Editing University of Michigan (section)

== Notable people ==

=== Benefactors ===

[[File:Henry Ford at 1923 UM vs Marines football game dedication of Yost Field House.jpg|thumb|[[Henry Ford]] (second from the left) at the dedication of [[Yost Field House]] in 1923]]

The university was assisted in its formation in the 1810s by a [[Grand Lodge of Michigan|Masonic lodge]] ([[Zion Lodge No. 1 F&AM]]), which provided much-needed financial support for its establishment.<ref name="prnewswire">{{Cite press release |title = Mysterious Freemason Celebrates 250th Anniversary in Michigan |publisher = prnewswire |url = https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mysterious-freemason-celebrates-250th-anniversary-in-michigan-254266941.html |last1 = Berry |first1 = Wesley |access-date = February 10, 2024 }}</ref> Of the total amount subscribed to start the university, two-thirds came from the Masonic lodge and its members.<ref name="prnewswire"/> Since then, private donors have become an important source of funding for the university. Among the individuals who have made significant donations commemorated at the university are [[William Wilson Cook]], [[Dexter M. Ferry|Dexter Mason Ferry]], the [[Ford family]], the [[Nichols Arboretum|Nichols family]], the [[University of Michigan School of Education|Marsal Family]], the [[Preston Robert Tisch|Tisch Family]], [[William E. Upjohn|William Erastus Upjohn]], [[John Stoughton Newberry]], [[Clara Harrison Stranahan]], [[William K. Brehm]], [[William Morse Davidson]], [[A. Alfred Taubman]], [[Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design|Penny W. Stamps]], and [[Ronald Weiser]]. The [[Samuel Zell|Zell Family Foundation]], led by Sam and Helen Zell, has donated a total of $152 million to the university over the years.<ref>{{cite web |title = University of Michigan receives $50 million from Zell Family Foundation, led by alumna Helen Zell, for Creative Writing Program |url = https://news.umich.edu/university-of-michigan-receives-50-million-from-zell-family-foundation-led-by-alumna-helen-zell-for-creative-writing-program/ |access-date = February 10, 2024 |website = news.umich.edu |date = March 7, 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title = University of Michigan receives $60 million gift from the Zell Family Foundation |url = https://news.umich.edu/university-of-michigan-receives-60-million-gift-from-the-zell-family-foundation/ |access-date = February 10, 2024 |website = news.umich.edu |date = July 13, 2015 }}</ref> [[Stephen M. Ross]] made a $200 million donation to the business school and athletic campus in 2013.<ref>{{cite web |title = U-Michigan to receive $200 million from prominent real estate developer Stephen M. Ross |url = https://news.umich.edu/u-michigan-to-receive-200-million-from-prominent-real-estate-developer-stephen-m-ross/ |access-date = February 10, 2024 |website = news.umich.edu |date = September 4, 2013 }}</ref> Ross made a separate $100 million contribution to the university in 2004.<ref>{{cite web |title = Alumni – Stephen M. Ross |url = https://michiganross.umich.edu/alumni/stephen-m-ross |access-date = February 10, 2024 |website = michiganross.umich.edu }}</ref> [[Charles Munger]] pledged $110 million in 2013 for a graduate residence and fellowships.<ref>{{cite web |title = Charles Munger pledges $110 million for U-Michigan graduate residence and fellowships to create community of scholars; largest gift in university's history |url = https://news.umich.edu/charles-munger-pledges-110-million-for-u-michigan-graduate-residence-and-fellowships-to-create-community-of-scholars-largest-gift-in-university-s-history/ |access-date = February 10, 2024 |website = michiganross.umich.edu |date = April 18, 2013 }}</ref> In 2024, the Hong Kong-based [[Li Ka Shing Foundation]] endowed a professorship at the university to support research in biomedical engineering.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dr. Zhen Xu Receives Multiple Honors for Pioneering Work in Non-Invasive Cancer Treatment |url=https://bme.umich.edu/2024/12/11/dr-zhen-xu-receives-multiple-honors-for-pioneering-work-in-non-invasive-cancer-treatment/ |access-date=January 11, 2025 |website=bme.umich.edu |date=December 11, 2024 }}</ref>

=== Faculty ===
{{Main list|List of University of Michigan faculty and staff}}

The university employs 8,189 faculty members,<ref name="facstaffsumm_umaa2023">{{cite web |title=UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - ANN ARBOR FACULTY AND STAFF HEADCOUNT SUMMARY |url=https://obp.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/pubdata/factsfigures/facstaffsumm_umaa.pdf |website=obp.umich.edu |date=November 15, 2023 |access-date=February 18, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title = Chapter 6 Faculty & Staff |url = https://obp.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/pubdata/almanac/Almanac_Ch6.pdf |access-date = December 22, 2023 |website = obp.umich.edu }}</ref> of whom 3,195 are tenured or on a tenure track.<ref name="facstaffsumm_umaa2023"/> Among them, there are 37 members of the [[National Academy of Sciences]],<ref>{{Cite web |title = National Academy of Sciences Member directory |url = http://www.nasonline.org/site/Dir?sid=1011&view=basic&pg=srch |access-date = December 22, 2023 |website = nasonline.org }}</ref> 62 members of the [[National Academy of Medicine]],<ref>{{Cite web |title = National Academy of Medicine General Directory |url = https://nam.edu/directory/?lastName=&firstName=&parentInstitution=&yearStart=1970&yearEnd=2023&presence=0 |access-date = December 22, 2023 |website = nam.edu }}</ref> 30 members of the [[National Academy of Engineering]],<ref>{{Cite web |title = National Academy of Engineering Member Directory |url = http://www.nae.edu/default.aspx?id=20412 |access-date = December 22, 2023 |website = nae.edu }}</ref> 89 [[Sloan Research Fellowship|Sloan Research Fellows]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Sloan Research Fellows Database |url=https://sloan.org/fellows-database |access-date=February 19, 2025 |website=sloan.org }}</ref> 17 [[Guggenheim Fellows]],<ref>{{cite web |title=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation - All Fellows |url=https://www.gf.org/all-fellows/ |website=gf.org |access-date=February 19, 2025 }}</ref> 99 members of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]],<ref>{{Cite web |title = American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member Directory |url = https://www.amacad.org/directory |access-date = December 22, 2023 |website = amacad.org }}</ref> and 17 members of the [[American Philosophical Society]].<ref>{{Cite web |title = American Philosophical Society Member Directory |url = https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search |access-date = December 22, 2023 |website = amphilsoc.org }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1 = Lombardi |first1 = John V. |author-link = John V. Lombardi |last2 = Capaldi |first2 = Elizabeth D. |author-link2 = Elizabeth D. Phillips |last3 = Reeves |first3 = Kristy R. |last4 = Gater |first4 = Denise S. |date = December 2004 |title = The Top American Research Universities |url = https://mup.umass.edu/sites/default/files/mup-pdf/MUP-2004-Top-American-Research-Universities-Annual-Report.pdf |url-status = live |journal = The Lombardi Program on Measuring University Performance |location = Amherst and Gainesville |publisher = The Center for Measuring University Performance, UMass Amherst and University of Florida |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190411214604/https://mup.umass.edu/sites/default/files/mup-pdf/MUP-2004-Top-American-Research-Universities-Annual-Report.pdf |archive-date = April 11, 2019 |access-date = March 12, 2020 }}</ref> The university's current and former faculty includes thirteen [[List of University of Michigan faculty and staff#Nobel Laureates|Nobel laureates]], eight [[Pulitzer Prize]] winners, and one [[John Bates Clark Medal]] recipient.

