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== Notable alumni and faculty== {{Main list|List of University of Washington people}} <gallery> File:Patrick Shanahan.jpg|[[Patrick M. Shanahan]], [[United States Secretary of Defense]] File:SpeakerFoley.jpg|[[Tom Foley]], 49th [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives]] File:Michael P. Anderson.jpg|[[Michael P. Anderson]], [[National Aeronautic and Space Administration|NASA]] Astronaut and [[Space Shuttle Columbia disaster|Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' disaster]] crew member File:Sally Jewell official portrait.jpg|[[Sally Jewell]], 51st [[United States Secretary of the Interior]] and former CEO of [[Recreational Equipment, Inc.|REI]] File:Joe Sutter, University of Nova Gorica, June 2006.jpg|[[Joe Sutter]], head of the [[Boeing Commercial Airplanes|Boeing]] 747 design team<ref>{{Cite news |last=SeattlePI |first=Callie Craighead |date=2021-12-27 |title=46 famous (and infamous) UW grads and one-time students |url=https://www.seattlepi.com/local/seattlenews/article/famous-university-of-washington-graduates-students-15989799.php |access-date=2022-02-07 |newspaper=Seattle Post-Intelligencer |language=en-US |archive-date=February 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220207085452/https://www.seattlepi.com/local/seattlenews/article/famous-university-of-washington-graduates-students-15989799.php |url-status=live }}</ref> File:Bruce Lee 1973.jpg|[[Bruce Lee]], actor and martial artist File:Kenny G 1998.jpg|[[Kenny G]], [[Grammy Award]]-winning jazz musician File:Kyle MacLachlan by Gage Skidmore.jpg|[[Kyle MacLachlan]], [[Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe Award]]-winning actor File:Rainn Wilson 2011 Shankbone.JPG|[[Rainn Wilson]], actor File:Jim L Mora 2006-11-19.jpg|[[Jim L. Mora]], former NFL coach File:Hope Solo USA Training (edited).jpg|[[Hope Solo]], former [[United States women's national soccer team|USWNT]] goalkeeper File:William H. Foege Color.jpg|[[William Foege]], former Director of the [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention|CDC]], credited for global [[smallpox]] eradication strategy File:Pappy Boyington.jpg|[[Pappy Boyington]], [[World War II]] combat fighter ace File:Waldo Tobler 2007.jpg|[[Waldo R. Tobler]] Influential American [[geographer]] and [[cartographer]] known for his [[Tobler's first law of geography|first]] and [[Tobler's second law of geography|second]] law of geography. File:Richard F. Gordon.jpg|[[Richard F. Gordon, Jr.]] NASA astronaut, crew member of [[Gemini 11]] and [[Apollo 12]] </gallery> Notable alumni of the University of Washington include NFL football player [[Carl Fennema]] (1926); U.S. Olympic rower [[Joe Rantz]] (1936); architect [[Minoru Yamasaki]] (1934); news anchor and [[Big Sky Resort|Big Sky resort]] founder [[Chet Huntley]] (1934); US Senator [[Henry M. Jackson]] (JD 1935); Baskin Robbins co-founder [[Irv Robbins]] (1939); former actor, [[The Hollywood Reporter]] columnist and [[Turner Classic Movies|TCM]] host [[Robert Osborne]] (1954); glass artist [[Dale Chihuly]] (BA 1965); [[serial killer]] [[Ted Bundy]]; Nobel Prize-winning biologist [[Linda B. Buck]]; Pulitzer Prize-winning author [[Marilynne Robinson]] (PhD 1977), martial artist [[Bruce Lee]]; saxophonist [[Kenny G]] (1978); MySpace co-founder [[Chris DeWolfe]] (1988); [[Mudhoney]] lead vocalist [[Mark Arm]] (1985, English);<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~ptn/mudhoney/articles/19990211ud.html |title=Mark Arm Speaks! |last=Moriarity |first=Sean |date=November 2, 1999 |website=The University of Washington Daily |access-date=July 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101004205256/http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~ptn/mudhoney/articles/19990211ud.html |archive-date=October 4, 2010 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Soundgarden]] guitarist [[Kim Thayil]] (Philosophy);<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/soundgarden-rocks-heavy-alternative-243780/ |title=Soundgarden: Rock's Heavy Alternative |last=Neely |first=Kim |date=July 9, 1992 |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=July 