List of University of Wisconsin–Madison people

This is a list of notable people who attended, or taught at, the University of Wisconsin–Madison:

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Notable alumni

Nobel laureates

thumb|150px|[[John Bardeen]]

John Bardeen, B.S. 1928 and M.S. 1929, only two-time recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 and 1972
Saul Bellow, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976, did not graduate
Günter Blobel, Ph.D. 1967, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1999
Paul D. Boyer, M.S. 1941, Ph.D. 1943, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997
William C. Campbell, M.S. 1953, Ph.D. 1957, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015
Herbert Spencer Gasser, A.B. 1910, A.M. 1911, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1944
Alan G. MacDiarmid, M.S. 1952, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2000
Stanford Moore, Ph.D. 1938, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972
Erwin Neher, M.S. 1967, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1991
Theodore Schultz, M.S. 1928, Ph.D. 1930, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1979
Edward Lawrie Tatum, B.A. 1931, M.S. 1932, Ph.D. 1935, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958
John H. Van Vleck, A.B. 1920, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977

Athletics

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Academics

Arts and entertainment

A–M

Virgil Abloh, fashion designer, artistic director of Louis Vuitton's men's wear collection
Don Ameche, Academy Award–winning actor
Joseph Anthony, playwright, actor, and director
Iris Apfel, interior designer and fashion icon
William Bast, screenwriter
Gary Beecham, glass artist
James Benning
Andrew Bergman, film writer, director, and producer
Rick Berman, television/movie producer
Drew Binsky, travel influencer
Chester Biscardi, composer
Keith D. Black, screenwriter
Jerry Bock, composer
Karen Borca, musician
Kate Borcherding, artist
Pat Brady, cartoonist, creator of Rose Is Rose
Tamara Braun, actress
Marshall Brickman, screenwriter
Gary Hugh Brown, artist
Oscar Brown, musician
Johnny Burke, lyricist
Macdonald Carey, actor
Adrian "Wildman" Cenni, professional driver and stuntman
Gina Cerminara, author
Jeff Cesario, comedian and writer
Ann Fox Chandonnet, poet
Alison Chernick, filmmaker
Dale Chihuly, glass artist
Robert Clarke, actor
Alf Clausen, film composer
Hunter Cole, artist
Carrie Coon, actress
Joan Cusack, actress
Rich Dahm, co-executive producer and head writer of The Colbert Report
Richard Dauenhauer, poet
Richard Davis, jazz-bassist, recording artist, professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison
André DeShields, Emmy Award–winning actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer
Chip Dunham, cartoonist
Susan Dynner, film director, producer
Lois Ehlert, illustrator, Caldecott Medal recipient
Dean Elliott, film composer
Joe Feddersen, artist
David Fishelson, Broadway producer, playwright, filmmaker
Honor Ford-Smith, actress
Jason Gerhardt, actor
Glenn Gissler, interior designer
Jill Godmilow, filmmaker
Roger Goeb, composer
Bert I. Gordon, film director
Stuart Gordon, stage and film director
Evan Gruzis, painter
MK Guth, artist
Daron Hagen, composer, conductor, pianist
Uta Hagen, actress, recipient of the National Medal of Arts
Tom Hall, game designer
Anna Halprin, pioneer of postmodern dance
Timothy Hasenstein, painter and sculptor
Sorrel Hays, pianist
Sam Herman, glass artist
F. Scott Hess, painter and conceptual artist
Charlie Hill, television writer
Lee Hoiby, composer
Gwendolyn Holbrow, sculptor
Anders Holm, actor, writer, producer for Workaholics
Lawrence Holofcener, sculptor
Adam Horowitz, television writer
Zola Jesus, born Nika Roza Danilova, singer/songwriter
Jane Kaczmarek, actress
Kelly Kahl, television executive
Irene Kampen, author
Ben Karlin, Emmy Award–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, producer
Steven Levitan, television writer, director, and producer
Marvin Lipofsky, glass artist
Joseph Lulloff, musician
C. Cameron Macauley, photographer
Michael Mann, movie director/producer

thumb|150px|[[Fredric March]]

