- Ward Churchill
Ward Churchill is a professor at the University of Colorado who has accumulated much press because of a scheduled appearance thankfully canceled at New York's Hamilton College. After discovering that he had written an essay whose title, Some People Push Back On the Justice of Roosting Chickens was a combination of Malcolm X's remark when asked by reporters for a comment on the assassination of John F. Kennedy , "...
- Dalton Trumbo
Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 - September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist, and a member of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who refused to testify before the 1947 House Un-American Activities Committee about alleged communist involvement. Born in Montrose, Colorado, Trumbo attended the University of Colorado for two years. The central fountain at the University was named in his honor in the mid-1990s.
- Hank Brown
George Hanks "Hank" Brown (born 1940) is a former Republican politician and Senator from Colorado who is currently president of the University of Colorado system. Brown was born in Denver in 1940, and graduated college in 1961 and law school 1969, both from the University of Colorado. He served as an officer in the Navy from 1962 to 1966 and in the Colorado Senate from 1972 to 1976, and was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1980, serving until 1991.
- Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. He is known for his weekly review column (appearing in the "Chicago Sun-Times" since 1967, and later online, and for the television program "Siskel & Ebert", which he co-hosted for 23 years with Gene Siskel.
- Albert Bartlett
Albert A. Bartlett is an emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. Professor Bartlett has lectured over 1,500 times on "Arithmetic, Population, and Energy". Bartlett is a modern-day Malthusian. Professor Bartlett often explains how sustainable growth is an oxymoron. His view is based on the fact that a modest percentage growth can equate to huge escalations over short periods of time.
- Thomas Cech
Thomas Robert Cech (December 8, 1947 in Chicago) is a Nobel Laureate in chemistry. He grew up in Iowa City, Iowa. In 1966, he entered Grinnell College where he obtained a B.A. in 1970. In 1975, Cech completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley and in the same year, he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge where he engaged in postdoctoral research.
- Roger A. Pielke
Roger Pielke is the former director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research (2001-2007). He has been on the faculty of the University of Colorado since 2001 and is a professor in the Environmental Studies Program and a fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences (CIRES). His current areas of interest include understanding the politicization of science, decision making under uncertainty, and policy education for scientists.
- Patricia Nelson Limerick
Patricia Nelson Limerick (born May 17 1951) is an American historian, considered to be one of the leading historians of the American West. She was born and raised in Banning, California. Limerick received a B.A. in American Studies in 1972 from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Ph.D. in American Studies in 1980 from Yale University. She worked at Harvard University as an Assistant Professor from 1980 to 1984.
- Hazel Barnes
Hazel Estella Barnes "(b. 1915)" is an American philosopher, author, and translator. Most well known for her popularization of existentialism in America, Dr. Barnes translated the works of Jean-Paul Sartre as well as writing original works on the subject. After earning her Ph.D. from Yale in 1941, she spent much of her career at the University of Colorado. In recognition of her long tenure and service to the University, …
- Paul Campos
Paul Campos is a law professor, author and journalist currently on the faculty of the University of Colorado in Boulder. His books include "Against the Law" (with Pierre Schlag and Steven D. Smith, 1996), a collection of essays regarding legal thought in contemporary America, "Jurismania" (1998), a scathing critique of the American legal system, and "The Diet Myth" (2005) (previously published as "The Obesity Myth" in 2004), …
- Robert L. Linn
Robert L. Linn is an educational psychologist who has made notable contributions to the understanding of educational assessments. He has studied technical and policy issues relating to the application of test data, and the effects of high-stakes testing on teaching and learning. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Colorado, past president of the American Educational Research Association and the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), …
- Gary Barnett
Gary Barnett (born May 23, 1946 in Lakeland, FL) is a college football head coach. He was the head coach of the Northwestern Wildcats from 1992 to 1999. He left Northwestern for the Colorado Buffaloes, where he was head coach from 1999 to 2005, though he was suspended briefly in the 2004 offseason due largely to a recruiting scandal.
- Steve Jones
Steve Jones (born December 27, 1958) is an American professional golfer who is best known for winning the U.S. Open in 1996. Jones was born in Artesia, New Mexico. He was a semi-finalist at the U.S. Junior Amateur in 1976. He attended the University of Colorado and turned professional in 1981. In the early years of his professional career he did not have much success. He played the PGA Tour in 1982, but only made three cuts.
