List of University of Minnesota people

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

Alumni[]

Nobel laureates[]

Norman Borlaug
  • Ernest O. Lawrence (M.A. Physics 1923) – 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics[1]
  • Walter Brattain (PhD Physics 1929) – 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics[2]
  • Melvin Calvin (PhD Chemistry 1935) – 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry[3]
  • Norman Borlaug (B.S. Forestry 1937, M.S. 1939 Plant Pathology, PhD 1942 Plant Pathology) – 1970 Nobel Peace Prize[4]
  • Edward B. Lewis (M.A. Biostatistics 1939) – 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine[5]
  • Louis J. Ignarro (PhD Pharmacology 1966) – 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine[6]
  • Daniel McFadden (B.S. Physics 1957, PhD Economics 1962) – 2000 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences[7]
  • Brian Kobilka (B.S. Biology and Chemistry 1977) – 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry[8]
  • Lars Peter Hansen (PhD Economics 1978) – 2013 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
  • Bob Dylan, singer/songwriter (did not graduate) – 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature

Pulitzer Prize winners[]

Thomas Friedman
  • 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 Humphrey
Walter Mondale
  • Hubert H. Humphrey, former U.S. vice president and 1968 Democratic nominee for president[9]
  • Walter Mondale, former U.S. vice president and 1984 Democratic nominee for president[10]

Cabinet members and diplomats[]

William D. Mitchell
  • Robert Bergland, former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture[11]
  • James Blanchard, former U.S. Ambassador to Canada[12]
  • Jeffrey Davidow, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, Zambia, and Venezuela[13]
  • William Dawson, former U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay and Panama[citation needed]
  • Scott H. DeLisi, former U.S. Ambassador to Eritrea, Nepal and Uganda[14]
  • Orville Freeman, former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture[15]
  • William Garvelink, former U.S. Ambassador to Congo[16]
  • James Day Hodgson, former U.S. Secretary of Labor and U.S. Ambassador to Japan[17]
  • Darryl N. Johnson, former U.S. Ambassador to Thailand[18]
  • Geri M. Joseph, journalist, former United States Ambassador to the Netherlands[19]
  • Samuel L. Kaplan, former U.S. Ambassador to Morocco[20]
  • Tom McDonald, former U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe[21]
  • Ronald K. McMullen, former U.S. Ambassador to Eritrea[22]
  • William D. Mitchell, former Attorney General of the United States[23]
  • Walter Mondale, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan[10]
  • Robert G. Neumann, former diplomat[citation needed]
  • Donald R. Norland, former U.S. Ambassador
  • Carl Stokes, former U.S. Ambassador to Seychelles[24]
  • Dave Uejio, acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau[25]
  • Benson Whitney, former U.S. Ambassador to Norway[26]
  • Ross Wilson, former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey[27]
  • Robert F. Woodward, former diplomat[28]

Members of Congress[]

