| Famous Alumni | |
- George Gallup (Class of '23) – founder of the Gallup Poll
- Mildred Wirt Benson (Class '25) – creator of the Nancy Drew mystery stories, wrote under the pen name Carolyn Keene
- E.F. Linquist (Class of '27) – co-founder of American College Testing (ACT)
- James Van Allen (Class of '36) – world famous physicist and discoverer of two radiation belts that surround the earth
- Tennessee Williams (Class of '38) – world famous author, whose works include "A Streetcar Named Desire," "The Glass Menagerie," and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
- Gene Wilder (Class of '55) – actor
- Ashton Kutcher (Attended, but did not graduate) – actor
- Diablo Cody (Class of '00) – screenwriter, best known for "Juno"
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