This list of Colby College alumni includes graduates, non-graduate former students, current students, and honorary degree recipients of Colby College. Colby, which was founded in 1813, has a total of more than 25,000 living alumni.[ citation needed ]
Name | Class | Notability | Reference |
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Julius Dresser | ex-1860 | Philosopher | |
Charles Branch Wilson | 1884 | Scientist, marine biologist | [9] |
Fenwicke Holmes | 1906 | Author, congregational minister, and religious science leader | |
Harold Calvin Marston Morse | 1914 | Mathematician | |
Paul Wallace Gates | 1924 | United States land policy historian and author | [10] |
Doris Kearns Goodwin | 1964 | Presidential scholar and historian; notable works include the Pulitzer Prize-winning No Ordinary Time (1995) and Team of Rivals (2005) | |
Arthur G. Miller | 1964 | Professor in Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland, College Park | |
Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. | 1970 | Maine State Historian | |
Alan Taylor (historian) | 1977 | Scholar in early Colonial America history and Pulitzer Prize winner | |
Craig A. Carlson | 1986 | Oceanographer |
Name | Class | Notability | Reference |
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Jack Levine | 1946 | Painter | [11] |
Loring Buzzell | 1948 | Music publisher and record label executive | [12] |
Gordon W. Bowie | 1965 | Musician | [13] |
Rocco Landesman | 1969 | Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts | |
Kathy O'Dell | 1973 | art historian, theorist, curator, arts advocate, author | |
Tim O'Brien (musician) | ex-1973 | Country and bluegrass musician | |
Tom Silverman | 1976 | Founder of hip-hop record label Tommy Boy Entertainment | |
Arthur Levering | 1976 | Composer | |
Lincoln Peirce | 1985 | Cartoonist and creator of the comic strip Big Nate | |
Daniel Raymont | 1991 | Hollywood character actor | [14] |
Billy Bush | 1994 | Host of Access Hollywood , former host of Let's Make a Deal and The Billy Bush Show | [15] |
Mike Daisey | 1996 | Monologuist, solo performer and author |
Name | Class | Notability | Reference |
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Frank Haggerty | 1897 | Head football coach at University of Akron, 1910 to 1914 | |
Jack Coombs | 1906 | Two-time World Champion Major League Baseball Player; Manager (Philadelphia Phillies and Duke University) | |
Elbridge Ross | 1935 | Medalist at the 1936 Winter Olympics in hockey | [16] |
Norm Gigon | 1958 | Major League Baseball player for the Chicago Cubs | [17] |
Ed Phillips (pitcher) | 1966 | Major League Baseball pitcher for the 1970 Boston Red Sox | |
Jan Volk | 1968 | General Manager of the Boston Celtics, 1984-1997 | |
Sebsibe Mamo | 1970 | Ethiopian athlete; competed at the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics | [16] |
Greg Cronin | 1986 | Assistant Coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs, 2011–present | |
Mike McRae (baseball) | 1981 | Head coach of the Canisius Golden Griffins baseball team, 2005–present | [18] |
Eric DeCosta | 1993 | Executive Vice President and General Manager, Baltimore Ravens | |
Hilary Gehman | 1993 | Olympic rower, Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004; World Rowing Championships medalist | [16] |
Brian O'Halloran (baseball) | 1993 | General Manager of the Boston Red Sox | |
Mark Jackson (American football coach) | 1994 | Athletic director for the Villanova University | |
Meaghan Sittler | 1998 | Hockey player for the Brampton Thunder and the United States women's national ice hockey team | [19] |
Courtney Kennedy | ex-2001 | Olympic medalist on the United States women's national ice hockey team, 2002 and 2006 | |
Warner Nickerson | 2005 | Alpine skier | [20] |
Dan Vassallo | 2007 | Distance runner | [21] |
Name | Class | Notability | Reference |
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Ivory Quinby | 1836 | Businessman and philanthropist | [22] |
J. Young Scammon | 1869 | Lawyer, banker, and newspaper publisher | [23] |
Herbert Elijah Wadsworth | 1892 | Businessman | |
Albert Stone | 1951 | Owner of Sterilite | [24] |
Frank R. Wallace | 1954 | Owner of Integrated Management Associates | |
Lawrence Pugh | 1956 | former CEO of the VF Corporation | |
Tom Whidden | 1970 | President of North Sails, 1992–present | [25] |
Robert Diamond | 1973 | Former chief executive officer of Barclays Bank, Plc. | |
Edson Mitchell | 1975 | Director, Deutsche Bank | [26] |
Eric S. Rosengren | 1979 | President and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | |
Dawn Sweeney | 1981 | President and chief executive officer of the National Restaurant Association | [27] |
Michael Federle | 1981 | Chief Executive Officer of the Forbes Media | [27] |
Chip Smith | 1991 | Co-founder of The Glover Park Group | |
Jason J. Hogg | 1993 | Founder of Revolution Money | [28] |
Mira Murati | 2011 | CTO and former interim CEO of OpenAI | |
