- Pz Myers
Paul Zachary "PZ" Myers (born March 9 1957) is an American biology professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris and a science blogger via his blog, "Pharyngula" (previously "Pharyngula.org"). He is currently an associate professor of biology at Morris, works in the field of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo), and has a particular interest in cephalopods. - Robert Bruininks
Robert H. Bruininks (born February 22nd, 1942) was appointed the 15th president of the University of Minnesota on November 8, 2002. He has served the University for 37 years, as professor, dean, and executive vice president and provost, and now as chief executive officer. Bruininks currently oversees a major strategic planning and positioning effort aimed at making the University of Minnesota one of the top three public research universities in the world within a decade, … - Michael Osterholm
Michael Osterholm Ph.D, MPH is a distinguished professor in the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), and associate director of the Department of Homeland Security's National Center for Food Protection and Defense (NCFPD). Dr. Osterholm has served in many other public health capacities and is active in raising awareness of a potential influenza pandemic. - Tubby Smith
Orlando "Tubby" Smith (born June 30, 1951 in Scotland, Saint Mary's County, Maryland) is the basketball coach at the University of Minnesota. He previously served in the same role at the University of Tulsa, the University of Georgia, and most recently, University of Kentucky. Over his 15 seasons as a head coach, Smith has had 13 twenty-win seasons, making the NCAA Tournament each of those years. In 2005, he joined Roy Williams, Nolan Richardson, … - Tim Brewster
Tim Brewster (born October 13, 1960, in Phillipsburg, New Jersey) is the head football coach at the University of Minnesota and the 26th head coach in team history. It is his first college head coach job. He is known well as a fierce recruiter. - Ted Mann
Ted Mann (April 16, 1916 - January 15, 2001) was an American businessman, film who famously changed the name of Grauman's Chinese Theater to Mann's Chinese Theater when he purchased the National General Theatre chain that owned it in 1973. Born in Wishek, North Dakota, Mann started off in the movie business as an usher around the time he attended the University of Minnesota in the 1930s. He rented the Selby Theatre in Saint Paul, … - Leonid Hurwicz
Leonid Hurwicz is Regents’ Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Minnesota. Internationally renowned for his pioneering research on economic theory, particularly in the areas of mechanism and institutional design and mathematical economics, … - Glen Mason
Glen O. Mason (born April 9, 1950 in Colonia, New Jersey) is the former college football head coach of the University of Minnesota. He was officially fired on December 31, 2006. Prior to coaching the Gophers, Mason was head coach for Kent State University 1986-87 and the University of Kansas from 1988 to 1996, with previous assistant stints at the University of Illinois, Ohio State, Ball State, Iowa State, and Allegheny College. - Mark Yudof
Mark G. Yudof became the ninth Chancellor of The University of Texas System on August 1, 2002. Yudof was President of the University of Minnesota from 1997 until his appointment as Chancellor. In addition to his position as Chancellor, Yudof holds the Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts at the University of Texas School of Law. Previously, he was a faculty member and administrator at The University of Texas at Austin for 26 years, … - Joel Maturi
Joel Maturi is the athletic director at the University of Minnesota. He previously held the same post at the University of Denver and Miami University. - John Williams
John McKay Williams (born October 27, 1947 in Jackson, Mississippi) was a National Football League offensive lineman from 1968 through 1979. During that span he appeared in three Super Bowls: Super Bowl III and Super Bowl V for the Baltimore Colts; and Super Bowl XIV for the Los Angeles Rams. He played college football at the University of Minnesota. - Dan Monson
Daniel Lloyd "Dan" Monson (born October 6, 1961 in Spokane, Washington) is an American basketball coach. He was hired as the head coach of the Long Beach State 49ers on April 7, 2007. Previously he was head coach at the University of Minnesota for over seven seasons, from July 24, 1999, to November 30, 2006. Before coaching the Gophers, he was the head coach at Gonzaga for two seasons, where he had spent the previous nine seasons as an assistant coach. - Elmer L. Andersen
Elmer Lee Andersen (June 17, 1909 - November 15, 2004) was an American businessman, philanthropist, and the 30th governor of Minnesota, serving a single term from January 2, 1961 to March 25, 1963 as a Republican. At the time, the governor's term was only two years. Born in 1909 in Chicago, Illinois, he lost his bid for re-election in the closest statewide race in Minnesota history. The election was held on November 6, 1962 but the results were not known until March 21, … - Andrew Odlyzko
Andrew Odlyzko is a mathematician who is the head of the University of Minnesota's Digital Technology Center. In the field of mathematics he has published extensively on analytic number theory, computational number theory, cryptography, algorithms and computational complexity, combinatorics, probability, and error-correcting codes. In the early 1970s, he was a co-author of one of the founding papers of the modern umbral calculus. - Blake Wheeler