Fredric March, actor
Steve Marmel, comedian, writer, Fairly Odd Parents
Karen Thuesen Massaro, ceramicist
Pat McCurdy, singer-songwriter
John O. Merrill, architect
Steve Miller, musician, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee
Kui Min
Walter Mirisch, Academy Award–winning film producer
Paul Monash, former screenwriter and producer
Jemeel Moondoc, musician
Agnes Moorehead, actress
Errol Morris, Academy Award–winning director
Kevin Murphy, writer, actor, and puppeteer for Mystery Science Theater 3000
Michael Derrington Murphy, chemist and musician

N–Z

thumb|150px|[[Frank Lloyd Wright]]

Floyd Naramore, architect
Bruce Nauman, glass artist
Ken Navarro, jazz guitarist
Jennifer Nehrbass, artist
Aaron Ohlmann, editor, producer, and documentarian
Tricia O'Kelley, actress
Lance Olsen, non-fiction writer, novelist, poet, short-story writer
Irna Phillips, actress; soap opera writer and script editor
Meinhardt Raabe, Munchkin in the Wizard of Oz
Nathan Rabin, film critic
Som Ranchan, poet
Rita Mae Reese, poet and publisher
Rosetta Reitz, jazz historian
Mary T. Reynolds, writer
Mark Rosenberg, film producer
Tom Rosenberg, Academy Award–winning film producer
Brad Rowe, actor
Gena Rowlands, actress
Boz Scaggs (William Royce Scaggs), musician
Ira Schneider, video artist
Jana Schneider, actress and journalist
Jon Schueler, artist
Michael Schultz, filmmaker and television director
Delmore Schwartz, poet
Seann William Scott, actor
Barolong Seboni, poet
Brittany Shane, singer and songwriter
Tom Shannon
Ben Sidran, jazz pianist
Joe Silver, Tony Award–nominated actor of stage and screen
Tormod Skagestad, director of Det Norske Teatret
Bently Spang, multidisciplinary artist
Lev L. Spiro, television director
Brian Stack, Emmy Award–winning writer and comic
Josh Stamberg, actor
Leon C. Standifer, horticulturist, novelist, and memoirist
Robert Stone
Herbert Stothart, film composer
Richard Steven Street, photographer
Sun Yu, film director
David Susskind, producer of film and television
John Szarkowski, curator and photographer
Daniel J. Travanti, Emmy Award–winning actor
Charlie Trotter, chef, PBS host
Neal Ulevich, photographer
James Valcq, composer
Michael Velliquette, artist
Butch Vig, musician, Garbage
Eric Villency, interior designer
Sylvia Solochek Walters, artist, printmaker and educator
William Walton, painter, government official
Marc Webb, film, television, and music video director
Matt White, singer-songwriter
Nancy Metz White, sculptor
John Wilde, painter
Allee Willis, songwriter
Tom Wopat, actor/musician
Frank Lloyd Wright (attended), architect
Frank Wu, science-fiction artist
Yung Gravy (Matthew Hauri), rapper
Jorge Zamacona, television writer and producer
Marilyn J Ziffrin, composer
Glen Zipper, film producer
Charlotte Zucker, actress
David Zucker, movie director/producer
Jerry Zucker, movie director/producer

Aviators and astronauts

thumb|150px|[[Charles Lindbergh]]

thumb|150px|[[Laurel Clark]]

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, aviator (did not graduate)
Nathan J. Lindsay, astronaut
Jim Lovell, astronaut, Apollo 13 mission
Robert Campbell Reeve, founder of Reeve Aleutian Airways
Richard V. Rhode, aeronautical engineer, NACA and NASA; awarded Wright Brothers Medal in 1937
Brewster Shaw, astronaut, former director, Space Shuttle Operations, NASA

