List of University of North Texas people

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The following is a list of encyclopedic people who have attended or taught at the University of North Texas.

Contents 1 Athletics 2 Arts and media 3 Business 4 Politics

[edit] Athletics

• "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, professional wrestler
• Toby Gowin, NFL punter
• "Mean" Joe Greene, NFL Hall of famer, NFL defensive tackle and assistant coach
• Cedric Hardman, former NFL football player, defensive end, 1970 1st round draft pick - S.F. 49ers
• Abner Haynes, AFL and NFL running back
• Don January, PGA Senior Tour golfer
• Billy Maxwell, PGA Senior Tour golfer
• Ray Renfro, NFL wide receiver
• Ron Shanklin, NFL receiver and former All-Pro player
• David Von Erich, deceased professional wrestler dubbed the "Yellow Rose of Texas"
• Kevin Von Erich, real name Kevin Adkisson; professional wrestler dubbed "the Golden Warrior", brother of David Von Erich
• Tra Telligman, UFC Fighter, dubbed Tra "Trauma" Telligman
• Erric Pegram, NFL running back
• Rob Salsman, Table Tennis world champion
• Patrick Cobbs, NFL running back for the Miami Dolphins.

[edit] Arts and media

• Meatloaf, rock star
• Joe Don Baker, film actor
• Joseph Patrick Cranshaw film actor, best known as "Blue" from movie "Old School"
• Shirley Cothran Barret, Miss America 1975
• Joan Blondell, film and television actress
• Pat Boone, pop and gospel singer, actor and television personality
• Mike Cochran, journalist, author and Pulitzer Prize winner

Patrick Cortes, Sporting News Radio Host

• Brave Combo, Grammy-winning polka rock band
• Rogers Cadenhead, author of computer books, Web publisher and member of the RSS Advisory Board
• Thomas Haden Church, film and television actor
• Bob Dorough, bebop and jazz pianist/vocalist who wrote and sang many of the Schoolhouse Rock songs
• George Dunham, sports radio talk-show host and "voice of the Mean Green Radio Network"
• Rob Erdle, watercolorist, Regents' Professor
• Bobby Fuller, rock singer/guitarist best known for his band's cover of "I Fought the Law"
• O'Neil Ford, major regional architect whose works include San Antonio's Tower of the Americas
• Phyllis George, Miss America 1971, actress and broadcaster
• G. Harvey, oil painter and sculptor specializing in Southwestern art
• Kyle Hebert, voice actor
• Don Henley, singer/songwriter and drummer, both solo and with The Eagles
• Buddy Hickerson, creator of the syndicated comic strip The Quigmans
• Sara Hickman, folk singer/songwriter
• Ray Wylie Hubbard, country music singer
• Norah Jones, Grammy-winning pianist and singer-songwriter
• Scott Kurtz, creator of the webcomic PvP
• Michael Lark, comic book artist
• T. Lewis, illustrator of the comic strip Over the Hedge
• Tom "Bones" Malone, jazz trombonist; played with the Saturday Night Live and Late Show house bands, and with The Blues Brothers
• "Blue Lou" Marini, saxophonist; played with the Saturday Night Live house band and the Blues Brothers
• Lyle Mays, composer/keyboardist with the Pat Metheny Group
• Meat Loaf, rock singer and film actor
• R.K. Milholland, creator of webcomics Something Positive, New Gold Dreams and Midnight Macabre
• Jesus Bautista Moroles, granite sculptor
• Bill Moyers, journalist and commentator
• Dr. Phil McGraw, television personality and psychologist
• Larry McMurtry, novelist, essayist and screenwriter; won a Pulitzer Prize for the novel Lonesome Dove, and an Academy Award for the screenplay of Brokeback Mountain
• Roy Orbison, rock singer/songwriter
• Patricia Racette American opera diva.
• J.D. Reid, Texas-based freelance writer, often featured in AmericanWay Magazine
• Bob Ray Sanders, Coulumnist, Editor, and Vice President for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, TV personality, Known and requested Public Speaker
• Ann Sheridan, film actress
• Clinton Howard Swindle, journalist and author
• M.B. Tankersley, poet
• Peter Weller, film actor; star of RoboCop
• Noble Willingham, television and film actor known for his role on Walker, Texas Ranger
• Brandon Rogers, American Idol (season 6) Finalist

[edit] Business

• Byron Baird, CEO of Mrs. Baird's Bakeries (now owned by Grupo Bimbo)
• Rhys Best, president of Lone Star Steel Company
• Mike R. Bowlin, chairman of ARCO
• Frank D. Bracken, president of Haggar Company
• Norm Miller, president of Interstate Batteries; co-founder of the Great Race
• Linda Hefner Woltz, president/CEO of Sara Lee Hosiery
• Wende Zomnir, founding partner and executive creative director of Urban Decay Cosmetics

[edit] Politics

• Michael C. Burgess, current congressman for the 26th Texas district, which includes UNT
• John Creuzot, judge in Dallas' Criminal District Court No. 4
• Jim Hightower, populist activist and former Texas agriculture commissioner
• Ray Roberts, former congressman from Denton; nearby Lake Ray Roberts is named for him
• Dick Armey, former Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives, Texas District 26, which includes UNT, former economics professor and department chair at North Texas
• Adel al-Jubeir, Saudi ambassador to Washington, and former adviser to the Royal Court of Saudi Arabia.