31 Notable alumni of
University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point
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The University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point is 1596th in the world, 558th in North America, and 525th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 31 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
- novelistteacherwriter
- 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. She left New York and her Broadway career in 2021, moving to Nashville.
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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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Ryan Ramczyk
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Ryan Mack Ramczyk is an American former professional football player who was an offensive tackle for his entire eight-year career with the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Wisconsin–Stevens Point Pointers and 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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Jordan Zimmermann
- Occupations
- baseball player
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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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Melvin Laird
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- politicianmilitary officer
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Melvin Robert Laird Jr. was an American politician, writer and statesman. A member of the Republican Party, he served a member of the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin from 1953 to 1969 representing Wisconsin's 7th congressional district before serving as United States 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 former U.S. representative elected to the 83rd Congress at the time of his death and the last living representative to have served during the presidency of Harry Truman.
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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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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 scholarship 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 from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and is currently employed by Constellation Energy as a Nuclear Fuels Engineer & Clean Energy Advocate.
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John A. List
- Occupations
- university teachereconomist
- Biography
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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, and Director of the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics since 2025. 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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Scott D. Berrier
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Scott David Berrier Wife name is Mamie, he is an active lieutenant general in the United States Army who served as the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency from 2020 to 2026. 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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Curt Hansen
- Occupations
- actortelevision actorstage actor
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Curt Hansen is an American actor and singer.
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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, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Arizona Diamondbacks. He made his MLB debut in 2020.
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Jay Leggett
- Occupations
- television actorfilm directordirectoractorwriter
- Biography
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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
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Bradley William Soderberg is a men's college basketball coach. He is currently an assistant coach for the Millikin Big Blue of the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW). Soderberg was previously head coach at Lindenwood, St. Louis, South Dakota State, Loras College, was the interim head coach at Wisconsin, and an assistant coach for the University of Virginia Cavaliers.
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Carlos Castillo-Chavez
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- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Carlos Castillo-Chavez is a Mexican-American mathematician. He held positions as a Regents Professor and the Joaquín Bustoz Jr. Professor of Mathematical Biology at Arizona State University. Castillo-Chavez founded the Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute (MTBI) at Cornell University in 1996. His research and publications focus on mathematics, social structures, and epidemiology.
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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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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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Clint Kriewaldt
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Clint Kriewaldt is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Detroit Lions in the sixth round of the 1999 NFL draft. He played college football for the Wisconsin–Stevens Point Pointers.
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John M. Noel
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- 1948-.. (age 78)
- 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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Julie Lassa
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Julie Mary Lassa is an American public administrator and Democratic politician from Stevens Point, Wisconsin. She is the administrator of the Division of Agricultural Development at the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, since 2025. She previously represented the Portage County region for 14 years in the Wisconsin Senate (2003–2017), and before that served four years in the state Assembly (1999–2003). During the Biden administration, she served as Wisconsin administrator for USDA Rural Development.
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Vince Leach
- Born in
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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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Ted Fritsch
- Occupations
- baseball playerbasketball playerAmerican football player
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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 78)
- 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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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.
