List of University of Minnesota people

This is a list of notable people associated with the University of Minnesota.

Alumni

Nobel laureates

Pulitzer Prize winners

• Carl Dennis, Pulitzer Prize winner in 2002 for Poetry
• Thomas Friedman, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1983 and 1988 for International Reporting and 2002 for Commentary; studied at the University of Minnesota from 1971 to 1973 before transferring to Brandeis University

Law and politics

Vice presidents

• Hubert H. Humphrey, former U.S. vice president and 1968 Democratic nominee for president
• Walter Mondale, former U.S. vice president and 1984 Democratic nominee for president

Cabinet members and diplomats

Members of Congress

Governors

Article III judges

State judges

Attorneys general

• Keith Ellison, current Minnesota Attorney General
• William S. Ervin, former Minnesota Attorney General
• Mike Hatch, former Minnesota Attorney General
• Douglas M. Head, former Minnesota Attorney General
• Hubert H. Humphrey III, former Minnesota Attorney General
• Henry Linde, former North Dakota Attorney General
• Robert W. Mattson, Sr., former Minnesota Attorney General
• William D. Mitchell, former U.S. Attorney General
• Byron S. Payne, former South Dakota Attorney General
• Harry H. Peterson, former Minnesota Attorney General
• Albert F. Pratt, former Minnesota Attorney General
• Warren Spannaus, former Minnesota Attorney General
• Leo A. Temmey, former Attorney General of South Dakota

Foreign

Others in law and politics

Leadership and business

Science and medicine

Academics and education

Arts and entertainment

Athletics

Others

• Sarah Hart (née Gengler), perpetrator of the Hart family murders; attended the university for one semester and transferred to Northern State University in South Dakota
• Dale Snodgrass, United States Navy avaiator and air show performer, considered one of the greatest fighter pilots of all time

Faculty

Nobel laureates

Pulitzer Prize winners

• Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1947 for the novel All the King's Men; won Pulitzers in poetry in 1958 for Promises: Poems 1954–1956, and in 1979 for Now and Then
• John Berryman, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1965 for Poetry
• Dominick Argento, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1975 for Music

University of Minnesota presidents

Chancellors

• Edward Duffield Neill, 1858–1861

Professors

Present Regents Professors

References