# 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
* Shelice Tolbert, attorney in Indiana

## 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
* Edward Thomas Abrams, doctor and legislator

## 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

## Technology

* Nicholas Skytland, NASA, Chief Technologist and Director of Business Development, NASA Johnson Space Center