- Kate Gleason
Kate Gleason (November 25, 1865 - January 9, 1933) was an American engineer and businesswoman known both for being a revolutionary in the predominantly male field of engineering and for her philanthropy.
- Robert D. Manning
Robert D. Manning is a financial expert in consumer credit and financial services. He is currently a professor of finance at Rochester Institute of Technology's E. Philip Saunders College of Business. Manning has a master's degree from Northern Illinois University, Economic History and Latin American Studies (1981) and a Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University, Program in Comparative International Development (1989).
- Albert J. Simone
Dr. Albert Joseph Simone (b. 1935) is a former president of the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York, USA. He became president of RIT on September 1, 1992, succeeding M. Richard Rose. Simone was previously president of the University of Hawaii System and chancellor of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His tenure saw additional PhD programs (in microsystems engineering, computing and information sciences, …
- Donald Figer
Donald Figer is an American astronomer. He works at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he is a Professor, and Director of the Rochester Imaging Detector Laboratory. He claims that 150 solar masses is the upper limit for stars. By using the Hubble Space Telescope, he observed approximately one thousand stars in a young star cluster, the Arches Cluster, which is near center of the Milky Way. None of the stars surpassed this limit.
- Charles Bigelow
Charles Bigelow (b. 1945, Detroit, Michigan) is a type historian, professor, and designer. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1982. Along with Kris Holmes, he is the co-creator of Lucida and Wingdings font families. He runs the Bigelow and Holmes foundry. In mid-2006, Bigelow accepted the Melbert B. Cary Distinguished Professorship at Rochester Institute of Technology's School of Print Media.
- Bruce Davidson
Bruce Davidson (born September 5, 1933 in Oak Park, Illinois) is an American photographer. He has been a member of Magnum since 1958. His photographs, notably those taken in Harlem, have been widely exhibited and published in a number of books.
- Robert R. Davila
Dr. Robert Davila is currently the interim and ninth president of Gallaudet University, the world's only university in which all programs and services are specifically designed to accommodate deaf and hard of hearing students. His appointment came after the wake of the Unity for Gallaudet Movement protests of 2006, when a many of the students, staff and alumni were against the establishment of president designate Jane Fernandes.
- Jerry Uelsmann
Jerry N. Uelsmann (born 11 June 1934 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American photographer. Uelsmann is a master printer producing composite photographs with multiple negatives and extensive darkroom work. He uses up to a dozen enlargers at a time to produce his final images. Similar in technique to Rejlander, Uelsmann is a champion of the idea that the final image need not be tied to a single negative, but may be composed of many.
- William W. Destler
William W. Destler is an American university professor and administrator. He will serve as the 9th president of Rochester Institute of Technology as of 1 July 2007, succeeding Albert J. Simone. Previously, Destler was provost and senior vice president for student affairs at the University of Maryland, College Park from 2001 to 2007. He also served as a professor of the college of electrical engineering, dean of the graduate school (1999-2001), …
- Wendell Castle
Wendell Castle (b. November 6, 1932 in Emporia, Kansas, USA) is an American furniture artist. He is often credited with being the father of the art furniture movement. In 1958 he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in industrial design and in 1961 he received a Master of Fine Arta both from the University of Kansas. From 1962-1969 he taught at Rochester Institute of Technology, School for American Craftsmen, in Rochester, NY and is now an Artist in Residence.
- Tom Golisano
Blaise Thomas "Tom" Golisano (born 1942) is the billionaire founder of Paychex, the second-largest payroll processor in the United States, and owner of the Buffalo Sabres hockey team. He ran for governor of New York in 1994, 1998, and 2002 as the candidate of the Independence Party of New York. He lost all three elections, spending a combined $93 million over the three campaigns.
- William A. Johnson Jr.
William A. Johnson, Jr. was the first African-American elected mayor of the City of Rochester, New York. Elected in November 1993, Johnson was the 64th mayor of the city and was re-elected in 1997 and 2001. Although he received 78% of the votes in 2001, he announced that he would not seek a fourth term and was succeeded in 2006 by former Rochester Police Chief Robert Duffy. Johnson was educated at Howard University where he received both his bachelor's, …
- Matt Hamill
Matthew S. "The Hammer" Hamill (born on October 5 ,1976 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a deaf American amateur wrestler and MMA fighter. He was a three-time NCAA Wrestling Division III National Champion (167 lb. class in 1997, 190 lb. class in 1998, and 197 lb. class in 1999) while attending the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. He was a contestant on the third season of "The Ultimate Fighter" reality television show, …
- Nancy Beiman
Nancy Beiman is director, character designer, teacher, and animator. She is recognized as the second woman to be "credited" on a Disney film (although there were many women before her work on Disney film). She has taught animation at Savannah College of Art and Design, and currently at Rochester Institute of Technology, School of Film & Animation.
