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List of Kent State University alumni
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This list includes people who have graduated from or otherwise attended Kent State University at the main campus in Kent, Ohio or one of its seven regional campuses in northeastern Ohio. Kent State counts over 270,000 living alumni as of 2023.
| Name | Notability | Degree (Year) | Category | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Author and educator in international business | M.B.A. Operations Management (1970) | |||||||||||
| D.B.A. Finance and International Business (1975) | Business | |||||||||||
| {{sortname | Diana | Al-Hadid | Alhadid, Diana}} | Contemporary artist | B.F.A. Sculpture (2003) | |||||||
| Contemporary painter | B.F.A Painting (1970) | Arts | ||||||||||
| Professional football player with the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League 1966-1968 | Athletics - Football | |||||||||||
| Ceramic artist | M.F.A. Ceramics (1988) | Arts | ||||||||||
| Professional football player in the National Football League | Athletics - Football | |||||||||||
| Professional football player in the American Football League | Athletics - Football | |||||||||||
| Comic strip author of Funky Winkerbean and Crankshaft | first=Carol | last=Biliczky | work=Akron Beacon Journal | location=Akron, OH | title=Kent State unveils mural by Funky Winkerbean creators | url=http://www.ohio.com/news/kent-state-unveils-mural-by-funky-winkerbean-creators-1.285917 | date=March 27, 2012 | access-date=March 28, 2012}} | Literary | |||
| 1978 Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, editor, writer, educator | B.A. Journalism (1975) | Journalism | ||||||||||
| Fashion designer, contestant on Project Runway and Project Runway: All Stars | B.A. Fashion Design (1993) | Fashion Design | ||||||||||
| Blitz the Ambassador | ||||||||||||
| (Samuel Bazawule) | Ghanaian-American Hip-Hop Artist | Ok | Music/entertainment | |||||||||
| Professional football player in the National Football League | Athletics - Football | |||||||||||
| Kaitlin Bennett | Gun rights advocate, anti-abortion activist, and social media personality | B.A. Biology (2018) | Politics | |||||||||
| Bertice Berry | Sociologist, author, lecturer, comedian, educator, and former talk show host | Ph.D. | Education | |||||||||
| Kaitlyn Black | Television and theater actress | B.A. Theater (2005) | Film and television | |||||||||
| Bob Borden | Writer and frequent contributor, Late Show with David Letterman | Journalism (1995) | Entertainment | |||||||||
| Brannon Braga^ | Producer and screenwriter for several Star Trek series and films, 24, and Flashforward | Transferred | Film and television | |||||||||
| Regina Brett | Columnist with The Plain Dealer | Bachelors in Journalism | Journalism | |||||||||
| Cedric Brown | Professional football player in the National Football League 1976-1984 | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| Emmanuel Burriss | Professional baseball player in Major League Baseball as a second baseman | url=https://www.nmnathletics.com//pdf8/674193.pdf?&ATCLID=204883341&SPID=4461&DB_OEM_ID=11400&SPSID=47642 | title=Golden Flashes in the Pros | year= 2010 | work=Kent State Baseball 2010 Media Guide | publisher=Kent State University | access-date=27 June 2010 | pages=45–48}} | Athletics - Baseball | |||
| Debra Byrd | Backup vocalist for Barry Manilow; vocal coach for American Idol and Canadian Idol | Music | ||||||||||
| Steve Byrne | Comedian | Entertainment | ||||||||||
| Curt Cacioppo | Contemporary classical music composer and pianist | B.A. Piano Performance | Music | |||||||||
| Alan Canfora | Political activist; one of nine students wounded during the Kent State shootings | Politics | ||||||||||
| John Caparulo | Comedian | Bachelors (1998) | Entertainment | |||||||||
| Michael Capellas | Current CEO of First Data Corporation; former President/CEO of Hewlett-Packard, WorldCom, Compaq, and Serena Software | B.B.A | Business | |||||||||
| Vincent J. Cardinal | Playwright and director | Bachelor's in English and Education | Theater | |||||||||
