This is a list of notable people who attended, or taught at, the

University of Wisconsin–Madison The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. It was founded in 1848 when Wisconsin achieved st ...

Notable alumni

Nobel laureates

John Bardeen John Bardeen (; May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) was an American solid-state physicist. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Houser Brattain for their inventio ...

, B.S. 1928 and M.S. 1929, only two-time recipient of the

Nobel Prize in Physics The Nobel Prize in Physics () is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions to mankind in the field of physics. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the ...

in 1956 and 1972 *

Saul Bellow Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; June 10, 1915April 5, 2005) was a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only write ...

, recipient of the

Nobel Prize for Literature The Nobel Prize in Literature, here meaning ''for'' Literature (), is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in t ...

in 1976 *

Günter Blobel Günter Blobel (; May 21, 1936 – February 18, 2018) was a Silesian German and American biologist and 1999 Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in ...

, Ph.D. 1967, recipient of the

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine () is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, acco ...

in 1999 *

Paul D. Boyer Paul Delos Boyer (July 31, 1918 – June 2, 2018) was an American biochemist, analytical chemist, and a professor of chemistry at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research on the " enz ...

, M.S. 1941, Ph.D. 1943, recipient of the

Nobel Prize in Chemistry The Nobel Prize in Chemistry () is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outst ...

in 1997 * William C. Campbell, M.S. 1953, Ph.D. 1957, recipient of the

in 2015 * Herbert Spencer Gasser, A.B. 1910, A.M. 1911, recipient of the

in 1944 * Alan G. MacDiarmid, M.S. 1952, Ph.D. 1953, recipient of the

in 2000 * Stanford Moore, Ph.D. 1938, recipient of the

in 1972 * Erwin Neher, M.S. 1967, recipient of the

in 1991 *

Theodore Schultz Theodore William Schultz ( ; 30 April 1902 – 26 February 1998) was an American agricultural economist and chairman of the University of Chicago Department of Economics. Schultz rose to national prominence after winning the 1979 Nobel Memoria ...

, M.S. 1928, Ph.D. 1930, recipient of the

Nobel Prize in Economics The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (), commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics(), is an award in the field of economic sciences adminis ...

in 1979 * George Smith, postdoctoral fellow, recipient of the

in 2018 * Edward Lawrie Tatum, B.A. 1931, M.S. 1932, Ph.D. 1935, recipient of the

in 1958 * John H. Van Vleck, A.B. 1920, recipient of the

in 1977

Athletics

Academics

Arts and entertainment

Virgil Abloh Virgil Abloh (; September 30, 1980 – November 28, 2021) was an American fashion designer and entrepreneur. A trained architect, Abloh founded his own line of luxury streetwear clothing under the moniker Pyrex Vision in 2012, which he transfor ...

, fashion designer,

artistic director An artistic director is the executive of an arts organization, particularly in a theatre company or dance company, who handles the organization's artistic direction. They are generally a producer and director, but not in the sense of a mogu ...

Louis Vuitton Louis Vuitton Malletier SAS, commonly known as Louis Vuitton (, ), is a French Luxury goods, luxury fashion house and company founded in 1854 by Louis Vuitton (designer), Louis Vuitton. The label's LV monogram appears on most of its products, ...

's men's wear collection *

Don Ameche Don Ameche (; born Dominic Felix Amici; May 31, 1908 – December 6, 1993) was an American actor, comedian and vaudevillian. After playing in college shows, repertory theatre, and vaudeville, he became a major radio star in the early 19 ...

Academy Award The Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit in film. They are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in the United States in recognition of excellence ...

-winning actor *

Joseph Anthony Joseph Anthony (born Joseph Deuster; May 24, 1912 – January 20, 1993) was an American playwright, actor, and director. He made his film acting debut in the 1934 film ''Hat, Coat, and Glove'' and his theatrical acting debut in a 1935 productio ...

, playwright, actor, and director * Iris Apfel, interior designer, and fashion icon. * William Bast, screenwriter * Adrian "Wildman" Cenni, professional driver and stuntman * Gary Beecham, glass artist * James Benning *

Andrew Bergman Andrew Bergman (born February 20, 1945) is an American screenwriter, film director, and novelist. His best-known films include '' Blazing Saddles'', '' The In-Laws'', '' The Freshman'' and ''Striptease''. Early life Born to a Jewish family, Ber ...

, film writer, director, and producer *

Rick Berman Richard Keith Berman (born December 25, 1945) is an American television producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his work as the executive producer of several of the ''Star Trek'' television series: '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'', '' ...

, television/movie producer * Drew Binsky, travel influencer * Chester Biscardi, composer * Keith D. Black, screenwriter *

Jerry Bock Jerrold Lewis Bock (November 23, 1928November 3, 2010) was an American musical theater composer. He received the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama with Sheldon Harnick for their 1959 musical '' Fiorello!'' and the Tony A ...

, composer * Karen Borca, musician * Kate Borcherding, artist * Pat Brady, cartoonist, creator of ''

Rose Is Rose ''Rose Is Rose'' is a syndicated comic strip, written by Pat Brady since its launch on April 16, 1984, and drawn since March 2004 by Don Wimmer. The strip revolves around Rose and Jimbo Gumbo, their son Pasquale, and the family cat Peekaboo. ...

'' * Tamara Braun, actress * Marshall Brickman, screenwriter * Gary Hugh Brown, artist *

Oscar Brown Oscar Brown Jr. (October 10, 1926May 29, 2005) was an American singer, songwriter, playwright, poet, actor, and civil rights activist (Brown was African-American). Brown discovered The Jackson 5. Aside from his career, Brown ran unsuccessfully ...

, musician * Johnny Burke, lyricist *

Macdonald Carey Edward Macdonald Carey (March 15, 1913 – March 21, 1994) was an American actor, best known for his role as the patriarch Dr. Tom Horton on NBC's soap opera '' Days of Our Lives''. For almost three decades, he was the show's central cast membe ...

, actor * Gina Cerminara, author * Jeff Cesario, comedian and writer * Ann Fox Chandonnet, poet * Alison Chernick, filmmaker *

Dale Chihuly Dale Chihuly ( ; born September 20, 1941) is an American glass artist and entrepreneur. He is well known in the field of Glassblowing, blown glass, "moving it into the realm of large-scale sculpture". Early life Dale Patrick Chihuly was born on ...

, glass artist * Robert Clarke, actor *

Alf Clausen Alf Faye Heiberg Clausen (March 28, 1941 – May 29, 2025) was an American film and television composer. He is best known for his work scoring many episodes of ''The Simpsons'', for which he was the sole composer between 1990 and 2017. Clausen ...

, film composer * Hunter Cole, artist *

Carrie Coon Carrie Alexandra Coon (born January 24, 1981) is an American actress. Known for her portrayals of complex characters on stage and screen, she has received a Critics' Choice Television Award, as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards a ...

, actress *

Joan Cusack Joan Mary Cusack ( ; born October 11, 1962) is an American actress and comedian. She received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in the comedy-drama '' Working Girl'' (1988) and the romantic comedy '' In ...

, actress * Rich Dahm, co-executive producer and head writer of ''

The Colbert Report ''The Colbert Report'' ( ) is an American late night television, late-night Late-night talk show, talk and news satire television program hosted by Stephen Colbert that aired four days a week on Comedy Central from October 17, 2005, to December ...

'' * Richard Dauenhauer, poet * Richard Davis, jazz-bassist, recording artist, professor/educator at University of Wisconsin-Madison *

André DeShields André — sometimes transliterated as Andre — is the French and Portuguese form of the name Andrew and is now also used in the English-speaking world. It used in France, Quebec, Canada and other French-speaking countries, as well in Portugal ...

, Emmy Award-winning actor/singer/dancer/choreographer * Chip Dunham, cartoonist * Susan Dynner, film director, producer *

Lois Ehlert Lois Jane Ehlert (November 9, 1934 – May 25, 2021) was an American author and illustrator of children's books, most having to do with nature. Ehlert won the Caldecott Honor for ''Color Zoo'' in 1990. Some of her other popular works included '' ...

, illustrator,

Caldecott Medal The Randolph Caldecott Medal, frequently shortened to just the Caldecott, annually recognizes the preceding year's "most distinguished American picture book for children". It is awarded to the illustrator by the Association for Library Service ...

recipient * Dean Elliott, film composer * Joe Feddersen, artist *

David Fishelson David J. Fishelson (born July 24, 1956) is an American producer, playwright, and director for film, theatre, television and radio, based in Manhattan since 1982. He is best known for being the lead producer of ''Golda's Balcony'', the longest-ru ...

, Broadway producer, playwright, filmmaker * Honor Ford-Smith, actress * Jason Gerhardt, actor * Glenn Gissler, interior designer * Jill Godmilow, filmmaker * Roger Goeb, composer * Bert I. Gordon, film director *

Stuart Gordon Stuart Alan Gordon (August 11, 1947 – March 24, 2020) was an American Filmmaking, filmmaker, theatre director, screenwriter, and playwright. Initially recognized for his provocative and frequently controversial work in experimental theatre, Go ...

, stage and film director * Evan Gruzis, painter * MK Guth, artist * Daron Hagen, composer, conductor, pianist *

Uta Hagen Uta Thyra Hagen (12 June 1919 – 14 January 2004) was a German-American actress and theatre practitioner. She originated the role of Martha in the 1962 Broadway premiere of '' Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' by Edward Albee, who called her "a ...

, actress, recipient of the

National Medal of Arts The National Medal of Arts is an award and title created by the United States Congress in 1984, for the purpose of honoring artists and Patronage, patrons of the arts. A prestigious American honor, it is the highest honor given to artists and ar ...

Tom Hall Tom Hall (born September 2, 1964) is an American video game designer best known for his work with id Software on titles such as '' Doom'', '' Wolfenstein 3D'' and ''Commander Keen''. He has also been the co-founder of Ion Storm, together wit ...

, game designer *

Yung Gravy Matthew Raymond Hauri (born March 19, 1996), known professionally as Yung Gravy, is an American rapper. Early life, family and education Matthew Raymond Hauri was born on March 19, 1996 in Rochester, Minnesota. His father, Peter Johannes Hauri ...

(Matthew Hauri), rapper * Charlie Hill, television writer *

Anna Halprin Anna Halprin (born Hannah Dorothy Schuman; July 13, 1920 – May 24, 2021) was an American choreographer and dancer. She helped redefine dance in postwar America and pioneer the experimental art form known as postmodern dance and referred to her ...

, pioneer of postmodern dance * Timothy Hasenstein, painter and sculptor * Sorrel Hays, pianist * Sam Herman, glass artist * F. Scott Hess, painter and conceptual artist *

Lee Hoiby Lee Henry Hoiby (February 17, 1926 – March 28, 2011) was an American composer and classical pianist. Best known as a composer of operas and songs, he was a disciple of composer Gian Carlo Menotti. Like Menotti, his works championed lyricism at ...

, composer * Gwendolyn Holbrow, sculptor * Anders Holm, actor, writer, producer for '' Workaholics'' * Lawrence Holofcener, sculptor * Adam Horowitz, television writer * Jane Kaczmarek, actress *

Kelly Kahl Kelly Kahl (born October 20, 1966) is an American television executive and film producer. From 2017 to 2022, he served as the President of Entertainment at CBS. Early life and education Kelly Kahl was born in Burlington, Wisconsin to Ronald a ...

, television executive * Irene Kampen, author * Ben Karlin,

Emmy Award The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the year, each with their own set of rules and award categor ...

-winning television producer * Catherine Ransom Karoly, flutist * Carol Kolb, author, television writer * Craig A. Kraft, sculptor * Karl Kroeger, composer * Myron W. Krueger, computer artist * Kay Kurt, painter *

Rocco Landesman Rocco Landesman (born July 20, 1947) is a long-time Broadway theatre producer. He served as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts from August 2009 to December 2012. He is a part owner of Jujamcyn Theaters. Early life Landesman was bor ...

, producer *

Steven Levitan Steven E. Levitan (born April 6, 1962) is an American television producer, director, and screenwriter. He has created many television series such as ''Just Shoot Me!'', '' Stark Raving Mad'', '' Stacked'', '' Back to You'', ''Modern Family'', a ...

, television writer, director, and producer * Marvin Lipofsky, glass artist * Joseph Lulloff, musician * C. Cameron Macauley, photographer *

Michael Mann Michael Kenneth Mann (born February 5, 1943) is an American film director, screenwriter, author and producer, best known for his stylized crime dramas. He has received a BAFTA Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards as well as nominations for four ...

, movie director/producer *

Fredric March Fredric March (born Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel; August 31, 1897 – April 14, 1975) was an American actor, regarded as one of Hollywood's most celebrated stars of the 1930s and 1940s.Obituary '' Variety'', April 16, 1975, page 95. As ...

, actor *

Steve Marmel Steven L. Marmel (born December 17, 1964) is an American television writer, producer, and stand-up comedian who has worked on many animated television series, including '' The Fairly OddParents'', '' I Am Weasel'', '' Danny Phantom'', ''Family ...

, comedian, writer, '' Fairly Odd Parents'' * Karen Thuesen Massaro, ceramicist * Pat McCurdy, singer-songwriter * John O. Merrill, architect * Steve Miller, musician,

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (RRHOF), also simply referred to as the Rock Hall, is a museum and hall of fame located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States, on the shore of Lake Erie. The museum documents the history of rock music and the ...

inductee * Kui Min *

Walter Mirisch Walter Mortimer Mirisch (November 8, 1921 – February 24, 2023) was an American film producer. He was the president and executive head of production of The Mirisch Corporation, an independent film production company which he formed in 1957 wit ...

-winning film producer * Paul Monash, former screenwriter and producer * Jemeel Moondoc, musician *

Agnes Moorehead Agnes Robertson Moorehead (December 6, 1900April 30, 1974) was an American actress. In a career spanning five decades, her credits included work in radio, stage, film, and television.Obituary '' Variety'', May 8, 1974, page 286. Moorehead was th ...

, actress *

Errol Morris Errol Mark Morris (born February 5, 1948) is an American film director known for documentaries that interrogate the epistemology of their subjects, and the invention of the Interrotron. In 2003, his '' The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Li ...

