List of University of Nebraska–Lincoln people

This list of University of Nebraska–Lincoln people includes notable graduates, instructors, and administrators affiliated with University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Three Nobel Prize winners have been associated with the University.

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Nobel laureates

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
George Beadle (born 1903)	B.S. 1926; M.S. 1927	Scientist; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner (1958); 7th President of University of Chicago (1961—1968)	[1][2]
Donald Cram (born 1919)	M.S. 1942	Chemist; Nobel Prize for Chemistry winner (1987)	[3]
Alan Heeger (born 1936)	B.S. 1957; Honorary Doctorate 1999	Chemist; Nobel Prize for Chemistry winner (2000).	[4]

Pulitzer Prize winners

• Willa Cather (1895) – Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for her wartime novel, One of Ours
• Ted Kooser (M.A. 1968) – poet; thirteenth Poet Laureate of the United States (2004-2006; Visiting Professor in the English department of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln; 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for book Delights and Shadows
• Marjie Lundstrom (1978) – Pulitzer Prize in 1991 as a national reporter for the Gannett News service, for which she wrote a series on child-abuse deaths

Academics

College founders, presidents and deans

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Edith Abbott	1901	Founder of University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration	[5]
Gene Budig	M.A. 1963; Ed.D 1967	Chancellor of the University of Kansas (1980–1994); President of West Virginia University (1977–1980); President of Illinois State University (1973–1977)
Edward C. Elliott	B.S. 1895; M.A. 1897	Chancellor of Montana's public university system (1916–1922); President of Purdue University (1922–1945)
Miguel Escotet	Ph.D. 1972	Professor Emeritus (2014) and Dean of College of Education at University of Texas at Brownsville (2008-2014); Emeritus UNESCO and United Nations University Chair on History and Future of University
John Jasinski	Ph.D. 1996	President of Northwest Missouri State University	[6]
Alvin Johnson	M.A. 1898	Founder of the New School.
Roscoe Pound	B.A. 1888; M.A. 1889; Ph.D. 1897	4th Dean of Harvard Law School (1916–1936); namesake of Pound Hall at Harvard Law School	[7][8]
William Ruud	B.A.; Ph.D.	President of Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

Professors and scholars

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Robert A. Alberty	B.S. 1943; M.S. 1944	Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at MIT	[9]
Hartley Burr Alexander		Wrote symbolism and inscriptions in the Nebraska State Capitol; conducted the first study of ritual, symbolism and philosophy of the native peoples of the Americas between 1908 and 1929; professor of philosophy at the University of Nebraska
George Andreasen	B.S; M.S	Former Professor of Orthodontics at the University of Iowa College of Dentistry	[10]
Nancy Andreasen	B.A.	Chair of Psychiatry at University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine	[11]
Norma Cantú	Ph.D. 1982	Professor of English at University of Texas at San Antonio	[12]
Edwin Colbert	B.A.	Former Professor Emeritus at Columbia University	[10]
Donald Cox	B.S. 1959; M.S. 1960	Professor of Engineering at Stanford University	[13]
Harold "Doc" Edgerton	B.S. 1925	Former Institute Professor at MIT; namesake of "Edgerton Center" at MIT; took the first photographs of the atomic bomb	[14]
Loren Eiseley	B.A./B.S. 1933	Former professor at University of Pennsylvania; writer and poet best known for explaining complex scientific concepts in poems
Rollins A. Emerson	B.S.	Former professor of plant breeding at Cornell University
Jay Keasling	B.S. 1986	Professor of Engineering at University of California, Berkeley	[15]
Derrick Lehmer	B.A. 1893; M.A. 1896	Former Professor of Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley.
John L. Loos	B.A. 1939; M.A. 1940	Professor of History at Louisiana State University from 1955 to 1988; researcher of the Lewis and Clark Expedition	[16][17]
John Norman	B.A. 1953	Former Professor of Philosophy at Queens College, City University of New York
Dirk Obbink	B.A. 1978	Lecturer in Papyrology and Greek Literature at Oxford University
Londa Schiebinger	B.A. 1974	Professor of History of Science at Stanford University	[18]
Bernice Slote		Professor of English at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, notable editor of Prairie Schooner (1963-1980) and distinguished Willa Cather scholar. She is best known for her work on Willa Cather.	[19]

