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[Name]: Forrest W. Breyfogle III
[Class year]: 1968 (B.S.)
[Notability]: Founder, CEO, and president of Smarter Solutions, Inc. (1992–present), developer of the Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) system
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[Name]: Jack Dorsey
[Class year]: Transferred out, 1997; did not graduate
[Notability]: Co-founder and CEO of Twitter (2015–present), and co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Square, Inc. (2009–present)
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[Name]: Gary D. Forsee
[Class year]: 1972 (B.S.)
[Notability]: CEO of Sprint (2003–2007), president of the University of Missouri System (2008–2011)
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[Name]: Thomas Holmes
[Class year]: 1950 (B.S.)
[Notability]: CEO of Ingersoll Rand (1980–1988)
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[Name]: Alan S. Kornacki
[Class year]: 1974 (B.S.)
[Notability]: Senior staff geochemist for Shell, retired U.S. Army Reserve lieutenant colonel
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[Name]: Dan Obrycki
[Class year]: 1983 (B.S.)
[Notability]: Co-founder of the Applied Finance Group
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[Name]: Michael M. Sears
[Class year]: 1976 (M.S.)
[Notability]: Successfully launched the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet program, CFO of Boeing (2002–2003), terminated in 2003 as a result of corruption allegations and sentenced to four months in prison
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[Name]: Ellis Short
[Class year]: 1983 (B.S.)
[Notability]: Founder of Kildare Partners private equity fund (2013), owner of Skibo Castle (2003–present) and Sunderland A.F.C. (2009–2018)
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[Name]: Gary White
[Class year]: 1985 (B.S.), 1987 (M.S.)
[Notability]: Co-founder and CEO of Water.org, founding member of the Global Water Challenge, named in the 2011 TIME 100 list of the most influential people in the world
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[Name]: Oz Yilmaz
[Class year]: 1970 (B.S.)
[Notability]: Chief Technology Officer of GeoTomo LLC and the founder of Anatolian Geophysical
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[Name]: Mack A. Breazeale
[Class year]: 1954 (M.S.)
[Notability]: Professor and senior scientist at the National Center for Physical Acoustics at the University of Mississippi (1995–2009), professor of physics at the University of Tennessee (1962–1995) and at Michigan State University (1957–1962), known for work in ultrasonics and physical acoustics
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[Name]: Bruce L. Edwards
[Class year]: 1977 (B.A.)
[Notability]: Professor of English and Africana studies at Bowling Green State University (1981–2012), general editor of the four-volume reference set C. S. Lewis: Life, Works, and Legacy
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[Name]: Roger Garrison
[Class year]: 1967 (B.S.)
[Notability]: Professor of economics at Auburn University (1981–present), adjunct scholar of the Mises Institute
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[Name]: John Johnson
[Class year]: 1999 (B.S.)
[Notability]: Professor of astronomy at Harvard University (2013–present), known for exoplanet research
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[Name]: Kim Young-gil
[Class year]: 1969 (M.S.)
[Notability]: President of Handong Global University (1995–2014)
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[Name]: David F. Larcker
[Class year]: 1972 (B.S.), 1974 (M.S.)
[Notability]: Professor at Stanford University in the Stanford Graduate School of Business (2005–present)
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[Name]: Glenn Lipscomb
[Class year]: 1981 (B.S.)
[Notability]: Department chair of chemical engineering at the University of Toledo (2004–present)
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[Name]: Dana S. Nau
[Class year]: 1974 (B.S.)
[Notability]: Professor of computer science and systems research at the University of Maryland, College Park (1994–present), discovered game tree pathology and developed simple hierarchical ordered planner (SHOP) HTN planning systems
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[Name]: Marv Breuer
[Class year]: 1935 (B.S.)
[Notability]: Major League Baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees (1939–1943) and a reliever in the 1941 and 1942 World Series
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[Name]: Aaron Buerge
[Class year]: 1997 (B.S.)
[Notability]: Television personality known for starring in Season 2 of The Bachelor
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[Name]: Forrestal Hickman
[Class year]: 2015 (B.S.)
