- Bill Ritter
August William "Bill" Ritter, Jr. (born 1956-09-06) is a U.S. Democratic politician, the former District Attorney for Denver, Colorado, and the current Governor of the State of Colorado. He is the first native-born governor of Colorado in 35 years, as well as being the first to serve with a Democratic majority in the Colorado General Assembly in 50 years. - Matt Stone
Matthew Richard "Matt" Stone (born May 26, 1971) is an American animator, screenwriter, film director, voice actor and actor. Along with Trey Parker, he is one of the creators of the critically-acclaimed animated television series, "South Park". - Roy Romer
Roy R. Romer (born October 31, 1928 in Garden City, Kansas, United States) was the 39th governor of Colorado and served as the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District from 2001 to 2006. Romer was first elected in 1986, re-elected in 1990 and 1994; he was the last Colorado governor to serve three terms. He was Colorado State Treasurer from 1977-1987, and a member of the governor's cabinet. - Trey Parker
Randolph Severn "Trey" Parker III (born October 19, 1969) is an American animator, screenwriter, film director, voice actor, actor and musician. He is most noted as one of the creators of the animated series "South Park" along with Matt Stone. - Ronald M. Sega
Ronald "Ron" Michael Sega (Ph.D.) (born December 4, 1952) is the current United States Under Secretary of the Air Force, a retired USAF Major General, and a former NASA astronaut. Sega was born in Cleveland, Ohio and is of Slovene origin. He is married to Ann Sega and they have two sons. - Stuart Roosa
Stuart Allen Roosa was a NASA astronaut, who was the command module pilot for the Apollo 14 mission. The mission lasted from January 31 to February 9 1971 and was the third mission to land astronauts (Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell) on the Moon. While Shepard and Mitchell spent two days on the lunar surface, Roosa conducted experiments from orbit in the command module "Kitty Hawk". Roosa was born in Durango, Colorado, and grew up in Claremore, Oklahoma. - Byron White
Byron Raymond White (June 8, 1917 - April 15, 2002) won fame both as a football running back and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Appointed to the court by President John F. Kennedy in 1962, he served until his retirement in 1993. He was born in Fort Collins, Colorado, and died in Denver at the age of 84 from complications of pneumonia. - 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, … - 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. - Jack Williamson
John Stewart Williamson, who wrote as Jack Williamson (and occasionally under the pseudonym Will Stewart) was a U.S. writer considered by many the "Dean of Science Fiction". - Ellison Onizuka
Ellison Shoji Onizuka (June 24, 1946 - January 28, 1986) was a Japanese-American astronaut from Kealakekua, Kona, Hawai'i who died during the destruction of the Space Shuttle "Challenger", where he was serving as mission specialist on mission STS-51-L. - 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. - Tyler Hamilton
Tyler Hamilton (born March 1 1971, Marblehead, Massachusetts) is an American professional road bicycle racer and Olympic gold medalist. He served a two-year suspension for blood doping, which expired in September 2006. In November 2006, Hamilton signed with Tinkoff Credit Systems, an Italian UCI Professional Continential Team team for the 2006-2007 UCI Europe Tour season. He was suspended by his team on May 9, 2007 after continuous links to the Operation Puerto drug scandal. - 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. - 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, … - John Herrington
John Bennett Herrington (born 14 September 1958) is an American astronaut and a veteran of one space shuttle mission. He is the first member of a Native American tribe to fly in space. Herrington was born in Wetumka, Oklahoma. He grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Riverton, Wyoming, and Plano, Texas where he graduated from Plano Senior High School. - Wiley Blount Rutledge
Wiley Blount Rutledge, Jr. (July 20, 1894 - September 10, 1949) was a U.S. educator and jurist. Rutledge was born in Cloverport, Kentucky (more specifically, at nearby Tar Springs) to Wiley Blount Rutledge, Sr., a Southern Baptist minister, and Mary Lou Wigginton Rutledge (d. 1903). Another son died in infancy, and then his sister Margaret was born in 1897. His family moved about while he was young, … - 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. - Jack Swigert
John Leonard 'Jack' Swigert, Jr. was a NASA astronaut. - Scott Oki
Scott Oki (born October 5, 1948 in Seattle, Washington) is a former senior vice-president of sales and marketing for Microsoft who conceived and built Microsoft's international operations. Oki also played a crucial role in Microsoft's rapid domestic growth during the 1980s. Born to a Japanese-American family, Oki attended the University of Washington, but left after 18 months to join the Air Force. While in the service he took courses at the University of Colorado. - Jennifer Veiga
Jennifer Veiga (born 10 October, 1962 in Long Beach, California) is an American politician from Colorado. A Democrat, she is a member of the Colorado Senate, representing the state's 31st district. Educated at Irvine High School, she went on to the University of Colorado at Boulder where she took a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Political Science. She then received a Juris Doctor from the National Law Center, George Washington University in Washington, D.C.. - Rick Reilly
Richard "Rick" Paul Reilly (born February 3, 1958 in Boulder, Colorado) is the "back-page" sportswriter for "Sports Illustrated". He has won the Sportswriter of the Year award 11 times. - W. Edwards Deming
William Edwards Deming was an American statistician, college professor, author, lecturer, and consultant. Deming is widely credited with improving production in the United States during World War II, although he is perhaps best known for his work in Japan. There, from 1950 onward he taught top management how to improve design (and thus service), product quality, testing and sales (the latter through global markets) through various methods, … - Glenn Miller
Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 - presumably December 15, 1944), was an American jazz musician and bandleader in the swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1942, leading one of the best known "Big Bands." During World War II, while traveling to entertain U.S. troops in France, his plane disappeared in bad weather. His body was never found. Miller's signature recordings - including, among others, "In the Mood", "Tuxedo Junction", … - Richard S. Fuld Jr.
