Notable Alumni of Lehigh University [Sorted List]

1. David M. Peterson

1894-1919 (aged 25)

military personnel

Major David McKelvey Peterson was a 1915 Lehigh University graduate who became a World War I flying ace. He achieved six aerial victories, one of which was earned in the Lafayette Escadrille; five were officially credited during his tenure with the United States Army Air Service.

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2. D. M. Balliet

1866-1960 (aged 94)

American football coach American football player

David Milton "Pete" Balliet was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Auburn University for one game in February 1893, at Purdue University from 1893 to 1895 and again in 1901, and at Washington and Lee University from 1903 to 1904, compiling a career head coaching record of 25–13–1. Balliet played as...

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3. John M. Thome

1843-1908 (aged 65)

astronomer

John Macon Thome was an American-Argentine astronomer. Some sources say John Macom Thome. He is sometimes known as Juan M. Thome.

4. Reginald Lenna

1912-2000 (aged 88)

business executive

Reginald Alexander Lenna RNO was an American Army officer and businessman. He was the Chief Executive Officer and chair of the Board of Blackstone Corporation from 1951 to 1985.

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5. Edward Cahn

1933-. (aged 93)

lawyer judge

Edward Norman Cahn is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

6. Martin C. Faga

1941-2023 (aged 82)

civil servant electrical engineer

Martin Clark Faga was the tenth director of the National Reconnaissance Office (DNRO).

7. Lori Ehrlich

1963-. (aged 63)

lawyer politician

Lori A. Ehrlich is a former State Representative for the Massachusetts 8th Essex District. Ehrlich won her seat on a March 4, 2008, special election after her predecessor, Doug Petersen, resigned. Peterson was appointed Commissioner of Agriculture by Governor Deval Patrick. After completing Petersen's term, Ehrlich went on to win re-election in November 2008. During her tenure as a state...

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8. John R. Patrick

1945-. (aged 81)

engineer

John Russell Patrick is a business executive and author in the information technology industry. During his tenure as a vice president at IBM, he helped launch the IBM ThinkPad and the OS/2 operating system and was later an influential force behind IBM’s early adoption of the Internet and World Wide Web.

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9. Henry Sturgis Drinker

1850-1937 (aged 87)

mechanical engineer

Henry Sturgis Drinker was an American mechanical engineer, lawyer, author, and the fifth president of Lehigh University. He worked for the Lehigh Valley Railroad and led construction of the two-mile tunnel through Musconetcong Mountain. He published several books and articles on tunnel construction and railroad law. He served as president of the American Forestry Association from 1912 to 1916 and...

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10. Jane Hillston

1963-. (aged 63)

computer scientist engineer university teacher

Jane Elizabeth Hillston is a British computer scientist who is professor of quantitative modelling and former head of school in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

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11. Alvan Macauley

1872-1952 (aged 80)

patent attorney

James Alvan Macauley Sr. was the president of Packard Motor Car Company] from 1916 until 1939.

12. Robert A. Hurley

1895-1968 (aged 73)

politician

Robert Augustine Hurley was an American politician and the 73rd Governor of Connecticut.

13. Anthony G. Collins

1949-. (aged 77)

Anthony G. Collins was the 16th President of Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York.

14. Archibald E. Olpp

1882-1949 (aged 67)

politician

Archibald Ernest Olpp was an American physician and politician who served a single term in the U.S. representative from New Jersey. He was the first Republican to be elected to Congress from the New Jersey's 11th congressional district since it was created in 1913.

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15. Edward J. Stack

1910-1989 (aged 79)

lawyer politician

Edward John Stack was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Florida.

16. Manuel V. Domenech

1869-1942 (aged 73)

painter engineer politician architect

Manuel V. Domenech Ferrer was a Puerto Rican politician and engineer. He was mayor of Ponce in 1904, and designer of Casa Armstrong-Poventud, Rosaly-Batiz House, and the 1898 Casas Gemelas (Twin Houses) built for Luis Casals, among others prominent structures.