Arts and entertainment

• Johnny Carson (1949) – host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for more than 30 years (1958, 1962–1992); winner of 7 Emmy Awards; recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992; recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993
• Aaron Douglas (1922) – "the father of African-American art" and leader of the Harlem Renaissance
• Norman Ericson (1951) – faculty at Trinity International University
• Charles L. Fletcher - architect and interior designer; owner of Charles Fletcher Design
• Bob Griffin - broadcast journalist and sportscaster in Shreveport, Louisiana, since 1961^[20]
• Barbara Hendricks (1969) – singer in opera, recital, jazz and popular music; Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees
• Weldon Kees (1935) – poet, abstract expressionist painter, jazz pianist, composer, photographer and filmmaker; exhibited his works along with other abstract expressionists including Hans Hofmann and Willem de Kooning
• Chad Myers (1985) – weather anchor and severe weather expert for CNN Worldwide based in the network's world headquarters in Atlanta
• Shelley Smith (1981) - ESPN sports journalist

Business

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Warren Buffett (born 1930)	B.S./B.A. 1950	Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway	[21]
Jack Cole	B.S./B.A.	Founder of Cole Information Services, Inc.
Harry Culver (born 1880)		Founder and namesake of Culver City, California
Vinod Gupta	M.S. 1969; M.B.A. 1971	Founder and Chairman of infoGROUP; founder and namesake of Vinod Gupta School of Management at IIT Karagpur	[22]
C. Edward McVaney	B.S.	Founder of JD Edwards Corporation

Law and politics

Heads of state

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Karlis A. Ulmanis (born 1909)	B.S.	1st Prime Minister of Latvia and 4th President of Latvia	[23][24]

Cabinet secretaries and assistant secretaries

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Claude M. Bolton, Jr. (born 1969)	B.S. 1969; Honorary Doctorate 2007	3rd United States Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology	[25]
Herbert Brownell, Jr.	B.A.	62nd United States Attorney General	[26]
Chuck Hagel (born 1946)	1971	24th United States Secretary of Defense; United States Senator from Nebraska	[27]
Richard Lee McCall, Jr. (born 1942)	did not graduate	13th United States Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
Clayton Yeutter (born 1930)	B.S. 1952; J.D. 1963; Ph.D. 1966	23rd United States Secretary of Agriculture	[28]

Senators

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
James Abdnor (born 1923)	1945	United States Senator from South Dakota	[29]
Hazel Abel (born 1888)	1908	United States Senator from Nebraska	[30]
Elmer Burkett (born 1867)	Law 1893	United States Senator from Nebraska	[31]
Kenneth S. Wherry (born 1892)	1914	United States Senator from Nebraska	[32]

Governors

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Ralph G. Brooks (born 1898)	1926	29th Governor of Nebraska	[33]
Robert Leroy Cochran (born 1886)	1910	24th Governor of Nebraska	[34]
Jonathan M. Davis (born 1871)		22nd Governor of Kansas	[35]
Dwight Griswold (born 1893)	1914	25th Governor of Nebraska and U.S. Senator	[36]
Stanley K. Hathaway (born 1924)	Law 1950	27th Governor of Wyoming	[37]
Elmer Holt (born 1884)	1902	10th Governor of Montana	[38]
Samuel Roy McKelvie (born 1881)		19th Governor of Nebraska and the 13th Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska	[39]
Adam McMullen (born 1872)	1896	21st Governor of Nebraska	[40]
Ben Nelson (born 1941)	B.A.; M.A.; J.D.	37h Governor of Nebraska; current United States Senator	[41]
George L. Sheldon (born 1870)	1892	14th Governor of Nebraska	[42]
Charles Thone (born 1924)		34th Governor of Nebraska	[43]
Arthur J. Weaver (born 1873)		22nd Governor of Nebraska	[44]

