32 Notable alumni of
Lake Forest College
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Lake Forest College is 1511th in the world, 532nd in North America, and 500th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 32 notable alumni from Lake Forest College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Richard Widmark
- Occupations
- television actorfilm directorstage actorfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Richard Weedt Widmark was an American film, stage, and television actor and producer.
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Diana Nyad
- Occupations
- swimmersportswritersquash playermotivational speakerjournalist
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Diana Nyad /ˈnaɪˌæd/ is an American author, journalist, motivational speaker, and long-distance swimmer. Nyad gained national attention in 1975 when she claimed to swim around Manhattan (28 mi or 45 km) in record time, and in 1979 when she swam from Bimini, The Bahamas to Juno Beach, Florida (102 mi or 164 km).
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Nate Berkus
- Occupations
- designertelevision presenterinterior designer
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Nathan Jay Berkus is an American interior designer, author, and television personality. He runs the Chicago interior design firm Nate Berkus Associates and was a regularly featured guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, offering design advice to viewers as well as coordinating surprise make-overs for people's homes. He has released numerous lines of products and authored several books.
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Tamara Falcó Preysler
- Occupations
- fashion designertelevision presenter
- Biography
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Tamara Isabel Falcó Preysler, 6th Marchioness of Griñón, is a Spanish aristocrat, socialite and television personality. She is the third child of aristocrat Carlos Falcó, 12th Marquess of Castel-Moncayo and Filipina-Spanish socialite Isabel Preysler. She was a co-host on the television show El Hormiguero.
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Allan Carr
- Occupations
- screenwritertelevision actoractorfilm producerfilm director
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Allan Carr was an American producer and manager of stage for the screen. He was nominated for numerous awards, winning a Tony Award and two People's Choice Awards, and was named Producer of the Year by the National Association of Theatre Owners.
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Natalia Nogulich
- Occupations
- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Natalia Nogulich is an American film and television actress and author.
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Karl Patterson Schmidt
- Occupations
- zoologistherpetologist
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Karl Patterson Schmidt was an American herpetologist.
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Jean Hazlewood
- Years
- 1916-1997 (aged 81)
- Occupations
- screenwriter
- Biography
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Ora Jean Hazlewood was an American screenwriter, and wife of actor Richard Widmark for 55 years. They met while they were both attending Lake Forest College.
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Jacqueline Carey
- Occupations
- novelistwriter
- Biography
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Jacqueline A. Carey is an American writer, primarily of fantasy fiction.
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Blair Butler
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- comediancomics writerscreenwriter
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Blair Butler is an American stand-up comic, television host and screenwriter, known for her work on the "Fresh Ink" and other segments on the G4 program Attack of the Show!.
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Peg Lautenschlager
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Peggy Ann Lautenschlager was an American attorney and Democratic politician who was the first chair of the Wisconsin Ethics Commission from 2016 to 2017, the 42nd Attorney General of Wisconsin from 2003 to 2007, the United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin from 1993 to 2001, a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly for the 52nd district from 1989 to 1993, and the Winnebago County District Attorney from 1985 to 1989. Lautenschlager was the first woman to serve as Attorney General of Wisconsin.
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Kahil El'Zabar
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- jazz musicianrecording artistcomposer
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Kahil El'Zabar is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist (mainly a percussionist) and composer. He regularly records for Delmark Records.
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Ingram Marshall
- Occupations
- composermusicianmusic criticmusic teacher
- Biography
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Ingram Douglass Marshall was an American composer and a onetime student of Vladimir Ussachevsky and Morton Subotnick.
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Adolph J. Sabath
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- politicianlawyer
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Adolph Joachim Sabath was an American politician. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Chicago, Illinois, from 1907 until his death in Bethesda, Maryland on November 6, 1952. From 1934 to 1952, he served as the Dean of the United States House of Representatives as the longest-serving member of the body, a distinction he retained until John Dingell surpassed him on August 9, 2013.
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John Wilbur Chapman
- Occupations
- theologianwriterevangelist
- Biography
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John Wilbur Chapman was a Presbyterian evangelist in the late 19th century who traveled with gospel singer Charles Alexander. His parents were Alexander H. and Lorinda (McWhinney) Chapman.
