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Notable alumni
诺贝尔奖得主 Nobel Laureates
Herbert Spencer Gasser, B.S. 1910, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1944
John Bardeen, B.S. 1928 and M.S. 1929, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 and 1972
Edward Lawrie Tatum, B.A. 1931, M.S. 1932, Ph.D. 1935, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958
Stanford Moore, Ph. D 1938, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972
John H. van Vleck, A.B. 1920, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977
Theodore Schultz, M.S. 1928, Ph.D. 1930, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1979
Erwin Neher, M.S. 1967, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1991
Paul Boyer, M.S. 1941, Ph.D. 1943, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997
Günter Blobel, Ph.D. 1967, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1999
Jack Kilby, M.S. 1950, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the Integrated Circuit in 2000
Alan G. MacDiarmid, M.S. 1952, Ph.D. 1953, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2000
学者Academics
Frederick Jackson TurnerStephen Ambrose, author and historian
David T. Beito, author and historian
Richard Bellman, noted mathematician and inventor of dynamic programming
May Louise Cowles, noted Home Economics instructor and lecturer
William Cronon (1976), noted environmental historian
Merle Curti, historian (specialty: United States intellectual history)
J. Martin Klotsche, first chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Suzanne E. Moranian, historian
Richard Nelson, cultural anthropologist
Stephen Nissenbaum (PhD 1968), noted cultural and intellectual historian
Alton Ochsner, UW medical professor recruited to Tulane University. A cancer researcher, he cofounded The Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans.
Gerald North, climatologist
Andrew C. Porter, former President, AERA, Professor, Vanderbilt University
Walter Ristow, noted librarian
Gil-Sung Park, prominent sociologist in Korea
Frederick Jackson Turner (1884, MA 1888), noted historian and professor
T. Harry Williams, historian
Erik Olin Wright, noted sociologist
James Wright, the 16th President of Dartmouth College
运动员 Athletics
Alan Ameche, 1954 Heisman Trophy winner, National Football League (NFL) player, Baltimore Colts
Ken Behring, owner, Seattle Seahawks
Michael Bennett, NFL player, Kansas City Chiefs
Brooks Bollinger, NFL player, Minnesota Vikings
Rene Bourque, National Hockey League (NHL) player, Chicago Blackhawks
Maureen Brunt, Curler, Olympian
Adam Burish, NHL player, Chicago Blackhawks
Brian Calhoun, NFL player, Detroit Lions
Chris Chambers, NFL player, San Diego Chargers
Chris Chelios, NHL player, Detroit Red Wings, 3-time Norris Trophy Winner
Ken Criter, retired NFL player, Denver Broncos
Ron Dayne, 1999 Heisman Trophy winner, NFL player, Houston Texans *Mark Doran, 1983 First Round Draft Choice California Angels MLB
Jason Doering, NFL player, Drafted by Indianapolis Colts, Played for Washington Redskins, Free Agent
Lee Evans, NFL player, Buffalo Bills
Suzy Favor-Hamilton, track and field, olympian
Michael Finley, National Basketball Association (NBA) player, San Antonio Spurs
Jamar Fletcher, NFL player, Detroit Lions
Terrell Fletcher, retired NFL player, San Diego Chargers
Ed Garvey, former Executive Director, National Football League Players Association
Tom Gilbert, NHL player, Edmonton Oilers
Tony Granato, retired NHL player, Los Angeles Kings
Devin Harris, NBA player, New Jersey Nets
Dany Heatley, NHL player, Ottawa Senators
Phil Hellmuth, Texas holdem champion 11 bracelets
Aaron Hohlbein, MLS player, Kansas City Wizards
Beau Hoopman, Olympic Rowing Gold Medalist
Bert Husting, football and baseball teams, later a major leaguer (1900-02)
Erasmus James, NFL player, Minnesota Vikings
Al Johnson, NFL player, Dallas Cowboys
Mark Johnson, National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) women's ice hockey coach, NHL player, member of the 1980 Miracle on Ice gold medal Olympic team that beat the USSR.