Current faculty include physicists [[Mark Newman]], [[Duncan G. Steel]], [[Steven Cundiff]], [[Stephen Forrest]], and [[Gordon Kane]]; mathematicians [[Hyman Bass]], [[Sergey Fomin]], [[William Fulton (mathematician)|William Fulton]], [[Robert Griess]], and [[Melvin Hochster]]; chemist [[Melanie Sanford]]; Pulitzer Prize-winning historian [[Heather Ann Thompson]]; [[National Medal of Science]] recipients [[Huda Akil]] and [[Robert Axelrod (political scientist)|Robert Axelrod]]; biostatistician [[Gonçalo Abecasis]]; philosophers [[Elizabeth S. Anderson]], [[Allan Gibbard]], and [[Peter Railton]]; and social psychologist [[Richard E. Nisbett]]. The faculty also includes feminist legal theorist [[Catharine MacKinnon]], ''[[Strict Scrutiny]]'' co-host [[Leah Litman]], engineer [[James P. Bagian]], and [[A. Galip Ulsoy]], co-inventor of the [[Reconfigurable Manufacturing System]].

Philosophers who were members of the faculty include [[pragmatists]] [[John Dewey]], [[Charles Horton Cooley]], and [[George H. Mead]], along with [[analytic philosophers]] [[William Frankena]] and [[Cooper Harold Langford]]. The faculty included notable writers such as Nobel Prize-winning essayist [[Joseph Brodsky]], Pulitzer Prize-winning poet [[W. H. Auden]], and [[Robert Frost]], the only poet to receive four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry.

Notable faculty in physics have included [[Donald A. Glaser]], the inventor of the [[bubble chamber]]; [[Samuel Goudsmit]] and [[George Uhlenbeck]], discoverers of [[electron spin]]; [[Juris Upatnieks]] and [[Emmett Leith]], inventors of [[3D holography]]; [[Gérard Mourou]], inventor of [[chirped pulse amplification]]; and [[H. Richard Crane]], who was called "one of the most distinguished experimental physicists of the 20th century". [[Wolfgang Pauli]], a pioneer of [[quantum physics]], served as a visiting professor at the university in 1931 and again in 1941. Physicists [[Martin Lewis Perl]] and [[Lawrence W. Jones]] served as co-advisors to Nobel laureate [[Samuel C. C. Ting]] at the university. Perl himself was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the [[tau lepton]]. Other distinguished physicists who have served on the faculty include [[Martinus Veltman]], [[Carl Wieman]], and [[Charles H. Townes]]. Notable mathematicians [[Raoul Bott]], [[Richard Brauer]], [[Samuel Eilenberg]] (co-founder of [[category theory]]), [[Frederick Gehring]], [[Herman Goldstine]], and [[Anatol Rapoport]] have all served on the faculty.

In medicine, notable individuals who have served on the faculty include the former director of the [[National Institutes of Health]] [[Francis Collins]], the developer of the [[polio vaccine]] [[Jonas Salk]], Nobel Prize–winning physiologist [[Charles B. Huggins]], co-discoverer of [[Oncovirus|tumour-inducing viruses]] [[Peyton Rous]], geneticist [[James V. Neel]], neuroanatomist [[Elizabeth C. Crosby]], and co-discoverer of [[restriction enzymes]] [[Hamilton O. Smith]].

Past faculty have also included "the founding father of 21st-century sociology" [[Charles Tilly]], social psychologist [[Robert Zajonc]], chemical engineer [[Donald L. Katz]], Supreme Court justice [[Henry Billings Brown]], Pulitzer Prize-winning composer [[Leslie Bassett]], Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer [[David C. Turnley]], Nobel Prize-winning economist [[Lawrence R. Klein]], and [[John Bates Clark Medal]] recipient [[Kenneth E. Boulding]].

<gallery class="center" mode="nolines">
File:Joseph_Brodsky_1988.jpg|[[Joseph Brodsky]]
File:John_Dewey_cph.3a51565.jpg|[[John Dewey]]
File:Charles Townes.jpg|[[Charles H. Townes]]
File:Elizabeth_Caroline_Crosby_(1888-1983)_Ausschnitt.jpg|[[Elizabeth C. Crosby]]
File:Francis_Collins_official_photo.jpg|[[Francis Collins]]
File:Frederick Gehring.jpg|[[Frederick Gehring]]
</gallery>

=== Alumni ===
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{{Main list|List of University of Michigan alumni}}

Michigan alumni include nine [[List of University of Michigan alumni#Nobel laureates|Nobel laureates]],<ref>{{Cite web |title = Alumni |url = http://alumni.umich.edu/about-the-alumni-association |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101111165617/http://alumni.umich.edu/about-the-alumni-association |archive-date = November 11, 2010 |access-date = September 7, 2013 |publisher = University of Michigan }}</ref> two [[Abel Prize]] winners ([[Isadore M. Singer]] and [[Karen Uhlenbeck]]), two [[Fields Medalists]] ([[June Huh]] and [[Stephen Smale]]), 31 [[List of University of Michigan alumni#MacArthur Foundation award winners|MacArthur Fellows]], and 35 [[List of University of Michigan alumni#Pulitzer Prize winners|Pulitzer Prize winners]]. By alumni count, Michigan ranks fifth {{as of|2018|lc=y|post=,}} among all universities whose alumni have won Pulitzers.

====Mathematics and sciences====

[[File:Jerome Karle Portrait.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Jerome Karle]]]]

[[Claude Shannon]],<ref>{{Cite web |date = November 9, 2001 |title = Shannon Statue Dedicated at the University of Michigan |url = http://www.eecs.umich.edu/shannonstatue/ |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100731230211/http://www.eecs.umich.edu/shannonstatue/ |archive-date = July 31, 2010 |access-date = August 29, 2010 |publisher = University of Michigan EECS }}</ref> who laid the foundations of the [[Information Age]], ranks among the most distinguished mathematicians from the university. Two [[Fields Medal|Fields medalists]] [[Stephen Smale]] and [[June Huh]], both completed their Ph.D.s in Mathematics at Michigan. [[Isadore Singer]], the [[Abel Prize]]-winning mathematician who helped prove the [[Atiyah–Singer index theorem]], studied physics at the university during World War II. [[Karen Uhlenbeck]], the first woman to win the Abel Prize, received her bachelor's degree from the university in 1964. [[George Dantzig]], who developed [[linear programming]], studied at Michigan under [[George Yuri Rainich|G.Y. Rainich]], [[R.L. Wilder]], and [[Theophil Henry Hildebrandt|T.H. Hildebrandt]]. Other mathematicians from the university include [[Kenneth Ira Appel]], who, along with [[Wolfgang Haken]], solved the famous [[Four Color Theorem]]; [[Leonard Jimmie Savage]], who was known for his contributions to [[Bayesian statistics]] and [[decision theory]]; and [[Carl R. de Boor]], a renowned mathematician in [[numerical analysis]].

