# List of Colby College alumni

This list of Colby College alumni includes graduates, non-graduate former students, current students, and honorary degree recipients of Colby College. Colby, which was founded in 1813, has a total of more than 25,000 living alumni.

## Academia
### Educators

| Name | Class | Notability |
| Martin Brewer Anderson | 1840 | President of the University of Rochester from 1853 to 1888 |
| Theophilus C. Abbot | 1845 | President of State Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) from 1862 to 1885 |
| Nathan Cook Brackett | 1864 (transfer) | founder of Storer College and Bluefield State College |
| Edward Bennett Mathews (geologist) | 1891 | Professor of Mineralogy and Petrography at Johns Hopkins University |
| George Perley Phenix | 1883 | President of Hampton University, and teacher |
| Shailer Mathews | 1884 | Dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School, 1908-1933 |
| George Ricker Berry | 1885 | Semitic Scholar and Professor at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School |
| Arthur J. Roberts | 1890 | President of Colby College, 1908-1927 |
| Franklin W. Johnson | 1891 | President of Colby College, 1929-1942 |
| Charles Huntington Whitman | 1897 | Chair of the Department of English at Rutgers University 1911-1937 |
| Gordon Enoch Gates | 1919 | Head of Biology Department University of Yangon, 1921-1941 |
| David G. Bromley | 1963 | Author and Professor of Sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University |
| Jerrold Lee Shapiro | 1964 | Director of the Center for Professional Development at Santa Clara University |
| Thomas Easton | 1966 | Professor of Biology at Thomas College |
| William "Bill" McKinney | 1968 | President and Professor of American Religion of Pacific School of Religion, 1996-2010 |
| Ted Snyder (economist) | 1975 | Dean of Yale School of Management, Dean of University of Chicago Booth School of Business 2001-2010 |
| Gregory R. Ciottone | 1987 | Harvard Professor, pioneering physician in Counter-Terrorism Medicine, White House consultant |
| Mark Panek | 1990 | Professor of English at the University of Hawaii |
| David Roderick | 1992 | Assistant Professor of English at University of North Carolina at Greensboro |

### Research and scholarship

| Name | Class | Notability |
| Julius Dresser | ex-1860 | Philosopher |
| Charles Branch Wilson | 1884 | Scientist, marine biologist |
| Fenwicke Holmes | 1906 | Author, congregational minister, and religious science leader |
| Harold Calvin Marston Morse | 1914 | Mathematician |
| Paul Wallace Gates | 1924 | United States land policy historian and author |
| Doris Kearns Goodwin | 1964 | Presidential scholar and historian; notable works include the Pulitzer Prize-winning No Ordinary Time (1995) and Team of Rivals (2005) |
| Arthur G. Miller | 1964 | Professor in Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland, College Park |
| Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. | 1970 | Maine State Historian |
| Alan Taylor (historian) | 1977 | Scholar in early Colonial America history and Pulitzer Prize winner |
| Craig A. Carlson | 1986 | Oceanographer |

## Arts and entertainment

| Name | Class | Notability |
| Jack Levine | 1946 | Painter |
| Loring Buzzell | 1948 | Music publisher and record label executive |
| Gordon W. Bowie | 1965 | Musician |
| Rocco Landesman | 1969 | Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts |
| Kathy O'Dell | 1973 | art historian, theorist, curator, arts advocate, author |
| Tim O'Brien (musician) | ex-1973 | Country and bluegrass musician |
| Tom Silverman | 1976 | Founder of hip-hop record label Tommy Boy Entertainment |
| Arthur Levering | 1976 | Composer |
| Lincoln Peirce | 1985 | Cartoonist and creator of the comic strip Big Nate |
| Daniel Raymont | 1991 | Hollywood character actor |
| Billy Bush | 1994 | Host of Access Hollywood, former host of Let's Make a Deal and The Billy Bush Show |
| Mike Daisey | 1996 | Monologuist, solo performer and author |

