- Colt Brennan
Colton James Brennan (born August 16, 1983; Laguna Beach, California) is an American football quarterback at the University of Hawaii. He holds the NCAA Division I-A record for most touchdown passes in a single season with 58, as well as 18 other NCAA Division I-A records.
- Daniel Inouye
Daniel Inouye is the eldest son of Japanese immigrants who worked on the Hawaiian sugar plantations where Daniel was born and raised. He lived in what he described as a Japanese-American ghetto. He went to the local Hawaiian school, at which the student body was 90% ethnic Japanese. As a young boy, Daniel accidentally fell and broke his left arm in a terrible compound fracture. The local doctor, an Ear, Nose and Throat specialist, set the arm. It mended, but not well.
- Herman Frazier
Herman Ronald Frazier (born October 29, 1954) was a 1976 Olympic Gold medalist in the men's 4x400 meter relay for the United States. He was also chef de mission of the 2004 U.S. Olympic team. Frazier is currently the Athletic Director at the University of Hawaii.
- Neil Abercrombie
Neil A. Abercrombie (born June 26, 1938) is an American politician and elder statesman of the Democratic Party of Hawaii. He is most notable for his service in the United States House of Representatives representing the First Congressional District of Hawaii (map) since 1991. Abercrombie was born in Buffalo, New York to Vera June and Donald Abercrombie. Upon graduating from Williamsville High School (now Williamsville South High School), …
- Daniel Akaka
U.S. Senator Daniel Kahikina Akaka is America's first Senator of Native Hawaiian ancestry, and the only Chinese American member of the United States Senate. Like many of his generation, Senator Akaka's youth was interrupted by World War II. Upon graduation from high school, he served as a civilian worker then in active duty in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from 1943 to 1947. Following the war, Senator Akaka returned to school enrolling in the University of Hawaii.
- Evan Dobelle
Evan Samuel Dobelle, President of the New England Board of Higher Education, is known for promoting higher-education investment in the Creative Economy, public-private partnerships and the "College Ready" model that helps students graduate from high school and college. Elected mayor of Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 1973 and 1975, Dobelle was later Massachusetts State Commissioner of Environmental Management and Natural Resources.
- Calvin Say
Calvin K.Y. Say (born February 1, 1952 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is a politician of the United States. He currently serves as Speaker of the House in the Hawaii State House of Representatives of the Hawaii State Legislature. Calvin Say (from the state page) Born: February 1, 1952 Personal Married to wife Cora; children Geoffrey and Jared Education: St. Louis High School; University of Hawaii at Manoa, BEd Business: President, Kotake Shokai, Ltd.
- Riley Wallace
Riley Wallace (born October 25, 1941 in Alton, Illinois) was the men's basketball coach at the University of Hawaii. When Wallace took over the program in 1987, it had suffered through four-straight losing seasons, including a combined 11-43 mark during the latter two years. He has guided Hawaii to nine of its 12 all-time postseason appearances, including a school-record streak of four straight from 2001-04.
- Albert Wendt
Albert Wendt, CNZM (born 1939) is a Samoan poet and writer. Among his works is "Leaves of the Banyan Tree" (1979). Albert Wendt was born in Apia, Western Samoa. He studied at Ardmore Teacher's College and at the Victoria University of Wellington, graduating with an M.A. in history. He returned in 1965 to Western Samoa, becoming principal of Samoa College. In 1974 he moved to Fiji, where he taught at the University of the South Pacific.
- Ikaika Alama-Francis
Ikaika Alama-Francis is a defensive end for the Detroit Lions. He was selected 58th overall in the second round from the University of Hawaii in the 2007 NFL Draft
- R. J. Rummel
Rudolph Joseph Rummel (born October 21, 1932) is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii. He has spent his career assembling data on collective violence and war with a view toward helping their resolution or elimination. Rummel coined the term "democide" for murder by government, his research claiming that six times as many people died of democide during the 20th century than in all that century's wars combined.
- Jim Dator
James Allen (Jim) Dator is Professor, and Director of the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa. He received his BA from Stetson University where he graduated magna cum laude. Seven years after that he received his PhD from American University. His major areas of specialization include --Political futures studies (especially the forecasting and design of new political institutions, and the futures of law, …
- Anthony Carter
Anthony Bernard Carter (born 16 June 1975 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American professional basketball player currently playing for the NBA's Denver Nuggets. After a college career at the University of Hawaii, Carter went unselected in the NBA Draft. He began his professional career with the Miami Heat and has since played for the San Antonio Spurs and the Minnesota Timberwolves. He has averaged 4.7 points per game during his NBA career.
- Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II born August 4, 1961 is the President-elect of the United States of America. The first African American to be elected President of the United States, Obama was the junior United States Senator from Illinois in 2004 and served until his resignation on November 16, 2008, following his election to the Presidency. His term of office as the forty-fourth U.S. president will begin on January 20, 2009.
- Milton Diamond
Milton Diamond (born 6 March 1934 in New York, New York) is a professor of anatomy and reproductive biology at the University of Hawaii. He has had a very long and productive career in the study of human sexuality. Diamond graduated City College of New York with a B.S. in biophysics in 1955. He attended graduate school at University of Kansas from 1958-1962 and earned a Ph.D. in anatomy and psychology from that University.
- Jerry Glanville
Jerry Glanville (born October 14, 1941 in Perrysburg, Ohio) is a career American football coach who is currently the head coach for Portland State University. While at Northern Michigan University, Glanville played middle linebacker. In 1964, he graduated from Northern Michigan.
- Scott S. Sheppard
Scott S. Sheppard is an astronomer in the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. As a graduate student at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii, he was credited with the discovery of many small moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. He has also discovered the second known Neptune Trojan,. Among the named moons he has been involved in the discovery of are: Jupiter *Themisto (2000), …
- Peter Englert
Peter Englert was the Chancellor of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa from 2002 until 2005. He was appointed by then-UH President Evan Dobelle. Before coming to the University of Hawaii, Englert served as Pro Vice Chancellor and Dean of Science, Architecture and Design at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has earned three academic degrees in nuclear chemistry from the University of Cologne, Germany.
- Nate Ilaoa
Nate Ilaoa (pronounced ee-LAW-wuh) was born April 4, 1983 and is a running back for the Philadelphia Eagles in the National Football League. He was a standout offensive player at the University of Hawaii and was selected in the seventh round of the 2007 NFL Draft.
- Rich Miano
Rich Miano (born September 3, 1962 in Newton, Massachusetts) is a former defensive back who played 10 seasons for three teams in the National Football League. Currently he is an assistant coach with the University of Hawaii, where he played his college career.
- David C. Jewitt
David C. Jewitt is a Professor of astronomy at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy. He was born in 1958 in England, and is a 1979 graduate of the University of London. Jewitt received an M.Sc. and a Ph.D in astronomy at the California Institute of Technology in 1980 and 1983, respectively. His research interests include the trans-Neptunian Solar System, Solar System formation and the physical properties of comets.
- Victor J. Stenger
Victor J. Stenger (born January 291935) is emeritus professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Hawaii and adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado. Stenger used to work in particle physics but is principally known as a critic and skeptic of Intelligent Design and other ideas of pseudoscience. He has published a number of books intended for general audiences on the subjects of physics and cosmology and philosophy, religion, …
- Derek Bickerton
Derek Bickerton (born March 25, 1926) is a linguist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu. Based on his work in creole languages in Guyana and Hawaii, he has proposed that the features of creole languages provide powerful insights into the development of language both by individuals and as a feature of the human species. He is the father of contemporary artist Ashley Bickerton. A graduate of the University of Cambridge, England in 1949, …
- Natasha Kai
Natasha Kai (born May 22, 1983, Hawaii) is an American soccer player and member of the United States women's national soccer team. Kai is one of the most famous female athletes from Hawaii, where she starred at the University of Hawaii and was the Conference Player of the Year three times. Presently Natasha plays forward where she is noteworthy for adding a burst of energy to the team when she enters as a substitute for offense.
- Jan Kleyna
Jan Kleyna, is a postdoctoral astronomy researcher at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy. His area of interest is galaxy dynamics, and he has worked with David C. Jewitt to develop codes for the real-time detection of moving objects such as Jovian satellites. He has also co-discovered several of Saturn's moons. Jan rides a zippy red Vespa with a "support pimpin" magnetic ribbon on it. He also drives a white convertible from time to time.
- David J. Tholen
David J. Tholen is an American astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaii, who specializes in planetary and solar system astronomy. Tholen has discovered a number of asteroids, including the lost, which may be an Apohele asteroid, and, which certainly is; in fact, it has the smallest semimajor axis and aphelion distance among the known asteroids. He won the H. C. Urey Prize in 1990.
- George Ariyoshi
George Ryoichi Ariyoshi, served as the third Governor of Hawaii from 1974 to 1986. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He assumed the governorship when John A. Burns was declared incapacitated. When he was elected, Ariyoshi became the first American of Asian descent to be elected governor of a state of the United States. He also holds the record as the longest-serving state governor in Hawaii, a record that will likely never be broken because of term limits.
