38 Notable alumni of
Claremont McKenna College
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Claremont McKenna College is 1127th in the world, 407th in North America, and 380th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 38 notable alumni from Claremont McKenna College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Robin Williams
- Enrolled in Claremont McKenna College
- Studied political science
- Occupations
- film actorscreenwriterfilm produceractorstage actor
- Biography
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Robin McLaurin Williams was an American actor and comedian. Known for his improvisational skills and the wide variety of characters he created on the spur of the moment and portrayed on film, in dramas and comedies alike, Williams is regarded as one of the greatest comedians of all time. He received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, five Grammy Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Williams was awarded the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2005.
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Akshata Murty
- Enrolled in Claremont McKenna College
- 1998-2002 studied economics and French
- Occupations
- managerfashion designer
- Biography
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Akshata Narayana Murty is an Indian heiress, businesswoman, fashion designer, and venture capitalist. She is married to former prime minister of the United Kingdom Rishi Sunak and the daughter of N. R. Narayana Murthy, a founder of the Indian multinational IT company Infosys, and Sudha Murty. She holds a 0.93 percent stake in Infosys, along with shares in several other British businesses.
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Heidi Cruz
- Occupations
- investment banker
- Biography
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Heidi Suzanne Cruz is an American businesswoman. She has been a managing director at Goldman Sachs since 2012.
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Steve Bullock
- Occupations
- politicianactorlawyer
- Biography
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Stephen Clark Bullock is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 24th governor of Montana from 2013 to 2021. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
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Henry Kravis
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Henry Roberts Kravis is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of KKR & Co. Inc.
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Caroline Sunshine
- Occupations
- film actorsingertelevision actor
- Biography
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Caroline Mohr Sunshine is an American political aide and former actress, who previously worked as a White House staffer during the Donald Trump administration in 2018. As an actress, she is best known for her co-starring role as flashy, rude European exchange student Tinka Hessenheffern on the Disney Channel series Shake It Up. Sunshine has also appeared in the feature film Marmaduke (2010) and the direct-to-video film The Outfield (2015).
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Julie Sweet
- Enrolled in Claremont McKenna College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Julie Terese Sweet is an American business executive and attorney. She is chair and chief executive officer (CEO) of Accenture, a multinational professional services company.
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Gregg Jarrett
- Enrolled in Claremont McKenna College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- journalistpunditlawyer
- Biography
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Gregory Walter Jarrett is an American conservative news commentator, author and attorney. He joined Fox News in November 2002, after working at local NBC and ABC TV stations for over ten years, as well as national networks Court TV and MSNBC.
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Michael Arrington
- Occupations
- blogger
- Biography
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J. Michael Arrington is the American founder and former co-editor of TechCrunch, a blog covering the Silicon Valley technology start-up communities and the wider technology field in America and elsewhere. Magazines such as Wired and Forbes have named Arrington one of the most powerful people on the Internet. In 2008, he was selected by TIME Magazine as one of the most influential people in the world.
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Adam Kokesh
- Occupations
- radio personalityYouTuberpeace activisttelevision produceractivist
- Biography
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Adam Charles Kokesh is an American libertarian political activist, radio host, and author. He was a candidate in the U.S. 2020 Libertarian Party presidential primaries, running on the single-issue platform of an "orderly dissolution of the federal government."
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David Dreier
- Enrolled in Claremont McKenna College
- In 1975 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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David Timothy Dreier OAE is an American businessman, philanthropist, and politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from California from 1981 to 2013. He was one of the youngest members ever elected to the United States Congress. Dreier was the youngest chairman of the House Rules Committee in U.S. history, serving from 1999 to 2007 and from 2011 to 2013. He was instrumental in passing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1993. After leaving Congress, Dreier served on the Foreign Affairs Policy Board under President Barack Obama. He served as the chairman of the Tribune Publishing Company from 2019 to 2020. Dreier is also founder and chair of the Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation.
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Wes Parker
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Maurice Wesley Parker III is an American former first baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1964 to 1972. He also played one season in Japan for the Nankai Hawks in 1974.
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Douglas L. Peterson
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- entrepreneurbusinessperson
- Biography
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Douglas L. Peterson is the former president and chief executive officer of S&P Global, formerly McGraw Hill Financial. He became president and chief executive officer in November 2013. Peterson has served on S&P Global’s Board of Directors since July 2013. In November 2024 Peterson retired from the position of CEO, with S&P Global Ratings President Martina Cheung replacing him. Doug originally joined the company as president of Standard & Poor's Ratings Services in 2011.
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Tom Leppert
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Thomas Chris Leppert is an American businessman and former politician who is the former CEO of Kaplan, Inc., one of the world's largest education providers. He had oversight of the company's operating divisions (Kaplan Test Prep and Kaplan Higher Education in the United States, and Kaplan International) until his resignation was announced in July 2015. Leppert, a member of the Republican Party, previously served as the 58th mayor of Dallas, Texas from 2007 to 2011 and was unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2012.
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Peter Weinberg
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Peter Amory Weinberg is an American businessman. He spent almost twenty years of his career at Goldman Sachs before co-founding Perella Weinberg Partners with merger specialist, Joseph Perella in 2006. The firm provides M&A advisory and alternative asset management services. Weinberg is its chief executive officer and founding partner.
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Robert Addison Day
- Occupations
- chief executive officer
- Biography
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Robert Addison Day was an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He was the founder and former chairman and chief executive officer of Trust Company of the West until 2009. He was the chairman and president of the W. M. Keck Foundation.
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Ashwin Navin
- Years
- 1977-.. (age 48)
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Ashwin Navin is an American entrepreneur, who is the CEO and co-founder of Samba TV, a data and analytics service that measures television viewership using opt-in data from Internet-connected devices and set-top boxes. The company has been compared to more traditional TV measurement firms like Nielsen which rely on the people meter to gather viewership data.
