This is a list of notable people who attended, or taught at, the

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Notable alumni

Nobel laureates

John Bardeen John Bardeen (; May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and engineer. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the tra ...

, B.S. 1928 and M.S. 1929, only two-time recipient of the

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in 1956 and 1972 *

Saul Bellow Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; 10 July 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-born American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only w ...

, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976 *

Günter Blobel Günter Blobel (; May 21, 1936 – February 18, 2018) was a Silesian German and American biologist and 1999 Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in ...

, Ph.D. 1967, recipient of the

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in 1999 *

Paul D. Boyer Paul Delos Boyer (July 31, 1918 – June 2, 2018) was an American biochemist, analytical chemist, and a professor of chemistry at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research on the "enzy ...

, M.S. 1941, Ph.D. 1943, recipient of the

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in 1997 * William C. Campbell, M.S. 1953, Ph.D. 1957, recipient of the

in 2015 *

Herbert Spencer Gasser Herbert Spencer Gasser (July 5, 1888 – May 11, 1963) was an American physiologist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1944 for his work with action potentials in nerve fibers while on the faculty of Washington Univ ...

, A.B. 1910, A.M. 1911, recipient of the

in 1944 *

Alan G. MacDiarmid Alan Graham MacDiarmid, ONZ FRS (14 April 1927 – 7 February 2007) was a New Zealand-born American chemist, and one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000. Early life and education MacDiarmid was born in Masterton, N ...

, M.S. 1952, Ph.D. 1953, recipient of the

in 2000 *

Stanford Moore Stanford Moore (September 4, 1913 – August 23, 1982) was an American biochemist. He shared a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972, with Christian B. Anfinsen and William Howard Stein, for work done at Rockefeller University on the structure of ...

, Ph.D. 1938, recipient of the

in 1972 *

Erwin Neher Erwin Neher (; ; born 20 March 1944) is a German biophysicist, specializing in the field of cell physiology. For significant contribution in the field, in 1991 he was awarded, along with Bert Sakmann, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine fo ...

, M.S. 1967, recipient of the

in 1991 *

Theodore Schultz Theodore William Schultz (; 30 April 1902 – 26 February 1998) was an American Agricultural economist and chairman of the University of Chicago Department of Economics. Schultz rose to national prominence after winning the 1979 Nobel Memorial ...

, M.S. 1928, Ph.D. 1930, recipient of the

Nobel Prize in Economics The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel ( sv, Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is an economics award administered ...

in 1979 * George Smith, postdoctoral fellow, recipient of the

in 2018 *

Edward Lawrie Tatum Edward Lawrie Tatum (December 14, 1909 – November 5, 1975) was an American geneticist. He shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958 with George Beadle for showing that genes control individual steps in metabolism. The ...

, B.A. 1931, M.S. 1932, Ph.D. 1935, recipient of the

in 1958 * John H. Van Vleck, A.B. 1920, recipient of the

in 1977 Har Gobind Khorana, 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for describing the genetic code and how it operates in protein synthesis

Athletics

Academics

Arts and entertainment

Virgil Abloh Virgil Abloh (; September 30, 1980 – November 28, 2021) was an American fashion designer and entrepreneur. He was the artistic director of Louis Vuitton's menswear collection beginning in 2018, and was given increased creative responsibilitie ...

, fashion designer,

artistic director An artistic director is the executive of an arts organization, particularly in a theatre or dance company, who handles the organization's artistic direction. They are generally a producer and director, but not in the sense of a mogul, since th ...

Louis Vuitton Louis Vuitton Malletier, commonly known as Louis Vuitton (, ), is a French high-end Luxury goods, luxury fashion house and company founded in 1854 by Louis Vuitton (designer), Louis Vuitton. The label's LV monogram appears on most of its produc ...

's men's wear collection *

Don Ameche Don Ameche (; born Dominic Felix Amici; May 31, 1908 – December 6, 1993) was an American actor, comedian and vaudevillian. After playing in college shows, stock, and vaudeville, he became a major radio star in the early 1930s, which ...

Academy Award The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment ind ...

-winning actor *

Joseph Anthony Joseph Anthony (born Joseph Deuster; May 24, 1912 – January 20, 1993) was an American playwright, actor, and director. He made his film acting debut in the 1934 film ''Hat, Coat, and Glove'' and his theatrical acting debut in a 1935 producti ...

, playwright, actor, and director * Iris Apfel, interior designer, and fashion icon. * William Bast, screenwriter * Adrian "Wildman" Cenni, professional driver and stuntman *

Gary Beecham Gary Beecham is a studio glass artist of North Carolina. Education, work Beecham's attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science in Art in 1979. He worked for a year in 1978 at the J. & L. Lobmey ...

, glass artist * James Benning *

Andrew Bergman Andrew Bergman (born February 20, 1945) is an American screenwriter, film director, and novelist. His best-known films include ''Blazing Saddles'', '' The In-Laws'', '' The Freshman'' and '' Striptease''. Early life Born to a Jewish family, Ber ...

, film writer, director, and producer * Rick Berman, television/movie producer * Chester Biscardi, composer * Keith D. Black, screenwriter *

Jerry Bock Jerrold Lewis Bock (November 23, 1928November 3, 2010) was an American musical theater composer. He received the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama with Sheldon Harnick for their 1959 musical ''Fiorello!'' and the To ...

, composer *

Karen Borca Karen Borca (born September 5, 1948 in Green Bay, Wisconsin) is an American avant-garde jazz and free jazz bassoonist. Early life and education Borca studied music at the University of Wisconsin with John Barrows and Arthur Weisberg, graduati ...

, musician * Kate Borcherding, artist * Pat Brady, cartoonist, creator of '' Rose Is Rose'' *

Tamara Braun Tamara Braun (born April 18, 1971) is an American actress known for her work on daytime television. She portrayed the role of Carly Corinthos on '' General Hospital'' from 2001–2005 and Reese Williams on ''All My Children'' from 2008 to 2009. ...

, actress * Marshall Brickman, screenwriter *

Gary Hugh Brown Gary Hugh Brown (born 1941) is an American artist, painter, draftsman, and professor emeritus of art at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Brown has a drawing in the collection of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. He has exhibited his ...

, artist *

Oscar Brown Oscar Brown Jr. (October 10, 1926May 29, 2005) was an American singer, songwriter, playwright, poet, civil rights activist, and actor. Aside from his career, Brown ran unsuccessfully for office in both the Illinois state legislature and the U. ...

, musician * Johnny Burke, lyricist *

Macdonald Carey Edward Macdonald Carey (March 15, 1913 – March 21, 1994) was an American actor, best known for his role as the patriarch Dr. Tom Horton on NBC's soap opera ''Days of Our Lives''. For almost three decades, he was the show's central cast member. ...

, actor *

Gina Cerminara Gina Cerminara (April 11, 1914 – April 1984) was an American author in the fields of parapsychology, spirituality and reincarnation. She was born in Milwaukee and received BA, MA, and Ph.D. degrees in psychology from the University of Wisconsin� ...

, author * Jeff Cesario, comedian and writer * Ann Fox Chandonnet, poet * Alison Chernick, filmmaker *

Dale Chihuly Dale Chihuly () (born September 20, 1941) is an American glass artist and entrepreneur. He is best known in the field of blown glass, "moving it into the realm of large-scale sculpture". Early life Dale Patrick Chihuly was born on September 20 ...

, glass artist *

Robert Clarke Robert Irby Clarke (June 1, 1920 – June 11, 2005) was an American actor best known for his cult classic science fiction films of the 1950s. Early life Clarke was born and raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He decided at an early age that h ...

, actor *

Alf Clausen Alf Heiberg Clausen (born March 28, 1941) is an American film and television composer. He is best known for his work scoring many episodes of ''The Simpsons'', for which he was the sole composer between 1990 and 2017. Clausen has scored or or ...

, film composer * Hunter Cole, artist * Carrie Coon, actress *

Joan Cusack Joan Mary Cusack (; born October 11, 1962) is an American actress. She received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in the comedy-drama '' Working Girl'' (1988) and the romantic comedy '' In & Out'' (1997 ...

, actress * Rich Dahm, co-executive producer and head writer of ''

The Colbert Report ''The Colbert Report'' ( ) is an American late-night talk and news satire television program hosted by Stephen Colbert that aired four days a week on Comedy Central from October 17, 2005, to December 18, 2014, for 1,447 episodes. The show fo ...

'' *

Richard Dauenhauer Richard Dauenhauer (April 10, 1942 – August 19, 2014) was an American poet, linguist, and translator who married into, and subsequently became an expert on, the Tlingit nation of southeastern Alaska. He was married to the Tlingit poet and schol ...

, poet * Richard Davis, jazz-bassist, recording artist, professor/educator at University of Wisconsin-Madison *

André DeShields André — sometimes transliterated as Andre — is the French and Portuguese form of the name Andrew, and is now also used in the English-speaking world. It used in France, Quebec, Canada and other French-speaking countries. It is a variati ...

, Emmy Award-winning actor/singer/dancer/choreographer * Chip Dunham, cartoonist * Susan Dynner, film director, producer *

Lois Ehlert Lois Jane Ehlert (November 9, 1934 – May 25, 2021) was an American author and illustrator of children's books, most having to do with nature. Ehlert won the Caldecott Honor for ''Color Zoo'' in 1990. Some of her other popular works included '' ...

, illustrator,

Caldecott Medal The Randolph Caldecott Medal, frequently shortened to just the Caldecott, annually recognizes the preceding year's "most distinguished American picture book for children". It is awarded to the illustrator by the Association for Library Servic ...

recipient *

Dean Elliott William Lorenzo Bunt (May 11, 1917 – December 31, 1999), known professionally as Dean Elliott, was an American television and film composer. Career Elliott was born William Lorenzo Bunt on May 11, 1917 in Sioux City, Iowa to George Leroy Bunt ...

, film composer *

Joe Feddersen Joe Feddersen (born 1953) is a Colville sculptor, painter, photographer and mixed-media artist. He is known for creating artworks strong in geometric patterns reflective of what is seen in the environment, landscape and his Native American herita ...

, artist *

David Fishelson David J. Fishelson (born July 24, 1956) is an American producer, playwright, and director for film, theatre, television and radio, based in Manhattan since 1982. He is best known for being the lead producer of ''Golda's Balcony'', the longest-ru ...

, Broadway producer, playwright, filmmaker *

Honor Ford-Smith Honor Maria Ford-Smith (born 1951 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Jamaican actress, playwright, scholar, and poet. The daughter of a brown Jamaican mother and an English father, Ford-Smith is sometimes described as "Jamaica white," signalling a person ...

, actress *

Jason Gerhardt Jason Gerhardt (born April 21, 1974) is an American actor. He is known for playing the role of Cooper Barrett in ''General Hospital ''General Hospital'' (often abbreviated as ''GH'') is an American daytime television soap opera. It is lis ...

, actor * Glenn Gissler, interior designer * Jill Godmilow, filmmaker * Roger Goeb, composer * Bert I. Gordon, film director *

Stuart Gordon Stuart Alan Gordon (August 11, 1947 – March 24, 2020) was an American filmmaker, theatre director, screenwriter, and playwright. Initially recognized for his provocative and frequently controversial work in experimental theatre, Gordon is ...

, stage and film director * Evan Gruzis, painter * MK Guth, artist * Daron Hagen, composer, conductor, pianist *

Uta Hagen Uta Thyra Hagen (12 June 1919 – 14 January 2004) was a German-American actress and theatre practitioner. She originated the role of Martha in the 1962 Broadway premiere of ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' by Edward Albee, who called her "a ...

, actress, recipient of the

National Medal of Arts The National Medal of Arts is an award and title created by the United States Congress in 1984, for the purpose of honoring artists and patrons of the arts. A prestigious American honor, it is the highest honor given to artists and arts patrons ...

Tom Hall Tom Hall is an American game designer best known for his work with id Software on titles such as '' Doom'' and ''Commander Keen''. Career Hall attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he earned a B.S. in Computer Science. In 1987 ...

, game designer *

Yung Gravy Matthew Raymond Hauri (born March 19, 1996), known professionally as Yung Gravy, is an American rapper. He first gained recognition in 2017, when his song "Mr. Clean" gained traction on SoundCloud, and is now RIAA certified Platinum. Since 201 ...

(Matthew Hauri), rapper *

Charlie Hill Charles Allan Hill (July 6, 1951 – December 30, 2013) was one of the first Native American stand-up comedians, to appear on major television shows such as the Richard Pryor Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Show with David Lette ...

, television writer *

Anna Halprin Anna Halprin (born Hannah Dorothy Schuman; July 13, 1920 – May 24, 2021) was an American choreographer and dancer. She helped redefine dance in postwar America and pioneer the experimental art form known as postmodern dance and referred to hers ...

, pioneer of postmodern dance * Timothy Hasenstein, painter and sculptor *

Sorrel Hays Sorrel Hays (August 6, 1941 – February 9, 2020) was an American pianist, composer and artist. Life Hays was born Doris Ernestine Hays was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and in 1985 adopted her grandmother's family name of Sorrel. She studied music ...

, pianist *

Sam Herman Sam Herman was contemporary glass artist, sculptor and painter. One of Harvey Littleton's first students, Herman is credited as one of the founders of the Studio Glass movement in Great Britain. He was seminal in spreading the idea of the movemen ...

, glass artist * F. Scott Hess, painter and conceptual artist *

Lee Hoiby Lee Henry Hoiby (February 17, 1926 – March 28, 2011) was an American composer and classical pianist. Best known as a composer of operas and songs, he was a disciple of composer Gian Carlo Menotti. Like Menotti, his works championed lyricism at a ...

, composer * Gwendolyn Holbrow, sculptor *

Anders Holm Anders Christian Holm (born May 29, 1981) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He is one of the stars and creators of the Comedy Central show '' Workaholics'' and starred in the short-lived NBC series ''Champions''. He, along wi ...

