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Century Tower – A tribute to the students who fought in both World War I and World War II

Ben Hill Griffin Stadium – Home of the Florida Gators

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1 Notable alumni or attendees
2 Board of Trustees
3 Honorary Degree Recipients
4 List of University of Florida Presidents
5 References

Notable alumni or attendees

Dr. Mark Adler

Dr. Nils Diaz

Don Estridge

Dr. Pramod Khargonekar

Dr. Nandini Nimbkar

Science and mathematics

Mark Adler, American researcher, known for his work in data compression, and creator of zlib and gzip
Linda H. Aiken, Current Director of the Center of Health Outcomes and Policy Research, and Professor at the University of Pennsylvania
James Allchin, Developed Microsoft Operating Systems, former executive
John D. Anderson, Curator of Aerodynamics at the National Air and Space Museum
John Vincent Atanasoff, Inventor of the first automatic electronic digital computer
C. D. Atkins, Co-creator of the frozen Orange Juice concentrate
Rodney J. Bartlett, American chemist, and Guggenheim Fellow
Charles A. Becker, Food scientist, winner of the Calvert L. Willey Award
Karen Ramey Burns, American forensic anthropologist, and Fulbright Scholar
Archie Carr, Eminent American zoologist, famed conservationist, and founder of the Caribbean Conservation Corporation
Robert Costanza, American ecological economist and the Gund Professor of Ecological economics and Director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont
Nils J. Diaz, Former Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Jonathan F. Earle, American Engineer, received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring
Philip Don Estridge, Led development of the original IBM Personal Computer (PC), and thus is known as "father of the IBM PC"
Manuel Fernandez, Entrepreneur, guiding force behind the Gavilan SC, the first laptop computer
Harry James Free, Co-creator of Gatorade
Fred Gage, American researcher of Alzheimer's disease and the spinal cord
Robert Gentry, Nuclear physicist and creationist advocate
John W. Griffin, Archaeologist, researcher, administrator, and author
Kelsie Harder, American onomastician
Steven Hebert, American nephrologist
Joe Hernandez, Current CEO for the biotech firm Innovative Biosensors
Richard Highton, Famous Zoologist, and current Professor Emeritus in Biology at the University of Maryland
Shere Hite, Famous sex educator and feminist
Horton H. Hobbs, Jr., Famous carcinologist, and former Head Curator of the United States National Museum
James Hollan, American cognitive scientist, and Professor at University of California, San Diego
George Kauffman, Former Professor emeritus for Chemistry, Guggenheim Fellow
Pramod Khargonekar, Current Dean of the University of Florida College of Engineering
Bruce C. Kone, Former Dean of the University of Florida College of Medicine
Joseph C. Joyce, Current Executive Vice President for the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
Robert Love, American author, speaker, and open source software developer
Louis G. MacDowell, Co-creator of the frozen Orange Juice concentrate
Chris Malachowsky, American computer scientist and co-founder of NVIDIA
Preston McAfee, Current Vice President for Yahoo! Research
Edwin H. McConkey, Prominent biologists who study evolution, current Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado
Jerald Milanich, American anthropologist and archaeologist
Lee Ann Newsom, Famed Anthropologist, and MacArthur Fellow
Nandini Nimbkar, Current President of the Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute in India
Jerald S. Paul, Current Deputy Administrator for the National Nuclear Security Administration
Peter Pritchard, Famed Zoologist
Anil K. Rajvanshi, Mechanical Engineer, and current Director of the Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute in India
Michael Reynolds, Notable Astronomer

Lesa Roe

Lesa Roe, Current Director of the NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia
Douglas A. Rossman, American herpetologist
Michael Ryschkewitsch, Current chief engineer for NASA
Dana Shires, Co-creator of Gatorade
Eduardo Sontag, Notable Argentine mathematician
Jeffrey Spieler, Current Director of Research for USAID
Lewis Stadler, American geneticist
Gilbert Stork, Creator of the Stork enamine alkylation, and Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Columbia University
Michael Thomas, American entomologist
James Thompson, Former Director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

Dr. Robert Grubbs

Nobel Prize winners

Robert Grubbs, Won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2005 for his work in the field of olefin metathesis
Marshall Nirenberg, Won the Nobel Prize for Physiology/Medicine in 1968 for describing the genetic code and how it operates in protein synthesis

