33 Notable alumni of
Missouri University of Science and Technology
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The Missouri University of Science and Technology is 1776th in the world, 616th in North America, and 580th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 33 notable alumni from the Missouri University of Science and Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Jack Dorsey
- Occupations
- programmerbusinesspersonentrepreneurbloggercomputer scientist
- Biography
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Jack Patrick Dorsey is an American businessman, co-founder of Twitter, Inc. and CEO during 2007–2008 and 2015–2021, as well as co-founder, principal executive officer and chairman of Block, Inc. (developer of the Square financial services platform) and founder of Bluesky.
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Farouk El-Baz
- Enrolled in the Missouri University of Science and Technology
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- space scientistgeologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Farouk El-Baz is an Egyptian American space scientist and geologist, who worked with NASA in the scientific exploration of the Moon and the planning of the Apollo program. He was a leading geologist on the program, responsible for studying the geology of the Moon, the selection of landing sites for the Apollo missions, and the training of astronauts in lunar observations and photography. He played a key role in the Apollo 11 Moon landing mission, and later Apollo missions. He also came up with the idea of touchable Moon rocks at a museum, inspired by his childhood pilgrimage to Mecca where he touched the Black Stone (which in Islam is believed to be sent down from the heavens).
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Aruna Miller
- Occupations
- politiciancivil engineer
- Biography
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Aruna Miller is an American politician and civil engineer serving as the tenth lieutenant governor of Maryland since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, Miller previously represented District 15 in the Maryland House of Delegates from 2010 to 2019. Miller is the first South Asian woman elected lieutenant governor in the United States.
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Nicole Galloway
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nicole Marie Galloway is an American politician and accountant who served as the state auditor of Missouri from 2015 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the party's nominee for Governor of Missouri in the 2020 election, losing to incumbent Republican Mike Parson. As of 2025, Galloway is the most recent Democrat to have won or held statewide office in Missouri.
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Jay Ashcroft
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Robert "Jay" Ashcroft is an American attorney and politician who served as the 40th secretary of state of Missouri from 2017 to 2025. A member of the Republican Party, he is the son of former United States Attorney General John Ashcroft.
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Greg Raymer
- Occupations
- poker player
- Biography
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Gregory Paul Raymer, nicknamed "Fossilman," is a professional poker player and author. He is best known for winning the 2004 World Series of Poker Main Event.
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Sandra Magnus
- Occupations
- astronautengineer
- Biography
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Sandra Hall Magnus is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut. She flew to space three times, as mission specialist on STS-112, as ISS crewmember during Expedition 18 and as mission specialist on STS-135. She is also a licensed amateur radio operator with the call sign KE5FYE. From 2012 until 2018 Magnus was the executive director of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
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Lisa Jaster
- Years
- 1978-.. (age 48)
- Occupations
- soldier
- Biography
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Lisa Jaster is a United States Army Reserve lieutenant colonel and engineer officer who was the first female reserve soldier to graduate from the Army's Ranger School. She completed the training, which as many as 60 percent of students fail within the first four days, after "recycling" through, or retrying, several phases of the multi-locational course. Due to being recycled, she was at the school for six months; the school takes a minimum of 61 days and includes up to 20 hours of training per day alongside a strict diet. She graduated at age 37, while the average trainee age is 23.
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Clyde Cowan
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Clyde Lorrain Cowan Jr was an American physicist and the co-discoverer of the neutrino along with Frederick Reines. The discovery was made in 1956 in the neutrino experiment. Reines received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995.
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Janet L. Kavandi
- Occupations
- astronautchemist
- Biography
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Janet Lynn Kavandi is an American scientist and a NASA astronaut. She is a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions, served as NASA's deputy chief of the Astronaut Office, and was the center director at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, from March 2016 until her retirement from NASA in September 2019. She was inducted into the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2019.
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Thomas Akers
- Occupations
- astronautmilitary officer
- Biography
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Thomas Dale Akers is a former American astronaut in NASA's Space Shuttle program.
