List of Colby College people
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This is a list of notable individuals affiliated with Colby College in Waterville, Maine.
- Tara Allain, Miss Maine 2007, expected graduation 2008
- Jennifer Boylan, professor of English, author of She's Not There
- Gerry Boyle 1978, novelist and Colby employee
- James Brooks 1831, New York Congressman (1849-53; 1863-66; 1867-73)
- Billy Bush 1994, TV personality and nephew of President George H. W. Bush
- Benjamin F. Butler 1838, Civil War general, Congressman, Governor of Massachusetts, candidate for President
- Noah Charney 2002, art historian, author of The Art Thief
- Stephen Coburn 1839, Maine Congressman (1860-61)
- Jack Coombs 1906, Major League Baseball Player, Manager (Philadelphia Phillies and Duke University)
- Steve Cummings 1977, Head of Corporate and Investment Banking, Wachovia
- Mike Daisey 1996, Monologuist, solo performer and author.
- Eric Decosta 1993 Director of College Scouting, Baltimore Ravens
- Robert Diamond 1973, CEO of Barclays Capital, and Chairman of Barclays Global Investors
- Patrick Duddy 1972, US Ambassador to Venezuela (pending Senate confirmation)
- Dave Epstein 1986, Columnist, Television Meteorologist
- Robert Gelbard 1964, US Ambassador to Indonesia (1999-2001) and Bolivia (1988-1991)
- Jeff Gottesfeld 1977, novelist Anne Frank and Me and screen/TV writer The Young and the Restless
- Dan Harris 1993, ABC News Anchor & Reporter
- Doris Kearns Goodwin 1964, presidential scholar and historian, notable works include the Pulitzer Prize-winning No Ordinary Time (1995) and Team of Rivals (2005)
- Linda Greenlaw, 1983, author of Hungry Ocean (captain of the Hannah Boden, sister ship to the Andrea Gail which went down in "The Perfect Storm" 1991)
- Peter Hart 1964, founder of Peter D. Hart Research Associates, a political polling organization
- Gregg Jackson 1991, radio host and author of Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies
- Daniel T. Jewett Republican US Senator (Missouri) 1870-71, Missouri State Representative
- Isaac Smith Kalloch 1852, Baptist minister, founder and first president of Ottawa University, mayor of San Francisco, California
- Courtney Kennedy, 2001, Olympic Medalist, U.S. Women's Hockey Team, 2002 & 2006
- David Barr Kirtley 2000, Author
- Sharon Lee, novelist, Colby staff
- Elijah P. Lovejoy 1826, abolitionist
- Mary Caffrey Low 1875, Founder, Sigma Kappa Sorority
- Sean McCormack 1986, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and U.S. State Department Spokesman
- Alan Mirken 1951, President, Aaron Publishing Group, founder of Crown Publishing Group
- Lot M. Morrill U.S. Senator (1861-69), Governor of Maine (1857-1861), Treasury Secretary (1876-77)
- Harold Calvin Marston Morse 1914, mathematician
- Robert B. Parker 1954, author of the Spenser detective novels
- Lincoln Pierce 1985, cartoonist
- E. Annie Proulx 1957, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain
- Stuart Rothenberg 1970, editor and publisher of The Rothenberg Political Report, CNN Political Analyst, and syndicated columnist
- Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winning author and former professor of English at Colby. His works include Empire Falls, Nobody's Fool and Straight Man.
- Ira Sadoff, Professor of English and poet
- Tom Silverman 1975, founder of influential hip-hop record label Tommy Boy Records
- Margaret Chase Smith 1943, American politician who served as U.S. Congresswoman (1940–1949) and Senator (1949–1973) from Maine
- Marcellus L. Sterns, former Florida governor, soldier in American Civil War
- Leonard Swett c. 1840-45, close friend of President Lincoln and an organizer for the 1860 Chicago Republican National Convention
- Alan Taylor 1977, noted scholar in early Colonial America history and Pulitzer Prize winner
- Jan Volk, 1967, former General Manager of the Boston Celtics.
- Cecily von Ziegesar novelist
- Frank R. Wallace (pen name for Wallace Ward) 1954, entrepreneur, publisher, writer, and developer of the Neo-Tech philosophy
- Amy Walter 1990, former House editor for the Cook Political Report, and current Editor in Chief of The Hotline
