List of University of Nebraska–Lincoln people

Nobel laureates

Pulitzer Prize winners

• Willa Cather – Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for her wartime novel, One of Ours
• Karen Blessen – Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for a special section in the Dallas Morning News, The Final Flight of 50 Sierra Kilo
• Ted Kooser – poet; thirteenth Poet Laureate of the United States; 2004–2006; Visiting Professor in the English department of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln; 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for book Delights and Shadows
• Marjie Lundstrom – Pulitzer Prize in 1991 as a national reporter for the Gannett News service, for which she wrote a series on child-abuse deaths

  Academics

College founders, presidents and deans

Professors and scholars

Arts and entertainment

Business

Law and politics

Heads of state

Cabinet secretaries and assistant secretaries

Senators

Governors

Representatives

Judges

Political figures and activists

Military

Literature

• Eudora Stone Bumstead, poet, hymnwriter
• Willa Cather – novelist
• Roxane Gay — writer and professor
• Catherine Kidwell – novelist
• Mary Pipher – author, expert on culture and mental health; author of Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, a best-seller for over three years; author of the New York Times best-seller The Shelter of Each Other: Rebuilding Our Families to Enrich Our Lives
• Mari Sandoz – biographer, novelist, and historian whose work usually drew on the life of the Great Plains; known for non-fiction works Old Jules and Crazy Horse
• Jim Thompson – wrote 29 books between 1942 and 1973, including books adapted to film such as The Getaway and The Grifters

  Science and technology

Athletics

Baseball

Basketball

• Nate Branch – basketball player for the Harlem Globetrotters
• Tyronn Lue – head coach for the Cleveland Cavaliers

  Football

Other sports

Faculty