32 Notable alumni of Lake Forest College
Updated: June 14, 2026 EliteDegrees
Lake Forest College is ranked #2,576 in the world and #666 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 32 notable alumni from Lake Forest 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 Lake Forest College won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Samuel Ettelson
1874-1938 (aged 64)
politician
Samuel Adams Ettelson was an American lawyer and politician. He served in the Illinois Senate representing the 3rd District in Chicago from 1906 through 1918. He was a Republican.
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2. Edward J. Smejkal
1876-1933 (aged 57)
politician
Edward J. Smejkal was an American lawyer and politician.
3. Ralph J. Mills
1931-2007 (aged 76)
poet
Ralph J. Mills Jr. was an American poet, scholar and professor.
4. Benjamin Fay Mills
1857-1916 (aged 59)
religious
evangelist
Benjamin Fay Mills was an American evangelist, a Unitarian pastor, and a lecturer who supported religious liberalism.
5. Walter A. Hill
1946-. (aged 80)
agricultural engineer
university teacher
Walter A. Hill is an American scientist who is Professor and Dean of the College of Agriculture, Environment and Nutrition Sciences at Tuskegee University. In 2016 he was inducted into the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture Hall of Fame.
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6. James J. Barbour
1869-1946 (aged 77)
lawyer
politician
James Joseph Barbour was an American politician and lawyer.
7. Marsha E. Barnes
diplomat
Marsha E. Barnes was a United States State Department official and United States Ambassador to Suriname from November 2003 to 2006.
8. Josephine White Bates
1857-1934 (aged 77)
writer
Josephine White Bates was a Canadian-American author who preferred to use her married name Mrs. E. Lindon Bates. She was the author of several works including A Blind Lead (1886), Bunch-Grass Stories (1892), and Mercury Poisoning in the Industries of New York City and Vicinity (1912).
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9. William J. Campbell
1850-1896 (aged 46)
lawyer
politician
William James Campbell was an American attorney and politician in Illinois. From Pennsylvania, he came with his parents to southern Cook County, Illinois at a young age. Campbell attended public schools, then the University of Pennsylvania and the Union Law School. He co-founded Campbell & Custer, a prominent law firm that represented industries. He served in the Illinois Senate from...
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10. Christian Narkiewicz-Laine
1952-. (aged 74)
architecture critic
Christian Narkiewicz-Laine is an American architect, painter, writer and poet. He is the founding president of the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design.
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11. Robert "Shoofly" Shufelt
1935-. (aged 91)
artist
Robert "Shoofly" Shufelt is an American artist who is primarily known for his depiction of the modern-day cowboy and Ranch lifestyle in the Southwest. Originally from Illinois, he attended art school and worked in illustration before moving to a cattle ranch near Wickenburg, Arizona. As of 1991, he lives in New Mexico.
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12. Rose Farwell Chatfield-Taylor
1870-1918 (aged 48)
golfer
Rose Farwell Chatfield-Taylor was an American sportswoman, bookbinder, suffragist, and socialite, and co-founder of a golf club in Illinois named Onwentsia.
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13. Susan Garrett
1950-. (aged 76)
politician
Susan Garrett is a former Democratic member of the Illinois Senate, who represented the 29th District from 2003 to 2013, and the 59th district of the Illinois House of Representatives for four years previously. The 29th district includes all or parts of Bannockburn, Deerfield, Des Plaines, Fort Sheridan, Glencoe, Glenview, Highland Park, Highwood, Knollwood, Lake Bluff, Lake Forest, Mount Prospect,...
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14. William Mather Lewis
1878-1945 (aged 67)
William Mather Lewis was an American teacher, university president, local politician, and a state and national government official. He was mayor of Lake Forest, Illinois from 1915 to 1917, President of George Washington University from 1923 to 1927 and the President of Lafayette College from 1927 to 1945.
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15. Scott Goldstein
1949-. (aged 77)
television producer
television director
film director
Scott Goldstein is a writer, producer, and director based in Los Angeles. He has achieved success in broadcast journalism, prime time entertainment, interactive educational & museum exhibits and documentaries. He is the winner of two Emmy and Golden Globe Awards.
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16. Richard Armstrong
1949-. (aged 77)
curator
exhibition curator
Richard Armstrong is an American museum director. Since 2008, Armstrong has been the director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City and its other museums throughout the world. Before joining the Guggenheim, he was a curator at, and then director of, Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. From 1981 to...