Dr. William Fisher

Astronauts

William Frederick Fisher, NASA Astronaut, and current Medical Doctor
Bill Nelson, NASA Astronaut, current U.S. Senator, and former U.S. Representative
Ronald A. Parise, NASA Astronaut
Norman Thagard, NASA Astronaut, and current Tenured Professor of Engineering at Florida State University

Presidents of Universities & Colleges

Byong Man Ahn, Former President of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, Korea
George F. Baughman, Founding President of New College of Florida
Thomas G. Carpenter, Former President of Memphis State University, and founding President of University of North Florida
Marshall Criser, Former President of University of Florida and former Chairman of Scripps Florida
Harold B. Crosby, Former President of University of West Florida and Florida International University
Gay Culverhouse, Former President of Notre Dame College and President of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Sandy D'Alemberte, Former President of Florida State University and the American Bar Association
John Delaney, Current President of the University of North Florida, former mayor of Jacksonville
Donald Eastman, Current President of Eckerd College
Ray F. Ferrero Jr., Current President of Nova Southeastern University

Robert Lindgren

Fred Gainous, Former President of Florida A&M University
Carl Hite, President of Cleveland State Community College, Tennessee
Robert Lindgren, Current President of Randolph-Macon College
Charles N. Millican, Founding President of the University of Central Florida
Stephen C. O'Connell, Former President of the University of Florida
Eduardo J. Padrón, Current President of Miami Dade College
Paul G. Pearson, Former President of Miami University of Ohio and former Interim President for Rutgers University
William L. Proctor, Former Chancellor of Flagler College
Michael Rao, Current President of Central Michigan University
W. Reece Smith Jr., Former President of the University of South Florida, Rhodes Scholar, and former President of the American Bar Association
E. Jean Walker, Former President of Virginia Highlands Community College

Katherine Fernandez Rundle

Paul Tibbets

Politicians, Military, and Legal

Alto L. Adams, Former Justice on the Florida Supreme Court
J.D. Alexander, Current member of the Florida Senate, Grandson of Ben Hill Griffin Jr.
John R. Alison, The father of Air Force special operations
Harry Lee Anstead, Current Justice on the Florida Supreme Court
Winston E. Arnow, Judge who presided over the Gainesville Eight trial
Jeffrey Atwater, Current member of the Florida Senate, former CEO of Barnett Bank
Byllye Avery, Notable health care activist
Wayne Besen, Former spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, and gay rights advocate
Bob Butterworth, Former Florida Attorney General, Dean of St. Thomas University College of Law
Scott Camil, Political activist, known primarily for leading the Gainesville Eight
Skip Campbell, Former member of the Florida Senate, ran unsuccessfully for Florida Attorney General, Professor at Nova Southeastern University
Bernadette Castro, Former Commissioner of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation for the state of New York
Leonard F. Chapman, Jr., Commandant United States Marine Corps 1968-1972
Paula Dockery, Current member of the Florida Senate and current Majority Whip
Stan Dromisky, Former member of the Canadian House of Commons, current professor and a director of the Thunder Bay Art Gallery
Raymond Ehrlich, Former justice on the Florida Supreme Court
Richard Ervin, Former Florida Attorney General
George Greer, Judge who presided over the Terri Schiavo case, he serves in the Pinellas-Pasco County Circuit Court of Florida
Stephen H. Grimes, Former Justice on the Florida Supreme Court
Earl Faircloth, Former Florida Attorney General
Mallory Horne, Former President of the Florida Senate, former Speaker of the House of Representatives for Florida
Bruce Jacob, Former Assistant Attorney General, and prosecuted in Gideon v. Wainwright
Joseph Kittinger, Famous pilot for the U.S. Air Force, known for his high-altitude balloon flights & parachute jumps
Jeff Kottkamp, Current Florida lieutenant governor
James W. Kynes, Former Florida Attorney General, former Vice President for the Jim Walter Corporation
Jorge Labarga, Circuit court judge who refused a new recount during the 2000 U.S. Presidential election
Lewis Landes, Former U.S. Army Colonel and prominent Attorney
Row Lewis, Grenadian activist
Evelyn J. Lynn, Current member of the Florida Senate
Parker Lee McDonald, Former Justice of the Florida Supreme Court
Virginia Montes, Latina civil rights activist and feminist
Ben F. Overton, Former Justice on the Florida Supreme Court
Andrew Owens, Former Gator basketball player and current Judge
Beverly Perdue, Current North Carolina lieutenant governor
Robert C. Pittman, Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross
Nan Rich, Current member of the Florida Senate
Alan G. Rogers, Civil rights activist, and US Army Major who died in Operation Iraqi Freedom
Marco Rubio, Current Speaker of the House of Representatives for Florida
Katherine Fernandez Rundle, Current State Attorney for Miami, Florida
Harold Sebring, Judge at the Nuremberg Trials, former Florida Supreme Court judge
T. Terrell Sessums, Former Speaker of the House of Representatives for Florida, former Chairman of the Florida Board of Regents
William A. Shands, Former member of the Florida Senate and namesake for the Shands Hospital
Robert Shevin, Former Florida Attorney General, current Judge for Florida's Third District Court of Appeal
Bruce Smathers, Former Florida Secretary of State
Terry Smiljanich, Counsel to the U.S. Senate during the Congressional hearing on the Iran-Contra Affair
Rod Smith, Former member of the Florida Senate, successfully prosecuted Danny Rolling, ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Florida
Susan Stanton, Former city manager of Largo, Florida, and transsexual activist
Paul Tibbets, Pilot of the Enola Gay
W. Fred Turner, Successful in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright
Charles T. Wells, Current justice on the Florida Supreme Court
Jim Williams, Former Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Former Florida lieutenant governor