, actor, writer, producer for ''

Workaholics ''Workaholics'' is an American sitcom created and predominantly written by Blake Anderson, Adam DeVine, Anders Holm, and Kyle Newacheck, all of whom star in the series. ''Workaholics'' originally ran on Comedy Central from April 6, 2011, to Ma ...

'' *

Lawrence Holofcener Lawrence Holofcener (February 23, 1926 – March 4, 2017) was an American-British sculptor, poet, lyricist, playwright, novelist, actor and director. He held British and American dual citizenship. Early life Holofcener was born in Baltimore, Ma ...

, sculptor * Adam Horowitz, television writer *

Jane Kaczmarek Jane Frances Kaczmarek (; born December 21, 1955) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Malcolm's mother Lois on the Fox television sitcom '' Malcolm in the Middle'' (2000–2006), which earned her three Golden Globe nominat ...

, actress *

Kelly Kahl Kelly Kahl (born October 20, 1966) is an American television executive and film producer. He currently serves as the President of CBS Entertainment. Early life and education Kelly Kahl was born in Burlington, Wisconsin to Ronald and Barbara ...

, television executive * Irene Kampen, author *

Ben Karlin Ben Karlin (born c. 1971) is an American television producer and writer. He has won eight Emmy awards, and is best known for his work in ''The Daily Show with Jon Stewart'' and ''The Colbert Report''. He is one of three co-creators of ''The Colbe ...

Emmy Award The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the calendar year, each with the ...

-winning television producer * Catherine Ransom Karoly, flutist * Carol Kolb, author, television writer * Craig A. Kraft, sculptor * Karl Kroeger, composer * Myron W. Krueger, computer artist * Kay Kurt, painter *

Rocco Landesman Rocco Landesman (born July 20, 1947) is a long-time Broadway theatre producer. He served as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts from August 2009 to December 2012. He is a part owner of Jujamcyn Theaters. Early life Landesman was bor ...

, producer *

Steven Levitan Steven E. Levitan (born April 6, 1962) is an American television producer, director, and screenwriter. He has created such television series as ''Just Shoot Me!'', '' Stark Raving Mad'', ''Stacked'', '' Back to You'', ''Modern Family'', and ''R ...

, television writer, director, and producer * Marvin Lipofsky, glass artist * Joseph Lulloff, musician * C. Cameron Macauley, photographer *

Michael Mann Michael Kenneth Mann (born February 5, 1943) is an American director, screenwriter, and producer of film and television who is best known for his distinctive style of crime drama. His most acclaimed works include the films '' Thief'' (1981) ...

, movie director/producer *

Fredric March Fredric March (born Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel; August 31, 1897 – April 14, 1975) was an American actor, regarded as one of Hollywood's most celebrated, versatile stars of the 1930s and 1940s.Obituary '' Variety'', April 16, 1975, ...

, actor *

Steve Marmel Steven L. Marmel (born December 17, 1964) is an American television writer, producer, and stand-up comedian who has worked on many animated television series, including ''The Fairly OddParents'', ''I Am Weasel'', '' Danny Phantom'', '' Family G ...

, comedian, writer, '' Fairly Odd Parents'' * Karen Thuesen Massaro, ceramicist * Pat McCurdy, singer-songwriter *

John O. Merrill John Ogden Merrill (10 August 1896 – 13 June 1975) was an American architect and structural engineer. He was chiefly responsible for the design During World War I, he served as a captain in the coastal artillery. When released from the mi ...

, architect * Steve Miller, musician,

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (RRHOF), sometimes simply referred to as the Rock Hall, is a museum and hall of fame located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States, on the shore of Lake Erie. The museum documents the history of rock music and ...

inductee * Kui Min *

Walter Mirisch Walter Mortimer Mirisch (born November 8, 1921) is an American film producer. He is president and executive head of production of The Mirisch Corporation, an independent film production company, which he formed in 1957 with his brother Marvin ...

-winning film producer * Paul Monash, former screenwriter and producer *

Jemeel Moondoc Jemeel Moondoc (August 5, 1946 – August 29, 2021) was a jazz saxophonist who played alto saxophone. He was a proponent of a highly improvisational style. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and studied clarinet and piano before s ...

, musician *

Agnes Moorehead Agnes Robertson Moorehead (December 6, 1900April 30, 1974) was an American actress. In a career spanning four decades, her credits included work in radio, stage, film, and television.Obituary ''Variety'', May 8, 1974, page 286. Moorehead was th ...

, actress *

Errol Morris Errol Mark Morris (born February 5, 1948) is an American film director known for documentaries that interrogate the epistemology of its subjects. In 2003, his documentary film '' The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNama ...

-winning director * Kevin Murphy, writer, actor, and puppeteer for ''

Mystery Science Theater 3000 ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' (abbreviated as ''MST3K'') is an American science fiction comedy film review television series created by Joel Hodgson. The show premiered on WUCW, KTMA-TV (now WUCW) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 24, 1 ...

'' * Michael Derrington Murphy, chemist and musician *

Zola Jesus Nika Roza Danilova (born Nicole Rose Hummel; April 11, 1989), known professionally by her stage name Zola Jesus, is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Her music has been noted for combining elements of electronic, industrial, ...

, born Nika Roza Danilova, singer/songwriter Frank Lloyd Wright portrait

Floyd Naramore Floyd Archibald Naramore (July 21, 1879 in Warren, Illinois – October 29, 1970 in Seattle) was a Seattle architect. He was Seattle Schools Architect from 1919 to 1932, and he was a founding partner, in 1943, of the firm that today is known ...

, architect *

Bruce Nauman Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941) is an American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance. Nauman lives near Galisteo, New Mexico. Life and work ...

, glass artist * Ken Navarro, jazz guitarist * Jennifer Nehrbass, artist *

Aaron Ohlmann Aaron Ohlmann is an American filmmaker best known for his work for Netflix and Vice A vice is a practice, behaviour, or habit generally considered immoral, sinful, criminal, rude, taboo, depraved, degrading, deviant or perverted in the assoc ...

, editor, producer, and documentarian *

Tricia O'Kelley Patricia Beth O'Kelley (born September 26, 1968) is an American actress and producer, best recognized as Marly Ehrhardt on the CBS sitcom ''The New Adventures of Old Christine'' (2006–10). She may also be known for her recurring role as Nicole ...

, actress * Lance Olsen, writer and author * Irna Phillips, actress; soap opera writer and script editor *

Meinhardt Raabe Meinhardt Frank Raabe (; September 2, 1915 – April 9, 2010) was an American actor. He was one of the last surviving Munchkin-actors in '' The Wizard of Oz'', and was also the last surviving cast member with any dialogue in the film. He po ...

, Munchkin in the ''Wizard of Oz'' * Nathan Rabin, film critic * Som Ranchan, poet * Rita Mae Reese, poet and publisher *

Rosetta Reitz Rosetta Reitz (September 28, 1924 – November 1, 2008) was an American feminist and jazz historian who searched for and established a record label producing 18 albums of the music of the early women of jazz and the blues.Martin, Douglas"Rosetta ...

, jazz historian * Mary T. Reynolds, writer * Mark Rosenberg, film producer *

Tom Rosenberg Tom B. Rosenberg (1947/1948) is an American film producer, co-founder of Beacon Pictures; and founder and chairman of Lakeshore Entertainment. He is a recipient of the 2004 Academy Award for Best Picture for the film ''Million Dollar Baby''. B ...

-winning film producer * Brad Rowe, actor * Gena Rowlands, actress *

Boz Scaggs William Royce "Boz" Scaggs (born June 8, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. An early bandmate of Steve Miller in The Ardells and the Steve Miller Band, he began his solo career in 1969, though he lacked a major hit until ...

(Wm. Royce Scaggs), musician *

Ira Schneider Ira Schneider (1939 – August 17, 2022)Happe, Uli (2004). Ira Schneider: If Something Interested Me I Filmed It'. YouTube. was an American video artist. He has been living and working in Berlin since 1993 until his return to the US in 2021. __TOC ...

, video artist * Jana Schneider, actress and journalist * Jon Schueler, artist * Michael Schultz, filmmaker and television director *

Delmore Schwartz Delmore Schwartz (December 8, 1913 – July 11, 1966) was an American poet and short story writer. Early life Schwartz was born in 1913 in Brooklyn, New York, where he also grew up. His parents, Harry and Rose, both Romanian Jews, separated when ...

, poet *

Seann William Scott Seann William Scott (born October 3, 1976) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Steve Stifler in the '' American Pie'' franchise, and also for his role as Doug Glatt in both '' Goon'' and '' Goon: Last of the Enforcers''. He has al ...

, actor *

Barolong Seboni Barolong Seboni (born 27 April 1957) is a poet and academic from Botswana. Biography Born in Kanye, Botswana, he received his BA from the University of Botswana and his master's degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has translat ...

, poet *

Brittany Shane Brittany Shane is an American singer-songwriter and musician based in Austin, Texas. The Wisconsin-born and raised songstress blends rock and pop with poetry. She got her start performing at The Fillmore in San Francisco, California in 2000, pl ...

, singer and songwriter * Tom Shannon *

Ben Sidran Ben Hirsh Sidran (born August 14, 1943) is an American jazz and rock keyboardist, producer, label owner, and music writer. Early in his career he was a member of the Steve Miller Band and is the father of Grammy-nominated musician, composer an ...

, jazz pianist *

Tormod Skagestad Tormod Skagestad (9 August 1920 – 4 January 1997) was a Norwegian poet, novelist, playwright, actor and theatre director. Biography Tormod Skagestad was born in Krødsherad, Buskerud county, Norway. Skagestad grew up in a rich cultural enviro ...

, director of

Det Norske Teatret Det Norske Teatret ( en, Norwegian Theater)Moe, Jens. 2011. ''My America: The Culture of Giving''. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, p. 133. is a theatre in Oslo. The theatre was founded in 1912, after an initiative from Hulda Garborg and Edvard Drabl� ...

* Joe Silver,

Tony Award The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual c ...

nominated actor of stage and screen *

Bently Spang Bently Spang (born 1960) is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, writer, curator and an enrolled member of the Tsitsistas/Suhtai Nation (a.k.a. Northern Cheyenne) in Montana. His work has been exhibited widely in North America, South America, an ...

, multidisciplinary artist * Lev L. Spiro, television director * Brian Stack, Emmy Award-winning writer and comic * Josh Stamberg, actor * Leon C. Standifer, horticulturist, novelist, and writer * Robert Stone *

Herbert Stothart Herbert Pope Stothart (September 11, 1885February 1, 1949) was an American songwriter, arranger, conductor, and composer. He was also nominated for twelve Academy Awards, winning Best Original Score for '' The Wizard of Oz''. Stothart was widel ...

, film composer * Richard Steven Street, photographer * Sun Yu, film director *

David Susskind David Howard Susskind (December 19, 1920 – February 22, 1987) was an American producer of TV, movies, and stage plays and also a TV talk show host. His talk shows were innovative in the genre and addressed timely, controversial topics beyond th ...

, producer of film and television *

John Szarkowski Thaddeus John Szarkowski (December 18, 1925 – July 7, 2007) was an American photographer, curator, historian, and critic. From 1962 to 1991 Szarkowski was the director of photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Early life and ca ...

, curator and photographer * Daniel J. Travanti,

-winning actor *

Charlie Trotter Charles Trotter (September 8, 1959 – November 5, 2013) was an American chef and restaurateur A restaurateur is a person who opens and runs restaurants professionally. Although over time the term has come to describe any person who owns a ...

, chef, PBS host * Neal Ulevich, photographer *

James Valcq James Valcq (born 1963 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American musical theatre composer, lyricist, and librettist, as well as an actor and arts administrator. He contributed to various theatrical works. Education Valcq holds a BFA from the ...

, composer * Michael Velliquette, artist *

Butch Vig Bryan David "Butch" Vig (born August 2, 1955) is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, best known as the drummer and co-producer of the alternative rock band Garbage and the producer of the diamond-selling Nirvana album '' Nev ...

, musician,

Garbage Garbage, trash, rubbish, or refuse is waste material that is discarded by humans, usually due to a perceived lack of utility. The term generally does not encompass bodily waste products, purely liquid or gaseous wastes, or toxic waste produ ...

* Eric Villency, interior designer *

William Walton Sir William Turner Walton (29 March 19028 March 1983) was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera. His best-known works include ''Façade'', the cantat ...

, painter, government official * Sylvia Solochek Walters, artist, printmaker and educator *

Marc Webb Marc Preston Webb (born August 31, 1974) is an American music video director and filmmaker. Webb made his feature film directorial debut in 2009 with the romantic comedy '' 500 Days of Summer'', and went on to direct ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' ...

, film, television, and music video director * Matt White, singer-songwriter * Nancy Metz White, sculptor *

John Wilde John Wilde (December 12, 1919 – March 9, 2006, pronounced "WILL-dee") was a painter, draughtsman and printmaker of fantastic imagery. Born near Milwaukee, Wilde lived most of his life in Wisconsin, save for service in the U.S. Army during Wor ...

, painter *

Allee Willis Alta Sherral "Allee" Willis (November 10, 1947 – December 24, 2019) was an American songwriter, multi-media artist, collector, and art director. Willis co-wrote hit songs including " September" and "Boogie Wonderland" by Earth, Wind & Fire. She ...

, songwriter *

Tom Wopat Thomas Steven Wopat (born September 9, 1951) is an American actor and singer. He first achieved fame as Lucas K. "Luke" Duke on the long-running television action/comedy series ''The Dukes of Hazzard''. Since then, Wopat has worked regularly, ...

, actor/musician *

Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key role in the architectural movements o ...

(attended), architect * Frank Wu, science-fiction artist * Jorge Zamacona, television writer and producer * Marilyn J Ziffrin, composer * Glen Zipper, film producer *

Charlotte Zucker Charlotte Ann Zucker (née Lefstein; March 10, 1921 – September 5, 2007) was an American actress. She was the mother of filmmakers David and Jerry Zucker, and appeared in many of their films. Early life and education Zucker was born on Marc ...

