Notable Alumni
Athletes and ordinary citizens around the world have gotten a lift thanks to the creativity of Frank Rudy, CIT '50, inventor of the Nike Air-Sole®. The unique cushioning devices, built into Nike's ubiquitous athletic shoes, are permanently pressured with air, plus a small amount of inert gas at 28 psi, like the pressure in auto tires. The soles allow the shoes to cushion heavy impact forces, and to temporarily store and return impact energy in the space of each stride.
- Herbert H. Dow, 1888
- Founder of Dow Chemical
- Craig Newmark, '75, '77
- Founder of craigslist.org
- Lilip Lau, '89
- Inventor of the Guidant Stent
- Frank Rudy, '50
- Inventor of the Nike Air Sole
- Fred D. Gray JD '59
- Attorney for Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Barry M. Meyer JD '67
- Chairman and CEO of Warner Brothers
- Al Gross, BS '29
- Inventor of the walkie talkie and the pager
- Larry Hornbeck, BS '65, MS '68, PhD '74
- Inventor of the Digital Micromirror Device used in flat-screen technology
- Paul Buchheit, '98
- Google Pioneer and Inventor of G-Mail
- Lee I. Fisher
- Former Lieutenant Governor, State of Ohio
- Dr. Robert Kay
- Former CEO, Cleveland Clinic Florida
- Donald E. Washkewicz
- Chairman, President and CEO, Parker Hannifin Corp.
- Jess. A. Bell, Jr.
- Chairman & CEO, Bonne Bell, Inc.
- David A. Daberko MBA '70
- Former Chairman and CEO, National City Corp.
- M. Scott Peck MED '63
- Author, The Road Less Traveled
- Gary Galbraith BS '86/MFA '88
- Principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company
- Franklin Cover MA '54/MFA '55
- Actor on the long-running television series "The Jeffersons"
- Peg Murray BA '45
- Tony Award-winning actress
- Jess L. Steinfeld, MD '49
- Former Surgeon General of the United States
- Michael Palmer, MD '68
- Best-selling author of Extreme Measures and other novels
- Susie Gharib BA '72
- Anchor of PBS's Nightly Business Report
- Theodore Castele BS '51/MD '57
- Medical Editor Emeritus for NewsChannel 5, Cleveland's ABC affiliate
- Julie Louise Gerberding BS '77/MD '81
- First woman director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Jack Perkins BA '56
- Host of the Arts & Entertainment Network's series, Biography
- Bruce Cole BA '72
- Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities
- Stephanie Tubbs Jones BA '71/JD '74
- First African American woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio
- Michael McCasky PhD '71
- Chairman, the Chicago Bears
- Don Shula MA '54
- Former coach, Miami Dolphins