# List of George Mason University people

This list includes alumni and faculty of George Mason University.

## Notable faculty
### Nobel laureates

* James M. Buchanan, Nobel Prize-winning economist (1986)
* Vernon L. Smith, Nobel Prize-winning economist (2002)

### Pulitzer Prize winners

* Steven Pearlstein, Pulitzer Prize winner for Commentary in 2008
* Martin Sherwin, Pulitzer Prize winner for his biography of Robert Oppenheimer
* Roger Wilkins, Pulitzer Prize winner for coverage of the Watergate scandal (along with Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein) while he was working at The Washington Post; retired

### College of Humanities and Social Sciences

* William Sims Bainbridge
* Shaul Bakhash, scholar of Persian studies; husband of Haleh Esfandiari
* Mary Catherine Bateson, former Clarence J. Robinson Professor in Anthropology and English; Professor Emerita
* Robert Bausch, novelist
* Rei Berroa, poet
* Andrés Boiarsky
* Courtney Angela Brkic, poet
* Alan Cheuse, novelist
* Arthur W. Chickering
* Jeremy Crampton, cartographer
* Wilfrid Desan
* Bùi Diễm, South Vietnam's Ambassador to the United States
* Robert J. Elder, Jr, Air Force commander
* Marita Golden, novelist
* Gerald L. Gordon
* Joshua Greenberg
* Hugh Gusterson
* Helon Habila
* Deanna Hammond
* Frances V. Harbour
* Hugh Heclo, professor of American politics and winner of John Gaus award
* Carma Hinton, documentary filmmaker, The Gate of Heavenly Peace
* Susan Hirsch, legal and linguistic anthropologist
* Mark N. Katz
* Peter Klappert, poet
* Gary L Kreps
* Thelma Z. Lavine, philosopher
* Suzannah Lessard, writer
* Lawrence W. Levine, historian
* Samuel Robert Lichter, former professor at Princeton University, Georgetown University, George Washington University, Yale, and Columbia University
* Peter Mandaville, professor of international affairs and scholar of political Islam
* Nadine Meyer, poet
* Robert Nadeau, English professor
* Eric Pankey, poet
* Roy Rosenzweig
* Richard E. Rubenstein
* Clare Shore
* Susan Shreve
* Richard Norton Smith, presidential historian; former director of five presidential libraries
* Rod Smith, poet
* Peter Stearns, American historian and former provost
* Lev Vekker, psychologist
* Rex A. Wade, professor of Russian history
* Margaret R. Yocom
* Mary Kay Zuravleff, novelist

### Department of Economics

* Peter Boettke
* Donald J. Boudreaux
* Henry N. Butler
* Bryan Caplan
* Tyler Cowen
* Christopher Coyne
* Richard H. Fink, executive vice president of Koch Industries
* Joseph L. Fisher, U.S. Congressman from Virginia
* Jack A. Goldstone
* Wendy Lee Gramm
* Robin Hanson
* Laurence Iannaccone
* Manuel H. Johnson, former vice governor of the Federal Reserve
* Daniel B. Klein
* Arnold Kling
* Don Lavoie
* Peter T. Leeson
* Kevin McCabe
* Maurice McTigue, former Minister for Labor in New Zealand
* James C. Miller III, Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan
* Jennifer Roback Morse
* Russ Roberts, host of EconTalk
* George Selgin
* Alex Tabarrok
* Robert Tollison
* Gordon Tullock, developed the public choice theory
* Richard E. Wagner
* Lawrence H. White
* Walter E. Williams, John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics
* Bart Wilson
* Bruce Yandle, executive director of the Federal Trade Commission

### School of Art

* Chawky Frenn

### Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution

* Kevin Avruch, Henry Hart Rice Professor of Conflict Resolution and Professor of Anthropology and Dean of S-CAR
* Marc Gopin, James H. Laue Professor of World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution
* Susan Hirsch, Professor of Conflict Resolution and Anthropology
* Richard E. Rubenstein, University Professor of Conflict Resolution and Public Affairs