- John L. Hall
John Lewis "Jan" Hall is an American physicist. He shared one half of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics with Theodor W. Hänsch for his work in precision spectroscopy. Hall holds three degrees from Carnegie Institute of Technology, a B.S. (1956), an M.S. (1958), and a Ph.D. (1961). He completed his postdoctoral studies at the Department of Commerce's National Bureau of Standards (now known as NIST) and then worked there from 1962 until his retirement in 2004.
- Fred Anderson
Fred Anderson is an American historian of early North American history. Anderson received his B.A. from Colorado State University in 1971 and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1981. He has taught at Harvard and at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he is currently Professor of History. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Charles Warren Center of Harvard university, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.
- Michael Tracey
Michael Tracey is an English born professor of journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder, who has gained notoriety for his controversial opinions about the unsolved murder of JonBenét Ramsey. Tracey has a history of identifying false leads in the murder investigation, and has been called "the Ward Churchill of the Journalism Department."
- Hilda Borko
Hilda Borko is an educational psychologist who researches teacher cognition and changes in novice and experienced teachers' knowledge and beliefs. Her work has identified factors that affect teachers' learning of reform-based practices. She is chair of the educational psychology program area in the school of education at the University of Colorado, and is a former president of the American Educational Research Association.
- Max Karson
Max Karson (born April 19, 1985) is a satirist and a psychology student at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He was suspended on April 17, 2007 for remarks he made about the Virginia Tech massacre, but the suspension has since been lifted. Karson has written two self-published underground newspapers: "The Yeti" (while attending CU Boulder) and "The Crux" (while attending Amherst Regional High School).
- Vine Deloria Jr.
Vine Deloria, Jr. was an author, theologian, historian, and activist. Deloria was the grandson of Tipi Sapa "(Black Lodge)" aka Rev. Philip Joseph Deloria, an Episcopal priest and a leader of the Yankton band of the Nakota Nation. Vine Jr. was born in Martin, South Dakota, near the Pine Ridge Oglala Lakota Indian Reservation, and was first educated at reservation schools. Deloria's father, Vine Sr., studied English and Christian theology, …
- 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.
- Richard Johnson
Richard LaVon Johnson (born October 19, 1961 in Los Angeles, California) is a former professional American football player who played wide receiver in the NFL for three seasons for the Washington Redskins and Detroit Lions. Previosuly, he played with the Houston Gamblers of the USFL. He played college football for the University of Colorado at Boulder.
- John Mark Karr
John Mark Karr is an American who worked as a substitute teacher and made a false confession regarding the unsolved murder of six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey. (Ramsey was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home in Boulder, Colorado, on December 26, 1996.) Karr said he was present when Ramsey died and called her death an "accident." Authorities were made aware of Karr via e-mails he exchanged over the course of four years with Michael Tracey, …
- David Harrison
David Joshua Harrison (born August 15 1982 in Nashville, Tennessee) is an American professional basketball player at the center position for the NBA's Indiana Pacers. He was drafted by the Pacers out of the University of Colorado at Boulder with the 29th pick of the 2004 NBA Draft. He is 7 feet tall and weighs 280 pounds (127 kg). In college he was named First Team All-Big 12 and earned Honorable Mention All-America honors by the Associated Press as a senior.
- Jeff Bzdelik
Jeff Bzdelik (born December 1, 1952) is a former National Basketball Association coach, who coached the Denver Nuggets for slightly over two seasons, from 2002 through 2004. He is best remembered for leading the 2003-04 Nuggets to a 43-39 record, a 26-game improvement over the 2002-03 campaign when the team went 17-65. He is currently the head basketball coach for the Colorado Buffaloes. He was hired April 3 2007. Bzdelik is the highest paid coach ever at Colorado, …
- Deborah S. Jin
Deborah S. Jin (born 1968) is a physicist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); Assistant Professor Adjoint, Department of Physics at the University of Colorado; a fellow of the JILA, a NIST joint laboratory with the University of Colorado. In 2003, Dr. Jin's team at JILA made the first fermionic condensate. She won the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship "genius grant" in 2003, …
- Mary Frances Berry
Mary Frances Berry is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and the former chairwoman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. She is also the former board chair of Pacifica Radio. She is a past president of the Organization of American Historians, the primary professional organization for historians of the United States. At Penn, Berry teaches American legal history.
