List Of University Of Minnesota People - University Of Minnesota Physics

This is a list of notable people associated with the University of Minnesota.

Alumni

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Ernest O. Lawrence (M.A. Physics 1923) â€" 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics
Walter Brattain (PhD Physics 1929) â€" 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics
Melvin Calvin (PhD Chemistry 1935) â€" 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Norman Borlaug (B.S. Forestry 1937, M.S. 1939 Plant Pathology, PhD 1942 Plant Pathology) â€" 1970 Nobel Peace Prize
Edward B. Lewis (M.A. Biostatistics 1939) â€" 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Louis J. Ignarro (PhD Pharmacology 1966) â€" 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Daniel McFadden (B.S. Physics 1957, PhD Economics 1962) â€" 2000 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Brian Kobilka (B.S. Biology and Chemistry 1977) â€" 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Lars Peter Hansen (PhD Economics 1978) â€" 2013 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Bob Dylan, singer/songwriter (did not graduate) â€" 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature

Pulitzer Prize winners

Carl Dennis, Pulitzer Prize winner in 2002 for Poetry
Thomas Friedman, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1983 and 1988 for International Reporting and 2002 for Commentary; studied at the University of Minnesota from 1971 to 1973 before transferring to Brandeis University

Law and politics

Vice presidents

Hubert H. Humphrey, former U.S. Vice President and 1968 Democratic nominee for President
Walter Mondale, former U.S. Vice President and 1984 Democratic nominee for President

Cabinet members and diplomats

Robert Bergland, former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
James Blanchard, former U.S. Ambassador to Canada
Jeffrey Davidow, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, Zambia, and Venezuela
William Dawson, former U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay and Panama
Scott H. DeLisi, former U.S. Ambassador to Eritrea, Nepal and Uganda
Orville Freeman, former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
William Garvelink, former U.S. Ambassador to Congo
James D. Hodgson, former U.S. Secretary of Labor and U.S. Ambassador to Japan
Darryl N. Johnson, former U.S. Ambassador to Thailand
Geri M. Joseph, journalist, former United States Ambassador to the Netherlands
Samuel L. Kaplan, former U.S. Ambassador to Morocco
Tom McDonald, former U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe
Ronald K. McMullen, former U.S. Ambassador to Eritrea
William D. Mitchell, former Attorney General of the United States
Walter Mondale, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan
Robert G. Neumann, former diplomat
Donald R. Norland, former U.S. Ambassador
Carl Stokes, former U.S. Ambassador to Seychelles
Benson Whitney, former U.S. Ambassador to Norway
Ross Wilson, former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
Robert F. Woodward, former diplomat

Members of congress

Sydney Anderson, former U.S. Representative
Wendell Anderson, former U.S. Senator (DFL-MN)
William L. Armstrong, former U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator
Joseph H. Ball, former U.S. Senator (R-MN)
Dean Barkley, former U.S. Senator (I-MN)
Nick Begich, former U.S. Representative
Fred Biermann, former U.S. Representative
Quentin Burdick, former U.S. Senator (D-ND)
Usher L. Burdick, former U.S. Representative
Harlan J. Bushfield, former U.S. Senator
Vera C. Bushfield, former U.S. Senator
Ray P. Chase, former U.S. Congressman (R-MN)
Victor Christgau, former U.S. Congressman (R-MN)
Frank E. Denholm, former U.S. Representative
Everett Dirksen, former U.S. Senator
David Durenberger, former U.S. Senator (R-MN)
Keith Ellison, U.S. Congressman (DFL-MN)
Franklin Ellsworth, former U.S. Representative
Donald M. Fraser, former U.S. Congressman (DFL-MN)
Richard Pillsbury Gale, former U.S. Representative
Godfrey Goodwin, former U.S. Congressman (R-MN)
Knute Hill, former U.S. Representative
Einar Hoidale, former U.S. Congressman (DFL-MN)
Dewey Johnson, former U.S. Representative
Ron Johnson, U.S. Senator (R-WI)
Ron Kind, U.S. Congressman (D-WI)
Paul John Kvale, former U.S. Representative
Rick Larsen, U.S. Representative (D-WA)
John Linder, former U.S. Congressman (R-GA)
Ernest Lundeen, former U.S. Senator
Bill Luther, former U.S. Congressman (DFL-MN)
Melvin Maas, former U.S. Representative
William Josiah MacDonald, former U.S. Representative
Clark MacGregor, former U.S. Representative
James Manahan, former U.S. Representative
Eugene McCarthy, former U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator and three-time Presidential candidate (DFL-MN)
John Melcher, former U.S. Senator
Clarence B. Miller, former U.S. Representative
Wayne Morse, former U.S. Senator (R/I/D-OR)
Walter Newton, former U.S. Representative
Jim Ramstad, former U.S. Congressman (R-MN)
John H. Ray, former U.S. Representative
Elmer Ryan, former U.S. Representative
Martin Olav Sabo, former U.S. Representative
Thomas D. Schall, former U.S. Senator (R-MN)
Patricia Schroeder, former U.S. Congresswoman (D-CO)
Conrad Selvig, former U.S. Representative
Don L. Short, former U.S. Representative
Gerald Edward Sikorski, former U.S. Representative
George Ross Smith, former U.S. Representative
Henry O. Talle, former U.S. Representative
Bruce Vento, former U.S. Congressman (DFL-MN)
Vin Weber, former U.S. Congressman (R-MN)
George M. Young, former U.S. Representative
Edward Zorinsky, former U.S. Senator
John M. Zwach, former U.S. Representative

Governors

C. Elmer Anderson, former Governor of Minnesota
Elmer L. Andersen, former Governor of Minnesota
Wendell Anderson, former Governor of Minnesota
James Blanchard, former Governor of Michigan
Joseph A.A. Burnquist, former Governor of Minnesota
Harlan J. Bushfield, former Governor of South Dakota
Arne Carlson, former Governor of Minnesota
Theodore Christianson, former Governor of Minnesota
Robert B. Crosby, former Governor of Nebraska
Charles M. Dale, former Governor of New Hampshire
Orville Freeman, former Governor of Minnesota
William L. Guy, former Governor of North Dakota
Harold LeVander, former Governor of Minnesota
John Lind, former Governor of Minnesota
Floyd B. Olson, former Governor of Minnesota
Tim Pawlenty, former Governor of Minnesota
J.A.O. Preus, former Governor of Minnesota
Harold Stassen, former Governor of Minnesota
Charles W. Turnbull, former Governor, U.S. Virgin Islands

Article III judges

Donald D. Alsop, judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
Mosher Joseph Blumenfeld, former judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut
Myron H. Bright, Senior judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Warren E. Burger, former Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
William Canby, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Michael J. Davis, Chief judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
David S. Doty, judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
Joan N. Ericksen, judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
Henry Norman Graven, former judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa
Gerald Heaney, former judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Richard H. Kyle, judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
Earl R. Larson, former judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
Miles Lord, former judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
Claude Luse, former judge, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin
George MacKinnon, former judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Harry H. MacLaughlin, former judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
Ann D. Montgomery, judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
Diana E. Murphy, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Philip Neville, former judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
Gunnar Nordbye, former judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
Milton D. Purdy, former judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
James M. Rosenbaum, judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
John B. Sanborn, Jr., former judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
George F. Sullivan, former judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
John R. Tunheim, judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
Bruce Marion Van Sickle, former judge, U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota
Charles Vogel, former judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Robert W. Warren, former judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

