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[edit] Notable alumni
[edit] Nobel Laureates
- Herbert Spencer Gasser, B.S. 1910, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1944
- John Bardeen, B.S. 1928 and M.S. 1929, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 and 1972
- Edward Lawrie Tatum, B.A. 1931, M.S. 1932, Ph.D. 1935, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958
- Stanford Moore, Ph.D 1938, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972
- John H. van Vleck, A.B. 1920, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977
- Theodore Schultz, M.S. 1928, Ph.D. 1930, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1979
- Erwin Neher, M.S. 1967, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1991
- Paul Boyer, M.S. 1941, Ph.D. 1943, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997
- Günter Blobel, Ph.D. 1967, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1999
- Jack Kilby, M.S. 1950, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the Integrated Circuit in 2000
- Alan G. MacDiarmid, M.S. 1952, Ph.D. 1953, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2000
[edit] Academics
- Stephen Ambrose, historian
- Richard Bellman, noted mathematician and inventor of dynamic programming
- Merle Curti, important historian of United State's intellectual history
- William Cronon (1976), noted environmental historian
- J. Martin Klotsche, first chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Richard Nelson, cultural anthropologist
- Stephen Nissenbaum (PhD 1968), noted cultural and intellectual historian
- Walter Ristow, noted librarian
- Park Gil Sung, noted sociologist in Korea
- Frederick Jackson Turner (1884, MA 1888), noted historian and professor
[edit] Athletics
- Alan Ameche, 1954 Heisman Trophy winner, NFL player, Baltimore Colts
- Ken Behring, owner, Seattle Seahawks
- Michael Bennett, NFL player, Kansas City Chiefs
- Brooks Bollinger, NFL player, Minnesota Vikings
- Rene Bourque, NHL player, Chicago Blackhawks
- Chris Chambers, NFL player, Miami Dolphins
- Chris Chelios, NHL player, Detroit Red Wings, 3-time Norris Trophy Winner
- Ken Criter, retired NFL player, Denver Broncos
- Ron Dayne, 1999 Heisman Trophy winner, NFL player, Houston Texans
- Lee Evans, NFL player, Buffalo Bills
- Suzy Favor-Hamilton, track and field, olympian
- Michael Finley, NBA player, San Antonio Spurs
- Jamar Fletcher, NFL player, Detroit Lions
- Terrell Fletcher, retired NFL player, San Diego Chargers
- Ed Garvey, former Executive Director, National Football League Players Association
- Devin Harris, NBA player, Dallas Mavericks
- Dany Heatley, NHL player, Ottawa Senators
- Beau Hoopman, Olympic Rowing Gold Medalist
- Erasmus James, NFL player, Minnesota Vikings
- Al Johnson, NFL player, Dallas Cowboys
- Mark Johnson, NCAA women's ice hockey coach, NHL player, member of the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" gold medal olympic team
- Curtis Joseph, NHL player, Phoenix Coyotes
- Addie Joss, former MLB player, member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame
- Matt Katula, NFL player, Baltimore Ravens
- Harvey Kuenn, retired MLB player and manager
- Jim Leonhard, NFL player, Buffalo Bills
- Buddy Melges, America’s Cup Skipper
- James Menon, 9 time NCAA All-American Track and Field Cross Country
- Ahmad Merritt, NFL player, free agent
- Brian Mullen, former National Hockey League player and current New York Rangers broadcaster
- Jim O'Toole, retired MLB player
- Lance Painter, retired MLB player
- Kirk Penney, player with Maccabi Tel Aviv in basketball's Euroleague
- Carly Piper, swimmer, Gold Medalist and World Record holder in the 2004 Summer Olympic Games
- George Poage, athlete, first African American Olympic medal winner
- Paul Quantrill, retired MLB player
- Steve Reinprecht, NHL player
- Mike Richter, NHL player, New York Rangers
- Pat Richter, retired NFL player, Washington Redskins
- Bud Selig, Baseball Commissioner
- Tony Simmons, CFL player (B.C. Lions) and former NFL player
- Jim Sorgi, NFL player, Indianapolis Colts
- Scott Starks, NFL player, Jacksonville Jaguars
- Bob Suter, retired NHL player, 1980 Olympics Gold Medalist
- Gary Suter, retired NHL player
- Ryan Suter, NHL player
- Mark Tauscher, NFL player, Green Bay Packers
- Troy Vincent, NFL player, Buffalo Bills
[edit] Arts and entertainment
- Gina Cerminara, author
- Lynne Cheney, Second Lady, writer
- Dale Chihuly, glass artist
- Joan Cusack, actress
- Jim Horwitz, independent filmmaker (Grodmin)
- Jane Kaczmarek, actress (Malcolm in the Middle)
- Michael Mann, movie director/producer
- Fredric March Actor
- Steve Marmel Comedian/Writer Fairly Odd Parents
- Steve Miller, musician (left school six credit-hours short of a degree)
- Joyce Carol Oates, novelist
- Meinhardt Raabe, munchkin in the Wizard of Oz
- Boz Scaggs (Wm. Royce Scaggs), musician
- Ben Sidran, jazz pianist
- Kevin Slane, Actor/Director
- Ryan Talaska, Actor/Director
- Daniel J. Travanti, Emmy Award-winning actor
- Charlie Trotter, chef/PBS host
- Butch Vig, musician, Garbage
- Eudora Welty, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist
- Tom Wopat, actor/musician
- Frank Lloyd Wright (attended), architect
- Frank Wu, science-fiction artist
- David Zucker, movie director/producer
- Jerry Zucker, movie director/producer
[edit] Aviators and Astronauts
[edit] Business
- Carol Bartz Chairman of the Board, President, and CEO of Autodesk, Inc.
