Allan Michael Rock, is a Canadian lawyer, former politician, diplomat and university administrator. He was Canada's ambassador to the United Nations (2004–2006) and had previously served in the Cabinet of Jean Chrétien, most notably as Justice Minister (1993–1997) and Health Minister (1997–2002).
André Maurois was a French author.
Claus Adolf Moser, Baron Moser, was a British statistician who made major contributions in both academia and the Civil Service. He prided himself rather on being a non-mathematical statistician, and said that the thing that frightened him most in his life was when Maurice Kendall asked him to teach a course on analysis of variance at the LSE.
Henry Augustus Buchtel was an American minister, educator, and public official, born near Akron, Ohio. He was the seventeenth governor of Colorado.
Stephen John Toope is a Canadian legal scholar and academic administrator. He is the current 346th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2015.
Denver Boone was the official mascot of the University of Denver from 1968 to 1998. He was designed by a Walt Disney artist and named by a DU student. Despite being retired and replaced by the DU administration in 1998, he was revived by independent members of the DU student and alumni community in 2009. He now serves in an unofficial capacity at athletic and cultural events at the University of Denver.
Richard Heber Newton was a prominent American Episcopalian priest and writer.
David Monas Maloney was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Wichita from 1967 to 1982.
Hugh Percy was an Anglican bishop who served as Bishop of Rochester (1827) and Bishop of Carlisle (1827-56).
Robert Coombe is a chemist and an educator. He has been a faculty member at the University of Denver since 1981. From 2005 until 2014 he was chancellor.
Daniel L. Ritchie is the Chancellor Emeritus of the University of Denver, a former CEO of major communication corporations, and a Harvard alumnus. He hails from China Grove, North Carolina and has moved around the country from coast to coast before eventually settling in Denver, Colorado.
Mary Reed Hall is located on the University of Denver campus in Denver, Colorado south west of University Hall. It was built in 1932 as a new library to replace the Andrew S. Carnegie library. The building, named after Mary D. Reed, was first used in January 1933. When Penrose Library was built in 1972, the building was decommissioned. The Mary Reed Building now houses administrative offices, including those of the chancellor and provost.
Albert Charles Jacobs served as the eleventh chancellor for University of Denver from 1949 to 1953. During his tenure of office, the student body increased in terms of both quantity and quality, admission standards were raised and new facilities were created. Jacobs was born on May 21, 1900, in Birmingham, Michigan. In 1921 he received his degree from the University of Michigan. That same year he entered Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. From Oxford he earned his Bachelor of Civil Law and his Master of Arts degrees. In 1927, Jacobs joined the faculty of law at Columbia University specializing in property and family law. After World War II he returned to Columbia to accept the post of assistant to the president for administrative affairs. He was elected provost for the university a year later. Jacobs was a law professor and administrator at Columbia for twenty-five years. He became chancellor of University of Denver beginning in 1949. In 1953 Jacobs left the University of Denver to accept the position of president of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where he worked until 1968. After his retirement he served as president of the University of Michigan Emeritus Club from 1973 to 1974. Jacobs died on October 29, 1976.
Ben Mark Cherrington was Acting Chancellor at the University of Denver from October 1943 to February 1946. During his term of office as chancellor he added the School of Speech and the Hotel and Restaurant Management School to the University's programs. He was the Director of the Social Science Foundation which later evolved into the Graduate School of International Studies at the University for 25 years. Cherrington was also an author of the Charter of the United Nations and a co-founder of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). He was honored by Queen Elizabeth in 1956 for his contributions to international affairs.
Dwight Morrell Smith served the University of Denver (DU) from 1972–1989 and 1992 to the present as a chemistry professor, academic administrator, and chancellor of the university. In 1984 he was named the 15th chancellor of the University.
Ross Pritchard served as the fourteenth chancellor of the University of Denver from 1978 to 1984. After experiencing many successes and difficulties relating to DU’s finances, enrollment, and staff relations, Pritchard was fired by the school’s board of trustees. Despite this pall cast over his tenure as chancellor, Pritchard did succeed in making many strides for the University.
Chester M. Alter (1906–2006) served as the twelfth Chancellor at the University of Denver (DU) from 1953 to 1967. He was a scientist and an educator. He worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II.