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Stephanie O'Sullivan
- Occupations
- intelligence officer
- Biography
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Stephanie O'Sullivan is a former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence (PDDNI) who was appointed to that position on February 18, 2011. She worked to assist the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) in managing the day-to-day operations of the intelligence community. Prior to serving as PDDNI, she served as a senior leader at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), rising to the Associate Deputy Director of the CIA before being confirmed as the PDDNI.
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Tyrone Smith
- Occupations
- long jumperathletics competitor
- Biography
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Tyrone Smith is a professional Bermudian born long jumper.
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Brett Sylvia
- Enrolled in the Missouri University of Science and Technology
- Graduated with Master of Science in industrial engineering and management
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Brett Gareth Sylvia is a United States Army lieutenant general who serves as the Director, Strategy, Plans, and Policy of the Joint Staff since 2025. He previously served as the commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division and Fort Campbell from 2023 to 2025, and as the vice director for strategy, plans, and policy of the Joint Staff.
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Mark C. Quander
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 52)
- Biography
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Mark Christopher Quander is a United States Army major general who has served as the deputy commanding general for military and international operations of the United States Army Corps of Engineers since July 2025. He most recently served as the commanding general of the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division from 2023 to 2025. He previously served as the 79th commandant of cadets of the United States Military Academy from 2021 to 2023, as the 98th commandant of the United States Army Engineer School from 2019 to 2021 and as commander of the Transatlantic Division of the United States Army Corps of Engineers from 2018 to 2019.
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Mervin Joe Kelly
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Mervin Joseph Kelly was an American industrial physicist. He worked at Bell Labs from 1925 to 1959, in which time he held positions such as director of research, president, and chairman of the board of directors.
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George Mueller
- Enrolled in the Missouri University of Science and Technology
- In 1939 graduated with Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering
- Occupations
- university teacherengineermanager
- Biography
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George Edwin Mueller, was an American electrical engineer who was an associate administrator at NASA, heading the Office of Manned Space Flight from September 1963 until December 1969. Hailed as one of NASA's "most brilliant and fearless managers", he was instrumental in introducing the all-up testing philosophy for the Saturn V launch vehicle, which ensured the success of the Apollo program in landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth by the end of 1969. Mueller also played a key part in the design of Skylab, and championed the Space Shuttle's development, which earned him the nickname, "the father of the Space Shuttle."
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George Allison Whiteman
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- 1919-1941 (aged 22)
- Biography
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2nd Lt. George Allison Whiteman was an American military aviator, and was one of the 2,403 victims killed during the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by Imperial Japanese Navy forces.
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Gary White
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- civil engineerenvironmental engineerengineer
- Biography
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Gary White is the CEO and co-founder of Water.org.
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Joe N. Ballard
- Enrolled in the Missouri University of Science and Technology
- Graduated with master's degree in industrial engineering and management
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Lieutenant General Joe Nathan Ballard is a former U.S. Army officer who fought in the Vietnam War, and who served as Chief of Engineers, the first African-American to serve in this role.
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John Asher Johnson
- Occupations
- astronomer
- Biography
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John Asher Johnson is an American astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at Harvard. He is the first tenured African-American physical science professor in the history of the university. Johnson is well known for discovering three of the first known planets smaller than the Earth outside of the Solar System, including the first Mars-sized exoplanet.
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Daniel C. Jackling
- Years
- 1869-1956 (aged 87)
- Enrolled in the Missouri University of Science and Technology
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- engineermining engineer
- Biography
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Daniel Cowan Jackling, was an American mining and metallurgical engineer who pioneered the exploitation of low-grade porphyry copper ores at the Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah.
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Ed Emery
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Edgar Glenn Harvey Emery was an American businessman, engineer, and politician who served as a member of the Missouri Senate, representing parts of southwestern Missouri.
