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- 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 director, 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
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