# List of Cranbrook Kingswood School alumni

The following is a list of notable alumni of Cranbrook Kingswood School and its predecessors, Cranbrook School for Boys and Kingswood School for Girls.

## 1930s

* William Talman (1932), actor
* Florence Knoll (1934), designer; former head of Knoll
* Bob Bemer (1936), computer pioneer; co-inventor of ASCII; named COBOL
* William Henry Scott (1939), historian

## 1940s

* Natalie Zemon Davis (1945), historian
* Barbara Lea (1947), singer
* Daniel Ellsberg (1948), leaker of the Pentagon Papers

## 1950s

* Alan K. Simpson (1950), U.S. Senator (R-Wyoming), 1979–1997
* Ward Just (1953), author
* Ivan Boesky (Class of 1955 but left prior to senior year), arbitrageur; convicted felon; an inspiration for character Gordon Gekko in the film Wall Street
* Pete Dawkins (1955), Heisman Trophy winner, Rhodes Scholar; former Army Brigadier General; former Vice Chairman of Citigroup Private Bank
* Martha Henry (1955), American-Canadian actress
* Thomas McGuane (1958), writer, essayist
* Edmund White III (1958), author
* Raymond Sokolov (1959), journalist

## 1960s

* Joel E. Cohen (1961), mathematical biologist
* Tod Williams (1961), architect
* Michael Barone (1962), pundit and political commentator
* Charles Bigelow (1963), type designer; former professor of digital typography at Stanford University; co-designer of Lucida family of typefaces
* Taro Yamasaki (1964), Pulitzer Prize winner for photojournalism
* Mitt Romney (1965), U.S. Senator from Utah; former governor of Massachusetts; Republican Party nominee for President of the United States in 2012
* Mary Fisher (1966), founder of Family AIDS Network; speaker at the 1992 Republican National Convention; daughter of businessman and philanthropist Max Fisher
* Ann Romney (1967), wife of Mitt Romney (1965)
* Cynthia Grissom Efird (1967), U.S. ambassador to Angola from 2004 to 2007
* Reed Slatkin (1967), co-founder of EarthLink; convicted felon
* Bing Gordon (1968), Chief Creative Officer, Electronic Arts
* Michael Kinsley (1968), journalist; commentator; founder of Slate; former editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times
* Sorayouth Prompoj (1968), diplomat; Thai Ambassador to Germany
* Sven Birkerts (1969), author

## 1970s

* Kathryn Kolbert (1970), civil rights lawyer; former president of People For the American Way
* Brad Leithauser (1971), author
* Henry Tang (1971), former Chief Secretary for Administration of Hong Kong
* Scott McNealy (1972), CEO of Sun Microsystems
* Kenneth Dart (1972), venture capitalist, investor; co-owner of Dart Container
* Lisa Frank (1972), founder of Lisa Frank Inc.
* Dey Young (1973), actress
* Michael Eric Dyson (Class of 1976 but left after 2 years; did not graduate), author and radio host
* Dan Dickerson (1976), radio play-by-play announcer for the Detroit Tigers
* Bill Prady (1977), television writer and producer (The Muppets, Dharma & Greg, The Big Bang Theory)
* Jennifer Clement (1978), writer and President of PEN International
* Douglas Sills (1978), actor
* David Trott (1978), U.S. representative for Michigan's 11th congressional district 2015 - 2019
* Amy Denio (1979), musician
* Bob Woodruff (1979), co-anchor of ABC World News Tonight

## 1980s

* Barbara Sibley (1980) Chef, President of Les Dames d'Escoffier New York, Writer
* Rob Edwards (1981), television and feature film screenwriter and producer
* Robbie Buhl (1982), racecar driver
* Tim Westergren (1984), founder of Pandora Radio; included in TIME Magazine’s 2010 list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World
* Eric Fanning (class of 1986, left prior to graduation), 22nd Secretary of the Army
* Brad Keywell (1987), managing partner and co-founder of Lightbank; co-founder and Director of Groupon, Mediaocean, and Echo Global Logistics
* Ronald Machen (1987), United States Attorney for the District of Columbia
* Jay Adelson (1988), former CEO of Digg
* Glenn Kessler (1988), screenwriter and television producer (Damages)
* Alexi Lalas (1988), professional soccer player; played in the 1992 Summer Olympics and 1994 World Cup; National Soccer Hall of Fame
* Renée Elise Goldsberry (1989), actress (Hamilton; Ally McBeal)
* Ari Schwartz (1989), former Senior Director for Cybersecurity on the United States National Security Council Staff at the White House

## 1990s

* Elizabeth Berkley (Class of 1990 but left prior to senior year), actress
* Selma Blair (1990), actress
* Todd A. Kessler (1990), screenwriter, television producer, and director
* Rafał Trzaskowski (1991), Mayor of Warsaw, Poland
* Elissa Slotkin (1994), American politician and former CIA analyst serving as the U.S. Senator from Michigan since 2025
* Jaime Ray Newman (1996), actress
* Jay Penske (Class of 1997, left prior to senior year), media and publishing entrepreneur; owner of WWD, Fairchild Publications, Variety Magazine, and other media brands

## 2000s

* Jamie Hodari (2000), Co-founder and CEO of Industrious
* Ivan Krstić (2004), IT security engineer
* Jake Cunningham (2004), judge, Michigan's Sixth Judicial Circuit Court
* Casey Wellman (2006), professional hockey player (NHL)
* Andrew Miller (2007), professional hockey player (NHL)

## 2010s

* Patrick Brown (2010), professional hockey player (NHL)