| Name | Degree | Year | Comments | Reference |
| David Kpakpoe Acquaye | B.S. | 1952 | professor, first head of the Soil Science, dean of agriculture, University of Ghana | |
| Debra D. Austin | B.A. | | former chancellor, State University System of Florida | |
| Jacquelynn Baas | B.A. | 1971 | curator, cultural historian, writer, and director emeritus, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive | |
| Hugh P. Baker | B.S. | 1901 | president, University of Massachusetts Amherst; dean, New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University | |
| Sian Beilock | Ph.D. | 2003 | president, Dartmouth College | |
| Warren W. Brandt | B.S. | 1944 | first president, Virginia Commonwealth University | |
| Frank A Buckless | B.A. | 1981 | dean, Poole College of Management, NC State | |
| Kenyon Butterfield | B.S. | 1891 | president, University of Rhode Island, UMass, and Michigan State University, appointed to the Country Life Commission by President Theodore Roosevelt | |
| Antoinette Candia-Bailey | M.A. | 2001 | vice president for student affairs at Lincoln University, 2023 | |
| Oscar Clute | B.S. | 1862 | president, Michigan State, Florida Agricultural College, ordained minister | |
| Richard A. Cosier | B.A. | 1969 | dean emeritus, Krannert School of Management, Purdue | |
| William H. Cunningham | B.B.A., M.B.A. | 1966, 1967 | former chancellor, University of Texas System | |
| Paul D'Anieri | B.A. | 1986 | vice president and provost, University of California, Riverside | |
| Grover C. Dillman | B.S. | 1913 | president, Michigan Tech University, 1935–1956 | |
| Jeffrey Docking | B.A. | 1983 | president, Adrian College | |
| Kristie L. Ebi | B.S. | 1972 | founder, former director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment, Washington School of Public Health | |
| Glenn Goerke | Ph.D. | 1962 | former president/chancellor, University of Houston, University of Houston–Clear Lake, University of Houston–Victoria, and Indiana University East | |
| Lloyd Vincent Hackley | B.A. | | former chancellor, Fayetteville State University | |
| Wendy Hensel | B.A. | 1992 | president, University of Hawaiʻi | |
| Stanley O. Ikenberry | M.A., Ph.D. | 1957, 1960 | former president, University of Illinois | |
| Charles L. Ingersoll | B.S. | | second president, Colorado State University, credited with broadening and liberalizing the school's formerly narrow, vocational curriculum | |
| Anne Khademian | B.A. M.P.A. | | political scientist, executive director of the Universities at Shady Grove, the University System of Maryland | |
| Charles Kiesler | B.A. | 1958 | former chancellor, University of Missouri | |
| William Edward Lavery | B.A. | 1953 | former president, Virginia Tech | |
| Jay Robert McColl | B.S. | 1890 | dean of engineering, University of Detroit | |
| Charles McKenny | B.S. | 1881 | former president, Central Michigan University, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and Eastern Michigan University | |
| William H. Sewell | B.A., M.A. | 1933, 1934 | former chancellor, University of Wisconsin–Madison | |
| Bernard Sliger | B.A., M.A., Ph.D. | 1949, 1950. 1955 | economist, former president, Florida State University | |
| James D. Spaniolo | B.A. | 1968 | former president, University of Texas at Arlington | |
| Teresa A. Sullivan | B.A. | 1970 | former president, University of Virginia | |
| Dwight B. Waldo | attended | 1881–82 | first president, Western Michigan University | |
| Kim A. Wilcox | B.S. | 1976 | chancellor, University of California, Riverside, former Michigan State University provost | |
| Name | Degree | Year | Comments | Reference |
| Edgar Anderson | B.S. | 1918 | botanical geneticist | |
| Liberty Hyde Bailey | B.S. | 1882 | botanist, horticulturist, the "father of modern horticulture", author, philosopher | |
| Charles Fuller Baker | B.S. | 1892 | professor of Biology, Botany; college dean | |
| Frank Benton | B.S. | 1879 | entomologist educator, researcher, author, beekeeping innovator | |
| Charles E. Bessey | B.S. | 1869 | pioneer 19th-century botany educator; former president, American Association for the Advancement of Science | |
| Robert L. Carroll | B.S. | 1959 | vertebrate paleontologist, former director of Redpath Museum, McGill University | |
| William James Clench | B.S. | 1921 | former curator of the Mollusk Collection, Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology | |
| Leon Jacob Cole | attended | 1890s | geneticist and ornithologist, nicknamed the "father of American bird banding" | |
| Albert John Cook | B.S. | 1862 | zoology, entomology educator; chairman, California State Commission of Horticulture | |
| Larry Dalton | B.S. | 1965 | chemist best known for polymeric nonlinear electro-optics; recipient of Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship and NIH Research Career Development Award | |
| Arnold L. Demain | B.S. M.S. | 1949 1950 | former professor of microbiology, MIT, founder and head of the Department of Fermentation Microbiology, Merck & Co, world-leading industrial microbiologist | |
| Lyster H. Dewey | B.S. | 1888 | botanist, expert at USDA researching various fibre plants, most notably hemp | |
| C. Kurt Dewhurst | B.A. | 1970 | curator and folklorist, director emeritus of the Michigan State University Museum, past president, American Folklore Society | |
| Michael Donoghue | B.A. | 1976 | vice president, Evelyn Hutchinson Professor Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale; former director of the university's Peabody Museum of Natural History; elected to U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2005 | |
| Mary K. Firestone | B.S M.S. Ph.D. | | member, National Academy of Sciences, professor of soil microbiology in the Department of Environmental Studies, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley | |
| Charles Christian Georgeson | B.S. | 1877 | founding director of Alaska Agricultural Experiment Station, namesake of Georgeson Botanical Garden at University of Alaska | |
| Alfred Gurdon Gulley | B.S. | 1868 | University of Connecticut revered horticulture professor; the university administration building bears his name | |
