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===Alumni=== [[File:Jesse Owens 1936.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Jesse Owens]], American [[track and field]] athlete and four-time gold medalist in the [[Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics|1936 Olympic Games]]]] Ohio State has 580,000 living alumni around the world.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.osu.edu/alumni/about-us/|title=Ohio State Alumni Association β The Ohio State University|date=July 28, 2014|access-date=November 12, 2020|archive-date=July 19, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240719022744/https://www.osu.edu/alumni/about|url-status=live}}</ref> Past and present students and faculty include 5 Nobel Prize laureates, nine [[Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes Scholars]], seven [[Churchill Scholarship|Churchill Scholars]], 64 [[Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship|Goldwater scholars]], one [[Fields Medal]]ist and seven [[Pulitzer Prize]] winners, as well as current [[Vice President of the United States]] [[JD Vance]], seven [[United States Senate|U.S. Senators]], 15 [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representatives]] and 104 [[List of American universities with Olympic medals|Olympic medalists]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Past Churchill Scholars β Churchill Scholarship|url=https://churchillscholarship.org/scholars.html|url-status=dead|access-date=April 8, 2021|website=Churchill Scholarship|archive-date=April 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415055657/https://www.churchillscholarship.org/scholars.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Staff|first=WSYX/WTTE|date=November 22, 2020|title=Ohio State student from Dublin awarded prestigious Rhodes Scholarship|url=https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/ohio-state-student-from-dublin-awarded-prestigious-rhodes-scholarship|access-date=April 9, 2021|website=WSYX|archive-date=July 19, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240719022714/https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/ohio-state-student-from-dublin-awarded-prestigious-rhodes-scholarship|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Four Undergraduate Students Receive 2020 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship {{!}} Office of Research|url=https://research.osu.edu/four-undergraduate-students-receive-2020-barry-m-goldwater-scholarship/|access-date=April 9, 2021|language=en-US|archive-date=April 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417044552/https://research.osu.edu/four-undergraduate-students-receive-2020-barry-m-goldwater-scholarship/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Also included are [[List of UFC champions|UFC champions]], [[Medal of Honor]] recipients, ambassadors, [[Fortune 500]] [[Chief executive officer|CEOs]] and members of the [[Forbes 400]] list of the world's wealthiest individuals. Ohio State alumni have appeared on the cover of ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine 12 times, with the artwork of alumnus [[Roy Lichtenstein]] featured on an additional two ''Time'' covers. [[George Steinbrenner]], former owner of the [[New York Yankees]] who won seven [[World Series]] with the team, earned his master's degree from Ohio State. [[Larry Sanger]], one of the founders of Wikipedia, and Steve May, chief technology officer at [[Pixar]], both graduated from Ohio State. Roboticist [[James S. Albus]] was named a "Hero of US Manufacturing" by ''[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]]'' magazine in 1997.<ref>{{cite book |last=Albus |first=James S. |date=November 22, 2011 |title=Path to a Better World: A Plan for Prosperity, Opportunity, and Economic Justice |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uttRtQAACAAJ |location=Indiana, US |publisher=[[iUniverse]] |page=ix |isbn=978-1-4620-3533-5 |author-link=James S. Albus |access-date=September 16, 2020 |archive-date=July 19, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240719022715/https://books.google.com/books?id=uttRtQAACAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Howard Tucker]], who as of April 2023 was the world's oldest living practicing doctor at 100, attended for both his undergraduate work and medical school.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tucker |first=Dr. Howard |title=At 100 years old, I'm the 'world's oldest practicing doctor'β5 things I never do to live a long, happy life |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/11/i-am-100-years-old-and-the-worlds-oldest-practicing-doctor-what-i-never-do-to-live-a-long-happy-life.html |access-date=April 13, 2023 |website=CNBC |date=April 11, 2023 |language=en |archive-date=April 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413010937/https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/11/i-am-100-years-old-and-the-worlds-oldest-practicing-doctor-what-i-never-do-to-live-a-long-happy-life.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Ohio State alumni have been inducted into the [[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum|Baseball Hall of Fame]] in [[Cooperstown, New York]], the [[Pro Football Hall of Fame|NFL Hall of Fame]] and the [[Basketball Hall of Fame]]. Its athletes have won a combined 83 [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] medals and three times have received the [[James E. Sullivan Award|Sullivan Award]] as the nation's top amateur athlete. Ohio State Alumna include [[Gertrude Moskowitz]], foreign language teacher educator credited with influencing generations of students with her humanistic approach.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Miles |first=Gary |date=2021-10-19 |title=Gertrude βTrudyβ Moskowitz, trailblazing professor of foreign-language education at Temple University, dies at 93 |url=https://www.inquirer.com/obituaries/gertrude-trudy-moskowitz-obituary-temple-20211019.html |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=www.inquirer.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Humanistic Language Teaching |url=https://hlt.digital/ |access-date=2025-03-02 |language=en-US}}</ref>
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