List of Dickinson College alumni

This is a list of Dickinson College alumni. This list covers alumni from the first graduating class in July 1787[1] to the present.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.
  • "DNG" indicates that the alumni did not graduate.
  • A "—" indicates that the information is unknown.

Business
Alfred V. du Pont
Name Class year Notability Ref(s)
John Curley
1960
 Former CEO of Gannett News Corporation [2]
Alfred V. du Pont
1818
 Head of the du Pont Company [3][4]
Stephen Duncan
1805
 Cotton planter in the South prior to the Civil War, and second largest slave owner in the country [5][6]
Judith Faulkner
1965
 Founder and CEO of Epic Systems [7]
Stephen Giannetti
1973
 Vice President and publisher of National Geographic magazine [7]
Justin Gold
2000
 Founder and CEO of Justin's natural and organic foods
David Hirshey
1971
 Vice President and Executive Editor at HarperCollins publishers [8]
Merkel Landis
1896
 Started the Christmas club savings program [9]
Andy MacPhail
1976
 Major League Baseball executive [10]
Amy Nauiokas
1994
 Founder and CEO of Archer Gray media production, finance, and venture capital company
Leon Rose
1983
 President of the New York Knicks
Steve Smith
1992
 President and CEO of L.L.Bean

Arts and journalism
Rick Smolan
Name Class year Notability Ref(s)
Spencer Bailey
2008
 Editor-in-chief of Surface magazine [11]
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 [12]
Jennifer Haigh
1990
 The New York Times best-selling author, winner of PEN/Hemingway Award [13]
Jennifer L. Holm
1990
 Historical author, wrote three Newbery Honor books [14]
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 [15]
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 [16]
James R. Shepley
1939 (DNG)
 Time, Life journalist, later president of Time Inc., received honorary degree in 1959 [17][18]
Rick Smolan
1972
 Former Time, Life and National Geographic photographer [19]
Charles Strum
1970
 Associate Managing Editor at The New York Times [20]
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 [21]

Academics and education
Henry Louis Baugher
Name Class year Notability Ref(s)
Henry Louis Baugher
1826
 President of Pennsylvania (Gettysburg) College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Jeremiah Chamberlain
1814
 President of Centre College and the Centenary College of Louisiana [22][23]
Fred Pierce Corson
1917
 Twentieth president of Dickinson College; Bishop of the Methodist Church [24]
William Durden
1971
 President of Dickinson College [25]
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 [26]
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 [27][28]
Lisa Rossbacher
1978
 President of Humboldt State University
Susan Stewart
1973
 Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at Princeton University

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 [29]
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 [30]
Joseph M. Belford
1871
 U.S. Representative [31]
John O. Bennett
DNG
 Former State Senator of New Jersey
James Buchanan
1809
 Fifteenth President of the United States [32]
William W. Caldwell
1948
 Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
William Creighton Jr.
1795
 United States Representative from Ohio; Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Ohio
John Creswell
1848
 U.S. Representative [33]
Harmar Denny
1813
 U.S. Representative [34]
Ninian Edwards
1792
 Third Governor of Illinois, United States Senator from Illinois [35]
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 [36]
Jim Gerlach
1977
 U.S. Representative [37]
Kermit Gosnell
1963
 Former abortion doctor convicted of murder [38]
Donald E. Graves
1953
 U.S. State Department Kremlinologist [39]
James C. Greenwood
1973
 U.S. Representative [40]
Robert Cooper Grier
1812
 Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1846-1870 [41]
Peter Ihrie, Jr.
1815
 U.S. Representative [42]
John J. Jacob
1849
 Fourth Governor of West Virginia [43]
John E. Jones III
1977
 Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania [44]
James A. Kenney, III
1959
 Former Judge of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals [45]
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 [46]
Barry W. Lynn
1970
 Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State
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 [47]
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
Charles O'Neill
1840
 U.S. Representative [48]
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 [49]
Abraham Herr Smith
1840
 U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district from 1873 to 1885 [50]
George W. Smith
1949
 U.S. Marine Major general [51]
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 [52]
Philip Francis Thomas
1830
 Governor of Maryland, United States Secretary of the Treasury [53]
Lemuel Todd
1839
 US Representative from Pennsylvania [54]
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
Ross Wilkins
1816
 Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
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 [55]
Lindsey Williams
2005
 Pennsylvania State Senator [56]

Religion
George Washington Bethune
Name Class year Notability Ref(s)
George Washington Bethune
1822
 Dutch Reformed minister and author
Joseph Clemens
1894
 U.S. Army chaplain, missionary and plant collector [57]
Moncure Conway
1849
 Minister, author, abolitionist [58]
George R. Crooks
1840
 Minister; editor of The Methodist; professor at Drew Theological Seminary
George David Cummins
1841
 Founder of Reformed Episcopal Church
William Perry Eveland
1892
 Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church [59]
Frederick Brown Harris
1909
 Twice Chaplain of the United States Senate
John Wesley Lord
1927
 Bishop of the Methodist Church; Vice President of the National Council of Churches
Robert Samuel Maclay
1845
 Missionary who made pioneer contributions to the Methodist Episcopal missions in China, Japan and Korea

Sports
Chief Bender
Name Class year Notability Ref(s)
Bull Behman
1923
 Football player
Chief Bender
1902
 Hall of Fame baseball pitcher
Bob Books
1926
 Football player
Steve Hoffman
1980
 NFL coach
Joe Katchik
1954
 Football player
Frank Mount Pleasant
1910
 US Olympic Track & Field athlete, 1904 Summer Olympics and 1908 Summer Olympics, first Native American to graduate from Dickinson
Hikaru Nakamura
DNG
 Chess player, Grandmaster
Len Supulski
1943
 Football player

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