[Notability]: Offensive lineman who has played in the NFL as a free agent for the San Diego Chargers (2015) and has played as a signed athlete in the CFL for the Montreal Alouettes (2016) and the IFL for the Colorado Crush (2017) and the Sioux Falls Storm (2018–present)
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[Name]: A. J. Mandani
[Class year]: 2010
[Notability]: Professional Indonesian Basketball League player for CLS Knights Indonesia (2020–present), previously on the MPBL's Caloocan Katipuneros (2018–2019), TBL's TGE team (2018), ABL's Singapore Slingers (2017), and several PBA teams (2012–2016)
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[Name]: Bill Preston
[Class year]: circa 1915
[Notability]: NFL tackle for the Akron Pros (1920), 1920 NFL champion
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[Name]: Greg "Fossilman" Raymer
[Class year]: 1985 (B.S.)
[Notability]: 2004 World Series of Poker Main Event champion
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[Name]: Brad Scott
[Class year]: Transferred out, 1976
[Notability]: Head football coach for the University of South Carolina (1994–1998), assistant football coach for Clemson University (1999–2011)
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[Name]: Tyrone Smith
[Class year]: 2006 (B.A.)
[Notability]: Long jumper representing Bermuda, 3-time Olympian, reached the finals in the 2012 Summer Olympics, champion in the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games and the 2011 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics
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[Name]: Harry Stella
[Class year]: Transferred out, 1936
[Notability]: Tackle for the Army Cadets football team at the United States Military Academy (1936–1939), 1939 First-team All-American, retired at the rank of colonel
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[Name]: Dick Thornton
[Class year]: circa 1930
[Notability]: Quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles (1933)
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[Name]: Jay Ashcroft
[Class year]: 1996 (B.S.), 1998 (M.S.)
[Notability]: Missouri Secretary of State (2017–present)
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[Name]: Ed Emery
[Class year]: 1972 (B.S.)
[Notability]: Member of the Missouri Senate (2013–present), member of the Missouri House of Representatives (2003–2011)
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[Name]: Nicole Galloway
[Class year]: 2004 (B.S.)
[Notability]: Missouri State Auditor (2015–present)
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[Name]: Jim Guest
[Class year]: 1962 (B.S.), 1970 (M.S.)
[Notability]: Member of the Missouri House of Representatives (2003–2011)
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[Name]: Thomas Franklin Fairfax Millard
[Class year]: Transferred out, 1882
[Notability]: First American political adviser to the Chinese Republic, founder of the China Weekly Review, author of seven influential books on the Far East
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[Name]: Aruna Miller
[Class year]: 1989 (B.S.)
[Notability]: Member of the Maryland House of Delegates (2011–2019)
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[Name]: Arthur P. Murphy
[Class year]: circa 1893
[Notability]: U.S. Representative from Missouri (1905–1907, 1909–1911)
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[Name]: Stephanie O'Sullivan
[Class year]: 1982 (B.S.)
[Notability]: Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence (2011–2017), Associate Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2009–2011)
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[Name]: William R. Painter
[Class year]: circa 1882 (grad. prof. degree)
[Notability]: 28th Lieutenant Governor of Missouri (1913–1917); Missouri State Senator (1923–1930), the first four years during which he was president pro tempore
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[Name]: Mathew Pitsch
[Class year]: 1985 (B.S.), 1986 (M.S.)
[Notability]: Arkansas State Senator (2019–present), majority leader of the Arkansas House of Representatives (2017–2019)
[References]:
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[Name]: Joe N. Ballard
[Class year]: 1972 (M.S.)
[Notability]: Lieutenant general, U.S. Army, Chief of Engineers and Commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (1996–2000)
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[Name]: Lisa Jaster
[Class year]: 2004 (M.S.)
[Notability]: Major, U.S. Army, one of only three women to graduate from the U.S. Army Ranger School and the first female Army Reserve officer to become a Ranger School graduate
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[Name]: Walter Philip Leber
[Class year]: 1940 (B.S.)
[Notability]: Lieutenant general, U.S. Army, 15th Governor of the Panama Canal Zone (1967–1971)
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[Name]: Glenn J. Lesniak
[Class year]: 1979 (M.S.)
