7 Notable alumni of Elmhurst College
Updated: June 14, 2026 EliteDegrees
Elmhurst College is ranked #2,677 in the world and #693 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 7 notable alumni from Elmhurst College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Elmhurst College won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Glenn D. Lid
1957-. (aged 69)
coach
Glenn D. Lid is an American teacher.
2. Anthony Opal
1983-. (aged 43)
poet
Anthony Opal is an American poet, translator, and editor. His books include Action, Procession (2020), and The Roof Above Our Heads (2021), as well as translations of Hatano Soha, Taneda Santoka, Kobayashi Issa, and a linguistic survey on the Book of Jonah. His work has appeared in various magazines and journals, including Poetry, Boston Review, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, and Notre...
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3. Peter Blau
1918-2002 (aged 84)
university teacher
sociologist
Peter Michael Blau was an Austrian and American sociologist and theorist. Born in Vienna, Austria, he immigrated to the United States in 1939. He completed his PhD doctoral thesis with Robert K. Merton at Columbia University in 1952, laying an early theory for the dynamics of bureaucracy. The next year, he was offered a professorship at the University of Chicago,...
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4. William Joseph Bauer
1926-2025 (aged 99)
lawyer
judge
William Joseph Bauer was an American judge who was a senior circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago from 1974 until his death, having been nominated to the position by President Gerald Ford. He previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of...
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5. George E. Sangmeister
1931-2007 (aged 76)
lawyer
judge
politician
George Edward Sangmeister was an American politician and United States Representative from Illinois. He originally represented Illinois' 4th congressional district, before it was renumbered as the 11th district.
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6. Reinhold Niebuhr
1892-1971 (aged 79)
university teacher
theologian
philosopher
ethicist
political scientist
Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr was an American Reformed theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor at Union Theological Seminary for more than 30 years. Niebuhr was one of America's leading public intellectuals for several decades of the 20th century and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964. A public theologian, he wrote and spoke frequently about...
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7. Cathy Davidson
1949-. (aged 77)
university teacher
Cathy N. Davidson is an American scholar and university professor. She is a Distinguished Professor of English, Digital Humanities, and Data Analysis and Visualization at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York where she founded the Futures Initiative.
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