List of Dickinson College alumni

This is a list of Dickinson College alumni. This list covers alumni from the first graduating class in July 1787^[1] to the present.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

• "DNG" indicates that the alumni did not graduate.
• A "—" indicates that the information is unknown.

Business

 

Alfred V. du Pont

Name	Class year	Notability	Ref(s)
Henry Clarke	1955	built the Klondike brand and expanded it nationally
John Curley	1960	Former CEO of Gannett News Corporation	^[2]
Alfred V. du Pont	1818	Head of the du Pont Company	^[3]^[4]
Stephen Duncan	1805	Cotton planter in the South prior to the Civil War, and second largest slave owner in the country	^[5]^[6]
Judith Faulkner	1965	Founder and CEO of Epic Systems	^[7]
Stephen Giannetti	1973	Vice President and publisher of National Geographic magazine	^[7]
Justin Gold	2000	Founder and CEO of Justin's natural and organic foods
David Hirshey	1971	Vice President and Executive Editor at HarperCollins publishers	^[8]
John Carmichael Jenkins	1828	Plantation owner, medical doctor and horticulturalist	^[9]
Merkel Landis	1896	Started the Christmas club savings program	^[10]
Andy MacPhail	1976	Major League Baseball executive	^[11]
Amy Nauiokas	1994	Founder and CEO of Archer Gray media production, finance, and venture capital company
Leon Rose	1983	President of the New York Knicks
Steve Smith	1992	President and CEO of L.L.Bean

Arts and journalism

 

Rick Smolan

Name	Class year	Notability	Ref(s)
Spencer Bailey	2008	Editor-in-chief of Surface magazine	^[12]
Brock Clarke	1990	Author	^[13]
Rick Fisher	1976	Lighting designer, winner of 2009 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Musical for Billy Elliot the Musical
Kass Fleisher	1981	Author
Adam Granduciel	2003	Frontman, guitarist, and songwriter for the indie rock band The War on Drugs	^[14]
Jennifer Haigh	1990	The New York Times best-selling author, winner of PEN/Hemingway Award	^[15]
Brad Heckman	1989	Artist, activist & founder of the New York Peace Institute	^[16]
Jennifer L. Holm	1990	Historical author, wrote three Newbery Honor books	^[17]
Kim Min-soo	2018	Beauty Pageant Winner Miss Korea 2018
Clarence Muse	1911	Actor, director, composer, and writer
Rosie O'Donnell	DNG	Stand-up comedian, actress, singer, and media personality
Stuart Pankin	1968	Television actor	^[18]
Esther Popel	1919	First Black female graduate of Dickinson, African-American poet of the Harlem Renaissance, activist, and educator
Jennifer Ringley	1997	Creator of JenniCam.org	^[19]
James R. Shepley	1939 (DNG)	Time, Life journalist, later president of Time Inc., received honorary degree in 1959	^[20]^[21]
Richard Sher	1970	Producer, creator and host of Says You!	^[22]
Rick Smolan	1972	Former Time, Life and National Geographic photographer	^[23]
Susan Stewart	1973	Poet and literary critic, MacArthur Fellow, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award	^[24]
Charles Strum	1970	Associate Managing Editor at The New York Times	^[25]

Academics and education

 

