# List of Denison University alumni

This is a list of notable alumni of Denison University in Granville, Ohio.

## Academia

* Susan Campbell Baldridge - psychologist; Provost, Middlebury College
* Cynthia Baum – clinical psychologist and academic administrator
* David H. Bayley - pioneer in policing research and former Distinguished Professor Emeritus, School of Criminal Justice, SUNY Albany
* William G. Bowen - former President of Princeton University, current President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
* Douglas A. Boyd - folklorist, oral historian, podcast host, and author, current director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History
* Richard Brandt - professor of philosophy, Swarthmore College and University of Michigan
* David G. Brown - university administrator (provost, chancellor, and president)
* Ernest DeWitt Burton - biblical scholar
* George Cressey - geographer, author, and academic
* Frederick German Detweiler - sociologist
* George Amos Dorsey - ethnographer
* Lottie Estelle Granger - president, Iowa State Teachers' Association
* Stephen Holmes - Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law, New York University
* John S. Lowe - professor and expert in energy law
* Roger H. Martin - 14th president of Randolph-Macon College
* Jeffrey Masten - Shakespeare and sexuality studies scholar, Northwestern University; Guggenheim fellow
* Kirtley F. Mather - geologist; professor and department chairman at Harvard University; civil libertarian and author
* Thomas Skidmore - historian and scholar specialized in Brazilian history
* Maria Tatar - John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Chair of the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University
* Stephen Tuttle - musicologist and former chairman of the department of music at the University of Virginia

## Business

* James Anderson - head of corporate communications and marketing, WarnerMedia; interim head of communications, CNN, Worldwide
* Samuel Armacost - former president, director, and CEO of BankAmerica Corporation
* Joe Banner - President and CEO of the Cleveland Browns
* Brad Blum - former CEO of Burger King
* George Bodenheimer - Executive Chairman of ESPN former President of ESPN and ABC Sports
* John Canning, Jr. - Chairman, Madison Dearborn Partners
* Mark Dalton - CEO of the Tudor Investment Corporation
* Edward Andrew Deeds - engineer, inventor and industrialist
* Michael Eisner - former Chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Company
* William Esrey - former Chief Executive of Sprint Corporation
* John V. Faraci - chairman and chief executive officer of International Paper
* Bill Giles - chairman and part owner of Major League Baseball's Philadelphia Phillies
* Mark Haines - co-anchor of CNBC’s Squawk on the Street
* Terry Jones - founder of Travelocity.com and Kayak.com
* Andrea Mutters - Chief Information Officer of McHenry Advisers
* Ralph Schlosstein - Chairman Emeritus of Evercore and former president and Co-founder of BlackRock

## Arts and Entertainment

* Susan V. Booth - Artistic Director, Alliance Theatre, Atlanta; Artistic Director, Goodman Theatre, Chicago
* Steve Carell - screen and television actor
* Roe Conn - radio personality, WLS 890AM, Chicago
* Tom Cotter - comedian
* Franklin Cover - stage, screen and television actor
* Luke Ebbin - Grammy nominated record producer, songwriter and composer
* John Davidson - stage and television actor; game show host, including Hollywood Squares
* Jennifer Garner - screen and television actress
* Kyle Gordon - comedian
* Jeffrey Hatcher - playwright and screenwriter
* Hal Holbrook - stage, screen and television actor, known for portrayal of Mark Twain
* John Jeffcoat - screenwriter and film director, known for Outsourced
* Ademir Kenović - film director and producer
* Nancy Lynn - acrobatic pilot, killed in 2006 Culpeper Airfest crash
* Ann Magnuson - actress, performance artist, and nightclub performer
* John Malm Jr. - former manager of Trent Reznor and his band Nine Inch Nails
* Daniel Meyer - conductor and musical director
* Alex Moffat - actor and comedian
* P-Star (Priscilla Diaz) - rapper, actress, singer, model, director, DJ
* Hollis Resnik - singer and actress
* José Rivera - first Puerto Rican screenwriter to be nominated for an Academy Award
* John Schuck - screen, stage, and television actor
* Kurt Vincent, director of The Lost Arcade
* Andrew Levitt, drag queen known as Nina West
* Chase Hilt, Good Mythical Morning Producer.
* Chelsey Warner, Associate Producer - The Boys, Amazon
* Charlie Burg - singer song writer
* Meghan McGuire - writer and comedian
* Ned Bittinger - portrait painter and illustrator

## Government

* Richard B. Austin - judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
* Ruth Sarles Benedict - anti-war activist, researcher and journalist
* John T. Chain, Jr. - retired U.S. Air Force General
* Robert Dold - U.S. Representative for Illinois's 10th congressional district
* Edmund Burke Fairfield - minister, educator, and politician, including 12th Lieutenant Governor of Michigan
* Carty Finkbeiner - former mayor of Toledo, Ohio
* Tony P. Hall - United States Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture and United States Representative from Ohio
* Andrew S. Hanen - judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
* Judson Harmon - 45th Governor of Ohio and 41st United States Attorney General
* Leonard D. Heaton - former Surgeon General of the United States Army
* Edgar Winters Hillyer - judge, United States District Court for the District of Nevada
* Douglas Holtz-Eakin - former Director of the Congressional Budget Office and former chief economic policy adviser to U.S. Senator John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign
* Randy Hopper - former member of the Wisconsin State Senate
* Sue W. Kelly - former member of the United States Congress from New York
* Robert W. Levering - former United States Congressman
* Richard Lugar - United States Senator from Indiana; on the Board of Trustees
* Kenneth E. Melson - former ATF director
* Jim Petro - former Ohio Attorney General
* Jane Pringle - Member of the Maine House of Representatives
* Lewis A. Sachs - former US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
* A. W. Sheldon - Associate Justice, Arizona Territorial Supreme Court
* Erastus B. Tyler - Union Army general in the American Civil War
* H. Clay Van Voorhis - former US Congressman
* Ed Weber - former US Congressman
* Yu Tsune-chi - Chinese Ambassador to Italy and Spain, United Nations delegate who took part in the San Francisco Conference
* Allen Zollars - Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court

## Literature

* James Clear - author and speaker about habits
* James Frey - screenwriter and author; A Million Little Pieces, featured by Oprah's Book Club
* Michael Glaser - Poet Laureate of Maryland
* Lauren Shakely - poet, editor, and publisher
* Pam Houston - author, speaker, teacher

## Religion

* Roger Ames - American Anglican bishop
* Edgar J. Goodspeed - liberal theologian
* Randolph Hollerith - Dean of Washington National Cathedral
* James Madison Pendleton - 19th-century Baptist preacher, educator and theologian

## Science

* Homer Burton Adkins - organic chemist
* John Berton - computer graphics animator and visual effects supervisor
* Richard B. Brandt - philosopher
* William Ernest Castle - early American geneticist
* William E. Forsythe - physicist
* George Stibitz - scientist, early pioneer of computer with Bell Labs

## Sports

* Dan Daub - Major League Baseball player, 1892–1897
* Woody Hayes - football coach of Ohio State, 1951–1978
* Ken Meyer - former head coach of the National Football League's San Francisco 49ers
* Johnny O'Connell - professional sports car racer
* Bobby Rahal - Indianapolis 500 champion
* John Robic - assistant men's basketball coach at the University of Kentucky
* Nate Schmidt - assistant men's basketball coach at Iowa State University