List of Florida International University people
FIU College of Medicine
This list of notable Florida International University alumni includes alumni, faculty, and presidents of
Miami, Florida
, which includes 26 colleges and schools.
Alumni
With more than 150,500 alumni around the world, the
Golden Panthers constitute one of the fastest-growing university alumni groups in the state of Florida. FIU graduates more than 8,000 students a year and confers more than half of all degrees awarded by universities in South Florida
.
Sports
Baseball
| Athlete | Notability |
|---|---|
| Brad Eldred | professional MLB baseball player[1]
|
| Mike Lowell | professional MLB baseball player
|
| Garrett Wittels | professional baseball player; 56-game college hitting streak[2] |
Basketball
| Athlete | Notability |
|---|---|
| Oren Aharoni | Israeli basketball coach and former Israeli Basketball Premier League basketball player |
| Carlos Arroyo | professional basketball player |
| Raja Bell | professional NBA basketball player[3]
|
| Rakeem Buckles | professional Israeli Basketball Premier League basketball player |
| Andrea Nagy | professional WNBA basketball player
|
Equestrian
| Athlete | Notability |
|---|---|
| Margie Goldstein-Engle | equestrian |
Football
| Athlete | Notability |
|---|---|
| Antwan Barnes | NFL pro football player, free agent |
| Johnathan Cyprien | NFL pro football player, Tennessee Titans |
| Anthony Gaitor | NFL pro football player, Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| T. Y. Hilton | NFL pro football player, Indianapolis Colts |
| Nick Turnbull | NFL pro football player, Atlanta Falcons
|
| Tourek Williams | NFL pro football player, San Diego Chargers |
Soccer
| Athlete | Notability |
|---|---|
| Bobby Boswell | Houston Dynamo
|
| Jeff Cassar | MLS pro soccer player, FC Dallas |
Juan Francisco Guerra
|
Venezuelan First Division pro soccer player, New York Cosmos (2010) |
| Steve Ralston | MLS pro soccer player, New England Revolution |
Track & field
| Athlete | Notability |
|---|---|
| Ronald Forbes | Olympic athlete, 110m hurdles, Cayman Islands (2008, 2012, 2016) |
| Ena Guevara | Olympic athlete, marathon, Peru (1984, 1992) |
| Tayna Lawrence | Olympic athlete, 100 meters, Jamaica (2000, 2004) |
| Aubrey Smith | Olympic athlete, long jump, Canada (2016) |
Other sports
- mixed martial artist[4]
- Steve Meister (born 1958), tennis player
Authors and entertainers
| Alumnus | Notability |
|---|---|
| Carlos Alvarado-Larroucau | francophone writer, poet, essayist, professor[5] |
| Liz Balmaseda | Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist |
| Steve Benen | political writer and contributor to and producer of The Rachel Maddow Show |
| Richard Blanco | inaugural poet, public speaker, author |
| Niala Boodhoo | journalist and host of the Asian American Journalists Association program AAJA At ThisTime |
| Dennis Lehane | author of Mystic River[6] |
Ana Menendez
|
fiction author and journalist[7] |
| Amy Serrano | filmmaker, author, public speaker |
| Javier Stanziola | author, playwright, theatre director |
Authors, actors, television, musicians
| Alumnus | Notability |
|---|---|
| Aimee Carrero | actress, Young & Hungry, Elena of Avalor |
| Janet Dacal | Broadway actress and singer, known for her role as Carla in In the Heights |
| Allie DiMeco | actress and musician, known for her role as Rosalina in Nickelodeon's The Naked Brothers Band |
| Andy García | Academy Award-nominated actor[8] |
| Ricki Noel Lander | actress, fashion designer[9] |
Kimberly Leemans
|
model, America's Next Top Model contestant[10] |
| Syesha Mercado | singer, American Idol contestant (Season 7)[11] |
| Natalia Navarro | Miss Colombia 2009, placed 12th at Miss Universe 2010 |
| Jackie Nespral | |
| Dawn Ostroff | chief content officer and advertising business officer of Spotify |
| Danny Pino | actor, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit on NBC[12] |
| Carlos Rafael Rivera | Emmy-winning and nominated film and television composer |
| Tony Succar | musician, songwriter, percussionist and producer, Latin Grammy Award nominee and winner
|
| Nadia Turner | singer, American Idol contestant (Season 4)[13] |
| Henry Vega | award-winning composer, musician |
| Vijay Yesudas | South Indian singer |
Entertainment
| Alumnus | Notability |
|---|---|
| Dawn Ostroff | President of Entertainment, CW Television Network
|
Elizabeth Perez
|
Emmy-winning television journalist and presenter, CNN en Español |
| Steve Tello | television executive and Senior Vice President and General Manager of Fox Sports Florida |
Law and politics
House of Representatives, U.S. Court Judges
| Alumnus | Notability |
|---|---|
| Cecilia Altonaga | U.S. District Court Judge (first Cuban-American woman appointed)[citation needed] |
| Barbara Lagoa | U.S. Circuit Judge for the 11th Circuit and former justice of the Supreme Court of Florida (first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court of Florida) |
| David Rivera | Florida's 25th Congressional District[citation needed] |
| Ileana Ros-Lehtinen | member of the United States House of Representatives and first Hispanic from South Florida[citation needed] |
State and local politics
| Alumnus | Notability |
|---|---|
| Carlos Álvarez | 6th Mayor of Miami-Dade County |
| Bryan Avila | member of the Florida House of Representatives for district 111 |
| Manny Diaz | 41st Mayor of Miami and the Chair of the Florida Democratic Party |
