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This is a list of notable people who attended, or taught at, the University of Wisconsin–Madison:
[edit] Notable alumni
[edit] Nobel laureates
- 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, completed graduate work, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976
- 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
- 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, Ph.D. 1953, 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
[edit] Athletics
[edit] Academics
[edit] Arts and entertainment
- A–M
- Don Ameche, Academy Award-winning actor
- Joseph Anthony, playwright, actor, and director
- William Bast, screenwriter
- Gary Beecham, glass artist
- James Benning (film director)
- Andrew Bergman, film writer, director, and producer
- Rick Berman, television/movie producer
- Chester Biscardi, composer
- Keith D. Black, screenwriter
- Jerry Bock, composer
- Karen Borca, musician
- Pat Brady, cartoonist, creator of Rose Is Rose
- Tamara Braun, actress
- Marshall Brickman, screenwriter
- Oscar Brown, musician (no degree obtained)
- Johnny Burke, lyricist
- Macdonald Carey, actor
- Gina Cerminara, author
- Jeff Cesario, comic and writer
- Ann Fox Chandonnet, poet
- Alison Chernick, filmmaker
- Dale Chihuly, glass artist
- Robert Clarke, actor
- Alf Clausen, film composer
- Hunter Cole, artist
- Joan Cusack, actress
- Rich Dahm, co-executive producer of head writer of The Colbert Report
- Richard Dauenhauer, poet
- André DeShields, Emmy Award-winning actor/singer/dancer/choreographer
- Chip Dunham, cartoonist
- Lois Ehlert, illustrator, Caldecott Medal recipient
- Dean Elliott, film composer
- Joe Feddersen, artist
- Honor Ford-Smith, actress
- Glenn Gissler, interior designer
- Bert I. Gordon, film director
- Daron Hagen (attended), composer, conductor, pianist
- Uta Hagen, actress, recipient of the National Medal of Arts
- Anna Halprin, pioneer of postmodern dance
- Timothy Hasenstein, painter and sculptor
- Sorrel Hays, pianist
- Sam Herman, glass artist
- Lee Hoiby, composer
- Gwendolyn Holbrow, sculptor
- Anders Holm, actor/writer/producer for Workaholics
- Lawrence Holofcener, sculptor
- Adam Horowitz, television writer
- Zola Jesus (a.k.a. Nika Roza Danilova), singer/songwriter
- Hisonni Johnson, actor
- Jane Kaczmarek, actress (Malcolm in the Middle)
- Ben Karlin, Emmy Award-winning television producer
- Catherine Ransom Karoly, flutist
- Craig A. Kraft, sculptor
- Karl Kroeger, composer
- Myron W. Krueger, computer artist
- Kay Kurt, painter
- Rocco Landesman, producer
- Margery Latimer, novelist
- Steven Levitan, television writer, director, and producer
- Marvin Lipofsky, glass artist
- Joseph Lulloff, musician
- C. Cameron Macauley, photographer
- Michael Mann, movie director/producer
- Fredric March, actor
- Steve Marmel, comedian/writer Fairly Odd Parents
- John O. Merrill, architect
- Steve Miller, musician (left school six credit-hours short of a degree)
- Kui Min (pianist)
- 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
- Floyd Naramore, architect
- Bruce Nauman, glass artist
- Ken Navarro, jazz guitarist
- Aaron Ohlmann, editor, producer, and documentarian
- Tricia O'Kelley, actress
- Lance Olsen, writer and author
- Irna Phillips, actress; soap opera writer and script editor
- Meinhardt Raabe, Munchkin in the Wizard of Oz
- Nathan Rabin, film critic
- Som Ranchan, poet
- Rosetta Reitz, jazz historian
- Alison Relyea, illustrator
- Mark Rosenberg, film producer
- Tom Rosenberg, Academy Award-winning film producer
- Brad Rowe, actor
- Gena Rowlands, actress
- Boz Scaggs (Wm. 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 (artist)
- Ben Sidran, jazz pianist
- Tormod Skagestad, Director of Det Norske Teatret
- Lev L. Spiro, television director
- Brian Stack, Emmy Award-winning writer and comic
- Josh Stamberg, actor
- Leon C. Standifer, horticulturalist, novelist, and writer
- Richard Steven Street, photographer
- Robert Stone (director)
- Herbert Stothart, film composer
- 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
- 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
- Jorge Zamacona, television writer and producer
- Marilyn J Ziffrin, composer
- David Zucker, movie director/producer
- Jerry Zucker, movie director/producer
[edit] Aviators and astronauts
- Laurel Clark, astronaut
- Roger G. DeKok, astronaut
- Walter Edwin Lees, aviator
- Charles Lindbergh, aviator
- 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, Space Shuttle Columbia; former director, Space Shuttle Operations, NASA
[edit] Business
- Carol Bartz, former CEO of Yahoo!, former chairman of the board, president, and CEO of Autodesk, Inc..