In physics, Nobel laureate [[Samuel C. C. Ting]], who discovered the [[J/ψ particle]], studied under [[Martin Lewis Perl]], another Nobel-winning physicist who discovered the [[tau lepton]], at the university. Chemist [[Jerome Karle]], who revealed molecular structures, completed his Ph.D. in Physics at Michigan in 1943. His wife, [[Isabella Karle]], an alumna, developed techniques to extract [[plutonium chloride]] from [[plutonium oxide]] mixtures. Other alumni include nuclear physicist [[Robert Bacher]], a leader of the [[Manhattan Project]]; [[Richard Smalley]], who discovered [[fullerenes]]; [[Moses Gomberg]], a pioneer in [[radical chemistry]], who later became a professor at the university and taught [[Frank Spedding]], who led the development of the [[Ames process]] in the Manhattan Project.

Alumni in biology and medicine include [[Marshall Warren Nirenberg]], famous for breaking the [[genetic code]], who received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the university in 1957; [[Stanley Cohen (biochemist)|Stanley Cohen]], who discovered [[growth factors]]; and [[John Jacob Abel]], regarded as the father of [[pharmacology]], who studied under the university's physiologist Henry Sewall in 1883. Other alumni include [[Raymond Pearl]], a founder of [[biogerontology]], and [[David Botstein]], a leader of the [[Human Genome Project]].

Other notable alumni in science include [[Edgar F. Codd]], who developed the [[relational model|relational model of data]] and completed his Ph.D. at Michigan, and computer scientist [[Michael Stonebraker]], who also made contributions to [[database systems|database]] research. Both Codd and Stonebraker are [[Turing Award]] winners.

==== Law and government ====
{{Main list|List of University of Michigan law and government alumni}}

[[File:Gerald Ford at University of Michigan 1976.png|thumb|U.S. President [[Gerald Ford]] wears a "Michigan #1" sweater during the kick-off of Ford's [[1976 United States presidential election|1976 presidential campaign]] at the University of Michigan's campus in [[Ann Arbor]]]]

The university boasts several holders or candidates of the [[United States presidency]], including [[Gerald Ford]],<ref>{{cite web |title = Gerald R. Ford |url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000260 |work= Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |accessdate = October 17, 2012 }}</ref> the 38th president and the Republican Party's nominee for president in [[1976 United States presidential election|1976]]; [[Thomas E. Dewey]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?page=1160|publisher=lib.rochester.edu|title=Dewey, Thomas E. {{pipe}} RBSCP|accessdate=February 23, 2017}}</ref> who was the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]]'s nominee for president in both [[1944 United States presidential election|1944]] and [[1948 United States presidential election|1948]]; [[Arthur LeSueur]], a [[Socialist Party of America|Socialist]] candidate for president in [[1916 United States presidential election|1916]]; [[Gilbert Hitchcock]], a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] candidate in [[1928 United States presidential election|1928]]; [[Arthur Vandenberg]], a Republican presidential hopeful in 1948; [[Ben Carson]],<ref>{{cite web |publisher=University of Michigan Alumni Association |title=Ben Carson, MD'77 |url=https://alumni.umich.edu/notable-alumni/ben-carson/ |access-date = March 6, 2017 }}</ref> a Republican candidate in [[Ben Carson 2016 presidential campaign|2016]]; and [[Larry Elder]], a Republican candidate in [[Larry Elder 2024 presidential campaign|2024]]. [[John Worth Kern]] and [[Burton K. Wheeler]] both ran for the [[Vice President of the United States|vice presidency]], with Kern representing the Democratic Party alongside [[William Jennings Bryan]] in [[1908 United States presidential election|1908]], and Wheeler as a [[Progressive Party (United States, 1924–1934)|Progressive Party]]'s nominee with [[Robert La Follette Sr.]] in [[1924 United States presidential election|1924]].

Among the 23 former [[governors of Michigan]] who hold formal college degrees, 10 are graduates of the university. ([[Woodbridge N. Ferris]] only attended for a year) As of 2021, the university has matriculated 63 [[U.S. governors]] or lieutenant governors, including former Governor of Michigan [[Rick Snyder]],<ref>{{cite web |url = http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/124011/rick-snyder |title = Governor Rick Snyder's biography |work = Votesmart.org |access-date = July 19, 2013 }}</ref> first female [[lieutenant governor of Missouri]] [[Harriett Woods]], and former [[Governor of California]] [[Culbert Olson]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Culbert L. Olson|url=http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_california/col2-content/main-content-list/title_olson_culbert.html|publisher=National Governors Association|accessdate=October 23, 2012}}</ref> More than 250 Michigan graduates have served as [[List of University of Michigan legislator alumni|legislators]] as either a [[United States Senator]] (48 graduates) or as a [[United States Representatives|Congressional representative]] (over 215 graduates), including former [[House Majority Leader]] [[Dick Gephardt]],<ref name="Famous UM alumni" /> U.S. Representative [[Justin Amash]].<ref>{{Cite web |title = About Justin Amash |url = http://amashforcongress.com/about |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101125020202/http://amashforcongress.com/about |archive-date = November 25, 2010 |access-date = March 6, 2011 }}</ref> Former [[Los Angeles Mayor]] [[Richard Riordan]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=U.S. History: Biographies – Richard J Riordan|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/us-history-biographies/richard-j-riordan|access-date=October 18, 2020|website=encyclopedia.com}}</ref> former [[Chicago Mayor]] [[Lori Lightfoot]],<ref>{{cite web |last1 = Kozlowski |first1 = Kim |last2 = Rahal |first2 = Sarah |title = UM alum Lightfoot to be Chicago's 1st black female mayor |url = https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/04/02/um-alum-lightfoot-chicago-1st-black-female-mayor/3342865002/ |website = The Detroit News |access-date = April 4, 2019 |language = en |date = April 2, 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190404001316/https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/04/02/um-alum-lightfoot-chicago-1st-black-female-mayor/3342865002/ |archive-date = April 4, 2019 |url-status = live }}</ref> and [[Detroit Mayor]] [[Mike Duggan]]<ref>{{cite web |title = About Mike Duggan |url = https://dugganfordetroit.com/about |website = dugganfordetroit.com |access-date = May 14, 2024 |language = en |date =  }}{{dead link|date=December 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> are also Michigan graduates.