### Schar School of Policy and Government

* Zoltan Acs
* David S. Alberts, Director of Research for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense
* Kenneth Button
* Thomas M. Davis, former U.S. Congressman from Virginia
* Robert Deitz, former Chief Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency
* Desmond Dinan
* Richard Florida
* William Conrad Gibbons
* Marc Gopin
* Stephen Haseler
* Michael Hayden, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency
* Ellen Laipson, former CEO of The Stimson Center
* Seymour Martin Lipset
* Andrew McCabe, former acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
* Patrick Mendis, diplomat and expert on Sino-American relations
* Patrick Michaels, climatologist
* Thomas J. Miller, former United States Ambassador to Greece, and Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Michael Morell, former acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
* Saskia Popescu, infectious disease epidemiologist
* Bill Schneider, Los Angeles Times contributor and former CNN senior political analyst
* Jeremy Shearmur
* Louise Shelley
* Richard Norton Smith
* John N. Warfield

### College of Science

* Yakir Aharonov (professor 2006–2008), physicist, known for Aharonov–Bohm effect, winner of National Medal of Science (2009)
* David Albright
* Ken Alibek, colonel in the Soviet Union in charge of biodefense
* Robert Axtell
* Peter J. Denning
* Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein, mathematician and cryptanalyst
* Klaus Fischer, mathematician
* Peter A. Freeman
* Rebecca Goldin, mathematician
* Robert Hazen, Clarence Robinson Professor of Earth Science; author
* Abul Hussam, inventor of the Sono arsenic filter, for which he received the 2007 sustainability prize awarded by the National Academy of Engineering
* Thomas Lovejoy
* Angela Orebaugh
* Suresh V. Shenoy
* Jagdish Shukla, meteorologist
* Fred Singer
* John P. Snyder, cartographer
* James Trefil, physicist, and author
* Ernst Volgenau, chairman and founder of SRA International
* Edward Wegman, statistician
* Boris Willis

### School of Systems Biology

* Valery Soyfer

### Donald G. Costello College of Business

* Anthony Sanders, Distinguished Professor of Real Estate Finance
* Ajay Vinze, dean of the School of Business

### Antonin Scalia Law School

* Jonathan H. Adler, legal commentator and law professor
* Peter Berkowitz
* David Bernstein
* Lawrence J. Block, federal j
* Frank H. Buckley
* Henry N. Butler, Republican candidate for member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 11th congressional district
* Susan Dudley, Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs under President George W. Bush
* Victoria Espinel, United States Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator
* Adrian S. Fisher, lawyer, diplomat, and politician during the 1960s and 1970s
* Sandra Froman, president of the National Rifle Association of America
* Sigrid Fry-Revere, founder and president of Center for Ethical Solutions
* Ernest Gellhorn
* Douglas H. Ginsburg, judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; Ronald Reagan's nominee to the United States Supreme Court
* Neil Gorsuch, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
* Brett Kavanaugh, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
* William Kovacic, former member of the Federal Trade Commission
* Michael I. Krauss, former Commissioner for Québec's Human Rights Commission
* William H. Lash, former United States Assistant Secretary of Commerce
* James LeMunyon, former United States Assistant Secretary of Commerce
* Robert A. Levy, chairman of the Cato Institute
* Leonard Liggio, vice president of Atlas Economic Research Foundation
* Deborah Platt Majoras, former chairman of the Federal Trade Commission
* Henry Manne
* James C. Miller III, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission; Budget Director for President Ronald Reagan
* John Warwick Montgomery
* Timothy Muris, former chairman of the Federal Trade Commission
* Paul F. Nichols, former delegate to the Virginia General Assembly
* Raymond O'Brien
* Daniel D. Polsby, Dean of Law
* Jeremy A. Rabkin
* Steve Ricchetti, served as White House Deputy Chief of Staff in the Clinton administration; counselor to Vice President Joe Biden
* Chuck Robb, former Governor of Virginia; former U.S. Senator
* Kyndra Miller Rotunda, Army JAG officer
* Hans-Bernd Schäfer
* Loren A. Smith, Federal Judge
* Clarence Thomas, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
* Michael Uhlmann
* Clay T. Whitehead, former director of the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy
* Todd Zywicki, former Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission

### School of Recreation, Health, and Tourism

* Steve Baumann, Chief Executive of the National Soccer Hall of Fame
* Charley Casserly, General Manager of the Washington Redskins and Houston Texans
* Craig Esherick, former head coach of the Georgetown basketball team