State judges

Douglas K. Amdahl, former Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
G. Barry Anderson, former Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court
Paul H. Anderson, Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court
Russell A. Anderson, former Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
Kathleen A. Blatz, former Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
Harrison A. Bronson, former Justice, North Dakota Supreme Court
Edward T. Burke, former Justice, North Dakota Supreme Court
Theodore Christianson, former Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court
Margaret Chutich, Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court
Mary Jeanne Coyne, former Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court
John P. Devaney, former Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
Ralph J. Erickstad, former Chief Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court
Thomas F. Gallagher, former Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court
Sandra Gardebring Ogren, former Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court
Thomas Eugene Grady, former Justice, Washington Supreme Court
Oscar Knutson, former Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
Ernest W. Lewis, former Justice, Arizona Supreme Court
Charles Loring, former Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
Eric J. Magnuson, Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
Helen M. Meyer, Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
Julius J. Olson, former Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court
Alan Page, Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court and member of NFL Hall of Fame
Harry H. Peterson, former Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court
Peter S. Popovich, former Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
Keith Rapp, Judge, Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals
Robert Sheran, former Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
John E. Simonett, former Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court
Edward C. Stringer, former Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court
Samuel B. Wilson, former Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court
Michael A. Wolff, former Chief Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court
Lawrence R. Yetka, former Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court

Attorneys general

Mike Hatch, former Minnesota Attorney General
Douglas M. Head, former Minnesota Attorney General
Hubert H. Humphrey III, former Minnesota Attorney General
Henry Linde, former North Dakota Attorney General
Robert W. Mattson, Sr., former Minnesota Attorney General
William D. Mitchell, former U.S. Attorney General
Harry H. Peterson, former Minnesota Attorney General
Albert F. Pratt, former Minnesota Attorney General
Warren Spannaus, former Minnesota Attorney General

Foreign

Mohamed Azmin Ali, Malaysian politician; Menteri Besar (Head of State) of Selangor
Arne Arnesen, Norwegian politician and official
Mohamed Benaissa, former Foreign Minister of Morocco
Luis Carranza, former Minister of Economy and Finance, Peru
Michael Clark, former member of the British Parliament
Nick Clegg, British MP; former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; former leader of the Liberal Democrats
Timothy Donaldson, Bahamian banker and ambassador
Habib Essid, Prime minister of Tunisia
Jon Gerrard, former member, Canadian Parliament
Geir Haarde, former Prime Minister of Iceland
Werikhe Kafabusa, Minister for Housing, Uganda
Vijay Kelkar, Indian economist and public official
Ko Wen-je, physician, Mayor of Taipei City, the capital of Taiwan; former Chairman of the Department of Traumatology at National Taiwan University Hospital; visiting researcher at University of Minnesota
Abdessalem Mansour, former Tunisian Agriculture Minister
Khurram Murad, Pakistani politician and Islamic activist
Fred H. Nomme, Norwegian diplomat
Archie Norman, former member of the British Parliament
Perng Fai-nan, economist, Governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan) since 1998
Ricardo Raineri, Minister of Energy, Chile
Paulo Zucula, Mozambican politician

Other

Fred Agnich, Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from Dallas County, 1971â€"1987; petroleum producer, rancher, native of St. Louis County, Minnesota
George Edward Akerson, former White House Press Secretary
Nihad Awad, Executive Director, Council on American-Islamic Relations
Janet Benshoof, attorney
John T. Benson, Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin
William Berndt, Wisconsin legislator
Everett Bidwell, Wisconsin legislator
Val Bjornson, Minnesota State Treasurer
D. E. Bowe, Wisconsin legislator
David R. Brink, former President, American Bar Association
Alden W. Clausen, former President, World Bank
Lawrence D. Cohen, former Mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota
Chris Coleman, Mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota
John A. Conant, Wisconsin legislator
Gratia Countryman, librarian
Paul Dailey, Jr., Wisconsin legislator
Jimmy Delshad, former Mayor, Beverly Hills, California
Michael Dombeck, former Chief, United States Forest Service
Peggy Flanangan, Minnesota legislator
Gary R. Goyke, Wisconsin legislator
James Harsdorf, Wisconsin legislator
Winifred G. Helmes, Assistant Director, United States Department of Labor Women's Bureau
Hon. Howard E. Haugerud, diplomat
John Hutson, former Judge Advocate General, United States Navy
Sly James, J.D., 1983, Kansas City mayor
Andrew Johnson, Minneapolis City Councilmember
Ellen J. Kennedy, activist
Roger G. Kennedy, former Director, National Park Service
John Kringen, Deputy Director, CIA
Robert J. Larson, Wisconsin legislator
Thomas E. Latimer, former Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota
George E. Leach, former Mayor of Minneapolis
Algernon Lee, Socialist Party of America leader
William P. Levine, 1937, United States Army major general and Holocaust speaker
Jim Lord, Minnesota State Treasurer, Minnesota State Senate
Paul J. F. Lusaka, former President, United Nations General Assembly
William H. Markham, Wisconsin legislator
Paul J. Marwin, former Minnesota state politician
Mary O. McCarthy, former CIA analyst who allegedly leaked classified information
Doug McFarland, Minnesota state politician
Richard Moe, former Chief of Staff for the United States Vice President
Arthur Naftalin, former Mayor of Minneapolis
John E. Otto, former Director, FBI
John Parkin, Wisconsin legislator
Aagot Raaen, author and educator
Nils Nilsen Ronning, author, journalist, editor and publisher
Edward Rustad, former Minnesota state politician
Richard M. Scammon, former Director, United States Census Bureau
Randy Scheunemann, influential neoconservative
Wilfred I. Smith, archivist
Gene Sperling, director, National Economic Council
Elmer B. Staats, former Comptroller General of the United States
William H. Stewart, former United States Surgeon General
Carl Stokes, former Mayor, Cleveland, Ohio
Steve Strachan, former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, former Sheriff of King County, Washington
Clarence Syvertson, former Director, Ames Research Center
Kenneth S. White, Wisconsin legislator
Roy Wilkins, former civil rights activist
Don I. Wortman, former Acting Commissioner of the Social Security Administration
Whitney Young, former civil rights activist