- John P. Morgridge, Chairman of the Board, former President and CEO of Cisco Systems, philanthropist
- Tom Pyle, chairman and president, Pyle Group, former chairman and CEO, Rayovac Group
- Lee R. Raymond, chairman and CEO, Exxon Mobil
[edit] Engineering
[edit] News, journalism, and broadcasting
- Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author.
- Rita Braver, national reporter, CBS News
- Jane Brody, columnist, New York Times
- Scott Cohn, senior correspondent, CNBC
- Michael Feldman, Host of Public Radio’s Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?
- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, CNN
- Paul Ingrassia, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
- Ben Karlin, executive producer, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report
- Patricia McConnell, co-host of Public Radio's Calling All Pets
- Arthur C. Nielsen Sr., founder of AC Nielsen (TV ratings and market research)
- Phil Rosenthal, columnist, Chicago Tribune
- Leonard Shapiro, Sports writer, Washington Post
- Greta Van Susteren, broadcaster and news analyst, Fox News Channel
[edit] Law and politics
- Shirley Abrahamson, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Iajuddin Ahmed, President of Bangladesh
- Tammy Baldwin, a member of the United States House of Representatives representing Wisconsin's Second Congressional District.
- Dick Cheney, Vice President (attended as doctoral candidate; did not graduate.)
- Dr Jon Cruddas, British Member of Parliament. He was a visiting Fellow (1987-1988)
- Glenn Robert Davis, a member of the United States House of Representatives representing Wisconsin's Ninth Congressional District from April 22, 1947 to January 3, 1957 and again from January 3, 1965 to December 31, 1974. He attended the law school.
- Jim Doyle, Wisconsin Governor
- Lawrence Eagleburger, former Secretary of State
- Russ Feingold, U.S. Senator
- Philip Mayer Kaiser, U.S. Diplomat
- Herb Kohl, U.S. Senator
- Belle Case La Follette, wife of Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
- Robert M. La Follette, Sr., former Wisconsin governor and congressman
- Laura Miller, Mayor of Dallas, Texas
- Edmund C. Moy, personnel advisor to President George W. Bush
- Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian freedom fighter and political leader. In 1998, he was awarded the Bharat Ratna
- Philleo Nash, government official, college professor
- Gaylord Nelson, former U.S. Senator, Wisconsin governor and founder of Earth Day
- Paul Samuel Reinsch, appointed Minister to China in 1913
- William A. Steiger,Congress
- Nahathai Thewphaingarm, former Thai Minister of Education and spokesperson of Thai Rak Thai Party
- Tommy Thompson, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services; former Wisconsin Governor (1986-2001)
- Edwin E. Witte, Social Security advisor to FDR Administration.
[edit] Science and technology
[edit] Other notable alumni
[edit] Notable Wisconsin faculty and staff, former and current
- Ann Althouse, professor of law and well-known blogger.
- Michael Apple, leading educational theorist
- Stephen Babcock, inventor of the Babcock test for measuring the butterfat content of milk.
- Kevin Barrett, associate lecturer noted for publicly advocating a conspiracy theory regarding the September 11th attacks
- John Bascom, President of the University of Wisconsin.
- Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author.
- David Bordwell, prominent neoformalist film theorist and author.
- Paul S. Boyer, prominent historian of American thought and culture, author of Salem Possessed
- John R. Commons, one of the architects of Social Security in the United States.
- Farrington Daniels, early researcher in Solar energy
- Richard Davis, jazz bassist
- Richard Davidson, professor of psychology and psychiatry, widely noted for his mind-body research, [1]
- Hector DeLuca, research on vitamin D
- Richard Theodore Ely (1854-1943), professor, social activist, economist
- Joseph Erlanger, 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Jeremy Freese, associate professor of sociology and popular blogger
- Harry Harlow, psychologist, known for studies on affection using rhesus monkeys with artificial mothers.
- Willard Hurst, seminal figure in the development of modern American legal history
- Har Gobind Khorana, 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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- For describing the genetic code and how it operates in protein synthesis.
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- For his research in genetic structure and function in microorganisms.
- Gerda Lerner, Professor Emerita; historian of women's and gender history; considered a founder of women's history
- Harvey Littleton, founder of the modern American studio glass movement
- Aldo Leopold, author of A Sand County Almanac, which helped spawn the environmental movement and, specifically, interest in ecology as a science. He also founded the Wilderness Society
- Abraham Maslow, psychologist, known for Maslow's hierarchy of needs
- Nellie Y. McKay, scholar of African-American literature and co-editor of the Norton Anthology of African-American Literature
- Alexander Meiklejohn, philosopher and free-speech advocate
- Jack Mitchell, first employee of National Public Radio; first producer of "All Things Considered"
- George L. Mosse, professor; important historian of European nationalism and gender
- Ronald Numbers, historian of science
- Harry Partch, avant-garde composer
- Zorba Paster, co-host of Public Radio's Zorba Paster On Your Health
- Carl Rogers, psychologist and founder of "Client-Centered Therapy"
- Bo Ryan, current Head Men's Basketball Coach
- Donna E. Shalala, Chancellor 1987-1993; Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1993-2001.
- John Sharpless, History Professor; Former candidate for the United States House of Representatives, 2000
- Harry Steenbock, biochemist, vitamin D researcher.
- Cecil Taylor, jazz pianist
- Howard Temin, 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- James Thomson, credited with first successful culturing of human embryonic stem cells.
- Timothy Tyson, professor of African-American history and author
- Alexander Vasiliev (1867-1953), Byzantinist and Arabist
- Eugene Wigner, 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Efim Zelmanov, recipient of the Fields Medal in 1994
[edit] Chancellors and Presidents
