- Chris Petersen
Chris Petersen (born 1965) is an American college football coach, currently the head coach of the Boise State Broncos. Petersen played quarterback at UC Davis from 1983-86. He earned a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1988 and a master's degree in education from UC Davis.
- Jim Risch
James E. "Jim" Risch (born May 3, 1943 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a former Governor of Idaho. He succeeded to the office on May 26, 2006 when his predecessor, Dirk Kempthorne, resigned to become U.S. Secretary of the Interior. Risch is a rancher, attorney, and politician from Ada County. He was the first Catholic to become governor of the State of Idaho. Currently he is Lieutenant Governor of Idaho.
- Jared Zabransky
Jared Zabransky (born December 4, 1983) is an American football quarterback for the Houston Texans of the National Football League and formerly of Boise State University. Zabransky, the son of a potato farmer, graduated from Hermiston High School in Hermiston, Oregon and majored in social science at Boise State. The 6'-2", 203 pounds "Z", as he is nicknamed, …
- 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.
- Coby Karl
Coby Karl (born in Mequon, Wisconsin) is an NCAA basketball player for Boise State University majoring in communications. In his junior season of college, Karl led his team in both points per game and assists per game at 17.2 and 4.0 respectively. He was also named to the 2005-06 All-WAC Second Team. Karl is a 6'4" and 204 lb guard.
- Greg Graham
Greg Graham is the head men's basketball coach at Boise State University.
- Steve Appleton
Steve Appleton (born 1960) is the CEO of Micron Technology, based in Boise, Idaho. He was a nationally ranked tennis player while studying at Boise State University. A 1996 BusinessWeek article says Appleton broke his right wrist - and quickly learned how to play using his left hand. Appleton started at Micron immediately after graduation in 1982 - working the graveyard shift in production.
- Cecil D. Andrus
Cecil D. Andrus, Chairman: Chairman, Andrus Center for Public Policy. Governor Andrus was elected four times to serve as governor, the only governor in Idahos history to be so honored by its citizens. In addition, he served a full term as Secretary of Interior during the Carter Administration and established a national reputation as a
- Gordy Presnell
Gordy Presnell is the current head women's basketball coach at Boise State. His 2005 team went 15-15 including 6-10 in WAC play. He previously coached at Seattle Pacific University where he compiled a 396-127(.757) record. In 2004, he led SPU to its third consecutive conference title with a 17-1 conference mark, and a 30-3 overall mark. The Falcons made the tournament in his final 9 seasons as head coach.
- Werner Hoeger
Werner Hoeger is a kinesiology professor at Boise State University who took up luge at 44. At 52 he represented his home country of Venezuela at the 2006 Winter Olympics. As their only athlete at the games he carried their flag at the Parade of Nations.
- Brock Forsey
Brock Forsey (born February 11, 1980 in Meridian, Idaho) is a former American football running back in the NFL. He played two seasons for the Chicago Bears and Miami Dolphins. He attended Boise State University.
- Walter Varney
Walter Thomas Varney (born December 26, 1888 in San Francisco, California - died January 25, 1967 in Santa Barbara, California) was an American aviation pioneer who founded forerunners of two major U.S. airlines, United Airlines and Continental Airlines. Varney was also one of the most prominent airmail contractors of the early 20th Century. Varney served as a pilot in the Aviation Section, …
- Daryn Colledge
Daryn Colledge (born February 11, 1982 in North Pole, Alaska), is a current American football offensive guard for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League. He was drafted in the second round of the 2006 NFL Draft, 47th overall, becoming the highest player ever drafted from the state of Alaska. He played college football at Boise State University.
- Brent Guy
Brent Guy is the head football coach at Utah State. From 1986 to 1991, he served as a defensive coach at Oklahoma State. Guy previously coached at Utah State from 1992-94, working with the linebackers under then head coach Charlie Weatherbie. In that time, the Aggies won a Big West Conference Championship and posted the only bowl victory in school history, winning the 1993 Las Vegas Bowl 42-33 against Ball State.
