100 Notable alumni of
Haverford College

Updated:

EduRank

Haverford College is 608th in the world, 225th in North America, and 208th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Haverford College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.

  1. Chevy Chase

    Chevy Chase
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1943-.. (age 81)
    Occupations
    comediantelevision presenterscreenwritervoice actoractor
    Biography

    Cornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase is an American comedian, actor, and writer. He became the breakout cast member in the first season of Saturday Night Live (1975–1976), where his recurring Weekend Update segment became a staple of the show. As both a performer and a writer on the series, he earned two Primetime Emmy Awards out of four nominations.

  2. Daniel Dae Kim

    Daniel Dae Kim
    Born in
    South Korea Flag South Korea
    Years
    1968-.. (age 56)
    Occupations
    television actorvoice actorfilm actoractor
    Biography

    Daniel Dae Kim is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Jin-Soo Kwon in Lost, Chin Ho Kelly in Hawaii Five-0, Gavin Park in Angel, and Johnny Gat in the Saints Row video game series. He also runs a production company, 3AD, which is currently producing the television series The Good Doctor. He portrayed Ben Daimio in the superhero film Hellboy (2019) and provided the voice of Chief Benja in the Disney animated film Raya and the Last Dragon (2021).

  3. Judd Nelson

    Judd Nelson
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1959-.. (age 65)
    Occupations
    voice actoractormanufacturerstage actortelevision actor
    Biography

    Judd Asher Nelson is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime in The Transformers: The Movie, John Bender in The Breakfast Club, Alec Newbury in St. Elmo's Fire, Alex in Cybermutt, Joe Hunt in Billionaire Boys Club, Nick Peretti in New Jack City, Billy Beretti in Empire, and Jack Richmond in the television series Suddenly Susan.

  4. George Segal

    George Segal
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1934-2021 (aged 87)
    Occupations
    stage actorfilm actorfilm producervoice actoractor
    Biography

    George Segal Jr. was an American actor. He became popular in the 1960s and 1970s for playing both dramatic and comedic roles. After first rising to prominence with roles in acclaimed films such as Ship of Fools (1965) and King Rat (1965), he co-starred in the classic drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966).

  5. Jon Kabat-Zinn

    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1944-.. (age 80)
    Occupations
    writerinternational forum participantuniversity teachermolecular biologist
    Biography

    Jon Kabat-Zinn is an American professor emeritus of medicine and the creator of the 'Stress Reduction Clinic' and the 'Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society' at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Kabat-Zinn was a student of Zen Buddhist teachers such as Philip Kapleau, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Seung Sahn, and a founding member of Cambridge Zen Center. His practice of hatha yoga, Vipassanā and appreciation of the teachings of Soto Zen and Advaita Vedanta led him to integrate their teachings with scientific findings. He teaches mindfulness, which he says can help people cope with stress, anxiety, pain, and illness. The stress reduction program created by Kabat-Zinn, mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), is offered by medical centers, hospitals, and health maintenance organizations, and is described in his book Full Catastrophe Living.

  6. Juan Williams

    Juan Williams
    Born in
    Panama Flag Panama
    Years
    1954-.. (age 70)
    Enrolled in Haverford College
    Graduated with bachelor's degree
    Occupations
    political punditjournalist
    Biography

    Juan Antonio Williams is an American journalist and political analyst for Fox News Channel. He writes for several newspapers, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, and has been published in magazines such as The Atlantic and Time. Williams has worked as an editorial writer, an op-ed columnist, a White House correspondent, and a national correspondent. He is a registered Democrat.

  7. Fredric Jameson

    Fredric Jameson
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1934-.. (age 90)
    Occupations
    writerpolitical scientistjournalistliterary theoristsociologist
    Biography

    Fredric Jameson is an American literary critic, philosopher and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends, particularly his analysis of postmodernity and capitalism. Jameson's best-known books include Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) and The Political Unconscious (1981).

  8. Takeo Arishima

    Takeo Arishima
    Born in
    Japan Flag Japan
    Years
    1878-1923 (aged 45)
    Occupations
    prose writerwriterliterary criticpoetessayist
    Biography

    Takeo Arishima was a Japanese novelist, short-story writer and essayist during the late Meiji and Taishō periods. His two younger brothers, Ikuma Arishima (有島生馬) and Ton Satomi (里美弴), were also authors. His son was the internationally known film and stage actor, Masayuki Mori.

