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:
“A people so individual in its genius, so tenacious in love or hate, so captivating in its nobler moods.”
—F.E. (Frederick Edwin)
“The enthusiastic uprising of the people in our cause, is our great reliance; and we can not safely give it any check, even though it overflows, and runs in channels not laid down in any chart.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“To avoid discord, never put two wise people in the same room.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)