11 Notable alumni of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Updated: June 23, 2026 EliteDegrees
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is ranked #301 in the world and #115 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 11 notable alumni from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Randall Friese
surgeon
politician
Randall Scott Friese is an American surgeon and politician from the state of Arizona. A member of the Democratic Party, Friese served in the Arizona House of Representatives from 2015 through 2021, when he resigned to focus on his medical career.
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2. J. Richard Steadman
1937-2023 (aged 86)
surgeon
university teacher
J. Richard Steadman was an American orthopedic surgeon and founder of The Steadman Clinic and Steadman Philippon Research Institute (SPRI) located in Vail, Colorado. Steadman revolutionized orthopedic surgery. For a time, he was a clinical professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, but was known for his work in the area of microfracture surgery, and for...
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3. Michael Stuart Brown
1941-. (aged 85)
university teacher
geneticist
physician
Michael Stuart Brown ForMemRS NAS AAA&S APS is an American geneticist and Nobel laureate. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Joseph L. Goldstein in 1985 for describing the regulation of cholesterol metabolism.
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4. Francisco G. Cigarroa
1957-. (aged 69)
physician
Francisco Gonzalez Cigarroa is an American transplant surgeon who served as chancellor of the University of Texas System. As a Mexican-American, Cigarroa is also the first Hispanic to serve as president of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA). Cigarroa currently serves as chairman of the Ford Foundation. He also serves as the head of pediatric...
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5. Robert Cluck
1939-. (aged 87)
obstetrician
gynecologist
politician
Robert Nance Cluck, Jr. is an American obstetrician-gynecologist and politician. He was elected to the office of Mayor of the City of Arlington in May 2003 after serving two terms on the city council. He represented Council District 4. On May 9, 2015, Cluck was defeated by Jeff Williams, who is now mayor of the City of Arlington.
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6. Brett Giroir
1960-. (aged 66)
pediatrician
civil servant
business executive
Brett Paul Giroir is an American pediatrician. He was formerly the U.S. assistant secretary for health, a four-star admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and an acting Food and Drug Administration commissioner.
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7. Linda B. Buck
1947-. (aged 79)
physician
biologist
neuroscientist
university teacher
Linda Brown Buck is an American biologist best known for her work on the olfactory system. She was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Richard Axel, for their work on olfactory receptors. She is currently on the faculty of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.
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8. Bruce Beutler
1957-. (aged 69)
scientist
university teacher
geneticist
immunologist
physician
Bruce Alan Beutler is an American immunologist and geneticist. Together with Jules A. Hoffmann, he received one-half of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for "discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity." Beutler discovered the long-elusive receptor for lipopolysaccharide (LPS; also known as endotoxin). He did so by identifying spontaneous mutations in the gene coding for mouse Toll-like...
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9. Alfred G. Gilman
1941-2015 (aged 74)
pharmacologist
biologist
university teacher
biochemist
physiologist
Alfred Goodman Gilman was an American pharmacologist and biochemist. He and Martin Rodbell shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells."
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10. Joseph L. Goldstein
1940-. (aged 86)
university teacher
biologist
geneticist
biochemist
physician
Joseph Leonard Goldstein ForMemRS is an American biochemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1985, along with fellow University of Texas Southwestern researcher, Michael Brown, for their studies regarding cholesterol. They discovered that human cells have low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptors that remove cholesterol from the blood and that when LDL receptors are not present in sufficient...
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11. Johann Deisenhofer
1943-. (aged 83)
university teacher
physicist
biophysicist
chemist
biochemist
Johann Deisenhofer is a German biochemist who, along with Hartmut Michel and Robert Huber, received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1988 for their determination of the first crystal structure of an integral membrane protein, a membrane-bound complex of proteins and co-factors that is essential to photosynthesis.
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