  9. Alex Karp

    Alex Karp
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1967-.. (age 57)
    Occupations
    international forum participantbusinessperson
    Biography

    Alexander Caedmon Karp is billionaire businessman, and the co-founder and CEO of the software firm Palantir Technologies. As of February 2024, his estimated net worth is US$1.9 billion.

  10. Dave Barry

    Dave Barry
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1947-.. (age 77)
    Occupations
    writercolumnistactorchildren's writerhumorist
    Biography

    David McAlister Barry is an American author and columnist who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has also written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comic novels and children's novels. Barry's honors include the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (1988) and the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism (2005).

  11. Maxfield Parrish

    Maxfield Parrish
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1870-1966 (aged 96)
    Occupations
    painterdesignerillustrator
    Biography

    Maxfield Parrish was an American painter and illustrator active in the first half of the 20th century. He is known for his distinctive saturated hues and idealized neo-classical imagery. His career spanned fifty years and was wildly successful: the National Museum of American Illustration deemed his painting Daybreak (1922) to be the most successful art print of the 20th century.

  12. Oscar Goodman

    Oscar Goodman
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1939-.. (age 85)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    Oscar Baylin Goodman is an American attorney and politician. A Democrat-turned-independent, Goodman was the mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada from 1999 to 2011. His wife, Carolyn Goodman, succeeded him as mayor in 2011.

  13. Andy Gavin

    Andy Gavin
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1970-.. (age 54)
    Occupations
    novelistcomputer scientistengineer
    Biography

    Andrew Scott Gavin is an American video game programmer, entrepreneur, and novelist. Gavin co-founded the video game company Naughty Dog with childhood friend Jason Rubin in 1986, which released games including Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter. Prior to founding Naughty Dog, Gavin worked in LISP at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

  14. Nicholson Baker

    Nicholson Baker
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1957-.. (age 67)
    Occupations
    novelistwriter
    Biography

    Nicholson Baker is an American novelist and essayist. His fiction generally de-emphasizes narrative in favor of careful description and characterization. His early novels such as The Mezzanine and Room Temperature were distinguished by their minute inspection of his characters' and narrators' stream of consciousness. Out of a total of ten novels, three are erotica: Vox, The Fermata and House of Holes.

  15. Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

    Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker
    Born in
    United Kingdom Flag United Kingdom
    Years
    1889-1982 (aged 93)
    Occupations
    diplomatpeace activistpoliticianathletics competitorparamedic
    Biography

    Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker,, born Philip John Baker, was a British politician, diplomat, academic, athlete, and renowned campaigner for disarmament. He carried the British team flag and won a silver medal for the 1500m at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1959.

  16. Henry H. Goddard

    Henry H. Goddard
    Years
    1866-1957 (aged 91)
    Occupations
    pedagoguepsychologist
    Biography

    Henry Herbert Goddard was an American psychologist, eugenicist, and segregationist during the early 20th century. He is known especially for his 1912 work The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness, which he himself came to regard as flawed for its ahistoric depiction of the titular family, and for translating the Binet intelligence test into English in 1908 and distributing an estimated 22,000 copies of the translated test across the United States. He also introduced the term "moron" for clinical use.

  17. Christopher Morley

    Christopher Morley
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1890-1957 (aged 67)
    Occupations
    humoristopinion journalistnovelistwriteressayist
    Biography

    Christopher Darlington Morley was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. He also produced stage productions for a few years and gave college lectures.

  18. Joseph Hooton Taylor

    Joseph Hooton Taylor
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1941-.. (age 83)
    Occupations
    physicistastronomerastrophysicistuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. is an American astrophysicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics for his discovery with Russell Alan Hulse of a "new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation."

  19. Kōichirō Matsuura

    Kōichirō Matsuura
    Born in
    Japan Flag Japan
    Years
    1937-.. (age 87)
    Occupations
    consul generaldiplomat
    Biography

    Kōichirō Matsuura is a Japanese diplomat. He is the former Director-General of UNESCO. He was first elected in 1999 to a six-year term and reelected on 12 October 2005 for four years, following a reform instituted by the 29th session of the General Conference. In November 2009, he was replaced by Irina Bokova.

