Jr. – professional basketball player. Raymond Kaighn – Organizer of the first intercollegiate basketball game. Basketball Hall of Fame (1959) as a player on Naismith's First Team. Vern Mikkelsen – professional basketball player on the Minneapolis Lakers (1949–1959). 4-time NBA champion. Basketball Hall of Fame (1995). Marty Norton – professional football player. Dave Peterson, coach of the United States men's national ice hockey team Howie Schultz – professional basketball (Minneapolis Lakers) and baseball (Brooklyn Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds) player. Actors, directors, playwrights, authors Coleen Gray – film and television actress. Trung Le Nguyen - author and illustrator. Clinton Sundberg – film and theatre actor. David Wesely - game designer. Created Braunstein, an early influence of Dungeons & Dragons. Francine York – actress and model Academics John Bessler – professor of law and husband of U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar. Arthur Gillette – surgeon and namesake of Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare. John Kenneth Hilliard – academic and Academy Award recipient. Robert LeFevre – libertarian theorist. Deane Montgomery – prominent mathematician and recipient of the Leroy P. Steele Prize. Virginia Seay - composer and musicologist. Business and finance Dwight D. Opperman – chairmen of Key investments and one of Forbes 400 richest Americans. Max Winter – former part owner of Minneapolis Lakers and Minnesota Vikings. Veterans Robert M. Hanson – Medal of Honor recipient. Edwin W. Rawlings – General in the United States Air Force. Religious leaders James Newbury FitzGerald – former Methodist Episcopal American bishop. Lester Mondale – former American Humanist and Unitarian and only person to sign all three Humanist Manifestos. D. Paul Rader – early radio evangelist and hymn composer. Credited as being the first televangelist to preach to a nationwide audience. See also List of colleges and universities in Minnesota Higher education in Minnesota References Citations General and cited sources Nord, Mary Ann (2003). The National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota. Minnesota Historical Society. . Bloomberg, Kristin Mapel (Oct. 2008). "Nineteenth-Century Methodists and Coeducation: The Case of Hamline University" , Methodist History (Vol. 47, Issue 1), 48–62 External links Official website Official athletics website Educational institutions established in 1854 National Register of Historic Places in Saint Paul, Minnesota University and college buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota Universities and colleges affiliated with the United Methodist Church Universities and colleges in Saint Paul, Minnesota Private universities and colleges in Minnesota Liberal arts colleges in