Michigan graduates have held a range of cabinet-level positions, including [[United States Secretary of State]] ([[William Rufus Day]]<ref name="fjc1379896">{{FJC Bio|588|nid=1379896|name=William Rufus Day<!--(1849–1923)-->}}</ref>); [[United States Secretary of the Treasury]] ([[George M. Humphrey]]<ref>{{cite news |title = Corporation Builder; George Magoffin Humphrey |url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/08/17/310077412.pdf |access-date = April 26, 2019 |work = [[The New York Times]] |date = August 17, 1962 }}</ref>); [[United States Attorney General]] ([[Harry Micajah Daugherty]]<ref>{{cite book |last = Giglio |title = H.M. Daugherty and the Politics of Expediency |page = 3 }}{{full citation needed|date=May 2024}}</ref>); [[United States Secretary of the Interior]] ([[Kenneth Lee Salazar]]<ref>{{cite web |title=SALAZAR, Kenneth Lee |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/S001163 |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |accessdate=May 16, 2024 }}</ref>); [[United States Secretary of Agriculture]] ([[Clinton Anderson]],<ref>{{cite web |title=ANDERSON, Clinton Presba |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/A000186 |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |accessdate=May 16, 2024 }}</ref> [[Julius Sterling Morton]],<ref>{{cite book |last = Olson |first = James C. |year = 1942 |title = J. Sterling Morton |location =  Lincoln |publisher = Nebraska State Historical Society Foundation |pages = 20–24 }}</ref> [[Arthur M. Hyde]],<ref>{{cite web |title = Arthur Mastick Hyde |url = http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_missouri/col2-content/main-content-list/title_hyde_arthur.html |publisher = National Governors Association |accessdate = October 17, 2012 }}</ref> and [[Dan Glickman]]<ref>[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000240 "GLICKMAN, Daniel Robert (1944–)"], Biographical Information, ''Bioguide,'' U.S. Congress official website, retrieved April 3, 2017.</ref>); [[United States Secretary of Commerce]] ([[Roy D. Chapin]]<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.automotivehalloffame.org/honoree/roy-d-chapin-sr/ |work=Hall of Fame Inductees |title=Roy D. Chapin, Inducted 1972 |publisher=Automotive Hall of Fame |access-date=January 22, 2020}}</ref> and [[Robert P. Lamont]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nydailynews.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-obituary-for-robert-patterson/60017023/ |title=Daily News, February 20, 1948, Page 575. via Newspapers.com, clip page for Obituary for Robert Patterson LAMONT (Aged 80) by user bill1427 |website=nydailynews.newspapers.com |date=February 20, 1948 |access-date=May 16, 2024 |publisher=Daily News }}</ref>); [[United States Secretary of Health and Human Services]] ([[Tom Price (American politician)|Tom Price]]<ref>{{Cite news |url = http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/11/29/tom-price/94602446/ |title = Trump's pick for health chief is a Lansing native |work = The Detroit News |access-date = March 6, 2017 }}</ref>); and Director of the [[United States Office of Management and Budget]] ([[Rob Portman]]<ref name="bioguidep000449">{{cite web |url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=p000449 |title = PORTMAN, Robert Jones (Rob) – Biographical Information |website = [[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]] |publisher = [[United States Congress]] }}</ref>). Multiple alumni served in the judicial branch of the U.S. government, including William Rufus Day,<ref name="fjc1379896"/> [[Frank Murphy]],<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.law.umich.edu/newsandinfo/lqn/pasteditions/winter2005/Documents/murphy.pdf |title = University of Michigan Law Quadrangle Notes on Frank Murphy. |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090327184102/http://www.law.umich.edu/newsandinfo/lqn/pasteditions/winter2005/Documents/murphy.pdf |archive-date = March 27, 2009 |url-status = dead |df = mdy }}</ref> and [[George Sutherland]],<ref>{{cite book |last = Paschal |first = Joel Francis  |title = Mr. Justice Sutherland: A Man Against the State |location = Princeton, New Jersey |publisher = Princeton University Press |year = 1951 |pages = 5–20 }}</ref> all of whom served as [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court justices]]. As of 2019, the university has placed onto various State Supreme Courts over 125 graduates, 40 of whom served as Chief Justice.

Foreign alumni include the [[Prime Minister of Singapore]] ([[Lawrence Wong]]<ref>{{cite web |title = Lawrence Wong |url = http://www.pmo.gov.sg/cabinet/mr-lawrence-wong |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150820131421/http://www.pmo.gov.sg/cabinet/mr-lawrence-wong |archive-date = August 20, 2015 |access-date = August 18, 2015 |website = Prime Minister's Office Singapore }}</ref>); the current ruler of the [[Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah]] ([[Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi]]<ref>{{cite web |title = H.H. Sheikh Saud Bin Saqr Al Qassimi – Biography |url = https://marcopolis.net/h-h-sheikh-saud-bin-saqr-al-qassimi-biography.htm |access-date = November 30, 2021 |website = marcopolis.net |date = September 17, 2008 |language = en-gb }}</ref>); the 51st [[Prime Minister of Italy]] ([[Lamberto Dini]]); the [[Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda]] 1994–2004 ([[Lester Bird]]); the 47th [[President of Costa Rica]] ([[Luis Guillermo Solís]]); the [[Prime Minister of Peru]] 1993–1994 ([[Alfonso Bustamante]]); the [[Prime Minister of Jordan]] 2012–2016 ([[Abdullah Ensour]]<ref>{{cite news |title = Jordan PM CV |url = http://www.pm.gov.jo/english/index.php?page_type=pages&part=1&page_id=428 }}</ref>); the 13th [[President of Pakistan]] ([[Arif Alvi]]<ref>{{cite news |title = The cleric, the lawyer and the partyman |url = https://tribune.com.pk/story/1794826/1-presidential-election-cleric-lawyer-partyman/ |access-date = September 4, 2018 |work = The Express Tribune |date = September 4, 2018 |archive-date = December 25, 2018 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181225211324/https://tribune.com.pk/story/1794826/1-presidential-election-cleric-lawyer-partyman/ |url-status = live }}</ref>); [[Chief Secretary of Hong Kong]] 2007–2011 ([[Henry Tang Ying-yen]]<ref>{{cite web |publisher = University of Michigan Alumni Association |title = Alumni Spotlight |url = http://alumni.umich.edu/node/807 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100609130605/http://alumni.umich.edu/node/807 |archive-date = June 9, 2010 }}</ref>); [[Deputy Prime Minister of South Korea]] 2017–2018 ([[Kim Dong-yeon]]); [[Deputy Prime Minister of Bulgaria]] in the government of Boyko Borisov ([[Simeon Djankov]]); Deputy Prime Minister of [[Madagascar]] 1997–1998 ([[Herizo Razafimahaleo]]). British [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Members of Parliament]] [[Terry Davis (politician)|Terry Davis]] and [[Howard Flight]] are also Michigan graduates. As of 2022, Michigan has matriculated 64 Ambassadors who served as Ambassador in more than 72 countries.

