# List of Colorado School of Mines people

This is a list of some notable people associated with the Colorado School of Mines, located in Golden, Colorado, United States.

## Notable alumni

* Arthur S. Adams, academic, former president of the University of New Hampshire
* Tesho Akindele, Canadian soccer player, 2014 MLS Rookie of the Year
* John P. Allen, systems ecologist, engineer, metallurgist, adventurer, and writer
* William Arbegast, American metallurgical engineer, mechanical engineer and friction stir welding expert
* Souad Naji Al-Azzawi, Iraqi environmentalist & academic researcher, first Arab to receive the Nuclear-Free Future Award
* Charles Arthur Banks, 17th lieutenant governor of British Columbia
* Arden L. Bement, Jr., former director of the National Science Foundation
* Fred Chester Bond, mining engineer, developed the Bond Work Index
* George R. Brown, entrepreneur
* Shane Carwin (mechanical engineering), wrestler; former mixed martial artist who won the UFC Interim Heavyweight Championship
* Sabré Cook, engineer and racing driver competing in the W Series
* Antônio Ermírio de Moraes, Brazilian businessman, chairman of the Votorantim Group, and ranked one of the richest men in Brazil by Forbes magazine
* Kenneth S. Deffeyes, geologist who worked with M. King Hubbert, the creator of the Hubbert peak theory, at the Shell Oil Company research laboratory
* James H. Dickinson, commander of the United States Space Command
* Wendell Fertig, civil engineer and World War II hero
* Jeffrey Goodman, independent archaeologist
* Gerald Grandey, former resident and chief executive officer of Cameco Corporation
* Jack J. Grynberg, Polish-born American businessman
* Vance Haynes, archaeologist, geologist and author who specializes in the archaeology of the American Southwest
* Judson Dean Howard, speleologist known for helping establish Lava Beds National Monument in California
* Derrick Jensen, author, Deep Green Resistance, mineral engineering physics
* Marty Jertson, golf club designer who made the cut in the 2019 PGA Championship
* William M. Ketchum, U.S. Representative from California
* Howard W. Leaf, United States Air Force lieutenant general, assistant vice chief of staff at the Pentagon
* Fred Meissner, geologist and engineer
* Jan D. Miller, metallurgical engineer and member of the National Academy of Engineering
* Steven L. Newman, businessman, former chief executive of Transocean
* Erol Ozensoy, Turkish entrepreneur, industrialist and businessmen, who founded Kimetsan
* Bryce Poe II, United States Air Force four-star general who served as commander of the Air Force Logistics Command 1978–1981
* Fitch Robertson, former mayor of Berkeley, California (1943–1947)
* Roger Rueff, dramatist, BSc 1978, MSc '83 and PhD '85 in chemical and petroleum refining engineering
* George Saunders, writer, journalist and professor, winner of the Man Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo, BSc 1981 in geophysical engineering
* Marc Schiechl, NFL Jacksonville Jaguars, AFL LA Kiss
* August Schomburg, former commander of the United States Army Ballistic Missile Command
* Craig Schurig, football coach and former player
* Sao Kya Seng, politician, mining engineer, agriculturalist and the last Saopha of Hsipaw State, Myanmar, 1947–1959
* Frank Shakespeare, diplomat and media executive, former president of CBS Television, United States Ambassador to Portugal (1985–1986) and United States Ambassador to the Holy See (1986-1989)
* Cleave Simpson, Colorado state senator from Alamosa, Colorado
* Kat Steele, University of Washington professor
* Robert H. Waterman Jr., co-author of In Search of Excellence, geophysical engineer 1958, medalist '84
* Joseph Robert Wright Jr., businessman, 27th Director of the Office of Management and Budget
* Purnomo Yusgiantoro, 25th Minister of Defense of Indonesia