There is a long list of famous AZs, and that’s not surprising. After all, AZ is a place where we learned leadership and character, and that attracted people of character.
- Morris N. Abrams - Louisiana educator (LSU)
- John R. Block - Secretary of Agriculture under Ronald Reagan
- Norman Borlaug - Nobel laureate
- Earl Butz - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1971–1976) (Purdue, '31)
- Robert C. Baker - Professor Emeritus of Food Science, Cornell University; Inventor of the chicken nugget (Cornell '43)
- Herman Cain - former chairman and CEO of Godfather's Pizza
- Walter Clore - Father of the Washington Wine Industury
- Dwight D. Eisenhower - U.S. President
- Arthur Rose Eldred - Agriculturalist, first Eagle Scout recognized by the Boy Scouts of America (Cornell '16)
- Dan R. Glickman - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1995–2001); current president of the Motion Picture Association of America
- Edwin Jackson Kyle - Former U.S. ambassador to Guatemala (1945–1948), namesake of Texas A&M's Kyle Field (Cornell, '02)
- Henry C. Wallace - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1921–1924) (Honorary, '22)
- William Jardine - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1925–1929) (Kansas, '11)
- Henry A. Wallace - Vice President of the United States, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1933–1940), Founder of Pioneer Hi-Bred, Secretary of Commerce (Wilson, '08)
- Ezra Taft Benson - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1953–1961) (Honorary, '53)
- Orville Freeman - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1961–1969), Minnesota Governor (Honorary, '62)
- Clifford Hardin - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1969–1971) (Purdue, '53)
- Richard Lyng - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1986–1989) (Wilson, '74)
- Albert Schatz - Co-discoverer of streptomycin with Selman Waksman (Cook)
- Selman Waksman - Discoverer of streptomycin and coined the word "antibiotic", Nobel laureate (Cook)
- Kenneth E. Wing - President (1992–2002) of SUNY Cobleskill (Cornell '58)
- Clayton Yeutter - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1989–1991) (Nebraska, '50)
- Lester Brown - Founder of the Earth Policy Institute (Cook)
We’re proud to call these men Brothers.
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