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This is a list of people who attended, or taught at, the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, including those who attended Milwaukee State Normal School, Wisconsin State Teacher’s College, Wisconsin State College–Milwaukee and the University of Wisconsin-Extension Center in Milwaukee:
Notable alumni
Academics
- George R. Blumenthal (B.S. physics) astrophysicist, the 10th chancellor of University of California, Santa Cruz
- Christopher Bratton ('94 MFA Film), President of School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, former President of the San Francisco Art Institute
- Juan Carlos Campuzano ('78 Ph.D. Physics), physicist, Argonne Distinguished Fellow, Distinguished Professor of Physics at University of Illinois, Chicago
- Alok R. Chaturvedi ('89 Ph.D. MIS), Professor of MIS at Purdue University, Founder and Director of Krannert School of Management SEAS Laboratory
- Carlos Castillo-Chavez ('77 MS Mathematic), Regents and Joaquin Bustoz Jr. Professor at Arizona State University, Fellow of American Mathematical Society
- Keith Hamm ('77 PhD Political Science), Edwards Professor of Political Science at Rice University
- William D. Haseman (MBA in MIS), Wisconsin Distinguished Professor of MIS at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
- Jack Kilby ('50 M.S. Electronic Engineering ), Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics 2000, inventor of the Integrated Circuit.
- George L. Kelling(M.S.W.), Professor of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University
- John Koker ('90 PhD Mathematics), Dean, College of Letters & Science, University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh.
- Laura Mersini ('00 PhD Physics), theoretical physicist-cosmologist and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- James Otteson ('92 MA Philosophy), American philosopher
- Eileen Schwalbach, (PhD Urban Education), the 11th President of Mount Mary College
- Robert M. Stein, ('77 PhD), Lena Gohlman Fox Professor of Political Science at Rice University, former Dean of Rice University School of Social Sciences
- Eugenie Scott (BS, MS), American physical anthropologist, executive director of the National Center for Science Education
- Aaron Twerski (BS Philosophy), former professor of tort law and Dean of Hofstra University School of Law
- Larry N. Vanderhoef (M.S. Biology), the 5th chancellor of University of California, Davis.
- Wayne A. Wiegand ('70 MA History ), American library historian, author, and academic.
- Ahmed I. Zayed ('79 PhD), mathematician, Chair and Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, DePaul University.
Architecture and urban planning
- Will Bruder (BA Fine art), architect
- Andres Mignucci ('79 BS Arch), FAIA, architect and urbanist, Fellow of the American Institute of Architects
- Thomas Vonier ('74, M.Arch.), FAIA, RIBA, Paris-based architect, founding president of the Continental Europe chapter of American Institute of Architects
Business
- Roger Fitzsimonds ('60 BA Business, '71 MBA Finance), retired chairman and CEO, Firstar Corp (now U.S. Bank)
- Dennis R. Glass ('71 BA Business, '73 MBA), President and CEO of Lincoln National Corporation
- Albert Beckford Jones (MA), chief advisor to the U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation
- Gale E. Klappa ('72 BBA Communication), chairman, president and CEO of Wisconsin Energy Corporation.
- Dennis J. Kuester ('66 BBA), former chairman and CEO of Marshall & Ilsley Corporation; member of the Federal Reserve Advisory Council.
- William H. Lacy ('68, BBA), former president and chief executive officer, MGIC Investment Corp.
- Satya Nadella (MS Computer Science), executive vice president of Microsoft's Cloud and Enterprise group
- Keith Nosbusch (MA Business Administration), president and CEO of Rockwell Automation, formerly Rockwell International.
- Richard Notebaert ('83, MBA), former chairman and CEO, Qwest Communications International, Inc., and Ameritech.
- Beth M. Pritchard, (BA), former CEO and President of Bath & Body Works
- Jack F. Reichert ('57), former President of Brunswick Corp
- James L. Ziemer ('75 BBA, '86 EMBA), former president and CEO of Harley-Davidson, Inc.
- Edward J. Zore ('68 BS Economics, '70 MS Economics), president and CEO of Northwestern Mutual.
Engineering and technology
- Michael Dhuey, electrical and computer engineer, co-inventor of the Macintosh II and the iPod.
- Luther Graef ('61 MS Structural Engineering), Founder of Graef Anhalt Schloemer & Associates Inc. and former President of American Society of Civil Engineers.
- Phil Katz ('84, BS Computer Science), computer programmer best known as the author of PKZIP.
- Jack Kilby ('50 MS Electrical Engineering), engineer
- Gustavo R. Paz-Pujalt ('85 PhD Physical Chemistry), scientist and inventor
- Cheng Xu ('97 Ph.D Turbomachinery), aerodynamic design engineer, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Fellow
- Scott Yanoff ('93 BS Computer Science), Internet pioneer.
Fine arts and pop culture
Film, TV and performing arts
- Frank Caliendo ('96 BA, Mass Communications), comedian.
