List of Lehigh University alumni. This is a list of notable alumni of Lehigh University, a private research university located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Academia
David Bader (BSCompE, 1990; MSEE, 1991), Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and former Georgia Tech professor 
Anthony G. Collins (D.Eng. Civil Eng., 1982), former Clarkson University president
Peter Feaver (BA, 1983), Duke University professor and former member of the National Security Council in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations
James D. Foley (BSEE, 1964), Georgia Tech professor and co-author, Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice
Kenneth French (Mech. E., 1976), Dartmouth College finance department chairman and American Finance Association president
Robert L. Ketter, former University of Buffalo president
Andrew H. Knoll (1973), Harvard University paleontologist and geologist and member of the National Academy of Sciences
Ted London (BS Mech. Eng 1985), Base of the Pyramid expert at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and William Davidson Institute senior research fellow
Robert J. Nemiroff (1987), Michigan Technological University professor of physics and co-founder of the Astronomy Picture of the Day and Astrophysics Source Code Library
Paul C. Paris (1955), Washington University in St. Louis professor emeritus and expert on fracture mechanics and material fatigue
Walter C. Pitman, III (1956), Columbia University professor emeritus and expert on sea floor spreading
James R. Rice (1962), Harvard University physicist and professor and member of the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering.
Herman Schneider (1894), University of Cincinnati former president and developer of cooperative education
James E. Talmage (Geology, 1884), University of Utah former president, author, and LDS apostle
John Texter (1949), Eastern Michigan University professor emeritus, author, inventor, and co-founder of Strider Research Corporation
Paul Torgersen (B.S. Industrial Engr., 1953), former

Architecture
Roland E. Borhek (1883), designed the Rialto Theater and other buildings
Wallis Eastburn Howe (1889), architect

Business
William Amelio (BS Chem. Eng., 1979), Avnet CEO and former Lenovo CEO
Tom Bayer, Reserve Bank of Vanuatu director
Patrice Banks, Girls Auto Clinic founder and author
Bob Born (1944), Just Born president
William Butterworth, Deere and Company president and chairman
Steve Chang, Trend Micro co-founder and former CEO
Stacey Cunningham (BS Industrial Engineering, 1996), 67th president of the New York Stock Exchange
Jack Dreyfus (1934), Dreyfus Fund founder
Cathy Engelbert (1986), former Deloitte U.S. president and current WNBA commissioner
Murray H. Goodman, real estate developer
Eugene Grace (1899), former Bethlehem Steel president
Richard Hayne (BA Anthropology 1969), Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, and Free People co-founder
Marc Holtzman (1982), Barclays Capital vice chairman and Kazkommertsbank chairman 
Lee Iacocca (Industrial Eng. 1945, Hon D.Eng. 1965), former Chrysler chairman
Kevin J. Kennedy (1978), Avaya CEO
John E. McGlade, Air Products chairman, president, and CEO
Reginald Lenna (BS Industrial engineering, 1936), Blackstone Inc. CEO
Edward Avery McIlhenny (1896), McIlhenny Company CEO]
Henry H. Minskoff, real estate developer
James Ward Packard (Mech. E., 1884), Packard co-founder
John R. Patrick (BS Electrical engineering, 1967), former IBM vice president
Joseph R. Perella (BS Business & Economics 1964), former investment banking chairman at Morgan Stanley
 Paul Zane Pilzer (BA Journalism 1974), economist
 Barry Rosenstein (BA, 1981), hedge fund manager
 Fredrick D. Schaufeld (BA Government 1981), entrepreneur and venture capital investor
Tsai Shengbai (1919), Mayar Silk Mills president and developer of the modern silk industry in China
Fred Trump Jr. (1960), Trans World Airlines pilot and former executive and maintenance worker at The Trump Organization; older brother of Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States
 Robert Zoellner (BS 1954), investor and stamp collector, the second person to have assembled a complete collection of United States postage stamps, and benefactor and namesake of the school's Zoellner Arts Center