Everett Dirksen
Eugene McCarthy
Wayne Morse
  • Sydney Anderson, former U.S. Representative[29]
  • Wendell R. Anderson, former U.S. Senator (DFL-MN)[30]
  • William L. Armstrong, former U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator[31]
  • Joseph H. Ball, former U.S. Senator (R-MN)[32]
  • Dean Barkley, former U.S. Senator (I-MN)[33]
  • Nick Begich, former U.S. Representative[34]
  • Fred Biermann, former U.S. Representative[35]
  • Quentin Burdick, former U.S. Senator (D-ND)[36]
  • Usher L. Burdick, former U.S. Representative[37]
  • Harlan J. Bushfield, former U.S. Senator[38]
  • Vera C. Bushfield, former U.S. Senator[39]
  • Ray P. Chase, former U.S. Congressman (R-MN)[40]
  • Victor Christgau, former U.S. Congressman (R-MN)[41]
  • Frank E. Denholm, former U.S. Representative[42]
  • Everett Dirksen, former U.S. Senator[43]
  • David Durenberger, former U.S. Senator (R-MN)[44]
  • Keith Ellison, former U.S. Congressman (DFL-MN)[45]
  • Franklin Ellsworth, former U.S. Representative[46]
  • Donald M. Fraser, former U.S. Congressman (DFL-MN)[47]
  • Richard Pillsbury Gale, former U.S. Representative[48]
  • Godfrey Goodwin, former U.S. Congressman (R-MN)[49]
  • Knute Hill, former U.S. Representative[50]
  • Einar Hoidale, former U.S. Congressman (DFL-MN)[51]
  • Dewey Johnson, former U.S. Representative[52]
  • Ron Johnson, U.S. Senator (R-WI)[53]
  • Ron Kind, U.S. Congressman (D-WI)[54]
  • Paul John Kvale, former U.S. Representative[55]
  • Rick Larsen, U.S. Representative (D-WA)[56]
  • John Linder, former U.S. Congressman (R-GA)[57]
  • Ernest Lundeen, former U.S. Senator[58]
  • Bill Luther, former U.S. Congressman (DFL-MN)[59]
  • Melvin Maas, former U.S. Representative[60]
  • William Josiah MacDonald, former U.S. Representative[61]
  • Clark MacGregor, former U.S. Representative[62]
  • James Manahan, former U.S. Representative[63]
  • Eugene McCarthy, former U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator and three-time Presidential candidate (DFL-MN)[64]
  • John Melcher, former U.S. Senator[65]
  • Clarence B. Miller, former U.S. Representative[66]
  • Wayne Morse, former U.S. Senator (R/I/D-OR)[67]
  • Walter Newton, former U.S. Representative[68]
  • Jim Ramstad, former U.S. Congressman (R-MN)[69]
  • John H. Ray, former U.S. Representative[70]
  • Jacky Rosen, U.S. Senator (D-NV), Former U.S. Representative (D-NV)[71]
  • Elmer Ryan, former U.S. Representative[72]
  • Martin Olav Sabo, former U.S. Representative[73]
  • Thomas D. Schall, former U.S. Senator (R-MN)[74]
  • Patricia Schroeder, former U.S. Congresswoman (D-CO)[75]
  • Conrad Selvig, former U.S. Representative[76]
  • Don L. Short, former U.S. Representative[77]
  • Gerald Edward Sikorski, former U.S. Representative[78]
  • George Ross Smith, former U.S. Representative[79]
  • Henry O. Talle, former U.S. Representative[80]
  • Bruce Vento, former U.S. Congressman (DFL-MN)[81]
  • Vin Weber, former U.S. Congressman (R-MN)[82]
  • George M. Young, former U.S. Representative[83]
  • Edward Zorinsky, former U.S. Senator[84]
  • John M. Zwach, former U.S. Representative[85]

Governors[]

Arne Carlson
Tim Pawlenty
  • C. Elmer Anderson, former Governor of Minnesota[86]
  • Elmer L. Andersen, former Governor of Minnesota[87]
  • Wendell Anderson, former Governor of Minnesota[30]
  • James Blanchard, former Governor of Michigan[12]
  • Joseph A.A. Burnquist, former Governor of Minnesota[88]
  • Harlan J. Bushfield, former Governor of South Dakota[89]
  • Arne Carlson, former Governor of Minnesota[90]
  • Theodore Christianson, former Governor of Minnesota[91]
  • Robert B. Crosby, former Governor of Nebraska[92]
  • Charles M. Dale, former Governor of New Hampshire[93]
  • Orville Freeman, former Governor of Minnesota[15]
  • William L. Guy, former Governor of North Dakota[94]
  • Harold LeVander, former Governor of Minnesota[95]
  • John Lind, former Governor of Minnesota[96]
  • Floyd B. Olson, former Governor of Minnesota[97]
  • Tim Pawlenty, former Governor of Minnesota[98]
  • J.A.O. Preus, former Governor of Minnesota[99]
  • Harold Stassen, former Governor of Minnesota[100]
  • Charles W. Turnbull, former Governor, U.S. Virgin Islands[101]

Article III judges[]

Harold Stassen
Warren Burger
  • Donald Alsop, judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota[102]
  • Mosher Joseph Blumenfeld, former judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut[103]
  • Nancy E. Brasel, federal judge
  • Myron H. Bright, Senior judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit[104]
  • Warren E. Burger, former Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court[105]
  • William Canby, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit[106]
  • Michael J. Davis, Chief judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota[107]
  • David S. Doty, judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota[108]
  • Joan N. Ericksen, judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota[109]
  • Henry Norman Graven, former judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa[110]
  • Gerald Heaney, former judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit[111]
  • Richard H. Kyle, judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota[112]
  • Earl R. Larson, former judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota[113]
  • Miles Lord, former judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota[114]
  • Claude Luse, former judge, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin[115]
  • George MacKinnon, former judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit[116]
  • Harry H. MacLaughlin, former judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota[117]
  • Ann D. Montgomery, judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota[118]
  • Diana E. Murphy, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit[119]
  • Philip Neville, former judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota[120]
  • Gunnar Nordbye, former judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota[121]
  • Milton D. Purdy, former judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota[122]
  • James M. Rosenbaum, judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota[123]
  • John B. Sanborn, Jr., former judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit[124]
  • George F. Sullivan, former judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota[125]
  • John R. Tunheim, judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota[126]
  • Bruce Marion Van Sickle, former judge, U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota[127]
  • Charles Vogel, former judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit[128]
  • Robert W. Warren, former judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin[129]