Blake Wheeler (born August 31, 1986 in Plymouth, Minnesota, USA) is an American ice hockey right wing. He was drafted by the Phoenix Coyotes in the first round, 5th overall, in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft. Wheeler attended Wayzata Senior High School for his freshman year, transferring soon after to Breck School. There, during his junior year, Wheeler had his breakout season, putting up prolific numbers (45 goals and 55 assists). - Kyle Okposo
Kyle Okposo (born April 14, 1988 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA) is an American ice hockey right wing/center. He was drafted 7th overall in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft by the New York Islanders, following a season in the United States Hockey League with the Des Moines Buccaneers in which he was named the most valuable player of the USHL playoffs and the league's top rookie. He played an instrumental role in leading the Buccaneers to a Clark Cup victory. - Norman Borlaug
Norman Ernest Borlaug (born March 25 1914) is an American agricultural scientist, humanitarian, Nobel laureate, and has been called the father of the Green Revolution. Borlaug is a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal. Borlaug received his Ph.D. in plant pathology and genetics from the University of Minnesota in 1942. He took up an agricultural research position in Mexico, where he developed semi-dwarf high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties. - Clem Haskins
Clem Smith Haskins (born August 11, 1943 in Campbellsville, Kentucky) is a former professional basketball player who later served 13 years (1986-1999) as head coach of the University of Minnesota's men's basketball team. The son of sharecroppers, Haskins was a star at Taylor County High School in rural Kentucky. He wanted to play for Adolph Rupp at the University of Kentucky, but Rupp ignored him, allegedly because Haskins was black, … - John Thomas
John Thomas (born September 8 1975 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American professional basketball player. He was the captain of the Minnesota Golden Gophers team that advanced to the 1997 NCAA Final. Selected by the New York Knicks with the 25th pick in the 1997 NBA Draft although he never played a game with them as he was traded, along with Dontae' Jones, … - Paul Martin
Paul Martin (born March 5, 1981 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is a defenceman for the New Jersey Devils of the NHL. Martin played high school hockey at Elk River High School and was the Mr. Hockey award winner in 2000. He was drafted in the second round, 62nd overall by the New Jersey Devils. He has been playing for the Devils since the 2003-2004 season. He has sound offensive instincts and a projectable frame. Was part of a winning program at the University of Minnesota, … - Jim Ramstad
James M. "Jim" Ramstad (born May 6, 1946) is a United States politician from the state of Minnesota. Ramstad has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1991, representing Minnesota's 3rd congressional district, one of eight congressional districts in Minnesota. The district, the state's wealthiest, includes most of the western portion of the Twin Cities area, including cities such as Maple Grove, Bloomington, Plymouth, Minnetonka, … - Poul Anderson
Poul William Anderson was an American science fiction author of the genre's Golden Age. Poul Anderson also wrote several works of fantasy. He received a degree in physics from the University of Minnesota in 1948. He married the former Karen Kruse in 1953. They had one daughter, Astrid, who is married to the science fiction author Greg Bear. He was the sixth President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, taking office in 1972. - Nils Hasselmo
Nils Hasselmo was the thirteenth president of the University of Minnesota, serving from 1988 to 1997. He went on to become the president of the Association of American Universities from 1998 to 2006. Nils Hasselmo was born in Köla, Sweden. He completed undergraduate and graduate degrees in Scandinavian languages and literature at Uppsala University, and did his military service in the Royal Signal Corps, including officer's training. - Bruce Smith
Bruce P. Smith (February 8, 1920 - August 28, 1967), nicknamed "Boo", was an American football player best known for winning the Heisman Trophy in 1941. Smith was born in Faribault, Minnesota where he excelled in prep football under legendary football coach Win Brockmeyer and then attended the University of Minnesota. He played halfback for the back to back national champions Gophers in 1940 and 1941. He received the Heisman two days after the attack on Pearl Harbor. - Ralph Rapson
Ralph Rapson passed away March 29 of heart failure. He was 93. He served as head of the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture from 1954 to 1984. (It became the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture in 1989). Rapson is most widely known as the architect of the original Guthrie Theater, which opened in 1963. - James Kakalios
James Kakalios is a physics professor at the University of Minnesota. Known within the scientific community for his work with amorphous semiconductors, granular materials, and 1/f noise, he is known to the general public as the author of the book "The Physics of Superheroes", which considers comic book superheroes from the standpoint of fundamental physics. Kakalios, who earned PhD from the University of Chicago in 1985, … - Bill Smith
