To list all of our notable alumni, it would take volumes. The following list is only meant to give you a glimpse into our alumni community.

• Missy Buttry '05, only runner in any division, male or female, to win three consecutive NCAA Cross Country championships
• Sarah Corpstein '05, Miss Iowa USA 2006
• Tony Frank, '81, senior executive vice president and provost, Colorado State University
• Mark Holtz '71, voice of the Texas Rangers, Texas Rangers Hall of Fame
• Kathryn Koob '60 was one of the 52 Americans held hostage in the US Embassy in Iran from November 1979 until January 1981
• Dr. Delbert H. Meyer '92, discovered process for creating purified terephthalic acid (PTA), a key building block in the production of polyester; recipient of the National Medal of Technology
• Coleen Rowley '77 whistleblower FBI agent, researched suspected WTC terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, joint 2002 TIME Magazine's "Person of the Year"
• Col. Erna Thompson ’31 was the highest-ranking woman to serve in the U.S. Army during WWII and the first married woman admitted into the army; First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt convinced President Franklin D. Roosevelt that married women should be allowed in the armed forces because of Thompson’s petition.
• Dr. Richard Walh '74, nuclear medicine expert, vice chair of new technology and business development in the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science at Johns Hopkins University