List of the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh people

The following is a list of notable people associated with The University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh, located in the American city of Oshkosh, Wisconsin.


Notable alumni

Art

Computer science
  • Brian Paul (1990), creator of the Mesa 3D graphics library, co-founded Tungsten Graphics, which was acquired by VMware in December 2008, where he now works

Business and Technology
  • Daniel Burrus (1971), futurist, business advisor, author, and frequent speaker about business strategy and innovation.
  • Michael Tomczyk (1970), Commodore VIC-20 computer pioneer, author, technology expert, Director of the Mack Center for Technological Innovation (2001-2013) at the Wharton School, Vietnam veteran
  • Craig Culver (1973), the co-founder of Culver's, board chairman of Culver Franchising System, donated $2 million dollars to UW Oshkosh

Government and politics

Literature

Media
  • Kristofor Brown, Hollywood writer/producer/voice actor
  • Jim VandeHei (1994), former Washington Post political reporter and co-founder of The Politico

Sports

Education

Notable faculty
  • James Paulson, professor of chemistry at UW Oshkosh, contributed to chromosome research, published by the online journal Science [2]
  • Robert Graham, educator
  • Lorenzo D. Harvey, educator
  • Bryan Lilly, Distinguished Professor of Marketing, Associate Dean at College of Business at UW Oshkosh, Partner at Dynamic Insights, triple champion of Wisconsin in chess (1999, 2003 and 2004) [3][4]
  • Adelaide Hiebel, illustrator and artist
  • Wing Huen, Associate Professor in Computer Science, worked for Bell Laboratories, where he designed and implemented the first operating system for the first digital switch [5]
  • P. C. Hodgell, fantasy writer, artist and current UW–Oshkosh/University of Minnesota lecturer
  • Watson Parker, historian and author specializing in the history of the Black Hills, taught at UW–Oshkosh for 21 years.[6]

References in the media
  • The fictional anchor of the Onion Radio News, Doyle Redland, is a UW–Oshkosh alumnus according to his "biography." [7]
gollark: I thought you didn't believe in copyright. HIPPOCRACY!
gollark: okay.
gollark: hi.
gollark: In any case, you should plan for needing to maybe update things.
gollark: > Doesn't CC store on/off flag directly in block state? It should survive crashes. Yep, it needs chunk with computer loaded into memory and after server restart this computer will be restarted, but it should work.On SC, sometimes computers are NOT correctly powered on after crashes.

References
  1. Archival Artifacts: Albee Bust Archived 2009-01-09 at the Wayback Machine. Uwosh.edu. Retrieved on 2013-10-05.
  2. https://uwosh.edu/today/55057/uwo-chemists-contribute-chromosome-research-published-science/
  3. https://uwosh.edu/cob/people/lilly-bryan/
  4. https://www.wischess.org/index.php/articles-mainmenu-41/-articles-mainmenu-46/57-champions
  5. https://science.iit.edu/computer-science/about/history/history-computer-science-department-1970s
  6. Taylor Rick, Lynn (2013-01-10). "'Dean' of Black Hills history dies". Rapid City Journal. Retrieved 2013-01-13.
  7. The Onion Archived 2006-04-07 at the Wayback Machine
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