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Table of Contents

1 .	In Brief

2 .	Athletics

3 .	Notable CU students, alumni, and staff

4 .	Demographics

5 .	See also

6 .	External links

	Notable CU students, alumni, and staff

	Loren Acton, NASA astronaut Patrick Baudry, CNES astronaut James Barton, Co-founder of TiVo Bob Beauprez, U.S. Representative Petr Beckmann, physicist, engineer Chauncey Billups, member of the Detroit Pistons of the NBA Stan Brakhage, filmmaker Vance D. Brand, NASA astronaut Scott Carpenter, NASA astronaut Kalpana Chawla, Columbia astronaut Lynne Cheney, wife of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney Ward Churchill, CU Professor Sarvadaman Chowla, mathematician Judy Collins, American folk musician Eric Allin Cornell, physicist, Nobel laureate Takao Doi, NASA astronaut Ed Dorn, poet Samuel T. Durrance, NASA astronaut Larry Esposito, discoverer of Saturn's fourth ring Jim Gray, ESPN and ABC Sports George Gamow, physicist and cosmologist Edward Greenberg. CU Professor Dave Grusin, composer John Herrington, NASA astronaut Richard Hieb, NASA astronaut Katie Hnida, football place kicker (now attends University of New Mexico) Hale Irwin, golf star Marsha Ivins, NASA astronaut Deborah S. Jin, physicist Alan Kay, computer scientist, Turing Award winner William Lee Knous, state Supreme Court judge and state legislator Herbert Kroemer, physicist Larry Linville, actor John M. Lounge, NASA astronaut Christopher Meloni, actor Richard McCray, astrophysicist Glenn Miller, band leader James Naismith, inventor of basketball George Nelson, NASA astronaut Ellison Onizuka, Challenger astronaut Trey Parker, co-creator of South Park William Pierce, physicist, white separatist Robert Redford, did not graduate actor Rick Reilly, Sports Illustrated Stuart Roosa, NASA astronaut Roy Romer, former Colorado governor Ronald M. Sega, NASA astronaut Paul Soldner, artist Matt Stone, co-creator of South Park Jack Swigert, Apollo 13 astronaut Dalton Trumbo, writer Debra Thomas, Olympic figure skater Joan Van Ark, actress James Voss, NASA astronaut Byron White, associate justice of the Supreme Court Leslie Whittington, Georgetown professor and Sep. 11 victim Carl Wieman, physicist, Nobel laureate Michael Westbrook, football player Steve Wozniak, personal computer pioneer Thomas R. Cech, chemist, Nobel laureate

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