## Notable alumni
### Corporate/non-profit

* Muna Abu-Sulayman, secretary general and executive director, Alwaleed Philanthropies
* Erden Eruç, president, CEO, Around-n-Over
* Zainab Salbi, president, Women for Women International
* Will Seippel, executive
* Roy Speckhardt, executive Director, American Humanist Association
* Martin Andrew Taylor, former senior executive corporate VP of Windows Live and MSN

### Government, politics, and economics

* Abdirahman M. Abdi, a Somali politician, economist, and former Minister of Fisheries and Blue Economy in the Federal Government of Somalia.
* Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, President of Puntland and former Prime Minister of Somalia
* David Bobzien, member of the Nevada Assembly
* Denise Bode, energy expert, member of President George W. Bush's Energy Transition Advisory Team
* Anna E. Cabral, Treasurer of the United States under President George W. Bush
* Kathleen L. Casey, Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
* Sandra Cauffman, NASA
* John Cobin, American-born Chilean economist and politician, former U.S. Libertarian Party candidate, and founder of the Galt’s Gulch Libertarian Compound in Chile; known for his involvement in the 2019 Reñaca shooting during the 2019–2021 Chilean protests
* Sean Connaughton, Virginia Secretary of Transportation and former U.S. Maritime Administrator
* Garrison Courtney, Chief Public Affairs of the Drug Enforcement Administration
* Ken Cuccinelli, Attorney General of Virginia
* Bob Deuell, Texas State Senator
* Christine Fox, former acting U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
* Michael Frey, member of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors
* Nancy Garland, member of the Ohio house of representatives
* Juleanna Glover, press secretary to Vice President Dick Cheney
* Bethany Hall-Long, Lieutenant Governor of Delaware
* William D. Hansen, US Deputy Secretary of Education under President George W. Bush
* Charniele Herring, former Majority Leader Virginia House of Delegates
* Deborah Hersman, National Transportation Safety Board
* Cathy Hudgins, member of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors
* David Jolly, member of the United States House of Representatives
* Mohammad Khazaee, Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the UN
* Kaye Kory, Virginia House Delegate
* Sherri Kraham, deputy VP at the Millennium Challenge Corporation
* Nathan Larson, former politician, arrested in Denver, Colorado and faces child kidnapping and child pornography charges
* Patrick Lechleitner, acting Director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
* Mark B. Madsen, Utah State Senator
* Harold T. Martin III, National Security Agency contractor convicted of theft of classified information
* Mike Mazzei, Oklahoma State Senator
* William W. Mercer, United States Attorney for the District of Montana
* John Morlu, Liberian presidential candidate
* Paul F. Nichols, Virginia House Delegate
* Liam O'Grady, United States federal judge
* Nancy Pfotenhauer, adviser to the 2008 John McCain presidential campaign
* David Ramadan, member of the Virginia House of Delegates
* Steve Ricchetti, former Deputy Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton
* Denise Turner Roth, former Administrator of the GSA
* James M. Scott, Virginia House Delegate
* William P. Winfree, NASA
* Richard L. Young, United States federal judge
* Chris Wood, director of the Central Intelligence Agency's Counterterrorism Center

### Literary and media

* Richard Bausch, novelist
* Robert Bausch, novelist
* Stuart Cosgrove, Scottish journalist, broadcaster and television executive
* Sharon Creech, novelist
* Chad Ford, sports journalist and founder of ESPN Insider
* Angie Goff, news anchor, NBC 4 Washington WRC-TV
* Hala Gorani, news anchor, CNN International
* Brian Krebs, journalist
* Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, Poet Laureate of Virginia
* J. Michael Martinez, poet
* Nadine Meyer, poet
* Stephen Moore, journalist, policy analyst, The Wall Street Journal and Fox News
* Evan Oakley, poet
* Nancy K. Pearson, poet
* Susan Rook, news anchor, CNN
* Clayton Swisher, journalist, Al Jazeera English
* Rebecca Wee, poet
* Mark Winegardner, author