- Robert W. Kustra
Robert W. Kustra Ph.D (b. March 21 1943) is a politician and educator born in St. Louis, Missouri. As of 2007, he was the president of Boise State University, former president of Eastern Kentucky University and a former Lieutenant Governor of Illinois (January 14, 1991-July 1, 1998). He sought the Republican nomination for US Senate in 1996 to succeed Paul Simon but was defeated in the primary by then-State Representative Al Salvi. Prior to his election as Lt.
- Quintin Mikell
Quintin Mikell (born September 16, 1980) is a professional American football player, a defensive back for the National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles. Mikell joined the Eagles as an undrafted free agent out of Boise State University in 2003. He was a backup safety behind Pro Bowlers Michael Lewis and Brian Dawkins for the 2004 NFC Championship team and played in Super Bowl XXXIX. Mikell played high school football for the Willamette Wolverines in Eugene, Oregon.
- Jeb Putzier
Jebediah Lee Putzier (born January 20, 1979 in Eagle, Idaho), aka "The Puzzler", is an American football tight end for the Houston Texans of the National Football League. He was originally selected in the sixth round of the 2002 NFL Draft out of Boise State University by the Denver Broncos. Putzier attended Eagle High School in his hometown Eagle, Idaho.
- Juaquin Iglesias
Juaquin Iglesias (born August 22, 1987) is a wide receiver for the Oklahoma Sooners. In the 2007 Fiesta Bowl against Boise State, he had a career high 129 yards receiving.
- Jim Zorn
HOFJames Arthur Zorn (born May 10, 1953 in Whittier, California, USA) was an American football quarterback, best known for starting for the Seattle Seahawks National Football League franchise their first seven seasons, until being replaced by Dave Krieg midway through the 1983 season, the Seahawks' first playoff campaign. The left-handed passing Zorn is closely associated with his favorite target, …
- Jim Criner
Jim Criner (Born March 30, 1940) is an American Football coach, known for his head coaching stints at Boise State University (won 1980 NCAA Division I-AA Championship), Iowa State, NFL Europe's Scottish Claymores (won 1996 World Bowl), and the short-lived XFL's Las Vegas Outlaws. Most recently he was a scout for the Kansas City Chiefs of the NFL under head coach Dick Vermeil, whom he coached with previously at UCLA.
- Chris Childs
Chris Childs (born November 20, 1967 in Bakersfield, California) is an American professional basketball player. A tough-minded 6'3" guard who starred at Boise State University in the late 1980s, Childs went undrafted in the 1989 NBA Draft and began his professional career in the Continental Basketball Association. Childs played for five different teams in his first three seasons in the league, but he eventually found a home with the Quad City Thunder, …
- Rod Jensen
Rod Jensen is an assistant men's basketball coach at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He previously served as the head coach at Boise State University.
- Bryan Johnson
Bryan Johnson (born January 18, 1978 in Pocatello, Idaho) is an American football fullback. Johnson entered the National Football League as an undrafted free agent in 2000 when he signed with the Washington Redskins. In 2004 he was traded to the Chicago Bears. He played college football for Boise State University.
- Gary Green
Gary Green is an American conductor, specializing in the wind band. Green is a champion of new music for the wind band, and has commissioned works by such composers as Eric Whitacre, Michael Colgrass, Kenneth Fuchs, David Maslanka, Mark Camphouse, and Christopher Rouse. On March 29th, 2007, he premiered Rouse's "Wolf Rounds" at Carnegie Hall in New York with the University of Miami-Frost Wind Ensemble.
- Cedric Minter
Cedric Minter, (born November 13, 1958, in Charleston, South Carolina), was an award winning running back in the Canadian Football League. Went to High School in Boise, Idaho at Borah High School. Graduating from Boise State University, where he was a two time All American, setting a school record rushing with 1526 yards in 1978 (since has been surpassed twice by Brock Forsey and Ian Johnson) and finishing his college career with 4475 rushing yards, …
- Elise Blackwell
Elise Blackwell (b. July 18, 1964) is an American novelist, born in Austin, Texas. The daughter of botanists, Blackwell was educated at Louisiana State University before entering the Creative Writing Program at the University of California, Irvine, where she studied with Pulitzer-Prize winning author Michael Chabon. Blackwell's first novel, "Hunger", was published in 2003 by Little Brown, a division of Time Warner.
