# List of Roanoke College alumni

Roanoke College is private liberal arts college in Salem, Virginia. Following are some of its notable alumni.

## Art and architecture

* Rob Balder – cartoonist
* Joel Christian Gill – cartoonist and author of graphic novels
* Wyatt C. Hedrick – architect, engineer, and developer

## Business

* John P. Fishwick – former president of Norfolk and Western Railway
* John McAfee – software entrepreneur; founder of McAfee
* John A. Mulheren – Wall Street trader and philanthropist; provided funding for the construction of several Roanoke College buildings
* Stuart T. Saunders – founding chairman, Penn Central Railroad; appeared on the cover of Time in 1968

## Education

* R. H. W. Dillard – award-winning poet and author; and professor of English and creative writing at Hollins University
* Thomas David Gordon – reformed theologian, writer, and professor at Grove City College
* Cornelius T. Jordan – Virginia Senate and president of New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (New Mexico State University)
* Lewis Lancaster – Buddhist scholar; professor emeritus, University of California, Berkeley; past president, University of the West
* William Riley Parker – professor of English at Indiana University and New York University
* Rebecca Sharitz – ecologist and emeritus professor at the University of Georgia
* Carol M. Swain – Pulitzer Prize nominee in 2002, political scientist, and professor at Vanderbilt University

## Entertainment

* Jay Alaimo – film director, writer, and producer
* Ted Brown – radio personality in New York City with WMGM, WNEW and WNBC
* Walter Compton – radio and television broadcaster and executive
* Tom T. Hall – country music artist, attended Roanoke following military service via the G.I. Bill
* John Payne – film and television actor
* David C. Robinson – movie producer and vice president of Morgan Creek Productions
* Alice White – film actress
* Eve Whittle – actress and child psychologist
* Kristen Wiig – actress known Saturday Night Live and various comedic blockbusters

## Law

* George Warwick McClintic – judge with the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia1921–42
* Richard Harding Poff – justice with the Supreme Court of Virginia1972–88 and United States Representative 1953–72
* Anthony D. Sayre – justice with the Supreme Court of Alabama 1909-31
* Frank S. Tavenner Jr. – United States Attorney, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia,1940–45
* James C. Turk – judge with the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia 1972-2014 and Virginia Senate

## Literature and journalism

* R. H. W. Dillard – award-winning poet and author; and professor of English and creative writing at Hollins University
* Rorer A. James – owner and editor of the Danville Register and the Danville Bee, Virginia House, Senate, and United States Representative
* Frederick Bittle Kegley – magazine editor and author
* Ruth Randall – Biographer of Mary Todd Lincoln
* William Seabrook— journalist, author, explorer and occultist; best known for introducing the Haitian Vodou concept of zombies into popular culture with his book, The Magic Island (1929).

## Military

* Leslie D. Carter – U.S. Army major general
* David C. Shanks – US Army major general
* Yi Kang – Lieutenant General in Imperial Korean Army and Korean prince

## Politics

* Frederick C. Boucher – United States Representative, Virginia's 9th congressional district, 1983–2011
* Park Hee Byung – Korean independence leader; worked to end the Japanese annexation of Korea
* Christy Underwood Clark – North Carolina House of Representatives
* Walter M. Denny – United States Representative, Mississippi's 6th congressional district, 1895–97
* Mawine G. Diggs – Liberian minister of Commerce and Industry
* Henry H. Fowler – United States Treasury Secretary, 1965–68
* Rorer A. James – Virginia House, Senate, United States Representative, owner and editor of the Danville Register and the Danville Bee
* Cornelius T. Jordan – Virginia Senate and president of New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (New Mexico State University)
* Kim Kyu-shik – Korean independence leader; represented Korea at the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I
* James W. Marshall – United States Representative, Virginia's 9th congressional district, 1893–95
* William McKendree Murrell – member of the Virginia House of Delegates
* Leonard G. Muse – Virginia Senate
* Park Hee-byung – a Korean independence activist
* E. J. Pipkin – member, Maryland State Senate, 2003–13
* Richard H. Poff – United States Representative 1953–72; Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia, 1972–88
* Sam Rasoul – member, Virginia House of Delegates
* Lloyd M. Robinette – Virginia Senate
* Robert Spellane – member, Massachusetts House of Representatives, 2001–11
* James C. Turk – Virginia Senate and judge with the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, 1972-2014
* James P. Woods – United States Representative, Virginia's 6th congressional district, 1918–23
* Joshua Soule Zimmerman – West Virginia House of Delegates

## Religion

* William A. Brown – Episcopal Bishop of Southern Virginia
* Thomas C. Darst – Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina
* W. A. R. Goodwin – an Episcopal priest, historian, and author known as the "Father of Colonial Williamsburg"
* Arthur Selden Lloyd – coadjutor bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia and Suffragan Bishop of New York
* Richard L. Pratt Jr. – theologian, author, and founder and President of Third Millennium Ministries
* William Henry Roberts – Baptist minister who worked for many years as a missionary in Burma
* Theodore Schneider – Bishop of the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 1995–2007

## Science and medicine

* William Steel Creighton – myrmecologist and taxonomist with Department of Biology at the City College of New York
* Alan M. Friedlander – marine biologist and fisheries scientist
* Carl W. Gottschalk – professor of medicine, University of North Carolina; notable kidney researcher
* Bettie Sue Masters – biochemist and adjunct professor at Duke University
* Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle – neurophysiologist and Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University

## Sports

* Frankie Allen – college basketball player and coach
* Doc Ayers – professional baseball player
* William Beroza – lacrosse goalie, coach and member of the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame
* Jim Brillheart – professional baseball player
* Lombe Honaker – college football coach
* Loren LaPorte – college softball coach
* Mike McGuire – head coach of the Radford University women's basketball team
* Herbert J. McIntire – college football coach
* Rock Norman – college basketball and track coach
* Shelley Olds – former professional racing cyclist
* John Pirro –- lacrosse player and coach
* Ben Sanders – professional baseball player
* Conley Snidow – college football and basketball coach
* Gordon C. White – college football coach