-winning director * Kevin Murphy, writer, actor, and puppeteer for ''

Mystery Science Theater 3000 ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' (abbreviated as ''MST3K'') is an American science fiction comedy television series created by Joel Hodgson. The show premiered on WUCW, KTMA-TV (now WUCW) in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on November 24, 1988. It then ...

'' * Michael Derrington Murphy, chemist and musician *

Zola Jesus Nika Roza Danilova (born Nicole Rose Hummel; April 11, 1989), known professionally by her stage name Zola Jesus, is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Her music has been noted for combining elements of electronic, industrial, ...

, born Nika Roza Danilova, singer/songwriter Frank Lloyd Wright portrait

* Floyd Naramore, architect *

Bruce Nauman Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941) is an American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance. Nauman lives near Galisteo, New Mexico. Life and work ...

, glass artist * Ken Navarro, jazz guitarist * Jennifer Nehrbass, artist * Aaron Ohlmann, editor, producer, and documentarian * Tricia O'Kelley, actress * Lance Olsen, writer and author *

Irna Phillips Irna Phillips (July 1, 1901 – December 23, 1973) was an American scriptwriter, screenwriter, casting agent, and actress who pioneered a style of daytime soap opera in the United States geared specifically toward women. Phillips created, produc ...

, actress; soap opera writer and script editor * Meinhardt Raabe, Munchkin in the ''Wizard of Oz'' *

Nathan Rabin Nathan Rabin () is an American film and music critic. Rabin was the first head writer for ''The A.V. Club'', a position he held until he left the ''Onion'' organization in 2013.

, film critic * Som Ranchan, poet * Rita Mae Reese, poet and publisher * Rosetta Reitz, jazz historian * Mary T. Reynolds, writer * Mark Rosenberg, film producer *

Tom Rosenberg Tom B. Rosenberg (born 1947/1948) is an American film producer, co-founder of Beacon Pictures; and founder and chairman of Lakeshore Entertainment. He is a recipient of the 2004 Academy Award for Best Picture for the film ''Million Dollar Baby' ...

-winning film producer * Brad Rowe, actor *

Gena Rowlands Virginia Cathryn "Gena" Rowlands (; June 19, 1930 – August 14, 2024) was an American actress, whose career in film, stage, and television spanned nearly seven decades. She was a four-time Emmy, Emmy Award and two-time Golden Globe winner, and ...

, actress *

Boz Scaggs William Royce "Boz" Scaggs (born June 8, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was a bandmate of Steve Miller (musician), Steve Miller in the Ardells in the early 1960s and a member of the Steve Miller Band from 1967 to 196 ...

(Wm. Royce Scaggs), musician * Ira Schneider, video artist * Jana Schneider, actress and journalist * Jon Schueler, artist *

Michael Schultz Michael Schultz (born November 10, 1938) is an American director and producer of theater, film and television. Life and career Schultz was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of an African-American mother Katherine Frances Leslie (1917–199 ...

, filmmaker and television director * Delmore Schwartz, poet *

Seann William Scott Seann William Scott (born October 3, 1976) is an American actor. In film, Scott is best known for his breakout role as Steve Stifler in the ''American Pie'' film series (1999–2012). He also starred in a lead role as Doug Glatt in '' Goon'' (2 ...

, actor * Barolong Seboni, poet *

Brittany Shane Brittany Shane is an American singer-songwriter and musician based in Austin, Texas. The Wisconsin-born and raised songstress blends rock and pop with poetry. She got her start performing at The Fillmore in San Francisco, California in 2000, p ...

, singer and songwriter * Tom Shannon *

Ben Sidran Ben Hirsh Sidran (born August 14, 1943) is an American jazz and rock keyboardist, producer, label owner, and music writer. Early in his career he was a member of the Steve Miller Band and is the father of Grammy-nominated musician, composer and ...

, jazz pianist *

Tormod Skagestad Tormod Skagestad (9 August 1920 – 4 January 1997) was a Norwegian poet, novelist, playwright, actor and theatre director. Biography Tormod Skagestad was born in Krødsherad, Buskerud county, Norway. Skagestad grew up in a rich cultural enviro ...

, director of Det Norske Teatret * Joe Silver,

Tony Award The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ce ...

nominated actor of stage and screen * Bently Spang, multidisciplinary artist * Lev L. Spiro, television director * Brian Stack, Emmy Award-winning writer and comic *

Josh Stamberg Joshua Collins Stamberg (born January 4, 1970) is an American actor. He was regular cast member in the Lifetime comedy-drama series ''Drop Dead Diva'' from 2009 to 2012, and later had recurring roles on ''Parenthood (2010 TV series), Parenthood'', ...

, actor * Leon C. Standifer, horticulturist, novelist, and writer * Robert Stone *

Herbert Stothart Herbert Pope Stothart (September 11, 1885February 1, 1949) was an American songwriter, arranger, conductor, and composer. He was nominated for twelve Academy Awards and won Best Original Score for '' The Wizard of Oz''. Stothart was widely ackn ...

, film composer * Richard Steven Street, photographer * Sun Yu, film director *

David Susskind David Howard Susskind (December 19, 1920 – February 22, 1987) was an American producer of TV, movies, and stage plays and also a TV talk show host. His talk shows were innovative in the genre and addressed timely, controversial topics beyond th ...

, producer of film and television * John Szarkowski, curator and photographer * Daniel J. Travanti,

-winning actor *

Charlie Trotter Charlie Trotter (September 8, 1959 – November 5, 2013) was an American chef and restaurateur. His best-known restaurant, Charlie Trotter's, was open in Chicago from 1987 to 2012. Early life and education Trotter was born in Wilmette, Illinoi ...

, chef, PBS host * Neal Ulevich, photographer *

James Valcq James Valcq (born 1963 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American musical theatre composer, lyricist, and librettist, as well as an actor and arts administrator. He contributed to various theatrical works. Education Valcq holds a BFA from the U ...

, composer * Michael Velliquette, artist *

Butch Vig Bryan David "Butch" Vig (born August 2, 1955) is an American musician, record producer, and songwriter who is the drummer and co-producer of the rock band Garbage. Producer of the diamond selling Nirvana album ''Nevermind'' (1991), Vig also pro ...

, musician,

Garbage Garbage, trash (American English), rubbish (British English), or refuse is waste material that is discarded by humans, usually due to a perceived lack of utility. The term generally does not encompass bodily waste products, purely liquid or ...

* Eric Villency, interior designer *

William Walton Sir William Turner Walton (29 March 19028 March 1983) was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera. His best-known works include ''Façade'', the cantat ...

, painter, government official * Sylvia Solochek Walters, artist, printmaker and educator *

Marc Webb Marc Preston Webb (born August 31, 1974) is an American filmmaker and music video director. He made his feature film directorial debut in 2009 with the romantic comedy '' (500) Days of Summer.'' He then directed ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' (2012 ...

, film, television, and music video director * Matt White, singer-songwriter * Nancy Metz White, sculptor * John Wilde, painter * Allee Willis, songwriter * Tom Wopat, actor/musician *

Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed List of Frank Lloyd Wright works, more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key ...

(attended), architect * Frank Wu, science-fiction artist * Jorge Zamacona, television writer and producer * Marilyn J Ziffrin, composer * Glen Zipper, film producer * Charlotte Zucker, actress *

David Zucker David Samuel Zucker (born October 16, 1947) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Associated mostly with parody comedies, Zucker is recognized for collaborating with Jim Abrahams and his brother Jerry as part of Zucker, Ab ...

, movie director/producer *

Jerry Zucker Jerry Gordon Zucker (born March 11, 1950) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is one third of the filmmaking trio Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker. He is best known for his role in writing and directing comedy spoof films like ...

, movie director/producer

Aviators and astronauts

* Laurel Clark, astronaut * Roger G. DeKok, astronaut * Fred E. Gutt, aviator * Marcella Hayes, first African American woman pilot in the U.S. Armed Forces * Walter Edwin Lees, aviator *

Charles Lindbergh Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator, military officer, and author. On May 20–21, 1927, he made the first nonstop flight from New York (state), New York to Paris, a distance of . His aircra ...

, aviator (did not graduate) * Nathan J. Lindsay, astronaut *

Jim Lovell James Arthur Lovell Jr. ( ; born March 25, 1928) is an American retired astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot and mechanical engineer. In 1968, as command module pilot of Apollo 8, he became, with Frank Borman and William Anders, one of the fi ...

, astronaut,

Apollo 13 Apollo 13 (April 1117, 1970) was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo program, Apollo space program and would have been the third Moon landing. The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, but the landing was abort ...

mission * Robert Campbell Reeve, founder of

Reeve Aleutian Airways Reeve Aleutian Airways was an airline headquartered in Anchorage, Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska, United States. It ceased operations on December 5, 2000. Reeve Aleutian was named, possibly as a pun on the word revolution, by combining founder Rober ...

* Richard V. Rhode, aeronautical engineer, NACA and

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the federal government of the United States, US federal government responsible for the United States ...

; awarded Wright Brothers Medal in 1937 * Brewster Shaw, astronaut, former director, Space Shuttle Operations,

Business

* Carol Bartz, former CEO of

Yahoo! Yahoo (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web portal that provides the search engine Yahoo Search and related services including My Yahoo, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, y!entertainment, yahoo!life, and its a ...

, former chairman of the board, president, and CEO of

Autodesk Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinational software corporation that provides software products and services for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, education, and entertainment industries. Autodesk is headquarte ...

* Randall Boe, general counsel for

AOL AOL (formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City, and a brand marketed by Yahoo! Inc. The service traces its history to an online ...

* Jerome Chazen, co-founder of

Liz Claiborne Anne Elisabeth Jane Claiborne (March 31, 1929 – June 26, 2007) was an American fashion designer and businesswoman. Her success was built upon stylish yet affordable apparel for career women featuring colorfully tailored separates that cou ...

Chow Chung-Kong Sir Chung-kong Chow (; born 9 September 1950), also known as Chow Chung-kong and C.K. Chow, is a Hong Kong businessman and government appointee. He is currently chairman of the Urban Renewal Authority and is a former non-official member of the ...

, CEO of

MTR Corporation MTR Corporation Limited is a majority government-owned public transport operator and property developer in Hong Kong which operates the Mass Transit Railway, the most popular public transport network in Hong Kong. It is listed on the Hong K ...

* M. J. Cleary, insurance executive * Michael J. Critelli, executive chairman of

Pitney Bowes Pitney Bowes Inc. is an American technology company most known for its postage meters and other mailing equipment, services, and other technologies. The company was founded by Arthur Pitney, who invented the first commercially available postage m ...

* William H. Davidson, former president of

Harley-Davidson Harley-Davidson, Inc. (H-D, or simply Harley) is an American motorcycle manufacturer headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Founded in 1903, it is one of two major American motorcycle manufacturers to survive the Great Depression along with i ...

* Willie G. Davidson, former vice president,

* Thomas J. Falk, CEO of Kimberly Clark * Judith R. Faulkner, CEO and founder of

Epic Systems Epic Systems Corporation is an American privately held healthcare software company based in Verona, Wisconsin. According to the company, hospitals that use its software held medical records of 78% of patients in the United States and over 3% ...

* Edgar Fiedler (1929–2003), economist * Donald Goerke,

Campbell Soup Company The Campbell's Company (doing business as Campbell's and formerly known as the Campbell Soup Company) is an American company, most closely associated with its flagship canned soup products. The classic red-and-white can design used by many Campbe ...

executive, inventor of SpaghettiOs * William S. Harley, founder of

* Charles Walter Hart, founder of Hart-Parr Gasoline Engine Company, coined the word "

tractor A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort (or torque) at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a Trailer (vehicle), trailer or machinery such as that used in agriculture, mining or constructio ...

" * Harvey V. Higley, president of Ansul *

Colin Huang Colin Huang Zheng (, born 1 January 1980) is a Chinese businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is the founder and former CEO of the e-commerce company Pinduoduo, which is now the largest agriculture platform in China. Huang is also the o ...

, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Pinduoduo *Lawrence R. Kaplan, president and CEO of SDVI * David J. Lesar, chairman, president and CEO of Halliburton Energy Services * Kevin Mather, baseball executive *

Larry McVoy Larry McVoy (born 1962 in Concord, Massachusetts, United States) is the CEO of BitMover, the company that makes BitKeeper, a version control system that was used from February 2002 to early 2005 to manage the source code of the Linux kernel. ...

, CEO, Bitmover * John P. Morgridge, chairman of the board, former president and CEO of

Cisco Systems Cisco Systems, Inc. (using the trademark Cisco) is an American multinational corporation, multinational digital communications technology conglomerate (company), conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, m ...

, philanthropist * William Beverly Murphy, former president and CEO,

* Keith Nosbusch, CEO,

Rockwell Automation Rockwell Automation, Inc. is an American provider of industrial automation and digital transformation technologies headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Its brands include Allen-Bradley, FactoryTalk software and LifecycleIQ Services. Rockwell ...

* Richard Notebaert, former chairman and CEO of

Qwest Qwest Communications International, Inc. was a United States telecommunications carrier. Qwest provided local service in 14 western and midwestern U.S. states: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dako ...

, Tellabs and

Ameritech AT&T Teleholdings, Inc., formerly known as Ameritech Corporation (and, before that, American Information Technologies Corporation), was an American telecommunications company that arose out of the 1984 AT&T divestiture. Ameritech was one of the ...

* Lee R. Raymond, former chairman and CEO,

ExxonMobil Exxon Mobil Corporation ( ) is an American multinational List of oil exploration and production companies, oil and gas corporation headquartered in Spring, Texas, a suburb of Houston. Founded as the Successors of Standard Oil, largest direct s ...

Philip D. Reed Philip D. Reed (1899–1989) was president and chief executive officer of General Electric Company from 1940 to 1942 and from 1945 to 1959. Education and early career Reed was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He graduated from North Division High ...

, former president of GE * Stephen S. Roach, economist with

Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered at 1585 Broadway in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. With offices in 42 countries and more than 80,000 employees, the firm's clients in ...

