List of Earlham College people

The following is a list of notable people associated with Earlham College, a private liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana.

• Carl W. Ackerman – first head of the Columbia University School of Journalism^[1]
• Marjorie Hill Allee – author
• Warder Clyde Allee – known for research on animal behavior, protocooperation, and for identifying the Allee effect; elected to the National Academy of Sciences
• John S. Allen – founding president of the University of South Florida; interim president of the University of Florida^[2][3]
• Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sä) – writer, Native American activist, founded National Council of Indian Americans^[4]
• J. Peter Burkholder – musicologist and author
• Jana E. Compton – research ecologist with the Environmental Protection Agency^[5]
• Ione Virginia Hill Cowles – president, General Federation of Women's Clubs
• Garfield V. Cox – attended but did not graduate; dean of the University of Chicago School of Business, 1942–1952^[6]
• David W. Dennis – congressman from Indiana^[7]
• Juan Dies – co-founder and executive director of Sones de Mexico Ensemble; nominated for a Latin Grammy^[8][9]
• Joseph M. Dixon – Congressman, Senator, 7th Governor of Montana^[10]
• Liza Donnelly – cartoonist for the New Yorker^[11]
• John Porter East – former U.S. senator for North Carolina^[12]
• Brigadier General Bonner F. Fellers – General MacArthur's psychological warfare director during World War II; during the subsequent occupation of Japan, worked with fellow Earlhamite Isshiki Yuri (see below) to persuade MacArthur to preserve the institution of the Emperor and clear Hirohito of war crimes^[13]
• Jim Fowler – star of Wild Kingdom^[14]
• Lew Frederick (Lewis Reed Frederick) – member of the Oregon House of Representatives 2010–2016; member of Oregon State Senate 2017–present; Outstanding Alumni Award 2013
• Reverend Wilda C. Gafney – priest and bible scholar
• Sara Gelser – member of the Oregon House of Representatives 2005–2014 and member of the Oregon State Senate 2015–present; Outstanding Alumni Award 2016; recognized as one of Time magazine's "Person of the Year" Silence Breakers in 2017
• Andrew Ginther – mayor of Columbus, Ohio, 2016–present
• David Grosso – city council member for the District of Columbia
• Mary Haas – linguist, pioneer in the field of Siamese language studies; former president of the Linguistic Society of America^[15][16]
• William Hadley – established Hadley School for the Blind^[17]
• Michael C. Hall – actor on HBO's Six Feet Under and star of Showtime's Dexter, for which he was nominated for an Emmy^[18] and won Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards
• Margaret Hamilton – headed the team that wrote the onboard flight software for NASA's Apollo program^[19]
• Helen Hansma – researcher emeritus and associate adjunct professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara
• Robert M. Hirsch – former chief hydrologist and head of water science for the United States Geological Survey^[20]
• Emily Caroline Chandler Hodgin – temperance reformer
• Mary Inda Hussey – Semitic text authority; first woman to teach at the American Society for Oriental Research in Jerusalem^[21]
• C. Francis Jenkins – demonstrated the first practical motion picture projector^[22][23]
• Henry Underwood Johnson – US congressman from Indiana^[24]
• Mary Coffin Johnson (1834–1928) – temperance activist, newspaper publisher^[25]
• Robert Underwood Johnson – former US ambassador to Italy^[26]
• Andrew Johnston – film critic for Time Out New York, Us Weekly, Radar magazine; editor of the "Time In" section; TV critic for Time Out New York^[27]
• Joseph Henry Kibbey – territorial governor of Arizona^[28]
• Peter D. Klein – chaired Rutgers University's Department of Philosophy
• Frances Moore Lappé – activist and author of three-million-copy bestseller Diet for a Small Planet
• Simone Leigh – noted multimedia and ceramic artist^[29]
• Manning Marable – professor at Columbia University;^[30] author of Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012
• Dan McCoy – writer for The Daily Show and host of The Flop House podcast
• Robert Meeropol – founder of the Rosenberg Fund for Children, attorney, college professor and activist; son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
• Elephant Micah (real name Joseph O'Connell) – lo-fi recording artist
• Molly R. Morris – ecologist, professor at Ohio University

