Nobel laureates •
John Bardeen, B.S. 1928 and M.S. 1929, only two-time recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 and 1972 •
Saul Bellow, recipient of the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976, did not graduate •
Günter Blobel, Ph.D. 1967, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1999 •
Paul D. Boyer, M.S. 1941, Ph.D. 1943, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997 •
William C. Campbell, M.S. 1953, Ph.D. 1957, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015 •
Herbert Spencer Gasser, A.B. 1910, A.M. 1911, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1944 •
Alan G. MacDiarmid, M.S. 1952, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2000 •
Stanford Moore, Ph.D. 1938, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972 •
Erwin Neher, M.S. 1967, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1991 •
Theodore Schultz, M.S. 1928, Ph.D. 1930, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Economics in 1979 •
Edward Lawrie Tatum, B.A. 1931, M.S. 1932, Ph.D. 1935, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958 •
John H. Van Vleck, A.B. 1920, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977
Athletics Academics Arts and entertainment •
Virgil Abloh, fashion designer,
artistic director of
Louis Vuitton's men's wear collection •
Don Ameche,
Academy Award-winning actor •
Joseph Anthony, playwright, actor, and director •
Iris Apfel, interior designer and fashion icon •
William Bast, screenwriter •
Gary Beecham, glass artist •
James Benning •
Andrew Bergman, film writer, director, and producer •
Rick Berman, television/movie producer •
Drew Binsky, travel influencer •
Chester Biscardi, composer •
Keith D. Black, screenwriter •
Jerry Bock, composer •
Karen Borca, musician •
Kate Borcherding, artist •
Pat Brady, cartoonist, creator of
Rose Is Rose •
Tamara Braun, actress •
Marshall Brickman, screenwriter •
Gary Hugh Brown, artist •
Oscar Brown, musician •
Johnny Burke, lyricist •
Macdonald Carey, actor •
Adrian "Wildman" Cenni, professional driver and stuntman •
Gina Cerminara, author •
Jeff Cesario, comedian and writer •
Ann Fox Chandonnet, poet •
Alison Chernick, filmmaker •
Dale Chihuly, glass artist •
Robert Clarke, actor •
Alf Clausen, film composer •
Hunter Cole, artist •
Carrie Coon, actress •
Joan Cusack, actress •
Rich Dahm, co-executive producer and head writer of
The Colbert Report •
Richard Dauenhauer, poet •
Richard Davis, jazz-bassist, recording artist, professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison •
André DeShields, Emmy Award-winning actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer •
Chip Dunham, cartoonist •
Susan Dynner, film director, producer •
Lois Ehlert, illustrator,
Caldecott Medal recipient •
Dean Elliott, film composer •
Joe Feddersen, artist •
David Fishelson, 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, stage and film director •
Evan Gruzis, painter •
MK Guth, artist •
Daron Hagen, composer, conductor, pianist •
Uta Hagen, actress, recipient of the
National Medal of Arts •
Tom Hall, game designer •
Anna Halprin, pioneer of
postmodern dance •
Timothy Hasenstein, painter and sculptor •
Sorrel Hays, pianist •
Sam Herman, glass artist •
F. Scott Hess, painter and conceptual artist •
Charlie Hill, television writer •
Lee Hoiby, composer •
Gwendolyn Holbrow, sculptor •
Anders Holm, actor, writer, producer for
Workaholics •
Lawrence Holofcener, sculptor •
Adam Horowitz, television writer •
Zola Jesus, born Nika Roza Danilova, singer/songwriter •
Jane Kaczmarek, actress •
Kelly Kahl, television executive •
Irene Kampen, author •
Ben Karlin,
Emmy Award-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, producer •
Steven Levitan, television writer, director, and producer •
Marvin Lipofsky, glass artist •
