List of University of Wisconsin–Madison people

• John Bardeen, B.S. 1928 and M.S. 1929, only two-time recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 and 1972
• Saul Bellow, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976
• Günter Blobel, Ph.D. 1967, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1999
• Paul D. Boyer, M.S. 1941, Ph.D. 1943, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997
• William C. Campbell, M.S. 1953, Ph.D. 1957, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015
• Herbert Spencer Gasser, A.B. 1910, A.M. 1911, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1944
• Alan G. MacDiarmid, M.S. 1952, Ph.D. 1953, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2000
• Stanford Moore, Ph.D. 1938, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972
• Erwin Neher, M.S. 1967, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1991
• Theodore Schultz, M.S. 1928, Ph.D. 1930, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1979
• George Smith, postdoctoral fellow, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2018
• Edward Lawrie Tatum, B.A. 1931, M.S. 1932, Ph.D. 1935, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958
• John H. Van Vleck, A.B. 1920, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977

• Virgil Abloh, fashion designer, artistic director of Louis Vuitton's men's wear collection
• Don Ameche, Academy Award-winning actor
• Joseph Anthony, playwright, actor, and director
• Iris Apfel, interior designer, and fashion icon.
• William Bast, screenwriter
• Adrian "Wildman" Cenni, professional driver and stuntman
• Gary Beecham, glass artist
• James Benning
• Andrew Bergman, film writer, director, and producer
• Rick Berman, television/movie producer
• Chester Biscardi, composer
• Keith D. Black, screenwriter
• Jerry Bock, composer
• Karen Borca, musician
• Kate Borcherding, artist
• Pat Brady, cartoonist, creator of Rose Is Rose
• Tamara Braun, actress
• Marshall Brickman, screenwriter
• Oscar Brown, musician
• Johnny Burke, lyricist^[1]
• Macdonald Carey, actor
• Gina Cerminara, author
• Jeff Cesario, comedian and writer
• Ann Fox Chandonnet, poet
• Alison Chernick, filmmaker
• Dale Chihuly, glass artist
• Robert Clarke, actor
• Alf Clausen, film composer
• Hunter Cole, artist
• Carrie Coon, actress
• Joan Cusack, actress
• Rich Dahm, co-executive producer and head writer of The Colbert Report
• Richard Dauenhauer, poet
• Richard Davis, jazz-bassist, recording artist, professor/educator at University of Wisconsin-Madison
• André DeShields, Emmy Award-winning actor/singer/dancer/choreographer
• Chip Dunham, cartoonist
• Susan Dynner, film director, producer
• Lois Ehlert, illustrator, Caldecott Medal recipient
• Dean Elliott, film composer
• Joe Feddersen, artist
• David Fishelson, Broadway producer, playwright, filmmaker
• Honor Ford-Smith, actress
• Jason Gerhardt, actor
• Glenn Gissler, interior designer
• Jill Godmilow, filmmaker
• Roger Goeb, composer
• Bert I. Gordon, film director
• Stuart Gordon, stage and film director
• Evan Gruzis, painter
• MK Guth, artist
• Daron Hagen, composer, conductor, pianist
• Uta Hagen, actress, recipient of the National Medal of Arts
• Tom Hall, game designer
• Yung Gravy (Matthew Hauri), rapper
• Charlie Hill, television writer
• Anna Halprin, pioneer of postmodern dance
• Timothy Hasenstein, painter and sculptor
• Sorrel Hays, pianist
• Sam Herman, glass artist
• F. Scott Hess, painter and conceptual artist
• Lee Hoiby, composer
• Gwendolyn Holbrow, sculptor
• Anders Holm, actor, writer, producer for Workaholics^[2]
• Lawrence Holofcener, sculptor
• Adam Horowitz, television writer
• Jane Kaczmarek, actress
• Kelly Kahl, television executive
• Irene Kampen, author
• Ben Karlin, Emmy Award-winning television producer
• Catherine Ransom Karoly, flutist
• Carol Kolb, author, television writer
• Craig A. Kraft, sculptor
• Karl Kroeger, composer
• Myron W. Krueger, computer artist
• Kay Kurt, painter
• Rocco Landesman, producer
• Steven Levitan, television writer, director, and producer
• Marvin Lipofsky, glass artist
• Joseph Lulloff, musician
• C. Cameron Macauley, photographer
• Michael Mann, movie director/producer
• Fredric March, actor
• Steve Marmel, comedian, writer, Fairly Odd Parents
• Karen Thuesen Massaro, ceramicist
• Pat McCurdy, singer-songwriter
• John O. Merrill, architect
• Steve Miller, musician, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee
• Kui Min
• Walter Mirisch, Academy Award-winning film producer
• Paul Monash, former screenwriter and producer
• Jemeel Moondoc, musician
• Agnes Moorehead, actress
• Errol Morris, Academy Award-winning director
• Kevin Murphy, writer, actor, and puppeteer for Mystery Science Theater 3000
• Michael Derrington Murphy, chemist and musician
• Zola Jesus, born Nika Roza Danilova, singer/songwriter

• Floyd Naramore, architect
• Bruce Nauman, glass artist
• Ken Navarro, jazz guitarist
• Jennifer Nehrbass, artist
• Aaron Ohlmann, editor, producer, and documentarian
• Tricia O'Kelley, actress
• Lance Olsen, writer and author
• Irna Phillips, actress; soap opera writer and script editor
• Meinhardt Raabe, Munchkin in the Wizard of Oz
• Nathan Rabin, film critic
• Som Ranchan, poet
• Rita Mae Reese, poet and publisher
• Rosetta Reitz, jazz historian
• Mary T. Reynolds, writer
• Mark Rosenberg, film producer
• Tom Rosenberg, Academy Award-winning film producer
• Brad Rowe, actor
• Gena Rowlands, actress
• Boz Scaggs (Wm. Royce Scaggs), musician
• Ira Schneider, video artist
• Jana Schneider, actress and journalist
• Jon Schueler, artist
• Michael Schultz, filmmaker and television director
• Delmore Schwartz, poet
• Seann William Scott, actor
• Barolong Seboni, poet
• Brittany Shane, singer and songwriter
• Tom Shannon
• Ben Sidran, jazz pianist
• Tormod Skagestad, director of Det Norske Teatret
• Bently Spang, multidisciplinary artist^[3]
• Lev L. Spiro, television director
• Brian Stack, Emmy Award-winning writer and comic
• Josh Stamberg, actor
• Leon C. Standifer, horticulturist, novelist, and writer
• Robert Stone
• Herbert Stothart, film composer
• Richard Steven Street, photographer
• Sun Yu, film director
• David Susskind, producer of film and television
• John Szarkowski, curator and photographer
• Daniel J. Travanti, Emmy Award-winning actor
• Charlie Trotter, chef, PBS host
• Neal Ulevich, photographer
• James Valcq, composer
• Michael Velliquette, artist
• Butch Vig, musician, Garbage
• Eric Villency, interior designer
• William Walton, painter, government official
• Sylvia Solochek Walters, artist, printmaker and educator
• Marc Webb, film, television, and music video director
• Matt White, singer-songwriter
• Nancy Metz White, sculptor
• John Wilde, painter
• Allee Willis, songwriter
• Tom Wopat, actor/musician
• Frank Lloyd Wright (attended), architect
• Frank Wu, science-fiction artist
• Yung Gravy, singer and songwriter
• Jorge Zamacona, television writer and producer
• Marilyn J Ziffrin, composer
• Glen Zipper, film producer
• Charlotte Zucker, actress
• David Zucker, movie director/producer
• Jerry Zucker, movie director/producer

• Laurel Clark, astronaut
• Roger G. DeKok, astronaut
• Fred E. Gutt, aviator
• Marcella Hayes, first African American woman pilot in the U.S. Armed Forces
• Walter Edwin Lees, aviator
• Charles Lindbergh, aviator (did not graduate)
• Nathan J. Lindsay, astronaut^[4]
• Jim Lovell, astronaut, Apollo 13 mission
• Robert Campbell Reeve, founder of Reeve Aleutian Airways
• Richard V. Rhode, aeronautical engineer, NACA and NASA; awarded Wright Brothers Medal in 1937
• Brewster Shaw, astronaut, former director, Space Shuttle Operations, NASA

