<p>From the Rice wiki:
Alumni of Rice have occupied top positions in business, including George R. Brown, Thomas H. Cruikshank, the former CEO of Halliburton, John Doerr, billionaire and venture capitalist who provided original investments in Google, Amazon.com, Compaq, Netscape, and Sun Microsystems, Howard Hughes, and Fred C. Koch.</p>
<p>In government and politics, Rice alumni include Alberto Gonzales, former Attorney General, Charles Duncan, former Secretary of Energy, William P. Hobby, Jr., John Kline, and Annise Parker, incumbent Mayor of Houston.</p>
<p>Many Rice alumni have gone on to successful careers in the humanities such as Larry McMurtry, Pulitzer Prize winning author and Oscar winning writer of Brokeback Mountain screenplay, and Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City.</p>
<p>In science and technology, Rice alumni include 14 NASA astronauts, Robert Curl, Nobel Prize winning discoverer of fullerene, and Robert Woodrow Wilson.</p>
<p>Rice athletes include Lance Berkman, Bubba Crosby, Harold Solomon, as well as three Olympians…</p>
<p>Also, Ben Rhodes, White House speechwriter and his brother, David Rhodes at CBS – and right after graduation, Owls head off to top med schools, law schools, grad schools, TFA, Fulbright projects, research, etc.</p>