Joseph Lulloff, musician •
C. Cameron Macauley, photographer •
Michael Mann, movie director/producer •
Fredric March, actor •
Steve Marmel, 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 inductee •
Kui Min •
Walter Mirisch,
Academy Award-winning film producer •
Paul Monash, former screenwriter and producer •
Jemeel Moondoc, musician •
Agnes Moorehead, actress •
Errol Morris,
Academy Award-winning director •
Kevin Murphy, writer, actor, and puppeteer for
Mystery Science Theater 3000 •
Michael Derrington Murphy, chemist and musician •
Floyd Naramore, architect •
Bruce Nauman, 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, actress; soap opera writer and script editor •
Meinhardt Raabe, Munchkin in the
Wizard of Oz •
Nathan Rabin, 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,
Academy Award-winning film producer •
Brad Rowe, actor •
Gena Rowlands, actress •
Boz Scaggs (Wm. Royce Scaggs), musician •
Ira Schneider, video artist •
Jana Schneider, actress and journalist •
Jon Schueler, artist •
Michael Schultz, filmmaker and television director •
Delmore Schwartz, poet •
Seann William Scott, actor •
Barolong Seboni, poet •
Brittany Shane, singer and songwriter •
Tom Shannon •
Ben Sidran, jazz pianist •
Joe Silver,
Tony Award-nominated actor of stage and screen •
Tormod Skagestad, director of
Det Norske Teatret •
Bently Spang, multidisciplinary artist •
Lev L. Spiro, television director •
Brian Stack, Emmy Award-winning writer and comic •
Josh Stamberg, actor •
Leon C. Standifer, horticulturist, novelist, and writer •
Robert Stone •
Herbert Stothart, film composer •
Richard Steven Street, photographer •
Sun Yu, film director •
David Susskind, producer of film and television •
John Szarkowski, curator and photographer •
Daniel J. Travanti,
Emmy Award-winning actor •
Charlie Trotter, chef, PBS host •
Neal Ulevich, photographer •
James Valcq, composer •
Michael Velliquette, artist •
Butch Vig, musician,
Garbage •
Eric Villency, interior designer •
Sylvia Solochek Walters, artist, printmaker and educator •
William Walton, painter, government official •
Marc Webb, 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 (attended), architect •
Frank Wu, science-fiction artist •
Yung Gravy (Matthew Hauri), rapper •
Jorge Zamacona, television writer and producer •
Marilyn J Ziffrin, composer •
Glen Zipper, film producer •
Charlotte Zucker, actress •
David Zucker, movie director/producer •
Jerry Zucker, 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, aviator (did not graduate) •
Nathan J. Lindsay, astronaut •
Jim Lovell, astronaut,
Apollo 13 mission •
Robert Campbell Reeve, founder of
Reeve Aleutian Airways •
Richard V. Rhode, aeronautical engineer, NACA and
NASA; awarded
Wright Brothers Medal in 1937 •
Brewster Shaw, astronaut, former director, Space Shuttle Operations,
NASA Business •
Carol Bartz, former CEO of
Yahoo!, former chairman of the board, president, and CEO of
Autodesk •
Randall Boe, general counsel for
AOL •
Jerome Chazen, co-founder of
Liz Claiborne •
Chow Chung-Kong, CEO of
MTR Corporation •
M. J. Cleary, insurance executive •
Michael J. Critelli, executive chairman of
Pitney Bowes •
William H. Davidson, former president of
Harley-Davidson •
Willie G. Davidson, former vice president,
Harley-Davidson •
Thomas J. Falk, CEO of
Kimberly Clark •
Judith R. Faulkner, CEO and founder of
Epic Systems •
Edgar Fiedler (1929–2003), economist •
Donald Goerke,
Campbell Soup Company executive, inventor of
SpaghettiOs •
William S. Harley, founder of
Harley-Davidson •
Charles Walter Hart, founder of
Hart-Parr Gasoline Engine Company, coined the word "
tractor" •
Harvey V. Higley, president of
Ansul •
Colin Huang, founder, chairman, and CEO of
Pinduoduo •
David J. Lesar, chairman, president and CEO of
Halliburton Energy Services •
Kevin Mather, baseball executive •
