George Allen (1918-1990), NFL coach inducted in Pro Football Hall of Fame Jake Boss (born 1971), NCAA Baseball player and coach, head coach at Michigan State University Bob Bruce (born 1933), Major League Baseball pitcher from 1959–67 Paul Hale Bruske (1877–1956), Writer, journalist, advertising executive, and sportsman William Skinner Cooper (1884–1978), Botanist and ecologist; former president of the Ecological Society of America and the Minnesota Academy of Science Jim Daniels (born 1956), Poet and writer Bob Devaney (1915–1997), NCAA football player and Nebraska coach inducted in College Football Hall of Fame Brad Guigar (born 1969), Cartoonist Jennifer Haase (born 1974), Politician Frank Knox (1874–1944), Newspaper editor and publisher; former Secretary of the Navy and onetime Republican Party vice presidential candidate Betty Mahmoody (born 1945), Writer and activist, author of Not Without My Daughter Jim Northrup (1939–2011), MLB player, Detroit Tigers Gary Peters (born 1958), Politician, currently member United States Senate (D-MI) Dan Scripps, Former politician and President of the Michigan Energy Innovation Business Council Lester W. Sharp (1887–1961), Botanist and pioneer in cytogenetics Tom Shaw (1945–2014), Fifteenth Bishop of Massachusetts Denny Stolz (born 1934), NCAA football player and coach Claude Watson (1885–1978), lawyer, businessman, and minister; temperance movement leader and two time Prohibition Party presidential candidate