  20. Kriyananda

    Kriyananda
    Born in
    Romania Flag Romania
    Years
    1926-2013 (aged 87)
    Occupations
    writer
    Biography

    Kriyananda was an American Hindu religious leader, yoga guru, meditation teacher, musician, and author. He was a direct disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda and founder of the spiritual movement named "Ananda". He wrote numerous songs and dozens of books. According to the LA Times, the main themes of his work were compassion and humility, but he was a controversial figure. Kriyananda and Ananda were sued for copyright issues, sexual-harassment, and later, for alleged fraud and labor-law violations.

  21. George Smith

    George Smith
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1941-.. (age 83)
    Occupations
    biochemistbiologistchemist
    Biography

    George Pearson Smith is an American biologist and Nobel laureate. He is a Curators' Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, US.

  22. Theodore William Richards

    Theodore William Richards
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1868-1928 (aged 60)
    Occupations
    chemist
    Biography

    Theodore William Richards was an American physical chemist and the first American scientist to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, earning the award "in recognition of his exact determinations of the atomic weights of a large number of the chemical elements."

  23. James Clifford

    James Clifford
    Years
    1945-.. (age 79)
    Occupations
    historianuniversity teacheranthropologist
    Biography

    James Clifford is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work combines perspectives from history, literature, history of science, and anthropology.

  24. John C. Whitehead

    John C. Whitehead
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1922-2015 (aged 93)
    Occupations
    businesspersoneconomistbankerpoliticianart collector
    Biography

    John Cunningham Whitehead was an American banker and civil servant, a board member of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation (WTC Memorial Foundation), and, until his resignation in May 2006, chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.

  25. Charles Mathias

    Charles Mathias
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1922-2010 (aged 88)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyermilitary officer
    Biography

    Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. was an American politician and attorney. A Republican, he served as a member of the United States Senate, representing Maryland from 1969 to 1987. He was also a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1959 to 1961, and of the United States House of Representatives, representing the 6th congressional district of Maryland from 1961 to 1969.

  26. Samuel Hill

    Samuel Hill
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1857-1931 (aged 74)
    Occupations
    businessperson
    Biography

    Samuel Hill, was an American businessman, lawyer, railroad executive, and advocate of good roads. He substantially influenced the Pacific Northwest region's economic development in the early 20th century.

  27. Hafsat Abiola

    Hafsat Abiola
    Born in
    Nigeria Flag Nigeria
    Years
    1974-.. (age 50)
    Occupations
    human rights activist
    Biography

    Hafsat Olaronke Abiola-Costello, in Lagos, is a Nigerian human rights, civil rights and democracy activist, founder of the Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND), which seeks to strengthen civil society and promote democracy in Nigeria. She is President of Women in Africa Initiative (WIA), international platform for the economic development and support of African women entrepreneurs. She is also one of the founders of Connected Women Leaders (CWL).

  28. Julius Katchen

    Julius Katchen
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1926-1969 (aged 43)
    Occupations
    musicianpianist
    Biography

    Julius Katchen was an American concert pianist, possibly best known for his recordings of Johannes Brahms's solo piano works.

  29. Ken Ludwig

    Ken Ludwig
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1950-.. (age 74)
    Occupations
    lawyerplaywrightauthortheatrical director
    Biography

    Ken Ludwig is an American playwright, author, screenwriter, and director whose work has been performed in more than 30 countries in over 20 languages. He has had six productions on Broadway and eight in London’s West End. His 34 plays and musicals are staged throughout the United States and around the world every night of the year.

  30. Logan Pearsall Smith

    Logan Pearsall Smith
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1865-1946 (aged 81)
    Occupations
    literary criticwriter
    Biography

    Logan Pearsall Smith was an American-born British essayist and critic. Harvard and Oxford educated, he was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, and was an expert on 17th century divines. His Words and Idioms made him an authority on correct English language usage. He wrote his autobiography, Unforgotten Years, in 1938.

  31. Ronald M. Shapiro

    Ronald M. Shapiro
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1943-.. (age 81)
    Occupations
    entrepreneurlawyerlife coachadvisorjurist
    Biography

    Ronald M. Shapiro is an American attorney and businessman.