, actress * David Zucker, movie director/producer * Jerry Zucker, movie director/producer

Aviators and astronauts

Laurel Clark, NASA photo portrait in blue suit

* Laurel Clark, astronaut * Roger G. DeKok, astronaut * Fred E. Gutt, aviator * Marcella Hayes, first African American woman pilot in the U.S. Armed Forces * Walter Edwin Lees, aviator *

Charles Lindbergh Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist. On May 20–21, 1927, Lindbergh made the first nonstop flight from New York City to Paris, a distance o ...

, aviator (did not graduate) * Nathan J. Lindsay, astronaut *

Jim Lovell James Arthur Lovell Jr. (; born March 25, 1928) is an American retired astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot and mechanical engineer. In 1968, as command module pilot of Apollo 8, he became, with Frank Borman and William Anders, one of th ...

, astronaut,

Apollo 13 Apollo 13 (April 1117, 1970) was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and the third meant to land on the Moon. The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, but the lunar landing was aborted aft ...

mission * Robert Campbell Reeve, founder of

Reeve Aleutian Airways Reeve Aleutian Airways was an airline headquartered in Anchorage, Alaska, United States. It ceased operations on December 5, 2000. History Founding In February 1946, Bob Reeve received a call informing him that some ex USAAF C-47s and Douglas ...

* Richard V. Rhode, aeronautical engineer, NACA and

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeedin ...

; awarded

Wright Brothers Medal The Wright Brothers Medal was conceived of in 1924 by the Dayton Section of the Society of Automotive Engineers, and the SAE established it in 1927 to recognize individuals who have made notable contributions in the engineering, design, developmen ...

in 1937 * Brewster Shaw, astronaut, former director, Space Shuttle Operations,

Business

* Carol Bartz, former CEO of

Yahoo! Yahoo! (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and operated by the namesake company Yahoo Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Mana ...

, former chairman of the board, president, and CEO of Autodesk, Inc. *

Randall Boe Randall Boe (born 1962) is the former General Counsel for AOL and has been involved in many notable cases regarding internet law. He was named the commissioner of the Arena Football League in March 2018. He was born in Ohio and grew up in Iowa Ci ...

, general counsel for

AOL AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City. It is a brand marketed by the current incarnation of Yahoo! Inc. ...

Jerome Chazen Jerome A. Chazen (March 21, 1927 – February 6, 2022) was an American businessman who was the founder and chairman of Chazen Capital Partners. He was also one of four and last surviving founders of Liz Claiborne. Early life and career Chazen w ...

, co-founder of

Liz Claiborne Anne Elisabeth Jane Claiborne (March 31, 1929 – June 26, 2007) was an American fashion designer and businesswoman. Her success was built upon stylish yet affordable apparel for career women featuring colorfully tailored separates that co ...

* Chow Chung-Kong, CEO of

MTR Corporation MTR Corporation Limited is a majority government-owned public transport operator and property developer in Hong Kong which operates the Mass Transit Railway, the most popular public transport network in Hong Kong. It is listed on the Hon ...

* M. J. Cleary, insurance executive * Michael J. Critelli, executive chairman of

Pitney Bowes Pitney Bowes Inc. is an American technology company most known for its postage meters and other mailing equipment and services, and with expansions into e-commerce, software, and other technologies. The company was founded by Arthur Pitney, who ...

* William H. Davidson, former president of

Harley-Davidson Harley-Davidson, Inc. (H-D, or simply Harley) is an American motorcycle manufacturer headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1903, it is one of two major American motorcycle manufacturers to survive the Great Depre ...

Willie G. Davidson William Godfrey "Willie G." Davidson (born 1933) is an American businessman and motorcycle designer, and the former senior vice president & chief styling officer of Harley-Davidson Motor Company. He was also the head of Harley-Davidson's Willie ...

, former vice president,

* Thomas J. Falk, CEO of Kimberly Clark * Judith R. Faulkner, CEO and founder of

Epic Systems Epic Systems Corporation, or Epic, is an American privately held healthcare software company. According to the company, hospitals that use its software held medical records of 78% of patients in the United States and over 3% of patients worldwi ...

* Donald Goerke,

Campbell Soup Company Campbell Soup Company, trade name, doing business as Campbell's, is an American processed food and snack company. The company is most closely associated with its flagship canned soup products; however, through mergers and acquisitions, it has gro ...

executive, inventor of SpaghettiOs * William S. Harley, founder of

Charles Walter Hart Charles Walter Hart (July 6, 1872 — March 14, 1937) was an American mechanical engineer, inventor, and businessman. Together with Charles Henry Parr, he founded a company that produced a commercially successful line of gasoline-powered tractors. ...

, founder of

Hart-Parr Gasoline Engine Company The Oliver Farm Equipment Company was an American farm equipment manufacturer from the 20th century. It was formed as a result of a 1929 merger of four companies: the American Seeding Machine Company of Richmond, Indiana; Oliver Chilled Plow Wo ...

, coined the word "

tractor A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort (or torque) at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery such as that used in agriculture, mining or construction. Most commo ...

" * Harvey V. Higley, president of Ansul * Colin Huang, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of

Pinduoduo Pinduoduo Inc. (; Pinyin: Pīn duōduō) is a subsidiary of PDD Holdings. It leverages technology to promote and enable the traditional agriculture industry. It has created a platform that connects farmers with consumers directly. In 2021, 16 ...

*Lawrence R. Kaplan, president and CEO of SDVI *

David J. Lesar David John Lesar (born May 30, 1953) is an American businessman who is the former chair of Halliburton, Halliburton Energy Services. He was the CEO of Halliburton for 17 years from 2000 to 2017. Trained as a Certified Public Accountant, Lesar sp ...

, chairman, president and CEO of Halliburton Energy Services *

Kevin Mather Kevin Mather is an American former professional baseball executive and accountant. He is a minority owner of the Seattle Mariners, which he served as the president of from 2014 until 2021. Early life and career Mather grew up in Madison, Wiscons ...

, baseball executive *

Larry McVoy Larry McVoy (born 1962 in Concord, Massachusetts, United States) is the CEO of BitMover, the company that makes BitKeeper, a version control system that was used from February 2002 to early 2005 to manage the source code of the Linux kernel. ...

, CEO,

Bitmover BitKeeper is a software tool for distributed revision control of computer source code. Originally developed as proprietary software by BitMover Inc., a privately held company based in Los Gatos, California, it was released as open-source software ...

T. J. Moran T is the twentieth letter of the Latin alphabet. (For the same letterform in the Cyrillic and Greek alphabets, see Te and Tau respectively). T may also refer to: Codes and units * T, Tera- as in one trillion * T, the symbol for "True" in lo ...

, businessman, restaurateur, and philanthropist in

Baton Rouge Baton Rouge ( ; ) is a city in and the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana. Located the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, it is the parish seat of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana's most populous parish—the equivalent of counti ...

; once wrote a $1 million check to the University of Wisconsin * John P. Morgridge, chairman of the board, former president and CEO of

Cisco Systems Cisco Systems, Inc., commonly known as Cisco, is an American-based multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, ...

, philanthropist * William Beverly Murphy, former president and CEO,

Keith Nosbusch Keith Nosbusch was the chairman and CEO of Rockwell Automation Inc., one of the world largest industrial automation companies. He was appointed the company's CEO in 2004 and chairman in 2005. Before that, he worked as senior vice president and pre ...

, CEO, Rockwell Automation * Richard Notebaert, former chairman and CEO of

Qwest Qwest Communications International, Inc. was a United States telecommunications carrier. Qwest provided local service in 14 western and midwestern U.S. states: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dako ...

Tellabs Tellabs, Inc. is a global network technology provider that providing services to both private and governmental agencies. History Tellabs traces its roots to a meeting in 1974 over a kitchen table in suburban Chicago. According to company founder ...

and

Ameritech AT&T Teleholdings, Inc., formerly known as Ameritech Corporation (and before that American Information Technologies Corporation), is an American telecommunications company that arose out of the 1984 AT&T divestiture. Ameritech was one of the sev ...

* Lee R. Raymond, former chairman and CEO,

Exxon Mobil ExxonMobil Corporation (commonly shortened to Exxon) is an American multinational oil and gas corporation headquartered in Irving, Texas. It is the largest direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, and was formed on November 3 ...

Philip D. Reed Philip D. Reed (1899–1989) was president and chief executive officer of General Electric Company from 1940 to 1942 and from 1945 to 1959. Education and early career Reed was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He graduated from North Division High ...

, former president of GE *

Stephen S. Roach Stephen Samuel Roach (born September 16, 1945) is an American economist. He serves as senior fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, and a senior lecturer at the Yale School of Management. He was formerly chairman ...

, economist with

Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley is an American multinational investment management and financial services company headquartered at 1585 Broadway in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. With offices in more than 41 countries and more than 75,000 employees, the fir ...

* John Rowe, CEO of

Exelon Exelon Corporation is an American Fortune 100 energy company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois and incorporated in Pennsylvania. It generates revenues of approximately $33.5 billion and employs approximately 33,400 people. Exelon is the largest ...

* Kenneth L. Schroeder, CEO,

KLA-Tencor KLA Corporation is an American capital equipment company based in Milpitas, California. It supplies process control and yield management systems for the semiconductor industry and other related nanoelectronics industries. The company's products ...

Deven Sharma Deven Sharma (born 1956 in Jharkhand) is an Indian businessman. Biography Early life and education Sharma attended De Nobili School, FRI, Digwadih, Dhanbad. He received his Bachelor's Degree from Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, India, ...

, president of

Standard and Poor's S&P Global Ratings (previously Standard & Poor's and informally known as S&P) is an American credit rating agency (CRA) and a division of S&P Global that publishes financial research and analysis on stocks, bonds, and commodities. S&P is cons ...

* Jane Trahey, advertiser *

Reuben Trane Reuben or Reuven is a Biblical male first name from Hebrew רְאוּבֵן (Re'uven), meaning "behold, a son". In the Bible, Reuben was the firstborn son of Jacob. Variants include Rúben in European Portuguese; Rubens in Brazilian Portuguese ...

, president of

Trane Trane is a manufacturer of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, along with building management systems and controls. The company is a subsidiary of Trane Technologies, a company focused on manufacturing HVAC and refrigerat ...

* Patrick Waddick, president and COO of Cirrus Aircraft Corporation * Peter Booth Wiley, publisher * Elmer Winter (1912–2009), founder of

Manpower Inc. ManpowerGroup (formerly known as Manpower Inc.) is a Fortune 500 American multinational corporation headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Founded in 1948 by Elmer Winter and Aaron Scheinfeld, ManpowerGroup is the third-largest staffing firm in ...

Lewis Wolff Lewis N. Wolff (born December 13, 1935) is an American real estate developer. Wolff had been co-chairman of the Board of Sunstone Investors, Inc. from October 2004 to April 2014. Wolff owned sports franchises, serving currently as the co-owner of ...

, real estate developer and owner of the

Oakland Athletics The Oakland Athletics (often referred to as the A's) are an American professional baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) West division. The t ...

and

San Jose Earthquakes The San Jose Earthquakes are an American professional soccer team based in San Jose, California. The Earthquakes compete as a member club of the Western Conference of Major League Soccer (MLS). Originally as the San Jose Clash, the franchise ...

Zhu Yunlai Levin Zhu Yunlai (born 1957) is a Chinese businessman. He is the eldest son of Zhu Rongji, a former Premier of the People's Republic of China. In 1994, he graduated from the University of Wisconsin, studying atmospheric science. Zhu joined Chi ...

, CEO of

China International Capital Corp China International Capital Corporation Limited (CICC; 中国国际金融股份有限公司) is a Chinese partially state-owned multinational investment management and financial services company. Founded in China in 1995, CICC provides investment ...

Literature

* Nazik Al-Malaika, Iraqi poet *

Kevin J. Anderson Kevin James Anderson (born March 27, 1962) is an American science fiction author. He has written spin-off novels for ''Star Wars'', ''StarCraft'', '' Titan A.E.'' and ''The X-Files'', and with Brian Herbert is the co-author of the ''Dune'' pre ...

, author *

Nuala Archer Nuala Archer (born 1955) is an American poet of Irish descent, author of five books, most recently, ''Inch Aeons'' (Les Figues Press, 2006). Her first book, ''Whale on the Line,'' won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 1980. She has published p ...

, poet * Alice Elinor Bartlett, author *

Lynne Cheney Lynne Ann Cheney ( ; ; born August 14, 1941) is an American author, scholar, and former talk show host. She is married to the 46th vice president of the United States, Dick Cheney, and served as the second lady of the United States from 2001 to ...

, author, writer, and former

Second Lady of the United States The second gentleman or second lady of the United States (SGOTUS or SLOTUS respectively) is the informal title held by the spouse of the vice president of the United States, concurrent with the vice president's term of office. Coined in contrast ...

* Donald Clarke, author on music * Eleanor Clymer, children's author *

Betsy Colquitt Elizabeth "Betsy" Colquitt (1926 – 7 April 2009) was an American professor of English and a poet known for themes and poetic structures which reflect a modernist sensibility. She was born in Fort Worth, Texas, United States in 1926 and died ...

, poet *

Jane Cooper Jane Cooper (October 9, 1924 – October 26, 2007) was an American poet. Awards * Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters * Maurice English Poetry Award (1985) * Shelley Memorial Award (1977) * Bunting Institute of Rad ...

, poet *

August Derleth August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and th ...