| Katie Edwards | member of the Florida House of Representatives for district 98 |
| Anitere Flores | member of the Florida Senate for district 37 |
| Rene Garcia | member of the Florida Senate for district 38 |
| Jeanette Nuñez | member of the Florida House of Representatives for district 119 and 20th Lieutenant Governor of Florida |
Mark Pafford
|
member of the Florida House of Representatives for district 86 |
| Kirill Reznik | member of the Maryland House of Delegates for district 39 |
| Ian Richards | former county court judge in the Florida's 17th Judicial Circuit (first African-American judge to be elected countywide in Broward County) |
| Evelyn Sanguinetti | 47th Lieutenant Governor of Illinois |
| Francis Suarez | 43rd and current Mayor of Miami |
Foreign governments
| Alumnus | Notability |
|---|---|
| Patrece Charles-Freeman | Jamaican public and environmental health consultant, former Executive Director of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO), as well as a political candidate with the Jamaica Labour Party |
| Danny Danon | Israeli politician and chairman of the U.N. Legal Committee |
| Kim Simplis Barrow | Belizean activist, philanthropist, and spouse of the 4th Prime Minister of Belize |
| Richie Sookhai | Trinidadian and Tobagonian politician, engineer and businessman; current Government Senator and former President of the Chaguanas Chamber of Industry and Commerce (CCIC) |
Education
| Alumnus | Notability |
|---|---|
| Carmen Reinhart | Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System at Harvard Kennedy School; World Bank Chief Economist |
| Elsa Murano | former President of Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas |
| Bertha Vazquez | director of education for the Center for Inquiry, director of the Teacher Institute for Evolutionary Science (TIES), and science teacher at the George Washington Carver Middle School |
Science and space
| Alumnus | Notability |
|---|---|
| James F. O'Brien | professor at UC-Berkeley, has patents pending for his explosive computer animation techniques[14] |
| Edith Kellnhauser | (1933–2019), German nursing scientist, educator, and writer |
| David Shor | (1991–), data scientist |
Faculty
- Irtishad Ahmad, professor and chairperson of Florida International University Department of Construction Management and editor in chief of the Journal of Management in Engineering ASCE
- constitutional law in the College of Law
- Lynne Barrett, professor of English and founder of Gulf Stream Magazine
- Rita Buck-Crockett, assistant athletic director, head volleyball and beach volleyball coach
- William Darrow, professor of public health
- John Dufresne, professor of creative writing, editor of Gulf Stream Magazine, author
- Elizabeth Price Foley, professor of law in the College of Law
- Edgar Fuller, professor of mathematics and statistics
- Orlando Jacinto García, Professor of Music and director of the Composition Program for the School of Music
- Asian Studies
- Mark Hetzler, professor of music and orchestra
- College of Engineering and Computing
- Maureen Kenny, professor of psychology in the Department of Psychology
- Abraham Lavender, professor of sociology; president of the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies
- Stephen Leatherman, director of the FIU Coastal Research Lab, nicknamed "Dr. Beach" for his annual ratings of American beaches (issued every Memorial Day weekend)
- Zaida Morales-Martínez, professor emeritus of chemistry
- Bruce Nissen, professor of labor studies and director of research at the Center for Labor Research and Studies and director of the FIU Research Institute on Social and Economic Policy
- Ronni Reis, tennis coach
- Stewart Robertson, professor of orchestral studies and conductor of the FIU Symphony Orchestra
- Marco Rubio, adjunct professor of politics and international relations at Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs
University presidents
| President | Tenure |
|---|---|
| Charles Perry | 1965–1976 |
| Harold Crosby | 1976–1979 |
| Gregory Baker Wolfe | 1979–1986 |
Modesto A. Maidique |
1986–2009 |
| Mark B. Rosenberg | 2009–2022 |
| Kenneth A. Jessell | 2022– |
References
- ^ http://pittsburgh.pirates.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=434660 Brad Eldred Stats, Bio, Photos, Highlights
- ^ "Garrett Wittels - The Baseball Cube". www.thebaseballcube.com. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ "Raja Bell". Basketball-Reference.Com. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
- ^ "David Avellan Information". 21 October 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
- ^ "Carlos Alvarado-Larroucau - Biographie, publications (livres, articles)". www.editions-harmattan.fr. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ http://www.bandp-book-dealers-int.com/dennis_lehane Archived 2010-09-22 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved July 4, 2010
- ^ "Ana Menendez from HarperCollins Publishers". Archived from the original on 2010-02-06.
- ^ www.netglimse.com http://www.netglimse.com/celebs/pages/andy_garcia/index.shtml. Retrieved July 4, 2010.
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- ^ "America's Next Top Model: Cycle Nine Finalist Already a "Top Model"". 25 August 2007.
- ^ Syesha Mercado
- ^ "Danny Pino Biography - Yahoo! Movies". movies.yahoo.com. Archived from the original on 2007-02-24.
- ^ Nadia Turner
- ^ "Florida International University - Alumni Profiles- Page 3". fiualumni.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-11.