List of St. Olaf College people

This list of St. Olaf Alumni contains links to Wikipedia articles about notable alumni and other people connected to St. Olaf College, a private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota.

Composers and conductors

 * Kenneth Jennings, class of 1950
 * Dale Warland, class of 1954
 * David Boe, class of 1958
 * René Clausen, class of 1974
 * Anton Armstrong, class of 1978
 * Timothy Mahr, class of 1978
 * Bradley Ellingboe, class of 1980
 * Craig Hella Johnson, class of 1984
 * Jocelyn Hagen, class of 2003

Politicians, Statesmen and Judges

 * Russell A. Anderson, class of 1964, Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
 * August H. Andresen, class of 1912
 * Arnie Arnesen, class of 1975, fellow of Harvard Institute of Politics and member of New Hampshire House of Representatives
 * David Bly, class of 1974?, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives
 * Satveer Chaudhary, class of 1991, former member of the Minnesota State legislature
 * Raymond Cox, class of 1974, former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives
 * Kim Elton, class of 1968, former member of the Alaska Senate
 * Arlen Erdahl, class of 1953, United States Representative from Minnesota
 * Joan Ericksen, class of 1977, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota
 * Tom Fiebiger, class of 1978, member of the North Dakota Senate
 * Mary Forsythe, class of 1922, member of Minnesota House of Representatives
 * Ian C. Kelly, class of 1977
 * David L. Knutson, class of 1982, Minnesota State Senator of District 37, 2003-2004
 * John Marty, class of 1978
 * David Minge, class of 1963
 * Erik Paulsen, class of 1987, United States Representative from Minnesota
 * Kristi Pursell, class of 2003, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives
 * Al Quie, class of 1950
 * Karl F. Rolvaag, class of 1941
 * Steve Sviggum, class of 1979
 * Eric C. Tostrud, class of 1987, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota
 * Andrew Volstead, class of 1881, US house of representatives for Minnesota, introduced National Prohibition Act

Writers

 * Robert Bly, class of 1950 (transferred out), leader of the Mythopoetic men's movement
 * Kristina Halvorson, class of 1993
 * Michelle Hoover, class of 1994
 * Siri Hustvedt, class of 1977
 * Kij Johnson, class of 1982
 * Peg Kerr, class of 1982
 * Sarah Lindsay, class of 1980
 * Timothy Mason, class of 1972, playwright
 * Emily Rapp, class of 1996
 * Mark Rein-Hagen, author of Vampire: The Masquerade class of 1988
 * Ole Rolvaag, class of 1905, author of Giants in the Earth

Religion

 * Johan Arnd Aasgaard, class of 1898, American Lutheran church leader
 * James Reeb, class of 1950, minister, pastor, and Civil Rights activist, 1927-1965
 * Stuart E. Barstad, class of 1951?, Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force from 1985 to 1988
 * David Ede, class of 1957, American scholar of Islam
 * Alan M. Olson, class of 1961, philosopher, Boston University, 1974-2013

Other

 * Ernest Lawrence, class of 1922, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1935
 * Einar Haugen, class of 1928, Harvard professor of Scandinavian and linguistics
 * Edward Sövik, class of 1939, architect and later St. Olaf faculty member
 * Roger Grimsby, class of 1950, television news anchor
 * Willis H. Flygare, class of 1958, chemist credited with "outstanding contributions to the understanding of molecular electronic structure"
 * John Enemark, class of 1962, American biochemist
 * Barry Morrow, class of 1970, Oscar-winning screenwriter
 * Gretchen Morgenson, class of 1976, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
 * Cheryl Willman, class of 1977, cancer researcher and executive director of Mayo Clinic Cancer Programs
 * David L. Rose, class of 1989, tech entrepreneur and inventor
 * Margaret Sordahl, ornithologist
 * Ward Sutton, class of 1989, cartoonist and illustrator, 2018 Herblock Award winner
 * Dean Buntrock, founder and former chairman and CEO of Waste Management, Inc. and largest school benefactor
 * Jason DeRose, class of 1997, Western Bureau Chief for National Public Radio News
 * Amanda Cox, class of 2001, Editor of The Upshot section of the New York Times
 * Raffi Freedman-Gurspan, class of 2009, the first openly transgender person to work as a White House staffer
 * Lukas Warren, icon, self proclaimed master of tempo and sneaker collector. He directs the nationally recognized varsity show choir group, “Riverside Company”, in Hastings, Minnesota.

Fictional

 * Jay Gatsby, titular character of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, attended for two weeks, did not graduate

Notable faculty

 * Anton Armstrong, conductor of the St. Olaf Choir
 * Kenneth O. Bjork, historian and educator
 * F. Melius Christiansen, founder of the St. Olaf Choir
 * John Ferguson, organist and composer
 * Kenneth Jennings, composer and former conductor of the St. Olaf Choir
 * Robert Jenson, theologian
 * Chris Meidt, head football coach (2002–2007), assistant coach with Washington Redskins
 * Anantanand Rambachan, Hindu scholar
 * Ole Rolvaag, author
 * Edward Sövik, class of 1939, architect and later St. Olaf faculty member
 * Lynn Steen, mathematician
 * Charles Taliaferro, philosopher