Entertainment
Dick Berg (1942), screenwriter
Jim Davidson (1985), actor, Pacific Blue
Brooke Eby, business development manager and social media personality
Paul Guilfoyle (1972), actor, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Maria Jacquemetton (BA English, 1983), Emmy, Golden Globe, Writers Guild of America, and Peabody Award-winning writer and supervising producer of Mad Men
Don Most (1972), actor, Happy Days (attended but did not graduate)
Louis Clyde Stoumen (1939), Academy Award-winning director and producer

Journalism and literature
Martin Baron (BA Journalism and MBA, both 1976), Washington Post editor and former Boston Globe editor
Tracy Byrnes (1993), Fox Business television reporter
William E. Coles, Jr. (BA English, 1953), novelist and professor
Richard Harding Davis (1886), war correspondent, journalist, and writer of fiction and drama
Robert Gibb (MA English, 1976), poet, short-story writer, essayist, critic, editor, and professor
Michael Golden (1971), The International Herald Tribune publisher and vice chairman of The New York Times Company
William P. Gottlieb (BS business and economics, 1939), jazz author and photographer
Russell Lee (1925), photojournalist
Edwin Lefèvre (1893), one of the first journalists specialized on covering business
David A. Randall (English, 1928), book dealer and librarian
Len Roberts (PhD English, 1976), poet, translator, and professor
Stephanie Ruhle (1997), MSNBC anchor and NBC News correspondent 
Michael Smerconish (BA Government, 1984), author and radio commentator
Andrea Tantaros (2001), former Fox News Channel co-host and political contributor
Les Whitten (BA English and Journalism, 1950), investigative reporter and novelist

Law
Edward N. Cahn (1955), United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania judge; The Edward Cahn Federal Building and Courthouse was named in his honor.
Robert L. Clifford (1946), New Jersey Supreme Court associate justice
James Cullen Ganey (1920), United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit judge
Ronald A. Guzman (1970), United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois judge
Alina Habba (2005), attorney for former U.S. president Donald Trump
Edwin Kneedler (1967), deputy solicitor general of the United States
Paul Lewis Maloney (1972), United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan judge
Malcolm Muir (1935), United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania judge
Maryellen Noreika (1988),United States District Court for the District of Delaware judge
Donald F. Parsons (1973), Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware vice chancellor
Stephen Victor Wilson (1963), United States District Court for the Central District of California judge

Medicine
Harry J. Buncke, plastic surgeon called the "father of microsurgery"
Steven J. Burakoff, cancer specialist and head of Mount Sinai Medical Center's cancer institute
Frank L. Douglas, former TheVax Genetics Vaccine Company CEO and founder and first executive director of MIT's Center for Biomedical Innovation
Stephen K. Klasko, Jefferson Health CEO
Gail Saltz, psychiatrist and television commentator
Sandra Welner, specialist in disabled women's healthcare

Military
Ralph Cheli (1941), USAAF, awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for valor in World War II
Timothy D. Haugh (BA 1991), current commander, Sixteenth Air Force
Colin J. Kilrain (1982), U.S. Navy SEAL, anti-terrorism expert,  military attache to Mexico,  PACCOM Special Ops Commander, NATO Special Ops Commander
David M. Peterson (1915), fighter ace with the Lafayette Escadrille and U.S. Army Air Service credited with six victories, twice awarded the Distinguished Service Cross
Edwin H. Simmons USMC (1942), veteran of the Battle of Chosin Reservoir and USMC chief historian
Franklin C. Spinney (BS Mech. Eng, 1967), U.S. Air Force Reserve and military analyst
John H. Tilelli, Jr. (MBA 1972), U.S. Army vice chief of staff