| Byron Halsted | B.S. | 1871 | botany educator, former president of the Botanical Society of America | |
| Ulysses P. Hedrick | B.S. | 1893 | botanist, horticulturalist | |
| Perry G. Holden | M.S. | 1895 | first professor of Agronomy in the US | |
| Patricia Hunt | B.A. | 1977 | Meyer Distinguished Professor in the School of Molecular Bioscience, Washington State University | |
| Walter Stephen Judd | B.S. M.S. | 1973 1974 | botanist and taxonomist, distinguished professor in the Department of Botany, University of Florida | |
| Ezra J. Kraus | B.S. | 1907 | former chair of Botany Department, University of Chicago | |
| Minakata Kumagusu | did not graduate | | naturalist, known for study of slime molds in early 20th-century Japan | |
| Amy K. LeBlanc | D.V.M. | 1999 | veterinary oncologist and biologist, director of the Comparative Oncology Program at the National Cancer Institute | |
| Henry J. Oosting | M.S. | 1927 | ecologist at Duke University | |
| John J. Pipoly III | B.S. | 1978 | botanist | |
| Thomas D. Sharkey | B.S. Ph.D. | 1974 1980 | distinguished professor, biochemistry and microbiology, Michigan State University | |
| James W. Toumey | B.S. | 1889 | botanist, co-founder, early dean of Yale School of Forestry; namesake of the cactus genus Toumeya and New Hampshire's Yale-Toumey Forest | |
| Samuel Mills Tracy | B.S., M.S. | 1868, 1871 | botany educator; donator and founder of Tracy Herbarium at Texas A&M | |
| Truman G. Yuncker | B.S. | 1915 | bacteriologist, botanist; chair of Botany Department, DePauw University; appointed curator of DePauw Herbarium, later named the T.G. Yuncker Herbarium | |
| Name | Degree | Year | Comments | Reference |
| William Chandler Bagley | B.S. | 1895 | educator, pedagogy reformer championing Essentialism ; founder, School and Society; editor-in-chief, Journal of the National Education Association, 1920–25 | |
| Christine L. Borgman | B.A. | 1973 | Presidential Chair in Information Studies, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA | |
| Catherine Corrigan | B.S. | 1995 | meteorite curator at the Smithsonian | |
| Eugene Davenport | B.S., M.S. | 1878, 1884 | agriculture educator; invited in 1891 by the government of Brazil to duplicate Michigan State with "Little Lansings"; dean of University of Illinois, College of Agriculture | |
| Eduard C. Lindeman | B.A. | 1911 | pioneer and champion of adult education | |
| Myrtle Craig Mowbray | B.S. | 1907 | first African-American woman to graduate from MSU; professor at historically black colleges and universities in Kansas and Missouri | |
| Roy Pea | B.A. | 1974 | education scholar, Rhodes Scholar | |
| Ione Genevieve Shadduck | M.A., PhD | | educator, women's rights activist, and attorney | |
| Marta Tienda | B.A. | 1972 | director, Graduate Studies; former director, Office of Population Research, Princeton University; TIAA trustee since 2005 | |
| Boyce Courtney Williams | M.A., Ph.D. | | vice president of the NCATE | |
| Name | Degree | Year | Comments | Reference |
| Bruce Ableson | B.A. | 1984 | created Open Diary, the first online blogging community | |
| Susan Avery | B.S. | 1972 | first female president and director, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | |
| Louis George Carpenter | B.S., M.S. | 1879, 1883 | pioneer, expert on irrigation engineering | |
| Rolla C. Carpenter | B.S., M.S. | 1873, 1876 | pioneer in heating and ventilating buildings as an Engineering Professor at Michigan State and Cornell; co-planned "Collegeville", the first subdivision in what later became East Lansing | |
| Lloyd Groff Copeman | B.S. | 1903 | invented first electric stove | |
| Margaret J. Eppstein | B.S. | 1978 | research scholar in complex systems, founder, Vermont Complex Systems Center | |
| Ryan M. Eustice | B.S. | 1998 | roboticist, senior vice president of Human-centric AI and Technology Adoption at the Toyota Research Institute | |
| Martha Gray | B.A. | 1978 | biomedical engineer, professor, MIT's Institute for Medical Engineering and Science | |
| Laurel Kuxhaus | B.S, B.A. | 2001 | biomechanical engineer and researcher, program director at the National Science Foundation, 2019–2023 | |
| Ivan LaHaie | B.S. | 1976 | electrical engineer, IEEE Fellow for radar contributions | |
| Charles Severance | B.S. M.S. Ph.D. | 1984 1990 1996 | computer scientist, first executive director of the Sakai Foundation | |
| Janelle Shane | B.S. | 2007 | research scientist, author, public speaker and humorist regarding artificial intelligence | |
| Gary Starkweather | B.S. | 1960 | invented the laser printer | |
| Ellen D. Williams | B.S. | 1976 | nanotechnology researcher; member, National Academy of Sciences | |
| Name | Degree | Year | Comments | Reference |
| Lisa Bero | B.S. | 1980 | internationally recognized former chair within the World Health Organization (WHO), professor of medical and pharmaceutical policy, University of Colorado School of Medicine | |
| Vence L. Bonham Jr. | B.A. | 1978 | deputy director of the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health, and leader of the NHGRI Health Disparities Unit | |
| Myrtelle Canavan | attended | 1898–99 | pioneer pathologist | |
| Raymond J Dingledine | B.S. | 1971 | professor, associate dean, Emory University, elected National Academy of Medicine, and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters | |
| Darlene Dixon | Ph.D. | 1985 | veterinary scientist, toxicologic pathologist, and senior investigator at the National Institutes of Health | |
| Max Essex | D.V.M | 1967 | virologist, professor of Health Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health | |
| Philip Felgner | B.S. | 1972 | noted immunologist, a developer of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine | |
| Eldon Leroy Foltz | B.S. | 1941 | former chair of neurosurgery, UC Irvine School of Medicine | |
| Alfred D. Hershey | B.S., Ph.D. | 1930, 1934 | 1969 Nobel laureate for physiology or medicine | |
| Richard E. Holmes | M.D. | 1977 | among the first African-Americans to attend Mississippi State University | |