Lucius D. Battle

United States Ambassadors

Lucius D. Battle, U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, former President of the Middle Eastern Institute
William Bradford, Ambassador to the United Nations
Carey Cavanaugh, U.S. Ambassador and Director of Patterson School of Diplomacy
Stanley Tuemler Escudero, U.S. Ambassador to Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Azerbaijan
Barbara J. Stephenson, U.S. Ambassador to Panama
Donald L. Tucker, U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives

Bob Graham

Connie Mack III

United States Senators

Charles O. Andrews, Former U.S. Senator
Lawton Chiles, Former U.S. Senator and Florida governor
Bob Graham, Former U.S. Senator, Florida governor, and Presidential Candidate
William Luther Hill, Former U.S. Senator
Spessard Holland, Former U.S. Senator, Founder of Holland & Knight, and Former Florida governor
Connie Mack III, Former U.S. Senator and U.S. Representative
Bill Nelson, Current U.S. Senator, and former U.S. Representative
George A. Smathers, Former U.S. Senator, Presidential Candidate, and benefactor for the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida

Federal Judges

Sidney M. Aronovitz, United States District Judge
C. Clyde Atkins, United States District Judge
Rosemary Barkett, United States Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit
Susan H. Black, United States Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit
William J. Castagna, United States District Judge
Anne Conway, United States District Judge
Edward B. Davis, United States District Judge
Miles Davis, United States Magistrate Judge
William Dimitrouleas, United States District Judge
Patricia C. Fawsett, United States District Judge
Peter T. Fay, United States Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit
Jose A. Gonzalez, Jr., United States District Judge
William Terrell Hodges, United States District Judge
Marcia Morales Howard, United States District Judge
Paul Huck, United States District Judge
Elizabeth Jenkins, United States Magistrate Judge
Bruce Kasold, United States Appeals Judge for Veterans Claims
James W. Kehoe, United States District Judge
James Lawrence King, United States District Judge
Ben Krentzman, United States District Judge
Richard A. Lazzara, United States District Judge
Howell W. Melton, United States District Judge
Steven D. Merryday, United States District Judge
Stephan P. Mickle, United States District Judge
Donald M. Middlebrooks, United States District Judge
James S. Moody, Jr., United States District Judge
Jon B. Morgan, United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit
Thomas Morris, United States Magistrate Judge
Ralph Wilson Nimmons, Jr., United States District Judge

James Whittemore

Maurice M. Paul, United States District Judge
S. Jay Plager, United States Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit
Gregory A. Presnell, United States District Judge
William C. Sherrill, Jr., United States Magistrate Judge
John M. Bryan Simpson, United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit
John Richard Smoak, Jr., United States District Judge
Ursula Mancusi Ungaro-Benages, United States District Judge
James Whittemore, United States District Judge
George C. Young, United States District Judge

Gus Bilirakis

Corrine Brown

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Robert Wexler

Business executives, policy leaders, and others

William J. Alcorn, Current Senior Vice President for JCPenney
Raymond W. Alden III, Current Provost and Executive Vice President of Northern Illinois University
Alan Paul Anderson, Current Commissioner of the Federal Maritime Commission
DuBose Ausley, Former Chairman of the Florida Board of Regents
Holly Benson, Current Secretary of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation for Florida
Alan Stephenson Boyd, Former Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation
Robert B. Bradley, Current Vice President at Florida State University