### Sports and entertainment

* Julius Achon, Ugandan distance runner, 800m American collegiate record holder
* Joe Addo, soccer player
* Mark Adickes, football player
* Murielle Ahouré, NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships All-American in the 60-meter dash
* Jorge Andres, anchor and NFL analyst for NBC Universal; former Sportscenter anchor for ESPN
* Negar Assari, artist
* Abdi Bile, Olympic runner
* Justin Bour, baseball player, Miami Marlins
* Brent Brockman, soccer player
* Bill Brown, George Mason baseball coach
* Lamar Butler, basketball player
* Shawn Camp, baseball player, Toronto Blue Jays
* Folarin Campbell, basketball player
* Rebecca Cardon, actress
* Keri Chaconas, basketball player
* Terri Dendy, Olympic track and field athlete
* Jennifer Derevjanik, basketball player
* Ben Dogra, sports agent
* John Driscoll, actor
* Chad Dukes, radio host, WJFK-FM
* Jerry Dunn, basketball coach
* Ryan Ellis, NASCAR driver
* George Evans, basketball player
* Denis Hamlett, soccer coach
* Luke Hancock, former George Mason basketball player; current Louisville basketball player
* Richard Hatch, winner of the first season of Survivor
* Nikki Hornsby, Grammy voting singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist, founder of CJP-NHRecords
* Jake Kalish, baseball player
* King Kamali, Iranian bodybuilder
* Archie Kao, actor
* Joelle Khoury, musician (pianist and composer)
* Sarah Kozer, television personality, appeared on Joe Millionaire
* Jim Larranaga, Mason's head men's basketball coach 1997–2011
* Jai Lewis, basketball player
* Bob Lilley, soccer player and head coach
* Tamir Linhart, soccer player
* Jason Miskiri, former NBA basketball player for the Charlotte Hornets
* Dayton Moore, general manager, senior VP, Kansas City Royals
* Mike Morrison, basketball player
* Paige Moss, actress
* Rob Muzzio, decathlon champion, Olympic athlete
* Anthony Noreiga, soccer player
* Gabe Norwood, Philippine Basketball Association player
* Ryan Pearson, basketball player
* Richard Phillips, Jamaican sprinter; competed in the 110 metres hurdles at the 2004, 2008, and the 2012 Summer Olympics
* Jennifer Pitts, Miss Virginia, Miss Virginia USA
* Mark Pulisic, soccer player
* Charlie Raphael, soccer player
* Rob Rose, former NBA basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers
* Dianna Russini, ESPN anchor
* Kenny Sanders, basketball player
* Rhea Seehorn, actress
* Ritch Shydner, comedian
* Tony Skinn, basketball player
* Tommy Steenberg, ice skater
* Shawn Stiffler, college baseball coach at VCU
* Will Thomas, basketball player
* David Verburg, 400m sprinter; won the gold medal in the 2013 World Championship 4 × 400 m relay
* Alan Webb, American record holder in the mile
* Chris Widger, former MLB baseball player
* Aimee Willard, lacrosse player
* Ricky Wilson, former NBA basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs and the New Jersey Nets
* Carlos Yates, basketball player
* Jesse Young, basketball player; member of the Canada national team that participated in the 1999 and 2003 Pan American Games
* Kate Ziegler, world record distance swimmer

### Other

* Ali al-Tamimi, convicted terrorist
* Amir Ansari, venture capitalist
* Anousheh Ansari, space tourist
* Sandy Antunes, astronomer
* Randall C. Berg, Jr., lawyer
* Allison Black, military officer
* M. Brian Blake, professor
* Mark A. Calabria, Director of Financial Regulation Studies at the Cato Institute
* Alan M. Davis, engineer and businessman
* Chris DiBona, Google Public Sector Director
* Taylor Edgar, stand-up comic and musician
* Sibel Edmonds, former Federal Bureau of Investigation translator
* Fred E. Foldvary, economist
* Graham Foust, professor and poet
* Steven Horwitz, economist
* Raynard Jackson, Republican political consultant
* Matt Kibbe, President and CEO of FreedomWorks
* Jonathan Klick, professor
* Robert A. Levy, Chairman of the Cato Institute
* Jeb Livingood, professor and writer
* Daniel Mann, lawyer
* George Michael, professor
* Kendrick Moxon, lawyer and Scientologist
* Sareh Nouri, fashion designer
* Angela Orebaugh, cyber security technologist and professor
* Mark Perry, professor
* Brad Pfaff, USDA Wisconsin Farm Service Agency executive director
* David Prychitko, economist
* Jose Rodriguez, political activist
* Stephen Slivinski, economist for the Goldwater Institute
* Victoria Stiles, makeup artist
* Edward Stringham, professor
* Jeffery Taubenberger, virologist
* Deborah Willis, photographer and professor