32 Notable alumni of
University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point
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The University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point is 1561st in the world, 542nd in North America, and 509th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 32 notable alumni from the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Patrick Rothfuss
- Enrolled in the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point
- In 1999 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in English
- Occupations
- writernovelistteacher
- Biography
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Patrick James Rothfuss is an American author. He is best known for his highly acclaimed series The Kingkiller Chronicle, beginning with Rothfuss' debut novel, The Name of the Wind (2007), which won several awards, and continuing in the sequel, The Wise Man's Fear (2011), which topped The New York Times Best Seller list.
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Laura Osnes
- Occupations
- stage actoractor
- Biography
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Laura Ann Osnes is an American actress and singer known for her work on the Broadway stage. She has played starring roles in Grease as Sandy, South Pacific as Nellie Forbush, Anything Goes as Hope Harcourt, and Bonnie and Clyde as Bonnie Parker, for which she received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical. She also starred in the title role of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella on Broadway, for which she received a Drama Desk Award and her second Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical.
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Lawrence Eagleburger
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Lawrence Sidney Eagleburger was an American statesman and career diplomat, who served briefly as the secretary of state under President George H. W. Bush from December 1992 to January 1993, one of the shortest terms in modern history. Previously, he had served in lesser capacities under Presidents Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan, and as deputy secretary of state to James Baker under George H. W. Bush. Eagleburger is the only career Foreign Service Officer to have served as secretary of state. He was also Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (international security affairs) from January to May 1973. As a career member of the United States Senior Foreign Service, he attained the rank of Career Ambassador on April 12, 1984.
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Terry Porter
- Occupations
- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Terry Porter is an American former college basketball coach and former player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was most recently the head men's basketball coach at the University of Portland. A native of Wisconsin, he played college basketball at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point before being drafted 24th by the Portland Trail Blazers in the 1985 NBA draft. In Portland, he played ten seasons with two All-Star Game appearances. Porter spent 17 years in the NBA as a player. Following his retirement as a player in 2002, he began coaching in the league. Porter has twice been a head coach, first with his hometown Milwaukee Bucks and then with the Phoenix Suns.
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Jordan Zimmermann
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Jordan M. Zimmermann is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Washington Nationals, Detroit Tigers, and Milwaukee Brewers. Zimmermann was a two-time MLB All-Star, and co-led the National League in wins in 2013. In 2014, Zimmermann pitched the first no-hitter in Washington Nationals history.
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Ryan Ramczyk
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Ryan Mack Ramczyk is an American professional football offensive tackle for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Wisconsin Badgers, and was selected by the Saints in the first round of the 2017 NFL draft. A native of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, Ramczyk attended four different schools before transferring to Wisconsin–Madison in 2014, where he became an All-American lineman for the Badgers in the 2016 season.
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Melvin Laird
- Occupations
- politicianmilitary officer
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Melvin Robert Laird Jr. was an American politician, writer and statesman. He was a U.S. congressman from Wisconsin from 1953 to 1969 before serving as Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1973 under President Richard Nixon. Laird was instrumental in forming the administration's policy of withdrawing U.S. soldiers from the Vietnam War; he coined the expression "Vietnamization," referring to the process of transferring more responsibility for combat to the South Vietnamese forces. First elected in 1952, Laird was the last living Representative elected to the 83rd Congress at the time of his death.
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Greg Koch
- Occupations
- musicianguitarist
- Biography
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Greg Koch is an American guitarist from Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. In April 2012 Fender Musical Instruments Corporation named Koch one of the top 10 unsung guitarists. In April 2023 The Wisconsin Area Music Industry announced that Koch would be inducted into the WAMI Hall of Fame.
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John A. List
- Occupations
- university teachereconomist
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John August List is an American economist known for his work in establishing field experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis. Since 2016, he has served as the Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, where he was Chairman of the Department of Economics from 2012 to 2018. Since 2016, he has also served as Visiting Robert F. Hartsook Chair in Fundraising at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University. In 2011, List was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2011, he was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society. In 2024, Omicron Delta Epsilon, the international honor society for economics, gave List the biennial John R. Commons Award.
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Grace Stanke
- Enrolled in the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point
- Studied in 2016-2019
- Occupations
- physicistbeauty pageant contestant
- Biography
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Grace Marie Stanke is an American pro-nuclear energy activist and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss America 2023 on December 15, 2022. A native of Wausau, Wisconsin, she is the third Miss Wisconsin to win the national title. She earned a bachelor's degree in nuclear engineering in 2023 and is currently employed in a public relations role by Constellation Energy to advocate for nuclear power.
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Curt Hansen
- Occupations
- stage actoractortelevision actor
- Biography
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Curt Hansen is an American actor and singer.
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Scott D. Berrier
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Scott David Berrier is a lieutenant general in the United States Army who served as the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency from 2020 to 2024. Berrier was confirmed by the United States Senate as the 22nd Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency on July 30, 2020, replacing the retiring Lieutenant General Robert P. Ashley Jr. He previously served as the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army G-2. He received his officer's commission in 1983 through the ROTC program at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point.
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J. P. Feyereisen
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Jonathon Paul Feyereisen is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Milwaukee Brewers, Tampa Bay Rays, and Los Angeles Dodgers. He made his MLB debut in 2020.
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Jay Leggett
- Occupations
- screenwritertelevision actorfilm directordirectoractor
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Jay Michael Leggett was an American actor, improvisational comedian, producer, director, and screenwriter.