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Richard Armstrong
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- exhibition curatorcurator
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Richard Armstrong is an American museum director. Since 2008, Armstrong has been the director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City and its other museums throughout the world. Before joining the Guggenheim, he was a curator at, and then director of, Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. From 1981 to 1992, he had been a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Penelope Rosemont
- Occupations
- poetpainterwriterartist
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Penelope Rosemont is a visual artist, writer, publisher, and social activist who attended Lake Forest College. She has been a participant in the Surrealist Movement since 1965. With Franklin Rosemont, Bernard Marszalek, Robert Green and Tor Faegre, she established the Chicago Surrealist Group in 1966. She was in 1964-1966 a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), commonly known as the Wobblies, and was part of the national staff of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in 1967-68. Her influences include Andre Breton and Guy Debord of the Situationist International, Emma Goldman and Lucy Parsons.
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Scott Goldstein
- Occupations
- film directortelevision directortelevision producer
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Scott Goldstein is a writer, producer, and director based in Los Angeles. He has achieved success in broadcast journalism, prime time entertainment, interactive educational & museum exhibits and documentaries. He is the winner of two Emmy and Golden Globe Awards.
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Susan Garrett
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Susan Garrett is a former Democratic member of the Illinois Senate, who represented the 29th District from 2003 to 2013, and the 59th district of the Illinois House of Representatives for four years previously. The 29th district includes all or parts of Bannockburn, Deerfield, Des Plaines, Fort Sheridan, Glencoe, Glenview, Highland Park, Highwood, Knollwood, Lake Bluff, Lake Forest, Mount Prospect, Niles, Northbrook, Park Ridge, Prospect Heights and Riverwoods.
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William Mather Lewis
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William Mather Lewis was an American teacher, university president, local politician, and a state and national government official. He was mayor of Lake Forest, Illinois from 1915 to 1917, President of George Washington University from 1923 to 1927 and the President of Lafayette College from 1927 to 1945.
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Christian Narkiewicz-Laine
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- 1952-.. (age 72)
- Occupations
- architecture critic
- Biography
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Christian Narkiewicz-Laine is an American architecture critic, journalist and curator. He is the founding president of the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design.
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Robert "Shoofly" Shufelt
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- artist
- Biography
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Robert "Shoofly" Shufelt is an American artist who is primarily known for his depiction of the modern-day cowboy and Ranch lifestyle in the Southwest. Originally from Illinois, he attended art school and worked in illustration before moving to a cattle ranch near Wickenburg, Arizona. As of 1991, he lives in New Mexico.
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Rose Farwell Chatfield-Taylor
- Years
- 1870-1918 (aged 48)
- Occupations
- golfer
- Biography
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Rose Farwell Chatfield-Taylor was an American sportswoman, bookbinder, suffragist, and socialite, and co-founder of a golf club in Illinois named Onwentsia.
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Marsha E. Barnes
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Marsha E. Barnes was a United States State Department official and United States Ambassador to Suriname from November 2003.
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Josephine White Bates
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Josephine White Bates was a Canadian-American author who preferred to use her married name Mrs. E. Lindon Bates. She was the author of several works including A Blind Lead (1886), Bunch-Grass Stories (1892), and Mercury Poisoning in the Industries of New York City and Vicinity (1912).
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Benjamin Fay Mills
- Occupations
- evangelistreligious
- Biography
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Benjamin Fay Mills was an American evangelist preacher, vegetarianism activist and writer.
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Walter A. Hill
- Enrolled in Lake Forest College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in chemistry
- Occupations
- university teacheragricultural engineer
- Biography
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Walter A. Hill is an American scientist who is Professor and Dean of the College of Agriculture, Environment and Nutrition Sciences at Tuskegee University. In 2016 he was inducted into the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture Hall of Fame.
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Samuel Ettelson
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- politician
- Biography
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Samuel Adams Ettelson was an American lawyer and politician. He served in the Illinois Senate representing the 3rd District in Chicago from 1906 through 1918. He was a Republican.
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James J. Barbour
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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James Joseph Barbour was an American politician and lawyer. he worked against the Death penalty
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William J. Campbell
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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William James Campbell was an American attorney and politician in Illinois. From Pennsylvania, he came with his parents to southern Cook County, Illinois at a young age. Campbell attended public schools, then the University of Pennsylvania and the Union Law School. He co-founded Campbell & Custer, a prominent law firm that represented industries. He served in the Illinois Senate from 1878 to 1886, quickly rising to become its president. From 1883 to 1885, this made him acting Lieutenant Governor of Illinois. After his Senate experience, he returned to his law firm and was a member of the Republican National Committee.
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Edward J. Smejkal
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Edward J. Smejkal was an American lawyer and politician.
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Ralph J. Mills
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- 1931-2007 (aged 76)
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Ralph J. Mills Jr. was an American poet, scholar and professor.