## Athletics

| Name | Class | Notability |
| Frank Haggerty | 1897 | Head football coach at University of Akron, 1910 to 1914 |
| Jack Coombs | 1906 | Two-time World Champion Major League Baseball Player; Manager (Philadelphia Phillies and Duke University) |
| Elbridge Ross | 1935 | Medalist at the 1936 Winter Olympics in hockey |
| Norm Gigon | 1958 | Major League Baseball player for the Chicago Cubs |
| Ed Phillips (pitcher) | 1966 | Major League Baseball pitcher for the 1970 Boston Red Sox |
| Jan Volk | 1968 | General Manager of the Boston Celtics, 1984-1997 |
| Sebsibe Mamo | 1970 | Ethiopian athlete; competed at the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics |
| Greg Cronin | 1986 | Assistant Coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs, 2011–present |
| Mike McRae (baseball) | 1981 | Head coach of the Canisius Golden Griffins baseball team, 2005–present |
| Eric DeCosta | 1993 | Executive Vice President and General Manager, Baltimore Ravens |
| Hilary Gehman | 1993 | Olympic rower, Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004; World Rowing Championships medalist |
| Brian O'Halloran (baseball) | 1993 | General Manager of the Boston Red Sox |
| Mark Jackson (American football coach) | 1994 | Athletic director for the Villanova University |
| Meaghan Sittler | 1998 | Hockey player for the Brampton Thunder and the United States women's national ice hockey team |
| Courtney Kennedy | ex-2001 | Olympic medalist on the United States women's national ice hockey team, 2002 and 2006 |
| Warner Nickerson | 2005 | Alpine skier |
| Dan Vassallo | 2007 | Distance runner |

## Business and finance

| Name | Class | Notability |
| Ivory Quinby | 1836 | Businessman and philanthropist |
| J. Young Scammon | 1869 | Lawyer, banker, and newspaper publisher |
| Herbert Elijah Wadsworth | 1892 | Businessman |
| Albert Stone | 1951 | Owner of Sterilite |
| Frank R. Wallace | 1954 | Owner of Integrated Management Associates |
| Lawrence Pugh | 1956 | former CEO of the VF Corporation |
| Tom Whidden | 1970 | President of North Sails, 1992–present |
| Robert Diamond | 1973 | Former chief executive officer of Barclays Bank, Plc. |
| Edson Mitchell | 1975 | Director, Deutsche Bank |
| Eric S. Rosengren | 1979 | President and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston |
| Dawn Sweeney | 1981 | President and chief executive officer of the National Restaurant Association |
| Michael Federle | 1981 | Chief Executive Officer of the Forbes Media |
| Chip Smith | 1991 | Co-founder of The Glover Park Group |
| Jason J. Hogg | 1993 | Founder of Revolution Money |
| Mira Murati | 2011 | CTO and former interim CEO of OpenAI |
| Alice Mason | | Manhattan real estate broker |

## Literature

| Name | Class | Notability |
| William Hutchinson Rowe | c.1900 | Historian and author |
| Roland Gammon | 1937 | Religious author and ad-man |
| Thomas Savage (novelist) | 1940 | Novelist |
| Alvin Schwartz (children's author) | 1949 | Author of the series Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark |
| Robert B. Parker | 1954 | Author of the Spenser detective novels |
| Joe Perham | 1955 | Humorist |
| Annie Proulx | ex-1957 | Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain |
| Don J. Snyder | 1968 | Novelist and screenwriter |
| Gregory White Smith | 1973 | Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Jackson Pollock: An American Saga |
| Neil Raymond Ricco | 1970s | Poet and writer |
| Jeff Gottesfeld | 1977 | novelist, Anne Frank and Me; screen/TV writer, The Young and the Restless |
| Alan Taylor (historian) | 1977 | Pulitzer Prize and Bancroft Prize-winning author and historian specializing in early American history |
| Jane Brox | 1978 | Author and 2007 Guggenheim Fellow |
| Geoffrey Becker | 1980 | Short story writer |
| Linda Greenlaw | 1983 | Author of Hungry Ocean (captain of the Hannah Boden, sister ship to the Andrea Gail which went down in The Perfect Storm 1991) |
| Erika Mailman | 1991 | Author and journalist |
| Cecily von Ziegesar | 1992 | Novelist, creator of Gossip Girl series |
| Stephanie Doyon | 1993 | Novelist, best known for The Greatest Man in Cedar Hole |
| Sarah Langan | 1996 | Bram Stoker Award-winning novelist |
| Drew Magary | 1998 | Writer for Deadspin and GQ magazine; author of The Postmortal and Someone Could Get Hurt |
| Rosecrans Baldwin | 1999 | Novelist and essayist, co-founder of The Morning News |
| David Barr Kirtley | 2000 | Science fiction author and co-founder of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy |

## Media

| Name | Class | Notability |
| George Horace Lorimer | 1898 | Editor-in-chief of The Saturday Evening Post |
| John Roderick (correspondent) | 1937 | Correspondent for the Associated Press |
| Dwight E. Sargent | 1939 | Editorial writer for The New York Herald Tribune, 1951 Nieman Fellow |
| Elliot G. Jaspin | 1969 | 1979 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting |
| Stuart Rothenberg | 1970 | editor and publisher of The Rothenberg Political Report, CNN political analyst, and syndicated columnist |
| Ben Bradlee Jr. | 1970 | Investigative journalist and bestselling author |
| Robert S. Capers | 1971 | 1992 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting |
| Stéphane Cornicard | 1988 | Film actor and director |
| Andrea Nix Fine | 1991 | Oscar winner, 2013 Best Documentary Short Subject |
| Amy Walter | 1991 | Political Director of ABC News, former house editor for the Cook Political Report, Editor in Chief of The Hotline |
| Dan Harris (journalist) | 1993 | ABC News anchor and reporter |
| Billy Bush | 1994 | TV personality and nephew of President George H. W. Bush |
| Hannah Beech | 1995 | Journalist for Time magazine |
| Sarah Lee (reporter) | 1995 | Washington DC news reporter |
| Matt Apuzzo | 2000 | 2012 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting |