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Ronald Greeley
- Occupations
- geologistplanetary geologist
- Biography
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Ronald Greeley was a Regents' Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) at Arizona State University (ASU), the Director of the NASA-ASU Regional Planetary Image Facility (RPIF), and Principal Investigator of the Planetary Aeolian Laboratory at NASA-Ames Research Center. He was involved with lunar and planetary studies since 1967 and most recently focused his research on understanding planetary surface processes and geologic histories.
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Bruce L. Edwards
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Bruce L. Edwards was professor emeritus of English and Africana Studies and Associate Vice President for Online Programs and E-learning Services at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, where he was a faculty member and administrator from 1981 to 2012. He was a leading authority on C. S. Lewis, a British writer and literary scholar.
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Terry Bollinger
- Occupations
- computer scientistartificial intelligence researcher
- Biography
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Terry Benton Bollinger is an American computer scientist who works at the MITRE Corporation. In 2003 he wrote an influential report for the U.S. Department of Defense (U.S. DoD) in which he showed that free and open source software (FOSS) had already become a vital part of the United States Department of Defense software infrastructure, and that banning or restricting its use would have had serious detrimental impacts on DoD security, research capabilities, operational capabilities, and long-term cost efficiency. His report ended a debate about whether FOSS should be banned from U.S. DoD systems, and in time helped lead to the current official U.S. DoD policy of treating FOSS and proprietary software as equals. The report is referenced on the DoD CIO web site and has been influential in promoting broader recognition of the importance of free and open source software in government circles. Bollinger is also known for his activity in the IEEE Computer Society, where he was an editor for IEEE Software for six years, wrote the founding charter for IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, and received an IEEE Third Millennium Medal for lifetime contributions to IEEE. He has written about a wide range of software issues including effective development processes, cyber security, and distributed intelligence.
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Marv Breuer
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Marvin Howard "Baby Face" Breuer was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played for the New York Yankees from 1939 to 1943.
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Stephen M. Bliss
- Enrolled in the Missouri University of Science and Technology
- Graduated with Master of Science in petroleum engineering
- Occupations
- military officeracademic administratoreducator
- Biography
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Brigadier General Stephen Michael Bliss is a retired United States Army general who served as the president of the Army and Navy Academy and president of the Association of Military Colleges and Schools of the United States.
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Glenn J. Lesniak
- Enrolled in the Missouri University of Science and Technology
- Graduated with Master of Science in industrial engineering and management
- Biography
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Glenn Jeffrey Lesniak is a retired major general who served as deputy commanding general for support of the United States Army Reserve.
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Arthur P. Murphy
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Arthur Phillips Murphy was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.
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Mack A. Breazeale
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Mack Alfred Breazeale was an American physicist particularly known for his work in ultrasonics and physical acoustics. Breazeale is widely regarded as one of the leading acousticians of the 20th century, highly accomplished in both theory and experiment. When he died, he was a retired distinguished research professor and senior scientist at the National Center for Physical Acoustics at the University of Mississippi. Born in Leona Mines, Virginia, Breazeale grew up near Crossville, TN. Educated at Berea College, the Missouri School of Mines, and the Michigan State University, he was a tireless researcher and trained many others in the field of physics. Before his appointment at the National Center for Physical Acoustics, he was professor of physics at the University of Tennessee (1962-1995) and at Michigan State University (1957-1962). A longtime editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, he was a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and received its Silver Medal in 1988. He was a fellow of the Institute of electrical and Electronics Engineers and Great Britain's Institute of Acoustics, and had been a Fulbright Research Fellow in Stuttgart, Germany early in his career.
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Edward S. Fris
- Occupations
- military personnelmilitary leaderUnited States Naval Aviatorelectrical engineer
- Biography
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Edward Steve Fris was a lieutenant general in the United States Marine Corps. He served as the Director of Aviation, Headquarters Marine Corps and is considered a pioneer in the development of today's Marine Air Command and Control System (MACCS).
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Willard Jenkins
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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G. Willard Jenkins is an American politician in the state of Iowa.