Richard Severin Fuld, Jr., (born April 26, 1946, New York, New York), known as "Dick", is currently the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Fuld, received his B.S. from the University of Colorado in 1969 and his M.B.A. from New York University's Stern School of Business in 1973. Nicknamed "The Gorilla" (for his tough-guy attitude) or the "Digital Mind Trader" (for spending so much time in front of his computer as a young trader, … - 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. - Richard Hieb
Richard James Hieb (born September 21, 1955) is a NASA astronaut and a veteran of three space shuttle missions. He was a mission specialist on STS-39 and STS-49, and was a payload commander on STS-65. Hieb's family originates from Russia and is of German descent. His mother was a long time elementary school teacher at Lincoln Elementary in Jamestown, North Dakota. After graduating from the University of Colorado in 1979, Mr. - Reed Irvine
Reed Irvine (September 29, 1922-November 16, 2004) was an economist turned media watchdog with known conservative sympathies. He founded the conservative Accuracy in Media, and remained its head for 35 years. Notable events were during the Persian Gulf War in 1991, "he accused CNN and its reporter Peter Arnett of airing "Saddam Hussein's version of the truth. There's no way his reporting is helping America win this war". - Christopher Meloni
Christopher Peter Meloni (born on April 2, 1961) is an American Emmy-nominated actor known for his near opposite roles as the protective and committed Det. Elliot Stabler on the NBC drama series "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit", and as the bisexual serial killer Chris Keller on HBO's "Oz". - Alan Curtis Kay
Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist, known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design. He is the president of the Viewpoints Research Institute, and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Until mid 2005, he was a Senior Fellow at HP Labs, a Visiting Professor at Kyoto University, … - Sheree J. Wilson
Sheree J. Wilson (born in Rochester, Minnesota on December 12, 1958) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as April Stevens on the American prime-time television series "Dallas" and as Alex Cahill on television series "Walker, Texas Ranger". She currently resides in Marina Del Rey, California with her son, Luke. - Alex Gurney
Alex Gurney (born September 6, 1974 in Newport Beach, California) is an American professional auto racing driver, currently driving for GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series. Gurney drives the No. 99 GAINSCO Auto Insurance Pontiac Riley, pairing with Jon Fogarty. He won the pole for the 2007 Rolex 24 At Daytona, and won his first Grand-Am race, the 2007 Mexico City 400k, in March 2007. The youngest son of former Formula 1 driver Dan Gurney, … - Kenneth R. Miller
Kenneth R. Miller (born 1948) is a biology professor at Brown University. Miller, who is Roman Catholic, is particularly known for his opposition to creationism, including the intelligent design movement. He has written a book on the subject entitled "Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution", in which he furthers the argument that a belief in God and evolution are not mutually exclusive. - Sanford N. McDonnell
Sanford "Sandy" N. McDonnell (born 1922) is a chairman emeritus of McDonnell Douglas Corporation. McDonnell was born in Little Rock, Arkansas and is the nephew of McDonnell Aircraft founder James Smith McDonnell. McDonnell earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Princeton University in 1945, another bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Colorado in 1948, and a master's degree in applied mechanics from Washington University in St. - Marsha Ivins
Marsha Sue Ivins (born 15 April 1951) is an American astronaut and a veteran of five space shuttle missions. Ivins, born in Baltimore, Maryland, earned a degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1973 and went to work for NASA's Johnson Space Center. She worked mainly on orbiter displays and controls before being assigned as a flight engineer in 1980 and co-pilot on NASA administrative aircraft. - Lee A. Thompson
Lee A. Thompson is an American psychology professor known for her work in behavior genetics and the biological processes involved in intelligence. Thompson earned her B.A. from Case Western Reserve University in 1982, then attended University of Colorado at Boulder, earning an M.A. in 1985 and her Ph.D. in 1987. She currently teaches at Case Western. - Joe Flanigan
Joe Flanigan (born January 5, 1967) is an American television actor best known as Major/Lt. Colonel John Sheppard in "Stargate Atlantis". - Vance D. Brand
Vance DeVoe Brand (born May 9, 1931) is a former NASA astronaut. - 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. - James S. Voss
James Shelton Voss (Col., USA, Ret.) was deputy for Flight Operations at the Space Station Program mission integration and operations office, Johnson Space Center, United States. He is a veteran of four space shuttle flights, and he lived on the International Space Station for five and a half months. He is now Vice President for Space Exploration Systems for Transformational Space Corporation.
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