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17. Matt McClung

1868-1908 (aged 40)

American football player

Matthew Henry McClung Jr., sometimes referred to as Dibby McClung, was an American college football player, coach and official. Born into a powerful southern family, McClung was raised in Memphis, Tennessee until he was accepted into Lehigh University. Immediately establishing himself as a skilled sportsman, McClung participated on both the school's football and baseball teams. He served as captain of...

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18. Paul Hartzell

1953-. (aged 73)

baseball player

Paul F. Hartzell is an American former professional baseball pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) in all or part of six seasons, between 1976 and 1984. During that time, he pitched for the California Angels, Minnesota Twins, Baltimore Orioles, and Milwaukee Brewers of the American League (AL). Hartzell retired in July 1981, but returned to baseball in 1984,...

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19. Fayette Avery McKenzie

1872-1957 (aged 85)

sociologist

Fayette Avery McKenzie was an American educator and president of Fisk University from 1915 to 1925. He received his doctorate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1908. His dissertation, The American Indian in Relation to the White Population of the United States was published. He taught and studied Native Americans and was one of the founders of the Society...

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20. Chris Campanioni

1985-. (aged 41)

novelist poet model

Chris Campanioni is a first-generation American writer and the son of exiles from Cuba and Poland. He was born in Manhattan and raised in New Jersey, studied literature and critical theory at Lehigh University, Fordham University, and the CUNY Graduate Center, where he received his PhD. He has taught Latinx literature, journalism, media studies, and creative writing at Baruch College,...

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21. Robert E. Kraut

1946-. (aged 80)

computer scientist university teacher

Robert E. Kraut is an American social psychologist who studies human-computer interaction, online communities, internet use, group coordination, computers in organizations, and the role of visual elements in interpersonal communication. He is a Herbert Simon University Professor Emeritus of Human-computer Interaction at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

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22. Herman Schneider

1872-1939 (aged 67)

engineer architect

Herman Schneider was an American engineer, architect, and educator. He was the main founder of cooperative education in the United States and president of the University of Cincinnati.

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23. Ralph Cheli

1919-1944 (aged 25)

military personnel

Ralph Cheli was a major in the United States Army Air Forces and a recipient of the Medal of Honor. He served as the commanding officer of the 405th Bombardment Squadron (Medium) in the Fifth Air Force's 38th Bombardment Group, based at Durand Airfield, Port Moresby, New Guinea.

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24. Jarrod Johnson

1969-. (aged 57)

American football player

Jarrod Godette Johnson, is a former professional American football player who played in the National Football League for the Pittsburgh Steelers and San Diego Chargers, as well as for the Sacramento Surge of the World League of American Football, with whom he won the World Bowl in 1992.

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25. William Butterworth

1864-1936 (aged 72)

business executive

William Butterworth was an American business executive, who served as both president and chairman of John Deere.

26. Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe

1864-1960 (aged 96)

historian biographer editor writer

Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe Jr. was an American editor, author, and the recipient of the 1925 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.

27. Edwin H. Simmons

1921-2007 (aged 86)

non-fiction writer military officer

Edwin Howard Simmons was a United States Marine Corps brigadier general. He was a career officer who served in combat during three wars — including landing at Inchon and fighting at the Chosin Reservoir in the Korean War. He was renowned as the official Marine Corps historian, being called "the collective memory of the Marine Corps". His 1974 book The...

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28. Daphne Jordan

1959-. (aged 67)

politician

Daphne Veras Jordan is an American politician and attorney from the state of New York. A Republican, Jordan represented the 43rd district in the New York State Senate from 2019 to 2022. During Jordan's tenure, Senate District 43 included Columbia County and portions of Rensselaer, Saratoga, and Washington counties. Prior to her Senate tenure, Jordan served as a member of...

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29. Stephen G. Simpson

1945-. (aged 81)

mathematician university teacher

Stephen George Simpson is an American mathematician whose research concerns the foundations of mathematics, including work in mathematical logic, recursion theory, and Ramsey theory. He is known for his extensive development of the field of reverse mathematics founded by Harvey Friedman, in which the goal is to determine which axioms are needed to prove certain mathematical theorems. He has also...

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30. Ray O'Connell

politician

Ray O'Connell is an American politician who served as the 42nd Mayor of Allentown, Pennsylvania. He assumed the office on March 29, 2018 following the resignation of former mayor Ed Pawlowski.