| Drew Carey | Actor, comedian, host of TV's The Price Is Right | title= Tune in, drop out | newspaper= CyBurr | year= 2005 | url= http://burr.kent.edu/archives/2006/fall/Spring2005/story/peters/index7.html | access-date= 15 February 2010}} | Film and television | |||||
| Robert Carothers | President of the University of Rhode Island since 1991 | Ph.D. (1969) | Education | |||||||||
| Chris Carpenter | Professional baseball player in Major League Baseball | Athletics - baseball | ||||||||||
| Gerald Casale | Founding member of Devo | Music | ||||||||||
| Andrew Chafin | Professional baseball player in Major League Baseball as a pitcher | Athletics - Baseball | ||||||||||
| Dain Clay | Professional baseball player in Major League Baseball | Athletics - Baseball | ||||||||||
| Robert E. Cook | Democratic politician who served as a common pleas judge, district court of appeals judge, and in the United States House of Representatives | Bachelors (1947) | Politics | |||||||||
| Jim Corrigall | Professional football player in the Canadian Football League as a defensive end, member of Canadian Football Hall of Fame, former KSU head football coach | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| Carol Costello | Anchor and reporter for CNN | B.A. Journalism (2004) | Journalism | |||||||||
| Kyle Craven | Internet celebrity from the Bad Luck Brian meme | B.S. Construction Management (2012) | Entertainment | |||||||||
| Joshua Cribbs | Professional football player in the NFL | B.A. Communication Studies (2010) | Athletics - Football | |||||||||
| Ben Curtis | Professional golfer, 2003 British Open champion | Athletics - Golf | ||||||||||
| Jose Davis | Professional football player in the NFL and the Arena Football League | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| Wayne Dawson | Television newscaster at WJW in Cleveland | B.A. Journalism (1979) | Journalism | |||||||||
| Sarah Deal | First female Marine selected for Naval aviation training; first female aviator in the Marine Corps | B.S. Aerospace Flight Technology (1992) | Aeronautics | |||||||||
| Bryan DeCorso | Canadian professional golfer | B.S. Business Administration (1995) | Athletics - Golf | |||||||||
| John de Lancie | Actor | B.A. (1971) | Film and television | |||||||||
| John Dennis | Radio talk show personality and television sportscaster | (1974) | Journalism | |||||||||
| G. William Domhoff | Author and Research Professor in psychology and sociology | M.A. Psychology (1959) | Science | |||||||||
| Stephen R. Donaldson | Author of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever series | M.A. English (1971) | Literary | |||||||||
| Jan Dowling | Head women's golf coach at the University of Florida, Canadian former professional golfer | B.S. Leisure Studies (2002) | Athletics - Golf | |||||||||
| Joyce Dyer | Writer | Ph.D. | Literary | |||||||||
| Joe Ebanks | Professional poker player in the World Series of Poker | Dropped out | Entertainment | |||||||||
| Julian Edelman | Professional football player in the NFL | Business Management | Athletics - Football | |||||||||
| John Edwards | Professional basketball player in the NBA and NBDL | Athletics - Basketball | ||||||||||
| Abram Elam | Professional football player in the NFL | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| Donald Erb | Composer | B.S. Composition (1950) | ||||||||||
| John Ferguson | Organist, composer, and teacher | M.M. | Music | |||||||||
| Colin Ferrell | Professional football player in the NFL | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| John Filo | Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer | Arts | ||||||||||
| Al Fisher | 2008 Mid-American Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year | Athletics - Basketball | ||||||||||
| Quinton Flynn | Voice actor | Film and television | ||||||||||
| Brenda Frese | Head coach for the Maryland Terrapins women's basketball program | Master's in Athletic Administration (1995) | Athletics - Women's basketball | |||||||||
| Angela Funovits | Mentalist/illusionist, star of NBC's Phenomenon | Film and television | ||||||||||
