List of University of Minnesota people

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

Alumni

Nobel Laureates

1 Ernest O. Lawrence, M.A., Physics, 1923 - 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics
2 Walter Brattain, Ph.D., Physics, 1929 - 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics
3 Melvin Calvin, Ph.D., Chemistry, 1935 - 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
4 Norman Borlaug, B.S. Forestry, 1937; M.S. (1939) and Ph.D. (1942), Plant Pathology - 1970, 1914 - 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
5 Edward B. Lewis, M.A., Biostatistics, 1939 - 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
6 Louis J. Ignarro, Ph.D., Pharmacology, 1966 - 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
7 Daniel McFadden, B.S. Physics, 1957; Ph.D., Economics, 1962 - 2000 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

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. He 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 (diplomat) former U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay and Panama
Scott H. DeLisi, U.S. Ambassador to Nepal
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
Tom McDonald (diplomat), 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
Robert G. Neumann, former diplomat
Carl Stokes, former U.S. Ambassador to Seychelles
Walter Mondale, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan
Benson Whitney former U.S. Ambassador to Norway
Ross Wilson (ambassador), 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. 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
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)
Einar Hoidale, former U.S. Congressman (DFL-MN)
Knute Hill, former U.S. Representative
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
John Linder, 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
Clark MacGregor, former U.S. Representative
James Manahan, former U.S. Representative
William Josiah MacDonald, 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

Foreign

Arne Arnesen, Norwegian politician and official
Mohamed Benaissa, former Foreign Minister of Morocco
Luis Carranza, former Minister of Economy and Finance, Peru
Felipe Checa, grandson of former president of Ecuador
Michael Clark (politician), former member of the British Parliament
Nick Clegg, British MP, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and leader of the Liberal Democrats
Geir Haarde, former Prime Minister of Iceland
Werikhe Kafabusa, Minister for Housing, Uganda
O-kyu Kwon, Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Finance and Economy of the Republic of Korea
Abdessalem Mansour, former Tunisian Agriculture Minister
Yong-lin Moon, Former Minister of Education and Human Resources Development of the Republic of Korea
Khurram Murad, Pakistani politician and Islamic activist
Fred H. Nomme, Norwegian diplomat
Archie Norman, former member of the British Parliament
Ricardo Raineri, Minister of Energy, Chile
Sadiq Al Shehabi, Member of the Shura Council, Kingdom of Bahrain
Paulo Zucula, Mozambican politician
Mohamed Azmin Ali, Malaysian politician

Other

George Edward Akerson, former White House Press Secretary
John T. Benson, Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin
William Berndt, Wisconsin Legislature
Val Bjornson, Minnesota State Treasurer
David R. Brink, former President, American Bar Association
Alden W. Clausen, former President, World Bank
Chris Coleman (politician), Mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota
Lawrence D. Cohen (politician), former Mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota
Gratia Countryman, librarian
Jimmy Delshad, former Mayor, Beverly Hills, California
Michael Dombeck, former Chief, United States Forest Service
Gary R. Goyke, Wisconsin Legislature
James Harsdorf, Wisconsin Legislature
John Hutson, former Judge Advocate General, United States Navy
Sly James, J.D., 1983, Kansas City mayor
Roger G. Kennedy, former Director, National Park Service
Thomas E. Latimer, former Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota
Algernon Lee, Socialist Party of America leader
Jim Lord, Minnesota State Treasurer, Minnesota State Senate
Paul J. F. Lusaka, former President, United Nations General Assembly
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, Minnesota
Aagot Raaen, author and educator
Nils Nilsen Ronning, author, journalist, editor and publisher
Richard M. Scammon, former Director, United States Census Bureau
Gene Sperling, Director, National Economic Council
Elmer B. Staats, former Comptroller General of the United States
Joseph Stevens, 2006 Plymouth Mayoral Candidate
William H. Stewart, former United States Surgeon General
Carl Stokes, former Mayor, Cleveland, Ohio
Clarence Syvertson, former Director, Ames Research Center
Roy Wilkins, former civil rights activist
Whitney Young, former civil rights activist

