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Nobel Laureates

  • 1 Ernest O. Lawrence, M.A., Physics, 1923 - 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics
    Nobel Prize in Physics
    The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and...

  • 2 Walter Brattain, Ph.D., Physics, 1929 - 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics
    Nobel Prize in Physics
    The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and...

  • 3 Melvin Calvin
    Melvin Calvin
    Melvin Ellis Calvin was an American chemist most famed for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham, for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He spent most of his five-decade career at the University of California, Berkeley.- Life :Calvin was born...

    , Ph.D., Chemistry, 1935 - 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,...

  • 4 Norman Borlaug
    Norman Borlaug
    Norman Ernest Borlaug was an American agronomist, humanitarian, and Nobel laureate who has been called "the father of the Green Revolution". Borlaug was one of only six people to have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal...

    , B.S. Forestry, 1937; M.S. (1939) and Ph.D. (1942), Plant Pathology - 1970, 1914 - 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
    Nobel Peace Prize
    The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...

  • 5 Edward B. Lewis
    Edward B. Lewis
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    , M.A., Biostatistics, 1939 - 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...

  • 6 Louis J. Ignarro, Ph.D., Pharmacology, 1966 - 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...

  • 7 Daniel McFadden
    Daniel McFadden
    Daniel Little McFadden is an econometrician who shared the 2000 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with James Heckman ; McFadden's share of the prize was "for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice". He was the E. Morris Cox Professor of Economics at the...

    , B.S. Physics, 1957; Ph.D., Economics, 1962 - 2000 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Pulitzer Prize winners

  • Carl Dennis
    Carl Dennis
    Carl Dennis , an American poet and educator. His book Practical Gods won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.-Life and work:...

     - Pulitzer Prize
    Pulitzer Prize
    The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

     winner in 2002 for Poetry.
  • Thomas Friedman
    Thomas Friedman
    Thomas Lauren Friedman is an American journalist, columnist and author. He writes a twice-weekly column for The New York Times. He has written extensively on foreign affairs including global trade, the Middle East, and environmental issues and has won the Pulitzer Prize three times.-Personal...

     - Pulitzer Prize
    Pulitzer Prize
    The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

     winner in 1983 and 1988 for International Reporting and 2002 for Commentary. He studied at the University of Minnesota from 1971 to 1973 before transferring to Brandeis University.

Vice Presidents

  • Hubert H. Humphrey, former U.S. Vice President
    Vice President of the United States
    The Vice President of the United States is the holder of a public office created by the United States Constitution. The Vice President, together with the President of the United States, is indirectly elected by the people, through the Electoral College, to a four-year term...

     and 1968 Democratic nominee for President
  • Walter Mondale
    Walter Mondale
    Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale is an American Democratic Party politician, who served as the 42nd Vice President of the United States , under President Jimmy Carter, and as a United States Senator for Minnesota...

    , former U.S. Vice President
    Vice President of the United States
    The Vice President of the United States is the holder of a public office created by the United States Constitution. The Vice President, together with the President of the United States, is indirectly elected by the people, through the Electoral College, to a four-year term...

     and 1984 Democratic nominee for President


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Cabinet Members and Diplomats

  • Robert Bergland
    Robert Bergland
    Robert Selmer Bergland is a United States politician. He grew up on a farm near Roseau, and studied agriculture at the University of Minnesota in a two year program...

    , former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
    United States Secretary of Agriculture
    The United States Secretary of Agriculture is the head of the United States Department of Agriculture. The current secretary is Tom Vilsack, who was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on 20 January 2009. The position carries similar responsibilities to those of agriculture ministers in other...

  • James Blanchard
    James Blanchard
    James Johnston "Jim" Blanchard is a politician from the US state of Michigan. A Democrat, Blanchard has served in the United States House of Representatives, as the 45th Governor of Michigan, and as United States Ambassador to Canada....

    , former U.S. Ambassador to Canada
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

  • Jeffrey Davidow
    Jeffrey Davidow
    Jeffrey Davidow is a career foreign service officer from the U.S. state of Virginia. Davidow has served as a member of the Senior Foreign Service, as well as having been the U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, Venezuela, and Mexico....

    , former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
    Mexico
    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

    , Zambia
    Zambia
    Zambia , officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....

    , and Venezuela
    Venezuela
    Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

  • William Dawson (diplomat) former U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay
    Uruguay
    Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...

     and Panama
    Panama
    Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The...

  • Scott H. DeLisi
    Scott H. DeLisi
    Scott H. DeLisi is the current United States Ambassador to Nepal. He was previously United States Ambassador to Eritrea. A career foreign service officer, DeLisi is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota Law School. A native of Minnesota, DeLisi speaks...

    , U.S. Ambassador to Nepal
    Nepal
    Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...

  • Orville Freeman
    Orville Freeman
    Orville Lothrop Freeman was an American Democratic politician who served as the 29th Governor of Minnesota from January 5, 1955 to January 2, 1961, and as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1961 to 1969 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson...

    , former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
  • William Garvelink
    William Garvelink
    William John Garvelink is an American diplomat and former United States Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo by George W. Bush on May 30, 2007 and sworn in on October 22, 2007.-Biography:...

    , former U.S. Ambassador to Congo
    Democratic Republic of the Congo
    The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a state located in Central Africa. It is the second largest country in Africa by area and the eleventh largest in the world...

  • James D. Hodgson
    James D. Hodgson
    James Day Hodgson is a former American politician.During World War II, Hodgson served as an officer in the United States Navy....

    , former U.S. Secretary of Labor and U.S. Ambassador to Japan
    Japan
    Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

  • Darryl N. Johnson
    Darryl N. Johnson
    Darryl Norman Johnson is a retired American statesman and career Foreign Service Officer who held many positions in American government around the world. Most recently and importantly he was the United States Ambassador to Thailand from 2001–2004...

    , former U.S. Ambassador to Thailand
    Thailand
    Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

  • Tom McDonald (diplomat)
    Tom McDonald (diplomat)
    Tom McDonald was the United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe from 1997 to 2001. A graduate of George Washington University and the University of Minnesota Law School, McDonald is now an attorney with the Washington, D.C. firm of Baker Hostetler. He is a member of the Council of American Ambassadors...

    , former U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe
    Zimbabwe
    Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...

  • Ronald K. McMullen
    Ronald K. McMullen
    Ronald K. McMullen is an American foreign service officer and a career member of the Senior Foreign Service. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Eritrea 2007–10....

    , former U.S. Ambassador to Eritrea
    Eritrea
    Eritrea , officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa. Eritrea derives it's name from the Greek word Erethria, meaning 'red land'. The capital is Asmara. It is bordered by Sudan in the west, Ethiopia in the south, and Djibouti in the southeast...

  • William D. Mitchell
    William D. Mitchell
    William DeWitt Mitchell was appointed to the position of U.S. Solicitor General by Calvin Coolidge on June 4, 1925, which he held until he was appointed to the position of U.S. Attorney General for the entirety of Herbert Hoover's Presidency.Born in Winona, Minnesota to William B...

    , former Attorney General of the United States
  • Robert G. Neumann
    Robert G. Neumann
    Robert Gerhard Neumann was a United States politician and ambassador.-Biography:Born in Vienna, Austria, Neumann received degrees from the University of Rennes, the Consular Academy of Austria, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland Robert Gerhard...

    , former diplomat
  • Carl Stokes, former U.S. Ambassador to Seychelles
    Seychelles
    Seychelles , officially the Republic of Seychelles , is an island country spanning an archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, some east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar....

  • Walter Mondale
    Walter Mondale
    Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale is an American Democratic Party politician, who served as the 42nd Vice President of the United States , under President Jimmy Carter, and as a United States Senator for Minnesota...

    , former U.S. Ambassador to Japan
    Japan
    Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

  • Benson Whitney
    Benson Whitney
    Benson Kelley Whitney was the United States Ambassador to Norway from 2006 to 2009. He was managing general partner of the Gideon Hixon Fund and former President of the Minnesota Venture Capital Association. He was also chief executive officer of Whitney Management Company...

     former U.S. Ambassador to Norway
    Norway
    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

  • Ross Wilson (ambassador)
    Ross Wilson (ambassador)
    Ross L. Wilson is a former U.S. foreign service officer and ambassador. He was the United States Ambassador to Turkey, with the personal rank of Minister-Counselor. He currently teaches part-time at The George Washington University...

    , former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
    Turkey
    Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

  • Robert F. Woodward
    Robert F. Woodward
    Robert Forbes Woodward was a United States diplomat who focused on U.S. relations with Latin America.-Biography:Robert F. Woodward was born in Minneapolis on October 1, 1908. He was educated at the University of Minnesota, receiving a B.A. in 1930.Woodward joined the United States Foreign Service...

    , former diplomat

Members of Congress

  • Sydney Anderson
    Sydney Anderson
    Sydney Anderson was a Representative from Minnesota; born in Zumbrota, Minnesota, Goodhue County, Minnesota; attended the common schools; was graduated from high school in 1899; attended Highland Park College, Des Moines, Iowa, and the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis; studied law; was...

    , former U.S. Representative
  • Wendell Anderson
    Wendell Anderson
    Wendell Richard "Wendy" Anderson is an American politician and was the 33rd Governor of Minnesota from January 4, 1971 to December 29, 1976. In late 1976, he resigned the governor's office in order to be named U.S. Senator to replace Walter Mondale, who had been elected Vice President of the...

    , former U.S. Senator (DFL-MN)
  • William L. Armstrong
    William L. Armstrong
    William Lester "Bill" Armstrong is an American businessman and politician. He is member of the Republican party and was a United States Representative and Senator from Colorado. Armstrong was born in Fremont, Nebraska...

    , former U.S. Senator
  • Joseph H. Ball
    Joseph H. Ball
    Joseph Hurst Ball wasa newspaper reporter who became a United States Senator at the age of 35, as the result of an accident. When Minnesota's U.S. Senator Ernest Lundeen was killed in a plane crash on August 31, 1940, Ball was the surprise appointment to fill the unexpired term...

    , former U.S. Senator (R-MN)
  • Dean Barkley
    Dean Barkley
    Dean Malcolm Barkley is a politician who briefly served as a member of the United States Senate from Minnesota following the death of Paul Wellstone...

    , former U.S. Senator (I-MN)
  • Nick Begich
    Nick Begich
    Nicholas Joseph "Nick" Begich, Sr. was a Democratic Party member of the United States House of Representatives from Alaska. He disappeared in a plane crash in Alaska in 1972. His son Mark Begich is currently the junior U.S...

    , former U.S. Representative
  • Fred Biermann
    Fred Biermann
    Frederick Elliott Biermann was a three-term Democratic U.S. Representative from Iowa's 4th congressional district...

    , former U.S. Representative
  • Quentin Burdick, former U.S. Senator (D-ND)
  • Usher L. Burdick
    Usher L. Burdick
    Usher Lloyd Burdick was a member of the United States House of Representatives from North Dakota. He was the father of Quentin N. Burdick.-Early life and career:...

    , former U.S. Representative
  • Vera C. Bushfield
    Vera C. Bushfield
    Vera Cahalan Bushfield was a U.S. Senator from South Dakota. Born in Miller, South Dakota, she attended the public schools, graduated from the Stout Institute in Menomonie, Wisconsin and also attended Dakota Wesleyan University and the University of Minnesota.She was appointed on October 6, 1948,...

    , former U.S. Senator
  • Ray P. Chase
    Ray P. Chase
    Ray Park Chase was a United States Representative from Minnesota and a Minnesota State Auditor.Chase was born in Anoka County, Minnesota on March 12, 1880. He attended the public schools and graduated from the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1903...

    , former U.S. Congressman (R-MN)
  • Victor Christgau
    Victor Christgau
    Victor Laurence August Christgau was Representative from Minnesota-Background:Victor Christgau born in Dexter Township, Mower County, near Austin, Minnesota. attended He was graduated from the school of agriculture of the University of Minnesota at St...

    , former U.S. Congressman (R-MN)
  • Frank E. Denholm
    Frank E. Denholm
    Frank Edward Denholm was a member of the United States House of Representatives from South Dakota. He was born in Scotland Township of Day County, South Dakota in 1923....

    , former U.S. Representative
  • Everett Dirksen
    Everett Dirksen
    Everett McKinley Dirksen was an American politician of the Republican Party. He represented Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate...

    , former U.S. Senator
  • David Durenberger
    David Durenberger
    David Ferdinand Durenberger is an American politician and a former Republican member of the U.S. Senate from Minnesota.- Early life :...

    , former U.S. Senator (R-MN)
  • Keith Ellison
    Keith Ellison (politician)
    Keith Maurice Ellison is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2007. He is a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. The district centers on Minneapolis. He was re-elected in 2010. Ellison is a co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.He is the first Muslim to be elected to the...

    , U.S. Congressman (DFL-MN)
  • Franklin Ellsworth
    Franklin Ellsworth
    Franklin Fowler Ellsworth was a Representative from Minnesota; born in St. James, Watonwan County, Minnesota, July 10, 1879; attended the grade and high schools; enlisted as a private in Company H, Twelfth Regiment, Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, during the Spanish-American War; attended the law...

    , former U.S. Representative
  • Donald M. Fraser
    Donald M. Fraser
    Donald MacKay Fraser is an American politician from Minneapolis, Minnesota.-Early life:Donald Fraser played a critical role in making human rights an important part of U.S. policy. Fraser was born on 20 February 1924 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Everett and Lois Fraser. His parents were émigrés...

    , former U.S. Congressman (DFL-MN)
  • Richard Pillsbury Gale
    Richard Pillsbury Gale
    Richard Pillsbury Gale was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota; born in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota; attended the public schools of Minneapolis, The Blake School at Hopkins, Minnesota, Minnesota Farm School, and University of Minnesota at Minneapolis; was graduated from Yale...

    , former U.S. Representative
  • Godfrey Goodwin, former U.S. Congressman (R-MN)
  • Einar Hoidale
    Einar Hoidale
    Einar Hoidale was a Norwegian-American politician. Born in Tromsø, Norway, he immigrated to the United States at the age of seven. He graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1898. As a lawyer and a businessman he became a prominent member of the community in Minnesota...

    , former U.S. Congressman (DFL-MN)
  • Knute Hill
    Knute Hill
    Knute Hill was a United States Representative from the state of Washington.-Background:Born on a farm near Creston, Illinois, Hill moved to De Forest, Wisconsin in 1877 and later to Red Wing, Minnesota in 1889. He attended both Red Wing Seminary and the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis...

    , former U.S. Representative
  • Dewey Johnson
    Dewey Johnson
    Dewey William Johnson was an American lawyer and politician from Minnesota. Johnson was born in Minneapolis and attended the local public schools, followed by the University of Minnesota and William Mitchell College of Law .After graduation from law school, he began work in the insurance business...

    , former U.S. Representative
  • Ron Johnson, U.S. Senator (R-WI)
  • Ron Kind
    Ron Kind
    Ronald James "Ron" Kind is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1997. He is a member of the Democratic Party. His district is located in the western portion of the state and is anchored by La Crosse and Eau Claire and Platteville....

    , U.S. Congressman (D-WI)
  • Paul John Kvale
    Paul John Kvale
    Paul John Kvale was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota.-Early life:Kvale was born in Orfordville, Wisconsin as son of Ole J. Kvale. He attended the Orfordville school and the University of Illinois. In 1917, he moved to Benson, Minnesota with his parents...

    , former U.S. Representative
  • Rick Larsen
    Rick Larsen
    Richard Ray "Rick" Larsen is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2001. He is a member of the Democratic Party.-Early life, education and career:...

    , U.S. Representative
  • John Linder
    John Linder
    John Elmer Linder is the former U.S. Representative for , serving from 1993 until 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party.Linder announced that he would retire from Congress at the end of the 111th Congress....

    , U.S. Congressman (R-GA)
  • Ernest Lundeen
    Ernest Lundeen
    Ernest Lundeen was an American lawyer and politician.Lundeen was born and raised on his father's homestead in Brooklyn Township of Lincoln County near Beresford, South Dakota. His father, C. H...

    , former U.S. Senator
  • Bill Luther
    Bill Luther
    William Paul "Bill" Luther is an American politician. Luther was a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party member of the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1995 to January 3, 2003, serving in the 104th, 105th, 106th, and 107th congresses, representing Minnesota's 6th congressional...

    , former U.S. Congressman (DFL-MN)
  • Melvin Maas
    Melvin Maas
    Melvin Joseph Maas was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota.-Biography:Melvin Joseph Maas was born in Duluth, Minnesota, May 14, 1898. He moved with his parents to St. Paul, Minnesota in 1898. Educated in the public schools, he graduated from St. Thomas College at St. Paul in 1919 and also...

    , former U.S. Representative
  • Clark MacGregor
    Clark MacGregor
    Clark MacGregor was a Republican U.S. Representative from Minnesota's 3rd Congressional District.MacGregor was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College in the class of 1944 and the University of Minnesota Law School in 1946 . He was elected to the U.S...

    , former U.S. Representative
  • James Manahan
    James Manahan
    James Manahan was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota.Manahan was born near Chatfield in Fillmore County, Minnesota, and graduated from the Normal School of Winona, Minnesota in 1886. For two years, he worked as a school teacher in Graceville...

    , former U.S. Representative
  • William Josiah MacDonald
    William Josiah MacDonald
    William Josiah MacDonald was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.MacDonald was born in Potosi, Wisconsin. He attended the common schools and graduated from the high school at Fairmont, Minnesota. He attended the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis and Georgetown Law School in...

    , former U.S. Representative
  • Eugene McCarthy
    Eugene McCarthy
    Eugene Joseph "Gene" McCarthy was an American politician, poet, and a long-time member of the United States Congress from Minnesota. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1949 to 1959 and the U.S. Senate from 1959 to 1971.In the 1968 presidential election, McCarthy was the first...

    , former U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator and three-time Presidential candidate (DFL-MN)
  • John Melcher
    John Melcher
    John Melcher is an American politician of the Democratic Party who represented Montana as a member of the United States House of Representatives, and as a United States Senator from 1977 until 1989.-Early life:...

    , former U.S. Senator
  • Clarence B. Miller
    Clarence B. Miller
    Clarence Benjamin Miller was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota. He was born in Pine Island, Minnesota and attended the country school, high school, and the Minneapolis Academy; was graduated from the academic department of the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1895 and from the law...

    , former U.S. Representative
  • Wayne Morse
    Wayne Morse
    Wayne Lyman Morse was a politician and attorney from Oregon, United States, known for his proclivity for opposing his parties' leadership, and specifically for his opposition to the Vietnam War on constitutional grounds....

    , former U.S. Senator (R/I/D-OR)
  • Walter Newton
    Walter Newton
    Walter Hughes Newton was a United States Representative from Minnesota; born in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota; attended the public schools and was graduated from the law department of the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1905; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced...

    , former U.S. Representative
  • Jim Ramstad
    Jim Ramstad
    James Marvin "Jim" Ramstad is a United States politician from the state of Minnesota.-Early life:Ramstad was born in Jamestown, North Dakota, was educated at the University of Minnesota and the George Washington University Law School. He was an officer in the United States National Guard from 1968...

    , former U.S. Congressman (R-MN)
  • John H. Ray
    John H. Ray
    John Henry Ray was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.Ray was born in Mankato, Minnesota. He graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1908 and Harvard Law School in 1911. He was an assistant to special representative of Secretary of War Newton D....

    , former U.S. Representative
  • Elmer Ryan
    Elmer Ryan
    Elmer James Ryan was a United States Representative from Minnesota.He was born in Rosemount, Dakota County, Minnesota, May 26, 1907. He attended the public schools, was graduated from the law department of the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1929, was admitted to the bar the same year...

    , former U.S. Representative
  • Martin Olav Sabo
    Martin Olav Sabo
    Martin Olav Sabo is an American politician and member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and a former United States Representative for , which includes Minneapolis; the district is one of eight congressional districts in Minnesota.Sabo was born of Norwegian immigrant parents in Crosby, North...

    , former U.S. Representative
  • Thomas D. Schall
    Thomas D. Schall
    Thomas David Schall was an American lawyer and politician. He served in both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate from Minnesota. He was initially elected as a Progressive but later joined the Republican Party.Schall was born in Reed City, Michigan, and moved...

    , former U.S. Senator (R-MN)
  • Patricia Schroeder
    Patricia Schroeder
    Patricia Nell Scott Schroeder , American politician, was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Colorado, serving from 1973 to 1997. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Colorado.- Early years :...

    , former U.S. Congresswoman (D-CO)
  • Conrad Selvig
    Conrad Selvig
    Conrad George Selvig was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives.Conrad George Selvig was born in Rushford, Minnesota. He fought in the Spanish-American War. He graduated from Rushford High School and the University of Minnesota...

    , former U.S. Representative
  • Don L. Short
    Don L. Short
    Don Levingston Short was a cattle rancher and politician from Billings County, North Dakota. His career in politics reached its pinnacle when he was elected as a U.S. Representative in 1958, and was a member of the United States Congress from January 3, 1959 to January 3, 1965.-Biography:Don L...

    , former U.S. Representative
  • Gerald Edward Sikorski, former U.S. Representative
  • George Ross Smith
    George Ross Smith
    George Ross Smith was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota; born in St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minnesota; attended the public schools and Sauk Centre Academy; was graduated from the law school of the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1893; was admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced...

    , former U.S. Representative
  • Henry O. Talle
    Henry O. Talle
    Henry Oscar Talle was an economics professor and a ten-term Republican U.S. Representative from eastern Iowa. He served in the United States Congress for twenty years from 1938 until 1958.-Background:...

    , former U.S. Representative
  • Bruce Vento
    Bruce Vento
    Bruce Frank Vento was an American politician, a Democratic-Farmer-Labor member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 until his death in 2000...

    , former U.S. Congressman (DFL-MN)
  • Vin Weber
    Vin Weber
    John Vincent Weber is a former Republican Congressman from Minnesota. Weber attended the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities from 1970 to 1974. He had been the co-publisher of Murray County newspaper and the president of Weber Publishing Company...

    , former U.S. Congressman (R-MN)
  • George M. Young
    George M. Young
    George Morley Young was a U.S. Representative from North Dakota.Born in Lakelet, Huron County, Ontario, Canada, YoungWhen a boy moved to the United States and settled in St...

    , former U.S. Representative
  • Edward Zorinsky
    Edward Zorinsky
    Edward Zorinsky was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Nebraska, serving from 1976 until his death.- Early life :...

    , former U.S. Senator
  • John M. Zwach
    John M. Zwach
    John Matthew Zwach Sr. was a United States Representative from Minnesota. He was born in Gales Township, Redwood County, Minnesota. He attended the public schools and graduated from Milroy High School in 1926. He then received a teaching certificate from Mankato State College in 1927 and graduated...

    , former U.S. Representative

Governors

  • Elmer L. Andersen
    Elmer L. Andersen
    Elmer Lee Andersen was an American businessman, philanthropist, and the 30th Governor of Minnesota, serving a single term from January 2, 1961, to March 25, 1963, as a Republican.- Early life and education :...

    , former Governor of Minnesota
    Minnesota
    Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

  • C. Elmer Anderson
    C. Elmer Anderson
    Clyde Elmer Anderson , more commonly known as C. Elmer Anderson, was an American politician. Born in Brainerd, Minnesota, he served as the 28th Governor of Minnesota from September 27, 1951 to January 5, 1955....

    , former Governor of Minnesota
    Minnesota
    Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

  • Wendell Anderson
    Wendell Anderson
    Wendell Richard "Wendy" Anderson is an American politician and was the 33rd Governor of Minnesota from January 4, 1971 to December 29, 1976. In late 1976, he resigned the governor's office in order to be named U.S. Senator to replace Walter Mondale, who had been elected Vice President of the...

    , former Governor of Minnesota
    Minnesota
    Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

  • James Blanchard
    James Blanchard
    James Johnston "Jim" Blanchard is a politician from the US state of Michigan. A Democrat, Blanchard has served in the United States House of Representatives, as the 45th Governor of Michigan, and as United States Ambassador to Canada....

    , former Governor of Michigan
    Michigan
    Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

  • Joseph A.A. Burnquist, former Governor of Minnesota
    Minnesota
    Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

  • Harlan Bushfield, former Governor of South Dakota
    South Dakota
    South Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux American Indian tribes. Once a part of Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889. The state has an area of and an estimated population of just over...

  • Arne Carlson
    Arne Carlson
    Arne Helge Carlson, Sr. is an American politician and the 37th Governor of the state of Minnesota.-Early years, education and family:...

    , former Governor of Minnesota
    Minnesota
    Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

  • Theodore Christianson
    Theodore Christianson
    Theodore Christianson was an American politician who served as the 21st Governor of Minnesota from January 6, 1925 until January 6, 1931.-Background:...

    , former Governor of Minnesota
    Minnesota
    Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

  • Robert B. Crosby
    Robert B. Crosby
    Robert Berkey Crosby was an American Republican politician who served as the 27th Governor of Nebraska from 1953 to 1955.-Biography:...

    , former Governor of Nebraska
    Nebraska
    Nebraska is a state on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States. The state's capital is Lincoln and its largest city is Omaha, on the Missouri River....

  • Charles M. Dale
    Charles M. Dale
    Charles Milby Dale was an American lawyer and Republican politician from Portsmouth, New Hampshire; he was the seventy-sixth Governor of New Hampshire, serving from 1945 to 1949.-Early career:...

    , former Governor of New Hampshire
    New Hampshire
    New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian...

  • Orville Freeman
    Orville Freeman
    Orville Lothrop Freeman was an American Democratic politician who served as the 29th Governor of Minnesota from January 5, 1955 to January 2, 1961, and as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1961 to 1969 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson...

    , former Governor of Minnesota
    Minnesota
    Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

  • William L. Guy
    William L. Guy
    William Lewis Guy was the governor of the U.S. state of North Dakota from 1961 to 1973. At , he is the oldest of the six living current or past governors of North Dakota.-Biography:...

    , former Governor of North Dakota
    North Dakota
    North Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States of America, along the Canadian border. The state is bordered by Canada to the north, Minnesota to the east, South Dakota to the south and Montana to the west. North Dakota is the 19th-largest state by area in the U.S....

  • Harold LeVander
    Harold LeVander
    Karl Harold Phillip LeVander was an American politician. He served as the 32nd Governor of Minnesota from January 2, 1967 to January 4, 1971 as a Republican, having defeated incumbent Karl Rolvaag, a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party , in the 1966 election.LeVander was born in...

    , former Governor of Minnesota
    Minnesota
    Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

  • John Lind
    John Lind (politician)
    John Lind was an American politician.-Background:Lind was born in Kånna, Kronoberg County in the Swedish province of Småland and emigrated to the United States with his parents when he was thirteen years old. He served in the Spanish-American War in 1898...

    , former Governor of Minnesota
    Minnesota
    Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

  • Floyd B. Olson
    Floyd B. Olson
    Floyd Bjørnstjerne Olson was an American politician. He served as the 22nd Governor of Minnesota from January 6, 1931 to August 22, 1936. He died in office from stomach cancer. He was a member of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party, and was the first member of the Farmer-Labor Party to win the...

    , former Governor of Minnesota
    Minnesota
    Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

  • Tim Pawlenty
    Tim Pawlenty
    Timothy James "Tim" Pawlenty , also known affectionately among supporters as T-Paw, is an American politician who served as the 39th Governor of Minnesota . He was a Republican candidate for President of the United States in the 2012 election from May to August 2011...

    , former Governor of Minnesota
    Minnesota
    Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

  • J.A.O. Preus, former Governor of Minnesota
    Minnesota
    Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

  • Harold Stassen
    Harold Stassen
    Harold Edward Stassen was the 25th Governor of Minnesota from 1939 to 1943. After service in World War II, from 1948 to 1953 he was president of the University of Pennsylvania...

    , former Governor of Minnesota
    Minnesota
    Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

  • Charles W. Turnbull, Governor, U.S. Virgin Islands

Article III Judges

  • Donald D. Alsop, Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
  • Mosher Joseph Blumenfeld
    Mosher Joseph Blumenfeld
    Mosher Joseph Blumenfeld was a United States federal judge who served as chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut....

    , former Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut
  • Myron Bright, Senior Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
  • Warren E. Burger
    Warren E. Burger
    Warren Earl Burger was the 15th Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986. Although Burger had conservative leanings, the U.S...

    , former Chief Justice
    Chief Justice
    The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...

     of the U.S. Supreme Court
  • William Canby, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • Michael J. Davis
    Michael J. Davis
    Michael James Davis is an American lawyer and United States federal judge. He has sat on the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota since 1994.-Early life, education, and career:...

    , Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
  • David S. Doty, Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
  • Joan N. Ericksen
    Joan N. Ericksen
    Joan N. Ericksen is a judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. She joined the court in 2002 after being nominated by President George W. Bush.-Early life and education:...

    , Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
  • Henry Norman Graven
    Henry Norman Graven
    Henry Norman Graven was a United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa....

    , former Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa
  • Gerald Heaney, former Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
  • Richard H. Kyle, Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
  • Earl R. Larson, former Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
  • Miles Lord
    Miles Lord
    Miles Welton Lord is a former federal judge, appointed to the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota by President Lyndon B. Johnson on February 10, 1966 to fill the vacancy left by Judge Dennis F. Donovan. He served as chief judge on the district court from 1981–1985 and...

    , former Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
  • Claude Luse, former Judge, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin
  • George MacKinnon
    George MacKinnon
    George Edward MacKinnon was appointed by President Nixon to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in May 1969, where he served until his death in 1995. Judge MacKinnon is also the father of feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon.According to Judge Harry T...

    , former Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
  • Harry H. MacLaughlin, former Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
  • Ann D. Montgomery
    Ann D. Montgomery
    Ann D. Montgomery is a United States federal judge.Born in Litchfield, Minnesota, Montgomery received a B.S. from the University of Kansas in 1971 and a J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1974. She was a law clerk to Gerard Reilly and Hubert Pair, both of the U.S. Court of...

    , Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
  • Diana E. Murphy
    Diana E. Murphy
    Diana E. Murphy born in 1934, is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.- Education :Murphy received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Minnesota in 1954 and her Juris Doctor from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1974, where she was an editor on the...

    , Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
  • Philip Neville
    Philip Neville (judge)
    Philip Neville was a United States federal judge.Neville was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He received a B.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1931, and an LL.B. from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1933. He was a law clerk for the Supreme Court of Minnesota from 1933 to 1935, and...

    , former Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
  • Milton D. Purdy, former Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
  • Gunnar Nordbye, former Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
  • James M. Rosenbaum, Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
  • John B. Sanborn, Jr.
    John B. Sanborn, Jr.
    John Benjamin Sanborn, Jr. was a lawyer, politician, and United States federal judge from the state of Minnesota. His record of public service spanned more than fifty years.-Early life and education:...

    , former Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
  • George F. Sullivan
    George F. Sullivan
    George F. Sullivan was a United States federal judge.-Biography:Born in Shakopee, Minnesota, Sullivan received an LL.B. from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1908. He was in private practice in Jordan, Minnesota from 1908 to 1933. He was a County attorney of Scott County, Minnesota from...

    , former Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
  • John R. Tunheim
    John R. Tunheim
    John R. Tunheim is a United States federal judge.Born in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, Tunheim received a B.A. from Concordia College in 1975 and a J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1980. He was a law clerk to Judge Earl Larson of the U.S...

    , Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
  • Bruce Marion Van Sickle
    Bruce Marion Van Sickle
    Bruce Marion Van Sickle was a United States federal judge.Born in Minot, North Dakota, Van Sickle received a B.S.L. from the University of Minnesota in 1939 and a J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1941. He was a Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, from 1941 to...

    , former Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota
  • Charles Vogel, former Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
  • Robert W. Warren
    Robert W. Warren
    Robert Willis Warren was a United States federal judge and politician from Wisconsin.Warren was born in Raton, New Mexico. He received a B.A. from Macalester College in 1950, an M.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1951, and a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1956...

    , former Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

State Judges

  • Douglas K. Amdahl
    Douglas K. Amdahl
    Douglas K. Amdahl was an American lawyer and judge from Minnesota. He served as Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court from December 1981 to January 1989....

    , former Chief Justice
    Chief Justice
    The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...

     of the Minnesota Supreme Court
    Minnesota Supreme Court
    The Minnesota Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Minnesota and consists of seven members. The court was first assembled as a three-judge panel in 1849 when Minnesota was still a territory. The first members were lawyers from outside of the region who were appointed by...

  • G. Barry Anderson
    G. Barry Anderson
    Grant Barry Anderson is currently an Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, sworn into office on October 13, 2004...

    , former Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court
    Minnesota Supreme Court
    The Minnesota Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Minnesota and consists of seven members. The court was first assembled as a three-judge panel in 1849 when Minnesota was still a territory. The first members were lawyers from outside of the region who were appointed by...

  • Paul H. Anderson
    Paul H. Anderson
    Paul H. Anderson is currently an Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, taking office on July 1, 1994. He previously served as Chief Judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals from 1992-1994....

    , Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court
    Minnesota Supreme Court
    The Minnesota Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Minnesota and consists of seven members. The court was first assembled as a three-judge panel in 1849 when Minnesota was still a territory. The first members were lawyers from outside of the region who were appointed by...

  • Russell A. Anderson
    Russell A. Anderson
    Russell A. Anderson is an attorney and former Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. He served as an Associate Justice of the court from September 1, 1998 until he was sworn in as Chief Justice on January 10, 2006. He retired from the Supreme Court on June 1, 2008, at age 66, and was...

    , former Chief Justice
    Chief Justice
    The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...

     of the Minnesota Supreme Court
    Minnesota Supreme Court
    The Minnesota Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Minnesota and consists of seven members. The court was first assembled as a three-judge panel in 1849 when Minnesota was still a territory. The first members were lawyers from outside of the region who were appointed by...

  • Kathleen A. Blatz
    Kathleen A. Blatz
    Kathleen A. Blatz is a former Minnesota judge and politician.Blatz was born in Minneapolis to Kay and Jerome Blatz. She attended high school at the Academy of Holy Angels in Richfield, Minnesota, and received her B.A. from the University of Notre Dame...

    , former Chief Justice
    Chief Justice
    The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...

     of the Minnesota Supreme Court
    Minnesota Supreme Court
    The Minnesota Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Minnesota and consists of seven members. The court was first assembled as a three-judge panel in 1849 when Minnesota was still a territory. The first members were lawyers from outside of the region who were appointed by...

  • Edward T. Burke
    Edward T. Burke
    Edward T. Burke was an American judge who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Dakota from 1911 to 1916. He died on Christmas Day in Flossmoor, Illinois in 1935 at age 65.-External links:*...

    , former Justice, North Dakota Supreme Court
    North Dakota Supreme Court
    The North Dakota Supreme Court is the highest court of law in the state of North Dakota. The Court rules on questions of law in appeals from the state's district courts....

  • Harrison A. Bronson
    Harrison A. Bronson
    Harrison A. Bronson was an American legislator and attorney who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Dakota from 1918 to 1924. He died at the age of 73 in 1947.-External links:*...

    , former Justice, North Dakota Supreme Court
    North Dakota Supreme Court
    The North Dakota Supreme Court is the highest court of law in the state of North Dakota. The Court rules on questions of law in appeals from the state's district courts....

  • John P. Devaney
    John P. Devaney
    John P. Devaney was Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court until 1937. Born near Lake Mills, Iowa, on June 30, 1883, he moved to Minnesota in 1901 and entered the University of Minnesota. While there, he attained the following degrees: B.A. 1905; LL.B. 1907; LL.M. 1908. Admitted to practice...

    , former Chief Justice
    Chief Justice
    The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...

     of the Minnesota Supreme Court
    Minnesota Supreme Court
    The Minnesota Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Minnesota and consists of seven members. The court was first assembled as a three-judge panel in 1849 when Minnesota was still a territory. The first members were lawyers from outside of the region who were appointed by...

  • Ralph J. Erickstad
    Ralph J. Erickstad
    Ralph J. Erickstad was the Chief Justice on the North Dakota Supreme Court from 1973–1992. He retired December 31, 1992 after serving 30 years on the Supreme Court.-External links:**...

    , former Chief Justice
    Chief Justice
    The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...

     of the North Dakota Supreme Court
    North Dakota Supreme Court
    The North Dakota Supreme Court is the highest court of law in the state of North Dakota. The Court rules on questions of law in appeals from the state's district courts....

  • Thomas F. Gallagher
    Thomas F. Gallagher
    Thomas F. Gallagher was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court from 1943 until his retirement in 1967....

    , former Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court
    Minnesota Supreme Court
    The Minnesota Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Minnesota and consists of seven members. The court was first assembled as a three-judge panel in 1849 when Minnesota was still a territory. The first members were lawyers from outside of the region who were appointed by...

  • Sandra Gardebring Ogren
    Sandra Gardebring Ogren
    Sandra Gardebring Ogren was an Associate Justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court appointed by Governor Rudy Perpich in 1991. She also served as Vice President for Institutional Relations at the University of Minnesota, and Vice President for Advancement at California Polytechnic State University...

    , former Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court
    Minnesota Supreme Court
    The Minnesota Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Minnesota and consists of seven members. The court was first assembled as a three-judge panel in 1849 when Minnesota was still a territory. The first members were lawyers from outside of the region who were appointed by...

  • Oscar Knutson
    Oscar Knutson
    Oscar R. Knutson was an American lawyer and judge from Minnesota. Born in Perry, Wisconsin, Knutson was a Minnesota state court judge, He served as Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court from 1962 to March 1973....

    , former Chief Justice
    Chief Justice
    The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...

     of the Minnesota Supreme Court
    Minnesota Supreme Court
    The Minnesota Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Minnesota and consists of seven members. The court was first assembled as a three-judge panel in 1849 when Minnesota was still a territory. The first members were lawyers from outside of the region who were appointed by...

  • Charles Loring (judge)
    Charles Loring (judge)
    Charles Loring was an American lawyer and judge from Minnesota. He served as Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court from January 1944 to July 1953....

    , former Chief Justice
    Chief Justice
    The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...

     of the Minnesota Supreme Court
    Minnesota Supreme Court
    The Minnesota Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Minnesota and consists of seven members. The court was first assembled as a three-judge panel in 1849 when Minnesota was still a territory. The first members were lawyers from outside of the region who were appointed by...

  • Eric J. Magnuson
    Eric J. Magnuson
    Eric John Magnuson is an American lawyer in private practice. He was the Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court from 2008 to 2010.-Education and professional background:...

    , Chief Justice
    Chief Justice
    The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...

     of the Minnesota Supreme Court
    Minnesota Supreme Court
    The Minnesota Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Minnesota and consists of seven members. The court was first assembled as a three-judge panel in 1849 when Minnesota was still a territory. The first members were lawyers from outside of the region who were appointed by...

  • Helen M. Meyer
    Helen M. Meyer
    Helen M. Meyer is an American lawyer and judge from the state of Minnesota. She currently serves as an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court....

    , Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
    Minnesota Supreme Court
    The Minnesota Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Minnesota and consists of seven members. The court was first assembled as a three-judge panel in 1849 when Minnesota was still a territory. The first members were lawyers from outside of the region who were appointed by...

  • Alan Page
    Alan Page
    Alan Cedric Page is a justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He graduated from Central Catholic High School in 1963, received his B.A. in political science from the University of Notre Dame in 1967, and received his J.D. from the University of...

    , Justice
    Justice
    Justice is a concept of moral rightness based on ethics, rationality, law, natural law, religion, or equity, along with the punishment of the breach of said ethics; justice is the act of being just and/or fair.-Concept of justice:...

     of the Minnesota Supreme Court
    Minnesota Supreme Court
    The Minnesota Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Minnesota and consists of seven members. The court was first assembled as a three-judge panel in 1849 when Minnesota was still a territory. The first members were lawyers from outside of the region who were appointed by...

     and member of NFL Hall of Fame
  • Harry H. Peterson
    Harry H. Peterson
    Harry Herbert Peterson was an American lawyer, judge and politician. He graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1912 and entered private practice as an attorney at law in Ramsey County, Minnesota. He was elected Ramsey County Attorney to serve 1923–1924 and subsequently served as...

    , former Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court
    Minnesota Supreme Court
    The Minnesota Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Minnesota and consists of seven members. The court was first assembled as a three-judge panel in 1849 when Minnesota was still a territory. The first members were lawyers from outside of the region who were appointed by...

  • Peter S. Popovich
    Peter S. Popovich
    Peter Stephen Popovich was an American lawyer, politician, and judge from Minnesota. He is the only person in the state's history to serve as both Chief Judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals and Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.Popovich was born in Crosby, Minnesota in 1920...

    , former Chief Justice
    Chief Justice
    The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...

     of the Minnesota Supreme Court
    Minnesota Supreme Court
    The Minnesota Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Minnesota and consists of seven members. The court was first assembled as a three-judge panel in 1849 when Minnesota was still a territory. The first members were lawyers from outside of the region who were appointed by...

  • John E. Simonett
    John E. Simonett
    John E. Simonett was an attorney and associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. He was famous for his wit and thoughtfulness, characteristics reflected both in his judicial opinions, and in his writings and speeches. In 2007, he was named one of the 100 most influential attorneys in...

    , former Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court
    Minnesota Supreme Court
    The Minnesota Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Minnesota and consists of seven members. The court was first assembled as a three-judge panel in 1849 when Minnesota was still a territory. The first members were lawyers from outside of the region who were appointed by...

  • Robert Sheran
    Robert Sheran
    Robert J. Sheran was an American lawyer, politician and judge from Minnesota. He was appointed Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court by Governor Wendell Anderson, serving from December 1973 to December 1981. He previously served as an associate justice on the court from January 1963 to July...

    , former Chief Justice
    Chief Justice
    The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...

     of the Minnesota Supreme Court
    Minnesota Supreme Court
    The Minnesota Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Minnesota and consists of seven members. The court was first assembled as a three-judge panel in 1849 when Minnesota was still a territory. The first members were lawyers from outside of the region who were appointed by...

  • Edward C. Stringer
    Edward C. Stringer
    Edward C. Stringer is a retired Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. A graduate of Amherst College and the University of Minnesota Law School, he authored a number of opinions as a Justice. He is now in private law practice in Minnesota....

    , former Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court
    Minnesota Supreme Court
    The Minnesota Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Minnesota and consists of seven members. The court was first assembled as a three-judge panel in 1849 when Minnesota was still a territory. The first members were lawyers from outside of the region who were appointed by...

  • Samuel B. Wilson
    Samuel B. Wilson
    Samuel B. Wilson was an American lawyer and judge from Minnesota. He served as Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court from 1923 to 1933....

    , former Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court
    Minnesota Supreme Court
    The Minnesota Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Minnesota and consists of seven members. The court was first assembled as a three-judge panel in 1849 when Minnesota was still a territory. The first members were lawyers from outside of the region who were appointed by...

  • Michael A. Wolff
    Michael A. Wolff
    Michael A. Wolff was a Judge on the Supreme Court of Missouri. He served on the Supreme Court between 1998 and 2011, and as Chief Justice from 2005 to 2007. Prior to his appointment the Court, he served in the office of Governor Mel Carnahan, as chief counsel from 1993 to 1994, and as special...

    , former Chief Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court
  • Lawrence R. Yetka
    Lawrence R. Yetka
    Lawrence R. Yetka was an Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court and a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives....

    , former Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court
    Minnesota Supreme Court
    The Minnesota Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Minnesota and consists of seven members. The court was first assembled as a three-judge panel in 1849 when Minnesota was still a territory. The first members were lawyers from outside of the region who were appointed by...


Attorneys General

  • Mike Hatch
    Mike Hatch
    Michael Allen Hatch is an American politician, and was Attorney General of Minnesota from 1999 to 2007. In 2006, he was the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party nominee for governor of Minnesota...

    , former Minnesota Attorney General
  • Douglas M. Head
    Douglas M. Head
    Douglas Michael Head was an American politician from the Republican Party and a former Attorney General of Minnesota.Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Head graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and an LL.B...

    , former Minnesota Attorney General
  • Hubert H. Humphrey III, former Minnesota Attorney General
  • Henry Linde
    Henry Linde
    Henry J. Linde was a North Dakota politician who served as the 9th North Dakota Attorney General for one term from 1915 to 1916. He was born in Ridgeway, Iowa, and he was educated at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, and he graduated in the spring of 1901. He studied at the University of Minnesota...

    , former North Dakota Attorney General
    North Dakota Attorney General
    The North Dakota Attorney General is the chief legal officer of the North Dakota state government. The current Attorney General is Wayne Stenehjem...

  • Robert W. Mattson, Sr.
    Robert W. Mattson, Sr.
    Robert W. Mattson, Sr. was an American army veteran, lawyer, and politician in Minnesota, where he was the state Attorney General from 1964 to 1967. He was a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party....

    , former Minnesota Attorney General
  • William D. Mitchell
    William D. Mitchell
    William DeWitt Mitchell was appointed to the position of U.S. Solicitor General by Calvin Coolidge on June 4, 1925, which he held until he was appointed to the position of U.S. Attorney General for the entirety of Herbert Hoover's Presidency.Born in Winona, Minnesota to William B...

    , former U.S. Attorney General
  • Harry H. Peterson
    Harry H. Peterson
    Harry Herbert Peterson was an American lawyer, judge and politician. He graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1912 and entered private practice as an attorney at law in Ramsey County, Minnesota. He was elected Ramsey County Attorney to serve 1923–1924 and subsequently served as...

    , former Minnesota Attorney General
  • Albert F. Pratt
    Albert F. Pratt
    Albert F. Pratt was a Minnesota lawyer and politician.Pratt was born on a farm in 1972 in Anoka County, Minnesota, where he was raided. He graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1895...

    , former Minnesota Attorney General
  • Warren Spannaus
    Warren Spannaus
    Warren R. Spannaus is an American politician from the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and former Attorney General of Minnesota. Spannaus graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1963. He was elected attorney general in 1970 and assumed office on January 4, 1971...

    , former Minnesota Attorney General

Foreign

  • Arne Arnesen
    Arne Arnesen
    Arne Arnesen was a Norwegian diplomat and politician for the Labour Party.He was born in Moss as a son of dentist Arne Arnesen and modist Dordi Texnæs . The family moved to Oslo in 1932...

    , Norwegian politician and official
  • Mohamed Benaissa
    Mohamed Benaissa
    Mohamed Benaissa is a politician from Morocco who was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of that country from 1999 to 2007....

    , former Foreign Minister of Morocco
    Morocco
    Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...

  • Luis Carranza
    Luis Carranza
    Prof. Luis Carranza Ugarte, , was the Minister of Economy and Finance of Peru in the administration of Peruvian president Alan García, from July 2006 - July 2008. During his first tenure, he championed several structural economic reforms that proved extremely successful...

    , former Minister of Economy and Finance, Peru
    Peru
    Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

  • Felipe Checa, stepson of the current president of Ecuador, Brazil
    Brazil
    Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

  • Michael Clark (politician), former member of the British Parliament
  • Nick Clegg
    Nick Clegg
    Nicholas William Peter "Nick" Clegg is a British Liberal Democrat politician who is currently the Deputy Prime Minister, Lord President of the Council and Minister for Constitutional and Political Reform in the coalition government of which David Cameron is the Prime Minister...

    , British MP, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
    Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
    The Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a senior member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom. The office of the Deputy Prime Minister is not a permanent position, existing only at the discretion of the Prime Minister, who may appoint to other offices...

    , and leader of the Liberal Democrats
    Liberal Democrats
    The Liberal Democrats are a social liberal political party in the United Kingdom which supports constitutional and electoral reform, progressive taxation, wealth taxation, human rights laws, cultural liberalism, banking reform and civil liberties .The party was formed in 1988 by a merger of the...

  • Geir Haarde
    Geir Haarde
    Geir Hilmar Haarde was Prime Minister of Iceland from 15 June 2006 to 1 February 2009 and Chairman of the Icelandic Independence Party from 2005 to 2009. Geir initially led a coalition between his party and the Progressive Party...

    , former Prime Minister of Iceland
    Iceland
    Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...

  • Werikhe Kafabusa
    Werikhe Kafabusa
    Michael Werikhe Kafabusa, commonly known as Werikhe Kafabusa, is a Ugandan politician. He was the State Minister for Housing in the Ugandan Cabinet, from June 2006 until May 2011. In the Cabinet reshuffle of 27 May 2011, he was dropped from the cabinet and replaced by Sam Engola...

    , Minister for Housing, Uganda
    Uganda
    Uganda , officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. Uganda is also known as the "Pearl of Africa". It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by South Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by...

  • O-kyu Kwon , Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Finance and Economy of the Republic of Korea
  • Abdessalem Mansour
    Abdessalem Mansour
    Abdessalem Mansour is a Tunisian politician. He was the Minister of Agriculture under former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.-Biography:Abdessalem Mansour was born on November 19, 1949 in Sousse, Tunisia...

    , former Tunisian Agriculture Minister
  • Yong-lin Moon, Former Minister of Education and Human Resources Development of the Republic of Korea
  • Khurram Murad
    Khurram Murad
    Khurram Murad or Khurram Jah Murad an Islamic scholar occupies a place of distinction in the intellectual firmament of contemporary Islam. A thinker and a prolific writer, he has been one of the architects of current Islamic resurgence. While his da'wah activities began in Pakistan, he has been...

    , Pakistan
    Pakistan
    Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

    i politician and Islam
    Islam
    Islam . The most common are and .   : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...

    ic activist
  • Fred H. Nomme
    Fred H. Nomme
    Fred Harald Nomme is a Norwegian diplomat.He was born in Sandefjord, and studied economics at the University of Minnesota and San Francisco State College. He had a varied career outside of the diplomacy; he has worked at the University of Bergen, University of Oslo, Norwegian Shipowners'...

    , Norwegian diplomat
  • Archie Norman
    Archie Norman
    Archibald John Norman is a British businessman and politician. He is at present the only FTSE 100 chairman to have sat in the House of Commons. On 18 November 2009, Norman was announced as the new chairman of ITV plc...

    , former member of the British Parliament
  • Ricardo Raineri
    Ricardo Raineri
    Ricardo Jorge Raineri Bernain is an economist, academic, researcher, consultant, and politician. On February 9, 2010, Chile's current President Sebastián Piñera nominated him to the Ministry of Energy.-Biography:...

    , Minister of Energy, Chile
    Chile
    Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

  • Sadiq Al Shehabi, Member of the Shura Council, Kingdom of Bahrain
  • Paulo Zucula
    Paulo Zucula
    Paulo Zucula is a Mozambican politician and Mozambique's Minister of Transportation and Communication since March 2008.-Early life:...

    , Mozambican politician
  • Mohamed Azmin Ali
    Mohamed Azmin Ali
    Mohamed Azmin bin Ali is a Malaysian politician and currently the Member of Parliament for the Gombak as well as assemblyman for Bukit Antarabangsa in the Selangor State Assembly...

    , Malaysian politician

Other

  • George Edward Akerson
    George Edward Akerson
    George Edward Akerson was a U.S. journalist, and the first official White House Press Secretary.-Early life:Akerson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He attended the University of Minnesota, taking classes in Science, Literature and Art. After leaving there, he received a job at the Minneapolis...

    , former White House Press Secretary
    White House Press Secretary
    The White House Press Secretary is a senior White House official whose primary responsibility is to act as spokesperson for the government administration....

  • John T. Benson
    John T. Benson
    John T. Benson is an American educator and Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin 1993-2001.Born in Mauston, Wisconsin, Benson graduated from Luther College 1960 and received his masters degree from University of Minnesota 1963...

    , Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin
    Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin
    The Superintendent of Public Instruction, sometimes referred to as the State Superintendent of Schools, is a constitutional office within the executive branch of the Wisconsin state government, and acts as the executive head of the Department of Public Instruction...

  • William Berndt
    William Berndt
    William Berndt is a former member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and Wisconsin State Senate.-Biography:Berndt was born on July 18, 1956. He graduated from River Falls High School in River Falls, Wisconsin before attending the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and the University of Minnesota...

    , Wisconsin Legislature
  • Val Bjornson
    Val Bjornson
    Kristjan Valdimar "Val" Bjornson was a Minnesota writer, newspaper editor, and politician who served as state treasurer for more than two decades....

    , Minnesota State Treasurer
  • David R. Brink
    David R. Brink
    David R. Brink is an American attorney and former President of the American Bar Association. A specialist in Estate planning, Brink graduated from the University of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota Law School before joining the Minnesota law firm of Dorsey & Whitney...

    , former President, American Bar Association
    American Bar Association
    The American Bar Association , founded August 21, 1878, is a voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students, which is not specific to any jurisdiction in the United States. The ABA's most important stated activities are the setting of academic standards for law schools, and the formulation...

  • Alden W. Clausen
    Alden W. Clausen
    Alden Winship "Tom" Clausen is a former President of the World Bank.-Education:He was born in Hamilton, Illinois to a family of Norwegian ancestry and graduated from Carthage College in 1944 with a B.A., again in 1970 with a LL.D.; from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1949 with a LL.B.;...

    , former President, World Bank
    World Bank
    The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty...

  • Chris Coleman (politician)
    Chris Coleman (politician)
    Christopher "Chris" B. Coleman is a Minnesota politician and the mayor of St. Paul. He defeated incumbent mayor Randy Kelly in 2005 and took office on January 3, 2006.- Family and early career :...

    , Mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota
    Saint Paul, Minnesota
    Saint Paul is the capital and second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Minnesota. The city lies mostly on the east bank of the Mississippi River in the area surrounding its point of confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Minneapolis, the state's largest city...

  • Lawrence D. Cohen (politician)
    Lawrence D. Cohen (politician)
    This entry references the American politician named "Lawrence D. Cohen", for the American screenwriter see Lawrence D. CohenLawrence D. Cohen is an American attorney, politician and judge. Cohen graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1957 and entered private practice as an...

    , former Mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota
    Saint Paul, Minnesota
    Saint Paul is the capital and second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Minnesota. The city lies mostly on the east bank of the Mississippi River in the area surrounding its point of confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Minneapolis, the state's largest city...

  • Gratia Countryman
    Gratia Countryman
    Gratia Alta Countryman was a nationally-known librarian who led the Minneapolis Public Library from 1904 to 1936. She was the daughter of immigrant farmers Alta and Levi Countryman. She pioneered many ways to make the library more accessible and user-friendly to all of the city's residents,...

    , librarian
  • Jimmy Delshad
    Jimmy Delshad
    Jamshid "Jimmy" Delshad is an Iranian-American politician in the state of California. He became Mayor of Beverly Hills on March 21, 2007 and again on March 16, 2010. He is the first Iranian-American to hold public office in Beverly Hills.-Biography:...

    , former Mayor, Beverly Hills, California
    Beverly Hills, California
    Beverly Hills is an affluent city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. With a population of 34,109 at the 2010 census, up from 33,784 as of the 2000 census, it is home to numerous Hollywood celebrities. Beverly Hills and the neighboring city of West Hollywood are together...

  • Michael Dombeck
    Michael Dombeck
    Michael "Mike" P. Dombeck is an American conservationist, educator, scientist, and outdoorsman. He served as Acting Director of the Bureau of Land Management from 1994–1997 and was the 14th Chief of the United States Forest Service from 1997 to 2001...

    , former Chief, United States Forest Service
    United States Forest Service
    The United States Forest Service is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 155 national forests and 20 national grasslands, which encompass...

  • James Harsdorf
    James Harsdorf
    James Harsdorf is an American politician and dairy farmer from Wisconsin.Born in Stillwater, Minnesota, Harsdorf graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in animal science. He was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly in a 1977 special election, defeating future Wisconsin...

    , Wisconsin Legislature
  • John Hutson
    John Hutson
    John Dudley Hutson is a retired United States Navy rear admiral, attorney, and former Judge Advocate General of the Navy. He is the outgoing dean and president of University of New Hampshire School of Law in Concord, New Hampshire, having served in the position since 2000.Dean Hutson holds a B.A....

    , former Judge Advocate General
    Judge Advocate General
    In the United Kingdom, the Judge Advocate General and Judge Martial of all the Forces is a judge responsible for the court martial process within the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force.-Qualifications:...

    , United States Navy
    United States Navy
    The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...

  • Sly James
    Sly James
    Sylvester "Sly" James, Jr. , is the Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri. James lives in Kansas City's Hyde Park neighborhood. He was inaugurated as Mayor on May 2, 2011.- Early life, education, and career :...

    , J.D., 1983, Kansas City mayor
  • Thomas E. Latimer
    Thomas E. Latimer
    Thomas E. Latimer was an American lawyer who served as the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota from 1935 to 1937. His mayoral term coincided with a period of labor unrest in the city. Prior to that, Latimer worked as a lawyer on the freedom of the press dispute that...

    , former Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota
    Minneapolis, Minnesota
    Minneapolis , nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States...