• Carol Bartz, former CEO of Yahoo!, former chairman of the board, president, and CEO of Autodesk, Inc..
• Randall Boe, general counsel for AOL
• Jerome Chazen, co-founder of Liz Claiborne
• Chow Chung-Kong, CEO of MTR Corporation
• M. J. Cleary, insurance executive
• Michael J. Critelli, executive chairman of Pitney Bowes
• William H. Davidson, former president of Harley-Davidson
• Willie G. Davidson, former vice president, Harley-Davidson
• Thomas J. Falk, CEO of Kimberly Clark
• Judith R. Faulkner, CEO and founder of Epic Systems
• Donald Goerke, Campbell Soup Company executive, inventor of SpaghettiOs
• William S. Harley, founder of Harley-Davidson
• Charles Walter Hart, founder of Hart-Parr Gasoline Engine Company, coined the word "tractor"
• Harvey V. Higley, president of Ansul
• Colin Huang, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Pinduoduo
• Lawrence R. Kaplan, president and CEO of
• David J. Lesar, chairman, president and CEO of Halliburton Energy Services
• Kevin Mather, baseball executive^[5]
• Larry McVoy, CEO, Bitmover
• , businessman, restaurateur, and philanthropist in Baton Rouge; once wrote a $1 million check to the University of Wisconsin^[6]
• John P. Morgridge, chairman of the board, former president and CEO of Cisco Systems, philanthropist
• William Beverly Murphy, former president and CEO, Campbell Soup Company
• Keith Nosbusch, CEO, Rockwell Automation
• Richard Notebaert, former chairman and CEO of Qwest, Tellabs and Ameritech
• Lee R. Raymond, former chairman and CEO, Exxon Mobil
• Philip D. Reed, former president of GE
• Stephen S. Roach, economist with Morgan Stanley
• John Rowe, CEO of Exelon
• Kenneth L. Schroeder, CEO, KLA-Tencor
• Deven Sharma, president of Standard and Poor's
• Jane Trahey, advertiser
• Reuben Trane, president of Trane
• Patrick Waddick, president and COO of Cirrus Aircraft Corporation^[7]
• Peter Booth Wiley, publisher
• Elmer Winter (1912–2009), founder of Manpower Inc.^[8]
• Lewis Wolff, real estate developer and owner of the Oakland Athletics and San Jose Earthquakes
• Zhu Yunlai, CEO of China International Capital Corp

• Nazik Al-Malaika, Iraqi poet
• Kevin J. Anderson, author
• Nuala Archer, poet
• Alice Elinor Bartlett, author
• Lynne Cheney, author, writer, and former Second Lady of the United States
• Donald Clarke, author on music
• Eleanor Clymer, children's author
• Betsy Colquitt, poet
• Jane Cooper, poet
• Richard Dauenhauer, poet
• August Derleth, writer, editor, anthologist of H. P. Lovecraft, and founder of Arkham House publishing
• Esther Forbes, author and Pulitzer Prize winner
• Genevieve Foster, author
• Zona Gale, author and playwright
• Robert Greene
• Sam Greenlee, author
• Horace Gregory, poet
• Frederick Gutheim, author
• Emily Hahn, author
• Lorraine Hansberry, author and playwright
• Eva Lund Haugen, author
• Michael Heiser, author and Biblical scholar
• David Henige, author
• Kevin Henkes, children's author
• Conrad Hilberry, poet
• Hjalmar Holand, author and historian^[9]
• bell hooks, author, writer, and activist
• Carolyn Hougan, writer
• Jim Hougan, writer
• Jens Joneleit, composer
• Lesley Kagen, author
• Jay Kennedy, editor-in-chief of King Features Syndicate
• Herbert Kubly, author and playwright
• Margery Latimer, author and writer
• Ann Lauterbach, poet
• Flora E. Lowry (1879–1933), anthologist
• Gordon MacQuarrie, author, writer, and outdoorsman
• Lotte Motz, scholar of German mythology
• Joyce Carol Oates, National Book Award-winning author and professor at Princeton University
• Ainehi Edoro, founder and editor of Brittle Paper
• Ed Ochester, poet
• Lance Olsen, author and writer
• Sigurd F. Olson, author and naturalist
• Alicia Ostriker, poet
• Kenneth Patchen, poet
• Gerald Peary, film critic
• Robert Peters, poet, playwright, critic, and professor
• Richard Quinney, author
• Som Ranchan, scholar and author
• Ellen Raskin, author
• Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author^[10]
• Ella Giles Ruddy (1851–1917), author, editor
• David Salo, linguist
• Sofia Samatar, professor, editor and writer
• Pamela Redmond Satran, entrepreneur and author
• Mark Schorer, writer, critic, and professor
• Delmore Schwartz, poet and writer
• Barolong Seboni, poet
• Clifford D. Simak, science fiction author
• Tormod Skagestad, poet
• Raymond J. Smith, literary critic
• John Snead, writer and role player
• Midori Snyder, writer and author
• David Stephenson, poet
• Peter Straub, author, recipient of the Bram Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, and the International Horror Guild Award^[11]
• Mark Tatge, journalist
• Martha L. Poland Thurston, social leader, philanthropist, writer
• Steve Tittle, Canadian composer
• Danielle Trussoni, writer from La Crosse
• Francis Utley, folklorist and linguist
• James Valcq, composer and writer
• Stanley G. Weinbaum, science fiction author
• Jody Weiner, novelist, author, film producer
• Patricia Wells, author
• Eudora Welty, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist^[10]
• Viola S. Wendt, poet
• E.J. Westlake, playwright
• Frank Wu, science fiction artist
• Mark Wunderlich, poet
• Marya Zaturenska, poet

• Roy Adams, Canadian journalist
• Lynsey Addario, photojournalist
• Mary Agria, journalist/author
• Irene Osgood Andrews, former labor journalist
• Jim Armstrong, sports writer, The Denver Post
• Robert L. Bartley, former editor, Wall Street Journal
• Ira Basen, producer, CBC Radio
• Lowell Bergman, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist^[10]
• Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author
• Walt Bogdanich, editor, New York Times
• Rita Braver, national reporter, CBS News
• William Broad, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author
• Jane Brody, columnist, New York Times
• Peter Brunette, film critic (The Hollywood Reporter) and film historian
• Chris Bury, correspondent, Nightline^[12]
• Erik Bye, Norwegian journalist
• Tim Cahill, adventure travel writer, founding editor of Outside magazine
• Susan Carpenter, journalist and author
• Ethan Casey, journalist
• John Darnton, journalist
• Nancy Dickerson, journalist
• Doris Dungey, former blogger
• Andrew Feinberg, White House Correspondent for Breakfast Media
• Michael Feldman, host of Public Radio's Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?
• Bob Franken, correspondent, CNN^[13]
• Elina Fuhrman, journalist
• Jeff Greenfield, senior political correspondent, CBS
• Ruth Gruber, author and journalist
• Usha Haley, business journalist
• Helen Holmes, journalist, historian, Women's Army Corps officer
• David Hookstead, conservative sports commentator at the Daily Caller
• Paul Ingrassia, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist^[10]
• Don L. Johnson, journalist and author
• Haynes Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist^[10]
• Ben Karlin, creator and former executive producer, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report
• Andy Katz, college basketball writer, ESPN
• Jay Kennedy, journalist and writer
• Louis P. Lochner, journalist
• David Maraniss, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist^[10]
• Patricia McConnell, co-host of Public Radio's Calling All Pets
• Robert D. McFadden, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist^[10]
• Karl E. Meyer, journalist for The New York Times and editor of World Policy Journal
• Michael Meyer, journalist, travel writer
• Edwin Newman, former NBC news correspondent
• Arthur C. Nielsen Sr., founder of AC Nielsen (TV ratings and market research)
• Michele Norris, journalist at National Public Radio
• Miriam Ottenberg, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist^[14]
• Danny Peary, film critic
• Gerald Peary, film critic
• Nathan Rabin, film critic
• Manu Raju, correspondent, CNN
• Gil Reavill, journalist and screenwriter
• Dan Ronan, former correspondent, CNN
• Chris Rose
• Phil Rosenthal, columnist, Chicago Tribune
• Susanne Rust, journalist
• Joe Schoenmann, journalist, author
• Joseph Sexton, journalist and reporter with the New York Times
• Anthony Shadid, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist^[10]
• Algie Martin Simons, journalist
• Tom Skilling, chief meteorologist, WGN-TV
• William P. Steven, editor and newspaper executive, Tulsa Tribune, Minneapolis Tribune, Houston Chronicle
• James Suckling, wine and cigar critic
• Nilofar Suhrawardy, journalist
• Christopher Tennant, magazine editor
• Mildred Ladner Thompson, former journalist
• Stephen Thompson, NPR music journalist
• Dave Umhoefer, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
• David C. Unger, journalist, New York Times
• Greta Van Susteren, broadcaster and news analyst, Fox News Channel
• Tom Vanden Brook, journalist with USA Today
• Kenneth P. Vogel, journalist with Politico
• Mary Williams Walsh, journalist
• James Wieghart, journalist
• Conrad Worrill, broadcaster
• David Zurawik, author, journalist with The Baltimore Sun, assistant professor at Goucher College^{[15][failed verification][16][failed verification]}