, writer, editor, anthologist of H. P. Lovecraft, and founder of

Arkham House Arkham House is an American publishing house specializing in weird fiction. It was founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin, in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to publish hardcover collections of H. P. Lovecraft's best works, which had ...

publishing *

Esther Forbes Esther Louise Forbes (; June 28, 1891 – August 12, 1967) was an American novelist, historian and children's writer who received the Pulitzer Prize and the Newbery Medal. She was the first woman elected to membership in the American Antiquar ...

, author and

Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made ...

winner * Genevieve Foster, author * Zona Gale, author and playwright * Robert Greene *

Sam Greenlee Samuel Eldred Greenlee, Jr. (July 13, 1930 – May 19, 2014)Margaret Busby"Sam Greenlee obituary" ''The Guardian'', June 2, 2014. was an American writer of fiction and poetry. He is best known for his novel '' The Spook Who Sat by the Door'', firs ...

, author *

Horace Gregory Horace Gregory (April 10, 1898 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin – March 11, 1982 in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts) was a prize-winning American poet, translator of classic poetry, literary critic and college professor. He was awarded the Bollingen ...

, poet * Frederick Gutheim, author *

Emily Hahn Emily "Mickey" Hahn (, January 14, 1905 – February 18, 1997) was an American journalist and writer. Considered an early feminist and called "a forgotten American literary treasure" by ''The New Yorker'' magazine, she was the author of 54 books a ...

, author *

Lorraine Hansberry Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was a playwright and writer. She was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Her best-known work, the play ''A Raisin in the Sun'', highli ...

, author and playwright *

Eva Lund Haugen Eva Lund Haugen (February 4, 1907 – October 25, 1996) was an American writer, editor and translator. Biography Eva Lund was born at Kongsvinger in Hedmark, Norway. She was twelve years old when her journalist parents emigrated to the United Stat ...

, author * Michael Heiser, author and Biblical scholar * David Henige, author *

Kevin Henkes Kevin Henkes (born November 27, 1960) is an American writer and illustrator of children's books. As an illustrator he won the Caldecott Medal for '' Kitten's First Full Moon'' (2004). Two of his books were Newbery Medal Honor Books, '' Olive's Oc ...

, children's author * Conrad Hilberry, poet *

Hjalmar Holand Hjalmar Rued Holand (October 20, 1872 – August 6, 1963) was a Norwegian-American historian and author. He was the author of a number of books and articles principally dealing with the history of Door County, Wisconsin, of the Upper Midwest and ...

, author and historian *

bell hooks Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952December 15, 2021), better known by her pen name bell hooks, was an American author and social activist who was Distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College. She is best known for her writings on ...

, author, writer, and activist * Carolyn Hougan, writer *

Jim Hougan James Richard Hougan (born James Richard Edwards on October 14, 1942) "Hougan, Jim 1942–." In: ''Contemporary Authors Online: A Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pi ...

, writer * Jens Joneleit, composer * Lesley Kagen, author *

Jay Kennedy Jay Malcolm Kennedy (April 18, 1956 – March 15, 2007) was an American editor and writer. The author of ''The Official Underground and Newave Comix Price Guide'', he was a long-time editor at King Features Syndicate, eventually rising to the posi ...

, editor-in-chief of

King Features Syndicate King Features Syndicate, Inc. is a American content distribution and animation studio, consumer product licensing and print syndication company owned by Hearst Communications that distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editori ...

* Herbert Kubly, author and playwright *

Margery Latimer Margery Bodine Latimer (February 6, 1899 – August 16, 1932), born in Portage, Wisconsin, was an American writer, feminist theorist, and social activist. She moved to New York City before finishing college and became involved in its cultural life ...

, author and writer * Ann Lauterbach, poet * Flora E. Lowry (1879–1933), anthologist *

Gordon MacQuarrie Gordon MacQuarrie (July 3, 1900 – November 10, 1956) was an American writer and journalist. Born in Superior, Wisconsin, he is best known for his short stories involving hunting and fishing, and for his semi-fictional organization known as '' ...

, author, writer, and outdoorsman *

Honoré Willsie Morrow Honoré Willsie Morrow (, McCue; February 19, 1880 – April 12, 1940) was an American novelist and short story writer, as well as a magazine editor. Traveling to every state of the Union with her first husband, she used these experiences as backg ...

, author, magazine editor *

Lotte Motz Lotte Motz, born Lotte Edlis (August 16, 1922 – December 24, 1997) was an Austrian-American scholar, obtaining a Ph.D. in German and philology, who published four books and many scholarly papers, primarily in the fields of Germanic mythology a ...

, scholar of German mythology *

Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction. Her novels '' Bla ...

National Book Award The National Book Awards are a set of annual U.S. literary awards. At the final National Book Awards Ceremony every November, the National Book Foundation presents the National Book Awards and two lifetime achievement awards to authors. The Nat ...

-winning author and professor at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

* Ainehi Edoro, founder and editor of

Brittle Paper ''Brittle Paper'' is an online literary magazine styled as an "African literary blog" published weekly in the English language. Its focus is on "build(ing) a vibrant African literary scene." It was founded by Ainehi Edoro (at the time a doctoral ...

Ed Ochester Edwin Frank Ochester (born September 15, 1939 Brooklyn, New York) is an American poet and editor. He was educated at Cornell University, Harvard University, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Currently he is a core faculty member of th ...

, poet * Lance Olsen, author and writer * Sigurd F. Olson, author and naturalist *

Alicia Ostriker Alicia Suskin Ostriker (born November 11, 1937) is an American poet and scholar who writes Jewish feminist poetry.Powell C.S. (1994) ''Profile: Jeremiah and Alicia Ostriker – A Marriage of Science and Art'', Scientific American 271(3), 28-3 ...

, poet * Kenneth Patchen, poet * Gerald Peary, film critic * Robert Peters, poet, playwright, critic, and professor * Richard Quinney, author * Som Ranchan, scholar and author * Ellen Raskin, author *

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953)
accessed December 8, 2014. was an

-winning author *

Ella Giles Ruddy Ella Giles Ruddy (, Giles; February 2, 1851 – June 26, 1917) was an American author and editor. She published a large number of essays on social science topics. Ruddy was the author of ''Bachelor Ben'', ''Out From the Shadows'', ''Maiden Rachel' ...

(1851–1917), author, editor *

Sofia Samatar Sofia Samatar (born October 24, 1971) is an American poet, novelist and educator from Indiana. Early life Samatar was born in 1971 in northern Indiana, United States. Her father was the Somali scholar, historian and writer Said Sheikh Samatar ...

, professor, editor and writer *

Pamela Redmond Satran Pamela Redmond Satran (born April 10, 1953), now known as Pamela Redmond, is an American entrepreneur and author of fiction and nonfiction. Her novel ''Younger,'' published in 2005, is the basis for a TV series of the same name created by Dar ...

, entrepreneur and author *

Mark Schorer Mark Schorer (May 17, 1908 – August 11, 1977) was an American writer, critic, and scholar born in Sauk City, Wisconsin. Biography Schorer earned an MA at Harvard and his Ph.D. in English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1936. Durin ...

, writer, critic, and professor *

, poet and writer *

, poet *

Clifford D. Simak Clifford Donald Simak (; August 3, 1904 – April 25, 1988) was an American science fiction writer. He won three Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award. The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its third SFWA Grand Master, and the Horror Wr ...

, science fiction author *

, poet * Raymond J. Smith, literary critic *

John Snead John Snead is a freelance role-playing writer who lives in Portland, Oregon. He studied math and history (B.A.) and cultural anthropology (MA). He has been gaming since 1980 and became a full-time designer and writer of role-playing games in 1998. ...

, writer and role player * Midori Snyder, writer and author * David Stephenson, poet *

Peter Straub Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a su ...

, author, recipient of the

Bram Stoker Award The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented annually by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in dark fantasy and horror writing. History The Awards were established in 1987 and have been presented annually since ...

World Fantasy Award The World Fantasy Awards are a set of awards given each year for the best fantasy fiction published during the previous calendar year. Organized and overseen by the World Fantasy Convention, the awards are given each year at the eponymous ann ...

, and the

International Horror Guild Award The International Horror Guild Award (also known as the IHG Award) was an accolade recognizing excellence in the field of horror/dark fantasy, presented by the International Horror Guild (IHG) from 1995 to 2008. The IHG Awards were determined by ...

Mark Tatge Mark W. Tatge is an American journalist, author, and college professor. He was a senior editor at ''Forbes'' magazine's Midwest Bureau, a staff reporter at ''The Wall Street Journal'', an investigative reporter in the Statehouse Bureau of Clevel ...

, journalist *

Martha L. Poland Thurston Martha Poland Thurston (, Poland; May 12, 1849 - March 14, 1898) was a 19th-century American social leader, philanthropist, and writer. She was a great traveler and was also identified with charity. She served as vice-president of the Daughters of ...

, social leader, philanthropist, writer * Steve Tittle, Canadian composer *

Danielle Trussoni Danielle Anne Trussoni is a ''New York Times'', ''USA Today'', and ''Sunday Times'' Top 10 bestselling novelist. She has been a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction jurist, and writes the "Dark Matters" column for the ''New York Times Book Review''. She cr ...

, writer from

La Crosse La Crosse is a city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of La Crosse County. Positioned alongside the Mississippi River, La Crosse is the largest city on Wisconsin's western border. La Crosse's population as of the 2020 census ...

Francis Utley Francis Lee Utley (May 25, 1907 in Watertown, Wisconsin – March 8, 1974) was a folklorist, linguist, medievalist, scholar of onomastics and literature, educator, and author. Life and career Born and raised in Watertown, Wisconsin, Utley at ...

, folklorist and linguist *

, composer and writer *

Stanley G. Weinbaum Stanley Grauman Weinbaum (April 4, 1902 – December 14, 1935) was an American science fiction writer. His first story, "A Martian Odyssey", was published to great acclaim in July 1934; the alien Tweel was arguably the first character to satisf ...

, science fiction author * Jody Weiner, novelist, author, film producer * Patricia Wells, author *

Eudora Welty Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an American short story writer, novelist and photographer who wrote about the American South. Her novel '' The Optimist's Daughter'' won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty received numerou ...

, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist * Viola S. Wendt, poet * E.J. Westlake, playwright * Frank Wu, science fiction artist * Mark Wunderlich, poet *

Marya Zaturenska Marya Zaturenska (September 12, 1902 – January 19, 1982) was an American lyric poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1938. Life She was born in Kyiv and her family emigrated to the United States, when she was eight and lived in ...

, poet

News, journalism, and broadcasting

* Roy Adams, Canadian journalist *

Lynsey Addario Lynsey Addario (born November 13, 1973) is an American photojournalist. Her work often focuses on conflicts and human rights issues, especially the role of women in traditional societies. In 2022, she received a Courage in Journalism Award from ...

, photojournalist * Mary Agria, journalist/author * Irene Osgood Andrews, former labor journalist * Jim Armstrong, sports writer, ''

The Denver Post ''The Denver Post'' is a daily newspaper and website published in Denver, Colorado. As of June 2022, it has an average print circulation of 57,265. In 2016, its website received roughly six million monthly unique visitors generating more than 13 ...

'' *

Robert L. Bartley Robert Leroy Bartley (October 12, 1937 – December 10, 2003) was the editor of the editorial page of ''The Wall Street Journal'' for more than 30 years. He won a Pulitzer Prize for opinion writing and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom fro ...

, former editor, ''

Wall Street Journal ''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...

'' * Ira Basen, producer,

CBC Radio CBC Radio is the English-language radio operations of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The CBC operates a number of radio networks serving different audiences and programming niches, all of which (regardless of language) are outlined belo ...

* Rod Beaton (1951–2011), sports journalist for USA Today * Lowell Bergman, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist *

Deborah Blum Deborah Blum (born October 19, 1954) is an American science journalist and the director of the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author *

Walt Bogdanich Walt Bogdanich (born October 10, 1950) is an American investigative journalist and three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. Life Bogdanich graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1975 with a degree in political science. He rec ...

, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author * Rita Braver, national reporter,

CBS News CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio service CBS. CBS News television programs include the '' CBS Evening News'', '' CBS Mornings'', news magazine programs '' CBS News Sunday Morning'', '' 60 Minutes'', and '' 4 ...

William Broad William J. Broad (born March 7, 1951) is an American science journalist, author and a Senior Writer at ''The New York Times''. Education Broad earned a master's degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1977.Jane Brody Jane Ellen Brody (born May 19, 1941) is an American journalist principally covering science and nutrition. She wrote for ''The New York Times'' as its weekly "Personal Health" columnist from 1976 to 2022. Her column was syndicated nationwide, and sh ...

, columnist, ''

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)'' and film historian * Chris Bury, correspondent, ''

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, journalist and author * Ethan Casey, journalist *

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, journalist *

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, White House Correspondent for Breakfast Media * Michael Feldman, host of Public Radio's '' Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?'' * Bob Franken, correspondent, CNN *

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, senior political correspondent, CBS * Ruth Gruber, author and journalist *

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, business journalist * Helen Holmes, journalist, historian, Women's Army Corps officer * David Hookstead, conservative sports commentator at

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-winning journalist * Don L. Johnson, journalist and author *

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Andy Katz Andrew D. Katz (born April 7, 1968) is a college basketball analyst for the Big Ten Network and a college basketball correspondent for the NCAA. He formerly worked as a senior college basketball journalist for ESPN.com, and was a regular spo ...