| Mark A. Kay | B.S. | 1980 | physician, professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, recognized for contributions in gene therapy, genome editing, and RNA biology | |
| Sharon Kujawa | B.S. | | clinical audiologist, Director of Audiology Research at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, associate professor of otology and laryngology, Harvard Medical School | |
| Mary L. Marazita | B.S. | 1976 | geneticist, Distinguished Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine, recipient of the 2020 Distinguished Scientist Award in Craniofacial Biology Research, International Association for Dental Research | |
| Delano Meriwether | B.S. | 1963 | immunologist, first African-American accepted to Duke University School of Medicine, champion sprinter | |
| Vinay Prasad | B.S. | 2005 | professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, author | |
| Barbara Ross-Lee | D.O. | 1969 | first African-American woman dean of a U.S. medical school: New York College of Osteopathic Medicine | |
| Edwin Rubel | B.S. M.S. Ph.D. | | leading developmental neurobiologist | |
| Linda C. Samuelson | B.S. | 1976 | pioneering physiologist in stem cell research | |
| Carolyn Sargent | B.A. Ph.D. | 1968 1979 | medical anthropologist, professor emerita of Sociocultural Anthropology and of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis | |
| David Sulzer | B.S. | | professor of neurobiology, Columbia, musician | |
| Michael VanRooyen | B.S. | 1984 | director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard Medical School | |
| Walter Willett | B.S. | 1966 | epidemiology professor, Harvard School of Public Health | |
| Name | Degree | Year | Comments | Reference |
| John G. Anderson | B.S. Physics | 1970 | seismologist | |
| Lyman J. Briggs | B.S. | 1893 | physicist; director of the National Bureau of Standards; chaired the Uranium Committee | |
| Gregory Charvat | B.S., M.S., Ph.D. | 2002, 2003, 2007 | led an MIT research team to develop radar that can penetrate walls and display real-time video of the activity on the other side | |
| John Park Finley | B.S. | 1873 | meteorologist, pioneered tornado forecasting | |
| Njema Frazier | Ph.D. | 1997 | nuclear physicist at the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration, past visiting professor at the National Defense University, named on list of "top 100 most powerful Black women" | |
| Scott Gaudi | B.S. | 1995 | professor of astronomy at Ohio State University, former chair of NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program Analysis Group and Astrophysics Advisory Committee, co-chair of the National Academy of Sciences Exoplanet Science Strategy study | |
| T. A. Heppenheimer | B.S., M.S. | 1967, 1968 | aeronautics and space scholar, researcher and author; researcher associate fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; has held research fellowships at Caltech and the Max Planck Institute | |
| Donald Keck | B.S., M.S. | 1962, 1964 | co-developed low-loss optical fiber; recipient, National Medal of Technology | |
| Eugene Parker | B.S. | 1948 | astrophysicist, developed concept of supersonic solar wind; Bruce Prize, Kyoto Prize winner | |
| Nan Phinney | B.S. | 1966 | accelerator physicist at SLAC, American Physical Society Fellow | |
| Charles E. St. John | B.S. | 1887 | physicist at Mt. Wilson observatory; starred scientist, American Men of Science, 1903–1943 | |
| Norman Sleep | B.S. | 1967 | professor of geophysics, Stanford University; member, National Academy of Sciences | |
| Norman Sperling | B.A. | 1970 | astronomer, author, teacher | |
| Rick Stevens | attended | | professor, computer science, University of Chicago, and associate laboratory director, Argonne National Laboratory | |
| Paula Szkody | B.S. | 1970 | professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Washington; past president, American Astronomical Society | |
| Herman Brenner White | B.S. | 1970 | nuclear physicist at Fermilab, won the 2010 American Physical Society Edward A. Bouchet Award | |
| Name | Degree | Year | Comments | Reference |
| Richard N. Aslin | B.A. | 1971 | psychologist, focusing on speech perception | |
| Charles Brainerd | B.S., M.A. Ph.D. | 1966 1968 1970 | psychology professor, Cornell, known for co-developing fuzzy-trace theory | |
| Jennifer Crocker | B.A. | 1975 | professor, Ohio Eminent Scholar in Social Psychology at Ohio State; past president, Society for Personality and Social Psychology | |
| Paul Dressel | M.A. | 1934 | founding director of Michigan State University's Counseling Center | |
| David Dunning | B.A. | 1982 | social psychology professor, University of Michigan, co-author of the Dunning–Kruger effect | |
| Raquel Gur | B.S. M.A. Ph.D. | 1971, 1972, 1974 | research psychiatrist and expert on schizophrenia, professor at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania | |
| James Jackson | B.S. | 1966 | Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan, past director of the university's Institute for Social Research, named to the National Science Board | |
| Peter Richard Killeen | B.A. | 1964 | advanced psychology professor and researcher | |
| Joe Kort | B.A. | 1985 | psychotherapist, clinical social worker, board-certified clinical sexologist and author | |
| Rollo May | transferred | | scholar, the "father of American existential psychology" | |
| Daniel Wegner | B.S. | 1970 | psychologist, introduced ironic process theory | |
| Name | Degree | Year | Comments | Reference |
| Edward Aboufadel | B.S. | 1986 | mathematics professor, elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science | |
| Mark Batzer | B.S. M.A. | 1983 1985 | geneticist, LSU Boyd Professor at Louisiana State University, elected fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science | |
| Joanne Eicher | B.A. M.S. Ph.D. | 1948 1952 1959 | scholar in fashion design, recognized by the British Museum, editor-in-chief of the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion | |
| Harold B. Evans | B.S. M.S | 1931 1932 | research chemist, one of few African-American scientists to work on the Manhattan Project | |
