- Raymond Nimmer
Raymond Nimmers is an attorney and Dean of the University of Houston Law Center in Houston, Texas, United States. - Art Briles
Art Briles (born December 3, 1955) is the head football coach at Houston. In his 4th year as the head football coach, he has compiled a 26-24 record. He is known for his offensive style, and has led many programs to offensive prominence. - Hakeem Olajuwon
Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon (born Akeem Abdul Olajuwon on January 21, 1963) is a retired Nigerian-American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Olajuwon played center for the Houston Rockets, whom he led to back-to-back championships in 1994 and 1995, and the Toronto Raptors. Olajuwon travelled from his home country of Nigeria to play collegiately for the University of Houston. - Kevin Kolb
Kevin Benjamin Kolb (born August 24, 1984 in Victoria, Texas) is an American football quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles. He attended the University of Houston. - Gerald D. Hines
Gerald D. Hines is a Houston, Texas-based real estate developer and founder of Hines Interests that has developed over 205 million square feet in more than 650 properties worldwide, including skyscrapers, corporate headquarters, mixed-use centers, industrial parks, and master-planned resort and residential communities throughout the United States and in 11 other countries including: the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Mexico, Poland, Russia, Germany, Brazil, Italy, … - Lil Wayne
Dwayne Michael Carter Jr (born September 27, 1982 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA), better known as Lil' Wayne, is an American, Grammy-nominated rapper, Songwriter, and is known as the president of the New Orleans-based label Cash Money Records and the CEO of Young Money Entertainment. - John Moores
John J. Moores (1944-) is an American businessman. Moores was raised in Corpus Christi, Texas and grew up poor. He left Texas A&M University before graduating and became a programmer for IBM. Later, he received a BS degree in economics and law degree from the University of Houston. Moores considers his decision to attend law school "a boneheaded move" since he never wanted to practice law in the first place. - John Jenkins
John Jenkins was the head coach and general manager of the now defunct Ottawa Renegades of the Canadian Football League. He was also head coach at the University of Houston from 1990 to 1992. Jenkins was a proponent of the run and shoot offensive scheme. He used this offense while being the offensive coordinator for the USFL's Houston Gamblers and the Toronto Argonauts. Jenkins played his college football at the University of Arkansas. - Jack Pardee
John Perry Pardee (born April 19, 1936 in Exira, Iowa) is a former American football linebacker and head coach in the National Football League. As a teenager moved to Christoval, Texas where he excelled as a member of the 6 man football team, was an All-American linebacker at Texas A&M University, a two-time All-Pro with the Los Angeles Rams (1963) and Washington Redskins (1971), a 2-time NFL Coach of Year (1976,79), and winner of 87 games in 11 seasons. - Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren is the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she teaches contract law, bankruptcy, and commercial law. Warren graduated from the University of Houston with a B.S. 1970 and received her J.D from Rutgers University in 1976. In addition to a wide variety of legal publications, Warren has written books aimed at the general public. - Dave Maggard
Dave Maggard (born January 12, 1940) is an American former Olympian. Maggard, who grew up in San Francisco and Turlock California, graduated from University of California-Berkeley. He is a former member of the U.S. National Track Team and secured a spot for the 1968 Summer Olympics during the 1968 Olympic Trials. Maggard is the current athletic director at the University of Houston. He held the same position at California-Berkeley. - Tom Penders
Tom Penders is a college basketball head coach, currently in his third season at the University of Houston. He is from Stratford, Connecticut and has a 566-385 career record. Houston was a combined 39-24 wins in his first two seasons. - David Klingler
David Klingler (born February 17, 1969, in Houston, Texas), is a former American football player. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals after starring at quarterback for the University of Houston. - Ben Taub
Ben Taub (1889-1982), philanthropist and medical benefactor, fourth child of Jacob Nathan Taub, was born in 1889 in Houston, Texas. His father immigrated from Hungary to Texas in 1882 and became a tobacco wholesaler. Taub grew up in Houston, where he attended Welch Preparatory School. During World War I he was a captain and served in France. He returned to Texas and expanded the family business, later becoming a real estate developer. - Margaret Spellings
