Leonard Thompson, former NFL football player, Detroit Lions Jim Turner, NFL player Orville Tuttle, former Pro Bowl NFL football player, New York Giants Bob Tway, current PGA Tour golfer Peter Uihlein, professional golfer Robert (Bo) Van Pelt, professional golfer Robin Ventura, former MLB baseball player Scott Verplank, current PGA Tour golfer Donnie Walton, current MLB infielder, Seattle Mariners Gary Ward, former baseball coach John Ward, former NFL football player, Minnesota Vikings John Washington, former NFL football player, New York Giants Brian Watts, former PGA TOUR player John Ray Webster, checkers champion Brandon Weeden, current NFL football player, Dallas Cowboys Reggie White, former NFL player Darrell Williams (born 1989), basketball player for Hapoel Tel Aviv of the Israeli Premier League Darrent Williams, former NFL football player, Denver Broncos (d. 2007) Jamal Williams, former Pro Bowl NFL football player, San Diego Chargers Kevin Williams, current Pro Bowl NFL football player, Minnesota Vikings Casey Wittenberg, current PGA Tour Golfer Duane Wood, former AFL All-Star football player, Kansas City Chiefs Rashaun Woods, former NFL football player, San Francisco 49ers Kenyatta Wright, former NFL football player, New York Jets Toby Wynn (2001), head women's basketball coach for Emporia State University Faculty and administration Presidents past and present Notable former and current faculty Girish Saran Agarwal, physicist Ai, poet; member of OSU English faculty until her death Hilton Briggs, President of South Dakota State University Elliott D. Canonge, linguist specializing in Native American cultures Robert P. Celarier, leading botanist and agrostologist Alfred Corn, poet Angie Debo, leading historian of Oklahoma and Native Americans; curator of maps for Oklahoma A&M library, 1947–1955; left her papers to OSU Library J. Frank Dobie, author; folklorist; taught English at OSU; most remembered for his service at the University of Texas at Austin Brian Evenson, academic and writer of both literary fiction and popular fiction Wolt Fabrycky, industrial engineering scholar Bryan P. Glass, mammalogist Elbert Glover, public health expert Edward Goljan, medical educator Toni Graham, American fiction writer Jack Harlan, agronomist Riffat Hassan, Pakistani-American religious scholar notable for her studies of Islamic feminism Helen Holmes, journalist, historian, and Women's Army Corps officer William Jaco, mathematician; discovered the JSJ decomposition George Judge, economist Subhash Kak, computer scientist and public intellectual Sheldon Katz, mathematician and string theorist (now at the University of Illinois) Nicholas A. Kotov, noted chemical engineering professor (now professor at University of Michigan) Edmon Low, pioneering university librarian Bohumil Makovsky,