| Fang Zhouzi | Ph.D. | 1995 | pen name of Fang Shimin; popular scientific writer in China | |
| Jennifer Juengel | B.S. | 1987 | animal health researcher, fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand | |
| Julie Kovacs | B.S. | 1981 | bioinorganic chemist and professor, University of Washington | |
| Verghese Kurien | M.S. | 1948 | dairy scientist, father of White Revolution in India; Padma Vibhushan recipient | |
| Steven Lalley | B.S | 1976 | statistician and mathematician, professor, former department chair at The University of Chicago | |
| Daniel Mindiola | B.S. | 1992 | professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania | |
| Jennifer Tank | B.S. | 1988 | ecologist, Galla Professor of Ecology of Streams and Rivers at the University of Notre Dame | |
| Chelsea Walton | B.S. | 2005 | mathematician, professor at Rice University, won a fellowship to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation as well as to the American Mathematical Society | |
| Bess Ward | B.S. | 1976 | William J. Sinclair Professor of Geosciences, director of Ward Research Laboratory, Princeton University | |
| Name | Degree | Year | Comments | Reference |
| James Caan | did not graduate | | actor, Las Vegas series, The Godfather, Mickey Blue Eyes | |
| Jim Cash | B.A. | 1970 | Hollywood writer, Top Gun, Legal Eagles, Dick Tracy | |
| Areeya Chumsai | B.A. | 1993 | filmmaker, author, lecturer, teacher, journalist and former Miss Thailand | |
| Michael Cimino | B.A. | 1959 | Academy Award-winning writer, director; directed, co-wrote The Deer Hunter | |
| Edward S. Feldman | B.A. | 1950 | film and television producer | |
| Sarah Habel | B.A. | 2004 | actress | |
| Greg Harrison | B.A. | 1991 | film director of Groove and November | |
| Anthony Heald | B.A. | 1971 | actor, The Silence of the Lambs | |
| Walter Hill | B.A. | 1962 | producer, director of Last Man Standing and 48 Hrs. | |
| David Magee | B.A. | 1984 | screenwriter, nominated for 2004 Academy Award for Finding Neverland | |
| Bill Mechanic | B.A. | 1973 | CEO, Pandemonium Films; former CEO, 20th Century Fox; producer of 82nd Academy Awards | |
| Bob Murawski | B.A. | | film editor, winner, 2010 Academy Award for editing The Hurt Locker | |
| Sam Raimi | did not graduate | | director, producer, actor | |
| Michealene Risley | B.A. | | writer, director; human rights activist | |
| Tom Sizemore | did not graduate | | actor, Saving Private Ryan | |
| Bernard White | B.A. | | actor, screenwriter and film director | |
| Name | Degree | Year | Comments | Reference |
| Tim Alberta | B.A. | 2008 | journalist and author, has written articles for The Hotline, The Wall Street Journal, The National Journal, The National Review, Politico, and The Atlantic | |
| Amy Astley | B.A. | 1989 | editor-in-chief, Architectural Digest, founded Teen Vogue | |
| Ray Stannard Baker | B.S. | 1889 | early 20th-century "muckraker" journalist; won 1940 Pulitzer Prize for last two volumes of biography of President Woodrow Wilson | |
| Jack Berry | B.S. | 1956 | sports journalist with The Detroit News, the Detroit Free Press, United Press International, and the Golf Writers' Association of America | |
| Richard Cooper | B.A. | 1969 | won 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Attica Prison riot coverage | |
| Craig Custance | B.A. | 1999 | sports journalist, author | |
| M.L. Elrick | B.A. | 1990 | 2009 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting, Detroit Free Press | |
| Ryan Field | B.A. | 1999 | sports anchor, WABC-TV | |
| Martin Finn | B.A. | 2002 | Fox News Channel producer for anchor Shepard Smith | |
| Susan Goldberg | B.A. | 1984 | editor-in-chief of National Geographic, editorial director, National Geographic Partners; first woman to hold position in National Geographics history | |
| Don Gonyea | B.A. | 1978 | White House correspondent, National Public Radio; won Peabody Award | |
| Chris Hansen | B.A. | | Dateline NBC correspondent | |
| Tanya Hart | B.A. | | Emmy Award-winning commentator, host of Hollywood Live with Tanya Hart, syndicated on American Urban Radio Networks; owns Tanya Hart Communications, Inc., a multimedia company | |
| Thom Hartmann | B.A. | | broadcaster on Free Speech TV, author | |
| Jemele Hill | B.A. | 1997 | columnist, The Atlantic, former television host at ESPN, columnist ESPN Page 2 | |
| Jacob Kornbluth | B.A. | 1994 | Emmy-winning documentarian | |
| Adrienne LaFrance | B.A. | 2004 | executive editor of The Atlantic | |
| Wanda Lau | B.S. | | editor of technology and practice for Architect Magazine | |
| Myra MacPherson | B.A. | 1956 | Pulitzer Prize nominee, journalist, author | |
| James C. Moore | B.A. | 1974 | award-winning writer ; New York Times bestseller of Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential | |
| Suzanne Sena | B.A. | | Fox News anchor | |
| Fay Gillis Wells | did not graduate | | first woman to parachute from an aircraft; White House correspondent for Storer Broadcasting Co. | |
| Name | Degree | Year | Comments | Reference |
| Verna Aardema | B.A. | 1934 | award-winning author of children's novels using an African motif | |
| Diane Asitimbay | B.A. | | author, poet, teacher, and intercultural trainer | |
| Wilton Barnhardt | B.A. | 1982 | novelist; director of M.F.A. program in Creative Writing, NC State University; former Sports Illustrated reporter | |
| Tom Bissell | B.A. | 1996 | author, journalist | |
| Jan Harold Brunvand | B.A. | 1955 | writer, folklorist scholar, popularized the term "urban legend" | |
| Stephanie Burgis | attended | | fantasy novelist, music historian | |
| Jeanne Cavelos | B.S. | 1982 | science fiction writer, editor, educator, and former astrophysicist | |
| Kelly DiPucchio | B.A. | 1989 | author of children's books | |
| Carolyn Forché | B.A. | 1972 | poet, editor, human rights advocate | |
| Richard Ford | B.A. | 1966 | writer of novel Independence Day; first to win both the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award | |
| R. Barri Flowers | B.A., M.S. | 1977, 1980 | author of fiction and nonfiction; inducted into MSU Criminal Justice Wall of Fame in 2006 | |