Larry McVoy, CEO,
Bitmover •
John P. Morgridge, chairman of the board, former president and CEO of
Cisco Systems, philanthropist •
William Beverly Murphy, former president and CEO,
Campbell Soup Company •
Keith Nosbusch, CEO,
Rockwell Automation •
Richard Notebaert, former chairman and CEO of
Qwest,
Tellabs and
Ameritech •
Lee R. Raymond, former chairman and CEO,
ExxonMobil •
Philip D. Reed, former president of
GE •
Stephen S. Roach, economist with
Morgan Stanley •
John Rowe, CEO of
Exelon •
Kenneth L. Schroeder, CEO,
KLA-Tencor •
Deven Sharma, president of
Standard and Poor's •
Jane Trahey, advertiser •
Reuben Trane, president of
Trane •
Patrick Waddick, president and COO of
Cirrus Aircraft •
Peter Booth Wiley, publisher •
Elmer Winter (1912–2009), founder of
ManpowerGroup •
Lewis Wolff, real estate developer and owner of the
Oakland Athletics and
San Jose Earthquakes •
Zhu Yunlai, CEO of
China International Capital Corp Literature •
Nazik Al-Malaika, Iraqi poet •
Kevin J. Anderson, author •
Nuala Archer, poet •
Alice Elinor Bartlett, author •
Lynne Cheney, author, writer, and former
Second Lady of the United States •
Donald Clarke, author on music •
Eleanor Clymer, children's author •
Betsy Colquitt, poet •
Jane Cooper, poet •
Richard Dauenhauer, poet •
August Derleth, writer, editor, anthologist of
H. P. Lovecraft, and founder of
Arkham House publishing •
Ainehi Edoro, founder and editor of
Brittle Paper •
Esther Forbes, author and
Pulitzer Prize winner •
Genevieve Foster, author •
Zona Gale, author and playwright •
Robert Greene •
Sam Greenlee, author •
Horace Gregory, poet •
Frederick Gutheim, author •
Emily Hahn, author •
Lorraine Hansberry, author and playwright •
Eva Lund Haugen, author •
Michael Heiser, author and Biblical scholar •
David Henige, author •
Kevin Henkes, children's author •
Conrad Hilberry, poet •
Hjalmar Holand, author and historian •
bell hooks, author, writer, and activist •
Carolyn Hougan, writer •
Jim Hougan, writer •
Jens Joneleit, composer •
Lesley Kagen, author •
Jay Kennedy, editor-in-chief of
King Features Syndicate •
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, scholar of
German mythology •
Joyce Carol Oates,
National Book Award-winning author and professor at
Princeton University •
Ed Ochester, poet •
Lance Olsen, author and writer •
Sigurd F. Olson, author and naturalist •
Alicia Ostriker, poet •
Kenneth Patchen, 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,
Pulitzer Prize-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 •
Tormod Skagestad, poet •
Raymond J. Smith, literary critic •
John Snead, writer and role player •
Midori Snyder, writer and author •
David Stephenson, poet •
Peter Straub, author, recipient of the
Bram Stoker Award,
World Fantasy Award, and the
International Horror Guild Award •
Mark Tatge, journalist •
Martha L. Poland Thurston, social leader, philanthropist, writer •
Steve Tittle, Canadian composer •
Danielle Trussoni, writer from
La Crosse •
Francis Utley, folklorist and linguist •
James Valcq, composer and writer •
Stanley G. Weinbaum, science fiction author •
Jody Weiner, novelist, author, film producer •
Patricia Wells, author •
Eudora Welty, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist •
Lowell Bergman, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist •
Erik Bye, Norwegian journalist •
Tim Cahill, adventure travel writer, founding editor of
Outside magazine •
Susan Carpenter, journalist and author •
Ethan Casey, journalist •
John Darnton, journalist •
Nancy Dickerson, journalist •
Doris Dungey, 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, correspondent,
CNN •
Elina Fuhrman, journalist •
Jason Gay,
Wall Street Journal sports writer •
Jeff Greenfield, senior political correspondent,
CBS •
Ruth Gruber, author and journalist •
