This list of Grinnell College alumni includes graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of Grinnell College, Iowa, US.
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Academia and research
Name |
Class year |
Notability |
Reference |
Barber, Benjamin |
1960 |
Political theorist, author of Jihad vs. McWorld |
[1] |
Buckley, Oliver |
1909 |
President and director of Bell Labs, namesake of the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize. |
[2] |
Cech, Thomas |
1970 |
Co-winner of 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
[3][4] |
Coleman, Mary Sue |
1965 |
President of the University of Michigan |
[5] |
Evrigenis, Ioannis D. |
1993 |
Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Classics at Tufts University |
[6] |
Golbeck, Amanda L. |
1974 |
Lead editor of Leadership and Women in Statistics, winner of 2016 Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies Elizabeth L. Scott Award |
[7][8] |
Grinker, Roy Richard |
1983 |
Anthropologist, editor of Anthropological Quarterly |
[9] |
Hughes-Schrader, Sally |
1917 |
Zoologist, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
[10] |
Harshbarger, Frances |
1923 |
one of the first female American mathematicians to receive a doctorate |
[11] |
Koenker, Roger |
1969 |
Economist |
[12] |
Maxwell, David |
1966 |
President of Drake University |
[13] |
Myers-Scotton, Carol |
1955 |
Linguist |
[14] |
Noyes, William |
1879 |
Chemist |
[15] |
Patterson, Clair |
1943 |
Geochemist, first person to accurately date the age of the earth, responsible for the removal of lead from gasoline |
[16][17] |
Risser, Paul |
1961 |
President of Miami University and Oregon State University |
[18] |
Entertainment
Name |
Class year |
Notability |
Reference |
Atherton, Matthew |
1995 |
Winner of the reality show Who Wants to Be a Superhero? |
[30] |
Bergl, Emily |
1997 |
Actress, best known for Men in Trees |
[31] |
Cooper, Gary |
1926 (did not graduate) |
Actor, best known for High Noon, received five Oscar nominations for Best Actor |
[32] |
Coyote, Peter |
1964 |
Actor, author, narrated the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics and Oscar telecasts |
[33] |
Koenig, Walter |
1958 (transferred) |
Actor, best known as Chekov in Star Trek |
[34] |
McCallie, Ellen |
1992 |
Scientist on BBC's Rough Science series |
[35] |
Nanjiani, Kumail |
2001 |
Stand-up comedian |
[36] |
Roberts, Ian |
1987 |
Actor, founder of Upright Citizens Brigade |
[37] |
Gary Cooper, the famous actor (1901–1961), studied for two years at Grinnell, but did not graduate there.
Government, law, and public policy
Name |
Class year |
Notability |
Reference |
Abarca, Marlu Carolina |
2014 |
Commissioner, youngest member to be appointed by the Governor to the Iowa Latino Affairs Commission, led efforts to create Iowa Latino Hall of Fame |
[38] |
Adams, Henry Carter |
1874 |
Economist, promoter of the American Economic Association, led movement to regulate "natural monopolies" in economic life |
[39] |
Adelman, Kenneth |
1967 |
Deputy ambassador to the United Nations, Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, National Editor of Washingtonian magazine |
[40][41] |
Blake, Charles |
2005 |
Democratic African-American member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from Little Rock, Arkansas |
[42] |
Cole, Tom |
1971 |
Representative from Oklahoma, Chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee |
[43] |
Flanagan, Hallie |
1911 |
Director of the Federal Theater Project |
[44] |
Garang, John |
1969 |
Vice president of Sudan, leader of the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army |
[45] |
Hopkins, Harry |
1912 |
WPA administrator and architect of the New Deal |
[46] |
Kenyon, William |
1890 |
Senator from Iowa and Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit |
[47] |
Moose, George |
1966 |
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Ambassador to Benin and Senegal |
[48] |
Railsback, Tom |
1954 |
Representative from Illinois |
[49] |
Rawson, Charles |
|
Senator from Iowa |
[50] |
Savage, Ezra P. |
|
Twelfth Governor of Nebraska and tenth Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska |
[51] |
Katayama, Sen |
1892 |
Co-founder of the Japan Communist Party |
[52][53] |
Wearin, Otha |
1924 |
Representative from Iowa |
[54] |
Welch, Joseph |
1914 |
Head attorney for the United States Army during the Army-McCarthy Hearings |
[55] |
Wheat, Alan |
1972 |
Representative from Missouri |
[56] |
Wilson, George |
1904 |
Senator from Iowa, Governor of Iowa |
[57] |
Wingate, Henry |
1969 |
Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi |
[58] |
Wu, K. C. |
1923 |
Governor of Taiwan Province, Mayor of Shanghai |
[59] |
Name |
Class year |
Notability |
Reference |
Giddins, Gary |
1970 |
Jazz columnist for The Village Voice |
[60] |
Hodierne, Robert |
1968 |
Editor of the Army Times and Pulitzer Prize winner |
[61] |
Jacobs, Ben |
2006 |
Political reporter for The Guardian |
[62] |
Jacobson, Walter |
1959 |
Chicago news personality |
[63] |
Kaltenbach, Frederick Wilhelm |
c1918 (did not graduate) |
English-language Nazi propagandist during World War II |
[64] |
Kempenaar, Adam |
1997 |
Host of podcast and public radio show Filmspotting |
[65] |
Montaño, Armando |
2012 |
Associated Press |
[66] |
Shaw, Albert |
1879 |
Co-owner of the Grinnell Herald, journalist, and editor of the American edition of The Review of Reviews |
[67] |
Smith, Roberta |
1969 |
Art critic for The New York Times |
[68] |
Literature, writing, and translation
Name |
Class year |
Notability |
Reference |
Clampitt, Amy |
1941 |
Poet and author |
[69] |
Feldman, David |
1971 |
Author of the Imponderables series of books |
[70] |
Hall, James Norman |
1910 |
Author, best known for Mutiny on the Bounty |
[71] |
Hirsch, Edward |
1972 |
Poet, president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |
[72] |
Norman, Liane Ellison |
1959 |
Author and recipient of Grinnell's Distinguished Alumni Award |
[73] |
Poe, Marshall |
1984 |
Historian, author, founder of MemoryArchive |
[74] |
Swanson, Harold Norling |
1922 |
First editor of College Humor, well-known Hollywood literary agent |
[75] |
Wade Benjamin, Ali |
1992 |
Author and finalist for the 2015 National Book Award |
[76] |
References
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- ↑ "WISE Archives: Oral History Collection--Mary Sue Coleman Biography". Iowa State University Library. Archived from the original on 7 December 2006. Retrieved 26 January 2007.
