List of Swarthmore College people - Definition and Overview

Nobel laureates

MacArthur Fellow ("Genius award")

• 1983 John J. Hopfield - Molecular biologist
• 1985 Jane Richardson - Biochemist
• 1998 Ellen Barry - Attorney
• 1998 Rebecca J. Nelson - Plant Pathologist
• 2001 Christopher Chyba - Time magazine's "Fifty for the Future."

Law

Kohlberg Hall

• T. Alexander Aleinikoff (1974) - Dean, Georgetown University Law Center (law school)
• Christopher Edley, Jr. (1973) - Dean, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall)
• Frank H. Easterbrook (1970) - Judge, United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Seventh_Circuit
• James C. Hormel (1955) - Former Dean, University of Chicago Law School
• Wilma A. Lewis (1978) - Former United States Attorney, District of Columbia
• Eben Moglen (1980) - Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University, General counsel and Board Member at the Free Software Foundation, co-authored the original GNU General Public License
• Alexander Mitchell Palmer (1891) - attorney general, United States from 1919-1921
• Richard D. Parker (1967) - Professor, Harvard Law School
• Jed Rakoff (1964) - United States District Judge

Business

Steps to Wharton Hall (student residence)

• Burt Alper (1991) - CEO, Catchword
• Mark Benerofe (1981) - Vice-President, Sony Online Ventures
• Peter Cohan (1979) - President, Peter S. Cohan & Associates
• John D. Goldman (1971) - CEO, Richard N. Goldman & Co. Insurance Services, President, San Francisco Symphony
• Samuel L. Hayes III (1957) - Director, Tiffany & Co., Professor Emeritus, Harvard Business School
• Mickey Herbert (1967) - President and CEO, the Bridgeport Bluefish Baseball Club
• Roger Holstein (1974) - CEO, WebMD
• Gil Kemp (1972) - President and Founder, Home Decorators Collection
• Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. (1946) - Billionaire (Forbes 400 Richest in Amherica), Co-founder, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
• Frederick W. Kyle (1954) - Chairman, BioRexis Pharmaceutical Corporation
• Randall Larrimore (1969) - Former President and CEO, United Stationers Inc., a Fortune 500 company
• Leland S. MacPhail (1939) - President, National League Baseball, General Manager, the New York Yankees
• Thomas B. McCabe (1915) - Chairman, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, President, Scott Paper
• Carl Russo (1979) - President and CEO, Calix, Former Vice President of Optical Strategy Cisco Systems

Education

• Patrick Awuah - Founder, Ashesi University, Ghana's first liberal arts college
• Marjorie Garber - Director, the Humanities Center at Harvard University
• Neil R. Grabois - Former President, Colgate University
• Clark Kerr - First Chancellor, the University of California, Berkeley and 12th President, the University of California.
• David Lewis - Philosopher
• Robert Prichard - Former President (13th), University of Toronto
• Jerome Schiller - Professor of Philosophy, Washington University
• Helen Magill White - The first woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D.

Natural science and engineering

• Dave Bayer - Math consultant, A Beautiful Mind(feature film)
• Ted Nelson - Computer visionary. Coined the term hypertext
• Frank Oski - Director of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
• Nancy Roman - Astronomer. One of "the inspirational women" of NASA.
• Maxine Frank Singer - Biochemist, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington since 1988
• Charlotte Moore Sitterly - Astronomer. Identified chemical elements in the sun using spectroscopy.
• Peter J. Weinberger - Computer Scientist. Former head of CS Research at Bell Labs, inventor of the AWK programming language.

Politics

• William H. Brown, Jr. - Parliamentarian, the United States House of Representatives
• Peter_Deutsch - Member, the United States House of Representatives ( D-Florida)
• Michael Dukakis - Former Governor of Massachusetts. 1988 Democratic Presidential candidate.
• Carl Levin - Member, the United States Senate (D-Michigan)
• Eugene M. Lang - Philanthropist
• Alice Paul - Women's suffrage leader from 1913 onwards
• Amos J. Peaslee - US Ambassador to Australia
• Robert Putnam - Proponent of social capital. Professor, Harvard University.
• Chris Van Hollen - Member, the United States House of Representatives (D-Maryland)
• Robert P. George - Member, President's Council on Bioethics. Professor, Princeton University.
• Robert Zoellick - Deputy Secretary of State, State Department. U.S. Trade Representative

Psychology

• Carol Gilligan - Recipient, Grawemeyer Award. Professor, New York University.

Writers

Lang Performing Arts Center

• Heywood Hale Broun - Editorialist and Author
• Diane Di Prima - Beat generation Poet
• Jonathan Franzen - Author
• James A. Michener - Novelist
• Drew Pearson - Journalist
• Rudy Rucker - Cyberpunk Novelist. Winner of two Philip K. Dick Awards (http://www.philipkdickaward.org/).

Arts

• H. C. Robbins Landon - Composer
• Ike Schambelan - Founder, the Theater By the Blind (http://www.tbtb.org) in New York City
• Peter Schickele - Composer (under the pseudonym P. D. Q. Bach).
• Ben Masten - Radio Personality

Notable professors

Current Faculty

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Former Faculty

• Solomon Asch, Psychology
• W. H. Auden, Literature
• Frank Aydelotte (President)
• Brand Blanshard, Philosophy
• Daniel J. Boorstin, History
• Rush D. Holt, Jr., Physics
• Nannerl O. Keohane, Political Science
• Wolfgang Köhler, Psychology
• Joseph Leidy, Natural History
• George W. Lewis, Engineering
• Scott Nearing(visiting), Economics
• Camille Paglia
• Maria L. Sanford, History
• Clair Wilcox, Economics