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Notable Alumni Moses Coit Tyler • Jim Harbaugh • Marshall Sahlins • Mary Frances Berry • David Daniels • Rosabeth Moss Kanter • Gerald Ford • Tom Brady • Edmund White • Ben Carson • Madonna • Sanjay Gupta • Bill Joy • Jack Kevorkian • Ted Kaczynski • Margaret Bourke-White • Sam Zell • James Earl Jones • Tom Hayden • Arthur Miller • H.H. Holmes • Marshall Warren Nirenberg • Todd Gitlin • Ann Coulter • Philip C. Curtis • Christopher Paul Curtis • Rob Portman • Stephen Smale • Robert J. Shiller • Ken Salazar • Larry Page • Michael Stonebraker • Cathy Guisewite • Edgar Frank Codd • Isadore Singer • Donald Kuspit • Paul Milgrom • Jesmyn Ward • Lawrence Wong • Lori Lightfoot • Celeste Ng • Janet Guthrie • Arden L. Bement, Jr. • Thomas McGuane • Frances E. Allen • Jerome Karle • Nancy Kassebaum • James Comer • Charles B. Huggins • Jessye Norman • Max Apple • Samuel C.C. Ting • Stanley Cohen • Ross Macdonald • R.S. Crane • James Rowland Angell • Al Worden • Lewis Ralph Jones • Peyton Rous • Stephen Arthur Cook • George O. Curme • James McDivitt
Related People Moses Coit Tyler • John Davis Pierce • Fritz Crisler • Jim Harbaugh • Fielding Yost • James Burrill Angell • Willie Heston • Benny Friedman • Bennie Oosterbaan

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