List of DePauw University alumni

The list of DePauw University alumni includes notable alumni of DePauw University.

Business

• Timothy Collins - Financier, Founder of Ripplewood Holdings, Director of Citigroup
• Angie Hicks - founder of Angie's List
• Charles T. Hinde - Railroad executive, founder of the Hotel del Coronado, shipping executive
• Eli Lilly - Philanthropist and Founder of Eli Lilly and Company
• Mary Meeker - Internet equity research analyst at Morgan Stanley dubbed "Queen of the Net"
• Steven M. Rales - Chairman of Danaher Corporation, billionaire
• Scott Rasmussen - Co-founder of ESPN and founder of Rasmussen Reports
• Bill Rasmussen - founder of ESPN
• Al Ries - author and marketing expert
• Steve Sanger - former president and CEO of General Mills
• Howard C. Sheperd, Sr. - Former president of the National City Bank of New York, now Citibank
• James D. Weddle - Managing Partner of Edward Jones

Government and politics

• Joseph W. Barr - Secretary of the Treasury (1968–69), FDIC Chairman
• Albert Beveridge - U.S. Senator (IN)
• David L. Carden - U.S. Ambassador to ASEAN
• Sutemi Chinda - former Japanese Ambassador to United States
• Tom Colten - Louisiana Republican politician, mayor, and transportation secretary
• Thomas H. Hamilton, former President of the State University of New York and the University of Hawaii
• Anna Elizabeth Dickinson - Influential abolitionist and suffragist who was the first woman to speak before the United States Congress
• Samuel H. Elrod - former Governor of South Dakota
• Bob Franks - former U.S. Congressman
• James P. Goodrich - Governor of Indiana (1917–21)
• Lee H. Hamilton - co-chair of the Iraq Study Group, vice chair of the 9/11 Commission, and retired United States Representative
• Patricia Ireland - former president of the National Organization for Women
• John A. Johnson, General Counsel of the Air Force and later of NASA, CEO of COMSAT
• Vernon Jordan Jr. - noted broker and executive, former president of the National Urban League, personal friend and advisor to Bill Clinton
• David Lilienthal - capable and controversial Jewish-American public official, writer, and businessman; he served as chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority from 1941 to 1946 and was known as "Mr. TVA."
• Jay Holcomb Neff - Publisher and Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri
• Howard C. Petersen - government official
• Dan Quayle - 44th Vice President of the United States under George H. W. Bush
• John McNaughton - Assistant Secretary of Defense and U.S. Navy Secretary-designate (at the time of his death)
• John William Elmer Thomas - U.S. Senator (OK)
• Jeri Kehn - Wife of former Tennessee Senator, actor, and 2008 Presidential Nominee Fred Thompson
• George R. Throop - Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis (1927–1944)
• James E. Watson - U.S. Senator (IN) (Majority Leader 1929-33)
• Karen Koning AbuZayd - Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency from 2005 to 2010
• Andrew H. Burke - second Governor of North Dakota from 1891 to 1892^[1]
• Thomas W. Bennett (territorial governor) - Governor of Idaho Territory from 1871 to 1875 and served in the Indiana State Senate^[2]

Journalism

• Bret Baier - host of Special Report with Bret Baier Fox News
• Tracey Chang - Hong Kong-based CNBC correspondent; 2009 Miss New York USA and Miss USA contestant
• Stephen F. Hayes - author and Weekly Standard columnist
• William N. Oatis - American journalist detained 1951-1953 by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
• Eugene C. Pulliam - publisher of the Indianapolis Star & Arizona Republic
• Eugene S. Pulliam - publisher of the Indianapolis Star & Arizona Republic
• James C. Quayle - noted newspaper publisher
• Ben C. Solomon - Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times video journalist
• John McWethy - former ABC News correspondent

Literature

• Angus Cameron (publisher) (1980-2002) - book editor and publisher
• Gretchen Cryer - writer, actress, and lyricist
• Matt Dellinger - writer, journalist, author of Interstate 69: The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway
• Stephen F. Hayes - senior writer for the Weekly Standard and author of "Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President"
• John Jakes - novelist
• Adam Kennedy - actor, novelist, screenwriter, painter
• Bernard Kilgore - former editor of the Wall Street Journal who turned the publication into one of national significance
• Barbara Kingsolver - contemporary fiction writer, founder of Bellwether Prize for "literature of social change"^[3]
• James B. Stewart - Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blood Sport, DisneyWar and other titles
• Richard Peck - Newbery Medal-winning author
• Loren Pope - nationally acclaimed authority on colleges; authored "Looking Beyond the Ivy League" and "Colleges That Change Lives"

Military

• Alexander Vraciu - flying ace in World War II
• Gen. David M. Shoup - U.S. Marine Corps Commandant, Medal of Honor Recipient (WWII)
• Sergeant Henry Nash - member of Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders
• Harvey Weir Cook - an American fighter ace in World War I and a leading figure in the development of aviation in the United States

Athletics

• Rob Boras - tight ends coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars
• Brad Brownell - head men's basketball coach at Clemson University
• Buzzie Bavasi - former general manager of baseball's Los Angeles Dodgers, California Angels and San Diego Padres
• Dave Finzer - punter Chicago Bears, Seattle Seahawks
• Ford Frick - Major League Baseball Commissioner (1951–65)
• Wilfred Smith - NFL player
• Brad Stevens - head coach, Boston Celtics
• Dick Tomey - college football coach

Science and Academia

• Joseph P. Allen - NASA Space Shuttle Astronaut
• Mary Ritter Beard - Noted U.S. historian and leader in the women's suffrage movement
• Charles A. Beard - Famous author and one of the most influential American historians of the early 20th century; husband of Mary Ritter Beard
• David Crocker - Philosopher and Senior Research Scholar in the School of Public Policy, at the University of Maryland
• Paul S. Dunkin - Writer and Professor of Library Science
• George W. Hoss - President of Kansas State Normal (now Emporia State University) in Kansas
• Paul Rowland Julian: American meteorologist, who with Roland A. Madden, discovered the atmospheric phenomena known as the Madden-Julian oscillation
• Percy L. Julian - research chemist of international renown and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs
• Major Reuben Webster Millsaps - Founder of Millsaps College in Mississippi
• Ferid Murad - 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Hakkı Ögelman – Turkish physicist and astrophysicist
• William H. Riker - American political scientist

Entertainment

• Scott Adsit - actor, TV's 30 Rock
• Shibani Bathija - screenwriter
• Alicia Berneche - operatic soprano
• Tracey Chang - Miss New York USA 2009, CNBC Asia correspondent
• Annie Corley - movie and television actress
• David Cryer - singer and Broadway actor (Phantom of the Opera)
• Gretchen Cryer - co-creator of I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road
• Bill Hayes - actor, TV's Days of Our Lives
• Jimmy Ibbotson - singer-songwriter and musician (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
• Sue Keller - ragtime pianist, composer and arranger
• David McMillin - singer-songwriter
• Julie McWhirter - voice actress best known for her work in Hanna-Barbera cartoons, such as Jeannie, Drak Pack and The Smurfs
• Drew Powell - actor
• Alice Ripley - actress and singer best known for her role as Diana in Next to Normal
• Pharez Whitted - jazz trumpeter, composer, and producer

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