| Dae Gak | ||||||||||||
| (Robert Genthner) | Zen master | Ph.D. Clinical psychology (1973) | Science | |||||||||
| Nari Gandhi | Indian architect in organic architecture | Architecture | ||||||||||
| Professional football player in the NFL as a tight end | Athletics - Football | |||||||||||
| Michael Glaser | Poet Laureate of Maryland, 2004-2009 | M.A. | ||||||||||
| Ph.D. | Literary | |||||||||||
| Dick Goddard | TV meteorologist at WJW in Cleveland, author, and cartoonist | B.F.A. (1960) | Journalism | |||||||||
| Dan Goodspeed | Professional football player in the NFL, XFL, and Canadian Football League | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| Anthony Gregorc | Educational theorist; developer of the Mind Styles Model | M.S., Ph.D. | Education | |||||||||
| Matt Guerrier | Professional baseball player in Major League Baseball as a pitcher | Athletics - Baseball | ||||||||||
| Mike Gulan | Former professional baseball in Major League Baseball as a third-baseman | Athletics - Baseball | ||||||||||
| Michael M. Gunter | Educator and scholar on the Kurdish people | Ph.D. International Relations (1972) | Education | |||||||||
| Alaina Reed Hall | Television and film actress on Sesame Street and 227 | Film and television | ||||||||||
| Talk show host | B.A. Speech (1977) | Film and television | ||||||||||
| Jimmy Hall | Professional basketball player in Israeli National League | Athletics - Basketball | ||||||||||
| Bob Hallen | Former professional football player in the NFL | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| Ken Hammond | Former leader of SDS, activist in the 1960s and 70s during the Kent State shootings | B.A. (1985) | Politics | |||||||||
| Andy Harmon | Professional football player in the NFL | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| Wayne Alan Harold | Filmmaker | B.A. Telecommunications (1988) | Film and television | |||||||||
| James Harrison | Professional football player in the NFL as a linebacker | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| Steve Harvey | Television personality; host of The Steve Harvey Morning Show and Family Feud | Entertainment | ||||||||||
| Dirk Hayhurst | Professional baseball player in Major League Baseball, currently for the Toronto Blue Jays as a pitcher | Communications (did not graduate) | Athletics - Baseball | |||||||||
| Robert Hemenway | Former chancellor at the University of Kentucky and the University of Kansas | Ph.D. English (1966) | Education | |||||||||
| Anne Hendershott | Author and sociologist | Ph.D. Sociology | Politics, Literary | |||||||||
| Dustin Hermanson | Professional baseball player in Major League Baseball as a pitcher | Athletics - Baseball | ||||||||||
| Rick Hilles | Poet and educator | B.A. | ||||||||||
| M.L.S. | Literary | |||||||||||
| Keno Hills | Professional football player in the NFL | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| Dave Holmes | Winner of ESPN's Dream Job | Journalism | ||||||||||
| Nancy Hollister | Former Ohio state representative, Lieutenant Governor, and briefly served as Ohio's first female governor | Politics | ||||||||||
| College football coach, television sportscaster | B.S. History (1959) | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| Mike Hovancsek | Instrumentalist, founder of multicultural experimental music group Pointless Orchestra | B.S. Psychology | Music | |||||||||
| Mackenzie Hughes | Professional golfer in the PGA Tour | Business Management (2012) | Athletics - Golf | |||||||||
| Chrissie Hynde | Lead singer for The Pretenders | Did not graduate | Music | |||||||||
| Jennifer Lyn Jackson | Playboy Playmate, April 1989 | Business and Finance | ||||||||||
| Reginald Jagers III | Olympic athlete, left handed discus world record holder | Athletics - Track and field | ||||||||||
| Van Jakes | Professional football player in the NFL | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| Thomas Jefferson | Bronze medalist at the 1984 Summer Olympics | Athletics - Track and field | ||||||||||
| Angela Johnson | Author and illustrator | Did not graduate; Received honorary doctorate (2007) | Literary | |||||||||
