List of Franklin & Marshall College alumni

This is a list of alumni of Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Arts

• Richard Altick, Class of 1936, literary scholar known for his pioneering contributions to Victorian Studies as well as for championing both the joys and the rigorous methods of literary research
• Franklin Schaffner, Class of 1942, Oscar-winning film director (Patton, Planet of the Apes)
• Glen Tetley, Class of 1946, choreographer
• Ed Flesh, Class of 1953, art director, designed wheel for Wheel of Fortune^[1]
• Roy Scheider, Class of 1955, Academy Award-nominated actor (Jaws and All That Jazz)
• Dick Orkin, Class of 1956, radio announcer and commercial producer
• James Lapine, Class of 1971, Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony Award-winning playwright (Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods)
• Treat Williams, Class of 1973, actor (Hair, Prince of the City, TV's Everwood)
• Jennifer Gareis, Class of 1992, actress (TV's The Bold and the Beautiful, The Young and the Restless)
• Spliff Star, Class of 1996, rapper and hypeman for MC Busta Rhymes
• Jason Narvy, Class of 2002, actor (Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers)
• Dominic Akena, current sophomore, xylophone player, subject of Emmy-winning documentary War/Dance; member of the Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity
• Richard Plepler, Class of 1981, CEO of HBO

Government and law

• John Weinland Killinger, Class of 1843, U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1859–1863, 1871–1875, 1877–1881)
• Thomas Bard McFarland (1828–1908), associate justice of the Supreme Court of California
• J. Roland Kinzer, Class of 1896, U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1930–1947)
• Guy Kurtz Bard, Class of 1916, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• William I. Troutman, Class of 1927, Judge and U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1943–1945)
• John P. Saylor, Class of 1929, member of U.S. House of Representatives, environmental advocate
• Eugene Shirk, Mayor of Reading, Pennsylvania (1964–1968, 1972–1976)^[2]
• Edwin D. Eshleman, Class of 1942, U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1967–1977)
• Clarence Newcomer, Class of 1944, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• Ronald Buckwalter, Class of 1958, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• William H. Gray, Class of 1963, U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1979–1991); House Majority Whip (1989–1991); President of United Negro College Fund (1991–2004)
• Robert J. Kafin, Class of 1963, civic leader and environmentalist
• Kenneth Duberstein, Class of 1965, White House Chief of Staff under Ronald Reagan
• Liam O'Grady, Class of 1973, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
• The Hon. D. Brooks Smith, Class of 1973, Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (2002–present); former Judge on the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (1988–2002); Chief Judge (2001–2002)
• Jeffrey M. Lacker, Class of 1977, President of the Federal Reserve Bank, Richmond, Virginia
• Mary Schapiro, Class of 1977, Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
• Patricia Harris, Class of 1977, former First Deputy Mayor for the City of New York; current CEO of Bloomberg Philanthropies
• Paula Dow, Class of 1977, Attorney General of New Jersey (2010–present)
• Tim Canova, Class of 1982, law professor and candidate for U.S. House of Representatives
• Edward George Smith, Class of 1983, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• Ken Mehlman, Class of 1988, campaign manager for George H.W. Bush, former chairman of the United States Republican Party, 2005–2007
• Barry Finegold, Class of 1993, Massachusetts State Senator
• Daniel Ragsdale, former Acting Director of Immigration & Customs Enforcement

Business

• George Frederick Baer, Class of 1861, President of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
• Wanda Austin, Class of 1975, president and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation
• Rob Shepardson, Class of 1983, founding partner of advertising agency SS+K
• Jacob Clark Henneberger, Class of 1913, founder of Weird Tales magazine (1923)^[3]

Science and medicine

• Theodore E. Woodward, Class of 1934, Nobel Prize nominee; medical researcher
• David Simons, Class of 1943, NASA physician, established altitude record of 102,000 feet in a helium balloon in 1957, testing equipment that would be used by astronauts
• David A. Ansell, Class of 1974, doctor and author
• Dr. Elisa Shipon-Blum, Class of 1986, doctor and author; founder of SMA, SMRI, SMG-CAN; director and president of the Selective Mutism Anxiety and Related-Disorders Treatment Center; expert in treating individuals with selective mutism
• Justin B. Ries, Class of 1998, geoscientist and inventor known for discoveries in the field of global oceanic change
• William Bevan, former president of the American Psychological Association
• Anne Hultgren, chemist

Athletics

• Frank (Sprig) Gardner, Class of 1930, National Wrestling Hall of Fame (1986); Mepham High School (New York) Wrestling Coach (1937–1955, minus three years for active duty in U.S. Navy during WW II); Franklin & Marshall College Athletic Hall of Fame (wrestling, 1992)^[4]
• Bowie Kuhn, Class of 1948, Commissioner of Baseball (1969–1984)
• Don Wert, attended in 1957, MLB player for 1968 World Series champion Detroit Tigers
• Jeff Rineer, attended 1974–75, former MLB pitcher
• Peter Schaffer, Class of 1984, sports agent; columnist for Washington Post; star of Esquire Network docuseries The Agent
• Michael T. Dee, Class of 1985, CEO, San Diego Padres (2009–2016)^[5]
• Matt Steinmetz, Class of 1986, journalist and sportscaster
• Chris Finch, Class of 1992, assistant coach of NBA's New Orleans Pelicans, Houston Rockets

Religion

• Willam R. Rathvon, CSB, Class of 1873, Christian Science practitioner, lecturer, church director and the only known eyewitness of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address to leave an audio recording of his impressions^[6]
• Rev. Earl Honaman, BA, Class of 1925, former Episcopal Bishop of Central New York; Army Chaplain in World War II during the Battle of the Bulge^[7]

Academia

• David Bowman Schneder, Class of 1880, second President of Tohoku Gakuin University (1857–1938)^[8]
• William Edwin Hoy, founder of Tohoku Gakuin; missionary to Japan and China, (1858–1927)^[9]
• Andrew Truxal, Class of 1920, president of Hood College and Anne Arundel Community College
• Richard J. Stonesifer Class of 1944, fifth President of Monmouth University (1971–1979)
• James J. Whalen, Class of 1950, president of Ithaca College (1975–1992)
• Keith Hamm, Class of 1969, Edwards Professor of Political Science at Rice University
• LeRoy Pernell (1971), former Dean of Dean of Florida A&M University College of Law & Northern Illinois University College of Law
• Paul R. Brown, Class of 1972, eighth president of Monmouth University
• Louise Burkhart, Class of 1980, ethnohistorian and scholar of Mesoamerican literature; professor of anthropology at University at Albany, SUNY
• Henry Kulp Ober, former President of Elizabethtown College

Military

• Richard Winters, Class of 1941, WWII officer and veteran of D Day, Market Garden, Carentan and the Battle of The Bulge; main character in Band of Brothers; member of Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity
• Richard P. Mills, Class of 1972, Lieutenant General, USMC Deputy Commandant for Combat Development and Integration and Commanding General, Marine Corps Combat Development Command

Other

• Bruce Bechdel, Class of 1955, high school teacher, funeral director and subject of his daughter Alison's 2006 graphic memoir Fun Home and its 2013 musical adaptation
• Jeffrey Lord, Class of 1973, political analyst, most noted as a CNN surrogate for President Donald Trump
• Clifford Pickover, Class of 1979, author and IBM researcher
• Scott Ritter, Class of 1979, anti-war activist
• Mallika Dua, Indian comic

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