List of DePauw University alumni

This list of DePauw University alumni includes notable alumni of DePauw University, an American institution of higher education located in Greencastle, Indiana.

Academia and science

 * Joseph P. Allen – NASA Space Shuttle astronaut
 * Charles A. Beard – author; one of the most influential historians of early 20th century; husband of Mary Ritter Beard
 * Mary Ritter Beard – archivist; historian; leader in women's suffrage movement; wife of Charles A. Beard
 * Oscar T. Brookins – Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics at Northeastern University
 * Olivia Castellini – physicist
 * David Crocker – philosopher; senior research scholar, School of Public Policy at University of Maryland
 * Paul S. Dunkin – writer; professor of library science
 * David B. Feldman – psychologist
 * Thomas H. Hamilton – former president, State University of New York and University of Hawaii
 * Laurin L. Henry – academic
 * George W. Hoss – president, Kansas State Normal (now Emporia State University) in Kansas
 * Barbara Ibrahim – prominent sociologist of the Arab world; founding director of the John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement at the American University in Cairo
 * Paul Rowland Julian – meteorologist; discovered, with Roland A. Madden, atmospheric phenomena known as Madden–Julian oscillation
 * Percy L. Julian – research chemist; pioneer in chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs
 * Daniel Trembly MacDougal – botanist, plant biologist
 * Margaret Mead – cultural anthropologist, two years, completed B.A. degree at Barnard College
 * Major Reuben Webster Millsaps – founder of Millsaps College in Mississippi
 * Ferid Murad – recipient of 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
 * J. Robert Nelson (1920–2004), B.A. 1941 – dean of the Vanderbilt University Divinity School, 1957–1960; dean of the Boston University School of Theology, 1965–1985
 * Hakkı Ögelman – Turkish physicist; astrophysicist
 * William H. Riker – political scientist
 * Phillips Robbins – member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine; has had continuous funding from NIH for over 47 years
 * Michael Stuart, B.A. 1979 – sports physician and orthopedic surgeon at the Mayo Clinic
 * Winona Hazel Welch (1919–1923) – president of the Indiana Academy of Science, head of botany and bacteriology at DePauw

Arts and entertainment

 * Scott Adsit – actor, played Pete Hornberger on television sitcom 30 Rock
 * Shibani Bathija – screenwriter
 * Alicia Berneche – operatic soprano
 * Joseph Brent – mandolinist, composer, and founder of 9 Horses
 * Gary Hugh Brown – artist, painter, draftsman, and Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara
 * Pamela Coburn – operatic soprano
 * Annie Corley – film and television actress
 * David Cryer – singer and Broadway actor, Phantom of the Opera
 * Gretchen Cryer – co-creator, I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road
 * Bill Hayes – stage and television actor, Days of Our Lives
 * Jimmy Ibbotson – singer-songwriter and musician, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
 * Sue Keller – ragtime pianist, composer and arranger
 * David McMillin – singer-songwriter
 * Julie McWhirter – voice actress, known for Hanna-Barbera cartoons, such as Drak Pack and The Smurfs
 * Larry D. Nichols – puzzle enthusiast; inventor of Pocket Cube
 * Drew Powell – actor
 * Kid Quill – recording artist
 * Jane Randolph – film actress, known for 1940s films such as Cat People and Jealousy
 * Alice Ripley – actress, singer, played Diana in Next to Normal
 * Lee Orean Smith (1874–1942) – composer, arranger, music editor, publisher, music teacher, multi-instrumentalist, and conductor
 * Albert Pearson Stewart – founder of Purdue Musical Organizations, received honorary doctorate in music from DePauw in 1960
 * Pharez Whitted – jazz trumpeter, composer, and producer
 * Margaret Jones Wiles – composer, violinist

Business

 * Timothy Collins – financier; founder of Ripplewood Holdings; director, Citigroup
 * Angie Hicks – founder of Angie's List
 * Charles T. Hinde – railroad executive; founder of Hotel del Coronado; shipping executive
 * Eli Lilly – founder of Eli Lilly and Company; philanthropist
 * John S. McMillin – lawyer and businessman; former president of the Tacoma and Roche Harbor Lime Company
 * Mary Meeker – Internet equity research analyst at Morgan Stanley, dubbed "Queen of the Net"
 * Jeffrey T. Mezger – president and chief executive officer of KB Home
 * Steven Rales – founder of Danaher Corporation and Indian Paintbrush
 * Bill Rasmussen – co-founder of ESPN
 * Scott Rasmussen – co-founder of ESPN; founder of Rasmussen Reports
 * Al Ries – author, marketing expert
 * Steve Sanger – former president and chief executive officer of General Mills
 * Howard C. Sheperd, Sr. – former president of National City Bank of New York (now Citibank)
 * Fred C. Tucker – businessperson, real estate broker
 * James D. Weddle – managing partner of Edward Jones