• Charles L. Aarons, Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge^[17]
• Shirley Abrahamson, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court^[18]
• Henry Cullen Adams, U.S. Representative^[19]
• Iajuddin Ahmed, former President of Bangladesh^[20]
• Ronald E. Albers, California judge^[21]
• Anita Alpern, former IRS commissioner^[22]
• Arthur J. Altmeyer, former Commissioner of Social Security^[23]
• Thomas Ryum Amlie, U.S. Representative^[24]
• Phil Anderson, chairman of the Wisconsin Libertarian Party^[25]
• Rasmus B. Anderson, U.S. diplomat^[26]
• Wilson Ndolo Ayah, former foreign minister, Kenya^{[citation needed]}
• William Bablitch, former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court^[27]
• Sergio Balanzino, Italian diplomat^{[citation needed]}
• Tammy Baldwin, U.S. Senator^[28]
• Hiram Barber, Jr., U.S. Representative from Illinois^[29]
• Peter W. Barca, U.S. Representative^[30]
• Charles V. Bardeen, former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court^[31]
• Elmer E. Barlow, justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court^[32]
• Robert Barnett, attorney^[33]
• Tom Barrett, former U.S. Representative, mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin^[34]
• Charlene Barshefsky, former U.S. Trade Representative^[35]
• Robert McKee Bashford, former mayor of Madison, Wisconsin; former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court^[36]
• Robert C. Bassett, U.S. presidential advisor
• Susan J. M. Bauman, former mayor of Madison, Wisconsin^{[citation needed]}
• Joseph D. Beck, former United States Representative^[37]
• Bruce F. Beilfuss, former chief justice of Wisconsin^[38]
• Ernst Benda, Minister of the Interior of Germany and president the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany^{[citation needed]}
• Helen Ginger Berrigan, federal judge^[39]
• Mario Ramón Beteta, former Secretary of Finance, Mexico^{[citation needed]}
• Abdirahman Duale Beyle, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Somalia^[40]
• George W. Blanchard, U.S. Representative^[41]
• George L. Blum, Eau Claire County Judge
• Nils Boe, 23rd Governor of South Dakota and Judge for the United States Customs Court^[42]
• Randall Boe, attorney^[43]
• John W. Boehne, Jr., former U.S. Representative^[44]
• Alexander Campbell Botkin, Lieutenant Governor of Montana^[45]
• Ann Walsh Bradley, Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court^[46]
• J. Quinn Brisben, Socialist Party USA candidate for President of the United States and Vice-President; civil rights activist; teacher^[47]
• Grover L. Broadfoot, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court^[48]
• Dave Bronson, Mayor of Anchorage, Alaska^[49]
• Angie Brooks, former president, United Nations General Assembly^[50]
• Timothy Brown, former chief justice of Wisconsin^[51]
• Webster E. Brown, U.S. Representative^[52]
• Edward E. Browne, U.S. Representative^[53]
• Andrew A. Bruce, former justice, North Dakota Supreme Court^[54]
• George Bunn, diplomat^[55]
• George Bunn, former justice, Minnesota Supreme Court^[56]
• John R. Burke, U.S. diplomat
• Michael E. Burke, U.S. Representative^[57]
• Elizabeth Burmaster, Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin^[58]
• Louis B. Butler, federal judicial nominee, former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court^[59]
• Walter Halben Butler, former United States Representative^[60]
• John W. Byrnes, U.S. Representative^[61]
• William G. Callow, Wisconsin Supreme Court^[62]
• John Campbell^[63]
• Milton Robert Carr, U.S. Representative from Michigan^[64]
• Patrick G. Carrick, member of the Senior Executive Service^[65]
• Savion Castro, a member of the Board of Education in Madison, Wisconsin
• Sheri Polster Chappell, federal judge
• Dick Cheney, former vice president of the United States (attended UW as doctoral student; received M.A. degree but did not continue)^[66]
• Dave Cieslewicz, Mayor of Madison, Wisconsin^[67]
• Moses E. Clapp, U.S. Senator from Minnesota^[68]
• Kathryn F. Clarenbach, first chairperson of the National Organization for Women^[69]
• David G. Classon, U.S. Representative^[70]
• Wilbur J. Cohen, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Cabinet of President Lyndon B. Johnson and "Father of Medicare."^[71]
• William M. Conley, federal judge^[72]
• Daniel Cosío Villegas, president of the United Nations Economic and Social Council^{[citation needed]}
• Barbara B. Crabb, former federal judge^[73]
• Lawrence William Cramer, former governor, United States Virgin Islands^{[citation needed]}
• Jason Crow, U.S. Representative from Colorado
• Charles H. Crownhart, former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court^[74]
• John Cudahy, U.S. diplomat^[75]
• Richard Dickson Cudahy, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals^[76]
• George R. Currie, former chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court^[77]
• Herman Dahle, U.S. Representative^[78]
• George Jonathan Danforth, South Dakota State Senator^{[citation needed]}
• Roland B. Day, former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court^[79]
• John Paton Davies, Jr., U.S. diplomat^{[citation needed]}
• Joseph E. Davies, U.S. diplomat^[80]
• Glenn Robert Davis, U.S. Representative^[81]
• Albert F. Dawson, former U.S. Representative^[82]
• Ada Deer, head of the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs^[83]
• Evo Anton DeConcini, former justice, Arizona Supreme Court^{[citation needed]}
• Edward Dithmar, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin^[84]
• Christian Doerfler, former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court^[85]
• Mark Doms, chief economist, Economics and Statistics Administration^[86]
• Brian Donnelly^{[citation needed]}
• James Edward Doyle, former judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin^[87]
• James Edward "Jim" Doyle, 44th Governor of Wisconsin^[88]
• Lee S. Dreyfus, 40th Governor of Wisconsin^[89]
• Stan Dromisky, former Member of Parliament^{[citation needed]}
• F. Ryan Duffy, former U.S. Senator and former judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals^[90]
• William S. Dwinnell, former Minnesota State Senator
• Lawrence Eagleburger, former U.S. Secretary of State^[91]
• Donald B. Easum, former U.S. diplomat^{[citation needed]}
• Herman Ekern, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin^[92]
• Richard Elsner, lawyer, judge and Wisconsin state legislator^[93]
• Howard Engle (1919–2009), physician and lead plaintiff in a landmark lawsuit against the tobacco industry^[94]
• John J. Esch, U.S. Representative^[95]
• Evan Alfred Evans, former U.S. Appeals Court judge^[96]
• Tony Evers, Current Governor of Wisconsin and former Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin^[97]
• Thomas E. Fairchild, former U.S. Appeals Court judge^[98]
• Sergio Fajardo, former mayor of Medellín and former governor of Antioquia, Colombia^[99]
• Elizabeth P. Farrington, former U.S. Representative, Hawaii Territory^[100]
• Joseph Rider Farrington, former U.S. Representative, Hawaii Territory^[101]
• Russ Feingold, U.S. Senator^[102]
• Bill Foster, U.S. Representative from Illinois^[103]
• Alejandro Foxley, former foreign minister of Chile^{[citation needed]}
• Chester A. Fowler, former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court^[104]
• Oscar M. Fritz, former chief justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court^[105]
• Harold V. Froehlich, U.S. Representative^[106]
• G. Fred Galli, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly^[107]
• Kathryn Garcia (born 1970), Commissioner of the New York City Sanitation Department
• Anne Nicol Gaylor, political activist
• Edward J. Gehl, former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court^[108]
• Bernard J. Gehrmann, U.S. Representative^[109]
• Hiram Gill, former mayor of Seattle, Washington^[110]
• J. Michael Gilmore, director of the Operational Test and Evaluation Directorate^[111]
• Myron L. Gordon, former federal judge^[112]
• Robert N. Gorman, former justice, Ohio Supreme Court^{[citation needed]}
• Mark Green, U.S. diplomat^[113]
• Stephen S. Gregory, former president, American Bar Association^{[citation needed]}
• Harry W. Griswold, U.S. Representative^[114]
• John A. Gronouski, United States Postmaster General^[115]
• Erica Groshen, commissioner, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Herbert J. Grover, educator and legislator^[116]
• Kenneth Philip Grubb, former federal judge^[117]
• Philip Gunawardena, former Sri Lankan revolutionary, cabinet minister, Indian freedom fighter^{[citation needed]}
• Gunnar Gundersen, member of the Parliament of Norway (2005–present)^[118]
• Henry Gunderson, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
• Steve Gunderson, U.S. Representative^[119]

