List of Earlham College people
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The following is a list of notable people associated with Earlham College, a private liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana.
A–M
- Carl W. Ackerman – first head of the Columbia University School of Journalism[1]
- Marjorie Hill Allee – author
- Warder Clyde Allee – known for research on animal behavior, protocooperation, and for identifying the Allee effect; elected to the National Academy of Sciences
- John S. Allen – founding president of the University of South Florida; interim president of the University of Florida[2][3]
- Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sä) – writer, Native American activist, founded National Council of Indian Americans[4]
- J. Peter Burkholder – musicologist and author
- Jana E. Compton – research ecologist with the Environmental Protection Agency[5]
- Ione Virginia Hill Cowles – president, General Federation of Women's Clubs
- Garfield V. Cox – attended but did not graduate; dean of the University of Chicago School of Business, 1942–1952[6]
- David W. Dennis – congressman from Indiana[7]
- Juan Dies – co-founder and executive director of Sones de Mexico Ensemble; nominated for a Latin Grammy[8][9]
- Joseph M. Dixon – Congressman, Senator, 7th Governor of Montana[10]
- Liza Donnelly – cartoonist for the New Yorker[11]
- John Porter East – former U.S. senator for North Carolina[12]
- Brigadier General Bonner F. Fellers – General MacArthur's psychological warfare director during World War II; during the subsequent occupation of Japan, worked with fellow Earlhamite Isshiki Yuri (see below) to persuade MacArthur to preserve the institution of the Emperor and clear Hirohito of war crimes[13]
- Jim Fowler – star of Wild Kingdom[14]
- Lew Frederick (Lewis Reed Frederick) – member of the Oregon House of Representatives 2010–2016; member of Oregon State Senate 2017–present; Outstanding Alumni Award 2013
- Reverend Wilda C. Gafney – priest and bible scholar
- Sara Gelser – member of the Oregon House of Representatives 2005–2014 and member of the Oregon State Senate 2015–present; Outstanding Alumni Award 2016; recognized as one of Time magazine's "Person of the Year" Silence Breakers in 2017
- Andrew Ginther – mayor of Columbus, Ohio, 2016–present
- David Grosso – city council member for the District of Columbia
- Mary Haas – linguist, pioneer in the field of Siamese language studies; former president of the Linguistic Society of America[15][16]
- William Hadley – established Hadley School for the Blind[17]
- Michael C. Hall – actor on HBO's Six Feet Under and star of Showtime's Dexter, for which he was nominated for an Emmy[18] and won Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards
- Margaret Hamilton – headed the team that wrote the onboard flight software for NASA's Apollo program[19]
- Helen Hansma – researcher emeritus and associate adjunct professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara
- Robert M. Hirsch – former chief hydrologist and head of water science for the United States Geological Survey[20]
- Emily Caroline Chandler Hodgin – temperance reformer
- Mary Inda Hussey – Semitic text authority; first woman to teach at the American Society for Oriental Research in Jerusalem[21]
- C. Francis Jenkins – demonstrated the first practical motion picture projector[22][23]
- Henry Underwood Johnson – US congressman from Indiana[24]
- Mary Coffin Johnson (1834–1928) – temperance activist, newspaper publisher[25]
- Robert Underwood Johnson – former US ambassador to Italy[26]
- Andrew Johnston – film critic for Time Out New York, Us Weekly, Radar magazine; editor of the "Time In" section; TV critic for Time Out New York[27]
- Joseph Henry Kibbey – territorial governor of Arizona[28]
- Peter D. Klein – chaired Rutgers University's Department of Philosophy
- Frances Moore Lappé – activist and author of three-million-copy bestseller Diet for a Small Planet
- Simone Leigh – noted multimedia and ceramic artist[29]
- Manning Marable – professor at Columbia University;[30] author of Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012
- Dan McCoy – writer for The Daily Show and host of The Flop House podcast
- Robert Meeropol – founder of the Rosenberg Fund for Children, attorney, college professor and activist; son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
- Elephant Micah (real name Joseph O'Connell) – lo-fi recording artist
- Molly R. Morris – ecologist, professor at Ohio University
N–Z
- William Penn Nixon – publisher of the Chicago Inter Ocean and president of the Associated Press
- Larry Overman – organic chemist, member of the National Academy of Sciences
- Robert Quine – named by Rolling Stone as one of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time[31][32][33]
- Marc Reisner – author of the books A Dangerous Place and Cadillac Desert[34]
- Susan Porter Rose – chief of staff to the First Lady of the United States (1989–1993)[35]
- David Rovics – singer/songwriter and activist
- Olive Rush – artist[36]
- Rock Scully – manager of The Grateful Dead 1965–1985[37]
- Andrea Seabrook – contributor to National Public Radio's All Things Considered and former Congressional correspondent for NPR[38]
- David Shear – US ambassador to Vietnam[39]
- Michael Shellenberger – conspiracy theorist and two-time California gubernatorial candidate
- William E. Simkin – helped prevent national strikes and resolved thousands of labor disputes as the federal government's chief labor mediator and as a leading private arbitrator[40]
- Ruth Hinshaw Spray – peace activist
- Wendell Meredith Stanley – biochemist, shared a 1946 Nobel Prize for discovering methods of producing pure enzymes and virus proteins[41]
- Edwin Way Teale – naturalist writer; won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1966; elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; staff writer at Popular Science[42]
- Nellie Teale (1900–1993) – naturalist[43]
- Summia Tora – Afghan activist[44]
- Thomas Trueblood – president of the National Society of Elocutionists; his golf teams won two NCAA National Championships and five Big Ten Conference championships
- Harold Urey – received the Chemistry Nobel Prize in 1934; known for his discovery of deuterium and the Miller–Urey experiment[45]
- Frederick Van Nuys – U.S. senator from Indiana 1932–1944[46]
- Amy Walters – producer, National Public Radio
- Zach Warren – ran the Boston Marathon while juggling in 2 hours, fifty-eight minutes[47]
- Newton K. Wesley – Japanese-American optometrist; early developer of commercially successful rigid contact lenses in the 1950s[48]
- Herman Brenner White – physicist[49]
- Don Wildman – actor and host of TV travel shows including Ushuaia, Men's Journal and Cities of the Underworld on the History Channel
- Alice Wong – writer and disability justice activist; MacArthur Foundation fellow[50]
- Mary Chawner Woody – president, North Carolina Woman's Christian Temperance Union
- Harry N. Wright – president of City College of New York, mathematician