  • Algernon Lee
    Algernon Lee
    Algernon H. Lee was an American socialist politician and educator, best known as the Director of Education at the Rand School of Social Science for 35 years.-Early years:...

    , Socialist Party of America
    Socialist Party of America
    The Socialist Party of America was a multi-tendency democratic-socialist political party in the United States, formed in 1901 by a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party of America and disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor Party which had split from the main organization...

     leader
  • Jim Lord, Minnesota State Treasurer, Minnesota State Senate
  • Paul J. F. Lusaka
    Paul J. F. Lusaka
    Paul John Firmino Lusaka was a Zambian politician and diplomat who became President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1984.-Biography:...

    , former President, United Nations General Assembly
    United Nations General Assembly
    For two articles dealing with membership in the General Assembly, see:* General Assembly members* General Assembly observersThe United Nations General Assembly is one of the five principal organs of the United Nations and the only one in which all member nations have equal representation...

  • Mary O. McCarthy, former CIA analyst who allegedly leaked classified information
  • Doug McFarland
    Doug McFarland
    Douglas Dale McFarland is a college professor at Hamline University and is a Minnesota politician.-Biography and Titles:...

    , Minnesota state politician
  • Richard Moe
    Richard Moe
    Richard Moe is an American lawyer from Duluth, Minnesota. Following his graduation from Williams College and the University of Minnesota Law School, Moe went on to a distinguished career in government, law, and historic preservation...

    , former Chief of Staff
    Chief of Staff
    The title, chief of staff, identifies the leader of a complex organization, institution, or body of persons and it also may identify a Principal Staff Officer , who is the coordinator of the supporting staff or a primary aide to an important individual, such as a president.In general, a chief of...

     for the United States Vice President
  • Arthur Naftalin
    Arthur Naftalin
    Arthur Naftalin was an American political scientist and politician. A member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party , he served as mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota from July 3, 1961, to July 6, 1969. He was the city's only Jewish mayor.Naftalin was born in Fargo, North Dakota, one of four...

    , former Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota
    Minneapolis, Minnesota
    Minneapolis , nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States...

  • Aagot Raaen
    Aagot Raaen
    Aagot Raaen was an American author and educator.-Background:Aagot Raaen was born in Iowa. Her parents, Thomas Raaen and Ragnhild Rodningen, were immigrants from Norway. The family moved to Dakota Territory to establish a homestead, settling near Hatton, North Dakota...

    , author and educator
  • Nils Nilsen Ronning
    Nils Nilsen Ronning
    Nils Nilsen Ronning was an American author, journalist and editor.-Background:Nils Nilsen Ronning was born in Bø in Telemark, Norway. After he emigrated to America in 1887, he attended the Faribault public school...

    , author, journalist, editor and publisher
  • Richard M. Scammon
    Richard M. Scammon
    Richard M. Scammon was an author, political scientist and elections scholar. He served as Director of the U.S. Bureau of the Census from 1961 to 1965. Afterwards, he worked for decades directing election analysis for NBC News....

    , former Director, United States Census Bureau
    United States Census Bureau
    The United States Census Bureau is the government agency that is responsible for the United States Census. It also gathers other national demographic and economic data...

  • Gene Sperling
    Gene Sperling
    Gene B. Sperling is an American lawyer and political figure, currently serving as a Counselor to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. He is also on the staff of the Council on Foreign Relations, where he serves as Senior Fellow for Economic Policy and Director of the Center on Universal Education. He...

    , Director, National Economic Council
    National Economic Council
    The National Economic Council of the United States is the principal forum used by the President of the United States for considering economic policy matters, separate from matters relating to domestic policy, which are the domain of the Domestic Policy Council...

  • Elmer B. Staats
    Elmer B. Staats
    Elmer Boyd Staats was a public servant whose career from the late 1930s to the early 1980s was primarily associated with the Bureau of the Budget and the GAO. Staats was born June 6, 1914, in Richfield, Kansas, to Wesley F. and Maude Staats...

    , former Comptroller General of the United States
    Comptroller General of the United States
    The Comptroller General of the United States is the director of the Government Accountability Office , a legislative branch agency established by Congress in 1921 to ensure the fiscal and managerial accountability of the federal government...

  • Joseph Stevens, 2006 Plymouth Mayoral Candidate
  • William H. Stewart
    William H. Stewart
    William H. Stewart was an American pediatrician and epidemiologist. He was appointed tenth Surgeon General of the United States from 1965 to 1969.-Early years:Stewart was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota...

    , former United States Surgeon General
  • Carl Stokes, former Mayor, Cleveland, Ohio
    Cleveland, Ohio
    Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...

  • Clarence Syvertson, former Director, Ames Research Center
  • Roy Wilkins
    Roy Wilkins
    Roy Wilkins was a prominent civil rights activist in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s. Wilkins' most notable role was in his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ....

    , former civil rights activist
  • Whitney Young
    Whitney Young
    Whitney Moore Young Jr. was an American civil rights leader.He spent most of his career working to end employment discrimination in the United States and turning the National Urban League from a relatively passive civil rights organization into one that aggressively fought for equitable access to...

    , former civil rights activist

Leadership and Business

  • Lahsen Ababouch, Chief of Fisheries Industry Division, Food and Agriculture Organization
    Food and Agriculture Organization
    The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is a specialised agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and...

  • Dianne Deering Anton, Vice President of Contracts and Strategic Agreements, Alliant Techsystems
    Alliant Techsystems
    Alliant Techsystems Inc., most commonly known by its ticker symbol, ', is one of the largest aerospace and defense companies in the United States with more than 18,000 employees in 22 states, Puerto Rico and internationally, and 2010 revenues in excess of an estimated...

  • Mary Greeley Bartz, Director, Betty Crocker
    Betty Crocker
    Betty Crocker AKA: batter witch is a cultural icon, as well as brand name and trademark of American Fortune 500 corporation General Mills. The name was first developed by the Washburn Crosby Company in 1921 as a way to give a personalized response to consumer product questions. The name Betty was...

     Kitchens
  • John S. Barry
    John Barry (WD-40)
    John Steven Barry , was an American business executive who popularized WD-40, a water-displacing spray and solvent that had been created in the 1950s for use in the space program and spread its use in the consumer market....

    , former CEO, WD-40
    WD-40
    WD-40 is the trademark name of a United States-made water-displacing spray. It was developed in 1953 by Norm Larsen, founder of the Rocket Chemical Company, San Diego, California. It was originally designed to repel water and prevent corrosion, and later was found to have numerous household...

     Company.
  • James H. Binger
    James H. Binger
    James Henry Binger was a lawyer who became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Honeywell. He was also a well known philanthropist, horse enthusiast and New York and Minneapolis theatre owner and entrepreneur.-Career:...

    , former CEO, Honeywell
    Honeywell
    Honeywell International, Inc. is a major conglomerate company that produces a variety of consumer products, engineering services, and aerospace systems for a wide variety of customers, from private consumers to major corporations and governments....

  • Thomas O. Staggs
    Thomas O. Staggs
    Thomas O. Staggs is the chairman of the Walt Disney Company's Parks and Resorts division.-Career:Joining Disney in 1990, Staggs rose from his role as a manager of strategic planning to senior vice president of strategic planning and development in 1995...

    , chairman, Walt Disney Company
  • Tom Burnett
    Tom Burnett
    Thomas Edward Burnett, Jr. was the vice-president and chief operating officer of Thoratec Corporation, a medical devices company based in Pleasanton, California. He resided in San Ramon, California....

    , Vice President, Thoratec Corporation
  • Mary Crimi, former President, American Animal Hospital Association
    American Animal Hospital Association
    The American Animal Hospital Association is a non-profit organization for companion animal veterinarians. It was established in 1933. The association develops benchmarks of excellence, business practice standards, publications and educational programs...

  • John Donovan
    John Donovan
    John Rawdon Donovan was an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1930 until 1932, representing the electorate of Murray....

    , Executive Vice President for Global Sales and Consulting Services, VeriSign
    VeriSign
    Verisign, Inc. is an American company based in Dulles, Virginia that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the .com, .net, and .name generic top-level domains and the .cc and .tv country-code...

  • Susan Edberg, Vice President of Marketing, Minnesota Public Radio
    Minnesota Public Radio
    Minnesota Public Radio , is the flagship National Public Radio member network for the state of Minnesota. With its three services, News & Information, Classical Music and The Current, MPR operates a 42-station regional radio network in the upper Midwest serving over 8 million people...

  • Jody H. Feragen, Vice President of Finance, Hormel Foods Corporation
  • Michelle Gran, Co-founder, Global Volunteers
    Global Volunteers
    Global Volunteers is an international nonprofit organization holding special consultative status with the United Nations.. Headquatered in St...

  • Rodney R. Hannula
    Rodney R. Hannula
    Rodney R. Hannula is a retired Major General in the National Guard of the United States.-Biography:Hannula graduated from high school in Saxon, Wisconsin in 1958...

    , U.S. National Guard general
  • Harry Heltzer
    Harry Heltzer
    Harry Heltzer was the Chairman & Chief Executive Office of 3M from 1970 to 1975. Harry was also President of 3M from 1966 to 1970. Harry was forced to resign from 3M amidst allegations of improper campaign contributions during the Nixon years. Harry later went on to divorce his wife Bernice...

    , former CEO, 3M Corporation
  • Robert E. Hillard
    Robert E. Hillard
    Robert E. Hillard , together with his friend and business partner Alfred Fleishman, established Fleishman-Hillard in St. Louis, Missouri in 1946...

    , public relations executive
  • Susan Hoff, Vice President of Corporate Communications, BestBuy
  • Michael Illbruck, CEO, Illbruck International, GmbH
  • Mildred Jeffrey
    Mildred Jeffrey
    Mildred Jeffrey was a political and social activist during the labor reforms and civil rights movements. Jeffrey served as the first woman head of the United Auto Workers and founded the National Women's Political Caucus...

    , former President of United Auto Workers
    United Auto Workers
    The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, better known as the United Auto Workers , is a labor union which represents workers in the United States and Puerto Rico, and formerly in Canada. Founded as part of the Congress of Industrial...

     and winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
    Presidential Medal of Freedom
    The Presidential Medal of Freedom is an award bestowed by the President of the United States and is—along with thecomparable Congressional Gold Medal bestowed by an act of U.S. Congress—the highest civilian award in the United States...

  • Kenneth Oscar Johnson, former CEO, Belcher Oil
  • Myung-Sik Jung, former CEO, POSCO
    POSCO
    POSCO is a multinational steel-making company headquartered in Pohang, South Korea. It is the world's third-largest steelmaker by market value and the most profitable Asia-based steelmaker....

  • Erwin Kelm
    Erwin Kelm
    Erwin Kelm was an American businessman born in Minnesota. He attended the University of Minnesota. While at the helm of Cargill from 1961 through 1976 he built the company into a $10 billion grain business which handled more than 25% of America's grain exports while operating 600 plants in 38...

    , former President, Cargill
    Cargill
    Cargill, Incorporated is a privately held, multinational corporation based in Minnetonka, Minnesota. Founded in 1865, it is now the largest privately held corporation in the United States in terms of revenue. If it were a public company, it would rank, as of 2011, number 13 on the Fortune 500,...

  • Karen Gilles Larson, CEO, Synovis Life Technologies
    Synovis Life Technologies
    A Minneapolis based company, Synovis Life Technologies is a medical device manufacturer that recently celebrated 25 straight profitable quarters and earned itself a slot on the Fortune 100 Fastest Growing Companies and Forbes 200 Best Small Companies lists, and the Russell 2000 Index....

  • Timothy R. McLevish, CFO, Ingersoll-Rand
  • Kathleen Lundberg, Chief Compliance Officer, Guidant Corporation
  • Obioma Nnaemeka, Founder, Association of African Women Scholars,
  • Curtis C. Nelson, President and COO, Carlson Companies
    Carlson Companies
    Carlson is a privately held international corporation in the hotel, restaurant, and travel industries. Headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota, near Minneapolis, Carlson brands and services, including franchised operations, employ more than 170,000 people in more than 150 countries and territories...

  • Bud Philbrook, Co-founder, Global Volunteers
    Global Volunteers
    Global Volunteers is an international nonprofit organization holding special consultative status with the United Nations.. Headquatered in St...

  • Lee Raymond
    Lee Raymond
    Lee R. Raymond was the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of ExxonMobil from 1999 to 2005. He had previously been the CEO of Exxon since 1993. He joined the company in 1963 and has been president since 1987 and a director since 1984....

    , former CEO, Exxon Mobil Corporation
  • Tom Staggs, Senior Executive Vice President, Walt Disney Co.
  • John Stumpf
    John Stumpf
    John Stumpf became Chairman for Wells Fargo & Company in January 2010. He was named Chief Executive Officer in June 2007, elected to Wells Fargo’s Board of Directors in June 2006, and has been President since August 2005....

    , CEO, Wells Fargo Bank
  • Robert Ulrich
    Bob Ulrich
    Robert J. Ulrich is the former chief executive officer and chairman of the Target Corporation, the second-largest retailer in the United States...

    , CEO, Target
    Target Corporation
    Target Corporation, doing business as Target, is an American retailing company headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the second-largest discount retailer in the United States, behind Walmart. The company is ranked at number 33 on the Fortune 500 and is a component of the Standard & Poor's...

  • Hicks Waldron, former CEO, Avon Products
    Avon Products
    Avon Products, Inc. is a US cosmetics, perfume and toy seller with markets in over 140 countries across the world and sales of $9.9 billion worldwide as of 2007.-Business Model:...

  • Scott Ward
    Scott Ward
    Scott James Ward in Brent, London, England, is a retired English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Luton Town in the Football League....

    , President (Vascular), Medtronic
    Medtronic
    Medtronic, Inc. , based in suburban Minneapolis, Minnesota, is the world's largest medical technology company and is a Fortune 500 company.- History :...

    , Inc.
  • Bob Whitmore, Executive Vice President, Seagate Technology
    Seagate Technology
    Seagate Technology is one of the world's largest manufacturers of hard disk drives. Incorporated in 1978 as Shugart Technology, Seagate is currently incorporated in Dublin, Ireland and has its principal executive offices in Scotts Valley, California, United States.-1970s:On November 1, 1979...

  • Roy Wilkins
    Roy Wilkins
    Roy Wilkins was a prominent civil rights activist in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s. Wilkins' most notable role was in his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ....

    , former Executive Director of the NAACP
  • Michael Wingert, President and COO, Maxtor Corporation
  • David W. Winn
    David W. Winn
    David W. Winn was a Brigadier General in the United States Air Force.-Biography:Winn was born in Austin, Minnesota in 1923. He would attend Carroll College, the University of Minnesota, and George Washington University. Winn died on September 25, 2009.-Career:Winn originally enlisted in the United...

    , U.S. Air Force general
  • Michael W. Wright
    Michael W. Wright
    Michael W. Wright is a Minneapolis business executive who has served as chief executive officer of SuperValu and who currently is a director of Wells Fargo & Company....

    , former CEO of SuperValu
    SuperValu
    SuperValu or Supervalu is a name used by grocery chains in multiple countries:* SuperValu * SuperValu * SuperValu * See also SuperValue, supervalue...

  • Whitney Young
    Whitney Young
    Whitney Moore Young Jr. was an American civil rights leader.He spent most of his career working to end employment discrimination in the United States and turning the National Urban League from a relatively passive civil rights organization into one that aggressively fought for equitable access to...

    , former Executive Director, National Urban League
    National Urban League
    The National Urban League , formerly known as the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, is a nonpartisan civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States. It is the oldest and largest...

  • Andrew Bundermann, US Army
    United States Army
    The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...

     Officer, received Silver Star
    Silver Star
    The Silver Star is the third-highest combat military decoration that can be awarded to a member of any branch of the United States armed forces for valor in the face of the enemy....

     for actions at COP Keating
  • William E. McIntosh, Jr., co-founder of National Association of Minority Auto Dealers NAMAD former Chrysler Executive, lead the 1st minority dealer ownership program in the U.S., Entrepreneur.

Science and Medicine

  • Dr. Rutherford Aris
    Rutherford Aris
    Rutherford "Gus" Aris was a chemical engineer and a Regents Professor Emeritus of Chemical engineering at the University of Minnesota.- Early life :...

    , professor of chemical engineering
    Chemical engineering
    Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with physical science , and life sciences with mathematics and economics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms...

     (1958–2005) who was also a professor of Classics
    Classics
    Classics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean world ; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity Classics (sometimes encompassing Classical Studies or...

     specializing in paleography
  • Earl Bakken
    Earl Bakken
    Earl E. Bakken is an American engineer, businessman and philanthropist of Dutch and Norwegian American ancestry...

    , Founder, Medtronic
    Medtronic
    Medtronic, Inc. , based in suburban Minneapolis, Minnesota, is the world's largest medical technology company and is a Fortune 500 company.- History :...

  • Dr. Christiaan Barnard
    Christiaan Barnard
    Christiaan Neethling Barnard was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant.- Early life :...

  • Walter Houser Brattain
    Walter Houser Brattain
    Walter Houser Brattain was an American physicist at Bell Labs who, along with John Bardeen and William Shockley, invented the transistor. They shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention. He devoted much of his life to research on surface states.- Early life and education :He was...

    , physicist
  • Hugh Butt
    Hugh Butt
    Hugh Roland Butt was an American physician who developed methods to treat hemorrhaging patients with vitamin K.Butt was born in Belhaven, North Carolina. He earned his M.D...

  • Dr. David P. Campbell
    David P. Campbell
    David P. Campbell is an American psychologist who co-authored the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory which is widely used in vocational counseling.For this accomplishment, he was awarded the E.K...

  • Duane G. Carey
    Duane G. Carey
    Duane Gene "Digger" Carey is an engineer and former NASA Astronaut. Born April 30, 1957, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Married to the former Cheryl Ann Tobritzhofer of Saint Paul, Minnesota. They have two children. He enjoys motorcycle travel, racing motocross, camping, home-schooling his children,...

    , astronaut
  • Seymour Cray
    Seymour Cray
    Seymour Roger Cray was an American electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray Research which would build many of these machines. Called "the father of supercomputing," Cray has been credited...

    , Founder, Cray Research
  • Arthur Cronquist
    Arthur Cronquist
    Arthur John Cronquist was a North American botanist and a specialist on Compositae. He is considered one of the most influential botanists of the 20th century, largely due to his formulation of the Cronquist system. Two plant genera in the aster family have been named in his honor...

    , botanist
  • David Dahlin
    David Dahlin
    David Carl Dahlin, Jr., M.D., M.S., F.C.A.P., was a premier North American pathologist, who trained and worked at the Mayo Clinic for virtually his entire career in medicine...

    , physician
  • Donald A. Dahlstrom
    Donald A. Dahlstrom
    Donald Albert Dahlstrom was recognized by the AIChE as one 100 prominent chemical engineers of the modern era, for his work on liquid-solids separation, particularly with respect to the hydrocyclone...

    . engineer
  • Farrington Daniels
    Farrington Daniels
    Farrington Daniels , was an American physical chemist, is considered one of the pioneers of the modern direct use of solar energy.- Biography :Daniels was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on March 8, 1889...

    , chemist
  • Robert J. Desnick
    Robert J. Desnick
    Robert J. Desnick, Ph.D., M.D., is a human geneticist whose research accomplishments include significant developments in disease gene discovery, inherited metabolic diseases, and the treatment of genetic diseases, including the development of enzyme replacement therapy for Fabry disease.Desnick is...

    , physician and geneticist
  • Dr. Satish Dhawan
    Satish Dhawan
    Satish Dhawan was an Indian rocket scientist and a pioneer aerospace engineer who was born in Srinagar, India and educated in India and the United States...

  • Richard Gurley Drew, inventor
  • John S. Eastwood
    John S. Eastwood
    John S. Eastwood was an American engineer who built the world's first reinforced concrete multiple-arch dam on bedrock foundation at Hume Lake, California, in 1908. Mr...

    , engineer
  • Frank Edwin Egler
    Frank Edwin Egler
    Frank Edwin Egler was an American plant ecologist and pioneer in the study of vegetation science. He is of historical significance through his assistance to Rachel Carson in preparing Silent Spring....

    , plant ecologist
  • William D. Emmons
    William D. Emmons
    William D. Emmons was an American chemist and published together William S. Wadsworth a modifications to the Wittig-Horner reaction using phosphonate-stabilized carbanions now called the Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction or HWE reaction or Horner-Wittig reaction-Life:Emmons studied at the...

    , chemist
  • Elmer William Engstrom
    Elmer William Engstrom
    Elmer William Engstrom was an American engineer and corporate executive prominent for his role in the development of television....

    , television engineer
  • Richard Farson
    Richard Farson
    Richard Farson Ph.D., is a psychologist, author, and educator. He is the president and chief executive officer of the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute, which he co-founded in 1958 with physicist Paul Lloyd and social psychologist Wayman Crow.The non-profit WBSI explores ways in which human...

    , psychologist
  • Dr. Tim Foecke
    Tim Foecke
    Timothy Foecke is an American metallurgist, Deputy Chief of the Metallurgy Division, Leader of the Materials Performance Group, and Director of the NIST Center for Automotive Lightweighting at the National Institute of Standards and Technology .- Biography :Foecke received a bachelor's degree...

    , metallurgist
  • John E. Franz
    John E. Franz
    John E. Franz is an organic chemist who discovered the herbicide glyphosate while working at Monsanto Company in 1970. The chemical became the active ingredient in Roundup, a broad-spectrum, post-emergence herbicide...

    , chemist
  • Scott Freeman
    Scott Freeman
    Scott John Freeman was an American economist. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1983...

    , economist
  • Arthur Fry
    Arthur Fry
    Arthur Fry is a retired American inventor and scientist. He is credited as the co-creator of the Post-it note, an item of office stationery manufactured by 3M. As of 2006, Post-it note products are sold in more than 100 countries....

    , inventor
  • Robert R. Gilruth, former Director, Johnson Space Center
  • Dr. Donald Gleason
    Donald Gleason
    Donald F. Gleason, M.D., Ph.D. was an American physician and pathologist, best known for devising the "Gleason score" which predicts the aggressiveness of prostate cancer in patients...

  • Dr. Robert A. Good
    Robert A. Good
    -External links:** can be found at The Center for the History of Medicine at the Countway Library, Harvard Medical School....

  • John Paul Goode
    John Paul Goode
    John Paul Goode was one of the key geographers in American Geography’s Incipient Period from 1900 to 1940 . Goode was born in Stewartville, Minnesota on November 21, 1862. Goode received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota 1889 and his doctorate in Economics from the University...

    , geographer
  • Dr. Robert W. Gore
    Robert W. Gore
    Robert W. "Bob" Gore is an American engineer and scientist, inventor and businessman, who along with his father Bill Gore invented Gore-Tex, a waterproof/breathable fabric made from polytetrafluoroethylene ....

  • Dennis L. Hansen
    Dennis L. Hansen
    Dennis L. Hansen is an aquatic biologist, toxicologist and Eagle Scout from Minnesota. Dennis L. Hansen is known for his aquatic studies, environmental sampling techniques and consulting services for local governments and toxicology laboratories....

     Aquatic Biologist
  • Isaac Held
    Isaac Held
    Isaac Held is an American meteorologist. He is currently head of the Weatherand Atmospheric Dynamics Group at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.Held was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2003.-Biography:...

    , scientist
  • Robert A. Henle
    Robert A. Henle
    Robert A. Henle was an electrical engineer, who contributed to semiconductor technology.In 1949 he received the BSEE degree from the University of Minnesota....

    , engineer
  • John Kenneth Hilliard
    John Kenneth Hilliard
    John Kenneth Hilliard was an American acoustical and electrical engineer who pioneered a number of important loudspeaker concepts and designs. He helped develop the practical use of recording sound for film, and won an Academy Award in 1935...

    , electrical engineer
  • Abram Hoffer
    Abram Hoffer
    Abram Hoffer was a Canadian biochemist, physician and psychiatrist. Hoffer developed a theory that nutrition and vitamins may be effective treatments for schizophrenia...

    , psychiatrist
  • John H. Hoffman
    John H. Hoffman
    John Hoffman is a space scientist who developed instruments for Apollo 15, Apollo 16, Apollo 17, the Pioneer Venus project, and Giotto mission. He also designed the mass spectrometer for the Phoenix Mars Lander mission in May 2008. He is currently a professor of physics at the University of Texas...

    , scientist
  • Dr. John L. Holland
    John L. Holland
    John Luther Holland was an American psychologist who created the career development model known as the Holland Occupational Themes. It is often referred to as the Holland Codes....

  • Robert Hollenhorst
    Robert Hollenhorst
    Dr. Robert W. Hollenhorst was an American ophthalmologist remembered for describing Hollenhorst plaques.- Biography :...

    , physician
  • Reynold B. Johnson
    Reynold B. Johnson
    Reynold B. Johnson was an American inventor and computer pioneer. A long-time employee of IBM, Johnson is said to be the "father" of the disk drive...

    , inventor
  • B. J. Kennedy
    B. J. Kennedy
    Byrl James "B.J." Kennedy was an American physician who is considered to be the "Father of Medical Oncology."Born in Plainview, Minnesota, in 1921, B.J. Kennedy received his MD from the University of Minnesota Medical School...

    , physician
  • Dr. Brian D. Larsen
  • Dr. C. Walton Lillehei
    C. Walton Lillehei
    Clarence Walton Lillehei , was an American surgeon who pioneered open-heart surgery, as well as numerous techniques, equipment and prostheses for cardiothoracic surgery.-Background:...

  • Dr. Malcolm Renfrew
    Malcolm Renfrew
    Malcolm MacKenzie Renfrew is an American polymer chemist, inventor, and professor emeritus at the University of Idaho in the Moscow, Idaho. Renfrew Hall, the university's chemistry building, was named for him in 1985....

  • Deke Slayton
    Deke Slayton
    Donald Kent Slayton , better known as Deke Slayton, was an American World War II pilot and later, one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts....

    , Mercury Seven
    Mercury Seven
    Mercury Seven was the group of seven Mercury astronauts selected by NASA on April 9, 1959. They are also referred to as the Original Seven and Astronaut Group 1...

     astronaut
  • Dr. Norman Shumway
    Norman Shumway
    Norman Edward Shumway was a pioneer of heart surgery at Stanford University.-Early life:Shumway was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan...

  • Michele Brekke
  • Hyung-Seob Choi, former President, Korea Institute of Science and Technology
  • Robert J. Desnick
    Robert J. Desnick
    Robert J. Desnick, Ph.D., M.D., is a human geneticist whose research accomplishments include significant developments in disease gene discovery, inherited metabolic diseases, and the treatment of genetic diseases, including the development of enzyme replacement therapy for Fabry disease.Desnick is...

  • Elmer William Engstrom
    Elmer William Engstrom
    Elmer William Engstrom was an American engineer and corporate executive prominent for his role in the development of television....

    , former President and CEO, RCA
    RCA
    RCA Corporation, founded as the Radio Corporation of America, was an American electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1986. The RCA trademark is currently owned by the French conglomerate Technicolor SA through RCA Trademark Management S.A., a company owned by Technicolor...

  • Peter J. Franco, Geneticist and Educator
  • Harrison Gough
  • Ulysses Sherman Grant, geologist
  • Pat Gruber
  • Moshe Gur
  • Sally Hasselbrack, Senior Research Fellow, Boeing
    Boeing
    The Boeing Company is an American multinational aerospace and defense corporation, founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Boeing Corporate headquarters has been in Chicago, Illinois since 2001...

  • Yeo Shin Hong, Dean, Seoul National University School of Nursing
  • Cyril Hoyt
    Cyril Hoyt
    Cyril Hoyt, the author of Hoyt's coefficient of reliability, was a long-time member of the University of Minnesota Department of Educational Psychology...

  • Marjorie Jamieson
  • Steve Kraus
  • Mark R. Krampf
  • Mary Jo Kreitzer
  • Tom Krimigis
    Stamatios Krimigis
    Stamatios M. Krimigis is a Greek-American scientist in space exploration. He has contributed to the majority of the United States' unmanned space exploration programs of the Solar system and beyond. He has contributed to exploration missions to almost every planet of our solar system...

    , space scientist/physicist
  • E-hyock Kwon, former President, Republic of Korea National Academy of Sciences
  • Paul Eston Lacy
    Paul Eston Lacy
    Paul Eston Lacy, M.D., Ph.D. was an anatomist & experimentalist and one of the world’s leading diabetes mellitus researchers. He is often credited as the originator of islet transplantation.- Education :...

