# List of Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University alumni

Embry Riddle has a large pool of alumni ranging from high military officials, politicians, airline business leaders, intelligence agency officials, and White House advisors, along with six NASA astronauts, one Canadian Space Agency astronaut, and two commercial astronauts. Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University is the only accredited aviation-oriented university in the world. The university offers bachelor's and master's degrees at two residential campuses and through Embry–Riddle Worldwide. Associate degrees and non-degree programs are also offered by Embry–Riddle Worldwide. Doctoral degrees are exclusively offered by Embry-Riddle's Daytona Beach campus.

## Alumni

| Alumni | Class − | Notability |
| JoAnne S. Bass | 2005 | Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force |
| Edward K. Beale | 2007 | Award-winning author and retired United States Coast Guard Commander |
| Mark H. Berry | 1983 | Arkansas state representative |
| Gregory A. Biscone | 1993 | United States Air Force Inspector General and deputy director of operations at United States Central Command |
| Ben Brainard | | Stand-up comedian and social media personality |
| Kevin Bratcher | 1995 | Republican politician and member of the Kentucky House of Representatives; House Majority Whip |
| Charles Q. Brown Jr. | 1994 | General, US Air Force, 21st Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; 22nd chief of staff of the Air Force; first African American to be appointed as chief of staff and to lead any branch of the United States Armed Forces |
| Daniel C. Burbank | 1991 | Astronaut and US Coast Guard captain |
| Dan Carter | | Republican member of Connecticut House of Representatives |
| Jeffrey B. Cashman | 1996 | Air National Guard brigadier general |
| Donna L. Cottrell | 1997 | US Coast Guard rear admiral; Coast Guard District 9 commander; former director of Joint Interagency Task Force West, the U.S. Pacific Command’s executive liaison |
| John Currier | 1998 | US Coast Guard vice commandant of the Coast Guard |
| Stephen L. Davis | 1997 | US Air Force brigadier general, director of global operations, U.S. Strategic Command |
| Glen Doherty | | Navy SEAL killed in the 2012 Benghazi Attack; was working for a contracted CIA group |
| Jerry Doyle | | Nationally syndicated talk show host, television actor and founder of the content platform EpicTimes |
| Benjamin Alvin Drew | 1995 | Astronaut; US Air Force lieutenant colonel |
| Michael Durant | 1995 | US Army Chief Warrant Officer 4 helicopter pilot shot down and taken prisoner during the Battle of Mogadishu; received the POW Medal, Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and three times the Distinguished Flying Cross |
| Connally Edozien | 2001 | Nigerian football player who plays for the Carolina RailHawks FC |
| Greg Feith | 1996 | Retired Senior Air Safety Investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board |
| David Floyd | | Politician and former Republican member of the Kentucky House of Representatives for District 50 |
| Ronald J. Garan, Jr. | 1995 | Astronaut and US Air Force colonel |
| Amber Gell | | Rocket scientist, NASA engineer |
| Ingo Gerhartz | 2021 | Inspector of the German Air Force |
| Vicente Gonzalez | 1992 | Attorney and politician serving as the United States representative for the 15th district of Texas |
| Alan Gustafson | 1996 | NASCAR Cup Series crew chief |
| Nancy Hann | | Rear admiral, deputy director of the NOAA Corps |
| Hubert C. Hegtvedt | 1997 | U.S. Air Force major general, deputy director for global policy and partnerships, at the Pentagon |
| Richard D. Heinz | 2001 | US Navy rear admiral, director of logistics, J4, on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. European Command |
| John Hodgson | 2007 | Kentucky state representative |
| Sara Hradecky | 2004 | 24th Canadian Ambassador to the United States of Mexico |
| Jared Isaacman | 2011 | Businessman and pilot; founder of Draken International; co-founder and CEO of Harbortouch; set a world record in 2009 for flying around the globe Commercial astronaut commander of the Inspiration4 and Polaris Dawn missions |
| Alvin B. Jackson | | Utah Senator, father of NBA player Frank Jackson |
| James F. Jackson | 1990 | Lieutenant general in the United States Air Force and chief of Air Force Reserve Command |
| Moriba K. Jah | 1999 | Aerodynamicist; former spacecraft navigator for NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; served on Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey, and Mars Express (joint mission with European Space Agency) |
| Brent A. Jones | | Politician, Nevada Assembly member, lawyer, and CEO of Affinity Lifestyles |
| Janis Karpinski | | US Army, former brigadier general |
| Susan Kilrain | 1982 | Astronaut and Navy commander |
| Tony Kurtz | | Politician and businessman Wisconsin State Assembly member, founder/CEO of Kaynick Solutions LLC |
| Joshua Kutryk | 2009 | Canadian astronaut with Canadian Space Agency; Royal Canadian Air Force lt. colonel |
