List of Kalamazoo College people

This page lists notable alumni and former students, faculty, and administrators of Kalamazoo College.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Alumni

Arts and letters

• Selma Blair, actress (graduated from the University of Michigan, but studied at Kalamazoo from 1990 to 1992)
• Teju Cole, award-winning Nigerian American author ^[1]
• Mark Crilley, comic book creator and children's book author/illustrator
• David France, journalist and author
• Holly Hughes, performance artist
• Quincy Isaiah (2017), actor best known for portraying Magic Johnson in the HBO series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
• Nagai Kafu, author
• Jordan Klepper (2001), comedian, The Daily Show ^[2]
• Lisa Kron, 2015 Tony Award-winning ( Fun Home ) playwright and actress
• Don Lane, singer, entertainer, TV host
• William Malatinsky, author
• Julie Mehretu, artist, winner of MacArthur "Genius" Award
• Fern Persons (1933), actress
• Diane Seuss (1978), poet and educator, winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
• Dorothy B. Waage (1905–1997), numismatist
• Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic correspondent
• Steven Yeun (2005), actor best known for portraying Glenn in The Walking Dead ^[3]

Government

• Garry E. Brown, politician
• Darrin Q. Camilleri, Member, Michigan House of Representatives
• Amy Courter, former National Commander of the Civil Air Patrol
• Brandt Iden, Member, Michigan House of Representatives
• Alexander Lipsey, Michigan politician
• Chokwe Lumumba, mayor of Jackson, Mississippi
• Gerald Ellis Rosen, United States District Court Judge
• Bradley A. Smith, former Chairman, Federal Election Commission
• Christopher P. Yates, Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals, Michigan Court of Claims and Michigan Circuit Court

Business

• Larry Bell, founder of Bell's Brewery
• Harry Garland, entrepreneur ^[4]
• Mark Spitznagel, hedge fund manager
• Jon Stryker
• Ty Warner, founder, Ty Inc. (Beanie Babies)

Academia

• Paula Arai, Buddhist studies scholar, researcher, and professor ^[5]
• George C. Baldwin, theoretical and experimental physicist and professor at General Electric Company, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Los Alamos National Laboratory
• William F. DeGrado, professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) ^[6]
• Kenneth G. Elzinga, economics professor at the University of Virginia
• Cassandra Fraser, chemistry professor at the University of Virginia, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ^[7]
• Thomas F. Gieryn, sociology professor at the University of Indiana known for developing the concept of "boundary work"
• David Heath, probabilist, known for developing the Heath–Jarrow–Morton framework to model the evolution of the interest rate curve ^[8]
• Martin A. Larson, religion scholar
• Katheryn Edmonds Rajnak, theoretical physical chemist
• Tad Schmaltz, philosophy professor at the University of Michigan, early modern philosophy scholar
• Robert J. Shiller, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics ^[9]
• Floyd Wilcox, third president of Shimer College ^[10]

Other

• Hannah P. Dodge, faculty of the Ladies' Department
• Fannie Ruth Robinson, college president 1895
• John E. Sarno, innovator in back-pain therapy
• Madelon Stockwell, first woman to graduate from the University of Michigan
• David Hildebrand Wilson, founder and curator of Museum of Jurassic Technology

References

1. "Bard College | Faculty". Archived from the original on September 21, 2013. Retrieved June 17, 2014.
2. Liberty, John (March 4, 2014). "'The Daily Show' debut: Watch Jon Stewart tell Kalamazoo native Jordan Klepper to 'go back to Crimea'". MLive.com. Retrieved March 7, 2014.
3. Liberty, John (October 30, 2010). "College grad vs. zombies: Michigan native stars in new AMC series 'The Walking Dead'". Kalamazoo Gazette . Retrieved February 27, 2011.
4. Levering, Robert; Katz, Michael; Moskowitz, Milton (1984). The Computer Entrepreneurs . New American Library. p.  36. ISBN   0-453-00477-6.
5. "Paula K. Arai". Institute of Buddhist Studies. Berkeley, California. November 7, 2022. Retrieved February 5, 2024.
6. "William Degrado | UCSF Profiles". profiles.ucsf.edu. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
7. "Accolades: Three UVA Scientists Elected AAAS Fellows". UVA Today. December 21, 2015. Retrieved January 7, 2023.
8. "David C. Heath Obituary", Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, August 28, 2011, retrieved October 25, 2015
9. Van Sweden, James (October 22, 2013). "Alumnus Wins Nobel Prize". Kalamazoo College. Retrieved October 31, 2013.
10. "Students: 1913". The Institution Bulletin. Vol. 4. p. 274.