. Most well known for her popularization of existentialism in America, Dr. Barnes translated the works of Jean-Paul Sartre as well as writing original works on the subject. After earning her Ph.D. from Yale in 1941, she spent much of her career at the University of Colorado. In recognition of her long tenure and service to the University, …