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This list of Florida Atlantic University people includes current students, former students, and graduates of Florida Atlantic University. Since its opening in 1964, Florida Atlantic has awarded degrees to over 185,000 alumni.
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This list of Florida Atlantic University people includes current students, former students, and graduates of Florida Atlantic University. Since its opening in 1964, Florida Atlantic has awarded degrees to over 185,000 alumni.
| Athlete | Notability |
|---|---|
| Azeez Al-Shaair | Professional football player for the San Francisco 49ers |
| Brandin Bryant | Professional football player for the Buffalo Bills |
| Harrison Bryant | 2019 John Mackey Award Winner and 2019 Unanimous All-American; professional football player for the Cleveland Browns |
| Trevon Coley | Professional football player for the New York Jets |
| John Franklin III | Professional football player for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, featured in the Netflix documentary series Last Chance U |
| Trey Hendrickson | Professional football player for the Cincinnati Bengals |
| Greg Joseph | Professional football player for the Minnesota Vikings |
| Mike Lockley | Former professional football player for the Jacksonville Jaguars |
| Herb Miller | Professional football player for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| Alfred Morris | Professional football player who is currently a free agent |
| Sharrod Neasman | Professional football player for the New York Jets |
| Ed Newman | National Football League All-Pro football player |
| James Pierre, Jr | Professional football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers |
| Keith Reaser | Professional football player for the Kansas City Chiefs |
| Devin "Motor" Singletary | Professional football player for the Buffalo Bills |
| Rashard Smith | Professional football player for the Philadelphia Eagles |
| Rusty Smith | Former professional football player for the Tennessee Titans; inducted into the FAU Hall of Fame in 2019 |
| Adarius (Glanton) Taylor | Professional football player for the Carolina Panthers |
| Brandon Walton | Professional football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers |
| Lucky Whitehead | Former professional football player for the New York Jets |
| Kerrith Whyte | Professional football player who is currently a free agent |
| Trevardo Williams | Profession football player who is currently a free agent |
| Trevardo Williams | Profession football player who is currently a free agent |
| Athlete | Notability |
|---|---|
| Carmen Cali | Professional MLB pitcher [1] |
| Jeff Fiorentino | Professional MLB outfielder [2] |
| Tim Harikkala | Professional MLB pitcher [3] |
| David McKay | Professional MLB pitcher |
| Tommy Murphy | Professional MLB outfielder [4] |
| Robbie Widlansky | Professional MLB outfielder [5] |
| Cody Wilson | Professional MLB outfielder |
| Athlete | Notability |
|---|---|
| Mark Zupan | Captain of the United States quadriplegic wheelchair rugby team [6] |
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Daniel Bluman | Colombian-born Israeli Olympic show jumping rider |
| Brittany Bowe | Team USA Olympic long track speedskater medalist; 1,000-meter world record holder |
| Yolanda Griffith | Professional basketball player in the WNBA [7] |
| Fern "Peachy" Kellymeyer (M.A. 1974) | Professional tennis player, administrator, and 1999 ITA Hall of Fame inductee [8] |
| Ben Silverman | Professional golfer |
| Tecia Torres | Professional mixed martial artist, current UFC strawweight [9] |
| Max von Schlebrügge | Professional soccer player with 10 caps for the Sweden national team |
| Aleksandar Zečević | Serbian basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League |
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Rafael "Ralph" de la Vega (B.S. 1974) | Former Vice Chairman of AT&T Inc. and CEO of AT&T Business Solutions and AT&T International |
| Mark Dean (M.S.E.E. 1982) | Engineering Professor at the University of Tennessee; Co-developer of the IBM PC; former Vice President of the Technical Strategy and Worldwide Operations, IBM Research [10] |
| Richard DiMarchi (B.S. 1974) | Former Vice President at Eli Lilly and Company, and current chairman in Biomolecular Sciences and Professor of Chemistry at Indiana University [11] |
| Dr. Arthur C. Evans (B.A. 1982, M.A. 1984) | CEO of the American Psychological Association |
| Joshua Kosoy (MBA 2015) | Former Senior Business Analyst at Royal Caribbean Group, and current Senior Business Intelligence Analyst in operations/strategy at Citrix Systems, Inc. |
| Patricia McKay (B.B.A. 1978) | Executive Vice President, and Chief Financial Officer of Office Depot [12] |
| Luis Alberto Moreno (B.B.A. 1975) | 4th and current President of the Inter-American Development Bank |
| Robert "Skip" Orr (B.A. 1978) | Former President of Boeing Japan, and former Vice President of Motorola [13] |