| Emma Johnson | National Pro Fastpitch pitcher | B.B.A. Accounting & Finance (2015) | Athletics - Softball | |||||||||
| Jeff Johnson | Cleveland City Council member and Ohio state senator | Communications | Politics | |||||||||
| Daniel Johnston | Singer-songwriter and Artist | Music | ||||||||||
| Marvin Jones | Professional basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League | Athletics - Basketball | ||||||||||
| Michael Keaton | Actor | Dropped out | Film and television | |||||||||
| Don King | Boxing promoter | Dropped out | Entertainment | |||||||||
| Ishmaa'ily Kitchen | Professional football player in the NFL | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| Joe Kotys | Member of the 1948 United States Men's Gymnastics Olympic team; NCAA national champion on individual events in 1949, 1950, and 1951 | Athletics - Gymnastics | ||||||||||
| Allison Krause | One of the four students killed during the Kent State shootings in 1970 | Was studying art history | Politics | |||||||||
| Allen Kukovich | State representative in Pennsylvania from the Democratic Party | Bachelors (1969) | Politics | |||||||||
| Jack Lambert | Professional football player in the NFL as a linebacker and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| Biggest contributor to field turf damage in Dix Stadium history, ADY | Athletics - Football (sorta) | |||||||||||
| Eric Lauer | Professional baseball player in Major League Baseball | B.B.A. Business (2016) | Athletics - Baseball | |||||||||
| Mike Lebowitz | Attorney, pioneer in military free speech, military law | Journalism (1999) | Law | |||||||||
| Jack Lengyel | College football coach and athletics administrator; coached at Marshall University following the crash in 1970 that killed most of the team | Masters (1962) | Athletics - Football | |||||||||
| Bob Lewis | Founding member of Devo | B.A. Anthropology (1970) | Music | |||||||||
| Robert Longhurst | Sculptor | Arts | ||||||||||
| Liam Lynch | Musician, director, writer | Performing arts | ||||||||||
| Jill Macoska | Scientist and academic | B.A. Physical Anthropology (1978) | Science | |||||||||
| Sarah Matthews | deputy press secretary president Trump | BA public relations(2017) | Politics | |||||||||
| David W. May | U.S. Air Force Brigadier General, Adjutant General of Wisconsin | B.A. Music (1993) | Military | |||||||||
| Betty-Jean Maycock | Member of 1960 United States women's gymnastics team | B.A. (1964) | Athletics - Gymnastics | |||||||||
| Hal McCoy | Beat writer for the Cincinnati Reds, Baseball Hall of Fame member | Journalism | ||||||||||
| Ben McDaniels | Assistant coach in the NFL | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| Mike "Scooter" McGruder | Professional football player in the NFL, 1989-1997 | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| Nigel McGuinness | ||||||||||||
| (Steven Haworth) | Professional wrestler, currently with WWE | Sports/entertainment | ||||||||||
| Joe McKeown | Women's college basketball coach | Athletics - Basketball | ||||||||||
| Jay McNeil | Former professional football player in the CFL, 1994-2007 | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| Peter Makuck | Author, poet, and critic | Ph.D. American literature | Literary | |||||||||
| Professional football player in the CFL, 1988-2002 | Athletics - Football | |||||||||||
| John Matsko | Coach in the National Football League | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| Betty-Jean Maycock | U.S. Olympian gymnast in 1960 | B.A. (1964) | Athletics - Gymnastics | |||||||||
| Gene Michael | Professional baseball player, manager, and scout in Major League Baseball | url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/michage01.shtml | title=Gene Michael | year=2010 | work=Baseball-Reference.com | publisher=Baseball-Reference.com | access-date=28 June 2010}} | Athletics - Baseball | ||||
| Pete Mikolajewski | Professional football player in the AFL | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| Earl K. Miller | Neuroscientist, Professor of Neuroscience at MIT | B.A. Psychology (1985) | Science | |||||||||