| Peter Gent | B.A. | 1964 | novelist, athlete, wrote novel-turned-film North Dallas Forty | |
| Dan Gerber | B.A. | 1962 | poet, novelist and essayist | |
| Jennifer Greene | B.A. | | romance novelist, published 85 books, inducted into Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame | |
| Jim Harrison | B.A., M.A. | 1960, 1966 | author, Guggenheim Fellowship recipient; novel, Legends of the Fall, basis for Hollywood film of same name | |
| Jim C. Hines | B.S. | 1996 | fantasy and science fiction writer | |
| Helen Hull | attended | 1905–07 | novelist, early feminist, English professor, Wellesley, Columbia | |
| Cynthia Huntington | B.A. | | poet | |
| Beverly Jenkins | B.A. | | novelist of mainly African-American historical romance, noted as one of the "100 most popular African American authors" | |
| Geoff Johns | B.A. | 1995 | award-winning comic book author, New York Times bestselling author | |
| Josh Kilmer-Purcell | B.A. | 1991 | New York Times bestselling author of memoirs I Am Not Myself These Days and The Bucolic Plague, novel Candy Everybody Wants, and The Beekman 1802 Heirloom Cookbook; starred in television reality series The Fabulous Beekman Boys | |
| Michael Kimball | B.A. | 1990 | novelist, founding editor of Taint Magazine | |
| J.T. Krul | B.A. | 1995 | comic book writer, published in Marvel and DC Comics | |
| Michael P. Kube-McDowell | B.A. | 1976 | award-winning science fiction writer; author of more than 500 nonfiction articles | |
| Allison Leotta | B.A. | 1991 | crime thriller novelist, former federal prosecutor | |
| Josh Malerman | B.A. | | musician, novelist, novel Bird Box basis for Hollywood film | |
| Tom McGuane | B.A. | 1962 | novelist | |
| Nnedi Okorafor | M.A. | | science fiction/fantasy novelist | |
| Daniel O'Malley | B.A. | | novelist | |
| Janice Radway | B.A. | 1971 | author, literary and cultural studies scholar | |
| Alma Routsong | B.A. | 1949 | author, alternative fiction | |
| Pat Schmatz | B.S. | 1983 | author of young adult fiction | |
| Sandra Seaton | M.A. | 1989 | playwright and librettist | |
| Elizabeth Sims | B.A. | | novelist, crime and mystery writer; Lambda Literary Award winner; contributing editor at Writer's Digest magazine | |
| Robin Sloan | B.A. | 2002 | noted novelist, short story writer, literary magazine founder, columnist,The Atlantic | |
| Vernor Vinge | B.S. | | science fiction writer; retired math and computer science professor, San Diego State University | |
| Bob Wood | B.A. | 1980 | author of Dodger Dogs to Fenway Franks and Big Ten Country | |
| Timothy Zahn | B.S. | 1973 | science fiction writer; winner of Hugo Award for novella Cascade Point; author of New York Times best-selling Star Wars novel Heir to the Empire | |
| Name | Degree | Year | Comments | Reference |
| Bethany Beardslee | B.A. | 1948 | soprano noted for her performances of contemporary classical music | |
| Dee Dee Bridgewater | did not graduate | | Grammy- and Tony Award-winning jazz singer, actress | |
| Henry Butler | M.M. | 1974 | jazz pianist | |
| James Chance | attended | | no wave jazz musician | |
| Dorothy DeLay | B.M. | 1936 | master violin teacher; trained superstars Itzhak Perlman, Cho-Liang Lin, Midori, and Sarah Chang | |
| Thaddeus Dixon | B.M. | 2006 | songwriter, music producer, director, and instructor at UC Berkeley | |
| Clare Fischer | B.M. | 1951 | Grammy Award-winning composer, arranger, and pianist; Latin jazz motif | |
| GRiZ | did not graduate | | DJ and electronic producer | |
| Tee Grizzley | did not graduate | | rapper, singer, and songwriter; "First Day Out" | |
| Milt Jackson | did not graduate | | jazz vibraphonist; member of the Modern Jazz Quartet | |
| Doug Johnson | B.M. | 1986 | jazz and classical pianist, performer and teacher at Berklee College of Music and Wellesley College | |
| Angela Lanza | B.A. | 2006 | singer, toured overseas with USO | |
| Lazarus | medicine | | rapper, songwriter | |
| Jacques Levy | Ph.D. | 1961 | lyricist, librettist and theatrical director whose collaborators included Bob Dylan, Roger McGuinn and Lucy Simon; others who have performed his work include Joe Cocker, Crystal Gayle and Carly Simon | |
| Joseph Lulloff | B.A., M.A. | | saxophonist performing with numerous major orchestras, educator, Distinguished Professor at the Michigan State University College of Music | |
| David Maslanka | M.M., Ph.D. | 1967, 1971 | composer, best known for his works for wind ensemble | |
| Dika Newlin | B.M. | 1940 | musicologist, composer, pianist | |
| Izler Solomon | B.M. | | conductor, led major Midwest city orchestras; founder, Lansing Symphony Orchestra | |
| Robin Spielberg | attended | | noted pianist, composer, actress, and author | |
| Noel Paul Stookey | did not graduate | | "Paul" of 60s folk group Peter, Paul and Mary | |
| Ben Williams | B.M. | 2007 | jazz bassist, winner of the 2009 Thelonious Monk Award | |
| Janet Williams | B.M. | 1982 | internationally renowned soprano | |
| Name | Degree | Year | Comments | Reference |
| Thomas H. Bailey | B.A. | 1961 | founder and former CEO, Janus Capital Group | |
| Eli Broad | B.B.A. | 1954 | billionaire industrialist and philanthropist; former CEO of AIG | |
| Dan Gilbert | B.B.A. | 1982 | chairman and founder of Quicken Loans; owner, NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers | |
| Tom Gores | B.S. | 1986 | global private-equity magnate, billionaire, owner of NBA's Detroit Pistons | |
| Ernest Green | B.A., M.A. | 1962, 1964 | Little Rock Nine member; assistant labor secretary ; vice president, manager at Lehman Brothers | |
| Andrew Lahde | B.A. | | former hedge fund manager, founder, Lahde Capital | |
| M. Peter McPherson | B.A. | 1963 | chairman, Dow Jones; president of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges; MSU president 1993–2004 | |
| William Raduchel | B.A. | 1966 | independent director, advisor, former Harvard professor | |
| Edward W. Scott | B.A., M.A. | | businessman, philanthropist | |
| Name | Degree | Year | Comments | Reference |