Leadership and Business

Lahsen Ababouch, Chief of Fisheries Industry Division, Food and Agriculture Organization
Dianne Deering Anton, Vice President of Contracts and Strategic Agreements, Alliant Techsystems
Mary Greeley Bartz, Director, Betty Crocker Kitchens
John S. Barry, former CEO, WD-40 Company.^[1]
James H. Binger, former CEO, Honeywell
Thomas O. Staggs, chairman, Walt Disney Company
Tom Burnett, Vice President, Thoratec Corporation
Mary Crimi, former President, American Animal Hospital Association
John Donovan, Executive Vice President for Global Sales and Consulting Services, VeriSign
Susan Edberg, Vice President of Marketing, Minnesota Public Radio
Jody H. Feragen, Vice President of Finance, Hormel Foods Corporation
Michelle Gran, Co-founder, Global Volunteers
Rodney R. Hannula, U.S. National Guard general
Harry Heltzer, former CEO, 3M Corporation
Robert E. Hillard, public relations executive
Susan Hoff, Vice President of Corporate Communications, BestBuy
Michael Illbruck, CEO, Illbruck International, GmbH
Mildred Jeffrey, former President of United Auto Workers and winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Kenneth Oscar Johnson, former CEO, Belcher Oil
Myung-Sik Jung, former CEO, POSCO
Erwin Kelm, former President, Cargill
Karen Gilles Larson, CEO, Synovis Life Technologies
Timothy R. McLevish, CFO, Ingersoll-Rand
Kathleen Lundberg, Chief Compliance Officer, Guidant Corporation
Obioma Nnaemeka, Founder, Association of African Women Scholars,
Curtis C. Nelson, President and COO, Carlson Companies
Bud Philbrook, Co-founder, Global Volunteers
Lee Raymond, former CEO, Exxon Mobil Corporation
Tom Staggs, Senior Executive Vice President, Walt Disney Co.
John Stumpf, CEO, Wells Fargo Bank
Robert Ulrich, CEO, Target
Hicks Waldron, former CEO, Avon Products
Scott Ward, President (Vascular), Medtronic, Inc.
Bob Whitmore, Executive Vice President, Seagate Technology
Roy Wilkins, former Executive Director of the NAACP
Michael Wingert, President and COO, Maxtor Corporation
David W. Winn, U.S. Air Force general
Michael W. Wright, former CEO of SuperValu
Whitney Young, former Executive Director, National Urban League
Andrew Bundermann, US Army Officer, received Silver Star for actions at COP Keating^[2]
William E. McIntosh, Jr., co-founder of National Association of Minority Auto Dealers NAMAD former Chrysler Executive, lead the 1st minority dealer ownership program in the U.S., Entrepreneur.

Science and Medicine

Dr. Rutherford Aris, professor of chemical engineering (1958–2005) who was also a professor of Classics specializing in paleography
Earl Bakken, Founder, Medtronic
Dr. Christiaan Barnard
Walter Houser Brattain, physicist
Hugh Butt
Dr. David P. Campbell
Duane G. Carey, astronaut
Seymour Cray, Founder, Cray Research
Arthur Cronquist, botanist
David Dahlin, physician
Donald A. Dahlstrom. engineer
Farrington Daniels, chemist
Robert J. Desnick, physician and geneticist
Dr. Satish Dhawan
Richard Gurley Drew, inventor
John S. Eastwood, engineer
Frank Edwin Egler, plant ecologist
William D. Emmons, chemist
Elmer William Engstrom, television engineer
Richard Farson, psychologist
Dr. Tim Foecke, metallurgist
John E. Franz, chemist
Scott Freeman, economist
Arthur Fry, inventor
Robert R. Gilruth, former Director, Johnson Space Center
Dr. Donald Gleason
Dr. Robert A. Good
John Paul Goode, geographer
Dr. Robert W. Gore
Dennis L. Hansen Aquatic Biologist
Isaac Held, scientist
Robert A. Henle, engineer
John Kenneth Hilliard, electrical engineer
Abram Hoffer, psychiatrist
John H. Hoffman, scientist
Dr. John L. Holland
Robert Hollenhorst, physician
Reynold B. Johnson, inventor
B. J. Kennedy, physician
Dr. Brian D. Larsen
Dr. C. Walton Lillehei
Dr. Malcolm Renfrew
Deke Slayton, Mercury Seven astronaut
Dr. Norman Shumway
Michele Brekke
Hyung-Seob Choi, former President, Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Robert J. Desnick
Elmer William Engstrom, former President and CEO, RCA
Peter J. Franco, Geneticist and Educator
Harrison Gough
Ulysses Sherman Grant, geologist
Pat Gruber
Moshe Gur
Sally Hasselbrack, Senior Research Fellow, Boeing
Yeo Shin Hong, Dean, Seoul National University School of Nursing
Cyril Hoyt
Marjorie Jamieson
Steve Kraus
Mark R. Krampf
Mary Jo Kreitzer
Tom Krimigis, space scientist/physicist
E-hyock Kwon, former President, Republic of Korea National Academy of Sciences
Paul Eston Lacy, physician
Ho-Wang Lee, former President, Republic of Korea National Academy of Sciences
Joseph Lykken
Dr. Robert G. McKinnell
Calvin Mooers, computer scientist
George E. Moore, physician
Edward Ng, mathematician
Dr. Walter R. Nickel
Joseph D. Novak
Peter Noznick, chemist
Dr. Richard Oriani, metallurgist, 1st Director of Corrosion Research Center
James Papez, physician
Rudolph Pariser, chemist
George Parshall, chemist
Jeannette Piccard
Ananda Prasad, biochemist
Marian Radke-Yarrow, psychologist
Theodore H. Rowell
Roscoe Frank Sanford, astronomer
Deke Slayton, astonaut
William Bushnell Stout, engineer
Owen Wangensteen
Robert J. White, surgeon
Bang-Bu Youn

