Notable Alumni of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute [Sorted List]

1. Joseph Don Carlos Young

1855-1938 (aged 83)

university teacher legislator architect

Joseph Don Carlos Young was an American architect and the Church Architect for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1887 until 1893. In 1893, the office of Church Architect was dissolved (to be reinstated for a time in the mid 20th century), Young thereafter practiced privately with the LDS Church as a frequent client. Young...

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2. George Brooke Roberts

1833-1897 (aged 64)

businessperson

George Brooke Roberts was a civil engineer and the fifth president of the Pennsylvania Railroad (1880–1896).

3. Carlton W. Fulford, Jr

1944-. (aged 82)

military officer

Carlton W. Fulford Jr. is a retired United States Marine Corps four-star general who served as Deputy Commander in Chief, United States European Command (DCINCEUR) from 2000 to 2002.

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4. John W. Sprague

1817-1893 (aged 76)

businessperson military officer railway executive politician

John Wilson Sprague was an American soldier and railroad executive. He served as a general in the Union Army in the Western Theater of operations during the American Civil War. He received the Medal of Honor for gallantry at the Battle of Decatur during the Atlanta campaign. After the war, he was a railroad executive and later co-founded the city...

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5. Edward D. Thalmann

1945-2004 (aged 59)

military officer

Capt. Edward Deforest Thalmann, USN was an American hyperbaric medicine specialist who was principally responsible for developing the current United States Navy dive tables for mixed-gas diving, which are based on his eponymous Thalmann Algorithm (VVAL18). At the time of his death, Thalmann was serving as assistant medical director of the Divers Alert Network (DAN) and an assistant clinical professor...

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6. Edgar M. Cortright

1923-2014 (aged 91)

scientist

Edgar Maurice Cortright was a scientist and engineer, and senior official at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the United States. His most prominent positions during his career were Director of NASA's Langley Research Center, and Chairman of the Apollo 13 Review Board which investigated the explosion that occurred during the Apollo 13 spaceflight in 1970.

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7. Lincoln D. Faurer

1928-2014 (aged 86)

military officer

Lieutenant General Lincoln D. Faurer was United States Air Force officer who served as director of the National Security Agency and chief of the Central Security Service from 1981 to 1985.

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8. Robert C. Seacord

1963-. (aged 63)

computer scientist programmer university teacher writer

Robert C. Seacord is an American computer security specialist and writer. He is the author of books on computer security, legacy system modernization, and component-based software engineering.

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9. Neil Little

1971-. (aged 55)

ice hockey player

Leslie Neil Little, Jr. is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender. He was a member of the Philadelphia Flyers organization nearly his entire professional career, helping backstop the Philadelphia Phantoms to two Calder Cup championships and playing in two career National Hockey League (NHL) games with the Flyers. Until 2015, he was an amateur scout for the Flyers. He...

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10. Ron Buckmire

1968-. (aged 58)

radio personality mathematician

Ron Buckmire is a Grenadian-born mathematician, former chess champion of Barbados and LGBT activist. He is the past chair of the Occidental College Department of Mathematics. Starting in August 2018, he served as the Associate Dean for Curricular Affairs and Director of the Core Program at Occidental College for four years. In March 2024, he was named Dean of the...

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11. Richard Linn

1944-. (aged 82)

judge

Richard Linn is a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

12. Barry Popik

1961-. (aged 65)

chess player judge etymologist

Barry Popik is an American etymologist. Popik is a consulting editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America and was described in The Wall Street Journal as "the restless genius of American etymology".

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13. Edward Burton Hughes

1905-1987 (aged 82)

civil engineer

Edward Burton Hughes was an American, the Acting Commissioner of New York State Department of Transportation in 1969, Executive Deputy Commissioner of New York State Department of Transportation from 1967 to 1970, and Deputy Superintendent of New York State Department of Public Works from 1952 to 1967. Hughes worked over 45 years in public service at the DOT. Upon his...

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14. John Alexander Low Waddell

1854-1938 (aged 84)

engineer civil engineer

Dr. John Alexander Low Waddell was a Canadian-American civil engineer and prolific bridge designer, with more than a thousand structures to his credit. Most of these were in the United States and Canada, with some in Mexico, Russia, China, Japan, and New Zealand. Waddell’s work set standards for elevated railroad systems and helped develop materials suitable for large span bridges....

