University at Buffalo

Notable Alumni of the University at Buffalo

• John Alm, CEO of Coca-Cola Enterprises.
• Ellen Shulman Baker, astronaut on the Space Shuttle Atlantis and NASA medical officer.
• Wolf Blitzer, award-winning journalist for CNN.
• Ira Flatow, science journalist, original host of the Emmy-winning Newton's Apple and current host of NPR's Talk of the Nation - Science Friday.
• Wilson Greatbatch, inventor of the cardiac pacemaker.
• Brad Grey, CEO of Paramount.
• Terry Gross, Peabody Award-winning host of the radio interview program Fresh Air.
• Richard Hofstadter, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian; author of such landmark works as "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life" and "The Age of Reform."
• Gregory Jarvis, astronaut on the Space Shuttle Challenger.
• Zhou ji, Minister of Education for the People's Republic of China.
• Ron Silver, actor (The West Wing (television)).
• Tom Toles, Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for the Washington Post.
• Harvey Weinstein, Miramax founder and executive.
• Jeffrey Wigand, Highest-ranking former tobacco industry exuctive to become a whistle-blower against the industry, subject of the feature film The Insider (1999), starring Russell Crowe.
• Bram Cohen, a UB dropout, creator of the widly popular BitTorrent p2p client.