List of Culver Academies people
This list contains notable people associated with Culver Academies in Culver, Indiana, including alumni, and current and former faculty.
Alumni
- Bud Adams, owner of NFL's Tennessee Titans
- Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia
- Robert Baer, retired CIA officer and author
- Alberto Baillères, Mexico's second-richest man
- Frank Batten, founder of Landmark Communications, The Weather Channel and weather.com
- Dierks Bentley, musician
- James H. Boyce, Louisiana industrialist and Republican politician
- Ethan Brittain-Watts, NCAA D1 basketball player at Boston University.
- Michael Brun, electronic musician and DJ
- Quico Canseco, former U.S. Representative (R-TX)
- Enrico Caruso Jr., actor, singer, son of renowned operatic tenor Enrico Caruso
- Sam Cohn, talent agent
- Elgin English Crull, City Manager of Dallas, Texas at time of JFK assassination
- Joseph T. Curry, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1930 to 1944; planter in Tensas Parish[1]
- Luther Davis, playwright and screenwriter
- Kevin Dean, former NHL hockey player
- Jonathan Dever, member of Ohio House of Representatives
- Mario Dominguez, Champ Car driver
- Nic Dowd, NHL hockey player
- Jack Eckerd, founder Eckerd Pharmacy
- Molly Engstrom, hockey player for Team USA
- Eugene C. Eppley, hotel magnate
- Reuben H. Fleet, founder of Consolidated Aircraft, aviation pioneer
- George Foreman III, professional boxer
- Ernest K. Gann, aviator and writer
- Blake Geoffrion, hockey player
- Horace Heidt, pianist and big-band leader
- James A. Henderson, chairman of Cummins, Inc.
- Mitch Henderson, basketball head coach, Princeton
- Elwood Hillis, US House of Representatives, grandson of Elwood Haynes
- Hal Holbrook, actor
- Tim Holt, actor
- Robert J. Huber, Michigan politician and businessman
- Michael Huffington, former U. S. Congressman from California and film producer
- Lamar Hunt, founder of NFL's Kansas City Chiefs
- Bill Koch, businessman, sailor, and collector; his boat won America's Cup in 1992[2]
- Russell Lee, photographer and photojournalist, best known for work for Farm Security Administration (FSA)
- John-Michael Liles, NHL hockey player and 2006 Olympian, Toronto Maple Leafs
- Joshua Logan, playwright, screenwriter and stage/film director
- Daniel Manion, judge
- George Mastics, former member of Ohio House of Representatives, current County Commissioner in Palm Beach, Florida
- Adolphe Menjou, actor
- Edmund H. North, Oscar-winning screenwriter
- Richard O'Neill, writer
- Walter O'Malley (1903–1979), owner of baseball's Brooklyn Dodgers, who moved team to Los Angeles, California in 1958[3]
- Charles I. Murray, Brigadier General, USMC. A recipient of Navy Cross and Army Distinguished Service Cross.
- Stephen A. Orthwein, polo player
- Emilio Azcárraga Milmo, American-Mexican businessman and publisher
- Eugene Pallette, actor
- Roger Penske, owner of Penske Corporation
- William Perry, composer
- Barry Richter, former NHL hockey player
- George R. Roberts, financier, partner in KKR
- Mark Salling, actor, musician, played "Puck" on TV show "Glee (TV series)"
- Jon Scieszka, author
- Gene Siskel, film critic
- Dan Sullivan, U.S. senator for Alaska
- Tal Smith, Major League Baseball executive, retired president of Houston Astros, marathon runner
- Herbert Sobel, lieutenant colonel, U.S. Army, World War II veteran and first commander of Easy Company, 2nd battalion, 506th P.I.R. with 101st Airborne division
- Juergen Sommer, professional soccer player and coach
- Burr Steers, actor and director
- George Steinbrenner, former owner of New York Yankees
- Hal Steinbrenner, former part-owner of New York Yankees
- Gary Suter, former NHL hockey player
- Ryan Suter, hockey player, NHL and Team USA
- Jorge Alberto Uribe, Colombian politician, diplomat and businessman
- Miles D. White, Chairman and CEO, Abbott Labs
- James C. Wofford, Olympic equestrian
- Robert R. Young, financier
- Jay Zeamer, Jr., Medal of Honor recipient, U.S. Army Air Force of World War II
Fictional
- Tom Brown of Culver, movie character
References
- Matthew Reonas, Once Proud Princes: Planters and Plantation Culture in Louisiana's Northeast Delta, From the First World War Through the Great Depression, pp. 264, 271 (PDF). Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University PhD dissertation, December 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 21, 2013. Retrieved July 19, 2013.
- "SPORTS PEOPLE: YACHT RACING; Don't Tell Dennis Conner", The New York Times, July 15, 1992. Retrieved February 14, 2008. "The America's Cup defender, BILL KOCH, capsized a sailboat on Lake Maxinkuckee in Culver, Ind., last weekend while racing students at Culver Academy, where he graduated in the 1950s."
- "Walter F. O'Malley, Leader of Dodgers' Move to Los Angeles, Dies at 75; Unqualified Success", The New York Times, August 10, 1979.
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