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15. Andrew Onderdonk

1848-1905 (aged 57)

businessperson

Andrew Onderdonk was an American construction contractor who worked on several major projects in the West, including the San Francisco seawall in California and the Canadian Pacific Railway in British Columbia. He was born in New York City to an established ethnic Dutch family. He received his education at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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16. Tyler Hinman

1984-. (aged 42)

crossword solver crossword creator engineer

Tyler Hinman is an American competitive crossword puzzle solver and constructor and a seven-time winner of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (ACPT). He holds the tournament record for youngest champion ever, winning as a 20-year-old in 2005, and he formerly held the record for consecutive titles with five, a feat matched and bested by six-time champion Dan Feyer. He was...

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17. Hamid Shirvani

1950-. (aged 76)

scientist

Hamid Augustine Shirvani is an architecture scholar, university president and chancellor emeritus.

18. Howard Wainer

1943-. (aged 83)

statistician

Howard Charles Wainer is an American statistician, past principal research scientist at the Educational Testing Service, adjunct professor of statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and author, known for his contributions in the fields of statistics, psychometrics, and statistical graphics.

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19. Bertram Raphael

1936-. (aged 90)

artificial intelligence researcher

Bertram Raphael is an American computer scientist known for his contributions to artificial intelligence.

20. Brad Tapper

1978-. (aged 48)

ice hockey player

Brad Tapper is a Canadian professional hockey coach, currently serving as the head coach of the capital of Slovakia, Bratislava, and a former professional ice hockey player (right winger). He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Atlanta Thrashers over parts of three seasons. After retiring from playing, he remained active in hockey as a coach in different...

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21. John F. Walsh

1961-. (aged 65)

John F. Walsh is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Colorado from 2010 to 2016. Walsh was nominated by President Barack Obama on April 14, 2010, and sworn in on August 16, 2010. When he stepped down in 2016, Walsh was the longest-serving U.S. attorney in Colorado history.

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22. Mike Zalewski

1992-. (aged 34)

ice hockey player

Michael Zalewski is an American professional ice hockey player. He is currently under contract with EC KAC of the ICE Hockey League (ICEHL). Zalewski has previously played with the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL).

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23. John Leonard Riddell

1807-1867 (aged 60)

politician geologist physician chemist botanist

John Leonard Riddell was a science lecturer, botanist, geologist, medical doctor, chemist, microscopist, numismatist, politician, and science fiction author in the United States.

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24. Jean-François Gosselin

1975-. (aged 51)

politician

Jean-François Gosselin is a politician from Quebec, Canada. He was an Action démocratique du Québec Member of the National Assembly for the electoral district of Jean-Lesage from 2007 to 2008. He is currently the leader of the opposition on Quebec City Council.

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25. Michael Friendly

1945-. (aged 81)

university teacher psychologist

Michael Louis Friendly is an American-Canadian psychologist, Professor of Psychology at York University in Ontario, Canada, and director of its Statistical Consulting Service, especially known for his contributions to graphical methods for categorical and multivariate data, and on the history of data and information visualisation.

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26. John J. Albright

1848-1931 (aged 83)

business executive

John Joseph Albright was a businessman and philanthropist, and one of Buffalo's leading socialites at the turn of the 20th century.

27. Van C. Mow

1939-. (aged 87)

engineer university teacher

Van C. Mow is a Chinese-born-American bioengineer, known as one of the earliest researchers in the field of biomechanics.

28. Glenn K. Otis

1929-2013 (aged 84)

military personnel

General Glenn Kay Otis was a United States Army four-star general who served as Commanding General, United States Army Training and Doctrine Command from 1981 to 1983, and as Commander in Chief, United States Army Europe/Commander, Central Army Group from 1983 to 1988. He was a native of Plattsburgh, New York.

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29. Chris Wysopal

1965-. (aged 61)

Chris Wysopal is an entrepreneur, computer security expert and co-founder and CTO of Veracode. He was a member of the high-profile hacker think tank the L0pht where he was a vulnerability researcher.