Curtis Joseph, NHL player, Phoenix Coyotes
Addie Joss, former Major League Baseball (MLB) player, member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame
Matt Katula, NFL player, Baltimore Ravens
Harvey Kuenn, retired MLB player and manager
Jim Leonhard, NFL player, Buffalo Bills
D. Wayne Lukas, U.S. Racing Hall of Fame and American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame trainer
Buddy Melges, America’s Cup Skipper
James Menon, nine-time NCAA All-American Track and Field Cross Country
Ahmad Merritt, NFL player, free agent
Brian Mullen, former NHL player and current New York Rangers broadcaster
Jim O'Toole, retired MLB player
Lance Painter, retired MLB player
Joe Panos, retired NFL player, Philadelphia Eagles and Buffalo Bills
Kirk Penney, former player for ALBA Berlin in basketball's Euroleague, former NBA player for LA Clippers and Minnesota Timberwolves, currently playing for the New Zealand Breakers
Joe Pavelski, NHL player, San Jose Sharks
Carly Piper, swimmer, gold medalist and world record holder in the 2004 Summer Olympic Games
Joe Piskula, NHL player, Los Angeles Kings
George Poage, athlete, first African American Olympic medal winner
Paul Quantrill, retired MLB player
Steve Reinprecht, NHL player
Barry Richter, NHL player
Mike Richter, NHL player, New York Rangers
Pat Richter, retired NFL player, Washington Redskins
Bud Selig, Baseball Commissioner
Tony Simmons, Canadian Football League (CFL) player (B.C. Lions) and former NFL player
Jim Sorgi, NFL player, Indianapolis Colts
Scott Starks, NFL player, Jacksonville Jaguars
Bob Suter, retired NHL player, 1980 Olympics Gold Medalist who played in the Miracle on Ice game.
Gary Suter, retired NHL] player
Ryan Suter, NHL player
Mark Tauscher, NFL player, Green Bay Packers
Joe Thomas, NFL player, Cleveland Browns
Alando Tucker, NBA player Phoenix Suns
Troy Vincent, NFL player, Buffalo Bills
Beom-Seok Shim, former PGA golfer
Kyle Turris, Drafted into NHL 3rd overall in 2007 NHL Draft Phoenix Coyotes
Brandon Williams, NFL player, San Francisco 49ers
Eric I FArness UW-Wrestler, 1986
艺术与娱乐Arts and entertainment
Frank Lloyd WrightRick Berman, television/movie producer
Oscar Brown, musician (no degree obtained)
Gina Cerminara, author
Lynne Cheney, Second Lady, writer
Dale Chihuly, glass artist
Joan Cusack, actress
August Derleth, writer, editor, anthologist of H. P. Lovecraft, and founder of Arkham House publishing.
André DeShields, Emmy Award-winning actor/singer/dancer/choreographer
Daron Hagen (attended), composer, conductor, pianist
Elizabeth Hoeller, Internet Phenomena
Jane Kaczmarek, actress (Malcolm in the Middle)
Michael Mann, movie director/producer
Fredric March, Actor
Steve Marmel, Comedian/Writer Fairly Odd Parents
Steve Miller, musician (left school six credit-hours short of a degree)
Walter Mirisch, Academy Award-winning film producer
Kevin Murphy writer, actor, and puppeteer for Mystery Science Theater 3000
Ken Navarro, jazz guitarist
Joyce Carol Oates, novelist
Meinhardt Raabe, Munchkin in the Wizard of Oz
Boz Scaggs (Wm. Royce Scaggs), musician
Dorothy Schwartz, violinist with the Cheyenne, Wyoming, Symphony Orchestra
Ben Sidran, jazz pianist
Daniel J. Travanti, Emmy Award-winning actor
Charlie Trotter, chef/PBS host
Butch Vig, musician, Garbage
Eudora Welty, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist
Matt White, singer-songwriter
Tom Wopat, actor/musician
Frank Lloyd Wright (attended), architect
Frank Wu, science-fiction artist
David Zucker, movie director/producer
Jerry Zucker, movie director/producer
宇航Aviators and astronauts
Charles Lindbergh
Laurel ClarkLaurel Clark, astronaut
Charles Lindbergh, aviator
Jim Lovell, astronaut, Apollo 13 mission
Brewster Shaw, astronaut, Space Shuttle Columbia; former director, Space Shuttle Operations, NASA
Patrick Slane, astronomer, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
商业Business
Carol Bartz, former Chairman of the Board, President, and CEO of Autodesk, Inc.
David J. Lesar Chairman, President and CEO of Halliburton Energy Services
John P. Morgridge, Chairman of the Board, former President and CEO of Cisco Systems, philanthropist
William Beverly Murphy, former President and CEO Campbell Soup Company
Daniel J. Piette, Director of Petroleum Geo-Services, President and CEO of OpenSpirit Corporation
Tom Pyle, chairman and president, Pyle Group, former chairman and CEO, Rayovac Group
Lee R. Raymond, former chairman and CEO, Exxon Mobil
Lee Youn Ho, Minister of Knowledge Economy, South Korea
工程 Engineering
George H. Brown, inventor, television pioneer, and recipient Edison Medal
William S. Harley, founder of Harley-Davidson
Willi Kalender, inventor of spiral scan computed tomography and full professor of medical physics at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Reuben Trane, President of Trane
Helmer Swenholt, commanding officer of the 332nd Engineer General Service Regiment
Richard Southorn, geological engineer for Shaw Environmental
Edward Schildhauer, a chief engineer on the Panama Canal project
Samuel D. Wonders, consulting engineer, ink manufacturer and president of Carter's Ink Company
新闻从业，广播界 News, journalism, and broadcasting
Ira Basen, producer, CBC Radio
Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author.