As the first mother of school-aged children to serve as Education Secretary, Spellings has a special appreciation for the hopes and concerns of American families. She has been a leader in reform to make education more innovative and responsive. Prior to her tenure as Education Secretary, Spellings served as Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, where she helped create the No Child Left Behind Act. - Andre Ware
Andre Ware (born July 31, 1968 in Dickinson, Texas) won the Heisman Trophy as a quarterback for the University of Houston and was later drafted #7 in the first round of the NFL Draft by the Detroit Lions. Ware has been considered by many fans and sports writers alike as a 'flop' in the pros. - Edward Albee
Edward G. (Woody) Connette, Pro-bono Legal Counsel - Bill Yeoman
Bill Yeoman (born December 26, 1935) was the head football coach at the University of Houston from 1962 to 1986. He is the winningest coach in school history, having compiled a record of 160-108-8. His 160 victories rank 51st on the NCAA all time list. He invented the Veer offense in 1964 which quickly helped lead the Cougars to national prominence. Yeoman's Cougars finished the season ranked in the Top 10 four times and 10 times in the Top 20. On July 11, 1964, … - Lennart Johnsson
Dr. Johnsson's research interests include computational and data grids; high-performance scientific computation; parallel algorithms; adaptive, grid-aware, high-performance software and tools for the creation thereof; and middleware for grids and parallel computers, especially communications-related middleware, performance modeling, and problem-solving environments. - Bum Phillips
DatabaseFootballCoach=PHILLBUM01Oail Andrew "Bum" Phillips (born on September 29, 1923 in Nederland, Texas or Orange, Texas) is a former National Football League (NFL) head coach. He played football at Lamar Junior College (now Lamar University) in Beaumont, Texas, but enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor plunged the United States into World War II. After he returned from the war, … - Michael Young
Michael Wayne Young (born January 2, 1961 in Houston, Texas) is a former National Basketball Association player. Young, a native Houstonian, played basketball at Yates High School and the University of Houston before being selected by the Boston Celtics with the 24th overall pick (1st round) of the 1984 NBA Draft. He played in three NBA seasons: 1984-85 with the Phoenix Suns, 1985-86 with the Philadelphia 76ers, and 1989-90 with the Los Angeles Clippers. - Anthony Alridge
Anthony Alridge (born November 24, 1983 in Denton, Texas) is an American football player for the University of Houston football team. - John Whitmire
John Harris Whitmire (born 1949) is the longest-serving of current members of the Texas State Senate representing District 15, which includes much of northern Houston. Whitmire was born 13 August 1949 in Hillsboro, Texas to James M. Whitmire and Marie Harris Whitmire, and graduated from Waltrip High School and the University of Houston. Whitmire served as the Acting Governor of Texas in 1993 as part of the Governor for A Day tradition. - A.D. Bruce
Andrew Davis Bruce (September 14, 1894 - July 28, 1969) was the third president and the first chancellor of the University of Houston. He retired from the United States Army in 1954 as a lieutenant general after seeing action in both World War I and World War II and founding Fort Hood. Three countries, France, the Philippines, and the United States, awarded him service medals, including the Distinguished Service Cross, the US Army's second highest military decoration. - Gene Green
Raymond Eugene "Gene" Green (born October 17, 1947) is a Democratic politician and a U.S. Congressman from the state of Texas, representing that state's 29th Congressional District. (map). The district includes most of eastern Houston, along with large portions of Houston's eastern suburbs. Green was born in Houston and he graduated from the University of Houston with degrees in business administration and law. - Ted Poe
Ted Poe (born September 10, 1948) is a Republican politician and jurist currently representing Texas's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. (map). - John Thompson
John Thompson, Jr. (born September 2 1941 in Washington, D.C.) is a former basketball coach for the Georgetown University Hoyas. He is now a professional radio and TV sports commentator. In 1984, he became the first African-American head coach to win the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship when Georgetown defeated the University of Houston, 84-75. - Arthur C. Vailas
Dr. Arthur Vailas is vice chancellor and vice president for research and intellectual property management for the University of Houston System and the University of Houston (UH). He joined UH in 1995 as vice president for research and vice provost for graduate studies, and professor and distinguished chair in biology and biochemistry. - Tony Hoagland
