South High School (Denver) - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

  • Verne Byers '37 (known in High School as Vincent Beyer)
  • Stan Brakhage '51, experimental film maker
  • Calais Campbell, football player Arizona Cardinals
  • Conor Casey, professional soccer player in Major League Soccer
  • Warren Chandler, '44, local TV weatherman for KMGH
  • Diana DeGette, United States Representative from Colorado's 1st district
  • Herbert H. Edwards '50, attorney, Dow Chemical litigation director, private practice in Michigan
  • Patricia Elliott, '56, TV Actress & Personality.
  • John L. Hall '52, Nobel laureate (Physics)
  • Marilyn Hickey, evangelist
  • Robert Higgins '50, zoologist, professor, scholar, marine life researcher, curator at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
  • Michael Lavine '81, photographer
  • Fred Meissner, world renowned geoscientist, professor at the Colorado School of Mines and author
  • John A. Sells, '50 historian, author
  • Bert Stiles '38, author and Purple Heart recipient
  • Robert M. Warner '45, 6th Archivist of the United States, 1980–1985, pushed for the National Archives and Records Administration to become its own independent federal agency
  • LenDale White, football player Denver Broncos
  • Nick Willhite '59, pitched from 1963-1967 for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Washington Senators, California Angels and New York Mets.

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