    , physician
  • Ho-Wang Lee, former President, Republic of Korea National Academy of Sciences
  • Joseph Lykken
    Joseph Lykken
    Joseph David Lykken is a theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.-Background and education:...

  • Dr. Robert G. McKinnell
  • Calvin Mooers
    Calvin Mooers
    Calvin Northrup Mooers , was an American computer scientist known for his work in information retrieval and for the programming language TRAC....

    , computer scientist
  • George E. Moore
    George E. Moore
    George Eugene Moore was an American doctor and cancer researcher notable for his discovery of the link between chewing tobacco and mouth cancer. He was head of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York. He was the author of two books and more than 700 papers.-Biography:Moore was born...

    , physician
  • Edward Ng
    Edward Ng
    Edward W Ng is an American Applied mathematician who has also held the positions of senior scientist, senior engineer and technical manager in the U.S. Space Program. He is noted for his broad variety of mathematical applications in space science and engineering...

    , mathematician
  • Dr. Walter R. Nickel
    Walter R. Nickel
    Walter Russell Nickel, M.D. was an American dermatologist who was one of the founders of the field of dermatopathology. He was a co-founder and president of four different professional societies and was the founding chairman of the Division of Dermatology at the University of California, San Diego...

  • Joseph D. Novak
    Joseph D. Novak
    Joseph Donald Novak is an American educator, and Professor Emeritus at the Cornell University, and Senior Research Scientist at IHMC. He is known for his development of concept mapping in the 1970s.- Biography :...

  • Peter Noznick
    Peter Noznick
    Peter Noznick, . A food chemist born in New York City, he moved to Windham Center, Connecticut., in 1930 and graduated from Windham High School in 1934....

    , chemist
  • James Papez
    James Papez
    James Papez was an American neuroanatomist. Papez received his MD from the University of Minnesota College of Medicine and Surgery. He is most famous for his 1937 description of the Papez circuit which is a neural pathway in the brain thought to be involved in the cortical control of emotion...

    , physician
  • Rudolph Pariser
    Rudolph Pariser
    Rudolph Pariser is a physical and polymer chemist. He was born in Harbin, China to merchant parents. He attended the Von Hindenburg Schule in Harbin, an American Missionary School in Beijing and American School in Tokyo...

    , chemist
  • George Parshall
    George Parshall
    George W. Parshall is a distinguished member of the organometallic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis communities and has played a key role in advising the U.S...

    , chemist
  • Jeannette Piccard
    Jeannette Piccard
    Jeannette Ridlon Piccard was an American high-altitude balloonist, and in later life an Episcopal priest. She held the women's altitude record for nearly three decades, and according to several contemporaneous accounts was regarded as the first woman in space.Jeannette was the first licensed...

  • Ananda Prasad
    Ananda Prasad
    Ananda Shiv Prasad is a biochemist specialising in the role of zinc in the human metabolism.Prasad was born in Buxar, Bihar, India in 1985. He studied first at Patna Medical College in Bihar, before going on to take his doctorate at the University of Minnesota...

    , biochemist
  • Marian Radke-Yarrow
    Marian Radke-Yarrow
    Marian Radke-Yarrow was an American child psychologist known for studying controversial topics such as prejudice, altruism, and depression in children....

    , psychologist
  • Theodore H. Rowell
  • Roscoe Frank Sanford
    Roscoe Frank Sanford
    Roscoe Frank Sanford was an American astronomer.He was born in Faribault, Minnesota, the eldest of five children of Frank W. Sanford and his wife Alberta Nichols. After an early education in his home town he attended the University of Minnesota, where he received an A.B. in 1905...

    , astronomer
  • Deke Slayton
    Deke Slayton
    Donald Kent Slayton , better known as Deke Slayton, was an American World War II pilot and later, one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts....

    , astonaut
  • William Bushnell Stout
    William Bushnell Stout
    William Bushnell Stout was an inventor, designer whose work in automotive and aviation fields was notable. Stout designed an aircraft that eventually became the Ford Trimotor and was an executive at the Ford Motor Company.-Early years:William Bushnell Stout was born March 16, 1880 in Quincy,...

    , engineer
  • Owen Wangensteen
  • Robert J. White
    Robert J. White
    Robert Joseph White was an American surgeon, best known for his head transplants on monkeys.-Biography:...

    , surgeon
  • Bang-Bu Youn

Academics and Education

  • Ramesh K. Agarwal
    Ramesh K. Agarwal
    -Biography:Dr. Ramesh K. Agarwal is the William Palm Professor of Engineering in the department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Washington University in St. Louis . He is also the director of Aerospace Engineering Program, Aerospace Research and Education Center and Computational...

    , Professor, Washington University
  • Sydney E. Ahlstrom
    Sydney E. Ahlstrom
    Sydney Eckman Ahlstrom was an American historian. He was a Yale University professor and a specialist in the religious history of the United States....

    , former Professor, Yale University
    Yale University
    Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

  • John S. Allen
    John S. Allen
    John Stuart Allen was an American astronomer, university professor and university president. He was a native of Indiana, and pursued a career as a professor of astronomy after receiving his bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees...

    , President, University of Florida
    University of Florida
    The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...

    , founding President, University of South Florida
    University of South Florida
    The University of South Florida, also known as USF, is a member institution of the State University System of Florida, one of the state's three flagship universities for public research, and is located in Tampa, Florida, USA...

  • Fernando Alvarez (economist), Professor, University of Chicago
    University of Chicago
    The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

  • Lawrence B. Anderson
    Lawrence B. Anderson
    Lawrence Bernhart Anderson was an American architect and educator and an early proponent of the International Style in the US. He was born in Geneva, Minnesota, earned a bachelor's degree in liberal arts in 1927 and a bachelor's degree in architecture in 1928, both from the University of Minnesota...

    , former Professor, MIT
  • Richard Davis Anderson
    Richard Davis Anderson
    Richard Davis Anderson, Sr. was an American mathematician known internationally for his work in infinite-dimensional topology. Much of his early work focused on proofs surrounding Hilbert space and Hilbert cubes....

    , former Professor, University of Pennsylvania
    University of Pennsylvania
    The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

  • Terry H. Anderson
    Terry H. Anderson
    Terry Howard Anderson is a professor of recent United States history at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, and the author of The Pursuit of Fairness: A History of Affirmative Action.-Background:...

    , Professor
    Professor
    A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...

     of history
    History
    History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...

     at Texas A&M University
    Texas A&M University
    Texas A&M University is a coeducational public research university located in College Station, Texas . It is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The sixth-largest university in the United States, A&M's enrollment for Fall 2011 was over 50,000 for the first time in school...

  • William Anderson (political scientist)
    William Anderson (political scientist)
    William Anderson was a U.S. political scientist, who served on national commissions in the 1940s and 1950s....

    , former Professor, University of Minnesota
    University of Minnesota
    The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...

  • James C. Anthony
    James C. Anthony
    James C. Anthony has been professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Michigan State University's Medical School since October 2003, with service as department chairman until 2009...

    , Professor, Michigan State University
    Michigan State University
    Michigan State University is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, USA. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Act.MSU pioneered the studies of packaging,...

  • Arvind (computer scientist)
    Arvind (computer scientist)
    Arvind is the Johnson Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

    , Professor, MIT
  • Richard N. Aslin
    Richard N. Aslin
    Richard N. Aslin is an American psychologist. He is William R. Kenan Professor of Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Sciences at the University of Rochester. He is also Director of the Rochester Center for Brain Imaging and the Rochester Baby Lab...

    , Professor, University of Rochester
    University of Rochester
    The University of Rochester is a private, nonsectarian, research university in Rochester, New York, United States. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The university has six schools and various interdisciplinary programs.The...

  • N. H. Baker
    N. H. Baker
    Norman H. Baker was a professor of astronomy at Columbia University. His research primarily involved computational investigations of stellar structure and evolution, focusing in particular on variable stars. From 1975 until 1983, he was the editor of the Astronomical Journal.-References:...

    , former Professor, Columbia University
    Columbia University
    Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

  • William A. Bardeen
    William A. Bardeen
    William Allen Bardeen is an American theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. He is the son of John Bardeen and Jane Maxwell Bardeen....

    , former Associate Professor, Stanford University
    Stanford University
    The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

  • Michael Barnett
    Michael Barnett
    Michael N. Barnett is a major constructivist scholar of international relations. His research has been in the areas of international organizations, international relations theory, and Middle Eastern politics. With Emanuel Adler, he reintroduced the concept of security community to international...

    , Professor, George Washington University
    George Washington University
    The George Washington University is a private, coeducational comprehensive university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States...

  • Eric Becklin
    Eric Becklin
    Eric E. Becklin is an American astrophysicist, best known for his pioneering study of infra-red sources at the center of our galaxy....

    , Professor Emeritus, UCLA
  • Gary Berntson
    Gary Berntson
    Gary Berntson is professor at Ohio State University with appointments in the departments of psychology, psychiatry and pediatrics. He is an expert in psychophysiology, neuroscience, biological psychology, and with his colleague John Cacioppo, a founding father of social neuroscience.His research...

    , Professor, Ohio State University
    Ohio State University
    The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State, is a public research university located in Columbus, Ohio. It was originally founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the third largest university campus in the United States...

  • Robert M. Berdahl
    Robert M. Berdahl
    Robert M. Berdahl is an American historian, author and university administrator. He was chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley from 1997 to 2004, and became president of the Association of American Universities from May 2006 to June 2011.-External links:*...

    , former Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley
    University of California, Berkeley
    The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

  • Ellen S. Berscheid
    Ellen S. Berscheid
    Ellen S. Berscheid is an American social psychologist. She is Regents Professor at University of Minnesota, where she received her PhD in 1965. Berscheid specializes in the research of interpersonal relationships...

    , Professor, University of Minnesota
    University of Minnesota
    The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...

  • David T. Beito
    David T. Beito
    David T. Beito is a historian and professor of history at the University of Alabama. He is the author of Taxpayers in Revolt: Tax Resistance during the Great Depression ; From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967 ; The Voluntary City: Choice,...

    , Professor, The University of Alabama
  • Robert A. Bjork
    Robert A. Bjork
    Robert Allen Bjork is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on human learning and memory and on the implications of the science of learning for instruction and training...

    , Professor, UCLA
  • Theodore C. Blegen
    Theodore C. Blegen
    Theodore Christian Blegen was an American historian and author. Theodore Blegen was the author of numerous historic reference books, papers and articles written over a five decade period...

    , former Graduate Dean, University of Minnesota
    University of Minnesota
    The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...

  • John Elof Boodin
    John Elof Boodin
    John Elof Boodin was a Swedish-born American philosopher and educator. He was the author of numerous books proposing a systematic interpretation of nature.-Background:...

    , philosopher
  • Luc Bovens
    Luc Bovens
    Dr Luc Bovens is a Belgian professor of philosophy at the London School of Economics, and former editor of Economics and Philosophy. His main areas of research are moral and political philosophy, philosophy of economics, philosophy of public policy, Bayesian epistemology, rational choice theory,...

    , Professor, University of London
    University of London
    -20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

     (London School of Economics
    London School of Economics
    The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...

    )
  • Willard L. Boyd
    Willard L. Boyd
    Willard Lee Boyd is an American legal scholar, academic administrator, andPresident Emeritus of The University of Iowa and Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois...

    , former President, University of Iowa
    University of Iowa
    The University of Iowa is a public state-supported research university located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is the oldest public university in the state. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees...

  • Robert A. Brown
    Robert A. Brown
    Robert A. Brown is the 10th president of Boston University. He was formerly the provost of MIT.-External links:*...

    , President, Boston University
    Boston University
    Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...

     and former Provost, MIT
  • Keith Brueckner
    Keith Brueckner
    Keith Allen Brueckner is a theoretical physicist who has given important contributions in several areas of physics, including many-body theory in condensed matter physics, and laser fusion. He was born in Minneapolis on March 19, 1924. He earned a B.A. and M.A. in mathematics from the University...

    , former Professor, University of California, San Diego
    University of California, San Diego
    The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...

  • Martin Bunzl
    Martin Bunzl
    Martin Bunzl is the director of the at the Eagleton Institute of Politics. He edited, with Anthony Appiah, Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption. His other books include Real History , and The Context of Explanation .Martin Bunzl received his PhD from the University of...

    , Professor, Rutgers University
    Rutgers University
    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...

  • Murray Fife Buell
    Murray Fife Buell
    Murray Fife Buell was an American ecologist and palynologist.-Personal life:Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Buell earned a B.S. at Cornell University in 1930. He then attended the University of Minnesota where he earned a M.A. in 1934 and a Ph.D. in 1935. After completing his Ph.D., Buell's...

    , Professor, Rutgers University
    Rutgers University
    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...

  • Jon Butler
    Jon Butler
    Jon Butler is a historian and Howard R. Lamar Professor of American Studies, History, and Religious Studies at Yale University. He earned his bachelor's and doctoral degrees from the University of Minnesota, and is known for his research on the role of religion in early American history...

    , Professor, Yale University
    Yale University
    Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

  • Arthur Butz
    Arthur Butz
    Arthur R. Butz is a Holocaust denier and associate professor of electrical engineering at Northwestern University. He achieved tenure in 1974 and currently teaches classes in control system theory and digital signal processing.-Education:...

    , Associate Professor, Northwestern University
    Northwestern University
    Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

  • Karlyn Kohrs Campbell
    Karlyn Kohrs Campbell
    Karlyn Kohrs Campbell is an American academic specializing in rhetorical criticism at the University of Minnesota. -Background:Campbell was born on April 16, 1937, near Blomkest, Minnesota. She attended Willmar High School and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Macalester College, St. Paul, in...

    , Professor, University of Minnesota
    University of Minnesota
    The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...

  • John Bissell Carroll
    John Bissell Carroll
    John Bissell Carroll was an American psychologist known for his contributions to psychology, educational linguistics and psychometrics.- Early years :...

    , former Professor, Harvard University
    Harvard University
    Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

  • Stephen Carls
    Stephen Carls
    Stephen Douglas Carls is the chair of the history department at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. Carls began teaching at Union University in 1983 and prior to that taught at Sterling College in Sterling, Kansas for twelve years...

    , Professor, Union University
    Union University
    Union University is a private, evangelical Christian, liberal arts university located in Jackson, Tennessee, with additional campuses in Germantown, Tennessee, and Hendersonville, Tennessee...

  • Sterling Clarren
    Sterling Clarren
    Sterling K. Clarren is one of the world's leading researchers into Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder , an umbrella term encompassing fetal alcohol syndrome and fetal alcohol effects . He is the Robert A...

    , Professor, University of Washington
    University of Washington
    University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...

  • Hector-Neri Castaneda
    Hector-Neri Castañeda
    Héctor-Neri Castañeda was a Guatemalan philosopher and founder of the journal Noûs.Born in San Vicente, Zacapa, Guatemala, he emigrated to the United States in 1948 and studied under Wilfrid Sellars at the University of Minnesota, where he earned a B.A. in 1950 and M.A. in 1952. Castañeda...

    , former Professor, Indiana University
    Indiana University
    Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...

  • Terry Castle
    Terry Castle
    Terry Castle is an American literary scholar. Once described by Susan Sontag as "the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today," has published eight books, including the anthology The Literature of Lesbianism, which won the Lambda Literary Editor's Choice Award...

    , Professor, Stanford University
    Stanford University
    The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

  • Mary Ellen Chase
    Mary Ellen Chase
    Mary Ellen Chase was an American educator, teacher, scholar, and author. She is regarded as one of the most important regional literary figures of the early twentieth century....

    , former Professor, Smith College
    Smith College
    Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. It is the largest member of the Seven Sisters...

  • Lawrence J. Christiano
    Lawrence J. Christiano
    Lawrence Joseph Christiano is an American economist and researcher. He is the Alfred W. Chase Chair in Business Institutions and a professor of Economics at Northwestern University. He has also taught at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Chicago...

    , Professor, Northwestern University
    Northwestern University
    Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

  • Lee Anna Clark
    Lee Anna Clark
    Lee Anna Clark is professor and collegiate fellow in the Department of Psychology at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, USA. She is the director of clinical training in the Clinical Science Program. Prior to her appointment at the University of Iowa, she was a professor of psychology at...

    , Professor, University of Iowa
    University of Iowa
    The University of Iowa is a public state-supported research university located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is the oldest public university in the state. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees...

  • Helen Codere
    Helen Codere
    Helen Frances Codere was an American cultural anthropologist who received her BA from the University of Minnesota in 1939 and her PhD in anthropology from Columbia University where she studied with Ruth Benedict...

    , anthropologist
  • Ronald L. Cohen
    Ronald L. Cohen
    Ronald L. Cohen is a social psychologist whose research is focused on justice. He is a faculty member at Bennington College and the co-author or editor of several books and numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, including:...

    , Professor, Bennington College
    Bennington College
    Bennington College is a liberal arts college located in Bennington, Vermont, USA. The college was founded in 1932 as a women's college and became co-educational in 1969.-History:-Early years:...

  • Ada Comstock
    Ada Comstock
    Ada Comstock was an American women's education pioneer. She served as the first dean of women at the University of Minnesota and later as the first full-time president of Radcliffe College.-Early life and education:...

    , former President, Radcliffe College
    Radcliffe College
    Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was the coordinate college for Harvard University. It was also one of the Seven Sisters colleges. Radcliffe College conferred joint Harvard-Radcliffe diplomas beginning in 1963 and a formal merger agreement with...

  • Thomas Courtice
    Thomas Courtice
    Thomas Barr Courtice was the president of Ohio Wesleyan University between 1994 and 2004. He received degrees from the University of Pittsburgh, Indiana University, and the University of Minnesota...

    , former President, Ohio Wesleyan University
    Ohio Wesleyan University
    Ohio Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college in Delaware, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1842 by Methodist leaders and Central Ohio residents as a nonsectarian institution, and is a member of the Ohio Five — a consortium of Ohio liberal arts colleges...

  • Richard Cyert
    Richard Cyert
    Richard Michael Cyert was an American economist and statistician who served as the sixth President of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.-Early life:...

    , former President, Carnegie Mellon University
    Carnegie Mellon University
    Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....

  • Arthur C. Dahlberg
    Arthur C. Dahlberg
    Arthur Chester Dahlberg was an American food scientist specializing in the dairy industry. His research helped to improve the methods of processing milk and milk products. He was Professor and Professor Emeritus of Dairy Industry at Cornell University...

    , Professor, Cornell University
    Cornell University
    Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

  • Norris Darrell
    Norris Darrell
    Norris Darrell was an American attorney and President of the American Law Institute from 1961 to 1976. He graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School, and served as Executor of the Will of Judge Learned Hand. He clerked for United States Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler and joined the...

    , former President, American Law Institute
    American Law Institute
    The American Law Institute was established in 1923 to promote the clarification and simplification of American common law and its adaptation to changing social needs. The ALI drafts, approves, and publishes Restatements of the Law, Principles of the Law, model codes, and other proposals for law...

  • Joel Dobris
    Joel Dobris
    Joel C. Dobris is a Professor of Law at the UC Davis School of Law . Dobris is one of the most cited legal academic in the country in the area of the law of Wills, Trusts, and Estates. His book, Estates and Trusts, is a widely used textbook at American law schools.He received a B.A. in English...

    , Professor, University of California, Davis
    University of California, Davis
    The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment...

  • M. D. Donsker
    M. D. Donsker
    Monroe David Donsker was an American mathematician and a professor of mathematics at New York University . His research interest was in the field of probability theory....

    , former Professor, New York University
    New York University
    New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...

  • William Gould Dow
    William Gould Dow
    William Gould Dow was an American scientist, educator and inventor. He was a pioneer in a variety of fields, including electrical engineering, space research, computer engineering, and nuclear engineering...

    , former Professor, University of Michigan
    University of Michigan
    The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

  • Fred Dretske
    Fred Dretske
    Frederick Irwin Dretske is a philosopher noted for his contributions to epistemology and the philosophy of mind. His more recent work centers on conscious experience and self-knowledge. Additionally, he was awarded the Jean Nicod Prize in 1994...

    , former Professor, Stanford University
    Stanford University
    The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

     and the University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • W.G. Ernst, former Professor, Stanford University
    Stanford University
    The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

  • William Kaye Estes, former Professor, Harvard University
    Harvard University
    Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

  • Alvin C. Eurich
    Alvin C. Eurich
    Alvin Christian Eurich was a 20th Century American educator who is most notable for having served as the first President of the State University of New York from 1949–1951....

    , former President, State University of New York
    State University of New York
    The State University of New York, abbreviated SUNY , is a system of public institutions of higher education in New York, United States. It is the largest comprehensive system of universities, colleges, and community colleges in the United States, with a total enrollment of 465,000 students, plus...

  • Lin Fanghua
    Lin Fanghua
    Lin Fanghua , also sometimes written as Fang-Hua Lin, born 1959, is a Chinese-born American mathematician. Currently, he is the Silver Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences...

    , Professor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
    Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
    The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences is an independent division of New York University under the Faculty of Arts & Science that serves as a center for research and advanced training in computer science and mathematics...

  • Bruce A. Finlayson
    Bruce A. Finlayson
    Bruce A. Finlayson is an American chemical engineer and applied mathematician. He is currently the Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington, USA. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering...

    , Professor Emeritus, University of Washington
    University of Washington
    University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...

  • Otto Folin
    Otto Folin
    Otto Knut Olof Folin was a Swedish-born American chemist who is best known for his groundbreaking work at Harvard University on practical micromethods for the determination of the constituents of protein-free blood filtrates and the discovery of creatine phosphate in muscles.-Background:Folin was...

    , former Professor, Harvard University
    Harvard University
    Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

  • Sanjay Mittal
    Sanjay Mittal
    Sanjay Mittal is a Professor of computational fluid dynamics in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. After doing his B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur in 1988, he got enrolled at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities for M.S. program. He then received his...

    , Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
    Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
    The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur is a Central deemed University located in Uttar Pradesh, about 15 km north-west of the city of Kanpur in the Kalyanpur suburb....

  • Edward Monroe Freeman
    Edward Monroe Freeman
    Edward Monroe Freeman . was an American botanist, born at St. Paul. He graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1898 and did graduate work there and at Cambridge. He became professor of botany and plant pathology at the University of Minnesota in 1908 and dean of the College of Agriculture,...

    , former Dean, University of Minnesota
    University of Minnesota
    The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...

  • Reynold C. Fuson
    Reynold C. Fuson
    Reynold Clayton Fuson was an American chemist.Born in Wakefield, Illinois, Fuson attended Central Normal College in Danville, Indiana, where after one year in 1914 he was certified as a teacher. He received a Bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Montana, a Master's degree from...

    , former Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Nathaniel Gage
    Nathaniel Gage
    Nathaniel Lees Gage was an educational psychologist who made significant contributions to a scientific understanding of teaching. He conceived and edited the first Handbook of Research on Teaching , led the Stanford Center for Research and Development of Teaching, and served as president of the...

    , former Professor, Stanford University
    Stanford University
    The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

  • Scott Gates (academic)
    Scott Gates (academic)
    Scott Gates is an American political scientist and economist. He is currently director of Peace Research Institute Oslo 's Centre for the Study of Civil War , a Norwegian Center of Excellence funded by the Research Council of Norway...

    , Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
    Norwegian University of Science and Technology
    The Norwegian University of Science and Technology , commonly known as NTNU, is located in Trondheim. NTNU is the second largest of the eight universities in Norway, and, as its name suggests, has the main national responsibility for higher education in engineering and technology...

  • Ernest Gellhorn
    Ernest Gellhorn
    Ernest Gellhorn was an American academic and legal scholar. He graduated from the University of Minnesota, the University of Minnesota Law School, and was a Guggenheim fellow...

    , former Dean of Law, Arizona State University
    Arizona State University
    Arizona State University is a public research university located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area of the State of Arizona...

    , Case Western Reserve University
    Case Western Reserve University
    Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA...

    , and the University of Washington
    University of Washington
    University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...

  • Jon Gjerde
    Jon Gjerde
    Jon Gjerde was an American historian and the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of American History and American Citizenship at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also served as dean of the Division of Social Sciences in the College of Letters and Science at the University of...

    , former Professor, University of California, Berkeley
    University of California, Berkeley
    The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

  • Gerald Jay Goldberg
    Gerald Jay Goldberg
    Gerald Jay Goldberg is an American author. Professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, he is a novelist, critic, and author of a nonfiction study of the network news and a biography of Ted Turner.Goldberg’s best-known work is The Lynching of Orin Newfield , a powerful novel...

    , Professor Emeritus, UCLA
  • Robert A. Good
    Robert A. Good
    -External links:** can be found at The Center for the History of Medicine at the Countway Library, Harvard Medical School....

    , former Professor, University of Minnesota
    University of Minnesota
    The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...

  • Ulysses Sherman Grant, former Professor, Northwestern University
    Northwestern University
    Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

  • Roger Gray
    Roger Gray
    Roger Winks Gray was the Holbrook Working Professor of Commodity Price Studies professor emeritus at Stanford University. He was a noted expert on agricultural futures markets. He died September 5, 1996 at the age of 76....

    , former Professor, Stanford University
    Stanford University
    The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

  • Charles Grisham
    Charles Grisham
    Charles M. Grisham is a biochemist and a professor of chemistry at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. He received his B.S. from the Illinois Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Minnesota...

    , Professor, University of Virginia
    University of Virginia
    The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...

  • Louis Guttman, Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ; ; abbreviated HUJI) is Israel's second-oldest university, after the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. The Hebrew University has three campuses in Jerusalem and one in Rehovot. The world's largest Jewish studies library is located on its Edmond J...

  • William W. Hagerty
    William W. Hagerty
    William Walsh Hagerty was a teacher, former NASA Adviser, and president of Drexel University.-Early life:...

    , former President, Drexel University
    Drexel University
    Drexel University is a private research university with the main campus located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. It was founded in 1891 by Anthony J. Drexel, a noted financier and philanthropist. Drexel offers 70 full-time undergraduate programs and accelerated degrees...

  • Judith Halberstam
    Judith Halberstam
    Judith Halberstam, also Jack Halberstam, is Professor of English and Director of The Center for Feminist Research at University of Southern California. Halberstam was an Associate Professor in the Department of Literature at the University of California at San Diego before working at USC...

    , Professor, University of Southern California
    University of Southern California
    The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...

  • Kermit L. Hall
    Kermit L. Hall
    Kermit Lance Hall was a noted legal historian and university president. He served from 1994 to 1998 on the Assassination Records Review Board to review and release to the public documents related to the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.-Biography:Hall was raised in Akron, Ohio...

    , former President, University at Albany, SUNY
    University at Albany, SUNY
    The State University of New York at Albany, also known as University at Albany, State University of New York, SUNY Albany or simply UAlbany, is a public university located in Albany, Guilderland, and East Greenbush, New York, United States; is the senior campus of the State University of New York ...

  • Patricia Hampl
    Patricia Hampl
    Patricia Hampl is an American memoirist, writer, lecturer, and educator. She is a recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis and is one of the founding members of the Loft Literary Center.-Life:Hampl was...

    . Professor, University of Minnesota
    University of Minnesota
    The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...

  • John Earl Haynes
    John Earl Haynes
    John Earl Haynes is an American historian who is a specialist in 20th century political history in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress...

    , historian
  • Elaine Tuttle Hansen
    Elaine Tuttle Hansen
    Elaine Tuttle Hansen was the president of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine from 2002 through June 2011. She became the Executive Director of The Center for Talented Youth at Johns Hopkins University in July 2011....

    , President, Bates College
    Bates College
    Bates College is a highly selective, private liberal arts college located in Lewiston, Maine, in the United States. and was most recently ranked 21st in the nation in the 2011 US News Best Liberal Arts Colleges rankings. The college was founded in 1855 by abolitionists...

  • Lars Peter Hansen
    Lars Peter Hansen
    Lars Peter Hansen is an economist at the University of Chicago.- Biography :After graduating from Utah State University and the University of Minnesota Lars Peter Hansen (b. October 26, 1952 in Champaign, Illinois) is an economist at the University of Chicago.- Biography :After graduating from...

    , Professor, University of Chicago
    University of Chicago
    The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

  • Karen Hanson
    Karen Hanson
    Karen Hanson currently the Provost of the Bloomington campus of Indiana University and one of two Executive Vice Presidents of the university, has been named the senior vice president and provost of the University of Minnesota....

    , Provost, Indiana University
    Indiana University
    Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...

