Alumni
Athletics
- Josh Allen – football player, 2024 NFL MVP [1]
- Gideon Ariel – athlete [2]
- Rigo Beltrán – former Major League Baseball pitcher [3]
- Charles Bradley – basketball player [4]
- Francis Chesley – football player [5]
- Darnell Clash – football player [6]
- Derek Cooke – basketball player
- Hayden Dalton (born 1996) – basketball player
- Josh Davis – basketball player [7]
- Fennis Dembo – basketball player [8] [9]
- Conrad Dobler – football player
- Lloyd Eaton – football coach
- Aaron Elling – football player [10]
- Bob Fitzke – football player [11]
- Malcom Floyd – football player [12]
- Ted Gilmore – football coach [13]
- Adam Goldberg – football player
- Art Howe – baseball player
- Jeff Huson – baseball player [14]
- Korey Jones – football player [15]
- Jim Kiick – football player [16]
- Eric Leckner – basketball player [17]
- Derrick Martin – football player [18]
- Dale Memmelaar – football player [19]
- Larry Nance Jr. – basketball player
- Jay Novacek – football player [9] [20]
- Chuck Pagano – football coach
- John Pilch – former NBA player [21]
- Chris Prosinski – football player
- Bill Quayle – athletics director for Emporia State University 1979–1999
- Theo Ratliff – center for the Charlotte Bobcats of the NBA [22]
- Jeron Roberts (born 1976) – American-Israeli basketball player
- Ken Sailors – inventor of the jump shot; former NBA player [9]
- Justin Salas – wrestler [23]
- Shakir Smith – basketball player
- Truett Smith – football player
- Billie Sutton – professional bronc rider and candidate for Governor of South Dakota
- Scott Usher - Olympic swimmer
- Scottie Vines – football player [24]
- Jack Weil – football player [25]
- Justin Williams – basketball player [26]
- Tony Windis – basketball player [27]
Arts & entertainment
- Steve Cochran – actor
- Harold Garde — Artist
- Curt Gowdy – sportscaster [28]
- Karyl McBride – psychotherapist and author [29]
- Rodger McDaniel – attorney, author, member of both houses of Wyoming legislature
- Blake Neubert – artist [30]
- Wayde Preston – television actor [31]
- Chancey Williams – country music singer/songwriter [32]
- Penny Wolin – photographer
- Tak Chiu Wong – saxophonist
Politics
- Jim Anderson – politician [33] [34]
- Rodney Anderson – politician [35]
- Eli Bebout – Wyoming state politician
- Lynn Birleffi – politician
- Douglas K. Bryant – politician [36]
- Dick Cheney – politician
- Floyd Esquibel – politician [37]
- Dave Freudenthal – former governor of Wyoming [38]
- John Frullo – politician [39]
- Clifford Hansen – politician [40]
- Harry L. Harris – politician [41]
- John J. Hickey – politician [42]
- David N. Hitchcock – politician [43]
- Daniel L. Kinnaman – politician [44]
- Tom Lubnau – politician [45]
- Cynthia Lummis – politician
- Leonard McEwan – former member of the Wyoming Supreme Court and the Fourth District Court in Sheridan [ citation needed ]
- M. Margaret McKeown – judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [ citation needed ]
- Mary Mead – politician [46]
- Matt Mead – politician [47]
- Joseph B. Meyer – Wyoming attorney general and state treasurer [48]
- Bob Nicholas – politician [49]
- Owen Petersen – politician [50] [51]
- Alan K. Simpson – former U.S. senator
- Pete Simpson – former state representative, UW administrator and Hall of Fame member
- Gail D. Zimmerman – state legislator [52]
Other
- Florence F. Arenberg (M.S. 1939) – botanist and educator [53]
- Jillian Balow – Wyoming superintendent of public instruction, effective 2015 [54]
- Jerry Buss – businessman [55]
- W. Edwards Deming – engineer and professor
- Floyd Dominy – Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner 1959–1969 [56]
- Rick Edgeman – engineer and professor
- Gretchen Hofmann – professor of ecological physiology of marine organisms [57]
- John A. List – economics professor [58] [59]
- Stephen Nicholas – physician
- Susan Pamerleau – sheriff [60]
- Samuel C. Phillips – director of NASA's Apollo program from 1964 to 1969, director of the National Security Agency 1972–1973; commander of the Air Force Systems Command 1973–1975 [61]
- Ken Pomeroy – statistical specialist [62]
- Peter J. Schoomaker – military general
- Marlan Scully – physicist
- Matthew Shepard – LGBT activist, murdered; did not graduate [63]
- Carol Tomé – CEO of UPS
- James Watt – Secretary of the Interior in the Reagan administration
- Alvin Wiederspahn (1949–2014) – Cheyenne lawyer, historical preservationist, rancher, and member of both houses of the Wyoming State Legislature [64]
- Gary E. Gibson – neuroscientist [65]