• Sami Haddad, Minister of Economy and Trade, Lebanon^[120]
• David Warner Hagen, former federal judge^[121]
• Oscar Hallam, justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, Dean of the William Mitchell College of Law^[122]
• Sa'dun Hammadi, former prime minister of Iraq^{[citation needed]}
• Don Hanaway, former Wisconsin Attorney General^{[citation needed]}
• Connor Hansen, former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court^[123]
• Doris Hanson, Wisconsin politician^[124]
• Spencer Haven, former attorney general of Wisconsin^[125]
• Charles Hawks, Jr., U.S. Representative^[126]
• S.I. Hayakawa, former U.S. Senator from California^[127]
• Everis A. Hayes, U.S. Representative from California^[128]
• James B. Hays, former chief justice, Idaho
• Donald Hayworth, former U.S. Representative^[129]
• Ned R. Healy, U.S. Representative from California^[130]
• Nathan Heffernan, former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court^[131]
• Walter Heller, Economist end presidential advisor^{[citation needed]}
• Robert Kirkland Henry, U.S. Representative^[132]
• Charles N. Herreid, Governor of South Dakota^[133]
• Emmett R. Hicks, former attorney general of Wisconsin^[134]
• Harvey V. Higley, former administrator of Veterans Affairs^{[citation needed]}
• Knute Hill, former United States Representative from the State of Washington^[135]
• Geraldine Hines, Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Court
• Jeffry House, Canadian attorney^{[citation needed][136]}
• Henry Huber, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin^[137]
• Benjamin N. Hulburd, Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court^[138]
• Paul O. Husting, U.S. Senator^[139]
• Clifford Ireland, U.S. Representative from Illinois^[140]
• Andre Jacque, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly^[141]
• Edward H. Jenison, U.S. Representative from Illinois^[142]
• Byron L. Johnson, U.S. Representative from Colorado^[143]
• J. Leroy Johnson, former U.S. Representative^[144]
• Lester Johnson, U.S. Representative^[145]
• Sveinbjorn Johnson, former justice, North Dakota Supreme Court^{[citation needed]}
• Burr W. Jones, U.S. Representative^[146]
• Richard Jones^[147]
• William Carey Jones, former U.S. Representative from State of Washington^[148]
• Jim Jordan, U.S. Representative, Ohio, two-time NCAA wrestling champion^[149]
• Pallo Jordan, former Minister of Arts and Culture, Republic of South Africa^[150]
• Charles A. Kading, U.S. Representative^[151]
• Steve Kagen, U.S. Representative^[152]
• Philip Mayer Kaiser, U.S. diplomat^{[citation needed]}
• Henry Kajura, Deputy Prime Minister of Uganda^{[citation needed]}
• Marcy Kaptur, U.S. Representative, Ohio^[153]
• Robert Kastenmeier, U.S. Representative^[154]
• David Keene, activist and chairman of the American Conservative Union^{[citation needed]}
• Oscar Keller, U.S. Representative from Minnesota^[155]
• James C. Kerwin, former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court^[156]
• John C. Kleczka, U.S. Representative^[157]
• Frank Le Blond Kloeb, U.S. Representative from Ohio^[158]
• Warren P. Knowles, 37th Governor of Wisconsin^[159]
• Herb Kohl, U.S. Senator^[160]
• Scott L. Klug, U.S. Representative^[161]
• Arthur W. Kopp, U.S. Representative^[162]
• Carolyn H. Krause, member of the Illinois House of Representatives^[163]
• Julius Albert Krug, U.S. Secretary of the Interior
• Akihiko Kumashiro, member of the House of Representatives of Japan^{[citation needed]}
• John La Fave, Wisconsin politician^[164]
• Belle Case La Follette, women's suffragist and wife of Robert M. La Follette, Sr.^[165]
• Bronson La Follette, former attorney general of Wisconsin^[166]
• Philip La Follette, 27th Governor of Wisconsin^[167]
• Robert M. La Follette, Jr., U.S. Senator^[168]
• Robert M. La Follette, Sr., 20th Governor of Wisconsin, U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator^[169]
• Jeffrey M. Lacker, president, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond^[170]
• Richard Lamm, Governor of Colorado^[171]
• John E. Lange, former U.S. Ambassador for Health and Pandemics^[172]
• Peg Lautenschlager, former attorney general of Wisconsin^{[citation needed]}
• Charles Lavine, New York assemblyman^[173]
• Barbara Lawton, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin^{[citation needed]}
• Frank Le Blond Kloeb, former U.S. Representative^[174]
• Elmer O. Leatherwood, former U.S. Representative^[175]
• Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission^[176]
• Nick Leluk, former Member of Parliament^{[citation needed]}
• Olin B. Lewis, former Minnesota politician^[177]
• Theodore G. Lewis, former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court^[178]
• James C. Liao, president of Academia Sinica, Taiwan Academia Sinica.
• Thomas A. Loftus, U.S. diplomat^[179]
• James B. Loken, judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals^[180]
• William Lorge, Wisconsin politician^[181]
• Alan David Lourie, judge, U.S. Appeals Court^[182]
• Claude Zeth Luse, former federal judge^[183]
• Richard Barrett Lowe, Governor of American Samoa and Guam^{[citation needed]}
• Patrick Joseph Lucey, U.S. diplomat and Governor of Wisconsin^[184]
• Henry Maier, former mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin^[185]
• James Manahan, former U.S. Representative^[186]
• John T. Manske, Wisconsin State Assemblyman^[187]
• Ben Manski, executive director of the Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution^{[citation needed]}
• David W. Márquez, former attorney general of Alaska^[188]
• John E. Martin, former chief justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court^[189]
• Henry F. Mason, former justice, Kansas Supreme Court^{[citation needed]}
• Alyssa Mastromonaco, presidential aide^[190]
• Charles McCarthy, author of The Wisconsin Idea^[191]
• Francis E. McGovern, 22nd Governor of Wisconsin^[192]
• Howard J. McMurray, U.S. Representative^[193]
• Alexander J. Menza, former New Jersey legislator and judge^[194]
• Balthasar H. Meyer, member of the Interstate Commerce Commission^[195]
• Abner Mikva, former judge, U.S. Appeals Court^[196]
• Laura Miller, former mayor of Dallas, Texas^{[citation needed]}
• Bob Mionske, attorney and former Olympic and professional bicycle racer^{[citation needed]}
• William J. Morgan, former attorney general of Wisconsin^{[citation needed]}
• Kamel Morjane, Foreign Minister of Tunisia^{[citation needed]}
• Elmer A. Morse, U.S. Representative^[197]
• Wayne L. Morse, U.S. Senator from Oregon^[198]
• Edmund C. Moy, 38th director of the U.S. mint^[199]
• Dan Mozena, U.S. Ambassador to Angola^[200]
• Reid F. Murray, U.S. Representative^[201]
• Louis Westcott Myers, Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court^[202]

• Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian freedom fighter and political leader; awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1998^{[citation needed]}
• Philleo Nash, government official, college professor^[203]
• Jennifer E. Nashold, Judge, Wisconsin Court of Appeals
• Akmal Nasir, Malaysian politician and current Member Of Parliament for Johor Bahru
• David D. Nelson, U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay^[204]
• Gaylord Nelson, former U.S. Senator, 35th Governor of Wisconsin and founder of Earth Day^[205]
• George B. Nelson, former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court^[206]
• John M. Nelson, U.S. Representative^[207]
• Ivan A. Nestingen, former mayor of Madison, Wisconsin^[208]
• Mark Neumann, U.S. Representative^[209]
• John Norquist, former mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin^{[citation needed]}
• David Obey, U.S. Representative^[210]
• Kenneth J. O'Connell, Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court
• James L. O'Connor, former Wisconsin Attorney General
• Alvin O'Konski, U.S. Representative
• Tawiah Modibo Ocran, Supreme Court judge in Ghana
• Eric Oemig, Washington (state) legislator
• Conrad P. Olson, former justice, Oregon Supreme Court
• Walter C. Owen, former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
• Carolyn R. Payton, former director, Peace Corps
• Russell W. Peterson, Governor of Delaware
• Richard F. Pettigrew, former United States Senator
• Joy Picus, Los Angeles, California, city council member, 1977–91; Ms. magazine "Woman of the Year"
• Huang Pi-Twan, Minister for Culture, Taiwan
• Roger Pillath, retired NFL player, Los Angeles Rams and Pittsburgh Steelers
• Mark Pocan, U.S. Representative
• Jeanne Poppe, Minnesota legislator, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives^[211]
• Hugh H. Price, U.S. Representative
• David Prosser, Jr., Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
• John Abner Race, U.S. Representative
• David Rabinovitz, former federal judge
• Rudolph T. Randa, federal judge
• Clifford E. Randall, U.S. Representative
• Henry Riggs Rathbone, former U.S. Representative
• James Ward Rector, former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice
• Lowell A. Reed, federal judge
• Michael K. Reilly, U.S. Representative^[212]
• Paul Samuel Reinsch, appointed minister to China in 1913
• Oscar Rennebohm, former governor of Wisconsin
• John W. Reynolds, Sr., Attorney General of Wisconsin, 1927–1933
• John W. Reynolds, Jr., 36th Governor of Wisconsin^[213]
• Daniel Riemer, legislator
• Fred Risser, Wisconsin state senator and assemblyman
• Fred Risser (Progressive), Wisconsin assemblyman
• Charles Robb, former U.S. Senator and former governor of Virginia
• Julius Edward Roehr, member of the Wisconsin State Senate, 1897-1908
• Patience Roggensack, Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
• Hannah Rosenthal, executive director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism
• Horace Rublee, former U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland
• David Sturtevant Ruder, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
• Wiley Rutledge, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
• Albert Morris Sames, former federal judge
• Arthur Loomis Sanborn, former federal judge
• David J. Saposs, former chief economist for the National Labor Relations Board
• Harry Sauthoff, U.S. Representative^[214]
• Jim Sensenbrenner, U.S. Representative
• Whitney North Seymour, former president, American Bar Association
• John C. Shabaz, former federal judge
• David I. Shapiro, attorney and activist
• Helen Shiller, Chicago Alderman
• Robert G. Siebecker, former chief justice of Wisconsin
• J. Minos Simon, attorney, legal author in Lafayette, Louisiana
• Stewart Simonson, Assistant Secretary of Public Health Emergency Preparedness
• Slawomir Skrzypek, former president, National Bank of Poland
• Chad "Corntassel" Smith, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation
• Daniel V. Speckhard, U.S. ambassador and diplomat
• Paul Soglin, Mayor of Madison, Wisconsin
• Joan E. Spero, former ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council
• John Coit Spooner, U.S. Senator
• William Spriggs, assistant secretary, United States Department of Labor
• Janet Dempsey Steiger, chairperson of the Postal Rate Commission and Federal Trade Commission^[215]
• William A. Steiger, Congress
• Donald Steinmetz, former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
• E. Ray Stevens, former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
• William H. Stevenson, former U.S. Representative
• Anne K. Strasdauskas, Sheriff of Baltimore County, Maryland
• Robert C. Strong, U.S. diplomat
• Jessie Sumner, former U.S. Representative
• Lori Swanson, Attorney General of Minnesota
• Aleksander Szczyglo, Minister of Defense of Poland
• Elaine Szymoniak, former Iowa State Senator