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30. William Chesarek

military officer

William David Chesarek Jr., DFC is an officer of the United States Marine Corps. As of 2022 the Marine Corps University listed him as Deputy Director of the Expeditionary Warfare School, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, a rank he was promoted to in 2012.

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31. Marta Bohn-Meyer

1957-2005 (aged 48)

aircraft pilot engineer

Marta Bohn-Meyer was an American pilot and engineer.

32. Peter E. Hart

1941-. (aged 85)

computer scientist engineer entrepreneur

Peter E. Hart is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He was chairman and president of Ricoh Innovations, which he founded in 1997. He made significant contributions in the field of computer science in a series of widely cited publications from the years 1967 to 1975 while associated with the Artificial Intelligence Center of SRI International, a laboratory where he...

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33. Nick Donofrio

1945-. (aged 81)

businessperson

Nicholas Michael Donofrio is an American scientist and engineer and was the Executive Vice President of Innovation and Technology at the IBM Corporation until 2008. Upon retirement, he was selected as an honorary IBM Fellow, the company’s highest technical honor. He holds seven technology patents, is a member of numerous technical and science honor societies, and holds several scientific board...

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34. Douglass Houghton

1809-1845 (aged 36)

geologist politician physicist

Douglass Houghton was an American geologist and physician, primarily known for his exploration of the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan. It was the site of a copper boom and extensive copper mining beginning in the 19th century. He was appointed in 1839 as the first state geologist of Michigan, after it was admitted to the Union, and served in that position...

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35. Edwin B. Crocker

1818-1875 (aged 57)

art collector lawyer judge

Edwin Bryant Crocker was a California Supreme Court Justice and founder of the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California.

36. L. Scott Rice

1958-. (aged 68)

military officer

Lieutenant General Leon Scott Rice is a former director of the Air National Guard. He previously served as The Adjutant General (TAG) and Commander of the Massachusetts National Guard and as an assistant to Gen Mark A. Welsh III, former commander of the United States Air Forces in Europe. Rice has also served as commander of USAF Forces deployed for...

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37. Alfonso Robelo

1939-. (aged 87)

diplomat businessperson politician

Luis Alfonso Robelo Callejas, is a Nicaraguan businessman, was the founder of the Nicaraguan Democratic Movement (MDN).

38. Claire M. Fraser

1955-. (aged 71)

biologist immunologist microbiologist university teacher

Claire M. Fraser is an American genome scientist and microbiologist who has worked in microbial genomics and genome medicine. Her research has contributed to the understanding of the diversity and evolution of microbial life. Fraser is the director of the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD, where she holds the Dean's...

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39. Thomas Farrell

1891-1967 (aged 76)

civil servant

Major General Thomas Francis Farrell was the Deputy Commanding General and Chief of Field Operations of the Manhattan Project, acting as executive officer to Major General Leslie R. Groves Jr.

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40. Edward Zander

1947-. (aged 79)

businessperson

Edward J. Zander is an American business executive. He was CEO and Chairman of the Board of Motorola from January 2004 until January 2008, remaining as chairman until May 2008. His work in the technology sector included management positions at Data General and Apollo Computer before joining Sun Microsystems in 1987, where he was later promoted to Chief Operating Officer...

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41. James Hall

1811-1898 (aged 87)

zoologist geologist botanist paleontologist

James Hall Jr. was an American geologist and paleontologist. He was a noted authority on stratigraphy and had an influential role in the development of paleontology in the United States.

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42. Don L. Anderson

1933-2014 (aged 81)

university teacher geologist geophysicist geochemist seismologist

Don Lynn Anderson was an American geophysicist who made significant contributions to the understanding of the origin, evolution, structure, and composition of Earth and other planets. An expert in numerous scientific disciplines, Anderson's work combined seismology, solid state physics, geochemistry and petrology to explain how the Earth works. Anderson was best known for his contributions to the understanding of the...

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43. William T. Cooley

military leader

William Theodore Cooley is a retired senior United States Air Force officer who previously served as commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory. He is the first general officer in US Air Force history to be court-martialed. He was relieved of command after allegations of abusive sexual contact against him were reported. After a General Court Martial found him guilty...