Leadership and business

Anthony Adducci, founder of Guidant
John S. Barry, former CEO, WD-40 Company
James H. Binger, former CEO, Honeywell
Tom Burnett, Vice President, Thoratec Corporation
Austen S. Cargill II, heir and major shareholder of Cargill
Margaret Anne Cargill, philanthropist
Curt Carlson, founder of the Carlson Companies
Alden W. Clausen, former CEO, Bank of America
Elmer William Engstrom, former President and CEO of RCA
John Hammergren, CEO, McKesson Corporation
Rodney R. Hannula, U.S. National Guard general
Terrance Hanold, former President of the Pillsbury Company
Harry Heltzer, former CEO, 3M Corporation
Robert E. Hillard, public relations executive
Duane Ilstrup, statistician
Irwin L. Jacobs, entrepreneur
Mildred Jeffrey, former President of United Auto Workers and winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
James A. Johnson, former CEO of Fannie Mae
Joseph M. Juran, management consultant
Frederick Kappel, former Chairman of AT&T
Stephen F. Keating, former President, Honeywell
Erwin Kelm, former President, Cargill
Jill Konrath, sales strategist and author of Selling to Big Companies and SNAP Selling
Mari Kooi, CEO, Wolf Asset Management International LLC
John Hugh MacMillan, businessman
Ted Mann, head of Mann Theatres
Leonard Murray, former President, Soo Line Railroad
Christopher O'Malley, President and CEO of Compuware
James O'Shaughnessy, asset manager
John S. Pillsbury, Jr., former President, Northwestern National Life Insurance Company
Chuck Porter
Prakash Puram, former CEO of iXmatch
William John Quinn, former President, Milwaukee Road
K.V.K. Raju, technopreneur
Osman Rashid, entrepreneur
Lee Raymond, former CEO of Exxon Mobil Corporation
William J. Ruane, investor
T. Denny Sanford, CEO of United National Corporation
Irving S. Shapiro, former CEO of DuPont
Ballard F. Smith, former President, San Diego Padres
Steven Snyder, management consultant
Michael Sokolski, engineer, founder and inventor of Scantron
Arne Sorenson, CEO, Marriott International
Thomas O. Staggs, Chairman, Walt Disney Co.
Melvin Steen, corporate attorney
Ronald Stordahl, CEO, Digi-Key
John Stumpf, CEO, Wells Fargo Bank
Michael P. Sullivan, former President, Dairy Queen
Eric Swanson, General Counsel of BATS Trading
Erwin Tomash, co-founder, Dataproducts
Robert Ulrich, CEO, Target
Scott Ward, President (Vascular), Medtronic, Inc.
Roy Wilkins, former Executive Director of the NAACP
David W. Winn, U.S. Air Force general
Michael W. Wright, former CEO of SuperValu
Whitney Young, former Executive Director, National Urban League

Science and medicine

J. Edward Anderson, engineer
Dr. Moe Anderson, dental surgeon
Dr. Rutherford Aris, professor of chemical engineering (1958â€"2005); professor of classics specializing in paleography
Dave Arneson, game designer
Marian Breland Bailey, psychologist
Earl Bakken, founder, Medtronic
Amit Bando, climate activist
Christopher Barden, psychologist
Dr. Christiaan Barnard
Trevor J. Barnes, geographer
John Barry, engineer
C. Fred Bentley, soil scientist
Lloyd Berkner, physicist and engineer
Sanford I. Berman, philanthropist
Philip E. Bernatz, physician
Sara C. Bisel, anthropologist
William F. Bottke, planetary scientist
Marci Bowers, physician
Walter Houser Brattain, physicist
Jeannette Brown, chemist and historian
William Fuller Brown, Jr., physicist
Murray Fife Buell, ecologist
Arthur H. Bulbulian, engineer
Harold Bunger, chemist
Hugh Butt, physician
Dr. David P. Campbell
Duane G. Carey, astronaut
Cherie Carter-Scott, author
T. T. Chang, agricultural scientist
Ed Chi, computer scientist
Imrich Chlamtac, computer scientist
Helen Codere, anthropologist
Gratia Countryman, librarian
John Hubert Craigie, plant pathologist
Seymour Cray, founder, Cray Research
Arthur Cronquist, botanist
Leah Culver, computer scientist
David Dahlin, physician
Donald A. Dahlstrom, engineer
Jack Dangermond, environmental scientist
Farrington Daniels, chemist
Eduardo Santiago Delpin, physician
Robert J. Desnick, physician and geneticist
Dr. Satish Dhawan
Theodore S. Drachman, author
Richard Gurley Drew, inventor
M. Bridget Duffy, physician
Halbert L. Dunn, physician
Marvin Dunnette, psychologist
John S. Eastwood, engineer
Frank Edwin Egler, plant ecologist
William D. Emmons, chemist
Elmer William Engstrom, television engineer
Mordecai Ezekiel, economist
Richard Farson, psychologist
Robert Folinsbee, geologist
John E. Franz, chemist
Scott Freeman, economist
Alfred Freedman, psychiatrist
John G. Frayne, physician
Arthur Fry, inventor
David E. Garfin, biophysicist
Robert R. Gilruth, former Director, Johnson Space Center
Dr. Donald Gleason
Dr. Robert A. Good
John Paul Goode, geographer
Dr. Robert W. Gore
Mark Gorenberg, engineer
Ulysses Sherman Grant, geologist
Ronald D. Guttmann, physician
Torey Hayden, psychologist
Isaac Held, scientist
Jessica Hellmann, ecologist
Robert A. Henle, engineer
John Kenneth Hilliard, electrical engineer
Jane Elizabeth Hodgson, physician
Abram Hoffer, psychiatrist
John H. Hoffman, scientist
Dr. John L. Holland
Robert Hollenhorst, physician
Cyril Hoyt
Sherwood B. Idso, climate scientist
Hope Jahren, geobotanist
James J. Jenkins, psychologist
Chad J. Johnson, physicist
Reynold B. Johnson, inventor
Selmer M. Johnson, mathematician
B. J. Kennedy, physician
Mohammad Aslam Khan Khalil, physicist
Lemont Kier, chemist
Lawrence Kirk, agronomist
George R. Klare, psychologist
Tom Krimigis, space scientist, physicist
Paul Eston Lacy, physician
Richard Lehman
Scott Lilienfeld, author, psychologist
Dr. C. Walton Lillehei
Kjell N. Lindgren, astronaut
Joseph Lykken
Mark P. McCahill, computer scientist
Bruce A. Menge, ocean ecologist
Paul E. Meehl, psychologist
Sanjay Mittal, engineer
Calvin Mooers, computer scientist
George E. Moore, physician
Edward Ng, mathematician
Dr. Walter R. Nickel
Joseph D. Novak
Dr. Richard Oriani, metallurgist, first Director of Corrosion Research Center
Walter Palmer, dental surgeon, known for killing a protected lion in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park
James Papez, physician
Rudolph Pariser, chemist
George Parshall, chemist
David Passig, futurist
Joseph R. Pawlik, marine biologist
George Philippidis, energy advisor
Jeannette Piccard
Ananda Prasad, biochemist
George H. Prudden, engineer
Marian Radke-Yarrow, psychologist
Dr. Malcolm Renfrew
Theodore H. Rowell
Harry Rowsell, veterinarian
Avtar Saini, engineer
Cecil Salmon, agronomist
Richard L. Sandor, economist
Roscoe Frank Sanford, astronomer
Dr. Norman Shumway
Bent Skovmand, plant scientist
Deke Slayton, Mercury Seven astronaut
Bill Smith, Motorola engineer
Elvin C. Stakman, plant pathologist
John Stapp, physician
William Bushnell Stout, engineer
Clarence Syvertson, engineer
Leona E. Tyler, psychologist
Jo Anne Van Tilburg, archeologist
David Walsh, psychologist
Richard A. Weinberg, psychologist
Louis Jolyon West, psychiatrist
Robert J. White, surgeon
Louis B. Wilson, pathologist
John A. Wise, nutritionist
Jill Zimmerman, computer scientist and professor