State judges[]

  • Douglas K. Amdahl, former Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court[130]
  • G. Barry Anderson, former Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court[131]
  • Paul H. Anderson, Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court[132]
  • Russell A. Anderson, former Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court[133]
  • Kathleen A. Blatz, former Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court[134]
  • Harrison A. Bronson, former Justice, North Dakota Supreme Court[135]
  • Edward T. Burke, former Justice, North Dakota Supreme Court[136]
  • Theodore Christianson, former Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court
  • Margaret Chutich, Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court[137]
  • Mary Jeanne Coyne, former Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court
  • John P. Devaney, former Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court[138]
  • Ralph J. Erickstad, former Chief Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court[139]
  • Paul Feinman, Judge, New York Court of Appeals
  • Thomas F. Gallagher, former Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court[140]
  • Sandra Gardebring Ogren, former Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court[141]
  • Thomas Eugene Grady, former Justice, Washington Supreme Court
  • Janine Kern, Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court
  • Oscar Knutson, former Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court[142]
  • Ernest W. Lewis, former Justice, Arizona Supreme Court
  • Charles Loring, former Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court[143]
  • Eric J. Magnuson, Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court[144]
  • Helen M. Meyer, Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court[145]
  • Julius J. Olson, former Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court[146]
  • Alan Page, Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court and member of NFL Hall of Fame[147]
  • Harry H. Peterson, former Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court[148]
  • Peter S. Popovich, former Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court[149]
  • Keith Rapp, Judge, Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals[150]
  • Robert Sheran, former Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court[151]
  • John E. Simonett, former Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court[152]
  • Leslie Stein, Judge, New York Court of Appeals
  • Edward C. Stringer, former Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court[153]
  • Samuel B. Wilson, former Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court[154]
  • Michael A. Wolff, former Chief Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court[155]
  • Lawrence R. Yetka, former Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court[156]

Attorneys general[]

  • Keith Ellison, current Minnesota Attorney General
  • Mike Hatch, former Minnesota Attorney General[157]
  • Douglas M. Head, former Minnesota Attorney General[citation needed]
  • Hubert H. Humphrey III, former Minnesota Attorney General[citation needed]
  • Henry Linde, former North Dakota Attorney General[citation needed]
  • Robert W. Mattson, Sr., former Minnesota Attorney General[citation needed]
  • William D. Mitchell, former U.S. Attorney General[158]
  • Harry H. Peterson, former Minnesota Attorney General[159]
  • Albert F. Pratt, former Minnesota Attorney General[160]
  • Warren Spannaus, former Minnesota Attorney General[161]

Foreign[]

Nick Clegg
  • Sohn Suk-hee, South Korean anchor and president of broadcast system.
  • Mohamed Azmin Ali, Malaysian politician; Minister of Economic Affairs of Malaysia
  • 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
  • Prabhat Nalini Das, public intellectual, professor and pro-Vice Chancellor, India
  • Timothy Donaldson, Bahamian banker and ambassador
  • Habib Essid, Prime minister of Tunisia[162]
  • Jon Gerrard, former member, Parliament of Canada
  • 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
  • Lamberto Dini, ex-prime Minister of Italy
  • Ricardo Raineri, Minister of Energy, Chile
  • Paulo Zucula, Mozambican politician
  • Hubert Minnis, Prime Minister of The Bahamas

Others in law and politics[]

William H. Stewart
  • Fred Agnich, Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from Dallas County, 1971–1987; petroleum producer, rancher, native of St. Louis County, Minnesota[163]
  • 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[164]
  • 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
  • Edward L. Howard, Pennsylvania State Senator
  • John Hutson, former Judge Advocate General, United States Navy
  • Sly James, J.D., 1983, Kansas City mayor
  • Andrew Johnson, Minneapolis City Councilmember[165]
  • Byron F. Johnson, United States Marine Corps Major General
  • 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
  • Stephen Meredith, Kentucky State Senator [R]
  • Richard Moe, former Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States
  • 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
  • Gordon Rosenmeier, former Minnesota State Senator
  • 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
  • Sumner L. Trussell, judge of the United States Board of Tax Appeals[166]
  • 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[167]
  • 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
  • Carl L. Hamilton, named partner in the Booz Allen Hamilton management and information technology consulting firm[168]
  • 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
  • John Hugh MacMillan, businessman[169]
  • Ted Mann, head of Mann Theatres
  • Charles "Chuck" Marohn, founder and president of Strong Towns
  • 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
  • Michael Sokolski, engineer, founder and inventor of Scantron[170]
  • 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, former CEO, Target[171]
  • 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
  • Erman Ilıcak, President of Rönesans Holding, ranked the 1st in Forbes Turkey’s “100 Wealthiest Turks” list in 2019.