Malcolm Bricklin

Malcolm Bricklin, Automotive entrepreneur and creator of the Bricklin SV-1
Carol Browner, Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Current Chairman of the Audobon Society
Dana Bullen, Former director of the Press Freedom Committee, former foreign editor of The Washington Star
Leighton Campbell, Prominent investment advisor, and author of "The Other Way"
Kiki Carter, Former environmental activist, organizer, songwriter, and columnist
Robert B. Carter, Current CIO of the FedEx Corporation
Alan Cohen, Current owner of the Florida Panthers hockey team
John J. Considine, Current Senior Minister for the Unity Church, former member of the Florida House of Representatives
Marshall Criser, Former Chairman of Scripps Florida, and former President of the University of Florida
J. Broward Culpepper, First Chancellor of the State University System of Florida, and former Dean at Florida State University
J.J. Daniel, Former Publisher of the Florida Times-Union and Jacksonville Journal
John Dillin, Former editor for the Christian Science Monitor
Paul Rand Dixon, Former Chairman and Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission
Ngo Dong, Founder of Cuong Nhu
William A. Emerson, Former Senior Vice President for Merrill Lynch
Mark Erstling, Senior Vice President and COO for the Association of Public Television Stations
Mark S. Fowler, Former Federal Communications Commissioner
Kevin Freeland, Current Vice President for Advance Auto Parts
Bill Gurley, General Partner at Benchmark Capital
Mason Hawkins, Founder of Southeastern Asset Management
W. Michael Heekin, Founding COO of WebMD, and Dean at the Florida State University College of Law
Kenneth T. Henson, Current Dean of Education at The Citadel
Lawrence J. Hoffman, Founder of Greenberg Traurig
Willis N. Holcombe, Current Chancellor of the Community College System of Florida
Van Ellis Huff, Inventor of the Jalousie Window
Maryfran Johnson, Former Editor-in-Chief of Computerworld, current VP & Editorial Director, CIO Decisions Media Group
Frank Karel III, Former Vice President of the Rockefeller Foundation
Mark E. Kaplan, Former Secretary of the Florida Department of Transportation
Jack Katz, Founder of the Panama Jack Company

Douglas Leigh, American advertising executive, and pioneer in signage and outdoor advertising, and created New York City's Times Square
Chris Linn, Current Vice President for MTV
Robert Love, Developer that uses open source, known for his contributions to the Linux kernel
Shannon McAleavey, Current Vice President for Walt Disney World
Bill McBride, Successful Florida businessman & lawyer, ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Florida in 2002
Marshall McDonald, Former Chairman of Florida Power and Light
James E. McLean, Current Dean of Education at the University of Alabama
Jennifer McMillin, Current Executive Vice President for Golin Harris International
Howell W. Melton Jr., Current Managing Partner for Holland & Knight
Richard Monroe, Current Vice President for Darden Restaurants Inc.
Dianna Fuller Morgan, Former Senior Vice President of Walt Disney World, currently Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees for UF
Mortimer Neufville, Former Executive Vice-President for the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges
Rosemarie Rolando Nye, Current Vice President for Avaya Inc
Wilford B. Poe, Current Vice President for the Space Systems Group
David Ropes, Former Vice President of Reebok
Joan D. Ruffier, Former Chairman of the Florida Board of Regents
Frank Shorter, Former Chairman of the United States Anti-Doping Agency, and Olympic Gold Medalist
Eric J. Smith, Current Education Commissioner of Florida
Hal Steinbrenner, Current Executive Vice President and General Partner for the New York Yankees
Haywood Sullivan, Former owner of the Boston Red Sox
Donald Thomas, Current COO of American Cancer Society
Melinda Lou Thomas, Namesake of Wendy's Restaurants and daughter of Wendy's founder Dave Thomas
James R. Thompson, Jr., Former Director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Jon L. Thompson, Former Vice President of the Exxon Mobil Corporation
Karen Thurman, Current Chairman for the Florida Democratic Party, and Former U.S. Representative
W. Brad Todd, Former Chair of the Dept. of Advertising's Professional Advisory, principal for the Richards Group
Julie K. Underwood, Current dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education
Lilya Wagner, Current Vice President for Counterpart International
Craig Waters, Spokesman for the Florida Supreme Court during the 2000 presidential election controversy
James L. Wattenbarger, Creator of the Florida Community Colleges System
Miles Wilkin, Current COO of Clear Channel Entertainment
Harry Wismer, Founding owner of the New York Titans, which ultimately became the New York Jets
Jean Hoehn Zimmerman, Current Vice President for CHANEL