• James Albertus Tawney, former U.S. Representative
• Amando Tetangco Jr., former Governor, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
• Donald Edgar Tewes, U.S. Representative
• Nahathai Thewphaingarm, former Thai Minister of Education and spokesperson of Thai Rak Thai Party
• Lewis D. Thill, U.S. Representative
• George Thompson, Attorney General of Wisconsin
• Tommy Thompson, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services; former governor of Wisconsin (1986–2001)
• Vernon W. Thomson, U.S. Representative and Governor of Wisconsin
• Fran Ulmer, Lieutenant Governor of Alaska
• J.B. Van Hollen, Attorney General of Wisconsin
• William Freeman Vilas, U.S. Secretary of the Interior and U.S. Postmaster General
• Aad J. Vinje, former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
• Edward Voigt, U.S. Representative
• Thomas J. Walsh, U.S. Senator from Montana^[216]
• Clement Warner, Civil war colonel and Wisconsin state legislator
• Ernest Warner, Wisconsin assemblyman
• Robert W. Warren, former federal judge
• D. Russell Wartinbee, legislator and educator
• Alexander Watson, former U.S. diplomat
• Edward Weidenfeld, attorney
• Paul Weyrich, conservative activist and former president of the Free Congress Foundation
• John D. Wickhem, former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
• Peter D. Wigginton, former U.S. Representative
• Jon P. Wilcox, Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
• Alexander Wiley, U.S. Senator
• Horace W. Wilkie, former chief justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
• Aaron S. Williams, director, Peace Corps
• Michael D. Wilson, associate justice, Hawaii Supreme Court
• John B. Winslow, former chief justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
• Edwin E. Witte, Social Security advisor to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Leonard G. Wolf, former U.S. Representative
• Lawrence Wong, Singaporean politician and cabinet minister; current Minister for Education and Second Minister for Finance^[217]
• Ann Wynia, Minnesota State Representative
• Clayton K. Yeutter, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
• Rebecca Young, Wisconsin politician
• Hilbert Philip Zarky, attorney
• Norma Zarky, attorney
• Maung Zarni, Burmese educator, academic, and human rights activist noted for his opposition to the violence in Rakhine State and Rohingya genocide
• Yeshey Zimba, former prime minister of Bhutan
• Roger H. Zion, former U.S. Representative

• Frank L. Anders, Medal of Honor recipient
• Thomas A. Benes, U.S. Marine Corps major general
• Robyn J. Blader, U.S. National Guard brigadier general
• Charles Ruggles Boardman, U.S. National Guard brigadier general
• Joseph J. Brandemuehl, U.S. Air National Guard brigadier general
• Clarence John Brown, U.S. Navy vice admiral
• Howard G. Bunker, U.S. Air Force major general
• Robert Whitney Burns, U.S. Air Force lieutenant general
• Chester Victor Clifton, Jr., U.S. Army major general
• James B. Currie, U.S. Air Force major general
• Clinton W. Davies, U.S. Air Force brigadier general
• Gary L. Ebben, U.S. Air Force brigadier general
• Samuel Fallows, Union Army brigadier general
• Gregory A. Feest, U.S. Air Force major general
• Richard W. Fellows, U.S. Air Force brigadier general
• Irving Fish, U.S. Army major general
• James F. Flock, U.S. Marine Corps major general
• William Frederick Hase, U.S. Army major general
• J. Michael Hayes, U.S. Marine Corps brigadier general
• Richard W. Hunt, U.S. Navy vice admiral
• Harry W. Jenkins, U.S. Marine Corps major general
• Stephen E. Johnson, U.S. Navy rear admiral
• Donald S. Jones, U.S. Navy vice admiral
• Timothy M. Kennedy, U.S. National Guard brigadier general
• Richard A. Knobloch, U.S. Air Force brigadier general
• Oscar Hugh La Grange, Union Army brigadier general
• John David Larson, U.S. National Guard brigadier general
• Daniel P. Leaf, U.S. Air Force lieutenant general; former commander of United States Pacific Command
• Otto Lessing, U.S. Marine Corps major general
• John D. Logeman, U.S. Air Force major general
• Michael J. McCarthy, U.S. Air Force major general
• John E. McCoy, U.S. Air National Guard brigadier general
• Robert Bruce McCoy, U.S. National Guard major general
• Todd J. McCubbin, U.S. Air Force brigadier general
• Charles C. McDonald, U.S. Air Force general
• Montgomery Meigs, U.S. Army general
• David V. Miller, U.S. Air Force major general
• Peter George Olenchuk, U.S. Army major general
• Jeffrey W. Oster, U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general
• John P. Otjen, U.S. Army lieutenant general
• Walter P. Paluch, Jr., U.S. Air Force brigadier general
• J. Gregory Pavlovich, U.S. Air Force brigadier general
• Francis E. Quinlan, U.S. Marine Corps brigadier general
• Russell Burton Reynolds, U.S. Army major general
• Robley S. Rigdon, U.S. Army National Guard brigadier general
• Carson Abel Roberts, U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general
• Walter Schindler, U.S. Navy vice admiral
• Robert O. Seifert, U.S. National Guard brigadier general
• Winant Sidle, U.S. Army major general
• Fred R. Sloan, U.S. Air National Guard major general
• Phillips Waller Smith, U.S. Air Force major general
• Henry J. Stehling, U.S. Air Force brigadier general
• Woodrow Swancutt, U.S. Air Force major general
• Scott L. Thoele, U.S. Army National Guard brigadier general
• Tracy A. Thompson, U.S. Army major general
• Holger Toftoy, U.S. Army major general
• Richard Tubb, U.S. Air Force brigadier general; physician to the president
• George V. Underwood, Jr., U.S. Army general; former commander of Fort Bliss and commander-in-chief of United States Southern Command
• William J. Van Ryzin, U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general
• James M. Vande Hey, U.S. Air Force brigadier general
• Fred W. Vetter, Jr., U.S. Air Force brigadier general
• Don S. Wenger, U.S. Air Force major general
• Robert E. Wheeler, U.S. Air Force brigadier general
• Ralph Wise Zwicker, U.S. Army major general

• Frank Joseph Dewane, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Venice in Florida
• W. Patrick Donlin, Supreme Advocate of the Knights of Columbus
• Michael S. Heiser, Christian author
• Florence E. Kollock (1848-1925), Universalist minister and lecturer
• Marion Murdoch, Christian minister
• Ronald Myers, Baptist minister
• Paul J. Swain, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls

• Amy Aiken, winemaker
• Howard Aiken, computer science pioneer and recipient Edison Medal
• Loyal Blaine Aldrich, astronomer
• Ruth F. Allen, plant pathologist
• Gene Amdahl, computer scientist, Amdahl's law
• Elda Emma Anderson, physicist
• John Atanasoff, inventor of the electronic digital computer
• Chris Bangle, automobile designer, former Chief of Design for the BMW Group
• Florence Bascom (1862–1945), geologist
• Ekkehard Bautz (born 1933), molecular biologist
• Calvin Beale, demographer
• Gwen Bell, former president of The Computer Museum, Boston
• Willard Harrison Bennett, inventor and scientist
• Paul Alfred Biefeld, electrical engineer, astronomer and teacher
• Robert Byron Bird, chemical engineer, recipient of the National Medal of Science
• William Bleckwenn, neurologist and psychiatrist, instrumental in the development of the truth serum
• Joseph Colt Bloodgood, physician
• Gerard C. Bond, geologist
• Paul Brehm, neurobiologist
• Ernest J. Briskey, scientist, founder of the American Meat Science Association
• George H. Brown, inventor, television pioneer, and Edison Medal recipient
• William Bunge, geographer
• Gail Carpenter, neuroscientist and mathematician
• K. K. Chen, researcher, Eli Lilly and Company
• John Drury Clark, rocket engineer
• , planetary scientist
• Douglas L. Coleman, biochemist
• John Thomas Curtis, botanist and ecologist; the Bray Curtis dissimilarity is partially named for him
• Donald Dafoe, surgeon
• Charles A. Doswell III, meteorologist
• Michael Dhuey, electrical and computer engineer, co-inventor of the Macintosh II and the iPod^[218]
• L. K. Doraiswamy, chemical engineer, proponent of organic synthesis engineering and Padma Bhushan award winner
• Olin J. Eggen, astronomer
• Bruce Elmegreen, astronomer
• Howard Engle, physician
• Milton H. Erickson, psychiatrist, founder of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis^[219]
• Alice Catherine Evans, microbiologist
• Frederick C. Finkle, geologist
• Michael J. Franklin, computer scientist
• Louis Friedman, engineer
• Michael Garey, computer scientist
• Sol Garfunkel, mathematician
• Harold Garner, biophysicist
• Meredith Gardner, linguist and codebreaker
• David H. Geiger, engineer and designer of domed stadiums
• Alwyn Howard Gentry, botanist
• Eloise Gerry, scientist with United States Forest Service
• Gerson Goldhaber, discoverer of the charmed meson, and dark energy
• Sulamith Goldhaber, physicist and spectroscopist
• Danny Goodman, computer scientist and programmer
• Morris Goodman, scientist
• Eric D. Green, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute
• Hary Gunarto, computer engineer
• Paul Haeberli, computer programmer
• Tom Hall, game designer, co-founder of id Software^[220]
• Pat Hanrahan, computer scientist specializing in graphics, Turing Award laureate
• Henry Paul Hansen, palynologist
• Bruce William Hapke, planetary scientist
• Leland John Haworth, physicist and director of the National Science Foundation
• Susan Lynn Hefle, food allergen scientist
• Ralph F. Hirschmann (1922–2009), biochemist who led synthesis of the first enzyme^[221]
• Vasant Honavar, computer scientist, computational biologist, cognitive scientist, artificial intelligence, machine learning researcher, former program director, National Science Foundation
• Earnest Hooton, physical anthropologist^[222]
• Charles Morse Huffer, astronomer
• Karl Jansky, physicist and radio engineer, founder of radio astronomy
• Larry R. Johnson, president of the National Weather Association
• Richard A. Jorgensen, molecular geneticist
• Willi Kalender, inventor of spiral scan computed tomography and professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
• Dennis Keeney, soil scientist, first director of the Leopold Institute
• Motoo Kimura, mathematician
• Clyde Kluckhohn, anthropologist
• Elmer Kraemer, chemist
• Ben Lawton, physician
• Esther Lederberg, microbiologist and immunologist, pioneer of bacterial genetics^[223]
• Albert Lehninger, biochemist, pioneer of bioenergetics, and professor at Johns Hopkins University
• Estella B. Leopold, botanist and daughter of Aldo Leopold
• Harriet Lerner, psychologist
• Karl Paul Link, biochemist, discoverer of anticoagulant warfarin
• Walter K. Link, geologist
• Bradley C. Livezey, ornithologist
• Guy Sumner Lowman, Jr., linguist
• Daryl B. Lund, food scientist and engineer, editor-chief-of Journal of Food Science^[224]
• Ken Lunde, information processor
• Nancy Oestreich Lurie, anthropologist
• Jay Lush, geneticist
• John F. MacGregor, statistician
• Seth Marder, chemist
• Lynn Margulis, author of the serial endosymbiotic theory of cell development, advocate of the Gaia hypothesis; former professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst
• William Marr, engineer and poet
• Max Mason, mathematician
• Karl Menninger, psychiatrist
• Patrick Michaels, climatologist
• Parry Moon, electrical engineer, author
• M. Laurance Morse, microbiologist and immunologist
• Newton Ennis Morton, founder of field of genetic epidemiology
• Mark Myers, geologist and former USGS director

• Walter Nance, geneticist
• Homer E. Newell, Jr., mathematician
• Paula M. Niedenthal, psychologist
• Arthur Nielsen, market analyst
• Gerald North, atmospheric scientist, author of The North Report
• Larry E. Overman, chemist
• Zorba Paster, physician
• Brian Paul, computer programmer of the Mesa 3D open source graphics library
• Emanuel R. Piore, former director of research, IBM
• Lynn Ponton, psychiatrist
• Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman, computer science pioneer and Padma Bhushan awardee
• Richard V. Rhode, aeronautical engineer
• Sylvia Rimm, psychology
• JoAnne Robbins, creator of dysphagia medical device
• Anita Roberts, molecular biologist
• Havidan Rodriguez, award-winning sociologist, author
• Carl Rogers, psychologist, co-founder humanistic psychology^[225]
• Leon E. Rosenberg, physician-scientist, geneticist, and educator
• Marshall Rosenberg, psychologist
• Harry Luman Russell, bacteriologist
• Joseph F. Rychlak, psychologist
• Joseph F. Sackett, clinical radiologist and professor of neuroradiology
• David Salo, linguist and translator
• John C. Sanford, plant geneticist
• John L. Savage, chief engineer of Hoover Dam
• William Schaus, entomologist
• Edward Schildhauer, a chief engineer on the Panama Canal project
• Robert Serber, physicist, participated in the Manhattan Project
• Digvijai Singh, chemical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
• Dick Smith, software engineer and computer consultant
• James E. Smith, computer engineer
• Willem P.C. Stemmer, engineer
• Calvin L. Stevens, chemist
• Chauncey Guy Suits, former research director for GE
• M.S. Swaminathan, "father of the Green Revolution in India"
• Leslie Denis Swindale, soil scientist
• Helmer Swenholt, commanding officer of the 332nd Engineer General Service Regiment
• Katia Sycara, roboticist
• Stephen Taber III, apiologist
• Auguste Taton, botanist
• Earle M. Terry, formed WHA (AM), the first radio station to clearly transmit human speech, with Edward Bennett
• Victor A. Tiedjens, scientist
• James Tour, synthetic organic chemist
• Tso Wung-Wai, professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, political activist
• Marilyn Tremaine, computer scientist
• Glenn Thomas Trewartha, geographer
• Mary Tsingou, numerical analyst
• Billie Lee Turner II, geographer
• Kameshwar C. Wali, research physicist and science writer
• John Watrous, quantum theorist of computing
• Warren Weaver, pioneer of machine translation
• I. Bernard Weinstein, physician
• Louis Jolyon West, psychiatrist
• Albert Whitford, astronomer
• Dave Winer, software designer
• Samuel D. Wonders, engineer, president of Carter's Ink Company
• Gordon Woods, veterinary scientist
• Charles E. Woodworth, entomologist
• A. Wayne Wymore, systems engineer and mathematician
• Ned Xoubi, nuclear engineer
• Joy Zedler, ecologist and botanist
• John Zillman, meteorologist
• Otto Julius Zobel, inventor of the m-derived filter and the Zobel network

• Milo Aukerman, biochemist, front man of the Descendents
• Mary Brunner, former Manson Family member and ex-girlfriend of cult leader Charles Manson
• Clarence Chamberlin, aviation pioneer
• Frank J. Christensen, labor leader
• Kathryn F. Clarenbach, first chairwoman of the National Organization for Women
• Tim Cordes, blind physician
• Laurie Dann, mass shooter who attacked elementary school children in Winnetka, Illinois^[226]
• Anna Essinger (1879–1960), educator who aided hundreds of European children before, during and after the Holocaust
• Robert Fassnacht, graduate student, killed in the Sterling Hall bombing
• Ada Fisher, physician
• Phil Galfond, 3-time WSOP bracelet-winning champion
• Frederick Gutheim, urban planner
• Eva Lund Haugen, author and editor
• Jerome Heckenkamp, computer hacker
• Phil Hellmuth, 14-time WSOP bracelet-winning champion
• Prynce Hopkins, activist and psychologist
• Robert Kotler, physician
• Drew Binsky, Traveller and youtuber, has visited over 170 countries
• Mary Lasker, health activist, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal
• John Muir (1838–1914), naturalist, founder of the Sierra Club, instrumental in preserving Yosemite National Park
• Carol Myers-Scotton, linguist
• Sigurd F. Olson, conservationist
• Pauline Park, transgender activist
• Janet Meakin Poor, landscape designer
• Lori Ringhand, judicial analyst
• Carl Schramm, president, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
• Bud Selig, Commissioner of Major League Baseball
• Rafael Rangel Sostmann, rector of Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education and member of the World Bank
• Bill Stumpf, furniture designer
• Charlie Trotter, chef
• Althea Warren, president of the American Library Association, 1943–44

• Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino) in the 1999 movie The Insider (film)
• Chris (Will Arnett), MRI tech on TV series Parks and Recreation, says he went to UW for both his undergrad and graduate work.
• Harold "Harry" Crane, head of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce's television department in Mad Men
• Jack and Maddie Fenton, scientist parents of Danny Phantom
• Laurie Forman, character on the situation comedy That '70s Show (did not graduate)
• Will Hayes (Ryan Reynolds) in the 2008 movie Definitely, Maybe
• Vladimir "Vlad" Masters, a/k/a Vlad Plasmius, supervillain and foe of Danny Phantom
• Donna Moss, White House staffer in the television series The West Wing (dropped out halfway through to support her boyfriend as he went through medical school)
• Alison Parker (Melrose Place) (Courtney Thorne-Smith) on Melrose Place, the TV series which ran from 1992 to 1999.
• President Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas) taught at the University of Wisconsin in the 1995 movie The American President
• A. Clarence "Silverlock" Shandon, titular character of the fantasy novel Silverlock, has a business administration degree from U.W. and was bow on the crew team for three years
• James Walker (Michael Vartan) from Big Shots (TV series), an 11-episode TV series.
• Many, perhaps most, of the characters in the 2006 film The Last Kiss, set in Madison and in part on the UW campus, are connected to the university: Kim is a student, Professor Bowler is on the faculty, and several other characters are apparently alumni.

