Notable Alumni
- Henry Fonda, Academy Award-winning actor
- Dorothy McGuire, Academy Award-nominated actress
- Wynonie Harris, American Rhythm & Blues singer with 15 top 10 hits
- Charlie T. Munger, billionaire investor & Warren Buffett partner
- Gale Sayers, Pro Football Hall of Fame running back immortalized in the movie, Brian's Song
- Brandon Williams, NFL cornerback from 2003–2008
- Ahman Green, NFL Pro Bowl running back, most prominently with the Green Bay Packers, currently with the Omaha Nighthawks
- Keith Jones, NFL running back
- Larry Station, NFL linebacker and collegiate All-American, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2009
- Alan J. Heeger 2000 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry
- Lawrence R. Klein 1980 Nobel Prize winner in Economic Science
- Kimera Bartee, Former MLB player (Detroit Tigers, Cincinnati Reds, Colorado Rockies)
- Saul A. Kripke, American philosopher & Princeton University professor
- Jarvis Offutt, American WWI aviator, namesake of Offutt Air Force Base
- Brenda Council, long-time North Omaha city councilwoman
- Terry Goodkind, author
- Edward Zorinsky, former Omaha mayor and Nebraska senator
- Jed Ortmeyer, NHL player, former University of Michigan standout and current Nashville Predator player
- Pat Venditte, Minor League Baseball pitcher currently signed to the Tampa Yankees; also signed to the New York Yankees
- James W. Fous, Vietnam War veteran; recipient of the Medal of Honor award
- Gerry Thomas, inventor of the TV dinner in 1952
- Peter Kiewit, founder of the Kiewit Corporation, one of the world's largest construction companies
- Peter Hoagland, politician who represented the 2nd Congressional District of Nebraska in the United States House of Representatives
- Kenneth C. Stephan, justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court appointed by Senator Ben Nelson in 1997
- William Marshall Roark, Lieutenant; killed in Vietnam
- Harold Cooperman, founder of No Frills Supermarkets
- Susan Alice Buffett, daughter of Warren Buffett; philanthropist
- Susan Thompson Buffett, mother of Susie Buffett, former wife of Warren Buffett; former president of the Buffett Foundation
- Peter Buffett, son of Susan and Warren Buffett; musician
- Inga Swenson, award-winning actress
- Calvin Jones, halfback for the Nebraska Cornhuskers from 1990–1993, part of the Green Bay Packers Super Bowl XXXI championship team
- Jason Brilz, MMA fighter
- Jay Milder, expressionist painter
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