- Randall Boe, General Counsel for AOL
- Jerome Chazen, co-founder of Liz Claiborne
- Chow Chung-Kong, CEO of MTR Corporation
- Michael J. Critelli, Executive Chairman of Pitney Bowes
- 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
- David J. Lesar chairman, president and CEO of Halliburton Energy Services
- 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
- Daniel J. Piette, director of Petroleum Geo-Services, president and CEO of OpenSpirit Corporation
- Lee R. Raymond, former chairman and CEO, Exxon Mobil
- Philip D. Reed, former President of GE
- Stephen S. Roach, economist with Morgan Stanley
- Kenneth L. Schroeder, CEO, KLA-Tencor
- Deven Sharma, President of Standard and Poor's
- Roy Thiele-Sardiña, entrepreuner
- Reuben Trane, president of Trane
- Elmer Winter (1912–2009), founder of Manpower Inc.[1]
- Zhu Yunlai, CEO of China International Capital Corp
[edit] Literature
- Nazik Al-Malaika, Iraqi poet
- Nuala Archer, poet
- Lynne Cheney, author, writer, and former Second Lady of the United States
- Donald Clarke (writer), 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
- Esther Forbes, author and Pulitzer Prize winner
- Genevieve Foster, author
- Zona Gale, author and playwright
- Robert Greene (American author)
- Sam Greenlee, author
- Horace Gregory, poet
- Frederick Gutheim, author
- Emily Hahn, author
- Lorraine Hansberry, author and playwright
- Eva Lund Haugen, author
- Michael Heiser, author and Bible scholar
- David Henige, author
- Kevin Henkes, children's author
- Conrad Hilberry, poet
- Hjalmar Holand, author and historian[2]
- bell hooks, author, writer, 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, author and playwright
- Margery Latimer, author and writer
- Ann Lauterbach, poet
- Gordon MacQuarrie, author, writer, and outdoorsman
- 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[3]
- David Salo, linguist
- Mark Schorer, writer, critic, and professor
- Barolong Seboni, poet
- Clifford D. Simak, science fiction author
- Tormod Skagestad, poet
- Raymond J. Smith, literary critic
- David Stephenson (poet)
- Peter Straub, author, recipient of the Bram Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, and the International Horror Guild Award[4]
- Delmore Schwartz, poet and writer
- John Snead, writer and role player
- Midori Snyder, writer and author
- Terry Tarnoff, writer and author
- Mark Tatge, journalist
- 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
- Eudora Welty, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist[3]
- Viola S. Wendt, poet
- E.J. Westlake, playwright
- Frank Wu, science fiction artist
- Mark Wunderlich, poet
- Marya Zaturenska, poet
[edit] News, journalism, and broadcasting
- Roy Adams, Canadian journalist
- Mary Agria, journalist/author
- Lynsey Addario, photojournalist
- Irene Osgood Andrews, former labor journalist
- Jim Armstrong, sports writer, The Denver Post
- Robert L. Bartley, former Editor, Wall Street Journal
- Ira Basen, producer, CBC Radio
- Lowell Bergman, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist[3]
- Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author.
- Walt Bogdanich, editor, New York Times
- Nathan Brackett, senior editor Rolling Stone magazine.
- Rita Braver, national reporter, CBS News
- Jane Brody, columnist, New York Times
- Peter Brunette, film critic (Hollywood Reporter) and film historian.
- Chris Bury, correspondent, Nightline[5]
- Erik Bye, Norwegian journalist
- Tim Cahill, adventure travel writer, founding editor of Outside magazine
- Ethan Casey, journalist
- John Darnton, journalist
- Nancy Dickerson, journalist
- Doris Dungey, former blogger
- Michael Feldman, Host of Public Radio’s Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?