Rita Braver, national reporter, CBS News
Jane Brody, columnist, New York Times
Scott Cohn, senior correspondent, CNBC
Michael Feldman, Host of Public Radio’s Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?
Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, CNN
Paul Ingrassia, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Ben Karlin, creator and former executive producer, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report
Andy Katz, college basketball writer, ESPN
Patricia McConnell, co-host of Public Radio's Calling All Pets
Arthur C. Nielsen Sr., founder of AC Nielsen (TV ratings and market research)
Phil Rosenthal, columnist, Chicago Tribune
Leonard Shapiro, Sports writer, Washington Post
Greta Van Susteren, broadcaster and news analyst, Fox News Channel
法政界Law and politics
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of Liberia (2006-Present)
Iajuddin Ahmed, President of Bangladesh
Shirley Abrahamson, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
Tammy Baldwin, a member of the United States House of Representatives representing Wisconsin's Second Congressional District.
Tom Barrett, United States House of Representatives representing Wisconsin's Fifth Congressional District from 1993 to 2003, Mayor of Milwaukee,Wisconsin from 2004 to present
Rebecca Birget Certa, a member of the United States House of Representatives representing Alabama's Eighth Congressional District
Phillip M. Chavez, City of Milwaukee Municipal Judge (graduated from UW Law and was a member of the 1994 Rose Bowl Team.)
Dick Cheney, Vice President of the United States (attended as doctoral candidate; did not graduate.)
Dr Jon Cruddas, British Member of Parliament. He was a visiting Fellow (1987-1988)
Glenn Robert Davis, a member of the United States House of Representatives representing Wisconsin's Ninth Congressional District from April 22, 1947 to January 3, 1957 and again from January 3, 1965 to December 31, 1974. He attended the law school.
Jim Doyle, Governor of Wisconsin
Lawrence Eagleburger, former U.S. Secretary of State
Russ Feingold, U.S. Senator
Philip Gunawardena, former Sri Lankan Revolutionary, Cabinet Minister, Indian Freedom Fighter; "The Father of Socialism in Sri Lanka".
Philip Mayer Kaiser, U.S. Diplomat
Marcy Kaptur, Ohio Congresswoman
Herb Kohl, U.S. Senator
Belle Case La Follette, women's suffrage activist and wife of Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
Philip La Follette, former Wisconsin governor
Robert M. La Follette, Sr., former Wisconsin governor and congressman
Lien Chan, former Vice President of Taiwan and the Kuomintang.
Laura Miller, former Mayor of Dallas, Texas
Edmund C. Moy, 38th director of the United States Mint
Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian freedom fighter and political leader. In 1998, he was awarded the Bharat Ratna
Philleo Nash, government official, college professor
Gaylord Nelson, former U.S. Senator, Wisconsin governor and founder of Earth Day
Tawiah Modibo Ocran, Supreme Court judge in Ghana
Russell W. Peterson, Governor of Delaware
Paul Samuel Reinsch, appointed Minister to China in 1913
William A. Steiger, Congress
Nahathai Thewphaingarm, former Thai Minister of Education and spokesperson of Thai Rak Thai Party
George Thompson, Attorney General of Wisconsin
Tommy Thompson, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services; former Governor of Wisconsin (1986-2001)
Ulysses S. Grant, 1879 honorary doctorate from the medical school
Edwin E. Witte, Social Security advisor to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
科学与科技 Science and technology
Gene Amdahl, Ph.D. Amdahl's law.
John Atanasoff, Ph.D. 1930, inventor of the electronic digital computer
Lynn Margulis, M.S. zoology and genetics 1960, author of the serial endosymbiotic theory of cell development, advocate of the Gaia hypothesis. Professor at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Brian Paul, M.S. computer science 1994, computer programmer of the Mesa 3D open source graphics library
Gerson Goldhaber, Ph. D physics 1950, discoverer of Charmed Meson, and Dark Energy
Dr.Paul Williams,Inventor of The Wisconsin Fast Plant.
其它 知名校友Other notable alumni
Milton H. Erickson, MD, Psychiatrist, founder of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis [1]
John Muir, naturalist, founder of the Sierra Club, instrumental in preserving Yosemite National Park
Chuck Munson, anarchism activist
Milo Aukerman, Biochemist, taught at Madison for several years, also front man of historic punk rock band the Descendents
Charlie Trotter, Chicago restaurant owner and chef
Steven Gershone, Personal Assistant and Stylist to Baroness Margaret Thatcher
大学教授、学者 Notable faculty and staff (former and current)
Ann Althouse, professor of law and well-known blogger.
