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page 1Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni
Ivar Giæver
Norwegian-American physicist
Dennis Tito
American businessman
Raymond Tomlinson
American computer programmer (1941-2016)
Reid Wiseman
Gregory Reid Wiseman is an American naval aviator and NASA astronaut. He was the commander of the 2026 Artemis II lunar flyby mission, the first crewed flight around the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. He served as the 17th chief of the Astronaut Office from 2020 to 2022.
Jack Swigert
NASA Astronaut, Pilot (1931-1982)
David Hayter
Canadian-American actor
Richard Mastracchio
American astronaut
Henry Augustus Rowland
American physicist (1848–1901)
Kevin A. Lynch
American urban planner and architect (1918-1984)
George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr.
American engineer (1859-1896)
Marcian Hoff
American electrical engineer
James Hall
American paleontologist (1811-1898)
Hani al-Mulki
Jordanian politician
Beatrice Hicks
engineer from the United States
Jon Hall
programmer and major contributor to the Linux project
Jeffrey M. Friedman
US Physician scientist studying the genetic mechanisms that regulate body weight.
Banky W.
Nigerian singer, rapper, and actor
Adam Oates
Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Samuel Wells Williams
U.S. linguist, missionary, diplomat, naturalist and Sinologist (1812–1884)
Steven Sasson
American inventor
Bobby Farrelly
American film producer
Meera Nanda
Indian philosopher and writer
Don L. Anderson
American geophysicist (1933-2014)
Ely S. Parker
Union Army officer and a Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1828-1895)
Mark Russinovich
Spanish-born American software engineer
Washington Roebling
American civil engineer (1837–1926)
Thomas Farrell
American general (1891–1967)
Richard Lindzen
American physicist
George Low
American NASA administrator and President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1926-1984)
B. Jayant Baliga
American electrical engineer from India
Joé Juneau
ice hockey player
Asa Fitch
American entomologist (1809–1879)
Theodore Judah
Planner of U.S. transcontinental railroad and chief engineer of Central Pacific Railroad (1826-1863)
Keith Raniere
American cult founder and convicted felon (born 1960)
Harold J. Greene
United States Army major general
Ebenezer Emmons
American geologist (1799-1863)
John Olver
politician in Massachusetts, US
George R. Dennis
American politician (1822-1882)
John Leonard Riddell
American scientist (1807-1865)
James H. Fallon
American neuroscientist
Daniel G. Bobrow
American computer scientist (1935-2017)
Stephen E. Harris
American physicist
Robert Kennicutt
American astronomer
James Cantor
American-Canadian sexologist (1966-)
Matt Murley
American ice hockey player
James H. Salisbury
American physician (1823-1905)
Truman H. Aldrich
American politician (1848-1932)
Peter Schwartz
American futurist
Marta Bohn-Meyer
American pilot and engineer (1957-2005)
Nivruti Rai
head of Intel India
Marlan Scully
American physicist
Eric Healey
American ice hockey player
George A. Soper
U.S. sanitation engineer, discoverer of Typhoid Mary
John Alexander Low Waddell
civil engineer (1854–1938)
Dan Buckley
publisher
Bryant G. Wood
American archaeologist
Lincoln D. Faurer
United States general
Clarkson Nott Potter
American congressman for New York (1825-1882)
Douglass Houghton
American geologist (1809–1845)
Ralph Brazelton Peck
American civil engineer (1912–2008)