This is a listing of celebrities who have appeared either as professors, guest lecturers, or to give some sort of performance at Carnegie Mellon University. It does not include alumni, since they were seen on campus before they were considered "celebrities."
Thanks to Jim Foraker and AB Tech for providing many entries. An extremely comprehensive list is at http://www.abtech.org/list.shtml.
- Bonnie Raitt
- Bruce Springsteen
- Blood, Sweat & Tears
- Santana
- Cheap Trick
- Yakov Smirnov
- David Bromberg
- Glenn Miller Orchestra
- Oingo Boingo
- De La Soul
- Andy Richter
- The Ramones
- Douglas Adams
- Soul Coughing
- The entire cast of Wonder Boys, Flashdance, The Mothman Prophecies, and Creepshow, not to mention Lorenzo's Oil, which were filmed here in part
- Mike Nelson of MST3K
- Jerry Springer
- comedians Norm MacDonald, Lewis Black, Carlos Alazraqui, Mitch Hedberg and Dave Attell
- then-Presidential candidate Ralph Nader
- then-Vice President Al Gore
- Rusted Root
- Bill Joy, founder of Sun Microsystems
- Ray Kurzweil
- Fred Rogers, aka Mr. Rogers, who used to teach ethics
- Blues Traveler
- They Might Be Giants
- The Amazing Johnathan
- Chuck D
- Dar Williams
- Lis Harvey
- Fugazi
- The Upright Citizens Brigade
- Superchunk
- Henry Rollins
- Bruce Campbell
- Steve Wozniak
- Kevin Mitnick
- Jurassic 5