- Bob Franken, correspondent, CNN[6]
- Elina Fuhrman, journalist
- Jeff Greenfield, senior political correspondent, CBS
- Ruth Gruber, author and journalist
- Usha Haley, business journalist
- Paul Ingrassia, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist[3]
- Don L. Johnson, journalist and author
- Haynes Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist[3]
- Ben Karlin, creator and former executive producer, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report
- Andy Katz, college basketball writer, ESPN
- Jay Kennedy, journalist and writer
- Louis P. Lochner, journalist
- David Maraniss, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist[3]
- Patricia McConnell, co-host of Public Radio's Calling All Pets
- Robert D. McFadden, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist[3]
- Karl E. Meyer, journalist for The New York Times and editor of World Policy Journal
- Michael Meyer (travel writer), journalist
- Edwin Newman, former NBC news correspondent
- Arthur C. Nielsen Sr., founder of AC Nielsen (TV ratings and market research)
- Michele Norris, journalist at National Public Radio
- Miriam Ottenberg, journalist and Pulitzer prize winner
- Danny Peary, film critic
- Gerald Peary, film critic
- Nathan Rabin, film critic
- Gil Reavill, journalist and screen writer
- Dan Ronan, former correspondent, CNN
- Chris Rose (journalist)
- 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[3]
- William P. Steven, editor and newspaper executive,Tulsa Tribune, Minneapolis Tribune, Houston Chronicle
- Algie Martin Simons, journalist
- Tom Skilling, chief meteorologist, WGN-TV
- William P. Steven, journalist
- James Suckling, wine and cigar critic
- Nilofar Suhrawardy, journalist
- Christopher Tennant, magazine editor
- Steve True, Emmy Award-winning sportscaster
- Sarah Turner (journalist), reporter and activist
- Dave Umhoefer, journalist, Pulitzer Prize recipient
- David C. Unger, noted journalist with the New York Times
- Greta Van Susteren, broadcaster and news analyst, Fox News Channel
- Joan Walsh, blogger
- James Wieghart, journalist
- Conrad Worrill, broadcaster
[edit] Law and politics
- A–G
- Shirley Abrahamson, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Henry Cullen Adams, U.S. Representative
- 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
- Iajuddin Ahmed, former President of Bangladesh
- Dick Auman, Mayor of Galena, Illinois
- Wilson Ndolo Ayah, former Foreign Minister, Kenya
- William Bablitch, former Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Sergio Balanzino, Italian diplomat
- Tammy Baldwin, member of the United States House of Representatives representing Wisconsin's Second Congressional District.
- 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, Wisconsin Supreme Court justice
- Robert Barnett (lawyer), attorney
- Tom Barrett, United States House of Representatives representing Wisconsin's Fifth Congressional District from 1993 to 2003, mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 2004 to present
- Charlene Barshefsky, former United States Trade Representative
- Robert McKee Bashford, former Mayor of Madison, Wisconsin and former Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Robert C. Bassett, U.S. Presidential advisor
- Susan J. M. Bauman, former Mayor of Madison, Wisconsin
- Bruce F. Beilfuss, former Chief Justice of Wisconsin
- Ernst Benda, Minister of the Interior of Germany and President the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
- Mario Ramón Beteta, former Secretary of Finance, Mexico
- George W. Blanchard, U.S. Representative
- Nils Boe, former Governor of South Dakota
- Randall Boe, attorney
- John W. Boehne, Jr., former United States Representative
- Alexander Campbell Botkin, Lieutenant Governor of Montana
- Ann Walsh Bradley, Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Grover L. Broadfoot, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
- 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, 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 (diplomat)
- Milton Robert Carr, U.S. Representative from Michigan
- Patrick G. Carrick, Member of the Senior Executive Service
- 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
- Charles H. Crownhart, former Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Dr. Jon Cruddas, British Member of Parliament. He was a visiting Fellow (1987–1988)
- John Cudahy, U.S. diplomat
- George R. Currie, former Chief Justice of Wisconsin
- Herman Dahle, U.S. Representative
- Roland B. Day, former Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- John Paton Davies, Jr., U.S. diplomat
- Joseph E. Davies, U.S. diplomat