==== Engineering and technology ====
{{Main list|List of University of Michigan alumni#Computers, engineering, and technology}}

Many alumni have made significant contributions to the fields of engineering and technology, including [[Clarence "Kelly" Johnson]]<ref>{{Cite web |title = Biographical Memoirs-Clarence Leonard (kelly) Johnson |url = http://www.nap.edu/readingroom.php?book=biomems&page=cjohnson.html |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110218171958/http://www.nap.edu/readingroom.php?book=biomems&page=cjohnson.html |archive-date = February 18, 2011 |access-date = August 31, 2010 |publisher = The National Academies Press }}</ref> and [[Joseph Francis Shea]], a key figure in the [[Apollo program]], earned his Ph.D. in 1955. The university produced numerous developers and original authors of widely recognized software programs, such as [[Thomas Knoll]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://alumni.umich.edu/timeline/thomas-knoll/ |title=THOMAS KNOLL, 1982, MSE'84 |accessdate=2017-01-17}}</ref> (original author of [[Adobe Photoshop]]); [[Mike Engelhardt]]<ref>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-engelhardt-a788a822 Mike Engelhardt; LinkedIn.]</ref> (original author of [[LTspice]]); [[Niels Provos]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Provos|first=Niels|url=https://www.provos.org/|accessdate=22 January 2023|title=Provos' official web page}}</ref> (creator of [[Bcrypt]]); and [[Sid Meier]]<ref>{{cite web| url= http://eecs.umich.edu/meier-bootcamp/details.html |title=Sid Meier's Game Design Boot Camp at the University of Michigan |website =Eecs.umich.edu |access-date=August 25, 2013}}</ref> (creator of video games series [[Civilization (series)|Civilization]]).

==== Business and finance ====
{{Main list|List of University of Michigan business alumni}}

[[File:George_Franklin_Getty_(1855-1930).jpg|thumb|upright|[[George Getty]], patriarch of the [[Getty family]], earned his juris doctor from the [[University of Michigan Law School|law school]] in 1882]]

Michigan alumni have founded or cofounded many prominent companies, such as [[Alphabet Inc.]] ([[Larry Page]]<ref>{{Cite web |title = Corporate Information – Google Management: Larry Page |url = https://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/execs.html#larry |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100820212225/http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/execs.html#larry |archive-date = August 20, 2010 |access-date = August 29, 2010 |publisher = Google, Inc. }}</ref>), [[Johnson & Johnson]] ([[Edward Mead Johnson]]<ref>Raithel, Tom. [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-14170585.html "BABY, YOU'VE COME A LONG WAY MEAD JOHNSON GOING STRONG AS IT TURNS 100"]{{dead link|date=February 2019|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, ''[[Evansville Courier & Press]]'', February 10, 2005. Accessed September 1, 2010.</ref>), [[Abbott Laboratories]] (Wallace Calvin Abbott), [[Stryker Corporation]] ([[Homer Stryker]]<ref>{{Cite web |title = University of Michigan Alumni Innovator Hall of Fame |url = https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/surgery/about-us/history |access-date = May 12, 2024 |publisher = UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY }}</ref>), [[Emerson Electric Company]] ([[John Wesley Emerson]]), [[Loews Corporation]] ([[Preston Robert Tisch]]<ref>{{cite web |title = Tisch family members continue tradition of support |url = https://record.umich.edu/articles/tisch-family-members-continue-tradition-support/ |date =  |access-date = May 12, 2024 |website = record.umich.edu |publisher = Office of the Vice President for Communications }}</ref>), [[Devon Energy]] ([[J. Larry Nichols]]<ref>{{cite news | url=http://journalrecord.com/2007/06/19/the-century-club-j-larry-nichols/ | title=The Century Club: J. Larry Nichols | first=Marcia | last=Shottenkirk | work=[[The Journal Record]] | date=June 19, 2007}}{{subscription required}}</ref>), [[Merrill Lynch]] ([[Charles Edward Merrill]]<ref>{{cite web |title = As Markets Falter, Merrill Lynch Sold: Recalling Charles Merrill's Amherst Ties |url = https://amherststudent-archive.amherst.edu/current/news/view.php%3Fyear=2008-2009&issue=03&section=news&article=02.html |date =  |access-date = May 12, 2024 |website = amherststudent-archive.amherst.edu |publisher = The Amherst Student }}</ref>), [[Leidos]] as SAIC ([[John Robert Beyster|J. Robert Beyster]]<ref>{{Cite book |last1 = Beyster |first1 = J. Robert |title = The SAIC solution: How we built an $8 billion employee-owned technology company |last2 = Economy |first2 = Peter |date = 2007 |publisher = John Wiley & Sons |isbn = 978-0-470-09752-6 |location = Hoboken |pages = 190–191 |oclc = 76820653 |author-link = J. Robert Beyster |author-link2 = Peter Economy }}</ref>), [[Rocket Mortgage]] ([[Gary Gilbert]]<ref>{{cite web |title = This kid is all right |url = https://michigantoday.umich.edu/2012/04/19/a8206/ |date =  April 19, 2012|access-date = May 12, 2024 |website = michigantoday.umich.edu |publisher = Office of the VP for Communications }}</ref>), [[Domino's]] ([[Tom Monaghan]]<ref>{{cite web |title = Tom Monaghan, x'60 |url = https://alumni.umich.edu/notable-alumni/tom-monaghan/ |date =  |access-date = May 12, 2024 |website = alumni.umich.edu |publisher = Alumni Association of the University of Michigan }}</ref>), [[H&R Block]] ([[Henry W. Bloch]]<ref>{{cite web |title = Henry W. Bloch, '44, HLLD'05 |url = https://alumni.umich.edu/notable-alumni/henry-w-bloch/ |date =  |access-date = May 12, 2024 |website = alumni.umich.edu |publisher = Alumni Association of the University of Michigan }}</ref>), [[Related Companies]] ([[Stephen M. Ross]]<ref>{{cite web |title = Stephen M. Ross – Leader, Visionary, Philanthropist, Wolverine. |url = https://michiganross.umich.edu/alumni/stephen-m-ross |date =  |access-date = May 12, 2024 |website = michiganross.umich.edu |publisher = Stephen M. Ross School of Business }}</ref>), [[Admiral Group]] ([[Henry Engelhardt]]<ref>{{cite web |title = Henry Engelhardt – Chief Executive Officer, Admiral Group |url = https://www.forbes.com/profile/henry-engelhardt/ |date =  |access-date = May 12, 2024 |website = [[Forbes]] }}</ref>), [[Akamai Technologies]] ([[Randall Kaplan]]), [[Five Guys|Five Guys Enterprises]] (Jerry Murrell<ref>{{cite web |title = Five Guys Burgers: America's Fastest Growing Restaurant Chain |url = https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2012/0806/restaurant-chefs-12-five-guys-jerry-murrell-all-in-the-family.html |date = July 18, 2012 |access-date = May 11, 2024 |website = [[Forbes]] }}</ref>
), [[Dart Container Corporation]] (William A. Dart<ref>{{cite web |title = Dart Container family, Detroit Free Press, June 29, 1992 p. 11F |url = https://www.newspapers.com/article/detroit-free-press-dart-container-family/17379017/ |date = June 29, 1992 |access-date = May 14, 2024 |website = newspapers.com |publisher = Detroit Free Press }}</ref>), and [[Groupon]] ([[Eric Lefkofsky]]<ref>{{cite web |title = Eric Lefkofsky, '91, JD'93 |url = https://alumni.umich.edu/notable-alumni/eric-lefkofsky/ |date =  |access-date = May 12, 2024 |website = alumni.umich.edu |publisher = Alumni Association of the University of Michigan }}</ref> and [[Brad Keywell]]<ref>{{cite web |title = Bradley A. Keywell |url = https://zli.umich.edu/people/bradley-a-keywell/ |date =  |access-date = May 12, 2024 |website = zli.umich.edu |publisher = Samuel Zell and Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies }}</ref>)

