List of Lake Forest Academy alumni

This list of alumni of Lake Forest Academy includes graduates and non-graduate former students.

Arts

 * John Agar, actor, formerly married to Shirley Temple
 * Bix Beiderbecke, jazz cornet player (expelled; attended 1921–22)
 * David Bradley, film director
 * Temple Hoyne Buell (1914), architect, viewed as the father of the modern indoor shopping mall
 * Jay Chandrasekhar, comedian and film director
 * Max Demián (2005), performance artist
 * Lindsay Glazer (1996), comedian
 * Jesse Hibbs (1925), film director
 * Brad Morris (1994), television actor
 * Robert Myhrum (1944), television director
 * Tom Neal, actor
 * Kelly Perine (1987), actor
 * McLean Stevenson, actor
 * Stephen Wade (1970), folk musician
 * Melora Walters (1979), actress

Business and law

 * James Aubrey (attended 1931–32), president of CBS and MGM
 * Charles Edmund Beard (1916), aviation pioneer and president of Braniff Airlines
 * Andrew T. Berlin (1979), businessman and philanthropist; minority stakeholder in the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball team
 * Ralph Bogan, co-owned baseball's Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves
 * James R. Cargill (1941), billionaire scion of Minnesota's Cargill family; pioneered in the computerization of animal feed formulations
 * Gaylord Donnelley (attended 1923–24), former chairman of R. R. Donnelley & Sons
 * Charles Gelatt (1935), Wisconsin businessman and philanthropist, early co-owner of the Milwaukee Brewers
 * George N. Gillett Jr. (1956), communications mogul, former co–owner of the English Premier League team Liverpool F.C. and NASCAR auto-racing team Richard Petty Motorsports
 * Louis Upton (1907), co-founder of Whirlpool Corporation
 * Rawleigh Warner Jr. (attended 1935–36), chairman/CEO of Mobil Oil

Government and public service

 * Makola Abdullah (1986), 14th President of Virginia State University (VSU)
 * Richard L. Conolly (1910), Admiral of the United States Navy during World War II
 * Jan Crull Jr., Native American rights advocate, filmmaker, attorney
 * Geoff Diehl, class of 1988, State Representative for the 7th Plymouth District of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
 * John Francis Grady (1948), United States District Court Judge; senior judge for the Northern District of Illinois
 * Melvin R. Laird (attended 1938–39), US Congressman (1952–69) and Secretary of Defense (1969–73)
 * Edward Everett Nourse, theologian
 * Nauman S. Scott, class of 1934, one of the first Louisiana U.S. District Court Judges to advocate desegregation
 * Charles H. Wacker (1872), chairman of the Chicago Plan Commission and beer-maker

Journalism and letters

 * Bill Ayers, professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago who co-founded the Weather Underground
 * Ward Just, Washington Post Vietnam War correspondent and author
 * Michael Leonard, class of 1966, feature reporter for NBC's Today show
 * Rebecca Makkai, class of 1995, author
 * Ralph J. Mills, poet and critic
 * Robert Wilson Patterson, class of 1867, newspaper publisher
 * Bill Schulz, class of 1994, Fox News

Science

 * Patrick M. McCarthy (surgeon), class of 1973, heart surgeon
 * Cristopher Moore, class of 1983, computer scientist, mathematician, and physicist
 * Karl Patterson Schmidt, herpetologist
 * Paul Starrett, class of 1883, structural engineer
 * Charles Thom, microbiologist and mycologist

Athletics

 * Neil Blatchford (1964), speed skater who competed in the 1972 Winter Olympics
 * Angus Brandt, Australian professional basketball player
 * Alex DeBrincat, right winger for NHL's Detroit Red Wings
 * Alfred Eissler, NFL player
 * Dylan Ennis, professional basketball player
 * Tyler Ennis, NBA player for the Los Angeles Lakers
 * Babe Frump, NFL player with the Chicago Bears
 * Ángel García, professional basketball player
 * Geneviève Lacasse, Olympic gold medalist goalkeeper, Canadian national women's hockey team
 * David Levine, ARCA Racing Series race car driver for Lira Motorsports
 * Victor Pineda, soccer player for Chicago Fire and United States U-18 national team
 * Olivier-Maxence Prosper, professional basketball player for Dallas Mavericks
 * Teddy Purcell, right winger for NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning
 * Paul Schuette, NFL player with the New York Giants, Chicago Bears, and Boston Braves

Other

 * Robert S. Hartman, logician and philosopher