List of St. Olaf College people
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This list of St. Olaf Alumni contains links to Wikipedia articles about notable alumni and other people connected to St. Olaf College, a private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota.
Notable alumni
Composers and conductors
- Kenneth Jennings, class of 1950
- Dale Warland, class of 1954
- David Boe, class of 1958
- René Clausen, class of 1974
- Anton Armstrong, class of 1978
- Timothy Mahr, class of 1978
- Bradley Ellingboe, class of 1980
- Craig Hella Johnson, class of 1984
- Jocelyn Hagen, class of 2003
Politicians, Statesmen and Judges
- Russell A. Anderson, class of 1964, Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
- August H. Andresen, class of 1912
- Arnie Arnesen, class of 1975, fellow of Harvard Institute of Politics and member of New Hampshire House of Representatives
- David Bly, class of 1974?, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives
- Satveer Chaudhary, class of 1991, former member of the Minnesota State legislature
- Raymond Cox, class of 1974, former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives
- Kim Elton, class of 1968, former member of the Alaska Senate
- Arlen Erdahl, class of 1953, United States Representative from Minnesota
- Joan Ericksen, class of 1977, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota
- Tom Fiebiger, class of 1978, member of the North Dakota Senate
- Mary Forsythe, class of 1922, member of Minnesota House of Representatives
- Ian C. Kelly, class of 1977
- David L. Knutson, class of 1982, Minnesota State Senator of District 37, 2003-2004[1]
- John Marty, class of 1978
- David Minge, class of 1963
- Erik Paulsen, class of 1987, United States Representative from Minnesota
- Kristi Pursell, class of 2003, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives
- Al Quie, class of 1950
- Karl F. Rolvaag, class of 1941
- Steve Sviggum, class of 1979
- Eric C. Tostrud, class of 1987, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota
- Andrew Volstead, class of 1881, US house of representatives for Minnesota, introduced National Prohibition Act
Writers
- Robert Bly, class of 1950 (transferred out), leader of the Mythopoetic men's movement
- Kristina Halvorson, class of 1993
- Michelle Hoover, class of 1994
- Siri Hustvedt, class of 1977
- Kij Johnson, class of 1982
- Peg Kerr, class of 1982
- Sarah Lindsay, class of 1980
- Timothy Mason, class of 1972, playwright
- Emily Rapp, class of 1996
- Mark Rein-Hagen, author of Vampire: The Masquerade class of 1988
- Ole Rolvaag, class of 1905, author of Giants in the Earth
Religion
- Johan Arnd Aasgaard, class of 1898, American Lutheran church leader
- James Reeb, class of 1950, minister, pastor, and Civil Rights activist, 1927-1965
- Stuart E. Barstad, class of 1951?, Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force from 1985 to 1988
- David Ede, class of 1957, American scholar of Islam
- Alan M. Olson, class of 1961, philosopher, Boston University, 1974-2013
Other
- Ernest Lawrence, class of 1922, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1935
- Einar Haugen, class of 1928, Harvard professor of Scandinavian and linguistics
- Edward Sövik, class of 1939, architect and later St. Olaf faculty member
- Roger Grimsby, class of 1950, television news anchor
- Willis H. Flygare, class of 1958, chemist credited with "outstanding contributions to the understanding of molecular electronic structure"
- John Enemark, class of 1962, American biochemist
- Barry Morrow, class of 1970, Oscar-winning screenwriter
- Gretchen Morgenson, class of 1976, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
- Cheryl Willman, class of 1977, cancer researcher and executive director of Mayo Clinic Cancer Programs
- David L. Rose, class of 1989, tech entrepreneur and inventor
- Margaret Sordahl, ornithologist
- Ward Sutton, class of 1989, cartoonist and illustrator, 2018 Herblock Award winner
- Dean Buntrock, founder and former chairman and CEO of Waste Management, Inc. and largest school benefactor
- Jason DeRose, class of 1997, Western Bureau Chief for National Public Radio News
- Amanda Cox, class of 2001, Editor of The Upshot section of the New York Times
- Raffi Freedman-Gurspan, class of 2009, the first openly transgender person to work as a White House staffer
- Lukas Warren, icon, self proclaimed master of tempo and sneaker collector. He directs the nationally recognized varsity show choir group, “Riverside Company”, in Hastings, Minnesota.
Fictional
- Jay Gatsby, titular character of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, attended for two weeks, did not graduate
Notable faculty
- Anton Armstrong, conductor of the St. Olaf Choir
- Kenneth O. Bjork, historian and educator
- F. Melius Christiansen, founder of the St. Olaf Choir
- John Ferguson, organist and composer
- Kenneth Jennings, composer and former conductor of the St. Olaf Choir
- Robert Jenson, theologian
- Chris Meidt, head football coach (2002–2007), assistant coach with Washington Redskins
- Anantanand Rambachan, Hindu scholar
- Ole Rolvaag, author
- Edward Sövik, class of 1939, architect and later St. Olaf faculty member
- Lynn Steen, mathematician
- Charles Taliaferro, philosopher
References
- ^ "Knutson, David L." Minnesota Legislative Reference Library. Retrieved 2 November 2018.