List of Valparaiso University alumni

Valparaiso University is a Lutheran college located in Valparaiso, Indiana. Following is a list of Valparaiso University alumni.

Academia

 * R. J. Q. Adams (M.A. 1969), professor of European and British history at Texas A&M University
 * Patrick Roger Cleary, founder of Cleary University
 * William P. Richardson (1864–1945), co-founder and first dean of Brooklyn Law School
 * Henry P. Rusk, dean of the Department of Agriculture at the University of Illinois
 * James Monroe Smith, president of Louisiana State University (1930–1939)

Business

 * Jay Christopher, cofounder of Pampered Chef
 * Don Fites, chairman and CEO (retired) of Caterpillar Inc.
 * Paul Schrage, senior vice-president and chief marketing cfficer of McDonald's Corporation; designed the "Golden Arches" logo
 * Kathi Seifert, executive vice president of Kimberly-Clark 1991–2004
 * Lowell Yerex, founder of Transportes Aéreos Centro Americanos (TACA), British West Indian Airways in Trinidad and Tobago, and Aerovias Brasil in Rio de Janeiro

Entertainment

 * Adam Amin, ESPN play-by-play broadcaster
 * Chris Bauman, entertainment entrepreneur and independent music activist
 * Beulah Bondi, actress
 * Alys McKey Bryant, record-setting aviation pioneer and exhibition pilot
 * JoBe Cerny, character actor and voice of the Pillsbury Doughboy
 * Paul Chambers, CNN anchor and film critic
 * Andre "Add-2" Daniels, rapper
 * Michael Essany, television talk show host
 * John Lutz, actor known for 30 Rock and writer for Saturday Night Live
 * Jacki Lyden, senior correspondent at NPR
 * David Ruprecht, host of Supermarket Sweep and Real People
 * Judith Sherman, multi-Grammy Award-winning record producer
 * Ginger Zee, meteorologist for Good Morning America and ABC News

Law

 * David W. Dugan, United States Federal District Court Judge in the Southern District of Illinois
 * Omer Stokes Jackson, 28th Indiana Attorney General
 * Keith Kizer, Nevada Chief Deputy Attorney General and former executive director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission
 * Moses Lairy, Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
 * Rebecca R. Pallmeyer, United States federal judge
 * Eugene E. Parker, sports attorney and agent to Larry Fitzgerald, Deion Sanders, Hines Ward, Greg Jennings, Ndamukong Suh, and Michael Crabtree

Literature and journalism

 * Fredrick Barton, novelist and film critic
 * Anthony Bimba (1894–1982), newspaper editor, historian, and radical political activist
 * Barbara Ann Kipfer, linguist, lexicographer, author, and editor
 * Idael Makeever, poet
 * William March, novelist, known for Company K and The Bad Seed
 * Rene Steinke, novelist known for The Fires and Holy Skirts
 * Lowell Thomas, author, war correspondent during World War I who made T.E. Lawrence internationally famous, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Politics

 * Roy E. Ayers, United States House of Representatives and 11th Governor of Montana
 * Frederick M. Bernthal, Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (1988–1990)
 * Mikhail Borodin, Soviet and Comintern representative to China
 * LeRoy Earl Brophey Sr., Minnesota House of Representatives
 * John E. Cashman, Wisconsin Senator
 * Stoyan Christowe, Vermont Senate (1959–1972)
 * Thurman C. Crook, a United States House of Representatives from Indiana
 * Marcellus Dorwin, Wisconsin State Assembly
 * Edward Grassman, Wisconsin State Assembly
 * Margaret Keenan Harrais, United States Commissioner at Valdez, Alaska and a deputy magistrate
 * Walter Hunt, Wisconsin Senate
 * Samuel B. Huston, Oregon Legislative Assembly
 * Andrieus A. Jones, United States Senate, supported New Mexico statehood
 * Edgar E. Lien, Wisconsin State Assembly
 * James F. McDowell, Wisconsin State Assembly
 * H. Lane Mitchell (Engineering), public works commissioner in Shreveport, Louisiana (1934–1968)
 * George William Norris, United States Senate from Nebraska and the father of the Tennessee Valley Authority
 * William Edmunds Plummer, Wisconsin State Assembly
 * Caleb Powers, United States House of Representatives from Kentucky; Secretary of State of Kentucky; convicted as an accessory to murder of the state governor
 * Benjamin Shively, United States Senate from Indiana (1909–1916)
 * Len Small, 26th Governor of Illinois
 * Donald Edgar Tewes, United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin
 * Jill Long Thompson, United States House of Representatives from Indiana 1989–1995 and Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development 1995–2001
 * Otis Wingo, United States House of Representatives from Arkansas's 4th congressional district (1913–1930)

Science and medicine

 * Blanche Evans Dean, naturalist, conservationist, and author
 * Reuben Kahn, immunologist and inventor of a test for syphilis
 * Carl Glennis Roberts (1886–1950), surgeon, gynecologist, and civil rights activist

Sports

 * Ryan Broekhoff, former NBA player
 * Bryce Drew, college basketball coach and former NBA player
 * Scott Drew, college basketball coach and NCAA National Champion
 * Keith Kizer, former executive director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission and Nevada Chief Deputy Attorney General
 * Cal Luther, college basketball coach
 * Lloyd McClendon, Major League Baseball player and manager
 * Frederick "Fuzzy" Thurston, professional football player with the Green Bay Packers (1959–67)
 * Jim Wacker, former football coach at the University of Minnesota
 * Austin Walton, NBA agent and owner of Walton Sports Management Group