# List of DePauw University alumni

This list of DePauw University alumni includes notable alumni of DePauw University, an American institution of higher education located in Greencastle, Indiana.

## Academia and science

* Joseph P. Allen – NASA Space Shuttle astronaut
* Charles A. Beard – author; one of the most influential historians of early 20th century; husband of Mary Ritter Beard
* Mary Ritter Beard – archivist; historian; leader in women's suffrage movement; wife of Charles A. Beard
* Oscar T. Brookins – Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics at Northeastern University
* Olivia Castellini – physicist
* David Crocker – philosopher; senior research scholar, School of Public Policy at University of Maryland
* Paul S. Dunkin – writer; professor of library science
* David B. Feldman – psychologist
* Thomas H. Hamilton – former president, State University of New York and University of Hawaii
* Laurin L. Henry – academic
* George W. Hoss – president, Kansas State Normal (now Emporia State University) in Kansas
* Barbara Ibrahim – prominent sociologist of the Arab world; founding director of the John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement at the American University in Cairo
* Paul Rowland Julian – meteorologist; discovered, with Roland A. Madden, atmospheric phenomena known as Madden–Julian oscillation
* Percy L. Julian – research chemist; pioneer in chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs
* Daniel Trembly MacDougal – botanist, plant biologist
* Margaret Mead – cultural anthropologist, two years, completed B.A. degree at Barnard College
* Major Reuben Webster Millsaps – founder of Millsaps College in Mississippi
* Ferid Murad – recipient of 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* J. Robert Nelson (1920–2004), B.A. 1941 – dean of the Vanderbilt University Divinity School, 1957–1960; dean of the Boston University School of Theology, 1965–1985
* Hakkı Ögelman – Turkish physicist; astrophysicist
* William H. Riker – political scientist
* Phillips Robbins – member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine; has had continuous funding from NIH for over 47 years
* Michael Stuart, B.A. 1979 – sports physician and orthopedic surgeon at the Mayo Clinic
* Winona Hazel Welch (1919–1923) – president of the Indiana Academy of Science, head of botany and bacteriology at DePauw

## Arts and entertainment

* Scott Adsit – actor, played Pete Hornberger on television sitcom 30 Rock
* Shibani Bathija – screenwriter
* Alicia Berneche – operatic soprano
* Joseph Brent – mandolinist, composer, and founder of 9 Horses
* Gary Hugh Brown – artist, painter, draftsman, and Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara
* Pamela Coburn – operatic soprano
* Annie Corley – film and television actress
* David Cryer – singer and Broadway actor, Phantom of the Opera
* Gretchen Cryer – co-creator, I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road
* Bill Hayes – stage and television actor, Days of Our Lives
* Jimmy Ibbotson – singer-songwriter and musician, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
* Sue Keller – ragtime pianist, composer and arranger
* David McMillin – singer-songwriter
* Julie McWhirter – voice actress, known for Hanna-Barbera cartoons, such as Drak Pack and The Smurfs
* Larry D. Nichols – puzzle enthusiast; inventor of Pocket Cube
* Drew Powell – actor
* Kid Quill – recording artist
* Jane Randolph – film actress, known for 1940s films such as Cat People and Jealousy
* Alice Ripley – actress, singer, played Diana in Next to Normal
* Lee Orean Smith (1874–1942) – composer, arranger, music editor, publisher, music teacher, multi-instrumentalist, and conductor
* Albert Pearson Stewart – founder of Purdue Musical Organizations, received honorary doctorate in music from DePauw in 1960
* Pharez Whitted – jazz trumpeter, composer, and producer
* Margaret Jones Wiles – composer, violinist

## Business

* Timothy Collins – financier; founder of Ripplewood Holdings; director, Citigroup
* Angie Hicks – founder of Angie's List
* Charles T. Hinde – railroad executive; founder of Hotel del Coronado; shipping executive
* Eli Lilly – founder of Eli Lilly and Company; philanthropist
* John S. McMillin – lawyer and businessman; former president of the Tacoma and Roche Harbor Lime Company
* Mary Meeker – Internet equity research analyst at Morgan Stanley, dubbed "Queen of the Net"
* Jeffrey T. Mezger – president and chief executive officer of KB Home
* Steven Rales – founder of Danaher Corporation and Indian Paintbrush
* Bill Rasmussen – co-founder of ESPN
* Scott Rasmussen – co-founder of ESPN; founder of Rasmussen Reports
* Al Ries – author, marketing expert
* Steve Sanger – former president and chief executive officer of General Mills
* Howard C. Sheperd, Sr. – former president of National City Bank of New York (now Citibank)
* Tommy Ryan – Sales Development Representative at Sentinel Technologies
* Fred C. Tucker – businessperson, real estate broker
* James D. Weddle – managing partner of Edward Jones