• William Penn Nixon – publisher of the Chicago Inter Ocean and president of the Associated Press
• Larry Overman – organic chemist, member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Robert Quine – named by Rolling Stone as one of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time^[31][32][33]
• Marc Reisner – author of the books A Dangerous Place and Cadillac Desert^[34]
• Susan Porter Rose – chief of staff to the First Lady of the United States (1989–1993)^[35]
• David Rovics – singer/songwriter and activist
• Olive Rush – artist^[36]
• Rock Scully – manager of The Grateful Dead 1965–1985^[37]
• Andrea Seabrook – contributor to National Public Radio's All Things Considered and former Congressional correspondent for NPR^[38]
• David Shear – US ambassador to Vietnam^[39]
• Michael Shellenberger – conspiracy theorist and two-time California gubernatorial candidate
• William E. Simkin – helped prevent national strikes and resolved thousands of labor disputes as the federal government's chief labor mediator and as a leading private arbitrator^[40]
• Ruth Hinshaw Spray – peace activist
• Wendell Meredith Stanley – biochemist, shared a 1946 Nobel Prize for discovering methods of producing pure enzymes and virus proteins^[41]
• Edwin Way Teale – naturalist writer; won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1966; elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; staff writer at Popular Science^[42]
• Nellie Teale (1900–1993) – naturalist^[43]
• Summia Tora – Afghan activist^[44]
• Thomas Trueblood – president of the National Society of Elocutionists; his golf teams won two NCAA National Championships and five Big Ten Conference championships
• Harold Urey – received the Chemistry Nobel Prize in 1934; known for his discovery of deuterium and the Miller–Urey experiment^[45]
• Frederick Van Nuys – U.S. senator from Indiana 1932–1944^[46]
• Amy Walters – producer, National Public Radio
• Zach Warren – ran the Boston Marathon while juggling in 2 hours, fifty-eight minutes^[47]
• Newton K. Wesley – Japanese-American optometrist; early developer of commercially successful rigid contact lenses in the 1950s^[48]
• Herman Brenner White – physicist^[49]
• Don Wildman – actor and host of TV travel shows including Ushuaia, Men's Journal and Cities of the Underworld on the History Channel
• Alice Wong – writer and disability justice activist; MacArthur Foundation fellow^[50]
• Mary Chawner Woody – president, North Carolina Woman's Christian Temperance Union
• Harry N. Wright – president of City College of New York, mathematician

• William W. Biddle – social scientist, major contributor to the study of community development and propaganda
• Landrum Bolling – president of Earlham 1958–1973; director at large of Mercy Corps; back channel between Yasir Arafat and Jimmy Carter
• Wayne C. Booth – former professor of English; literary critic; author of The Rhetoric of Fiction and The Company We Keep^[51]
• Anna Cox Brinton – Quaker scholar and administrator
• Howard Brinton – Quaker scholar and administrator
• John Elwood Bundy – impressionist painter
• Evan Ira Farber – emeritus library director, named Academic Research Librarian of the Year in 1980
• Del Harris – former Earlham basketball coach; current NBA coach^[52]
• Anne Houtman – professor of Biology and former president of Earlham College
• Thomas R. Kelly – author of A Testament of Devotion
• Dale Edwin Noyd – decorated fighter pilot and Air Force captain who became a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War^[53]
• E. Merrill Root – poet^[54]
• Paul Sniegowski – professor of Biology and president of Earlham College
• Peter Suber – professor of Philosophy emeritus, creator of the game Nomic, and a leader in the open access movement
• D. Elton Trueblood – Quaker author and theologian^[55]

• Earlham College Alumni Association website
• Earlham Outstanding Alumni Award recipients