- Glenn Robert Davis, member of the United States House of Representatives
- Albert F. Dawson, former United States 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, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Brian Donnelly (UK diplomat)
- James Edward Doyle (judge), United States federal judge to the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, 1965–1987
- James Edward "Jim" Doyle, 44th Governor of Wisconsin
- Lee S. Dreyfus, 40th Governor of Wisconsin
- Stan Dromisky, former member of the Canadian Parliament
- F. Ryan Duffy, former United States Senator and former Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals
- Lawrence Eagleburger, former U.S. Secretary of State
- Donald B. Easum, former United States diplomat
- Herman Ekern, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
- Richard Elsner, lawyer, judge and Socialist Wisconsin state legislator
- Howard Engle (1919–2009), physician and lead plaintiff in a landmark lawsuit against the tobacco industry[7]
- John J. Esch, U.S. Representative
- Evan Alfred Evans, former United States Appeals Judge
- Tony Evers, Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin
- Thomas E. Fairchild, former United States Appeals Judge
- Sergio Fajardo, former mayor of Medellin, Colombia
- Elizabeth P. Farrington, former United States Representative from the Hawaii Territory
- Joseph Rider Farrington, former United States Representative from the Hawaii Territory
- Russ Feingold, U.S. Senator
- Bill Foster, U.S. Representative from Illinois
- Alejandro Foxley, former Foreign Minister of Chile
- Chester A. Fowler, former Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Oscar M. Fritz, former Chief Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Harold V. Froehlich, U.S. Representative
- Edward J. Gehl, former Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- 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
- Herbert J. Grover educator and legislator
- Kenneth Philip Grubb, former federal judge
- Philip Gunawardena, former Sri Lankan revolutionary, cabinet minister, Indian freedom fighter; "the father of socialism in Sri Lanka"
- Gunnar Gundersen, member of the Parliament of Norway (2005–present))
- Henry Gunderson, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
- Steve Gunderson, U.S. Representative
- H–M
- 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
- Spencer Haven, former Attorney General of Wisconsin
- Charles Hawks, Jr., U.S. Representative
- S.I. Hayakawa, former United States Senator from California
- Everis A. Hayes, U.S. Representative from California
- Donald Hayworth, former United States Representative
- Ned R. Healy, U.S. Representative from California
- Nathan Heffernan, former Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Walter Heller, Economist and 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
- Jeffry House, Canadian attorney
- Henry Huber, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
- Paul O. Husting, U.S. Senator
- Clifford Ireland, U.S. Representative from Illinois
- Edward H. Jenison, U.S. Representative from Illinois
- Byron L. Johnson, U.S. Representative from Colorado
- J. Leroy Johnson, former United States Representative
- Lester Johnson, U.S. Representative
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia (2006–present))
- Sveinbjorn Johnson, former Justice, North Dakota Supreme Court
- Burr W. Jones, U.S. Representative
- Richard Jones (U.S. diplomat)
- William Carey Jones, former United States Representative from the State of Washington
- Jim Jordan, Ohio Congressman, two-time wrestling NCAA 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, Ohio Congresswoman
- 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, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- John C. Kleczka, U.S. Representative
- Frank Le Blond Kloeb, U.S. Representative from Ohio
- Warren P. Knowles, 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, 27th Governor of Wisconsin
- Robert M. La Follette, Jr., U.S. Senator
- Robert M. La Follette, Sr., 20th Governor of Wisconsin, United States Representative, and United States Senator
- Jeffrey M. Lacker, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
- Richard Lamm, Governor of Colorado
- John E. Lange, former United States 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 United States Representative
- Elmer O. Leatherwood, former United States Representative
- Jon Leibowitz, Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission
- Nick Leluk, former member of the Canadian Parliament
- Theodore G. Lewis, former Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Lien Chan, former vice president of Taiwan and the Kuomintang.