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31. David MacAdam

1910-1998 (aged 88)

physicist

David Lewis MacAdam was an American physicist and color scientist who made important contributions to color science and technology in the fields of colorimetry, color discrimination, color photography and television, and color order.

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32. William Bowie

1872-1940 (aged 68)

engineer surveyor

William Bowie was an American geodetic engineer noted for promoting geophysical sciences and for being the first President of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The William Bowie Medal, the highest honor of the AGU, is named in his honor.

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33. Albert P. Crary

1911-1987 (aged 76)

glaciologist geophysicist

Albert Paddock Crary, was an American pioneer polar geophysicist and glaciologist. He was the first person to have set foot on both the North and South Poles, having made it to the North Pole on May 3, 1952 (with Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict) and then to the South Pole on February 12, 1961, as the leader of...

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34. Eugene Grace

1876-1960 (aged 84)

industrialist

Eugene Gifford Grace was the president of Bethlehem Steel from 1916 to 1945, and chairman of the board from 1945 until his retirement in 1957. He also served as president of the American Iron and Steel Institute, and sat on the board of trustees for Lehigh University.

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35. John Kappler

1943-. (aged 83)

university teacher biochemist immunologist

John Wayne Kappler is a professor in the Department of Integrated Immunology at National Jewish Health. His principal research is in T cell biology, a subject he collaborates on with his wife Philippa Marrack. In 1983 they discovered the T cell receptor, together with Ellis Reinherz and James Allison.

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36. Donald L. Ritter

1940-. (aged 86)

university teacher politician

Donald Lawrence Ritter is a former Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. From 1979 to 1993, Ritter represented Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district, which then included the Lehigh Valley region of the state.

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37. Bill Maloney

1958-. (aged 68)

businessperson

Bill Maloney is an American businessman and politician. He was a two-time candidate for the governorship of West Virginia. He was the Republican nominee in the 2011 West Virginia gubernatorial special election, in which he lost by 7,546 votes, and again for the regular election in 2012, which he lost by 31,434 votes.

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38. Paul Lewis Maloney

1949-. (aged 77)

lawyer judge

Paul Lewis Maloney is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan.

39. Kevin J. Kennedy

1955-. (aged 71)

businessperson

Kevin J. Kennedy is an American business executive. He is currently the CEO of Quanergy Systems (NYSE: QNGY and QNGY.WS), a growth company that develops software and sensor technology enabling 3D perception and autonomy, after joining the Board in 2019. Before Quanergy, Mr. Kennedy was the president and CEO of Avaya Inc. from January 2009 to October 2017

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40. Marwan Awartani

1949-. (aged 77)

docent mathematician academic

Marwan Awartani is a Palestinian politician, professor and educator who formerly served as the Minister of Education of the Palestinian National Authority from 13 April 2019 to 3 September 2023. He is also President of the Palestinian Society for Mathematical Sciences, Alpha International, and Palestine Technical University-Kadoorie.

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41. Jordan Ritter

1978-. (aged 48)

software architect

Jordan Ritter is an American serial entrepreneur, software architect and angel investor. He is best known for his work at Napster, the file-sharing service he co-founded along with Shawn Fanning and others. His time at Napster was documented in Joseph Menn's book All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster and Alex Winter's film Downloaded.

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42. Daniel McFarlan Moore

1869-1936 (aged 67)

inventor electrical engineer

Daniel McFarlan Moore was an American electrical engineer and inventor. He developed a novel light source, the "Moore lamp", and a business that produced them in the early 1900s. The Moore lamp was the first commercially viable light-source based on gas discharges instead of incandescence; it was the predecessor to contemporary neon lighting and fluorescent lighting. In his later career...

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43. Stephen J. Benkovic

1938-. (aged 88)

university teacher chemist

Stephen James Benkovic is an American chemist known for his contributions to the field of enzymology. He holds the Evan Pugh University Professorship and Eberly Chair in Chemistry at The Pennsylvania State University. He has developed boron compounds that are active pharmacophores against a variety of diseases. Benkovic has concentrated on the assembly and kinetic attributes of the enzymatic machinery...

