- Howard Jones
Howard Jones is the current lead singer of metalcore band Killswitch Engage. - John Flowers
John S. Flowers is a technology speaker, engineer, and reformed hacker. He has been involved in a number of technology-related start-up firms, both in Silicon Valley and Kansas, including the network security company nCircle (started in 1998 as Hiverworld.com and later renamed), and the search engine company Kozoru, which was sold to David Warthen, Co-Founder of Ask Jeeves on October 20, 2006. - Ashok Gadgil
Ashok Gadgil (born 1950 in India) works with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley. He is best known for "UV Waterworks" - a simple, effective and inexpensive water disinfection system. - Celeste Thorson
Celeste Thorson is an American actress, model, photographer and writer. She is best known for her role as a host in the Destination X Hawaii TV Series and modeling campaigns for Body Glove, Nokia, Yahoo!, BIOQUE, and Paul Mitchell. A political activist Thorson has worked with the Save the Children, Greenpeace, Human Rights Campaign, Public Interest Research Group, and Sierra Club. Along with modeling she's also appeared in several music videos including the Rolling Stones - Rain Fall Down. - Tech Tech N9ne
Tech N9ne (born Aaron Dontez Yates on November 8, 1971 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American rapper. In the 17 years since his first amateur performance, he has performed sold out shows from Los Angeles to New York, and is the popular rapper in his hometown of Kansas City. - Renee Blodgett
As President and Founder of Blodgett Communications, Renee Blodgett offers a very personalized approach of working with her clients, their customers and the influencers that impact them. She has been providing full service corporate communications, public relations and marketing consulting for worldwide technology companies and executives for nearly twenty years. - Ralph Yarro III
Ralph J. Yarro III is currently chairman of the board and the largest shareholder in The SCO Group, Inc. Previously, he was CEO of The Canopy Group, Inc.. His SCO holdings amount to about 5.621 million shares, or about 31.4% of SCO's common stock, based on his March 21, 2005 schedule 13D SEC filing. His SCO bio lists as prior experience employment by the Noorda Family Trust as a graphic artist. - Andrew Shuttleworth
IT and social media enthusiast & business connector in Japan who loves connecting with people. - Leo Laporte
Leo Laporte is a podcaster for TWiT.tv and is featured in podcasts such as This Week in Tech, Macbreak Weekly, does a video podcast called Macbreak Video, and much more. He was on Tech TV with shows like The Screensavers, and now makes his name from podcasting and more. His personal site and biography can be found at Leoville . - Philip Rivers
Philip Rivers (born December 8, 1981 in Decatur, Alabama) is an American football player who currently plays quarterback for the San Diego Chargers of the NFL. In the 2004 NFL Draft, Rivers was obtained in a draft-day trade with the New York Giants -- the Chargers drafted quarterback Eli Manning (despite a statement that he would not play for them) with the first overall pick, … - George Eads
George Coleman Eads III (born March 1, 1967) is an American actor, best known for his role as Nick Stokes on the CBS crime drama "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation". George was born in Fort Worth, Texas and grew up in Belton, Texas, 130 miles south of Fort Worth. His father is Arthur Coleman "Cappy" Eads, and his mother is Vivian Baker. George's stepfather, Dudley Baker, is a gynecologist. - Susan Graham
Susan Graham (born 1960, Roswell, New Mexico) is an American mezzo-soprano. She was raised in Midland, Texas. She is a graduate of Texas Tech University and of the Manhattan School of Music. She studied the piano for 13 years. She was a winner in the Metropolitan Opera's National Council Auditions, and also a recipient of the Schwabacher Award from the Merola Program of San Francisco Opera. Graham made her international début at Covent Garden in 1994, … - Travis Driskill
Travis Driskill (born August 1, 1971 in Omaha, Nebraska) is a relief pitcher for the Houston Astros. He is 6 feet tall and weighs 215 pounds. He bats and throws right handed. He attended Texas Tech University. He plays for the minors team Round Rock Express. - John Chaney
John Chaney (born January 21, 1932 in Jacksonville, Florida) is a retired American college basketball coach, best known for his tenure at Temple University. - Thomas C. Butler
Thomas Campbell Butler, M.D., is an American scientist specializing in infectious diseases including cholera and bubonic plague at Texas Tech University since 1987. He is credited with making oral hydration the standard treatment for diarrhea. Butler was arrested in 2003 (Kimberly, 2003) and prosecuted aggressively by the United States Justice Department and served a two year jail term ending in December 2005. - Kent Hance
Kent Ronald Hance (born November 14, 1942, in Dimmitt, Texas) is a lobbyist and lawyer who was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from west Texas, having served from 1979 to 1985. After his congressional service, he switched to the Republican Party. As a conservative Democrat, Hance represented the 19th Congressional District, which then stretched from Midland and Odessa to Lubbock. - Glenna Goodacre