Academics and education

James Luther Adams, former professor, Harvard University
Ramesh K. Agarwal, professor, Washington University
Sydney E. Ahlstrom, former professor, Yale University
John S. Allen, president, University of Florida, founding president, University of South Florida
Fernando Alvarez, economist; professor, University of Chicago
Glenn J. Ames, professor, University of Toledo
Kinsey Anderson, former Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Lawrence B. Anderson, former professor, MIT
Richard Davis Anderson, former professor, University of Pennsylvania
Terry H. Anderson, professor of history at Texas A&M University
William Anderson, former professor, University of Minnesota
James C. Anthony, professor, Michigan State University
Masahiko Aoki, professor, Stanford University
Arvind, computer scientist; professor at MIT
Richard N. Aslin, professor, University of Rochester
John D. Axtell, former professor, Purdue University
Myrtle Aydelotte, former dean, University of Iowa
N. H. Baker, former professor, Columbia University
Clarence Barber, former professor, University of Manitoba
William A. Bardeen, former associate professor, Stanford University
Michael N. Barnett, professor, George Washington University
Eric Becklin, professor Emeritus, UCLA
David T. Beito, professor, The University of Alabama
Dale Berger, Dean, Claremont Graduate University
Jessie Bernard, former professor, Pennsylvania State University
Robert M. Berdahl, former Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley
Gary Berntson, professor, Ohio State University
Ellen S. Berscheid, professor, University of Minnesota
Robert A. Bjork, professor, UCLA
Rebecca Blank, Chancellor, University of Wisconsin-Madison; former Dean, University of Michigan
Walker Bleakney, former professor, Princeton University
Carl Blegen, former professor, University of Cincinnati
Theodore C. Blegen, former Graduate Dean, University of Minnesota
John Elof Boodin, philosopher
Luc Bovens, professor, University of London (London School of Economics)
Willard L. Boyd, former president, University of Iowa
Susan Brantly, professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Stanley Brodsky, professor, Stanford University
Robert A. Brown, president, Boston University; former Provost, MIT
Keith Brueckner, former professor, University of California, San Diego
Nathaniel A. Buchwald, former Professor, UCLA
Murray Fife Buell, professor, Rutgers University
Martin Bunzl, professor, Rutgers University
Jon Butler, professor, Yale University
Henry Byerly, philosopher and former professor, University of Arizona
Arthur Butz, Associate professor, Northwestern University
Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, professor, University of Minnesota
John Bissell Carroll, former professor, Harvard University
Stephen Carls, professor, Union University
Hector-Neri Castaneda, former professor, Indiana University
Terry Castle, professor, Stanford University
Mary Ellen Chase, former professor, Smith College
Lawrence J. Christiano, professor, Northwestern University
Lee Anna Clark, professor, University of Iowa
Sterling Clarren, professor, University of Washington
Helen Codere, anthropologist
Ronald L. Cohen, professor, Bennington College
Brock Cole, former professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Hugh M. Cole, historian and former professor, Army War College
William E. Coles, Jr., professor, University of Pittsburgh
Elizabeth Colson, Professor Emerita, University of California, Berkeley
Ada Comstock, former president, Radcliffe College
William W. Cooley, former Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Thomas Courtice, former president, Ohio Wesleyan University
Richard Cyert, former president, Carnegie Mellon University
Arthur C. Dahlberg, professor, Cornell University
Norris Darrell, former president, American Law Institute
John A. DeNovo, former professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Frank J. Dixon, founder and former director, Scripps Research Institute
Joel Dobris, professor, University of California, Davis
Monroe D. Donsker, former professor, New York University
Rhoda Dorsey, longest serving and first woman President of Goucher College
William Gould Dow, former professor, University of Michigan
Fred Dretske, former professor, Stanford University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Martin Eichenbaum, professor, Northwestern University
Frieda Ekotto, professor, University of Michigan
Rodney Erickson, president, Pennsylvania State University
W.G. Ernst, former professor, Stanford University
William Kaye Estes, former professor, Harvard University
Alvin C. Eurich, former president, State University of New York
Lin Fanghua, professor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Bruce A. Finlayson, professor Emeritus, University of Washington
Otto Folin, former professor, Harvard University
Edward Monroe Freeman, former Dean, University of Minnesota
Scott Freeman, economist
Phyllis Freier, former physicist
Frederick Charles Frey, former Dean, Louisiana State University
Reynold C. Fuson, former professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Nathaniel Gage, former professor, Stanford University
Fred Galvin, professor, University of Kansas
Sheldon Garon, professor, Princeton University
Scott Gates, professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Ernest Gellhorn, former Dean of Law, Arizona State University, Case Western Reserve University, and the University of Washington
Mary Gergen, former professor, Pennsylvania State University
Frank Gillis, ethnomusicologist, former director of the Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University
Jon Gjerde, former professor, University of California, Berkeley
Knut Gjerset, former professor, Luther College
Jane Glazebrook, professor, MIT
Gerald Jay Goldberg, professor Emeritus, UCLA
Robert A. Good, former professor, University of Minnesota
Irving Gottesman, former professor, University of Minnesota and the University of Virginia
Ulysses Sherman Grant, former professor, Northwestern University
Roger Gray, former professor, Stanford University
Earl Grinols, professor, Baylor University
Charles Grisham, professor, University of Virginia
Jennifer Guglielmo, associate professor, Smith College
Louis Guttman, professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
William W. Hagerty, former president, Drexel University
Judith Halberstam, professor, University of Southern California
Kermit L. Hall, former president, University at Albany, SUNY
Patricia Hampl, professor, University of Minnesota
Elaine Tuttle Hansen, president, Bates College
Lars Peter Hansen, professor, University of Chicago
Karen Hanson, provost, Indiana University
Tim Harcourt, economist
Robert Hariman, professor, Northwestern University
William Hawkland, former Chancellor, Louisiana State University
John Earl Haynes, historian
Eric J. Heller, professor, Harvard University
Daniel Herschlag, professor, Stanford University
Deborah Hertz, professor, University of California, San Diego
James L. Hetland Jr., former professor, University of Minnesota
Sadek Hilal, former professor, Columbia University
Ivan Hinderaker, former chancellor, University of California, Riverside
John L. Holland, psychologist who developed the Holland Codes
Ralph Holman, professor emeritus, University of Minnesota
Joseph M. Horn, professor, University of Texas-Austin
Frederick L. Hovde, former president, Purdue University
Mary Howell, former associate dean of medicine, Harvard University
Lloyd Hustvedt, former professor, Saint Olaf College
Yuji Ijiri, professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Daniel Janzen, professor, University of Pennsylvania
Robert Jensen, professor, University of Texas-Austin
Leon H. Johnson, professor and president, Montana State University (1964â€"1969)
D. Bruce Johnstone, former chancellor, State University of New York
Richard W. Jones, professor, Northwestern University
Eric W. Kaler, president, University of Minnesota
Gordon Kane, professor, University of Michigan
Shirley Strum Kenny, former president, Queens College