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44. Eben Norton Horsford

1818-1893 (aged 75)

university teacher chemist

Eben Norton Horsford was an American scientist who taught agricultural chemistry in the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard from 1847 to 1863. Later he was known for his reformulation of baking powder, his interest in Viking settlements in North America, and the monuments he built to Leif Erikson.

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45. Ronald J. Zlatoper

1942-2022 (aged 80)

military officer

Ronald Joseph Zlatoper was a United States Navy four star admiral and Naval Aviator who served as Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT) from 1994 to 1996.

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46. Alexander Cassatt

1839-1906 (aged 67)

civil engineer

Alexander Johnston Cassatt was the seventh president of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), serving from June 9, 1899, to December 28, 1906.

47. Jerry D'Amigo

1991-. (aged 35)

ice hockey player

Jerry Vincent D'Amigo is an American former professional ice hockey right winger. He is currently an assistant coach for the Elmira Aviators of the NAHL. He most recently played for HK 32 Liptovsky Mikulas in the Slovak Extraliga. D'Amigo was drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the sixth round, 158th overall, of the 2009 NHL Entry Draft.

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48. Samuel Wells Williams

1812-1884 (aged 72)

writer historian lexicographer sinologist missionary

Samuel Wells Williams was a linguist, official, missionary and sinologist from the United States in the early 19th century.

49. Rusi Taleyarkhan

1953-. (aged 73)

physicist university teacher

Rusi P. Taleyarkhan is a nuclear engineer and has been a faculty member in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University since 2003. Prior to that, he was on staff at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He obtained his Bachelor of Technology degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1977...

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50. Alicia Boler Davis

engineer

Alicia Boler Davis is an American engineer and businesswoman. Boler Davis began her career at General Motors, rising to the rank of executive vice president of global manufacturing in 2016. In 2019, she joined Amazon as senior vice president of global customer fulfillment. During her time at Amazon, she led much of the company's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and...

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51. Jang Show-ling

1955-. (aged 71)

politician economist

Jang Show-ling is a Taiwanese economist and politician who was a member of the Legislative Yuan from 2019 to 2020.

52. Henry Augustus Rowland

1848-1901 (aged 53)

physicist university teacher

Henry Augustus Rowland was an American physicist and Johns Hopkins educator. Between 1899 and 1901 he served as the first president of the American Physical Society. He is remembered for the high quality of the diffraction gratings he made and for the work he did with them on the solar spectrum.

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53. Walter L. Sharp

1952-. (aged 74)

military personnel

Walter Lawrence "Skip" Sharp, is a retired United States Army four-star general, who last served as the Commander, United Nations Command, Commander, ROK-US Combined Forces Command and Commander, U.S. Forces Korea from June 2008 to July 2011. He previously served as the Director of the Joint Staff from 2005 to June 2008. Sharp retired from the Army in July 2011.

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54. Karl O. Thomas

1963-. (aged 63)

military officer

Karl Owen Thomas is a United States Navy admiral who serves as the commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command. He most recently served as the deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare and Director of Naval Intelligence.

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55. Bert Sutherland

1936-2020 (aged 84)

military officer

William Robert Sutherland was an American computer scientist who was the longtime manager of three prominent research laboratories, including Sun Microsystems Laboratories (1992–1998), the Systems Science Laboratory at Xerox PARC (1975–1981), and the Computer Science Division of Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc. which helped develop the ARPANET.

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56. John Olver

1936-2023 (aged 87)

university teacher politician

John Walter Olver was an American politician and chemist who was the U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 1st congressional district from 1991 to 2013. Raised on a farm in Pennsylvania, Olver graduated from college at the age of 18 and went on to earn a PhD in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later taught chemistry at the University...

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57. Mike ter Maat

1961-. (aged 65)

politician

Michael ter Maat is an American businessman, political candidate, former economist, and retired police officer. A former member of the Libertarian Party, he was the running mate to presidential nominee Chase Oliver in the 2024 presidential election. He switched his affiliation to the Republican Party and joined the Republican Liberty Caucus in 2025.

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58. Robert "RJ" Scaringe

1983-. (aged 43)

chief executive officer engineer business executive

Robert Joseph Scaringe is an American engineer and businessman who is the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of electric vehicle manufacturer Rivian.

