DePauw University
- Alumni & Post-Grads

Famous DePauw Alumni:
Karen Koning AbuZayd (Class of ‘63) – Assistant Secretary General, UN High Commission for Refugee Relief
Joseph Allen (Class of ’59) – Former NASA Astronaut
Sue Ann Gilory (Class of ’70) – Indiana Secretary of State
Lee Hamilton (Class of ‘52) – Former U.S. Congressman, member of President Bush’s National Security Task Force, Chair of 9/11 Commission
Patricia Ireland (Class of ‘66) – Former president of NOW
John Jakes (Class of ‘53) – Author of North and South, Love and War, and California Gold
Vernon Jordan (Class of ’58) – Senior Managing Direct, Lazard Freres & Co., LLC
Barbara Kingsolver (Class of ’77) – Novelist of The Bean Trees, Animal Dreams, Pigs in Heaven, Homeland, and Prodigal Summer
Jack McWethy (Class of ’69) – Chief National Security Correspondent, ABC News
Ferid Murad (Class of ’58) – 1998 Nobel Prize winner in Medicine
William Rasmussen (Class of ‘54) – Founder of ESPN
Ian Rolland (Class of ‘55) – Founder of Lincoln Financial
Dan Quayle (Class of ’69) – Former United States Vice president
Steve Sanger (Class of ’68) – Chairman and CEO, General Mills, Inc.
Erik Sorenson (Class of ’77) – President and General Manager, MSMBC
James Stewart (Class of ’73) – Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Editor-at-Large for Smart Money