Representatives

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Michael Ashford (born 1955)	1977	member of Ohio House of Representatives
Howard Buffett (born 1903)	1925	U.S. Representative from Nebraska	[45]
Chris Carney (born 1959)	Ph.D.	U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania	[46]
Jackson B. Chase (born 1890)	LL.B. 1912	U.S. Representative from Nebraska	[47]
Harry B. Coffee (born 1890)		U.S. Representative from Nebraska	[48]
Hal Daub (born 1941)	J.D. 1966	U.S. Representative from Nebraska	[49]
George H. Heinke (born 1882)	Law 1908	U.S. Representative from Nebraska	[50]
Fred Johnson (born 1876)	Law 1903	U.S. Representative from Nebraska	[51]
Thomas F. Konop (born 1879)	Law 1904	U.S. Representative from Wisconsin	[52]
John Henry Kyl (born 1919)	1947	U.S. Representative from Iowa	[53]
John A. Maguire (born 1870)	Law 1899	U.S. Representative from Nebraska	[54]
Jan Meyers (born 1928)	B.A. 1951	U.S. Representative from Kansas	[55]
Howard Miller (born 1879)	Law 1900	U.S. Representative from Kansas	[56]
Adrian Smith (born 1970)	1993	U.S. Representative from Nebraska	[57]
Lee Terry (born 1962)	B.A.	U.S. Representative from Nebraska	[58]

Judges

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Clarence Beam	B.S. 1951; J.D. 1965	United States federal judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit	[59]
John R. Brown	B.A. 1930	United States federal judge of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit	[60]
William G. Cambridge	B.S. 1953; J.D. 1955	United States federal judge	[61]
Laurie Camp	Law 1977	Judge in United States District Court for the District of Nebraska	[62]
Kristine Cecava	Law 1976	Judge in United States District Court for the District of Nebraska	[63]
John V. Hendry	B.S.; J.D.	Chief Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, 1998–2006	[64]
Harvey M. Johnsen	B.A. 1921; LL.B. 1919	United States federal judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit	[65]
Richard G. Kopf	J.D. 1972	Federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska	[66]
John Pickett	LL.B. 1922	United States federal judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit	[67]
William J. Riley	B.A.; J.D.	Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit	[68]
Donald Ross	J.D. 1948	United States federal judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit	[69]
Kenneth C. Stephan	B.A.; LL.B.	Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court	[70]
Robert Van Pelt	LL.B. 1922	U.S. District Judge in the District of Nebraska	[71]

Political figures and activists

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Grace Abbott		Director of Immigrants Protective League of Hull House and Chief of the United States Children's Bureau, where she administered the first federal child labor law and the Maternity and Infancy Act
Helen Klanderud	Law degree	Former Mayor of Aspen, Colorado (2001–2007)	[72]
Mark Quandahl	Law 1987	Chairman of the Nebraska Republican Party (2005–2009)	[73]
James Lee Rankin	LL.B. 1930	31st United States Solicitor General; General Counsel to the Warren Commission	[74]
Theodore (Ted) Sorensen	J.D. 1951	8th White House Counsel; Special Counsel and speechwriter to President John F. Kennedy	[75]

Military

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Lloyd M. Bucher (born 1927)	B.S. 1953	Commander of the United States Navy; Captain of the USS Pueblo (AGER-2)
Bruce P. Crandall (born 1933)	B.A. 1969	Colonel of the United States Army; awarded Medal of Honor	[76]
Galen B. Jackman (born 1951)	B.A. 1973	Major General of the United States Army
Michael D. Navrkal	B.S. 1984	Brigadier General of the Army National Guard; awarded the Legion of Merit
John J. Pershing (born 1860)	LL.B. 1893	General of the Armies of the United States Army; led the American Expeditionary Force in World War I ; awarded GCB, Legion of Honour, CH and 1932 Pulitzer Prize	[77]