Academics and Education

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
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 (political scientist), former Professor, University of Minnesota
James C. Anthony, Professor, Michigan State University
Arvind (computer scientist), Professor, MIT
Richard N. Aslin, Professor, University of Rochester
N. H. Baker, former Professor, Columbia University
William A. Bardeen, former Associate Professor, Stanford University
Michael Barnett, Professor, George Washington University
Eric Becklin, Professor Emeritus, UCLA
Gary Berntson, Professor, Ohio State University
Robert M. Berdahl, former Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley
Ellen S. Berscheid, Professor, University of Minnesota
David T. Beito, Professor, The University of Alabama
Robert A. Bjork, Professor, UCLA
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
Robert A. Brown, President, Boston University and former Provost, MIT
Keith Brueckner, former Professor, University of California, San Diego
Martin Bunzl, Professor, Rutgers University
Murray Fife Buell, Professor, Rutgers University
Jon Butler, Professor, Yale University
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
Sterling Clarren, Professor, University of Washington
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
Helen Codere, anthropologist
Ronald L. Cohen, Professor, Bennington College
Ada Comstock, former President, Radcliffe College
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
Joel Dobris, Professor, University of California, Davis
M. D. Donsker, former Professor, New York University
William Gould Dow, former Professor, University of Michigan
Fred Dretske, former Professor, Stanford University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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
Sanjay Mittal, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Edward Monroe Freeman, former Dean, University of Minnesota
Reynold C. Fuson, former Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Nathaniel Gage, former Professor, Stanford University
Sheldon Garon, Professor, Princeton University
Scott Gates (academic), 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
Jon Gjerde, former Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Gerald Jay Goldberg, Professor Emeritus, UCLA
Robert A. Good, former Professor, University of Minnesota
Ulysses Sherman Grant, former Professor, Northwestern University
Roger Gray, former Professor, Stanford University
Charles Grisham, Professor, University of Virginia
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
John Earl Haynes, historian
Elaine Tuttle Hansen, President, Bates College
Lars Peter Hansen, Professor, University of Chicago
Karen Hanson, Provost, Indiana University
Robert Hariman, Professor, Northwestern University
William Hawkland, former Chancellor, Louisiana State University
Eric J. Heller, Professor, Harvard University
Deborah Hertz, Professor, University of California, San Diego
Sadek Hilal, former Professor, Columbia University
Ivan Hinderaker, former Chancellor, University of California, Riverside
John L. Holland, Professor Emeritus, John Hopkins University
Ralph Holman, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota
Joseph M. Horn, Professor, University of Texas-Austin
Mary Howell, former Associate Dean of Medicine, Harvard University
Frederick L. Hovde, former President, Purdue University
Yuji Ijiri, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Daniel Janzen, Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Robert Jensen, Professor, University of Texas-Austin
D. Bruce Johnstone, former Chancellor, State University of New York
Richard W. Jones, Professor, Northwestern University
Henry Kaiser, Professor, Cornell University
Eric W. Kaler, President, 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
Bibb Latane, psychologist
Joyce Lebra, former Professor, University of Colorado
Aaron B. Lerner, former Professor, Yale University
Raymond Lindeman, former ecologist
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
Mark Mahowald, Professor, Northwestern University
Helmut Maier, Professor, University of Ulm
Albert Marcet, Professor, University of London (London School of Economics)
Andreu Mas-Colell, former Professor, Harvard University
Richard Maxwell (academic), former Dean of Law, UCLA
Ernest O. Melby, former Dean of Education, Northwestern University
Jack Mezirow, Professor Emeritus, Columbia University
Tiya Alicia Miles, Associate Professor, University of Michigan
Earl Miner, former Professor, Princeton University
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
Shirley Mullen, President, Houghton College
Jack Myers (biologist), former Professor, University of Texas-Austin
Hans Neurath, Professor, University of Washington
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
Robert Parr, Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
C.H. Patterson, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
John Vernon Pavlik, Professor, Rutgers University
Laurence E. Peterson, Professor, University of California, San Diego
Ronald L. Phillips, Professor, University of Minnesota
Mark Pharis, Professor, University of Minnesota
Maynard Pirsig, former Dean of Law, University of Minnesota
Luis M. Proenza, President, University of Akron
John L. Pollock, philosopher
Daniel D. Polsby, Dean of Law, George Mason University
David Premack, Professor Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania
William Prosser, former Dean of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Carlton C. Qualey, former Professor, Carleton College
Alan Rector, Professor, University of Manchester
Kevin P. Reilly, President, University of Wisconsin System
Irving J. Rein, Professor, Northwestern University
Leo George Rigler, former Professor, UCLA
Donald John Roberts, Professor, Stanford University
Harry Rozmiarek, Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Robert Rynasiewicz, Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Muhammad Sahimi, Professor, University of Southern California
John C. Sanford, Associate Professor Emeritus, Cornell University
Jay Scheib, Professor, MIT
George Seddon, former geologist and philosopher
William H. Sewell, former Chancellor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
John M. Sharp, Professor, University of Texas-Austin
Eugene P. Sheehy, Head Academic Librarian, Columbia University
Cheol Soon Shin, President, Chonbuk National 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
Harold Stassen, former President, University of Pennsylvania
Robert Stein (academic) former Dean of Law, University of Minnesota
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 and former Vice-Chancellor, University of East Anglia
Paul Thompson (sinologist), former Professor, University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies)
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
Anne Villamil, Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and University of Manchester
Paul Vojta, Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Robert G. L. Waite, former Professor, Williams College
W. Allen Wallis, former President, University of Rochester
Ellen Wartella, former Dean of Communications, University of Texas-Austin
Alexander Wendt, Professor, Ohio State University
Bruce A. Williams, Professor, University of Virginia
Dessima Williams, former Professor, Brandeis University
Tong-In Wongsothorn, President, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University
Randall Wright, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tai Tsun Wu, Professor, Harvard University
David Reinking, Professor, Clemson University
Joel Case, Professor, University of Wisconsin–Marathon County
Nicholas Q. Tran, Professor, Santa Clara University
Paul Alan Yule, Professor, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität 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