Business

Carol Bartz, former CEO of Yahoo!, former chairman of the board, president, and CEO of Autodesk
Randall Boe, general counsel for AOL
Jerome Chazen, co-founder of Liz Claiborne
Chow Chung-Kong, CEO of MTR Corporation
M. J. Cleary, insurance executive
Michael J. Critelli, executive chairman of Pitney Bowes
William H. Davidson, former president of Harley-Davidson
Willie G. Davidson, former vice president, Harley-Davidson
Thomas J. Falk, CEO of Kimberly Clark
Judith R. Faulkner, CEO and founder of Epic Systems
Edgar Fiedler (1929–2003), economist
Donald Goerke, Campbell Soup Company executive, inventor of SpaghettiOs
William S. Harley, founder of Harley-Davidson
Charles Walter Hart, founder of Hart-Parr Gasoline Engine Company, coined the word "tractor"
Harvey V. Higley, president of Ansul
Colin Huang, founder, chairman, and CEO of Pinduoduo
David J. Lesar, chairman, president and CEO of Halliburton Energy Services
Kevin Mather, baseball executive
Larry McVoy, CEO, Bitmover
John P. Morgridge, chairman of the board, former president and CEO of Cisco Systems, philanthropist
William Beverly Murphy, former president and CEO, Campbell Soup Company
Keith Nosbusch, CEO, Rockwell Automation
Richard Notebaert, former chairman and CEO of Qwest, Tellabs and Ameritech
Lee R. Raymond, former chairman and CEO, ExxonMobil
Philip D. Reed, former president of GE
Stephen S. Roach, economist with Morgan Stanley
John Rowe, CEO of Exelon
Kenneth L. Schroeder, CEO, KLA-Tencor
Deven Sharma, president of Standard and Poor's
Jane Trahey, advertiser
Reuben Trane, president of Trane
Patrick Waddick, president and COO of Cirrus Aircraft
Peter Booth Wiley, publisher
Elmer Winter (1912–2009), founder of ManpowerGroup
Lewis Wolff, real estate developer and owner of the Oakland Athletics and San Jose Earthquakes
Zhu Yunlai, CEO of China International Capital Corp

Literature

thumb|150px|[[Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings]]

Nazik Al-Malaika, Iraqi poet
Kevin J. Anderson, author
Nuala Archer, poet
Alice Elinor Bartlett, author
Lynne Cheney, children's writer, novelist and former Second Lady of the United States
Donald Clarke, author on music
Eleanor Clymer, children's author
Betsy Colquitt, poet
Jane Cooper, poet
Richard Dauenhauer, poet
August Derleth, writer, editor, anthologist of H. P. Lovecraft, and founder of Arkham House publishing
Ainehi Edoro, founder and editor of Brittle Paperliterary magazine
Esther Forbes, author and Pulitzer Prize winner
Genevieve Foster, author
Zona Gale, novelist, playwright, and short-story writer
Robert Greene
Sam Greenlee, author
Horace Gregory, poet
Frederick Gutheim, author
Emily Hahn, author
Lorraine Hansberry, non-fiction writer, playwright, screenwriter
Eva Lund Haugen, author
Michael Heiser, author and Biblical scholar
David Henige, author
Kevin Henkes, children's author
Conrad Hilberry, poet
Hjalmar Holand, historian
bell hooks (born Gloria Jean Watkins) , non-fiction writer, children's writer, poet, and activist
Carolyn Hougan, writer
Jim Hougan, writer
Jens Joneleit, composer
Lesley Kagen, author
Jay Kennedy, editor-in-chief of King Features Syndicate
Herbert Kubly, non-fiction writer, novelist, playwright, short-story writer
Margery Latimer, novelist and short-story writer
Ann Lauterbach, poet
Flora E. Lowry (1879–1933), anthologist
Gordon MacQuarrie, author, writer, and outdoorsman
Honoré Willsie Morrow, author, magazine editor
Lotte Motz, scholar of German mythology
Joyce Carol Oates, National Book Award–winning author and professor at Princeton University
Ed Ochester, poet
Lance Olsen, author and writer
Sigurd F. Olson, author and naturalist
Alicia Ostriker, 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, Pulitzer Prize–winning author
Ella Giles Ruddy (1851–1917), author, editor
Sofia Samatar, professor, editor and writer
Pamela Redmond Satran, entrepreneur and author
Mark Schorer, writer, critic, and professor
Delmore Schwartz, poet and writer
Barolong Seboni, poet
Clifford D. Simak, science fiction author
Tormod Skagestad, poet
Raymond J. Smith, literary critic
John Snead, writer and role player
Midori Snyder, writer and author
David Stephenson, poet
Peter Straub, author, recipient of the Bram Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, and the International Horror Guild Award
Mark Tatge, journalist
Martha L. Poland Thurston, social leader, philanthropist, writer
Steve Tittle, Canadian composer
Danielle Trussoni, writer from La Crosse
Francis Utley, folklorist and linguist
James Valcq, composer and writer
Stanley G. Weinbaum, science fiction author
Jody Weiner, novelist, author, film producer
Patricia Wells, author
Eudora Welty, Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist
Lowell Bergman, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Erik Bye, Norwegian journalist
Tim Cahill, adventure travel writer, founding editor of Outside magazine
Susan Carpenter, journalist and author
Ethan Casey, journalist
John Darnton, journalist
Nancy Dickerson, journalist
Doris Dungey, former blogger
Andrew Feinberg, White House correspondent for Breakfast Media
Michael Feldman, host of Public Radio's Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?
Bob Franken, correspondent, CNN
Elina Fuhrman, journalist
Jason Gay, Wall Street Journal sports writer
Jeff Greenfield, senior political correspondent, CBS
Ruth Gruber, author and journalist
Usha Haley, business journalist
Helen Holmes, journalist, historian, Women's Army Corps officer
Paul Ingrassia, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Danny Peary, film critic
Gerald Peary, film critic
Nathan Rabin, film critic
Manu Raju, correspondent, CNN
Gil Reavill, journalist and screenwriter
Chris Rose
Phil Rosenthal, columnist, Chicago Tribune
Susanne Rust, journalist
Joe Schoenmann, journalist, author
Joseph Sexton, journalist and reporter with the New York Times
Anthony Shadid, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

