- Source: List of University of Texas at Arlington people
This is a list of notable people affiliated with the University of Texas at Arlington. Since its inception, the university has produced over 200,000 alumni, with approximately 130,000 living in the North Texas region.
Notable UTA alumni
= Arts and culture
=Acting and drama
Charles Baker - actor portraying the character Skinny Pete on Breaking Bad
Annie Ilonzeh - actress, General Hospital and the short-lived ABC reboot of Charlie's Angels
Kristi Kang - voice actress affiliated with Funimation
Lauren Lane - actress, The Nanny
Lou Diamond Phillips - actor, Golden Globe nominee
Morgan Woodward - actor, Golden Boot Award winner for work in Western television and movie genre
Cinema
Martin Lisius - filmmaker and storm chaser
Literature
Siddharth Katragadda - writer, filmmaker, and artist
Craig Lancaster - novelist
Music
The 440 Alliance - cello rock group, founding members Drew Johnson, Brandon Vanderford, Andrew Walton, Nathan Keefer, and Neil Fong Gilfillan
Mitch Grassi - singer, songwriter, YouTube personality with Scott Hoying on Superfruit, and member of the band Pentatonix
Ray Price - country and western singer, songwriter, guitarist, and Country Music Hall of Fame inductee
Gene Summers - singer, songwriter, musician, and international recording star; inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame in 1997
Photography
Brad Loper - Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer
Jennifer Thoreson - contemporary artist
= Business
=Pat Choate - economist, author, and vice-presidential candidate
Roland Fryer (BS '98) - economist, youngest tenured African-American professor in Harvard University's history, and Time Magazine's 2009 100 List
Roger Krone (MS '81 Aerospace Engineering) - CEO of Leidos
Kelcy Warren (BS '78 Civil Engineering) - Chairman and CEO of Energy Transfer Partners and 143rd richest American in 2013
Jim Wilkinson (BBA '93) - managing partner, International Business and Finance, Brunswick Group LLC; former Chief of Staff for Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson
= Engineering
=Kalpana Chawla - former NASA astronaut, died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
Wendy Okolo - NASA engineer
Robert L. Stewart - former NASA astronaut and retired Army brigadier general
= Government and military
=Richard E. Cavazos - first Mexican American four-star general of the United States Army
Tommy Franks - US Army general and Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Central Command 2000–2003
Michael Langley - first Black four-star general of the United States Marine Corps
= Politics
=Rodney Anderson (BBA '90) - Republican former member of the Texas House of Representatives from Grand Prairie
Cindy Burkett (BA '04 Political Science) - Republican former member of the Texas House of Representatives from Dallas County
Les Eaves - Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives since 2015 and businessman from Searcy, Arkansas
Kent Grusendorf - Republican former member of the Texas House of Representatives from Arlington
Sally Kern - former member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives
Bob McFarland - Republican former member of both houses of the Texas State Legislature from Arlington, 1977–1991
Hugh Parmer - former Texas politician and 36th mayor of Fort Worth
Diane Patrick - Republican former member of the Texas House of Representatives from Arlington
Betsy Price - 44th mayor of Fort Worth
Kenneth Sheets (BA '01 Political Science) - Republican former member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 107 in Dallas County
Steven Wayne Smith - former justice of the Texas Supreme Court
Wayne Smith (BS Civil Engineering) - Republican former member of the Texas House of Representatives from Harris County
Lupe Valdez - Texas' first Hispanic female nominee for governor and Texas' first Hispanic female sheriff
Royce West - Democratic member of the Texas State Senate
Ann Wynia - former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives and current president of North Hennepin Community College
= Sports
=Lanny Bassham - 1976 Summer Olympics gold medalist in 50 m rifle
Kenny Bernstein - drag racing driver and former NASCAR owner; nicknamed the "King of Speed"
Kaleb Canales - basketball coach; first Mexican-American head coach in NBA history
Michael Choice - professional baseball player, formerly in MLB; 10th overall draft pick by the Oakland Athletics in the 2010 Major League Baseball Draft
Bruce Collie - former NFL player
Jared Connaughton - former Olympic track athlete for Canada
Scott Cross - basketball coach, former head and assistant men's basketball coach at UTA; also a former player at UTA
Roy Dewalt - former Canadian Football League quarterback of the 1980s, mostly with the British Columbia Lions
Steve Foster - baseball coach and former MLB player for the Cincinnati Reds
Jinh Yu Frey - professional mixed martial artist and current Invicta FC Atomweight Champion
Takeshi Fujiwara - Olympic track athlete for Japan and previously El Salvador
Dillon Gee - former MLB player
Kevin Hervey - professional basketball player
Trey Hillman - baseball coach; manager of the Kansas City Royals 2008–2010
John Lackey - former MLB player and three-time World Series champion
Darryl Lewis - former NFL player
Mark Lowe - professional baseball player, formerly in MLB
Tim McKyer - former NFL player and three-time Super Bowl champion
Adam Moore - professional baseball player, formerly in MLB
Cliff Odom - former NFL football player
Daniel Ortmeier - former MLB player for the San Francisco Giants
Dave Owen - former MLB player
Hunter Pence - former MLB player and two-time World Series champion
Mike Rhyner - founder of Sports Radio 1310AM The Ticket in Dallas
Ryan Roberts - former MLB player
Douglas Russell - 1968 Summer Olympics swimming gold medalist in 100 m butterfly and 4 × 100 m medley relay
Austen Smith - 2024 Summer Olympics silver medalist in mixed skeet shooting and bronze medalist in women's skeet shooting
Notable faculty and staff
Dereje Agonafer - mechanical engineering professor; first home grown member of National Academy of Engineering
Ishfaq Ahmad - professor of computer science and engineering, IEEE Fellow, and notable researcher in high-performance computing and video coding
Dale A. Anderson - professor of aerospace engineering; former Vice President for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies
Michael P. Buckley - director of the Property Repositioning Program
Ramez Elmasri - Associate Chair, Computer Science and Engineering Department; died suddenly on May 14, 2022; best known for research that resulted in US Patent 5,440,730, Time Index Access Structure for Temporal Databases Having Concurrent Multiple Versions, with G. Wuu Bellcore, 1995, and related research
George Fix - mathematician who collaborated on several seminal papers and books in the field of finite element method
José Ángel Gutiérrez - political science professor, lawyer, and founding member and past president of the La Raza Unida Party
Susan Hekman - political science professor and director of the graduate humanities program
Catheleen Jordan - professor of social work
Charles T. McDowell - Professor Emeritus and former director of the Center for Post-Soviet and Eastern European Studies
Nils O Myklestad - professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering; an authority on mechanical vibration
David R Nygren - Presidential Distinguished Professor; experimental particle physicist; member of the National Academy of Sciences; inventor of the Time Projection Chamber; recipient of the 2018 Marie Curie award of the IEEE
Stanley Palmer - professor of history; scholar of British history; member of the UT Arlington Academy of Distinguished Teachers (1996)
Vasant K. Prabhu - electrical engineering professor; IEEE Life Fellow; inventor of communication system designs
K. R. Rao - electrical engineering professor; IEEE Fellow; inventor of discrete cosine transform
Allan Saxe - political science professor, author, philanthropist
References
External links
The University of Texas at Arlington
University overview
University history
UTAMavericks - fan site
College of Engineering Distinguished Alumni
The University of Texas at Arlington Alumni Relations
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