  • Robert Hariman
    Robert Hariman
    Robert Hariman is a distinguished philosopher of rhetoric, currently professor and department chair at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Hariman has a B.A. degree in Communications from Macalester College, as well as a Ph.D. in Communication Studies from the University of Minnesota...

    , Professor, Northwestern University
    Northwestern University
    Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

  • William Hawkland
    William Hawkland
    William Dennis Hawkland was Chancellor of Louisiana State University from 1979 to 1989. Hawkland was also the holder of a Boyd Professorship at LSU.....

    , former Chancellor, Louisiana State University
    Louisiana State University
    Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, most often referred to as Louisiana State University, or LSU, is a public coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The University was founded in 1853 in what is now known as Pineville, Louisiana, under the name...

  • Eric J. Heller
    Eric J. Heller
    Eric J. "Rick" Heller is the Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics at Harvard University...

    , Professor, Harvard University
    Harvard University
    Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

  • Deborah Hertz
    Deborah Hertz
    Deborah Hertz, , is the Herman Wouk Chair in Modern Jewish Studies and Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego....

    , Professor, University of California, San Diego
    University of California, San Diego
    The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...

  • Sadek Hilal
    Sadek Hilal
    Sadek Kamil Hilal was a Columbia University radiologist and one of the most influential researchers in advancing imaging science and radiology in the twentieth century.-Life and Work:...

    , former Professor, Columbia University
    Columbia University
    Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

  • Ivan Hinderaker
    Ivan Hinderaker
    Ivan Hinderaker was chancellor of the University of California, Riverside from 1964 to 1979. He was the longest-serving chancellor of any UC campus. Hinderaker Hall at UCR is named after him....

    , former Chancellor, University of California, Riverside
    University of California, Riverside
    The University of California, Riverside, commonly known as UCR or UC Riverside, is a public research university and one of the ten general campuses of the University of California system. UCR is consistently ranked as one of the most ethnically and economically diverse universities in the United...

  • John L. Holland
    John L. Holland
    John Luther Holland was an American psychologist who created the career development model known as the Holland Occupational Themes. It is often referred to as the Holland Codes....

    , Professor Emeritus, John Hopkins University
  • Ralph Holman
    Ralph Holman
    Ralph Holman is a biochemist whose research focused on lipids and fatty acids, especially the Omega-3 fatty acid.-Accomplishments:* Associate of Arts, Bethel College, 1937* Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry, University of Minnesota...

    , Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota
    University of Minnesota
    The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...

  • Joseph M. Horn
    Joseph M. Horn
    Joseph M. Horn is an American psychology professor known for his work on adoption studies.Horn received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and currently teaches at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include intelligence and personality and their development,...

    , Professor, University of Texas-Austin
  • Mary Howell
    Mary Howell
    Mary Catherine Raugust Howell was a physician, psychologist, lawyer, mentor, musician and mother. She was the first woman dean at Harvard Medical School and led the fight to end quotas and open medical schools to women.-Biography:Dr. Howell was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota...

    , former Associate Dean of Medicine, Harvard University
    Harvard University
    Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

  • Frederick L. Hovde
    Frederick L. Hovde
    Frederick Lawson Hovde was an American chemical engineer, researcher, educator and president of Purdue University.Born in Erie, Pennsylvania, Hovde received his Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, where he played on the football team...

    , former President, Purdue University
    Purdue University
    Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...

  • Yuji Ijiri
    Yuji Ijiri
    Yuji Ijiri is a retired accounting researcher and educator. He was the Robert M. Trueblood University Professor of Accounting and Economics at Carnegie Mellon University until his retirement on June 30, 2011....

    , Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
    Carnegie Mellon University
    Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....

  • Daniel Janzen
    Daniel Janzen
    Daniel Hunt Janzen is an evolutionary ecologist, naturalist, and conservationist and the son of a previous Director of the US Fish and Wildlife Service...

    , Professor, University of Pennsylvania
    University of Pennsylvania
    The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

  • Robert Jensen
    Robert Jensen
    Robert William Jensen is a professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin College of Communication. He joined the faculty in 1992 after completing his Ph.D. in media law and ethics in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota...

    , Professor, University of Texas-Austin
  • D. Bruce Johnstone
    D. Bruce Johnstone
    Donald Bruce Johnstone is an American educator who is most notable for having served as President of Buffalo State College and Chancellor of the State University of New York....

    , former Chancellor, State University of New York
    State University of New York
    The State University of New York, abbreviated SUNY , is a system of public institutions of higher education in New York, United States. It is the largest comprehensive system of universities, colleges, and community colleges in the United States, with a total enrollment of 465,000 students, plus...

  • Richard W. Jones
    Richard W. Jones
    Richard Ward Jones was a biomedical engineer and authority on physiological control systems.-Education:His BS was from the University of Minnesota, 1926. His MS in physics was from Northwestern University, 1941, under Walter S...

    , Professor, Northwestern University
    Northwestern University
    Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

  • Henry Kaiser
    Henry Kaiser
    Henry Kaiser may refer to:People*Henry Felix Kaiser , American academic known for the varimax rotation*Henry J. Kaiser , American industrialist and shipbuilder who founded Kaiser Permanente...

    , Professor, Cornell University
    Cornell University
    Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

  • Eric W. Kaler
    Eric W. Kaler
    Eric W. Kaler is the 16th president of the University of Minnesota, succeeding Robert Bruininks on July 1, 2011. President Kaler was inaugurated on September 22, 2011. [1] Before coming to Minnesota, Kaler served since 2007 as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs and vice...

    , President, University of Minnesota
    University of Minnesota
    The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...

  • Robert Kingsley
    Robert Kingsley
    Robert Kingsley was an American legal scholar and California judge. He graduated from the University of Minnesota, the University of Minnesota Law School, and Harvard Law School...

    , former Dean of Law, University of Southern California
    University of Southern California
    The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...

  • James Kritzeck
    James Kritzeck
    James Kritzeck is a scholar of Islam who specialises in Islamic literature and its translation.He was educated at Saint John's Abbey , the University of Minnesota , Princeton University , and Harvard University ; he was elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard University in 1952...

    , Professor, Princeton University
    Princeton University
    Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

  • Patricia K. Kuhl
    Patricia K. Kuhl
    Patricia K. Kuhl is a Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences and co-director of the Institute for Brain and Learning Sciences at the University of Washington. She specializes in language acquisition and the neural bases of language, and she has also conducted research on language development in...

    , Professor, University of Washington
    University of Washington
    University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...

  • Amitava Kumar
    Amitava Kumar
    Amitava Kumar is an Indian writer and journalist who is currently Professor of English on the Helen D. Lockwood Chair at Vassar College.-Early Life and Education:...

    , Professor, Vassar College
    Vassar College
    Vassar College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, in the United States. The Vassar campus comprises over and more than 100 buildings, including four National Historic Landmarks, ranging in style from Collegiate Gothic to International,...

  • Bibb Latane
    Bibb Latané
    Bibb Latané is a United States social psychologist. He is probably most famous for his work with John Darley on bystander intervention in emergencies, but he has also published many articles on social attraction in animals, social loafing in groups, and the spread of social influence in populations...

    , psychologist
  • Joyce Lebra
    Joyce Lebra
    Joyce Lebra, also known as Joyce Chapman Lebra, is an American historian of Japan.Lebra spent her childhood in Honolulu and received her B.A.and M.A. in Asian Studies from the University of Minnesota. She received a Ph.D.in Japanese History from Harvard/Radcliffe, and was the first woman Ph.D...

    , former Professor, University of Colorado
    University of Colorado
    The University of Colorado system is a system of public universities in Colorado consisting of three universities in four campuses: University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, and University of Colorado Denver in downtown Denver and at the Anschutz Medical Campus in...

  • Aaron B. Lerner
    Aaron B. Lerner
    Aaron Bunsen Lerner was an American physician, researcher and professor. Born in 1920 in Minneapolis, he received his medical degree and a PhD in chemistry from the University of Minnesota in 1945. After teaching at the universities of Michigan and Oregon, he joined the Yale University School of...

    , former Professor, Yale University
    Yale University
    Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

  • Raymond Lindeman
    Raymond Lindeman
    Raymond Laurel Lindeman was an ecologist whose graduate research is often credited with being a seminal study in field of ecosystem ecology...

    , former ecologist
  • Odd S. Lovoll
    Odd S. Lovoll
    -Background:Odd Sverre Lovoll was born in Sande, in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. He immigrated to the United States in 1946 and is a naturalized United States citizen. Lovoll received his education both in Norway and in the United States, passing university exams at the University of Bergen in 1961 and...

    , Professor, St. Olaf College
    St. Olaf College
    St. Olaf College is a coeducational, residential, four-year, private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota, United States. It was founded in 1874 by a group of Norwegian-American immigrant pastors and farmers, led by Pastor Bernt Julius Muus. The college is named after Olaf II of Norway,...

  • David Lubinski
    David Lubinski
    David J. Lubinski is an American psychology professor known for his work in applied research, psychometrics, and individual differences.He earned his B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1981 and 1987 respectively. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Illinois at...

    , Professor, Vanderbilt University
    Vanderbilt University
    Vanderbilt University is a private research university located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1873, the university is named for shipping and rail magnate "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided Vanderbilt its initial $1 million endowment despite having never been to the...

  • George A. Lundberg
    George A. Lundberg
    George Andrew Lundberg was an American sociologist.-Biography:...

    , former Professor, University of Washington
    University of Washington
    University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...

  • Thomas S. Lundgren
    Thomas S. Lundgren
    Thomas S. Lundgren is an American fluid dynamicist and Professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota He is known for his work in the field of theoretical fluid dynamics...

    , Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota
    University of Minnesota
    The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...

  • Michael Lynch (geneticist)
    Michael Lynch (geneticist)
    Michael Lynch is Distinguished Professor of Evolution, Population Genetics and Genomics at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. Besides many highly acclaimed papers, especially in population genetics, he has written a two volume textbook with Bruce Walsh, widely considered the "Bible" of...

    , Professor, Indiana University
    Indiana University
    Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...

  • Myles Mace
    Myles Mace
    Myles La Grange Mace was a long-time professor at the Harvard Business School. He was a pioneer in the study of entrepreneurship and corporate governance.- Early life :...

    , former Distinguished Professor, Harvard Business School
    Harvard Business School
    Harvard Business School is the graduate business school of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, United States and is widely recognized as one of the top business schools in the world. The school offers the world's largest full-time MBA program, doctoral programs, and many executive...

  • Mark Mahowald
    Mark Mahowald
    Mark E. Mahowald is an American mathematician known for work in algebraic topology.-Life:He received his Ph.D. from University of Minnesota in 1955 under the direction of Bernard Russel Gelbaum with a thesis on Measure in Groups...

    , Professor, Northwestern University
    Northwestern University
    Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

  • Helmut Maier
    Helmut Maier
    Helmut Maier is a German mathematician. Specializing in number theory, he has made significant progress in the study of the twin prime conjecture. He proved Maier's theorem....

    , Professor, University of Ulm
    University of Ulm
    The University of Ulm is a public university in the city of Ulm, in the South German state of Baden-Württemberg. The university was founded in 1967 and focuses on natural sciences, medicine, engineering sciences, mathematics, economics and computer science...

  • Albert Marcet
    Albert Marcet
    Albert Marcet is a Spanish economist, specialized in Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics. He is professor of Economics at the London School of Economics...

    , Professor, University of London
    University of London
    -20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

     (London School of Economics
    London School of Economics
    The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...

    )
  • Andreu Mas-Colell
    Andreu Mas-Colell
    Andreu Mas-Colell is a Spanish economist, an expert in microeconomics and one of the world's leading mathematical economists. He is the founder of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and a professor in the department of economics at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain...

    , former Professor, Harvard University
    Harvard University
    Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

  • Richard Maxwell (academic)
    Richard Maxwell (academic)
    Richard C. Maxwell is Chadwick Professor Emeritus of Law at Duke University. A graduate of Duke and the University of Minnesota Law School, Maxwell was previously Connell Professor and Dean of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles...

    , former Dean of Law, UCLA
  • Ernest O. Melby
    Ernest O. Melby
    Ernest Oscar Melby was a professor, dean, and university president.-Background:Ernest Oscar Melby was born in Lake Park, Minnesota, the son of Ole Hanson and Ellen Stakke Melby. Melby received his B.A. from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota in 1913...

    , former Dean of Education, Northwestern University
    Northwestern University
    Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

  • Jack Mezirow
    Jack Mezirow
    Jack Mezirow is a currently retired professor of adult and continuing education. Mezirow is widely acknowledged as the founder of the concept transformative learning One of his main points in his work with transformative learning, is the division of the knowledge sphere into three types of...

    , Professor Emeritus, Columbia University
    Columbia University
    Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

  • Tiya Alicia Miles
    Tiya Alicia Miles
    Tiya Alicia Miles is an American historian. She is an associate professor at the University of Michigan in the Program in American Culture, Center for Afro-American and African Studies, Department of History, and Native American Studies Program...

    , Associate Professor, University of Michigan
    University of Michigan
    The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

  • Earl Miner
    Earl Miner
    Earl Roy Miner was a professor at Princeton University, and a noted scholar of Japanese literature and especially Japanese poetry; he was also active in early English literature...

    , former Professor, Princeton University
    Princeton University
    Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

  • Terry M. Moe
    Terry M. Moe
    Terry M. Moe is the professor of political science at Stanford University, a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and a member of the Hoover Institution’s Koret Task Force on K-12 Education. Moe is a respected political scientist, an education scholar, and a bestselling...

    , Professor, Stanford University
    Stanford University
    The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

  • Ole Moen
    Ole Moen
    Ole O. Moen is professor emeritus in American Civilization at the University of Oslo, Norway, with a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota . He was born in Hell in Nord-Trøndelag. Dr. Moen has a Cand. Philol. degree in English from the University of Oslo and has also an M.A...

    , former Professor, University of Oslo
    University of Oslo
    The University of Oslo , formerly The Royal Frederick University , is the oldest and largest university in Norway, situated in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The university was founded in 1811 and was modelled after the recently established University of Berlin...

  • Parviz Moin
    Parviz Moin
    Parviz Moin is an Iranian American fluid dynamicist. He is the Franklin P. and Caroline M. Johnson Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Moin has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited author in engineering.-Biography:...

    , Professor, Stanford University
    Stanford University
    The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

  • David Montgomery, Professor Emeritus
    Emeritus
    Emeritus is a post-positive adjective that is used to designate a retired professor, bishop, or other professional or as a title. The female equivalent emerita is also sometimes used.-History:...

    , Yale University
    Yale University
    Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

  • Malcolm Moos
    Malcolm Moos
    Malcolm Charles Moos was an American political scientist.He received his bachelors and masters degrees in political science from the University of Minnesota. He went on to receive his doctorate, also in political science, from the University of California, Los Angeles. After receiving his Ph.D...

    , former President, University of Minnesota
    University of Minnesota
    The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...

  • Manfred Morari
    Manfred Morari
    Manfred Morari is a Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1977. Dr. Morari held positions at the University of Wisconsin, Madison from 1977–1983 and the California Institute of...

    , Professor, ETH Zurich
    ETH Zurich
    The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich or ETH Zürich is an engineering, science, technology, mathematics and management university in the City of Zurich, Switzerland....

  • Negar Mottahedeh
    Negar Mottahedeh
    Negar Mottahedeh is a cultural critic and film theorist specializing in interdisciplinary and feminist contributions to the fields of Middle Eastern Studies and Film Studies...

    , Associate Professor, Duke University
    Duke University
    Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...

  • C. L. Mowat
    C. L. Mowat
    Charles Loch Mowat was a British-born American historian.Mowat was educated at Marlborough College and St John's, Oxford. In 1934 he went to live in the United States, where he became an American citizen. He did his PhD at the University of Minnesota and taught at the University of California and...

    , historian
  • Joia Mukherjee
    Joia Mukherjee
    Dr. Joia Mukherjee is a professor at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine.Mukherjee was born in what was then known as East Pakistan...

    , Professor, Harvard University
    Harvard University
    Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

  • Shirley Mullen
    Shirley Mullen
    Shirley A. Mullen is the current president of Houghton College and the first women president of the college. Prior to becoming President at the Houghton College she was provost at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California....

    , President, Houghton College
    Houghton College
    Houghton College is a Christian liberal arts college affiliated with the Wesleyan Church. The college is a member of both the Christian College Consortium and the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities...

  • Jack Myers (biologist), former Professor, University of Texas-Austin
  • Hans Neurath
    Hans Neurath
    Hans Neurath was a biochemist, a leader in protein chemistry and the founding chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Washington in Seattle.-Early life:...

    , Professor, University of Washington
    University of Washington
    University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...

  • Walter R. Nickel
    Walter R. Nickel
    Walter Russell Nickel, M.D. was an American dermatologist who was one of the founders of the field of dermatopathology. He was a co-founder and president of four different professional societies and was the founding chairman of the Division of Dermatology at the University of California, San Diego...

    , Professor, University of California, San Diego
    University of California, San Diego
    The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...

  • Alfred O. C. Nier
    Alfred O. C. Nier
    Alfred Otto Carl Nier was an American physicist who pioneered the development of mass spectrometry and used it in innovative ways to establish some major scientific results.-Early career:...

    , former Professor, University of Minnesota
    University of Minnesota
    The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...

  • Jay Noren
    Jay Noren
    Jay Noren, M.D. is the former President of Wayne State University.Noren did his undergraduate studies at the University of Minnesota and then graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School. He also received master's degree in public health from Harvard University.Noren was the Robert...

    , former President, Wayne State University
    Wayne State University
    Wayne State University is a public research university located in Detroit, Michigan, United States, in the city's Midtown Cultural Center Historic District. Founded in 1868, WSU consists of 13 schools and colleges offering more than 400 major subject areas to over 32,000 graduate and...

  • Joseph D. Novak
    Joseph D. Novak
    Joseph Donald Novak is an American educator, and Professor Emeritus at the Cornell University, and Senior Research Scientist at IHMC. He is known for his development of concept mapping in the 1970s.- Biography :...

    , former Professor, Cornell University
    Cornell University
    Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

  • Josiah Ober
    Josiah Ober
    Josiah Ober is an American historian and classical political theorist. He is currently the Constantine Mitsotakis Chair of Classics and Political Science at Stanford University...

    , Professor, Stanford University
    Stanford University
    The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

  • Robert Parr
    Robert Parr
    Robert Ghormley Parr is a theoretical chemist. He is a chemistry professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.-Career:...

    , Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • C.H. Patterson, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • John Vernon Pavlik, Professor, Rutgers University
    Rutgers University
    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...

  • Laurence E. Peterson
    Laurence E. Peterson
    Laurence E. Peterson is Emeritus Professor of Physics and Director of the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences at the University of California, San Diego, California.He received his Ph.D in 1960 from the University of Minnesota....

    , Professor, University of California, San Diego
    University of California, San Diego
    The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...

  • Ronald L. Phillips
    Ronald L. Phillips
    Ronald L. Phillips is an American biologist and a Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota.- Birth and education :Ronald L. Phillips was born in 1940 in the United States. He completed his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Purdue University. After completing his master's degree, he completed his...

    , Professor, University of Minnesota
    University of Minnesota
    The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...

  • Mark Pharis
    Mark Pharis
    Mark Pharis is an American ceramic artist and professor residing in Roberts, Wisconsin. Pharis is currently the Chair of the Department of Art at the University of Minnesota where he has been a faculty member since 1985. Pharis was a student of Warren MacKenzie.- Biography and Artwork :Mark...

    , Professor, University of Minnesota
    University of Minnesota
    The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...

  • Maynard Pirsig
    Maynard Pirsig
    Maynard Pirsig was an American legal scholar and academic. Educated at the University of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota Law School, he was Professor and Dean of Law at Minnesota from 1948 to 1955. He was later Professor of Law at the William Mitchell College of Law...

    , former Dean of Law, University of Minnesota
    University of Minnesota
    The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...

  • Luis M. Proenza
    Luis M. Proenza
    Dr. Luis M. Proenza is the president of University of Akron. He is a former member of the United States President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, a council originally established by President George H.W...

    , President, University of Akron
    University of Akron
    The University of Akron is a coeducational public research university located in Akron, Ohio, United States. The university is part of the University System of Ohio. It was founded in 1870 as a small college affiliated with the Universalist Church. In 1913 ownership was transferred to the City of...

  • John L. Pollock
    John L. Pollock
    John L. Pollock was an American philosopher known for influential work in epistemology, philosophical logic, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence....

    , philosopher
  • Daniel D. Polsby
    Daniel D. Polsby
    Daniel D. Polsby is Dean of the Law School and Professor of Law at George Mason University and was previously Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law at Northwestern University.-Education:...

    , Dean of Law, George Mason University
    George Mason University
    George Mason University is a public university based in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, south of and adjacent to the city of Fairfax. Additional campuses are located nearby in Arlington County, Prince William County, and Loudoun County...

  • David Premack
    David Premack
    David Premack is currently emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. He was educated at the University of Minnesota when logical positivism was in full bloom. The departments of Psychology and Philosophy were closely allied...

    , Professor Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania
    University of Pennsylvania
    The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

  • William Prosser
    William Prosser
    William Lloyd Prosser was the Dean of the College of Law at UC Berkeley from 1948 to 1961. Prosser authored several editions of Prosser on Torts, universally recognized as the leading work on the subject of tort law for a generation. It is still widely used today, now known as Prosser and Keeton...

    , former Dean of Law, University of California, Berkeley
    University of California, Berkeley
    The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

  • Carlton C. Qualey
    Carlton C. Qualey
    Carlton C. Qualey was an American professor, author and historian. His research specialized principally in Norwegian-American immigration. An imminent historian, his publications including books, articles and reviews produced over a 60 year career...

    , former Professor, Carleton College
    Carleton College
    Carleton College is an independent non-sectarian, coeducational, liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota, USA. The college enrolls 1,958 undergraduate students, and employs 198 full-time faculty members. In 2012 U.S...

  • Alan Rector
    Alan Rector
    Professor Alan L. Rector is a Medical Informatician in the University of Manchester School of Computer Science in the UK. He received the B.A. from Pomona College, the M.D...

    , Professor, University of Manchester
    University of Manchester
    The University of Manchester is a public research university located in Manchester, United Kingdom. It is a "red brick" university and a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive British universities and the N8 Group...

  • Kevin P. Reilly
    Kevin P. Reilly
    Kevin P. Reilly began his tenure as the sixth president of the University of Wisconsin System on September 1, 2004...

    , President, University of Wisconsin System
    University of Wisconsin System
    The University of Wisconsin System is a university system of public universities in the state of Wisconsin. It is one of the largest public higher education systems in the country, enrolling more than 182,000 students each year and employing more than 32,000 faculty and staff statewide...

  • Irving J. Rein
    Irving J. Rein
    Irving J. Rein is a Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of many books, most recently "The Elusive Fan: Reinventing Sports in a Crowded Marketplace" 2006. He was a pioneer in the study of popular culture, teaching courses on the subject at Northwestern...

    , Professor, Northwestern University
    Northwestern University
    Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

  • Leo George Rigler
    Leo George Rigler
    Leo George Rigler was an American radiologist remembered for describing Rigler's sign.- Biography :...

    , former Professor, UCLA
  • Donald John Roberts
    Donald John Roberts
    Donald John Roberts is the John H. and Irene S. Scully Professor of Economics, Strategic Management and International Business at the Stanford Graduate School of Business . He has been a member of the Stanford faculty since 1980...

    , Professor, Stanford University
    Stanford University
    The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

  • Harry Rozmiarek
    Harry Rozmiarek
    Harry Rozmiarek is a noted veterinarian, academic, and laboratory animal care specialist.Dr. Rozmiarek graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1962 with a veterinary degree. He joined the United States Army and was assigned as an attending army veterinarian at Fort Meyer, Virginia. Among...

    , Professor, University of Pennsylvania
    University of Pennsylvania
    The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

  • Robert Rynasiewicz
    Robert Rynasiewicz
    Robert Rynasiewicz is a Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and an Adjunct Professor in Philosophy and the Committee on History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Maryland....

    , Professor, Johns Hopkins University
    Johns Hopkins University
    The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...

  • Muhammad Sahimi
    Muhammad Sahimi
    Muhammad Sahimi is a Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, and holds the NIOC Chair in petroleum engineering at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He is also active in journalism, writing frequently on Iranian politics.-Career:Sahimi received his B.S...

    , Professor, University of Southern California
    University of Southern California
    The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...

  • John C. Sanford
    John C. Sanford
    -Academic career:Sanford graduated in 1976 from the University of Minnesota with a BSc in horticulture. He then went to the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he received an MSc in 1978 and a PhD in 1980 in plant breeding and genetics. Between 1980 and 1986 Sanford was an assistant professor at...

    , Associate Professor Emeritus, Cornell University
    Cornell University
    Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

  • Jay Scheib
    Jay Scheib
    Jay Scheib is an American stage director noted for his contemporary productions of both classical and new plays and operas. Scheib is Associate Professor of Theater Arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he teaches performance media, motion theater, media and methods, and...

    , Professor, MIT
  • George Seddon
    George Seddon
    George Seddon was an Australian academic who held university chairs in a range of subjects. He wrote popular books on the Australian landscape embracing diverse points of view...

    , former geologist and philosopher
  • William H. Sewell
    William H. Sewell
    William Hamilton Sewell was a United States sociologist and the Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1967-1968. He is known also as the father of another sociologist .-Biography:...

    , former Chancellor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • John M. Sharp, Professor, University of Texas-Austin
  • Eugene P. Sheehy
    Eugene P. Sheehy
    Eugene P. Sheehy is a retired academic librarian, professional researcher, author and editor. As a librarian he served as the head of the reference department at Columbia University in New York City from 1967 to 1986...

    , Head Academic Librarian, Columbia University
    Columbia University
    Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

  • Cheol Soon Shin, President, Chonbuk National University
    Chonbuk National University
    Chonbuk National University in Jeonju, South Korea is the Flagship Korean National University for Jeollabuk-do province, also known as Jeonbuk or Chonbuk. Chonbuk National University has been constantly recognized as one of top universities in the world ranked 501-550th in the world by QS Top...

  • Norman Shumway
    Norman Shumway
    Norman Edward Shumway was a pioneer of heart surgery at Stanford University.-Early life:Shumway was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan...

    , former Professor, Stanford University
    Stanford University
    The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

  • Yum-Tong Siu
    Yum-Tong Siu
    Yum-Tong Siu is the William Elwood Byerly Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University.Dr. Siu has been a prominent figure in the mathematics of several complex variables for a quarter-century. He has mastered techniques at the interfaces between complex variables, differential geometry, and...

    , Professor, Harvard University
    Harvard University
    Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

  • Steven S. Smith
    Steven S. Smith
    Steven S. Smith is the Director of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy, the Kate M. Gregg Distinguished Professor of Social Sciences, and Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis...

    , Professor, Washington University
  • Edwin Spanier
    Edwin Spanier
    Edwin Henry Spanier was an American mathematician at the University of California at Berkeley, working in algebraic topology...

    , former Professor, University of California, Berkeley
    University of California, Berkeley
    The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

  • Harold Stassen
    Harold Stassen
    Harold Edward Stassen was the 25th Governor of Minnesota from 1939 to 1943. After service in World War II, from 1948 to 1953 he was president of the University of Pennsylvania...

    , former President, University of Pennsylvania
    University of Pennsylvania
    The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

  • Robert Stein (academic)
    Robert Stein (academic)
    Robert A. Stein is Everett Fraser Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota. A noted scholar of estate planning, Stein was previously William Pattee Professor and Dean at the University of Minnesota Law School, from which he received his law degree in 1961...

     former Dean of Law, University of Minnesota
    University of Minnesota
    The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...

  • Keith H. Steinkraus
    Keith H. Steinkraus
    Keith H. Steinkraus was an American food scientist who was well known in food fermentation which led to the growth of soy-based foods. He also was involved in bacterial diseases used in the control of European chafer and Japanese beetles in New York state.-Career:A native of Minnesota, Steinkraus...

    , former Professor, Cornell University
    Cornell University
    Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

  • Charles Edward Stevens
    Charles Edward Stevens
    Dr. Charles Edward "Ed" Stevens was an American scientist, professor, and veterinarian. An internationally recognized expert in the field of comparative physiology and digestive systems, Dr...

    , former Professor, Cornell University
    Cornell University
    Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

  • Peter A. Stewart, former Professor, Brown University
    Brown University
    Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...

