and vice chairman of Koç Holding.
Nick Ryder, co-creator of GPT-3.
In government and politics, Rice alumni include:
Alberto Gonzales, former Attorney General
Charles Duncan, former Secretary of Energy
William P. Hobby, Jr., former lieutenant governor of Texas
John Kline, former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
George P. Bush, politician
Josh Earnest, White House Press Secretary for President Obama
Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor for President Obama
Glenn Youngkin, Governor of Virginia
Annise Parker, the 61st Mayor of Houston
In the arts, Rice alumni include:
Larry McMurtry, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and Oscar-winning writer of the screenplay for Brokeback Mountain
Joyce Carol Oates, (who left her Ph.D. to become a full-time writer)) novelist and Pulitzer Prize finalist
John Graves, author of Goodbye to a River; and Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City, who attended for three semesters
Caroline Shaw, Pulitzer Prize-winning musician
In athletics, Rice alumni include: Lance …