Law and politics

thumb|150px|[[Shirley Abrahamson]]

thumb|150px|[[Dick Cheney]]

thumb|150px|[[Lawrence Eagleburger]]

;A–G

Charles L. Aarons, Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge
Shirley Abrahamson, chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
Henry Cullen Adams, U.S. representative
Iajuddin Ahmed, former president of Bangladesh
Ronald E. Albers, California judge
Anita Alpern, former IRS commissioner
Arthur J. Altmeyer, former commissioner of Social Security
Thomas Ryum Amlie, U.S. representative
Rasmus B. Anderson, U.S. diplomat
Adeyinka Asekun, former Nigerian high commissioner to Canada
Wilson Ndolo Ayah, former foreign minister, Kenya
William Bablitch, former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
Sergio Balanzino, Italian diplomat
Tammy Baldwin, U.S. senator
Hiram Barber, Jr., U.S. representative from Illinois
Peter W. Barca, U.S. representative
Charles V. Bardeen, former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
Elmer E. Barlow, justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
Robert Barnett, attorney
Tom Barrett, former U.S. representative, mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Charlene Barshefsky, former U.S. trade representative
Robert McKee Bashford, former mayor of Madison, Wisconsin; former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
Robert C. Bassett, U.S. presidential advisor
Susan J. M. Bauman, former mayor of Madison, Wisconsin
Joseph D. Beck, former United States representative
Bruce F. Beilfuss, former chief justice of Wisconsin
Ernst Benda, Minister of the Interior of Germany and president the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
Helen Ginger Berrigan, federal judge
Mario Ramón Beteta, former secretary of Finance, Mexico
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 governor of South Dakota and judge for the United States Customs Court
Randall Boe, attorney
John W. Boehne, Jr., former U.S. representative
Alexander Campbell Botkin, lieutenant governor of Montana
Ann Walsh Bradley, justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
J. Quinn Brisben, Socialist Party USA candidate for president of the United States and vice president; civil rights activist; teacher
Grover L. Broadfoot, chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
Dave Bronson, mayor of Anchorage, Alaska
Angie Brooks, former president, United Nations General Assembly
Timothy Brown, former chief justice of Wisconsin
Webster E. Brown, U.S. representative
Edward E. Browne, U.S. representative
Andrew A. Bruce, former justice, North Dakota Supreme Court
George Bunn, diplomat
George Bunn, former justice, Minnesota Supreme Court
John R. Burke, U.S. diplomat
Michael E. Burke, U.S. representative
Elizabeth Burmaster, superintendent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin
Louis B. Butler, federal judicial nominee, former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
Walter Halben Butler, former United States representative
John W. Byrnes, U.S. representative
William G. Callow, Wisconsin Supreme Court
John Campbell
Milton Robert Carr, U.S. representative from Michigan
Patrick G. Carrick, member of the Senior Executive Service
Sheri Polster Chappell, federal judge
Dick Cheney, former vice president of the United States (attended UW as doctoral student; received M.A. degree but did not continue)
Dave Cieslewicz, mayor of Madison, Wisconsin
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, Wisconsin Supreme Court
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
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
Roland B. Day, former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
Evo Anton DeConcini, former justice, Arizona Supreme Court
Ada Deer, head of the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs
Edward Dithmar, lieutenant governor of Wisconsin
Christian Doerfler, former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
Mark Doms, chief economist, Economics and Statistics Administration
Brian Donnelly
James Edward Doyle, former judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin
James Edward "Jim" Doyle, 44th governor of Wisconsin
Lee S. Dreyfus, 40th governor of Wisconsin
Stan Dromisky, former 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, U.S. representative from Illinois
Chester A. Fowler, former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
Alejandro Foxley, former foreign minister of Chile
Oscar M. Fritz, former chief justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
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, Wisconsin Supreme Court
Bernard J. Gehrmann, U.S. representative
Eric Genrich, mayor of Green Bay; former member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
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 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, member of the Parliament of Norway (2005–present)
Henry Gunderson, lieutenant governor of Wisconsin
Steve Gunderson, U.S. representative