| Travis Miller | Professional baseball player in Major League Baseball as a pitcher | Athletics - Baseball | ||||||||||
| Jeffrey Miller | One of the four students killed in the Kent State shootings in 1970; subject of famous photograph | Was studying psychology | Politics | |||||||||
| Jon Mills | Canadian professional golfer | Athletics - Golf | ||||||||||
| Dan Moldea | Author and investigative reporter specializing in the reporting of organized crime and political corruption | Post-graduate work in History | Politics | |||||||||
| Carl Monday | Investigative reporter for WOIO in Cleveland | Bachelor's (1973) | Journalism | |||||||||
| Mark Mothersbaugh | Founding member of Devo | Did not graduate | Music | |||||||||
| Thurman Munson | Professional baseball player in Major League Baseball with the New York Yankees, Rookie of the Year, and MVP winner | Athletics - Baseball | ||||||||||
| Daniel Muir | Professional football player in the NFL | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| Rico Murray | Professional football player in the NFL | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| Filmmaker, artist | B.F.A. (1959); M.A. (1961) | Film and television | ||||||||||
| Former head football coach at Bowling Green State University and West Virginia University; member of College Football Hall of Fame | M.A. (1966) | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| Professional football player in the NFL | B.S. Marketing (1971) | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| Terrence O'Donnell | Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio | B.S. Political Science (1968) | Politics | |||||||||
| Carl Oglesby | Political activist; president of Students for a Democratic Society 1965-1966 | Dropped out | Politics | |||||||||
| Mwatabu S. Okantah | Poet | B.A. English, African Studies (1976) | Literary | |||||||||
| Luke Owens | Professional football player in the NFL, 1957-1965 | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| Vipal J. Patel | Acting US Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio | M.S. Integrated Life Sciences | Pre-Med | |||||||||
| Augustus Parrish | Professional football player in the NFL | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| Rick Peckham | Play-by-play announcer for the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League | B.A. Telecommunications (1977) | Journalism | |||||||||
| Taylor Pendrith | Professional golfer on the PGA Tour | B.S. Sport Administration (2014) | Athletics - Golf | |||||||||
| George Petak | Wisconsin politician | Politics | ||||||||||
| Dan Peters | College basketball head and assistant coach | B.S. Social Studies (1976) | Athletics - Basketball | |||||||||
| Sports anchor, sideline reporter, sports producer, and television host | Broadcast Journalism (2008) | Entertainment, media | ||||||||||
| Sportscaster and radio host | Bachelor's (1982) | Entertainment, media | ||||||||||
| Dav Pilkey | Children's author best known for Captain Underpants | Literary | ||||||||||
| Charles J. Pilliod, Jr. | Former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico; former CEO of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company | Dropped out (1941) | Business, Politics | |||||||||
| Gary Pinkel | Former Head football coach at the University of Missouri | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| Comedian, actor | Communications (2002) | Entertainment | ||||||||||
| C.J. Prentiss | Former Minority Leader and member of the Ohio State Senate in the Democratic Party | Post-graduate certificate in Administration | Politics | |||||||||
| Bill Randle | Disc-jockey, lawyer, and university professor | Masters in Journalism | Radio | |||||||||
| Nate Reinking | Professional basketball player in the British Basketball League, 1996–2012; member of the Great Britain national basketball team from 2005–12 | Graduated (1997) | Athletics - Basketball | |||||||||
| James Renner | Film producer, reporter | Film and television, Journalism | ||||||||||
