Some Notable Alumni
A-F
Greg Andorfer, 1973, Emmy-winning producer
Nick Bakay, 1981, actor, comedy writer, and television producer
Doug Ballard, 1976, actor
John C. Bauerschmidt '81, Episcopal bishop of Tennessee
Jim Bellows, 1944, journalist and editor
David Bergman, 1972, editor (The Violet Quill Reader), poet, and writer (The Violet Hour)
Jackson Betts, 1926, U.S. congressman (Ohio)*
Jim Borgman, 1976, cartoonist ("Zits") and former Cincinnati Enquirer political cartoonist, Pulitzer Prize winner
Francis Key Brooke, 1874, first Episcopal bishop of Oklahoma*
Mark Brown, 1981, general manager, Youngstown Vindicator
Ralph Pomeroy Buckland, 1838, U.S. congressman (Ohio) and brigadier general (Civil War)*
Ken Burgomaster, 1991, composer
John Carman, 1968, former columnist and television critic, San Francisco Chronicle
Caleb Carr, 1977M, writer (The Alienist, Killing Time)
Jay Cocks, 1964, film critic and screenwriter (De-Lovely)
James Cox, 1960, physician, researcher, and educator, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Meg Cranston, 1982, artist
Robert Crosser, 1897, U.S. congressman (Ohio)*
Adam Davidson, 1986, director and Academy Award-winning filmmaker
Adam Davies, 1994, writer (The Frog King, Goodbye Lemon)
David Davis, 1832, U.S. senator (Illinois) and Supreme Court justice*
Edwin Hamilton Davis, 1833, archaeologist (Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley), medical educator, and physician*
Henry Winter Davis, 1837, U.S. congressman (Maryland)*
David Diao, 1964, artist and educator
Carl Djerassi, 1943, birth-control-pill developer and writer (Cantor's Dilemma, Menachem's Seed)
E.L. Doctorow, 1952, writer (Ragtime, The March), National Humanities Medal winner
Rolla Dyer, 1907, typhus-vaccine developer and National Institutes of Health director*
Chris Eigeman, 1987, actor
Daniel Mark Epstein, 1970, Academy Award in Literature-winning biographer (Nat King Cole, Lincoln and Whitman) and poet
Novice Fawcett, 1931, former president of Ohio State University*
Joel Fisher, 1969, artist and educator
Donald Fischman, 1957, physician, researcher, and former dean of Cornell University Medical College
G-M
Eric Gaskins, 1980, fashion designer
William Gass, 1947, writer (Omensetter's Luck, The Tunnel), National Book Award winner
Alfred Granger, 1887, architect*
John Green, 2000, writer (An Abundance of Katherines)
David Goodwillie, 1994, writer (Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time)
Graham Gund, 1963, architect
Ulysses Hammond, 1973, vice president, Connecticut College
R.S. Harrison, 1953, retired chief executive, Baldwin Piano and Organ Company
Rutherford B. Hayes, 1842, U.S. president*
Laura Hillenbrand, 1989M, writer (Seabiscuit)
L. Rust Hills, 1946, former fiction editor, Esquire*
Murray Horwitz, 1970, director and chief operating officer, AFI Silver Theater and Cultural Center
Margaret Livingston Howard, 1973, vice president, Drew University
Grace Keefe Huebscher, 1982, vice president for capital markets, Fannie Mae
Charles Huggins, 1949, retired president and chief executive officer, See's Candy Shops
Allison Janney, 1982, Emmy-winning (The West Wing) and Tony-nominated actress
Brendan Keefe, 1990, Emmy-winning television news correspondent and anchor
John Kirkpatrick, 1973, newspaper president (Harrisburg Patriot News)
P.F. Kluge, 1964, writer (Eddie and the Cruisers, Alma Mater)
Harvey Lodish, 1962, biomedical scientist and educator, Whitehead Institute at MIT
Leopoldo Lopez, 1993, mayor of Chacao, Caracas, Venezuela
Robert Lowell, 1940, poet, Pulitzer Prize winner*
William Lowry, 1956, former vice president, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Robie Macauley, 1941, writer and editor (Kenyon Review, Playboy)*
Allison Mackie, 1982M, actress
Wendy MacLeod, 1981, playwright (The House of Yes) and screenwriter
Stanley Matthews, 1840, U.S. senator (Ohio) and Supreme Court justice*
Don McNeill, 1940, U.S. Open tennis champion (singles, 1940)*
Robert Mezey, 1955, poet
N-Z
Paul Newman, 1949, Academy Award-winning actor and philanthropist*
Daniel Sheldon Norton, 1846, U.S. senator (Minnesota)*
Kevin O'Donnell, 1947, former Peace Corps director
Oronhyatekha (Peter Martin), 1863, Mohawk Indian leader, physician, and Supreme Chief Ranger of the Independent Order of Foresters*
Olof Palme, 1948, prime minister of Sweden*
C.A. Patrides, 1952, educator and John Milton scholar*
Alfred Humphreys Pease, 1859, composer*
Neil Pepe, 1985, actor, director, and producer
Kristina Peterson, 1973, publishing executive
Coles Phillips, 1905, illustrator*
Josh Radnor, 1996, actor (How I Met Your Mother)
William Rehnquist, 1946M, U.S. Supreme Court chief justice*
Alphonse Rockwell, 1863, physician and electrotherapeutics pioneer*
Arthur "Chip" Sansom, 1973M, cartoonist ("The Born Loser")
John Sharian, 1984, actor
Byers Shaw, 1972, physician, educator, and liver-transplant pioneer
Shaka Smart, 1999, head coach Virginia Commonwealth University
Thomas S. Smith, 1944, former president, Lawrence University*
Ned Smyth, 1970, sculptor
Zachary T. Space '83, U.S. congressman (Ohio)
Edwin M. Stanton, 1834, U.S. attorney general and secretary of war (Lincoln administration)*
James Storer, 1949, retired broadcasting executive
William Swing, 1958, former Episcopal bishop of California
David Taft, 1960, chief operating officer, Landec Corporation
Peter Taylor, 1940, writer (A Summons to Memphis, The Old Forest), Pulitzer Prize winner*
Richard Thomas, 1953, retired chief executive, First Chicago NBD
Geri Coleman Tucker, 1974, deputy managing editor, USA Today
David Turpie, 1848, U.S. senator (Indiana)*
Bill Veeck, 1936M, baseball innovator and major-league team owner*
Fred Waitzkin, 1965, writer (Searching for Bobby Fischer, The Last Marlin)
Bill Watterson, 1980, cartoonist ("Calvin and Hobbes")
John Weir, 1980, educator and writer (The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket), Lambda Book Award winner
Matthew Winkler, 1977, editor-in-chief, Bloomberg News
Jonathan Winters, 1950M, actor, artist, and comedian
Peter Woytuk, 1980, sculptor
James Wright, 1952, poet, Pulitzer Prize winner*
Stephen Young, 1911, U.S. senator (Ohio)*
John Celivergos Zachos, 1840, pioneering educator and inventor (stenotype)*
Nancy Sydor Zafris, 1976, writer (The People I Know, Lucky Strike), Flannery O'Connor Prize winner
*Deceased