## Politics and government
### Members of the United States Congress

| Name | Class | Notability |
| Virgil D. Parris | ex-1827 | U.S. Representative from Maine 1837–1840 |
| Daniel T. Jewett | ex-1830 | U.S. Senator from Missouri 1870–1871 |
| James Brooks (Whig) | 1831 | U.S. Representative from New York 1849–1853, 1863–1866, 1867–1873 |
| Wyman B. S. Moor | 1831 | U.S. Senator from Maine 1848, Maine Attorney General 1844-1847 |
| James S. Wiley | 1836 | U.S. Representative from Maine, 1847-1849 |
| Benjamin Franklin Butler (politician) | 1838 | U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 1867–1875, 1877–1879, Civil War general, 33rd Governor of Massachusetts |
| Stephen Coburn | 1839 | U.S. Representative from Maine, 1861 |
| Benjamin White Norris | 1843 | U.S. Representative from Alabama, 1868-1869 |
| Mark H. Dunnell | 1849 | U.S. Representative from Minnesota 1871–1883, 1889-1891 |
| Seth L. Milliken | ex-1852 | U.S. Representative from Maine 1883-1897 |
| Nelson Dingley Jr. | 1855 | U.S. Representative from Maine 1881–1899, 34th Governor of Maine 1874-1876 |
| Alfred Eliab Buck | 1859 | U.S. Representative from Alabama 1869–1871, United States Ambassador to Japan, 1897 to 1902 |
| Richard C. Shannon | 1862 | U.S. Representative from New York 1895–1899, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica 1891-1893 |
| Forrest Goodwin | 1880 | U.S. Representative from Maine, 1913 |
| Asher Hinds | 1883 | U.S. Representative from Maine, 1911-1917 |
| John E. Nelson (Maine) | 1898 | U.S. Representative from Maine, 1921-1933 |
| Angier Goodwin | 1902 | U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1943-1955 |
| Charles P. Nelson (congressman) | 1928 | U.S. Representative from Maine, 1949-1957 |
| Chester Earl Merrow | 1929 | U.S. Representative from New Hampshire, 1943-1963 |
| Edward Gurney | 1935 | U.S. Senator from Florida (1969–1974) |

### United States Federal and State Court Judges

| Name | Class | Notability |
| Percival Bonney | 1863 | Maine Superior Court Judge, 1878-1906 |
| Leslie C. Cornish | 1875 | Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, 1917-1925 |
| Warren C. Philbrook | 1882 | Mayor of Waterville 1899–1900, Maine Attorney General, 1909–10, Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, 1913-1928 |
| Hugh Dean McLellan | 1895 | Federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts |
| Nathaniel Tompkins | 1903 | Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, 1945-1949 |
| Joseph Jabar | 1968 | Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, 2009–present |
| Kenneth R. Melvin | 1974 | Circuit Court Judge and member of the Virginia House of Delegates |

### United States Governors

| Name | Class | Notability |
| Samuel Cony | ex-1829 | 31st Governor of Maine, 1864-1867 |
| George A. Ramsdell | ex-1857 | 46th Governor of New Hampshire 1897-1899 |
| Harris M. Plaisted | 1853 | Governor of Maine 1881-1883 |
| Llewellyn Powers | ex-1861 | Governor of Maine 1901-1908 |
| Marcellus Stearns | 1863 | Governor of Florida 1874-1877 |
| Janet T. Mills | ex-1965 | Governor of Maine 2019-present |