| Jeff Richmond | Composer and producer; wrote for 30 Rock and Saturday Night Live | url=http://www.kent.edu/news/newsdetail.cfm?customel_datapageid_9299=34600 | title=Award-Winning Kent State Alumni to Co-Chair Fundraising Initiative | date=16 October 2009 | work=Kent.edu | publisher=Kent State University | access-date=16 February 2010 | quote=Alumnus Jeff Richmond is a producer and composer for the NBC sitcom “30 Rock,”... Previously, he was a composer for the network’s “Saturday Night Live,”; Alumna Alice Ripley, who graduated from Kent State in 1986... | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607085743/http://www.kent.edu/news/newsdetail.cfm?customel_datapageid_9299=34600 | archive-date= 7 June 2011 }} | Film and television |
| Alice Ripley | Tony Award-winning actress and singer | (1986) | Theater | |||||||||
| Robert Risko | Caricature artist | Arts | ||||||||||
| Rich Rollins | Former professional baseball third-baseman in Major League Baseball 1961-1970 | Athletics - Baseball | ||||||||||
| Dan Ronan | Former CNN Correspondent, Assoc. News Editor Transport Topics/Anchor SiriusXM Radio. | (2015) M.A. Communications/Crisis Management | Journalism | |||||||||
| Cynthia Rylant | Award-winning children's author | M.L.S. | Literary | |||||||||
| College football and NFL head coach | (1973) | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| Abdul Salaam | ||||||||||||
| (Larry Faulk) | Professional football player in the NFL, 1976-1983 | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| O. J. Santiago | Professional football player in the NFL | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| David Sedaris | Author, humorist | Dropped out (1977) | Literary | |||||||||
| Sandra Scheuer | One of the four students killed during the Kent State shootings in 1970; she was walking to class at the time | title= Nation: Kent State: Martyrdom That Shook the Country | magazine= Time | date= 18 May 1970 | url= http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,909174-4,00.html | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080608174355/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,909174-4,00.html | url-status= dead | archive-date= June 8, 2008 | pages= 4–5}} | Politics | ||
| William Knox Schroeder | One of the four students killed during the Kent State shootings in 1970; he was walking to class at the time | Was studying psychology | Politics | |||||||||
| Connie Schultz | Columnist for The Plain Dealer, 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner | Journalism (1979) | Journalism | |||||||||
| Travis Shaw | Professional baseball player in Major League Baseball as an infielder | Athletics - Baseball | ||||||||||
| Wayne Shaw | Professional football player in the CFL | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| Justine Siegal | First female coach in Major League Baseball | M.A. in Sport Studies | Athletics - Baseball | |||||||||
| Karl Smesko | Head coach in women's college basketball | author=Rothman, Matt | title=The successful journey for Karl Smesko | date=February 21, 2018 | url=http://eaglenews.org/sports/the-successful-journey-for-karl-smesko/ | publisher=Eagle News | access-date=November 10, 2018}} | Athletics - Basketball | ||||
| Lowell C. Smith | President of Nichols College | B.S. in Business Administration | Business | |||||||||
| Patricia Haynes Smith | Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Baton Rouge | B.S. in Education | Politics | |||||||||
| Andy Sonnanstine | Professional baseball player in Major League Baseball as a pitcher | Athletics - Baseball | ||||||||||
| Timothy Starks | Professional football player in the NFL | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| Paul Steigerwald | Sports announcer for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League | Journalism | ||||||||||
| Professor of Early Childhood Studies and Special Education at Sam Houston State University | PhD 1993 | Education | ||||||||||
| Steve Stone | Professional baseball player in Major League Baseball as a pitcher, winner of the Cy Young Award, sportscaster | Athletics - Baseball | ||||||||||
| Scott Stricklin | Professional baseball player, head coach for the Kent State baseball team from 2005–2013 | B.A. Marketing (1995) | Athletics - Baseball | |||||||||