Politics
Pongpol Adireksarn (1964), Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand
William David Blakeslee Ainey, U.S. Congressman
Ali Al-Naimi (BS Geology 1962), Saudi Arabia Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources and Aramco chairman
Carville Benson (1890), U.S. Congressman
William A. Collins, Connecticut State Representative and four-term mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut
Charlie Dent (MPA, 1993), U.S. Congressman
Geoff Diehl (1992), Massachusetts House of Representatives member
 Clarence Ditlow III, (Bachelor of Science (BS) Chemical Engineering), advocate for automotive safety
Manuel V. Domenech (1888), Ponce, Puerto Rico member and Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Lori Ehrlich (1985),Massachusetts House of Representatives member
Peter D. Feaver (BA, 1983), member of the National Security Council in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations and Duke University professor
Robert L. Freeman (MA History, 1984), Pennsylvania House of Representatives member
Walter O. Hoffecker (1877), U.S. Congressman
Robert A. Hurley (1917), 73rd governor of Connecticut
Leonard Lance (Bachelor of Arts (BA), 1974), U.S. Congressman
Norton Lewis Lichtenwalner, U.S. Congressman
Jennifer Mann (1991), Majority Caucus Secretary and member of Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Robert Martin (Master of Arts (MA) History, 1971), New Jersey State Senator
Paul F. McHale, Jr.  (Bachelor of Arts (BA) Government, 1972), Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and former U.S. Congressman
Rufus King Polk (1887), U.S. Congressman
Donald L. Ritter (Bachelor of Science (BS) Metallurgy, 1961), former U.S. Congressman
Richard Schmierer (1974), U.S. ambassador to Oman
David Sidikman (1956), New York State Assembly member
Donald Snyder (MBA 1976), Pennsylvania House of Representatives Majority Whip
Edward J. Stack (1931), U.S. Congressman
Guy Talarico (B.S.), New Jersey General Assembly member
Joseph Uliana (1987), Pennsylvania State Representative and State Senator
Richard Verma (BS Industrial engineering, 1990), U.S. ambassador to India
Francis E. Walter (1916), U.S. Congressman

Pulitzer Prize winners
Martin Baron (1976), editor of The Washington Post, former editor of The Boston Globe, 2003 Pulitzer Prize winner
Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe (1886)  1925 Pulitzer Prize winner
Joe Morgenstern (BA English, 1953), 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner

Science and engineering
Ali Al-Naimi (BS Geology, 1962), Saudi Aramco CEO and Saudi Arabia's Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources
Walter C. Bachman (1933), chief engineer at Gibbs & Cox and ship propulsion expert
John-David F. Bartoe (BS Physics 1966), Space Shuttle astronaut and International Space Station research manager for NASA
Stephen James Benkovic (1960), chemist
 William Bowie (C.E. 1895), geodetic engineer and namesake of Bowie Seamount
Morris Llewellyn Cooke (BS Mech. E., 1895), rural electrification leader during the 1920s and 1930s
Paul Corkum (PhD Theoretical Physics, 1972), attosecond physics and laser science expert
Albert P. Crary (MS Physics), Antarctic explorer
Harry Diamond, engineer who developed Proximity Fuse
Philip Drinker (Chem Eng., 1917), co-inventor of the modern respirator
Lt. Col. Terry Hart, USAF (BS Mech. E., 1968, Hon. D.Eng., 1988), NASA Space Shuttle astronaut
Captain Nicholas H. Heck (AB 1903, BSCE 1904), geophysicist, seismologist, oceanographer, hydrographic surveyor, and United States Coast and Geodetic Survey officer
Lester Hogan (PhD Physics 1950), microwave and semiconductor pioneer
Gary G. Lash (MS, PhD 1980), geologist known for Marcellus Shale calculations
Bill Maloney (1980), mine drilling expert and participant in the Plan B rescue of miners during the 2010 Chilean mine disaster
Daniel McFarlan Moore (1889), Moore Light inventor
William S. Murray (1895), electrical power generation and railroad electrification expert
Jesse W. Reno (BS Mech Eng., 1883), builder of the world's first escalator
Robert Serber (BS Engineering physics, 1930), physicist in the Manhattan Project
Lewis B. Stillwell (1885), expert on electrical distribution, President of the IEEE and 1935 winner of the IEEE Edison Medal
John Texter (1949; BSEE, 1971; MS Chem, 1973; MS Mathematics, 1976; PhD Chemistry, 1976), engineer and scientist in applied dispersion technology and small particle science,  co-initiator of polymerized ionic liquids, and designer of thermodynamically stable dispersions
John M. Thome (1870), director of the Argentina's national observatory, Observatorio Astronómico de Córdoba
Richard Hawley Tucker (BS Civil Eng., 1887), astronomer; namesake of Tucker Crater on the Moon
Claude Allen Porter Turner  (BS Civil Eng., 1890), developed early reinforced concrete techniques
Aneesh Varma (2006), founder of Aire and expert on behavior prediction algorithms
William Wiswesser (1936; honorary doctorate 1970), chemist and pioneer in chemical informatics and inventor of Wiswesser line notation
J. Lamar Worzel (1941), geophysicist and oceanographer
Zhou Ming-Zhen, Chinese paleontologist, Chinese Academy of Sciences academic and recipient of the Romer-Simpson Medal

