National Book Award for his novel Going After Cacciato
Rebecca Otto, 1985, Minnesota State Auditor; former Minnesota House member (2003–04)
Shawn Lawrence Otto, 1984, screenwriter and film producer (House of Sand and Fog)
Tim Paulson, 1975, California labor leader
Stephen Paulus, 1971, composer, co-founder American Composers Forum
Richmond Sarpong, 1995, award-winning Professor of Chemistry at University of California, Berkeley
Fred Swaniker, 1999, co-founder African Leadership Academy
DeWitt Wallace, 1911, founder of Reader's Digest, philanthropist
Christopher O. Ward, 1976, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Robert Willis Warren, 1950, judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
Dave Zirin, 1996, political sportswriter
== See also ==
List of colleges and universities in Minnesota
Higher education in Minnesota
== References ==
== Further reading ==
Kilde, Jeanne Halgren. Nature and Revelation: A History of Macalester College (University …