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• Martha W. Alibali, psychologist
• Timothy F. H. Allen, botanist
• Stub Allison, head coach of the Washington Huskies, South Dakota Coyotes, and California Golden Bears football teams, Washington Huskies men's basketball team, and Washington Huskies baseball team
• Ann Althouse, professor of law and well-known blogger
• Rasmus B. Anderson, professor, author, diplomat
• Rozalyn Anderson, assistant professor, scientist
• Fred J. Ansfield, physician, chemotherapy pioneer, co-Founder of American Society of Clinical Oncology, Emeritus Professor of Human Oncology^[228]
• Michael Apple, leading educational theorist
• Richard Askey, mathematician, the Askey–Wilson polynomials and Askey–Gasper inequality are partially named for him
• Sanjay Asthana, Alzheimer's disease researcher
• Louis Winslow Austin, physicist, recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor
• Stephen Babcock, inventor of the Babcock test for measuring the butterfat content of milk
• Bob Babich, NFL assistant coach
• Eric Bach, computer scientist
• Ira Baldwin, bacteriologist
• Charles Russell Bardeen, first dean of the University of Wisconsin Medical School
• Amy Barger, astronomer
• Michael Barnett, scholar of international relations
• Quan Barry, poet
• Helmut Beinert, professor of biochemistry
• Edward Bennett, professor of electrical engineering, formed WHA (AM), the first radio station to clearly transmit human speech, with Earle M. Terry
• Tony Bennett, NBA player and head coach of the Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball team
• Leonard Berkowitz, psychologist
• Robert Byron Bird, chemical engineer, recipient of the National Medal of Science
• George David Birkhoff, mathematician, discoverer of the ergodic theorem
• Lisle Blackbourn, NFL head coach
• Gary Blackney, head coach of the Bowling Green Falcons football team
• Earl Blaik, head coach of the Dartmouth Big Green and Army Black Knights football teams, member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• William Bleckwenn, neurologist and psychiatrist, instrumental in the development of the truth drug
• Craig Bohl, head coach of the North Dakota State Bison football team
• David Bordwell, prominent neoformalist film theorist and author
• Laird Boswell, professor of History
• George E. P. Box, statistician
• Paul S. Boyer, historian of American thought and culture
• Léon Brillouin, physicist
• Royal Alexander Brink, plant geneticist
• Thomas D. Brock, microbiologist
• Martin Bronfenbrenner, economist
• Aaron Brower, professor of social work and Vice-Provost for Teaching & Learning
• Richard A. Brualdi, professor of combinatorial mathematics
• Robert V. Bruce, winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for History
• Edgar Buckingham, physicist
• Tim Buckley, head coach of the Ball State Cardinals men's basketball team
• Jacob Burney, NFL assistant coach
• Robert H. Burris, recipient of the National Medal of Science
• Gibson Byrd, noted painter
• Angus Cameron, U.S. Senator
• Sean B. Carroll, professor of evolutionary biology
• Delia E. Wilder Carson (1833–1917), art educator
• Frederic G. Cassidy, editor-in-chief of the Dictionary of American Regional English
• Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, founder of the Journal of Geology
• Bill Chandler, head coach of the Iowa State Cyclones and Marquette Golden Eagles men's basketball teams
• Y. Austin Chang, professor of material engineering
• Chang Jen-Hu, chairman of the board of directors of Chinese Culture University
• Arthur B. Chapman, professor of animal breeding and genetics
• Geep Chryst, NFL, assistant coach
• Paul Chryst, head football coach, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Clarence S. Clay, Jr., geophysics faculty
• W. Wallace Cleland, biochemist
• John Coatta, NFL scout
• Eddie Cochems, head coach of the North Dakota State Bison, Clemson Tigers, Saint Louis Billikens, and Maine Black Bears football teams
• Bill Cofield, former men's basketball head coach, first African American coach of a major sport in the Big Ten Conference
• John R. Commons, one of the architects of Social Security in the United States
• Clifton F. Conrad, professor of educational leadership & policy analysis
• Ron Cooper, head coach of the Eastern Michigan Eagles, Louisville Cardinals, and Alabama A&M Bulldogs football teams
• Elizabeth A. Craig, biochemistry professor
• William Cronon, Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies, winner of the Bancroft Prize, recipient of MacArthur fellowship
• James F. Crow, professor of genetics, population geneticist
• Vincent Cryns, professor of medicine, chief of endocrinology
• John Culbertson, professor of economics
• Richard N. Current, historian
• Merle Curti, historian of U.S. intellectual history
• Philip D. Curtin, historian
• John Thomas Curtis, botanist and ecologist, the Bray Curtis dissimilarity is partially named for him
• Marshall E. Cusic Jr., U.S. Navy admiral, Chief of the U.S. Navy Medical Reserve Corps
• Scott Cutlip, dean of the University of Georgia College of Journalism and Mass Communication
• Lawrence F. Dahl, professor emeritus of chemistry
• James Dahlberg, professor emeritus of biomolecular chemistry
• Farrington Daniels, early researcher in solar energy
• Richard Davis, jazz bassist
• Richard Davidson, professor of psychology and psychiatry, widely known for his mind-body research^[229]
• Carl de Boor, professor emeritus of mathematics and computer science; winner of National Medal of Science, best known for pioneering work on splines
• Hector DeLuca, researcher of vitamin D
• Robert Disque, president of the Drexel Institute of Technology
• Dave Doeren, head coach of the Northern Illinois Huskies football team
• Donald Downs, professor of political science
• Mitchell Duneier, sociologist
• Mike Eaves, NHL player and assistant coach
• Jordan Ellenberg, professor of mathematics, novelist, writer
• Edward C. Elliott, educational researcher and Purdue University president
• Amy Burns Ellis, professor of mathematics education
• Richard Theodore Ely (1854–1943), professor, social activist, economist
• Joseph Erlanger, 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Nathan Feinsinger, chairman of the Wage Stabilization Board and associate general counsel to the National War Labor Board
• Carl Russell Fish, professor of history
• Harold K. Forsen, professor of Nuclear Engineering
• Perry A. Frey, professor of biochemistry
• Milton Friedman, associate professor of Economics Nobel Prize for Economics
• John Gallagher III, editor of the Astronomical Journal
• Adam Gamoran, professor of sociology and director, Wisconsin Center for Education Research
• Morton Ann Gernsbacher, professor of psychology and president of the Association for Psychological Science
• Harvey Goldberg, historian
• James R. Goodman, professor of computer science and computer architect, known for his work on cache coherence protocols
• Doug Graber, NFL assistant coach
• M. Elizabeth Graue, professor of Curriculum and Instruction
• Michelle Grabner, professor of art
• Luther W. Graef, president of the American Society of Civil Engineers
• Carson Gulley, head chef from 1927 to 1954