Literature

• David Boles - author and blogger
• Willa Cather (BA English) - novelist
• Catherine Kidwell (MFA 1977) – novelist
• Mary Pipher (Ph.D. 1977) – author, expert on culture and mental health; author of Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, a best-seller for over three years;^[78] author of the New York Times best-seller^[79] The Shelter of Each Other: Rebuilding Our Families to Enrich Our Lives
• Mari Sandoz – a biographer, novelist, and historian whose work usually drew on the life of the Great Plains; known for non-fiction works Old Jules (1935) and Crazy Horse (1942)
• Jim Thompson (attended 1929–1931) – wrote 29 books between 1942 and 1973, including books adapted to film such as The Getaway (produced twice) and The Grifters

Science and technology

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Bion J. Arnold		Father of the third rail; designed New York's Interborough Rapid Transit subway system
Henry Beachell		Leading 20th century rice breeder; co-pioneer of Asia's Green Revolution in rice; winner of 1996 World Food Prize and 1987 Japan Prize of the Science and Technology Foundation of Japan	[80]
Rolla Kent Beattie		Botanist	[81]
Frederic Clements	B.Sc. 1894; M.A. 1896; Ph.D. 1898	Pioneer ecologist	[82]
Gladys Dick	B.S. 1900	Co-inventor of vaccine for scarlet fever	[83]
Jay Wright Forrester	B.S. 1935	Inventor of the foundational computer technology magnetic-core memory, forerunner of today's random-access memory
Gene V Glass		Inventor of the statistical technique meta-analysis
Richard Hamming	B.S. 1939	Founder and President of Association for Computing Machinery
Leta Hollingworth	B.A. 1906	Wrote first comprehensive text on the gifted; commenced one of the first systematic studies of children with intelligence quotients (IQ) above 180	[84]
William A. Mueller		Produced sound technology for early motion pictures; pioneered the first talking picture, The Jazz Singer
Donald Othmer		Co-editor of the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology; has held more than 150 U.S. and foreign patents	[85]
Charles H. Purcell	B.S. 1906	Chief designer and engineer of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge; one of the 20th century’s most distinguished civil engineers	[86]
Gerry Thomas		Inventor of the TV dinner

Athletics

Baseball

• Joba Chamberlain – MLB player, New York Yankees^[87]
• Darin Erstad – MLB player, Anaheim Angels, Current Nebraska–Lincoln baseball head coach
• Alex Gordon - MLB player, Kansas City Royals^[88]
• Kip Gross – MLB player^[89]
• Adam Stern – MLB player^[90]

Adam Stern

Basketball

• Nate Branch – basketball player for the Harlem Globetrotters^[91]

Football

• Jason Ankrah – player for the NFL's Houston Texans
• Marion Broadstone – player for the NFL's New York Giants
• Josh Bullocks –player for the NFL's Chicago Bears^[92]
• Jim Burrow – player for the NFL's Green Bay Packers
• Berlin Guy Chamberlin (1916) – won four championships as an NFL head coach; inducted into the Professional Football Hall of Fame in 1965.^[93]
• Roger Craig – running back for the San Francisco 49ers; first player in NFL history to rush and receive for 1,000 yards (910 m) in a season^[94]