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59. Emily Gorcenski

1982-. (aged 44)

data scientist activist

Emily F. Gorcenski is an American data scientist and activist who now resides in Germany. Gorcenski was a counter-protester at the Unite the Right rally in 2017, and subsequently created the site 'First Vigil' to track the trial information of white nationalists.

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60. Victor Peng (CEO)

1960-. (aged 66)

businessperson

Victor Peng is a Taiwanese-American technology executive and the president of Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group at AMD. He was the CEO of Xilinx, an American technology company that supplies programmable logic devices before it was acquired by AMD.

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61. Matt Murley

1979-. (aged 47)

ice hockey player

Matt Murley is an American former professional ice hockey forward who played with the Pittsburgh Penguins and Phoenix Coyotes in the National Hockey League (NHL). He is currently a Sports betting expert for Barstool Sports' hockey podcast, Spittin' Chiclets and appears on the spin-off podcast Chiclets Game Notes with former teammate Colby Armstrong.

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62. Theodore Judah

1826-1863 (aged 37)

engineer railway engineer inventor

Theodore Dehone Judah was an American civil engineer who was a central figure in the original promotion, establishment, and design of the first transcontinental railroad. He found investors for what became the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR). As chief engineer, he performed much of the route survey work to determine the best alignment for the railroad over the Sierra Nevada, which...

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63. Peter Schwartz

1946-. (aged 80)

writer

Peter Schwartz is an American business executive, futurist, author, and co-founder of the Global Business Network (GBN), a corporate strategy firm that specializes in future-thinking and scenario planning. In 2011, Schwartz joined Salesforce.com, where he serves as Senior Vice President of Strategic Planning and Chief Futures Officer.

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64. Joé Juneau

1968-. (aged 58)

ice hockey player

Joseph Juneau is a Canadian former professional hockey player and engineer, born in Pont-Rouge, Quebec. He played in the National Hockey League for the Boston Bruins, Washington Capitals, Buffalo Sabres, Ottawa Senators, Phoenix Coyotes and the Montreal Canadiens.

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65. James Cantor

1966-. (aged 60)

sexologist clinical psychologist psychologist

James M. Cantor is an American-Canadian clinical psychologist and sexologist specializing in hypersexuality and paraphilias.

66. Erin Hoffman

1981-. (aged 45)

novelist

Erin Hoffman is an American game developer, blogger, and fantasy writer. She has published three fantasy novels, and been the lead designer on multiple games such as Kung Fu Panda World, GoPets: Vacation Island, and Frontierville. Her anonymous post as a disgruntled "EA Spouse" in 2004, based on the working conditions of her husband who was an Electronic Arts developer,...

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67. Brandon Pirri

1991-. (aged 35)

ice hockey player

Brandon Pirri is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre. He was selected by the Chicago Blackhawks in the second round (59th overall) of the 2009 NHL Entry Draft. Pirri also played for the Florida Panthers, Anaheim Ducks, and Vegas Golden Knights.

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68. Gregory Reid Wiseman

1975-. (aged 51)

naval officer test pilot systems engineer fighter pilot astronaut

Gregory Reid Wiseman is an American astronaut and naval aviator. He served as Chief of the Astronaut Office until November 14, 2022.

69. Erin Crocker

1981-. (aged 45)

racing driver lacrosse player

Erin Mary Crocker Evernham is an American race car driver and broadcaster with the Motor Racing Network's Winged Nation. In the past, she played soccer, tennis, and varsity lacrosse on both her high school and college teams. She eventually moved to focus more on building a family after starting a personal relationship with her team owner and superior, Ray Evernham,...

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70. Marcian Hoff

1937-. (aged 89)

computer scientist engineer inventor

Marcian Edward "Ted" Hoff Jr. is one of the inventors of the microprocessor.

71. Steven Sasson

1950-. (aged 76)

inventor electrical engineer

Steve J. Sasson is an American electrical engineer and the inventor of the self-contained digital camera. He joined Kodak shortly after his graduation from engineering school and retired from Kodak in 2009.

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72. Mark Russinovich

1966-. (aged 60)

computer scientist business executive programmer writer

Mark Eugene Russinovich is a Spanish-born American software engineer and author who serves as CTO of Microsoft Azure. He was a cofounder of software producers Winternals before Microsoft acquired it in 2006.

