Balch Wilson, composer Wolf Eyes, industrial rock band "Shakey Jake" Woods (1925–2007), street musician Jeff Young, guitarist in Megadeth Bryan Devendorf, drummer for the Grammy Winning Alternative rock band, The National. Politicians John Allen (died 1851), co-founder of Ann Arbor, attorney, state senator Bruce Bartlett, historian, political adviser Louis D. Belcher, mayor Elizabeth Brater, state senator Barbara Everitt Bryant, first woman to lead the US Census Bureau Jane L. Campbell, mayor of Cleveland Ohio Thomas M. Cooley (1824–1898), chief justice, Michigan Supreme Court Samuel J. Eldersveld (1917–2010), political scientist, mayor Marilyn L. Huff, judge James Kingsley (1797–1878), attorney, state legislator, mayor Chris Kolb, state legislator, first openly gay member of the Michigan legislature Edwin Lawrence (1808–1885), Michigan jurist and state representative William S. Maynard (1802–1866), merchant, land developer, mayor Mike Nahan, Australian politician Robert D. Orr (1917–2004), governor of Indiana Edward C. Pierce (1930–2002), physician, mayor of Ann Arbor Elisha Rumsey (1785–1827), co-founder of Ann Arbor Brian Schatz, U.S. Senator from Hawaii Ingrid Sheldon, mayor, 1993–2000 Benjamin Sherman, Wisconsin State Assemblyman and Senator Neil Staebler (1905–2000), congressman, Democratic politician L. D. Taylor (1857–1946), mayor of Vancouver Albert H. Wheeler (1915–1994), microbiologist, first African American mayor of Ann Arbor Scientists Eric Betzig, physicist, Nobel laureate Richard Crandall, physicist, computer scientist Kazimierz Fajans (1887–1975), physical chemist John H. Hubbell (1925–2007), radiation physicist Emmett Leith (1927–2005), electrical engineer, co-inventor of holography Deirdre McCloskey, economist James V. Neel (1915–2000), geneticist Anatol Rapoport (1911–2007), mathematical psychologist Elizabeth S. Russell, biologist Annette Salmeen, biochemist, Rhodes Scholar, Olympic gold medalist John Martin Schaeberle (1853–1924), astronomer Gene Sperling, economic advisor Jean Tatlock, psychiatrist, physician Samuel Ting, physicist, Nobel laureate James Craig Watson (1838–1880), astronomer Thomas Huckle Weller (1915–2008), virologist, Nobel laureate Henry F. Vaughan, epidemiologist and founder of University of Michigan School of Public Health See also List of University of Michigan alumni References Ann Arbor Ann Arbor