The university counts several patriarchs of influential business dynasties, including [[George Getty]] of the renowned [[Getty family]]. The university also boasts a number of graduates from affluent families, including heirs and heiresses to major fortunes, such as [[Josiah K. Lilly Jr.]] (heir to [[Eli Lilly and Company]]); [[Charles Rudolph Walgreen Jr.]]<ref>{{cite web |title = Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century – Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. – WALGREEN COMPANY |url = https://www.hbs.edu/leadership/20th-century-leaders/details?profile=charles_r_walgreen_jr |date =  |access-date = May 12, 2024 |website = hbs.edu |publisher = Harvard Business School }}</ref> (heir to [[Walgreens Boots Alliance|Walgreens]]); [[John Gideon Searle]] (heir to [[G.D. Searle, LLC|G. D. Searle]]); [[Doug Meijer]]<ref>{{cite web |title = Douglas F. Meijer, '76 |url = https://alumni.umich.edu/notable-alumni/douglas-f-meijer/ |date =  |access-date = May 12, 2024 |website = alumni.umich.edu |publisher = Alumni Association of the University of Michigan }}</ref> and [[Hank Meijer]]<ref>{{cite web |title = Hendrik G. "Hank" Meijer, '73, HLLD'19 |url = https://alumni.umich.edu/notable-alumni/hendrik-g-hank-meijer/ |date =  |access-date = May 12, 2024 |website = alumni.umich.edu |publisher = Alumni Association of the University of Michigan }}</ref> (heirs to [[Meijer]]); [[Christopher Ilitch]] (heir to [[Ilitch Holdings, Inc.]]); and [[Kenneth Dart|Kenneth B. Dart]] (heir to [[Dart Container Corporation]]). [[Raoul Wallenberg]], a member of the prominent [[Wallenberg family]], one of the [[List of wealthiest families|wealthiest families in the world]], studied at the university in 1931.<ref name=ROB>{{cite web |url= http://www.raoulwallenberg.org/who/hero.html |title=A Hero for our Time |access-date= 12 February 2007 |first= Rachel |last= Oestreicher Bernheim | year= 1981 | website= raoulwallenberg.org | publisher= The Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070206125138/http://www.raoulwallenberg.org/who/hero.html |archive-date = 6 February 2007|author-link=Rachel Oestreicher Bernheim }}</ref>