, college basketball writer,

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, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist *

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, co-host of Public Radio's ''Calling All Pets'' * Robert D. McFadden, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist * Karl E. Meyer, journalist for ''

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'' and editor of '' World Policy Journal'' * Michael Meyer, journalist, travel writer * Edwin Newman, former NBC news correspondent *

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, columnist, ''

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'' * Susanne Rust, journalist *

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, journalist, author * Joseph Sexton, journalist and reporter with the ''New York Times'' *

Anthony Shadid Anthony Shadid (September 26, 1968 – February 16, 2012) was a foreign correspondent for ''The New York Times'' based in Baghdad and Beirut who won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting twice, in 2004 and 2010. *

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, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist * David C. Unger, journalist, ''New York Times'' * Greta Van Susteren, broadcaster and news analyst,

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* Ronald E. Albers, California judge *

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commissioner * Arthur J. Altmeyer, former Commissioner of Social Security *

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, U.S. Representative * Phil Anderson, chairman of the Wisconsin Libertarian Party *

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, U.S. Senator * Hiram Barber, Jr., U.S. Representative from

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, U.S. Representative * Charles V. Bardeen, former justice,

* Elmer E. Barlow, justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court * Robert Barnett, attorney * Tom Barrett, former U.S. Representative, mayor of

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; former justice,

* Robert C. Bassett, U.S. presidential advisor * Susan J. M. Bauman, former mayor of

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* Bruce F. Beilfuss, former chief justice of Wisconsin *

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, Minister of the Interior of Germany and president the

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* Helen Ginger Berrigan, federal judge *

Mario Ramón Beteta Mario Ramón Beteta Monsalve (7 July 1925 – 5 October 2004) was a Mexican economist who served as the last Secretary of Finance in the cabinet of President Luis Echeverría (1975–76), as director-general of Pemex (1982–87) and as govern ...

, former Secretary of Finance,

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* Abdirahman Duale Beyle, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Somalia * George W. Blanchard, U.S. Representative * George L. Blum, Eau Claire County Judge * Nils Boe, 23rd

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for the United States Customs Court *

, attorney * John W. Boehne, Jr., former U.S. Representative * Alexander Campbell Botkin, Lieutenant Governor of Montana *

Ann Walsh Bradley Ann Walsh Bradley (born July 5, 1950) is a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. She was elected to the Supreme Court in 1995 and was re-elected in 2005 and 2015. She previously served ten years as a Wisconsin circuit court judge in Marathon ...

, Justice,

* J. Quinn Brisben,

Socialist Party USA The Socialist Party USA, officially the Socialist Party of the United States of America,"The article of this organization shall be the Socialist Party of the United States of America, hereinafter called 'the Party'". Art. I of th"Constitution o ...

candidate for

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and Vice-President; civil rights activist; teacher * Grover L. Broadfoot, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court * Dave Bronson, Mayor of

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Angie Brooks Angie Elizabeth Brooks (August 24, 1928 – September 9, 2007) was a Liberian diplomat and jurist. She was the only African female President of the United Nations General Assembly. She was also the second woman from any nation to head the U.N. bo ...

, former president,

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* Timothy Brown, former chief justice of Wisconsin * Webster E. Brown, U.S. Representative *

Edward E. Browne Edward Everts Browne (February 16, 1868 – November 23, 1945) was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin. Born in Waupaca, Wisconsin, Browne attended the public schools and Waupaca High School. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madi ...

, U.S. Representative *

Andrew A. Bruce Andrew Alexander Bruce (April 15, 1866 – December 6, 1934) was an American judge who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of North Dakota from 1911 to 1918. Early life and education Andrew A. Bruce was born in Chennai, Madras, India, on ...

, former justice,

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* George Bunn, diplomat * George Bunn, former justice,

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* John R. Burke, U.S. diplomat * Michael E. Burke, U.S. Representative *

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Louis B. Butler Louis Bennett Butler Jr. (born February 15, 1952) is a former justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Butler was appointed to the Supreme Court by Governor Jim Doyle in August 2004; his term expired on July 31, 2008. He is the List of African Am ...

, federal judicial nominee, former justice,

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, former United States Representative *

John W. Byrnes John William Byrnes (June 12, 1913 – January 12, 1985) was an American politician who served as a U.S. representative from Wisconsin. Byrnes was the U.S. representative for from 1945 to 1973. During this time he was the chairman of the House ...

, U.S. Representative * William G. Callow, Wisconsin Supreme Court * John Campbell *

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, U.S. Representative from

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* Patrick G. Carrick, member of the

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* Savion Castro, a member of the Board of Education in

* Sheri Polster Chappell, federal judge * Dick Cheney, former Vice President of the United States, vice president of the United States (attended UW as doctoral student; received M.A. degree but did not continue) * Dave Cieslewicz, Mayor of

* Moses E. Clapp, U.S. Senator from Minnesota * Kathryn F. Clarenbach, first chairperson of the National Organization for Women * David G. Classon, U.S. Representative * Wilbur J. Cohen, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Cabinet of President Lyndon B. Johnson and "Father of Medicare." * William M. Conley, federal judge * Daniel Cosío Villegas, president of the United Nations Economic and Social Council * Barbara B. Crabb, former federal judge * Lawrence William Cramer, former governor, United States Virgin Islands * Jason Crow, U.S. Representative from Colorado * Charles H. Crownhart, former justice,

* John Cudahy, U.S. diplomat * Richard Dickson Cudahy, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals * George R. Currie, former chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court * Herman Dahle, U.S. Representative * George Jonathan Danforth, South Dakota State Senator * Roland B. Day, former justice,

* John Paton Davies, Jr., U.S. diplomat * Joseph E. Davies, U.S. diplomat * Glenn Robert Davis, U.S. Representative * Albert F. Dawson, former U.S. Representative * Ada Deer, head of the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs * Evo Anton DeConcini, former justice, Arizona Supreme Court * Edward Dithmar, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin * Christian Doerfler, former justice,

* Mark Doms, chief economist, Economics and Statistics Administration * Brian Donnelly (UK diplomat), Brian Donnelly * James Edward Doyle, former

of the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin * Jim Doyle, James Edward "Jim" Doyle, List of Governors of Wisconsin, 44th Governor of Wisconsin * Lee S. Dreyfus, List of Governors of Wisconsin, 40th Governor of Wisconsin * Stan Dromisky, former Member of Parliament (Canada), Member of Parliament * F. Ryan Duffy, former U.S. Senator and former judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals * William S. Dwinnell, former Minnesota State Senator * Lawrence Eagleburger, former U.S. Secretary of State * Donald B. Easum, former U.S. diplomat * Herman Ekern, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin * Richard Elsner, lawyer, judge and Wisconsin state legislator * Howard Engle (1919–2009), physician and lead plaintiff in a landmark lawsuit against the tobacco industry * John J. Esch, U.S. Representative * Evan Alfred Evans, former U.S. Appeals Court judge * Tony Evers, Current Governor of Wisconsin and former Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin * Thomas E. Fairchild, former U.S. Appeals Court judge * Sergio Fajardo, former mayor of Medellín and former governor of Antioquia, Colombia * Elizabeth P. Farrington, former U.S. Representative, Hawaii Territory * Joseph Rider Farrington, former U.S. Representative, Hawaii Territory * Russ Feingold, U.S. Senator * Bill Foster (Illinois politician), Bill Foster, U.S. Representative from

* Alejandro Foxley, former foreign minister of Chile * Chester A. Fowler, former justice,

* Oscar M. Fritz, former chief justice,

* Harold V. Froehlich, U.S. Representative * G. Fred Galli, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly * Kathryn Garcia (born 1970), Commissioner of the New York City Sanitation Department * Anne Nicol Gaylor, political activist * Edward J. Gehl, former justice,

* Bernard J. Gehrmann, U.S. Representative * Hiram Gill, former mayor of Seattle, Washington * J. Michael Gilmore, director of the Operational Test and Evaluation Directorate * Myron L. Gordon, former federal judge * Robert N. Gorman, former justice, Ohio Supreme Court * Mark Andrew Green, Mark Green, U.S. diplomat * Stephen S. Gregory, former president, American Bar Association * Harry W. Griswold, U.S. Representative * John A. Gronouski, United States Postmaster General * Erica Groshen, commissioner, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics * Herbert J. Grover, educator and legislator * Kenneth Philip Grubb, former federal judge * Philip Gunawardena, former Sri Lankan revolutionary, cabinet minister, Indian freedom fighter * Gunnar Gundersen (politician), Gunnar Gundersen, member of the Parliament of Norway (2005–present) * Henry Gunderson, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin * Steve Gunderson, U.S. Representative ;H–M Robert M La Follette, Sr

* Sami Haddad, Minister of Economy and Trade, Lebanon * David Warner Hagen, former federal judge * Oscar Hallam, justice of the

, Dean of the William Mitchell College of Law * Sa'dun Hammadi, former prime minister of Iraq * Don Hanaway, former Wisconsin Attorney General * Connor Hansen, former justice,

* Doris Hanson (Wisconsin politician), Doris Hanson, Wisconsin politician * Spencer Haven, former attorney general of Wisconsin * Charles Hawks, Jr., U.S. Representative * S.I. Hayakawa, former U.S. Senator from California * Everis A. Hayes, U.S. Representative from California * James B. Hays, former chief justice, Idaho * Donald Hayworth, former U.S. Representative * Ned R. Healy, U.S. Representative from California * Nathan Heffernan, former justice,

* Walter Heller, Economist end presidential advisor * Robert Kirkland Henry, U.S. Representative * Charles N. Herreid, Governor of South Dakota * Emmett R. Hicks, former attorney general of Wisconsin * Harvey V. Higley, former administrator of Veterans Affairs * Knute Hill, former United States Representative from the Washington (state), State of Washington * Geraldine Hines, Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Court * Jeffry House, Canadian attorney * Henry Huber, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin * Benjamin N. Hulburd, Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court * Paul O. Husting, U.S. Senator * Clifford Ireland, U.S. Representative from

* Andre Jacque, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly * Edward H. Jenison, U.S. Representative from

* Byron L. Johnson, U.S. Representative from Colorado * J. Leroy Johnson, former U.S. Representative * Lester Johnson (politician), Lester Johnson, U.S. Representative * Sveinbjorn Johnson, former justice,

* Burr W. Jones, U.S. Representative * Richard Jones (U.S. diplomat), Richard Jones * William Carey Jones, former U.S. Representative from Washington (state), State of Washington * Jim Jordan (Ohio politician), Jim Jordan, U.S. Representative, Ohio, two-time NCAA wrestling champion * Pallo Jordan, former Minister of Arts and Culture, Republic of South Africa * Charles A. Kading, U.S. Representative * Steve Kagen, U.S. Representative * Philip Mayer Kaiser, U.S. diplomat * Henry Kajura, Deputy Prime Minister of Uganda * Marcy Kaptur, U.S. Representative, Ohio * Robert Kastenmeier, U.S. Representative * David Keene, activist and chairman of the American Conservative Union * Oscar Keller, U.S. Representative from Minnesota * James C. Kerwin, former justice,

* John C. Kleczka, U.S. Representative * Frank Le Blond Kloeb, U.S. Representative from Ohio * Warren P. Knowles, List of Governors of Wisconsin, 37th Governor of Wisconsin * Herb Kohl, U.S. Senator * Scott L. Klug, U.S. Representative * Arthur W. Kopp, U.S. Representative * Carolyn H. Krause, member of the Illinois House of Representatives * Julius Albert Krug, U.S. Secretary of the Interior * Akihiko Kumashiro, member of the House of Representatives of Japan * John La Fave, Wisconsin politician * Belle Case La Follette, women's suffragist and wife of Robert M. La Follette, Sr. * Bronson La Follette, former attorney general of Wisconsin * Philip La Follette, List of Governors of Wisconsin, 27th Governor of Wisconsin * Robert M. La Follette, Jr., U.S. Senator * Robert M. La Follette, Sr., List of Governors of Wisconsin, 20th Governor of Wisconsin, U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator * Jeffrey M. Lacker, president, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond * Richard Lamm, Governor of Colorado * John E. Lange, former U.S. Ambassador for Health and Pandemics * Peg Lautenschlager, former attorney general of Wisconsin * Charles Lavine, New York assemblyman * Barbara Lawton, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin * Frank Le Blond Kloeb, former U.S. Representative * Elmer O. Leatherwood, former U.S. Representative * Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission * Nick Leluk, former Member of Parliament (Canada), Member of Parliament * Olin B. Lewis, former Minnesota politician * Theodore G. Lewis, former justice,

* James C. Liao, president of Academia Sinica, Taiwan Academia Sinica. * Thomas A. Loftus, U.S. diplomat * James B. Loken, judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals * William Lorge, Wisconsin politician * Alan David Lourie, judge, U.S. Appeals Court * Claude Zeth Luse, former federal judge * Richard Barrett Lowe, Governor of American Samoa and Guam * Patrick Joseph Lucey, U.S. diplomat and Governor of Wisconsin * Henry Maier, former mayor of

* James Manahan, former U.S. Representative * John T. Manske, Wisconsin State Assemblyman * David W. Márquez, former attorney general of Alaska * John E. Martin, former chief justice,

* Henry F. Mason, former justice, Kansas Supreme Court * Alyssa Mastromonaco, presidential aide * Charles McCarthy (football coach), Charles McCarthy, author of ''The Wisconsin Idea'' * Francis E. McGovern, List of Governors of Wisconsin, 22nd Governor of Wisconsin * Howard J. McMurray, U.S. Representative * Alexander J. Menza, former New Jersey legislator and judge * Balthasar H. Meyer, member of the Interstate Commerce Commission * Abner Mikva, former judge, U.S. Appeals Court * Laura Miller, former mayor of Dallas, Texas * Bob Mionske, attorney and former Olympic and professional bicycle racer * William J. Morgan (Wisconsin politician), William J. Morgan, former attorney general of Wisconsin * Kamel Morjane, Foreign Minister of Tunisia * Elmer A. Morse, U.S. Representative * Wayne L. Morse, U.S. Senator from Oregon * Edmund C. Moy, 38th director of the U.S. mint * Dan Mozena, U.S. Ambassador to Angola * Reid F. Murray, U.S. Representative * Louis Westcott Myers, Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court ;N–S GaylordNelson

* Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian freedom fighter and political leader; awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1998 * Philleo Nash, government official, college professor * Jennifer E. Nashold, Judge, Wisconsin Court of Appeals * Akmal Nasir, Malaysian politician and current Member Of Parliament for Johor Bahru * David D. Nelson, U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay * Gaylord Nelson, former U.S. Senator, List of Governors of Wisconsin, 35th Governor of Wisconsin and founder of Earth Day * George B. Nelson, former justice,

* John M. Nelson, U.S. Representative * Ivan A. Nestingen, former mayor of

* Mark Neumann, U.S. Representative * John Norquist, former mayor of

* David Obey, U.S. Representative * Kenneth J. O'Connell, Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court * James L. O'Connor, former Wisconsin Attorney General * Alvin O'Konski, U.S. Representative * Tawiah Modibo Ocran, Supreme Court judge in Ghana * Eric Oemig, Washington (state) legislator * Conrad P. Olson, former justice, Oregon Supreme Court * Walter C. Owen, former justice,

* Carolyn R. Payton, former director, Peace Corps * Russell W. Peterson, Governor of Delaware * Richard F. Pettigrew, former United States Senator * Joy Picus, Los Angeles, California, city council member, 1977–91; ''Ms.'' magazine "Woman of the Year" * Huang Pi-Twan, Minister for Culture, Taiwan * Roger Pillath, retired NFL player, Los Angeles Rams and Pittsburgh Steelers * Mark Pocan, U.S. Representative * Jeanne Poppe, Minnesota legislator, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives * Hugh H. Price, U.S. Representative * David Prosser, Jr., Justice,

* John Abner Race, U.S. Representative * David Rabinovitz, former federal judge * Rudolph T. Randa, federal judge * Clifford E. Randall, U.S. Representative * Henry Riggs Rathbone, former U.S. Representative * James Ward Rector, former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice * Lowell A. Reed, federal judge * Michael K. Reilly, U.S. Representative * Paul Samuel Reinsch, appointed minister to China in 1913 * Oscar Rennebohm, former governor of Wisconsin * John W. Reynolds, Sr., Attorneys General of Wisconsin, Attorney General of Wisconsin, 1927–1933 * John W. Reynolds, Jr., List of Governors of Wisconsin, 36th Governor of Wisconsin * Daniel Riemer, legislator * Fred Risser, Wisconsin state senator and assemblyman * Fred Risser (Progressive), Wisconsin assemblyman * Charles Robb, former U.S. Senator and former governor of Virginia * Julius Edward Roehr, member of the Wisconsin State Senate, 1897-1908 * Patience Roggensack, Justice,

* Hannah Rosenthal, executive director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism * Horace Rublee, former U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland * David Sturtevant Ruder, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission * Wiley Rutledge, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court * Albert Morris Sames, former federal judge * Arthur Loomis Sanborn, former federal judge * David J. Saposs, former chief economist for the National Labor Relations Board * Harry Sauthoff, U.S. Representative * Jim Sensenbrenner, U.S. Representative * Whitney North Seymour, former president, American Bar Association * John C. Shabaz, former federal judge * David I. Shapiro, attorney and activist * Helen Shiller, Chicago Alderman * Robert G. Siebecker, former chief justice of Wisconsin * J. Minos Simon, attorney, legal author in Lafayette, Louisiana * Stewart Simonson, Assistant Secretary of Public Health Emergency Preparedness * Slawomir Skrzypek, former president, National Bank of Poland * Chad "Corntassel" Smith, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation * Daniel V. Speckhard, U.S. ambassador and diplomat * Paul Soglin, Mayor of

* Joan E. Spero, former ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council * John Coit Spooner, U.S. Senator * William Spriggs, assistant secretary, United States Department of Labor * Janet Dempsey Steiger, chairperson of the Postal Regulatory Commission, Postal Rate Commission and Federal Trade Commission * William A. Steiger, Congress * Donald Steinmetz, former justice,

* E. Ray Stevens, former justice,

* William H. Stevenson, former U.S. Representative * Anne K. Strasdauskas, Sheriff of Baltimore County, Maryland * Robert C. Strong, U.S. diplomat * Suchatvee Suwansawat, Thai Politicians, former President of King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL) * Jessie Sumner, former U.S. Representative * Lori Swanson, Attorney General of Minnesota * Aleksander Szczyglo, Minister of Defense of Poland * Elaine Szymoniak, former Iowa State Senator ;T–Z * James Albertus Tawney, former U.S. Representative * Amando Tetangco Jr., former Governor, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas * Donald Edgar Tewes, U.S. Representative * Nahathai Thewphaingarm, former Thai Minister of Education and spokesperson of Thai Rak Thai Party * Lewis D. Thill, U.S. Representative * George Thompson (Wisconsin politician), George Thompson, Attorney General of Wisconsin * Tommy Thompson, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services; former governor of Wisconsin (1986–2001) * Vernon W. Thomson, U.S. Representative and Governor of Wisconsin * Fran Ulmer, Lieutenant Governor of Alaska * J.B. Van Hollen, Attorney General of Wisconsin * William Freeman Vilas, U.S. Secretary of the Interior and U.S. Postmaster General * Aad J. Vinje, former justice,

* Edward Voigt, U.S. Representative * Thomas J. Walsh, U.S. Senator from Montana * Clement Warner, Civil war colonel and Wisconsin state legislator * Ernest Warner, Wisconsin assemblyman * Robert W. Warren, former federal judge * D. Russell Wartinbee, legislator and educator * Alexander Watson (diplomat), Alexander Watson, former U.S. diplomat * Edward Weidenfeld, attorney * Paul Weyrich, conservative activist and former president of the Free Congress Foundation * John D. Wickhem, former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court * Peter D. Wigginton, former U.S. Representative * Jon P. Wilcox, Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court * Alexander Wiley, U.S. Senator * Horace W. Wilkie, former chief justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court * Aaron S. Williams, director, Peace Corps * Michael D. Wilson, associate justice, Hawaii Supreme Court * John B. Winslow, former chief justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court * Edwin E. Witte, Social Security advisor to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt * Leonard G. Wolf, former U.S. Representative * Lawrence Wong, Singaporean politician and Cabinet of Singapore, cabinet minister; current Ministry of Education (Singapore), Minister for Education and Ministry of Finance (Singapore), Second Minister for Finance * Ann Wynia, Minnesota State Representative * Clayton K. Yeutter, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture * Rebecca Young (Wisconsin politician), Rebecca Young, Wisconsin politician * Hilbert Philip Zarky, attorney * Norma Zarky, attorney * Maung Zarni, Burmese educator, academic, and human rights activist noted for his opposition to the violence in Rakhine State and Rohingya genocide * Yeshey Zimba, former prime minister of Bhutan * Roger H. Zion, former U.S. Representative

Military

* Frank L. Anders, Medal of Honor recipient * Thomas A. Benes, U.S. Marine Corps major general * Robyn J. Blader, U.S. National Guard brigadier general * Charles Ruggles Boardman, U.S. National Guard brigadier general * Joseph J. Brandemuehl, U.S. Air National Guard brigadier general * Clarence John Brown, U.S. Navy vice admiral * Howard G. Bunker, U.S. Air Force major general * Robert Whitney Burns, U.S. Air Force lieutenant general * Chester Victor Clifton, Jr., U.S. Army major general * James B. Currie, U.S. Air Force major general * Clinton W. Davies, U.S. Air Force brigadier general * Gary L. Ebben, U.S. Air Force brigadier general * Samuel Fallows, Union Army brigadier general * Gregory A. Feest, U.S. Air Force major general * Richard W. Fellows, U.S. Air Force brigadier general * Irving Fish, U.S. Army major general * James F. Flock, U.S. Marine Corps major general * William Frederick Hase, U.S. Army major general * J. Michael Hayes, U.S. Marine Corps brigadier general * Richard W. Hunt, U.S. Navy vice admiral * Harry W. Jenkins, U.S. Marine Corps major general * Stephen E. Johnson, U.S. Navy rear admiral * Donald S. Jones, U.S. Navy vice admiral * Timothy M. Kennedy (general), Timothy M. Kennedy, U.S. National Guard brigadier general * Richard A. Knobloch, U.S. Air Force brigadier general * Oscar Hugh La Grange, Union Army brigadier general * John David Larson, U.S. National Guard brigadier general * Daniel P. Leaf, U.S. Air Force lieutenant general; former commander of United States Pacific Command * Otto Lessing (US General), Otto Lessing, U.S. Marine Corps major general * John D. Logeman, U.S. Air Force major general * Michael J. McCarthy (general), Michael J. McCarthy, U.S. Air Force major general * John E. McCoy, U.S. Air National Guard brigadier general * Robert Bruce McCoy, U.S. National Guard major general * Todd J. McCubbin, U.S. Air Force brigadier general * Charles C. McDonald, U.S. Air Force general * Montgomery Meigs (born 1945), Montgomery Meigs, U.S. Army general * David V. Miller, U.S. Air Force major general * Peter George Olenchuk, U.S. Army major general * Jeffrey W. Oster, U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general * John P. Otjen, U.S. Army lieutenant general * Walter P. Paluch, Jr., U.S. Air Force brigadier general * J. Gregory Pavlovich, U.S. Air Force brigadier general * Francis E. Quinlan, U.S. Marine Corps brigadier general * Russell Burton Reynolds, U.S. Army major general * Robley S. Rigdon, U.S. Army National Guard brigadier general * Carson Abel Roberts, U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general * Walter Schindler, U.S. Navy vice admiral * Robert O. Seifert, U.S. National Guard brigadier general * Winant Sidle, U.S. Army major general * Fred R. Sloan, U.S. Air National Guard major general * Phillips Waller Smith, U.S. Air Force major general * Henry J. Stehling, U.S. Air Force brigadier general * Woodrow Swancutt, U.S. Air Force major general * Scott L. Thoele, U.S. Army National Guard brigadier general * Tracy A. Thompson, U.S. Army major general * Holger Toftoy, U.S. Army major general * Richard Tubb, U.S. Air Force brigadier general; physician to the president * George V. Underwood, Jr., U.S. Army general; former commander of Fort Bliss and commander-in-chief of United States Southern Command * William J. Van Ryzin, U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general * James M. Vande Hey, U.S. Air Force brigadier general * Fred W. Vetter, Jr., U.S. Air Force brigadier general * Don S. Wenger, U.S. Air Force major general * Robert E. Wheeler, U.S. Air Force brigadier general * Ralph Wise Zwicker, U.S. Army major general

Religion

* Frank Joseph Dewane, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Venice in Florida * W. Patrick Donlin, Supreme Advocate of the Knights of Columbus * Michael S. Heiser, Christianity, Christian author * Florence E. Kollock (1848-1925), Universalist minister and lecturer * Marion Murdoch, Christian minister * Ronald Myers, Baptist minister * Paul J. Swain, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls

Science, technology, and engineering

;A–M * Amy Aiken, winemaker * Howard Aiken, computer science pioneer and recipient Edison Medal * Loyal Blaine Aldrich, astronomer * Ruth F. Allen, plant pathologist * Gene Amdahl, computer scientist, Amdahl's law * Elda Emma Anderson, physicist * John Atanasoff, inventor of the electronic digital computer * Chris Bangle, automobile designer, former Chief of Design for the BMW Group * Florence Bascom (1862–1945), geologist * Ekkehard Bautz (born 1933), molecular biologist * Calvin Beale, demographer * Gwen Bell, former president of The Computer Museum, Boston * Willard Harrison Bennett, inventor and scientist * Paul Alfred Biefeld, electrical engineer, astronomer and teacher * Robert Byron Bird, chemical engineer, recipient of the National Medal of Science * William Bleckwenn, neurologist and psychiatrist, instrumental in the development of the truth serum * Joseph Colt Bloodgood, physician * Larry Curtiss, chemist * Gerard C. Bond, geologist * Paul Brehm, neurobiologist * Ernest J. Briskey, scientist, founder of the American Meat Science Association * George H. Brown (engineer), George H. Brown, inventor, television pioneer, and Edison Medal recipient * William Bunge, geographer * Gail Carpenter, neuroscientist and mathematician * Olivia Castellini, physicist * K. K. Chen, researcher, Eli Lilly and Company * John Drury Clark, rocket engineer * Emily CoBabe-Ammann, planetary scientist * Douglas L. Coleman, biochemist * John Thomas Curtis, botanist and ecologist; the Bray Curtis dissimilarity is partially named for him * Donald Dafoe, surgeon * Charles A. Doswell III, meteorologist * Michael Dhuey, electrical and computer engineer, co-inventor of the Macintosh II and the iPod * L. K. Doraiswamy, chemical engineer, proponent of organic synthesis engineering and Padma Bhushan award winner * Olin J. Eggen, astronomer * Bruce Elmegreen, astronomer * Howard Engle, physician * Milton H. Erickson, psychiatrist, founder of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis * Alice Catherine Evans, microbiologist * Frederick C. Finkle, geologist * Michael J. Franklin, computer scientist * Louis Friedman, engineer * Michael Garey, computer scientist * Sol Garfunkel, mathematician * Harold Garner, biophysicist * Meredith Gardner, linguist and codebreaker * David H. Geiger, engineer and designer of domed stadiums * Alwyn Howard Gentry, botanist * Eloise Gerry, scientist with United States Forest Service * Gerson Goldhaber, discoverer of the Charm quark, charmed meson, and dark energy * Sulamith Goldhaber, physicist and spectroscopist * Danny Goodman, computer scientist and programmer * Morris Goodman (scientist), Morris Goodman, scientist * Eric D. Green, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute * Hary Gunarto, computer engineer * Paul Haeberli, computer programmer *

