List of Kalamazoo College people
This page lists notable alumni and former students, faculty, and administrators of Kalamazoo College.
Alumni
Arts and letters
- Selma Blair, actress (graduated from the University of Michigan, but studied at Kalamazoo from 1990 to 1992)
- Teju Cole, award-winning Nigerian American author[1]
- Mark Crilley, comic book creator and children's book author/illustrator
- David France, journalist and author
- Holly Hughes, performance artist
- Nagai Kafu, author
- Jordan Klepper (2001), comedian, The Daily Show[2]
- Lisa Kron, 2015 Tony Award-winning (Fun Home) playwright and actress
- Julie Mehretu, artist, winner of MacArthur "Genius" Award
- Fern Persons (1933), actress
- Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic correspondent
- Steven Yeun (2005), actor best known for portraying Glenn in The Walking Dead[3]
Government
- Garry E. Brown, politician
- Amy Courter, former National Commander of the Civil Air Patrol
- Alexander Lipsey, Michigan politician
- Gerald Ellis Rosen, United States District Court Judge
- Bradley A. Smith, former Chairman, Federal Election Commission
Business
- Larry Bell, founder Bell's Brewery
- Harry Garland, entrepreneur[4]
- Mark Spitznagel, hedge fund manager
- Ty Warner, founder, Ty Inc. (Beanie Babies)
- Jon Stryker
Academia
- George C. Baldwin, theoretical and experimental physicist and professor at General Electric Company, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Los Alamos National Laboratory
- William F. DeGrado, professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)[5]
- Kenneth G. Elzinga, economics professor at the University of Virginia
- Thomas F. Gieryn, sociology professor at the University of Indiana known for developing the concept of "boundary work"
- David Heath, probabilist, known for developing the Heath–Jarrow–Morton framework to model the evolution of the interest rate curve[6]
- Martin A. Larson, religion scholar
- Tad Schmaltz, philosophy professor at the University of Michigan, early modern philosophy scholar
- Robert J. Shiller, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics[7]
- Floyd Wilcox, third president of Shimer College[8]
Other
- John E. Sarno, innovator in back-pain therapy
- David Hildebrand Wilson, founder and curator of Museum of Jurassic Technology
References
- ↑ Bard College | Faculty
- ↑ Liberty, John (March 4, 2014). "'The Daily Show' debut: Watch Jon Stewart tell Kalamazoo native Jordan Klepper to 'go back to Crimea'". MLive.com. Retrieved March 7, 2014.
- ↑ Liberty, John (2010-10-30). "College grad vs. zombies: Michigan native stars in new AMC series 'The Walking Dead'". Kalamazoo Gazette. Retrieved 2011-02-27.
- ↑ Levering, Robert; Katz, Michael; Moskowitz, Milton (1984). The Computer Entrepreneurs. New American Library. p. 36. ISBN 0-453-00477-6.
- ↑ "William Degrado | UCSF Profiles". profiles.ucsf.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
- ↑ "David C. Heath Obituary", Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 2011-08-28, retrieved October 25, 2015
- ↑ Van Sweden, James (October 22, 2013). "Alumnus Wins Nobel Prize". Kalamazoo College. Retrieved October 31, 2013.
- ↑ "Students: 1913". The Institution Bulletin. 4. p. 274.
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