| Darius Adamczyk | B.S. | 1988 | chairman of Honeywell International Inc., elected, National Academy of Engineering | |
| Montie Brewer | B.B.A. | | former president and CEO, Air Canada | |
| Rufus T. Bush | did not graduate | | 19th-century oil refining industrialist, yachtsman, New York socialite | |
| Jack DeBoer | B.A. | 1952 | hotelier, founder of five national hotel brands, including Residence Inn | |
| Jim Delligatti | B.A. | 1964 | creator of the Big Mac sandwich, owner of over 50 McDonald's restaurants | |
| Chris Denson | graduated | | innovation expert, marketer, humorist, host of podcast Innovation Crush, director of Ignition Factory, Omnicom Group | |
| Molly Fletcher | B.A. | 1993 | sports agent, president of client representation, Career Sports & Entertainment | |
| Mary Kay Henry | B.A. | 1979 | president, Service Employees International Union | |
| James P. Hoffa | B.A. | 1963 | president, Teamsters; son of Jimmy Hoffa | |
| Walter T. Kelley | B.S. | 1919 | founded beekeeping supply company the Walter T. Kelley Company in 1926 | |
| Laura M. Labovich | B.A. | 1994 | author, national job search expert, speaker, CEO | |
| Michael Lamach | B.S. | 1985 | CEO, Ingersoll-Rand Corp. | |
| Joanne M. Maguire | B.S. | 1975 | executive vice president of Lockheed Martin Space Systems, 2006–2013 | |
| Russell Mawby | B.S., Ph.D. | 1959 | philanthropist, 25-year CEO, W.K. Kellogg Foundation | |
| John H. McConnell | B.B.A. | 1949 | founder, chairman emeritus, Worthington Industries; former owner of NHL's Columbus Blue Jackets | |
| Craig Menear | B.B.A. | 1979 | president, CEO, Home Depot | |
| Dawn Riley | B.A. | 1986 | first female yachting CEO; America's Cup participant; educator | |
| Andy Roeser | B.A. | 1981 | former president of the Los Angeles Clippers of the NBA | |
| Reinhold Schmieding | B.A. | 1977 | specialized medical tools manufacturer, Forbes 400 billionaire | |
| JR Shaw | B.B.A. | 1955 | Canadian communications company founder/owner | |
| Rick Sirvaitis | B.A., M.A. | 1971, 1976 | president of Storeboard Media LLC. | |
| Robert C. Stempel | M.B.A. | 1970 | former chairman, CEO, General Motors | |
| Paul Waterman | B.S. | 1987 | CEO of BP Castrol and Elementis Plc | |
| Kate Williams | | | chef and restaurateur, owner of Lady of the House in Detroit | |
| Name | Degree | Year | Comments | Reference |
| John H. Adams | B.A. | 1959 | environmental activist, lawyer, and co-founder of the Natural Resource Defense Council, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom | |
| Abraham Aiyash | B.A. | 2017 | US foreign policy activist, House majority floor leader, Michigan House of Representatives, 4th legislative district | |
| Suzanne Marie Babich | B.S. | 1981 | public health scientist, author, dietitian and vegetarianism activist, professor, Fulbright Award winner | |
| Gladys Beckwith | B.A., M.A. Ph.D. | 1951 1956 1968 | activist, founder of the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame | |
| Richard Conlin | B.A. | 1968 | affordable housing activist and developer, former member of the Seattle City Council president | |
| Donald N. Duquette | B.A. | 1969 | founding director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic, University of Michigan Law School | |
| Emma Genevieve Gillette | B.S. | 1920 | "mother of Michigan's State Park system" | |
| Shelly Grabe | B.A. | 1996 | women's rights activist, social psychology professor, provost, UC Santa Cruz | |
| Florence Hall | B.S. | 1909 | led Woman's Land Army of America during World War II | |
| Rutherford P. Hayes | attended | 1876-77 | library innovator, banker, son of U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes | |
| Jon Hoadley | B.A. | 2006 | former executive director, National Stonewall Democrats | |
| Susan Jacoby | B.A. | 1965 | journalist; author, Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism; NYC program director, Center for Inquiry | |
| Russell Kirk | B.A. | 1940 | National Review magazine co-founder, "father of the modern conservative movement" | |
| Jeffrey Miller | transferred | | Kent State shootings victim | |
| Michael Schwerner | transferred | | civil rights activist, martyr; along with James Chaney and Andrew Goodman, was murdered by Philadelphia, MS-area Ku Klux Klan members for his African-American voter registration efforts during Freedom Summer, 1964 | |
| Lou Sheldon | B.A. | 1957 | evangelical conservative activist, founder and chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition | |
| Jim Wallis | B.A. | 1970 | liberal Christian evangelical activist; author, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It | |
| Name | Degree | Year | Comments | Reference |
| Spencer Abraham | B.A. | 1974 | former U.S. Secretary of Energy and U.S. senator from Michigan | |
| Sandra E. Adams | B.A. | 1978 | rear admiral in U.S. Navy | |
| Abraham Aiyash | B.A. | 2017 | representative, 9th district, Michigan | |
| Tylease Alli | B.A. | 2002 | reading clerk, Democratic, US House of Representatives | |
| George R. Ariyoshi | B.A. | 1949 | third governor of Hawaii | |
| Adnan Badran | M.A., Ph.D. | 1961, 1963 | former prime minister of Jordan | |
| James Blanchard | B.A. | 1964 | former Michigan governor ; former ambassador to Canada | |
| Eljay B. Bowron | B.S. | 1973 | former director of the US Secret Service; chairman and co-founder, Torchstone Global, LLC, a security company | |
| Augustus Caine | Ph.D. | | Secretary of Education of Liberia, 1965–1970 | |
| Albert J. Campbell | attended | 1870s | representative, U.S. Congress, Montana 1899–1901 | |
| Linda Chapin | B.A. | | first chairman of the Orange County Commission in Florida; unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000 | |
| Ted Chudleigh | B.S. | 1965 | member, Legislative Assembly of Ontario | |
| Donald G. Cook | B.S. | 1969 | commander, Air Education and Training Command, U.S. Air Force | |
| Richard Cordray | B.A. | 1981 | Ohio state treasurer ; Ohio attorney general ; inaugural chief, United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | |
| Charles Dwight Curtiss | B.S. | 1911 | former commissioner, Federal Highway Administration | |