### Other political and legal figures

| Name | Class | Notability |
| Albert G. Jewett | 1823 | United States Chargé d'Affaires to Peru 1845-1847 |
| Elijah P. Lovejoy | 1826 | Abolitionist |
| Manly B. Townsend | 1828 | Maine State Senator |
| Edgar Harkness Gray | 1838 | Baptist clergyman and former Chaplain of the Senate |
| Leonard Swett | c. 1840-45 | close friend of President Lincoln and an organizer for the 1860 Chicago Republican National Convention |
| Josiah Hayden Drummond | 1846 | 16th Attorney General of Maine, 1860-1863 |
| Isaac Smith Kalloch | 1852 | Baptist minister, founder and first president of Ottawa University, mayor of San Francisco, California |
| Cyrus Hamlin (general) | 1859 | General in the Union Army |
| Bartlett Tripp | ex-1861 | Ambassador to Austria 1893-1897 |
| Henry C. Merriam | ex-1862 | United States Army general awarded Medal of Honor |
| Edwin Francis Lyford | 1877 | Massachusetts State Senator, 1894 |
| Herbert Lord | 1884 | Director of the United States Bureau of the Budget (now the Office of Management and Budget), 1922-1929 |
| Byron Boyd | 1886 | Secretary of State of Maine, 1897 to 1907 |
| Holman Day | 1887 | Military secretary to the Governor of Maine John Fremont Hill, 1901-1904 |
| Merton L. Miller | 1890 | Acting Chief of the Ethnological Survey for the Philippine Islands |
| George Otis Smith | 1893 | Director of United States Geological Survey, 1907–1922, first chairman of the Federal Power Commission |
| Robert N. Anthony | 1938 | United States Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), 1965-1968 |
| Rachel Bubar Kelly | 1947 | Prohibition Party candidate for United States Vice President |
| Robert S. Gelbard | 1964 | United States Ambassador to Bolivia (1988–1991) and United States Ambassador to Indonesia (1999–2001) |
| Peter D. Hart | 1964 | founder of Peter D. Hart Research Associates, a political polling organization |
| Pete Rouse | 1968 | Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama, former Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama, former Chief of Staff to Tom Daschle |
| Patrick Duddy | 1972 | United States Ambassador to Venezuela 2007-2010 |
| Arthur L. Bell | 1974 | Maine state representative |
| David Lemoine | 1978 | State Treasurer of Maine 2005-2010 |
| David Linsky | 1979 | Massachusetts House of Representatives |
| Peter Forman | 1980 | Minority Leader of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1991-1995 |
| Christopher Mellon | 1980 | Staff Director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 1989-1999 |
| Thomas A. Betro | 1981 | Director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service 2006 - 2010 |
| Daniel Shagoury | 1982 | Maine House of Representatives |
| Dana Hanley | 1984 | Member of the Maine Senate, 1992-1996 |
| Paul Doyle (politician) | 1985 | Connecticut Senator from the Ninth District |
| Sean McCormack | 1986 | Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and U.S. State Department Spokesman |
| Daniel K. Webster | 1987 | Massachusetts State Representatives, 2003-2013 |
| Michael Marcello | 1990 | Member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives 2009–present |
| J. Patrick O'Neill | 1993 | Member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives 2005–present |
| Andrew Monroe Rice | 1996 | 2008 Democratic nominee, candidate, United States Senate (Oklahoma) (lost to Senator James Inhofe) |
| Devin Beliveau | 2001 | Maine State Representative from District 151, 2010-2012 |
| Linwood E. Palmer Jr. | | Maine Legislator, Candidate, Maine Governor, 1978 |
| Daniel T. Jewett | | Republican US Senator (Missouri) 1870–71, Missouri State Representative |
| Elizabeth Hanson | 2002 | CIA Officer killed in the Camp Chapman attack, Afghanistan |
| Lot M. Morrill | | U.S. Senator (1861–69), Governor of Maine (1857–1861), Treasury Secretary (1876–77) |
| Brendan Crighton | 2005 | Massachusetts State Senator, 2018-Present |
| Charles L. Phillips | 1878 | U.S. Army brigadier general |

## Others

| Name | Class | Notability |
| George Boardman (missionary) | 1822 | First Graduate of Colby College, Baptist missionary |
| Horace G. Cates | | Los Angeles County, California, coroner |
| Mary Caffrey Low | 1875 | Founder, Sigma Kappa sorority |
| Elizabeth Gorham Hoag | | Founder, Sigma Kappa sorority |
| Ida Fuller | | Founder, Sigma Kappa sorority |
| Frances Elliott Mann Hall | | Founder, Sigma Kappa sorority |
| Louise Helen Coburn | | Founder, Sigma Kappa sorority |
| Arthur B. Patten | 1890 | United States Congregational Church clergyman |
| Bern Porter | 1932 | Artist and scientist |
| Stephen Sternberg | 1941 | Pathologist and author |
| Myron "Pinky" Thompson | 1950 | Trustee of the Bishop Estate (now known as Kamehameha Schools), President of the Polynesian Voyaging Society |
| Riki Ott | 1976 | Marine toxicologist oil spill expert |
| Savas (Zembillas) of Pittsburgh | 1979 | Bishop of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Pittsburgh |
| Wylie Dufresne | 1992 | Chef and owner of wd~50 restaurant in New York City, featured as a judge on Top Chef |
| Tara Allain | 2008 | Miss Maine 2007 |