List of Wright State University people

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This is a list of Wright State University people of whom have some significant affiliation with the school. Individuals listed may have only attended the university at one point and not necessarily have graduated.

Faculty

• Siva S. Banda – aerospace engineer
• Kenneth N. Beers – NASA physician
• Nikolaos Bourbakis – computer scientist
• Susan Edwards – professor of biology
• John Feldmeier – lawyer and political scientist
• Ronald E. Fox, former president of the American Psychological Association
• Mary Anne Frey – NASA physician
• Marian Kazimierczuk - electrical engineer
• Andrew Ladis – art historian
• Guozhen Lu – mathematician
• Mary Ellen Mazey – President of Bowling Green State University
• Robert Oelman – NCR President and founder of Wright State
• Terry Oroszi – homeland security researcher and author
• Jerrold S. Petrofsky – physician
• Donna Schlagheck – international politics expert
• Rosalyn Scott – the first African-American woman to become a thoracic surgeon
• Vikram Sethi - author and cyber security specialist
• Amit Sheth – computer scientist, Semantic Web expert, and director of kno.e.sis
• D. Harlan Wilson – short-story writer, novelist, and literary critic
• Jonathan Reed Winkler – historian

Alumni

Athletics

• Brian Anderson – professional baseball player, assistant coach
• Tyler Black (baseball) - professional baseball player
• Peyton Burdick - professional baseball player
• Bill Edwards – professional basketball player
• Jorge Gurgel – retired professional mixed martial artist ^[1]
• Bret Jones – professional soccer player
• Frank Lickliter – professional golfer
• Loudon Love - professional basketball player
• Sean Murphy (baseball) – professional baseball player
• Clay Pickering – former NFL wide receiver. He transferred after his freshman season ^[2]
• Robert Pollard – singer and songwriter
• Vitaly Potapenko – professional basketball player
• Jesse Scholtens - professional baseball player
• Israel Sheinfeld (born 1976) – Israeli basketball player
• Joe Smith – professional baseball player
• Joe Thomasson (born 1993) – basketball player in the Israel Basketball Premier League
• Mike Tracy – soccer coach
• DaShaun Wood – professional basketball player

Arts & entertainment

• J. Todd Anderson – film storyboard artist
• Jim Baldridge – local news anchor
• Hannah Beachler – motion pictures production designer
• Andrea Bendewald – actress
• Erik Bork – screenwriter
• Joyce Cobb – jazz and blues singer
• Iman Crosson – actor, Obama impersonator, Internet personality
• Jennifer Crusie – romance novelist
• Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni – author
• Dominick Evans – filmmaker and activist
• Mike Gallagher – radio host and political commentator
• Alexis Gomez – singer, American Idol contestant
• Kate Hasting – singer
• Kevin Kramer – screenwriter and television producer
• Eddie McClintock – actor
• Amanda Tori Meating - drag queen
• Kiril Merdzhanski – poet associated with postmodernism
• Robert Pollard – singer and songwriter
• Sara Raasch – author
• Nicole Riegel BA 2009 – filmmaker ^[3]
• Nicole Scherzinger – singer and actress
• Marvell Scott – sportscaster
• Brad Sherwood – actor and comedian
• Jim Van Bebber – film producer
• Tim Waggoner – author
• Chase Whiteside – journalist, documentary filmmaker, and founder of New Left Media

Politics

• Joyce Beatty – member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Kevin DeWine – former chairman of the Ohio Republican Party and former member of the Ohio House of Representatives
• Danny O'Connor – politician
• Derrick Seaver – politician
• Arlene Setzer – politician
• Vernon Sykes – politician
• Andrea White (politician) - member of the Ohio House of Representatives ^[4]
• John White – politician

Other

• Javed Abidi – disability rights activist
• David Albright – founder of Institute for Science and International Security
• Siva S. Banda – aerospace engineer
• Michael R. Barratt – astronaut
• David S. Brown – historian and professor at Elizabethtown College
• Gail J. Brown – research physicist at the Air Force Research Laboratory
• Stephen L. Davis - Air Force Major General
• John B. Ellington, Jr. – Air National Guard general
• Shawn Heflick – explorer and adventurer
• Deborah Loewer – retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral
• Irene D. Long – Chief Medical Officer at the Kennedy Space Center
• Jerome Pearson – business person
• Richard Scheuring – NASA Flight surgeon
• Anthony Shaffer – U.S. Army intelligence officer
• B. N. Singh – Director General at IITRAM, Professor(HAG), IIT Kharagpur

See also

• List of people from Dayton, Ohio

References

1. Wapling, Greg. "The Ultimate Fighter Biographies". www.gregwapling.com. Retrieved May 6, 2017.
2. "Clay Pickering" . Retrieved February 2, 2020.
3. "Nicole Riegel". Wright State University. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
4. "Andrea White Biography". Ohio House of Representatives. Retrieved August 29, 2023.