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This is a list of Dickinson College alumni. This list covers alumni from the first graduating class in July 1787 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)
Henry Clarke 1955 built the Klondike brand and expanded it nationally
John Curley 1960 Former CEO of Gannett News Corporation
Alfred V. du Pont 1818 Head of the du Pont Company
Stephen Duncan 1805 Cotton planter in the South prior to the Civil War, and second largest slave owner in the country
Judith Faulkner 1965 Founder and CEO of Epic Systems
Stephen Giannetti 1973 Vice President and publisher of National Geographic magazine
Justin Gold 2000 Founder and CEO of Justin's natural and organic foods
David Hirshey 1971 Vice President and Executive Editor at HarperCollins publishers
John Carmichael Jenkins 1828 Plantation owner, medical doctor and horticulturalist
Merkel Landis 1896 Started the Christmas club savings program
Andy MacPhail 1976 Major League Baseball executive
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
Nate Mitchell 2009 Former Co-founder of Oculus VR and Co-Founder and CEO of Mountaintop Studios

Arts and journalism

Rick Smolan
Name Class year Notability Ref(s)
Spencer Bailey 2008 Editor-in-chief of Surface magazine
Brock Clarke 1990 Author
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
Jennifer Haigh 1990 The New York Times best-selling author, winner of PEN/Hemingway Award
Brad Heckman 1989 Artist, activist & founder of the New York Peace Institute
Jennifer L. Holm 1990 Historical author, wrote three Newbery Honor books
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
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
James R. Shepley 1939 (DNG) Time, Life journalist, later president of Time Inc., received honorary degree in 1959
Richard Sher 1970 Producer, creator and host of Says You!
Rick Smolan 1972 Former Time, Life and National Geographic photographer
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
Charles Strum 1970 Associate Managing Editor at The New York Times

Academics and education

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
John C. Young 1823 Pastor and 4th president of Centre College
Fred Pierce Corson 1917 Twentieth president of Dickinson College; Bishop of the Methodist Church
William Durden 1971 President of Dickinson College
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
Linda Dalrymple Henderson 1969 David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor of Art History, 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
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
Charles J. Baker 1841 ex officio Mayor of Baltimore
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
Joseph M. Belford 1871 U.S. Representative
John O. Bennett DNG Former State Senator of New Jersey
James Buchanan 1809 Fifteenth President of the United States
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)
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
Harmar Denny 1813 U.S. Representative
John D. C. Duncan Jr. Maryland state delegate and state senator
Ninian Edwards 1792 Third Governor of Illinois, United States Senator from Illinois
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
Jim Gerlach 1977 U.S. Representative
John Bannister Gibson 1800 Pennsylvania supreme court justice and chief justice
Kermit Gosnell 1963 Former abortion doctor convicted of murder
Donald E. Graves 1953 U.S. State Department Kremlinologist
James C. Greenwood 1973 U.S. Representative
Robert Cooper Grier 1812 Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1846-1870
Thomas B. Hayward — Member of the Maryland House of Delegates
Peter Ihrie, Jr. 1815 U.S. Representative
John J. Jacob 1849 Fourth Governor of West Virginia
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
James A. Kenney, III 1959 Former Judge of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals
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
Barry W. Lynn 1970 Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State
James William Marshall 1848 U.S. Postmaster General
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
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
J. Smith Orrick Maryland state delegate
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
Abraham Herr Smith 1840 U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district from 1873 to 1885
George W. Smith 1949 U.S. Marine Major general
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
Philip Francis Thomas 1830 Governor of Maryland, United States Secretary of the Treasury
Lemuel Todd 1839 US Representative from Pennsylvania
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
Ross Wilkins 1816 Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
Lindsey Williams 2005 Pennsylvania State Senator
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
Stanley Zeigler 1971 Maine State Representative

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
Moncure Conway 1849 Minister, author, abolitionist
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
Frederick Brown Harris 1909 Twice Chaplain of the United States Senate
John Swanel Inskip 1835 (DNG) Minister, evangelist, president of the National Holiness Association
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)
Geoff Arnold 2010 Baltimore Orioles broadcaster since 2020
Bull Behman 1923 NFL player with the Frankford Yellow Jackets and AFL player with the Philadelphia Quakers
Chief Bender 1902 Hall of Fame baseball pitcher
Bob Books 1926 NFL player with the Frankford Yellow Jackets
Steve Hoffman 1980 NFL coach with the Atlanta Falcons and Dallas Cowboys
Brett Hollander 2007 Baltimore Orioles broadcaster since 2020
Joe Katchik 1954 AFL player with the New York Titans
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, streamer
Len Supulski 1943 NFL player with the Philadelphia Eagles

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