| Charles J. DeLand | B.S. | 1899 | Michigan secretary of state, 1921–1926 | |
| Nancy E. Dick | B.A. | 1951 | former lieutenant governor, Colorado, first woman to hold this office | |
| Emily Dievendorf | B.A. | 2001 | representative, Michigan House of Representatives, 77th district, first openly nonbinary Michigan state representative | |
| Tony Earl | B.A. | 1958 | former Wisconsin governor | |
| John Engler | B.S. | 1971 | former Michigan governor | |
| Bob Evnen | B.A. | 1974 | secretary of state, Nebraska | |
| Robert A. Ficano | B.A. | 1974 | former Wayne County executive | |
| Jason E. Hammond | B.S., M.S. | 1886, 1900 | former Michigan superintendent of Public Instruction | |
| Penny Harrington | B.A. | 1964 | former police chief; first woman to head a major US city police force | |
| Jim Hill | B.A. | 1969 | first African-American elected statewide in Oregon | |
| Derek Hodge | B.A. | 1963 | former lieutenant governor, U.S. Virgin Islands | |
| Jennifer White Holland | B.A. | 2010 | delegate, Maryland House of Delegates for District 10 | |
| Tim Johnson | | 1970–1971 | Democratic senator of South Dakota | |
| Don A. Jones | B.S. | 1933 | rear admiral and civil engineer; served as the seventh director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey and second director of the Environmental Science Services Administration Corps | |
| Lawrence Kestenbaum | B.A. | 1979 | attorney, politician, and the creator and webmaster of the Political Graveyard website | |
| H. Stuart Knight | B.S. | 1948 | director of the U.S. Secret Service | |
| Jerry Knirk | B.S. | 1974 | doctor and politician, served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives | |
| Moussa Koussa | B.A. | 1978 | former foreign minister of Libya, 2009–2011 | |
| Lee Wan-koo | M.S. | 1984 | prime minister of South Korea | |
| Wilson Livingood | B.A. | 1961 | former United States House sergeant at arms | |
| Chris Magnus | B.A. | | chief of police of Tucson, Arizona | |
| Mark Mazur | B.A. | 1978 | former assistant secretary, U.S. Department of the Treasury | |
| Eileen McNulty | B.A. | | government official, first female chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality | |
| Chris Meagher | B.A. | 2005 | former assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs | |
| Harry Moniba | Ph.D. | | vice president of Liberia, 1984–90 | |
| William Penn Mott Jr. | B.S. | 1931 | former director of the National Park Service | |
| Frederick H. Mueller | B.S. | 1914 | former United States Secretary of Commerce under President Dwight Eisenhower | |
| Shahzada Jamal Nazir | B.A. | 1999 | former federal minister for the ministries of National Health Services, Religious Affairs, National Harmony, National Heritage & Integration, in the government of Pakistan | |
| Bryan Newland | B.A., J.D. | 2003, 2007 | assistant secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs | |
| James S. Nunneley | | 1933 | former Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives | |
| Diane Pappas | B.A. | | Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives | |
| Gregory Quinn | B.A. | 1972 | representative, St. Louis County Council, attorney | |
| Peter Rheinstein | B.A., M.S. | 1964 | former official of the Food and Drug Administration | |
| Kristen McDonald Rivet | B.A. | 1992 | U.S. congresswoman for Michigan's 8th congressional district | |
| Kathleen D. Roe | B.A., M.A. | | former director of Archives and Records Management Operations at the New York State Archives | |
| Helen Rosenthal | B.A. | 1982 | New York City Council member, 6th District | |
| Debbie Stabenow | B.A., M.A. | 1972, 1975 | U.S. senator from Michigan | |
| David A. Stockman | B.A. | 1968 | former director of Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan | |
| Marta Suplicy | B.A. in Psychology | | mayor of São Paulo, 2001–2004; senator for São Paulo, 2010–present | |
| Clay Tallman | B.A. | 1895 | commissioner, United States General Land Office, member of Nevada State Senate 1909–1913, president pro tempore | |
| Bob Traxler | B.A. | 1953 | U.S. Congress, Michigan, 1974–93; Mackinac Island State Park Commission, 1992–present | |
| John P. Walters | B.A. | 1974 | former director, Office of National Drug Control Policy | |
| Fred M. Warner | attended, did not graduate | 1880s | governor of Michigan, 1905–1911 | |
| Gretchen Whitmer | B.A., J.D. | 1993, 1998 | 49th governor of Michigan, second woman to hold the position | |
| Name | Degree | Year | Comments | Reference | - | - | - | - | - |
| Flozell Adams | B.A. | 1998 | former offensive tackle, Dallas Cowboys | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Herb Adderley | B.S. | 1961 | former cornerback, Green Bay Packers; elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1980 | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Brian Allen | B.A. | 2017 | center, Los Angeles Rams | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Denicos Allen | B.S. | 2014 | linebacker, Tampa Bay Buccaneers | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Morten Andersen | B.A. | 1982 | former placekicker, New Orleans Saints; all-time leading scorer in NFL history | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Fred Arbanas | B.A. | 1961 | former tight end, Kansas City Chiefs | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Edwin Baker | B.A. | 2013 | running back, New Orleans Saints | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tony Banks | B.A. | 1996 | former quarterback, Houston Texans | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Le'Veon Bell | | | NFL running back, Kansas City Chiefs | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Larry Bethea | B.A. | 1977 | former NFL defensive end, Dallas Cowboys | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ed Budde | B.S. | 1963 | former offensive lineman, Kansas City Chiefs | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Max Bullough | B.A. | 2014 | former NFL linebacker, Houston Texans | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Derek Bunch | | 1985 | former NFL linebacker, Washington Redskins | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Plaxico Burress | B.A. | 2000 | former wide receiver, Pittsburgh Steelers | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Garrett Celek | B.S. | 2011 | former NFL tight end, San Francisco 49ers | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Connor Cook | B.A., M.A. | 2014, 2015 | quarterback, Cincinnati Bengals | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Kirk Cousins | B.A. | 2011 | quarterback, Minnesota Vikings | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Demetrious Cox | | 2016 | safety, Carolina Panthers | | - | - | - | - | - |