Glenna M. Goodacre (born 1939 in Lubbock, Texas, USA) is a sculptor best known for having designed the Sacagawea dollar that entered circulation in the United States in 2000. She also designed the Vietnam Women's Memorial located in Washington, D.C. - Doug Ault
Douglas Reagan Ault was a Major League Baseball first baseman/designated hitter who played for the Texas Rangers (1976) and Toronto Blue Jays (1977-78, 1980). He batted right handed and threw left handed. Ault became the first Blue Jays player to hit a home run in team history, and with his 64 RBI in 1977, set a club rookie record that endured for a quarter-century, until Eric Hinske drove in 84 runs in 2002. - Timothy P. Marshall
Tim Marshall (b. October 17, 1956, Evergreen Park, Illinois) is a civil engineer and meteorologist concentrating on damage analysis, particularly that from wind and other weather phenomena. He is also a pioneering storm chaser and was editor of "Storm Track" magazine. - Grandmaster Ratte'
Grandmaster Ratte<nowiki>'</nowiki> (born April 1970, formerly known as Swamp Rat and then Swamp Ratte<nowiki>'</nowiki>) is one of the founders of the CULT OF THE DEAD COW (cDc) hacker group, along with Franken Gibe and Sid Vicious. His official title in the cDc is "Imperial Wizard of ExXxtasy." Ratte' is originally from Lubbock, Texas, though he now resides in Harlem, New York City, New York. - Scott Pelley
Scott Pelley (b. July 28, 1957) is an American television journalist, currently working as a correspondent for the CBS News magazine 60 Minutes. Born in San Antonio, Texas, Pelley grew up in Lubbock. He got his first job in journalism at age 15, as a copyboy for the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. He stayed close to home, graduating from the journalism school at Texas Tech University and beginning his career as a reporter at Lubbock's KSEL-TV in 1975. - Mike Leach
Mike Leach (born March 9, 1961 in Susanville, California) is the current head coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders football team. Leach has had a winning season every year since his tenure began at Tech. Former Texas A&M head coach Emory Bellard considers Leach the best offensive coach in the nation. - Charles Stenholm
Charles Walter "Charlie" Stenholm, (born October 26, 1938) is a politician from the state of Texas. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives for 13 terms, from 1979 to 2005. Stenholm was born in Stamford, Texas and he graduated from Texas Tech University - with a B.S. (1961) and an M.S. (1962) in Agriculture Education (1961). He has operated a cotton farm in West Texas for many years. - Bob Livingston
Bob Livingston is a singer-songwriter currently living in Austin, Texas. Livingston grew up in Lubbock where he attended Lubbock High School. He went to Texas Tech University and was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. In 1969, Livingston left Lubbock for Los Angeles to pursue a career in music. He moved to Austin in 1971 and was one of the founders of the Lost Gonzo Band. - Bam Morris
Byron "Bam" Morris (born January 13, 1972 in Cooper, Texas) is a former American football running back who played for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Chicago Bears, Baltimore Ravens, and the Kansas City Chiefs. Morris attended Texas Tech where he won the 1993 Doak Walker Award as the top running back in college football. Among other accomplishments while playing for the Red Raiders, Morris was ranked second in the nation in rushing yards per game in 1993. - Cory Morrow
Cory Morrow (born May 1, 1972 in Houston, Texas) is a singer/songwriter who has gained popularity throughout the Southwest. Morrow started playing guitar at Memorial High School in Houston. He continued to develop as a musician while attending Texas Tech University, where he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. In 1993, Morrow moved to Austin, Texas to pursue music as a career. - Ponty Bone
Ponty Bone is a Texan accordionist who has led his band, the Squeezetones to international popularity over a twenty year period. Originally from San Antonio, Texas, Bone began studying accordion when he was only 5 years old. Later, he learned to play trumpet also. Ponty attended Texas Tech in Lubbock. With his band, Ponty has shared the stage with such artists as The Clash, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, King Flaco Jimenez, Linda Ronstadt, and Ronnie Lane. - Nick Tredennick
Nick Tredennick is an IEEE fellow and a prominent American manager, inventor and VLSI design engineer. In 1968 he obtained the BSEE degree, and in 1970 the MSEE at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, and, in 1976 the Ph.D. at Electrical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, TX. From 1977 to 1979 Nick Tredennick was a Senior Design Engineer at Motorola, … - Andre Emmett
Andre Emmett (born August 27 1982 in Dallas, Texas) is an American professional basketball player. He currently plays for the NBA Development League team the Los Angeles D-Fenders. Emmett played college basketball at Texas Tech University. Emmett won the 2004 NCAA slam dunk contest, leaping over six children to take the title. Emmett earned the only perfect score of the night in the semifinals by tossing a bounce pass to himself off the back wall. - Paul Lockhart