- Newton Howard
Dr. Newton Howard is the founder and chairman of the Center for Advanced Defense Studies, a Washington, D.C. National Security Group. He is a leading international researcher on the physics of cognition (PoC) and its applications to defense and international security. A graduate of the Faculty of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Oxford, his work there proposed the Theory of Intention Awareness (IA). Dr.
- Zwelethu Mthethwa
Zwelethu Mthethwa (b. 1960) is a South African painter and photographer. Mthethwa, a native of Durban, received his diplomas at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. He received a Fulbright Scholarship that allowed him to study at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he received his master's degree in imaging arts in 1989.
- N. Katherine Hayles
N. Katherine Hayles (16 December, 1943 -) is a noted postmodern literary critic and theorist as well as the author of "How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics" which won the "Rene Wellek Prize" for the best book in literary theory for 1998-1999. She is currently the Hillis Professor of Literature in English and Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
- William Snyder
William Snyder is a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and is currently the Director of Photography for The Dallas Morning News. Snyder won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1989 along with reporter David Hanners and artist Karen Blessen for their special report on a 1985 airplane crash, the follow-up investigation, and the implications for air safety.
- Marilyn Bridges
Marilyn Bridges (born, 26 December 1948) is an American photographer noted for her aerial photographs of ancient and modern landscapes of extraordinary and often religious sites. Bridges was born in Newark, New Jersey. She studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology, earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1979 and her Master of Fine Arts in 1981.. She started her photography career by working for travel magazines in 1970 and photographing Brazil in 1972.
- Stan Grossfeld
Grossfeld is a writer, editor and photographer for the Boston Globe Sports section. He became chief photographer at the Globe in 1983. The next year he won his first Pulitzer Prize in the category of "Spot News Photography" for photographs of the people of Lebanon. In 1985, Grossfeld won again when he shared the prize in the "Feature Photography" category for his images of starvation in Ethiopia and illegal aliens on the border of Mexico.
- Sam Abrams
Sam Abrams (November 18, 1935 -) Poet of the New York School and Professor Emeritus at Rochester Institute of Technology.
- C. A. Tripp
C. A. Tripp, Ph. D. (1919-2003) was a psychologist, writer, gay activist, and researcher for Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey. Born Clarence Arthur Tripp on October 4, 1919 in Denton, Texas, USA, Tripp studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and was a Naval Veteran. Tripp worked with Alfred Kinsey at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction in Bloomington, Indiana from 1948 to 1956. He earned a Ph.D. in Clinical psychology from New York University.
- Wallace Seawell
Wallace Seawell (born September 16,1916 - died May 29, 2007) was a photographer best known for his portraits of Hollywood stars such as Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn and George Burns. Seawell was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1916 and studied photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology graduating with honours in 1940. He served with the Army Signal Corps in Los Angeles making nearly fifty training films.
- F. Ritter Shumway
Frank Ritter Shumway (27 March 1906-9 March 1992) was a major figure in figure skating in the United States. From 1951 to 1965, he was president of the Ritter Company, a dental chair manufacturer founded by his grandfather Frank Ritter, and later led the company's successor, the Sybron Corporation. In 1955, Shumway founded the Genesee Figure Skating Club after becoming active (and setting records) in the over-35 category of figure skating competition.
- Steve Capps
Steve Capps is a computer programmer and engineer who is best known for his work on the Apple Inc. Macintosh computer and Newton OS during the 1980s and 1990s. He started working at the Xerox Corporation while still a computer science student at the Rochester Institute of Technology. In 1981, Capps started working for Apple on the Lisa project and he continued his work on the Macintosh, principally writing the Finder and Macintosh system utilities.
- Mary Flagler Cary
Mary Flagler Cary (1901-1967) was heir to part of the Standard Oil fortune and became a notable philanthropist, mainly through the charitable trust established at her death. She was the granddaughter of Henry Morrison Flagler, one of the founders of Standard Oil, and inherited 20,000 shares of Standard Oil from her father Harry Harkness Flagler on his death in 1952 (valued then at $1,600,000). She had married Melbert Cary, who died in 1941.
- Clifford Ulp
Clifford McCormick Ulp (1885-1958) was one of Rochester's foremost professors of the arts during the first half of the 20th century.
