# List of Carroll University alumni

Carroll University is a private liberal arts college in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Following are some of its notable alumni.

## Business

| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
| Steven Burd | 1971 | Economics | Chairman and president and CEO of Safeway Inc. |
| Donald Goerke | 1949 | Mathematics | Inventor of SpaghettiOs |
| Michael Jaharis | 1950 | Business administration | Founder of Kos Pharmaceuticals and Vatera Healthcare Partners LLC, and co-founder of Arisaph Pharmaceuticals |
| Gregg Steinhafel | 1977 | Business administration | President and chairman of the board of Target Corporation |

## Clergy

| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
| Mel Lawrenz | 1977 | English and religion | Author, speaker, and former senior pastor of Elmbrook church |
| William C. R. Sheridan | 1939 | Liberal arts | Episcopal Bishop of Northern Indiana |
| Edward M. Turner | | BA | Episcopal prelate and Bishop of the Virgin Islands |
| Robert Varley | 1945 | BA | Bishop of The Episcopal Church |
| Arthur A. Vogel | | non-degreed | Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of West Missouri |

## Education

| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
| Stephen Blumenfeld | 1979 | Sociology | Senior lecturer and director of the Centre for Labour Employment and Work at Victoria University of Wellington |
| James Bonk | 1953 | Chemistry | Chemistry professor at Duke University |
| Howard Fuller | 1962 | Sociology and history | Civil rights activist and co-founder of the Malcolm X Liberation University |
| Ray David Owen | 1937 | Biology | Chairman of the Caltech Division of Biology |
| Michael Persinger | | non-degreed | Professor of psychology at Laurentian University |
| Grant Showerman | | non-degreed | Classical scholar.at the University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| David A. Strand | 1958 | | President of Illinois State University |

## Art and entertainment

| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
| Matt Christman | | | Co-host of Chapo Trap House |
| James Daly | | non-degreed | Theater, film, and Emmy Award winning television actor |
| Alfred Lunt | 1914 | non-degreed | Actor and director |
| Fred MacMurray | | non-degreed | Film and television actor |
| Dennis Morgan | 1930 | | Actor |
| Olaf Odegaard | 1961 | | Artist and playwright |
| Janet Parshall | | | Syndicated radio talk show host |
| Harper Starling | | Kinesiology | Recording artist, songwriter, and dancer |
| Eric Szmanda | 1997 | | Actor known for the television show CSI |
| William A. Wojnar | 1974 | | Classical organist and professor of music |

## Government and civil service

| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
| Laura Gutiérrez | 1995 | Spanish and biology | Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services |
| Justin Jacobs | 2003 | Mathematics and computer science | Applied research mathematician at the National Security Agency, independent sports analytics researcher, and 2014 PECASE winner |
| Maybelle Maud Park | 1891 | | Physician and director of the Wisconsin Child Welfare Department of the State Board of Control |
| Antonio R. Riley | 1987 | Political science and history | Midwest Regional Administrator of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development |

## Law

| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
| David L. Dancey | 1938 | | Wisconsin Circuit Court judge and Wisconsin State Assembly |
| Fred Foreman | 1970 | | United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois |
| Daniel Kelly | 1986 | Spanish and political science | Attorney and former justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court |

## Literature and journalism

| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
| John Ball | 1934 | | Novelist, music critic, and Emmy Award recipient from the Mystery Writers of America |
| Doug Larson | | English | Columnist and editor for the Door County Advocate |
| Lucius W. Nieman | | | Founder of the Milwaukee Journal |

## Military

| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
| James P. Daley | 1977 | Political science and history | U.S. National Guard general |
| John Patten Story | 1857 | | Major general in the United States Army |
| David W. Winn | | Non-degreed | U.S. Air Force general |

## Politics

| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
| Sheryl Albers | | non-degreed | Wisconsin State Assembly |
| John M. Alberts | 1957 | B.S. | Wisconsin State Assembly |
| John F. Buckley | | | Wisconsin State Assembly |
| Cushman K. Davis | | Non-degreeed | Governor of Minnesota and U.S. Senator |
| David L. Dancey | 1938 | | Wisconsin State Assembly and Wisconsin Circuit Court judge |
| Cushman Kellogg Davis | | Non-degreed | United States Senate and Governor of Minnesota |
| Lyle E. Douglass | | | Wisconsin State Assembly |
| William Edwards | | | Wisconsin Senate and Wisconsin State Assembly |
| Lucius Fairchild | | Non-degreed | Governor of Wisconsin and United States as Minister to Spain |
| Paul Farrow | 1991 | | Wisconsin Senate |
| William Henry Hardy | | | Wisconsin State Assembly |
| Manville S. Hodgson | | | Wisconsin State Assembly |
| Oswald H. Johnson | | PhD | Wisconsin State Assembly |
| Phil H. Jones | 1894 | | Wisconsin State Assembly |
| Theodore S. Jones | | Non-degreed | Wisconsin State Assembly |
| Einer P. Lund | | PhD | Wisconsin State Assembly |
| Vincent R. Mathews | 1934 | Business | Wisconsin State Assembly |
| James A. McKenzie | | | Wisconsin State Assembly |
| Paul Melotik | 1979 | Accounting and business management | Wisconsin State Assembly |
| Earl D. Morton | 1949 | A.B. | Wisconsin State Assembly |
| Adam Neylon | 2008 | B.A. | Wisconsin State Assembly |
| David W. Opitz | 1968 | BS | Wisconsin Senate |
| Watkins Overton | | A.B. | Mayor of Memphis, Tennessee. |
| Henry C. Schadeberg | 1938 | B.A. | United States House of Representatives |
| Douglas C. Steltz | | | Wisconsin State Assembly |
| Vernon W. Thomson | | Non-degreed | Former Wisconsin governor and United States House of Representatives |

## Sports

| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
| Walt Ambrose | 1930 | | Professional football player |
| Herb Bizer | 1930 | | Professional football player |
| John W. Breen | 1935 | | Professional football player and NFL personnel manager |
| Pat Cerroni | 1992 | | Head football coach at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh |
| Moxie Dalton | | | Professional football player |
| John Edmund Fries | 1910 | | College football coach |
| Karl George | | | Professional football player |
| Rudy Gollomb | | | Professional football player with the Philadelphia Eagles |
| Bill Hempel | | | Professional football player |
| Kirk Hershey | | | Professional football player |
| Frank Hertz | | | Professional football player with the Milwaukee Badgers |
| Bill Irwin | 1962 | | Professional wrestler |
| Buzz Knoblauch | 1936 | | Professional basketball player |
| Mark Krzykowski | | | College athletics administrator and former college football coach |
| Wally Lemm | 1942 | | NFL head coach and college football coach |
| Ivan Quinn | | | Professional football player |
| Ed Sparr | | | Professional football player |
| Gil Sterr | | | Professional football player |
| Claude Taugher | | Non-degreed | Professional football player for the Green Bay Packers |
| Augie Vander Meulen | 1932 | | Professional basketball player |
| Buff Wagner | | | Professional football player for the Green Bay Packers |