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Brad Soderberg
- Occupations
- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Bradley William Soderberg is a men's college basketball coach. He is currently the Director of Scouting for the University of Virginia Cavaliers. Soderberg was previously head coach at Lindenwood, St. Louis, South Dakota State, Loras College, and was the interim head coach at Wisconsin.
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Andreas Gal
- Enrolled in the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point
- 1999-2000 graduated with Bachelor of Computer Information Systems
- Occupations
- computer scientistengineer
- Biography
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Andreas Gal is former chief technology officer at Mozilla. He is most notable for his work on several open source projects and Mozilla technologies.
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Carlos Castillo-Chavez
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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Carlos Castillo-Chavez is a Mexican-American mathematician who was Regents Professor and Joaquín Bustoz Jr. Professor of Mathematical Biology at Arizona State University. Castillo-Chavez was the founder and the Executive Director of the Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute (MTBI) and for the Institute of Strengthening the Understanding of Mathematics and Science. For 2019, Castillo-Chavez was the Provost Visiting Professor in the Applied Mathematics Division and the Data Science Initiative at Brown University. Castillo-Chavez retired from Arizona State University at the end of spring 2020.
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Clint Kriewaldt
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Clint Kriewaldt is an American former professional football linebacker. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions in the sixth round of the 1999 NFL draft. He played college football at Wisconsin–Stevens Point.
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John M. Noel
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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John M. Noel is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known for founding Travel Guard International, the world's largest travel insurer and a division of the American International Group subsidiary, Chartis.
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Vince Leach
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United States - Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Venden "Vince" Leach is an American politician from Arizona. A Republican, he is a member of the Arizona State Senate since 2025, and previously from 2019 to 2023. From 2015 to 2019, he was a member of the Arizona House of Representatives representing District 11. Leach won the race for Arizona State Senate from Legislative District 17 in the 2024 Arizona Senate election, defeating incumbent Justine Wadsack who defeated Leach in the 2022 Republican primary.
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Julie Lassa
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Julie M. Lassa is a former Democratic Party member of the Wisconsin State Senate, who represented the 24th District from April 2003 to January 2017. She was a member of the Wisconsin Assembly for the 71st District from 1998 through 2003.
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Patrick Testin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Patrick Testin is an American Republican politician from Stevens Point, Wisconsin. He is the current President pro tempore of the Wisconsin Senate, since 2021, and has served in the Senate since 2017. He represents Wisconsin's 24th Senate district, which includes the cities of Stevens Point and Wisconsin Rapids in central Wisconsin.
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Ted Fritsch
- Occupations
- baseball playerbasketball playerAmerican football player
- Biography
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Theodore Leo Fritsch was an American baseball, basketball, and football player who played running back for the National Football League (NFL)'s Green Bay Packers from 1942 to 1950. He also played two seasons for the Oshkosh All-Stars of the National Basketball League (NBA). Fritsch also played as an outfielder for the Portsmouth Cubs, Nashville Vols, and Los Angeles Angels minor league baseball teams in 1944. He attended Spencer High School in Spencer, WI and the High School's football field was named after him. Notre Dame de la Baie High School's football field in Green Bay is also named after him. Fritsch died in 1979 of a heart attack. He was inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame.
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Michael Dombeck
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- biologistofficialacademic
- Biography
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Michael P. Dombeck is an American conservationist, educator, scientist, and outdoorsman. He served as acting director of the Bureau of Land Management from 1994 to 1997 and was the 14th Chief of the United States Forest Service from 1997 to 2001. Dombeck also served as UW System Fellow and Professor of Global Conservation at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point from 2001 to 2010. He was also the executive director of the David Smith Post-Doctoral Conservation Research Fellowship from 2005 to 2022.
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Mark E. Anderson
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Mark E. Anderson is a major general in the Army National Guard, currently serving as the Deputy Commanding General, United States Army Training and Doctrine Command.
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Paul Kei Matsuda
- Occupations
- linguist
- Biography
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Paul Kei Matsuda is a Japanese-born American applied linguist. He is currently a professor of English and the director of second language writing at Arizona State University He has published several articles and edited books on the areas of second language writing, composition studies, and cognitive and linguistic theories of composition.
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Kevin Shibilski
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kevin Shibilski is an American businessman and former Democratic politician from Wisconsin. He served 8 years in the Wisconsin Senate (1995–2003) and served briefly as secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Tourism (2003) under governor Jim Doyle. He also served as register of deeds for Portage County, Wisconsin, and served on the county board of supervisors. In 2022, he pleaded guilty to a number of federal tax crimes arising from his ownership of a waste-recycling business, and was sentenced to 33 months in prison.
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Ericka Walker
- Occupations
- printmaker
- Biography
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Ericka Walker is an American artist and printmaker. She lives and works in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Steven E. Day
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Steven E. Day is a United States Coast Guard rear admiral whose final duty assignment was Director of Reserve and leadership,. In this role he commanded the United States Coast Guard Reserve. He previously served as the US deputy commander for mobilization and reserve affairs, Atlantic Area, US Coast Guard.
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Jenny Baeseman
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Jenny Baeseman is an American polar researcher who studies the survival mechanisms of bacteria in cold environments. She is the founding director of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists, executive director of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), and was previously the executive director of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) Climate and Cryosphere.
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Donna J. Seidel
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Donna J. Seidel is an American former politician, police officer and investigator from Neenah, Wisconsin who served as a Democratic Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing the 85th Assembly District (Wausau and other parts of Marathon County and two tiny portions of Shawano County) from her election in 2004 until 2013.
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H. J. Mortensen
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Harry J. Mortensen was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