| Maynard Webb (B.A.) | Member of the Board of Directors of Salesforce.com, and former Chief Operating Officer, and President of Technologies for eBay [14] |
| Phil Zimmermann (B.S. 1978) | Creator of Pretty Good Privacy [15] |
| George Zoley (B.A. 1972, M.P.A. 1975) | Chairman of the Board, chief executive officer, and founder of the GEO Group, Inc., a publicly traded company that became independent from The Wackenhut Corporation [16] |
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Wilson G. Bradshaw (B.S., M.S.) | President of Florida Gulf Coast University [17] |
| Arthur C. Brooks (M.A., 1995) | Social scientist, economist, professor, author, and professional musician |
| Alberto "Al" Cardenas (B.A. 1969) | Attorney, Republican lobbyist, and trustee of Florida A&M [18] |
| Keith Hamm (M.A., 1973) | Edwards Professor of Political Science at Rice University |
| George L. Hanbury (Ph.D.) | Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Nova Southeastern University [19] |
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Don Brewer (B.B.A. 1990) | Drummer and founding member of the band Grand Funk Railroad [20] |
| Chris Carrabba | Singer-songwriter, Dashboard Confessional |
| Carrot Top (real name Scott Thompson) (B.A. Marketing) | Actor and stand-up comedian [21] |
| Scott Henderson (B.A.) | Jazz, blues, and fusion guitarist, Tribal Tech [22] |
| Marc Kudisch (B.F.A. 1988) | Broadway actor and two-time Tony Award nominee [23] |
| Marlow Rosado (B.F.A. 1995) | Grammy-winning Latin music performer and composer |
| Shannon Spake (B.A. Communications) | TV reporter and sports analyst currently hosting NASCAR Race Hub [24] |
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Frank Brogan (M.Ed. 1981) | Chancellor of the State University System of Florida, former Lieutenant Governor of Florida and President of Florida Atlantic University [25] |
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| R. David Paulison (B.A.) | Former Undersecretary of the Federal Emergency Management Agency [26] |
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Carrie P. Meek (Hon Ph.D.) | Former U.S. Congresswoman from Florida's 17th district [27] |
| Daniel A. Mica (B.A. 1966, Hon Ph.D.) | Former U.S. Congressman, President and CEO of the Credit Union National Association [28] |
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Carol W. Hunstein (B.S. 1972) | Presiding Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia [29] |
| Ken Jenne (B.A. 1968) | Former Sheriff of Broward County, Florida, and former state legislator [30] |
| Henry Latimer (M.A.) | First African American circuit court judge in Broward County, Florida [31] |
| Alumni | Country | Notability |
|---|---|---|
| Alexis Jeffers | Saint Kitts and Nevis | Member of the Nevis Island Assembly, candidate for the National Assembly in the 2010 federal election [32] [33] |
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Judith Ortiz Cofer (M.A. 1977) | Puerto Rican author [34] |
| Kevin Crawford | Shakespeare scholar [35] |
| Charles Ghigna | Poet and children's author known as "Father Goose" [36] |
| Mirta Ojito | Cuban-born Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist for the New York Times and professor of journalism at the University of Miami |
| Alumni | Notability |
|---|---|
| Christopher McKay (B.A.) | Planetary scientist at NASA Ames Research Center [37] |
| Steven Swanson (M.A. 1986) | NASA astronaut [38] |
Florida Atlantic University is a public research university with its main campus in Boca Raton, Florida and satellite campuses in Dania Beach, Davie, Fort Lauderdale, Jupiter, and Fort Pierce. The university is a member of the State University System of Florida. FAU was established as Florida's fifth public university and is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity".
Howard Leslie Schnellenberger was an American football coach with long service at both the professional and college levels. He held head coaching positions with the National Football League (NFL)'s Baltimore Colts and in college for the University of Miami, University of Oklahoma, University of Louisville, and Florida Atlantic University. He won a national championship with Miami in 1983.
Jeffrey Philip Fiorentino is an American former Major League Baseball outfielder who played for the Baltimore Orioles and Oakland Athletics between 2005 and 2009. He was nicknamed Screech due to his resemblance to the character of the same name from the television sitcom Saved by the Bell.
The Florida Atlantic Owls football program represents Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in the sport of American football. The Owls compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the American Athletic Conference (American/AAC). The Owls' head coach is Tom Herman. Florida Atlantic has produced a Sun Belt Conference co-championship team in 2007, two Conference USA championships in 2017 and 2019, along with 4 postseason bowl appearances and one appearance in the 2003 I-AA Playoffs. The Owls play their home games at FAU Stadium which has a seating capacity of 29,419.
