- List of Kenyon College alumni
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This is a list of some of Kenyon College's notable alumni, organized by their fields of endeavor.
Contents
Politics
Name Occupation Notes on Kenyon Experience Rutherford B. Hayes President of the United States Olof Palme Prime Minister of Sweden William Rehnquist Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Attended for 1 year Edwin Stanton Secretary of War during the Lincoln administration John Snow Secretary of the Treasury Attended for 1 year Bill Harsha US Representative for Ohio David Davis Senator, Supreme Court Justice Thomas Stanley Matthews Senator, Supreme Court justice Henry Winter Davis US Congressman for Maryland's 3rd and 4th district Zack Space Congressman, Ohio Congressional District 18 Barry Goode California judge, former legal officer for California Gov. Gray Davis Leopoldo López Mayor of Chacao municipality, Caracas, Venezuela Law
Name Occupation Notes on Kenyon Experience Kathleen M. O'Malley United States federal judge Literature
Name Occupation Notes on Kenyon Experience Jim Bellows Journalist and newspaper editor Caleb Carr Novelist and military historian Jay Cocks Film critic and screenwriter E. L. Doctorow Novelist and cultural critic William Gass Writer, winner of the American Book Award John Green Author; Winner Michael L. Printz Award for Looking for Alaska John Hattendorf Maritime historian Anthony Hecht Poet Laura Hillenbrand Writer, author of Seabiscuit: An American Legend Was forced to withdraw after contracting chronic fatigue syndrome Scott Kenemore Writer P. F. Kluge Writer Robert Lowell Poet Robie Macauley Writer, editor of Playboy Transferred from Olivet College in 1939; Later editor of the Kenyon Review Robert Mezey Writer Constantinos Patrides Professor of English Literature, University of Michigan Student of John Crowe Ransom; earned Rhodes Scholarship Fred Waitzkin Writer Matthew Winkler Editor in chief, Bloomberg News James Wright Poet, Winner of Pulitzer Prize Performing arts
Name Occupation Notes on Kenyon Experience Nick Bakay Actor, Comedian Adam Davidson Academy award winning Director Frank Dicopoulos Actor Chris Eigeman Actor Allison Janney Actress, four-time Emmy Award winner Paul Newman Actor, Emmy Award and Academy Award winner Wendy MacLeod Playwright, screenwriter Kris Osborn CNN anchor Amy Malkoff Recording Artist Alfred Humphreys Pease Composer Josh Radnor Actor Jonathan Winters Actor and comedian Sciences
Name Occupation Notes on Kenyon Experience James Cox Physician, researcher, educator Rolla Dyer Developer of the typhus vaccine and director of the National Institutes of Health Carl Djerassi Creator of the birth control pill, winner of the National Medal of Science Harvey Lodish Professor, co-founder of Genzyme Corporation Visual arts
Name Occupation Notes on Kenyon Experience Carl Andre Artist Attended for one year Jim Borgman Cartoonist, best known for Zits Meg Cranston Artist Eric Gaskins Fashion Designer Graham Gund Architect C. Cameron Macauley Photographer and Film Producer Graduated in 1949 with a B.A. in English Jonathan Mannion Photographer and Director Coles Phillips Artist Bill Watterson Cartoonist, best known for Calvin and Hobbes Victoria Wyatt Art historian Sports
Name Occupation Notes on Kenyon Experience Don McNeill U.S. Open tennis champion John Rinka 8th all-time leading scorer (3,251 points) in NCAA history Shaka Smart Men's basketball head coach, Virginia Commonwealth University Bill Veeck MLB owner and baseball hall of famer Philanthropy
Name Occupation Notes on Kenyon Experience Kevin O'Donnell Director of the U.S. Peace Corps Military
Name Occupation Notes on Kenyon Experience Ralph P. Buckland Brigadier General, Union Army, during the Civil War John G. Mitchell Brigadier General, Union Army, during the Civil War Religion
Name Occupation Notes on Kenyon Experience Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky Bishop of Shanghai, China, 1877-1883 William Crane Gray First Bishop of Southern Florida, 1893-1913 S. Arthur Huston Episcopal Bishop of Olympia, 1925-1944 William Swing Bishop, Diocese of California, 1979-2006 Academics
Amos N. Guiora professor of law at University of Utah and Israel Defense Forces Judge Advocate General's Corps (Lt. Col. Ret.)
John Allen Gable served as executive director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association from 1974 through to his death in February 2005. He was widely considered the world's leading authority on Theodore Roosevelt.
Activism
Ron Link former fire fighter and actor (patient advocate)
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