- Thomas A. Loftus, U.S. diplomat
- James B. Loken, Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals
- William Lorge, Wisconsin politician
- Alan David Lourie, United States Appeals Judge
- 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
- Dan Maes, Colorado politician
- James Manahan, former United States Representative
- Ben Manski, Executive Director of the Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution
- 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 United States Appeals Judge
- Laura Miller, former mayor of Dallas, Texas
- Bob Mionske, attorney and former Olympic and professional bicycle racer
- William J. Morgan (Wisconsin politician), 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 United States mint
- Dan Mozena, United States Ambassador to Angola
- Reid F. Murray, U.S. Representative
- Louis Westcott Myers, Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court
- N–S
- Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian freedom fighter and political leader. In 1998, he was awarded the Bharat Ratna
- Philleo Nash, government official, college professor
- David D. Nelson, United States 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
- Mark Neumann, U.S. Representative
- John Norquist, former Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- David Obey, U.S. Representative[8]
- 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 (U.S. state) legislator
- 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
- 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
- Hugh H. Price, U.S. Representative
- David Prosser, Jr., Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- 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 United States Representative
- James Ward Rector, former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice
- Lowell A. Reed, federal judge
- Michael K. Reilly, U.S. Representative[9]
- Paul Samuel Reinsch, appointed minister to China in 1913
- Oscar Rennebohm, former Governor of Wisconsin
- John W. Reynolds, Sr., Attorney General of Wisconsin, 1927–1933
- John W. Reynolds, Jr., 36th Governor of Wisconsin[10]
- Fred Risser - Wisconsin state senator and assemblyman
- Fred Risser (Progressive) - Wisconsin assemblyman
- Charles Robb, former United States Senator and former Governor of Virginia
- Julie Aberg Robison, Cary, North Carolina Councilwoman
- Patience Roggensack, Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Hannah Rosenthal, Executive Director of the Office To Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism
- 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[11]
- Alan Schriber, Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
- 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, Illinois 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 Madison, Wisconsin
- 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[12]
- William A. Steiger, Congress
- Donald Steinmetz, former Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- E. Ray Stevens, former Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- William H. Stevenson, former United States Representative
- Anne K. Strasdauskas, Sheriff of Baltimore County, Maryland
- Robert C. Strong, U.S. diplomat
- Jessie Sumner, former United States 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 United States Representative
- 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[13]
- 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), 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 United States 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
- John B. Winslow, former Chief Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Edwin E. Witte, Social Security advisor to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Leonard G. Wolf, former United States Representative
- Ann Wynia, Minnesota State Representative
- Clayton K. Yeutter, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
- Rebecca Young, Wisconsin politician
- Hilbert Philip Zarky, noted attorney
- Norma Zarky, attorney
- Yeshey Zimba, former Prime Minister of Bhutan
- Roger H. Zion, former United States Representative
[edit] Military
- Frank L. Anders, Medal of Honor recipient
- Thomas A. Benes, U.S. Marine Corps Major 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
- Edward Chynoweth, U.S. Army officer
- Chester Victor Clifton, Jr., U.S. Army Major General
- Lester Mykel Conger, U.S. Army officer
- Harry F. Cruver, U.S. Air Force officer
- James B. Currie, U.S. Air Force Major General
- Clinton W. Davies, 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
- 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), 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, 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
- Charles C. McDonald, U.S. Air Force General
- Montgomery Meigs, U.S. Army General
- Peter George Olenchuk, U.S. Army Major General
- Jeffrey W. Oster, U.S. Marine Corps 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
- 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
[edit] 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
- Ronald Myers, noted Baptist minister
- Paul J. Swain, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls
[edit] Science, technology and engineering
- A–M
- Howard Aiken, computer science pioneer and recipient Edison Medal
- Loyal Blaine Aldrich, astronomer
- Ruth F. Allen, Ph.D. 1909, plant pathologist
- Gene Amdahl, Ph.D., computer scientist, Amdahl's law.
- Elda Emma Anderson, physicist
- John Atanasoff, Ph.D. 1930, inventor of the electronic digital computer
- Chris Bangle, automobile designer, former Chief of Design for the BMW Group.
- Florence Bascom (1862–1945), geologist
- Calvin Beale, demographer
- Gwen Bell, former President, The Computer Museum, Boston
- Willard Harrison Bennett, former inventor and scientist
- Robert Byron Bird, chemical engineer, recipient of the National Medal of Science
- William Bleckwenn, neurologist and psychiatrist, instrumental in the development of the truth drug
- Gerard C. Bond, geologist
- Paul Brehm, neurobiologist