- Willem Dafoe, actor
- Angna Enters, dancer, mime, painter, writer, novelist and playwright
- Tom Hewitt ('81 Professional Theatre Training Program), Broadway Performer; 2001 Tony award nominee for best actor in Rocky Horror Show
- Scott Jaeck, television and stage actor
- Jim Rygiel ('77, BFA), Oscar winner of digital effects for "Lord of the Rings".
- Tina Salaks, author, former ASPCA officer, star of "Animal Precinct" on Animal Planet
- Chris M. Smith ('99 MFA), filmmaker and founder of Bluemark Production and ZeroTV.com.
- Ray Szmanda, television personality.
Music
- Naima Adedapo, American Idol finalist
- Victor DeLorenzo, drummer for Violent Femmes.
- Herschel Burke Gilbert, composer of film and television theme songs
- Frederick Hemke, American saxophonist
- Jerome Kitzke (B.F.A.), composer.
- Guy Hoffman, drummer and vocalist, former Violent Femmes and BoDeans member.
- Andy Hurley, drummer for Fall Out Boy
- Jessica Suchy-Pilalis, harpist, Byzantine singer and composer
- Warren Wiegratz, ('68 BBA) Saxophonist, leader of the band "Streetlife"
Visual arts
- Thomasita Fessler, painter.
- Michelle Grabner ('84 BFA, '87 MA Art), painter
- Hanna Jubran ('80 BFA Sculpture/Ceramics, '83 MFA Sculpture), internationally recognized sculptor.
- Dennis Kitchen, underground comics artist, publisher, and author, and founder of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
- Dennis Kois ('95, BA), noted museum designer (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian); Director, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Boston, MA
- David Lenz, painter
- Roy Staab, artist
- Donald George Vogl, Artist, retired professor of art at University of Notre Dame
Journalism and public media
- Maureen Bunyan, television journalist, the lead co-anchor at WJLA-TV
- Milton Coleman ('68 BFA), deputy managing editor of The Washington Post, president of Inter American Press Association and former president of American Society of News Editors
- Dorothy Fuldheim, American journalist and anchor, "First Lady of Television News"
- John K. Iglehart ('61 Journalism), founding editor of Health Affairs
- Derrick Zane Jackson, opinion columnist/associate editor for the Boston Globe
- Ross A. Lewis ('23), Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist
- Jim Ott, WTMJ-TV meteorologists and Wisconsin state representative
- Peter James Spielmann (BA, Journalism), international desk editor for Associated Press, professor of journalism at Columbia
- Raquel Rutledge ('90 Journalism), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
- Keith Spore ('67, BA Journalism), retired president and publisher, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Terry Zahn, television reporter and anchorman
Literature
- Antler ('70 BA, Anthropology), Poet.
- Emily Ballou, Australian-American poet, novelist and screenwriter
- Sandra Tabatha Cicero, author
- José Dalisay, Jr. ('88 Ph.D English), writer, poet, playwright.
- John Gurda ('78 MA Cultural Geography), Writer and narrator of The Making of Milwaukee, eight-time winner of the Wisconsin Historical Society’s Award of Merit.
- Ellen Hunnicutt, American writer, Drue Heinz Literature Prize winner
- Caroline Knox, American poet
- Mary Rose O'Reilley, poet, Walt Whitman Award recipient
- Lynne Rae Perkins ('91 MA), Newbery Award-winning writer
- Virginia Satir ('36 BA Education) noted author and psychotherapist
- Gordon Weaver, American novelist and short story writer, O. Henry Award recipient
Politics and government
- Luis E. Arreaga, US Ambassador to Iceland
- Peter W. Barca, US congressman
- Jeannette Bell, Wisconsin State Assembly, mayor of West Allis, Wisconsin
- Tim Carpenter, Democratic member of the Wisconsin Senate
- Marcia P. Coggs, Wisconsin State Assembly
- Spencer Coggs ('76 BS Community Education), Wisconsin State Senator 2003–present and Treasurer-elect of the City of Milwaukee
- Dennis Conta, politician and consultant, Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Revenue
- Alberta Darling, Wisconsin state representative 1990-92, state senator, 1992–present
- Alberto Fujimori ('72 MS Mathematics), President of Peru 1990-2000
- Randall Gnant, ('67 BS History and Political Science) Arizona State Senate 1995-2003, Senate President 2001-2003
- Richard Grobschmidt, Wisconsin State Senate (1995–2003), Wisconsin State Assembly (1985–1995)
- Mildred Harnack, German resistance fighter during World War II, was executed under order from Adolf Hitler.
- Zuhdi Jasser, President and Founder of American Islamic Forum for Democracy
- Jerry Kleczka, US congressman 1984-2005.
- James A. Krueck, U.S. National Guard general
- Mary Lazich, Republican member of the Wisconsin Senate
- Chris Larson, Wisconsin state senator
- Henry Maier ('64 MA Political Science), Milwaukee mayor 1960–1988.
- Golda Meir ('17, Education), the fourth Prime Minister of Israel, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel.