;H–M

thumb|150px|[[Robert La Follette, Sr.|Robert La Follette]]

thumb|150px|[[Wayne Morse]]

Sami Haddad, Minister of Economy and Trade, Lebanon
David Warner Hagen, former federal judge
Oscar Hallam, justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, 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, Wisconsin Supreme Court
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, Wisconsin Supreme Court
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 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 Illinois
Andre Jacque, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
Edward H. Jenison, U.S. representative from Illinois
Byron L. Johnson, U.S. representative from Colorado
J. Leroy Johnson, former U.S. representative
Lester Johnson, U.S. representative
Sveinbjorn Johnson, former justice, North Dakota Supreme Court
Burr W. Jones, U.S. representative
Howard Palfrey Jones, U.S. diplomat
Richard Jones
William Carey Jones, former U.S. representative from State of Washington
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. epresentative from Minnesota
James C. Kerwin, former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
Shishir Khanal, Nepali Minister of Education, Science and Technology
John C. Kleczka, U.S. representative
Frank Le Blond Kloeb, U.S. representative from Ohio
Scott L. Klug, U.S. representative
Warren P. Knowles, 37th governor of Wisconsin
Herb Kohl, U.S. senator
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, 27th governor of Wisconsin
Robert M. La Follette, Jr., U.S. senator
Robert M. La Follette, Sr., 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
Olin B. Lewis, former Minnesota politician
Theodore G. Lewis, former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
James C. Liao, president of Academia Sinica, Taiwan
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
Richard Barrett Lowe, governor of American Samoa and Guam
Patrick Joseph Lucey, U.S. diplomat and governor of Wisconsin
Claude Zeth Luse, former federal judge
Henry Maier, former mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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, Wisconsin Supreme Court
Henry F. Mason, former justice, Kansas Supreme Court
Alyssa Mastromonaco, presidential aide
Charles McCarthy, author of The Wisconsin Idea
Francis E. McGovern, 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, 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

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thumb|150px|[[Gaylord Nelson]]

thumb|150px|[[Wiley Rutledge]]

thumb|150px|[[Tommy Thompson]]

thumb|150px|[[Julius Edward Roehr|Julius Roehr]]

