Graduated from UA in: 1976
Why he's famous: Business — CEO
Notable accomplishment: Eckert has held positions at many well-known American companies. For example, he's the former CEO of Mattel Inc. and the former president and CEO of Kraft Foods Inc.
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Graduated from UA in: 1976
Why he's famous: Business — CEO
Notable accomplishment: Eckert has held positions at many well-known American companies. For example, he's the former CEO of Mattel Inc. and the former president and CEO of Kraft Foods Inc.
Graduated from UA in: 1952
Why he's famous: Business — entrepreneur
Notable accomplishment: The University of Arizona Eller College of Management is named after Karl Eller. He was also one of the founding investors of the NBA team the Phoenix Suns in 1968.
Years later, Eller transformed the convenience store chain Circle K into the second-largest convenience store chain in the U.S.
Eller was inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame by the American Advertising Federation in 2004, making him the first Arizonan to be inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame.
Graduated from UA in: 1988
Why he's famous: Journalism
Notable accomplishment: Giblin, an investigative journalist, won a Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting in 2009 with fellow journalist Ryan Gabrielson while working at the East Valley Tribune in Mesa, Ariz. Pulitzer.org said the two were awarded "for their adroit use of limited resources to reveal, in print and online, how a popular sheriff’s (Joe Arpaio) focus on immigration enforcement endangered investigation of violent crime and other aspects of public safety."
Graduated from UA in: 1993
Why she's famous: Journalism — TV personality
Notable accomplishment: Guthrie is known for her role as a co-anchor on the TV news show "Today."
Graduated from UA in: 1972
Why he's famous: Business
Notable accomplishment: Johnson owns the New York Jets football team.
Graduated from UA in: 1968
Why he's famous: Business — CEO
Notable accomplishment: Kalinske has been the CEO of many well-known companies such as Mattel, Matchbox and Sega of America. Kalinske currently works as the executive chairman of Global Education Learning.
Graduated from UA in: 1975
Why he's famous: Business
Notable accomplishment: Lundgren is the CEO of Macy's Inc. The UA Center for Retailing bears his name.
Graduated from UA in: 1973
Why he's famous: Business — entrepreneur
Notable accomplishment: Moreno owns the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. He is the first Mexican-American to own a major sports team in the U.S.
Graduated from UA in: 1923
Why he's famous: Education — administration
Notable accomplishment: Chemist Robert Nugent won a Rhodes Scholarship in 1923. He was dean of two colleges at the UA — liberal arts and graduate studies — before becoming executive vice president for the university. A building on campus is named for him. He died in 1963.
The University of Arizona Alumni Association also has an award named in memory of him — the Nugent Award.
Graduated from UA in: 1982
Why he's famous: Business — sports
Notable accomplishment: Sarver is the majority owner of the Phoenix Suns (NBA) and the Phoenix Mercury (WNBA) and founded the National Bank of America.
Graduated from UA in: 1966
Why he's famous: Arts — literature
Notable accomplishment: Sotomayor and a team of reporters at the Los Angeles Times won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1984.
Graduated from UA in: 1986
Why he's famous: Business
Notable accomplishment: Stevens is the CEO, president and director of the oil refining company Western Refining, Inc.
In 2009, Jeff and his wife, Sharon Stevens, donated $10 million to University of Arizona Athletics. The relatively new Lowell-Stevens Football Facility on the UA campus is partially named after the Stevens family.
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