Paul S. "Paco" Lockhart, Colonel U.S.Air Force, (born 28 April 1956) is a former American astronaut and a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions. Lockhart, born and raised in Amarillo, Texas, earned degrees in mathematics and aerospace engineering from Texas Tech University and the University of Texas at Austin before being commissioned into the United States Air Force in 1981. A test pilot for the F-16 aircraft, Lockhart was selected as an astronaut candidate in 1996. - Duane Simolke
Duane Simolke (born 1965) is an American writer based in Lubbock, Texas, who has authored "The Acorn Stories", "Degranon: A Science Fiction Adventure", "Holding Me Together", "The Return of Innocence" (with Toni Davis), and "New Readings of Winesburg, Ohio", based on the original Sherwood Anderson classic. He edited and co-wrote the spin-off "The Acorn Gathering" and donated the royalties of that work to the American Cancer Society. - Laura Vlasak Nolen
Laura Vlasak Nolen (born 1977, Dallas, Texas) is an American mezzo-soprano. She is a graduate of Texas Tech University and attended Indiana University. She has been hailed by the Financial Times for her "large and lush mezzo-soprano." Ms. Nolen was honored by New York City Opera with the Richard F. Gold Career Grant which is awarded to a young American singer who appears destined for a major career. - Sankar Chatterjee
Sankar Chatterjee is a paleontologist, and is the Paul W. Horn Professor of Geosciences at Texas Tech University and Curator of Paleontology at the Museum of Texas Tech University. Dr. Chatterjee's work has focused on the origin, evolution, functional anatomy, and systematics of Mesozoic vertebrates, particularly basal archosaurs, dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and birds. He has done important work on poorly known Late Triassic reptiles in India, including phytosaurs, rhynchosaurs, … - Jo Carr
Bettye Jo Crisler Carr (September 29, 1926-July 7, 2007) was an English professor at Texas Tech University in Lubbock when she proclaimed her call to pastoral ministry. She in turn became the first woman appointed superintendent in the Northwest Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church. She served from 1989 to 1993 as superintendent of the Pampa district and in the administrative role of dean of the bishop's cabinet. Carr was a preacher, a teacher, an author, … - Dave White
Dave White (born June 7, 1964 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire) is an American writer, music critic, and film critic. White is a prolific freelance writer; his reviews, interviews, and critical analysis of films, music, and pop culture has been featured in The Village Voice, Instinct, The Advocate, Glue, and Frontiers, among others. His writing stint as a music critic for Instinct began as a result of a letter to the editor about their existing coverage of music. - Upe Flueckiger
Upe Flueckiger, also known as Urs Peter Flueckiger, is an Associate Professor of architecture at Texas Tech University. A native of Switzerland, Flueckiger is internationally renown for the design of his house in Lubbock, Texas. - Jeff Mitchell
Jeff Mitchell (born August 8, 1954) is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1970s and 1980s. He has also been a head coach in various college men's and women's golf programs. Mitchell was born in Rockford, Illinois. He attended Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas and was a member of the golf team. While a student at Texas Tech, he won the 1975 and 1976 West Texas Championships. Mitchell turned pro and joined the PGA Tour in 1976. - Burwell B. Bell III
General Burwell Baxter Bell III (born 9 April 1947) is a senior member of the United States Army. He was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and was commissioned upon graduation from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he received his undergraduate degree in Business Administration. His military education includes the Armor Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, Command and General Staff College, and the National War College. - Darvin Ham
Darvin Ham (born July 23 1973 in Saginaw, Michigan) is a professional basketball player formerly in the NBA. He attended Saginaw High School and Texas Tech University, where he gained national attention by shattering the backboard on a slam dunk during the 1996 NCAA Tournament against the University of North Carolina. The dunk shifted momentum for Texas Tech, catapulting them to the first sweet sixteen in school history. - Thomas Everett
Thomas Gregory Everett (born November 21, 1964 in Daingerfield, Texas) is a former American football safety in the NFL. He played nine seasons for three teams (Pittsburgh Steelers 1987-1991, Dallas Cowboys 1992-1993, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 1994-1995). He attended Baylor University where he won the Jim Thorpe Award as the top defensive back in college football. As a member of the Cowboys in 1993 he made the Pro Bowl.
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