University of Michigan

The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (U-M) is a public coeducational university in Michigan, United States. The flagship and oldest campus of the University of Michigan, U-M Ann Arbor is considered to be a Public Ivy, and is consistently ranked as one of the top public academic institutions in the world.{{ref|worldranking}} The University of Michigan's professional graduate schools in the fields of law, medicine, business, engineering, and education are consistently ranked by US News & World Report in the top 10 in the country. The U-M's departments of philosophy, economics, political science, history, and mathematics are also highly respected for their academic reputations and research activities

Famous alumni and faculty

Main article: List of University of Michigan people

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There are over 425,000 living alumni and 5007 faculty members. The number is often quoted as the largest number of living alumni of any American university. Campus tour guides and orientation meetings also commonly report the university as being the only one with an alumni association on the moon, due to the University's flag being one of only two on the moon, next to the U.S. flag.{{ref|alumni}}

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Famous alumni include former President Gerald R. Ford, playwright Arthur Miller, Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy, Google co-founder Larry E. Page, actor James Earl Jones, actress Lucy Liu, TV journalist Mike Wallace, former House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, H&R Block co-founder Henry W. Bloch, humanitarian Raoul Wallenberg, actress Ruth Hussey, Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady, Mayo clinic co-founder William James Mayo, Nobel Prize-winner (Physics) Samuel Ting, Nobel Prize-winner (Medicine) Marshall Nirenberg, screenwriter Judith Guest, Scopes trial attorney Clarence Darrow, authors Charles Major and Sandra Steingraber, filmmaker Lawrence Kasdan, and astronaut Edward White.

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Gerald R. Ford - Arthur Miller - Bill Joy - Larry E. Page - James Earl Jones - Lucy Liu - Mike Wallace - Dick Gephardt - Henry W. Bloch - Raoul Wallenberg - Ruth Hussey - Tom Brady - William James Mayo - Samuel Ting - Marshall Nirenberg - Judith Guest - Clarence Darrow - Charles Major - Sandra Steingraber - Lawrence Kasdan - Edward White

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