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, 35th governor of Wisconsin and founder of Earth Day
George B. Nelson, former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
John M. Nelson, U.S. representative
Ivan A. Nestingen, former mayor of Madison, Wisconsin
Mark Neumann, U.S. representative
John Norquist, former mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
David Obey, U.S. representative
Kenneth J. O'Connell, chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court
James L. O'Connor, former Wisconsin attorney general
Tawiah Modibo Ocran, Supreme Court judge in Ghana
Eric Oemig, Washington (state) legislator
Alvin O'Konski, U.S. representative
Conrad P. Olson, former justice, Oregon Supreme Court
Walter C. Owen, former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
Carolyn R. Payton, former director, Peace Corps
Russell W. Peterson, governor of Delaware
Richard F. Pettigrew, former United States senator
Huang Pi-Twan, Minister for Culture, Taiwan
Joy Picus, Los Angeles, California, city council member, 1977–91; Ms. magazine "Woman of the Year"
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, Wisconsin Supreme Court
David Rabinovitz, former federal judge
John Abner Race, U.S. representative
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
Shawn Reilly, mayor of Waukesha, Wisconsin, 2014–present
Paul Samuel Reinsch, appointed minister to China in 1913
Oscar Rennebohm, former governor of Wisconsin
John W. Reynolds, Jr., 36th governor of Wisconsin
John W. Reynolds, Sr., attorney general of Wisconsin, 1927–1933
Daniel Riemer, legislator
Fred Risser, Wisconsin state senator and assemblyman
Fred Risser, 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, Wisconsin Supreme Court
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
Marlin D. Schneider, Democratic politician and teacher, longest serving member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, 1971–2011
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
Paul Soglin, mayor of Madison, Wisconsin
Daniel V. Speckhard, U.S. ambassador and diplomat
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 Rate Commission and Federal Trade Commission
William A. Steiger, congressman
Donald Steinmetz, former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
E. Ray Stevens, former justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
William H. Stevenson, former U.S. representative
Anne K. Strasdauskas, sheriff of Baltimore County, Maryland
Robert C. Strong, U.S. diplomat
Jessie Sumner, former U.S. representative
Suchatvee Suwansawat, Thai politician, former resident of King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL)
Lori Swanson, attorney general of Minnesota
Aleksander Szczyglo, Minister of Defense of Poland
Elaine Szymoniak, former Iowa state senator

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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, 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, Wisconsin Supreme Court
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, 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, prime minister of Singapore; former Minister for Education and Second Minister for Finance
Ann Wynia, Minnesota state representative
Clayton K. Yeutter, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
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
V. David Zvenyach, former U.S public servant

Military

Frank L. Anders, Medal of Honor recipient
Matthew P. Beilfuss, U.S. National Guard brigadier general
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
Ernest R. Feidler, U.S. Coast Guard rear admiral, former Judge Advocate 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, U.S. National Guard brigadier general
Richard A. Knobloch, U.S. Air Force brigadier general
Oscar Hugh La Grange, Union Army brigadier general
Daniel P. Leaf, U.S. Air Force lieutenant general; former commander of United States Pacific Command
Otto Lessing, U.S. Marine Corps major general
John D. Logeman, U.S. Air Force major 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, U.S. Army general
David V. Miller, U.S. Air Force major general
Jason Naidyhorski, U.S. Navy rear admiral
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, 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

