This is a list of notable people associated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States.

Notable students and alumni Several names of Carnegie Mellon University Alumni Award recipients.Carnegie Mellon alumni (the select alumni list is arranged alphabetically).

Nobel laureates

Turing Award recipients

Wolf Prize recipients Raoul Bott (Ph.D. 1949), Wolf Prize in Mathematics, 2000

Enrico Fermi Award winners George Cowan (Ph.D. 1950), nuclear scientist who was involved in the Manhattan Project, the U.S. atomic initiative during World War II; founder of the Santa Fe Institute

Stockholm Prize in Criminology winners Daniel Nagin (B.S, M.S. 1971, Ph.D. 1976, professor), criminologist, 2014

National Medal of Science recipients Raoul Bott (Ph.D. 1949), Mathematical, Statistical, and Computer Sciences, 1987 Allen Newell (Ph.D. 1957, professor), Mathematical, Statistical, and Computer Sciences, 1992 George Pake (B.S., M.S. 1945), Physical Sciences, 1987 Frederick Rossini (B.S. 1925, M.S. 1926, DSc (hon.) 1948), Chemistry

National Medal of Technology and Innovation recipients Robert Dennard (Ph.D. 1958), dynamic random access memory (DRAM), 1988 Stephanie Kwolek (B.S. 1946), inventor of Kevlar, 1996 Mary Shaw (Ph.D. 1972), software architecture pioneer, 2012 Frank L. Stulen (1943), numerical control of machine tools, 1985

MacArthur Fellows Stefan Savage (B.S. 1991), professor at UC San Diego, 2017 Dawn Song (M.S. 1999), Carnegie Mellon professor of computer science (2002–2007), current professor at UC Berkeley, 2010 Luis von Ahn (Ph.D. 2005), Carnegie Mellon professor of computer science, 2006

Academia

Educators

Members of National Academy of Sciences

Members of National Academy of Engineering

Other prominent faculty

Architecture and design Nader Ardalan, architect of the Iran Center for Management Studies Roger Duffy, architect Dan Friedman, graphic designer Tasso Katselas, architect David M. Kelley (B.S. 1973), co-founder of IDEO Christian Schwartz, type designer Steven Song, architect and theoretician Cheng Tzu-tsai (M.Arch.), architect and political dissident; designed the 228 Massacre Monument in 228 Peace Memorial Park

Art

Business Paul Allaire (M.B.A 1966), former Xerox director (1986–1990), CEO (1990–2000), and chairman (1991–2000) Lenny Beer (B.A. 1971), media executive, producer and artist manager; co-founder and editor-in-chief of HITS Magazine and co-founder of MGMT Company Lane Bess (B.S. 1983), executive and venture capitalist; former CEO of Palo Alto Networks; former COO of Zscaler; founder of Bess Ventures and Advisory Peter Fitzhugh Brown (Ph.D.), hedge fund executive; CEO of Renaissance Technologies Ted Decker (M.B.A. 1993), CEO and president of The Home Depot Francisco D'Souza (Master of Science in Industrial Administration 1992), CEO of Cognizant Technology Solutions Dina Dublon (Master of Science in industrial administration 1979), former EVP and CFO of JP Morgan Chase; board member of Microsoft, Accenture, PepsiCo, and Carnegie Mellon University Marc Ewing (B.S. 1992), co-founder of Red Hat Inc., maker of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Yoshiaki Fujimori (Master of Science in industrial administration 1981), president and CEO of Lixil Group Scott Griffith (1981), chairman and CEO of Zipcar Cormac Kinney (B.S. 1993, Master of Science in industrial administration 1994), software inventor and entrepreneur Alexander Knaster (B.S. 1980), billionaire private equity investor; founder and chairman of Pamplona Capital Management Jim Levy (B.S. 1965, Master of Science in industrial administration 1966), founding CEO of Activision (1979–1986) Gerald C. Meyers (B.S., M.S.), former chairman of American Motors Sulajja Firodia Motwani, Indian woman entrepreneur Andrew Ng (B.S. 1997), co-founder of education technology company Coursera, director of Stanford University's Artificial Intelligence Lab Ted Nierenberg (B.S. 1944), founder of Dansk International DesignsFox, Margalit. "Theodore Nierenberg, Founder of Dansk, Dies at 86", The New York Times, August 3, 2009. Retrieved August 4, 2009. Brian Olsavsky (M.B.A), CFO of Amazon Ratul Puri, chairman of Hindustan Powerprojects Private Limited John Swearingen, petroleum industry executive David Tepper (Master of Science in industrial administration 1982), founder and chairman of Appaloosa Management, owner of the NFL's Carolina Panthers, and the MLS's Charlotte FC Madhavi Vuppalapati, CEO and chairperson of Prithvi Information Solutions Romesh Wadhwani (M.S., Ph.D.), billionaire private equity investor; founder and chairman of Symphony Technology Group Sunil Wadhwani, co-founder of Mastech Digital and IGATE Charles Erwin Wilson (1909), CEO of General Motors (1946–1953), president of General Motors (1941–1953) (See also: Government and politics section)

Government, law, public policy, and military

Literature

Performing arts, film, television and video games

Science and technology

Sports

NFL

Notable faculty

Nobel laureates

Walter Kohn (professor), Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1998Clary, David C. (2024). Walter Kohn: From Kindertransport and Internment to DFT and the Nobel Prize, World Scientific Publishing. Finn E. Kydland (Ph.D. 1973, professor), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences, 2004 Paul Lauterbur (research associate, Mellon Institute, 1951–1953), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2003 Robert Lucas Jr (professor), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences, 1995 Merton Miller (professor), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences, 1990 Franco Modigliani (professor), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences, 1985 John Pople (professor 1964–1993), Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1998 Edward C. Prescott (Ph.D. 1967, professor 1971–1980), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences, 2004 Herbert A. Simon (professor, 1949–2001), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences, 1978 Otto Stern (professor), Nobel Prize in Physics, 1943 Ada Yonath (postdoctoral researcher, 1969), Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2009