- Gordon Gee
Elwood Gordon Gee is an American academic. He will leave after seven years as Vanderbilt University’s Chancellor to return to The Ohio State University as president, a position he held from 1990-1997. His resignation is effective August 1, 2007. He has held more university presidencies than any other American. Prior to his appointment as Vanderbilt's chancellor on February 7, 2000, Gee was president of Brown University from 1997 to 2000, …
- Ricardo Patton
Ricardo Maurice Patton (born October 23, 1958) is the current head men's basketball coach at Northern Illinois University. Prior to this, he was the head coach at the University of Colorado. He was hired as head coach for the Buffaloes on March 5 1996, just days before the Big Eight Conference Tournament. Patton guided the Buffaloes to six post season appearances.
- Thomas Landauer
Dr. Thomas K. Landauer is a professor at the Department of Psychology of the University of Colorado. He was one of the pioneers of Latent semantic analysis, and in 1995 published a controversial analysis of the productivity paradox of information technology.
- Pamela Z
Pamela Z (born Pamela Brooks, 1956) is an American composer, performer, and audio artist who works primarily with her voice and live electronic processing. Raised in the Denver area, the African American Z received her bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she studied classical voice. After performing throughout Colorado as a rock musician under the name Pam Brooks, in 1985 she moved to San Francisco, …
- Paul Graham
Paul Graham is a college men's basketball coach. He has served as the head coach at Washington State University. Most recently, he was an assistant on Ricardo Patton's staff at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
- Christopher McKay
Christopher P. McKay is a planetary scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, studying planetary atmospheres, astrobiology, and terraforming. McKay received his PhD in astrogeophysics from the University of Colorado in 1982.
- David Kennedy
David Kennedy (born 1940) is an American advertising executive who co-founded Wieden+Kennedy. He and Dan Wieden were listed as number 22 on the "Advertising Age" 100 ad people of the 20th century. Kennedy graduated from University of Colorado at Boulder with a fine art degree. During the 1960s and 70s he worked for Leo Burnett Worldwide and Young & Rubicam in Chicago. He met Wieden at McCann-Erickson while working on the Nike, Inc. account in 1980.
- Gilbert F. White
Gilbert Fowler White (November 26, 1911 in Chicago - October 5, 2006 in Boulder, Colorado) was a prominent American geographer, sometimes termed the "father of floodplain management". White is known predominantly for his work on natural hazards, particularly flooding, and the importance of sound water management in contemporary society. He was raised in Chicago, and studied at the University of Chicago, where he earned his B.S. in 1932 and his PhD in 1942.
- Lisa Donovan
Lisa Donovan is an American actress and writer. Her self-produced comedic short films, published under the username "LisaNova", are among the most viewed videos on YouTube. Donovan was a student at the University of Colorado at Boulder before moving to Los Angeles, California in hopes of becoming an actress. There she founded Zappin Productions, a production company specializing in viral videos.
- Eric Allin Cornell
Eric Allin Cornell (born December 19, 1961) is a physicist who, along with Carl E. Wieman, was able to synthesize the first Bose-Einstein condensate in 1995. For their efforts, Cornell, Wieman, and Wolfgang Ketterle shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001. Cornell was born in Palo Alto, California and is a distinguished alumnus of both Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (1976-1979) and San Francisco's Lowell High School (1979-1980).
- Mack Brown
William Mack Brown (born August 27, 1951) is head coach of the University of Texas Longhorn football team. During the 2005 season, Coach Brown led the Longhorns to a Rose Bowl victory and a National Championship. With the 2006 season, Brown led his team to win 10 games or more for six straight years, which is the best current ten-win streak in the NCAA. Prior to coaching at Texas, Brown coached at Appalachian State, Tulane, and North Carolina.
- Tim Gill
Tim Gill (born October 18, 1953 in Hobart, Indiana) is an American computer software entrepreneur and gay rights activist. Early in his life, Gill showed both interest and talent in computer science first at Wheat Ridge High School in Jefferson County, Colorado, eventually studying the subject at University of Colorado at Boulder. After two jobs in high-tech at HP and a consulting services firm, Gill started his company, Quark, with a $2000 loan from his parents.
- David Haussler
David Haussler is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. He is also Professor of Biomolecular Engineering and Director of the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz; scientific co-director of the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research; and a consulting professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and UC San Francisco Biopharmaceutical Sciences Department.
- Hale Irwin
Hale S. Irwin (born June 3, 1945) is an American golfer. He is the uncle of Heath Irwin. Irwin was born in Joplin, Missouri. He graduated from the University of Colorado in 1967, where he was a two-time All-Big Eight defensive back, as well as an academic All-American in football. He won the individual NCAA Division I Championship in golf in 1967 and turned professional the following year.