- Lori Easley
Lori Easley Otter is a former beauty queen from Meridian, Idaho who is married to current Governor of Idaho Butch Otter. Born in Pensacola, Florida in 1967, Otter moved to Idaho as a child and graduated from Kimberly High School. She received a teaching degree from Boise State University and a master’s degree in education administration from Northwest Nazarene University.
- Kimo von Oelhoffen
Kimo von Oelhoffen (born January 30, 1971 in Kaunakakai, Hawaii) is an American football defensive tackle for the New York Jets of the NFL. He played college football at Boise State University and was selected with the first pick of the sixth round of the 1994 NFL Draft by the Cincinnati Bengals. He is of German, Hawaiian, and Portuguese decent.
- Tony Knap
Tony Knap was a college football head coach at Utah State, Boise State, and UNLV. From 1963-66, Knap served as the head football coach at Utah State, where he compiled a 25-14-1 record. From 1968-75, he coached at Boise State to a 71-19 (.788) record, including three 10 win seasons, while it was still a Division II program. This success led him to Las Vegas, where he coached UNLV for six seasons and compiled a 47-20-2 record (.695) from 1976-81.
- Larry Jackson
Lawrence Curtis Jackson (June 2 1931 - August 28 1990) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies from 1955 to 1968. In 1964 he led the National League with 24 wins for an eighth-place Cubs team, and was runnerup in the Cy Young Award voting; he also led the NL in innings pitched and shutouts once each.
- Markus Koch
Markus Koch (born February 13, 1963 in Niedermarsberg, Germany) was an American football defensive lineman in the NFL for the Washington Redskins. He played college football for Boise State University.
- Mark A. Snodgrass
Mark A. Snodgrass, (1964-), American legislator Born March 16, 1964 in Boise, Idaho. M.A. Economics Education at Boise State University. Republican, elected ?. Currently at State Capitol, in Boise.
- Cecil O. Samuelson
Cecil Osborn Samuelson, Jr. (b. August 1, 1941) has been the 12th president of Brigham Young University since May 1, 2003. Prior to this appointment he had been a professor of medicine at the University of Utah, dean of the school of medicine there, and vice president of health services. Samuelson's full-time service to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began in 1994 when he was made a General Authority and appointed to the First Quorum of the Seventy.
- Debora Greger
Debora Greger (born 1949) is an award-winning American poet as well as a visual artist. She was born in Washington State and attended the University of Washington and then the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She then went on to hold fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Florida.
- Edgar Guerrero
Edgar Guerrero Gastelum, born on October 23, 1979 in Burley, Idaho, and lived in the Mexican state of Sinaloa until the age of 8. He and his family later moved to Glenns Ferry, Idaho. He is the son of Juan Guerrero and Dora Guerrero Gastelum. He graduated from Glenn’s Ferry High School and he graduated from Boise State University where he received a bachelor degree in Graphic Design in 2004. Before entering the popular Mexican show La Academia, …
- Lisa Dawley
- Erica Peavy
Dr. Erica Peavy completed her Medical Degree and Residency training (OB/Gyn) at the University of Washington, between 1979 and 1987. Before that she attended Boise State University (home of the blue Astroturf) and majored in Chemistry. She was accepted early to medical school, before completing her undergraduate degree, an honor accorded less than 5% of entering medical students. Honors during Medical School included AOA membership for academic excellence.
- Brian Schnuckel
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- Collin
My Name is Collin, I have a degree in Biology with Human Emphasis, I am currently training for the next summer olympics in track and field. I have a amazing work ethic, I put all I have into whatever it is I'm doing at the time. My biggest fear in this world is failing and not reaching my goals, and trust me I have some big goals for the Future. I enjoy a good party with plenty of Booze, If your lucky you might get to hear the Drunken Irish come out.
- Liz Pollard
Fun and outgoing. Looking for partner in adventure. I love the outdoors, hiking, camping, mtn biking, hot springs, water falls and sunsets. I enjoy travelling but dont really get much of a chance. Open to trying new things. I have a very positive attitude and get along with everyone. I am very stong and independant. Life has been a roller coaster but what doesnt kill you only makes you stronger.