  32. Ron Christie

    Ron Christie
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1969-.. (age 55)
    Occupations
    lawyerjournalist
    Biography

    Ronald Irvin Christie is an American government relations expert and Republican political strategist, who has also worked as a member of former Vice President Dick Cheney's staff. He is the author of two books, and an occasional guest on various cable news programs. He serves as an adjunct professor at Cornell University, Georgetown University, George Washington University, and Haverford College. He is currently the CEO of Christie Strategies, a communications and issue management firm that he founded in Alexandria, Virginia.

  33. Beth Cavener Stichter

    Beth Cavener Stichter
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1972-.. (age 52)
    Occupations
    artist
    Biography

    Beth Cavener, also known as Beth Cavener Stichter, is an American artist based out of Montana. A classically trained sculptor, her process involves building complex metal armatures to support massive amounts of clay. Cavener is best known for her fantastical animal figures, which embody the complexity of human emotion and behavior.

  34. Mark D. Levine

    Mark D. Levine
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1969-.. (age 55)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Mark D. Levine is an American politician and educator serving as the 28th Borough President of Manhattan since 2022. Previously, he served as member of the New York City Council from 2014 to 2021, where he represented the 7th district covering Manhattan neighborhoods of Morningside Heights, West Harlem, Washington Heights, and part of the Upper West Side.

  35. Adi Ignatius

    Adi Ignatius
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1958-.. (age 66)
    Occupations
    international forum participantjournalist
    Biography

    Adi Ignatius is editor-in-chief of Harvard Business Review. He joined the magazine in January 2009.

  36. Rufus Jones

    Rufus Jones
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1863-1948 (aged 85)
    Occupations
    journalisthistoriantheologianphilosopher
    Biography

    Rufus Matthew Jones was an American religious leader, writer, magazine editor, philosopher, and college professor. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Haverford Emergency Unit (a precursor to the American Friends Service Committee). One of the most influential Quakers of the 20th century, he was a Quaker historian and theologian as well as a philosopher. He is the only person to have delivered two Swarthmore Lectures.

  37. Jane Silber

    Jane Silber
    Occupations
    chief executive officerbusinessperson
    Biography

    Jane Silber is a board member of Canonical Ltd. and was its chief executive officer from 2010 to 2017. Silber is also the chair of the board of The Sensible Code Company and Diffblue (whose products include Cover, an AI-driven unit test-writing tool).

  38. Curtis Callan

    Curtis Callan
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1942-.. (age 82)
    Occupations
    university teacherphysicisttheoretical physicist
    Biography

    Curtis Gove Callan Jr. is an American theoretical physicist and the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics at Princeton University. He has conducted research in gauge theory, string theory, instantons, black holes, strong interactions, and many other topics. He was awarded the Sakurai Prize in 2000 ("For his classic formulation of the renormalization group, his contributions to instanton physics and to the theory of monopoles and strings") and the Dirac Medal in 2004.

  39. Andy Greenberg

    Andy Greenberg
    Years
    20th Century
    Enrolled in Haverford College
    Studied in 2000-2004
    Occupations
    writerjournalist
    Biography

    Andy Greenberg is a technology journalist serving as a senior writer at Wired magazine. He previously worked as a staff writer at Forbes magazine and as a contributor for Forbes.com. He has published the books This Machine Kills Secrets concerning whistleblowing as well as Sandworm, concerning the eponymous hacking group.

  40. Stephon Alexander

    Stephon Alexander
    Born in
    Trinidad and Tobago Flag Trinidad and Tobago
    Years
    1971-.. (age 53)
    Occupations
    writerphysicistmusiciancosmologistmusic journalist
    Biography

    Stephon Haigh-Solomon Alexander is a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, musician and author.

  41. Stephen J. Lippard

    Stephen J. Lippard
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1940-.. (age 84)
    Enrolled in Haverford College
    1958-1962 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in chemistry
    Occupations
    chemistuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Stephen James Lippard is the Arthur Amos Noyes Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is considered one of the founders of bioinorganic chemistry, studying the interactions of nonliving substances such as metals with biological systems. He is also considered a founder of metalloneurochemistry, the study of metal ions and their effects in the brain and nervous system. He has done pioneering work in understanding protein structure and synthesis, the enzymatic functions of methane monooxygenase (MMO), and the mechanisms of cisplatin anticancer drugs. His work has applications for the treatment of cancer, for bioremediation of the environment, and for the development of synthetic methanol-based fuels.