Jeanne Halgren Kilde, professor, University of Minnesota
Robert Kingsley, former Dean of Law, University of Southern California
James Kritzeck, professor, Princeton University
Patricia K. Kuhl, professor, University of Washington
Amitava Kumar, professor, Vassar College
Jane Larson, former professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bibb Latane, psychologist
Joyce Lebra, former professor, University of Colorado
Maurice LeClair, former vice dean, UniversitÃ© de MontrÃ©al
Keith Lehrer, philosopher
Ernest Lepore, philosopher
Aaron B. Lerner, former professor, Yale University
Melva Lind, French scholar
Raymond Lindeman, former ecologist
Lars Ljungqvist, professor, NYU, Stockholm School of Economics, IZA
Odd S. Lovoll, professor, St. Olaf College
David Lubinski, professor, Vanderbilt University
George A. Lundberg, former professor, University of Washington
Thomas S. Lundgren, professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota
Michael Lynch, geneticist; professor, Indiana University
Myles Mace, former distinguished professor, Harvard Business School
Conway MacMillan, professor of botany at University of Minnesota
Mark Mahowald, professor, Northwestern University
Helmut Maier, professor, University of Ulm
Albert Marcet, professor, University of London (London School of Economics)
Harry S. Martin, former librarian and professor, Harvard University
Andreu Mas-Colell, former professor, Harvard University
Richard Maxwell, former Dean of Law, UCLA
E. Jerome McCarthy, former Professor, Michigan State University
William Parker McKee, second president of Shimer College
Ernest O. Melby, former Dean of Education, Northwestern University
Jack Mezirow, professor emeritus, Columbia University
Maren Michelet, first teacher of Norwegian in any public high school in the United States
Tiya Alicia Miles, associate professor, University of Michigan
Earl Miner, former professor, Princeton University
Sanjay Mittal, professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Terry M. Moe, professor, Stanford University
Ole Moen, former professor, University of Oslo
Parviz Moin, professor, Stanford University
David Montgomery, professor emeritus, Yale University
Malcolm Moos, former president, University of Minnesota
Manfred Morari, professor, ETH Zurich
Negar Mottahedeh, associate professor, Duke University
C. L. Mowat, historian
Joia Mukherjee, professor, Harvard University
Michael Mulholland, professor, University of Michigan
Shirley Mullen, president, Houghton College
Farouk Abdel Wahab Mustafa, lecturer, University of Chicago
Jack Myers, biologist; former professor, University of Texas-Austin
Grant S. Nelson, former professor, UCLA
Hans Neurath, professor, University of Washington
Edward P. Ney, former professor, University of Minnesota
Walter R. Nickel, professor, University of California, San Diego
Alfred O. C. Nier, former professor, University of Minnesota
Jay Noren, former president, Wayne State University
Joseph D. Novak, former professor, Cornell University
Josiah Ober, professor, Stanford University
Kenneth Olwig, professor, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Henry J. Oosting, former professor, Duke University
Myron Orfield, professor, University of Minnesota
Robert Parr, professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Donn W. Parson, professor, University of Kansas
C.H. Patterson, professor emeritus, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Pat Pattison, professor, Berklee College of Music
John Vernon Pavlik, professor, Rutgers University
Vjekoslav Perica, associate professor, University of Rijeka
Ruby Pernell, former professor, University of Minnesota; first African American faculty member hired at a state flagship university in the 20th century
Laurence E. Peterson, professor, University of California, San Diego
Francis J. Pettijohn, former professor, Johns Hopkins University
Mark Pharis, professor, University of Minnesota
Ronald L. Phillips, professor, University of Minnesota
Maynard Pirsig, former dean of law, University of Minnesota
John L. Pollock, philosopher
Daniel D. Polsby, Dean of Law, George Mason University
David Premack, professor emeritus, University of Pennsylvania
Alan R. Price, former associate professor, University of Michigan
Luis M. Proenza, president, University of Akron
William Prosser, former dean of law, University of California, Berkeley
Carlton C. Qualey, former professor, Carleton College
Doraiswami Ramkrishna, professor, Purdue University
Alan Rector, professor, University of Manchester
Kevin P. Reilly, president, University of Wisconsin System
Irving J. Rein, professor, Northwestern University
David Reinking, professor, Clemson University
Leo George Rigler, former professor, UCLA
Donald John Roberts, professor, Stanford University
Harry Rozmiarek, professor, University of Pennsylvania
Dale F. Rudd, professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Millard Ruud, former executive director, Association of American Law Schools
Allan Ryan, university attorney, Harvard University
Robert Rynasiewicz, professor, Johns Hopkins University
Muhammad Sahimi, professor, University of Southern California
Eugene G. Sander, president, University of Arizona
John C. Sanford, associate professor emeritus, Cornell University
Jay Scheib, professor, MIT
William R. Sears, former professor, Cornell University
Lee Seokwoo, associate professor, Inha University; former research scholar, Oxford University
William H. Sewell, former chancellor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
John M. Sharp, professor, University of Texas-Austin
John Sharpless, professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Eugene P. Sheehy, head academic librarian, Columbia University
Norman Shumway, former professor, Stanford University
Mulford Q. Sibley, former professor, University of Minnesota
Yum-Tong Siu, professor, Harvard University
Steven S. Smith, professor, Washington University
Edwin Spanier, former professor, University of California, Berkeley
Melford Spiro, professor emeritus, University of California, San Diego
Harold Stassen, former president, University of Pennsylvania
Robert Stein, former Dean of Law, University of Minnesota
Alfred Steinberg, historian
Malcolm Steinberg, former Professor, Princeton University
Keith H. Steinkraus, former professor, Cornell University
Charles Edward Stevens, former professor, Cornell University
Peter A. Stewart, former professor, Brown University
William Swann, professor, University of Texas-Austin
Leigh Tesfatsion, professor, Iowa State University
Frank Thistlethwaite, former lecturer, Cambridge University; former Vice-Chancellor, University of East Anglia
Paul Thompson, former professor, University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies)
Josephine Tilden, professor with an acrimonious relationship with the University of Minnesota
Robert M. Townsend, professor, MIT
Alan Trachtenberg, professor emeritus of American Studies, Yale University
Merle Tuve, former professor, Johns Hopkins University
Rosemond Tuve, former professor, University of Pennsylvania
Harald Uhlig, professor, University of Chicago
Arvind Varma, professor, Purdue University
Paul Vojta, professor, University of California, Berkeley
Robert G. L. Waite, former professor, Williams College
W. Allen Wallis, former president, University of Rochester
James Z. Wang, professor, Pennsylvania State University
Ellen Wartella, former Dean of Communications, University of Texas-Austin
Alexander Wendt, professor, Ohio State University
Robert J. White, former professor, Case Western Reserve University
Bruce A. Williams, professor, University of Virginia
Dessima Williams, former professor, Brandeis University
Randall Wright, professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tai Tsun Wu, professor, Harvard University
Blong Xiong, associate professor, University of Minnesota
Paul Alan Yule, professor, Ruprecht-Karls-UniversitÃ¤t Heidelberg
Nicolas Zafra, former professor, University of the Philippines
Herman Zanstra, former professor, University of Amsterdam
James Zumberge, former president, University of Southern California

