January 17th, 2014 at 7:13 PM ^
I'm assuming you mean non-sports not non-football?
Writer of the Empire Strikes Back & Raiders of the Lost Ark among other things.
January 17th, 2014 at 7:18 PM ^
My wife.
January 17th, 2014 at 7:33 PM ^
Your wife.
January 17th, 2014 at 7:41 PM ^
I hear that a lot.
January 17th, 2014 at 7:20 PM ^
I propose Zoltan....
http://deadspin.com/zoltan-mesko-is-america-1503820579
January 17th, 2014 at 7:20 PM ^
Madonna!! Ehhh... ¯\(°_o)/¯ run!!!
Jk
January 17th, 2014 at 7:33 PM ^
What about iggy pop? Love a little "list for Life" every now and then.
January 17th, 2014 at 8:16 PM ^
Love me a bit of Iggy, but pretty sure he didn't graduate from U of M. He did graduate from Pioneer High and attend U of M, but found a brighter stage before finishing.
( I am interpreting 'alum' to mean a person who graduated. )
January 17th, 2014 at 10:02 PM ^
As a matter of fact, many University's do not consider the terms "alum" and "graduate" synonymous. I am pretty sure Michigan considers an alum anyone who has completed a semester of classes. So Iggy and Madonna are alums.
January 17th, 2014 at 11:41 PM ^
Most of my clients are various schools and depts within UM, and to them an alum is always and only somebody who has a degree from Michigan.
January 18th, 2014 at 12:16 AM ^
David Scott (Apollo 15) an Alum? He only attended for his freshman year before leaving for the USMA.
January 18th, 2014 at 9:47 AM ^
Know this. Always thought Madonna was not an alum. I didnt think she finished, but never really looked into it.
January 17th, 2014 at 7:20 PM ^
Mike Wallace.
January 17th, 2014 at 7:26 PM ^
Brian Cook?
Right?
RIGHT!?
January 17th, 2014 at 9:17 PM ^
What does Brian's colon smell like.
January 17th, 2014 at 11:19 PM ^
Right? Please, amirite?
January 17th, 2014 at 7:43 PM ^
I agree, naturally.
January 18th, 2014 at 6:38 AM ^
So yeah, it would be Wallenberg for me as well.
January 18th, 2014 at 9:54 AM ^
Thanks for the history lesson. I am so weak on history, and this is what i have recently been reading about. I did not know he was a Michigan alum.
I would say as much as I love James Earl Jones, this guy has to be the best alum ever.
Thank you!
GREAT thread OP!
January 17th, 2014 at 7:26 PM ^
I'm going to go with a three way tie between my girlfriend, Gerald Ford, and the all-Michigan crew of Apollow 15.
January 17th, 2014 at 7:37 PM ^
The question was non-football favorite alum. One of these things is not like the other.
January 17th, 2014 at 7:48 PM ^
his playing football for Michigan is but a trivia question in the biography of the man.
January 17th, 2014 at 8:19 PM ^
Unless you are talking about All-American linemen. Then the couple of years as POTUS is the bit of trivia.
(* Which former University of Michigan All American centers was the only U.S. president to serve without being elected into the executive office?)
January 18th, 2014 at 10:19 AM ^
He actually wasn't an All-American. The man who started at center the previous few years (Chuck Bernard) was, but Ford was not.
January 17th, 2014 at 7:27 PM ^
Well, we had actually contemplated the list for coolest Michigan alums for a bracket, so my #1 seeds were:
Political/Commerce
Raoul Wallenberg
But Clarence Darrow, Tony Fadell, Tom Hayden, Arleigh Burke, Bob McGrath, Chris Van Allsburg, Dan Okrent, Brad Metzler, David Paymer, Randy and Jason Sklar, Chip Davis, Bert Sugar, Thomas Dewey, Irwin/Scott/Worden, Sid Meier, William Upjohn, Jessye Norman, you have some options (and that isn't even the deep part of the bench.)
