Notable Alumni
- Frank Anderson, head baseball coach for the Oklahoma State Cowboys
- William J. Durham, African-American attorney and leader in the civil rights movement
- Al Feuerbach, former Olympian and world record holder in the shot put
- L. M. Gensman, former U.S. Representative from Oklahoma
- Homer Woodson Hargiss former head football coach for ESU and University of Kansas
- Hall Hibbard, former chief design engineer for Lockheed Corporation
- Brad Hill, current head baseball coach at Kansas State University
- Leon Lett, pro football player (attended but did not graduate. Later completed studies at UNLV)
- Bill Martin, Jr., children's book author
- John Conover Nichols, former U.S. Representative from Oklahoma
- Kathy Patrick, author, founder of the Pulpwood Queens Book Club (attended, did not graduate)
- Deborah Raney, women's fiction author
- W. Ann Reynolds, chancellor of the California State University and City University of New York
- Dale Emerson Saffels, former federal judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas
- Harold See, Associate Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court
- Jack Sinagra, New Jersey State Senator
- Randall J. Stephens, author and historian
- Sam V. Stewart, Montana Supreme Court Justice and the sixth Governor of Montana.
- Grant F. Timmerman. Awarded Medal of Honor postumously for heroism during Battle of Saipan.
- Bob Whittaker, U.S. Representative from Kansas
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