Science and medicine[]

  • Jeff Dean, an early member at Google now leading Google.ai
  • J. Edward Anderson, engineer
  • Moe Anderson, dental surgeon
  • Rutherford Aris, professor of chemical engineering (1958–2005); 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
  • Christiaan Barnard, surgeon
  • 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
  • Helen Foot Buell, ecologist
  • Murray Fife Buell, ecologist
  • Arthur H. Bulbulian, engineer
  • Harold Bunger, chemist
  • Hugh Butt, physician
  • David P. Campbell, psychologist
  • Duane G. Carey, astronaut
  • Cherie Carter-Scott, author
  • Horace G. Cates, medical doctor and coroner
  • 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
  • Satish Dhawan, mathematician and engineer
  • 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
  • Donald Gleason, pathologist
  • Robert A. Good, physician
  • John Paul Goode, geographer
  • Robert W. Gore, engineer
  • Mark Gorenberg, engineer
  • Ulysses Sherman Grant, geologist
  • Ronald D. Guttmann, physician
  • Torey Hayden, psychologist
  • Philip Hedrick, biologist
  • Isaac Held, scientist
  • Jessica Hellmann, ecologist
  • Robert A. Henle, engineer
  • Marie Inez Hilger, Benedictine nun and anthropologist
  • John Kenneth Hilliard, electrical engineer
  • Jane Elizabeth Hodgson, physician
  • Abram Hoffer, psychiatrist
  • John H. Hoffman, scientist
  • John L. Holland, psychologist
  • Robert Hollenhorst, physician
  • Cyril Hoyt, psychologist
  • Sherwood B. Idso, climate scientist
  • Hope Jahren, geobotanist
  • James J. Jenkins, psychologist
  • Reynold B. Johnson, inventor
  • Selmer M. Johnson, mathematician
  • Rene Joyeuse (1920-2012) Physician, Surgeon, Researcher - Co-founder American Trauma Society
  • 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
  • Scott Lilienfeld, author, psychologist
  • C. Walton Lillehei, surgeon
  • Kjell N. Lindgren, astronaut
  • Joseph Lykken, physicist
  • 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
  • Ellen Torelle Nagler (1870–1965), American biologist, author, lecturer
  • Russell M. Nelson, surgeon and 17th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • Edward Ng, mathematician
  • Walter R. Nickel, dermatologist
  • Joseph D. Novak
  • 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[172]
  • 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
  • Joseph Edward Rall, endocrinologist
  • Malcolm Renfrew, chemist
  • Theodore H. Rowell
  • Harry Rowsell, veterinarian
  • Avtar Saini, engineer
  • Cecil Salmon, agronomist
  • Richard L. Sandor, economist
  • Sylvester Sanfilippo, pediatrician who described Sanfilippo syndrome
  • Roscoe Frank Sanford, astronomer
  • Norman Shumway, surgeon
  • 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
  • , mathematician
  • 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
  • Mihaela Cardei, computer scientist and professor

Academics and education[]

George A. Lundberg
  • 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
  • , 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
  • Anne Carlsen, disability rights advocate and educator, international speaker, 1958 recipient of President's Handicapped American of the Year Trophy, 1985 inductee into the National Hall of Fame for Persons with Disabilities
  • Terry Castle, professor, Stanford University
  • Diana Ming Chan, social worker
  • 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 at 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 (1964–1969)[173]
  • 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, Université de Montréal
  • 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[174]
  • Mark Mahowald, professor, Northwestern University
  • Helmut Maier, professor, University of Ulm
  • Albert Marcet, professor, University of London (London School of Economics)
  • Dan Markingson, former psychiatric study participant
  • 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
  • J. A. O. Preus II, president, Concordia Theological Seminary and eighth president, Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod[175]
  • 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 at 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
  • Nancy Staudt, Dean, Washington University in St. Louis
  • 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)
  • Guoqiang Tian, economist, professor, Texas A&M University
  • Josephine Tilden, professor with an acrimonious relationship with the University of Minnesota[176]
  • 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-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[]