Alice Mason | Manhattan real estate broker | [29] [30] |
Name | Class | Notability | Reference |
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William Hutchinson Rowe | c.1900 | Historian and author | [31] |
Roland Gammon | 1937 | Religious author and ad-man | |
Thomas Savage (novelist) | 1940 | Novelist | |
Alvin Schwartz (children's author) | 1949 | Author of the series Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark | [32] |
Robert B. Parker | 1954 | Author of the Spenser detective novels | |
Joe Perham | 1955 | Humorist | [33] |
Annie Proulx | ex-1957 | Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain | |
Don J. Snyder | 1968 | Novelist and screenwriter | [34] |
Gregory White Smith | 1973 | Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Jackson Pollock: An American Saga | [35] |
Neil Raymond Ricco | 1970s | Poet and writer | [36] |
Jeff Gottesfeld | 1977 | novelist, Anne Frank and Me ; screen/TV writer, The Young and the Restless | |
Alan Taylor (historian) | 1977 | Pulitzer Prize and Bancroft Prize-winning author and historian specializing in early American history | |
Jane Brox | 1978 | Author and 2007 Guggenheim Fellow | [37] |
Geoffrey Becker | 1980 | Short story writer | [38] |
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) | |
Erika Mailman | 1991 | Author and journalist | [39] |
Cecily von Ziegesar | 1992 | Novelist, creator of Gossip Girl series | |
Stephanie Doyon | 1993 | Novelist, best known for The Greatest Man in Cedar Hole | [40] |
Sarah Langan | 1996 | Bram Stoker Award-winning novelist | [7] |
Drew Magary | 1998 | Writer for Deadspin and GQ magazine; author of The Postmortal and Someone Could Get Hurt | [41] |
Rosecrans Baldwin | 1999 | Novelist and essayist, co-founder of The Morning News | |
David Barr Kirtley | 2000 | Science fiction author and co-founder of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy |
Name | Class | Notability | Reference |
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George Horace Lorimer | 1898 | Editor-in-chief of The Saturday Evening Post | |
John Roderick (correspondent) | 1937 | Correspondent for the Associated Press | |
Dwight E. Sargent | 1939 | Editorial writer for The New York Herald Tribune , 1951 Nieman Fellow | |
Elliot G. Jaspin | 1969 | 1979 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting | [42] |
Stuart Rothenberg | 1970 | editor and publisher of The Rothenberg Political Report, CNN political analyst, and syndicated columnist | |
Ben Bradlee Jr. | 1970 | Investigative journalist and bestselling author | [43] |
Robert S. Capers | 1971 | 1992 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting | [44] |
Stéphane Cornicard | 1988 | Film actor and director | [45] |
Andrea Nix Fine | 1991 | Oscar winner, 2013 Best Documentary Short Subject | [46] |
Amy Walter | 1991 | Political Director of ABC News, former house editor for the Cook Political Report , Editor in Chief of The Hotline | |
Dan Harris (journalist) | 1993 | ABC News anchor and reporter | |
Billy Bush | 1994 | TV personality and nephew of President George H. W. Bush | |
Hannah Beech | 1995 | Journalist for Time magazine | |
Sarah Lee (reporter) | 1995 | Washington DC news reporter | |
Matt Apuzzo | 2000 | 2012 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting | [47] |
Name | Class | Notability | Reference |
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Percival Bonney | 1863 | Maine Superior Court Judge, 1878-1906 | [51] |
Leslie C. Cornish | 1875 | Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, 1917-1925 | |
Warren C. Philbrook | 1882 | Mayor of Waterville 1899–1900, Maine Attorney General, 1909–10, Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, 1913-1928 | [52] |
Hugh Dean McLellan | 1895 | Federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts | |
Nathaniel Tompkins | 1903 | Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, 1945-1949 | [53] |
Joseph Jabar | 1968 | Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, 2009–present | [54] |
Kenneth R. Melvin | 1974 | Circuit Court Judge and member of the Virginia House of Delegates | [55] |
Name | Class | Notability | Reference |
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Samuel Cony | ex-1829 | 31st Governor of Maine, 1864-1867 | [56] |
George A. Ramsdell | ex-1857 | 46th Governor of New Hampshire 1897-1899 | [49] |
Harris M. Plaisted | 1853 | Governor of Maine 1881-1883 | |
Llewellyn Powers | ex-1861 | Governor of Maine 1901-1908 | [49] |
Marcellus Stearns | 1863 | Governor of Florida 1874-1877 | [49] |
Janet T. Mills | ex-1965 | Governor of Maine 2019-present | [49] |
Name | Class | Notability | Reference |
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Albert G. Jewett | 1823 | United States Chargé d'Affaires to Peru 1845-1847 | |
Elijah P. Lovejoy | 1826 | Abolitionist | |
Manly B. Townsend | 1828 | Maine State Senator | [57] |
Edgar Harkness Gray | 1838 | Baptist clergyman and former Chaplain of the Senate | |
