Lawrence University - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

• Martha Bablitch, Judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
• John Miller Baer, 1909, Congressman from North Dakota
• Melvin Baldwin, Congressman from Minnesota
• Charles A. Barnard, Wisconsin State Assemblyman
• Myrt Basing, NFL player
• Jennifer Baumgardner, 1992, feminist writer and activist
• Sam Barry, college basketball and baseball coach (attended)
• Lynn Berry, 1981, editor-in-chief of the Moscow Times
• Charles A. Beyer, 1912, Athletic Director, Rockford High School, Lawrence University
• Lisle Blackbourn, 1925, NFL head coach
• Champ Boettcher, NFL player
• Webster E. Brown, Congressman from Wisconsin (attended)
• Bonnie Bryant, 1968, author of children's books
• Louis B. Butler, Jr., 1973, associate justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
• James Dinsdale, Wisconsin State Assemblyman
• Paul Driessen, 1970, author and lobbyist
• Dale Duesing, 1967, operatic baritone
• Cynthia Estlund, 1978, law professor and author
• Edna Ferber, author and playwright (attended)
• James A. Frear, Congressman from Wisconsin (attended)
• William Fuller, 1975, Poet and senior vice president and chief fiduciary officer of Northern Trust Corporation
• John Rankin Gamble, 1872, Congressman from South Dakota
• Robert J. Gamble, 1874, Congressman from South Dakota
• Carl Giordana, 1948, Intercollegiate Athletic Hall of Fame inductee
• Ed Glick, NFL player (attended)
• Walter Samuel Goodland, governor of Wisconsin (attended)
• Suzanne Graff, actress
• Michael P. Hammond, 1954, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts
• Lorena Hickok, confidante of Eleanor Roosevelt (attended)
• Earnest Hooton, 1903, physical anthropologist
• Thomas R. Hudd, Congressman from Wisconsin (attended)
• Bruce Iglauer, Founder of Chicago's Alligator Records
• Lester Johnson, Congressman from Wisconsin
• Jeffrey Jones, 1968, actor
• Win Jones, 1956, watercolor painter
• Scott Klug, 1975 former congressman from Wisconsin
• Eddie Kotal, National Football League player
• Barbara Lawton, 1987, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
• Fred Lerdahl, 1965, composer and music theorist
• John A. Luke, Jr., 1971, CEO of MeadWestvaco
• Harry N. MacLean, 1964, true crime author
• John McDonald, NFL player
• James H. McGillan, Mayor of Green Bay, Wisconsin
• James Merrell, 1975, Professor of History at Vassar College
• John S. Mills, U.S. Air Force Major General
• Terry Moran, 1982, chief White House correspondent for ABC News
• David Mulford, 1969, United States Ambassador to India
• Tom Neff, 1975, CEO and founder of The Documentary Channel
• Justus Henry Nelson, Methodist missionary in the Amazon (attended)
• Garth Neustadter, 2011 Emmy winner, Outstanding Music Composition for a Series
• Jessica Nelson North, 1917, author
• Rip Owens, NFL player (attended)
• Alice Peacock, 1992 singer-songwriter
• Scott Reppert, 1983, member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• Eben Eugene Rexford, author of stories, poems, songs, and books on gardening (attended)
• Carl W. Riddick, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the Second District of Montana
• Josh Sawyer - video game designer at Obsidian Entertainment
• Campbell Scott, 1983, actor
• Michael Shurtleff, 1942, casting director, author
• Eric Simonson, 1982, Oscar-winning writer-director
• Red Smith, 1926, MLB player, NFL player and assistant coach, head coach of the Georgetown Hoyas football team and Wisconsin Badgers football team, athletic director of Seton Hall University
• Janet Steiger, 1961, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission
• Thomas A. Steitz, 1962, professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale University, awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry
• Fred Sturm, 1973, jazz composer and arranger
• Gladys Taber, (1899–1980), author
• William Warner (Missouri), U.S. Senator from Missouri (attended)
• Al Zupek, 1944, NFL player