* John Rowe, CEO of

Exelon Exelon Corporation is an American public utility headquartered in Chicago, and incorporated in Pennsylvania. Exelon is the largest electric parent company in the United States by revenue and is the largest regulated electric utility in the Uni ...

* Kenneth L. Schroeder, CEO, KLA-Tencor * Deven Sharma, president of

Standard and Poor's S&P Global Ratings (previously Standard & Poor's and informally known as S&P) is an American credit rating agency (CRA) and a division of S&P Global that publishes financial research and analysis on stocks, bonds, and commodities. S&P is cons ...

* Jane Trahey, advertiser * Reuben Trane, president of Trane * Patrick Waddick, president and COO of

Cirrus Aircraft The Cirrus Design Corporation, doing business as Cirrus Aircraft (formally Cirrus Design), is an aircraft design, manufacturing, maintenance and management company, as well as a provider of flight training services, that was founded in 1984 by ...

* Peter Booth Wiley, publisher * Elmer Winter (1912–2009), founder of ManpowerGroup * Lewis Wolff, real estate developer and owner of the

Oakland Athletics The Oakland Athletics (frequently referred to as the Oakland A's) were an American Major League Baseball (MLB) team based in Oakland, California from 1968 to 2024. The Athletics were a member club of the American League (AL) American League We ...

and

San Jose Earthquakes The San Jose Earthquakes are an American professional association football, soccer club based in San Jose, California. The Earthquakes compete in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Western Conference (MLS), Western Conference. Origin ...

* Zhu Yunlai, CEO of China International Capital Corp

Literature

Nazik Al-Malaika Nazik al-Malaika (; 23 August 1923 – 20 June 2007) was an Iraqi poet. Al-Malaika is noted for being among the first Arabic poets to use free verse. Early life and career Al-Malaika was born in Baghdad to a cultured family. Her mother Salma ...

, Iraqi poet * Kevin J. Anderson, author * Nuala Archer, poet * Alice Elinor Bartlett, author *

Lynne Cheney Lynne Ann Cheney ( ; ; born August 14, 1941) is an American author, scholar, and former talk show host. She served as the second lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009 when her husband was vice president. Childhood and education Lynne An ...

, author, writer, and former

Second Lady of the United States The second lady of the United States or second gentleman (SLOTUS or SGOTUS) is the informal title held by the spouse of the vice president of the United States, concurrent with the vice president's term of office. Coined in contrast to " first la ...

* Donald Clarke, author on music * Eleanor Clymer, children's author *

Betsy Colquitt Elizabeth "Betsy" Colquitt (1926 – 7 April 2009) was an American professor of English and a poet known for themes and poetic structures which reflect a modernist sensibility. She was born in Fort Worth, Texas, United States in 1926 and died on ...

, poet * Jane Cooper, poet * Richard Dauenhauer, poet *

August Derleth August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. He was the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft. He made contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and the Lovecraftian horror, cosmi ...

, writer, editor, anthologist of

H. P. Lovecraft Howard Phillips Lovecraft (, ; August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer of Weird fiction, weird, Science fiction, science, fantasy, and horror fiction. He is best known for his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos. Born in Provi ...

, and founder of

Arkham House Arkham House was an American publishing house specializing in weird fiction. It was founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin, in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to publish hardcover collections of H. P. Lovecraft's best works, which had ...

publishing * Esther Forbes, author and

Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prizes () are 23 annual awards given by Columbia University in New York City for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters". They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fo ...

winner * Genevieve Foster, author *

Zona Gale Zona Gale (August 26, 1874 – December 27, 1938), also known by her married name, Zona Gale Breese, was an American novelist, short story writer, and playwright. She became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921. The close r ...

, author and playwright * Robert Greene * Sam Greenlee, author * Horace Gregory, poet * Frederick Gutheim, author * Emily Hahn, author *

Lorraine Hansberry Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an American playwright and writer. She was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway theatre, Broadway. Her best-known work, the play ''A Raisin ...

, author and playwright *

Eva Lund Haugen Eva Lund Haugen (February 4, 1907 – October 25, 1996) was an American writer, editor and translator. Biography Eva Lund was born at Kongsvinger in Hedmark, Norway. She was twelve years old when her journalist parents emigrated to the United Stat ...

, author * Michael Heiser, author and Biblical scholar * David Henige, author * Kevin Henkes, children's author * Conrad Hilberry, poet *

Hjalmar Holand Hjalmar Rued Holand (October 20, 1872 – August 6, 1963) was a Norwegian-American historian and author. He was the author of a number of books and articles principally dealing with the history of Door County, Wisconsin, of the Upper Midwest, and ...

, author and historian *

bell hooks Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 – December 15, 2021), better known by her pen name bell hooks (stylized in lowercase), was an American author, theorist, educator, and social critic who was a Distinguished Professor in Residence at Be ...

, author, writer, and activist * Carolyn Hougan, writer *

Jim Hougan James Richard Hougan (born George James Edwards on October 14, 1942)iarchive:isbn 9780787679071/page/153, "Hougan, Jim 1942–." In: iarchive:isbn 9780787679071, ''Contemporary Authors Online: A Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in F ...

, writer * Jens Joneleit, composer * Lesley Kagen, author * Jay Kennedy, editor-in-chief of

King Features Syndicate King Features Syndicate, Inc. is an American content distribution and animation studio, consumer product License, licensing and print syndication company owned by Hearst Communications that distributes about 150 comic strips, columnist, newspape ...

* Herbert Kubly, author and playwright * Margery Latimer, author and writer * Ann Lauterbach, poet * Flora E. Lowry (1879–1933), anthologist * Gordon MacQuarrie, author, writer, and outdoorsman * Honoré Willsie Morrow, author, magazine editor *

Lotte Motz Lotte Motz, born Lotte Edlis (August 16, 1922 – December 24, 1997), was an Austrian-American scholar, obtaining a Ph.D. in German and philology, who published four books and many scholarly papers, primarily in the fields of Germanic mythology ...

, scholar of German mythology *

Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Her novels ''Black ...

National Book Award The National Book Awards (NBA) are a set of annual U.S. literary awards. At the final National Book Awards Ceremony every November, the National Book Foundation presents the National Book Awards and two lifetime achievement awards to authors. ...

-winning author and professor at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

* Ainehi Edoro, founder and editor of

Brittle Paper ''Brittle Paper'' is an online literary magazine styled as an "African literary blog" published weekly in the English language. Its focus is on "build(ing) a vibrant African literary scene." It was founded by Ainehi Edoro (at the time a doctora ...

* Ed Ochester, poet * Lance Olsen, author and writer * Sigurd F. Olson, author and naturalist * Alicia Ostriker, poet *

Kenneth Patchen Kenneth Patchen (December 13, 1911January 8, 1972) was an American poet and novelist. He experimented with different forms of writing and incorporated painting, drawing, and jazz music into his works, which have been compared with those of Will ...

, poet * Gerald Peary, film critic * Robert Peters, poet, playwright, critic, and professor * Richard Quinney, author * Som Ranchan, scholar and author * Ellen Raskin, author *

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953)
ac ...

-winning author * Ella Giles Ruddy (1851–1917), author, editor * Sofia Samatar, professor, editor and writer * Pamela Redmond Satran, entrepreneur and author * Mark Schorer, writer, critic, and professor * Delmore Schwartz, poet and writer * Barolong Seboni, poet * Clifford D. Simak, science fiction author *

, poet * Raymond J. Smith, literary critic * John Snead, writer and role player *

Midori Snyder Midori Snyder is an American writer of fantasy, mythic fiction, and nonfiction on myth and folklore. She has published eight novels for children and adults, winning the Mythopoeic Award for ''The Innamorati''. Her work has been translated int ...

, writer and author * David Stephenson, poet * Peter Straub, author, recipient of the

Bram Stoker Award The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented annually by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in dark fantasy and horror writing. History The Awards were established in 1987 and have been presented annually since ...

World Fantasy Award The World Fantasy Awards are a set of awards given each year for the best fantasy fiction published during the previous calendar year. Organized and overseen by the World Fantasy Convention, the awards are given each year at the eponymous ann ...

, and the

International Horror Guild Award The International Horror Guild Award (also known as the IHG Award) was an accolade recognizing excellence in the field of horror/dark fantasy, presented by the International Horror Guild (IHG) from 1995 to 2008. The IHG Awards were determined by ...

* Mark Tatge, journalist * Martha L. Poland Thurston, social leader, philanthropist, writer * Steve Tittle, Canadian composer *

Danielle Trussoni Danielle Anne Trussoni is a ''New York Times'', ''USA Today'', and ''Sunday Times'' Top 10 bestselling novelist. She has been a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction jurist, and wrote the "Dark Matters" column for the ''New York Times Book Review'' for five ...

, writer from La Crosse * Francis Utley, folklorist and linguist *

, composer and writer * Stanley G. Weinbaum, science fiction author * Jody Weiner, novelist, author, film producer *

Patricia Wells Patricia Wells (born 5 November 1946 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a cookbook author and teacher. Biography She divides her time between Paris and Provence. She is the author of numerous food-related books. Her book ''Patricia Wells at Home in Prov ...

, author *

Eudora Welty Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an American short-story writer, novelist and photographer who wrote about the American South. Her novel '' The Optimist's Daughter'' won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty received numerou ...

, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist * Viola S. Wendt, poet * E.J. Westlake, playwright * Frank Wu, science fiction artist * Mark Wunderlich, poet * Marya Zaturenska, poet

News, journalism, and broadcasting

* Roy Adams, Canadian journalist *

Lynsey Addario Lynsey Addario (born 1973) is an American photojournalist. Her work often focuses on conflicts and human rights issues, especially the role of women in traditional societies. In 2022, she received a Courage in Journalism Award from the Internati ...

, photojournalist * Mary Agria, journalist/author * Irene Osgood Andrews, former labor journalist * Jim Armstrong, sports writer, ''

The Denver Post ''The Denver Post'' is a daily newspaper and website published in the Denver metropolitan area. it has an average print circulation of 57,265. In 2016, its website received roughly six million monthly unique visitors generating more than 13 mil ...

'' * Robert L. Bartley, former editor, ''

Wall Street Journal ''The Wall Street Journal'' (''WSJ''), also referred to simply as the ''Journal,'' is an American newspaper based in New York City. The newspaper provides extensive coverage of news, especially business and finance. It operates on a subscriptio ...

'' * Rod Beaton (1951–2011), sports journalist for USA Today *

Lowell Bergman Lowell Bergman (born July 24, 1945) is an American journalist, television producer, and professor of journalism. Bergman was a producer, reporter, and director of investigative reporting at ABC News. Later a producer for CBS’s ''60 Minutes,'' he ...

, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist * Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author * Walt Bogdanich, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author * Rita Braver, national reporter,

CBS News CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS. It is headquartered in New York City. CBS News television programs include ''CBS Evening News'', ''CBS Mornings'', news magazine programs ''CBS News Sunday Morn ...

William Broad William J. Broad (born March 7, 1951) is an American science journalist, author and a Senior Writer at ''The New York Times''. Early life and education Broad was born on March 7, 1951. He earned a master's degree from the University of Wisc ...

, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author * Jane Brody, columnist, ''

New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of ...

'' * Peter Brunette, film critic ''(

The Hollywood Reporter ''The Hollywood Reporter'' (''THR'') is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Cinema of the United States, Hollywood film industry, film, television, and entertainment industries. It was founded in 1930 as a daily trade pap ...

)'' and film historian * Chris Bury, correspondent, ''

Nightline ''Nightline'' (or ''ABC News Nightline'') is ABC News (United States), ABC News' Late night television in the United States, late-night television news program broadcast on American Broadcasting Company, ABC in the United States with a franchis ...

'' *

Erik Bye Erik Erikssønn Bye (March 1, 1926 – October 13, 2004) was a versatile Norwegian-American journalist, artist, author, film actor, folk singer and radio and television personality. He was one of the 20th century's most well-known and popular r ...

, Norwegian journalist *

Tim Cahill Timothy Filiga Cahill (; born 6 December 1979) is an Australian former professional soccer player who played as an attacking midfielder but also played as a striker on many occasions. A box-to-box midfielder, Cahill became recognised for "hi ...

, adventure travel writer, founding editor of ''Outside'' magazine * Susan Carpenter, journalist and author * Ethan Casey, journalist * John Darnton, journalist * Nancy Dickerson, journalist *

Doris Dungey Doris J. Dungey (November 15, 1961 – November 30, 2008) was an American blogger who wrote extensively about the United States housing bubble for the blog Calculated Risk under the pseudonym ''Tanta''.. Early life and work Born in Oxnard, Califo ...

, former blogger * Andrew Feinberg, White House Correspondent for Breakfast Media * Michael Feldman, host of Public Radio's '' Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?'' *

Bob Franken Robert E. "Bob" Franken (born 1941) is an American journalist and frequent guest on MSNBC. Franken was CNN's primary correspondent in President Clinton's impeachment. He specializes in political reporting and often uses puns in his commentaries ...

, correspondent,

CNN Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news organization operating, most notably, a website and a TV channel headquartered in Atlanta. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable ne ...

* Elina Fuhrman, journalist * Jason Gay, Wall Street Journal sports writer *

Jeff Greenfield Henry Jeffrey Greenfield (born June 10, 1943) is an American television journalist, lawyer, and author. Early life and education He was born in New York City, to Benjamin and Helen E. Greenfield. He grew up in Manhattan and graduated in 1960 f ...

, senior political correspondent,

CBS CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainme ...

Ruth Gruber Ruth Gruber (; September 30, 1911 – November 17, 2016) was an American journalist, photographer, writer, humanitarian, and United States government official. Born in Brooklyn to Russian Jewish immigrants, she was encouraged to pursue her dr ...

, author and journalist *

Usha Haley Usha C. V. Haley is an American author and academic, currently W. Frank Barton Distinguished Chair of International Business and Professor of Management at the W. Frank Barton School of Business at Wichita State University in the U.S. state of Kans ...

