List of University of Northern Colorado alumni
Following is a list of notable alumni from the University of Northern Colorado. The university was called the State Normal School of Colorado from 1889 to 1935, Colorado State College of Education at Greeley from 1935 to 1957, and Colorado State College from 1957 to 1970. Art 

 Glen Alps, printmaker, coiner of term collagraph
 Jack Cassinetto, plein air painter
 Jane DeDecker, sculptor
 Gene Hatfield, artist and professor at the University of Central Arkansas
 Georgeann Robinson, non-degreed, Osage artist and activist
 Mackey Saturday, graphic designer

Business 

Pat Stryker, billionaire businessperson, philanthropist, and political activist
 Ronda Stryker, director of Stryker Corporation and billionaire heiress

Education 

 Wendy Adams, physics educator
 Camila Alire, librarian and president of the American Library Association
 Carmen Roybal Arteaga, Chicana educator and activist
 Rosa Roberto Carter, President of the University of Guam from 1977 to 1983
 Chih-Fu Cheng, vice president of the National Taiwan Normal University
 William E. Davis, president of Idaho State University and the University of New Mexico, and Chancellor of the Oregon University System and Louisiana State University
 K. Newell Dayley, composer, hymnwriter, musician, and professor of music at Brigham Young University
 Ervin Dennis, professor at the University of Northern Iowa and member the Iowa House of Representatives
 Rick Edgeman, Professor of Sustainability & Enterprises Performance, Aarhus University, professor and chair of Management and Center for Entrepreneurship Director, Fort Hays State University. Academician of the International Academy of Quality. Steven Forness, psychologist and Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the University of California
 Margaret Hayes Grazier, librarian and professor of library science at Wayne State University
 Elinor Miller Greenberg, author, educationalist, and speech pathologist
 Gene Hatfield, artist and professor at the University of Central Arkansas
 Bill Heller, dean of the College of Education at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg and Florida House of Representatives
 Rose Kekedo, leading educator in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the first woman to be chancellor of the University of Papua New Guinea
 Allen Meadors, CEO at Penn State Altoona, Chancellor at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, and President of the University of Central Arkansas
 Charles M. Roessel, president of Diné College, photographer, journalist, and Director of the Bureau of Indian Education
 Jennie Mae Rucker, librarian and founding faculty of the Community College of Denver
 John Salas, President of the University of Guam, first provost of Vocational High School (now known as Guam Community College), and Senator in the Legislature of Guam
 Hortensia Soto, professor of mathematics at Colorado State University
 Donnis Thompson, professor of health, physical education, and recreation at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the university's first women's athletic director, and State of Hawaii Department of Education school superintendent. Entertainment 

 William D. Alexander, filmmaker, winner of the 1964 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or for the short film The Village of Hope
 Neil Argo, composer for film and television
 Sa'ra Charismata (Sara Haile), singer/songwriter
 Walt Conley, folk singer, musician and actor
 Steve Eastin, character actor
 Bill Frisell, jazz guitarist
 Robert S. Frost, composer and music educator

 Greg Germann, actor known for Ally McBeal Grey's Anatomy
 Marshall Gilkes, jazz trombonist and composer
 Edward W. Hardy, composer, violinist, violist, and producer
 Autumn Hurlbert, actress, singer, and dancer
 Beth Malone, Tony Award-nominated actress
 Ryan Malaty, actor and television personality
 Beth Malone, actress and singer
 Victoria Matlock, musical theatre actress
 J. Durward Morsch, composer, prolific arranger, and trombonist
 Neyla Pekarek, vocalist and instrumentalist for The Lumineers
 Amanda Peterson, famous actress, appeared in Can’t Buy Me Love
 Herminigildo Ranera, conductor, composer, arranger, performer, and educator
 Nathaniel Shaw, actor, dancer, and director
 Erica Sweany, film and television actress, dancer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist
 Tyler Ward, musician and producer
 Steven Wasson, director of Theatre de l'Ange Fou
 Bill Welsh, radio and television announcer
 Ed Werder, reporter for ESPN