- Ernest J. Briskey, scientist, creator of the American Meat Science Association
- George H. Brown, inventor, television pioneer, and recipient Edison Medal
- William Bunge, geographer
- Gail Carpenter, neuroscientist and mathematician
- K. K. Chen, researcher for Eli Lilly and Company
- John D. Clark, rocket engineer
- 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[14]
- Olin J. Eggen, astronomer
- Howard Engle, physician
- Milton H. Erickson, MD, psychiatrist, founder of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis [15]
- Alice Catherine Evans, microbiologist
- Helen J. Farabee, mental health advocate
- 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, Ph.D. physics 1950, 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
- Paul Haeberli, computer programmer
- Tom Hall, game designer, co-founder of id Software[16]
- Henry Paul Hansen, palynologist
- Bruce William Hapke, planetary scientist
- 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.[17]
- Earnest Hooton, physical anthropologist[18]
- Larry R. Johnson, President of the National Weather Association
- Richard A. Jorgensen, molecular geneticist
- Willi Kalender, inventor of spiral scan computed tomography and full professor of medical physics at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
- Motoo Kimura, mathematician
- Clyde Kluckhohn, anthropologist
- Elmer Kraemer, former chemist
- Ben Lawton, physician
- Esther Lederberg, microbiologist and immunologist, pioneer of bacterial genetics[19]
- Albert Lehninger, biochemist, pioneer of bioenergetics, and professor at Johns Hopkins University
- Estella B. Leopold, daughter of Aldo Leopold and botanist
- 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[20]
- Ken Lunde, information processor
- Nancy Oestreich Lurie, anthropologist
- Jay Lush, geneticist
- John F. MacGregor, statistician
- Seth Marder, chemist
- Lynn Margulis, M.S. zoology and genetics 1960, 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
- Karl Menninger, psychiatrist
- Patrick Michaels, climatologist
- Parry Moon, electrical engineer, author
- M. Laurance Morse, microbiologist and immunologist
- N–Z
- Walter Nance, geneticist
- Homer E. Newell, Jr., mathematician
- Paula M. Niedenthal, psychologist
- Arthur Nielsen, market analyst
- Larry E. Overman, chemist
- Zorba Paster, physician
- Jignesh M. Patel, computer scientist
- Brian Paul, M.S. computer science 1994, computer programmer of the Mesa 3D open source graphics library
- Emanuel R. Piore, former Director of Research, IBM
- Lynn Ponton, psychiatrist
- Richard V. Rhode, aeronautical engineer
- Sylvia Rimm, psychology
- Anita Roberts, molecular biologist
- Carl Rogers, psychologist, co-founder humanistic psychology[21]
- Marshall Rosenberg, psychologist
- Joseph F. Rychlak, psychologist
- David Salo, linguist and translator
- John C. Sanford, plant geneticist
- 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
- Dick Smith, software engineer and computer consultant
- James E. Smith, computer engineer
- Chauncey Guy Suits, former research director for GE
- M.S. Swaminathan, Father of the Green Revolution in India
- Helmer Swenholt, commanding officer of the 332nd Engineer General Service Regiment
- Katia Sycara, roboticist
- Stephen Taber III, apiologist, authority and author in the field of artificial insemination of queen bees for the purpose of developing disease resistant and gentle bee colonies
- 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
- Tso Wung-Wai, Ph.D., professor in Chinese University of Hong Kong, as well as a political activist
- Marilyn Tremaine, computer scientist
- Glenn Thomas Trewartha, geographer
- Billie Lee Turner II, geographer
- John Watrous (computer scientist), 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
- Samuel D. Wonders, engineer, ink manufacturer and 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
- John Zillman, meteorologist
- Otto Julius Zobel, inventor of the m-derived filter and the Zobel network
- Peigen Li, Ph.d., president of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, mechanics specialist, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering
[edit] Other notable alumni
- Milo Aukerman, biochemist, taught at UW for several years, also front man of historic punk rock band the Descendents
- Kathryn F. Clarenbach, first chairwoman of the National Organization for Women
- Tim Cordes, blind physician
- Helen J. Farabee (1934–1988), mental health activist in Texas
- Robert Fassnacht, graduate student, killed in the Sterling Hall bombing
- Ada Fisher, physician
- Frederick Gutheim, urban planner
- Eva Lund Haugen, author and editor
- Jerome Heckenkamp, computer hacker
- Phil Hellmuth, 11-time WSOP bracelet-winning champion
- Prynce Hopkins, activist and psychologist
- Robert Kotler, phyisician
- Mary Lasker, health activist, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal
- 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
- Rafael Rangel Sostmann, Rector of Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education and member of the World Bank.
- Lori Ringhand, judicial analyst
- Carl Schramm, President, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
- Bud Selig, Commissioner of Major League Baseball
- Bill Stumpf, furniture designer
- Charlie Trotter, chef
[edit] Fictional alumni and faculty
- Harold "Harry" Crane, head of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce's television department in Mad Men
- Jack and Maddie Fenton, scientist parents of Danny Phantom
- LN Fisher-Herrin, condescending but well-meaning UW professor, a character in the 2009 film Away We Go
- Laurie Forman, character on the sitcom That '70s Show (did not graduate)
- Will Hayes, protagonist of the film Definitely, Maybe
- Vladimir "Vlad" Masters, a/k/a Vlad Plasmius, supervillain and foe of Danny Phantom
- Paige Morgan (of Manitowoc), who meets (as a student at Madison)and ultimately marries the Crown Prince of Denmark, thus ascending to the Danish throne, in the film The Prince and Me and its sequel.