Loni Anderson
Bob Dylan
Henry Fonda
Garrison Keillor
Michele Norris
Eric Sevareid
Robert Vaughn
  • 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[177]
  • Aya Cash, actress
  • Daniel Chorzempa, musician
  • Laura Coates, legal analyst for CNN
  • 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
  • Margaret Manton Merrill (1859–1893), journalist, writer, translator, elocutionist
  • Marjorie Mikasen, painter
  • May Merrill Miller, author
  • John R. Milton, author
  • Craig Minowa, musician
  • Freddy Moore, musician
  • E. Roger Muir, television producer
  • Michelle Muldrow, artist
  • 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
  • Mary Gray Peck, journalist, suffragist, clubwoman
  • 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
  • Jack Smight, filmmaker
  • Erin Soderberg, author
  • Gale Sondergaard, Oscar-winning actress
  • Wonny Song, pianist
  • David Soul, actor
  • Ann Stanford, poet
  • Maura Stanton, poet
  • Eric Stokes, composer
  • Cheryl Strayed, author
  • Robert Suderburg, composer
  • C. Gardner Sullivan, screenwriter
  • Sarah Susanka, architect
  • William Swanberg, author
  • Yuko Taniguchi, poet
  • Maria Cristina Tavera, artist
  • Stan Tekiela, photographer
  • Todd Temkin, poet and cultural activist
  • Bob Thaves, cartoonist
  • Jack Tracy, journalist
  • Ian Truitner, filmmaker
  • 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[]

See also: Minnesota Golden Gophers

Others[]

  • Sarah Hart (née Gengler) - Perpetrator of the Hart family murders - Attended the university for one semester and transferred to Northern State University in South Dakota.[302]
  • Dale Snodgrass - United States Navy avaiator and air show performer who was considered one of the greatest fighter pilots of all time.

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
  • Robert J. Shiller, Economics, 1972–1974; 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 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 (2011–2019)
  • Joan Gabel (2019-current)

Chancellors[]

  • Edward Duffield Neill, 1858–1861

Professors[]

  • Bernard Bachrach, professor of history, medieval historian
  • M. A. R. Barker, professor of Urdu and South Asian Studies, and creator of the Empire of the Petal Throne role-playing game
  • Lou Bellamy, professor of theatre arts, founder of Penumbra Theatre Company
  • Daphne Berdahl, anthropology professor
  • John Berryman, literature professor, poet
  • John Joseph Bittner, Professor of Cancer Research; Director of the Division of Cancer Biology (1943–1961)
  • Theodore C. Blegen, Dean of the Graduate School (1940–1960)
  • Norman Borlaug, referred to as the "father of the Green Revolution"
  • Blaine E. Brownell, former professor and director of graduate studies at the School of Architecture; author of the Transmaterial book series
  • Marilyn Carroll, neuroscience professor
  • Eli Coleman, Director of the Program in Human Sexuality; Editor of the Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality
  • Christopher J. Cramer, chemistry professor and vice president for research
  • Paul Crowell, professor of physics
  • Paul John Ellis, stellar astrophysics, nuclear physics
  • Herbert Feigl, member of the Vienna Circle, a 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
  • Laura Gagliardi, theoretical and computational chemistry
  • Seymour Geisser, founder of the School of Statistics; DNA evidence expert
  • Florence Goodenough, psychology
  • Irving I. Gottesman, psychology
  • Sheng He, psychology
  • Walter Heller, Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors under JFK
  • Geoffrey Hellman, professor of philosophy
  • Lawrence R. Jacobs, political science
  • James Kakalios, professor of physics, noted for his work with comic book fans
  • Pinar Karaca-Mandic, professor of healthcare management
  • 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
  • Julia Anna Norris, physical education director
  • 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
  • Daniel Pesut, professor of nursing
  • 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 1974–1985
  • Eugene Rousseau, saxophone instructor
  • Naomi Scheman, Professor of Philosophy and Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies
  • B. F. Skinner, former psychology professor, behaviorist
  • Aaron Sojourner, professor of management
  • Ephraim Sparrow, mechanical engineering; thermodynamics and heat transfer
  • Maurice Cole Tanquary, professor of entomology
  • 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[]

  • Megan Gunnar, Child Psychology, Institute for Child Development
  • Patricia Hampl, English
  • Timothy P. Lodge, Chemistry
  • Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Law
  • Lawrence Que Jr., Inorganic Chemistry
  • Steven Ruggles, History and Population Studies
  • David Tilman, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
  • Donald Truhlar, Chemistry
  • Christopher Uggen, Sociology
  • Vipin Kumar, Computer Science and Engineering[303]

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