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73. Harold J. Greene

1959-2014 (aged 55)

soldier

Harold Joseph "Harry" Greene was an American military officer. During his time with the United States Army, he held various commands associated with engineering and logistical support for American and coalition troops in Afghanistan. At the time of his death, he was the deputy commanding general of the Combined Security Transition Command.

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74. Adam Oates

1962-. (aged 64)

ice hockey player ice hockey coach

Adam Robert Oates is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player, former co-head coach for the New Jersey Devils and former head coach for the Washington Capitals. He played 19 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Detroit Red Wings, St. Louis Blues, Boston Bruins, Washington Capitals, Philadelphia Flyers, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and Edmonton Oilers from 1985...

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75. Ely S. Parker

1828-1895 (aged 67)

politician

Ely Samuel Parker, born Hasanoanda (Tonawanda Seneca), later known as Donehogawa, was an engineer, lawyer, U.S. Army officer, aide to General Ulysses Grant, and Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in charge of the government's relations with Native Americans. He was bilingual, speaking both Seneca and English, and became friends with Lewis Henry Morgan, who became a student of the Iroquois in...

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76. Washington Roebling

1837-1926 (aged 89)

civil engineer engineer businessperson

Washington Augustus Roebling was an American civil engineer who supervised the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, designed by his father John A. Roebling. He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War as an officer at the Battle of Gettysburg.

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77. George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr

1859-1896 (aged 37)

civil engineer engineer inventor

George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. was an American civil engineer. He is mostly known for creating the original Ferris Wheel for the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition.

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78. Eunice Newton Foote

1819-1888 (aged 69)

inventor physicist climatologist women's rights activist

Eunice Newton Foote was an American scientist, inventor, and women's rights campaigner. She was the first scientist to identify the insulating effect of certain gases, and that therefore rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels could increase atmospheric temperature and affect climate, a phenomenon now referred to as the greenhouse effect. Born in Connecticut, Foote was raised in New York at the...

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79. Banky W

1981-. (aged 45)

singer entrepreneur rapper songwriter politician

Olubankole Wellington//, popularly known by his stage name Banky W and credited in film as Banky Wellington, is a Nigerian-American singer, rapper, actor, entrepreneur and politician.

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80. Ivar Giæver

1929-2025 (aged 96)

engineer physicist scientist university teacher

Ivar Giaever was a Norwegian–American experimental physicist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leo Esaki and Brian Josephson. One half of the prize was jointly awarded to Esaki and Giaever "for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively."

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81. Dennis Tito

1940-. (aged 86)

astronaut

Dennis Anthony Tito is an American engineer and entrepreneur. During mid-2001, he became the first space tourist to fund his own visit to space, when he spent nearly eight days in orbit as a crew member of ISS EP-1, a visiting mission to the International Space Station. This mission was launched by the spacecraft Soyuz TM-32, and was landed by...

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82. Curtis Priem

1958-. (aged 68)

engineer

Curtis R. Priem is an American electrical engineer known for co-founding Nvidia in 1993. He left the company in 2003 and sold all of his shares by 2006.

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83. Bobby Farrelly

1958-. (aged 68)

screenwriter film director ice hockey player film producer television producer

Robert Thomas Farrelly is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He is one of the Farrelly brothers, alongside his brother Peter, who together are known for directing and producing successful box-office comedy films, including Dumb and Dumber (1994), There's Something About Mary (1998), Me, Myself and Irene (2000), Shallow Hal (2001), and the 2007 remake of The Heartbreak Kid....

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84. Jack Swigert

1931-1982 (aged 51)

military officer politician military flight engineer aircraft pilot astronaut

John Leonard Swigert Jr. was an American NASA astronaut, test pilot, mechanical engineer, aerospace engineer, United States Air Force pilot, and politician. In April 1970, as command module pilot of Apollo 13, he became one of 24 astronauts who flew to the Moon. Due to the "slingshot" route around the Moon they chose to safely return to Earth, the Apollo...

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85. Matt Patricia

1974-. (aged 52)

American football coach coach

Matthew Edward Patricia is an American football coach who is currently the defensive coordinator for the Ohio State Buckeyes. He previously served 15 non-consecutive seasons as an assistant coach with the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL), including six seasons as the defensive coordinator from 2012 to 2017. During Patricia's tenure as defensive coordinator, the Patriots won...

