# List of University of Wisconsin–Stout alumni

The University of Wisconsin–Stout is a public university in Menomonie, Wisconsin. In the past, the university was known as the Stout Institute, Stout State College, and Stout State University. Following are some of its notable alumni.

## Art

| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
| Leslie Barlow | 2011 | Studio arts | Visual artist |
| Karen Heagle | 1990 | Fine arts and studio arts | Artist |
| Alonzo C. Webb | | Non-degreed | Etcher, architect, painter, and illustrator |
| Eliza Wheeler | 2006 | Graphic design | Children's book illustrator |

## Business

| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
| Cindy Pawlcyn | 1977 | Hotel, restaurant, and tourism management | Chef and cookbook author known for the restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area |
| Jill Soltau | 1989 | Retail merchandising and management | CEO of JCPenney and CEO of Jo-Ann Fabrics |
| Todd R. Wanek | 1988 | Industrial Technology | President and CEO of Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc. |

## Education

| Name | Class | Major | Notability | References |
| Adelaide Steele Baylor | 1928 | Sc.D. | Chief of the Home Economics Education Service in the United States Office of Education | |
| Harvey Schofield | | | President of the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire and college football coach | |

## Entertainment

| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
| Gus Johnson | 2018 | Entertainment Design | YouTube personality and comedian |
| Nettie McBirney | | Home Economics | Writer of a cooking column under the pseudonym Aunt Chick for the Tulsa Daily World from 1935 to 1955 |
| Nancy Zieman | 1975 | Textile design and journalism | Host of the television show Sewing with Nancy |

## Military

| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
| Harvey M. Haakenson | 1967 | Administration of vocational education (Master's) | United States National Guard Brigadier General |
| Hubert C. Hegtvedt | 1987 | Industrial technology and manufacturing engineering | United States Air Force Major General |
| Emil C. Kiel | 1917 | | United States Air Force Brigadeir General |
| Scott D. Legwold | 1998 | Human resources (Master's) | United States National Guard Brigadier General |

## Politics

| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
| Vera C. Bushfield | 1912 | Domestic science | Former United States Senator from South Dakota and First Lady of South Dakota |
| Roy Carl Carlson | 1968 | Vocational education (Master's) | Minnesota House of Representatives |
| Alice Clausing | 1970 | Guidance and counseling (Master's) | Former member of the Wisconsin State Senate |
| Gary Drzewiecki | 1973–1974 | Non-degreed | Former member of the Wisconsin State Senate |
| Robert J. Larson | 1966 | Guidance (Master's) | Former Wisconsin State Assembly |
| Terry Link | | | Member of the Illinois Senate |
| Clint Moses | 1999 | Human biology | Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly |
| Joe Plouff | 1986 | M.S. | Wisconsin State Assembly |
| Ewald J. Schmeichel | | Non-degreed | Former Wisconsin State Assembly |
| Richard Shoemaker | 1975 | BS | Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate |
| David Zien | 1975 | MS | Member of the Wisconsin Senate |

## Sports

| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
| Parks Bailey | | | College football player and coach |
| Tony Beckham | 2002 | | Professional football player |
| Paige Decker | 2016 | | Professional stock car racing driver |
| Oties Epps | 2002, 2006 | B.S. Human development and family studies; M.S.Education | Head coach of the women's basketball program at the University of Evansville |
| Rikard Grönborg | | Management leadership (Master's) | Ice hockey coach |
| Frank Haege | 1992 | | College and professional football coach |
| Jeff Hazuga | 2013 | Training and development (Master's) | Former professional football player |
| Reggie Holmes | | | Professional gridiron football player in Canada |
| Gary Inskeep | | | Professional gridiron football player in Canada |
| Barney Klecker | | | Former record holder for the fifty-mile ultramarathon |
| Bob McRoberts | | | Former professional football player |
| John Peterson | 1971 | Industrial education | Wrestler and Olympic gold medalist in freestyle wrestling |
| Bob Raczek | 1962 | Master's | Hall-of-fame high school football coach |
| Harvey Schofield | | | College football coach and the president of the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire |
| Tony Storti | | Non-degreed | Former head coach of the Montana State Bobcats football team |
| Joe Vavra | 1982 | Industrial technology | Quality control coach for the Detroit Tigers |

## Other

| Name | Class | Major | Notability | References |
| Luke Helder | | Non-degreed | Domestic terrorist known as the Midwest pipe bomber | |