# 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