Notable Alumni
- John Q. Tufts late 19th century — Congressman from Iowa's 2nd Congressional district (1875–1877)
- Leslie M. Shaw 1874 — Governor of Iowa, U.S. Secretary of Treasury
- Charles Atherton Cumming 1880 — American painter
- Robert G. Cousins 1881 — U.S. Congressman from Iowa (1893–1909)
- William Wallace McCredie 1885 — Judge, U.S. Congressman from Washington (1909–1911) and Baseball Executive
- Edgar J. Helms 1889 — Founder of Goodwill Industries
- Burton E. Sweet 1895 — U.S. Congressman from Iowa (1915–1923) and unsuccessful Senate Candidate (1922, 1924)
- Lester J. Dickinson 1898 — U.S. Congressman (1919–1931) and Senator from Iowa (1931–1937)
- Walter Thornton 1899 — Major League Baseball player
- Erwin Kempton Mapes 1909 — renowned scholar of Spanish-American Literature
- Lee Alvin DuBridge 1922 — President of the California Institute of Technology, science advisor to U.S. President Richard Nixon
- Hubert Stanley Wall 1924 — mathematician
- Orin D. Haugen 1925 - Colonel in the United States Army during World War II
- Winifred Van Etten 1925 — Best selling novelist
- Leo Beranek 1936 — Co-founder of Bolt, Beranek and Newman
- James Daly 1941 — Emmy Award-winning actor
- Maryann Mahaffey 1946 — Detroit City Council member
- Nancy Price (author) 1946 — Author, Sleeping with the Enemy
- Don E. Fehrenbacher 1948 — Pulitzer Prize for History winner
- Dale O. Thomas 1948 — Wrestler and coach
- Herbert L. Hoover, adopted nephew of the former President, retired businessman, and inventor of patented lace stitching technique (did not graduate).
- Don Weiss 1949 — Sports writer and NFL executive known as Mr. Super Bowl
- Richard Cross 1957 — opera singer
- William Taylor 1961 — Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- Mike Conklin 1969 — Feature writer and columnist, Chicago Tribune
- David Hilmers 1972 — NASA Astronaut and medical doctor
- Rob Ash 1973 — Head football coach at Montana State University
- Michael J. Graham 1975 — President of Xavier University
- Richard Kirkham 1977 — Philosopher
- Felecia Epps 1980 - Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Law. University of Arkansas at Little Rock
- Chris Carney 1981 — Congressman from Pennsylvania's 10th Congressional district
- Alan Krugman 1985 — CEO of Sprehe-feinkost, a German frozen food company.
- Tanja Kozicky-Manrique 1988 — Hennepin County District Court Judge, Minneapolis, 1998–2010
- Deb Mell 1990 — member of Illinois House of Representatives
- Harper Reed 2001 — CTO of Obama for America 2012 campaign
- Chad Hepperly 2002 — Probation Officer, Fifth District, Pernabram v. Cretzky
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