Tahsan Rahman Khan, singer, keyboardist, guitarist, composer, lyricist, actor, anchor
Eddie Albert, actor
Loni Anderson, actress
Poul Anderson, science fiction author
Dave Arneson, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, writer, educator
John Astin, actor
Maria Bamford, comedian
Monika Bauerlein, former editor of Mother Jones (magazine)
Lorna Beers, author
Brad Beyer, actor
Susan Blackwell, actress
Carol Bly, author, short story writer
Alan Bjerga, President, National Press Club
Jessica Blank, actress
Michael Blodgett, actor and screenwriter
Joel Brooks, actor
Aaron Brown, former CNN anchor (did not graduate)
Erin Bode, singer
Roman Bohnen, actor
John Bowe (author)
Philip Brunelle - conductor, organist, entrepreneur (founder of VocalEssence)
Guy Branum. comedian and actor
Martin Bruestle, television producer
Scott Z. Burns, screenwriter^[3]
Richard Carlson, actor
David Carr (journalist)
William E. Coles, Jr., author
Marvel Cooke, journalist
Michael Coyle, composer
Arlene Dahl, actress
George Dahl, architect
Nicole, Erica and Jaclyn Dahm, Playboy centerfolds
Carl Dennis, poet
Jim Denomie, artist
Richard Dix, actor
Tod Dockstader, composer
Peter Docter, screenwriter and director
Hedley Donovan, editor, Time Magazine
Lila Downs, singer
Dick Durrell, creator of People magazine
Bob Dylan, singer/songwriter (did not graduate)
Kimberly Elise, actress
Herbert Elwell, composer
Robert Engels, scriptwriter
Henry Fonda, actor (did not graduate)
John Farrell (poet)
Mali Finn, casting director
Frank Forest, operatic tenor and actor
Howard Frazin, composer
Thomas Friedman, journalist, New York Times
Linda Ann Gehringer, actress
Rita K. Gollin, Nathaniel Hawthorne scholar
Tom Gjelten, NPR correspondent
Peter Michael Goetz, actor
Carl Graffunder, architect
Peter Graves, actor
Gene Gutche, composer
Jason Hansen, composer
Kate Hardy Green, author
Thomas Heggen, author
Bruce Henricksen, author
Steve Heitzeg, composer
Endesha Ida Mae Holland, award-winning playwright
James Hong, actor (did not graduate)
Irene Hunt, children's author
Chris Ison, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Charles Jensen (poet)
Nathan H. Juran, film director
Dave Kapell, inventor of Magnetic Poetry
Garrison Keillor, author and satirist
Linda Kelsey, actress
Jim Klobuchar, columnist
T. R. Knight, actor
Jessica Lange, actress
Jill Larson, actress
Libby Larsen, contemporary composer
Nancy Smiler Levinson, author
James Lileks, columnist
Maud Hart Lovelace, author
Terrance Lindall, artist
Peter MacNicol, actor
Kevin McCarthy (actor)
Harvey Mackay, New York Times bestselling author
Kevin Manthei, film composer
E. L. Mayo, poet
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
William N. Oatis, journalist
Doug Ohlson (1936–2010), abstract artist.^[4]
Ron Olsen, journalist
Jenni Olson, filmmaker
Arieh O'Sullivan, journalist
Laurence Overmire, poet, actor, playwright
Stephen Paulus, contemporary composer
Ron Perlman, actor
Arthur Peterson, Jr., actor
Wayne Peterson, composer
Kristen Pfaff, bass guitarist
Robert Pirsig, author and philosopher
Gordon Purcell, artist
Harry Reasoner, ABC and CBS news anchor and correspondent
James Rosenquist, artist
Carl Rowan, syndicated columnist, former head of United States Information Agency
David Royale, executive producer for "National Geographic Explorer" series
Harrison Salisbury, journalist
Rick Sanchez, former CNN anchor
April Saul, journalist
Jay Scheib, theatre director
David Schelzel, lead singer of The Ocean Blue
Maria Schneider Grammy-Award winning composer and conductor
Eric Sevareid, journalist
Max Shulman, author
Gale Sondergaard, Oscar-winning actress
Wonny Song, pianist
Robert Suderburg, composer
William Swanberg, author
Todd Temkin, poet and cultural activist
Robert Thaves, cartoon developer
Janika Vandervelde, composer
Robert Vaughn, actor
Donald Wandrei, science fiction/fantasy writer and editor, co-founder of Arkham House publishing
Joseph Waters, composer
Lou Waters, journalist
Will Weaver, author
Levon West, (Ivan Dmitri) artist/photographer
Donald Wexler, architect
Lona Williams, former television producer
Yanni, Grammy-nominated pianist and composer
David Zinman, conductor
Chase Korte, actor (deceased)