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44. Marc Holtzman

1960-. (aged 66)

Marc Holtzman is an American banker and former politician who is the chairman of the Bank of Kigali, Rwanda's largest financial institution. Additionally, is chairman of CBZ Holdings, the largest financial institution in Zimbabwe.

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45. Morris Llewellyn Cooke

1872-1960 (aged 88)

engineer mechanical engineer

Morris Llewellyn Cooke was an American engineer, best known for his work on Scientific Management and Rural Electrification.

46. Tim Kempton Jr

1995-. (aged 31)

basketball player

Timothy Vincent Kempton Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Lehigh Mountain Hawks, where he was the 2015 and 2016 Patriot League Player of the Year. He is the son of retired National Basketball Association (NBA) player Tim Kempton.

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47. John-David F. Bartoe

1944-. (aged 82)

astrophysicist astronomer astronaut physicist

John-David Francis Bartoe is an American astrophysicist. He is the Research Manager for the International Space Station (ISS) at NASA's Johnson Space Center. He provides oversight for the Program Manager concerning the research capability, research hardware, and research plans of the ISS. As a civilian employee of the US Navy, he flew aboard Space Shuttle mission STS-51-F as a Payload...

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48. Paul McHale

1950-. (aged 76)

politician military officer

Paul Francis McHale Jr. is a retired American lawyer and politician as well as a United States Marine. From 2003 to 2009, he served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense. From 1993 to 1999, he represented Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.

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49. James Geurts

James F. Geurts is an American former government official and retired United States Air Force colonel who served in 2021 as the official performing the duties of United States Under Secretary of the Navy.

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50. Lea Giménez

1981-. (aged 45)

economist

Lea Giménez is a Paraguayan economist and the former finance minister of Paraguay. She was the first woman to hold the position and the youngest person to ever hold the position of finance minister in Latin America. She currently serves as Executive Advisor to the President of the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF). She has an...

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51. Colin J. Kilrain

1958-. (aged 68)

Colin James Kilrain is a retired United States Navy vice admiral who last served as the assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from October 20, 2021 to February 2023. He previously served as the associate director for military affairs (ADMA) for the Central Intelligence Agency from 2019 to 2021. He is the former commander of Special...

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52. Peter D. Feaver

1961-. (aged 65)

political scientist

Peter Douglas Feaver is an American political scientist. He is currently a professor of political science and public policy at Duke University and a civil-military relations scholar.

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53. Christopher Porrino

1967-. (aged 59)

politician

Christopher S. Porrino is an American trial lawyer who served as the Attorney General of New Jersey from 2016 to 2018. Porrino is currently a partner of Lowenstein Sandler, and chair of the firm's Litigation Department.

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54. William Amelio

businessperson

William J. "Bill" Amelio is an American business executive who was the CEO of Lenovo. He was also the CEO of Avnet.

55. Maria Jacquemetton

screenwriter television producer

Maria Jacquemetton is an American television writer and producer. She graduated from Lehigh University in 1983. She served as a producer for the first season of Mad Men and co-wrote, with her husband, Andre, three episodes of the season.

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56. Terry Hart

1946-. (aged 80)

military officer aircraft pilot astronaut

Terry Jonathan Hart is an American mechanical and electrical engineer, a retired United States Air Force lieutenant colonel and pilot, and former NASA astronaut. Hart served as a mission specialist on the STS-41-C mission, where tasks included operation of the shuttle Remote Manipulator System (RMS) arm to deploy the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) and Solar Max satellite.

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57. Matt McBride

1985-. (aged 41)

baseball player

Matthew Hagerty McBride is an American former professional baseball first baseman and catcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Colorado Rockies and Oakland Athletics.

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58. Thomas Duane

1955-. (aged 71)

politician

Thomas K. Duane is an American politician from New York, who served in the New York State Senate from 1999 to 2012, and in the New York City Council from 1992 to 1998.

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59. Andrew H. Knoll

1951-. (aged 75)

university teacher paleontologist botanist

Andrew Herbert Knoll is an American paleontologist and paleobotanist, who is the Fisher Research Professor of Natural History and a Research Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. Born in West Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1951, Andrew Knoll graduated from Lehigh University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1973 and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1977 for...

