Chemical

engineers who
became
notable for
other activities
Ashok Kumar, Politician

British Labour Party politician who was the Member of

Parliament (MP) for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland from 1997 until his
death shortly before the 2010 general election.

chemical engineering at Aston University,

studied
Birmingham where he was awarded a BSc in 1978,
and an MSc in Process Analysis and Control Theory in 1980,
and a PhD in Fluid Mechanics in 1982.

The thesis title was Velocity distributions in a plate heat

exchanger.
Garry Betty ,

contributor to the design of the original personal computer, earned

a chemical engineering degree at Georgia Tech.
Frank Capra,movie director

(May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991)

Earned a chemical engineering degree at Caltech

was a Sicilian-born American film director

It Happened One Night (1934)

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Lost Horizon (1937)
You Can't Take It With You (1938)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Meet John Doe (1941)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946).
Capra won a total of six Academy Awards

Hans "Dolph" Lundgren ,

actor,director, martial artist and .

(born 3 November 1957)

6 ft 5 in, 245 lb 13 oz
Belongs to a generation of film actors, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold
Schwarzenegger, Steven Seagal, and Jean-Claude Van Damme, some of
whom he has worked with in his career.

Rocky IV(1985)
A View to a Kill (1985)
Masters of the Universe(1987)
The Punisher (1989)
Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991)
Universal Soldier (1992)
Joshua Tree (1993)
Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
The Expendables (2010)
has a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of
Sydney (1982). He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in 1983,

Harsha Bhogle
cricket commentator
journalist

(born 19 July 1961)

chemical engineering at Osmania University in

studied
Hyderabad and later at the Indian Institute of Management
Ahmedabad.
Pat Kenney/ Simon Diamond,
American Professional
Wrestler

(born May 26, 1968 in Wilmington, Delaware),

known also by his ring name,Simon Diamond

currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as a road agent.
Best known for his appearances with Extreme Championship
Wrestling between 1998 and 2001,
Kenney is also a former baseball player.
earned a chemical engineering degree from University
College Dublin.

Shivaraj Kumar,
actor
Oluwaseyi George "Seyi"
Olofinjana,
Nigerian footballer

(born 30 June 1980)

plays for Cardiff City as a midfielder, on loan from Hull City

Chemical Engineering from the Ladoke Akintola
is a graduate of
University of Technology, and also sat exams as part of his Masters degree in
Chemical Engineering in July 2007.
Nitin Nohria,
Deanof Harvard Business
School

the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business

Administration, co-chair of the HBS Leadership Initiative and sits on the executive
committee of the University's interfaculty initiative on advanced leadership.

Formerly, he served in a series of senior roles at HBS over the years: chair of the organizational
behavior unit from 1998 to 2002, director of the division of research in 2003 to 2004, and senior
associate dean for faculty development from 2006 to 2009.

He has co-written or co-edited 16 books, and is author of more than 50 articles and dozens
of teaching cases and notes.
He graduated from St. Columba's School in New Delhi, India following which he earned a B
Tech in Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of
Technology in Mumbai (Class of 1984), and earned a Ph.D. in
Massachusetts
Management from the Sloan School of Management at the
Institute of Technology (Class of 1988).