Government and civil service 

 Katherine Archuleta, director of the United States Office of Personnel Management
 David Bernhardt, 53rd United States Secretary of the Interior
 Hillary Hall, clerk and recorder in Boulder County, Colorado who issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples the Colorado Supreme Court ordered her to stop
 Lynn A. Johnson, Assistant Secretary for Family Support at the Department of Health and Human Services
 Huang Kun-huei, Taiwanese minister of the Mainland Affairs Council from 1991 to 1994 and Minister of the Interior from 1994 to 1996
 Henrietta H. Fore, 7th Executive Director of UNICEF, Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance, the 11th Under Secretary of Management in the Department of State, and the 37th Director of the United States Mint in the U.S. Department of Treasury
 Irene Montie, a statistician in the US government service who became president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics
 Sully Sullenberger, captain of US Airways Flight 1549 and Permanent Representative of the United States to the International Civil Aviation Organization
 Edna Wilson-Mosley, civil rights specialist for Colorado’s Civil Rights Commission

Law 

Kato Crews, United States magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. Margaret L. Curry, state parole officer
 Lt Cdr Idilio Moncivais, Ph.D., lead researcher for the Colorado Rangers
 Steven Reams, Sheriff of Weld County, Colorado

Literature and journalism 

Steven Dietz, playwright
 Vinita Diteeyont, author
 Edwina Hume Fallis, writer
 J. Michael Martinez, poet
 Karyl McBride, author and marriage and family therapist
 James A. Michener, author
 Steven Moore, literary critic and Washington Post book reviewer
 Evan Oakley, poet
 Sayyid Qutb, author, poet, novelist, a leading member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, and Islamic scholar considered "the Father of Salafi jihadism"
 Neal Rubin, The Detroit News columnist and author of comic strip Gil Thorp
 Don Welch, poet
 Connie Willis, science-fiction author

Military 

 Van E. Chandler, flying ace in World War II
 Jeffrey Chessani, commanding officer 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines during the November 2005 urban combat in Haditha, Iraq
 John L. Dolan, Lt. General of United States Air Force
 William M. Fraser III, United States Air Force general
 Stephen R. Lorenz, United States Air Force general
 Carol Mutter, Marine Corps Lieutenant General
 Thurman D. Rodgers, United States Army general
 Randall Schmidt, United States Air Force general
 Robert L. Scott, United States Air Force general
 David N. Senty, United States Air Force Major General
 Edward Tipper, United States Army soldier
 Frances C. Wilson, United States Marine Corps general

Politics 

 Audrey Aanes, disability rights activist known as the "Mother of the Independent Living Movement in Alaska"
 Bob Bacon, former Colorado State Senator
 Tom Carlson, Nebraska Legislature from 2007 to 2015
 John Cooke, Colorado Senate
 Kimberly Corban, victims' rights advocate
 Chris Coursey, member of the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors and the mayor of Santa Rosa, California
 Robert De Young, Florida House of Representatives
 Ervin Dennis, a member of the Iowa House of Representatives and professor at the University of Northern Iowa

 Rhonda Fields, member of Colorado State House of Representatives
 Linda Gray, Arizona State Senator
 Bill Heller, Florida House of Representatives and the dean of the College of Education at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg
 Janak Joshi, Colorado House of Representatives
 Richard Kelly, U.S. House of Representatives
 Judy Kennedy, Mayor of Newburgh, New York
 Halima Khatun, Bangladeshi activist, writer, and academic who took part in Bengali Language Movement
 Maryanne Kusaka, Mayor of the County of Kaua'i
 Don Marostica, Colorado House of Representatives
 Jack McGuire, Illinois House of Representatives
 Rory Ogle, member of the New Mexico House of Representatives
 Andrew Perchlik, member of the Vermont Senate
 Mary Peltola, member of the United States House of Representatives from Alaska
 Lisa Poppaw, former Fort Collins city council member
 Karlee Provenza, Wyoming House of Representatives
 Mary Pruitt, Tennessee State Representative
 Nathan Reichert, Iowa House of Representatives 
 Jeannie Ritter, former First Lady of Colorado
 John Salas, Senator in the Legislature of Guam, first provost of Vocational High School (now Guam Community College) and President of the University of Guam
 Eunice Sato, mayor of Long Beach, California
 Sue Schafer, Colorado House of Representatives
 Shyu Jong-shyong, Taiwanese politician, Deputy Secretary-General of the Executive Yuan and Deputy Mayor of Taichung City
 Harry Stephens, Kansas Senate
 Ken Summers, Colorado House of Representatives

 Tom Tancredo,member of United States House of Representatives
 Nancy Todd, Colorado Senate and Colorado House of Representatives
 Tonya Van Beber, Colorado House of Representatives
 Wellington Webb, former Mayor of Denver
 Claire Wilson, member of Washington State Senate
 Kenneth W. Winters, member of Kentucky State Senate