Athletics

Faculty

Nobel Laureates

Philip S. Hench, Medicine, Mayo Foundation, 1923–1965; 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Edward C. Kendall, Biochemistry, Mayo Foundation, 1914–1951; 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

John Bardeen, Physics, 1938–1941; Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 and 1972
John H. van Vleck, Physics, 1923–28; 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics

William Lipscomb Chemistry, 1946-1959 - 1976 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Paul D. Boyer, Biochemistry, 1945-1963 - 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Saul Bellow, English, 1946; 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature

Milton Friedman, Economics, 1945–1946; 1976 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
George J. Stigler, Economics, 1938–46; 1982 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Edward C. Prescott, Economics, 1980–2003; 2004 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Leonid Hurwicz, Economics, 1951–2008; 2007 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Christopher A. Sims, Economics, 1970–1990; 2011 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Thomas J. Sargent, Economics, 1971–1987; 2011 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 the Pulitzer Prizes in poetry in 1958 for Promises: Poems 1954-1956, 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 (1869–1884)
Cyrus Northrop (1884–1911)
George Edgar Vincent (1911–1917)
Marion Burton (1917–1920)
Lotus Coffman (1920–1938)
Guy Stanton Ford (1938–1941)
Walter Coffey (1941–1945)
James Morrill (1945–1960)
O. Meredith Wilson (1960–1967)
Malcolm Moos (1967–1974)
C. Peter Magrath (1974–1984)
Kenneth H. Keller (1984–1988)
Nils Hasselmo (1988–1997)
Mark G. Yudof (1997–2002)
Robert H. Bruininks (2002–2011)
Eric W. Kaler (2011–present)

