More than 280,000 UB alumni are making a difference in every state and 150 countries around the world. Among our celebrated graduates are:
- Co-founder of Baidu.com, the largest Chinese-language search engine — Li Yanhong (Robin Li)
- Award-winning journalist for CNN — Wolf Blitzer
- Chief diversity and inclusion officer for the NFL — Jonathan Beane
- Former executive director of World Education Services — Mariam Assefa
- Industrialist and former Indonesian minister of state-owned enterprises — Tanri Abeng
- Former astronaut and NASA mission specialist — Ellen Shulman Baker
- Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer and foreign correspondent for the LA Times — Marcus Yam
- Executive producer and host of NPR’s “Fresh Air” — Terry Gross
- Superstar NFL linebacker — Khalil Mack
- Founder of New York Fashion Week — Fern Mallis
- Hollywood actor — Winston Duke
- Former director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center — Christopher Scolese
- Pulitzer Prize–winning former editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post — Tom Toles
- Former president and CEO of Girls, Inc. — Judy Vredenburgh
- Former Chinese minister of education and current president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering — Zhou Ji
- Former mayor of Kabul, Afghanistan — Ahmad Zaki Sarfaraz