New Mexico Military Institute - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

  • Norman E. Brinker, founder of Brinker International
  • William John Cox (Billy Jack Cox), public interest attorney, author and political activist.
  • Charles A. Coulombe
  • Bill Daniels, cable television pioneer.
  • Sam Donaldson of ABC News
  • Malcolm Duncan, former owner of Duncan Buick Cadillac in Waco, Texas; educational philanthropist through MAC Scholarships.
  • Ira B. Harkey Jr., awarded the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
  • Conrad Hilton, founder of the Hilton Hotel chain
  • Conrad Hilton Jr., American socialite
  • Paul Horgan, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author who also served as the school's librarian for a time.
  • Peter Hurd, artist and friend of Horgan's who painted the presidential portrait of Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Hal Mumme, collegiate football coach
  • Anthony Principi, the fourth United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
  • Chuck Roberts, news anchor for CNN Headline News
  • Roger Staubach, quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys
  • G. Harry Stine, sci-fi writer; a father of model rocketry
  • Casey Urlacher, Arena League football player, brother of Brian Urlacher
  • Major General Edwin Walker
  • Frank D. White, governor of Arkansas
  • Owen Wilson, movie actor (Bottle Rocket, Shanghai Knights, Wedding Crashers, Drillbit Taylor, Night at the Museum)
  • Jerome Dazzo, Founder of The Dazzo Hair Restoration Institute in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Guillermo Padres Elias, Sonora State Governor

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