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Douglas Day Stewart
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directordirectorfilm producer
- Biography
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Douglas Day Stewart is an American screenwriter and film director. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, for the 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman.
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Jonathan Rosenberg
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Jonathan Rosenberg is the former Senior Vice President of Products at Google and current advisor to Alphabet Inc. management team and board.
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Orley Ashenfelter
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Orley Clark Ashenfelter is an American economist and the Joseph Douglas Green 1895 Professor of Economics emeritus at Princeton University. His areas of specialization include labor economics, econometrics, and law and economics. He was influential in contributing to the applied turn in economics.
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Robert P. White
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Robert P. White is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who last served as commander of Fort Hood, Texas, and as the 61st Commanding General of III Armored Corps. Over 90,000 soldiers were under his command. From September 2019 to September 2020, he also served as commander of Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR).
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Tibor R. Machan
- Occupations
- university teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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Tibor Richard Machan was a Hungarian-American philosopher. A professor emeritus in the department of philosophy at Auburn University, Machan held the R. C. Hoiles Chair of Business Ethics and Free Enterprise at the Argyros School of Business & Economics at Chapman University in Orange, California until 31 December 2014.
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Michael D. Shear
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Michael D. Shear is an American journalist who is a White House correspondent for The New York Times. He previously worked at The Washington Post, where he was part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team that covered the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007. He regularly appears on CNN and MSNBC.
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William W. Crouch
- Occupations
- manager
- Biography
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General William Wright Crouch was a United States Army four-star general who served as Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1997 to 1998.
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Daniel Yohannes
- Occupations
- manager
- Biography
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Daniel W. Yohannes is an Ethiopian-American businessman and philanthropist who served as the U.S. Ambassador to the OECD from 2014 to 2017.
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Larry André Jr
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 64)
- Enrolled in Claremont McKenna College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in political science
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Larry Edward André Jr. is a retired American diplomat and career member of the Senior Foreign Service who had served as the United States ambassador to Somalia from February 2022 to May 2023. He previously served as the United States ambassador to Djibouti from 2018 to 2021, and as the United States ambassador to Mauritania from 2014 to 2017.
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Jake Zimmerman
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jake Zimmerman is the Democratic St. Louis County Assessor. He was a candidate in the 2020 Democratic primary for St. Louis County Executive. He was a candidate for Missouri Attorney General in the 2016 election. He is also a former member of the Missouri House of Representatives from the 83rd district.
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Mark Frazier
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Mark Frazier is an American born artist, painter, body painter and photographer. His work has been seen in film, television, private collections and print.
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Patrick T. Riley
- Years
- 1941-2015 (aged 74)
- Occupations
- political scientist
- Biography
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Patrick Thomas Riley was Michael Oakeshott Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is notable for his translations of the political writings of Gottfried Leibniz and his research on social contract theory, the general will, and the history of universal jurisprudence.
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Andrew Patrick Gordon
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Andrew Patrick Gordon is the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada.
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Tyler Olson
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Tyler Olson, is a former Iowa State Representative from the 38th District. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 2007 to 2015. He also was Chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party from January to June 2013. He received his BA from Claremont McKenna College and his JD from the University of Iowa College of Law.
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Ronald F. Lehman
- Enrolled in Claremont McKenna College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- scholar
- Biography
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Ronald Frank Lehman II is currently Director of the Center for Global Security Research at the United States Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He is also Chair of the Governing Board of International Science and Technology Center, an intergovernmental organization headquartered in Moscow and is a member of the Department of Defense Threat Reduction Advisory Committee.
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Simon Salinas
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Simon Salinas is a California politician. He was a member of the California State Assembly district 28 from 2000 to 2006. His district included all of Salinas and Watsonville. Before going to the Assembly, Salinas was a County Supervisor, a City Council Member, a community college instructor, and an elementary school teacher. Salinas is a Democrat. He left the assembly in 2006 because he was termed out. He surprised the political establishment by not challenging Republican incumbent Jeff Denham for the California State Senate district 12. Salinas returned to local politics and was elected to the Monterey County Board of Supervisors in 2006, representing District 3. Salinas has lived most of his life in the Salinas area, growing up around agribusiness. He has one son.
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Sloane Citron
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- publisher
- Biography
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Sloane Citron is an American publisher based in Menlo Park, California. He is known for founding and managing magazines that focus on lifestyle, culture, and the affluent communities of Silicon Valley.
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Rob Hurtt
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Robert S. Hurtt Jr. is an American Republican politician who was the California State Senate Republican Leader from August 1995 to March 1998.
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C. Steven McGann
- Years
- 1951-2023 (aged 72)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Clarence Steven McGann was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu from 2008 to 2011. He was nominated by President George W. Bush, and assumed his duties at post in October 2008.
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Francisco Vázquez
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Francisco H. Vázquez is a Mexican-American scholar and public intellectual. Before retirement, Vázquez was a tenured professor of the history of ideas and director of the Hutchins Institute for Public Policy Studies and Community Action at the nationally known Hutchins School of Liberal Studies at Sonoma State University. He co-authored the prominent book Latino/a Thought: Culture, Politics, and Society, (Rowman & Littlefield) with University of California Irvine professor Rodolfo D. Torres in 2003. A second edition by Vázquez alone was issued in December 2008.
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David M. Mason
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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David M. Mason was nominated to the Federal Election Commission by President Bill Clinton on March 4, 1998 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 30, 1998. He was nominated for a second term by President George W. Bush on December 19, 2005. Mason served as a member of the Commission’s Finance Committee. In 2008, President Bush removed Mason from the FEC and replaced him with Don McGahn.