Leonard Swett | c. 1840-45 | close friend of President Lincoln and an organizer for the 1860 Chicago Republican National Convention | |
Josiah Hayden Drummond | 1846 | 16th Attorney General of Maine, 1860-1863 | |
Isaac Smith Kalloch | 1852 | Baptist minister, founder and first president of Ottawa University, mayor of San Francisco, California | |
Cyrus Hamlin (general) | 1859 | General in the Union Army | [58] |
Bartlett Tripp | ex-1861 | Ambassador to Austria 1893-1897 | [49] |
Henry C. Merriam | ex-1862 | United States Army general awarded Medal of Honor | |
Edwin Francis Lyford | 1877 | Massachusetts State Senator, 1894 | [59] |
Herbert Lord | 1884 | Director of the United States Bureau of the Budget (now the Office of Management and Budget), 1922-1929 | |
Byron Boyd | 1886 | Secretary of State of Maine, 1897 to 1907 | [60] |
Holman Day | 1887 | Military secretary to the Governor of Maine John Fremont Hill, 1901-1904 | |
Merton L. Miller | 1890 | Acting Chief of the Ethnological Survey for the Philippine Islands | |
George Otis Smith | 1893 | Director of United States Geological Survey, 1907–1922, first chairman of the Federal Power Commission | |
Robert N. Anthony | 1938 | United States Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), 1965-1968 | [61] |
Rachel Bubar Kelly | 1947 | Prohibition Party candidate for United States Vice President | |
Robert S. Gelbard | 1964 | United States Ambassador to Bolivia (1988–1991) and United States Ambassador to Indonesia (1999–2001) | |
Peter D. Hart | 1964 | founder of Peter D. Hart Research Associates, a political polling organization | |
Pete Rouse | 1968 | Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama, former Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama, former Chief of Staff to Tom Daschle | |
Patrick Duddy | 1972 | United States Ambassador to Venezuela 2007-2010 | |
Arthur L. Bell | 1974 | Maine state representative | [62] |
David Lemoine | 1978 | State Treasurer of Maine 2005-2010 | |
David Linsky | 1979 | Massachusetts House of Representatives | |
Peter Forman | 1980 | Minority Leader of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1991-1995 | [63] |
Christopher Mellon | 1980 | Staff Director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 1989-1999 | |
Thomas A. Betro | 1981 | Director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service 2006 - 2010 | |
Daniel Shagoury | 1982 | Maine House of Representatives | [64] |
Dana Hanley | 1984 | Member of the Maine Senate, 1992-1996 | [65] |
Paul Doyle (politician) | 1985 | Connecticut Senator from the Ninth District | [66] |
Sean McCormack | 1986 | Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and U.S. State Department Spokesman | |
Daniel K. Webster | 1987 | Massachusetts State Representatives, 2003-2013 | [67] |
Michael Marcello | 1990 | Member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives 2009–present | [68] |
J. Patrick O'Neill | 1993 | Member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives 2005–present | [69] |
Andrew Monroe Rice | 1996 | 2008 Democratic nominee, candidate, United States Senate (Oklahoma) (lost to Senator James Inhofe) | |
Devin Beliveau | 2001 | Maine State Representative from District 151, 2010-2012 | |
Linwood E. Palmer Jr. | Maine Legislator, Candidate, Maine Governor, 1978 | ||
Daniel T. Jewett | Republican US Senator (Missouri) 1870–71, Missouri State Representative | ||
Elizabeth Hanson | 2002 | CIA Officer killed in the Camp Chapman attack, Afghanistan | |
Lot M. Morrill | U.S. Senator (1861–69), Governor of Maine (1857–1861), Treasury Secretary (1876–77) | ||
Brendan Crighton | 2005 | Massachusetts State Senator, 2018-Present | [70] |
Charles L. Phillips | 1878 | U.S. Army brigadier general | [71] [72] |
Name | Class | Notability | Reference |
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George Boardman (missionary) | 1822 | First Graduate of Colby College, Baptist missionary | |
Horace G. Cates | Los Angeles County, California, coroner | [73] | |
Mary Caffrey Low | 1875 | Founder, Sigma Kappa sorority | |
Elizabeth Gorham Hoag | Founder, Sigma Kappa sorority | ||
Ida Fuller | Founder, Sigma Kappa sorority | ||
Frances Elliott Mann Hall | Founder, Sigma Kappa sorority | ||
Louise Helen Coburn | Founder, Sigma Kappa sorority | ||
Arthur B. Patten | 1890 | United States Congregational Church clergyman | |
Bern Porter | 1932 | Artist and scientist | [74] |
Stephen Sternberg | 1941 | Pathologist and author | |
Myron "Pinky" Thompson | 1950 | Trustee of the Bishop Estate (now known as Kamehameha Schools), President of the Polynesian Voyaging Society | |
Riki Ott | 1976 | Marine toxicologist oil spill expert | |
Savas (Zembillas) of Pittsburgh | 1979 | Bishop of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Pittsburgh | |
Wylie Dufresne | 1992 | Chef and owner of wd~50 restaurant in New York City, featured as a judge on Top Chef | |
Tara Allain | 2008 | Miss Maine 2007 | |