Chancellors

Edward Duffield Neill,1858–1861

Professors

Nasser al-Aulaqi, Yemeni Agriculture Minister, president of Sanaa University, and father of Anwar al-Awlaki.^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]
Theodore C. Blegen - Dean of the Graduate School (1940–1960).
Hyman "Hy" Berman – History professor (retired), local political commentator
Daphne Berdahl–Anthropology professor (deceased)
John Berryman – Literature Professor, American poet
John Joseph Bittner- Professor of Cancer Research and Director of the Division of Cancer Biology (1943–1961)
Norman Borlaug – creator of the Green Revolution
Michael Dennis Browne – Professor of creative writing, American poet
Marilyn Carroll – Neuroscience professor
Eli Coleman – Director of the Program in Human Sexuality, Editor of the Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality
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
Barbara Frey - Former member of United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
Seymour Geisser – Founder of the School of Statistics, DNA evidence expert
Ray Gonzalez - Professor of creative writing. Award-winning poet, essayist, and editor.
Florence Goodenough – Psychology
Walter Heller - Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors under JFK.
Geoffrey Hellman - professor of Philosophy.
Lawrence R. Jacobs – Political science professor, local political commentator
James Kakalios - professor of physics, noted for his work with comic-book fans.
Ancel Keys - nutritionist, inventor of K-rations
Izaak Kolthoff - "Father of analytical chemistry"
Frederick Klaeber - noted Beowulf scholar
Anatoly Liberman - noted Germanic scholar and 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
Michael Osterholm – School of Public Health professor
S V Patankar – Mechanical engineering - mechanical engineering - computational thermofluids
Ralph Rapson, world famous 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 between 1974 and 1985.
Eugene Rousseau – Saxophone instructor
Sachin Sapatnekar – Electrical engineering
T W Simon – Mechanical engineering - thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and heat transfer
Ephraim Sparrow – Mechanical engineering - thermodynamics and heat transfer
Allen Tate – Literature professor, American poet
Andrew H. Van de Ven Vernon H. Heath Chair of Organizational Innovation and Change, Professor Carlson School of Management
David Weissbrodt - Former head of United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and U.N. Special Rapporteur on the rights of non-citizens
James Wright – Literature professor, American poet
Blong Xiong - first Hmong in the U.S. 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 & 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 Phillips - Agronomy and Plant Genetics
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

^ Martin, Douglas. "John S. Barry, Main Force Behind WD-40, Dies at 84", The New York Times, July 22, 2009. Retrieved July 22, 2009.
^ Valor awards for Andrew L. Bundermann | Military Times Hall of Valor
^ Neal Justin: Scott Burns' ultimatum | StarTribune.com
^ Smith, Roberta. "Doug Ohlson, Painter of Vivid Abstracts, Dies at 73", The New York Times, July 23, 2010. Retrieved July 24, 2010.
^ Raghavan, Sudarsan (December 10, 2009). "Cleric linked to Fort Hood attack grew more radicalized in Yemen". Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/09/AR2009120904422.html. Retrieved December 10, 2009.
^ Shane, Scott (November 18, 2009). "Born in U.S., a Radical Cleric Inspires Terror". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/us/19awlaki.html. Retrieved November 20, 2009.
^ Holmes, Oliver (November 5, 2009). "Why Yemen Hasn't Arrested Terrorist Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki". TIME. http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2030277,00.html. Retrieved November 11, 2010.
^ Warren Richey (August 31, 2010). "Anwar al-Awlaki: ACLU wants militant cleric taken off US 'kill list'". Christian Science Monitor. http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2010/0831/Anwar-al-Awlaki-ACLU-wants-militant-cleric-taken-off-US-kill-list. Retrieved October 30, 2010.
^ UPI staff reporter (November 11, 2009). "Imam in Fort Hood case born in New Mexico". United Press International. http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2009/11/11/Imam-in-Fort-Hood-case-born-in-New-Mexico/UPI-43701257982479/. Retrieved November 13, 2009.

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Law and Politics

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Leadership and Business

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University of Minnesota Presidents

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