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86. Raymond Tomlinson

1941-2016 (aged 75)

inventor programmer

Raymond Samuel Tomlinson was an American computer programmer who invented the first email program on the ARPANET system, the precursor to the Internet, in 1971; it was the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts connected to ARPANET. Previously, mail could be sent only to others who used the same computer. To achieve this, he used...

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87. Ebenezer Emmons

1799-1863 (aged 64)

scientific collector botanist geologist university teacher

Ebenezer Emmons, was an American geologist whose work includes the naming of the Adirondack Mountains in New York as well as a first ascent of Mount Marcy.

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88. Jeffrey M. Friedman

1954-. (aged 72)

geneticist university teacher

Jeffrey M. Friedman is a molecular geneticist at New York City's Rockefeller University and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His discovery of the hormone leptin and its role in regulating body weight has had a major role in the area of human obesity. Friedman is a physician scientist studying the genetic mechanisms that regulate body weight. His...

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89. James H. Salisbury

1823-1905 (aged 82)

botanist military physician inventor

James Henry Salisbury was an American physician and the inventor of the Salisbury steak. He was an early proponent of the germ theory of disease.

90. David Ferrucci

artificial intelligence researcher

David A. Ferrucci is an American computer scientist who served as the principal investigator of a team of IBM and academic researchers and engineers between 2007 and 2011 to the development of the Watson computer system, which won the television quiz show Jeopardy!.

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91. Dan Buckley

publisher

Dan Buckley is an American publishing executive, who is known for his work as Publisher, and then as President of Marvel Entertainment from January 2017 to 2023 then currently Head of Marvel Comics & Franchise.

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92. Nick Bailen

1989-. (aged 37)

ice hockey player

Nick Bailen is an American-Belarusian professional ice hockey defensemen. He is currently playing for Kölner Haie of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL).

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93. Jon Hall

1950-. (aged 76)

computer scientist programmer engineer

Jon "maddog" Hall is the board chair for the Linux Professional Institute.

94. Michael D. West

1953-. (aged 73)

biologist

Michael D. West is an American biogerontologist, and a pioneer in stem cells, cellular aging and telomerase. He is the founder and CEO of AgeX Therapeutics, a startup focused on the field of experimental gerontology.

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95. Richard Mastracchio

1960-. (aged 66)

engineer astronaut physicist

Richard Alan Mastracchio is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut. He has flown on three NASA Space Shuttle missions as a mission specialist in addition to serving as a flight engineer on the Soyuz TMA-11M (Expedition 38/Expedition 39) long-duration mission aboard the International Space Station. He is currently the senior director of operations for commercial resupply services at Orbital...

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96. David Hayter

1969-. (aged 57)

screenwriter film director television actor voice actor film actor

David Hayter is a Canadian-American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer. He is well known as the English-language voice actor for Solid Snake and Naked Snake in the Metal Gear video game series. He wrote the superhero film X-Men, for which he won the Saturn Award for Best Writing. He also co-wrote The Scorpion King (2002), X-Men's first sequel, X2 (2003),...

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97. Bob Balaram

1961-. (aged 65)

engineer scientist

J. "Bob" Balaram is an Indian-American scientist and engineer currently working for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He is the chief engineer and designer of Ingenuity (project name: Mars 2020 helicopter), the first extraterrestrial aircraft, that was attached underside of car-sized Perseverance rover that successfully landed on the Mars in February 2021.

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98. B. Jayant Baliga

1948-. (aged 78)

scientist electrical engineer

Bantval Jayant Baliga is an Indian electrical engineer best known for his work in power semiconductor devices, and particularly the invention of the insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT).

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99. Andrew Lord

1985-. (aged 41)

ice hockey player

Andrew Lord is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and current head coach for the Ontario Reign of the American Hockey League.

100. Hani al-Mulki

1951-. (aged 75)

diplomat politician

Hani Fawzi Mulki is a Jordanian politician who held several ministerial and diplomatic positions, and he was Chief Commissioner of the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority before his designation as the 41st Prime Minister of Jordan by King Abdullah II and approval by the House of Representatives on 29 May 2016.

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