, business journalist * Helen Holmes, journalist, historian, Women's Army Corps officer * Paul Ingrassia,

-winning journalist * Don L. Johnson, journalist and author * Haynes Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist * Ben Karlin, creator and former executive producer, ''

The Daily Show ''The Daily Show'' is an American late-night talk show, late-night talk and news satire television program. It airs each Monday through Thursday on Comedy Central in the United States, with extended episodes released shortly after on Paramount+ ...

'' and ''

'' * Andy Katz, college basketball writer,

ESPN ESPN (an initialism of their original name, which was the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by the Walt Disney Company (80% and operational control) and Hearst Commu ...

* Jay Kennedy, journalist and writer * Louis P. Lochner, journalist * David Maraniss, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist * Patricia McConnell, co-host of Public Radio's ''Calling All Pets'' * Robert D. McFadden, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist * Karl E. Meyer, journalist for ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of ...

'' and editor of ''

World Policy Journal ''World Policy Journal'' was the flagship publication of the World Policy Institute, published by Duke University Press. Focusing on international relations, the publication provided left-wing, non-United States-centric perspectives to world issu ...

'' * Michael Meyer, journalist, travel writer *

Edwin Newman Edwin Harold Newman (January 25, 1919 – August 13, 2010) was an American newscaster, journalist, and author. After beginning his career with the wire services and serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II, Newman worked in radio for CBS New ...

, former NBC news correspondent * Arthur C. Nielsen Sr., founder of

AC Nielsen NIQ (also known as NielsenIQ, formerly known as ACNielsen or AC Nielsen) is a global marketing research firm, with worldwide headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The company has approximately 30,000 employees and operates in more ...

(TV ratings and market research) * Michele Norris, journalist at

National Public Radio National Public Radio (NPR) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California. It serves as a national Radio syndication, syndicator to a network of more ...

* Miriam Ottenberg, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist *

Danny Peary Dannis Peary (born August 8, 1949) is an American film critic and sports writer. He has written and edited many books on Film, cinema and sports-related topics. Peary is most famous for his book ''Cult Movies (book), Cult Movies'' (1980), which s ...

, film critic * Gerald Peary, film critic *

Nathan Rabin Nathan Rabin () is an American film and music critic. Rabin was the first head writer for ''The A.V. Club'', a position he held until he left the ''Onion'' organization in 2013.

, film critic * Manu Raju, correspondent,

* Gil Reavill, journalist and screenwriter *

Chris Rose Christopher Rose (born January 27, 1971) is an American sportscaster for the NFL Network, and the interim radio play-by-play announcer for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL). Outside of football, he is also a commentator ...

Phil Rosenthal Philip Rosenthal (born January 27, 1960) is an American television writer and producer who is the creator, writer, and executive producer of the CBS sitcom ''Everybody Loves Raymond'' (1996–2005). In recent years, he has presented food and t ...

, columnist, ''

Chicago Tribune The ''Chicago Tribune'' is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1847, it was formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper", a slogan from which its once integrated WGN (AM), WGN radio and ...

'' * Susanne Rust, journalist * Joe Schoenmann, journalist, author * Joseph Sexton, journalist and reporter with the ''New York Times'' * Anthony Shadid, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist * Algie Martin Simons, journalist * Tom Skilling, chief meteorologist,

WGN-TV WGN-TV (channel 9) is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, serving as the local outlet for The CW. It is owned and operated by the network's majority owner, Nexstar Media Group, and is sister station, sister to the company ...

* William P. Steven, editor and newspaper executive, '' Tulsa Tribune'', ''

Minneapolis Tribune ''The Minnesota Star Tribune'', formerly the ''Minneapolis Star Tribune'', is an American daily newspaper based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As of 2023, it is Minnesota's largest newspaper and the seventh-largest in the United States by circula ...

'', ''

Houston Chronicle The ''Houston Chronicle'' is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Houston, Texas, United States. it is the third-largest newspaper by Sunday circulation in the United States, behind only ''The New York Times'' and the ''Los Angeles Times''. ...

'' * James Suckling, wine and cigar critic * Nilofar Suhrawardy, journalist * Christopher Tennant, magazine editor * Mildred Ladner Thompson, former journalist * Stephen Thompson, NPR music journalist * Dave Umhoefer, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist * David C. Unger, journalist, ''New York Times'' * Greta Van Susteren, broadcaster and news analyst,

Fox News Channel The Fox News Channel (FNC), commonly known as Fox News, is an American multinational conservative news and political commentary television channel and website based in New York City, U.S. It is owned by Fox News Media, which itself is ow ...

* Tom Vanden Brook, journalist with ''

USA Today ''USA Today'' (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company. Founded by Al Neuharth in 1980 and launched on September 14, 1982, the newspaper operates from Gannett's corporate headq ...

'' * Kenneth P. Vogel, journalist with ''

Politico ''Politico'' (stylized in all caps), known originally as ''The Politico'', is an American political digital newspaper company founded by American banker and media executive Robert Allbritton in 2007. It covers politics and policy in the Unit ...

'' * Mary Williams Walsh, journalist * James Wieghart, journalist * Conrad Worrill, broadcaster * David Zurawik, author, journalist with ''

The Baltimore Sun ''The Baltimore Sun'' is the largest general-circulation daily newspaper based in the U.S. state of Maryland and provides coverage of local, regional, national, and international news. Founded in 1837, the newspaper was owned by Tribune Publi ...

'', assistant professor at

Goucher College Goucher College ( ') is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Towson, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1885 as a Nonsectarian, nonsecterian Women's colleges in the United States, ...

Law and politics

;A–G * Charles L. Aarons, Milwaukee County Circuit Court judgeBiography/History of Charles L. Aarons
Wisconsin Historical Society. *

Shirley Abrahamson Shirley Schlanger Abrahamson (December 17, 1933December 19, 2020) was the 25th chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. An American lawyer and jurist, she was appointed to the court in 1976 by Governor Patrick Lucey, becoming the first femal ...

, Chief Justice of the

Wisconsin Supreme Court The Wisconsin Supreme Court is the Supreme court, highest and final court of appeals in the state judicial system of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In addition to hearing appeals of lower Wisconsin court decisions, the Wisconsin Supreme Court also ...

* Henry Cullen Adams, U.S. Representative *

Iajuddin Ahmed Iajuddin Ahmed (1 February 193110 December 2012) was the President of Bangladesh, serving from 6 September 2002 until 12 February 2009. With a doctorate in soil science, Ahmed became a full professor at the University of Dhaka and chairman of ...

, former

President of Bangladesh President of Bangladesh (POB), officially the President of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is the head of state of Bangladesh and commander-in-chief of the Bangladesh Armed Forces. The role of the president has changed three times since ...

* Ronald E. Albers, California judge * Anita Alpern, former

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commissioner *

Arthur J. Altmeyer Arthur Joseph Altmeyer (May 8, 1891October 16, 1972) was the first United States Commissioner for Social Security from 1946 to 1953, and the second chairman of the Social Security Board from 1937 to 1946. He was a key figure in the design and impl ...

, former

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Thomas Ryum Amlie Thomas Ryum Amlie (April 17, 1897 – August 22, 1973) was an American politician who served as a two-time United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative from Wisconsin's 1st congressional district. Ryum first served as a Republi ...

, U.S. Representative * Rasmus B. Anderson, U.S. diplomat * Adeyinka Asekun, former Nigerian High Commissioner to Canada * Wilson Ndolo Ayah, former foreign minister,

Kenya Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country located in East Africa. With an estimated population of more than 52.4 million as of mid-2024, Kenya is the 27th-most-populous country in the world and the 7th most populous in Africa. ...

* William Bablitch, former justice,

* Sergio Balanzino, Italian diplomat *

Tammy Baldwin Tammy Suzanne Green Baldwin (born February 11, 1962) is an American politician and lawyer serving since 2013 as the Seniority in the United States Senate, junior United States senator from Wisconsin. A member of the Democratic Party (United Stat ...

, U.S. Senator * Hiram Barber, Jr., U.S. Representative from

Illinois Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. It borders on Lake Michigan to its northeast, the Mississippi River to its west, and the Wabash River, Wabash and Ohio River, Ohio rivers to its ...

* Peter W. Barca, U.S. Representative *

Charles V. Bardeen Charles Valdo Bardeen Sr. (September 23, 1850March 20, 1903) was an American lawyer and judge in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. He was a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court from 1898 until his death in 1903. Previously, he served six years as ...

, former justice,

* Elmer E. Barlow, justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court * Robert Barnett, attorney * Tom Barrett, former U.S. Representative, mayor of

Milwaukee, Wisconsin Milwaukee is the List of cities in Wisconsin, most populous city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. Located on the western shore of Lake Michigan, it is the List of United States cities by population, 31st-most populous city in the United States ...

* Charlene Barshefsky, former U.S. Trade Representative * Robert McKee Bashford, former mayor of

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; former justice,

* Robert C. Bassett, U.S. presidential advisor * Susan J. M. Bauman, former mayor of

* Joseph D. Beck, former

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* Bruce F. Beilfuss, former chief justice of Wisconsin * Ernst Benda, Minister of the Interior of Germany and president the

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* Helen Ginger Berrigan, federal judge *

Mario Ramón Beteta Mario Ramón Beteta Monsalve (7 July 1925 – 5 October 2004) was a Mexican economist who served as the last Secretary of Finance (Mexico), Secretary of Finance in the cabinet of President Luis Echeverría (1975–76), as director-general of Pe ...

, former Secretary of Finance,

Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...

* Abdirahman Duale Beyle, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Somalia * George W. Blanchard, U.S. Representative * George L. Blum, Eau Claire County Judge * Nils Boe, 23rd Governor of South Dakota and

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for the United States Customs Court * Randall Boe, attorney * John W. Boehne, Jr., former U.S. Representative * Alexander Campbell Botkin, Lieutenant Governor of Montana * Ann Walsh Bradley, Justice,

* J. Quinn Brisben,

Socialist Party USA The Socialist Party of the United States of America (also Socialist Party USA or SPUSA) is a socialist political party in the United States. SPUSA formed in 1973, one year after the Socialist Party of America splintered into three: Social De ...

candidate for

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and Vice-President; civil rights activist; teacher * Grover L. Broadfoot, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court * Dave Bronson, Mayor of

Anchorage, Alaska Anchorage, officially the Municipality of Anchorage, is the List of cities in Alaska, most populous city in the U.S. state of Alaska. With a population of 291,247 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it contains nearly 40 percent of ...

* Angie Brooks, former president,

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* Timothy Brown, former chief justice of Wisconsin * Webster E. Brown, U.S. Representative * Edward E. Browne, U.S. Representative * Andrew A. Bruce, former justice, North Dakota Supreme Court * Akmal Nasrullah Mohd Nasir, Deputy Minister of Local Government Development of Malaysia * George Bunn, diplomat * George Bunn, former justice,

Minnesota Supreme Court The Minnesota Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The court hears cases in the Supreme Court chamber in the Minnesota State Capitol or in the nearby Minnesota Judicial Center. History The court was first assemb ...

* John R. Burke, U.S. diplomat * Michael E. Burke, U.S. Representative * Elizabeth Burmaster, Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin * Louis B. Butler, federal judicial nominee, former justice,

* Walter Halben Butler, former United States Representative * John W. Byrnes, U.S. Representative * William G. Callow, Wisconsin Supreme Court * John Campbell * Milton Robert Carr, U.S. Representative from

Michigan Michigan ( ) is a peninsular U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, ...

* Patrick G. Carrick, member of the

Senior Executive Service The Senior Executive Service (SES) is a position classification in the United States federal civil service equivalent to general officer or flag officer rank in the U.S. Armed Forces. It was created in 1979 when the Civil Service Reform Act of ...

* Savion Castro, a member of the

Board of Education A board of education, school committee or school board is the board of directors or board of trustees of a school, local school district or an equivalent institution. The elected council determines the educational policy in a small regional area, ...

* Sheri Polster Chappell, federal judge *

Dick Cheney Richard Bruce Cheney ( ; born January 30, 1941) is an American former politician and businessman who served as the 46th vice president of the United States from 2001 to 2009 under President George W. Bush. He has been called vice presidency o ...

, former

vice president of the United States The vice president of the United States (VPOTUS) is the second-highest ranking office in the Executive branch of the United States government, executive branch of the U.S. federal government, after the president of the United States, and ranks f ...

(attended UW as doctoral student; received M.A. degree but did not continue) * Dave Cieslewicz, Mayor of

* Moses E. Clapp, U.S. Senator from

Minnesota Minnesota ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the so ...

* Kathryn F. Clarenbach, first chairperson of the

National Organization for Women The National Organization for Women (NOW) is an American feminist organization. Founded in 1966, it is legally a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization. The organization consists of 550 chapters in all 50 U.S. states and in Washington, D.C. It ...

* David G. Classon, U.S. Representative * Wilbur J. Cohen, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Cabinet of President Lyndon B. Johnson and "Father of Medicare." * William M. Conley, federal judge * Daniel Cosío Villegas, president of the

United Nations Economic and Social Council The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) is one of six principal organs of the United Nations, responsible for coordinating the economic and social fields of the organization, specifically in regards to the fifteen specialized ...

* Barbara B. Crabb, former federal judge * Lawrence William Cramer, former governor,

United States Virgin Islands The United States Virgin Islands, officially the Virgin Islands of the United States, are a group of Caribbean islands and a territory of the United States. The islands are geographically part of the Virgin Islands archipelago and are located ...

Jason Crow Jason Crow (born March 15, 1979) is an American politician, lawyer, and former U.S. Army officer serving since 2019 as the United States representative for . Crow is the first member of the Democratic Party to represent the district, which e ...

, U.S. Representative from

Colorado Colorado is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States. It is one of the Mountain states, sharing the Four Corners region with Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. It is also bordered by Wyoming to the north, Nebraska to the northeast, Kansas ...

* Charles H. Crownhart, former justice,

* John Cudahy, U.S. diplomat * Richard Dickson Cudahy, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals * George R. Currie, former chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court * Herman Dahle, U.S. Representative * George Jonathan Danforth,

South Dakota South Dakota (; Sioux language, Sioux: , ) is a U.S. state, state in the West North Central states, North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Dakota people, Dakota Sioux ...

