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
- Acacia Forgot - drag queen
- Nancy Friese – American visual artist, educator
- Michael Halstenson – musician and composer
- Nicole Linkletter – winner of reality show America's Next Top Model fifth season
- Shadoe Stevens – announcer on Hollywood Squares
Athletics
Business
Law, politics, and government
Literature and journalism
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
Faculty
See also
- List of presidents of the University of North Dakota
References
