{{Short description|none}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2024}} The following list includes initiated and honorary members of Acacia.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.acacia.org/notable-acacians |title=Notable Acacians |website=Acacia |access-date=2020-06-02}}</ref>
== Academia == * Stratton D. Brooks, ''Missouri 1925'' - President of the University of Oklahoma (1912) and University of Missouri (1923) * Walter Elmer Ekblaw, ''Illinois 1907'' - college professor who served as geologist, ornithologist and botanist on the Crocker Land Expedition * Raymond A. Pearson, ''Iowa State 1924'' - President of Iowa State University * Roscoe Pound, ''Nebraska 1905, Harvard 1913'' - educator; Bushnell Hall at KSU dedicated in his name * L. Dennis Smith, ''Indiana 1956'' - President Emeritus, University of Nebraska * Claude R. Sowle, ''Northwestern 1947'' - past President of Ohio University * Albert B. Storms, ''Iowa State 1909'' - President of Iowa State University * Walter Williams, ''Missouri 1909'' - President of University of Missouri; founder of Missouri School of Journalism
== Business == * Dennis Chookaszian, ''Northwestern 1962'' - chairman and CEO of CNA Insurance Companies; professor at University of Chicago Booth School of Business * David A. Evans, ''Rensselaer 1979'' - inventor of high capacity tantalum capacitor; President of Evans Capacitor Company * Frank S. Land, ''Missouri'' - founder of the Order of DeMolay * Lewis H. Wentz, ''Oklahoma 1927'' - oil businessman
== Entertainment == * Scott Houston, ''Indiana 1980'' - public television personality; public speaker; known as "Piano Guy" * Nic Pizzolatto, ''LSU'' - creator and writer of the TV series ''True Detective''
== Literature ==
*Philip Bobbitt, ''Texas 1965'' - author and constitutional theorist *Arthur H. Carhart, ''Iowa State 1916'' - early conservationist and writer *Jack Collom, ''Colorado A&M 1952'' - poet, writer, teacher * Edward Everett Dale, ''Harvard 1917'' - historian, writer * Clifton Hillegass, ''Nebraska 1938'' - creator of ''CliffsNotes''
== Politics == * John Moore Allison, ''Nebraska 1927'' - diplomat; Ambassador to Japan; Assistant Secretary of State under Truman * Hiram Bingham III, ''Yale 1915'' - US Senator, Governor of Connecticut, and explorer who discovered Machu Picchu * William G. Bray, ''Indiana 1927'' - US Congressman, Indiana * William Jennings Bryan, ''Nebraska 1908'' - Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson; orator * Homer E. Capehart, ''Indiana 1959'' - US Senator, Indiana * Arthur Capper, ''Kansas State 1916'' - Governor and US Senator, Kansas * Frank Carlson, ''Kansas State 1948'' - US Congressman; US Senator; Governor of Kansas * Wilburn Cartwright, ''Oklahoma 1920'' - US Congressman, Oklahoma * Francis H. Case, ''Northwestern 1923'' - US Congressman, South Dakota * Ovie Clark Fisher, ''Texas 1926'' - US Congressman, Texas; writer * J. Edward Hutchinson, ''Michigan 1933'' - US Congressman, Michigan * James 'Jim' Kolbe, ''Northwestern 1961'' - US House Representative, Arizona * Harry G. Leslie, ''Purdue 1907'' - Governor of Indiana * Paul V. McNutt, ''Harvard 1914'' - Governor of Indiana * Steve Scalise, ''LSU 1986'' - Current US Congressman, Louisiana * Conrad G. Selvig, ''Minnesota 1906'' - US Congressman, Minnesota * David Sholtz, ''Yale 1914'' - Governor of Florida * William Howard Taft, ''Yale 1913'' - 27th President of the United States of America * Homer Thornberry, ''Texas 1930'' - US Congressman, Texas * Jim Watson, ''Carleton University 1998'' - Member of Provincial Parliament (Minister), Mayor of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (1997–2000) (2010–2022) * Ralph Yarborough, ''Texas 1926'' - US Senator, Texas
== Science == * Lloyd Berkner, ''Minnesota 1926'' - physicist * Karl M. Dallenbach, ''Cornell 1913'' - psychologist * William F. Durand, ''Stanford 1904'' - NASA pioneer * Harold E. Edgerton, ''Nebraska 1924'' - pioneer in the electronic flash, pertaining to photography * Jack Kilby, ''Illinois 1942'' - Nobel Prize laureate in physics; inventor of the integrated circuit * George J. Marrett, ''Iowa State 1957'' - test pilot for USAF and Hughes Aircraft Company; author of four non-fiction books on aviation * Wallace E. Pratt, ''Kansas 1907''- pioneer in the petroleum field * Laurence H. Snyder, ''Oklahoma 1949'' - pioneer in genetics * James E. Webb, ''North Carolina 1927'' - high-ranking NASA official in the 1960s * Alexander Wetmore, ''Kansas 1912'' - ornithologist
== Sports == * Dee Andros, ''Oklahoma 1948'' - head football coach and athletic director, Oregon State * Jack van Bebber, ''Oklahoma State 1931'' - Olympic wrestler * Chester L. Brewer, ''Missouri 1911'' - past head football coach at both Missouri and Michigan State; past athletic director of Missouri; Homecoming originator * Gene Conley, ''Washington State 1949'' - professional baseball player and basketball player * Ron Fairly, ''USC 1957'' - professional baseball player and broadcaster * Richard ‘Dick’ Farley, ''Indiana 1951'' - star IU basketball player for the 1953 National Championship team; NBA player * Calvin Griffith, ''George Washington 1935'' - owner of Washington Senators / Minnesota Twins * John L. Griffith, ''Illinois 1921'' - past commissioner of what is now the Big Ten Conference * Thomas "Tommy" James, ''Ohio State 1942'' - professional football player, Cleveland Browns * Pat Jones, ''Oklahoma State'' - Head Football Coach at Oklahoma State; Assistant Coach of Miami Dolphins * Roger Nelson, ''Oklahoma 1951'' - Canadian Football Hall of Fame * Gary Patterson, ''Kansas State 1980'' - current Head Football Coach at TCU * David 'Wes' Santee, ''Kansas 1952'' - Olympic runner * H. L. 'Tom' Sebring, ''Kansas State 1920'' - judge for the Nuremberg Trials; head football coach at the University of Florida * Arthur L. Valpey, ''Michigan 1936'' - head football coach of Harvard and UConn * Edwin Weir, ''Nebraska 1925'' - Hall of Fame college football player
==References== {{Reflist}}
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