List of Kenyon College alumni

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This is a list of some of Kenyon College's notable alumni, organized by their fields of endeavor.

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[edit] Politics

Name Occupation Notes on Kenyon Experience
Rutherford B. Hayes President of the United States
Olof Palme Prime Minister of Sweden
William Rehnquist Chief justice of the Supreme Court Attended for 1 year
Edwin Stanton Secretary of War during the Lincoln administration
John Snow Secretary of the Treasury Attended for 1 year
Bill Harsha US Representative for Ohio
David Davis Senator, Supreme Court justice
Thomas Stanley Matthews Senator, Supreme Court justice
Henry Winter Davis US Congressman for Maryland's 3rd and 4th district
Zack Space Congressman, Ohio Congressional District 18

[edit] Literature

Name Occupation Notes on Kenyon Experience
Jim Bellows Journalist and newspaper editor
Caleb Carr Novelist and military historian
John Green Author
Jay Cocks Film critic and screenwriter
E. L. Doctorow Novelist and cultural critic
William Gass Writer, winner of the National Book Award
John Hattendorf Maritime historian
Anthony Hecht Poet
Laura Hillenbrand Writer, author of Seabiscuit: An American Legend Was forced to withdraw after contracting chronic fatigue syndrome
P. F. Kluge Writer
Robert Lowell Poet
Robie Macauley Writer, editor of Playboy
Thomas Stanley Matthews Senator, Supreme Court justice
Robert Mezey Writer
Fred Waitzkin Writer
Nikki Weinstein Freelance writer and author
Matthew Winkler Editor in chief, Bloomberg News
James Wright Poet

[edit] Performing arts

Name Occupation Notes on Kenyon Experience
Nick Bakay Actor, Comedian
Ken Burgomaster Composer
Adam Davidson Academy award winning Director
Frank Dicopoulos Actor
Allison Janney Actress, four-time Emmy Award winner
Murray Horowitz NPR commentator
Paul Newman Actor, Emmy Award and Academy Award winner
Wendy MacLeod Playwright, screenwriter
Kris Osborn CNN anchor
Alfred Humphreys Pease Composer
Josh Radnor Actor
Mark Rosenthal MTV president
Jonathan Winters Actor and comedian

[edit] Sciences

Name Occupation Notes on Kenyon Experience
James Cox Physician, researcher, educator
Edwin Hamilton Davis Archaeologist
Paul Forrest Famous Emergency Room physician
Rolla Dyer Developer of the typhus vaccine and director of the National Institutes of Health
Carl Djerassi Creator of the birth control pill, winner of the National Medal of Science
Byers Shaw Developer of the liver transplant
John Celivergos Zachos Inventor of the stenotype

[edit] Visual arts

Name Occupation Notes on Kenyon Experience
Carl Andre Artist Attended for one year
Jim Borgman Political cartoonist
Meg Cranston Artist
Eric Gaskins Fashion Designer
Graham Gund Architect
Jonathan Mannion Photographer and Director
Coles Phillips Artist
Ned Smyth Sculptor
Bill Watterson Cartoonist, best known for Calvin and Hobbes
Victoria Wyatt Art historian

[edit] Sports

Name Occupation Notes on Kenyon Experience
Don McNeill U.S. Open tennis champion
Bill Veeck MLB owner and baseball hall of famer

[edit] Philanthropy

Name Occupation Notes on Kenyon Experience
William Lowry Vice President, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Kevin O'Donnell Director of the U.S. Peace Corps

[edit] Religion

Name Occupation Notes on Kenyon Experience
Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky Bishop of Shanghai, China, 1877-1883
William Crane Gray First Bishop of Southern Florida, 1893-1913
S. Arthur Huston Episcopal Bishop of Olympia, 1925-1944

[edit] Academics

Amos N. Guiora professor of law at University of Utah and Israel Defense Forces Judge Advocate General's Corps (Lt. Col. Ret.)