Sports
Rabih Abdullah (1998), former professional football player, Chicago Bears, New England Patriots, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Joe Alleva (BS finance, 1975; MBA, 1976), Louisiana State University athletic director and former Duke University athletic director
Craig Anderson (1960), former professional baseball player, New York Mets and St. Louis Cardinals
Lon Babby (BA Political Science, 1973), Phoenix Suns president
Adam Bergen (2004), professional football player, Arizona Cardinals and Dallas Cowboys
Jordan Cohen ('20), Israel Basketball Premier League player
Snooks Dowd, former professional baseball player
Cathy Engelbert (1986), WNBA Commissioner
Sam Fishburn, professional baseball player 
John Fitch (BS Civil Eng., 1938), winner of Mille Miglia and Argentine Grand Prix
Paul Hartzell (1976), former professional baseball player, Baltimore Orioles, California Angels, and Minnesota Twins
Bill Hoffman, football player
Al Holbert (Mech. E. 1968), five-time IMSA GT Champion and member of International Motorsports Hall of Fame
John Hill (1972), former professional football player, New York Giants  and New Orleans Saints
Jarrod Johnson (1991), former professional football player, Pittsburgh Steelers and San Diego Chargers
Steve Kreider (1978), former professional football player, Cincinnati Bengals 
Tim Mayer (1991), IMSA chief operating officer 
CJ McCollum (BA Journalism, 2013), first Lehigh basketball player to be selected in the NBA draft
Kim McQuilken (1973), former professional football player, Atlanta Falcons and Washington Redskins
Rich Owens (1994), former professional football player, Miami Dolphins, Kansas City Chiefs, Seattle Seahawks, and Washington Redskins
Vincent "Pat" Pazzetti (1912), member of College Football Hall of Fame
Roger Penske (1959), NASCAR and IRL team owner, member of International Motorsports Hall of Fame, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Will Rackley (BA Design, 2011), professional football player, Jacksonville Jaguars
Julius Seligson (1930), NCAA and ITA national tennis champion and member of ITA Hall of Fame
Scott Semptimphelter, football player
Lake Underwood (Mech. E.), professional sports car racer
Bobby Weaver (1981), gold medal winner, wrestling, 1984 Summer Olympics
Finn Wentworth (1980), former New Jersey Nets owner and YankeeNets president
Adam Williamson (2005), Major League Soccer soccer player, New England Revolution
Matt McBride (2006), Major League Baseball player, Oakland Athletics
Levi Stoudt (2020), Major League Baseball player, Baltimore Orioles
Mason Black (2021), Major League Baseball player, San Francisco Giants
Ryan Spadola, former National Football League wide receiver
Kevin Jefferson, former National Football League linebacker
Marty Horn, former National Football League quarterback

References 

 
Lehigh University alumni