  • William Swann
    William Swann
    William B. Swann is a professor of social and personality psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is primarily known for his work on identity, self and self-esteem, but has also done research on relationships, social cognition, group processes, accuracy in person perception and...

    , Professor, University of Texas-Austin
  • Leigh Tesfatsion
    Leigh Tesfatsion
    Leigh Tesfatsion is a computational economist who teaches at Iowa State University. She received her doctorate at the University of Minnesota, and taught at the University of Southern California before moving to Iowa State...

    , Professor, Iowa State University
    Iowa State University
    Iowa State University of Science and Technology, more commonly known as Iowa State University , is a public land-grant and space-grant research university located in Ames, Iowa, United States. Iowa State has produced astronauts, scientists, and Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners, along with a host of...

  • Frank Thistlethwaite
    Frank Thistlethwaite
    Frank Thistlethwaite CBE was an English academic who served as the first Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia.-Early life:...

    , former Lecturer, Cambridge University and former Vice-Chancellor, University of East Anglia
    University of East Anglia
    The University of East Anglia is a public research university based in Norwich, United Kingdom. It was established in 1963, and is a founder-member of the 1994 Group of research-intensive universities.-History:...

  • Paul Thompson (sinologist)
    Paul Thompson (sinologist)
    Paul Mulligan Thompson was a British sinologist and pioneer in the field of Chinese computer applications.-Biography:...

    , former Professor, University of London
    University of London
    -20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

     (School of Oriental and African Studies
    School of Oriental and African Studies
    The School of Oriental and African Studies is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the University of London...

    )
  • Robert M. Townsend
    Robert M. Townsend
    Robert M. Townsend is an American economist and professor, the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to joining MIT, he was the Charles E...

    , Professor, MIT
  • Alan Trachtenberg
    Alan Trachtenberg
    Alan Trachtenberg is Neil Gray, Jr. Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies at Yale University. He received his Ph.D. in American Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is the husband of Betty Trachtenberg, former Dean of Students at Yale University, and father to Zev Trachtenberg,...

    , Professor Emeritus
    Emeritus
    Emeritus is a post-positive adjective that is used to designate a retired professor, bishop, or other professional or as a title. The female equivalent emerita is also sometimes used.-History:...

     of American Studies, Yale University
    Yale University
    Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

  • Merle Tuve
    Merle Tuve
    Merle Anthony Tuve, PhD was an American scientist and geophysicist who was the founding director of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He was a pioneer in the use of pulsed radio waves whose discoveries opened the way to the development of radar and nuclear...

    , former Professor, Johns Hopkins University
    Johns Hopkins University
    The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...

  • Rosemond Tuve
    Rosemond Tuve
    Rosemond Teresa Marie Tuve was an American scholar of English literature, specializing in Renaissance literature—in particular, Edmund Spenser.-Biography:...

    , former Professor, University of Pennsylvania
    University of Pennsylvania
    The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

  • Harald Uhlig
    Harald Uhlig
    Harald Uhlig is a German economist. He is professor of economics at the University of Chicago, and Chairman of the Department of Economics since 2007. Uhlig won the Gossen Prize in 2003....

    , Professor, University of Chicago
    University of Chicago
    The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

  • Arvind Varma
    Arvind Varma
    Arvind Varma is the R. Games Slayter Distinguished Professor and Head, School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University. His research interests are in chemical and catalytic reaction engineering, and new energy sources.-Education and work:Dr. Arvind Varma is the R...

    , Professor, Purdue University
    Purdue University
    Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...

  • Anne Villamil
    Anne Villamil
    Anne Villamil is a Professor of Economics & Finance and a Faculty Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Stanley Jevons Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester . She earned her B.A. at the University of Rochester and her Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota...

    , Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and University of Manchester
    University of Manchester
    The University of Manchester is a public research university located in Manchester, United Kingdom. It is a "red brick" university and a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive British universities and the N8 Group...

  • Paul Vojta
    Paul Vojta
    Paul Alan Vojta is an American mathematician, known for his work in number theory on diophantine geometry and diophantine approximation....

    , Professor, University of California, Berkeley
    University of California, Berkeley
    The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

  • Robert G. L. Waite
    Robert G. L. Waite
    Robert George Leeson Waite was a historian, psychohistorian, and the Brown Professor of History at Williams College who specialized in the Nazi movement—particularly Adolf Hitler....

    , former Professor, Williams College
    Williams College
    Williams College is a private liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States. It was established in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams. Originally a men's college, Williams became co-educational in 1970. Fraternities were also phased out during this...

  • W. Allen Wallis, former President, University of Rochester
    University of Rochester
    The University of Rochester is a private, nonsectarian, research university in Rochester, New York, United States. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The university has six schools and various interdisciplinary programs.The...

  • Ellen Wartella
    Ellen Wartella
    Ellen A. Wartella is a leading scholar of the role of media in children’s development. Professor of Communication Studies and of Psychology at Northwestern University since 2010, she was Executive Vice Chancellor, Provost and Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California,...

    , former Dean of Communications, University of Texas-Austin
  • Alexander Wendt
    Alexander Wendt
    Alexander Wendt is one of the core social constructivist scholars in the field of international relations. Wendt and scholars such as Nicholas Onuf, Peter J...

    , Professor, Ohio State University
    Ohio State University
    The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State, is a public research university located in Columbus, Ohio. It was originally founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the third largest university campus in the United States...

  • Bruce A. Williams
    Bruce A. Williams
    Bruce A. Williams is an American born political scientist and media studies scholar.-Biography:Williams received a PhD in political science from the University of Minnesota in ????. He has held faculty positions at the Pennsylvania State University, the University of Michigan, the University of...

    , Professor, University of Virginia
    University of Virginia
    The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...

  • Dessima Williams
    Dessima Williams
    Dessima Williams is a Grenadian diplomat and former Ambassador to the United Nations from Grenada who was reappointed to the ambassadorship in 2008. She was a professor of sociology, development and gender at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Dr. Williams holds a Ph.D. from American...

    , former Professor, Brandeis University
    Brandeis University
    Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...

  • Tong-In Wongsothorn, President, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University
    Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University
    Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University or STOU is one of the two open universities in Thailand.-History:...

  • Randall Wright
    Randall Wright
    Randall D. Wright is a Canadian academic macroeconomist who advanced the fields of monetary economics and labor economics through his role in the development of matching theory.- Biography :...

    , Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Tai Tsun Wu
    Tai Tsun Wu
    Tai Tsun Wu is an Chinese American physicist and applied physicist well known for his contributions to high-energy nuclear physics and statistical mechanics....

    , Professor, Harvard University
    Harvard University
    Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

  • David Reinking
    David Reinking
    David Reinking is a researcher known for his work with formative and design experiments and how literacy is affected by technology. Currently Reinking is a Eugine T. Moore Professor of Teacher Education at Clemson University. He was inducted in the Reading Hall of Fame in 2008 and is a highly...

    , Professor, Clemson University
    Clemson University
    Clemson University is an American public, coeducational, land-grant, sea-grant, research university located in Clemson, South Carolina, United States....

  • Joel Case, Professor, University of Wisconsin–Marathon County
  • Nicholas Q. Tran, Professor, Santa Clara University
    Santa Clara University
    Santa Clara University is a private, not-for-profit, Jesuit-affiliated university located in Santa Clara, California, United States. Chartered by the state of California and accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, it operates in collaboration with the Society of Jesus , whose...

  • Paul Alan Yule
    Paul Alan Yule
    Paul Alan Yule is an archaeologist at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. He studied at the University of Minnesota, New York University and Marburg University...

    , Professor, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
  • Nicolas Zafra
    Nicolas Zafra
    Nicolas Zafra was Filipino historian and educator. He was professor emeritus of history at the University of the Philippines. He died on January 7, 1979...

    , former Professor, University of the Philippines
    University of the Philippines
    The ' is the national university of the Philippines. Founded in 1908 through Act No...

  • Herman Zanstra
    Herman Zanstra
    Herman Zanstra was a Dutch astronomer.Zanstra was born near Heerenveen in Friesland. In 1917 he graduated with an Engineer's degree in chemical engineering from the Delft Institute of Technology...

    , former Professor, University of Amsterdam
  • James Zumberge
    James Zumberge
    James Herbert Zumberge was a professor of geology and president of Grand Valley State University from 1962 to 1969, of Southern Methodist University from 1975 to 1980, and of the University of Southern California from 1980 to 1991.-Early life and education:James Herbert Zumberge was born in...

    , former President, University of Southern California
    University of Southern California
    The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...


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  • Tahsan Rahman Khan, singer, keyboardist, guitarist, composer, lyricist, actor, anchor
  • Eddie Albert
    Eddie Albert
    Edward Albert Heimberger , known professionally as Eddie Albert, was an American actor and activist. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1954 for his performance in Roman Holiday, and in 1973 for The Heartbreak Kid.Other well-known screen roles of his include Bing...

    , actor
  • Loni Anderson
    Loni Anderson
    Loni Kaye Anderson is an American actress who played the role of Jennifer Marlowe on the television sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati.- Early life :...

    , actress
  • Poul Anderson
    Poul Anderson
    Poul William Anderson was an American science fiction author who began his career during one of the Golden Ages of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and a prodigious number of short stories...

    , science fiction author
  • Dave Arneson
    Dave Arneson
    David Lance "Dave" Arneson was an American game designer best known for co-developing the first published role-playing game , Dungeons & Dragons, with Gary Gygax, in the early 1970s...

    , co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons
    Dungeons & Dragons
    Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...

    , writer, educator
  • John Astin
    John Astin
    John Allen Astin is an American actor who has appeared in numerous films and television shows, and is best known for the role of Gomez Addams on The Addams Family, and other similarly eccentric comedic characters.-Early years:...

    , actor
  • Maria Bamford
    Maria Bamford
    Maria Bamford is an American stand-up comedian and voice actor. She is best known for her portrayal of her dysfunctional family and self-deprecating comedy involving jokes about depression. Her comedy style draws upon surrealism and incorporates voice impressions that good-naturedly mock various...

    , comedian
  • Monika Bauerlein
    Monika Bauerlein
    Monika Bauerlein is the co-Editor of Mother Jones magazine. Bauerlein was promoted to the position in August 2006, following the departure of Russ Rymer; previously she was the magazine's Investigative Editor...

    , former editor of Mother Jones (magazine)
    Mother Jones (magazine)
    Mother Jones is an American independent news organization, featuring investigative and breaking news reporting on politics, the environment, human rights, and culture. Mother Jones has been nominated for 23 National Magazine Awards and has won six times, including for General Excellence in 2001,...

  • Lorna Beers
    Lorna Beers
    Lorna Doone Beers was an American novelist, poet, memoirist, and author of children's books. The winner of an early Hopwood Award for fiction, Ms. Beers was viewed by editors at E.P. Dutton in New York as a writer with the literary potential and the mastery of Midwestern themes and voices to...

    , author
  • Brad Beyer
    Brad Beyer
    Bradford G. Beyer, Jr. is an American actor.A native of Waukesha, Wisconsin and a graduate of Catholic Memorial High School, Beyer briefly attended the University of Minnesota before moving to New York to pursue an acting career, on the advice of a professor.Beyer's roles include guest appearances...

    , actor
  • Susan Blackwell
    Susan Blackwell
    Susan Blackwell is an American actress, writer and singer, best known for playing herself in the musical title of show. She has appeared in other plays, musicals, and television shows including Law & Order, P.S. I Love You, and Speech and Debate ...

    , actress
  • Carol Bly
    Carol Bly
    Carol Bly was a teacher and an award-winning American author of short stories, essays, and nonfiction works on writing...

    , author, short story
    Short story
    A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...

     writer
  • Alan Bjerga
    Alan Bjerga
    Alan Bjerga is an American journalist, author of the book "Endless Appetites: How the Commodities Casino Creates Hunger and Unrest" and the 2010 president of the National Press Club. He covers agricultural policy for Bloomberg News and in 2010-2011 was also the president of the North American...

    , President, National Press Club
  • Jessica Blank
    Jessica Blank
    Jessica Blank, born in New Haven, Connecticut, is an American actress, playwright, and novelist who has appeared in film, television, and theater. She has appeared in several movies, including The Namesake, The Exonerated, and You’re Nobody 'til Somebody Kills You, and the indies Undermind and On...

    , actress
  • Michael Blodgett
    Michael Blodgett
    Michael Blodgett was an American actor, novelist, and screenwriter. Of his many film and television appearances he is best known for his performance as gigolo Lance Rocke in Russ Meyer's 1970 cult classic Beyond the Valley of the Dolls...

    , actor and screenwriter
  • Joel Brooks
    Joel Brooks
    Joel Brooks is an American actor, known for his roles in My Sister Sam, Six Feet Under, The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green and Phil of the Future...

    , actor
  • Aaron Brown
    Aaron Brown
    Aaron Brown is an American broadcast journalist most recognized for his coverage of the September 11, 2001 attacks, his first day on air at CNN...

    , former CNN
    CNN
    Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...

     anchor (did not graduate)
  • Erin Bode
    Erin Bode
    Erin Bode is an American singer, reluctant to be classified as a jazz vocalist. Though Bode began her recording career in 2001, she has already garnered much praise...

    , singer
  • Roman Bohnen
    Roman Bohnen
    Roman Bohnen was a stage and film actor.Born Roman Aloys Bohnen in St. Paul, Minnesota, Bohnen attended the University of Minnesota, where he was a cheerleader. He cheered so vigorously that it changed his voice for the rest of his life. After graduating in 1923 with a B.A., Roman served his...

    , actor
  • John Bowe (author)
    John Bowe (author)
    John Bowe is the author and editor of three books: ; ; and Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs. He is a contributing writer for the New York Times. He has also written for The New Yorker, The American Prospect, GQ, McSweeney’s and This American Life...

  • Philip Brunelle
    Philip Brunelle
    Philip Brunelle is an American conductor and organist. He founded VocalEssence in 1969 and remains the artistic director today...

     - conductor, organist, entrepreneur (founder of VocalEssence
    VocalEssence
    VocalEssence is a non-profit choral music organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Each year the organization presents a series of concerts featuring the 130-voice VocalEssence Chorus and its core group, a 32-voice professional mixed chorus called the Ensemble Singers, along with guest...

    )
  • Guy Branum
    Guy Branum
    Guy Branum is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known as the head writer of, and a sketch performer on, X-Play on the G4 network and was a regular panelist on "Chelsea Lately" on the E! network.-Life and career:...

    . comedian and actor
  • Martin Bruestle
    Martin Bruestle
    Martin Bruestle is an American television producer best known for his work on Northern Exposure and The Sopranos. After graduating from the University of Minnesota in 1987, Martin Bruestle was selected to participate in the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences College Internship Program on the...

    , television producer
  • Scott Z. Burns
    Scott Z. Burns
    Scott Z. Burns is an American screenwriter, producer, and director. He has written screenplays for The Bourne Ultimatum , The Informant! , and Contagion , all of which feature Matt Damon. His latest two films were both directed by Steven Soderbergh...

    , screenwriter
  • Richard Carlson
    Richard Carlson
    Richard Carlson was an American actor, television and film director, and screenwriter.-Career:Born in Albert Lea, Minnesota, Carlson graduated from the University of Minnesota with an M.A. degree, Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa. He later appeared on the Broadway stage in the 1930s after studying...

    , actor
  • David Carr (journalist)
    David Carr (journalist)
    David Carr is an American journalist and author. He is a media and culture columnist for The New York Times. In his 2008 memoir, The Night of the Gun, he detailed his past experiences with cocaine addiction and includes interviews with people from his past, tackling his memoir as if he were...

  • William E. Coles, Jr.
    William E. Coles, Jr.
    William E. Coles, Jr. was an American novelist and professor.Born in Summit, New Jersey, he earned degrees from Lehigh University, the University of Connecticut, the University of Minnesota...

    , author
  • Marvel Cooke
    Marvel Cooke
    Marvel Cooke was an American journalist, writer, and civil rights activist. She was the first African American woman to work at a mainstream white-owned newspaper....

    , journalist
  • Michael Coyle, composer
  • Arlene Dahl
    Arlene Dahl
    Arlene Carol Dahl is an American actress and former MGM contract star, who achieved notability during the 1950s. She is the mother of actor Lorenzo Lamas.-Early years:...

    , actress
  • George Dahl
    George Dahl
    George Leighton Dahl was a prominent American architect based in Dallas, Texas during the 20th century. His most notable contributions include the Art Deco structures of Fair Park while he oversaw planning and construction of the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition.-Background:George Dahl was born in...

    , architect
  • Nicole, Erica and Jaclyn Dahm
    Nicole, Erica and Jaclyn Dahm
    Nicole, Erica, and Jaclyn Dahm are identical triplets.-Early lives:The triplets grew up in Jordan, Minnesota, and attended Jordan's public schools. All three also attended the University of Minnesota....

    , Playboy
    Playboy
    Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...

     centerfolds
  • Carl Dennis
    Carl Dennis
    Carl Dennis , an American poet and educator. His book Practical Gods won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.-Life and work:...

    , poet
  • Jim Denomie
    Jim Denomie
    Jim Denomie is an Ojibwe painter. He is known for his colorful, at times comical, looks at United States history and Native Americans.-Early life:...

    , artist
  • Richard Dix
    Richard Dix
    Richard Dix was an American motion picture actor who achieved popularity in both silent and sound film. His standard on-screen image was that of the rugged and stalwart hero.-Early life:...

    , actor
  • Tod Dockstader
    Tod Dockstader
    Tod Dockstader is an American composer of electronic music, and particularly musique concrète. He studied painting and film while at the University of Minnesota, before moving to Hollywood in 1955, to become an apprentice film editor...

    , composer
  • Peter Docter
    Peter Docter
    Peter Hans "Pete" Docter is an American film director, animator, and screenwriter from Bloomington, Minnesota. He is best known for directing the films Monsters, Inc. and Up, and as a key figure and collaborator in Pixar Animation Studios. The A. V. Club has called him "almost universally...

    , screenwriter and director
  • Hedley Donovan
    Hedley Donovan
    Hedley Donovan was an editor in chief of Time Inc.. He became editor in chief starting 1964 till 1979 responsible for all publications of Time Inc., including Time, Life, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, Money, and People. After retiring in 1979 he became a senior adviser to President Jimmy Carter...

    , editor, Time Magazine
  • Lila Downs
    Lila Downs
    Lila Downs is a Mexican singer-songwriter. She performs her own compositions as well as tapping into Mexican traditional and popular music...

    , singer
  • Dick Durrell
    Dick Durrell
    Richard J. Durrell was an American advertising executive and one of the founding staff members for People magazine....

    , creator of People magazine
  • Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

    , singer/songwriter (did not graduate)
  • Kimberly Elise
    Kimberly Elise
    Kimberly Elise is an American film and television actress. She is best known for her role in the films Set It Off, Beloved, John Q, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, and For Colored Girls...

    , actress
  • Herbert Elwell
    Herbert Elwell
    Herbert Elwell was an American composer and music critic. A native of Minneapolis, he was among the first Americans to study in France with Nadia Boulanger. While in Paris his Quintet for Piano and Strings garnered more praise than George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, which was premiered at the...

    , composer
  • Robert Engels
    Robert Engels
    Robert Engels is an American born writer, producer, and director as well as being a professor of screenwriting at Cal State Fullerton.-Biography:...

    , scriptwriter
  • Henry Fonda
    Henry Fonda
    Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American film and stage actor.Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor. He also appeared in 1938 in plays performed in White Plains, New York, with Joan Tompkins...

    , actor (did not graduate)
  • John Farrell (poet)
    John Farrell (poet)
    John Patrick Farrell was an American poet and composer.-Early life:J.P. Farrell was born in Glen Cove, New York and pursued study of music from an early age. He has composed music and performed in numerous ensembles in Long Island. Farrell entered SUNY Fredonia School of Music in 1986 as a Music...

  • Mali Finn
    Mali Finn
    Mali Finn , born Mary Alice Mann, also known as Mally Finn, was an American Hollywood casting director and a former English and drama teacher...

    , casting director
  • Frank Forest
    Frank Forest
    Frank Forest was an American operatic tenor and actor who enjoyed success in the 1930s and 40s.-Biography:Frank Forest was born Frank Hayek in St. Paul, Minnesota on October 17, 1896. He studied pianoforte and singing and at twelve was singing as a soloist in a church choir. At seventeen he taught...

    , operatic tenor and actor
  • Howard Frazin
    Howard Frazin
    Howard Frazin is a composer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He began his formal musical training at the New England Conservatory, and subsequently studied at the University of Minnesota with Dominick Argento...

    , composer
  • Thomas Friedman
    Thomas Friedman
    Thomas Lauren Friedman is an American journalist, columnist and author. He writes a twice-weekly column for The New York Times. He has written extensively on foreign affairs including global trade, the Middle East, and environmental issues and has won the Pulitzer Prize three times.-Personal...

    , journalist, New York Times
  • Linda Ann Gehringer, actress
  • Rita K. Gollin
    Rita K. Gollin
    Rita K. Gollin was born on January 22, 1928 in Brooklyn, NY. She attended Queens College for undergraduate studies before earning her Ph.D. in English from the University of Minnesota in 1961. Gollin is Distinguished Professor Emerita of English at the State University of New York at Geneseo...

    , Nathaniel Hawthorne scholar
  • Tom Gjelten
    Tom Gjelten
    Tom Gjelten is a correspondent for National Public Radio news. Gjelten has worked for NPR since 1982, when he joined the organization as a labor and education reporter...

    , NPR
    NPR
    NPR, formerly National Public Radio, is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. NPR was created in 1970, following congressional passage of the Public Broadcasting...

     correspondent
  • Peter Michael Goetz
    Peter Michael Goetz
    Peter Michael Goetz is an American actor.Goetz was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Esther L. and Irving A. Goetz, a construction engineer. Goetz studied at the State University of New York at Fredonia, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and the University of Minnesota, from which he...

    , actor
  • Carl Graffunder
    Carl Graffunder
    Carl Graffunder is a mid-century modernist architect whose influence from European modernism, Frank Lloyd Wright and Antonin Raymond manifested in many residential and commercial structures mostly in Minnesota. He was born in Rock Island, Illinois and raised in Hibbing, Minnesota...

    , architect
  • Peter Graves
    Peter Graves (actor)
    Peter Aurness , known professionally as Peter Graves, was an American film and television actor. He was best known for his starring role in the CBS television series Mission: Impossible from 1967 to 1973...

    , actor
  • Gene Gutche
    Gene Gutchë
    Gene Gutchë was a German composer active primarily in America....

    , composer
  • Jason Hansen, composer
  • Kate Hardy Green, author
  • Thomas Heggen
    Thomas Heggen
    Thomas Heggen was an American author best known for his 1946 novel Mister Roberts and its adaptations to stage and screen.-Navy service:...

    , author
  • Bruce Henricksen
    Bruce Henricksen
    Bruce Henricksen , American author, scholar, and editor, grew up in the town of Wanamingo, Minnesota and the city of Minneapolis.-Life:...

    , author
  • Steve Heitzeg
    Steve Heitzeg
    Steve Heitzeg is a composer, whose work is honored throughout the United States.Heitzeg is known for his music written in celebration of the natural world, with evocative and lyrical scores frequently including naturally found instruments, such as stones, birch bark wind chimes and sea glass shards...

    , composer
  • Endesha Ida Mae Holland, award-winning playwright
  • James Hong
    James Hong
    James Hong is an American actor and former president of the Association of Asian/Pacific American Artists . A prolific acting veteran, Hong's career spans over 50 years and includes more than 350 roles in film, television, and video games.-Early life:Hong was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His...

    , actor (did not graduate)
  • Irene Hunt
    Irene Hunt
    Irene Hunt was born to Franklin P. and Sarah Land Hunt on May 18, 1907 in Pontiac, Illinois. The family soon moved to Newton, Illinois, but Franklin died when Hunt was only seven, and the family moved again to be close to Hunt's grandparents...

    , children's author
  • Chris Ison, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
  • Charles Jensen (poet)
    Charles Jensen (poet)
    Charles Jensen is an American poet and editor.- Life :He was born in Eagle, Wisconsin and received a Bachelor's degree in film studies and cultural studies & comparative literature from the University of Minnesota...

  • Nathan H. Juran, film director
  • Dave Kapell, inventor of Magnetic Poetry
  • Garrison Keillor
    Garrison Keillor
    Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor is an American author, storyteller, humorist, and radio personality. He is known as host of the Minnesota Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor (born August 7, 1942) is an American author, storyteller, humorist, and radio...

    , author and satirist
  • Linda Kelsey
    Linda Kelsey
    Linda Kelsey is an American television actress.Kelsey's professional career began with stage appearances in her home of Minneapolis, Minnesota, with her good looks and striking mane of red hair winning her success that ultimately landed her in Los Angeles in 1972, with appearances in small roles...

    , actress
  • Jim Klobuchar
    Jim Klobuchar
    Jim Klobuchar is a Minnesota journalist, author, and travel guide. He wrote for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis for three decades, and now writes an occasional column for the Christian Science Monitor. He is the father of Senator Amy Klobuchar....

    , columnist
  • T. R. Knight
    T. R. Knight
    Theodore Raymond "T. R." Knight is an American actor. Knight's most high-profile role to date was his role as Dr. George O'Malley on ABC's medical drama Grey's Anatomy.-Early life:...

    , actor
  • Jessica Lange
    Jessica Lange
    Jessica Phyllis Lange is an American actress who has worked in film, theatre and television. The recipient of several awards, including two Academy Awards, four Golden Globes and one Emmy, Lange is regarded as one of the première female actors of her generation.Lange was discovered by producer...

    , actress
  • Jill Larson
    Jill Larson
    Jill Larson is an American dramatic actress. She is most widely known for her portrayal of Opal Cortlandt on the popular daytime drama, All My Children, a role she has played for 22 years, garnering her 2 Emmy nominations...

    , actress
  • Libby Larsen
    Libby Larsen
    Libby Larsen is one of America’s most performed living composers. She has created a catalogue of over 400 works spanning virtually every genre from intimate vocal and chamber music to massive orchestral works and over fifteen operas...

    , contemporary composer
  • Nancy Smiler Levinson, author
  • James Lileks
    James Lileks
    James Lileks is an American journalist, columnist, and blogger living in Minneapolis, Minnesota.- Career :Lileks has had a wide-ranging career as a columnist, radio personality, author, and prominent blogger....

    , columnist
  • Maud Hart Lovelace
    Maud Hart Lovelace
    Maud Hart Lovelace was an American author best known for the Betsy-Tacy series.-Early life:Maud Palmer Hart was born in Mankato, Minnesota to Tom Hart, a shoe store owner, and his wife, Stella . Maud was the middle child; her sisters were Kathleen and Helen...

    , author
  • Terrance Lindall
    Terrance Lindall
    Terrance Lindall is an American artist who was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1944. Lindall attended the University of Minnesota and graduated magna cum laude from Hunter College in New York City in 1970, with a double major in Philosophy and English and a double minor in Psychology and Physical...

    , artist
  • Peter MacNicol
    Peter MacNicol
    Peter MacNicol is an American actor. He may be best known in films for his roles of Janosz Poha in Ghostbusters II, Stingo in Sophie's Choice, Thomas Renfield in Dracula: Dead and Loving It and David Langley in Bean...

    , actor
  • Kevin McCarthy (actor)
    Kevin McCarthy (actor)
    Kevin McCarthy was an American stage, film, and television actor, who appeared in over two hundred television and film roles. For his role in the 1951 film version of Death of a Salesman, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and won a Golden Globe Award for New Star of...

  • Harvey Mackay
    Harvey Mackay
    Harvey Mackay is a businessman and columnist. Mackay is perhaps best known as the author of five business bestsellers, including Swim With the Sharks , Beware the Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt and Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty...

    , New York Times bestselling author
  • Kevin Manthei
    Kevin Manthei
    Kevin Manthei is a composer for film, television, and video games.-Biography:Manthei grew up in Minnesota. He played the piano in his youth and played the trumpet in high school. He graduated from the University of Minnesota with a Bachelor of Music degree in Theory and Composition. He also studied...

    , film composer
  • E. L. Mayo
    E. L. Mayo
    Edward Leslie Mayo was an American poet.-Life:He attended schools in Malden, Massachusetts, then Bates College in Lewiston, Maine....

    , poet
  • E. Roger Muir
    E. Roger Muir
    E. Roger Muir was a television producer who created several television programs and game shows. He was the creator and executive producer of children's program The Howdy Doody Show which ran from 1947 until 1960....

