Indiana University Bloomington

Indiana University Bloomington is the principal campus of the Indiana University system. It is popularly known as "Indiana University," IUB, or simply IU. It is located in Bloomington, Indiana, in Monroe County, Indiana.

Notable alumni

Arts and Humanities

• Ismail al-Faruqi, philosopher and epistemologist
• Joe Buck, sportscaster, multiple Emmy Award winner
• David Chalmers, leading philosopher in the area of philosophy of mind
• Robert Coover, author
• John Crowley, science-fiction author, author of The Deep and Little, Big
• Michel duCille, photographer, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize
• Dick Enberg, sportscaster, 13-time Emmy Award winner
• Kevin Kline, actor
• Michael Uslan, film producer
• Ross Lockridge, Jr., author of Raintree County
• Don Mellett, jounalist, newspaper editor, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Jane Pauley, broadcaster
• Ernie Pyle, journalist
• Will Shortz, puzzle maker (enigmatologist)
• Tavis Smiley, National Public Radio host
• Clark Wissler, anthropology pioneer

Business

• Joe Barnette, retired chairman and CEO of Bank One
• John Chambers, president and CEO of Cisco Systems
• Mark Cuban, technology entrepreneur, Dallas Mavericks owner
• Jeff Fettig, CEO of Whirlpool Corporation
• Katherine Hudson, president & CEO of Brady Corporation
• E. W. Kelley, former chairman of Steak n Shake
• Frank Popoff, retired chairman and CEO of Dow Chemical Company
• Maggy Siegel, president & CEO, Judith Leiber LLC
• Fred Steingraber, retired chairman and CEO of consulting company A.T. Kearney
• Corey Torrence, president and CEO of marketing company Epsilon
• Todd Wagner, CEO of 2929 Entertainment; Founder of Todd Wagner Foundation; Co-Founder of Broadcast.com
• Jimbo Wales, CEO of Bomis, founder of Wikipedia, president of the Wikimedia Foundation

Music

• Menahem Pressler pianist, but founder of Beaux Arts Trio
• Joshua Bell, violinist
• Janos Starker, retired cellist
• Angela Brown, soprano opera singer at the Metropolitan Opera
• Hoagy Carmichael, songwriter and actor, author of the famous songs Stardust and Georgia on My Mind
• Booker T. Jones, songwriter, producer and frontman of the band Booker T. and the MGs

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• David Baker
• Larry Ridley, jazz bassist and music educator
• Leonard Slatkin, composer and conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra until 2004
• Jamey Aebersold, famous jazz educator and jazz education author

Politics

• Michael Badnarik, 2004 US Presidential candidate
• Evan Bayh, US Senator, former governor of Indiana
• LeRoy Edgar Burney, former Surgeon General of the United States
• Dan Coats, former US Senator, former US ambassador to Germany
• Robert Gates, former CIA director and National Security Council member
• William E. Jenner, former US Senator
• Charles Peter Kennedy, British politician and Member of Parliament, leader of the British Liberal Democrat party
• Richard Monroe Miles, US ambassador to Georgia
• Frank O'Bannon, former governor of Indiana

Related Topics:
Dan Quayle - Vice President of the United States

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Dan Quayle did not go to IUB, but to DePauw and to IUPUI -->

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• Newell Sanders, former US Senator
• Edgar Whitcomb, former governor of Indiana
• Wendell Willkie, 1940 Republican presidential candidate

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Science and Technology

• Carl Otto Lampland, astronomer
• Wardell Pomeroy, sexologist
• Vesto Slipher, astronomer
• John T. Thompson, military officer, developer of the Springfield 1903 rifle, the M1911 pistol and inventor of the Thompson submachine gun
• Mansukh C. Wani, cancer researcher, discoverer of Taxol
• David Wolf, astronaut, space shuttle, Mir and ISS veteran
• James D. Watson, co-discoverer of DNA structure, author of The Double Helix, winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Sports

• Ted Kluszewski, Major League Baseball player and coach
• Mark Spitz, Olympic gold medalist swimmer
• Isiah Thomas, former NBA star, Basketball Hall of Famer
• Sam Wyche, NFL player and coach

Other

• Jim Jones, People's Temple founder and cult leader