Michael Apple, leading educational theorist
Stephen Babcock, inventor of the Babcock test for measuring the butterfat content of milk.
Kevin Barrett, associate lecturer noted for publicly advocating a conspiracy theory regarding the September 11th attacks
John Bascom, President of the University of Wisconsin.
Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author.
David Bordwell, prominent neoformalist film theorist and author.
Paul S. Boyer, prominent historian of American thought and culture, author of Salem Possessed
Aaron Brower, professor of social work and Vice Provost for Teaching & Learning.
John R. Commons, one of the architects of Social Security in the United States.
Farrington Daniels, early researcher in Solar energy
Richard Davis, jazz bassist
Richard Davidson, professor of psychology and psychiatry, widely noted for his mind-body research, [1]
Carl de Boor, professor emeritus of mathematics and computer science, winner of National Medal of Science, best known for pioneering work on splines
Hector DeLuca, research on vitamin D
Donald Downs, professor of political science
Richard Theodore Ely (1854-1943), professor, social activist, economist
Joseph Erlanger, 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Michael V. Fox, professor of Hebrew
Jeremy Freese, associate professor of sociology and popular blogger
Adam Gamoran, professor of sociology and Director, Wisconsin Center for Education Research
Morton Ann Gernsbacher, professor of psychology and President of the Association for Psychological Science
James R. Goodman, professor of computer science and computer architect, known for his work on cache coherence protocols
Michelle Grabner, professor of art
Harry Harlow, psychologist, known for studies on affection using rhesus monkeys with artificial mothers.
Willard Hurst, seminal figure in the development of modern American legal history
Har Gobind Khorana, 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
For describing the genetic code and how it operates in protein synthesis.
Stephen Cole Kleene, a foundational contributor to theoretical computer science
Gloria Ladson-Billings, leading educational theorist and past president of the American Educational Research Association.
Mike Leckrone, director of the University of Wisconsin Marching Band since 1969
Joshua Lederberg, 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
For his research in genetic structure and function in microorganisms.
Gerda Lerner, Professor Emerita; historian of women's and gender history; considered a founder of women's history
Harvey Littleton, founder of the modern American studio glass movement
Aldo Leopold, author of A Sand County Almanac, which helped spawn the environmental movement and, specifically, interest in ecology as a science. He also founded the Wilderness Society
Miron Livny, computer science professor and founder of the Condor High-Throughput Computing System.
Abraham Maslow, psychologist, known for Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Anne McClintock, Simone de Beauvoir Professor and author of Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest.
Nellie Y. McKay, scholar of African-American literature and co-editor of the Norton Anthology of African-American Literature
Alexander Meiklejohn, philosopher and free-speech advocate
Jack Mitchell, first employee of National Public Radio; first producer of "All Things Considered"
George L. Mosse, professor; noted historian of European nationalism and gender
Ronald Numbers, historian of science
Harry Partch, avant-garde composer
Zorba Paster, co-host of Public Radio's Zorba Paster On Your Health
Andrew C. Porter, former Director of Wisconsin Center for Education Research, professor of education policy at Vanderbilt University
Carl Rogers, psychologist and founder of "Client-Centered Therapy"
Bo Ryan, current head Men's Basketball coach
Matt Schiedler, Teacher and Top WR coach in the Nation
Isaac Jacob Schoenberg, mathematician, best known for the discovery in 1946 of splines
Harrison Schmitt, adjunct professor of Engineering Physics, 12th man on the Moon as Apollo 17 astronaut and geologist
Donna E. Shalala, Chancellor 1987-1993; Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1993-2001.
John Sharpless, History professor; former candidate for the United States House of Representatives, 2000
Oliver Smithies, faculty 1960 to 1988, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2007
Harry Steenbock, biochemist, vitamin D researcher.
Scott Straus, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies, specialising in the study of genocide
Cecil Taylor, jazz pianist
Howard Temin, 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of reverse transcriptase.
James Thomson, credited with first successful culturing of human embryonic stem cells.
Timothy Tyson, professor of African-American history and author
Alexander Vasiliev (1867-1953), Byzantinist and Arabist
Jan Vansina, historian of Africa and father of oral historical methodology
Eugene Wigner, 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics
Efim Zelmanov, recipient of the Fields Medal in 1994
Howard Zimmerman, organic chemist, discovered barrelene
大学校长 Chancellors and Presidents
Main article: List of Presidents and Chancellors of the University of Wisconsin-Madison
John Hiram Lathrop 1849-1858
Henry Barnard 1859-1860
