# List of Ripon College (Wisconsin) alumni

Ripon College is a private liberal arts college in Ripon, Wisconsin. Following is a list of its notable alumni.

## Business

| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
| Darell Hammond | 1996 | | Founder and CEO of KaBOOM! |
| Alan Klapmeier | 1980 | Physics and economics | Co-founder of Cirrus Design Corporation and former CEO of One Aviation Corporation |
| Stephen Ng | | Mathematics | Chairman and managing director of the Wharf (Holdings) Limited and chairman and CEO of i-Cable Communications |

## Clergy

| Name | Class | Major | Notability | References |
| Harry Graham | | | Anglican priest | |
| Richard Kraft | 1958 | | South African Anglican Bishop | |

## Education and academics

| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
| Ryan C. Amacher | 1966 | | President of the University of Texas at Arlington |
| Theodore Brameld | 1926 | English | Philosopher, professor of educational theory, and a leading proponent of reconstructionism |
| James Danky | 1970 | History and philosophy | Historian, bibliographer, culture critic, and faculty associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| W. R. Davies | 1915 | Mathematics and philosophy | President of University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire 1941–1959 |
| Mark A. Greene | | History and politics | Archivist and director of the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming |
| Clifton F. Hodge | 1882 | BA | Professor of physiology at Clark University |
| Bruno E. Jacob | 1922 | Economics | Professor at Ripon College in Wisconsin and a founder of National Forensic League |
| William Chester Jordan | 1969 | | Medievalist and professor of history at Princeton University |
| Mabel Johnson Leland | 1894 | Music | Lecturer on Scandinavian literature and translator from Norwegian to English |
| John L. Locke | 1963 | Speech communications | Biolinguist and professor of Language Science at Lehman College, the City University of New York |
| Joseph Howard Mathews | non-degreed | | Physical chemist, an expert on firearm identification, and chair of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Joan Raymond | 1957 | History and psychology | Superintendent of the Houston Independent School District |
| Michael Tinkham | 1951 | | Physicist and Rumford Professor of Physics and Gordon McKay Research Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard University |
| Oliver Williamson | 1954 | Economics | Economist, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences |

## Entertainment

| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
| Tom Bellfort | 1967 | | Film sound editor and winner of an Academy Award and an Emmy Award |
| Allen Cohen | | BA | Composer |
| Harrison Ford | 1964 | Philosophy | Academy Award-nominated actor and star of franchise film series such as Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Blade Runner and Jack Ryan |
| Al Jarreau | 1962 | Psychology | Grammy Award-winning singer |
| Frances Lee McCain | 1966 | Philosophy | Actress |
| Laura Ramsey | | | Film and television actress |
| John Stephenson | | | Actor who worked primarily in voice-over roles |
| McKey Sullivan | | | Fashion model most notable as the winner of the eleventh cycle of America's Next Top Model |
| Richard Threlkeld | 1959 | History and political science | Correspondent with CBS News and ABC News |
| Spencer Tracy | 1924 | | Academy Award-winning actor |

## Law

| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
| Douglas R. Cole | 1986 | | United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio |
| Michael Gableman | 1988 | | Wisconsin Supreme Court |
| David F. Simpson | non-degreed | | Minnesota Supreme Court Justice |
| Harry G. Snyder | 1960 | History | Wisconsin State Assembly and Court of Appeals Judge |
| George Eaton Sutherland | 1870 | | Wisconsin Senate and a judge of the Milwaukee Superior Court |
| Jon P. Wilcox | 1958 | | Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice from 1992 to 2007 |

## Military

| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
| Frank L. Anders | 1906 | | Medal of Honor recipient |
| Ernest J. Dawley | 1908 | | United States Army general |
| Harley Sanford Jones | 1926 | Philosophy | United States. Air Force general |
| Oscar Hugh La Grange | | | United States Army general |
| James Megellas | 1942 | | One of the most decorated combat officers in the history of the 82nd Airborne Division |
| Ferdinand Louis Reichmuth | 1905 | | Vice Admiral of the United States Navy |