State Senator * Roland B. Day, former justice,

* John Paton Davies, Jr., U.S. diplomat * Joseph E. Davies, U.S. diplomat * Glenn Robert Davis, U.S. Representative * Albert F. Dawson, former U.S. Representative * Ada Deer, head of the U.S.

Bureau of Indian Affairs The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), also known as Indian Affairs (IA), is a United States List of United States federal agencies, federal agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior, Department of the Interior. It is responsible for im ...

* Evo Anton DeConcini, former justice,

Arizona Supreme Court The Arizona Supreme Court is the state supreme court of the U.S. state of Arizona. Sitting in the Supreme Court building in downtown Phoenix, the court consists of a chief justice, a vice chief justice, and five associate justices. Each justi ...

* Edward Dithmar, Lieutenant Governor of

Wisconsin Wisconsin ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States. It borders Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michig ...

* Christian Doerfler, former justice,

* Mark Doms, chief economist, Economics and Statistics Administration * Brian Donnelly * James Edward Doyle, former

of the

United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin The United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin (in case citations, W.D. Wis.) is a federal court in the Seventh Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are ...

* James Edward "Jim" Doyle, 44th

Governor of Wisconsin The governor of Wisconsin is the head of government of Wisconsin and the commander-in-chief of the state's Wisconsin Army National Guard, army and Wisconsin Air National Guard, air forces. The governor has a duty to enforce state laws, and the ...

* Lee S. Dreyfus, 40th

* Stan Dromisky, former Member of Parliament * F. Ryan Duffy, former U.S. Senator and former judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals * William S. Dwinnell, former

State Senator * Lawrence Eagleburger, former U.S. Secretary of State *

Donald B. Easum Donald Boyd Easum (August 27, 1923 – April 16, 2016) was an American diplomat. Foreign service Easum spent 27 years in the United States Foreign Service at posts in Nicaragua, Indonesia, Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Niger, Republic o ...

, former U.S. diplomat * Herman Ekern, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin * Richard Elsner, lawyer, judge and Wisconsin state legislator * Howard Engle (1919–2009), physician and lead plaintiff in a landmark lawsuit against the

tobacco industry The tobacco industry comprises those persons and companies who are engaged in the growth, preparation for sale, shipment, advertisement, and distribution of tobacco and tobacco-related products. It is a global industry; tobacco can grow in any ...

* John J. Esch, U.S. Representative * Evan Alfred Evans, former U.S. Appeals Court judge *

Tony Evers Anthony Steven Evers ( ; born November 5, 1951) is an American politician and educator serving since 2019 as the 46th governor of Wisconsin. A member of the Democratic Party, he served from 2009 to 2019 as Wisconsin's 26th superintendent of p ...

, Current

and former Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin * Thomas E. Fairchild, former U.S. Appeals Court judge * Sergio Fajardo, former mayor of

Medellín Medellín ( ; or ), officially the Special District of Science, Technology and Innovation of Medellín (), is the List of cities in Colombia, second-largest city in Colombia after Bogotá, and the capital of the department of Antioquia Departme ...

and former governor of Antioquia, Colombia * Elizabeth P. Farrington, former U.S. Representative,

Hawaii Territory The Territory of Hawaii or Hawaii Territory ( Hawaiian: ''Panalāʻau o Hawaiʻi'') was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from April 30, 1900, until August 21, 1959, when most of its territory, excluding ...

* Joseph Rider Farrington, former U.S. Representative,

Russ Feingold Russell Dana Feingold ( ; born March 2, 1953) is an American politician and lawyer who served as a United States Senate, United States Senator from Wisconsin from 1993 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, h ...

, U.S. Senator * Bill Foster, U.S. Representative from

* Alejandro Foxley, former foreign minister of

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...

* Chester A. Fowler, former justice,

* Oscar M. Fritz, former chief justice,

* Harold V. Froehlich, U.S. Representative * G. Fred Galli, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly * Kathryn Garcia (born 1970), Commissioner of the

New York City Sanitation Department The New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) is the department of the government of New York City responsible for Municipal solid waste, garbage collection, recycling collection, street cleaning, and snow removal. The DSNY is the primary op ...

* Anne Nicol Gaylor, political activist * Edward J. Gehl, former justice,

* Bernard J. Gehrmann, U.S. Representative *

Hiram Gill Hiram C. Gill (August 23, 1866 – January 7, 1919) was an American lawyer and two-time Mayor of Seattle, Washington, identified with the "open city" politics that advocated toleration of prostitution, alcohol (drug), alcohol, and gambling.David ...

, former mayor of

Seattle, Washington Seattle ( ) is the List of municipalities in Washington, most populous city in the U.S. state of Washington (state), Washington and in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. With a population of 780,995 in 2024, it is the List of Unit ...

* J. Michael Gilmore, director of the

Operational Test and Evaluation Directorate An operational definition specifies concrete, replicable procedures designed to represent a construct. In the words of American psychologist S.S. Stevens (1935), "An operation is the performance which we execute in order to make known a concept." F ...

* Myron L. Gordon, former federal judge * Robert N. Gorman, former justice,

Ohio Supreme Court The Supreme Court of the State of Ohio is the highest court in the U.S. state of Ohio, with final authority over interpretations of Ohio law and the Ohio Constitution. The court has seven members, a chief justice and six associate justices, ...

* Mark Green, U.S. diplomat * Stephen S. Gregory, former president,

American Bar Association The American Bar Association (ABA) is a voluntary association, voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students in the United States; national in scope, it is not specific to any single jurisdiction. Founded in 1878, the ABA's stated acti ...

* Harry W. Griswold, U.S. Representative * John A. Gronouski,

United States Postmaster General The United States postmaster general (PMG) is the chief executive officer of the United States Postal Service (USPS). The PMG is responsible for managing and directing the day-to-day operations of the agency. The PMG is selected and appointed by ...

Erica Groshen Erica Lynn Groshen (born August 6, 1954) is the former Commissioner of Labor Statistics and head of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the independent, principal fact-finding agency for the U.S. government in the broad fields of labor e ...

, commissioner, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics * Herbert J. Grover, educator and legislator * Kenneth Philip Grubb, former federal judge *

Philip Gunawardena Don Philip Rupasinghe Gunawardena (11 January 1901 – 26 March 1972) was a Sri Lankan Marxist politician and leftist. A founder of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, the first political party in Ceylon which was known for having introduced Trotskyi ...

, former

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, ...

n revolutionary, cabinet minister, Indian freedom fighter * Gunnar Gundersen, member of the

Parliament of Norway The Storting ( ; ) is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The unicameral parliament has 169 members and is elected every four years based on party-list proportional represe ...

(2005–present) * Henry Gunderson, Lieutenant Governor of

* Steve Gunderson, U.S. Representative ;H–M * Sami Haddad, Minister of Economy and Trade,

Lebanon Lebanon, officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia. Situated at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian Peninsula, it is bordered by Syria to the north and east, Israel to the south ...

* David Warner Hagen, former federal judge * Oscar Hallam, justice of the

, Dean of the

William Mitchell College of Law William Mitchell College of Law was a private law school from 1956 to 2015 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. Accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA), it offered full- and part-time legal education in pursuit of the Juris Doctor (J. ...

* Sa'dun Hammadi, former prime minister of

Iraq Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to Iraq–Saudi Arabia border, the south, Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq border, the east, the Persian Gulf and ...

* Don Hanaway, former Wisconsin Attorney General * Connor Hansen, former justice,

* Doris Hanson, Wisconsin politician * Spencer Haven, former attorney general of

* Charles Hawks, Jr., U.S. Representative * S.I. Hayakawa, former U.S. Senator from California * Everis A. Hayes, U.S. Representative from California * James B. Hays, former chief justice,

Idaho Idaho ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain states, Mountain West subregions of the Western United States. It borders Montana and Wyoming to the east, Nevada and Utah to the south, and Washington (state), ...

Donald Hayworth Donald Hayworth (January 13, 1898 – February 25, 1982) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. Hayworth was born in Toledo, Iowa, and attended a country school in Mahaska County, Iowa, and high school in New Sharon, Iowa. He gra ...

, former U.S. Representative * Ned R. Healy, U.S. Representative from California * Nathan Heffernan, former justice,

* Walter Heller, Economist end presidential advisor * Robert Kirkland Henry, U.S. Representative * Charles N. Herreid, Governor of

* Emmett R. Hicks, former attorney general of Wisconsin * Harvey V. Higley, former administrator of Veterans Affairs * Knute Hill, former United States Representative from the Washington (state), State of Washington * Geraldine Hines, Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Court * Jeffry House, Canadian attorney * Henry Huber, Lieutenant Governor of

* Benjamin N. Hulburd, Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court * Paul O. Husting, U.S. Senator * Clifford Ireland, U.S. Representative from

* Andre Jacque, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly * Edward H. Jenison, U.S. Representative from

* Byron L. Johnson, U.S. Representative from

* J. Leroy Johnson, former U.S. Representative * Lester Johnson (politician), Lester Johnson, U.S. Representative * Sveinbjorn Johnson, former justice, North Dakota Supreme Court * Burr W. Jones, U.S. Representative * Howard Palfrey Jones, U.S. diplomat * Richard Jones (U.S. diplomat), Richard Jones * William Carey Jones, former U.S. Representative from Washington (state), State of Washington * Jim Jordan, U.S. Representative, Ohio, two-time NCAA wrestling champion * Pallo Jordan, former Minister of Arts and Culture, Republic of South Africa * Charles A. Kading, U.S. Representative * Steve Kagen, U.S. Representative * Philip Mayer Kaiser, U.S. diplomat * Henry Kajura, Deputy Prime Minister of Uganda * Marcy Kaptur, U.S. Representative, Ohio * Robert Kastenmeier, U.S. Representative * David Keene, activist and chairman of the American Conservative Union * Oscar Keller, U.S. Representative from

* James C. Kerwin, former justice,

* Shishir Khanal, Nepali Minister of Education, Science and Technology * John C. Kleczka, U.S. Representative * Frank Le Blond Kloeb, U.S. Representative from Ohio * Warren P. Knowles, List of Governors of Wisconsin, 37th

* Herb Kohl, U.S. Senator * Scott L. Klug, U.S. Representative * Arthur W. Kopp, U.S. Representative * Carolyn H. Krause, member of the Illinois House of Representatives * Julius Albert Krug, U.S. Secretary of the Interior * Akihiko Kumashiro, member of the House of Representatives of Japan * John La Fave, Wisconsin politician * Belle Case La Follette, women's suffragist and wife of Robert M. La Follette, Sr. * Bronson La Follette, former attorney general of Wisconsin * Philip La Follette, List of Governors of Wisconsin, 27th

* Robert M. La Follette, Jr., U.S. Senator * Robert M. La Follette, Sr., List of Governors of Wisconsin, 20th

, U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator * Jeffrey M. Lacker, president, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond * Richard Lamm, Governor of

* John E. Lange, former U.S. Ambassador for Health and Pandemics * Peg Lautenschlager, former attorney general of Wisconsin * Charles Lavine, New York assemblyman * Barbara Lawton, Lieutenant Governor of

* Frank Le Blond Kloeb, former U.S. Representative * Elmer O. Leatherwood, former U.S. Representative * Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission * Nick Leluk, former Member of Parliament * Olin B. Lewis, former Minnesota politician * Theodore G. Lewis, former justice,

* James C. Liao, president of Academia Sinica, Taiwan Academia Sinica. * Thomas A. Loftus, U.S. diplomat * James B. Loken, judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals * William Lorge, Wisconsin politician * Alan David Lourie, judge, U.S. Appeals Court * Claude Zeth Luse, former federal judge * Richard Barrett Lowe, Governor of American Samoa and Guam * Patrick Joseph Lucey, U.S. diplomat and Governor of

* Henry Maier, former mayor of

* James Manahan, former U.S. Representative * John T. Manske, Wisconsin State Assemblyman * David W. Márquez, former attorney general of Alaska * John E. Martin, former chief justice,

* Henry F. Mason, former justice, Kansas Supreme Court * Alyssa Mastromonaco, presidential aide * Charles McCarthy (football coach), Charles McCarthy, author of ''The Wisconsin Idea'' * Francis E. McGovern, List of Governors of Wisconsin, 22nd

* Howard J. McMurray, U.S. Representative * Alexander J. Menza, former New Jersey legislator and judge * Balthasar H. Meyer, member of the Interstate Commerce Commission * Abner Mikva, former judge, U.S. Appeals Court * Laura Miller (politician), Laura Miller, former mayor of Dallas, Texas * Bob Mionske, attorney and former Olympic and professional bicycle racer * William J. Morgan (Wisconsin politician), William J. Morgan, former attorney general of

* Kamel Morjane, Foreign Minister of Tunisia * Elmer A. Morse, U.S. Representative * Wayne L. Morse, U.S. Senator from Oregon * Edmund C. Moy, 38th director of the U.S. mint * Dan Mozena, U.S. Ambassador to Angola * Reid F. Murray, U.S. Representative * Louis Westcott Myers, Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court ;N–S GaylordNelson

* Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian freedom fighter and political leader; awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1998 * Philleo Nash, government official, college professor * Jennifer E. Nashold, Judge, Wisconsin Court of Appeals * Akmal Nasir, Malaysian politician and current Member Of Parliament for Johor Bahru * David D. Nelson, U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay * Gaylord Nelson, former U.S. Senator, List of Governors of Wisconsin, 35th

and founder of Earth Day * George B. Nelson, former justice,

* John M. Nelson, U.S. Representative * Ivan A. Nestingen, former mayor of

* Mark Neumann, U.S. Representative * John Norquist, former mayor of

* David Obey, U.S. Representative * Kenneth J. O'Connell, Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court * James L. O'Connor, former Wisconsin Attorney General * Alvin O'Konski, U.S. Representative * Tawiah Modibo Ocran, Supreme Court judge in Ghana * Eric Oemig, Washington (state) legislator * Conrad P. Olson, former justice, Oregon Supreme Court * Walter C. Owen, former justice,