Arts and entertainment

Kinji Akagawa, sculptor
Eddie Albert, actor
Samina Ali, author
William Albert Allard, photographer
Loni Anderson, actress
Poul Anderson, science fiction author
Dave Arneson, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons; writer; educator
James Arness, actor
John Astin, actor
Maria Bamford, comedian
Lori Barbero, musician
Carol E Barnett, composer
Louis and Bebe Barron, composers
Monika Bauerlein, co-editor of Mother Jones
Trace Beaulieu, comedian, writer for Mystery Science Theater 3000 (left after one year)
C.C. Beck, cartoonist
Lorna Beers, author
T. James Belich, playwright
Lou Bellamy, founder of Penumbra Theatre Company
Elizabeth Berg, author
Abbie Betinis, composer
Brad Beyer, actor
Alan Bjerga, President of the National Press Club
Susan Blackwell, actress
Jessica Blank, actress
Asha Blake, journalist
Michael Blodgett, actor and screenwriter
Carol Bly, author, short story writer
Erin Bode, singer
Roman Bohnen, actor
John Bowe, author
Guy Branum, comedian and actor
Amy Briggs, game designer
Bud Brisbois, musician
Connie Brockway, author
Joel Brooks, actor
Aaron Brown, former CNN anchor (did not graduate)
Martin Bruestle, television producer
Philip Brunelle, conductor, organist, entrepreneur (founder of VocalEssence)
Scott Z. Burns, screenwriter
Richard Carlson, actor
William Carpenter, writer
David Carr, journalist
George H. Carsley (1870-1933), architect
Aya Cash, actress
Daniel Chorzempa, musician
Brock Cole, author
William E. Coles, Jr., author
Marvel Cooke, journalist
Maryann Corbett, poet
Michael Coyle, composer
Arlene Dahl, actress
George Dahl, architect
Nicole, Erica and Jaclyn Dahm, Playboy centerfolds
Lynn Davis, photographer
Carl Dennis, poet
Jim Denomie, artist
Gordon R. Dickson, science fiction author
Richard Dix, actor
Ivan Dmitri, born Levon West, artist and photographer
Tod Dockstader, composer
Peter Docter, screenwriter and director
Hedley Donovan, editor of Time magazine
Celius Dougherty, musician
Lila Downs, singer
Dick Durrell, creator of People magazine
Julius Duscha, journalist
J.B. Edwards, playwright
Stephanie Edwards, TV personality
Kimberly Elise, actress
Herbert Elwell, composer
Karim Emami, literary critic
Della Gould Emmons, author
J. Louis Engdahl, journalist
James Enge, author
Mark Engebretson, musician
Robert Engels, scriptwriter
John Farrell, poet
Tovah Feldshuh, actress
Barbara Field, playwright
Mali Finn, casting director
Stink Fisher, actor
Roland Flint, poet
Henry Fonda, actor
Santino Fontana, actor
Frank Forest, operatic tenor and actor
Carol Hoorn Fraser, artist
John Fraser, critic
Howard Frazin, composer
Stan Freese, musician
Thomas Friedman, journalist, The New York Times
Dave Frishberg, musician
Warren Frost, actor
David Gebhard, architectural historian
Tom Gjelten, NPR correspondent
Lillian Glass, author, TV Commentator, body language expert
Jay Goede, actor
Peter Michael Goetz, actor
Rita K. Gollin, Nathaniel Hawthorne scholar
Carl Graffunder, architect
Peter Graves, actor
Dick Guindon, cartoonist
Gene Gutche, composer
Harmony Hammond, artist
Frederick Harris, conductor
Pete Hautman, author
Thomas Heggen, author
Steve Heitzeg, composer
Bruce Henricksen, author
Maureen Herman, musician
Ari Herstand, actor, musician
Edwin Hawley Hewitt, architect
Lorena Hickok, journalist
James Hong, actor (did not graduate)
Marya Hornbacher, author
Marshall Houts, author
Ernie Hudson, actor
Jim Hughart, musician
Irene Hunt, children's author
Lewis Hyde, essayist
Carl Richard Jacobi, author
Charles Jensen, poet
Diana Johnstone, author
Suma Josson, filmmaker
Nathan H. Juran, film director
Donald Keats, composer
Garrison Keillor, author and satirist
Linda Kelsey, actress
Katherine Kersten, columnist
Clyde S. Kilby, author
Jim Klobuchar, columnist
T. R. Knight, actor
John Koerner, musician
Michael Koppelman, record producer
Walter Kuhlman, artist
Mary La Chapelle, author
Jessica Lange, actress
Jim Lange, former game show host and disc jockey
Libby Larsen, contemporary composer
Jill Larson, actress
Robert Leaf, composer
Ed Bok Lee, author
Nicholas Legeros, bronze sculptor
Ralph Lemon, artist
James Lileks, columnist
Terrance Lindall, artist
Knut Lindh, author
Sidney Lippman, composer
Maud Hart Lovelace, author
Peg Lynch, radio and television producer
Peter MacNicol, actor
Harvey Mackay, New York Times bestselling author
Kevin Manthei, film composer
E.G. Marshall, actor
E. L. Mayo, poet
Robert McAlmon, author and poet
Kevin McCarthy, actor
David Revere McFadden, curator
James L. McGregor, journalist
Larisa Migachyov, composer
Marjorie Mikasen, painter
May Merrill Miller, author
John R. Milton, author
Craig Minowa, musician
Freddy Moore, musician
E. Roger Muir, television producer
Kate Mulgrew, actress
John Munson, musician
Marilyn Nelson, poet
Charles Nolte, actor
Michele Norris, host of NPR's All Things Considered
Eunice Norton, pianist
Larry Novak, musician
Roger Nygard, filmmaker
William N. Oatis, journalist
Doug Ohlson, abstract artist
Jack Ohman, cartoonist
Margo Oliver, cooking writer
Ron Olsen, journalist
Jenni Olson, filmmaker
Lynn Freeman Olson, composer
Gene O'Neill, writer
Arieh O'Sullivan, journalist
Laurence Overmire, poet, actor, playwright
Stephen Paulus, contemporary composer
Jim Paymar, journalist
Ron Perlman, actor
Arthur Peterson, Jr., actor
Charles E. Peterson, preservationist
Wayne Peterson, composer
Kristen Pfaff, bass guitarist
Robert Pirsig, author and philosopher
Gundaris Pone, composer
Greta Pratt, photographer
Michael P. Price, theatre producer and artistic director
Gordon Purcell, artist
Aagot Raaen, author
Peggy Rathmann, author
Harry Reasoner, ABC and CBS news anchor and correspondent
Mona Lyn Reese, composer
Sam Richter, author
Nils Nilsen Ronning, author and journalist
James Rosenquist, artist
Carl Rowan, syndicated columnist, former head of United States Information Agency
Deborah Rubin, painter
Jerry Rusch, musician
Kevin Rutmanis, musician
Megan Rye, painter
Salama Ahmed Salama, journalist
Harrison Salisbury, journalist
John Salminen, painter
Rick Sanchez, former CNN anchor
Larry Sanders, talk show host (fictional)
April Saul, journalist
Kurtis Scaletta, author
Jay Scheib, theatre director
Michael Schelle, composer
David Schelzel, lead singer of The Ocean Blue
George Schneeman, painter
Maria Schneider, Grammy-Award winning composer and conductor
Robert C. Schuler, television producer
Keith Secola, musician
Mabel Seeley, writer
Eric Sevareid, journalist
John Sheehy, architect
Arthur Sheekman, screenwriter
Max Shulman, author
Hilda Simms, actress
Kevin Skaff, musician
Gale Sondergaard, Oscar-winning actress
Wonny Song, pianist
David Soul, actor
Ann Stanford, poet
Maura Stanton, poet
Eric Stokes, composer
Erin Soderberg, author
Robert Suderburg, composer
C. Gardner Sullivan, screenwriter
Sarah Susanka, architect
William Swanberg, author
Yuko Taniguchi, poet
Stan Tekiela, photographer
Todd Temkin, poet and cultural activist
Robert Thaves, cartoon developer
Jack Tracy, journalist
Arthur Upson, poet
Janika Vandervelde, composer
Robert Vaughn, actor
John Verrall, composer
William Wade, journalist
Pete Wagner, cartoonist
Sherman Walt, musician
Donald Wandrei, science fiction/fantasy writer and editor, co-founder of Arkham House publishing
Dale Warland, composer
Joseph Waters, composer
Lou Waters, journalist
Will Weaver, author
E.J. Westlake, playwright
Donald Wexler, architect
Minor White, photographer
Ron Whyte, playwright
Lona Williams, former television producer
Lenny Wolpe, actor
Joe Woyee, musician
Patricia Wrede, author
Yanni, Grammy-nominated pianist and composer
Rolv Yttrehus, composer
John Zdechlik, composer, conductor
David Zinman, conductor
Tay Zonday, musician and actor