Government and politics

 * Karen Koning AbuZayd – Commissioner-General for U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in Near East (2005–10)
 * Joseph W. Barr – U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1968–1969); chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
 * Thomas W. Benett – Governor of Idaho Territory (1871–1875); served in Indiana State Senate
 * Albert Beveridge – U.S. Senator from Indiana (1899–1911)
 * John Berkshire – Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
 * Andrew H. Burke – second Governor of North Dakota (1891–1892)
 * David L. Carden – U.S. Ambassador to Association of Southeast Asian Nations
 * Sutemi Chinda – former Japanese Ambassador to the United States
 * Anna Elizabeth Dickinson – abolitionist, suffragist, first woman to speak before U.S. Congress
 * Samuel H. Elrod – Governor of South Dakota (1905–07)
 * Bob Franks – former U.S. Congressman
 * Willard Gemmill – Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
 * James P. Goodrich – Governor of Indiana (1917–21)
 * Lee H. Hamilton – co-chair, Iraq Study Group; vice chair, 9/11 Commission; retired United States Representative
 * Edwin Hammond – Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
 * George Howk – Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
 * Wayne Hsiung – co-founder, Direct Action Everywhere
 * Patricia Ireland – former president, National Organization for Women
 * John A. Johnson – General Counsel of the Air Force; General Counsel of NASA; chief executive officer, COMSAT
 * Vernon Jordan Jr. – broker and executive; former president, National Urban League; personal friend and advisor to former U.S. President Bill Clinton
 * David E. Lilienthal – public official; writer; businessman; chairman, Tennessee Valley Authority (1941–1946); known as "Mr. TVA"
 * John McNaughton – U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense and U.S. Navy Secretary-designate (at time of death)
 * Douglas J. Morris – Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
 * Jay Holcomb Neff – publisher; 1904–05 Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri
 * James M. Ogden – 26th Indiana Attorney General 1929-33
 * Howard C. Petersen – U.S. Assistant Secretary of War
 * Josh Pitcock – former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence
 * Dan Quayle – 44th Vice President of the United States (under U.S. President George H. W. Bush)
 * Halsted Ritter – Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (1929–1936)
 * Ross Thompson Roberts – Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri (1982–1987)
 * William Morris Sparks – Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (1929–1950)
 * Hardress Swaim – Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (1950–1957)
 * Elmer Thomas – U.S. Senator from Oklahoma (1927–51)
 * George R. Throop – Chancellor of Washington University (1927–44)
 * James E. Watson – U.S. Senator from Indiana; Senate Majority Leader (1929–33)
 * Guilford M. Wiley – former Wisconsin State Assemblyman
 * James Wilkerson – Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (1922–1948)

Journalism

 * Bret Baier – host of Special Report with Bret Baier (Fox News Channel)
 * Tracey Chang – correspondent, CNBC Asia; 2009 Miss New York USA
 * Gil Duran – California opinion editor for The Sacramento Bee
 * Stephen F. Hayes – author; columnist, Weekly Standard
 * Dave Jorgenson – journalist and TikToker, The Washington Post
 * Bernard Kilgore – managing editor of the Wall Street Journal 1941–1965; head of the Dow Jones company
 * John McWethy – former correspondent, ABC News
 * William N. Oatis – journalist detained 1951–1953 by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia
 * Eugene C. Pulliam – newspaper publisher, The Indianapolis Star and The Arizona Republic
 * James C. Quayle – newspaper publisher
 * Ben C. Solomon – Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times video journalist
 * Jeri Kehn Thompson – radio talk show host; columnist, The American Spectator; wife of Fred Thompson (actor; former U.S. Senator from Tennessee (1994–2003); 2008 U.S. presidential candidate)

Literature

 * Angus Cameron (1908–2002) – book editor and publisher
 * Gretchen Cryer – actress, lyricist, writer
 * Patricia Coombs – children's book author and illustrator, Dorrie the Little Witch series
 * Matt Dellinger – writer, journalist, wrote the book Interstate 69: The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway
 * Stephen F. Hayes – senior writer, Weekly Standard; wrote the book Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
 * John Jakes – novelist, North and South
 * Adam Kennedy – actor, novelist, screenwriter, painter
 * Bernard Kilgore – former editor, The Wall Street Journal; turned the publication into one of national significance
 * Barbara Kingsolver – contemporary fiction writer; founder of Bellwether Prize for "literature of social change"
 * Richard Peck – Newbery Medal-winning author
 * Loren Pope – authority on colleges; wrote books Looking Beyond the Ivy League and Colleges That Change Lives
 * James B. Stewart – recipient of 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism; wrote books including Blood Sport and DisneyWar
 * Blanche Stillson – author and artist
 * Minnetta Theodora Taylor (1860–1911) – wrote the lyrics to the National Suffrage Anthem

Military

 * Harvey Weir Cook – fighter ace in World War I; leading figure in the development of aviation in the United States
 * Nathan Kimball – Union General during Civil War
 * Sergeant Henry Nash – member of Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders
 * General David M. Shoup – Commandant of the Marine Corps; recipient of Medal of Honor (World War II)
 * Alexander Vraciu – flying ace in World War II

Religion

 * Albertus T. Briggs – Methodist minister
 * Luella F. McWhirter – president, Indiana State Woman's Christian Temperance Union
 * Eunice Blanchard Poethig – Presbyterian minister

Sports

 * Buzzie Bavasi – former general manager, Los Angeles Dodgers, California Angels and San Diego Padres
 * Rob Boras – NFL assistant coach
 * Brad Brownell – head men's basketball coach, Clemson University
 * Dave Finzer – punter, Chicago Bears and Seattle Seahawks
 * Ford Frick – Major League Baseball Commissioner (1951–1965)
 * Bill Rasmussen – co-founder of ESPN
 * Scott Rasmussen – co-founder of ESPN; founder of Rasmussen Reports
 * Joe Schoen – NFL executive, general manager of the New York Giants
 * Wilfred Smith – National Football League player
 * Brad Stevens – general manager, Boston Celtics
 * Dick Tomey – college football coach