Favorite non-football U-M Alum?

Submitted by DISCUSS Man on

Thread title says it all.

I'd say mine is Dick Costolo, the CEO of twitter. He is always repping Michigan on twitter and even spoke at commencement.

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Gr1mlock

January 17th, 2014 at 8:04 PM ^

I was always a huge Steiner Brothers fan.  Wasn't a big fan of Scott once he moved into the singles side (mainly because he went way too far with the juicing, and stopped doing a lot of the awesome moves which made me like him in the first place), but as a tag team, they were one of the greats. 

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WestQuad

January 18th, 2014 at 9:37 AM ^

I met Steiner at E3 one year and got his autograph..  He had a two woman entourage and they both had the largest implants I had ever seen.  His arms were so freakishly big though (26"?)  from the juice that I didn't know what to look at, or not look at.  Very unsettling.  Giant freakshow.

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Wolverine In Exile

January 17th, 2014 at 7:32 PM ^

Clarence "Kelly" Johnson. An actual ethical defense contractor. :) Also the legions of um alums who work classified defense programs that because of love of country will never have their works known.

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Alvin Wistert

January 18th, 2014 at 2:09 AM ^

Kelly Johnson also worked on the design of the Lockheed Electra while at Michigan. This was the plane Amelia Earhart used on her around the world flight attempt. The SR-71 is still holds world records and was revolutionary for its time. His U-2 is still in service after several upgrades to electronics.

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GoBLUinTX

January 17th, 2014 at 7:32 PM ^

Not football related....Bill Freehan comes quickly to mind, as does Gilda Radner and Louise Ciccone (most know her as Madonna).  James Earl Jones receives pos votes for Darth Vader and Field of Dreams.  There are my parents, took me to my first football game before I started teething.

I've got to go with, not striclty non-football related, Gerald Ford.  At a time our nation was being politically ripped apart, he spent all of his political capital and risked personal character assasination (and actual assasination) to end the Watergate cancer by pardoning who many considered the devil incarnate.

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LSAClassOf2000

January 17th, 2014 at 7:40 PM ^

Granted, he only got his masters here, but it counts and we should be particularly proud because his work with Tim Berners-Lee at CERN became the framework for something that allows you to find MGoBlog, something called simply "The Web" by some now. That man would be Belgium native Robert Cailliau. 

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XM - Mt 1822

January 17th, 2014 at 7:54 PM ^

class of '94.   1894 that is, and the first woman to graduate from U of M and my great grandmother. so wonderful that i named our bird dog after her.   then my grandfather comes next.  then mother, then one of my brothers (and me).  then two of his children.   mine are too young to be making that call yet, but we might continue to the fifth generation of wolverines.

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XM - Mt 1822

January 17th, 2014 at 10:03 PM ^

we have a brick at the big house that commemorates the first four generations listed above, but brother's kids went after that as gen #5. 

maude graduated with honors in latin.  taught school in the UP where we started out in the mid-1800's.   i still have an original employment contract on parchment for her teaching in the choclay school district, just east of marquette.  

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UnkleBuck

January 17th, 2014 at 8:01 PM ^

A lot of great ones have already been mentioned.  But I'd have to go with Larry Page,  and Tony Fadell, the founder of Nest and former Apple team leader of the iPod and iPhone.  Ironically, Nest was just acquired by Google this week.  Dick Costolo also rocks, he spoke at my daughters commencement, the dude is hilarious.

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BlueCE

January 17th, 2014 at 9:09 PM ^

Dick is cool, met him at a Michigan alumni event here in SF about a year ago.

Larry Paige because, Google you know.

Ross because of the donations.

Sam Zell because he is the s%^$ in real estate and his donations to Michigan and UPenn.

Lucy Liu because she is just hot.

Tony Fadell because he invented the iPod and then just sold his company (Nest) for $3.2B this week.

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