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190523230511/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/soundgarden-rocks-heavy-alternative-243780/ |archive-date=May 23, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> music manager [[Susan Silver]] (Chinese);<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jaehakim.com/articles/music/backbeat/bb_silver.htm |title=Susan Silver steers careers toward rock stardom |date=April 27, 1997 |access-date=July 18, 2019 |work=Chicago Sun-Times |first=Jae-Ha |last=Kim |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041125052641/http://www.jaehakim.com/articles/music/backbeat/bb_silver.htm |archive-date=November 25, 2004 }}</ref> actor [[Rainn Wilson]] (BA, Drama 1986); radio and TV personality [[Andrew Harms]] (2001, Business and Drama); actor and comedian [[Joel McHale]] (BA, History 1995, MFA 2000), actor and Christian personality [[Jim Caviezel]], former soccer player [[Megan Kufeld]], and basketball player [[Matisse Thybulle]]. Among the faculty as of 2012, there have been 151 members of American Association for the Advancement of Science, 68 members of the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]], 67 members of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]], 53 members of the [[Institute of Medicine]], 29 winners of the [[Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers]], 21 members of the [[National Academy of Engineering]], 15 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators, 15 [[MacArthur Fellows]], 9 winners of the [[Gairdner Foundation International Award]], 5 winners of the [[National Medal of Science]], 8 Nobel Prize laureates, 5 winners of [[Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research]], 4 members of the [[American Philosophical Society]], 2 winners of the [[National Book Award]], 2 winners of the [[National Medal of Arts]], 2 [[Pulitzer Prize]] winners, 1 winner of the [[Fields Medal]], and 1 member of the [[National Academy of Public Administration (United States)|National Academy of Public Administration]].<ref>{{cite web |year=2012 |title=Faculty & Staff, University of Washington |url=http://www.washington.edu |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110225192933/http://www.washington.edu/ |archive-date=February 25, 2011 |access-date=May 3, 2001}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=University of Washington |title=Faculty Memberships and Awards |url=http://www.washington.edu/research/main.php?page=facultyAwards |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120531011305/http://www.washington.edu/research/main.php?page=facultyAwards |archive-date=May 31, 2012 |access-date=June 10, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Trujillo |first=Joshua |date=May 7, 2010 |title=Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden honors local Nobel Laureates |url=http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2010/05/07/crown-princess-victoria-of-sweden-honors-local-nobel-laureates/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121130195857/http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2010/05/07/crown-princess-victoria-of-sweden-honors-local-nobel-laureates/ |archive-date=November 30, 2012 |access-date=October 8, 2012 |newspaper=The Seattle Post Intelligencer}}</ref> Among UW students by 2012, there were 136 Fulbright Scholars, 35 Rhodes Scholars, 7 Marshall Scholars and 4 Gates Cambridge Scholars.<ref>{{cite web |year=2012 |title=Future Students, University of Washington |url=http://www.washington.edu/discover |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100412090338/http://www.washington.edu/discover/ |archive-date=April 12, 2010 |access-date=December 6, 2009}}</ref> UW is recognized as a top producer of [[Fulbright Scholars]], ranking 2nd in the US in 2017.<ref>{{cite web |year=2018 |title=University of Washington is a top producer of Fulbright scholars Students |url=https://www.washington.edu/news/2018/02/20/university-of-washington-is-a-top-producer-of-fulbright-scholars/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180426181202/http://www.washington.edu/news/2018/02/20/university-of-washington-is-a-top-producer-of-fulbright-scholars/ |archive-date=April 26, 2018 |access-date=April 11, 2018}}</ref>
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