, game designer, co-founder of id Software * Pat Hanrahan, computer scientist specializing in graphics, Turing Award laureate * Henry Paul Hansen, palynologist * Bruce William Hapke, planetary scientist * Walter Henry Hartung, pharmaceutical chemist * Leland John Haworth, physicist and director of the National Science Foundation * Susan Lynn Hefle, food allergen scientist * Ralph F. Hirschmann (1922–2009), biochemist who led synthesis of the first enzyme * Vasant Honavar, computer scientist, computational biologist, cognitive scientist, artificial intelligence, machine learning researcher, former program director, National Science Foundation * Earnest Hooton, physical anthropologist * Charles Morse Huffer, astronomer * Karl Jansky, physicist and radio engineer, founder of radio astronomy * Larry R. Johnson, president of the National Weather Association * Richard A. Jorgensen, molecular geneticist * Willi Kalender, inventor of Helical cone beam computed tomography, spiral scan computed tomography and professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg * Dennis Keeney, soil scientist, first director of the Leopold Institute * Motoo Kimura, mathematician * Clyde Kluckhohn, anthropologist * Elmer Kraemer, chemist * Ben Lawton, physician * Esther Lederberg, microbiologist and immunologist, pioneer of Microbial genetics, bacterial genetics * Albert Lehninger, biochemist, pioneer of bioenergetics, and professor at Johns Hopkins University * Estella B. Leopold, botanist and daughter of Aldo Leopold * Harriet Lerner, psychologist * Karl Paul Link, biochemist, discoverer of anticoagulant warfarin * Walter K. Link, geologist * Bradley C. Livezey, ornithologist * Guy Sumner Lowman, Jr., linguist * Daryl B. Lund, food scientist and engineer, editor-chief-of Journal of Food Science * Ken Lunde, information processor * Nancy Oestreich Lurie, anthropologist * Jay Lush, geneticist * John F. MacGregor, statistician * Seth Marder, chemist * Lynn Margulis, author of the serial endosymbiotic theory of cell development, advocate of the Gaia hypothesis; former professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst * William Marr, engineer and poet * Max Mason, mathematician * Karl Menninger, psychiatrist * Patrick Michaels, climatologist * Parry Moon, electrical engineer, author * M. Laurance Morse, microbiologist and immunologist * Newton Morton, Newton Ennis Morton, founder of field of genetic epidemiology * Mark Myers, geologist and former USGS director ;N–Z JohnLSavageBOR

* Walter Nance, geneticist * Homer E. Newell, Jr., mathematician * Paula M. Niedenthal, psychologist * Arthur Nielsen, market analyst * Gerald North, atmospheric scientist, author of The North Report * Larry E. Overman, chemist * Zorba Paster, physician * Brian Paul, computer programmer of the Mesa 3D open source graphics library * Emanuel R. Piore, former director of research, IBM * Lynn Ponton, psychiatrist * Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman, computer science pioneer and Padma Bhushan awardee * Richard V. Rhode, aeronautical engineer * Sylvia Rimm, psychology * JoAnne Robbins, creator of dysphagia medical device * Anita Roberts, molecular biologist * Havidan Rodriguez, award-winning sociologist, author * Carl Rogers, psychologist, co-founder humanistic psychology * Leon E. Rosenberg, physician-scientist, geneticist, and educator * Marshall Rosenberg, psychologist * Harry Luman Russell, bacteriologist * Joseph F. Rychlak, psychologist * Joseph F. Sackett, clinical radiologist and professor of neuroradiology * David Salo, linguist and translator * John C. Sanford, plant geneticist * William Bowen Sarles, microbiologist * John L. Savage, chief engineer of Hoover Dam * William Schaus, entomologist * Edward Schildhauer, a chief engineer on the Panama Canal project * Robert Serber, physicist, participated in the Manhattan Project * Digvijai Singh, chemical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate * Ashley Shade Director of Research at the Institute of Ecology and the Environment within Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique * Dick Smith (software), Dick Smith, software engineer and computer consultant * James E. Smith (engineer), James E. Smith, computer engineer * Willem P.C. Stemmer, engineer * Calvin L. Stevens, chemist * Chauncey Guy Suits, former research director for GE * M.S. Swaminathan, "father of the Green Revolution in India" * Leslie Denis Swindale, soil scientist * Helmer Swenholt, commanding officer of the 332nd Engineer General Service Regiment * Katia Sycara, roboticist * Stephen Taber III, apiologist * Auguste Taton, botanist * Earle M. Terry, formed WHA (AM), the first radio station to clearly transmit human speech, with Edward Bennett (physicist), Edward Bennett * Victor A. Tiedjens, scientist * James Tour, synthetic organic chemist * Tso Wung-Wai, professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, political activist * Marilyn Tremaine, computer scientist * Glenn Thomas Trewartha, geographer * Mary Tsingou, numerical analyst * Billie Lee Turner II, geographer * Kameshwar C. Wali, research physicist and science writer * John Watrous (computer scientist), John Watrous, quantum theorist of computing * Warren Weaver, pioneer of machine translation * I. Bernard Weinstein, physician * Louis Jolyon West, psychiatrist * Albert Whitford (astronomer), Albert Whitford, astronomer * Dave Winer, software designer * Samuel D. Wonders, engineer, president of Carter's Ink Company * Gordon Woods, veterinary scientist * Charles E. Woodworth, entomologist * A. Wayne Wymore, systems engineer and mathematician * Ned Xoubi, nuclear engineer * Joy Zedler, ecologist and botanist * John Zillman, meteorologist * Otto Julius Zobel, inventor of the m-derived filter and the Zobel network

Other notable alumni

* Milo Aukerman, biochemist, front man of the Descendents (band), Descendents * Mary Brunner, former Manson Family member and ex-girlfriend of cult leader Charles Manson * Clarence Chamberlin, aviation pioneer * Frank J. Christensen, labor leader * Kathryn F. Clarenbach, first chairwoman of the National Organization for Women * Tim Cordes, blind physician * Laurie Dann, mass shooter who attacked elementary school children in Winnetka, Illinois * Anna Essinger (1879–1960), educator who aided hundreds of European children before, during and after the Holocaust * Robert Fassnacht, graduate student, killed in the Sterling Hall bombing * Ada Fisher, physician * Phil Galfond, 3-time World Series of Poker, WSOP bracelet-winning champion * Frederick Gutheim, urban planner *

, author and editor * Jerome Heckenkamp, computer hacker * Phil Hellmuth, 14-time World Series of Poker, WSOP bracelet-winning champion * Prynce Hopkins, activist and psychologist * Robert Kotler, physician * Drew Binsky, Traveller and youtuber, has visited over 170 countries * Mary Lasker, health activist, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal * James T. Minor, academic administrator and sociologist. * John Muir (1838–1914), naturalist, founder of the Sierra Club, instrumental in preserving Yosemite National Park * Carol Myers-Scotton, linguist * Sigurd F. Olson, conservationist * Pauline Park, transgender activist * Janet Meakin Poor, landscape designer * Lori Ringhand, judicial analyst * Carl Schramm, president, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation * Bud Selig, Commissioner of Major League Baseball * Rafael Rangel Sostmann, rector of Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education and member of the World Bank * Bill Stumpf, furniture designer *

, chef * Althea Warren, president of the American Library Association, 1943–44

Fictional alumni and faculty

* Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino) in the 1999 movie ''The Insider (film)'' * Chris (Will Arnett), MRI tech on TV series ''Parks and Recreation'', says he went to UW for both his undergrad and graduate work. * Mad Men#Supporting characters, Harold "Harry" Crane, head of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce's television department in ''Mad Men'' * Jack and Maddie Fenton, scientist parents of ''Danny Phantom'' * Laurie Forman, character on the situation comedy ''That '70s Show'' (did not graduate) * Will Hayes (Ryan Reynolds) in the 2008 movie ''Definitely, Maybe'' * Vlad Plasmius, Vladimir "Vlad" Masters, a/k/a Vlad Plasmius, supervillain and foe of ''Danny Phantom'' * Donna Moss, Executive Office of the President of the United States, White House staffer in the television series ''The West Wing'' (dropped out halfway through to support her boyfriend as he went through University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, medical school) * Alison Parker (Melrose Place) (Courtney Thorne-Smith) on ''Melrose Place'', the TV series which ran from 1992 to 1999. * President Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas) taught at the University of Wisconsin in the 1995 movie ''The American President'' * A. Clarence "Silverlock" Shandon, titular character of the fantasy novel ''Silverlock'', has a business administration degree from U.W. and was Bow (position), bow on the Rowing (sport), crew team for three years * James Walker (Michael Vartan) from ''Big Shots (TV series)'', an 11-episode TV series. * Many, perhaps most, of the characters in the 2006 film The Last Kiss (2006 film), ''The Last Kiss'', set in Madison and in part on the UW campus, are connected to the university: Kim is a student, Professor Bowler is on the faculty, and several other characters are apparently alumni.

Chancellors and presidents

Notable faculty and staff

;A–G * Martha W. Alibali, psychologist * Timothy F. H. Allen, botanist * Stub Allison, head coach of the 1920 Washington Sun Dodgers football team, Washington Huskies, South Dakota Coyotes, and California Golden Bears football teams, Washington Huskies men's basketball team, and Washington Huskies baseball team * Ann Althouse, professor of law and well-known wikt:Blogger, blogger *

, professor, author, diplomat * Rozalyn Anderson, assistant professor, scientist * Fred J. Ansfield, physician, chemotherapy pioneer, co-Founder of American Society of Clinical Oncology, Emeritus Professor of Human Oncology * Michael Apple, leading educational theorist * Richard Askey, mathematician, the Askey–Wilson polynomials and Askey–Gasper inequality are partially named for him * Sanjay Asthana, Alzheimer's disease researcher * Louis Winslow Austin, physicist, recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor * Stephen Babcock, inventor of the Babcock test for measuring the butterfat content of milk * Bob Babich (American football coach), Bob Babich, National Football League, NFL assistant coach * Eric Bach, computer scientist * Ira Baldwin, bacteriologist * Charles Russell Bardeen, first dean of the University of Wisconsin Medical School * Amy Barger, astronomer * Michael N. Barnett, Michael Barnett, scholar of international relations * Quan Barry, poet * Helmut Beinert, professor of biochemistry * Edward Bennett (physicist), Edward Bennett, professor of electrical engineering, formed WHA (AM), the first radio station to clearly transmit human speech, with Earle M. Terry * Tony Bennett (basketball, born 1969), Tony Bennett, National Basketball Association, NBA player and head coach of the Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball team * Leonard Berkowitz, psychologist * Robert Byron Bird, chemical engineer, recipient of the National Medal of Science * George David Birkhoff, mathematician, discoverer of the ergodic theorem * Raymond Ward Bissell, art historian * Lisle Blackbourn, NFL head coach * Gary Blackney, head coach of the Bowling Green Falcons football team * Earl Blaik, head coach of the Dartmouth Big Green football, Dartmouth Big Green and Army Black Knights football, Army Black Knights football teams, member of the College Football Hall of Fame * William Bleckwenn, neurologist and psychiatrist, instrumental in the development of the truth drug * Craig Bohl, head coach of the North Dakota State Bison football team * David Bordwell, prominent neoformalist film theorist and author * Laird Boswell, professor of History * George E. P. Box, statistician * Paul S. Boyer, historian of American thought and culture * Léon Brillouin, physicist * Royal Alexander Brink, plant geneticist * Thomas D. Brock, microbiologist * Martin Bronfenbrenner, economist * Aaron Brower, professor of social work and Vice-Provost for Teaching & Learning * Richard A. Brualdi, professor of combinatorial mathematics * Robert V. Bruce, winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for History * Edgar Buckingham, physicist * Tim Buckley (basketball), Tim Buckley, head coach of the Ball State Cardinals men's basketball team * Jacob Burney, National Football League, NFL assistant coach * Robert H. Burris, recipient of the National Medal of Science * Gibson Byrd, noted painter * Angus Cameron (American politician), Angus Cameron, U.S. Senator * Sean B. Carroll, professor of evolutionary biology * Delia E. Wilder Carson (1833–1917), art educator * Frederic G. Cassidy, editor-in-chief of the ''Dictionary of American Regional English'' * Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, founder of the ''Journal of Geology'' * Bill Chandler, head coach of the Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball, Iowa State Cyclones and Marquette Golden Eagles men's basketball, Marquette Golden Eagles men's basketball teams * Y. Austin Chang, professor of material engineering * Chang Jen-Hu, chairman of the board of directors of Chinese Culture University * Arthur B. Chapman, professor of animal breeding and genetics * Geep Chryst, National Football League, NFL, assistant coach * Paul Chryst, head football coach, Wisconsin Badgers football, University of Wisconsin-Madison * Clarence S. Clay, Jr., geophysics faculty * W. Wallace Cleland, biochemist * John Coatta, National Football League, NFL scout * Eddie Cochems, head coach of the North Dakota State Bison football, North Dakota State Bison, Clemson Tigers football, Clemson Tigers, Saint Louis Billikens, and Maine Black Bears football teams * Bill Cofield, former men's basketball head coach, first African American coach of a major sport in the Big Ten Conference * John R. Commons, one of the architects of Social Security (United States), Social Security in the United States * Clifton F. Conrad, professor of educational leadership & policy analysis * Ron Cooper (football coach), Ron Cooper, head coach of the Eastern Michigan Eagles football, Eastern Michigan Eagles, Louisville Cardinals football, Louisville Cardinals, and Alabama A&M Bulldogs football teams * Elizabeth A. Craig, biochemistry professor * William Cronon, Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies, winner of the Bancroft Prize, recipient of MacArthur fellowship * James F. Crow, professor of genetics, population geneticist * Vincent Cryns, professor of medicine, chief of endocrinology * John Culbertson (economist), John Culbertson, professor of economics * Richard N. Current, historian * Merle Curti, historian of U.S. intellectual history * Philip D. Curtin, historian * John Thomas Curtis, botanist and ecologist, the Bray Curtis dissimilarity is partially named for him * Marshall E. Cusic Jr., U.S. Navy admiral, Chief of the U.S. Navy Medical Reserve Corps * Scott Cutlip, dean of the University of Georgia Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, College of Journalism and Mass Communication * Lawrence F. Dahl, professor emeritus of chemistry * James Dahlberg, professor emeritus of biomolecular chemistry * Farrington Daniels, early researcher in solar energy * Richard Davis (double bassist), Richard Davis, jazz bassist * Richard Davidson, professor of psychology and psychiatry, widely known for his mind-body research * Carl de Boor, professor emeritus of mathematics and computer science; winner of National Medal of Science, best known for pioneering work on splines * Hector DeLuca, researcher of vitamin D * Robert Disque, president of the Drexel University, Drexel Institute of Technology * Dave Doeren, head coach of the Northern Illinois Huskies football, Northern Illinois Huskies football team * Donald Downs, professor of political science * Mitchell Duneier, sociologist * Mike Eaves, National Hockey League, NHL player and assistant coach * Jordan Ellenberg, professor of mathematics, novelist, writer * Edward C. Elliott, educational researcher and Purdue University president * Amy Burns Ellis, professor of mathematics education * Richard Theodore Ely (1854–1943), professor, social activist, economist * Joseph Erlanger, 1944

