List of Roanoke College alumni

Roanoke College is private liberal arts college in Salem, Virginia. Following are some of its notable alumni.

Art and architecture

• Rob Balder – cartoonist
• Joel Christian Gill – cartoonist and author of graphic novels
• Wyatt C. Hedrick – architect, engineer, and developer

Business

• John P. Fishwick – former president of Norfolk and Western Railway
• John McAfee – software entrepreneur; founder of McAfee
• John A. Mulheren – Wall Street trader and philanthropist; provided funding for the construction of several Roanoke College buildings
• Stuart T. Saunders – founding chairman, Penn Central Railroad; appeared on the cover of Time in 1968

Education

• R. H. W. Dillard – award-winning poet and author; and professor of English and creative writing at Hollins University
• Thomas David Gordon – reformed theologian, writer, and professor at Grove City College
• Cornelius T. Jordan – Virginia Senate and president of New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (New Mexico State University)
• Lewis Lancaster – Buddhist scholar; professor emeritus, University of California, Berkeley; past president, University of the West
• William Riley Parker – professor of English at Indiana University and New York University
• Rebecca Sharitz – ecologist and emeritus professor at the University of Georgia
• Carol M. Swain – Pulitzer Prize nominee in 2002, political scientist, and professor at Vanderbilt University

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Entertainment

• Jay Alaimo – film director, writer, and producer
• Ted Brown – radio personality in New York City with WMGM, WNEW and WNBC
• Walter Compton – radio and television broadcaster and executive
• Tom T. Hall – country music artist, attended Roanoke following military service via the G.I. Bill ^[1]
• John Payne – film and television actor
• David C. Robinson – movie producer and vice president of Morgan Creek Productions
• Alice White – film actress
• Eve Whittle – actress and child psychologist
• Kristen Wiig – actress known Saturday Night Live and various comedic blockbusters

Law

• George Warwick McClintic – judge with the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia1921–42 ^[2]
• Richard Harding Poff – justice with the Supreme Court of Virginia1972–88 and United States Representative 1953–72 ^[3]
• Anthony D. Sayre – justice with the Supreme Court of Alabama 1909-31 ^[4]
• Frank S. Tavenner Jr. – United States Attorney, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia,1940–45
• James C. Turk – judge with the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia 1972-2014 and Virginia Senate ^[5]

Literature and journalism

• R. H. W. Dillard – award-winning poet and author; and professor of English and creative writing at Hollins University
• Rorer A. James – owner and editor of the Danville Register and the Danville Bee, Virginia House, Senate, and United States Representative
• Frederick Bittle Kegley – magazine editor and author
• Ruth Randall – Biographer of Mary Todd Lincoln ^[6]
• William Seabrook— journalist, author, explorer and occultist; best known for introducing the Haitian Vodou concept of zombies into popular culture with his book, The Magic Island (1929).

Military

• Leslie D. Carter – U.S. Army major general ^[7]
• David C. Shanks – US Army major general ^[8]
• Yi Kang – Lieutenant General in Imperial Korean Army and Korean prince

Frederick C. Boucher

Henry H. Fowler

Kim Kyu-Sik a

Politics

• Frederick C. Boucher – United States Representative, Virginia's 9th congressional district, 1983–2011 ^[9]
• Park Hee Byung – Korean independence leader; worked to end the Japanese annexation of Korea
• Christy Underwood Clark – North Carolina House of Representatives
• Walter M. Denny – United States Representative, Mississippi's 6th congressional district, 1895–97 ^[10]
• Mawine G. Diggs – Liberian minister of Commerce and Industry
• Henry H. Fowler – United States Treasury Secretary, 1965–68 ^[11]
• Rorer A. James – Virginia House, Senate, United States Representative, owner and editor of the Danville Register and the Danville Bee
• Cornelius T. Jordan – Virginia Senate and president of New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (New Mexico State University)
• Kim Kyu-shik – Korean independence leader; represented Korea at the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I
• James W. Marshall – United States Representative, Virginia's 9th congressional district, 1893–95 ^[12]
• William McKendree Murrell – member of the Virginia House of Delegates ^[13]
• Leonard G. Muse – Virginia Senate
• Park Hee-byung – a Korean independence activist
• E. J. Pipkin – member, Maryland State Senate, 2003–13
• Richard H. Poff – United States Representative 1953–72; Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia, 1972–88 ^[3]
• Sam Rasoul – member, Virginia House of Delegates
• Lloyd M. Robinette – Virginia Senate
• Robert Spellane – member, Massachusetts House of Representatives, 2001–11
• James C. Turk – Virginia Senate and judge with the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, 1972-2014 ^[5]
• James P. Woods – United States Representative, Virginia's 6th congressional district, 1918–23 ^[14]
• Joshua Soule Zimmerman – West Virginia House of Delegates