Sports 

 Mike Anderson, college baseball coach
 Kirk Archibeque, professional basketball player
 David Arnold, professional basketball player
 Duane Banks, professional baseball player and college baseball coach 
 Devon Beitzel, professional basketball player

 Bryce Boarman, Paralympic soccer player
 Jacob Bobenmoyer, professional football player
 Bob Boerigter, sports administrator and retired commissioner for the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association
 Gregg Brandon, college football coach of Colorado School of Mines
 Dominic Breazeale, boxer
 Irv Brown, college baseball coach, commissioner of the Colorado Athletic Conference and Mountain Collegiate Baseball League, and analyst for the NBA on ESPN
 Sam Brunelli, professional football player
 Pat Burris, two-time Olympian in judoka and  Pan American Games bronze medalist
 Pete Butler, college football, basketball, and baseball coach and college athletics administrator 

 Cisco Carlos, professional baseball player
 Joel Collier, professional football coach and executive
 Earnest Collins Jr.,college football coach
 Gerry Dattilio, professional gridiron football player
 Jordan Davis, professional basketball player
 Elijah Dotson, profesional football player
 Reed Doughty, football safety for Washington Redskins
 Ben Dreith, AFL and NFL referee
 Terry Dunn, head men's basketball coach at Dartmouth College
 R. W. Eaks, professional golfer
 Kai Edwards, professional basektball player
 Ron Ernst, football player and coach
 Brian Ferguson, football coach
 Justin Gaethje, professional mixed martial arts, currently competing in the UFC
 Andy Haase, professional football player
 Pat Haggerty, NFL referee
 Ron Herbel, professional baseball player
 Mike Higgins, professional basketball player
 Tracy Holland, head football coach at the University of Central Oklahoma
 Paul Hubbard, college football coach
 Carl Iwasaki, professional baseball coach
 Vincent Jackson, football player for Tampa Bay Buccaneers
 Virgil Jester, baseball pitcher for Milwaukee Braves
 Dirk Johnson, professional football coach
 Adrienne Jordan, professional soccer player
 Dave Keller, baseball minor league player and coach

 Bill Kenney, quarterback for Kansas City Chiefs and politician
 Jeff Knapple, professional gridiron football player
 William Knuckles, football and basketball coach
 Jerry Krause, college basketball executive
 Lynn Lashbrook, president and founder of Sports Management Worldwide

 Joe Lindahl, football player, coach, and administrator
 Bob Lord, college and professional football coach
 Mike Madden, former baseball pitcher for Houston Astros 
 Milt Martin, college football coach, wrestling coach, and athletics administrator
 Corte McGuffey , professional football player
 Don Meyer , college baseball coach
 Dave Nakama, baseball player and coach
 Joe Pennucci, head baseball coach at East Tennessee State University 
 Dennis Preece, high school wrestling coach
 Brad Pyatt , professional football player
 Jonah Radebaugh , professional basketball player
 Tony Ramirez , professional football player
 Jed Roberts, former Canadian Football League player with the Edmonton Eskimos 
 Tom Runnells, professional baseball player, coach, and manager
 Frankie Saenz, (attended), wrestler and professional Mixed Martial Artist with UFC 
 John Sanders, professional baseball scout, Major League Baseball player for the Kansas City Athletics, manager at the pro level, and a college baseball coach
 Kyle Sloter, professional football player
 Aaron Smith, football defensive end for Pittsburgh Steelers
 Ernie Smith, college football coach
 Loren Snyder, football quarterback for Dallas Cowboys
 Dave Stalls, football defensive end for Dallas Cowboys, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Los Angeles Raiders and Denver Gold
 Joe Strain,  professional baseball player
 Rich Stubler, football coach, primarily in the Canadian Football League
 Jed Stugart, football player and coach
 Peter Stuursma, football player and coach
 Joe Taibi, professional footbal player
 Cedric Tillman, professional arena football player
 Herve Tonye-Tonye, Canadian Football League linebacker, Toronto Argonauts
 Khoa Tran, professional basketball player
 Mike Trujillo, professional baseball player
 Bob Wachs, college football and basketball coach
 Frank Wainright, former football tight end for New Orleans Saints, Philadelphia Eagles, Miami Dolphins and Baltimore Ravens
 Nick Willhite, professional baseball player

Other 

 Lucile Buchanan, first black woman to graduate from the University of Colorado Boulder
 Carlotta Walls LaNier, member of Little Rock Nine
 Mary Golda Ross, first Native American female engineer and first female engineer with the Lockheed Corporation