As of May 2024, about 2.8% of all [[Fortune 1000]] executives with MBAs are alumni from [[Michigan Ross]], ranking it as the 6th highest among all business schools in the United States.<ref>{{cite web |last1=FORE |first1=BYPRESTON |last2=HAFT |first2=BRAD |title = What's the best MBA school? These schools produce the most Fortune 1000 c-suite executives |url = https://fortune.com/education/articles/fortune-1000-executives-mba-alma-mater/ |date =  |access-date = June 1, 2024 |website = fortune.com |publisher = Fortune Media IP Limited }}</ref><ref name="ross-fortune1000-2024"/> Alumni have led several companies, including [[Berkshire Hathaway]] ([[Charlie Munger]]<ref name="munger2011">{{cite web |title = Munger's $20M Gift |url = https://www.law.umich.edu/quadrangle/spring2011/specialfeatures/Pages/Mungers20MGift.aspx |date =  |access-date = May 12, 2024 |website = law.umich.edu |publisher = The University of Michigan Law School }}</ref>), [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] ([[James Hackett (businessman)|James Hackett]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Jim Hackett, longtime Ford School Committee member, appointed interim athletic director |url=https://fordschool.umich.edu/news/2014/jim-hackett-longtime-ford-school-committee-member-appointed-interim-athletic-director |website=fordschool.umich.edu |date=November 3, 2014 |access-date = May 16, 2024 |publisher=Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy }}</ref>), [[General Motors]] ([[Roger Smith (executive)|Roger Smith]], [[Frederick Henderson]], and Richard C. Gerstenberg<ref>{{cite web |title=Richard C. Gerstenberg, 92, G.M. Official |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/26/business/richard-c-gerstenberg-92-gm-official.html |website=[[The New York Times]] |date=July 26, 2002 |access-date=June 11, 2024 }}</ref>), [[State Farm Insurance]] (Jon Farney<ref>{{cite web |title = State Farm® announces new leadership |url = https://newsroom.statefarm.com/state-farm-new-ceo/ |date = March 14, 2024 |access-date = May 11, 2024 |website = newsroom.statefarm.com |publisher = State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company }}</ref>), [[Citigroup]] ([[John C. Dugan]]<ref>{{cite web |title=John Cunningham Dugan – Department of the Treasury |url=https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/results/leadership/bio_1025.html |access-date=May 16, 2024 |website=georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov}}</ref>), [[Tencent]] (Martin Lau<ref>{{cite web |title = Martin Lau, '94 |url = https://alumni.umich.edu/notable-alumni/martin-lau/ |date =  |access-date = May 11, 2024 |website = alumni.umich.edu |publisher = Alumni Association of the University of Michigan }}</ref>), [[The Boeing Company]] ([[Edgar Gott]]<ref>{{cite web |title = Edgar N. Gott, 1909 |url = https://alumni.umich.edu/notable-alumni/edgar-n-gott/ |date =  |access-date = May 12, 2024 |website = alumni.umich.edu |publisher = Alumni Association of the University of Michigan }}</ref>), [[Wells Fargo]] ([[Timothy J. Sloan]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wellsfargo.com/about/corporate/governance/sloan/|title=Timothy J. Sloan Biography : President, and CEO : Wells Fargo|website=Wellsfargo.com|accessdate=2016-10-17|archive-date=March 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328230855/https://www.wellsfargo.com/about/corporate/governance/sloan/|url-status=dead}}</ref>), [[Allstate|Allstate Corp.]] ([[Thomas J. Wilson]]<ref name="ross-fortune1000-2024">{{Cite web |title = University of Michigan Produces More CEOs at Fortune 1000 Companies Than Any Other Public University |url = https://michiganross.umich.edu/news/university-michigan-produces-more-ceos-fortune-1000-companies-any-other-public-university |access-date = May 12, 2024 |publisher = Stephen M. Ross School of Business }}</ref>), [[American Airlines Group|American Airlines]] ([[Robert Isom]]<ref name="ross-fortune1000-2024"/>), [[PNC Financial Services]] ([[William S. Demchak]]<ref>{{cite web|title=William S. Demchak Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer The PNC Financial Services Group|url=https://www.pnc.com/en/about-pnc/company-profile/leadership-team/william-s-demchak.html|publisher=PNC|accessdate=14 April 2015}}</ref>), [[General Mills]] ([[Stephen Sanger]]<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_13/b3725119.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011116203403/http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_13/b3725119.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=November 16, 2001 | title=The Lucky Charm of Steve Sanger | accessdate=December 4, 2010 | date=March 26, 2001 | publisher=BusinessWeek}}</ref>), [[Turkish Airlines]] ([[Temel Kotil]]<ref>{{cite web |title = Hawk and dove – President & CEO, Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) |url = https://thebusinessyear.com/interview/hawk-and-dove/ |date =  January 9, 2020|access-date = May 12, 2024 |website = thebusinessyear.com |publisher = thebusinessyear }}</ref>), [[International Paper]] ([[John V. Faraci]]<ref>{{Cite web |title = John V. Faraci Jr., 1972 |url = https://alumni.denison.edu/citations/john-v-faraci-jr/ |access-date = June 28, 2024 |publisher = Denison University }}</ref>), [[KB Financial Group]] ([[Euh Yoon-dae]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Prominent Korean executive and educator Dr. Yoon-Dae Euh speaks on Korea's economy |website=hawaii.edu |url=https://www.hawaii.edu/news/attachments/pdf6633_4282.pdf |accessdate=2024-06-28 }}</ref>), [[Chrysler Group LLC]] ([[C. Robert Kidder]]<ref>{{cite web |first1 = Kenneth N. |last1 = Gilpin |first2 = Eric |last2 = Schmitt |title = BUSINESS PEOPLE; Kidder, Peabody Officer Named to Merrill Post |url = https://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/17/business/business-people-kidder-peabody-officer-named-to-merrill-post.html |date = January 17, 1986 |access-date = May 12, 2024 |website = [[The New York Times]] }}</ref>), [[BorgWarner Inc.]] ([[Timothy M. Manganello]]<ref>{{cite web |title = Significant endowment from Manganello/BorgWarner |url = https://me.engin.umich.edu/news-events/news/significant-endowment-manganelloborgwarner/ |date =  |access-date = May 12, 2024 |website = me.engin.umich.edu |publisher = MECHANICAL ENGINEERING }}</ref>), [[Bunzl]] ([[Michael Roney]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-roney/11/0/648 |title=Michael Roney: Chief Executive Officer at Bunzl |publisher=LinkedIn |date= |accessdate=November 16, 2012}}</ref>), [[Celanese]] ([[David N. Weidman]]<ref name="Forbes">{{cite web|title=CEO Compensation #132 David N Weidman|url=https://www.forbes.com/lists/2012/12/ceo-compensation-12_David-N-Weidman_6YPV.html|website=Forbes.com|access-date=24 May 2016}}</ref>), [[JetBlue]] ([[Dave Barger]]<ref>{{cite web |title = David Barger, '17 |url = https://alumni.umich.edu/notable-alumni/david-barger/ |date =  |access-date = May 12, 2024 |website = alumni.umich.edu |publisher = Alumni Association of the University of Michigan }}</ref>), [[Restaurant Brands International]] ([[J. Patrick Doyle]]<ref>{{cite web |title = J. Patrick Doyle |url = https://www.rbi.com/English/about-us/board-of-directors/person-details/ |date =  |access-date = May 12, 2024 |website = rbi.com |publisher = Restaurant Brands International Inc. }}</ref>), and [[Bain Capital]] ([[Edward Conard]]<ref>{{cite web |title = The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class |url = https://michigantoday.umich.edu/alumni/books/the-upside-of-inequality-how-good-intentions-undermine-the-middle-class/ |date =  |access-date = May 12, 2024 |website = michigantoday.umich.edu |publisher = Office of the VP for Communications }}</ref>).

==== Literature ====

Notable writers who attended the university include playwright [[Arthur Miller]],<ref name="Famous UM alumni">{{Cite web |title = Famous U-M Alumni |url = http://alumni.umich.edu/info/um/famous_alumni_abc.php |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100712122532/http://alumni.umich.edu/info/um/famous_alumni_abc.php |archive-date = July 12, 2010 |access-date = August 29, 2010 |publisher = Alumni Association University of Michigan }}</ref> essayists [[Susan Orlean]],<ref name="Famous UM alumni" /> [[Jia Tolentino]],<ref>{{Cite magazine |title = Jia Tolentino |url = https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/jia-tolentino |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180205193408/https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/jia-tolentino |archive-date = February 5, 2018 |access-date = November 21, 2020 |magazine = The New Yorker |language = en }}</ref> [[Sven Birkerts]], journalists and editors [[Mike Wallace]],<ref name="Famous UM alumni" /> [[Jonathan Chait]] of ''[[The New Republic]]'', Indian author and columnist [[Anees Jung]], [[Daniel Okrent]],<ref name="Famous UM alumni" /> and [[Sandra Steingraber]], food critics [[Ruth Reichl]] and [[Gael Greene]], novelists [[Brett Ellen Block]], [[Elizabeth Kostova]], [[Marge Piercy]],<ref name="Famous UM alumni" /> [[Brad Meltzer]],<ref name="Famous UM alumni" /> [[Betty Smith]],<ref name="Famous UM alumni" /> and [[Charles Major (writer)|Charles Major]], screenwriter [[Judith Guest]],<ref name="Famous UM alumni" /> Pulitzer Prize-winning poet [[Theodore Roethke]], National Book Award winners [[Keith Waldrop]] and [[Jesmyn Ward]], composer/author/puppeteer [[Forman Brown]], [[Alireza Jafarzadeh]] (a Middle East analyst, author, and TV commentator), and memoirist and self-help book author [[Jerry and Mary Newport|Jerry Newport]].

==== Music and theatre ====

Musical graduates include operatic soprano [[Jessye Norman]],<ref name="Famous UM alumni" /> singer [[Joe Dassin]], multiple members of the bands [[Tally Hall]] and [[Vulfpeck]], jazz guitarist [[Randy Napoleon]], and [[Mannheim Steamroller]] founder [[Chip Davis]].<ref name="Famous UM alumni" /> Well-known composers who are alumni include [[Frank Ticheli]], [[Andrew Lippa]], and the Oscar and Tony Award-winning duo [[Pasek and Paul|Benj Pasek and Justin Paul]]. Pop superstar [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]]<ref name="Famous UM alumni" /> and rock legend [[Iggy Pop]]<ref name="Famous UM alumni" /> attended but did not graduate.

