List of University of North Dakota people explained

This is a list of notable people associated with the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, North Dakota. This list includes both alumni and faculty members.

Alumni

National and international award winners

Pulitzer Prize winners

• Maxwell Anderson – Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, author, poet, reporter, and lyricist
• Mel Ruder – editor of the Hungry Horse News in Columbia Falls, Montana; 1965 Pulitzer Prize winner in Journalism for spot news covering a 1964 flood in Montana

Rhodes scholars

• Thomas McGrath – distinguished poet and Rhodes scholar

Academia

• Twyla Baker (October 4, 1976-) – academic administrator and president of Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College
• Tomi Kay Phillips – academic administrator and president of Sitting Bull College
• Laurel Vermillion – academic administrator and president of Sitting Bull College

Arts and entertainment

• Sam Anderson – actor
• Srinivas Avasarala – film director and actor
• Michael Halstenson – musician and composer
• Nicole Linkletter – winner of reality show America's Next Top Model fifth season
• Shadoe Stevens – announcer on Hollywood Squares

Military

• Harvey M. Haakenson – former brigadier general in the National Guard of the United States
• David Charles Jones – former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and former general in the United States Air Force
• Kevin B. Kuklok – former major general in the United States Marine Corps
• Joane Mathews – brigadier general in the National Guard of the United States
• Homer N. Wallin – former vice admiral in the United States Navy

Science

• Cora Smith Eaton – physician, suffragist and mountaineer
• Carl Eielson – pioneer aviator
• Judith Kaur – physician and advocate for Native American health equity
• Karen L. Nyberg – NASA astronaut
• Harry Nyquist – important contributor to information theory; recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor (1960)
• Vilhjalmur Stefansson – Arctic explorer
• Esther Tailfeathers, physician^[1]

See also

• List of presidents of the University of North Dakota

Notes and References

1. Web site: Medical doctor and changemaker, Dr. Esther Tailfeathers, to receive University of Lethbridge honorary degree UNews . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240605160016/https://www.ulethbridge.ca/unews/article/medical-doctor-and-changemaker-dr-esther-tailfeathers-receive-university-lethbridge-honorary . 2024-06-05 . 2024-06-05 . . en.