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This is a list of
Dickinson College alumni . This list covers alumni from the first graduating class in July 1787
[1] to the present.
"DNG" indicates that the alumni did not graduate.
A "—" indicates that the information is unknown.
Alfred V. du Pont
Rick Smolan
Name
Class year
Notability
Ref(s)
Spencer Bailey
2008
Editor-in-chief of
Surface magazine
[12]
Brock Clarke
1990
Author
[13]
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
[14]
Jennifer Haigh
1990
The New York Times best-selling
author , winner of
PEN/Hemingway Award
[15]
Brad Heckman
1989
Artist, activist & founder of the New York Peace Institute
[16]
Jennifer L. Holm
1990
Historical
author , wrote three
Newbery Honor books
[17]
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
[18]
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
[19]
James R. Shepley
1939 (DNG)
Time ,
Life journalist, later president of
Time Inc. , received honorary degree in 1959
[20]
[21]
Richard Sher
1970
Producer, creator and host of
Says You!
[22]
Rick Smolan
1972
Former
Time ,
Life and
National Geographic photographer
[23]
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
[24]
Charles Strum
1970
Associate Managing Editor at
The New York Times
[25]
Henry Louis Baugher
Name
Class year
Notability
Ref(s)
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
[26]
[27]
John C. Young
1823
Pastor and 4th president of Centre College
[28]
Fred Pierce Corson
1917
Twentieth president of Dickinson College;
Bishop of
the Methodist Church
[29]
William Durden
1971
President of Dickinson College
[30]
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
[31]
Linda Dalrymple Henderson
1969
Professor of
Art History Emeritus,
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
[32]
[33]
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
Spencer Fullerton Baird
James Buchanan
Jim Gerlach
Name
Class year
Notability
Ref(s)
Spencer Fullerton Baird
1840
U.S. Secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution
[34]
Charles J. Baker
1841
ex officio Mayor of Baltimore
[35]
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
[36]
Joseph M. Belford
1871
U.S.
Representative
[37]
John O. Bennett
DNG
Former
State Senator of New Jersey
James Buchanan
1809
Fifteenth
President of the United States
[38]
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)
[39]
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
[40]
[41]
Harmar Denny
1813
U.S.
Representative
[42]
John D. C. Duncan Jr.
Maryland state delegate and state senator
[43]
Ninian Edwards
1792
Third
Governor of Illinois ,
United States Senator from Illinois
[44]
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
[45]
Jim Gerlach
1977
U.S.
Representative
[46]
Kermit Gosnell
1963
Former abortion doctor convicted of murder
[47]
Donald E. Graves
1953
U.S.
State Department
Kremlinologist
[48]
James C. Greenwood
1973
U.S.
Representative
[49]
Robert Cooper Grier
1812
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1846-1870
[50]
Thomas B. Hayward
—
Member of the
Maryland House of Delegates
[51]
Peter Ihrie, Jr.
1815
U.S.
Representative
[52]
John J. Jacob
1849
Fourth Governor of West Virginia
[53]
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
[54]
James A. Kenney, III
1959
Former Judge of the
Maryland Court of Special Appeals
[55]
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
[56]
Barry W. Lynn
1970
Executive Director of
Americans United for Separation of Church and State
James William Marshall
1848
U.S. Postmaster General
[57]
[41]
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
[58]
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
[59]
J. Smith Orrick
Maryland state delegate
[60]
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
[61]
Abraham Herr Smith
1840
U.S.
Representative for
Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district from 1873 to 1885
[62]
George W. Smith
1949
U.S.
Marine
Major general
[63]
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
[64]
Philip Francis Thomas
1830
Governor of Maryland ,
United States Secretary of the Treasury
[65]
Lemuel Todd
1839
US Representative from Pennsylvania
[66]
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
[67]
Ross Wilkins
1816
Judge of the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
Lindsey Williams
2005
Pennsylvania
State Senator
[68]
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
[69]
Stanley Zeigler
1971
Maine State Repreesentative
[70]
George Washington Bethune
Chief Bender
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