- Donna Moss, White House staffer in the TV series The West Wing (dropped out half-way through to support her boyfriend as he went through medical school)
- Allison Parker, receptionist character in the 1992 primetime soap opera Melrose Place
- A. Clarence Shandon, MBA, protagonist of the novel Silverlock
- Andrew Shepherd, former UW professor and now President of the United States, protagonist of the film The American President
- James Walker, B.A. in History, magna cum laude, business executive protagonist of the short-lived Big Shots (TV series)
[edit] Chancellors and presidents
[edit] Notable faculty and staff
(former and current)
- A–G
- Martha W. Alibali, psychologist
- Timothy F. H. Allen, botanist
- Stub Allison, head coach of the 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 blogger
- Rasmus B. Anderson, professor, author, diplomat
- Michael Apple, leading educational theorist
- Richard Askey, mathematician, the Askey–Wilson polynomials and Askey–Gasper inequality are partially named for him
- 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, 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 Barnett, scholar of international relations
- Kevin Barrett, associate lecturer known for publicly advocating a conspiracy theory regarding the September 11th attacks
- Quan Barry, poet
- John Bascom, president of the University of Wisconsin
- Helmut Beinert, professor of biochemistry
- Edward Bennett, professor of electrical engineering, formed WHA (AM), the first radio station to clearly transmit human speech, with Earle M. Terry
- Tony Bennett, 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
- 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 and 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
- Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author
- Craig Bohl, head coach of the North Dakota State Bison football team
- David Bordwell, prominent neoformalist film theorist and author
- George E. P. Box, statistician
- Paul S. Boyer, prominent historian of American thought and culture; author of Salem Possessed
- Léon Brillouin, physicist
- Royal Alexander Brink, plant geneticist
- Thomas D. Brock, microbiologist who discovered hyperthermophiles living in hot springs at Yellowstone National Park
- Martin Bronfenbrenner, economist
- Aaron Brower, professor of social work and Vice Provost for Teaching & Learning
- Edward E. Browne, U.S. Representative
- Richard A. Brualdi, professor of combinatorial mathematics
- Robert V. Bruce, winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for History
- Edgar Buckingham, physicist
- Tim Buckley, head coach of the Ball State Cardinals men's basketball team
- Jacob Burney, NFL assistant coach
- Robert H. Burris, recipient of the National Medal of Science
- Angus Cameron, U.S. Senator
- Sean B. Carroll, professor of evolutionary biology
- Frederic G. Cassidy, Editor-in-Chief of the Dictionary of American Regional English
- Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Founder the Journal of Geology
- Bill Chandler, head coach of the Iowa State Cyclones and 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, NFL assistant coach
- Paul Chryst, NFL assistant coach
- Clarence S. Clay, Jr. — Geophysics faculty
- W. Wallace Cleland, biochemist
- John Coatta, NFL scout
- Eddie Cochems, head coach of the North Dakota State Bison, 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 in the United States
- Clifton F. Conrad, professor of educational leadership & policy analysis
- Kerry Cooks, NFL player
- Ron Cooper, head coach of the Eastern Michigan Eagles, 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
- Richard Dickson Cudahy, Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals
- 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 College of Journalism and Mass Communication
- Farrington Daniels, early researcher in solar energy
- Richard Davis, jazz bassist
- Richard Davidson, professor of psychology and psychiatry, widely known for his mind-body research [22]
- 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 Institute of Technology
- Dave Doeren, head coach of the Norther Illinois Huskies football team
- Donald Downs, professor of political science
- Mitchell Duneier, sociologist
- Mike Eaves, NHL player and assistant coach
- Jordan Ellenberg, professor of mathematics, novelist, writer
- Amy Burns Ellis, professor of mathematics education
- Richard Theodore Ely (1854–1943), professor, social activist, economist
- Joseph Erlanger, 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Nathan Feinsinger, chairman of the Wage Stabilization Board and associate general counsel to the National War Labor Board
- Carl Russell Fish, professor of history
- 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
- Bernard J. Gehrmann, U.S. Representative
- 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 coherence protocols
- Doug Graber, NFL assistant coach
- Michelle Grabner, professor of art
- Luther W. Graef, President of the American Society of Civil Engineers
- H–M
- Mike Hankwitz, head coach of the Arizona Wildcats and Colorado Buffaloes football teams
- Harry Harlow, psychologist, known for studies on affection using rhesus monkeys with artificial mothers
- Edwin B. Hart, conductor of the single-grain experiment, the 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
- Elroy Hirsch, NFL player, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and College Football Hall of Fame
- Jeff Horton, NFL assistant coach, head coach of the Nevada Wolf Pack and UNLV Rebels football teams
- Clark L. Hull, psychologist
