Outstanding Alumni

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) is the oldest and largest of The University of Iowa's eleven colleges. CLAS also has the largest number of living alumni.

Famous alumni of CLAS include:

• Author and Alumni Fellow Mildred Wirt Benson (1925)
• Artist Elizabeth Catlett Mora (1940)
• Writer Flannery O'Connor (1947)
• Editorial cartoonist Paul Conrad (1950)
• Physicist and Alumni Fellow James Van Allen (1936)
• Television and movie producer Marian Rees (1951)
• Former governor of Iowa and Alumni Fellow Terry Branstad (1969)
• Poet Rita Dove (1977)
• Opera singer Simon Estes (1986)