Henry Louis Baugher

Name	Class year	Notability	Ref(s)
Neal B. Abraham	1972	Professor of Physics at Bryn Mawr College, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College at DePauw University, and Executive Director of the Five College Consortium
Henry Louis Baugher	1826	President of Pennsylvania (Gettysburg) College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Jeremiah Chamberlain	1814	2nd President of Centre College and the Centenary College of Louisiana	^[26]^[27]
John C. Young	1823	Pastor and 4th president of Centre College	^[28]
Fred Pierce Corson	1917	Twentieth president of Dickinson College; Bishop of the Methodist Church	^[29]
William Durden	1971	President of Dickinson College	^[30]
John Goucher	1868	Founder, President, and namesake of Goucher College
Francis Harvey Green	1893	Chair of English at West Chester Normal School and Headmaster of the Pennington School	^[31]
Linda Dalrymple Henderson	1969	Professor of Art History Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin
Helen Schaeffer Huff	1903	Among the first women to receive a PhD in physics from a US institution.
Louis E. McComas	1866	Professor of International Law at Georgetown University Law Center
Samuel Miller	1793	Presbyterian professor at Princeton Theological Seminary
Chad Mirkin	1986	George Rathmann Professor of Chemistry and Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology at Northwestern University, recipient of the Kabiller Prize in Nanoscience and Nanomedicine, the Wilhelm Exner Medal, the William H. Nichols Medal, the Dan David Prize, the Linus Pauling Award, and the American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal
Elijah Barrett Prettyman	1848	Second principal of the Maryland State Normal School, now Towson University	^[32]^[33]
Lisa Rossbacher	1978	President of Humboldt State University
Lawrence Shapiro	1984	Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Susan Stewart	1973	Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at Princeton University
Marvin Wolfgang	1948	Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania
John C. Young	1823	Fourth president of Centre College

Government and public service

 

Spencer Fullerton Baird

 

James Buchanan

 

Jim Gerlach

Name	Class year	Notability	Ref(s)
Spencer Fullerton Baird	1840	U.S. Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution	^[34]
Charles J. Baker	1841	ex officio Mayor of Baltimore	^[35]
Mark A. Barnett	1985	Judge of the United States Court of International Trade
Daniel Moore Bates	1839	Secretary of State of Delaware and US Attorney for the district of Delaware
Richard L. T. Beale	DNG	U.S. Representative	^[36]
Joseph M. Belford	1871	U.S. Representative	^[37]
John O. Bennett	DNG	Former State Senator of New Jersey
James Buchanan	1809	Fifteenth President of the United States	^[38]
William W. Caldwell	1948	Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
Philip L. Cannon	1870 (DNG)	Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (1901–1905)	^[39]
William Creighton Jr.	1795	United States Representative from Ohio; Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Ohio
John Creswell	1848	United States Senator, U.S. Representative; U.S. Postmaster General, first member of Congress to propose a constitutional amendment banning slavery	^[40]^[41]
Harmar Denny	1813	U.S. Representative	^[42]
John D. C. Duncan Jr.		Maryland state delegate and state senator	^[43]
Ninian Edwards	1792	Third Governor of Illinois, United States Senator from Illinois	^[44]
Powhatan Ellis	1810	United States Senator from Mississippi; Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Mississippi
Richard H. Ellis	1941	Former commander in chief of the Strategic Air Command
Clement Finley	1815	10th Surgeon General of the United States Army
George P. Fisher	1838	United States Representative from Delaware; Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia
George Gekas	1952	U.S. Representative	^[45]
Jim Gerlach	1977	U.S. Representative	^[46]
Kermit Gosnell	1963	Former abortion doctor convicted of murder	^[47]
Donald E. Graves	1953	U.S. State Department Kremlinologist	^[48]
James C. Greenwood	1973	U.S. Representative	^[49]
Robert Cooper Grier	1812	Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1846-1870	^[50]
Thomas B. Hayward	—	Member of the Maryland House of Delegates	^[51]
Peter Ihrie, Jr.	1815	U.S. Representative	^[52]
John J. Jacob	1849	Fourth Governor of West Virginia	^[53]
John E. Jones III	1977	Former Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and 30th President of Dickinson College	^[54]
James A. Kenney, III	1959	Former Judge of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals	^[55]
Horatio Collins King	1858	Judge advocate general for the New York National Guard, lawyer, and Civil War soldier, received the Medal of Honor
Charles B. Lore	1852	U.S. Representative, Attorney General of Delaware, Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court
Edward Lucas	1809	U.S. Representative	^[56]
Barry W. Lynn	1970	Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State
James William Marshall	1848	U.S. Postmaster General	^[57]^[41]
Lewis Linn McArthur	DNG	Oregon Supreme Court associate justice and newspaper publisher
Robert McClelland	1829	U.S. Representative, Governor of Michigan, United States Secretary of the Interior	^[58]
Louis E. McComas	1866	United States Senator from Maryland; United States Representative from Maryland; Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
David Oh	1982	First Asian-American elected to the Philadelphia City Council
Charles O'Neill	1840	U.S. Representative	^[59]
J. Smith Orrick		Maryland state delegate	^[60]
Sylvia H. Rambo	1958	Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania; Chief Judge, 1992-1999
Stephen R. Reed	DNG	Mayor of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1982-2010
Jeffrey L. Schmehl	1977	Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Bill Shuster	1983	U.S. Representative	^[61]
Abraham Herr Smith	1840	U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district from 1873 to 1885	^[62]
George W. Smith	1949	U.S. Marine Major general	^[63]
Zatae Leola Longsdorff Straw	1887	first woman to graduate from Dickinson, physician, member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, president of the New Hampshire Department of the American Legion Auxiliary, first woman to serve as president of the American Medical Society
Richard Barclay Surrick	1960	Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Roger B. Taney	1795	Fifth Chief Justice of the United States	^[64]
Philip Francis Thomas	1830	Governor of Maryland, United States Secretary of the Treasury	^[65]
Lemuel Todd	1839	US Representative from Pennsylvania	^[66]
Emanuel Mac Troutman	1934	Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Jonathan Hoge Walker	1787	Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
Isaac Wayne	1792	U.S. Congressman, Pennsylvania State Representative, Pennsylvania State Senator	^[67]
Ross Wilkins	1816	Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
Lindsey Williams	2005	Pennsylvania State Senator	^[68]
William Wilkins	1802	U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, Secretary of War, and Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania	^[69]
Stanley Zeigler	1971	Maine State Repreesentative	^[70]