    , television producer
  • Kate Mulgrew
    Kate Mulgrew
    Katherine Kiernan Maria "Kate" Mulgrew is an American actress, most noted for her roles on Star Trek: Voyager as Captain Kathryn Janeway and Ryan's Hope as Mary Ryan...

    , actress
  • John Munson
    John Munson
    John Munson is a Minneapolis musician who is best known as the bass player for Semisonic. He was also a member of Trip Shakespeare during the late 1980s and early 1990s.-Trip Shakespeare:...

    , musician
  • Marilyn Nelson
    Marilyn Nelson
    Marilyn Nelson is an American poet, translator and children's book author. She is the author or translator of twelve books and three chapbooks.-Early life:...

    , poet
  • Charles Nolte
    Charles Nolte
    Charles Nolte was an American actor and educator.-Career:Nolte was born in Duluth, Minnesota and moved to Wayzata, Minnesota with his family in the early 1930s. He graduated from Wayzata High School in 1941 and performed in an acting company that later became Old Log Theater...

    , actor
  • Michele Norris
    Michele Norris
    Michele L. Norris is an American radio journalist and current host of the National Public Radio evening news program All Things Considered since December 9, 2002. She is the first African American female host for NPR.-Early years:...

    , host of NPR's All Things Considered
    All Things Considered
    All Things Considered is the flagship news program on the American network National Public Radio. It was the first news program on NPR, and is broadcast live worldwide through several outlets...

  • Eunice Norton
    Eunice Norton
    Eunice Norton was an American pianist.Norton was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She studied as a child at the University of Minnesota with William Lindsay, who later introduced her to Dame Myra Hess...

    , pianist
  • William N. Oatis, journalist
  • Doug Ohlson
    Doug Ohlson
    Douglas Dean Ohlson was an American abstract artist who specialized in geometric patterns.Ohlson was born on November 18, 1936, in Cherokee, Iowa and attended Bethel College before serving in the United States Marine Corps...

     (1936–2010), abstract artist.
  • Ron Olsen
    Ron Olsen
    Ron Olsen is a veteran cross-platform journalist based in Los Angeles, California, United States.-Early life:Olsen attended the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and Bemidji State University, Bemidji , MN...

    , journalist
  • Jenni Olson
    Jenni Olson
    Jenni Olson was born and raised in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. Olson is a film exhibition curator, director, award winning documentary filmmaker, and author. Olson co-founded and still writes for PlanetOut.com, and campaigned to have a barrier erected on the Golden Gate Bridge.-Biography:Olson was...

    , filmmaker
  • Arieh O'Sullivan
    Arieh O'Sullivan
    Arieh O'Sullivan is an author, journalist and an award-winning defense correspondent who has covered Israel and the Middle East for over two decades. He currently serves as the bureau chief of The Media Line, a non-profit American news agency covering the Middle East...

    , journalist
  • Laurence Overmire
    Laurence Overmire
    Laurence Overmire is an American poet, playwright, actor, director, educator, family historian and genealogist. His poetry has been widely published in the U.S. and abroad...

    , poet, actor, playwright
  • Stephen Paulus
    Stephen Paulus
    Stephen Paulus is an American composer, best known for his operas and choral music. His best-known piece is his 1982 opera The Postman Always Rings Twice, one of several operas he has written for the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, which prompted The New York Times to call him "a young man on the road...

    , contemporary composer
  • Ron Perlman
    Ron Perlman
    Ronald N. "Ron" Perlman is an American television, film and voice over actor. He is known for having played Vincent in the TV series Beauty and the Beast , a Deathstroke figure known as Slade in the animated series Teen Titans, Clarence "Clay" Morrow in Sons of Anarchy, the comic book character...

    , actor
  • Arthur Peterson, Jr.
    Arthur Peterson, Jr.
    Arthur Peterson, Jr. was an American actor. He played character and supporting roles on stage, television, and feature films...

    , actor
  • Wayne Peterson
    Wayne Peterson
    Wayne Peterson is a Pulitzer Prize winning composer, as well as a pianist and educator.Peterson earned B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Minnesota...

    , composer
  • Kristen Pfaff
    Kristen Pfaff
    Kristen Marie Pfaff was an American bass guitarist, best known for her work with Hole.-Early life and career:Pfaff was born and raised in Buffalo, New York, attending Buffalo Academy of the Sacred Heart. She spent a short time in Europe and briefly attended Boston College before ultimately...

    , bass guitarist
  • Robert Pirsig, author and philosopher
  • Gordon Purcell
    Gordon Purcell
    Gordon Purcell is an American comic book artist, perhaps best known for his Star Trek work, in particular his photorealistic renditions of the actors who play that franchise’s characters, as well as those of similarly licensed books, such as X-Files, Xena, Lost in Space, Godzilla, The Young...

    , artist
  • Harry Reasoner
    Harry Reasoner
    Harry Truman Reasoner was an American journalist for ABC and CBS News, known for his inventive use of language as a television commentator, and as a founder of the 60 Minutes program.-Biography:...

    , ABC
    American Broadcasting Company
    The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

     and CBS
    CBS
    CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

     news anchor and correspondent
  • James Rosenquist
    James Rosenquist
    James Rosenquist is an American artist and one of the protagonists in the pop-art movement.-Background and education:...

    , artist
  • Carl Rowan
    Carl Rowan
    Carl Thomas Rowan , was an American government official, journalist and author. Rowan was a nationally-syndicated op-ed columnist for the Washington Post and the Chicago Sun-Times. He was one of the most prominent black journalists of the 20th century.-Background:Carl Rowan was born in...

    , syndicated columnist, former head of United States Information Agency
    United States Information Agency
    The United States Information Agency , which existed from 1953 to 1999, was a United States agency devoted to "public diplomacy". In 1999, USIA's broadcasting functions were moved to the newly created Broadcasting Board of Governors, and its exchange and non-broadcasting information functions were...

  • David Royale, executive producer for "National Geographic Explorer" series
  • Harrison Salisbury
    Harrison Salisbury
    Harrison Evans Salisbury , an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist , was the first regular New York Times correspondent in Moscow after World War II. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota...

    , journalist
  • Rick Sanchez
    Rick Sanchez
    Ricardo León "Rick" Sánchez de Reinaldo , known professionally as Rick Sanchez, is a Cuban-American journalist, author and former TV news anchor...

    , former CNN
    CNN
    Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...

     anchor
  • April Saul
    April Saul
    April Saul is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. She specializes in documentary photojournalism.Saul has photographed and written for The Philadelphia Inquirer since 1981...

    , journalist
  • Jay Scheib
    Jay Scheib
    Jay Scheib is an American stage director noted for his contemporary productions of both classical and new plays and operas. Scheib is Associate Professor of Theater Arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he teaches performance media, motion theater, media and methods, and...

    , theatre director
  • David Schelzel, lead singer of The Ocean Blue
    The Ocean Blue
    The Ocean Blue, formed in Hershey, Pennsylvania in 1986, is an American indie pop band that combines melodic guitars and synthesizers. Its core original members included David Schelzel on lead vocals/guitar, Steve Lau on keyboards/saxophone, Bobby Mittan on bass guitar and Rob Minnig on drums and...

  • Maria Schneider
    Maria Schneider
    Maria Schneider may refer to:* Maria Schneider , French actress who played Jeanne in 1972 film Last Tango in Paris* Maria Schneider , American musician and composer...

     Grammy-Award winning composer and conductor
  • Eric Sevareid
    Eric Sevareid
    Arnold Eric Sevareid was a CBS news journalist from 1939 to 1977. He was one of a group of elite war correspondents—dubbed "Murrow's Boys"—because they were hired by pioneering CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow....

    , journalist
  • Max Shulman
    Max Shulman
    Max Shulman was an American writer and humorist best known for his television and short story character Dobie Gillis, as well as for best-selling novels.-Early life and career:...

    , author
  • Gale Sondergaard
    Gale Sondergaard
    Gale Sondergaard was an American actress.Sondergaard began her acting career in theatre, and progressed to films in 1936. She was the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her film debut in Anthony Adverse...

    , Oscar
    Academy Awards
    An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...

    -winning actress
  • Wonny Song
    Wonny Song
    -See also:* Pianists* Canadian classical music* Young Concert Artists-External links:* * * * at Zankel Hall, from The New York Times...

    , pianist
  • Robert Suderburg
    Robert Suderburg
    Robert Suderburg is an American composer, conductor, and pianist.-Biography:The son of a jazz trombonist , Suderburg studied composition with Paul Fetler at the University of Minnesota, where he received a BA in 1957...

    , composer
  • William Swanberg
    W.A. Swanberg
    William Andrew Swanberg, , pen-name W.A. Swanberg, was a Pulitzer-Prize-winning American biographer. He is perhaps best known for Citizen Hearst, his biography of William Randolph Hearst. He was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1907 and earned his B.A. at the University of Minnesota in 1930. He...

    , author
  • Todd Temkin
    Todd Temkin
    Todd Temkin is an American poet.Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Temkin has carved a niche as poet turned social entrepreneur and cultural activist...

    , poet and cultural activist
  • Robert Thaves, cartoon developer
  • Janika Vandervelde
    Janika Vandervelde
    Janika Vandervelde is an American composer, pianist, and music educator.-Biography:Janika Vandervelde was born in Ripon, Wisconsin, and grew up in nearby Green Lake, playing horn and piano. She began composing in her teens...

    , composer
  • Robert Vaughn
    Robert Vaughn
    Robert Francis Vaughn, , is an American actor noted for stage, film and television work. His best known roles include the suave spy Napoleon Solo in the 1960s television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., wealthy detective Harry Rule in the 1970s television series The Protectors, Albert Stroller in...

    , actor
  • Donald Wandrei
    Donald Wandrei
    Donald Albert Wandrei was an American science fiction, fantasy and weird fiction writer, poet and editor. He wrote as Donald Wandrei. He was the older brother of science fiction writer and artist Howard Wandrei...

    , science fiction/fantasy writer and editor, co-founder of Arkham House
    Arkham House
    Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham. Arkham House...

     publishing
  • Joseph Waters
    Joseph Waters
    Joseph Waters is an American classical composer. He also mounts experimental electronic music festivals attempting to bridge the gap between contemporary popular genres and the avant-garde Western classical tradition.-Creative Projects:...

    , composer
  • Lou Waters
    Lou Waters
    Lou Waters was one of the original anchors of Cable News Network an American cable news station when it first aired in the summer of 1980. He remained one of the network's primary anchors until September 2001, adding to a journalism career spanning nearly 40 years. For much of his tenure with the...

    , journalist
  • Will Weaver
    Will Weaver
    Will Weaver, , is an American author.-Background:Weaver was raised on a dairy farm near Park Rapids, Minnesota, where his parents, who were of Scandinavian descent, farmed 150 acres. In Weaver's youth, he enjoyed fishing and participating in sports...

    , author
  • Levon West, (Ivan Dmitri
    Ivan Dmitri
    Ivan Dmitri , born Levon West, was an artist from the U.S. State of North Dakota. Born in Centerville, South Dakota, his father was a Congregational minister who immigrated from Armenia. The family changed their name to West after arriving in the United States...

    ) artist/photographer
  • Donald Wexler
    Donald Wexler
    Donald Wexler is an influential Mid-Century modern architect whose work is predominantly in the Palm Springs area. He is known for pioneering the use of steel in residential design. He was born in South Dakota in 1926 and graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1950 and worked for Richard...

    , architect
  • Lona Williams
    Lona Williams
    Lona Willams is an American television producer, writer and actress.Williams was raised in Rosemount, Minnesota, where her father, Les, was a middle school math teacher...

    , former television producer
  • Yanni
    Yanni
    Yanni , born Yiannis Hrysomallis is a Greek self-taught pianist, keyboardist, and composer who has spent most of his life in the United States.He earned Grammy nominations for his 1992 album, Dare to Dream, and the 1993 follow-up, In My Time...

    , Grammy-nominated pianist and composer
  • David Zinman
    David Zinman
    David Zinman is an American conductor and violinist.After early violin studies at the Oberlin Conservatory, Zinman studied theory and composition at the University of Minnesota and took up conducting at Tanglewood...

    , conductor
  • Chase Korte, actor (deceased)

Athletics

  • Nine players from the University played on Herb Brooks
    Herb Brooks
    Herbert Paul Brooks, Jr. was an American ice hockey player and coach. He notably coached the United States' men's hockey team to a 4-3 upset of the heavily favored Soviet Union in the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York on February 22, 1980...

    ' 1980 Miracle on Ice
    Miracle on Ice
    The "Miracle on Ice" is the name in American popular culture for a medal-round men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York, on Friday, February 22...

     ice hockey team that beat the USSR and won the gold medal:

Bill Baker
Bill Baker (hockey player)
William Robert Baker is a retired American professional ice hockey defenseman who played 143 regular season games in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens, Colorado Rockies, St...

, Neal Broten
Neal Broten
Neal LaMoy Broten is a retired American professional ice hockey player who played on the gold medal-winning "Miracle on Ice" hockey team in 1980, and in 1,099 NHL regular season games from 1981 – 1997 with the Minnesota North Stars, Dallas Stars, New Jersey Devils and Los Angeles Kings...

, Steve Christoff
Steve Christoff
Steven Mark Christoff is a retired American professional ice hockey forward who played 248 regular season games in the NHL with the Minnesota North Stars, Calgary Flames, and Los Angeles Kings in 1980–84....

, Steve Janaszak
Steve Janaszak
Steven James Janaszak is a retired American ice hockey goaltender who played three games in the NHL with the Minnesota North Stars and Colorado Rockies between 1980 and 1982.-Amateur career:...

, Rob McClanahan
Rob McClanahan
Robert Bruce McClanahan is a former American professional ice hockey player who played 224 games in the NHL for the Buffalo Sabres, Hartford Whalers and New York Rangers between 1980 and 1983. However, he is best known for being a member of the U.S. hockey team in the 1980 Winter Olympics...

, Mike Ramsey, Buzz Schneider
Buzz Schneider
William "Buzz" Schneider is a retired American ice hockey player best remembered for his role on the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team that won the gold medal at Lake Placid...

, Eric Strobel
Eric Strobel
Eric Martin Strobel is a retired American ice hockey forward who was a member of the Miracle on Ice 1980 gold medal winning U.S. Olympic hockey team.-Amateur career:...

 and Phil Verchota
Phil Verchota
Phillip John Verchota is a retired American ice hockey forward. He is best known for being a member of the Miracle on Ice 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team won the gold medal...

.
  • Ric Flair
    Ric Flair
    Richard Morgan Fliehr is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Ric Flair. Also known as "The Nature Boy", Flair is one of the most well-known professional wrestlers in the world....

    , former professional WWE wrestler
  • Brock Lesnar
    Brock Lesnar
    Brock Edward Lesnar is an American mixed martial artist, actor and a former professional and amateur wrestler. He is a former UFC Heavyweight Champion and is ranked the No.5 Heavyweight in the world by Sherdog...

    , mixed martial artist, former professional WWE wrestler, former UFC Champion
  • Marion Barber III
    Marion Barber III
    Marion Sylvester Barber III is an American football running back for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in the fourth round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played college football at Minnesota....

    , NFL running back
  • Bobby Bell
    Bobby Bell
    Bobby Lee Bell, Sr is a former professional American football linebacker/defensive end. He is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the College Football Hall of Fame, and was a member of the Chiefs' team that won Super Bowl IV against the Minnesota Vikings.- High school career :He excelled in...

    , former NFL linebacker
  • Shelton Benjamin
    Shelton Benjamin
    Shelton James Benjamin is an American professional wrestler and former amateur wrestler best known for his tenure in World Wrestling Entertainment. Benjamin has an amateur wrestling background, including wrestling in high school and at the University of Minnesota. In addition, Benjamin has acted...

    , former professional WWE wrestler
  • Patty Berg
    Patty Berg
    Patricia Jane Berg was an American professional golfer and a founding member and then leading player on the Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Her 15 major title wins remains the all-time record for most major wins by a female golfer...

    , Co-founder, LPGA
    LPGA
    The LPGA, in full the Ladies Professional Golf Association, is an American organization for female professional golfers. The organization, whose headquarters is in Daytona Beach, Florida, is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from...

  • Brian Bonin
    Brian Bonin
    Brian Raymond Bonin is a former professional ice hockey center. He was drafted in the ninth round, 211th overall, by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft....

    , former NHL center
  • Randy Breuer
    Randy Breuer
    Randall W. Breuer is a retired American professional basketball player who was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 1st round of the 1983 NBA Draft. A 7'3" center from the University of Minnesota, Breuer played in 11 NBA seasons from 1983-1994...

    , former NBA center
  • J.T. Bruett, former MLB outfielder
  • Willie Burton
    Willie Burton
    Willie Ricardo Burton is a retired American professional basketball player who was selected by the Miami Heat in the 1st round in the 1990 NBA Draft from the University of Minnesota. Burton played for numerous NBA teams as a journeyman from 1990 to 1999. He was born in Detroit, Michigan where he...

    , former NBA guard
  • Herb Brooks
    Herb Brooks
    Herbert Paul Brooks, Jr. was an American ice hockey player and coach. He notably coached the United States' men's hockey team to a 4-3 upset of the heavily favored Soviet Union in the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York on February 22, 1980...

    , Head Coach, 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey team
  • Rene Capo
    Rene Capo
    Rene Capo was a judoka from the United States who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1996 Summer Olympics. Capo immigrated to the United States from Cuba as a young boy. Though he won several judo championships in high school, Capo took a four year break from the sport to attend the...

    , Olympic judoka
  • Chris Darkins
    Chris Darkins
    -Biography:Darkins was born Christopher Oji Darkins on April 30, 1974 in San Francisco, California.-Career:Darkins was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the fourth round of the 1996 NFL Draft and was a member of the team that season and as such was a member of the Super Bowl XXXI Champion...

    , former NFL running back
  • Natalie Darwitz
    Natalie Darwitz
    Natalie Darwitz is an American ice hockey player. Natalie has been the Captain of the US Women's National Team since the start of the 2007-08 season...

     US Women's Olympic Hockey Team 2002, 2006, 2010
  • Brian Denman
    Brian Denman
    Brian John Denman is an American former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the Boston Red Sox during the 1982 season. Listed at 6' 4", 205 lb., Denman batted and threw right-handed...

    , MLB pitcher
  • Tony Dungy
    Tony Dungy
    Anthony Kevin "Tony" Dungy [DUN-jee] is a former professional American football player and coach in the National Football League. Dungy was head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 1996 to 2001, and head coach of the Indianapolis Colts from 2002 to 2008...

    , former NFL defensive back and NFL head coach
  • Carl Eller
    Carl Eller
    Carl Eller is a former professional American football player in the National Football League who played from 1964 through 1979. He was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and attended the University of Minnesota...

    , former NFL defensive end
  • Verne Gagne
    Verne Gagne
    Laverne Clarence "Verne" Gagne , is a retired American professional wrestler, football player, and professional wrestling trainer and promoter. He was the former owner/promoter of the American Wrestling Association , based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which was the predominant promotion throughout...

    , former Olympic and professional wrestler
  • Brent Gates
    Brent Gates
    Brent Robert Gates is a former Major League Baseball second and third baseman. He is an alumnus of the University of Minnesota....

    , former MLB player
  • Paul Giel
    Paul Giel
    Paul Robert Giel was a football and baseball player from Winona, Minnesota.Giel attended the University of Minnesota, where he was a star quarterback for the Gophers. His career totals were 2,188 yards rushing, 1,922 yards passing...

    , former MLB pitcher
  • Bud Grant
    Bud Grant
    Harry Peter "Bud" Grant, Jr is the former longtime American football head coach of the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League for eighteen seasons. Grant was the second and fourth head coach of the team...

    , former NFL head coach
  • Ben Hamilton
    Ben Hamilton
    Benjamin "Ben" Thomas Hamilton is a retired American football guard and center, who played for the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Denver Broncos in the fourth round of the 2001 NFL Draft...

    , NFL guard
  • Jack Hannahan
    Jack Hannahan
    John Joseph "Jack" Hannahan IV is an American professional baseball third baseman with the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball. Mainly a third baseman, Hannahan has also played other infield positions....

    , MLB infielder
  • Kris Humphries
    Kris Humphries
    Kris Nathan Humphries is an American professional basketball player who last played for the NBA's New Jersey Nets. He became an unrestricted free agent in 2011.-Early life:...

    , NBA forward
  • Bobby Jackson, NBA guard
  • Noel Jenke
    Noel Jenke
    Noel Jenke is a former linebacker in the National Football League and minor league baseball player in the Boston Red Sox organization.-Boyhood and collegiate career:Jenke was born Noel Charles Jenke on December 17, 1946 in Owatonna, Minnesota...

    , former NFL linebacker
  • Walt Jocketty
    Walt Jocketty
    Walt Jocketty is the General Manager of the Cincinnati Reds. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he attended the University of Minnesota where he earned a bachelor's degree in business administration. He was previously the General Manager of the St...

    , MLB General Manager
  • Phil Kessel
    Phil Kessel
    Philip Joseph Kessel, Jr. is an American professional ice hockey forward, and an alternate captain for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League . Kessel is a product of USA Hockey's National Development Team and became that program's all-time leader for goals and points in his final...

    , NHL Winger, Toronto Maple Leafs
  • Tom Kondla
    Tom Kondla
    -Biography:Kondla was born on November 30, 1946 in Brookfield, Illinois. He attended Riverside Brookfield High School in Riverside, Illinois.-Career:Kondla played for the Minnesota Pipers and the Houston Mavericks of the American Basketball Association...

    , former professional basketball player
  • Mike Lehan
    Michael Lehan
    Michael Lehan is an American football cornerback who is currently a free agent in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the fifth round of the 2003 NFL Draft...

    , NFL cornerback
  • Tom Lehman
    Tom Lehman
    Thomas Edward Lehman is an American professional golfer.Lehman was born in Austin, Minnesota, but Alexandria, Minnesota is credited as his official Minnesota hometown. He attended the University of Minnesota, graduating with a degree in Business/Accounting and turned professional in 1982. It took...

    , PGA golfer
  • John Anderson (baseball coach)
    John Anderson (baseball coach)
    John Anderson is the head coach of the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers baseball team. In 27 seasons, Anderson has led the Golden Gophers to a record of 1,000 wins, 639 losses and three ties...

    , College baseball coach
  • Jordan Leopold
    Jordan Leopold
    Jordan Leopold is an American professional ice hockey defenseman, currently playing with the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League.-Playing career:...

    , NHL defenseman
  • Rhys Lloyd
    Rhys Lloyd
    Rhys John Lloyd is an American football placekicker for the New York Giants of the National Football League. He was signed by the Baltimore Ravens as an undrafted free agent in 2005...

    , NFL kicker
  • Laurence Maroney
    Laurence Maroney
    Laurence Maroney is an American football running back who is currently a free agent in the National Football League. He was drafted by the New England Patriots 21st overall in the 2006 NFL Draft. He played college football at Minnesota.-Early years:Maroney attended Normandy Senior High School in St...

    , NFL running back
  • Bobby Marshall
    Bobby Marshall
    Robert Wells "Bobby" Marshall was an American sports player. He was best known for playing football, however he also competed in baseball, track, boxing and ice hockey....

    , first African-American NFL player
  • John Mayasich
    John Mayasich
    John Edward Mayasich is a former American ice hockey player. He was a member of the U.S. ice hockey team that won a silver medal at the 1956 Winter Olympics and a gold medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics....

    , former Olympic hockey player
  • Janel McCarville
    Janel McCarville
    Janel McCarville is an American professional basketball player. She currently is suspended from the WNBA's New York Liberty for failure to report to Training Camp on time.-High school years:...

    , WNBA center
  • Clarence McGeary
    Clarence McGeary
    Clarence McGeary is a former defensive tackle in the National Football League.-Biography:McGeary was born Clarence Valentine McGeary Jr. on August 8, 1926 in Saint Paul, Minnesota.-Career:...

    , former NFL defensive tackle
  • Kevin McHale
    Kevin McHale
    Kevin Edward McHale is a retired American professional basketball player and current head coach of the Houston Rockets. After his playing career, he worked for the Minnesota Timberwolves as the team's general manager and later its coach. He was fired as coach in June 2009...

    , former NBA center
  • Karl Mecklenburg
    Karl Mecklenburg
    Karl Mecklenburg is a former American football player for the Denver Broncos in the National Football League.-National Football League:...

    , former NFL linebacker
  • Yoav Meiri, former Olympic swimmer
  • Mark Merrill
    Mark Merrill
    -Career:Merrill was drafted in the second round of the 1978 NFL Draft by the New York Jets and would split that season between the Jets and the Chicago Bears. After a season away from the NFL, he would spend the 1981 NFL season with the Denver Broncos before splitting the following year between the...

    , NFL linebacker
  • Paul Molitor
    Paul Molitor
    Paul Leo Molitor , nicknamed "Molly" and "The Ignitor", is an American former Major League Baseball designated hitter and infielder. During his 21-year baseball career, he played for the Milwaukee Brewers , Toronto Blue Jays , and Minnesota Twins...

    , MLB Hall of Famer
  • Anthony Montgomery, NFL linebacker
  • Bronko Nagurski
    Bronko Nagurski
    Bronislau "Bronko" Nagurski was a Canadian-born American football player. He was also a successful professional wrestler, recognized as a multiple-time world heavyweight champion.-Youth and collegiate career:...

    , NFL Hall of Fame fullback
  • Denny Neagle
    Denny Neagle
    Dennis Edward Neagle Jr. is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He was last under contract with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays during the season, but he did not play due to injury...

    , former MLB pitcher
  • Leo Nomellini
    Leo Nomellini
    Leo Joseph Nomellini was a Hall of Fame American football player with the San Francisco 49ers. He was born at Lucca in Italy. He was a two-time All-American at the University of Minnesota and the 49ers' first-ever NFL draft choice in 1950.Nomellini played every 49ers game for 14 seasons, 174...

    , NFL Hall of Fame linebacker
  • Earl Ohlgren
    Earl Ohlgren
    Earl Ohlgren was a defensive end in the National Football League. He played with the Green Bay Packers during the 1942 NFL season. Previously he had played with the Milwaukee Chiefs of the American Football League....

    , former NFL defensive end
  • Glen Perkins
    Glen Perkins
    Glen Weston Perkins is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher for the Minnesota Twins. He made his major league debut with the Minnesota Twins in 2006. Perkins attended the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis-St. Paul and Stillwater Area High School in Oak Park Heights...

    , MLB pitcher
  • John Pohl
    John Pohl
    John Pohl is a retired American professional ice hockey center.-Playing career:Pohl played for the University of Minnesota where he helped lead the team to the 2002 NCAA National Championship. He also was a standout player at Red Wing High School in Red Wing, Minnesota, where he grew up; during...

    , retired NHLer
  • Robb Quinlan
    Robb Quinlan
    Robb William Quinlan is a former Major League Baseball utility player. He plays first base, third base, corner outfield, catcher and designated hitter....

    , MLB third baseman
  • Pete Regnier
    Pete Regnier
    Pete Regnier is a former player in the National Football League. He first played with the Minneapolis Marines during the 1921 NFL season. The following season he played with the Green Bay Packers.-References:...

    , former NFL halfback
  • Darrell Reid
    Darrell Reid
    Darrell Reid is an American football linebacker who is currenrly a free agent of the National Football League. He was signed by the Indianapolis Colts as an undrafted free agent in 2005...

    , NFL linebacker
  • John Roethlisberger
    John Roethlisberger
    John Roethlisberger is a retired American gymnast. He is a three-time Olympian representing the U.S. at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, and 2000 Olympics in Sydney. He is also a four-time U.S. Nationals all-around champion and four-time U.S...

    , former Olympic gymnast
  • Marie Roethlisberger
    Marie Roethlisberger
    Marie Roethlisberger is a former gymnast who was a 1984 United States Olympic gymnastics alternate. She happens to be almost completely deaf. She is the daughter of United States 1968 Olympic Gymnast Fred Roethlisberger and the sister of 1992 and 1996 Olympic gymnast John Roethlisberger...

    , former NCAA gymnastics champion
  • Dusty Rychart
    Dusty Rychart
    Dusty Mike Rychart is a naturalised Australian professional basketball player, originally from the United States...

    , professional basketball player
  • Flip Saunders
    Flip Saunders
    Phillip "Flip" Saunders is an American basketball head coach of the Washington Wizards. He previously coached the Detroit Pistons and the Minnesota Timberwolves.-High school and college player:Saunders was born in Cincinnati, Ohio....