Usha Haley, business journalist •
Helen Holmes, journalist, historian, Women's Army Corps officer •
Paul Ingrassia,
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist •
Danny Peary, film critic •
Gerald Peary, film critic •
Nathan Rabin, film critic •
Manu Raju, correspondent,
CNN •
Gil Reavill, journalist and screenwriter •
Chris Rose •
Phil Rosenthal, columnist,
Chicago Tribune •
Susanne Rust, journalist •
Joe Schoenmann, journalist, author •
Joseph Sexton, journalist and reporter with the
New York Times •
Anthony Shadid, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Law and politics ;A–G •
Charles L. Aarons, Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge •
Shirley Abrahamson,
chief justice of the
Wisconsin Supreme Court •
Henry Cullen Adams, U.S. representative •
Iajuddin Ahmed, former
president of Bangladesh •
Ronald E. Albers, California judge •
Anita Alpern, former
IRS commissioner •
Arthur J. Altmeyer, former
commissioner of Social Security •
Thomas Ryum Amlie, U.S. representative •
Rasmus B. Anderson, U.S. diplomat •
Adeyinka Asekun, former Nigerian high commissioner to Canada •
Sergio Balanzino, Italian diplomat •
Tammy Baldwin, U.S. senator •
Hiram Barber, Jr., U.S. representative from
Illinois •
Peter W. Barca, U.S. representative •
Charles V. Bardeen, former justice,
Wisconsin Supreme Court •
Elmer E. Barlow, justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court •
Robert Barnett, attorney •
Tom Barrett, former U.S. representative, mayor of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin •
Charlene Barshefsky, former U.S. trade representative •
Robert McKee Bashford, former mayor of
Madison, Wisconsin; former justice,
Wisconsin Supreme Court •
Robert C. Bassett, U.S. presidential advisor •
Susan J. M. Bauman, former mayor of
Madison, Wisconsin •
Joseph D. Beck, former
United States representative •
Bruce F. Beilfuss, former chief justice of Wisconsin •
Ernst Benda, Minister of the Interior of Germany and president the
Federal Constitutional Court of Germany •
Helen Ginger Berrigan, federal judge •
Mario Ramón Beteta, former secretary of Finance,
Mexico •
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
judge 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,
Wisconsin Supreme Court •
J. Quinn Brisben,
Socialist Party USA candidate for
president of the United States and vice president; civil rights activist; teacher •
Grover L. Broadfoot, chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court •
Dave Bronson, mayor of
Anchorage, Alaska •
Angie Brooks, former president,
United Nations General Assembly •
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 •
George Bunn, diplomat •
George Bunn, former justice,
Minnesota Supreme Court •
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,
Wisconsin Supreme Court •
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 •
Patrick G. Carrick, member of the
Senior Executive Service •
Sheri Polster Chappell, federal judge •
Dick Cheney, former
vice president of the United States (attended UW as doctoral student; received M.A. degree but did not continue) •
Dave Cieslewicz, mayor of
Madison, Wisconsin •
Moses E. Clapp, U.S. senator from
Minnesota •
Kathryn F. Clarenbach, first chairperson of the
National Organization for Women •
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 •
Barbara B. Crabb, former federal judge •
Lawrence William Cramer, former governor,
United States Virgin Islands •
Jason Crow, U.S. representative from
Colorado •
Charles H. Crownhart, former justice,
Wisconsin Supreme Court •
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 State Senator •
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 •
Roland B. Day, former justice,
Wisconsin Supreme Court •
Evo Anton DeConcini, former justice,
Arizona Supreme Court •
Ada Deer, head of the U.S.