Anthony Dey Hoagland (born 1953) is an American poet and writer. He was born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina and educated at Williams College, the University of Iowa, and the University of Arizona. He currently teaches in the University of Houston creative writing program. - Guy Lewis
Guy Vernon Lewis (born in Arp, Texas, United States of America, March 19, 1922) was a highly successful NCAA basketball coach for 30 years at the University of Houston. He led the program to 27 straight winning seasons and 14 seasons with 20 or more wins, including 14 trips to the NCAA Tournament, 5 times making the Final Four, and twice playing in the NCAA Championship Game, in 1983 and 1984. - Leroy Burrell
Leroy Russel Burrell (born February 21, 1967) is a former American athlete who twice set the world record for the 100 meter sprint, setting a time of 9.90 seconds in June 1991. This was then broken by Carl Lewis within a month. Burrell set the record for a second time when he ran 9.85 seconds in 1994, a record that stood until the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, when Donovan Bailey ran 9.84. Burrell grew up in Lansdowne, … - B. Montgomery Pettitt
B. Montgomery "Monty" Pettitt is Hugh Roy and Lille Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Houston's Department of Chemistry, and director of Houston's Institute for Molecular Design. He received his B.S. in Chemistry and Mathematics at the University of Houston in December 1975, and his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Houston in May 1980. - Lamar Smith
Lamar Hunter Smith (born November 29, 1970, Fort Wayne, Indiana) is a former professional American Football running back. He played in the NFL for the Seattle Seahawks, Miami Dolphins, New Orleans Saints and Carolina Panthers from 1994 to 2003. Smith attended South Side High School in Fort Wayne. After high school, he attended Northeast Oklahoma A & M Junior College and then the University of Houston on scholarship for his final two years. - Joe Leydon
Joseph Patrick Leydon (born August 22, 1952 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an award-winning film critic and historian. Currently a critic and correspondent for Variety, the "show business bible," and a contributing writer for MovieMaker magazine, he is the author of "Joe Leydon's Guide to Essential Movies You Must See" (Michael Wiese Productions), and host of http://movingpictureblog.blogspot.com/ and the website http://www.MovingPictureShow.com/. - Michael Bourn
Michael Ray Bourn (born December 27, 1982 in Houston, Texas), is a Major League Baseball player for the Philadelphia Phillies. Bourn was raised in Houston, Texas, where he attended Nimitz High School, graduating in 2000. Bourn earned an NCAA Division I baseball scholarship at the University of Houston, where he played for three seasons. While he displayed little power, collecting only two home runs and 23 extra-base hits in 644 at-bats, … - Chris Andersen
Chris Andersen (born July 7 1978 in Long Beach, California) is a former NBA basketball player. His swooping dunks, shot-blocking skills and rare athleticism for his size earned him the nickname "The Birdman". Andersen is also the owner of a number of large tattoos, mainly on his arms. He was banished from the league in 2006 for violating the league's drug policy. - Antonya Nelson
Antonya Nelson is an American author from Wichita, Kansas. She received an MFA from the University of Arizona and has published four collections of short stories, some of which have appeared in magazines including "The New Yorker", "Esquire", and "Harper's". She received a National Endowment for the Arts grant in 2000. Nelson is the author of five short story collections, including "Some Fun" (Scribner’s 2006), … - Jim Nantz
Serving as lead play-by-play announcer for CBS Sports' college basketball coverage for 12th consecutive season, Jim has called play-by-play on more network broadcasts of Final Four and championship game than any other announcer in history of Tournament. Jim also co-hosted Tournament and hosted Final Four for five years (1986-90) Jim earned 1998's National Sportscaster of the Year Award. - Garrett Mock
Garrett Lee Mock, born April 25, 1983, in Houston, Texas, is a North American professional baseball player. He is a right-handed pitching prospect in the Washington Nationals organization. A graduate of Houston's North Shore Senior High School, Mock attended the University of Houston. He was the first of his UH class to be selected in the 2004 amateur draft, being chosen by Arizona in the third round. - Larry Gatlin
Larry Gatlin (born May 2, 1948 in Seminole, Texas) is an American Country Music Singer. He is best-known for teaming up with his brothers in the late 70s, where they became one of Country music's most successful artists of the 70s and 80s. They were then known as "Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers". Their popularity lasted throughout much of the 1980s. Their biggest hits together included, "Broken Lady", "All the Gold In California", …
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