Roger Craig

• Eric Crouch – Heisman trophy winner (2001)^[95]
• Doug DuBose – player for the NFL's San Francisco 49ers
• John Dutton – player for the NFL's Dallas Cowboys
• Tommie Frazier – won 2 national championships (1994, 1995)^[96]
• Irving Fryar – first wide receiver to be drafted #1 overall in the NFL Draft when the New England Patriots made him the top selection of the 1984 NFL Draft^[97]
• Roy Helu – player for the NFL's Washington Redskins
• Russ Hochstein - player for the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs^[98]
• John Howell – player for the NFL's Green Bay Packers
• Tony Jeter – player for the NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers
• Trevor Johnson – free agent of the NFL, played for the New York Jets, New Orleans Saints and St. Louis Rams^[99]
• Chad Kelsay – player for the NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers
• Chris Kelsay – player for the NFL's Buffalo Bills
• Jeff Lee – player for the NFL's St. Louis Cardinals
• Oudious Lee – player for the NFL's St. Louis Cardinals and USFL's Boston/New Orleans Breakers and Denver Gold
• Frank Lockett – player for the NFL's Miami Dolphins
• Allen Lyday – player for the NFL's Houston Oilers
• Barron Miles - defensive back for the BC Lions in the CFL^[100]
• Wonder Monds - player for the NFL's San Francisco 49ers^[101]
• Danny Noonan, former player in the National Football League, played for the Dallas Cowboys and the Green Bay Packers^[102]
• Greg Orton – player for the NFL's Detroit Lions
• Tom Osborne – won 3 national championships as a head coach (94' 95' 97) led team to 17 consecutives major bowl games.^[103]
• Niles Paul – player for the NFL's Washington Redskins
• Ray Phillips – player for the NFL's Cincinnati Bengals and Philadelphia Eagles
• Bob Pickens – player for the NFL's Chicago Bears
• Dave Redding – assistant coach for the NFL's Green Bay Packers^[104]
• Johnny Rodgers – Heisman trophy winner (1972); won two national championships (1970, 1971)
• Herm Rohrig – player for the NFL's Green Bay Packers
• Mike Rozier – Heisman trophy winner (1983); all time leader in rushing yards at Nebraska^[105]
• Barrett Ruud – player for the NFL's Tennessee Titans
• Kelly Saalfeld – player for the NFL's New York Giants
• George Seeman – player for the NFL's Green Bay Packers
• Ndamukong Suh – 2010 NFL first round, second overall draft pick of the Detroit Lions^[106]
• Erwin Swiney – player for the NFL's Green Bay Packers
• Henry Waechter - former defensive lineman in the NFL for the Chicago Bears, Baltimore/Indianapolis Colts, and Washington Redskins^[107]
• Kent Wells - NFL and AFL player
• Ad Wenke – player for the NFL's Milwaukee Badgers
• Zach Wiegert - former NFLplayer^[108]
• Merle Zuver – player for the NFL's Green Bay Packers

Other sports

• Jordan Burroughs – Olympic gold medalist wrestler in the 74 kg Freestyle Division at the London 2012 Summer Olympics^[109]
• Rulon Gardner – Olympic gold medalist wrestler at the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics
• Penelope Heyns – Olympic gold medalist swimmer in the 100m and 200m breaststrokes at the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics; Olympic bronze medalist in the 100m breaststroke at the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics; competing for South Africa
• Jason High - 3 year walk-on wrestler; current mixed martial artist formerly for the Ultimate Fighting Championship^[110]
• Jordan Larson – Olympic silver medalist in women's volleyball at the London 2012 Summer Olympics; plays professionally for Dynamo Kazan in Russia^[111]
• Matt Lindland – former MMA fighter in the UFC and politician for Oregon^[112]
• Priscilla Lopes-Schliep (2006) – Olympic bronze medalist in the 100m hurdles at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics, first Canadian to win a medal in 12 years
• Vanessa Meloche – Canadian gymnast
• Merlene Ottey – nine-time Olympic medalist in track and field, competing for Jamaica
• Louise Pound (1892; M.A. 1895) – first woman elected to the Nebraska Sports Hall of Fame; in 1955 became the first woman president of the Modern Language Association; sister of Roscoe Pound
• Ryan Schultz (Criminal Justice) - wrestler; MMA fighter; former IFL Lightweight Champion^[113]
• Curtis Tomasevicz – Olympic gold medalist in the four-man bobsleigh at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics^[114]
• Brad Vering - 2007 wrestling world silver medalist for Greco-Roman

Faculty

• Charles Bessey – botanist; namesake of the Bessey system
• John Leland Champe – archaeologist; former Chairman, Department of Anthropology
• August Hjalmar Edgren – linguistics professor, one of the professors who organized the graduate college at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln^[115]
• Karl Shapiro – Pulitzer Prize-winning poet; served as poet laureate at the Library of Congress; taught in the English Department at the university, 1956-1966; served as editor of the Prairie Schooner
• Edmund Burke Fairfield - 2nd^[116] Chancellor of the University of Nebraska.

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