Bureau of Indian Affairs •
Edward Dithmar, lieutenant governor of
Wisconsin •
Christian Doerfler, former justice,
Wisconsin Supreme Court •
Mark Doms, chief economist,
Economics and Statistics Administration •
Brian Donnelly •
James Edward Doyle, former
judge of the
United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin •
James Edward "Jim" Doyle,
44th governor of Wisconsin •
Lee S. Dreyfus,
40th governor of Wisconsin •
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
Minnesota state senator •
Lawrence Eagleburger, former
U.S. secretary of state •
Donald B. Easum, 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 •
John J. Esch, U.S. representative •
Evan Alfred Evans, former U.S. Appeals Court judge •
Tony Evers, current
governor of Wisconsin and former superintendent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin •
Thomas E. Fairchild, former U.S. Appeals Court judge •
Sergio Fajardo, former mayor of
Medellín and former governor of
Antioquia, Colombia •
Elizabeth P. Farrington, former U.S. representative,
Hawaii Territory •
Joseph Rider Farrington, former U.S. representative,
Hawaii Territory •
Russ Feingold, U.S. senator •
Bill Foster, U.S. representative from
Illinois •
Chester A. Fowler, former justice,
Wisconsin Supreme Court •
Alejandro Foxley, former foreign minister of
Chile •
Oscar M. Fritz, former chief justice,
Wisconsin Supreme Court •
Harold V. Froehlich, U.S. representative •
G. Fred Galli, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly •
Bernard J. Gehrmann, U.S. representative •
Eric Genrich, mayor of
Green Bay; former member of the
Wisconsin State Assembly •
Hiram Gill, former mayor of
Seattle, Washington •
J. Michael Gilmore, director of the
Operational Test and Evaluation Directorate •
Myron L. Gordon, former federal judge •
Robert N. Gorman, former justice,
Ohio Supreme Court •
Mark Green, U.S. diplomat •
Stephen S. Gregory, former president,
American Bar Association •
Harry W. Griswold, U.S. representative •
John A. Gronouski,
United States Postmaster General •
Erica Groshen, commissioner,
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics •
Herbert J. Grover, educator and legislator •
Kenneth Philip Grubb, former federal judge •
Philip Gunawardena, former
Sri Lankan revolutionary, cabinet minister, Indian freedom fighter •
Gunnar Gundersen, member of the
Parliament of Norway (2005–present) •
Henry Gunderson, lieutenant governor of
Wisconsin •
Steve Gunderson, U.S. representative ;H–M •
Sami Haddad, Minister of Economy and Trade,
Lebanon •
David Warner Hagen, former federal judge •
Oscar Hallam, justice of the
Minnesota Supreme Court, Dean of the
William Mitchell College of Law •
Sa'dun Hammadi, former prime minister of
Iraq •
Don Hanaway, former Wisconsin attorney general •
Connor Hansen, former justice,
Wisconsin Supreme Court •
Doris Hanson, Wisconsin politician •
Spencer Haven, former attorney general of
Wisconsin •
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 •
Donald Hayworth, former U.S. representative •
Ned R. Healy, U.S. representative from California •
Nathan Heffernan, former justice,
Wisconsin Supreme Court •
Walter Heller, economist end presidential advisor •
Robert Kirkland Henry, U.S. representative •
Charles N. Herreid, governor of
South Dakota •
Emmett R. Hicks, former
attorney general of Wisconsin •
Harvey V. Higley, former administrator of Veterans Affairs •
Knute Hill, former United States representative from the
State of Washington •
Geraldine Hines, justice,
Massachusetts Supreme Court •
Jeffry House, Canadian attorney •
Henry Huber, lieutenant governor of
Wisconsin •
Benjamin N. Hulburd, chief justice of the
Vermont Supreme Court •
Paul O. Husting, U.S. senator •
Clifford Ireland, U.S. representative from
Illinois •
Andre Jacque, member of the
Wisconsin State Assembly •
Edward H. Jenison, U.S. representative from
Illinois •
Byron L. Johnson, U.S. representative from
Colorado •
J. Leroy Johnson, former U.S. representative •
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 •
William Carey Jones, former U.S. representative from
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. epresentative from
Minnesota •
James C. Kerwin, former justice,
Wisconsin Supreme Court •
Shishir Khanal, Nepali Minister of Education, Science and Technology •
John C. Kleczka, U.S. representative •
Frank Le Blond Kloeb, U.S. representative from
Ohio •
Scott L. Klug, U.S. representative •
Warren P. Knowles,
37th governor of Wisconsin •
Herb Kohl, U.S. senator •
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,
27th governor of Wisconsin •
Robert M. La Follette, Jr., U.S. senator •
Robert M. La Follette, Sr.,
20th governor of Wisconsin, U.S. representative and U.S. senator •
Jeffrey M. Lacker, president,
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond •
Richard Lamm, governor of
Colorado •
