List of University of Wisconsin people
This is a list of encyclopedic people associated with the University of Wisconsin in the United States of America.
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Notable alumni
Nobel laureates
- John Bardeen, 1956 & 1972 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
- Paul Boyer, 1997 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Günter Blobel, 2000 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Jack Kilby, 2000 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the Integrated Circuit
- Alan G. MacDiarmid, 2000 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Other notable alumni
- Shirley Abrahamson, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Stephen Ambrose, noted historian
- Kenneth Behring, owner, Seattle Seahawks
- Michael Bennett, NFL player, Minnesota Vikings
- Rita Braver, national reporter, CBS News
- Jane Brody, columnist, New York Times
- Dick Cheney, Vice President (attended as doctoral candidate; did not graduate.)
- Lynne Cheney, Second Lady, writer
- Dale Chihuly, glass artist
- Laurel Clark, astronaut
- Joan Cusack, actress
- Ron Dayne, 1999 Heisman Trophy winner, NFL player, Denver Broncos
- Jim Doyle, Wisconsin Governor
- Lawrence Eagleburger, former Secretary of State
- Russ Feingold, U.S. Senator
- Michael Feldman, Host of Public Radio’s “Whad‘Ya Know?”
- Michael Finley, NBA player
- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, CNN
- Jane Kaczmarek, actress (“Malcolm in the Middle”)
- Herb Kohl, U.S. Senator
- Robert M. La Follette, former Wisconsin governor and congressman
- Charles Lindbergh, aviator
- Jim Lovell, astronaut, Apollo 13 mission
- Buddy Melges, America’s Cup Skipper
- Steve Miller, musician
- John P. Morgridge, chair Cisco Systems
- John Muir, naturalist
- Gaylord Nelson, former U.S. Senator and founder of Earth Day
- Arthur C. Nielsen Sr., founder of A.C. Nielsen Co. (TV ratings)
- Joyce Carol Oates, novelist
- George Poage, athlete, first African American Olympic medal winner
- Tom Pyle, chairman and president, Pyle Group, former chairman and CEO, Rayovac Group
- Lee R. Raymond, chairman and CEO, Exxon Mobil
- Bud Selig, Baseball Commissioner
- Brewster Shaw, astronaut, Space Shuttle Columbia; former director, Space Shuttle Operations, NASA
- Ben Sidran, jazz pianist
- Tommy Thompson, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services; former Wisconsin Governor (1986-2001)
- Daniel J. Travanti, Emmy Award-winning actor
- Frederick Jackson Turner, noted American historian and professor
- Greta Van Susteren, news analyst, CNN
- Butch Vig, musician, Garbage
- Eudora Welty, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist
- Frank Lloyd Wright, architect
Notable Wisconsin faculty, former and current
- For his research in genetic structure and function in microorganisms.
- For describing the genetic code and how it operates in protein synthesis.
- For describing how tumor viruses act on the genetical material of the cell through reverse transcriptase.
- Richard Davis, jazz bassist
- Hector DeLuca. research on vitamin D
- Harry Partch, avant-garde composer
- Cecil Taylor, jazz pianist
- James Thomson, credited with first successful culturing of human embryonic stem cells.
- John Commons, one of the architects of Social Security in the United States.
- Alexander Meiklejohn