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17. Robert Dudley
1869-1955 (aged 86)
actor
film actor
Robert Dudley was a dentist turned film character actor who, in his 35-year career, appeared in more than 115 films.
18. Penelope Rosemont
1942-. (aged 84)
writer
painter
poet
artist
Penelope Rosemont is a visual artist, writer, publisher, and social activist who attended Lake Forest College. She has been a participant in the Surrealist Movement since 1965. With Franklin Rosemont, Bernard Marszalek, Robert Green and Tor Faegre, she established the Chicago Surrealist Group in 1966. She was in 1964-1966 a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), commonly...
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19. Kahil El'Zabar
1953-. (aged 73)
composer
recording artist
jazz musician
Kahil El'Zabar is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist (mainly a percussionist) and composer. He regularly records for Delmark Records.
20. Adolph J. Sabath
1866-1952 (aged 86)
lawyer
politician
Adolph Joachim Sabath was an American politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Chicago, Illinois, from 1907 until his death in 1952. From 1934 onward, he served as the dean of the United States House of Representatives. At the time of his death, he had the longest uninterrupted service in the history of the...
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21. Ingram Marshall
1942-2022 (aged 80)
composer
music educator
music critic
musician
Ingram Douglass Marshall was an American composer and a onetime student of Vladimir Ussachevsky and Morton Subotnick.
22. Blair Butler
1978-. (aged 48)
screenwriter
comics writer
film director
comedian
Blair Butler is an American stand-up comic, television host and screenwriter, known for her work on the "Fresh Ink" and other segments on the G4 program Attack of the Show!.
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23. Peg Lautenschlager
1955-2018 (aged 63)
lawyer
politician
Peggy Ann Lautenschlager was an American attorney and Democratic politician who was the first chair of the Wisconsin Ethics Commission from 2016 to 2017, the 42nd Attorney General of Wisconsin from 2003 to 2007, the United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin from 1993 to 2001, a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly for the 52nd district from...
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24. Natalia Nogulich
1950-. (aged 76)
television actor
stage actor
actor
film actor
Natalia Nogulich is an American film and television actress and author.
25. Karl Patterson Schmidt
1890-1957 (aged 67)
herpetologist
zoologist
Karl Patterson Schmidt was an American herpetologist.
26. Jacqueline Carey
1964-. (aged 62)
writer
novelist
Jacqueline A. Carey is an American writer, primarily of fantasy fiction.
27. Nate Berkus
1971-. (aged 55)
television presenter
designer
interior designer
Nathan Jay Berkus is an American interior designer, author, and television personality. He runs the Chicago interior design firm Nate Berkus Associates and was a regularly featured guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, offering design advice to viewers as well as coordinating surprise make-overs for people's homes. He has released numerous lines of products and authored several books.
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28. Tamara Falcó Preysler
1981-. (aged 45)
television presenter
fashion designer
Tamara Isabel Falcó Preysler, 6th Marchioness of Griñón, is a Spanish aristocrat, socialite and television personality. She is the daughter of Carlos Falcó, 12th Marquess of Castel-Moncayo, and Spanish-Filipina socialite Isabel Preysler. She was a co-host on the television show El Hormiguero.
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29. Allan Carr
1937-1999 (aged 62)
actor
television actor
screenwriter
television producer
film director
Allan Carr was an American producer and manager of stage and screen. He was nominated for numerous awards, winning a Tony Award and two People's Choice Awards, and was named Producer of the Year by the National Association of Theatre Owners.
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30. Diana Nyad
1949-. (aged 77)
squash player
long-distance swimmer
sports journalist
motivational speaker
swimmer
Diana Nyad /ˈnaɪˌæd/ is an American author, journalist, motivational speaker, and long-distance swimmer. Nyad gained national attention in 1975 when she swam around Manhattan (28 mi or 45 km) in record time.
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31. Richard Widmark
1914-2008 (aged 94)
stage actor
producer
director
actor
film producer
Richard Weedt Widmark was an American film, stage, and television actor and producer.
32. John Wilbur Chapman
1859-1918 (aged 59)
theologian
evangelist
writer
John Wilbur Chapman was a Presbyterian evangelist in the late 19th century who traveled with gospel singer Charles Alexander. His parents were Alexander H. and Lorinda (McWhinney) Chapman.
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