Turing Award recipients Manuel Blum (professor 1999–2018), computational complexity theory, 1995 Edmund M. Clarke (professor 1982–2020), model checking, 2007 Robert Floyd (professor 1963–1968), methodologies for the creation of efficient and reliable software, 1978 Geoffrey Hinton (professor 1982–1987), artificial intelligence, 2018 Allen Newell (Ph.D. 1957, professor 1961–1992), artificial intelligence, 1975 Alan Perlis (B.S. 1943, professor 1956–1971), compiler construction, 1966; first Turing Award winner Raj Reddy (professor 1969–present), artificial intelligence, 1994 Dana S. Scott (professor 1981–2003), nondeterministic machines, 1976 Herbert A. Simon (professor), artificial intelligence, 1975 Leslie Valiant (professor 1973–1974), machine learning, 2010

Kyoto Prize recipients Takeo Kanade (professor), information science, 2016

Wolf Prize recipients Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (professor), Wolf Prize in Chemistry, 2011 John Pople (professor 1964–1993), Wolf Prize in Chemistry, 1992

Stockholm Prize in Criminology winners Alfred Blumstein (professor), operations researcher and criminologist, 2007

National Medal of Science recipients Paul Lauterbur (research associate, Mellon Institute, 1951–1953), Physical Sciences, 1987 Allen Newell (Ph.D. 1957, professor), Mathematical, Statistical, and Computer Sciences, 1992 Herbert A. Simon (professor), Behavior and Social Sciences, 1986

National Medal of Technology recipients Watts Humphrey (professor), software engineering, 2003 Paul Lauterbur (research associate, Mellon Institute, 1951–1953), magnetic resonance technology, 1988 Mary Shaw (professor), software engineering, 2014

MacArthur Fellows Terrance Hayes, professor of poetry (2001–2013) Yoky Matsuoka, assistant professor affiliated with the Robotics Institute, the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (2001–2006), 2007 Anna Deavere Smith, acting instructor (1970–1971), 1996 Dawn Song (M.S. 1999), professor of computer science (2002–2007), 2010 Luis von Ahn (Ph.D. 2005), assistant professor of computer science, 2006

Members of National Academy of Sciences

Members of National Academy of Engineering

Other prominent faculty

Igor Ansoff (professor), "father of strategic management" and professor of Industrial Administration Jerome Apt (professor), former NASA astronaut and now professor of technology; executive director of Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center, Graduate School of Industrial Administration Elizabeth Bailey (professor 1983–1991), former dean and professor of Economics, Industrial Administration and Public Policy, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, now John C. Hower Professor of Business and Public Policy at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Lenore Blum (professor), renowned for being a National Science Foundation Career Advancement Award winner and for her contributions to computer science, wife of Manuel Blum Peter Braam (professor), computer scientist, founder of Lustre file system, Intermezzo file system Kathleen Carley (professor), computational sociologist and pioneer of dynamic network analysis William W. Cooper (professor), professor of operations research and accounting at the Tepper School of Business and founding dean of the Heinz College Lorrie Cranor (professor), expert in information privacy and Chief Technologist of the Federal Trade Commission Edward Creutz (professor), physics, the Manhattan Project Anthony Daniels (adjunct professor), actor, portrayed C-3PO in the Star Wars films Robyn Dawes (professor), pioneer in the field of mathematical psychology Scott Dodelson (professor, 2017–present), astrophysicist and former Fermilab scientist David Farber (professor, 2003–present), co-creator of ARPANET and former chief technologist for the FCC Richard Florida (professor, 1987–2005), economist and author of Rise of the Creative Class David Garlan (professor, 1990–present), pioneer in software architecture and self-adaptive software systems Francesca Gino, Italian-American behavioral scientist James Goodby (professor, 1989–present), Distinguished Service Professor of Engineering and Public Policy, former U.S. Foreign Service officer including US ambassador to Finland (1980–1981) William D. Haseman (faculty member, 1975–1980), IBM Professor of Information Technology Management at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, founding director of the Center for Technology Innovation in Milwaukee, and author John Heinz III (faculty member, 1970–1971), Senator from Pennsylvania Robert Hess (1938–1994), president of Brooklyn College Israel Hicks (1943–2010), stage director who presented August Wilson's entire 10-play Pittsburgh CycleWeber, Bruce. "Israel Hicks, Director of August Wilson's Cycle, Dies at 66", The New York Times, July 7, 2010. Accessed July 8, 2010. Henry Hornbostel (professor), helped found the Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture; designed the original buildings on campus Watts Humphrey (professor), former vice president of IBM, fellow of Software Engineering Institute Jeffrey Hunker (professor), senior director for Critical Infrastructure for the United States National Security Council (1999–2001), deputy assistant to the secretary of commerce (1996–1998), senior Department of Commerce official for environmental policy (1996–1998), former senior policy advisor to the secretary of commerce (1993–1996), former dean of the Heinz College Robert Kaplan (professor), co-creator of the Balanced Scorecard Michael Keaton (adjunct professor), actor known for films such as Beetlejuice, Batman, and Batman Returns Roberta Klatzky (professor), cognitive scientist and leading researcher in haptics Mordecai Lawner, actor and former faculty member for the theater program Jennifer Lerner, decision scientist and psychologist in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences Golan Levin, new media artist and current faculty member of the School of Art