In [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]], famous alumni include actors [[Michael Dunn (actor)|Michael Dunn]],<ref name="Famous UM alumni" /> [[Darren Criss]], [[James Earl Jones]],<ref name="Famous UM alumni" /> and [[David Alan Grier]];<ref name="Famous UM alumni" /> actresses [[Lucy Liu]],<ref name="Famous UM alumni" /> [[Gilda Radner]],<ref name="Famous UM alumni" /> and [[Selma Blair]]<ref name="Famous UM alumni" /> as well as television director [[Mark Cendrowski]] and filmmaker [[Lawrence Kasdan]].<ref name="Famous UM alumni" /> Many Broadway and musical theatre actors, including [[Gavin Creel]],<ref name="Famous UM alumni" /> [[Andrew Keenan-Bolger]], his sister [[Celia Keenan-Bolger]], and [[Taylor Louderman]] attended U-M for musical theatre. Emmy Award winner [[Sanjay Gupta]] attended both college and medical school at the university.<ref>{{Cite news |title = Sanjay Gupta |url = http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/gupta.sanjay.html |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101019021301/http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/gupta.sanjay.html |archive-date = October 19, 2010 |access-date = August 31, 2010 |agency = CNN }}</ref> Conservative pundit [[Ann Coulter]] is another U-M law school graduate (J.D. 1988).<ref name="Famous UM alumni" />
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==== Sports ====

U-M athletes have starred in [[Major League Baseball]], the [[National Football League]] and [[National Basketball Association]] as well as in other professional sports. Notable among recent players is [[Tom Brady]] of the [[New England Patriots]] and the [[Tampa Bay Buccaneers]].<ref name="Famous UM alumni" /> Three players have won college football's [[Heisman Trophy]], awarded to the player considered the best in the nation: [[Tom Harmon]] (1940), [[Desmond Howard]] (1991), and [[Charles Woodson]] (1997).<ref name="Heisman" /> Professional golfer [[John Schroeder (golfer)|John Schroeder]] and Olympic swimmer [[Michael Phelps]] also attended the University of Michigan; the latter studied Sports Marketing and Management. Phelps also swam competitively for [[Michigan Wolverines swimming and diving#Club Wolverine|Club Wolverine]], a swimming club associated with the university.<ref>{{Cite news |last = Michaelis |first = Vicki |date = February 13, 2007 |title = Phelps' dominant pool dream still alive |url = https://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2007-02-12-phelps-focus_x.htm |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081012101644/http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2007-02-12-phelps-focus_x.htm |archive-date = October 12, 2008 |access-date = October 25, 2008 |work = USA Today }}</ref> Israeli Olympic swimmer [[Gal Cohen Groumi]] has also competed for the Wolverines. The [[Canada women's national soccer team|Canada national team]]'s [[Shelina Zadorsky]] played soccer at the University of Michigan.<ref>{{Cite web |title = Shelina Zadorsky – Women's Soccer |url = https://mgoblue.com/sports/womens-soccer/roster/shelina-zadorsky/10544 |access-date = December 9, 2023 |website = University of Michigan Athletics |language = en }}</ref>

[[National Hockey League]] players [[Marty Turco]], [[Luke Hughes (ice hockey)|Luke Hughes]], [[Quinn Hughes]], [[Chris Summers (ice hockey)|Chris Summers]], [[Max Pacioretty]], [[Carl Hagelin]], [[Dylan Larkin]], [[Zach Hyman]], [[Brendan Morrison]],<ref name="Famous UM alumni" /> [[Jack Johnson (ice hockey)|Jack Johnson]], and [[Michael Cammalleri]]<ref name="Famous UM alumni" /> all played for U-M's ice hockey team. MLB Hall of Famers [[George Sisler]] and [[Barry Larkin]] also played baseball at the university.<ref name="Famous UM alumni" /> Several team owners have been alumni, including multiple-team owner [[Bill Davidson (businessman)|Bill Davidson]] (NBA [[Detroit Pistons]], NHL [[Tampa Bay Lightning]], WNBA [[Detroit Shock]], among others) and NFL owners [[Stephen M. Ross]] ([[Miami Dolphins]]), [[Preston Robert Tisch]] ([[New York Giants]]), and [[Ralph Wilson]] ([[Buffalo Bills]]).

==== Activists and humanitarians ====

Activists associated with the university include [[Weather Underground]] radical activist [[Bill Ayers]],<ref>{{Cite book |last = Ayers |first = Bill |title = Fugitive Days: A Memoir |publisher = New York: Penguin Books |year = 2003 |isbn = 0-8070-7124-2 }}</ref> activist [[Tom Hayden]],<ref name="Famous UM alumni" /> architect [[Charles Willard Moore|Charles Moore]],<ref>{{Cite web |title = Who |url = http://www.charlesmoore.org/who.html |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081026014641/http://www.charlesmoore.org/who.html |archive-date = October 26, 2008 |access-date = October 26, 2008 |publisher = Charles Moore Foundation }}</ref> [[Swedes|Swedish]] hero of the Holocaust [[Raoul Wallenberg]],<ref>{{Cite web |last = Schreiber |first = Penny |title = The Wallenberg Story |url = http://wallenberg.umich.edu/raoul-wallenberg/the-story-of-raoul-wallenberg/college-life/ |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140713122043/http://wallenberg.umich.edu/raoul-wallenberg/the-story-of-raoul-wallenberg/college-life/ |archive-date = July 13, 2014 |access-date = February 14, 2007 |publisher = The Wallenberg Foundation (University of Michigan) }}</ref> Civil War General [[Benjamin D. Pritchard]],<ref>{{Cite book |last = Greenm James J. |title = The Life and Times of General B. D. Pritchard |publisher = Allegan: Allegan County Historical Society |year = 1979 |page = 2 }}</ref> assisted-suicide advocate [[Jack Kevorkian]], and domestic eco-terrorist [[Ted Kaczynski]] (The Unabomber).

==== Exploration ====

Several astronauts attended Michigan including the all-U-M crews of both [[Gemini 4]]<ref>{{Cite book |last = Shayler |first = David |title = Gemini |publisher = Springer |year = 2001 |isbn = 1-85233-405-3 |page = 103 }}</ref> and [[Apollo 15]].<ref name="Graboski 2006" /> The university claims the only alumni association with a chapter on the Moon, established in 1971 when the crew of [[Apollo 15]] placed a charter plaque for a new U-M Alumni Association on the lunar surface.<ref name="Famous UM alumni" /><ref name="Graboski 2006">{{Cite news |last = Graboski |first = Leah |date = March 29, 2006 |title = Debunking the moon myth |url = https://www.michigandaily.com/content/debunking-moon-myth |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200103005913/https://www.michigandaily.com/content/debunking-moon-myth |archive-date = January 3, 2020 |access-date = March 13, 2020 |work = [[The Michigan Daily]] |language = en }}</ref>