Joan Benoit, won the first Women's Olympic Marathon at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles; former world record holder in the marathon; member of US Olympic Hall of Fame[7]
Tab Ramos (attended 1984–1987, B.A. Foreign Language and Literature 2003), soccer player, MetroStars; represented the US in the FIFA World Cup in 1990, 1994, and 1998[53]
John H. Davis (Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 1970), host and creator of the PBS television program MotorWeek since the program's inception in 1981
Zach Galifianakis (Communication and Film major circa 1987; did not graduate), comedian, actor, writer
Lieutenant General Buster Glosson (B.S. Electrical Engineering 1965), U.S. Air Force, Deputy Chief of Staff for plans and operations of U.S. Air Force, Washington DC. During the Gulf War, commanded the 14th Air Division (Provisional); director of campaign plans for U.S. Central Command Air Forces, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
David Carroll (B.S. Physics 1985), Director of the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials at Wake Forest University
James Goodnight (B.S. Applied Mathematics 1965, M.S. Experimental Statistics 1968, PhD Statistics 1972, faculty member 1972–1976), CEO of SAS Institute
Jody L. GookinDistinguished Professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences and she is a Chancellor’s University Faculty Scholar at North Carolina State University[110]
Terry Hershner (studied Mechanical and Electrical Engineering 1997–2000), electric vehicle advocate and record holder; owner of Off The Grid
Wes Jackson (PhD Genetics 1967), founder of the Land Institute
Angie Jones (M.S. Computer Science 2010), holds 26 patented inventions in the United States of America and Japan
Paul Jones (B.S. Computer Science), poet and director of ibiblio digital library
Munir Ahmad Khan (M.S. Nuclear Engineering), director of Pakistan's atomic bomb programmes
Christina Koch (B.S. Electrical Engineering 2001, B.S. Physics 2002, M.S. Electrical Engineering 2002), astronaut[111]
John S. Mayo (B.S., M.S., PhD Electrical Engineering), engineer and seventh president of Bell Labs
Freda Porter, applied mathematician and environmental scientist known as one of the first Native American women to earn a PhD in the mathematical sciences[112]
Anand Lal Shimpi (B.S. Electrical Engineering 2004), founder of AnandTech
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