Noteworthy EHS graduates, listed in graduation order. They include: a Nobel Prize winner, a Pulitzer Prize winner, several captains of industry, great educators, and high achievers in the realm of the arts.
| Class of | Graduate and work |
|---|---|
| 1876 | Frederick Adams, inventor, novelist, reformer |
| 1883 | Max Adler, vice-president of Sears & Roebuck, benefactor of Adler Planetarium |
| 1896 | Junius Wood, newspaper foreign correspondent |
| 1898 | Adolph M. Rovelstad, Latin professor, University of North Dakota |
| 1901 | William LeBaron, playwright, movie producer |
| 1901 | Jane Peterson, painter and artist |
| 1906 | Calvin W. Brown, motion picture executive |
| 1907 | Helen Miller Malloch, founder, National Federation of Press Women |
| 1908 | Edna Geister, national recreation director of YWCA |
| 1908 | Carleton Washburne, educator |
| 1909 | Walter Sadler, railroad engineer, professor, mayor of Ann Arbor MI |
| 1910 | Floyd Campbell, electric company executive |
| 1911 | Arthur Herold, vice-president of Carnation Company |
| 1912 | Frederick Baumann, history professor, Grinnell College |
| 1912 | Dean Hills Mitchell, president, Northern Indiana Public Service Company |
| 1915 | Walter Ansel, rear admiral in Navy |
| 1915 | Jeffrey Metzel, rear admiral in Navy |
| 1916 | Raymond Adams, English professor, University of North Carolina |
| 1917 | Mildred Engelbrecht, bacteriologist, University of Alabama |
| 1918 | Gail Dack, bacteriologist, authority on food poisoning |
| 1920 | Raymond Glos, college dean, Miami University of Ohio |
| 1920 | John Qualen, actor |
| 1920 | Harold Wallace, credit bureau executive |
| 1921 | Frank O'Beirne, admiral, member of Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| 1922 | Trygve Rovelstad, sculptor |
| 1923 | James Roche, president of General Motors |
| 1924 | Joseph Canty, rear admiral in Navy |
| 1925 | Doug Mills, basketball coach, University of Illinois |
| 1925 | Emmet O'Beirne, naval aviator |
| 1927 | Paul Flory, chemist, Nobel Prize winner (1974) |
| 1931 | John Wesley Adams, foreign service, State Department |
| 1931 | Howard Rovelstad, director of University of Maryland libraries |
| 1932 | William Brandes, vice-president, Elgin Watch Company |
| 1933 | Allen Britton, music professor, University of Michigan |
| 1934 | William DeLancey, vice-president, Republic Steel |
| 1934 | John Tobin, professor of medicine |
| 1935 | Robert Geldmacher, CEO of Sundale Software Corporation |
| 1935 | Alfred Kirkland, district judge |
| 1935 | Everett Pryde, U.S. Department of Agriculture |
| 1935 | William E. Rauschenberger, mayor of Elgin (1971-75) |
| 1940 | Paul Scheele, hospital supply corporation executive |
| 1940 | Richard Silliman, attorney for John Deere and Company |
| 1943 | George Van De Voorde, mayor of Elgin (1987-95) |
| 1943 | James Waggoner, physician in aerospace medicine |
| 1944 | Jack Burmaster, Evanston High School basketball coach |
| 1944 | Irving Rudolph, political science educator |
| 1944 | Oliver Scheflow, mechanical engineer with NASA |
| 1945 | Joseph Ladd, CEO of Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance |
| 1945 | Earl Muetterties, research chemist for DuPont |
| 1945 | Charles "Chick" Peterson, professor and artist |
| 1946 | Ray Barnhart, federal highway administrator |
| 1946 | James W. Gallagher, professor, Western Oregon University |
| 1946 | Ben Jones III, entrepreneur |
| 1946 | John Kramer, entomologist and educator |
| 1946 | Thomas W. McBride, lawyer, part of Watergate prosecution team |
| 1946 | John Mink, dental educator |
| 1946 | Joseph F. Neil Jr., New York Stock Exchange executive |
| 1946 | Charles Swanson, president of Encyclopaedia Britannica |
| 1946? | Jack Wentworth, business educator |
| 1948 | Marshall Goldman, economist and educator |
| 1948 | Earl Gomersall, marketing company executive |
| 1948 | David Plath, anthropologist |
| 1949? | Otto Bauer, university administrator |
| 1949 | Dietrich Bauer, microbiologist |
| 1949 | Donald Kelley, historian |
| 1949 | William Matchett, university dean and biochemist |
| 1951 | Douglas Nash, investigator for NASA |
| 1951 | John Teets, food service industry executive |
| 1953 | Wesley Foell, energy and environmental scientist |
| 1955 | Samuel Werner, physics and astronomy educator |
| 1959 | Flynn Robinson, University of Wyoming and NBA player |
| 1960 | Sara Melissa Hart, Miss Elgin 1962 and Tony-nominated Broadway actress |
| 1960 | Margot Lee Spinker, Miss Photoflash 1963 and professional model |
| 1960 | Pam Kirkland Jensen, judge in Kane County |
| 1962 | Tom Shales, journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner (1988) |
| 1963 | Allen M. Anderson, associate judge for Kane County, Illinois |
| 1963 | Brian Oldfield, Olympic shot putter |
| 1964 | Edward A. Schock, mayor of Elgin (1999-present) |
| 1965 | Richard Hoover, Tony Award-winning production designer |
| 1965 | David Kettner, restaurant entrepreneur, Perry's of Honolulu |
| 1966 | James Kirkland, Illinois State Representative (1983-1992) |
| 1969 | Daniel M. Brewbaker, composer |
| 1969 | Rick Sund, vice-president of personnel, Detroit Pistons |
| 1971 | Kristine Iverson, assistant secretary of labor, George W. Bush's cabinet |
| 1971 | Deborah Lathen, chief of the Cable Services Bureau, Federal Communications Commission |
| 1971 | Steven Rakow, science professor, president of the National Science Teachers Association (1998-1999) |
| 1972 | Scott Zaeske, Fortune 500 entrepreneur |
| 1973 | Jeff Wilkens, NBA player |
| 1974 | Julie Kistler, romance novelist and president of Novelists, Inc. |
| 1974 | Steve Rauschenberger, Illinois State Senator, 33rd District |
| 1976 | George Lesieutre, aerospace engineering professor, Penn State University |
| 1978 | Nina Burleigh, journalist and best-selling author |
| 1983 | Reb Braddock, film director |
| 1983 | Laura Ceron, actress |
This page was updated on November 19, 2001.
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