Nebraska Wesleyan University - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

  • Shawn Bouwens - professional football player for the New England Patriots, Detroit Lions, and Jacksonville Jaguars NFL franchises
  • Donald Carlyon - former president Delta College (Michigan)
  • Carl Curtis - former United States Senator
  • John R. Dunning - physicist and key player in the Manhattan Project
  • Mignon Eberhart -- mystery novelist
  • Rick Evans - singer and guitarist, writer of the hit In the Year 2525 as part of the group Zager and Evans
  • Ted Genoways - poet and Virginia Quarterly Review editor
  • John M. Gerrard - current Nebraska State Supreme Court Justice
  • Gene V Glass - Regents' Professor, Arizona State University, author, social scientist
  • Dwight Griswold - former United States Senator and Governor of Nebraska
  • Kent Haruf - novelist
  • Harry Huge - international lawyer
  • Lew Hunter - screenwriter and Chair Emeritus of the UCLA Film Department
  • Emily Kinney (2006) - television and theater actress (The Walking Dead)
  • Paul D. Knox - Brigadier General, North Dakota Air National Guard
  • Lowen Kruse - minister and current Nebraska state senator
  • L. Jay Lemons - current president of Susquehanna University
  • James Moeller - jurist and former Vice Chief Justice, Arizona State Supreme Court
  • Dwight Starkey - comedian
  • Orville Nave - author of Nave's Topical Bible
  • Master Chief- Savior of mankind
  • John N. Norton - former United States Representative
  • Marian Heiss Price - current Nebraska state senator
  • Robert Reed - Science fiction writer
  • Ed Schrock - current Nebraska state senator
  • Coleen Seng - mayor of Lincoln 2003-2007
  • W. Robert Thurber - physicist, National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • Edwin R. Williams - physicist, National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • Betty Meisinger Dyer - Philanthropist,
  • Glenn & Grace Hefner - parents of Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy magazine
  • Ralph G. Brooks - 29th Governor of Nebraska

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