* Carolyn R. Payton, former director, Peace Corps * Russell W. Peterson, Governor of Delaware * Richard F. Pettigrew, former United States Senator * Joy Picus, Los Angeles, California, city council member, 1977–91; ''Ms.'' magazine "Woman of the Year" * Huang Pi-Twan, Minister for Culture, Taiwan * Roger Pillath, retired NFL player, Los Angeles Rams and Pittsburgh Steelers * Mark Pocan, U.S. Representative * Jeanne Poppe, Minnesota legislator, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives * Hugh H. Price, U.S. Representative * David Prosser, Jr., Justice,

* John Abner Race, U.S. Representative * David Rabinovitz, former federal judge * Rudolph T. Randa, federal judge * Clifford E. Randall, U.S. Representative * Henry Riggs Rathbone, former U.S. Representative * James Ward Rector, former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice * Lowell A. Reed, federal judge * Michael K. Reilly, U.S. Representative * Paul Samuel Reinsch, appointed minister to China in 1913 * Shawn Reilly (politician), Shawn Reilly, mayor of Waukesha, Wisconsin, 2014–present * Oscar Rennebohm, former governor of

* John W. Reynolds, Sr., Attorneys General of Wisconsin, Attorney General of Wisconsin, 1927–1933 * John W. Reynolds, Jr., List of Governors of Wisconsin, 36th

* Daniel Riemer, legislator * Fred Risser, Wisconsin state senator and assemblyman * Fred Risser (Progressive), Wisconsin assemblyman * Charles Robb, former U.S. Senator and former governor of Virginia * Julius Edward Roehr, member of the Wisconsin State Senate, 1897-1908 * Patience Roggensack, Justice,

* Hannah Rosenthal, executive director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism * Horace Rublee, former U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland * David Sturtevant Ruder, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission * Wiley Rutledge, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court * Albert Morris Sames, former federal judge * Arthur Loomis Sanborn, former federal judge * David J. Saposs, former chief economist for the National Labor Relations Board * Harry Sauthoff, U.S. Representative * Marlin Schneider, Marlin D. Schneider, Democratic Politician and teacher, longest serving member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, 1971-2011 * Jim Sensenbrenner, U.S. Representative * Whitney North Seymour, former president,

* John C. Shabaz, former federal judge * David I. Shapiro, attorney and activist * Helen Shiller, Chicago Alderman * Robert G. Siebecker, former chief justice of Wisconsin * J. Minos Simon, attorney, legal author in Lafayette, Louisiana * Stewart Simonson, Assistant Secretary of Public Health Emergency Preparedness * Slawomir Skrzypek, former president, National Bank of Poland * Chad "Corntassel" Smith, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation * Daniel V. Speckhard, U.S. ambassador and diplomat * Paul Soglin, Mayor of

* Joan E. Spero, former ambassador to the

* John Coit Spooner, U.S. Senator * William Spriggs, assistant secretary, United States Department of Labor * Janet Dempsey Steiger, chairperson of the Postal Regulatory Commission, Postal Rate Commission and Federal Trade Commission * William A. Steiger, Congress * Donald Steinmetz, former justice,

* E. Ray Stevens, former justice,

* William H. Stevenson, former U.S. Representative * Anne K. Strasdauskas, Sheriff of Baltimore County, Maryland * Robert C. Strong, U.S. diplomat * Suchatvee Suwansawat, Thai Politicians, former President of King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL) * Jessie Sumner, former U.S. Representative * Lori Swanson, Attorney General of

* Aleksander Szczyglo, Minister of Defense of Poland * Elaine Szymoniak, former Iowa State Senator ;T–Z * James Albertus Tawney, former U.S. Representative * Amando Tetangco Jr., former Governor, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas * Donald Edgar Tewes, U.S. Representative * Nahathai Thewphaingarm, former Thai Minister of Education and spokesperson of Thai Rak Thai Party * Lewis D. Thill, U.S. Representative * George Thompson (Wisconsin politician), George Thompson, Attorney General of Wisconsin * Tommy Thompson, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services; former governor of Wisconsin (1986–2001) * Vernon W. Thomson, U.S. Representative and Governor of

* Fran Ulmer, Lieutenant Governor of Alaska * J.B. Van Hollen, Attorney General of Wisconsin * William Freeman Vilas, U.S. Secretary of the Interior and U.S. Postmaster General * Aad J. Vinje, former justice,

* Edward Voigt, U.S. Representative * Thomas J. Walsh, U.S. Senator from Montana * Clement Warner, Civil war colonel and Wisconsin state legislator * Ernest Warner, Wisconsin assemblyman * Robert W. Warren, former federal judge * D. Russell Wartinbee, legislator and educator * Alexander Watson (diplomat), Alexander Watson, former U.S. diplomat * Edward Weidenfeld, attorney * Paul Weyrich, conservative activist and former president of the Free Congress Foundation * John D. Wickhem, former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court * Peter D. Wigginton, former U.S. Representative * Jon P. Wilcox, Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court * Alexander Wiley, U.S. Senator * Horace W. Wilkie, former chief justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court * Aaron S. Williams, director, Peace Corps * Michael D. Wilson, associate justice, Hawaii Supreme Court * John B. Winslow, former chief justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court * Edwin E. Witte, Social Security advisor to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt * Leonard G. Wolf, former U.S. Representative * Lawrence Wong, Prime Minister of Singapore; former Ministry of Education (Singapore), Minister for Education and Ministry of Finance (Singapore), Second Minister for Finance * Ann Wynia,

State Representative * Clayton K. Yeutter, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture * Rebecca Young (Wisconsin politician), Rebecca Young, Wisconsin politician * Hilbert Philip Zarky, attorney * Norma Zarky, attorney * Maung Zarni, Burmese educator, academic, and human rights activist noted for his opposition to the violence in Rakhine State and Rohingya genocide * Yeshey Zimba, former prime minister of Bhutan * Roger H. Zion, former U.S. Representative

Military

* Frank L. Anders, Medal of Honor recipient * Matthew P. Beilfuss, U.S. National Guard brigadier general * Thomas A. Benes, U.S. Marine Corps major general * Robyn J. Blader, U.S. National Guard brigadier general * Charles Ruggles Boardman, U.S. National Guard brigadier general * Joseph J. Brandemuehl, U.S. Air National Guard brigadier general * Clarence John Brown, U.S. Navy vice admiral * Howard G. Bunker, U.S. Air Force major general * Robert Whitney Burns, U.S. Air Force lieutenant general * Chester Victor Clifton, Jr., U.S. Army major general * James B. Currie, U.S. Air Force major general * Clinton W. Davies, U.S. Air Force brigadier general * Gary L. Ebben, U.S. Air Force brigadier general * Samuel Fallows, Union Army brigadier general * Gregory A. Feest, U.S. Air Force major general * Ernest R. Feidler, U.S. Coast Guard rear admiral, former Judge Advocate General * Richard W. Fellows, U.S. Air Force brigadier general * Irving Fish, U.S. Army major general * James F. Flock, U.S. Marine Corps major general * William Frederick Hase, U.S. Army major general * J. Michael Hayes, U.S. Marine Corps brigadier general * Richard W. Hunt, U.S. Navy vice admiral * Harry W. Jenkins, U.S. Marine Corps major general * Stephen E. Johnson, U.S. Navy rear admiral * Donald S. Jones, U.S. Navy vice admiral * Timothy M. Kennedy (general), Timothy M. Kennedy, U.S. National Guard brigadier general * Richard A. Knobloch, U.S. Air Force brigadier general * Oscar Hugh La Grange, Union Army brigadier general * Daniel P. Leaf, U.S. Air Force lieutenant general; former commander of United States Pacific Command * Otto Lessing (US General), Otto Lessing, U.S. Marine Corps major general * John D. Logeman, U.S. Air Force major general * Michael J. McCarthy (general), Michael J. McCarthy, U.S. Air Force major general * John E. McCoy, U.S. Air National Guard brigadier general * Robert Bruce McCoy, U.S. National Guard major general * Todd J. McCubbin, U.S. Air Force brigadier general * Charles C. McDonald, U.S. Air Force general * Montgomery Meigs (born 1945), Montgomery Meigs, U.S. Army general * David V. Miller, U.S. Air Force major general * Jason Naidyhorski, U.S. Navy rear admiral * Peter George Olenchuk, U.S. Army major general * Jeffrey W. Oster, U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general * John P. Otjen, U.S. Army lieutenant general * Walter P. Paluch, Jr., U.S. Air Force brigadier general * J. Gregory Pavlovich, U.S. Air Force brigadier general * Francis E. Quinlan, U.S. Marine Corps brigadier general * Russell Burton Reynolds, U.S. Army major general * Robley S. Rigdon, U.S. Army National Guard brigadier general * Carson Abel Roberts, U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general * Walter Schindler, U.S. Navy vice admiral * Robert O. Seifert, U.S. National Guard brigadier general * Winant Sidle, U.S. Army major general * Fred R. Sloan, U.S. Air National Guard major general * Phillips Waller Smith, U.S. Air Force major general * Henry J. Stehling, U.S. Air Force brigadier general * Woodrow Swancutt, U.S. Air Force major general * Scott L. Thoele, U.S. Army National Guard brigadier general * Tracy A. Thompson, U.S. Army major general * Holger Toftoy, U.S. Army major general * Richard Tubb, U.S. Air Force brigadier general; physician to the president * George V. Underwood, Jr., U.S. Army general; former commander of Fort Bliss and commander-in-chief of United States Southern Command * William J. Van Ryzin, U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general * James M. Vande Hey, U.S. Air Force brigadier general * Fred W. Vetter, Jr., U.S. Air Force brigadier general * Don S. Wenger, U.S. Air Force major general * Robert E. Wheeler, U.S. Air Force brigadier general * Ralph Wise Zwicker, U.S. Army major general

Religion

* Frank Joseph Dewane, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Venice in Florida * W. Patrick Donlin, Supreme Advocate of the Knights of Columbus * Michael S. Heiser, Christianity, Christian author * Florence E. Kollock (1848-1925), Universalist minister and lecturer * Marion Murdoch, Christian minister * Ronald Myers, Baptist minister * Paul J. Swain, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls

Science, technology, and engineering

;A–M * Amy Aiken, winemaker * Howard Aiken, computer science pioneer and recipient Edison Medal * Loyal Blaine Aldrich, astronomer * Ruth F. Allen, plant pathologist * Gene Amdahl, computer scientist, Amdahl's law * Elda Emma Anderson, physicist * John Atanasoff, inventor of the electronic digital computer * Chris Bangle, automobile designer, former Chief of Design for the BMW Group * Florence Bascom (1862–1945), geologist * Ekkehard Bautz (born 1933), molecular biologist * Calvin Beale, demographer * Gwen Bell, former president of The Computer Museum, Boston * Willard Harrison Bennett, inventor and scientist * Paul Alfred Biefeld, electrical engineer, astronomer and teacher * Robert Byron Bird, chemical engineer, recipient of the National Medal of Science * William Bleckwenn, neurologist and psychiatrist, instrumental in the development of the truth serum * Joseph Colt Bloodgood, physician * Larry Curtiss, chemist * Gerard C. Bond, geologist * Paul Brehm, neurobiologist * Ernest J. Briskey, scientist, founder of the American Meat Science Association * George H. Brown (engineer), George H. Brown, inventor, television pioneer, and Edison Medal recipient * William Bunge, geographer * Gail Carpenter, neuroscientist and mathematician * Olivia Castellini, physicist * K. K. Chen, researcher, Eli Lilly and Company * John Drury Clark, rocket engineer * Douglas L. Coleman, biochemist * John Thomas Curtis, botanist and ecologist; the Bray Curtis dissimilarity is partially named for him * Donald Dafoe, surgeon * Charles A. Doswell III, meteorologist * Michael Dhuey, electrical and computer engineer, co-inventor of the Macintosh II and the iPod * L. K. Doraiswamy, chemical engineer, proponent of organic synthesis engineering and Padma Bhushan award winner * Olin J. Eggen, astronomer * Bruce Elmegreen, astronomer * Howard Engle, physician * Milton H. Erickson, psychiatrist, founder of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis * Alice Catherine Evans, microbiologist * Frederick C. Finkle, geologist * Kassandra Ford, ichthyologist, biomechanist, and birder * Eleanor Ison Franklin, physiologist and endocrinologist * Michael J. Franklin, computer scientist * Louis Friedman, engineer * Michael Garey, computer scientist * Sol Garfunkel, mathematician * Harold Garner, biophysicist * Meredith Gardner, linguist and codebreaker * David H. Geiger, engineer and designer of domed stadiums * Alwyn Howard Gentry, botanist * Eloise Gerry, scientist with United States Forest Service * Gerson Goldhaber, discoverer of the Charm quark, charmed meson, and dark energy * Sulamith Goldhaber, physicist and spectroscopist * Danny Goodman, computer scientist and programmer * Morris Goodman (scientist), Morris Goodman, scientist * Eric D. Green, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute * Hary Gunarto, computer engineer * Paul Haeberli, computer programmer *