## Politics

| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
| Sheryl Albers | 1976 | Art | Wisconsin State Assembly |
| José Miguel Alemán | 1978 | | Director of Multibank Inc. and politician in Panama: national undersecretary of government and justice (1991) and secretary of state (1999 to 2003) |
| Clem Balanoff | | | Illinois House of Representatives and national political director for the Amalgamated Transit Union |
| Whitman A. Barber | non-degreed | | Wisconsin State Assembly |
| Joseph H. Bottum | 1877 | | South Dakota Senate |
| Halbert W. Brooks | | | Wisconsin State Assembly |
| Bill B. Bruhy | 1936 | | Wisconsin State Assembly and mayor of Plymouth, Wisconsin |
| Fremont C. Chamberlain | | | Michigan House of Representatives |
| Dennis Conta | 1962 | BA | Politician and consultant |
| Raymond Cox | non-degreed | | Minnesota House of Representatives |
| Willis E. Donley | | | Wisconsin State Assembly |
| William F. Double | | | Wisconsin State Assembly |
| Roderick Esquivel | 1949 | | Former Vice President of the Republic of Panama |
| John A. Fridd | | | Wisconsin State Assembly and Wisconsin Senate |
| Robb Kahl | | | Wisconsin State Assembly |
| Lewis G. Kellogg | | | Wisconsin Senate |
| Frederick W. Krez | | | Wisconsin State Assembly |
| George Paul Miller | | | Wisconsin Senate |
| Elmer A. Morse | | | United States House of Representatives |
| Orville W. Mosher | | | Wisconsin Senate |
| Maynard T. Parker | | | Wisconsin State Assembly |
| Ingolf E. Rasmus | | | Wisconsin State Assembly |
| Harry G. Snyder | | | Wisconsin State Assembly and Court of Appeals judge |
| George Eaton Sutherland | 1870 | | Wisconsin Senate and a judge of the Milwaukee Superior Court |
| Samuel R. Webster | | | Wisconsin State Assembly |
| Albert Clark Wedge | | | Minnesota House of Representatives and Minnesota Senate |
| Robert Welch | | | Wisconsin Senate and Wisconsin State Assembly |
| Lloyd Wescott | | | Chairman of the New Jersey State Board of Control of Institutions and Agencies |

## Science and technology

| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
| Arthur John Ahearn | 1923 | | Physicist and mass spectrometry researcher at Bell Labs |
| Elda Emma Anderson | 1922 | | Physicist and researcher |
| Wells Cooke | 1879 | AB | Ornithologist |
| William Frederick Meggers | 1910 | | Physicist specialising in spectroscopy |
| Cheryl Rofer | 1963 | Chemistry | Nuclear researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Michael Tinkham | 1951 | | Superconductivity physicist |
| Mary Curtis Wheeler | 1890 | | Nursing educator |
| Otto Julius Zobel | 1918 | | Inventor of m-derived filter and Zobel network |

## Sports

| Name | Class | Notability |
| Jack Ankerson | | Professional football player |
| John Barth | | American football and basketball player and coach |
| Dick Bennett | 1965 | Head coach of University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Phoenix, Wisconsin Badgers, and Washington State Cougars men's basketball teams |
| Andrew Betcher | 2021 | Chicago Cubs AAA Coach |
| Tiny Croft | | Professional football player |
| Boob Darling | | Professional football player |
| Lon Darling | | Professional basketball player |
| Casey Finnegan | | Head football coach at North Dakota Agricultural College (now North Dakota State University) |
| George Glennie | | Professional football player |
| Tubby Howard | | Professional football player |
| Charlie Mathys | | Professional football player with the Hammond Pros and the Green Bay Packers |
| Madeo Molinari | | Football, baseball, and golf coach at the Winona State University |
| Billy Reed | | Professional baseball player |
| Dick Rehbein | | NFL assistant coach |
| Charles Rutkowski | | Professional football player |
| Ty Sabin | | Professional basketball player |
| Ted Scalissi | | Professional football player |
| Webb Schultz | | Professional baseball player |
| Champ Seibold | | Professional football player for the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Cardinals |
| Wally Sieb | | Professional football player |
| Dave Smith | | Professional football player |
| John Swallen | | Professional soccer player |
| Joe Swetland | | College football player and coach |
| Cowboy Wheeler | | Professional football player |

## Writing and journalism

| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
| Emma Helen Blair | 1872 | | Editor and translator most remembered for, the translation and editing of the 55-volume series The Philippine Islands, 1493–1898 |
| Sarah Powers Bradish | | | Writer best known for her textbook Old Norse Stories |
| Scott Strazzante | 1986 | | Photojournalist for the Chicago Tribune and the San Francisco Chronicle |
| Gary G. Yerkey | 1966 | Philosophy | Journalist |