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
Wisconsin •
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,
Wisconsin Supreme Court •
James C. Liao, president of
Academia Sinica, Taiwan •
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 •
Richard Barrett Lowe, governor of
American Samoa and
Guam •
Patrick Joseph Lucey, U.S. diplomat and governor of
Wisconsin •
Claude Zeth Luse, former federal judge •
Henry Maier, former mayor of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin •
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,
Wisconsin Supreme Court •
Henry F. Mason, former justice,
Kansas Supreme Court •
Alyssa Mastromonaco, presidential aide •
Charles McCarthy, author of
The Wisconsin Idea •
Francis E. McGovern,
22nd governor of Wisconsin •
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, former mayor of
Dallas, Texas •
Bob Mionske, attorney and former Olympic and professional bicycle racer •
William J. Morgan, former attorney general of
Wisconsin •
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 •
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,
35th governor of Wisconsin and founder of
Earth Day •
George B. Nelson, former justice,
Wisconsin Supreme Court •
John M. Nelson, U.S. representative •
Ivan A. Nestingen, former mayor of
Madison, Wisconsin •
Mark Neumann, U.S. representative •
John Norquist, former mayor of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin •
David Obey, U.S. representative •
Kenneth J. O'Connell, chief justice of the
Oregon Supreme Court •
James L. O'Connor, former Wisconsin attorney general •
Tawiah Modibo Ocran, Supreme Court judge in
Ghana •
Eric Oemig,
Washington (state) legislator •
Alvin O'Konski, U.S. representative •
Conrad P. Olson, former justice,
Oregon Supreme Court •
Walter C. Owen, former justice,
Wisconsin Supreme Court •
Carolyn R. Payton, former director,
Peace Corps •
Russell W. Peterson, governor of
Delaware •
Richard F. Pettigrew, former United States senator •
Huang Pi-Twan, Minister for Culture,
Taiwan •
Joy Picus, Los Angeles, California, city council member, 1977–91;
Ms. magazine "Woman of the Year" •
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,
Wisconsin Supreme Court •
David Rabinovitz, former federal judge •
John Abner Race, U.S. representative •
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 •
Shawn Reilly, mayor of
Waukesha, Wisconsin, 2014–present •
Paul Samuel Reinsch, appointed minister to China in 1913 •
Oscar Rennebohm, former governor of
Wisconsin •
John W. Reynolds, Jr.,
36th governor of Wisconsin •
John W. Reynolds, Sr.,
attorney general of Wisconsin, 1927–1933 •
Daniel Riemer, legislator •
Fred Risser, Wisconsin state senator and assemblyman •
Fred Risser, 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,
Wisconsin Supreme Court •
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 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,
American Bar Association •
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 •
Paul Soglin, mayor of
Madison, Wisconsin •
Daniel V. Speckhard, U.S. ambassador and diplomat •
Joan E. Spero, former ambassador to the
United Nations Economic and Social Council •
John Coit Spooner, U.S. senator •
William Spriggs, assistant secretary,
United States Department of Labor •
Janet Dempsey Steiger, chairperson of the
Postal Rate Commission and
Federal Trade Commission •
William A. Steiger, congressman •
Donald Steinmetz, former justice,
Wisconsin Supreme Court •
E. Ray Stevens, former justice,
Wisconsin Supreme Court •
William H. Stevenson, former U.S. representative •
Anne K. Strasdauskas, sheriff of
Baltimore County, Maryland •
Robert C. Strong, U.S. diplomat •
Jessie Sumner, former U.S. representative •
Suchatvee Suwansawat, Thai politician, former resident of
King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL) •
Lori Swanson, attorney general of
Minnesota •
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,
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
Wisconsin •
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,
Wisconsin Supreme Court •
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, 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
Minister for Education and
Second Minister for Finance •
Ann Wynia,
Minnesota state representative •
Clayton K. Yeutter, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture •
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,
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,
U.S. Marine Corps major general •
John D. Logeman,
U.S. Air Force major 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,
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,
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 of
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 •
Gerard C. Bond, geologist •
Paul Brehm, neurobiologist •