| Vivek Lall | | Chief executive of US defense and nuclear giant General Atomics Global Corporation on Sunday; former vice president, aeronautics strategy and business development at Lockheed Martin |
| Irene Leverton | Flight Classes | Aviation pioneer; member of the Ninety-Nines; selected in 1061 for the Women in Space Program; one of the Mercury 13 project women |
| Erik Lindbergh | | Aviator, adventurer, and public speaker; grandson of pioneering aviator Charles Lindbergh |
| Alan Lindenmoyer | 1983 | NASA engineer, manager of NASA's Commercial Crew and Cargo Program Office (C3PO) at Johnson Space Center, |
| Kelly McCarthy | 1999 | Montana House of Representatives |
| Nick Mingione | 2000 | University of Kentucky Wildcats baseball head coach |
| Scott O'Grady | 1989 | Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs nominee; US Air Force F-16 pilot who evaded capture after being shot down over Bosnia in 1995 |
| Kraig Paulsen | 1994 | Iowa State Representative and minority whip |
| Jake Pavelka | | Television personality and actor |
| August Pfluger | | Representative for Texas's 11th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives |
| Daniel Ponce de Leon | | Professional baseball pitcher |
| John I. Pray | 1987 | Retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general, chief executive officer and president of Operation Homefront |
| Carol Rabadi | 1999 | Captain of the first all Arab female flight crew for Royal Jordanian |
| Fouad Mahoud Hasan Al Rabia | 1988 | Executive of Kuwait's national airline, was held prisoner extrajudicial detention at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp without formal charges |
| Todd J. McCubbin | 2004 | U.S. Air Force brigadier general |
| Timothy Ray | 1998 | US Air Force general, commander of Air Force Global Strike Command; concurrently serves as the commander of Air Forces Strategic – Air, United States Strategic Command |
| Tom Reeder | | Wyoming House of Representatives |
| Robertus Remkes | 1987 | US Air Force major general and director of strategy, plans and policy for the United States European Command |
| Jesse Rhodes | | Killed in Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701 |
| Fernando L. Ribas-Dominicci | 1985 | US Air Force major, killed during Operation El Dorado Canyon |
| Anthony J. Rock | 1995 | Lieutenant general of the U.S. Air Force and last served as the Inspector General of the Air Force assigned within the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force |
| Marc H. Sasseville | 1996 | U.S. Air Force brigadier general, chief, National Guard Bureau; Joint Chief of Staff member |
| Christopher Sembroski | 2007 | American data engineer, Air Force veteran, and commercial astronaut, who flew to orbit on the private Inspiration4 mission |
| Keith J. Stalder | 1994 | United States Marine Corps lieutenant general |
| Cheryl Stearns | 1985 | Skydiver; won bronze in Overall in Individual Style and Accuracy at the XXV World Parachuting Championships; won gold medal in the category "Overall, Women" in 1978 and 1994 |
| Nicole P. Stott | 1987 | Astronaut |
| Fred Strahorn | | Democratic Ohio House of Representatives minority leader of the 131st Ohio General Assembly |
| Robert L. Sumwalt | | 14th Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board |
| Fred Strahorn | | Democratic Ohio House of Representatives minority leader of the 131st Ohio General Assembly |
| Merryl Tengesdal | 2008 | US Air Force colonel; first and only African American woman to fly the United States Air Force's U-2 spy plane; former director of inspections |
| Terry W. Virts | 1997 | Astronaut, International Space Station commander and US Air Force colonel |
| Victor Wainwright | | Blues singer, songwriter, and pianist |
| Shaesta Waiz | | First female certified civilian pilot from Afghanistan; youngest woman to fly solo around the world in a single-engine aircraft |
| Dave Wallace | 1977 | Member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for Mississippi County, Arkansas; decorated United States Army officer of the Vietnam War |
| Patrice Washington | 1982 | Florida; first female pilot of Bahamasair; first black female captain of a major U.S. air service and first black female pilot hired by the United Parcel Service |
| Brandon Webb | | Author; former United States Navy SEAL and SEAL Sniper course head instructor; founder and CEO of Hurricane Group Inc, which includes sofrep.com |
| Jack Weinstein | 1987 | US Air Force major general |
| Robert E. Wheeler | 1995 | U.S. Air Force brigadier general |
| Chuck Wilson | 1985 | United States Air Force (retired) colonel; former director of the Office of International Security Operations (ISO) with the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs; former senior Air Force advisor at the State Department; shortly after the September 11 attacks, was promoted to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) at the Pentagon |
| Daniel P. Woodward | 1980 | U.S. Air Force brigadier general and pilot |
| Margaret H. Woodward | 1997 | Major general in the United States Air Force; Commander of the 17th Air Force and U.S. Air Forces Africa, Ramstein Air Base, Germany; was responsible for all US air actions that involved Africa |