| B.J. Cunningham | B.S. | 2012 | wide receiver, Chicago Bears | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Kellen Davis | B.A. | 2007 | former NFL tight end, New York Jets | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Joe DeLamielleure | B.A. | 1973 | former guard, Buffalo Bills; elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2003 | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Darqueze Dennard | B.A. | 2014 | cornerback, Cincinnati Bengals | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tony Discenzo | | | former tackle, Boston Patriots and Buffalo Bills | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Kurtis Drummond | B.A. | 2015 | safety, Houston Texans | | - | - | - | - | - |
| T. J. Duckett | B.A. | 2002 | former running back, Seattle Seahawks | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Billy Joe DuPree | B.A. | 1972 | former NFL tight end, Dallas Cowboys | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Paul Edinger | B.S. | 2000 | former placekicker, Minnesota Vikings | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dixon Edwards | B.A. | 1990 | former NFL linebacker, Dallas Cowboys | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Brandon Fields | B.A. | 2007 | former NFL punter, Miami Dolphins | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Fou Fonoti | B.A. | 2014 | offensive tackle, San Francisco 49ers | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wayne Fontes | B.S. | 1961 | former coach, Detroit Lions | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bennie Fowler | B.A. | 2014 | wide receiver, Denver Broncos | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dan France | B.A. | 2014 | offensive tackle, Cincinnati Bengals | | - | - | - | - | - |
| William Gholston | | | defensive end, Tampa Bay Buccaneers | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Joel Heath | | | defensive tackle, Houston Texans | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tyler Hoover | B.A. | 2014 | defensive end, Indianapolis Colts | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Brian Hoyer | B.A. | 2008 | quarterback, Houston Texans | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mark Ingram | B.S. | 1996 | former wide receiver, Philadelphia Eagles | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Taiwan Jones | B.A. | 2015 | linebacker, New York Jets | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jeremy Langford | B.A. | 2015 | running back, Chicago Bears | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tony Lippett | B.A. | 2015 | wide receiver, Miami Dolphins | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Keshawn Martin | B.A. | 2011 | wide receiver, Houston Texans | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Derrick Mason | B.A. | 1997 | former wide receiver, Baltimore Ravens | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Brandon McKinney | B.A. | 2006 | former defensive tackle, Indianapolis Colts | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jim Miller | B.S. | 2002 | former quarterback, New York Giants | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Earl Morrall | B.A. | 1955 | former quarterback, Baltimore Colts | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Muhsin Muhammad | B.A. | 1996 | former wide receiver, Carolina Panthers | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Keith Mumphery | B.A. | 2015 | wide receiver, Houston Texans | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Domata Peko | | | defensive tackle, Cincinnati Bengals | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Julian Peterson | B.A. | 2000 | former linebacker, Detroit Lions | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Javon Ringer | B.S. | 2009 | former running back, Tennessee Titans | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Andre Rison | B.A. | 1989 | former wide receiver, Oakland Raiders | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Trenton Robinson | B.A. | 2011 | defensive back, Washington Redskins | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Charles Rogers | B.S. | 2003 | former wide receiver, Detroit Lions | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Marcus Rush | B.A. | 2015 | linebacker, San Francisco 49ers | | - | - | - | - | - |
| George Saimes | B.S. | 1963 | former safety, Buffalo Bills | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dion Sims | B.A. | 2013 | tight end, Miami Dolphins | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bubba Smith | B.A. | 1966 | former defensive end, Baltimore Colts; actor, Police Academy | - | Jeff Smoker | B.S. | 2007 | former quarterback, Arizona Rattlers | |
| Drew Stanton | B.S. | 2007 | quarterback, Arizona Cardinals | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Kevin Vickerson | B.A. | 2005 | defensive tackle, New York Jets | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Kenneth Walker III | | 2021 | running back, Seattle Seahawks | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Trae Waynes | | | cornerback, Minnesota Vikings | | - | - | - | - | - |
| George Webster | B.A. | 1966 | former linebacker, Houston Oilers | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tyrone Willingham | B.A. | 1977 | former wide receiver; head coach of Stanford, Notre Dame and Washington | | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jerel Worthy | B.A. | 2012 | defensive tackle, Kansas City Chiefs | | - | - | - | - | - |