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60. Edward Avery McIlhenny

1872-1949 (aged 77)

explorer ornithologist zoologist

Edward Avery McIlhenny, son of Tabasco Company founder Edmund McIlhenny, was an American businessman, explorer, bird bander and conservationist. He established a private wildlife refuge around his family estate on Avery Island and helped in preserving a large coastal marshland in Louisiana as a bird refuge. He also introduced several exotic plants into Jungle Gardens, his private wildlife garden.

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61. Francis Eugene Walter

1894-1963 (aged 69)

director lawyer banker politician

Francis Eugene Walter was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He was a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee from 1951 to 1963, serving as chair of that committee for the last nine of those years. He wanted to minimize immigration and was largely responsible for the McCarran–Walter Act of 1952, which kept the...

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62. Richard Verma

1969-. (aged 57)

diplomat

Richard Rahul Verma is an American diplomat, who served as the deputy secretary of state for management and resources, a position he held from April 5, 2023 to January 20, 2025. He served as the assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs from 2009 to 2011, and as the U.S. ambassador to India from 2014 to 2017. He served as...

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63. Paul Zane Pilzer

1954-. (aged 72)

economist writer businessperson

Paul Zane Pilzer is an American economist, New York Times best-selling author, and social entrepreneur. He has written 13 books, the founder of six companies, and has been profiled in more than 100 publications including on the front page of The Wall Street Journal.

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64. Edwin Kneedler

1946-. (aged 80)

lawyer

Edwin S. Kneedler is an American lawyer who was appointed to serve as acting United States Solicitor General by President George W. Bush on the day of President Obama's inauguration, Jan 20, 2009, served until March 19, 2009, with bracketing appointment as Deputy United States Solicitor General, a position he has held since 1993. At his retirement from this position...

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65. William P. Gottlieb

1917-2006 (aged 89)

teacher photographer journalist

William Paul Gottlieb was an American photographer and newspaper columnist who is best known for his classic photographs of the leading performers of the Golden Age of American jazz in the 1930s and 1940s. Gottlieb's photographs are among the best known and widely reproduced images of this jazz era.

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66. Pongpol Adireksarn

1942-. (aged 84)

writer politician

Pongpol Adireksarn is a Thai novelist, documentarist and former politician.

67. Maryellen Noreika

1966-. (aged 60)

judge

Maryellen Noreika is an American lawyer and jurist serving since 2018 as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.

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68. Richard Harding Davis

1864-1916 (aged 52)

novelist writer journalist playwright war correspondent

Richard Harding Davis was an American journalist and writer of fiction and drama, known foremost as the first American war correspondent to cover the Spanish–American War, the Second Boer War, and World War I. His writing greatly assisted the political career of Theodore Roosevelt. He also played a major role in the evolution of the American magazine. His influence extended...

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69. James E. Talmage

1862-1933 (aged 71)

theologian geologist writer

James Edward Talmage was an English chemist, geologist, and religious leader who served as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1911 until his death.

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70. Russell Lee

1903-1986 (aged 83)

photojournalist photographer journalist

Russell Werner Lee was an American photographer and photojournalist, best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) during the Great Depression. His images documented the ethnography of various American classes and cultures. Lee was known for his technical innovation, particularly his use of direct flash photography to capture indoor environments that other photographers of the era avoided.

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71. Kyle Neptune

1985-. (aged 41)

basketball player basketball coach

Kyle Alexander Neptune is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is an assistant coach for the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He previously served as head coach of the Villanova Wildcats men's basketball team.

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72. Gina Lewandowski

1985-. (aged 41)

association football player

Gina Loren Lewandowski is an American former soccer player who is currently an assistant coach for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

73. Stacey Cunningham

1974-. (aged 52)

banker

Stacey Cunningham is an American banker who served as the 67th president of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) from 2018 to 2022. She was the second female president of the NYSE, but the first to hold full leadership of the exchange.

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74. Cathy Engelbert

1964-. (aged 62)

basketball player businessperson

Catherine M. Engelbert is an American businesswoman who has served as the commissioner of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) since 2019. She previously served as the first female CEO of Deloitte.

