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Law & politics
- Bill Archer (attended), United States Congressman
- Mitch Bainwol, 1983, former chair, Republican National Committee
- Karen Padgett
Davis, 1965, president of the Commonwealth Fund
- Alberto Gonzales, 1979,
U.S. Attorney General
- Kate Goodwin, 2007, actress and daughter of Doris Kearns Goodwin
- William P.
Hobby, Jr., Lieutenant Governor of Texas (1973-1991); former chancellor of the University of Houston system; former
president and executive editor at The Houston Post
- John Kline, 1969, United States Congressman
Business
- Karl ten Brink, 1937, former president, Texaco
- George R. Brown,
1920, founder, Brown and Root; he
built it into the world's largest construction and engineering giant
- John Doerr, 1973, influential
venture capitalist at Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield & Byers, CEO of Silicon Compilers and co-founder
of the @Home Network, on the
Board of Directors of Intuit, Amazon.com, PalmOne, Sun Microsystems, Google, and Segway, among others
- Dell Butcher, 1934, former president, American Commercial Lines
- Charles Duncan, 1947, former
president, Coca-Cola; former Secretary of Energy under Jimmy Carter (1979 - 1981)
- Robert L. Clarke,
1963, Senior Partner of Bracewell & Patterson LLP; U.S. Comptroller of the Currency
under Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush; consultant to the World Bank
- Steve Jackson, 1974, founder of
Steve Jackson Games
- Terry Koonce, 1960, president of ExxonMobil
- Burton McMurtry,
1956, influential venture
capitalist in the Silicon Valley, helped fund such ventures as
Microsoft, Sun,
Compaq, Adaptec, Altera, and Synopsys .
- Hector Ruiz, 1972, President and
CEO of AMD
- William Vaughn, former
president, Eastman Kodak
- Sam Reed, CEO of Keebler Company
- Wylie Bernard
Pieper, 1946, former president, Brown & Root
- Ken Kennedy, 1967, founder of Center for Research on Parallel Computation, the High
Performance Fortran Forum; co-chair of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee with Bill Joy of Sun
Microsystems
- James Treybig, 1963 and
1964, founder of Tandem
Computers
- Charles Tandy, 1939, founder, chairman, president of Tandy Corporation
Athletics
- Lance Berkman, 1997, All-Star Major
League baseball player for Houston Astros
- Fred Hansen, 1963, gold medalist in pole vault at 1964 Olympics
- Heather McDermid,
1991, silver medalist in women's 8 at 1996 Olympics
- Frank Beall Ryan,
1958, PhD 1965, NFL quarterback, textbook author,
Yale athletic director, appeared on cover of Sports Illustrated, Jan. 4, 1965.
History, literature, journalism, art & music
- Ron Bozman, 1969, Executive Producer of Silence of the
Lambs, Beloved, and Philadelphia
- William Broyles, Jr.,
Founder of Texas Monthly, former editor in chief at Newsweek and screenwriter of Apollo 13, Cast Away, Unfaithful
- Carol Flake, 1969, founding editor of reborn Vanity
Fair
- John Graves, 1942, Nature Writer
- Mary Johnston, 1941, editor of Fortune,
responsible for origination of the Fortune 500
- Larry McMurtry, 1960,
Pulitzer Prize Winning Author
- S. I. Morris, 1935, architect of Astrodome, Houston Public Library, One Houston Center, and Wortham
Theater
- LeAnne Schreiber,
1967, first woman sports editor of a major daily (New York Times)
- Vivian Vahlberg,
1970, first woman president of the National Press Club
Television & film
- Candace Bushnell (attended), author of Sex and the City
- Howard Hughes (attended), Writer/Director/Producer/Actor/Aviator/Billionaire
- Jamie Story, 2002, SRC, 2004 Miss Texas
Science & technology
- Dave Hyatt, browser developer at Netscape and Apple
- Jim Newman, 1982 and 1984, NASA Astronaut
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