## Government and politics

* Karen Koning AbuZayd – Commissioner-General for U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in Near East (2005–10)
* Joseph W. Barr – U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1968–1969); chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
* Thomas W. Benett – Governor of Idaho Territory (1871–1875); served in Indiana State Senate
* Albert Beveridge – U.S. Senator from Indiana (1899–1911)
* John Berkshire – Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
* Andrew H. Burke – second Governor of North Dakota (1891–1892)
* David L. Carden – U.S. Ambassador to Association of Southeast Asian Nations
* Sutemi Chinda – former Japanese Ambassador to the United States
* Anna Elizabeth Dickinson – abolitionist, suffragist, first woman to speak before U.S. Congress
* Samuel H. Elrod – Governor of South Dakota (1905–07)
* Bob Franks – former U.S. Congressman
* Willard Gemmill – Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
* James P. Goodrich – Governor of Indiana (1917–21)
* Lee H. Hamilton – co-chair, Iraq Study Group; vice chair, 9/11 Commission; retired United States Representative
* Edwin Hammond – Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
* George Howk – Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
* Wayne Hsiung – co-founder, Direct Action Everywhere
* Patricia Ireland – former president, National Organization for Women
* John A. Johnson – General Counsel of the Air Force; General Counsel of NASA; chief executive officer, COMSAT
* Vernon Jordan Jr. – broker and executive; former president, National Urban League; personal friend and advisor to former U.S. President Bill Clinton
* David E. Lilienthal – public official; writer; businessman; chairman, Tennessee Valley Authority (1941–1946); known as "Mr. TVA"
* John McNaughton – U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense and U.S. Navy Secretary-designate (at time of death)
* Douglas J. Morris – Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
* Jay Holcomb Neff – publisher; 1904–05 Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri
* James M. Ogden – 26th Indiana Attorney General 1929-33
* Howard C. Petersen – U.S. Assistant Secretary of War
* Josh Pitcock – former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence
* Dan Quayle – 44th Vice President of the United States (under U.S. President George H. W. Bush)
* Halsted Ritter – Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (1929–1936)
* Ross Thompson Roberts – Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri (1982–1987)
* William Morris Sparks – Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (1929–1950)
* Hardress Swaim – Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (1950–1957)
* Elmer Thomas – U.S. Senator from Oklahoma (1927–51)
* George R. Throop – Chancellor of Washington University (1927–44)
* James E. Watson – U.S. Senator from Indiana; Senate Majority Leader (1929–33)
* Guilford M. Wiley – former Wisconsin State Assemblyman
* James Wilkerson – Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (1922–1948)

## Journalism

* Bret Baier – host of Special Report with Bret Baier (Fox News Channel)
* Tracey Chang – correspondent, CNBC Asia; 2009 Miss New York USA
* Gil Duran – California opinion editor for The Sacramento Bee
* Stephen F. Hayes – author; columnist, Weekly Standard
* Dave Jorgenson – journalist and TikToker, The Washington Post
* Bernard Kilgore – managing editor of the Wall Street Journal 1941–1965; head of the Dow Jones company
* John McWethy – former correspondent, ABC News
* William N. Oatis – journalist detained 1951–1953 by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia
* Eugene C. Pulliam – newspaper publisher, The Indianapolis Star and The Arizona Republic
* James C. Quayle – newspaper publisher
* Ben C. Solomon – Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times video journalist
* Jeri Kehn Thompson – radio talk show host; columnist, The American Spectator; wife of Fred Thompson (actor; former U.S. Senator from Tennessee (1994–2003); 2008 U.S. presidential candidate)

## Literature

* Angus Cameron (1908–2002) – book editor and publisher
* Gretchen Cryer – actress, lyricist, writer
* Patricia Coombs – children's book author and illustrator, Dorrie the Little Witch series
* Matt Dellinger – writer, journalist, wrote the book Interstate 69: The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway
* Stephen F. Hayes – senior writer, Weekly Standard; wrote the book Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
* John Jakes – novelist, North and South
* Adam Kennedy – actor, novelist, screenwriter, painter
* Bernard Kilgore – former editor, The Wall Street Journal; turned the publication into one of national significance
* Barbara Kingsolver – contemporary fiction writer; founder of Bellwether Prize for "literature of social change"
* Richard Peck – Newbery Medal-winning author
* Loren Pope – authority on colleges; wrote books Looking Beyond the Ivy League and Colleges That Change Lives
* James B. Stewart – recipient of 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism; wrote books including Blood Sport and DisneyWar
* Blanche Stillson – author and artist
* Minnetta Theodora Taylor (1860–1911) – wrote the lyrics to the National Suffrage Anthem

## Military

* Harvey Weir Cook – fighter ace in World War I; leading figure in the development of aviation in the United States
* Nathan Kimball – Union General during Civil War
* Sergeant Henry Nash – member of Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders
* General David M. Shoup – Commandant of the Marine Corps; recipient of Medal of Honor (World War II)
* William F. Spurgin – U.S. Army brigadier general, attended DePauw from 1854 to 1857, received honorary degree of Master of Arts in 1890
* Alexander Vraciu – flying ace in World War II

## Religion

* Albertus T. Briggs – Methodist minister
* Luella F. McWhirter – president, Indiana State Woman's Christian Temperance Union
* Eunice Blanchard Poethig – Presbyterian minister

## Sports

* Buzzie Bavasi – former general manager, Los Angeles Dodgers, California Angels and San Diego Padres
* Rob Boras – NFL assistant coach
* Brad Brownell – head men's basketball coach, Clemson University
* Dave Finzer – punter, Chicago Bears and Seattle Seahawks
* Ford C. Frick – Major League Baseball Commissioner (1951–1965)
* Bill Rasmussen – co-founder of ESPN
* Scott Rasmussen – co-founder of ESPN; founder of Rasmussen Reports
* Joe Schoen – NFL executive, general manager of the New York Giants
* Wilfred Smith – National Football League player
* Brad Stevens – general manager, Boston Celtics
* Dick Tomey – college football coach