# 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
* Mark Crilley, comic book creator and children's book author/illustrator
* David France, journalist and author
* Holly Hughes, performance artist
* Quincy Isaiah (2017), actor best known for portraying Magic Johnson in the HBO series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
* Nagai Kafu, author
* Jordan Klepper (2001), comedian, The Daily Show
* Lisa Kron, 2015 Tony Award-winning (Fun Home) playwright and actress
* Don Lane, singer, entertainer, TV host
* William Malatinsky, author
* Julie Mehretu, artist, winner of MacArthur "Genius" Award
* Fern Persons (1933), actress
* Diane Seuss (1978), poet and educator, winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
* Dorothy B. Waage (1905–1997), numismatist
* Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic correspondent
* Steven Yeun (2005), actor best known for portraying Glenn in The Walking Dead

### Government

* Garry E. Brown, politician
* Darrin Q. Camilleri, Member, Michigan House of Representatives
* Amy Courter, former National Commander of the Civil Air Patrol
* Brandt Iden, Member, Michigan House of Representatives
* Alexander Lipsey, Michigan politician
* Chokwe Lumumba, mayor of Jackson, Mississippi
* Gerald Ellis Rosen, United States District Court Judge
* Bradley A. Smith, former Chairman, Federal Election Commission
* Christopher P. Yates, Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals, Michigan Court of Claims and Michigan Circuit Court

### Business

* Larry Bell, founder of Bell's Brewery
* Harry Garland, entrepreneur
* Mark Spitznagel, hedge fund manager
* Jon Stryker
* Ty Warner, founder, Ty Inc. (Beanie Babies)

### Academia

* Paula Arai, Buddhist studies scholar, researcher, and professor
* 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)
* Kenneth G. Elzinga, economics professor at the University of Virginia
* Cassandra Fraser, chemistry professor at the University of Virginia, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
* 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
* Martin A. Larson, religion scholar
* Katheryn Edmonds Rajnak, theoretical physical chemist
* Tad Schmaltz, philosophy professor at the University of Michigan, early modern philosophy scholar
* Robert J. Shiller, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics
* Floyd Wilcox, third president of Shimer College

### Other

* Hannah P. Dodge, faculty of the Ladies' Department
* Fannie Ruth Robinson, college president 1895
* John E. Sarno, innovator in back-pain therapy
* Madelon Stockwell, first woman to graduate from the University of Michigan
* David Hildebrand Wilson, founder and curator of Museum of Jurassic Technology