Frank LaFayette Anders
Class of 1906
Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient
Latimer Johns
Class of 1911
Rhodes Scholar
Elda Emma Anderson
Class of 1922
Helped develop the atomic bomb
Bruno Jacob
Class of 1922
Founder of the National Forensic League
Spencer Tracy
Class of 1924
Two-time Academy Award-winning film and stage actor
Ann Ewing
Class of 1941
Coined the term “black hole”
James Megellas
Class of 1942
World War II hero at the Battle of the Bulge
Roderick Esquivel
Class of 1949
Doctor, professor and former Vice President of Panama
Oliver E. Williamson
Class of 1954
Received a 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Science
Robert McPherson
Class of 1957
Opera singer
Richard Bartel
Class of 1958
Economist, Federal Reserve and Bank for International Settlements in Basil, Switzerland
Jon Wilcox
Class of 1958
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice (1992-2007)
Richard Threlkeld
Class of 1959
Emmy-winning international news correspondent
Peter Bock
Class of 1962
AI expert, NASA scientist, educator at George Washington University
Al Jarreau
Class of 1962
Seven-time Grammy Award-winning jazz musician
Major General Rudolph Ostovich, III
Class of 1963
MG, US Army (Retired)
Cheryl Rofer
Class of 1963
Spent 35 years at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Harrison Ford
Class of 1964
Leading movie actor
Dick Bennett
Class of 1965
Former Ripon athlete, coach at Eau Claire Memorial High School, UW-Stevens Point and UW-Madison
Frances Lee McCain
Class of 1966
Movie actress
Tom Bellfort
Class of 1967
Academy and Emmy Award-winning sound editor
James Reed
Class of 1967
Widely published authority on America’s role in world affairs
Rick Kammen
Class of 1968
National criminal defense lawyer
Merline Thoma Lovelace
Class of 1968
Air Force colonel, author of over 96 novels
Thomas Reinecke
Class of 1968
Rhodes Scholar, Naval Research Laboratory nanoscientist
William Chester Jordan
Class of 1969
Princeton University history professor
Charles E. “Rick” Estberg
Class of 1975
Department of Defense Senior Intelligence Officer
Gail Dobish
Class of 1976
Opera singer
Howard Draft
Class of 1977
Founder and CEO of Chicago-based marketing firm Draftfcb
Mark Porubcansky
Class of 1977
Foreign correspondent and foreign editor of the Los Angeles Times
José Miguel Alemán
Class of 1978
Panamanian politician, lawyer, and director of Multibank Inc.
Susan Hedman
Class of 1978
Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 administrator
Dr. Jonathan Muraskas
Class of 1978
Leading expert on premature neonatology
Justin Niebank
Class of 1978
Grammy and Country Music Award-winning producer, engineer and mixer
Jeffery W. Bantle
Class of 1980
Chief Flight Engineer for NASA
Al Klapmeier
Class of 1980
Aircraft developer and CEO/President of Kestrel Aircraft Co.
Susan Bundock
Class of 1982
Executive Director for American History TV at C-SPAN
Pamela Roe Durham
Class of 1982
Director, Office of Missile, Biological and Chemical Nonproliferation
Kevin Sheridan
Class of 1982
New York Times best-selling author, entrepreneur and founder of HR Solutions International
Thomas J. Horvath
Class of 1984
Aerospace Engineer at NASA Langley Research Center
Darell Hammond
Class of 1996
Founder and CEO of KaBOOM!
Gail Gitcho
Class of 2001
Communications director for political candidates and RNC National Press Secretary
Zachary Morris
Class of 2002
Rhodes Scholar
Lucy Burgchardt
Class of 2010
Gates Cambridge Scholarship Winner
Sam Sondalle
Class of 2011
Goldwater Scholarship Winner