Use the table below to browse notable alumni from private schools around the United States.
Private School Alumni Directory:
Famous Private School Alumni (Minnesota):
School Name
Notable School Alumni (Sample)
- Larry Fitzgerald Jr. - Hall of Fame NFL wide receiver who starred for the Arizona Cardinals and played his high school football at Holy Angels.
- Mary Jo Copeland - Founder of Sharing and Caring Hands, a prominent Minneapolis-based charitable organization.
- Gavin Kaysen - James Beard Award-winning chef and restaurateur in Minneapolis.
- Emmett Johnson - Running back for the Nebraska Cornhuskers and 2021 Minnesota Mr. Football.
- Susan King - Professional Basketball player in the WNBA
- Mark Dayton ’65 - U.S. Senator from Minnesota, 40th Governor of Minnesota, heir to Dayton's and Target Corporation, first husband of Alida Rockefeller Messinger
- Poppy Harlow ’01 - American journalist, best known for her reporting at CNN and Forbes.com; CNN This Morning anchor
- Dave Goldberg ’85 - Businessman, CEO of Survey Monkey
- George Roy Hill ’39 - Oscar-winning director of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Dani Cameranesi ‘13 - American women's ice hockey forward, currently playing for the Minnesota section of the PWHPA. She made her debut for the US national women's team at the 2014 and was a forward for U.S. women's hockey team at 2018 Winter Olympics.
- Janet Cobbs '85 - Bronze medal Olympian with the United States women's national team at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Andrew Aurich '02 - Head Coach, Harvard University Football
- Melissa Hinnant '98 - Owner and Founder of "Grace & Lace"
- Adine Momoh '02 - Attorney at United States Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota
- Amanda Brinkman '97 - Creator, producer, and star of “Small Business Revolution – Main Street"
- Rod Olson '84 - Coach to Coaches and High Stakes Leaders. Teacher, Author, Speaker, & Consultant to many.
- Rev. Dr. Robert Holst '54 - President of Concordia University, St. Paul (1991-2011)
- Justin Surrency '02 - News anchor at WHO-TV in Des Moines, IA.
- Bob Kierlin '57 - Founder of Fastenal Company, a $7.5 Billion Fortune 500 company.
- Damien Fair '94 - Was awarded a MacArthur "Genius Grand" for his work on stydying the brain while at rest.
- Jay Carrol '80 - Founder and CEO of Carroll Management Consultants and SeQuel Response. Also played as a tightend for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Minnesota Vikings ('84-'86)
- Andy Ballard '01 - A Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry for developing a program which, using artificial intelligence, solved the riddle of predicting protein structures.
- Chris Green '91 - Top 5 trial lawyers in Massachusetts and top 50 trial lawyers in the USA.
- Jericho Sims - Class of 2017. In 2021, drafted as professional basketball player for the New York Knicks
- Rodney Grams - US Congressman 1993-1995 US Senator 1995-2001
- Seth Halverson - 2018 Heritage Alum, Denver Rockies Baskeball Player
- David Carp - designer with BMW, Munich
- Nathan Fisher - documentary film maker
- Mason Ferlic '11 - American Olympic long-distance runner
- Zachary Quinn '11 - Co-founder of Love Your Melon
- Olivia Herrick '06 - Professional golfer and founder of Olivia Herrick Design
- Ron Doggett '52 - Inventor of the Slim Jim snack stick
- Steve Wiggins '74 - Founder of several companies including Accessible Space Inc. specializing in residential facilities for individuals with mobility impairments. Founder and chairman of Oxbridge Health.
- Ted Adams '64 - Former Dir. of Prod. Dev. Medtronic, Inc., Former Vice President of R & D for St. Jude Medical, Inc. Former VP R & D for Guidant division of Eli Lilly Co. Former Chairman and CEO of Envoy Medical, Inc. Principal founder of five medical device companies. AudioScience, Inc; Xmed, Inc. (now Angeion Corp); Sur-Viva-Link Medical, Inc. (now Cardiac Science, Inc.); St. Croix Medical, Inc. (now Envoy Medical, Inc.); Medafor, Inc. (now CR Bard). Holder of over 70 medical device patents.
- Conrad Ray '93 - Coach of the Stanford University men's golf team
- Jacob '08 - Johns Hopkins Medical School Graduate and Multiple Awards as a Concert Vocalist
- Thao '10 - Scholarship covering 87% of university costs and 100% of medical costs. Multiple awards in service, Vietnam.
- Daniel '99 - Valedictorian, Cornell University, Senior Business Executive at Capital One
- Megan '09 - Chulalongkorn University, Multiple awards in art and photography.
- Dan '05 - Speaker, Presenter and Analyst at JP Morgan Financial.
- Randy Breuer - NBA Player
- Terry Steinbach - Former catcher for the Minnesota Twins and All Star Game MVP
- Kristina Koznik '94 - A former World Cup alpine ski racer. Koznick has six World Cup victories, 20 podiums (all in slalom), and 55 top ten finishes (4 in giant slalom, 51 in slalom). Koznick competed in three Winter Olympics (1998–2006)
- Mary Alice Williams '67 - Mary Alice Williams is a pioneering journalist and broadcast executive who broke gender barriers by becoming the first female Prime Time anchor of a network news division and first woman to hold the rank of Vice President of a news division. Her work and visibility put her in the vanguard, whether at the birth of CNN or later at the dawn of the revolution in information technology. In addition to CNN, she has also served as anchor at many prominent networks, including PBS, Discovery, and NBC.
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