John A. D. Cooper | physician and educator;
Alan Hale |astronomer famous for discovering the Hale-Bopp Comet;
Bill Inmon | computer scientist, recognized as the father of data warehouse;
Donald Bratton | politician;
William Burt |Republican member of the New Mexico Senate;
Michael L. Connor| United States Deputy Secretary of the Interior;
David Coss |US politician and current mayor of Santa Fe, New Mexico;

Reta Beebe |professor emeritus in the Astronomy Department;
David Boje |author; current NMSU endowed Bank of America professor of management;