- ↑ "People – Ioannis D. Evrigenis". Tufts University Department of Political Science. Archived from the original on 2018-03-22.
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- ↑ "Drake University – President – Short Bio". Drake University. Archived from the original on 23 March 2007. Retrieved 26 January 2007.
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- ↑ Tilton, George R. "Clair Cameron Patterson". United States National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 4 February 2007.
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- ↑ "Interview: Kevin Cannon pt. 1 (of 2)". The Daily Cross Hatch. Retrieved 19 December 2008.
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- ↑ Moldenhauer, Hans. Duo-pianism: a dissertation. Chicago Musical College Press. p. 166. OCLC 401031.
- ↑ The last correspondence to Macy in the Jesse Macy Papers at the Grinnell College Library was sent to him in Grinnell (December 1919, one month after his death).
- ↑ "John B. Chambers, CFA". Arab Bankers Association of North America. Archived from the original on 8 October 2011. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
- ↑ "Nordahl L. Brue '67 1996". Grinnell College. Archived from the original on 3 September 2006. Retrieved 2 February 2007.
- ↑ Andrews, Robert (8 December 2008). "Industry Moves: Caroline Little Named Guardian North America CEO". The Washington Post. Retrieved 19 December 2008.
- ↑ "Grinnell College elects new trustees". Grinnell College. 29 April 2009. Archived from the original on 20 June 2010.
- ↑ "Grinnell College trustee, Joseph Frankel Rosenfield, dies, 2000". Grinnell College. Archived from the original on 1 September 2006. Retrieved 28 February 2007.
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- ↑ "Emily Bergl". TV Guide. Retrieved 2 February 2007.
- ↑ "Famous Iowans". Des Moines Register. Retrieved 2 February 2007.
- ↑ "Coyote's Biography". Coymoon Creations. Retrieved 2 February 2007.
- ↑ "Walter Koenig's Biography". Star Traveler Publications. Retrieved 4 February 2007.
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- ↑ Konigsberg, Eric (1 November 2009). "For Kumail Nanjiani, A Good Time to Be Funny". New York Times. Retrieved 23 April 2011.
- ↑ "Theatre Alumni : Where are they Now". Grinnell College. Archived from the original on 30 December 2006. Retrieved 25 February 2007.
- ↑ "Marlú Abarca, Co-Chair". The Iowa Department of Human Rights. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
- ↑ "Henry Carter Adams". The Journal of Political Economy. Retrieved 24 May 2010.
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- ↑ "Railsback, Thomas Fisher". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 25 February 2007.
- ↑ "Rawson, Charles Augustus". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 25 February 2007.
- ↑ "Nebraska Governor Ezra Perin Savage". National Governors Association. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
- ↑ "Yabuki, Sugataro". Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved 4 February 2007.
- ↑ "Tokyo Life, New York Dreams:Urban Japanese Visions of America, 1890–1924". University of California Press. Retrieved 4 February 2007.
- ↑ "Wearin, Otha Donner". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 25 February 2007.
- ↑ "Joseph Nye Welch Biography". The Biography Channel. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 25 February 2007.
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- ↑ "Monday, Nov. 12, 1956". Time. 12 November 1956. Retrieved 25 February 2007.
- ↑ "Critic Gary Giddins Lectures in Iowa". JazzTimes. Retrieved 1 March 2007.
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- ↑ "Clarice Smith Lectures". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Archived from the original on 28 May 2006. Retrieved 27 February 2007.
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- ↑ "James Norman Hall, The Man". James Norman Hall Home. Retrieved 11 March 2007.
- ↑ "Poet's Winding Path Leads to a Job as a Foundation President". The Chronicle of Philanthropy. Archived from the original on 24 February 2007. Retrieved 11 March 2007.
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