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* Beverly Cleary (1939) – Children's Books, Fiction, Paperback 1981
* Timothy Egan (1981) – Non-fiction 2006 for ''The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl''
Notable alumni
Nobel laureates
Academic administration and teaching
Aeronautics and astronautics
Art and architecture
Business and law
Literature
Pulitzer Prize winners
General
If no class year is listed, author may not have graduated.
Government, Politics & Diplomacy
Military
Prominent officers
=Active duty
= *Peter W. Chiarelli
Peter William Chiarelli (born March 23, 1950) is a retired United States Army General (United States), general who served as the 32nd Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army from August 4, 2008 to January 31, 2012. He also served as commande ...
(1980) – four-star General and the Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army
* Bruce W. Clingan
Bruce Waid Clingan (born c. 1955) is a retired United States Navy admiral who last served as Commander of United States Naval Forces Europe, United States Naval Forces Africa and Allied Joint Force Command Naples from February 24, 2012 to July 22, ...
(1977) – Admiral
Admiral is one of the highest ranks in some navies. In the Commonwealth nations and the United States, a "full" admiral is equivalent to a "full" general in the army or the air force, and is above vice admiral and below admiral of the fleet, ...
United States Navy and Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Africa, Commander, Allied Joint Force Command, Naples
=World War II
= * Leslie Groves – Major General, United States Army Corps of Engineers, head of the Manhattan Project * William H. Holloman III (August 21, 1924 - June 12, 2010),U.S. Army Air Force
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officer and combat fighter pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen; U.S. Air Force’s first African American helicopter pilot. University of Washington professor of Black Studies.
* Tatsuji Suga - Lieutenant colonel
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, Imperial Japanese Army, commander of all prisoner-of-war
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Belligerents hold prisoners of w ...
(POW) and civilian internment camps in Borneo
=Other
= *Frank E. Garretson
Frank Edmund Garretson (February 27, 1918 – January 23, 2006) was an American military officer who served in the United States Marine Corps with the rank of brigadier general. A veteran of World War II, he distinguished himself as commanding of ...
- Brigadier general, U.S. Marine Corps; Navy Cross recipient
* Tracy L. Garrett
Tracy L. Garrett is a retired major general of the United States Marine Corps Reserve. During her military career, she served as the first female Inspector General of the Marine Corps.
Education
Garrett is a graduate of the University of Washin ...
– Major General, first female Inspector General of the United States Marine Corps
* Harley D. Nygren (B.S. 1945, BSME 1947) – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) rear admiral, first Director of the NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps
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* Kelly E. Taggart
Rear Admiral Kelly E. Taggart (17 December 1932 – 7 May 2014) was a career officer who served in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps, its successor, the Environmental Science Services Administration Corps (ESSA Corps), and the ESS ...
– National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) rear admiral, second Director of the NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps
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* Ronald R. Van Stockum - Brigadier general, Director, Marine Corps Reserve 1962-1964
Medal of Honor recipients
Religion
* Sanford Brown – social justice advocate, ordained United Methodist minister, and executive director of the Church Council of Greater SeattleScience and technology
Social science and humanities
Sports
Olympic medal winners
Baseball
Basketball
Football
Soccer
Track and field
* Brad Walker (2003) – two-time NCAA pole vault champion; gold medalist at the 2006 World Indoor Championships and 2007 World ChampionshipsOther sports
Music
Television, film, and other arts
Crime
* Theodore Robert Bundy – commonly known as "Ted" Bundy; serial killer, 1974–1978; admitted to killing 30 people; some sources say he could have killed as many as 100 * Amanda Knox; convicted of the murder of her roommate in Italy, conviction later overturnedNotable faculty
Nobel Laureates
Pulitzer Prize winners
*Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979) was an American people, American poet and short-story writer. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, the N ...
– Poetry, 1956
* Stephen Dunn
Stephen Elliot Dunn (June 24, 1939June 24, 2021) was an American poet and educator who authored twenty-one collections of poetry. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 2001 collection, ''Different Hours,'' and received an Academy Award i ...
– Poetry, 2001
* Richard Eberhart
Richard Ghormley Eberhart (April 5, 1904 – June 9, 2005) was an American poet who published more than a dozen books of poetry and approximately twenty works in total. "Richard Eberhart emerged out of the 1930s as a modern stylist with romanti ...
– Poetry, 1966
* Vernon Louis Parrington
Vernon Louis Parrington (August 3, 1871 – June 16, 1929) was an American literary historian and scholar. His three-volume history of American letters, ''Main Currents in American Thought'', won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1928 and was one ...
– History, 1928
* Theodore Roethke – Poetry, 1954
Biology and medicine
Business and law
* William R. Greiner – President of the University at Buffalo, 1991–2004 *Paul Heyne
Paul Theodore Heyne (November 2, 1931 – April 9, 2000) was an American economist and academic who lectured on economics at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Heyne received two divinity degrees from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, took h ...
– economist and author of ''The Economic Way of Thinking''
* Terence Mitchell
Terence Croft Mitchell (17 June 1929 – 21 April 2019) was a British archaeologist, scholar and curator. He was Keeper of Western Asiatic Antiquities at the British Museum from 1985 to 1989. He specialised in West Semitic languages, Near Eas ...
– Gold member of Academy of Management Hall of Fame; one of three Gold members out of over 10,000 members
Politics and administration
Science and technology
Social science, arts, and humanities
Athletics
References
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