Daniel Mica is an American politician who was a U.S. representative from the state of Florida.
Howard Schnellenberger Field at FAU Stadium is a college football stadium located at the north end of the main campus of Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton, Florida. Opened in 2011, it is home to the Florida Atlantic Owls football team and is intended to be the first part of FAU's multi-use development project, "Innovation Village" as a replacement for Lockhart Stadium
Patricia A. McKay is a partner with the public accounting firm of Templeton & Company, which provides accounting, audit, tax and consulting services to clients from its South Florida offices in West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale. Prior to joining Templeton, she served as the executive vice president and the chief financial officer of Office Depot, where she had also served on its board of directors. Prior to that position, she was the executive vice president and chief financial officer of Restoration Hardware. In addition, she has held senior finance leadership positions at AutoNation, and Dole Food Company. She began her career with an international accounting firm where she served as an audit manager. In 2007, she was recognized as one of the "100 Most Influential People in Finance" by Treasury & Risk Magazine. Most recently, she was nominated as an Influential Business Woman by The South Florida Business Journal, inducted into the FAU National Alumni Association Hall of Fame and serves on the FAU Foundation Board. McKay holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Florida Atlantic University.
Robert "Skipp" Orr was the President of Boeing Japan from 2002 to 2007, and the one-time Vice President of Motorola's European Affairs Division. At Motorola he also served as Vice President and Director of Government Relations, and also Government Relations Director for Nippon Motorola in Tokyo. In November 2006, Boeing announced that Orr was retiring as President effective March 2007.
George Christopher Zoley is a Greek-born American businessman, the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and founder of the GEO Group, which manages prisons and jails in the US and internationally.
The Florida Atlantic Owls are the athletics teams of Florida Atlantic University. The Owls participate in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)'s Division I as members of the American Athletic Conference. On October 21, 2021, Florida Atlantic accepted the invitation to join The American and became a full member on July 1, 2023.
The Florida Atlantic Owls are the college baseball team of Florida Atlantic University which plays its home games at FAU Baseball Stadium. The Owls' head coach is John McCormack.
The Florida Atlantic Owls men's basketball team represents Florida Atlantic University and competes in the American Athletic Conference of NCAA Division I college basketball. Their home games are played on the Abessinio Court in the Eleanor R. Baldwin Arena on the school's Boca Raton, Florida campus. The Owls have appeared in the NCAA tournament three times, in 2002 while a member of the Atlantic Sun Conference, 2023, and 2024. The Owls joined Conference USA (C-USA) in 2013 as part of the early-2010s NCAA conference realignment. After not winning a single NCAA Tournament game coming into 2023, the Owls qualified for their first Final Four in program history by defeating the Kansas State Wildcats 79–76. After the 2022–23 season, FAU left C-USA for the American Athletic Conference.
John McCormack is an American college baseball coach who has been the head coach of Florida Atlantic (FAU) since the start of the 2009 season. McCormack was named the Sun Belt Coach of the Year in 2010, and the Owls have appeared in two NCAA tournaments under him. Previously, he served as an assistant at FAU from 1991 to 2008. McCormack is an alumnus of both Indian River Community College and Lynn University.
Kevin Cooney is an American former college baseball coach who was the head coach at Montclair State from 1984–1987 and Florida Atlantic from 1988–2008. Under Cooney, the teams combined to appear in 11 NCAA tournaments, including six in Division I. Montclair State won the Division III National Championship in 1987. Individually, Cooney was named the TAAC Coach of the Year in 1999.
Steve Traylor is an American former college baseball and basketball coach. In basketball, he was the head coach of Greensboro College. In baseball, he was the head coach at Florida Atlantic, Duke, and Wofford. Traylor had 776 career wins and led both Florida Atlantic and Wofford to their first NCAA tournaments.
Mary Jane Saunders is an American academic who served as president of Florida Atlantic University from 2010 to 2013. She has a background in scientific research and administration, specializing in biology.
Borivoje "Borko" Furht is a Serbian American scientist and author in the field of computer science and engineering. He is a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering and computer science (CEECS) at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. He is also director of the National Science Foundation's Industry and University Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement at FAU. In 2019, he was inducted into Academia Europaea, which is The Academy of Europe.
Martin Woodall is an American entrepreneur, executive, advisor, and board member. He co-founded MicroSolutions alongside Mark Cuban. Several years later Cuban, Todd Wagner and Woodall founded Broadcast.com which initiated Internet radio.