Religion

 

George Washington Bethune

Name	Class year	Notability	Ref(s)
George Washington Bethune	1822	Dutch Reformed minister and author
Joseph Clemens	1894	U.S. Army chaplain, missionary and plant collector	^[71]
Moncure Conway	1849	Minister, author, abolitionist	^[72]
George R. Crooks	1840	Minister; editor of The Methodist; professor at Drew Theological Seminary
George David Cummins	1841	Founder of Reformed Episcopal Church
William Perry Eveland	1892	Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church	^[73]
Frederick Brown Harris	1909	Twice Chaplain of the United States Senate
John Swanel Inskip	1835 (DNG)	Minister, evangelist, president of the National Holiness Association
John Wesley Lord	1927	Bishop of the Methodist Church; Vice President of the National Council of Churches
Robert Samuel Maclay	1845	Missionary who made pioneer contributions to the Methodist Episcopal missions in China, Japan and Korea

Sports

 

Chief Bender

Name	Class year	Notability	Ref(s)
Geoff Arnold	2010	Baltimore Orioles broadcaster since 2020	^[74]
Bull Behman	1923	NFL player with the Frankford Yellow Jackets and AFL player with the Philadelphia Quakers
Chief Bender	1902	Hall of Fame baseball pitcher
Bob Books	1926	NFL player with the Frankford Yellow Jackets
Steve Hoffman	1980	NFL coach with the Atlanta Falcons and Dallas Cowboys
Brett Hollander	2007	Baltimore Orioles broadcaster since 2020	^[74]
Joe Katchik	1954	AFL player with the New York Titans
Frank Mount Pleasant	1910	US Olympic Track & Field athlete, 1904 Summer Olympics and 1908 Summer Olympics, first Native American to graduate from Dickinson
Hikaru Nakamura	DNG	Chess player, Grandmaster, streamer
Len Supulski	1943	NFL player with the Philadelphia Eagles

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