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Notable Alumni
Phil Jackson UND Baskeball, 1965
Fred Aandahl
- Class of 1921
- Former Governor of North Dakota
Maxwell Anderson
- Playwright
- Pulitzer Prize winner
Dick Armey
- Former Majority Leader in the House of Representatives
Jerome Beasley
- Basketball star for UND
- Drafted in the 2nd Round by the Miami Heat in 2002
Ed Belfour
- Played hockey for UND
- Had a successful career as a goalie in the NHL
Jason Blake
- Played hockey for UND
- Played in the NHL
John Casey
- Former hockey player at UND
- Played goalie for the North Stars in the 1990-91 Stanley Cup series
Mark Chorney
- Captain for the 1980 UND National Championship hockey team
- Played for the Pittsburgh Penguins on their Stanley Cup run
- Also played for the Los Angeles Kings
Dr. Thomas Clifford
- Student 1938-42; Faculty 1945-71; President 1971-92
- In 1945 he served as a teaching assistant, instructor, associate professor, professor, department chair, counselor of men, dean, vice president, president and during 1990-91 as interim chancellor of the North Dakota University system.
- During his 21 years as president of UND, enrollment grew by nearly 4,000 students and annual operating budget had increased by more than 700 percent and research grants by 800 percent.
Mike Commodore
- Played hockey for UND
- Had successful career in the NHL
John Lee Coulter
- Class of 1904
- Former President of the North Dakota Agricultural College (now NDSU)
Byron Dorgan
Carl Ben Eielson
- Class of 1921
- Flew over the North Pole in 1928
- Died on heroic rescue mission in Siberia
Ralph Engelstad
- Former goalie for UND
- Donated over $100 million dollars to UND for our new hockey arena, Engelstad Arena
Robert Eaglestaff
- Former UND basketball player, elected into the UND hall of fame in 2004
Joseph Flanagan
- Named UND's greatest athlete in over the first 50 years
Lynn Frazier
- Former Governor of North Dakota
- Later became United States Senator
Howard Huston
- Class of 1918
- League of Nations official
Phil Jackson
- Former UND basketball player
- Led UND to the national tournament two years in a row
- Played professional basketball for the New York Knicks
- Coached the Chicago Bulls to 6 Championship Titles
- Coached the Los Angeles Lakers to 3 NBA titles
Beatrice Johnstone
- Beatrice was one of the University's earliest graduates, receiving her degree in 1891.
- In 1914 she became the first rural school nurse in the nation.
Jim Kleinsasser
- Former UND football player
- Currently plays for the NFL's Minnesota Vikings
Jim LeClair
- Former UND football player
- Had successful career in the NFL
William Lemke
- United States Congressman
- In 1936, he ran for President
- Only North Dakotan to ever run for President
Phillip Moore
- Grand Forks Native
- Star tailback on the UND football team
- Drafted by the Cincinatti Bengals
William Nuessle
Dave Osborne
- Former UND football player
- Played in the NFL
Dave St. Peter
- President of the Minnesota Twins
Earl Pomeroy
- North Dakota's only member in the House of Representatives
- Serves on both the Ways and Means Committee and the Agricultural Committee (only Congressman to do so)
Carleton Elliot Simensen
- While at UND, Simensen played basketball and was a member of the Scabbard and Blade, Blue Key, and Iron Mask fraternities
- Served as a Minneapolis recruiter for the Marines
- He was killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor , December 7, 1941 . Carleton Elliott "Sim" Simensen was the first UND graduate to be killed in action during World War II
Era Bell Thompson
- Star athlete for UND
- The first woman to be elected to the UND Athletic Hall of Fame
- Became editor of Ebony magazine
Patricia A. Warcup
- She initiated and coached the first modern era UND women's basketball team from 1965-1970 and did the same with the softball team from 1967-1970
- She was instrumental in the formation of women's athletic teams and played a role in the forming of the Minnkota Conference, one of the first conferences for women in the nation
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