List of Lake Forest Academy alumni
This list of alumni of Lake Forest Academy includes graduates and non-graduate former students.
Arts
- John Agar, actor, formerly married to Shirley Temple
- Bix Beiderbecke, jazz cornet player
- David Bradley, film director
- Temple Hoyne Buell, architect, viewed as the father of the modern indoor shopping mall
- Jay Chandrasekhar, comedian and film director
- Max Demián, performance artist
- Lindsay Glazer, comedian
- Jesse Hibbs, film director
- Brad Morris, television actor
- Robert Myhrum, television director
- Tom Neal, actor
- Kelly Perine, actor
- McLean Stevenson, actor
- Stephen Wade, folk musician
- Melora Walters, actress
Athletics
- Neil Blatchford, speed skater who competed in the 1972 Winter Olympics
- Angus Brandt, Australian professional basketball player
- Alex DeBrincat, right winger for NHL's Detroit Red Wings
- Alfred Eissler, former NFL player
- Dylan Ennis, professional basketball player
- Babe Frump, former player for NFL’s Chicago Bears
- David Levine, ARCA Racing Series race car driver for MAKE Motorsports
- Olivier-Maxence Prosper, Canadian professional basketball player for NBA’s Dallas Mavericks
- Teddy Purcell, retired right winger who played 10 seasons in the NHL
- Paul Schuette, former NFL player with the New York Giants, Chicago Bears, and Boston Braves
- Danny Wolf, American-Israeli professional basketball player for NBA’s Brooklyn Nets
Business and law
- James Aubrey, president of CBS and MGM
- Charles Edmund Beard, aviation pioneer and president of Braniff Airlines
- Andrew T. Berlin, businessman and philanthropist; minority stakeholder in the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball team
- Ralph Bogan, co-owned baseball's Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves
- James R. Cargill, billionaire scion of Minnesota's Cargill family; pioneered in the computerization of animal feed formulations
- Gaylord Donnelley, former chairman of R. R. Donnelley & Sons
- Charles Gelatt, businessman and philanthropist, early co-owner of the Milwaukee Brewers
- George N. Gillett Jr., communications mogul, former co–owner of the English Premier League team Liverpool F.C. and NASCAR auto-racing team Richard Petty Motorsports
- Louis Upton, co-founder of Whirlpool Corporation
- Rawleigh Warner Jr., chairman/CEO of Mobil Oil
- Cameron Fink, co-founder of Aaru
Government and public service
- Makola Abdullah, 14th President of Virginia State University
- Richard L. Conolly, Admiral of the United States Navy during World War II
- Jan Crull Jr., Native American rights advocate, filmmaker, attorney
- Geoff Diehl, class of 1988, State Representative for the 7th Plymouth District of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- John Francis Grady, United States District Court Judge; senior judge for the Northern District of Illinois
- Melvin R. Laird, US Congressman and Secretary of Defense
- Edward Everett Nourse, theologian
- Nauman S. Scott, one of the first Louisiana U.S. District Court Judges to advocate desegregation
- Charles H. Wacker, chairman of the Chicago Plan Commission and beer-maker
Journalism and letters
- Bill Ayers, professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago who co-founded the Weather Underground
- Ward Just, Washington Post Vietnam War correspondent and author
- Michael Leonard, class of 1966, feature reporter for NBC's Today show
- Rebecca Makkai, author
- Ralph J. Mills, poet and critic
- Robert Wilson Patterson, newspaper publisher
- Bill Schulz, Fox News
Science
- Patrick M. McCarthy (surgeon), class of 1973, heart surgeon
- Cristopher Moore, class of 1983, computer scientist, mathematician, and physicist
- Karl Patterson Schmidt, herpetologist
- Paul Starrett, class of 1883, structural engineer
- Charles Thom, microbiologist and mycologist
Other
- Robert S. Hartman, logician and philosopher