People
There are over 68,000 Michigan Tech alumni living in all 50 states and over 100 countries. Some notable alumni include:
- Joe Berger, NFL player
- Melvin Calvin, Nobel Laureate and discoverer of the Calvin Cycle
- Chris Conner, NHL player
- David Edwards, biomedical engineering professor at Harvard, writer
- Tony Esposito, former NHL player
- David Hill, former Chief Engineer for the Chevrolet Corvette
- David House, former vice president of Intel
- Randy McKay, former NHL player
- John Opie, former Vice Chairman of General Electric
- Davis Payne, former head coach of the St. Louis Blues
- Kanwal Rekhi, businessman and entrepreneurship promoter in the Silicon Valley
- Richard J. Robbins, whose company built five of the six machines used to dig the Chunnel between Great Britain and France. He received a 2009 Benjamin Franklin Medal for his tunneling innovations.
- Damian Rhodes, former NHL player
- Donald G. Saari, prominent game theorist
- Alexander King Sample, 12th Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Marquette
- John Scott, NHL player
- Donald Shell, author of the Shell sort
- Matthew Songer, founder and chief executive officer of Pioneer Surgical Technology
- Andy Sutton, NHL player
- John Vartan, businessman, developer, banker, restaurateur and philanthropist
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Famous quotes containing the word people:
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—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
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