- Ryan Zoghlin
Ryan Zoghlin, Artist, Photographer<;br /> After gaining a solid technical background in photographic illustration from Rochester Institute of Technology, Ryan decided to explore photography as an art form at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he received his BFA in photography and sculpture in 1991. Images from his series "Airshow" are included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, …
- Tom McMahon
Tom McMahon is the mayor of Reading, Pennsylvania; he was elected on 5 January 2004. McMahon was born in Rochester, New York and graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology and Pennsylvania State University with degrees in engineering. He taught in Bangladesh with the Peace Corps before founding his own electrical engineering firm in Reading.
- Dean Chamberlain
Dean Chamberlain is a photographer who specializes in unique lighting effects and extended exposure times (up to five hours), creating luminous and colorful images -- one of his exhibitions was aptly titled "Painting With Light Through Time and Space". His work has been featured in galleries worldwide, and he has served as artist-in-residence and guest lecturer at several prestigious universities and art schools.
- František Janák
František Janák is a Czech glass artist. He creates glass sculptures and commission works, and also does series production design for different Czech glassworks. Janák completed his apprenticeship in glass cutting at the Bohemia Glassworks, Czech's biggest producer of hand cut lead crystal. He followed with studies at the Secondary School of Glassmaking in Kamenický Šenov, the oldest glass school in the world (founded 1856).
- Mehdi Vaez-Iravani
Mehdi Vaez-Iravani is an Iranian scientist, engineer and inventor who invented Shear-force microscopy. Mehdi Vaez-Iravani graduated in Electrical engineering and become faculy member at Rochester Institute of Technology. He had numerous patents and scientific publication in optics, optical engineering and related areas.
- Steve Toll
Steve Toll (b. June 16, 1974 in St. Catharines, Ontario) is a lacrosse player for the Rochester Knighthawks of the National Lacrosse League. Before being a member of the Knighthawks, Toll won four NLL Championships with the Toronto Rock. Toll played ice hockey and lacrosse for Rochester Institute of Technology; he was named the NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Player of the Year in 1997.
- Ronald Senungetuk
Ronald Senungetuk is an Inupiat artist originally from Wales, Alaska who works primarily in wood and metal. He is a sculptor and silversmith and is known for his abstractions of animal figures. He trained at the School for American Craftsmen at the Rochester Institute of Technology and in Oslo, Norway, on a Fulbright Fellowship at Statens Handværks og Kunstindustriskole. He and his wife, Turid, an accomplished silversmith, live in Homer.
- Emma Lampert Cooper
Emma Lampert Cooper (1855-1920) was one of Rochester, New York's most renowned painters. She was married to painter Colin Campbell Cooper (1856 - 1937). Born in Nunda (village), New York, to Henry and Jenette (Smith) Lampert, she moved with her family to Rochester by 1864. She graduated from Wells College in Aurora, New York, in 1875. She went on to teach at the Foster School in Clifton Springs, New York (school was open between 1876 and 1885).
- Stanisław Radziszowski
Stanisław Radziszowski is a Polish-American mathematician and computer scientist. Radziszowski was born in Gdańsk, Poland, and received his PhD from the Institute of Informatics of the University of Warsaw in 1980. His thesis topic was "Logic and Complexity of Synchronous Parallel Computations". From 1976 to 1980 he worked as a visiting professor in various universities in Mexico City. In 1984, he moved to the United States, …
- Terry Deglau
Terry Deglau is the portrait photographer chosen by the United Nations to take the group photo of the world's leaders at the 2000 United Nations Millennium Project in New York. He had done a similar photograph for the UN's 50th anniversary celebration in 1995, and has done portraits of five U.S. Presidents. Deglau also produced and organized the photography of the 100 "4th of July people" for the "Photo of the Century" July 4, 1999 in Philadelphia.
- Daria Semegen
Daria Semegen (born June 27, 1946) is an important contemporary American composer of classical music. While she has composed pieces for traditional instruments-her "Jeux des quatres" (1970), for example, is scored for clarinet, trombone, cello, and piano-she is best known as a composer of electronic music. She is a figure on the academic side of the electronic music genre, …
- Bruce Tracy
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- Grover Sanschagrin
Grover Sanschagrin is one of the original founders of PhotoShelter, and is presently the company's Vice President of Business Development. Before PhotoShelter, Grover served in management roles at several large-scale online productions including ChicagoTribune.com, NBCOlympics.com, FinalFour.net, and Altpick.com. Concurrent to his responsibilities at PhotoShelter, Grover is a founder and Executive Producer of SportsShooter.com, the largest sports photography website on the Internet.