# 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 to the present.
* "DNG" indicates that the alumni did not graduate.
* A "—" indicates that the information is unknown.

## Business

| Name | Class year | Notability |
| Henry Clarke | 1955 | built the Klondike brand and expanded it nationally |
| John Curley | 1960 | Former CEO of Gannett News Corporation |
| Alfred V. du Pont | 1818 | Head of the du Pont Company |
| Stephen Duncan | 1805 | Cotton planter in the South prior to the Civil War, and second largest slave owner in the country |
| Judith Faulkner | 1965 | Founder and CEO of Epic Systems |
| Stephen Giannetti | 1973 | Vice President and publisher of National Geographic magazine |
| Justin Gold | 2000 | Founder and CEO of Justin's natural and organic foods |
| David Hirshey | 1971 | Vice President and Executive Editor at HarperCollins publishers |
| John Carmichael Jenkins | 1828 | Plantation owner, medical doctor and horticulturalist |
| Merkel Landis | 1896 | Started the Christmas club savings program |
| Andy MacPhail | 1976 | Major League Baseball executive |
| 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 |
| Lisa Sherman | 1979 | President & CEO of The Ad Council |
| Steve Smith | 1992 | President and CEO of L.L.Bean |
| Nate Mitchell | 2009 | Former Co-founder of Oculus VR and Co-Founder and CEO of Mountaintop Studios |

## Arts and journalism

| Name | Class year | Notability |
| Spencer Bailey | 2008 | Editor-in-chief of Surface magazine |
| Brock Clarke | 1990 | Author |
| 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 |
| Jennifer Haigh | 1990 | The New York Times best-selling author, winner of PEN/Hemingway Award |
| Brad Heckman | 1989 | Artist, activist & founder of the New York Peace Institute |
| Jennifer L. Holm | 1990 | Historical author, wrote three Newbery Honor books |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| James R. Shepley | 1939 (DNG) | Time, Life journalist, later president of Time Inc., received honorary degree in 1959 |
| Richard Sher | 1970 | Producer, creator and host of Says You! |
| Rick Smolan | 1972 | Former Time, Life and National Geographic photographer |
| 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 |
| Charles Strum | 1970 | Associate Managing Editor at The New York Times |

## Academics and education

| Name | Class year | Notability |
| 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 |
| John C. Young | 1823 | Pastor and 4th president of Centre College |
| Fred Pierce Corson | 1917 | Twentieth president of Dickinson College; Bishop of the Methodist Church |
| William Durden | 1971 | President of Dickinson College |
| 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 |
| Linda Dalrymple Henderson | 1969 | David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor of Art History, 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 |
| 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

| Name | Class year | Notability |
| Spencer Fullerton Baird | 1840 | U.S. Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution |
| Charles J. Baker | 1841 | ex officio Mayor of Baltimore |
| 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 |
| Joseph M. Belford | 1871 | U.S. Representative |
| John O. Bennett | DNG | Former State Senator of New Jersey |
| James Buchanan | 1809 | Fifteenth President of the United States |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| Harmar Denny | 1813 | U.S. Representative |
| John D. C. Duncan Jr. | | Maryland state delegate and state senator |
| Ninian Edwards | 1792 | Third Governor of Illinois, United States Senator from Illinois |
| 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 |
| Jim Gerlach | 1977 | U.S. Representative |
| John Bannister Gibson | 1800 | Pennsylvania supreme court justice and chief justice |
| Kermit Gosnell | 1963 | Former abortion doctor convicted of murder |
| Donald E. Graves | 1953 | U.S. State Department Kremlinologist |
| James C. Greenwood | 1973 | U.S. Representative |
| Robert Cooper Grier | 1812 | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1846-1870 |
| Thomas B. Hayward | — | Member of the Maryland House of Delegates |
| Peter Ihrie, Jr. | 1815 | U.S. Representative |
| John J. Jacob | 1849 | Fourth Governor of West Virginia |
| 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 |
| James A. Kenney, III | 1959 | Former Judge of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals |
| 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 |
| Barry W. Lynn | 1970 | Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State |
| James William Marshall | 1848 | U.S. Postmaster General |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| J. Smith Orrick | | Maryland state delegate |
| 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 |
| Abraham Herr Smith | 1840 | U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district from 1873 to 1885 |
| George W. Smith | 1949 | U.S. Marine Major general |
| 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 |
| Philip Francis Thomas | 1830 | Governor of Maryland, United States Secretary of the Treasury |
| Lemuel Todd | 1839 | US Representative from Pennsylvania |
| 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 |
| Ross Wilkins | 1816 | Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan |
| Lindsey Williams | 2005 | Pennsylvania State Senator |
| 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 |
| Stanley Zeigler | 1971 | Maine State Representative |

## Religion

| Name | Class year | Notability |
| George Washington Bethune | 1822 | Dutch Reformed minister and author |
| Joseph Clemens | 1894 | U.S. Army chaplain, missionary and plant collector |
| Moncure Conway | 1849 | Minister, author, abolitionist |
| 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 |
| 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

| Name | Class year | Notability |
| Geoff Arnold | 2010 | Baltimore Orioles broadcaster since 2020 |
| 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 |
| 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 |