Notable Alumni of Augustana College

Don Sundquist 1936–2023

47th Governor of Tennessee

Bachelor of Arts

Lane Evans 1951–2014

Democratic U.S. congressman from Illinois

Also attended: Georgetown University

Carl R. Chindblom 1870–1956

U.S. Representative from Illinois

Also attended: Illinois Institute of Technology

Frank Wood 1951–

Former Iowa state legislator

Also attended: Western Illinois University

Sue Rezin 1963–

Republican member of the Illinois Senate

Dan Duffy 1966–

Former Illinois state senator

Joel Brunsvold 1942–2010

Illinois legislator and Natural Resources director

David Hultgren 1951–

Former Illinois legislator and judge

Also attended: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Brenda C. Barnes 1953–2017

Former chairman and CEO of Sara Lee

Also attended: Loyola University Chicago

Daniel C. Tsui 1939–

Physicist, Princeton professor emeritus

Also attended: University of Chicago, Boston University

Ivan Wallin 1883–1969

Biologist, early experimenter on endosymbiotic theory

Also attended: University of Iowa, Princeton University, New York University

Diane E. Griffin 1940–2024

Virologist and Johns Hopkins professor

Bachelor of Arts · Biology · Class of 1962

Also attended: Stanford University

Craig Blomberg 1955–

New Testament scholar at Denver Seminary

Anton Julius Carlson 1875–1956

Physiologist, chaired University of Chicago physiology department

Also attended: Stanford University

Thorsten Sellin 1896–1994

Pioneering criminologist and sociologist

Roald H. Fryxell 1934–1974

Geoarchaeology pioneer and Washington State professor

Bachelor of Arts

Also attended: University of Idaho, Washington State University

Father: Fritiof Fryxell (Augustana College, University of Chicago)

Fritiof Fryxell 1900–1986

Geologist and mountain climber

Bachelor of Arts · English studies, Biology

Also attended: University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Child: Roald H. Fryxell (University of Idaho, Augustana College)

Dave Allen 1958–

Television and film actor and comedian

Peggy Anderson 1938–2016

Author and journalist, wrote Nurse

Anna Olsson 1866–1946

Swedish-American author and children's writer

Ken Anderson 1949–

Former Cincinnati Bengals NFL quarterback

Art Anderson 1916–1983

Professional basketball player in the early NBL

Shem-Tov Sabag 1959–

Israeli marathoner who competed at the 1984 Olympics

Henning Jacobson 1856–1930

Pastor and plaintiff in Jacobson v. Massachusetts