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75. Alexander M. Patch

1889-1945 (aged 56)

military officer

Alexander McCarrell Patch was a senior United States Army officer who fought in both world wars, rising to rank of general. During World War II, he commanded U.S. Army and Marine Corps forces during the Guadalcanal campaign in the Pacific, and the Seventh Army on the Western Front in Europe.

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76. Geoff Diehl

1969-. (aged 57)

politician

Geoffrey G. Diehl is an American politician from Massachusetts. A Republican, he represented the 7th Plymouth district in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2011 to 2019.

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77. Joe Morgenstern

1932-. (aged 94)

journalist film critic

Joe Morgenstern is an American writer and retired film critic. He wrote for Newsweek from 1965 to 1983, and then for The Wall Street Journal from 1995 to 2022. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2005. Morgenstern has also written for television.

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78. Robert Serber

1909-1997 (aged 88)

university teacher nuclear physicist physicist

Robert Serber was an American physicist who participated in the Manhattan Project. Serber's lectures explaining the basic principles and goals of the project were printed and supplied to all incoming scientific staff, and became known as The Los Alamos Primer. The New York Times called him "the intellectual midwife at the birth of the atomic bomb."

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79. Ali Al-Naimi

1935-. (aged 91)

entrepreneur politician

Ali bin Ibrahim Al-Naimi is a Saudi Arabian politician who was the Saudi Arabian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources from 1995 to 2016.

80. Charlie Dent

1960-. (aged 66)

clerk salesperson academic administrator politician

Charles Wieder Dent is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district from 2005 to 2018.

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81. Brian Tyler Cohen

1989-. (aged 37)

podcaster political pundit YouTuber film actor

Brian Tyler Cohen is an American YouTuber, progressive podcast host, author, and political commentator. His political podcast is No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen. On his YouTube channel, he interviews political figures, reports on politics, and live-streams events, including debates and election results. As of February 2026, his channel had more than 5.01 million subscribers and has received more than...

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82. Don Most

1953-. (aged 73)

voice actor television actor film director actor

Don Most is an American actor. He is known for his role as Ralph Malph on the television series Happy Days.

83. Roger Penske

1937-. (aged 89)

Formula One driver NASCAR team owner businessperson

Roger Searle Penske, also known as "the Captain", is an American auto racing team owner, businessman, and former professional driver. Penske is the owner of Team Penske, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, IndyCar, and other auto racing-related businesses. Penske is the founder, chairman, and namesake of the Penske Corporation, a holding company for his various businesses. Penske is also a Presidential...

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84. Martin Baron

1954-. (aged 72)

newspaper editor editor

Martin Baron is an American journalist who was editor of The Washington Post from December 31, 2012, until his retirement on February 28, 2021. He was previously editor of The Boston Globe from 2001 to 2012; during that period, the Globe's coverage of the Boston Catholic sexual abuse scandal earned a Pulitzer Prize.

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85. Michael Smerconish

1962-. (aged 64)

writer lawyer journalist radio personality

Michael Andrew Smerconish is an American radio host, television presenter, political commentator, author, and lawyer. He hosts The Michael Smerconish Program on SiriusXM's POTUS Channel and a weekly program on CNN and CNN International. A former Sunday columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer, he has authored seven books and serves as counsel at the Philadelphia law firm Kline & Specter.

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86. Robert Christopher Riley

1980-. (aged 46)

actor television actor stage actor

Robert Christopher Riley is an American film, television, and stage actor of Trinidadian and Bajan descent. He is known for his role as Terrence Wall in the VH1 television drama series Hit The Floor from 2013 to 2016, and for playing Michael Culhane in The CW's 2017 Dynasty reboot.

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87. Stephanie Ruhle

1975-. (aged 51)

journalist news presenter

Stephanie Ruhle Hubbard is an American television host who is the host of MS NOW's The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle. Previously, Ruhle was managing editor and news anchor for Bloomberg Television and editor-at-large for Bloomberg News, and later the NBC News Senior Business analyst. Ruhle co-hosted the Bloomberg Television show Bloomberg GO and was one of three Bloomberg reporters...

