List of Valparaiso University alumni
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Valparaiso University is a Lutheran college located in Valparaiso, Indiana. Following is a list of Valparaiso University alumni.
- R. J. Q. Adams (born 1943; M.A. 1969), professor of European and British history at Texas A&M University
- Patrick Roger Cleary, founder of Cleary University[1]
- William P. Richardson (1864–1945), co-founder and first dean of Brooklyn Law School
- Henry P. Rusk (1884–1954), dean of the department of agriculture at the University of Illinois
- Thomas F. Schutte (1935–2025; B.A. degree 1957), president of Pratt Institute (1993–2017) and Rhode Island School of Design (1983–1992)[2]
- James Monroe Smith, president of Louisiana State University (1930–1939)
Business
- Jay Christopher, co-founder of Pampered Chef
- Don Fites, chairman and CEO (retired) of Caterpillar Inc.
- 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
- 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[3]
- 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[4]
- Keith Kizer, Nevada chief deputy attorney general and former executive director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission[5]
- Moses Lairy, justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
- Rebecca R. Pallmeyer, United States federal judge
- Eugene E. Parker, sports attorney and agent of 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[6]
- Anthony Bimba (1894–1982), newspaper editor, historian, and radical political activist[7]
- 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, U.S. representative and 11th governor of Montana[8]
- 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, United States representative from Indiana[9]
- Marcellus Dorwin, Wisconsin State Assembly
- Edward Grassman, Wisconsin State Assembly
- Margaret Keenan Harrais, United States commissioner at Valdez, Alaska and 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)[10]
- George William Norris, United States senator from Nebraska; "father" of the Tennessee Valley Authority[11]
- William Edmunds Plummer, Wisconsin State Assembly
- Caleb Powers, U.S. representative from Kentucky; secretary of state of Kentucky; convicted as an accessory to murder of the state governor[12]
- Benjamin Shively, United States senator from Indiana (1909–1916)[13]
- Len Small, 26th governor of Illinois[14]
- Donald Edgar Tewes, U.S. representative from Wisconsin[15]
- Jill Long Thompson, U.S. representative from Indiana 1989–1995 and under secretary of agriculture for Rural Development 1995–2001[16]
- Otis Wingo, U.S. representative from Arkansas's 4th congressional district (1913–1930)[17]