Presidents & Chief Executive Officers

Carlos Alfonso, Current CEO of Alliant Partners, currently serving on the UF Board of Trustees
Cesar L. Alvarez, Current CEO of Greenberg Traurig
Martha Barnett, Former President of American Bar Association
Barry Berrish, Former President of the James B. Beam Distilling Company
Alan Stephenson Boyd, Former President of Amtrak, Airbus, and Illinois Central Railroad
J. Thomas Cardwell, Current CEO of Akerman Senterfitt
William A. Chen, Current President of the Asia America Multitechnology Association
Gay Culverhouse, Former President of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
J. Michael Cook, Former CEO of Deloitte & Touche
Joe B. Cordell, Current CEO of the Jim Walter Corporation
Sandy D'Alemberte, Former President the American Bar Association, and Florida State University
John Dasburg, Former CEO of Northwest Airlines and Former Chairman of the Burger King Corporation
Chris A. Davis, Former Chairman and CEO of McLeodUSA, and Current General Partner of Forstmann Little & Company
Deborah Dugan, Current President of Disney Publishing Worldwide, Former Vice President of Angel Records
Kurt Feazel, Current President of Pecten Trading Company, Former USAF Pilot, Former Gator Basketball player
Manuel Fernandez, Former CEO of Gartner, and Former Chairman of the UF Board of Trustees
Alvin Flanagan, Former President & Chairman of Gannett Broadcasting and Former Vice Chairman of United Television
Bill France, Jr., Former President of NASCAR
C. Del Galloway, Current CEO of Public Relations Society of America
Mércio Pereira Gomes, Former President of the National Foundation for Indigenous Peoples (FUNAI)
Harbert Gregory, Founder of the Gregory-Salisbury & Company, Former Chairman and CEO of Electrical Equipment, Inc.
Ben Hill Griffin III, Former Chairman and CEO of Alico Inc.
Glenda K. Griffin, Current President & CEO of Corporate Growth Consultants Inc.
Kelsie B. Harder, Former President of the American Name Society and Professor
Debra Harvey, Current President of Ron Jon Inc.
Susan Ivey, Current Chairman and CEO of Reynolds American
John Janick, Current Founder and CEO of Fueled by Ramen Records
William King, Former President of the National Academy of Design
Keith Koenig, Co-founder and current President of City Furniture
Josh Linkner, Founder and CEO of ePrize
Alan Levine, Current CEO of the Broward Hospital District, former Secretary of Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration
Stephen Knopik, Current CEO of Bealls Inc.
Hyung Khu Lim, Current CEO of Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology

Herb Peyton

James Mandell, Current President and CEO of Children's Hospital Boston
Betsy Markey, Current CEO of Syscom Services, currently a US Congressional candidate
Daniel Mica, Current President and CEO of the Credit Union National Association and former U.S. Congressman
David Miller, Former President of JC Penney
J. Keith Moyer, Current President for Minneapolis Star Tribune
David Nelms, Current CEO of Discover Financial
Donna Pastore, Current President of the National Association for Gils & Women in sports
Herb Peyton, Founder and President of the Gate Petroleum Company
Howard Roffman, Current President of Lucas Licensing
Al Rosen, Former President of the Houston Astros, and the New York Yankees
Sachio Semmoto, Current CEO for eAccess and eMobile
Eleanor Smeal,Former President of National Organization for Women
Chesterfield Smith, Former President of the American Bar Association, investigated the Watergate Scandal
W. Reece Smith Jr., Former President of the American Bar Association, Rhodes Scholar, and Former President of the University of South Florida
Dianne Snedaker, Current President of Ketchum Advertising, first female head of a major West Coast advertising agency
Sung Won Sohn, Current CEO of Hanmi Financial Corp, former Vice President of Wells Fargo
Carlos O. Torano, Current President of Toraño Cigars and Central America Tobacco
Herb Yalof, Former President of Macy's
Mark E. Yegge, Former CEO and Chairman of NexTrade Holdings
Jose Zaglul, Current President of EARTH University in Costa Rica
Jerry Zucker, Former CEO of the Polymer Group, Hudson's Bay Company, and made Forbes magazine's list of billionaires

Athletic Directors

William Carr, Former Athletic Director for the University of Houston, and University of Florida
Paul Dee, Former Athletic Director for the University of Miami
Doug Dickey, Former Athletic Director for the University of Tennessee
Bill Proctor, Forme

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