Ernest J. Briskey, scientist, founder of the American Meat Science Association •
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 •
Richard B. Corey, soil chemist •
John Thomas Curtis, botanist and ecologist; the
Bray Curtis dissimilarity is partially named for him •
Larry Curtiss, chemist •
Donald Dafoe, surgeon •
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 •
Charles A. Doswell III, meteorologist •
Richard Dugdale, oceanographer and fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science •
Olin J. Eggen, astronomer •
Widad Ibrahim Elmahboub, astrophysicist and aerospace engineer •
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 •
Meredith Gardner, linguist and codebreaker •
Harold Garner, biophysicist •
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
charmed meson, and
dark energy •
Sulamith Goldhaber, physicist and spectroscopist •
Danny Goodman, computer scientist and programmer •
Morris Goodman, scientist •
Eric D. Green, director of the
National Human Genome Research Institute •
Hary Gunarto, computer engineer •
Paul Haeberli, computer programmer •
Tom Hall, 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 •
Dennis Robert Hoagland, plant physiologist and soil chemist •
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
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
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 •
Abraham Maslow, psychologist, founder of Humanistic psychology, Maslow's hierarchy of needs •
Max Mason, mathematician •
Scott McCartney, engineer, author, actor •
Karl Menninger, psychiatrist •
Patrick Michaels, climatologist •
Parry Moon, electrical engineer, author •
David Moore, molecular biologist •
M. Laurance Morse, microbiologist and immunologist •
Newton Ennis Morton, founder of field of genetic epidemiology •
Mark Myers, geologist and former USGS director ;N–Z •
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, sociologist, author •
Carl Rogers, psychologist, co-founder of
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 •
Ashley Shade, director of research at the Institute of Ecology and the Environment within Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique •
Digvijai Singh, chemical engineer,
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate •
Dick Smith, software engineer and computer consultant •
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 •
Victor A. Tiedjens, scientist •
James Tour, synthetic organic chemist •
Marilyn Tremaine, computer scientist •
Glenn Thomas Trewartha, geographer •
Mary Tsingou, numerical analyst •
Tso Wung-Wai, professor at the
Chinese University of Hong Kong, political activist •
Billie Lee Turner II, geographer •
Kameshwar C. Wali, research physicist and science writer •
John Watrous, quantum theorist of computing •
Warren Weaver, pioneer of
machine translation •
I. Bernard Weinstein, physician •
Louis Jolyon West, psychiatrist •
Albert Whitford, astronomer •
Dave Winer, software designer •
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 •
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
National Organization for Women •
Tim Cordes, blind physician •
Charity Rusk Craig (1849–1913), national president,
Woman's Relief Corps •
Lionel Dahmer, research chemist and author; 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
WSOP bracelet-winning champion •
Allene Wilson Groves (1896–1986), 23rd president general of the
Daughters of the American Revolution •
Frederick Gutheim, urban planner •
Eva Lund Haugen, author and editor •
Jerome Heckenkamp, computer hacker •
Phil Hellmuth, 14-time
WSOP bracelet-winning champion •
Prynce Hopkins, activist and psychologist •
Robert Kotler, physician •
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 •
Charlie Trotter, chef •
Althea Warren, president of the American Library Association, 1943–44
Fictional alumni and faculty •
Lowell Bergman (
Al Pacino) in the 1999 movie
The Insider • Chris (
Will Arnett),
MRI tech on TV series
Parks and Recreation, says he went to UW for both his undergrad and graduate work. •
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 •
Vladimir "Vlad" Masters, aka Vlad Plasmius,
supervillain and foe of
Danny Phantom •
Donna Moss,
White House staffer in the television series
The West Wing (dropped out halfway through to support her boyfriend as he went through
medical school) •
Gideon Oliver,
forensic anthropologist who originated in a series of novels by
Aaron Elkins and was the protagonist of a short-lived television series starring
Louis Gossett Jr. •
Alison Parker (
Courtney Thorne-Smith) on
Melrose Place, a 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 on the
crew team for three years. • James Walker (
Michael Vartan) from the TV series
Big Shots • Many, perhaps most, of the characters in the 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==