This list of alumni of Lake Forest Academy includes graduates and non-graduate former students.
Arts
John Agar, actor, formerly married to Shirley Temple Bix Beiderbecke, jazz cornet player (expelled; attended 1921–22) David Bradley (1940), film director Temple Hoyne Buell (1914), architect, viewed as the father of the modern indoor shopping mall Jay Chandrasekhar, comedian and film director Max Demián (2005), performance artist Lindsay Glazer (1996), comedian Jesse Hibbs (1925), film director Rickey Larke (2011), television writer and producer (Black-ish, Grown-ish, Kenan, Mr. Throwback, Chad Powers).
Brad Morris (1994), television actor Robert Myhrum (1944), television director Tom Neal, actor Kelly Perine (1987), actor McLean Stevenson, actor Stephen Wade (1970), folk musician Melora Walters (1979), actress
Athletics
Neil Blatchford (1964), speed skater who competed in the 1972 Winter Olympics Angus Brandt (attended 2008-09), Australian professional basketball player Alex DeBrincat, right winger for NHL's Detroit Red Wings Alfred Eissler, former NFL player Dylan Ennis, professional basketball player Babe Frump, former player for NFL’s Chicago Bears David Levine (2011), ARCA Racing Series race car driver for MAKE Motorsports Olivier-Maxence Prosper, Canadian professional basketball player for NBA’s Dallas Mavericks Teddy Purcell, retired right winger who played 10 seasons in the NHL Paul Schuette, former NFL player with the New York Giants, Chicago Bears, and Boston Braves Danny Wolf (attended 2018-21), American-Israeli professional basketball player for NBA’s Brooklyn Nets
Business and law
James Aubrey (attended 1931–32), president of CBS and MGM Charles Edmund Beard (1916), aviation pioneer and president of Braniff Airlines Andrew T. Berlin (1979), businessman and philanthropist; minority stakeholder in the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball team Ralph Bogan, co-owned baseball's Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves James R. Cargill (1941), billionaire scion of Minnesota's Cargill family; pioneered in the computerization of animal feed formulations Gaylord Donnelley (attended 1923–24), former chairman of R. R. Donnelley & Sons Charles Gelatt (1935), businessman and philanthropist, early co-owner of the Milwaukee Brewers George N. Gillett Jr. (1956), communications mogul, former co–owner of the English Premier League team Liverpool F.C. and NASCAR auto-racing team Richard Petty Motorsports Louis Upton (1907), co-founder of Whirlpool Corporation Rawleigh Warner Jr. (attended 1935–36), chairman/CEO of Mobil Oil Cameron Fink (attended 2018-2022), co-founder of Aaru Ned Koh (attended 2018-2022), co-founder of Aaru TJ Minsky (attended 2019-2023), Founder of College Basketball Content
Government and public service
Makola Abdullah (1986), 14th President of Virginia State University (VSU) Richard L. Conolly (1910), Admiral of the United States Navy during World War II Jan Crull Jr., Native American rights advocate, filmmaker, attorney"a.b.c...." Who's Who in America 2011 65th Edition, Vol. 1 + A-L. New Providence, N.J.: Marquis Who's Who. pp. 1003–1004. Geoff Diehl, class of 1988, State Representative for the 7th Plymouth District of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts John Francis Grady (1948), United States District Court Judge; senior judge for the Northern District of Illinois Melvin R. Laird (attended 1938–39), US Congressman (1952–69) and Secretary of Defense (1969–73) Edward Everett Nourse, theologian Nauman S. Scott (1934), one of the first Louisiana U.S. District Court Judges to advocate desegregation Charles H. Wacker (1872), chairman of the Chicago Plan Commission and beer-maker
Journalism and letters
Bill Ayers, professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago who co-founded the Weather Underground Ward Just, Washington Post Vietnam War correspondent and author Michael Leonard, class of 1966, feature reporter for NBC's Today show Rebecca Makkai (1995), author Ralph J. Mills, poet and critic Robert Wilson Patterson (1867), newspaper publisher Bill Schulz (1994), Fox News
Science
Patrick M. McCarthy (surgeon), class of 1973, heart surgeon Cristopher Moore, class of 1983, computer scientist, mathematician, and physicist Karl Patterson Schmidt, herpetologist Paul Starrett, class of 1883, structural engineer Charles Thom, microbiologist and mycologist
Other
Robert S. Hartman, logician and philosopher
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