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Amy Aiken, winemaker
Howard Aiken, computer science pioneer and recipient of 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
Gerard C. Bond, geologist
Paul Brehm, neurobiologist
Ernest J. Briskey, scientist, founder of the American Meat Science Association
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
Douglas L. Coleman, biochemist
Richard B. Corey, soil chemist
John Thomas Curtis, botanist and ecologist; the Bray Curtis dissimilarity is partially named for him
Larry Curtiss, chemist
Donald Dafoe, surgeon
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
Charles A. Doswell III, meteorologist
Richard Dugdale, oceanographer and fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Olin J. Eggen, astronomer
Widad Ibrahim Elmahboub, astrophysicist and aerospace engineer
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
Kassandra Ford, ichthyologist, biomechanist, and birder
Eleanor Ison Franklin, physiologist and endocrinologist
Michael J. Franklin, computer scientist
Louis Friedman, engineer
Michael Garey, computer scientist
Sol Garfunkel, mathematician
Meredith Gardner, linguist and codebreaker
Harold Garner, biophysicist
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 charmed meson, and dark energy
Sulamith Goldhaber, physicist and spectroscopist
Danny Goodman, computer scientist and programmer
Morris Goodman, scientist
Eric D. Green, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute
Hary Gunarto, computer engineer
Paul Haeberli, computer programmer
Tom Hall, 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
Nathan Havill, entomologist and evolutionary biologist
Leland John Haworth, physicist and director of the National Science Foundation
Susan Lynn Hefle, food allergen scientist
Caleb Hickman, biologist, zoologist
Ralph F. Hirschmann (1922–2009), biochemist who led synthesis of the first enzyme
Dennis Robert Hoagland, plant physiologist and soil chemist
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
Russell F. Johannes, agronomist
Larry R. Johnson, president of the National Weather Association
Richard A. Jorgensen, molecular geneticist
Willi Kalender, inventor of 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
Kyung J. Kwon-Chung, microbiologist and chief, molecular microbiology section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Ben Lawton, physician
Esther Lederberg, microbiologist and immunologist, pioneer of 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
Abraham Maslow, psychologist, founder of Humanistic psychology, Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Max Mason, mathematician
Scott McCartney, engineer, author, actor
Karl Menninger, psychiatrist
Patrick Michaels, climatologist
Parry Moon, electrical engineer, author
David Moore, molecular biologist
M. Laurance Morse, microbiologist and immunologist
Newton Ennis Morton, founder of field of genetic epidemiology
Mark Myers, geologist and former USGS director

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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
Sarah Nusser, statistician
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, sociologist, author
Carl Rogers, psychologist, co-founder of 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
Ashley Shade, director of research at the Institute of Ecology and the Environment within Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Digvijai Singh, chemical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
Dick Smith, software engineer and computer consultant
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
Victor A. Tiedjens, scientist
James Tour, synthetic organic chemist
Marilyn Tremaine, computer scientist
Glenn Thomas Trewartha, geographer
Mary Tsingou, numerical analyst
Tso Wung-Wai, professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, political activist
Billie Lee Turner II, geographer
Kameshwar C. Wali, research physicist and science writer
John Watrous, quantum theorist of computing
Warren Weaver, pioneer of machine translation
I. Bernard Weinstein, physician
Louis Jolyon West, psychiatrist
Albert Whitford, astronomer
Dave Winer, software designer
Gordon Woods, veterinary scientist
Charles E. Woodworth, entomologist
A. Wayne Wymore, systems engineer and mathematician
Ned Xoubi, nuclear engineer
Joy Zedler, ecologist and botanist
Ying E. Zhang, biochemist and senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute
John Zillman, meteorologist
Otto Julius Zobel, inventor of the m-derived filter and the Zobel network

Other notable alumni

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Milo Aukerman, biochemist, front man of the Descendents
Mary Brunner, former Manson Family member and ex-girlfriend of cult leader Charles Manson
Clarence Chamberlin, aviation pioneer
Kathryn F. Clarenbach, first chairwoman of the National Organization for Women
Tim Cordes, blind physician
Charity Rusk Craig (1849–1913), national president, Woman's Relief Corps
Lionel Dahmer, research chemist and author; father of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer
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 WSOP bracelet-winning champion
Allene Wilson Groves (1896–1986), 23rd president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Frederick Gutheim, urban planner
Eva Lund Haugen, author and editor
Jerome Heckenkamp, computer hacker
Phil Hellmuth, 14-time WSOP bracelet-winning champion
Prynce Hopkins, activist and psychologist
Robert Kotler, physician
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
Charlie Trotter, 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
Chris (Will Arnett), MRI tech on TV series Parks and Recreation, says he went to UW for both his undergrad and graduate work.
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
Vladimir "Vlad" Masters, aka Vlad Plasmius, supervillain and foe of Danny Phantom
Donna Moss, White House staffer in the television series The West Wing (dropped out halfway through to support her boyfriend as he went through medical school)
Gideon Oliver, forensic anthropologist who originated in a series of novels by Aaron Elkins and was the protagonist of a short-lived television series starring Louis Gossett Jr.
Alison Parker (Courtney Thorne-Smith) on Melrose Place, a 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 on the crew team for three years.
James Walker (Michael Vartan) from the TV series Big Shots
Many, perhaps most, of the characters in the 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