    , NBA head coach
  • Jeff Schuh
    Jeff Schuh
    Jeffrey Schuh is a former linebacker in the National Football League.Schuh was drafted in the seventh round of the 1981 NFL Draft by the Cincinnati Bengals and spent five seasons with the team...

    , NFL linebacker
  • Mark Setterstrom
    Mark Setterstrom
    Mark David Setterstrom is an American football guard for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Rams in the seventh round of the 2006 NFL Draft...

    , NFL offensive guard
  • Bruce Smith, former NFL halfback and Heisman Trophy
    Heisman Trophy
    The Heisman Memorial Trophy Award , is awarded annually to the player deemed the most outstanding player in collegiate football. It was created in 1935 as the Downtown Athletic Club trophy and renamed in 1936 following the death of the Club's athletic director, John Heisman The Heisman Memorial...

     winner
  • Matt Spaeth
    Matt Spaeth
    Matt Spaeth is an American football tight end for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the third round of the 2007 NFL Draft...

    , NFL tight end
  • Robb Stauber
    Robb Stauber
    Robert Thomas Stauber is a retired American professional ice hockey goaltender who played 62 NHL regular season games between 1989 and 1995...

    , former NHL goalie
  • Terry Steinbach
    Terry Steinbach
    Terry Lee Steinbach is a former catcher in Major League Baseball who played for 14 years from to . He was drafted in 1980 out of New Ulm High School by the Cleveland Indians. He was the starting catcher for Oakland Athletics teams that won three straight American League pennants from 1988 to...

    , former MLB catcher
  • Steve Stewart
    Steve Stewart (American football)
    Steve Stewart is a former linebacker in the National Football League. He was drafted in the second round of the 1978 NFL Draft by the Atlanta Falcons and played that season with the team. The following season he played with the Green Bay Packers.-References:...

    , former NFL linebacker
  • Thomas Tapeh
    Thomas Tapeh
    Thomas Teah Tapeh is an American football fullback who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the fifth round in the 2004 NFL Draft...

    , former NFL fullback
  • Jay Thomas
    Jay Thomas
    Jay Thomas is an American actor, comedian and radio talk show host.-Personal life:Thomas was born in Kermit, Texas. He was raised in his Italian American mother's Roman Catholic faith, although his father was Protestant....

    , NFL tailback
  • Mychal Thompson, former NBA center
  • Tuffy Thompson
    Tuffy Thompson
    Tuffy Thompson is a former halfback in the National Football League. He played two seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates before becoming a member of the Green Bay Packers during his final season.-References:...

    , former NFL halfback
  • Festus Tierney
    Festus Tierney
    Festus Tierney is a former guard in the National Football League. Tierney split the 1922 NFL season between the Hammond Pros and the Toledo Maroons before playing the next two season with the Minneapolis Marines. He played his final season with the Milwaukee Badgers.-References:...

    , former NFL guard
  • Trent Tucker, former NBA guard
  • Frank Twedell
    Frank Twedell
    Frank Twedell is a former guard in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the seventh round of the 1939 NFL Draft and played with the team that season.-References:...

    , former NFL guard
  • Rick Upchurch
    Rick Upchurch
    Richard “Rick” Upchurch is a former professional American football player who played wide receiver for the Denver Broncos of the NFL. Before his NFL career, he played for Centerville Community College in Centerville, Iowa and the University of Minnesota and went to high school at Springfield...

    , former NFL wide receiver
  • Thomas Vanek
    Thomas Vanek
    Thomas Vanek is an Austrian professional ice hockey left winger, an alternate captain for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League...

    , NHL left winger
  • Ben Utecht
    Ben Utecht
    Benjamin Jeffrey Utecht is a former American football tight end who played for the Indianapolis Colts and the Cincinnati Bengals. He was signed by the Indianapolis Colts as an undrafted free agent in 2004. He played college football at Minnesota...

    , NFL tight end
  • Krissy Wendell
    Krissy Wendell
    Krissy Wendell is an American women's ice hockey player. During the 2004-05 season, Krissy Wendell set an NCAA record for most shorthanded goals in one season with 7. After graduating from Minnesota, she had the career record for most shorthanded goals in a career with 16...

    , US Women's Olympic Hockey Team 2002, 2006
  • Lindsay Whalen
    Lindsay Whalen
    Lindsay Marie Whalen is an American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Lynx in the WNBA. She began her pro career as a point guard for the Connecticut Sun...

    , WNBA guard
  • Blake Wheeler
    Blake Wheeler
    Blake James Wheeler is an American professional ice hockey right winger currently playing for the Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League . He was drafted by the Phoenix Coyotes in the first round, fifth overall, in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft.-Early career:Wheeler attended Breck School his...

    , NHL right winger
  • Charles "Bud" Wilkinson
    Bud Wilkinson
    Charles Burnham "Bud" Wilkinson was an American football player, coach, broadcaster, and politician. He served as the head football coach at the University of Oklahoma from 1947 to 1963, compiling a record of 145–29–4. His Oklahoma Sooners won three national championships and 14...

    , College Football Hall of Fame head coach
  • Dave Winfield
    Dave Winfield
    David Mark Winfield is an American former Major League Baseball outfielder. He is currently Executive Vice President/Senior Advisor of the San Diego Padres and an analyst for the ESPN program Baseball Tonight...

    , MLB Hall of Famer
  • Lindsey Berg
    Lindsey Berg
    Lindsey Napela Berg is a volleyball player from the United States.Berg was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and was three-time All-Big Ten selection at the University of Minnesota, where she graduated in December 2001....

    , US Women's Volleyball Team

Nobel Laureates

  • Philip S. Hench, Medicine, Mayo Foundation, 1923-1965; 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...

  • Edward C. Kendall, Biochemistry, Mayo Foundation, 1914-1951; 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...



  • John Bardeen
    John Bardeen
    John Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer, the only person to have won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a...

    , Physics, 1938-1941; Nobel Prize in Physics
    Nobel Prize in Physics
    The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and...

     in 1956 and 1972
  • John H. van Vleck, Physics, 1923-28; 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics
    Nobel Prize in Physics
    The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and...



  • William Lipscomb
    William Lipscomb
    William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr. was a Nobel Prize-winning American inorganic and organic chemist working in nuclear magnetic resonance, theoretical chemistry, boron chemistry, and biochemistry.-Overview:...

     Chemistry, 1946-1959 - 1976 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,...

  • Paul D. Boyer
    Paul D. Boyer
    - External links :* , from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, United States Department of Energy* * *...

    , Biochemistry, 1945-1963 - 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,...



  • Saul Bellow
    Saul Bellow
    Saul Bellow was a Canadian-born Jewish American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts...

    , English, 1946; 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature
    Nobel Prize in Literature
    Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...



  • Milton Friedman
    Milton Friedman
    Milton Friedman was an American economist, statistician, academic, and author who taught at the University of Chicago for more than three decades...

    , Economics, 1945-1946; 1976 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
  • George J. Stigler, Economics, 1938-46; 1982 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
  • Edward C. Prescott
    Edward C. Prescott
    Edward Christian Prescott is an American economist. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2004, sharing the award with Finn E. Kydland, "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles"...

    , Economics, 1980-2003; 2004 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
  • Leonid Hurwicz
    Leonid Hurwicz
    Leonid "Leo" Hurwicz was a Russian-born American economist and mathematician. His nationality of origin was Polish. He was Jewish. He originated incentive compatibility and mechanism design, which show how desired outcomes are achieved in economics, social science and political science...

    , Economics, 1951–2008; 2007 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
  • Christopher A. Sims
    Christopher A. Sims
    Christopher Albert "Chris" Sims is an econometrician and macroeconomist. He is currently the Harold B. Helms Professor of Economics and Banking at Princeton University. Together with Thomas Sargent, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2011. The award cited their "empirical...

    , Economics, 1970–1990; 2011 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
  • Thomas J. Sargent
    Thomas J. Sargent
    Thomas John "Tom" Sargent is an American Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winning economist, specializing in the fields of macroeconomics, monetary economics and time series econometrics...

    , Economics, 1971–1987; 2011 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Pulitzer Prize winners

  • Robert Penn Warren
    Robert Penn Warren
    Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the influential literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935...

     - Pulitzer Prize
    Pulitzer Prize
    The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

     winner in 1947 for the novel All the King's Men
    All the King's Men
    All the King's Men is a novel by Robert Penn Warren first published in 1946. Its title is drawn from the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. In 1947 Warren won the Pulitzer Prize for All the King's Men....

    ; won the Pulitzer Prizes in poetry in 1958 for Promises: Poems 1954-1956, and in 1979 for Now and Then
  • John Berryman
    John Berryman
    John Allyn Berryman was an American poet and scholar, born in McAlester, Oklahoma. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and was considered a key figure in the Confessional school of poetry...

     - Pulitzer Prize
    Pulitzer Prize
    The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

     winner in 1965 for Poetry
  • Dominick Argento
    Dominick Argento
    Dominick Argento is an American composer, best known as a leading composer of lyric opera and choral music...

     - Pulitzer Prize
    Pulitzer Prize
    The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

     winner in 1975 for Music

University of Minnesota Presidents

  • William Watts Folwell
    William Watts Folwell
    William Watts Folwell was the first President of the University of Minnesota.William Watts Folwell attended Hobart College in Geneva, New York, where he received his undergraduate degree in 1857 and his Masters of Arts degree in 1860...

     (1869–1884)
  • Cyrus Northrop
    Cyrus Northrop
    Cyrus Northrop was an American university president.He was born in Ridgefield, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale University in 1857 and at the law school there in 1859. Two years later he was appointed clerk of the Connecticut House of Representatives and in 1862 clerk of the Senate...

     (1884–1911)
  • George Edgar Vincent
    George Edgar Vincent
    George Edgar Vincent was an American sociologist and university president, born at Rockford, Illinois, the son of Bishop John H. Vincent. After graduating at Yale in 1885 he engaged in journalistic and literary work. In 1888 he became associated with the Chautauqua system as vice principal, and...

     (1911–1917)
  • Marion Burton (1917–1920)
  • Lotus Coffman
    Lotus Coffman
    Lotus Delta Coffman was the fifth president of the University of Minnesota, serving from 1920 until his death in office on September 22, 1938....

     (1920–1938)
  • Guy Stanton Ford
    Guy Stanton Ford
    Guy Stanton Ford was the sixth president of the University of Minnesota, serving from 1938 to 1941, professor of history and dean of the Graduate School since 1913. In November 1941 he became executive secretary of the American Historical Association in Washington, D.C...

     (1938–1941)
  • Walter Coffey
    Walter Coffey
    Walter Coffey was the seventh president of the University of Minnesota, serving from 1941 to 1945.Coffey was raised in Indiana. He received a degree from Franklin College. He latter went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign first as a sheep herder and later as a student and...

     (1941–1945)
  • James Morrill
    James Morrill
    James Lewis Morrill was the eighth president of the University of Minnesota, serving from 1945 to 1960.-References:*...

     (1945–1960)
  • O. Meredith Wilson
    O. Meredith Wilson
    Owen Meredith Wilson was a historian and academic administrator. He served as president of the University of Oregon from 1954 to 1960 and as president of the University of Minnesota from 1960 to 1967....

     (1960–1967)
  • Malcolm Moos
    Malcolm Moos
    Malcolm Charles Moos was an American political scientist.He received his bachelors and masters degrees in political science from the University of Minnesota. He went on to receive his doctorate, also in political science, from the University of California, Los Angeles. After receiving his Ph.D...

     (1967–1974)
  • C. Peter Magrath
    C. Peter Magrath
    Claude Peter Magrath is a higher education administrator who has served as provost or president at multiple American universities. He was born on April 23, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York and received political science degrees as an undergraduate at the University of New Hampshire and as a Ph.D. at...

     (1974–1984)
  • Kenneth H. Keller
    Kenneth H. Keller
    Kenneth Harrison Keller serves as Director of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies' Bologna Center in Bologna, Italy....

     (1984–1988)
  • Nils Hasselmo
    Nils Hasselmo
    Nils Hasselmo was the thirteenth president of the University of Minnesota, serving from 1988 to 1997. He went on to become the president of the Association of American Universities from 1998 to 2006.-Background:...

     (1988–1997)
  • Mark G. Yudof (1997–2002)
  • Robert H. Bruininks (2002–2011)
  • Eric W. Kaler
    Eric W. Kaler
    Eric W. Kaler is the 16th president of the University of Minnesota, succeeding Robert Bruininks on July 1, 2011. President Kaler was inaugurated on September 22, 2011. [1] Before coming to Minnesota, Kaler served since 2007 as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs and vice...

     (2011-present)

Professors

  • Nasser al-Aulaqi, Yemeni Agriculture Minister, president of Sanaa University, and father of Anwar al-Awlaki
    Anwar al-Awlaki
    Anwar al-Awlaki was an American and Yemeni imam who was an engineer and educator by training. According to U.S. government officials, he was a senior talent recruiter and motivator who was involved with planning operations for the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda...

    .
  • Theodore C. Blegen
    Theodore C. Blegen
    Theodore Christian Blegen was an American historian and author. Theodore Blegen was the author of numerous historic reference books, papers and articles written over a five decade period...

     - Dean of the Graduate School (1940–1960).
  • Hyman "Hy" Berman – History professor (retired), local political commentator
  • Daphne Berdahl
    Daphne Berdahl
    Daphne Berdahl was an anthropologist known for her work on Eastern Germany and Post-socialist Europe...

    –Anthropology professor (deceased)
  • John Berryman
    John Berryman
    John Allyn Berryman was an American poet and scholar, born in McAlester, Oklahoma. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and was considered a key figure in the Confessional school of poetry...

     – Literature Professor, American poet
  • John Joseph Bittner
    John Joseph Bittner
    John Joseph Bittner was a geneticist and cancer biologist, who made many contributions on the genetics of breast cancer research, which were of value, not only in cancer research, but also in a variety of other biological investigations.- Biography :Bittner was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, on...

    - Professor of Cancer Research and Director of the Division of Cancer Biology (1943–1961)
  • Norman Borlaug
    Norman Borlaug
    Norman Ernest Borlaug was an American agronomist, humanitarian, and Nobel laureate who has been called "the father of the Green Revolution". Borlaug was one of only six people to have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal...

     – creator of the Green Revolution
    Green Revolution
    Green Revolution refers to a series of research, development, and technology transfer initiatives, occurring between the 1940s and the late 1970s, that increased agriculture production around the world, beginning most markedly in the late 1960s....

  • Michael Dennis Browne – Professor of creative writing, American poet
  • Marilyn Carroll – Neuroscience professor
  • Eli Coleman
    Eli Coleman
    Eli Coleman, Ph.D., L.P. is the director of the Program in Human Sexuality at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is a professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health...

     – Director of the Program in Human Sexuality, Editor of the Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality
  • Herbert Feigl
    Herbert Feigl
    Herbert Feigl was an Austrian philosopher and a member of the Vienna Circle.-Biography:The son of a weaver, Feigl was born in Reichenberg , Bohemia, and matriculated at the University of Vienna in 1922...

     - member of the Vienna Circle, the most influential group of philosophers of the twentieth century, founder of the world's first center to study philosophy of science, the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
  • Barbara Frey - Former member of United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
  • Seymour Geisser
    Seymour Geisser
    Seymour Geisser was a statistician noted for emphasizing the role of prediction in statistical inference – see predictive inference. In his book , he held that conventional statistical inference about unobservable population parameters amounts to inference about things that do not exist,...

     – Founder of the School of Statistics, DNA
    DNA
    Deoxyribonucleic acid is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms . The DNA segments that carry this genetic information are called genes, but other DNA sequences have structural purposes, or are involved in...

     evidence expert
  • Ray Gonzalez - Professor of creative writing. Award-winning poet, essayist, and editor.
  • Florence Goodenough
    Florence Goodenough
    Florence Laura Goodenough was an American psychologist and professor at the University of Minnesota who is noted for developing the Minnesota Preschool Scale and the Goodenough Draw-A-Man test . She wrote Handbook of Child Psychology in 1933, and she became president of the National Counsel of...

     – Psychology
  • Walter Heller
    Walter Heller
    Walter Wolfgang Heller was a leading American economist of the 1960s, and an influential advisor to President John F. Kennedy as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, 1961-64....

     - Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors under JFK.
  • Geoffrey Hellman
    Geoffrey Hellman
    Geoffrey Hellman is an American professor and philosopher. He is Chairman of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota.-Education:He obtained his B.A. and Ph.D...

     - professor of Philosophy.
  • Lawrence R. Jacobs – Political science professor, local political commentator
  • James Kakalios
    James Kakalios
    James Kakalios is a physics professor at the University of Minnesota. Known within the scientific community for his work with amorphous semiconductors, granular materials, and 1/f noise, he is known to the general public as the author of the book The Physics of Superheroes, which considers comic...

     - professor of physics, noted for his work with comic-book fans.
  • Ancel Keys
    Ancel Keys
    Ancel Benjamin Keys was an American scientist who studied the influence of diet on health. In particular, he hypothesized that different kinds of dietary fat had different effects on health....

     - nutritionist, inventor of K-ration
    K-ration
    The K-ration was an individual daily combat food ration which was introduced by the United States Army during World War II. It was originally intended as an individually packaged daily ration for issue to airborne troops, tank corps, motorcycle couriers, and other mobile forces for short durations...

    s
  • Izaak Kolthoff
    Izaak Kolthoff
    Izaak Maurits Kolthoff was a highly influential chemist, widely considered the Father of Analytical Chemistry. He was given this title based on his development of analytical chemistry as a modern science. His research dealt with analytical and physical chemistry...

     - "Father of analytical chemistry
    Analytical chemistry
    Analytical chemistry is the study of the separation, identification, and quantification of the chemical components of natural and artificial materials. Qualitative analysis gives an indication of the identity of the chemical species in the sample and quantitative analysis determines the amount of...

    "
  • Frederick Klaeber
    Frederick Klaeber
    Frederick J. Klaeber was a German philologist who was Professor of Old and Middle English at the University of Minnesota...

     - noted Beowulf
    Beowulf
    Beowulf , but modern scholars agree in naming it after the hero whose life is its subject." of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature.It survives in a single...

     scholar
  • Anatoly Liberman
    Anatoly Liberman
    Anatoly Liberman is a professor in the Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches courses in linguistics, etymology, and folklore. Liberman is a native of St. Petersburg, Russia. His main graduate works, written under the auspices of the...

     - noted Germanic scholar and author of An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology
  • David Lykken - professor of psychology and psychiatry, founder of Minnesota Twin Family Study
  • George Morrison
    George Morrison (artist)
    George Morrison was an American landscape painter and sculptor. His Indian name was Wah Wah Teh Go Nay Ga Bo .-Early life and education:...

     – Art professor
  • Richard T. Murphy, Jr. - landscape architecture professor
  • Katherine Nash – Sculpture professor
  • Michael Osterholm
    Michael Osterholm
    Michael T. Osterholm, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a prominent public health scientist and a nationally recognized biosecurity expert in the United States. Osterholm is the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, a professor in the School of Public...

     – School of Public Health professor
  • S V Patankar
    Suhas Patankar
    Suhas V. Patankar is an Indian-American mechanical engineer. He is a pioneer in the field of computational fluid dynamics and Finite volume method. He is currently an Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota. He is also president of Innovative Research, Inc...

      – Mechanical engineering - mechanical engineering - computational thermofluids
  • Ralph Rapson
    Ralph Rapson
    Ralph Rapson was the head of architecture at the University of Minnesota for many years...

    , world famous architect and university bureaucrat
  • Juan Rosai
    Juan Rosai
    Juan Rosai, M.D. is an Italian-born American physician who has contributed to clinical research in the subspecialty of surgical pathology. He is the principal author and editor of a major textbook in that field, and he has characterized novel medical conditions such as Rosai-Dorfman disease and...

    , Professor of Anatomical pathology
    Anatomical pathology
    Anatomical pathology or Anatomic pathology is a medical specialty that is concerned with the diagnosis of disease based on the gross, microscopic, chemical, immunologic and molecular examination of organs, tissues, and whole bodies...

     and discoverer of medical conditions such as the Rosai-Dorfman disease
    Rosai-Dorfman disease
    Rosai–Dorfman disease, also known as sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy, is a rare disorder of unknown etiology that is characterized by the overproduction of histiocytes, which accumulate in lymph nodes throughout the body. Lymphadenopathy of the neck is the most common place of...

     and desmoplastic small round cell tumor
    Desmoplastic small round cell tumor
    Desmoplastic small-round-cell tumor is classified as a soft tissue sarcoma. It is an aggressive and rare tumor that primarily occurs as masses in the abdomen. Other areas affected may include the lymph nodes, the lining of the abdomen, diaphragm, spleen, liver, chest wall, skull, spinal cord, large...

    . Appointed Professor and Director of Anatomic Pathology at the University of Minnesota Medical School
    University of Minnesota Medical School
    The University of Minnesota Medical School is the medical school of the University of Minnesota. It is a combination of two campuses situated in Minneapolis and Duluth, Minnesota....

     between 1974 and 1985.
  • Eugene Rousseau
    Eugene Rousseau (saxophonist)
    Eugene Rousseau is an American classical saxophonist. He plays mainly the alto and soprano saxophones....

     – Saxophone instructor
  • Sachin Sapatnekar – Electrical engineering
  • T W Simon  – Mechanical engineering - thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and heat transfer
  • Ephraim Sparrow
    Ephraim M. Sparrow
    Ephraim M. Sparrow is a Professor of Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He is known for his contributions to all aspects of heat transfer and fluid mechanics. Sparrow has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited Author in Engineering by the ISI Web of Knowledge, Thomson Scientific...

      – Mechanical engineering - thermodynamics and heat transfer
  • Allen Tate
    Allen Tate
    John Orley Allen Tate was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1943 to 1944.-Life:...

     – Literature professor, American poet
  • Andrew H. Van de Ven
    Andrew H. Van de Ven
    - Biography :Andrew H. Van de Ven is Vernon H. Heath Professor of Organizational Innovation and Change in the Carlson School of Management of the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1972, and taught at Kent State University and the Wharton...

     Vernon H. Heath Chair of Organizational Innovation and Change, Professor Carlson School of Management
  • David Weissbrodt - Former head of United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and U.N. Special Rapporteur on the rights of non-citizens
  • James Wright
    James Wright
    James Wright or Jim Wright may refer to:*James Homer Wright , American pathologist*James Wright , President of Dartmouth College, historian*James Wright , American creator of Silly Putty...

     – Literature professor, American poet
  • Blong Xiong
    Blong Xiong
    Blong Xiong is an associate professor in the Department of Family Social Science in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA. He specializes in parent/adolescent relationships in immigrant families, adolescent adjustment, and parent education...

     - first Hmong in the U.S. to receive tenure at a major university
  • Zhi-Li Zhang
    Zhi-Li Zhang
    Zhi-Li Zhang is a computer scientist and a professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. He leads the at the university. Zhi-Li obtained his PhD in computer science from the University of Massachusetts in 1997 under Don Towsley...

     – Computer Science Professor
  • Jack Zipes
    Jack Zipes
    Jack David Zipes is an American retired Professor of German at the University of Minnesota, who has published and lectured on the subject of fairy tales, their evolution, and their social and political role in civilizing processes...

     – German professor, translator and scholar of fairy tales

Present Regents Professors

Regents Professorship Present Recipients: U Awards & Honors: U of M.
  • Frank Bates - Chemical Engineering
    Chemical engineering
    Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with physical science , and life sciences with mathematics and economics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms...

     & Materials Science
    Materials science
    Materials science is an interdisciplinary field applying the properties of matter to various areas of science and engineering. This scientific field investigates the relationship between the structure of materials at atomic or molecular scales and their macroscopic properties. It incorporates...

  • Ellen S. Berscheid
    Ellen S. Berscheid
    Ellen S. Berscheid is an American social psychologist. She is Regents Professor at University of Minnesota, where she received her PhD in 1965. Berscheid specializes in the research of interpersonal relationships...

     - Psychology
    Psychology
    Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...

  • John Chipman - Economics
    Economics
    Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...

  • Thomas Clayton - English
    English language
    English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

  • H. Ted Davis - Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
  • Sara Evans - History
    History
    History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...

  • Apostolos Georgopoulos - Neuroscience
    Neuroscience
    Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system. Traditionally, neuroscience has been seen as a branch of biology. However, it is currently an interdisciplinary science that collaborates with other fields such as chemistry, computer science, engineering, linguistics, mathematics,...

  • Richard Goldstein
    Richard Goldstein
    Richard Goldstein may refer to:*Richard Goldstein , former editor and writer for The New York Times who has written books on sporting and historical topics...

     - Mechanical Engineering
    Mechanical engineering
    Mechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...

  • Megan Gunnar - Child Psychology, Institute for Child Development
  • Ashley Haase - Microbiology
    Microbiology
    Microbiology is the study of microorganisms, which are defined as any microscopic organism that comprises either a single cell , cell clusters or no cell at all . This includes eukaryotes, such as fungi and protists, and prokaryotes...

  • Patricia Hampl
    Patricia Hampl
    Patricia Hampl is an American memoirist, writer, lecturer, and educator. She is a recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis and is one of the founding members of the Loft Literary Center.-Life:Hampl was...

     - English
  • Robert Hebbel - Medicine
    Medicine
    Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....

  • Allen Issacman - History
  • John Najarian
    John Najarian
    John S. Najarian is a noted transplant surgeon and is Clinical Professor of Transplant Surgery at the University of Minnesota. Najarian is the father of the former professional NFL football player Pete Najarian and options trader Jon Najarain.- External links :*...

     - Surgery
    Surgery
    Surgery is an ancient medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, or to help improve bodily function or appearance.An act of performing surgery may be called a surgical...

  • Alfred Michael - Pediatrics
    Pediatrics
    Pediatrics or paediatrics is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents. A medical practitioner who specializes in this area is known as a pediatrician or paediatrician...

  • Ronald Phillips - Agronomy
    Agronomy
    Agronomy is the science and technology of producing and using plants for food, fuel, feed, fiber, and reclamation. Agronomy encompasses work in the areas of plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, and soil science. Agronomy is the application of a combination of sciences like biology,...

     and Plant Genetics
    Plant genetics
    Plant genetics is a very broad term. There are many facets of genetics in general, and of course there are many facets to plants.The definition of genetics is the branch of biology that deals with heredity, especially the mechanisms of hereditary transmission and the variation of inherited...

  • Lanny D Schmidt - Chemical Engineering
    Chemical engineering
    Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with physical science , and life sciences with mathematics and economics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms...

     and Materials Science
    Materials science
    Materials science is an interdisciplinary field applying the properties of matter to various areas of science and engineering. This scientific field investigates the relationship between the structure of materials at atomic or molecular scales and their macroscopic properties. It incorporates...

  • Kathryn Sikkink - Political Science
    Political science
    Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...

  • John Sullivan - Political Science
  • Richard A. Swanson
    Richard A. Swanson
    Richard A. Swanson is an American organizational theorist and Distinguished Research Professor of Human Resource Development and the Sam Lindsey Chair at the University of Texas at Tyler, known for his synthesis work on the financial research related to human resource development.- Biography...

     - Professor of Human Resource Resource Development
  • David Tilman - Ecology
    Ecology
    Ecology is the scientific study of the relations that living organisms have with respect to each other and their natural environment. Variables of interest to ecologists include the composition, distribution, amount , number, and changing states of organisms within and among ecosystems...

    , Evolution
    Evolution
    Evolution is any change across successive generations in the heritable characteristics of biological populations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins.Life on Earth...

    , and Behavior
    Behavior
    Behavior or behaviour refers to the actions and mannerisms made by organisms, systems, or artificial entities in conjunction with its environment, which includes the other systems or organisms around as well as the physical environment...

  • Donald Truhlar - Chemistry
    Chemistry
    Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....

  • David Weissbrodt - Law
    Law
    Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...

  • James White - Laboratory
    Laboratory
    A laboratory is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific research, experiments, and measurement may be performed. The title of laboratory is also used for certain other facilities where the processes or equipment used are similar to those in scientific laboratories...

     Medicine and Pathology
    Pathology
    Pathology is the precise study and diagnosis of disease. The word pathology is from Ancient Greek , pathos, "feeling, suffering"; and , -logia, "the study of". Pathologization, to pathologize, refers to the process of defining a condition or behavior as pathological, e.g. pathological gambling....

  • Albert Yonas - Perceptual Development
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