Religion

• William A. Brown – Episcopal Bishop of Southern Virginia
• Thomas C. Darst – Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina
• W. A. R. Goodwin – an Episcopal priest, historian, and author known as the "Father of Colonial Williamsburg"
• Arthur Selden Lloyd – coadjutor bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia and Suffragan Bishop of New York
• Richard L. Pratt Jr. – theologian, author, and founder and President of Third Millennium Ministries
• William Henry Roberts – Baptist minister who worked for many years as a missionary in Burma
• Theodore Schneider – Bishop of the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 1995–2007

Science and medicine

• William Steel Creighton – myrmecologist and taxonomist with Department of Biology at the City College of New York
• Alan M. Friedlander – marine biologist and fisheries scientist
• Carl W. Gottschalk – professor of medicine, University of North Carolina; notable kidney researcher
• Bettie Sue Masters – biochemist and adjunct professor at Duke University
• Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle – neurophysiologist and Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University

Sports

• Frankie Allen – college basketball player and coach
• Doc Ayers – professional baseball player
• William Beroza – lacrosse goalie, coach and member of the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame
• Jim Brillheart – professional baseball player
• Lombe Honaker – college football coach
• Loren LaPorte – college softball coach
• Mike McGuire – head coach of the Radford University women's basketball team
• Herbert J. McIntire – college football coach
• Rock Norman – college basketball and track coach
• Shelley Olds – former professional racing cyclist
• John Pirro –- lacrosse player and coach
• Ben Sanders – professional baseball player
• Conley Snidow – college football and basketball coach
• Gordon C. White – college football coach

References

1. "Artists Spotlight | Roanoke College". www.roanoke.edu. Archived from the original on September 29, 2020. Retrieved January 24, 2020.
2. "History of the Federal Judiciary". fjc.gov. Archived from the original on June 11, 2011. Retrieved July 24, 2011.
3. "POFF, Richard Harding - Biographical Information". congress.gov.
4. "ANTHONY DICKINSON SAYRE" (PDF). judicial.alabama.gov. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 23, 2016. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
5. "History of the Federal Judiciary". fjc.gov. Archived from the original on June 11, 2011. Retrieved July 24, 2011.
6. "Randall, Ruth Painter. Papers, 1954-1965 | Illinois History and Lincoln Collections". Illinois History and Lincoln Collections, Manuscript Collections. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Archived from the original on May 13, 2019. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
7. Pope, Bob (August 12, 1956). "Army Came First: General Gets Degree After 40 Years". Richmond Times-Dispatch . Richmond, VA. p. D1 – via Newspapers.com.
8. "Personal Matters: David C. Shanks". Army and Navy Register. June 25, 1921. p. 622 – via Google Books.
9. "BOUCHER, Frederick C. - Biographical Information". congress.gov.
10. "DENNY, Walter McKennon - Biographical Information". congress.gov.
11. "Henry H. Fowler Biography". Roanoke College. Archived from the original on May 18, 2012.
12. "MARSHALL, James William - Biographical Information". congress.gov.
13. University of Virginia; its history, influence, equipment and characteristics, with biographical sketches and portraits of founders, benefactors, officers and alumni. Vol. 2. Lewis Publishing Company. 1904. pp. 240–241. Retrieved April 24, 2023– via Archive.org.
14. "WOODS, James Pleasant - Biographical Information". congress.gov.

External links

• Official website