- Robert J. Modrzejewski ('57 BS Education), U.S. Marine Colonel (retired), Medal of Honor from President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968
- Paa Kwesi Nduom, former Minister for Economic Planning & Regional Cooperation, Energy, and Public Sector Reform of Republic of Ghana
- Rudolph T. Randa, Article III federal judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
- Jim Risch, U.S. Senator from Idaho
- Margaret A. Rykowski, U.S. Navy admiral
- Dawn Marie Sass, Treasurer of Wisconsin 2007-2011
- Martin J. Schreiber ('60, 3+3 Program), Governor of Wisconsin, 1977–79, Wisconsin Lt. Gov. 1971-77 and Wisconsin State Senator, 1963–71
- Martin E. Schreiber, assemblyman and Milwaukee alderman, father of Martin J. Schreiber
- Lawrence H. Smith, congressman from Racine
- Lary J. Swoboda, Wisconsin State Assembly, educator
- Lena Taylor ('90, English), Wisconsin state senator; elected to Assembly in April 2003 special election; elected to Senate 2004
- Wayne F. Whittow, Wisconsin senator, City Treasurer of Milwaukee.
- Annette Polly Williams, Wisconsin State Assembly
Sports
Athlete
- Christine Boskoff, world-class mountaineer, reached more record summits than any other female in history.
- Tighe Dombrowski, MLS soccer player.
- Don Gramenz, Minnesota Thunder defender
- Chris Hill, Spirou Basket Charleroi basketball player
- Alan Kulwicki (‘77 BS Mechanical Engineering), 1992 NASCAR Winston Cup champion, was named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers and was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame
- Ken Kranz, NFL football player.
- Manny Lagos, MLS soccer player; U.S. Olympian.
- Greg Mahlberg, MLB baseball player.
- Paul Meyers, professional football player.
- Clem Neacy, NFL football player.
- Dylan Page, Chorale Roanne Basket basketball player in France
- Allison Pottinger (MBA Marketing), curler; 2003 gold medalist and 2006 silver medalist at the World Curling Championships.
- Mike Reinfeldt ('75 BA Business), NFL All-Pro defensive back, General Manager of Tennessee Titans, former Seattle Seahawks Chief Financial Officer
- Tony Sanneh, MLS soccer player; U.S. National team and U.S. World Cup team member
- George H. Sutton, professional billiard player, the "handless billiard player"
- Clay Tucker, Joventut Badalona basketball player
- Mitchell Whitmore, American speed skater
- Whitey Wolter, NFL football player.
Coach and referee
- Jimmy Banks ('87 Education), Milwaukee School of Engineering men's soccer team head coach
- Bill Carollo ('74 BBA Industrial Relations), NFL Referee
- Sasho Cirovski ('85 BBA, '89 MBA), University of Maryland men's soccer team head coach
- Warren Giese, South Carolina Gamecocks football head coach
- Jeff Rohrman, UW–Madison men's soccer team head coach
- Bruce Weber ('78 BA Education), Kansas State University men's basketball head coach
Others
- Patricia Wells (BA Journalism), cookbook author
Notable faculty
- Bruce Allen, physicist and professor
- David Backes, author, professor in Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies
- Robert J. Beck, scholar of international law
- Sandra Braman, Professor of Communication
- Y. Austin Chang, material engineering researcher and educator
- Francis D.K. Ching, Professor of Architecture, widely known for architectural and design graphics
- George Makana Clark, O. Henry Prize winner, 2006.
- Cecelia Condit, filmmaker and Professor of Film
- Melvyn Dubofsky,professor of history and sociology
- Hugo O. Engelmann, American sociologist, anthropologist and general systems theorist
- Louis Fortis, economist, state legislator, newspaper editor/publisher
- Jane Gallop, writer, University distinguished professor
- William D. Haseman, Wisconsin Distinguished Professor of Business
- Martin Haberman, educator, University distinguished professor
- John Brian Harley, Professor of Geography
- Ihab Hassan, Vilas Research Professor of English and Comparative Literature
- Thomas Hubka, Professor of Architecture
- Mark L. Knapp, Professor of Communication
- John Koethe, American poet and essayist
- Markos Mamalakis, economist and professor
- Jim Moody, federal government economist 1967-1969, US Congressman 1979-1982, former Associate Professor of Economics
- Marjorie "Mo" Mowlam Associate Professor of Political Science, later Labour Member of the British Parliament and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
- Harold L. Nieburg, political scientist
- Leonard Parker, physicist and professor
- David H. Petering, University Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry
- Stephen Pevnick, inventor of Graphical Waterfall, Professor of Art
- Amos Rapoport, University Distinguished Professor of Architecture
- Pradeep Rohatgi, Wisconsin Distinguished Professor of Engineering
- Herbert H. Rowen, American historian of Early Modern Europe
- Leonard Sorkin, American violinist
- William H. Starbuck, organizational scientist
- Marc Tasman, artist and photographer in Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies
- Michael Zimmer (academic), information studies
University chancellors
- Michael Lovell (2010–Present)
- Carlos E. Santiago (2004–2010)
- Nancy L. Zimpher (1998–2003)
- John H. Schroeder (1991–1998)
- Clifford V. Smith, Jr. (1985–1990)
- Frank E. Horton (1980–1985)
- Werner A. Baum (1973–1979)
- J. Martin Klotsche (1956–1973)