List of Culver Academies people

This list contains notable people associated with Culver Academies in Culver, Indiana, including alumni, former, and current faculty.

Alumni

Main category: Culver Academies alumni

• Bud Adams, owner of NFL's Tennessee Titans ^[1]
• Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia
• Robert Baer, retired CIA officer and author
• Alberto Baillères, billionaire ^{[2] [3]}
• Frank Batten, founder of Landmark Communications, The Weather Channel and weather.com
• Dierks Bentley, musician
• Pablo Bernal, Spanish track cyclist
• Elizabeth Bernstein, Wall Street Journal journalist
• Michael Brun, electronic musician and DJ
• David Burpee, experimental agriculturalist and president, W. A. Burpee Seed Company
• Samuel Butler, lawyer
• Quico Canseco, U.S. Representative (R-TX)
• Enrico Caruso Jr., actor, singer, son of renowned operatic tenor Enrico Caruso
• Sam Cohn, talent agent
• Elgin English Crull, City Manager of Dallas, Texas at time of JFK assassination
• Joseph T. Curry, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1930 to 1944; planter in Tensas Parish ^[4]
• Luther Davis, playwright and screenwriter
• Kevin Dean, NHL hockey player
• Vadhir Derbez, actor and singer
• Jonathan Dever, member of Ohio House of Representatives
• Mario Dominguez, champ car driver
• Nic Dowd, NHL hockey player
• Jack Eckerd, founder Eckerd Pharmacy
• Molly Engstrom, hockey player for Team USA
• Eugene C. Eppley, hotel magnate
• Reuben H. Fleet, founder of Consolidated Aircraft, aviation pioneer
• George Foreman III, professional boxer
• Ernest K. Gann, aviator and writer
• Blake Geoffrion, hockey player
• Horace Heidt, pianist and big-band leader
• James A. Henderson, chairman of Cummins, Inc.
• Mitch Henderson, college basketball head coach
• Elwood Hillis, US House of Representatives, grandson of Elwood Haynes
• Hal Holbrook, actor
• Tim Holt, actor
• Robert J. Huber, Michigan politician and businessman
• Michael Huffington, U. S. Congressman from California and film producer
• Lamar Hunt, founder of NFL's Kansas City Chiefs
• Jonas Ingram, Naval Admiral and recipient of the Medal of Honor
• Brennan Kapcheck, professional hockey player
• Bill Koch, businessman, sailor, and collector; his boat won America's Cup in 1992 ^[5]
• Russell Lee, photographer and photojournalist, best known for work for Farm Security Administration (FSA)
• John-Michael Liles, NHL hockey player and 2006 Olympian
• Joshua Logan, playwright, screenwriter and stage/film director
• Mason Lohrei, NHL hockey player ^[6]
• Daniel Manion, judge
• George Mastics, member of Ohio House of Representatives, current County Commissioner in Palm Beach, Florida
• Adolphe Menjou, actor
• Charles I. Murray, Brigadier General, USMC, recipient of Navy Cross and Army Distinguished Service Cross
• Emilio Azcárraga Milmo, American-Mexican businessman and publisher
• Edmund H. North, Oscar-winning screenwriter
• Richard O'Neill, writer
• Walter O'Malley (1903–1979), owner of baseball's Brooklyn Dodgers, who moved team to Los Angeles, California in 1958 ^[7]
• Stephen A. Orthwein, polo player
• Eugene Pallette, actor
• Roger Penske, owner of Penske Corporation
• William Perry, United States Secretary of Defense
• Barry Richter, NHL hockey player
• John Rickert, real estate investor, owner RICORE|Lee & Associates, Cincinnati, Ohio
• George R. Roberts, financier, partner in KKR
• Mark Salling, actor, musician, played "Puck" on TV show Glee
• Jon Scieszka, author
• Gene Siskel, film critic
• Tal Smith, Major League Baseball executive, retired president of Houston Astros, marathon runner
• Herbert Sobel, lieutenant colonel, U.S. Army, World War II veteran and first commander of Easy Company, 2nd battalion, 506th P.I.R. with 101st Airborne division, depicted in Band of Brothers
• Juergen Sommer, professional soccer player and coach
• Lewis M. Steel, civil rights attorney
• Burr Steers, actor and director
• George Steinbrenner, owner of New York Yankees
• Hal Steinbrenner, part-owner of New York Yankees
• Dan Sullivan, U.S. senator for Alaska
• Gary Suter, NHL hockey player
• Ryan Suter, hockey player, NHL and Team USA
• Jorge Alberto Uribe, Colombian politician, diplomat and businessman
• Miles D. White, chairman and CEO, Abbott Labs
• James C. Wofford, Olympic equestrian
• Robert R. Young, financier
• Jay Zeamer, Jr., Medal of Honor recipient, U.S. Army Air Force of World War II

Faculty

• Hillard Bell Huntington
• James Garesche Ord
• Bob Peck
• Charles DuVal Roberts
• William A. Roosma ^[8]
• John Shirley Wood

Fictional

• Tom Brown of Culver, movie character

References

1. "The Titans' Bud Adams Was the Most Successful Owner in NFL History". Forbes .
2. https://www.itam.mx/documentos-itam/man_year2001.pdf ^{[ bare URL PDF ]}
3. "Alberto Baillères: Success Story of Mexican Billionaire". 22 April 2020.
4. Matthew Reonas, Once Proud Princes: Planters and Plantation Culture in Louisiana's Northeast Delta, From the First World War Through the Great Depression, pp. 264, 271 (PDF). Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University PhD dissertation, December 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 21, 2013. Retrieved July 19, 2013.
5. "SPORTS PEOPLE: YACHT RACING; Don't Tell Dennis Conner", The New York Times , July 15, 1992. Retrieved February 14, 2008. "The America's Cup defender, BILL KOCH, capsized a sailboat on Lake Maxinkuckee in Culver, Ind., last weekend while racing students at Culver Academy, where he graduated in the 1950s."
6. Palzewic, Rich (5 April 2021). "Lohrei thriving with Green Bay Gamblers". The Press Times. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
7. "Walter F. O'Malley, Leader of Dodgers' Move to Los Angeles, Dies at 75; Unqualified Success", The New York Times , August 10, 1979.
8. "Awarded Legion Of Merit For Service In Vietnam" (PDF). The Culver Citizen. Culver, IN. October 26, 1967. p. 1.