People of Distinction
University Presidents
Leigh Smith J. Hunt, 1885-1886
William I. Chamberlain, 1886-1890
William M. Beardshear, 1891-1902
James H. Hilton1, 1953-1965
Wendy Wintersteen2, 2017-
Faculty and Staff, 1869-1980
Robert E. Buchanan
Wise Burroughs
Kenneth Carlander
Damon Von Catron
O.H. Cessna
Dorothy St. John Cooke
M.S. Coover
Charles Curtiss
Jay Brownlee Davidson
H. Summerfield Day
Ercel Eppright
Solon "S.A." Ewing
David S. Fairchild
Elizabeth Storms Ferguson
James L. Geddes
Herbert J. Gilkey
Charles Handy
Earl O. Heady
Helen LeBaron Hilton
Elizabeth Hoyt
Dorothy Bean Kehlenbeck
Oscar Kempthorne
Henry Herbert Kildee
Steve Knudsen
Max Levine
Jay Lush
Catherine MacKay
William G. Murray
Damaris Pease
Col. Harold Pride
Maria Roberts
J.C. "Shorty" Schilletter
William Schrampfer
George Snedecor
Lauren Soth
Frank Spedding
Millikan Stalker
Edgar Stanton
Edith Sunderlin
Pearl Swanson
William Switzer
Lois Tiffany
LeRoy C. "Cap" Timm
Waldo Wegner
Harley Wilhelm
Clyde Williams
William H. Wynn
Daniel Zaffarano
- 1. James H. Hilton was the first Iowa State University President to graduate from Iowa State. In 1923, he received a B.S. in animal husbandry.
- 2. Wendy Wintersteen is the first female Iowa State University President and the second to graduate from Iowa State. In 1988, she received a Ph.D. in entomology.