A
| Claude Akins (Northwestern) Actor, 100 movies and 140 TV episodes |
| Timothy Atzinger (Delaware) Editing/writing in reality TV, Emmy |
B
| Lester Beall (Chicago) recipient of the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Graphic Artists |
| Walter Becker (UCLA) Director, Van Wilder |
| Dr. James Beckett (Southern Methodist) Founder, Beckett Publications |
| Michael F. Beckner (Southern California) Co-producer, Sniper, Spy Game, CSI, To Appomattox |
| Don Beddoe (Cincinnati) Actor on stage and screen in over 200 movies |
| K. Blair Benson (Worcester) Emmy for engineering and technical achievement; videotape |
| Powers Boothe (Texas State-San Marcos) Actor, Emmy as Best Actor for Jim Jones |
| Benjamin Bratt (California-Santa Barbara) Actor, SAG and ALMA Awards |
C
| Eugene F. Callahan (Louisiana State) Two-time Academy Award winning set and production designer for The Hustler and again for America, America |
| Dr. John Alexander Carroll (Texas Christian) Pulitzer Prize |
| Jay Chattaway (West Virginia) Emmy Award and 8 ASCAP Awards as composer of TV and movies, Star Trek |
| Kenny Chesney (East Tennessee State) Singer, 4 x Entertainer of the Year, 4 x Music Video of Year |
| W. Kent Cooper (Pennsylvania) Architect of record of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Korean Veterans Memorial, recipient of the AIA Henry Bacon Medal |
E
| Brett Eldridge (Elmhurst) American country music singer |
| William C. Evans (Butler) Winner of two Emmys |
F
| Kimbal Fatica (Bowling Green) \Photographer, Emmy as videographer |
| Will Forte (UCLA) Actor; SNL, 30 Rock, Nebraska |
G
| Will Geer (Chicago) Actor of stage & screen; The Waltons |
| David Patrick Gilkey (Oregon State) Emmy while working for the Detroit Free Press: Band of Brothers |
| Chester Gould (Oklahoma State) Creator of Dick Tracy Comics |
| Dabbs Greer (Drury) Little House on the Prairie, Gunsmoke |
H
| Paul Harvey (Culver-Stockton) Radio personality, recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom |
| Jeffrey L. Hayes (Brown) Producer, Law & Order |
| John Michael Hayes Jr (Massachusetts) Screenwriter: Rear Window, Peyton Place |
| William F. Hayes (DePauw) Actor/Singer |
| John Heard (Clark) Actor, Home Alone I & II, Sopranos |
| Korre Heggem (Nevada-Las Vegas) Academy Award for visual effects |
| Jean Hersholt (Rollins) Actor, 2 Academy Awards and 1 named in his honor |
| Robin Hood (Tennessee-Chattanooga) Photographer – Pulitzer Prize |
J
| Dean Jagger (Wabash) Actor, Academy Award for High Noon, Emmy |
K
| Edward Daniel Kuekes (Baldwin-Wallace) Pulitzer Prize, Freedoms Foundation (3) |
| Charles Kelley (Georgia) Singer/writer, Grammy in ’10 & ‘11 |
| Chris Klein (Texas Christian) Actor |
L
| Frankie Laine (Miami-FL) Singer, 21 gold records, sales over 100 million |
| Craig Leake (Memphis) Producer, writer, director, recipient of Emmy Awards in 1973, 1978, 1981, 1990, and 2008; recipient of the George Peabody Award in 1981 and 1990; recipient of Edward R. Murrow Award in 1999 |
| LeRoy G. Leighton (Florida) Academy Award for 10 KW lamp |
M
| William R. Manchester (Massachusetts) Author, Death of A President |
| Edwin Markham (Rollins) Poet, Man With A Hoe |
| William “Bill” McCullough (Susquehanna) 9 Emmys |
| Joseph Mead (Pennsylvania) Co-founder of Economic Forum |
| Kyle Menke (Iowa State) Emmy Award for animation |
| Perry Miller (Chicago) Pulitzer Prize winner |
| Walter Miller (Hampden-Sydney) Producer/writer for CNN and winner of two Peabody Awards for coverage of the Gulf Oil Spill and Hurricane Katrina, and winner of Emmy for coverage of 9/11 |
| Anson Mount (South) Actor, Hell on Wheels |
O
| Michael O’Neill (Auburn) Actor, Seabiscuit, West Wing |
P
| Woody Paige, Jr. (Tennessee) ESPN Commentator, Around The Horn |
| Robert B. Parker (Colby) Author, Spencer for Hire; recipient of Edgar Award |
| John J. Peyser (Colgate) Writer, producer/director of many TV shows |
| LeRoy Prinz (Northwestern) Choreographer – Golden Globe, Academy Award as director |
Q
| John Quinones (St. Mary’s) ABC News anchor, 7 Emmy’s & Peabody Award |
R
| James Rebhorn (Wittenberg) Actor, multiple supporting roles |
| Frank Reynolds (Wabash) ABC News anchor, recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom and Peabody Award |
| Robert “Mac” Ruth (Texas) Sound Engineer, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, The Martian, Blade Runner 2049 |
S
| Kirk Scharfenberg (Brown) Shared Pulitzer as editor of the editorial page of The Boston Globe |
| Mark Schultz (Kansas State) Musician, recipient of Dove Award |
| Adam Joseph Shapiro (Syracuse) Reporter for Fox Business News, winner of 2 Emmy Awards |
T
| John Tesh (North Carolina State) Composer/musician , 6 Emmys |
U
| Bob Urich (Florida State) Actor, 19 TV series, Lonesome Dove |
W
| Ralph Waite (Bucknell) Actor, The Waltons |
| Randall Wallace (Duke) Screenwriter/director, Braveheart, Secretariat |
| Basil Walters (Indiana) Former editor of the Chicago Daily News |
| William Charles Westenhofer (Bucknell) 2 Academy Awards for visual effects |
| Michael Westmore (California-Santa Barbara) Academy Award as make-up artist, 9 Emmy’s |
| Kurt Williams (Missouri) Producer, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Incredible Hulk |
| Mark Young (William & Mary) Animation writer/producer, 2 daytime Emmys |