, game designer, co-founder of id Software * Pat Hanrahan, computer scientist specializing in graphics, Turing Award laureate * Henry Paul Hansen, palynologist * Bruce William Hapke, planetary scientist * Walter Henry Hartung, pharmaceutical chemist * Nathan Havill, entomologist and evolutionary biologist * Leland John Haworth, physicist and director of the National Science Foundation * Susan Lynn Hefle, food allergen scientist * Caleb Hickman, biologist, zoologist * Ralph F. Hirschmann (1922–2009), biochemist who led synthesis of the first enzyme * Vasant Honavar, computer scientist, computational biologist, cognitive scientist, artificial intelligence, machine learning researcher, former program director, National Science Foundation * Earnest Hooton, physical anthropologist * Charles Morse Huffer, astronomer * Karl Jansky, physicist and radio engineer, founder of radio astronomy * Russell F. Johannes, agronomist * Larry R. Johnson, president of the National Weather Association * Richard A. Jorgensen, molecular geneticist * Willi Kalender, inventor of Helical cone beam computed tomography, spiral scan computed tomography and professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg * Dennis Keeney, soil scientist, first director of the Leopold Institute * Motoo Kimura, mathematician * Clyde Kluckhohn, anthropologist * Elmer Kraemer, chemist * Kyung J. Kwon-Chung, microbiologist and chief, molecular microbiology section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases * Ben Lawton, physician * Esther Lederberg, microbiologist and immunologist, pioneer of Microbial genetics, bacterial genetics * Albert Lehninger, biochemist, pioneer of bioenergetics, and professor at Johns Hopkins University * Estella B. Leopold, botanist and daughter of Aldo Leopold * Harriet Lerner, psychologist * Karl Paul Link, biochemist, discoverer of anticoagulant warfarin * Walter K. Link, geologist * Bradley C. Livezey, ornithologist * Guy Sumner Lowman, Jr., linguist * Daryl B. Lund, food scientist and engineer, editor-chief-of Journal of Food Science * Ken Lunde, information processor * Nancy Oestreich Lurie, anthropologist * Jay Lush, geneticist * John F. MacGregor, statistician * Seth Marder, chemist * Lynn Margulis, author of the serial endosymbiotic theory of cell development, advocate of the Gaia hypothesis; former professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst * William Marr, engineer and poet * Max Mason, mathematician * Abraham Maslow, psychologist, founder of Humanistic psychology, Maslow's hierarchy of needs * Scott McCartney, engineer, author, actor * Karl Menninger, psychiatrist * Patrick Michaels, climatologist * Parry Moon, electrical engineer, author * David Moore (biologist), David Moore, molecular biologist * M. Laurance Morse, microbiologist and immunologist * Newton Morton, Newton Ennis Morton, founder of field of genetic epidemiology * Mark Myers, geologist and former USGS director ;N–Z JohnLSavageBOR

* Walter Nance, geneticist * Homer E. Newell, Jr., mathematician * Paula M. Niedenthal, psychologist * Arthur Nielsen, market analyst * Gerald North, atmospheric scientist, author of The North Report * Sarah Nusser, statistician * Larry E. Overman, chemist * Zorba Paster, physician * Brian Paul, computer programmer of the Mesa 3D open source graphics library * Emanuel R. Piore, former director of research, IBM * Lynn Ponton, psychiatrist * Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman, computer science pioneer and Padma Bhushan awardee * Richard V. Rhode, aeronautical engineer * Sylvia Rimm, psychology * JoAnne Robbins, creator of dysphagia medical device * Anita Roberts, molecular biologist * Havidan Rodriguez, award-winning sociologist, author * Carl Rogers, psychologist, co-founder humanistic psychology * Leon E. Rosenberg, physician-scientist, geneticist, and educator * Marshall Rosenberg, psychologist * Harry Luman Russell, bacteriologist * Joseph F. Rychlak, psychologist * Joseph F. Sackett, clinical radiologist and professor of neuroradiology * David Salo, linguist and translator * John C. Sanford, plant geneticist * William Bowen Sarles, microbiologist * John L. Savage, chief engineer of Hoover Dam * William Schaus, entomologist * Edward Schildhauer, a chief engineer on the Panama Canal project * Robert Serber, physicist, participated in the Manhattan Project * Digvijai Singh, chemical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate * Ashley Shade Director of Research at the Institute of Ecology and the Environment within Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique * Dick Smith (software), Dick Smith, software engineer and computer consultant * James E. Smith (engineer), James E. Smith, computer engineer * Willem P.C. Stemmer, engineer * Calvin L. Stevens, chemist * Chauncey Guy Suits, former research director for GE * M.S. Swaminathan, "father of the Green Revolution in India" * Leslie Denis Swindale, soil scientist * Helmer Swenholt, commanding officer of the 332nd Engineer General Service Regiment * Katia Sycara, roboticist * Stephen Taber III, apiologist * Auguste Taton, botanist * Earle M. Terry, formed WHA (AM), the first radio station to clearly transmit human speech, with Edward Bennett (physicist), Edward Bennett * Victor A. Tiedjens, scientist * James Tour, synthetic organic chemist * Tso Wung-Wai, professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, political activist * Marilyn Tremaine, computer scientist * Glenn Thomas Trewartha, geographer * Mary Tsingou, numerical analyst * Billie Lee Turner II, geographer * Kameshwar C. Wali, research physicist and science writer * John Watrous (computer scientist), John Watrous, quantum theorist of computing * Warren Weaver, pioneer of machine translation * I. Bernard Weinstein, physician * Louis Jolyon West, psychiatrist * Albert Whitford (astronomer), Albert Whitford, astronomer * Dave Winer, software designer * Samuel D. Wonders, engineer, president of Carter's Ink Company * Gordon Woods, veterinary scientist * Charles E. Woodworth, entomologist * A. Wayne Wymore, systems engineer and mathematician * Ned Xoubi, nuclear engineer * Joy Zedler, ecologist and botanist * Ying E. Zhang, biochemist and senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute * John Zillman, meteorologist * Otto Julius Zobel, inventor of the m-derived filter and the Zobel network

Other notable alumni

* Milo Aukerman, biochemist, front man of the Descendents (band), Descendents * Mary Brunner, former Manson Family member and ex-girlfriend of cult leader Charles Manson * Clarence Chamberlin, aviation pioneer * Kathryn F. Clarenbach, first chairwoman of the

* Tim Cordes, blind physician * Charity Rusk Craig (1849-1913), national president, Woman's Relief Corps * Lionel Dahmer, research chemist and author who was the father of serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer. * Laurie Dann, mass shooter who attacked elementary school children in Winnetka, Illinois * Anna Essinger (1879–1960), educator who aided hundreds of European children before, during and after the Holocaust * Robert Fassnacht, graduate student, killed in the Sterling Hall bombing * Ada Fisher, physician * Phil Galfond, 3-time World Series of Poker, WSOP bracelet-winning champion * Alexander Gee Jr, pastor and community leader, CEO of the Center for Black Excellence and Culture * Frederick Gutheim, urban planner *

, author and editor * Jerome Heckenkamp, computer hacker * Phil Hellmuth, 14-time World Series of Poker, WSOP bracelet-winning champion * Prynce Hopkins, activist and psychologist * Robert Kotler, physician * Drew Binsky, Traveller and youtuber, has visited over 170 countries * Mary Lasker, health activist, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal * James T. Minor, academic administrator and sociologist. * John Muir (1838–1914), naturalist, founder of the Sierra Club, instrumental in preserving Yosemite National Park * Carol Myers-Scotton, linguist * Sigurd F. Olson, conservationist * Pauline Park, transgender activist * Janet Meakin Poor, landscape designer * Lori Ringhand, judicial analyst * Carl Schramm, president, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation * Bud Selig, Commissioner of Major League Baseball * Rafael Rangel Sostmann, rector of Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education and member of the World Bank * Bill Stumpf, furniture designer *

, chef * Althea Warren, president of the American Library Association, 1943–44

Fictional alumni and faculty

(Al Pacino) in the 1999 movie ''The Insider (film)'' * Chris (Will Arnett), MRI tech on TV series ''Parks and Recreation'', says he went to UW for both his undergrad and graduate work. * Mad Men#Supporting characters, Harold "Harry" Crane, head of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce's television department in ''Mad Men'' * Jack and Maddie Fenton, scientist parents of ''Danny Phantom'' * Laurie Forman, character on the situation comedy ''That '70s Show'' (did not graduate) * Will Hayes (Ryan Reynolds) in the 2008 movie ''Definitely, Maybe'' * Vlad Plasmius, Vladimir "Vlad" Masters, a/k/a Vlad Plasmius, supervillain and foe of ''Danny Phantom'' * Donna Moss, Executive Office of the President of the United States, White House staffer in the television series ''The West Wing'' (dropped out halfway through to support her boyfriend as he went through University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, medical school) *Gideon Oliver, forensic anthropologist who originated in a series of novels by Aaron Elkins#Writing, Aaron Elkins and was the protagonist of a short-lived television series starring Louis Gossett Jr. * Alison Parker (Melrose Place) (Courtney Thorne-Smith) on ''Melrose Place'', the TV series which ran from 1992 to 1999. * President Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas) taught at the University of Wisconsin in the 1995 movie ''The American President'' * A. Clarence "Silverlock" Shandon, titular character of the fantasy novel ''Silverlock'', has a business administration degree from U.W. and was Bow (position), bow on the Rowing (sport), crew team for three years * James Walker (Michael Vartan) from ''Big Shots (TV series)'', an 11-episode TV series. * Many, perhaps most, of the characters in the 2006 film The Last Kiss (2006 film), ''The Last Kiss'', set in Madison and in part on the UW campus, are connected to the university: Kim is a student, Professor Bowler is on the faculty, and several other characters are apparently alumni.

Chancellors and presidents

Notable faculty and staff

;A–G * Martha W. Alibali, psychologist * Timothy F. H. Allen, botanist * Stub Allison, head coach of the 1920 Washington Sun Dodgers football team, Washington Huskies, South Dakota Coyotes, and California Golden Bears football teams, Washington Huskies men's basketball team, and Washington Huskies baseball team * Ann Althouse, professor of law and well-known wikt:Blogger, blogger * Rasmus B. Anderson, professor, author, diplomat * Rozalyn Anderson, assistant professor, scientist * Fred J. Ansfield, physician, chemotherapy pioneer, co-Founder of American Society of Clinical Oncology, Emeritus Professor of Human Oncology * Michael Apple, leading educational theorist * Richard Askey, mathematician, the Askey–Wilson polynomials and Askey–Gasper inequality are partially named for him * Sanjay Asthana, Alzheimer's disease researcher * Louis Winslow Austin, physicist, recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor * Stephen Babcock, inventor of the Babcock test for measuring the butterfat content of milk * Bob Babich (American football coach), Bob Babich, National Football League, NFL assistant coach * Eric Bach, computer scientist * Ira Baldwin, bacteriologist * Charles Russell Bardeen, first dean of the University of Wisconsin Medical School * Amy Barger, astronomer * Michael N. Barnett, Michael Barnett, scholar of international relations * Quan Barry, poet * Helmut Beinert, professor of biochemistry * Edward Bennett (physicist), Edward Bennett, professor of electrical engineering, formed WHA (AM), the first radio station to clearly transmit human speech, with Earle M. Terry * Tony Bennett (basketball, born 1969), Tony Bennett, National Basketball Association, NBA player and head coach of the Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball team * Leonard Berkowitz, psychologist * Robert Byron Bird, chemical engineer, recipient of the National Medal of Science * George David Birkhoff, mathematician, discoverer of the ergodic theorem * Raymond Ward Bissell, art historian * Lisle Blackbourn, NFL head coach * Gary Blackney, head coach of the Bowling Green Falcons football team * Earl Blaik, head coach of the Dartmouth Big Green football, Dartmouth Big Green and Army Black Knights football, Army Black Knights football teams, member of the College Football Hall of Fame * William Bleckwenn, neurologist and psychiatrist, instrumental in the development of the truth drug * Craig Bohl, head coach of the North Dakota State Bison football team * David Bordwell, prominent neoformalist film theorist and author * Laird Boswell, professor of History * George E. P. Box, statistician * Paul S. Boyer, historian of American thought and culture * Léon Brillouin, physicist * Royal Alexander Brink, plant geneticist * Thomas D. Brock, microbiologist * Martin Bronfenbrenner, economist * Aaron Brower, professor of social work and Vice-Provost for Teaching & Learning * Richard A. Brualdi, professor of combinatorial mathematics * Robert V. Bruce, winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for History * Edgar Buckingham, physicist * Tim Buckley (basketball), Tim Buckley, head coach of the Ball State Cardinals men's basketball team * Jacob Burney, National Football League, NFL assistant coach * Robert H. Burris, recipient of the National Medal of Science * Gibson Byrd, noted painter * Angus Cameron (American politician), Angus Cameron, U.S. Senator * Antoinette Candia-Bailey, academic administrator * Sean B. Carroll, professor of evolutionary biology * Delia E. Wilder Carson (1833–1917), art educator * Frederic G. Cassidy, editor-in-chief of the ''Dictionary of American Regional English'' * Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, founder of the ''Journal of Geology'' * Bill Chandler, head coach of the Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball, Iowa State Cyclones and Marquette Golden Eagles men's basketball, Marquette Golden Eagles men's basketball teams * Y. Austin Chang, professor of material engineering * Chang Jen-Hu, chairman of the board of directors of Chinese Culture University * Arthur B. Chapman, professor of animal breeding and genetics * Geep Chryst, National Football League, NFL, assistant coach * Paul Chryst, head football coach, Wisconsin Badgers football, University of Wisconsin-Madison * Clarence S. Clay, Jr., geophysics faculty * W. Wallace Cleland, biochemist * John Coatta, National Football League, NFL scout * Eddie Cochems, head coach of the North Dakota State Bison football, North Dakota State Bison, Clemson Tigers football, Clemson Tigers, Saint Louis Billikens, and Maine Black Bears football teams * Bill Cofield, former men's basketball head coach, first African American coach of a major sport in the Big Ten Conference * John R. Commons, one of the architects of Social Security (United States), Social Security in the United States * Clifton F. Conrad, professor of educational leadership & policy analysis * Ron Cooper (football coach), Ron Cooper, head coach of the Eastern Michigan Eagles football, Eastern Michigan Eagles, Louisville Cardinals football, Louisville Cardinals, and Alabama A&M Bulldogs football teams * Elizabeth A. Craig, biochemistry professor * William Cronon, Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies, winner of the Bancroft Prize, recipient of MacArthur fellowship * James F. Crow, professor of genetics, population geneticist * Vincent Cryns, professor of medicine, chief of endocrinology * John Culbertson (economist), John Culbertson, professor of economics * Richard N. Current, historian * Merle Curti, historian of U.S. intellectual history * Philip D. Curtin, historian * John Thomas Curtis, botanist and ecologist, the Bray Curtis dissimilarity is partially named for him * Marshall E. Cusic Jr., U.S. Navy admiral, Chief of the U.S. Navy Medical Reserve Corps * Scott Cutlip, dean of the University of Georgia Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, College of Journalism and Mass Communication * Lawrence F. Dahl, professor emeritus of chemistry * James Dahlberg, professor emeritus of biomolecular chemistry * Farrington Daniels, early researcher in solar energy * Richard Davis (double bassist), Richard Davis, jazz bassist * Richard Davidson, professor of psychology and psychiatry, widely known for his mind-body research * Carl de Boor, professor emeritus of mathematics and computer science; winner of National Medal of Science, best known for pioneering work on splines * Hector DeLuca, researcher of vitamin D * Robert Disque, president of the Drexel University, Drexel Institute of Technology * Dave Doeren, head coach of the Northern Illinois Huskies football, Northern Illinois Huskies football team * Donald Downs, professor of political science * Mitchell Duneier, sociologist * Mike Eaves, National Hockey League, NHL player and assistant coach * Jordan Ellenberg, professor of mathematics, novelist, writer * Edward C. Elliott, educational researcher and Purdue University president * Amy Burns Ellis, professor of mathematics education * Richard Theodore Ely (1854–1943), professor, social activist, economist * Joseph Erlanger, 1944