- Elaine Hatfield
Elaine Catherine Hatfield is Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawai‘i. Dr. Hatfield was born in Detroit on October 22, 1937. She earned her B.A. at the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. at Stanford University. She is well known as the scholar who pioneered the scientific study of passionate love and sexual desire.
- Masao Abe
Masao Abe (b. 1915) is a Buddhist philosopher and emeritus pofessor of Nara University. He is considered to be part of the Kyoto School of philosophy. Christopher Ives writes, "Since the death of Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki in 1966, Masao Abe has served as the main representative of Zen Buddhism in Europe and North America." (Quoted from "The Emptying God." John B. Cobb, Jr.
- Harlan Cleveland
Harlan Cleveland is an American diplomat, educator, and author. He served as Lyndon Johnson's U.S. Ambassador NATO, 1965–1969, and earlier as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Affairs. He was President of the University of Hawaii 1969–1974, and the World Academy of Art and Science in the 1990s. He was also an early advocate and practitioner of online education, …
- Mouse Davis
Darrel "Mouse" Davis (born September 6, 1932 in Palouse, Washington) is a veteran high school, college, and professional football coach. He helped to popularize the use of the the Run & Shoot offense.
- Reagan Mauia
Reagan Mauia (born July 6, 1984 in American Samoa) is an American football fullback who currently plays for the Miami Dolphins. He was originally drafted by the Dolphins in the sixth round (181st overall) of the 2007 NFL Draft. He played collegiately at Hawaii.
- Cynthia Thielen
Cynthia Thielen is a Republican member of the Hawaii House of Representatives and was the Republican nominee for United States Senate in 2006, challenging incumbent Democrat Daniel Akaka. She lost to Akaka, 62% to 35%, in the general election. Thielen was born in Honolulu and attended the University of Hawaii, graduating with a degree in law. She is a founding member of the Law Review. Thielen has served as State Representative since 1990, …
- Jeff Ulbrich
Jeff Ulbrich (born on February 17, 1977 in San Jose, California) is a player in the NFL. He plays the linebacker position. He was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the 3rd round (86th overall) in the 2000 NFL Draft. He went to University of Hawaii. Ulbrich is a converted baseball player with good instincts and intelligence. He is a big hitter and a high-effort type. He doesn't make many mistakes and does well in zone coverage. He is limited in man coverage.
- Pamela Samuelson
Pamela Samuelson is a Professor at the University of California at Berkeley with a joint appointment in the School of Information Management & Systems as well as in the School of Law where she is a Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. She teaches courses on intellectual property, cyberlaw and information policy.
- Alan Arakawa
Alan M. Arakawa, Mayor of the County of Maui from 2002 to 2006. Born in Wailuku, Maui in 1951, Arakawa graduated from Maui High School and attended the University of Hawai'i at Manoa as a business major. He then entered civil service in 1984 as a wastewater plant worker for Maui County.
- Pisa Tinoisamoa
Pisa Donald Tinoisamoa (born July 15,1981 in San Diego, California). is a National Football League linebacker for the St. Louis Rams. His nickname is "Hawaii Five-O" because he attended the University of Hawaii and wears number 50. He was selected in the second round of the 2003 NFL Draft. His uncle is former Vista High School and University of Colorado great Siasau "Sal" Aunese.
- Norman Abramson
Dr. Norman Abramson is the Vice President of ALOHA Networks. From 1966 to 1994 Dr. Abramson was Professor of Electrical Engineering, Professor of Computer Science and the Director of The ALOHA System at the University of Hawaii. Dr. Abramson received an A.B. in Physics from Harvard, an M.A. in Physics from UCLA, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. In 2007 Abramson was awarded the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal.
- Toshiko Takaezu
Toshiko Takaezu is an American ceramicist. She was born to Japanese immigrant parents in Pekeekeo, Hawaii in 1922. She studied at the Honolulu Academy of Arts and at the University of Hawaii under Claude Horan from 1948-1951. From 1951-1954 she continued her studies at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan where she befriended Finnish ceramist Maija Grotell, who became her mentor.
- Kathy Ferguson
Kathy E. Ferguson is a political science professor, feminist, and anarchist, often associated with post-anarchism. She is perhaps best known for her 1984 work "The Feminist Case Against Bureaucracy", in which she criticises bureaucracy from the angle of anarchist feminism, strongly supplemented with the ideas of Michel Foucault. Ferguson currently teaches political science at the University of Hawai`i.