Athletics

Nine players from the University played on Herb Brooks' 1980 Miracle on Ice ice hockey team that beat the USSR and won the gold medal. The players were Bill Baker, Neal Broten, Steve Christoff, Steve Janaszak, Rob McClanahan, Mike Ramsey, Buzz Schneider, Eric Strobel and Phil Verchota.
John Anderson, college baseball coach
Keith Ballard, NHL defenseman
Marion Barber III, NFL running back
Bert Baston, College Football Hall of Fame end
Bobby Bell, NFL linebacker
Shelton Benjamin, WWE wrestler
Lindsey Berg, US women's volleyball team
Patty Berg, professional golfer and co-founder of LPGA
Evan Bernstein, Israeli Olympic wrestler
Bernie Bierman, College Football Hall of Fame coach
John Billman, football player
Bob Bjorklund, football player
Brian Bonin, NHL center
Randy Breuer, NBA center
Herb Brooks, head coach, 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team
Tom Brown, College Football Hall of Fame, guard
J.T. Bruett, MLB outfielder
Willie Burton, NBA guard
Rene Capo, Olympic judoka
Chris Darkins, NFL running back
Natalie Darwitz, US women's Olympic hockey team 2002, 2006, 2010
Eric Decker, NFL wide receiver
Brian Denman, MLB pitcher
Tony Dungy, NFL defensive back, head coach, TV commentator
Carl Eller, NFL defensive end
Ric Flair, professional WWE wrestler
George Franck, College Football Hall of Fame, halfback
Verne Gagne, Olympic and professional wrestler
Brent Gates, MLB player
Paul Giel, MLB pitcher
Alex Goligoski, NHL defenseman
Fortune Gordien, Olympic discus silver and bronze medalist
Bud Grant, NFL head coach, NFL and NBA player
Gabriele Grunewald, U.S. champion middle distance runner
Ben Hamilton, NFL guard
Jack Hannahan, MLB infielder
Lou Hudson, NBA guard
Kris Humphries, NBA forward
Colton Iverson (born 1989), basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Bobby Jackson, NBA guard
Noel Jenke, NFL linebacker
Walt Jocketty, MLB general manager
Herb Joesting, College Football Hall of Fame, fullback
Evan Kaufmann, hockey player
Phil Kessel, NHL winger
Tom Kondla, professional basketball player
Cole Konrad, two-time undefeated, NCAA individual champion at 285Â lbs; mixed martial artist and the Bellator Heavyweight Champion
Vic Kulbitski, football player
Mike Lehan, NFL cornerback
Tom Lehman, PGA golfer, British Open champion
Nik Lentz, wrestler; mixed martial artist for Ultimate Fighting Championship (featherweight)
Jordan Leopold, NHL defenseman
Brock Lesnar, professional WWE wrestler, mixed martial artist
Rhys Lloyd, NFL kicker
Pug Lund, College Football Hall of Fame, halfback
Laurence Maroney, NFL running back
AnnMaria De Mars, 1984 judo world champion, mother of Ronda Rousey
Bobby Marshall, first African-American NFL player, College Football Hall of Fame
Paul Martin, NHL defenseman
John Mayasich, Olympic hockey player
Janel McCarville, WNBA center
Clarence McGeary, NFL defensive tackle
John McGovern, College Football Hall of Fame quarterback
Kevin McHale, NBA center and coach, Basketball Hall of Fame
Karl Mecklenburg, NFL linebacker
Mark Merrill, NFL linebacker
Eddie Miles, NFL player
Paul Molitor, MLB Hall of Fame player and manager
Anthony Montgomery, NFL linebacker
Bronko Nagurski, College and Pro Football Hall of Fame fullback
Denny Neagle, MLB pitcher
Leo Nomellini, NFL Hall of Fame linebacker
Earl Ohlgren, NFL defensive end
Glen Perkins, MLB pitcher, Minnesota Twins
John Pohl, NHL player
Mitch Potter, track and field athlete
Robb Quinlan, MLB third baseman
Pete Regnier, NFL halfback
Darrell Reid, NFL linebacker
John Roethlisberger, Olympic gymnast
Marie Roethlisberger, NCAA gymnastics champion
Eddie Rogers, College Football Hall of Fame end
Dusty Rychart, professional basketball player
Charlie Sanders, Pro Football Hall of Fame, tight end
Flip Saunders, NBA head coach
Jeff Schuh, NFL linebacker
Mark Setterstrom, NFL offensive guard
Rudy Sikich, NFL tackle
Bruce Smith, NFL halfback and Heisman Trophy winner
Matt Spaeth, NFL tight end
Robb Stauber, NHL goalie
Terry Steinbach, MLB catcher
Sandy Stephens, All-American quarterback, College Football Hall of Fame
Steve Stewart, NFL linebacker
Bob Sweiger, football player
Thomas Tapeh, NFL fullback
Jay Thomas, NFL tailback
Darrell Thompson, NFL running back
Mychal Thompson, basketball center, top pick of 1978 NBA Draft
Tuffy Thompson, NFL halfback
Festus Tierney, NFL guard
Clayton Tonnemaker, College Football Hall of Fame, center
Trent Tucker, NBA guard
Frank Twedell, NFL guard
Rick Upchurch, NFL wide receiver, 5-time All-Pro
Ben Utecht, NFL tight end
Thomas Vanek, NHL left winger
Jacob Volkmann, three-time All-American wrestler; MMA fighter
Alma Wagen, mountain climber and guide
Krissy Wendell, US women's Olympic hockey team 2002, 2006
Lindsay Whalen, WNBA guard
Blake Wheeler, NHL right winger
Ed Widseth, College Football Hall of Fame tackle
Dick Wildung, College Football Hall of Fame tackle
Charles "Bud" Wilkinson, College Football Hall of Fame head coach, TV commentator
Dave Winfield, MLB Hall of Famer
Kaitlin Young, professional mixed martial artist
Amanda Zahui B., WNBA center