January 17th, 2014 at 7:29 PM ^
And a nod for Moses Fleetwood Walker who was in the athletics bracket, which also had, non-football.
Glen Rice, Rudy Tomjonavich, Barry Larkin, Branch Rickey, George Sisler, Aaron Ward, and, of course, Red Berenson
January 17th, 2014 at 7:52 PM ^
Sid Meier went to Michigan? It all makes sense now. All of it.
January 17th, 2014 at 7:56 PM ^
i'm so happy
January 17th, 2014 at 8:22 PM ^
I hadn't known that either! Did you know that MD declared 21. September "Sid Meier Day"?
January 18th, 2014 at 12:02 PM ^
Wow! Like, the railroad tycoon idea game?
January 17th, 2014 at 7:57 PM ^
Claude Shannon always desrves to be on these lists.
January 18th, 2014 at 12:28 AM ^
We wouldnt be talking on this without claude....he blows away einstein...everything today from cell phones to high def to the internet to computers...the michigan grad from gaylord set it all up....its unfortunate that his stuff is too complex for the average Joe to get...but i don't care he is THE MAN!
January 18th, 2014 at 2:44 PM ^
Absolutely agree. Most people have no idea how important this guy was. His 1948 paper is on my list of top three highest impact inventions of the last century (along with transistors and integrated circuits). Hard to imagine any other alum having a more widespread impact than Shannon. I try to get people to read books like "The Information" all the time just to try and spread the word.
January 17th, 2014 at 9:22 PM ^
you'd a thunk they would have mentioned it in Naval Science class.
January 17th, 2014 at 7:27 PM ^
I like Stephen ross.. and who was the allstate guy who gushed over giving us the sugar bowl trophy? also like darren criss on glee.. he was in my class
January 17th, 2014 at 8:15 PM ^
CEO of Allstate
January 17th, 2014 at 7:29 PM ^
Poet Frank O'Hara.
January 17th, 2014 at 7:30 PM ^
Unless he decided to forego his senior year, I would have to say Lloyd Brady.
January 17th, 2014 at 7:30 PM ^
Iris macadangdang
January 17th, 2014 at 7:47 PM ^
Haven't heard that name in a while
January 17th, 2014 at 7:31 PM ^
Scott & Rick Rechsteiner. They were WWF Tag Team Champions at one point and always wore their varsity jackets to the ring.
Pro wrestling is considered entertainment so I guess this counts. To my knowledge they're the only Wolverine grapplers who became pro wrestlers.
If you haven't seen this video of Steiner wearing a #77 Michigan jersey with girls waving Michigan flags in Columbus at the wrestling show, it's must-see. He "attacks" Brutus when he comes down the ramp right into the video and beats up a buckeye fan towards the end.
The whole shoot is him trashing ohio. It's great.
January 17th, 2014 at 7:34 PM ^
This was during the cooper era at OSU and during the height of big poppa pumps popularity.
January 17th, 2014 at 7:40 PM ^
Simply amazing.
January 17th, 2014 at 7:49 PM ^
robbie told us he signed an $80K contract with the WWF when he graduated. back in '82-83, that was some serious money. scotty was always the more sane of the two, but robbie was a great guy to bounce with at charlies.
January 17th, 2014 at 7:57 PM ^
Yes, my mistake. I forgot Rick was his ring name.
January 17th, 2014 at 9:05 PM ^
"scotty was always the more sane of the two, but robbie was a great guy to bounce with at charlies."
What? Seriously? Scott Steiner was the more sane of the two?
January 17th, 2014 at 9:43 PM ^
they were pretty good guys. scotty wrestled at 177, a bit taller than robbie. robbie was going to wrestle at 191, but during the end of our freshmen year he started eating dianabol like fat chicks eat m & m's - thus he was a super heavyweight by sophomore year. we teased him about his very tiny huevos due to the juice. he had a short fuse though, and i could get a big group of guys started toward the door and one would mouth off and then BINGO robbie was on them like a cheap suit, throwing bodies around. i was never shy when bouncing, but even less so with robbie.