[Notability]: Major general, U.S. Army Reserve, Deputy Chief of the U.S. Army Reserve at the Pentagon (2014–2015)
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[Name]: George Allison Whiteman
[Class year]: Enlisted in WWII, 1939
[Notability]: Second lieutenant, U.S. Air Force, first American pilot killed in aerial combat in World War II while serving under American forces, Whiteman Air Force Base is named after him
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[Name]: Thomas Akers
[Class year]: 1973 (B.S.), 1975 (M.S.)
[Notability]: Veteran of four shuttle flights including flights on Discovery and Endeavour, retired Air Force colonel
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[Name]: Farouk El-Baz
[Class year]: 1961 (M.S.), 1964 (Ph.D.)
[Notability]: Supervisor of Lunar Science Planning and Secretary of the Landing Site Selection Committee for the NASA Apollo program (1967–1972)
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[Name]: Ronald Greeley
[Class year]: 1966 (Ph.D.)
[Notability]: Director of the NASA Regional Planetary Image Facility (1998–2000), chair and principal investigator of multiple NASA committees and programs, professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) at Arizona State University (1977–2011)
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[Name]: Janet L. Kavandi
[Class year]: 1982 (M.S.)
[Notability]: Veteran of three shuttle flights, Deputy Chief of the Astronaut Office (2005–2008), center director of the NASA Glenn Research Center (2016–present)
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[Name]: Sandra Magnus
[Class year]: 1986 (B.S.), 1990 (M.S.)
[Notability]: Veteran of three shuttle flights including STS-135, the final mission of the American Space Shuttle program, executive director of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (2012–present)
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[Name]: George Mueller
[Class year]: 1939 (B.S.)
[Notability]: Associate administrator of the NASA Office of Manned Space Flight (1963–1969) which oversaw the Apollo program and the beginning development of Skylab and the Space Shuttle program
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[Name]: Robert Banks
[Class year]: circa 1942 (B.S.)
[Notability]: Chemist who co-invented crystalline polypropylene and high-density polyethylene, inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2001
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[Name]: Terry Bollinger
[Class year]: 1977 (B.S.), 1980 (M.S.)
[Notability]: Computer scientist who was influential in preventing free and open-source software from being banned in U.S. DoD systems
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[Name]: Clyde Cowan
[Class year]: 1940 (B.S.)
[Notability]: Co-discoverer of the neutrino by the Cowan–Reines neutrino experiment, whose contributions earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995, captain in the U.S. Army Air Forces
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[Name]: Delbert Day
[Class year]: 1958 (B.S.)
[Notability]: Curator's Professor Emeritus of Ceramic Engineering at Missouri S&T; co-invented glass microspheres for medical (radiation therapy) and dental applications, and co-invented Glasphalt, which recycles waste glass for use in asphalt paving
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[Name]: Harold Garner
[Class year]: 1976 (B.S.)
[Notability]: Executive Director of the Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech (2009–2012), Executive Director of the Office of Medical Informatics Translation, Training and Ethics (MITTE) at Virginia Tech (2015–present), known for research in plasma physics, biological engineering, and bioinformatics
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[Name]: M. Frederick Hawthorne
[Class year]: Transferred out, 1940s
[Notability]: Curators' Distinguished Professor of chemistry and radiology at University of Missouri and director of its International Institute of Nano and Molecular Medicine (2008–present); a 2011 National Medal of Science recipient for his significant work involving boron
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[Name]: Daniel C. Jackling
[Class year]: 1892 (B.S.)
[Notability]: Pioneered the exploitation of low-grade porphyry copper through new methods such as open-pit mining that created the Bingham Canyon Mine, the largest man-made excavation in the world, founded the Utah Copper Company which is now Kennecott Utah Copper
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[Name]: Mervin Kelly
[Class year]: 1914 (B.S.)
[Notability]: Research physicist, engineer, and manager. He was president of Bell Laboratories, 1951–1959.
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[Name]: Shi Changxu
[Class year]: 1948 (M.S.)
[Notability]: Materials scientist who was an academician with the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Third World Academy of Sciences, the asteroid 28468 Shichangxu is named after him
[References]:
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