Bill Smith (1929 - 1993) is the "Father of Six Sigma". Born in Brooklyn, New York, Smith graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1952 and studied at the University of Minnesota School of Management (now known as the Carlson School of Management). In 1987, after working for nearly 35 years in engineering and quality assurance, he joined Motorola, serving as vice president and senior quality assurance manager for the Land Mobile Products Sector. - Ancel Keys
Ancel Benjamin Keys (January 26, 1904 - November 20, 2004) was an American scientist who studied the influence of diet on health. In particular, he hypothesised that different kinds of dietary fat had different effects on health. In addition to his role in establishing modern cardiovascular disease (CVD) epidemiology, Keys was closely associated with two famous diets: K-rations, formulated as balanced meals for combat soldiers in World War II; and the "Mediterranean diet", … - Jeff Frazee
Jeff Frazee (born May 13, 1987, in Edina, Minnesota, USA) is an American ice hockey goaltender. He was drafted in the second round, 38th overall, by the New Jersey Devils in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft. Frazee currently plays for the University of Minnesota. In his freshman season, he played in 12 games, compiling a 6-3-2 record with a 2.36 GAA and a .910 save percentage. - V. V. Chari
Varadarajan .V. Chari is an Indian-American economist and professor of economics at the University of Minnesota. Chari received a Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1974, and was a production engineer at Union Carbide (India) Limited from 1974 to 1976. Chari received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1980 and joined the Kellogg School of Management, … - Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren ( April 24 , 1905 - September 15 , 1989 ) was an American poet and writer. He was born in Guthrie, Kentucky and graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1925 and the University of California, Berkeley in 1926. He later attended Yale University and obtained his B. Litt . at Oxford University in England in 1930. - Bob Johnson
Robert "Badger Bob" Johnson (March 4,1931-November 26, 1991) was an American-born college and professional ice hockey coach. Bob Johnson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on March 4, 1931. He attended Minneapolis Central High School and the University of Minnesota, where he played hockey under legendary coach John Mariucci. After serving as a medic during the Korean War, Johnson began his coaching career at a high school in Warroad, Minnesota. - Randy Kelly
Randy C. Kelly (born August 2 1950 in North Dakota) is an American politician. He is a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL). Kelly was the mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota from January, 2002 through January, 2006. Kelly won office in 2001 in a tight race with Jay Benanav, a city councilman, by 403 votes. He graduated from Harding High School in Saint Paul, and the University of Minnesota. Today, he resides in Saint Paul, on the East Side with his wife and family. - David Walsh
David Walsh is the president and founder of the National Institute on Media and the Family based in Minneapolis, MN. Psychologist, educator, author and parent of three, Dr. Walsh is a self-proclaimed authority on parenting, family life and the impact of media on children and teens. He has written eight books including the national best seller "Why Do They Act That Way? A Survival Guide to the Adolescent Brain for You and Your Teen" (Free Press, 2004). - Winona Laduke
Winona LaDuke , 37 years old, lives on the White Earth Chippewa Reservation in Northern Minnesota with her two children. LaDuke began working on Indian issues at a young age and spoke before the United Nations when just 18 years old. - Tom Rukavina
Tom Rukavina (b. August 1950) is a U.S. politician. He graduated from the University of Minnesota at Duluth, with a Bachelor of Art degree, "cum laude", in political science. He was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives during the elections of 1986, at the age of thirty-seven as a DFLer. He has been re-elected ten times and began his eleventh term in the Minnesota House January, 2006. - Tim Penny
Timothy Joseph "Tim" Penny, is an American politician from Minnesota. Penny was a Democratic-Farmer-Labor member of the United States House of Representatives, 1983–1995, representing Minnesota's 1st congressional district in the 98th, 99th, 100th, 101st, 102nd, and 103rd congresses. In 1993, he announced that he would not seek a seventh term. Penny was born in Albert Lea, Minnesota, and was educated at Winona State University, … - Judith Levine
Judith Levine (born 1952) is an American author, journalist, civil libertarian, and co-founder of the National Writers Union, a trade union of contact and freelance writers, and No More Nice Girls, a group dedicated to promoting abortion rights through street theater. She is a board member of the National Center for Reason and Justice and the Vermont chapter of the ACLU. She describes her work as "exploring the ways in which history, culture, politics, … - Jack Zipes
Jack David Zipes is a Professor of German at the University of Minnesota whose publications and lectures on fairy tales have transformed research on fairy tales and their linguistic roots and socialization function. According to Zipes, fairy tales "serve a meaningful social function, … - Linda Hogan
Linda Hogan (born 1947) is a Native American poet, storyteller, academic, playwright, novelist, environmentalist and writer of short stories.
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