| Larry Sudbrook | College baseball coach at St. Bonaventure | B.A. (1978) | Athletics - Baseball | |||||||||
| Betty Sutton | Former Congresswoman for Ohio's 13th congressional district and Judge of Ohio's 9th District Court of Appeals | Political Science | Politics | |||||||||
| Emilia Sykes | Congresswoman for Ohio's 13th congressional district and former Ohio House Minority Leader | B.A. Psychology | Politics | |||||||||
| Dean Sylvester | Professional ice hockey player in the National Hockey League 1995-2001 | Athletics - Ice Hockey | ||||||||||
| Jeff Tabaka | Professional baseball player in Major League Baseball as a pitcher, 1994-2001 | Athletics - Baseball | ||||||||||
| Jeff Timmons | Singer, producer, founding member of pop group 98 Degrees | B.S. Psychology (Dropped out) | Music | |||||||||
| Gerald Tinker | Member of gold-medal 4 x 100 meter relay team in 1972 Summer Olympics; professional football player in the NFL, 1974-1975 | Athletics - Olympics, Football | ||||||||||
| Arnulfo Trejo | Founder of REFORMA, an organization to promote library services to Latinos and Spanish-speaking individuals in the United States | M.A. Library Science (1953) | Education | |||||||||
| Bonnie Turner | Writer/creator, 3rd Rock from the Sun and That '70s Show | Film and television | ||||||||||
| Dennis Chima Ugwuegbu | Nigeria's first professor of psychology | Ph.D. (1973) | Psychology | |||||||||
| Thrity Umrigar | Indian-American writer | Ph.D. English (1997) | Literary | |||||||||
| John Van Benschoten | Professional baseball player in Major League Baseball as a pitcher | Athletics - Baseball | ||||||||||
| Chris Vrenna | Former drummer for Nine Inch Nails, The Smashing Pumpkins, and Marilyn Manson | Dropped out{{cite journal | year= 2003 | title= Chris Vrenna | url= http://www.rocketbaby.net/interviews_vrenna.shtml | quote= Education: Kent State University (quit with one semester to go when NIN got signed)}} | ||||||
| Crista Nicole Wagner | Swimsuit model, Playboy Playmate | Entertainment | ||||||||||
| Joe Walsh | Rock and roll guitarist with the Eagles | Did not graduate | ||||||||||
| Honorary doctorate (2001) | Music | |||||||||||
| Ken Walter | Professional football player in the NFL, 1997-2006 | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| Carl E. Walz | Astronaut | B.S. Physics (1977) | Science | |||||||||
| Paul Warfield | Professional football player in the NFL and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame | M.A. Telecommunications (1977) | Athletics - Football | |||||||||
| Brad Warner | Author, documentarian, and punk rock bass guitarist | Literary, Performing arts | ||||||||||
| Henry Waszczuk | Professional football player in the CFL, 1975-1984 | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| Fred Weber | Original vocalist for the band Devo | B.A. Sociology (1970) | Music | |||||||||
| Bert Weidner | Professional football player in the NFL, 1990-1995 | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| Professional football player | Athletics - Football | |||||||||||
| Jack Williams | Professional football player in the NFL | Athletics - Football | ||||||||||
| De'Angelo Wilson | Actor | Performing arts | ||||||||||
| Sportswriter for ESPN.com | B.S. Journalism (2000) | Journalism | ||||||||||
| Professional football player in the NFL | Athletics - Football | |||||||||||
| Ray Wise | Film and television actor in Twin Peaks and RoboCop | B.F.A. (1969) | Film and television | |||||||||
| Canadian professional golfer | B.S. (2005) | Athletics - Golf | ||||||||||
| Professional football player in the NFL for the Cleveland Browns | Athletics - Football | |||||||||||
| Professional football player in the NFL, 1998-2001 | Athletics - Football | |||||||||||
| (Nick Nemeth) | Professional wrestler in WWE | Sports/entertainment | ||||||||||
| Author and poet | B.A.S. (1968) | Literary | ||||||||||
| Professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association, 1982-1983 | Athletics - Basketball |
^ attended classes only at the Stark Campus
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