20 Notable alumni of Carroll University

Maybelle Maud Park was an American medical doctor based in Wisconsin. She served as director of the child welfare department of the State Board of Control when it was founded in 1922.

Theodora W. Youmans was an American journalist, editor, and women's suffrage activist from Wisconsin. As president of the Wisconsin Women's Suffrage Association, Youmans played an important role in securing Wisconsin women the right to vote.

Phillip Norris "Army" Armstrong was an American football player and coach. He played college football at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, from 1918 to 1919 and professionally for one season, in 1922, with the Milwaukee Badgers of the National Football League (NFL). Armstong served as the head football coach at Carroll College—now known as Carroll University—Waukesha, Wisconsin from 1923 to...

Lyle Ellsworth Douglass was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.

Antonio R. Riley is an American politician from Wisconsin.

David W. Winn was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force.

Ray David Owen was a teacher and scientist whose discovery of unusual, “mixed,” red blood cell types in cattle twins in 1945 launched the fields of modern immunology and organ transplantation. Owen's 1945 findings were published in the journal Science. This observation demonstrated that self was “learned” by the immune system during development and paved the way for research involving...

Cushman Kellogg Davis was an American Republican politician who served as the seventh governor of Minnesota and as a U.S. senator from Minnesota.

Vernon Wallace Thomson was an American attorney and politician who served as the 34th governor of Wisconsin from 1957 to 1959.

Henry Carl Schadeberg was an American protestant minister and Republican politician from southeast Wisconsin. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for four terms, representing Wisconsin's 1st congressional district from 1961 to 1965, and from 1967 to 1971. Schadeberg was known as an unabashed conservative and a strident anti-communist.

Paul Farrow is an American businessman and Republican politician from Pewaukee, Wisconsin. He is the county executive of Waukesha County, Wisconsin, since 2015. He previously served two years each in the Wisconsin Senate and State Assembly, and was chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin from August 2021 through December 2022.

Adam Neylon is an American small business owner and Republican politician from Waukesha County, Wisconsin. He is a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing Wisconsin's 15th Assembly district since 2025; he previously represented the 98th Assembly district from 2013 to 2025.

Justin Wayne Jacobs is an American statistician, currently serving as the Spatial Statistics Group Lead at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Jacobs is a former applied research mathematician at the National Security Agency, a Senior Basketball Researcher with the Orlando Magic, a Spatiotemporal Analytics Researcher with the Houston Rockets, and an independent sports analytics researcher. Noted for his research into geolocation,...

Dennis Morgan was an American actor-singer. He used the acting pseudonym Richard Stanley before adopting the name under which he gained his greatest fame.

Alfred David Lunt was an American actor and director, best known for his long stage partnership with his wife, Lynn Fontanne, from the 1920s to 1960, co-starring in Broadway and West End productions. After their marriage, they nearly always appeared together. They became known as "the Lunts" and were celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic.

Daniel Kelly is an American attorney and former judge who served as a Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice from August 1, 2016, through July 31, 2020.

Steven A. Burd is an American businessman. He served as chairman, president and CEO of Safeway Inc. from October 26, 1992, to May 14, 2013. He is a member of the Republican Party.

Walter Horner Lemm was an American football coach at the high school, collegiate and professional levels. He achieved his greatest prominence as head coach of the American Football League (AFL)'s Houston Oilers and the National Football League (NFL)'s St. Louis Cardinals.

Frederick Martin MacMurray was an American actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films and a successful television series in a career that spanned nearly a half-century. His career as a major film leading man began in 1935, but his most renowned role was in Billy Wilder's 1944 film noir Double Indemnity. From 1959 to 1973, MacMurray appeared in...