Faculty

Student groups - College of Science and Engineering College of .... Source : cse.umn.edu

Nobel laureates

Philip S. Hench, Medicine, Mayo Foundation, 1923â€"1965; 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Edward C. Kendall, Biochemistry, Mayo Foundation, 1914â€"1951; 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
John Bardeen, Physics, 1938â€"1941; Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 and 1972
John H. van Vleck, Physics, 1923â€"28; 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics
William Lipscomb, Chemistry, 1946â€"1959; 1976 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Paul D. Boyer, Biochemistry, 1945â€"1963; 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Saul Bellow, English, 1946; 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature
Milton Friedman, Economics, 1945â€"1946; 1976 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
George J. Stigler, Economics, 1938â€"46; 1982 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Edward C. Prescott, Economics, 1980â€"2003; 2004 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Leonid Hurwicz, Economics, 1951â€"2008; 2007 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Christopher A. Sims, Economics, 1970â€"1990; 2011 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Thomas J. Sargent, Economics, 1971â€"1987; 2011 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Robert J. Shiller, Economics, 1972â€"1974; 2013 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Pulitzer Prize winners

Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1947 for the novel All the King's Men; won Pulitzers in poetry in 1958 for Promises: Poems 1954â€"1956, and in 1979 for Now and Then
John Berryman, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1965 for Poetry
Dominick Argento, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1975 for Music

University of Minnesota presidents

William Watts Folwell (1869â€"1884)
Cyrus Northrop (1884â€"1911)
George Edgar Vincent (1911â€"1917)
Marion Burton (1917â€"1920)
Lotus Coffman (1920â€"1938)
Guy Stanton Ford (1938â€"1941)
Walter Coffey (1941â€"1945)
James Morrill (1945â€"1960)
O. Meredith Wilson (1960â€"1967)
Malcolm Moos (1967â€"1974)
C. Peter Magrath (1974â€"1984)
Kenneth H. Keller (1984â€"1988)
Nils Hasselmo (1988â€"1997)
Mark G. Yudof (1997â€"2002)
Robert H. Bruininks (2002â€"2011)
Eric W. Kaler (2011â€"present)

Chancellors

Edward Duffield Neill,1858â€"1861

Professors

Nasser al-Aulaqi, Yemeni Agriculture Minister; president of Sanaa University; father of Anwar al-Awlaki
Lou Bellamy, professor of theatre arts, founder of Penumbra Theatre Company
Daphne Berdahl, anthropology professor (deceased)
John Berryman, literature professor, poet
John Joseph Bittner, Professor of Cancer Research; Director of the Division of Cancer Biology (1943â€"1961)
Theodore C. Blegen, Dean of the Graduate School (1940â€"1960)
Norman Borlaug, creator of the Green Revolution
Marilyn Carroll, neuroscience professor
Eli Coleman, Director of the Program in Human Sexuality; Editor of the Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality
Paul John Ellis, stellar astrophysics, nuclear physics
Herbert Feigl, member of the Vienna Circle, the most influential group of philosophers of the twentieth century; founder of the world's first center to study philosophy of science, the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
Edward Monroe Freeman, professor of botany; dean of the College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Home Economics
Seymour Geisser, founder of the School of Statistics; DNA evidence expert
Florence Goodenough, psychology
Irving I. Gottesman, psychology
Walter Heller, Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors under JFK
Geoffrey Hellman, Professor of Philosophy
James Kakalios, professor of physics, noted for his work with comic book fans
Ancel Keys, nutritionist, inventor of K-rations
Frederick Klaeber, Beowulf scholar
Izaak Kolthoff, "father of analytical chemistry"
Anatoly Liberman, Germanic scholar; author of An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology
David Lykken, professor of psychology and psychiatry; founder of Minnesota Twin Family Study
George Morrison, art professor
Richard T. Murphy, Jr., landscape architecture professor
Katherine Nash, sculpture professor
Edward P. Ney, astronomy and physics professor; discovered cosmic ray heavy nuclei
Peg O'Connor, Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College, Wittgensteinian, feminist philosopher
Michael Osterholm, School of Public Health professor
Suhas Patankar, mechanical engineering; mechanical engineering; computational thermofluids
Ralph Rapson, architect and university bureaucrat
Juan Rosai, Professor of Anatomical pathology and discoverer of medical conditions such as the Rosai-Dorfman disease and desmoplastic small round cell tumor, appointed Professor and Director of Anatomic Pathology at the University of Minnesota Medical School 1974â€"1985
Eugene Rousseau, saxophone instructor
Naomi Scheman, Professor of Philosophy and Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies
Ephraim Sparrow, mechanical engineering; thermodynamics and heat transfer
Maurice Cole Tanquary, professor of entomolgy
Allen Tate, literature professor, poet
Valerie Tiberius, Professor of Philosophy
Andrew H. Van de Ven, Vernon H. Heath Chair of Organizational Innovation and Change, Professor Carlson School of Management
James Wright, literature professor, poet
Blong Xiong, first Hmong in the US to receive tenure at a major university
Zhi-Li Zhang, computer science professor
Jack Zipes, German professor, translator and scholar of fairy tales

Present Regents Professors

Regents Professorship Present Recipients: U Awards & Honors: U of M.

Frank Bates, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Ellen S. Berscheid, Psychology
John Chipman, Economics
Thomas Clayton, English
H. Ted Davis, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Sara Evans, History
Apostolos Georgopoulos, Neuroscience
Richard Goldstein, Mechanical Engineering
Megan Gunnar, Child Psychology, Institute for Child Development
Ashley Haase, Microbiology
Patricia Hampl, English
Robert Hebbel, Medicine
Allen Issacman, History
John Najarian, Surgery
Alfred Michael, Pediatrics
Ronald L. Phillips, Agronomy and Plant Genetics
Lawrence Que Jr., Inorganic Chemistry
Lanny D Schmidt, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Kathryn Sikkink, Political Science
John Sullivan, Political Science
Richard A. Swanson, Professor of Human Resource Resource Development
David Tilman, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
Donald Truhlar, Chemistry
David Weissbrodt, Law
James White, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Albert Yonas, Perceptual Development

References

University of Minnesota Libraries - Wikipedia. Source : en.wikipedia.org

Northrop Auditorium - Wikipedia. Source : en.wikipedia.org

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