Alumni, Faculty and Presidents
As of 2011, Rice has graduated 98 classes of students consisting of 51,961 living alumni. Over 100 students at Rice have been Fulbright Scholars, 20 Marshall Scholars, 25 Mellon Fellows, 12 Rhodes Scholars, 6 Udall Scholars, and 65 Watson Fellows, among several other honors and awards.
Rice's distinguished faculty consists of 1 Nobel laureate, 1 Pulitzer Prize award winner, 6 Fulbright Scholars, 29 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Recipients, 8 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1 member of the American Philosophical Society, 35 Guggenheim Fellowships, 17 members of the National Academy of Engineering, 7 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 5 fellows of the National Humanities Center, and 86 fellows of the National Science Foundation.
Alumni of Rice have occupied top positions in business, including George R. Brown, Thomas H. Cruikshank, the former CEO of Halliburton, John Doerr, billionaire and venture capitalist who provided original investments in Google, Amazon.com, Compaq, Netscape, and Sun Microsystems, Howard Hughes, and Fred C. Koch.
In government and politics, Rice alumni include Alberto Gonzales, former Attorney General, Charles Duncan, former Secretary of Energy, William P. Hobby, Jr., John Kline, and Annise Parker, incumbent Mayor of Houston.
Many Rice alumni have gone on to successful careers in the humanities such as Larry McMurtry, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Oscar winning writer of Brokeback Mountain screenplay, and Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City, who attended for three semesters.
In science and technology, Rice alumni include 14 NASA astronauts, Robert Curl, Nobel Prize winning discoverer of fullerene, and Robert Woodrow Wilson.
Rice athletes include Lance Berkman, Bubba Crosby, Harold Solomon, Frank Ryan, Tommy Kramer, Jose Cruz, Jr., as well as three Olympians.
- Notable Rice University People
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Annise Parker, class of 1978, 61st Mayor of Houston
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Alberto Gonzales, class of 1979, former U.S. Attorney General
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James Baker, U.S. Secretary of State and founding chair of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
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Richard Smalley, professor of chemistry and physics, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Peggy Whitson, class of 1986, NASA astronaut
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Lance Berkman, class of 1997, All-Star Major League baseball player for the St. Louis Cardinals
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Howard Hughes, aviator, engineer, industrialist, film producer and director
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