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88. Paul Guilfoyle

1949-. (aged 77)

film actor actor television actor

Paul Vincent Guilfoyle is an American character actor. He was a regular cast member of the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, on which he played Captain Jim Brass from 2000 to 2014. He returned for the series finale, "Immortality", in 2015. He also returned for two episodes in the sequel CSI: Vegas.

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89. CJ McCollum

1991-. (aged 35)

basketball player podcaster

Christian James McCollum is an American professional basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Lehigh Mountain Hawks and was named the Patriot League Player of the Year in 2010 and 2012. McCollum was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers tenth overall in the 2013 NBA draft. He was chosen...

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90. Lee Iacocca

1924-2019 (aged 95)

autobiographer entrepreneur diarist business executive engineer

Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca was an American author, engineer, and an executive who developed the Ford Mustang, Continental Mark III, and Ford Pinto cars while at the Ford Motor Company in the 1960s, and then revived the Chrysler Corporation as its CEO during the 1980s. He was president of Chrysler from 1978 to 1991 and chairman and CEO from 1979...

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91. Fred Trump Jr

1938-1981 (aged 43)

maintenance worker aircraft pilot

Frederick Crist Trump Jr. /ˈkrɪst/ was an American airplane pilot and maintenance worker. The eldest son of real-estate businessman Fred Trump Sr., he fell out of his father's favor and became an airline pilot instead of taking over the family business, leading to his younger brother Donald Trump taking over the business instead. Both Fred Sr. and Donald disparaged Fred...

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92. Alina Habba

1984-. (aged 42)

lawyer

Alina Saad Habba is an American lawyer and political advisor who was named acting United States attorney for the District of New Jersey in July 2025, having previously served in an interim capacity from March 2025. Her July appointment was ruled unlawful in August 2025 and the ruling was upheld on appeal in December 2025. She announced she was resigning...

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93. John H. Tilelli, Jr

1941-. (aged 85)

military personnel

John Harold Tilelli Jr. is a retired United States Army four-star general who served as Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1994 to 1995; Commanding General, United States Army Forces Command from 1995 to 1996; and Commander in Chief, United Nations Command/Commander in Chief, ROK/United States Combined Forces Command/Commander, United States Forces Korea from 1996 to...

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94. Michael Schlossberg

1983-. (aged 43)

politician

Michael H. Schlossberg is a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing the 132nd district since 2013. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

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95. Thomas R. Kline

1947-. (aged 79)

lawyer

Thomas R. Kline is an American personal injury attorney. His cases have helped shape Pennsylvania law and resulted in corporate, institutional, and governmental changes throughout the civil justice system. The law schools at Drexel University and Duquesne University are named for Kline. He is a partner in Kline & Specter and a member and past president (2008-2009) of the Inner...

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96. Leonard Lance

1952-. (aged 74)

law clerk lawyer politician

Leonard John Lance is an American politician and attorney who served as the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 7th congressional district, from 2009 to 2019. He ran for re-election in 2018, but was defeated by Democrat Tom Malinowski. He is a member of the Republican Party who previously served in the New Jersey Senate from 2002 to 2009 and the...

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97. Timothy D. Haugh

1969-. (aged 57)

military leader

Timothy Dean Haugh is a retired United States Air Force general who served as the commander of the United States Cyber Command, director of the National Security Agency, and chief of the Central Security Service from 2024 to 2025. He previously served as the deputy commander of the United States Cyber Command.

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98. Steve Chang

1954-. (aged 72)

businessperson

Steve Chang is a Taiwanese businessman and the founder, chairman and former CEO of Trend Micro, the world's largest software security firm. He was named "Star of Asia" by the Business Week in 1999, and he was selected as one of the six protagonists of the Discovery Channel's Portraits Taiwan II in 2006.

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99. Todd McCaffrey

1956-. (aged 70)

novelist science fiction writer writer

Todd J. McCaffrey is an American science fiction writer known for continuing the Dragonriders of Pern series in collaboration with his mother Anne McCaffrey.

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100. Franck Vogel

1977-. (aged 49)

photojournalist film director photographer lecturer

Franck Vogel is a French photographer specializing in social & environmental issues, journalist, speaker and documentary film director. He lives and works in Paris.

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