* Nathan Feinsinger, chairman of the Wage Stabilization Board and associate general counsel to the National War Labor Board (1942–1945), National War Labor Board * Carl Russell Fish, professor of history * Harold K. Forsen, professor of Nuclear Engineering * Perry A. Frey, professor of biochemistry * Milton Friedman, associate professor of Economics Nobel Prize for Economics * John Gallagher III, editor of the Astronomical Journal * Adam Gamoran, professor of sociology and director, Wisconsin Center for Education Research * Morton Ann Gernsbacher, professor of psychology and president of the Association for Psychological Science * Harvey Goldberg, historian * James R. Goodman, professor of computer science and computer architect, known for his work on Cache coherency, cache coherence protocols * Doug Graber, National Football League, NFL assistant coach * M. Elizabeth Graue, professor of Curriculum and Instruction * Michelle Grabner, professor of art * Luther W. Graef, president of the American Society of Civil Engineers * Carson Gulley, head chef from 1927 to 1954 ;H–M * Theodore S. Hamerow, historian * Mike Hankwitz, head coach of the Arizona Wildcats football, Arizona Wildcats and Colorado Buffaloes football, Colorado Buffaloes football teams * Harry Harlow, psychologist, known for studies on affection using rhesus monkeys with artificial mothers * Fred Harvey Harrington, historian * Edwin B. Hart, conductor of the single-grain experiment, the Institute of Food Technologists, Institute of Food Technologists' Babcock-Hart Award is partially named after him * Einar Haugen, linguist * Robert J. Havighurst, physicist, aging expert * James Edwin Hawley, mineralogist, Hawleyite is named for him * Carolyn Heinrich, former professor, currently Sid Richardson professor at University of Texas at Austin * Daniel Hershkowitz (born 1953), Israeli politician, mathematician, rabbi, and president of Bar-Ilan University * Elroy Hirsch, National Football League, NFL player, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and College Football Hall of Fame * Alexander Rudolf Hohlfeld, professor of German * Jeff Horton, National Football League, NFL assistant coach, head coach of the Nevada Wolf Pack football, Nevada Wolf Pack and UNLV Rebels football, UNLV Rebels football teams * Clark L. Hull, psychologist * William Hunter (statistician), William Hunter, statistician * Krisztina Morvai associate professor of law, member of the European Parliament * Willard Hurst, seminal figure in the development of modern American legal history * Anna Huttenlocher, cell biologist and rheumatologist * Rob Ianello, head coach of the Akron Zips football team * Hugh Iltis, known for his scientific discoveries in the domestication of corn * Yannis Ioannidis, computer scientist * Roland Duer Irving, member of the United States Geological Survey * Greg Jackson (American football), Greg Jackson, National Football League, NFL player * Arnold Jeter, head coach of the Delaware State Hornets football team * Gunnar Johansen, artist-in-residence * Bob Johnson (ice hockey b. 1931), Bob Johnson, National Hockey League, NHL head coach * Mark Johnson (ice hockey), Mark Johnson, National Hockey League, NHL player and 1980 Winter Olympics Miracle on Ice team * Burr W. Jones, U.S. Representative * Horace Kallen, philosopher * Nietzchka Keene, filmmaker * Jesse Lee Kercheval, poet, memoirist, translator and fiction writer * Har Gobind Khorana, 1968

, for describing the genetic code and how it operates in protein synthesis * Franklin Hiram King, soil scientist and early promoter of sustainable agriculture * Philip King (American football), Philip King, member of the College Football Hall of Fame * Rufus King (general), Rufus King, U.S. diplomat, Union Army general * Grayson L. Kirk, president of Columbia University * Stephen Cole Kleene, a foundational contributor to theoretical computer science * Rudolf Kolisch, violinist * Thomas R. Kratochwill, psychologist * Gloria Ladson-Billings, leading educational theorist and past president of the American Educational Research Association * Elmer A. Lampe, head coach of the Georgia Bulldogs men's basketball, Georgia Bulldogs and Dartmouth Big Green men's basketball teams * Jane Larson, feminist legal scholar * Vernon Lattin (born 1938), president of Brooklyn College * Judith Walzer Leavitt, professor of history of medicine, history of science, and women's studies * Lewis Leavitt, pediatrician * Mike Leckrone, director of the University of Wisconsin marching band from 1969 to 2019 * Joshua Lederberg, 1958

::For his research in genetic structure and function in microorganisms * Albert L. Lehninger, biochemist * Charles Kenneth Leith, geologist, Penrose Medal recipient * Aldo Leopold, author of ''A Sand County Almanac'', which helped spawn the environmental movement and interest in ecology; also founded the The Wilderness Society (United States), Wilderness Society * Gerda Lerner, professor emerita; historian of women's and gender history; considered a founder of women's history * Philip H. Lewis Jr., landscape architect and planner * Olin B. Lewis, Minnesota politician * Tom Lieb, head coach of the Loyola Marymount Lions and Florida Gators football teams, Olympic Games, Olympic medalist * George Little (football coach), George Little, member of the College Football Hall of Fame * Harvey Littleton, founder of the modern American studio glass movement * Miron Livny, computer science professor and founder of the Condor cycle scavenger, Condor High-Throughput Computing System * William Lorenz, Distinguished Service Medal (U.S. Army), Army Distinguished Service Medal recipient * Henry S. Magoon, U.S. Representative * Abby Lillian Marlatt, director of home economics * Carolyn Martin, Carolyn "Biddy" Martin, professor of German and current president of Amherst College * Abraham Maslow, psychologist, known for Maslow's hierarchy of needs * Ron McBride, head coach of the Utah Utes football, Utah Utes and Weber State Wildcats football teams * Dan McCarney, head coach of the Iowa State Cyclones football, Iowa State Cyclones and North Texas Mean Green football, North Texas Mean Green football teams * Anne McClintock, Simone de Beauvoir Professor and author of ''Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest'' * Elmer McCollum, biochemist, co-discovered vitamins A, B, and D * Tasha McDowell, head coach of the Western Michigan Broncos women's basketball team * Mike McGee (American football), Mike McGee, National Football League, NFL player, head coach of the East Carolina Pirates football, East Carolina Pirates and Duke Blue Devils football, Duke Blue Devils football teams, member of the College Football Hall of Fame * Nellie Y. McKay, scholar of African-American literature and co-editor of the ''Norton Anthology of African-American Literature'' * Howard J. McMurray, U.S. Representative * Patrick McNaughton, art historian, Associate Professor of Art History * Milton McPike, National Football League, NFL player * Walter Meanwell, former head coach of the Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball, men's basketball team, member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame * Alexander Meiklejohn, philosopher and free-speech advocate * William Shainline Middleton, co-founder and secretary-treasurer of the American Board of Internal Medicine * Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of ''The Deep End of the Ocean'' * Frederic E. Mohs, surgeon and developer of the Mohs surgery technique for removing types of skin cancer * Howard Moore, head coach of the UIC Flames men's basketball team * Perry Moss, National Football League, NFL player, athletic director of Florida State University, head coach of the Florida State Seminoles football, Florida State Seminoles and Marshall Thundering Herd football, Marshall Thundering Herd football teams * George L. Mosse, professor; historian of European nationalism and gender * Reid F. Murray, U.S. Representative ;N–S * Gerhard Brandt Naeseth, genealogical author; member of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav * Adolphus Peter Nelson, U.S. Representative * Kathryn Norlock, feminist philosopher * Ronald Numbers, historian of science * Allan R. Odden, professor in the Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis * Hakkı Boran Ögelman, Hakkı Ögelman, physicist and astrophysicist * Richard Page (Professor), Richard Page, chair, department of medicine * John Palermo, National Football League, NFL assistant coach * Charles D. Parker, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin * Harry Partch, avant-garde composer * Zorba Paster, co-host of Public Radio's ''Zorba Paster On Your Health'' * Klaus Patau, geneticist, best known for the discovery of trisomy 13 (a.k.a. Patau syndrome) * Stanley Payne, historian * Russell W. Peterson, Governor of Delaware * Saul Phillips (basketball), Saul Phillips, head coach of the North Dakota State Bison men's basketball team * Felix Pollak, curator of Special Collections; poet * Andrew C. Porter, former director of Wisconsin Center for Education Research, professor of education policy at Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt * Ellis Rainsberger, head coach of the Kansas State Wildcats football team * Hans Reese, Olympic athlete * Paul Samuel Reinsch, U.S. diplomat * Milton Resnick, artist-in-residence * Pat Richter, National Football League, NFL player, member of the College Football Hall of Fame * Patrick T. Riley, political theorist * Paul Roach (American football), Paul Roach, National Football League, NFL assistant coach, athletic director and head football coach at the University of Wyoming * Carl Rogers, psychologist and founder of Person-centered psychotherapy, Client-Centered Therapy * Thomas A. Romberg, professor emeritus of curriculum and instruction (mathematics education) * Walter Rudin, mathematician best known for his books on mathematical analysis * Joe Rudolph, National Football League, NFL player * Bo Ryan, current head men's basketball coach * Alfred A. Sanelli, U.S. Army general * Harrison Schmitt, adjunct professor of engineering physics, 12th man on the Moon as Apollo 17 astronaut and geologist * Hans Schneider (mathematician), Hans Schneider, mathematician, best known for his contributions to the ''Linear Algebra and Matrix'' society * Isaac Jacob Schoenberg, mathematician, best known for the discovery in 1946 of Spline (mathematics), splines * Jennifer Schomaker, chemist, professor, researcher * John Settle, National Football League, NFL player * Donna Shalala, chancellor 1987–1993; secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1993–2001 * Charles S. Slichter, mathematician and physicist * Ithamar Sloan, U.S. Representative * Red Smith (American football/baseball), Red Smith, MLB and National Football League, NFL player and coach * Oliver Smithies, faculty 1960 to 1988, recipient of the

in 2007 * Clarence Spears, member of the College Football Hall of Fame * Bob Spoo, head coach of the Eastern Illinois Panthers football team * Kurt Squire, director of the Games, Learning & Society Conference * Dale Steele, head coach of the Campbell Fighting Camels football team * Harry Steenbock, biochemist, vitamin D researcher * John Stiegelmeier, head coach of the South Dakota State Jackrabbits football team * Mike Stock (American football), Mike Stock, National Football League, NFL assistant coach * Scott Straus, assistant professor of Political Science and International Studies, specialising in the study of genocide * Harry Stuhldreher, National Football League, NFL player, member of the College Football Hall of Fame * Stephen Suomi, director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Comparative Ethology Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health * Aage B. Sørensen, sociologist ;T–Z * Brandon Taylor (writer), Brandon Taylor, writer * Cecil Taylor, jazz pianist * Henry Charles Taylor, agricultural economist * Howard Martin Temin, Howard Temin, 1975

for the discovery of reverse transcriptase * Edward Ten Eyck, first American to win the Diamond Challenge Sculls * Eeva Therman, geneticist, characterized trisomy 13 and trisomy 18 * James Thomson (cell biologist), James Thomson, credited with first successful culturing of human embryonic stem cells * Arthur Thrall, artist * Giulio Tononi, professor of psychiatry * Darold Treffert, psychiatrist * Frederick Jackson Turner, historian and creator of the "frontier thesis" explaining the American character * Timothy Tyson, professor of African-American history and author * John J. Uicker, mechanical engineer * Stanislaw Ulam, mathematician who joined the Manhattan Project during World War II * Harry Vail, rowing coach, the Dad Vail Regatta is named after him * Ryan G. Van Cleave, author * Clark Van Galder, head coach of the Fresno State Bulldogs football team * Charles R. Van Hise, geologist and university president who formulated the "Wisconsin Idea" * Edward Burr Van Vleck, mathematician and professor * Alexander Vasiliev (historian), Alexander Vasiliev (1867–1953), Byzantinist and Arabist * Jan Vansina, historian of Africa and father of oral historical methodology * Grace Wahba, statistician, developed generalized Cross-validation (statistics), cross validation and formalized Wahba's problem * Pete Waite, head coach of the women's volleyball team, author * David Ward (university president), David Ward, president of the American Council on Education * Oliver Patterson Watts, chemical engineer * Viola S. Wendt, poet * Albert Whitford (astronomer), Albert Whitford, astronomer * Eugene Wigner, 1963

* John Wilce, head coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes football team, member of the College Football Hall of Fame * Noah Williams (economist), Noah Williams, economist * William Appleman Williams, historian of American diplomacy * Erik Olin Wright, sociologist * Randall Wright, macroeconomist and pioneer of search theory in monetary economics * Sewall Wright, professor of genetics, one of the fathers of population genetics * Todd Yeagley, Major League Soccer, MLS player * Kenneth Zeichner, winner of several awards for Teacher Education * Efim Zelmanov, recipient of the Fields Medal in 1994 * Howard Zimmerman, organic chemist, discovered barrelene * Otto Julius Zobel, inventor of the m-derived filter and the Zobel network

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