Notable Alumni
- Edwin H. Conger – U.S. Congressman, diplomat, and ambassador to China
- Carl Sandburg – author, poet, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Paul Jordan Smith – editor, educator, poet
- Dorothy Tilden Spoerl – theologian, writer, educator
- Evar Swanson – professional baseball and football player; fastest player in history of baseball
- Sewall G. Wright – geneticist
- Quincy Wright – educator, poet, economist
- Theodore Paul Wright – engineer, first director of the Civil Aeronautics Administration
- Ken Carpenter, the late radio and TV announcer
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Famous quotes containing the word notable:
“a notable prince that was called King John;
And he ruled England with main and with might,
For he did great wrong, and maintained little right.”
—Unknown. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury (l. 2–4)