- 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
- Rob Ianello, head coach of the Akron Zips football team
- Hugh Iltis, known for his scientific discoveries in the domestication of corn
- Roland Duer Irving, member of the United States Geological Survey
- Greg Jackson, NFL player
- Arnold Jeter, head coach of the Delaware State Hornets football team
- Gunnar Johansen, artist-in-residence
- Bob Johnson, NHL head coach
- Mark Johnson, NHL player and 1980 Winter Olympics Miracle on Ice team
- Burr W. Jones, U.S. Representative
- Horace Kallen, philosopher
- Nietzchka Keene, filmmaker
- Har Gobind Khorana, 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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- 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, member of the College Football Hall of Fame
- 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 and Dartmouth Big Green men's basketball teams
- Aldo Leopold, ecologist
- 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 since 1969
- Joshua Lederberg, 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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- For his research in genetic structure and function in microorganisms
- Albert L. Lehninger, biochemist
- Charles Kenneth Leith, geologist, Penrose Medal recipient
- Gerda Lerner, Professor Emerita; historian of women's and gender history; considered a founder of women's history
- Tom Lieb, head coach of the Loyola Marymount Lions and Florida Gators football teams, Olympic medalist
- George Little, member of the College Football Hall of Fame
- Harvey Littleton, founder of the modern American studio glass movement
- Aldo Leopold, author of A Sand County Almanac, which helped spawn the environmental movement and interest in ecology; also founded the Wilderness Society
- Miron Livny, computer science professor and founder of the Condor High-Throughput Computing System
- William Lorenz, Army Distinguished Service Medal recipient
- Henry S. Magoon, U.S. Representative
- Abby Lillian Marlatt, director of home economics
- Carolyn "Biddy" Martin, professor of German and current chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Abraham Maslow, psychologist, known for Maslow's hierarchy of needs
- Ron McBride, head coach of the Utah Utes and Weber State Wildcats football teams
- Dan McCarney, head coach of the Iowa State Cyclones and 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
- Tasha McDowell, head coach of the Western Michigan Broncos women's basketball team
- Mike McGee, NFL player, head coach of the East Carolina Pirates and 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
- Milton McPike, NFL player
- Walter Meanwell, former head coach of the 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
- Howard Moore, head coach of the UIC Flames men's basketball team
- Perry Moss, NFL player, Athletic Director of Florida State University, head coach of the Florida State Seminoles and 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
- Ronald Numbers, historian of science
- John Palermo, 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
- Stanley Payne, historian
- Russell W. Peterson, Governor of Delaware
- 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
- 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[citation needed]
- Pat Richter, NFL player, member of the College Football Hall of Fame
- Patrick T. Riley, political theorist
- Paul Roach, NFL assistant coach, athletic director and head football coach at the University of Wyoming
- Carl Rogers, psychologist and founder of Client-Centered Therapy
- Joe Rudolph, 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, best known for his contributions to the Linear Algebra and Matrix society
- Isaac Jacob Schoenberg, mathematician, best known for the discovery in 1946 of splines
- John Settle, NFL player
- Donna E. 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, MLB and NFL player and coach
- Oliver Smithies, faculty 1960 to 1988, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 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, NFL assistant coach
- Scott Straus, assistant professor of Political Science and International Studies, specialising in the study of genocide
- Harry Stuhldreher, 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
- Cecil Taylor, jazz pianist
- Henry Charles Taylor, agricultural economist
- Howard Temin, 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of reverse transcriptase
- Edward Ten Eyck, first American to win the Diamond Challenge Sculls
- 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
- Stanisław 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"
- Sharon M. Van Sluys, poet
- Edward Burr Van Vleck, mathematician and professor
- Alexander Vasiliev (1867–1953), Byzantinist and Arabist
- Jan Vansina, historian of Africa and father of oral historical methodology
- Pete Waite, head coach of the women's volleyball team, author
- David Ward, President of the American Council on Education
- Oliver Patterson Watts, professor
- Viola S. Wendt, poet
- Albert Whitford, astronomer
- Eugene Wigner, 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics
- John Wilce, head coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes football team, member of the College Football Hall of Fame
- William Appleman Williams, historian of American diplomacy
- Erik Olin Wright, sociologist
- Sewall Wright, professor of genetics, one of the fathers of population genetics
- Todd Yeagley, MLS player
- 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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