* Nathan Feinsinger, chairman of the Wage Stabilization Board and associate general counsel to the National War Labor Board (1942–1945), National War Labor Board * Carl Russell Fish, professor of history * Harold K. Forsen, professor of Nuclear Engineering * Perry A. Frey, professor of biochemistry * Milton Friedman, associate professor of Economics Nobel Prize for Economics * John Gallagher III, editor of the Astronomical Journal * Adam Gamoran, professor of sociology and director, Wisconsin Center for Education Research * Morton Ann Gernsbacher, professor of psychology and president of the Association for Psychological Science * Har Gobind Khorana, 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for describing the genetic code and how it operates in protein synthesis * Harvey Goldberg, historian * James R. Goodman, professor of computer science and computer architect, known for his work on Cache coherency, cache coherence protocols * Doug Graber, National Football League, NFL assistant coach * M. Elizabeth Graue, professor of Curriculum and Instruction * Michelle Grabner, professor of art * Luther W. Graef, president of the American Society of Civil Engineers * Carson Gulley, head chef from 1927 to 1954 ;H–M * Theodore S. Hamerow, historian * Mike Hankwitz, head coach of the Arizona Wildcats football, Arizona Wildcats and Colorado Buffaloes football, Colorado Buffaloes football teams * Harry Harlow, psychologist, known for studies on affection using rhesus monkeys with artificial mothers * Fred Harvey Harrington, historian * Edwin B. Hart, conductor of the single-grain experiment, the Institute of Food Technologists, Institute of Food Technologists' Babcock-Hart Award is partially named after him * Einar Haugen, linguist * Robert J. Havighurst, physicist, aging expert * James Edwin Hawley, mineralogist, Hawleyite is named for him * Carolyn Heinrich, former professor, currently Sid Richardson professor at University of Texas at Austin * Daniel Hershkowitz (born 1953), Israeli politician, mathematician, rabbi, and president of Bar-Ilan University * Elroy Hirsch, National Football League, NFL player, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and College Football Hall of Fame * Alexander Rudolf Hohlfeld, professor of German * Jeff Horton, National Football League, NFL assistant coach, head coach of the Nevada Wolf Pack football, Nevada Wolf Pack and UNLV Rebels football, UNLV Rebels football teams * Clark L. Hull, psychologist * William Hunter (statistician), William Hunter, statistician * Krisztina Morvai associate professor of law, member of the European Parliament * Willard Hurst, seminal figure in the development of modern American legal history * Anna Huttenlocher, cell biologist and rheumatologist * Rob Ianello, head coach of the Akron Zips football team * Hugh Iltis, known for his scientific discoveries in the domestication of corn * Yannis Ioannidis, computer scientist * Roland Duer Irving, member of the United States Geological Survey * Greg Jackson (American football), Greg Jackson, National Football League, NFL player * Arnold Jeter, head coach of the Delaware State Hornets football team * Gunnar Johansen, artist-in-residence * Bob Johnson (ice hockey b. 1931), Bob Johnson, National Hockey League, NHL head coach * Mark Johnson (ice hockey), Mark Johnson, National Hockey League, NHL player and 1980 Winter Olympics Miracle on Ice team * Burr W. Jones, U.S. Representative * Horace Kallen, philosopher * Nietzchka Keene, filmmaker * Jesse Lee Kercheval, poet, memoirist, translator and fiction writer * Har Gobind Khorana, 1968

, for describing the genetic code and how it operates in protein synthesis * Franklin Hiram King, soil scientist and early promoter of sustainable agriculture * Philip King (American football), Philip King, member of the College Football Hall of Fame * Rufus King (general), Rufus King, U.S. diplomat, Union Army general * Grayson L. Kirk, president of Columbia University * Stephen Cole Kleene, a foundational contributor to theoretical computer science * Rudolf Kolisch, violinist * Thomas R. Kratochwill, psychologist * Gloria Ladson-Billings, leading educational theorist and past president of the American Educational Research Association * Elmer A. Lampe, head coach of the Georgia Bulldogs men's basketball, Georgia Bulldogs and Dartmouth Big Green men's basketball teams * Jane Larson, feminist legal scholar * Vernon Lattin (born 1938), president of Brooklyn College * Judith Walzer Leavitt, professor of history of medicine, history of science, and women's studies * Lewis Leavitt, pediatrician * Mike Leckrone, director of the University of Wisconsin marching band from 1969 to 2019 * Joshua Lederberg, 1958

::For his research in genetic structure and function in microorganisms * Albert L. Lehninger, biochemist * Charles Kenneth Leith, geologist, Penrose Medal recipient * Aldo Leopold, author of ''A Sand County Almanac'', which helped spawn the environmental movement and interest in ecology; also founded the The Wilderness Society (United States), Wilderness Society * Gerda Lerner, professor emerita; historian of women's and gender history; considered a founder of women's history * Philip H. Lewis Jr., landscape architect and planner * Olin B. Lewis, Minnesota politician * Tom Lieb, head coach of the Loyola Marymount Lions and Florida Gators football teams, Olympic Games, Olympic medalist * George Little (football coach), George Little, member of the College Football Hall of Fame * Harvey Littleton, founder of the modern American studio glass movement * Miron Livny, computer science professor and founder of the Condor cycle scavenger, Condor High-Throughput Computing System * William Lorenz, Distinguished Service Medal (U.S. Army), Army Distinguished Service Medal recipient * Henry S. Magoon, U.S. Representative * Abby Lillian Marlatt, director of home economics * Carolyn Martin, Carolyn "Biddy" Martin, professor of German and current president of Amherst College * Abraham Maslow, psychologist, known for Maslow's hierarchy of needs * Ron McBride, head coach of the Utah Utes football, Utah Utes and Weber State Wildcats football teams * Dan McCarney, head coach of the Iowa State Cyclones football, Iowa State Cyclones and North Texas Mean Green football, North Texas Mean Green football teams * Anne McClintock, Simone de Beauvoir Professor and author of ''Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest'' * Elmer McCollum, biochemist, co-discovered vitamins A, B, and D * Tasha McDowell, head coach of the Western Michigan Broncos women's basketball team * Mike McGee (American football), Mike McGee, National Football League, NFL player, head coach of the East Carolina Pirates football, East Carolina Pirates and Duke Blue Devils football, Duke Blue Devils football teams, member of the College Football Hall of Fame * Nellie Y. McKay, scholar of African-American literature and co-editor of the ''Norton Anthology of African-American Literature'' * Howard J. McMurray, U.S. Representative * Patrick McNaughton, art historian, Associate Professor of Art History * Milton McPike, National Football League, NFL player * Walter Meanwell, former head coach of the Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball, men's basketball team, member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame * Alexander Meiklejohn, philosopher and free-speech advocate * Erika Meitner, poet, author, and English professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison * William Shainline Middleton, co-founder and secretary-treasurer of the American Board of Internal Medicine * Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of ''The Deep End of the Ocean'' * Frederic E. Mohs, surgeon and developer of the Mohs surgery technique for removing types of skin cancer * Howard Moore (basketball), Howard Moore, head coach of the UIC Flames men's basketball team * Perry Moss, National Football League, NFL player, athletic director of Florida State University, head coach of the Florida State Seminoles football, Florida State Seminoles and Marshall Thundering Herd football, Marshall Thundering Herd football teams * George L. Mosse, professor; historian of European nationalism and gender *Regina Murphy, professor of chemical engineering, AIMBE fellow * Reid F. Murray, U.S. Representative ;N–S * Steven Nadler, professor of philosophy and Jewish studies * Gerhard Brandt Naeseth, genealogical author; member of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav * Adolphus Peter Nelson, U.S. Representative * Kathryn Norlock, feminist philosopher * Ronald Numbers, historian of science * Allan R. Odden, professor in the Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis * Hakkı Boran Ögelman, Hakkı Ögelman, physicist and astrophysicist * Richard Page (Professor), Richard Page, chair, department of medicine * John Palermo, National Football League, NFL assistant coach * Charles D. Parker, Lieutenant Governor of

* Harry Partch, avant-garde composer * Zorba Paster, co-host of Public Radio's ''Zorba Paster On Your Health'' * Klaus Patau, geneticist, best known for the discovery of trisomy 13 (a.k.a. Patau syndrome) * Stanley Payne, historian * Russell W. Peterson, Governor of Delaware * Saul Phillips (basketball), Saul Phillips, head coach of the North Dakota State Bison men's basketball team * Felix Pollak, curator of Special Collections; poet * Andrew C. Porter, former director of Wisconsin Center for Education Research, professor of education policy at Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt * Ellis Rainsberger, head coach of the Kansas State Wildcats football team * Hans Reese, Olympic athlete * Paul Samuel Reinsch, U.S. diplomat * Milton Resnick, artist-in-residence * Pat Richter, National Football League, NFL player, member of the College Football Hall of Fame * Patrick T. Riley, political theorist * Paul Roach, National Football League, NFL assistant coach, athletic director and head football coach at the University of Wyoming * Carl Rogers, psychologist and founder of Person-centered psychotherapy, Client-Centered Therapy * Thomas A. Romberg, professor emeritus of curriculum and instruction (mathematics education) * Walter Rudin, mathematician best known for his books on mathematical analysis * Joe Rudolph, National Football League, NFL player * Bo Ryan, current head men's basketball coach * Alfred A. Sanelli, U.S. Army general * Harrison Schmitt, adjunct professor of engineering physics, 12th man on the Moon as Apollo 17 astronaut and geologist * Hans Schneider (mathematician), Hans Schneider, mathematician, best known for his contributions to the ''Linear Algebra and Matrix'' society * Isaac Jacob Schoenberg, mathematician, best known for the discovery in 1946 of Spline (mathematics), splines * Jennifer Schomaker, chemist, professor, researcher * John Settle, National Football League, NFL player * Donna Shalala, chancellor 1987–1993; secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1993–2001 * Charles S. Slichter, mathematician and physicist * Ithamar Sloan, U.S. Representative * Red Smith (American football/baseball), Red Smith, MLB and National Football League, NFL player and coach * Oliver Smithies, faculty 1960 to 1988, recipient of the

in 2007 * Clarence Spears, member of the College Football Hall of Fame * Bob Spoo, head coach of the Eastern Illinois Panthers football team * Kurt Squire, director of the Games, Learning & Society Conference * Dale Steele, head coach of the Campbell Fighting Camels football team * Harry Steenbock, biochemist, vitamin D researcher * John Stiegelmeier, head coach of the South Dakota State Jackrabbits football team * Mike Stock (American football), Mike Stock, National Football League, NFL assistant coach * Scott Straus, assistant professor of Political Science and International Studies, specialising in the study of genocide * Harry Stuhldreher, National Football League, NFL player, member of the College Football Hall of Fame * Stephen Suomi, director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Comparative Ethology Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health * Aage B. Sørensen, sociologist ;T–Z * Brandon Taylor (writer), Brandon Taylor, writer * Cecil Taylor, jazz pianist * Henry Charles Taylor, agricultural economist * Howard Martin Temin, Howard Temin, 1975

for the discovery of reverse transcriptase * Edward Ten Eyck, first American to win the Diamond Challenge Sculls * Eeva Therman, geneticist, characterized trisomy 13 and trisomy 18 * James Thomson (cell biologist), James Thomson, credited with first successful culturing of human embryonic stem cells * Arthur Thrall, artist * Giulio Tononi, professor of psychiatry * Darold Treffert, psychiatrist * Frederick Jackson Turner, historian and creator of the "frontier thesis" explaining the American character * Timothy Tyson, professor of African-American history and author * John J. Uicker, mechanical engineer * Stanislaw Ulam, mathematician who joined the Manhattan Project during World War II * Harry Vail, rowing coach, the Dad Vail Regatta is named after him * Ryan G. Van Cleave, author * Clark Van Galder, head coach of the Fresno State Bulldogs football team * Charles R. Van Hise, geologist and university president who formulated the "Wisconsin Idea" * Edward Burr Van Vleck, mathematician and professor * Alexander Vasiliev (historian), Alexander Vasiliev (1867–1953), Byzantinist and Arabist * Jan Vansina, historian of Africa and father of oral historical methodology * Grace Wahba, statistician, developed generalized Cross-validation (statistics), cross validation and formalized Wahba's problem * Pete Waite, head coach of the women's volleyball team, author * David Ward (university president), David Ward, president of the American Council on Education * Oliver Patterson Watts, chemical engineer * Viola S. Wendt, poet * Albert Whitford (astronomer), Albert Whitford, astronomer * Eugene Wigner, 1963

* John Wilce, head coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes football team, member of the College Football Hall of Fame * Noah Williams (economist), Noah Williams, economist * William Appleman Williams, historian of American diplomacy * Erik Olin Wright, sociologist * Randall Wright, macroeconomist and pioneer of search theory in monetary economics * Sewall Wright, professor of genetics, one of the fathers of population genetics * Todd Yeagley, Major League Soccer, MLS player * Kenneth Zeichner, winner of several awards for Teacher Education * Efim Zelmanov, recipient of the Fields Medal in 1994 * Howard Zimmerman, organic chemist, discovered barrelene * Otto Julius Zobel, inventor of the m-derived filter and the Zobel network

References

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