List of University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni

Academy Award winners

• William Monahan adapted screenplay, "The Departed"
• Buffy Sainte-Marie best song, "Up Where We Belong" from "An Officer and a Gentleman"

Emmy Award winners

• Ed Christie 1979, BFA, Art director/designer for The Jim Henson Company & Sesame Street
• Billy Taylor MA, PhD, Musician, Music Educator

Grammy winners

• Natalie Cole 1972, singer
• Yusef Lateef 1975, composer
• Billy Taylor MA, PhD, composer

Nobel Prize winners

• Russell Hulse 1972G, 1975 Ph.D.

Pulitzer Prize winners

• Herbert Bix 1960, historian
• Paul Harding 1992, author and musician
• Natasha Trethewey 1995, poet

Academics

• Richard Feldman 1975, Professor of Philosophy, University of Rochester
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