Notable People
Main article: List of University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni Main article: List of University of Massachusetts Amherst notable facultyThere are 220,000 University of Massachusetts alumni worldwide. UMass Amherst graduates include Nobel and Pulitzer prize winners, as well as Grammy, Emmy, and Academy Award winners. Well-known UMass Amherst alumni include, Taj Mahal, The American Grammy Award winning blues musician. Bill Pullman, Kenneth Feinberg, Special Master for TARP Executive Compensation, Bill Cosby, Hina Rabbani Khar, Natalie Cole, Julius "Dr. J" Erving, Rick Pitino, Betty Shabazz, Jack Welch, Victor Cruz, Jonathan Quick, and Richard Gere.
Notable faculty have included Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., a Nobel Prize in Physics laureate, Sheila Bair, the former Chairman of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Chuck Close, a celebrated photorealist, Vincent Dethier, a pioneer physiologist and entomologist, and Lynn Margulis, a famed biologist.
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