• Theodore S. Hamerow, historian
• Mike Hankwitz, head coach of the Arizona Wildcats and Colorado Buffaloes football teams
• Harry Harlow, psychologist, known for studies on affection using rhesus monkeys with artificial mothers
• Fred Harvey Harrington, historian
• Edwin B. Hart, conductor of the single-grain experiment, the Institute of Food Technologists' Babcock-Hart Award is partially named after him
• Einar Haugen, linguist
• Robert J. Havighurst, physicist, aging expert
• James Edwin Hawley, mineralogist, Hawleyite is named for him
• Carolyn Heinrich, former professor, currently Sid Richardson professor at University of Texas at Austin^[230][15]
• Daniel Hershkowitz (born 1953), Israeli politician, mathematician, rabbi, and president of Bar-Ilan University
• Elroy Hirsch, NFL player, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and College Football Hall of Fame
• Alexander Rudolf Hohlfeld, professor of German
• Jeff Horton, NFL assistant coach, head coach of the Nevada Wolf Pack and UNLV Rebels football teams
• Clark L. Hull, psychologist
• William Hunter, statistician
• Krisztina Morvai associate professor of law, member of the European Parliament
• Willard Hurst, seminal figure in the development of modern American legal history
• Anna Huttenlocher, cell biologist and rheumatologist
• Rob Ianello, head coach of the Akron Zips football team
• Hugh Iltis, known for his scientific discoveries in the domestication of corn
• Roland Duer Irving, member of the United States Geological Survey
• Greg Jackson, NFL player
• Arnold Jeter, head coach of the Delaware State Hornets football team
• Gunnar Johansen, artist-in-residence
• Bob Johnson, NHL head coach
• Mark Johnson, NHL player and 1980 Winter Olympics Miracle on Ice team
• Burr W. Jones, U.S. Representative
• Horace Kallen, philosopher
• Nietzchka Keene, filmmaker
• Har Gobind Khorana, 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for describing the genetic code and how it operates in protein synthesis
• Franklin Hiram King, soil scientist and early promoter of sustainable agriculture
• Philip King, member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• Rufus King, U.S. diplomat, Union Army general
• Grayson L. Kirk, president of Columbia University
• Stephen Cole Kleene, a foundational contributor to theoretical computer science
• Rudolf Kolisch, violinist
• Thomas R. Kratochwill, psychologist
• Gloria Ladson-Billings, leading educational theorist and past president of the American Educational Research Association
• Elmer A. Lampe, head coach of the Georgia Bulldogs and Dartmouth Big Green men's basketball teams
• Jane Larson, feminist legal scholar
• Vernon Lattin (born 1938), president of Brooklyn College
• Aldo Leopold, ecologist
• Judith Walzer Leavitt, professor of history of medicine, history of science, and women's studies
• Lewis Leavitt, pediatrician
• Mike Leckrone, director of the University of Wisconsin marching band since 1969
• Joshua Lederberg, 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

For his research in genetic structure and function in microorganisms

• Albert L. Lehninger, biochemist
• Charles Kenneth Leith, geologist, Penrose Medal recipient
• Gerda Lerner, professor emerita; historian of women's and gender history; considered a founder of women's history
• Philip H. Lewis Jr., landscape architect and planner
• Olin B. Lewis, Minnesota politician^[231]
• Tom Lieb, head coach of the Loyola Marymount Lions and Florida Gators football teams, Olympic medalist
• George Little, member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• Harvey Littleton, founder of the modern American studio glass movement
• Aldo Leopold, author of A Sand County Almanac, which helped spawn the environmental movement and interest in ecology; also founded the Wilderness Society
• Miron Livny, computer science professor and founder of the Condor High-Throughput Computing System
• William Lorenz, Army Distinguished Service Medal recipient
• Henry S. Magoon, U.S. Representative
• Abby Lillian Marlatt, director of home economics
• Carolyn "Biddy" Martin, professor of German and current president of Amherst College
• Abraham Maslow, psychologist, known for Maslow's hierarchy of needs
• Ron McBride, head coach of the Utah Utes and Weber State Wildcats football teams
• Dan McCarney, head coach of the Iowa State Cyclones and North Texas Mean Green football teams
• Anne McClintock, Simone de Beauvoir Professor and author of Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest
• Elmer McCollum, biochemist, co-discovered vitamins A, B, and D
• Tasha McDowell, head coach of the Western Michigan Broncos women's basketball team
• Mike McGee, NFL player, head coach of the East Carolina Pirates and Duke Blue Devils football teams, member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• Nellie Y. McKay, scholar of African-American literature and co-editor of the Norton Anthology of African-American Literature
• Howard J. McMurray, U.S. Representative
• Milton McPike, NFL player
• Walter Meanwell, former head coach of the men's basketball team, member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
• Alexander Meiklejohn, philosopher and free-speech advocate
• William Shainline Middleton, co-founder and secretary-treasurer of the American Board of Internal Medicine
• Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean
• Frederic E. Mohs, surgeon and developer of the Mohs surgery technique for removing types of skin cancer
• Howard Moore, head coach of the UIC Flames men's basketball team
• Perry Moss, NFL player, athletic director of Florida State University, head coach of the Florida State Seminoles and Marshall Thundering Herd football teams
• George L. Mosse, professor; historian of European nationalism and gender
• Reid F. Murray, U.S. Representative

• Gerhard Brandt Naeseth, genealogical author; member of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav
• Adolphus Peter Nelson, U.S. Representative
• Kathryn Norlock, feminist philosopher
• Ronald Numbers, historian of science
• Allan R. Odden, professor in the Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis
• Hakkı Ögelman, physicist and astrophysicist
• Richard Page, chair, department of medicine
• John Palermo, NFL assistant coach
• Charles D. Parker, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
• Harry Partch, avant-garde composer
• Zorba Paster, co-host of Public Radio's Zorba Paster On Your Health
• Klaus Patau, geneticist, best known for the discovery of trisomy 13 (a.k.a. Patau syndrome)
• Stanley Payne, historian
• Russell W. Peterson, Governor of Delaware
• Saul Phillips, head coach of the North Dakota State Bison men's basketball team
• Felix Pollak, curator of Special Collections; poet
• Andrew C. Porter, former director of Wisconsin Center for Education Research, professor of education policy at Vanderbilt
• Ellis Rainsberger, head coach of the Kansas State Wildcats football team
• Hans Reese, Olympic athlete
• Paul Samuel Reinsch, U.S. diplomat
• Milton Resnick, artist-in-residence^{[citation needed]}
• Pat Richter, NFL player, member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• Patrick T. Riley, political theorist
• Paul Roach, NFL assistant coach, athletic director and head football coach at the University of Wyoming
• Carl Rogers, psychologist and founder of Client-Centered Therapy
• Thomas A. Romberg, professor emeritus of curriculum and instruction (mathematics education)
• Walter Rudin, mathematician best known for his books on mathematical analysis
• Joe Rudolph, NFL player
• Bo Ryan, current head men's basketball coach
• Alfred A. Sanelli, U.S. Army general
• Harrison Schmitt, adjunct professor of engineering physics, 12th man on the Moon as Apollo 17 astronaut and geologist
• Hans Schneider, mathematician, best known for his contributions to the Linear Algebra and Matrix society
• Isaac Jacob Schoenberg, mathematician, best known for the discovery in 1946 of splines
• Jennifer Schomaker, chemist, professor, researcher
• John Settle, NFL player
• Donna E. Shalala, chancellor 1987–1993; secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1993–2001
• Charles S. Slichter, mathematician and physicist
• Ithamar Sloan, U.S. Representative
• Red Smith, MLB and NFL player and coach
• Oliver Smithies, faculty 1960 to 1988, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2007
• Clarence Spears, member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• Bob Spoo, head coach of the Eastern Illinois Panthers football team
• Kurt Squire, director of the Games, Learning & Society Conference
• Dale Steele, head coach of the Campbell Fighting Camels football team
• Harry Steenbock, biochemist, vitamin D researcher
• John Stiegelmeier, head coach of the South Dakota State Jackrabbits football team
• Mike Stock, NFL assistant coach
• Scott Straus, assistant professor of Political Science and International Studies, specialising in the study of genocide
• Harry Stuhldreher, NFL player, member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• Stephen Suomi, director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Comparative Ethology Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health
• Aage B. Sørensen, sociologist

• Cecil Taylor, jazz pianist
• Henry Charles Taylor, agricultural economist
• Howard Temin, 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of reverse transcriptase
• Edward Ten Eyck, first American to win the Diamond Challenge Sculls
• Eeva Therman, geneticist, characterized trisomy 13 and trisomy 18^[232]
• James Thomson, credited with first successful culturing of human embryonic stem cells
• Arthur Thrall, artist
• Giulio Tononi, professor of psychiatry
• Darold Treffert, psychiatrist
• Frederick Jackson Turner, historian and creator of the "frontier thesis" explaining the American character
• Timothy Tyson, professor of African-American history and author
• John J. Uicker, mechanical engineer
• Stanislaw Ulam, mathematician who joined the Manhattan Project during World War II
• Harry Vail, rowing coach, the Dad Vail Regatta is named after him
• Ryan G. Van Cleave, author
• Clark Van Galder, head coach of the Fresno State Bulldogs football team
• Charles R. Van Hise, geologist and university president who formulated the "Wisconsin Idea"
• Edward Burr Van Vleck, mathematician and professor
• Alexander Vasiliev (1867–1953), Byzantinist and Arabist
• Jan Vansina, historian of Africa and father of oral historical methodology
• Grace Wahba, statistician, developed generalized cross validation and formalized Wahba's problem
• Pete Waite, head coach of the women's volleyball team, author
• David Ward, president of the American Council on Education
• Oliver Patterson Watts, chemical engineer
• Viola S. Wendt, poet
• Albert Whitford, astronomer
• Eugene Wigner, 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics
• John Wilce, head coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes football team, member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• Noah Williams, economist
• William Appleman Williams, historian of American diplomacy
• Erik Olin Wright, sociologist
• Randall Wright, macroeconomist and pioneer of search theory in monetary economics
• Sewall Wright, professor of genetics, one of the fathers of population genetics
• Todd Yeagley, MLS player
• Kenneth Zeichner, winner of several awards for Teacher Education
• Efim Zelmanov, recipient of the Fields Medal in 1994
• Howard Zimmerman, organic chemist, discovered barrelene
• Otto Julius Zobel, inventor of the m-derived filter and the Zobel network