  42. Richard Lederer

    Richard Lederer
    Years
    1938-.. (age 86)
    Occupations
    linguistscholar of Englishteacher
    Biography

    Richard Lederer is an American linguist, author, speaker, and teacher. He is best known for his books on the English language and on wordplay such as puns, oxymorons, and anagrams. He has been dubbed "the Wizard of Idiom," "Attila the Pun," and "Conan the Grammarian." His weekly column, "Lederer on Language," appears in the San Diego Union-Tribune and his articles are in newspapers and magazines throughout the United States including the Mensa Bulletin.

  43. Rob Simmons

    Rob Simmons
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1943-.. (age 81)
    Enrolled in Haverford College
    Studied in 1965
    Occupations
    politicianspecial agentteacher
    Biography

    Robert Ruhl "Rob" Simmons is an American politician and retired U.S. Army colonel who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2007, representing Connecticut's 2nd congressional district as a Republican.

  44. Jack N. Rakove

    Jack N. Rakove
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1947-.. (age 77)
    Occupations
    historianuniversity teacheracademic
    Biography

    Jack Norman Rakove is an American historian, author, and professor at Stanford University. He is a Pulitzer Prize winner.

  45. William Henry Chamberlin

    William Henry Chamberlin
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1897-1969 (aged 72)
    Occupations
    historianjournalistwriter
    Biography

    William Henry Chamberlin was an American historian and journalist. He was the author of several books about the Cold War, communism, and foreign policy, including The Russian Revolution 1917-1921 (1935), which was written in Russia between 1922 and 1934 while he was the Moscow correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor.

  46. Colin Harrison

    Colin Harrison
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1960-.. (age 64)
    Occupations
    novelistwriter
    Biography

    Colin Harrison is an American novelist and editor. Harrison is the author of eight novels: Break and Enter (1990), Bodies Electric (1993), Manhattan Nocturne (1996), Afterburn (2000), The Havana Room (2004), The Finder (2008), Risk (2009), which was first published as a fifteen-part serial in The New York Times magazine in 2008, and You Belong to Me, published in June 2017. His books have been published in a dozen countries and four have been selected as Notable Books by The New York Times Book Review. The Finder was a finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the 2009 Dashiell Hammett Award. All are atmospheric novels of violence, sex, and suspense that explore the underside of city life, most particularly in New York. Although his novels invariably involve the money and power that is concentrated in Manhattan, his stories usually snake through the boroughs outside Manhattan as well, in particular through Brooklyn, which has served as a setting for scenes in Bodies Electric (Park Slope and Sunset Park), Manhattan Nocturne (East New York), The Finder (Marine Park, Bensonhurst) and Risk (Canarsie). A movie version of Manhattan Nocturne, directed and written by Brian DeCubellis and titled Manhattan Night, was released by Lionsgate in May 2016. The movie stars Adrien Brody, Yvonne Strahovski, Campbell Scott, Jennifer Beals, and others.

  47. Stephen Ridings

    Stephen Ridings
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1995-.. (age 29)
    Occupations
    baseball player
    Biography

    Stephen Thomas Ridings is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees.

  48. Frederic Prokosch

    Frederic Prokosch
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1908-1989 (aged 81)
    Occupations
    racquetball playerlinguistcriticnovelistwriter
    Biography

    Frederic Prokosch was an American writer, known for his novels, poetry, memoirs and criticism. He was also a distinguished translator.

  49. Eric Turkheimer

    Eric Turkheimer
    Occupations
    university teacherbehavior geneticistpsychologist
    Biography

    Eric Nathan Turkheimer is an American psychologist and the Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of psychology at the University of Virginia.

  50. Ken Stern

    Ken Stern
    Years
    1962-.. (age 62)
    Occupations
    writer
    Biography

    Ken Stern is President of Palisades Media Ventures and the author of With Charity for All and Republican Like Me: How I Left the Liberal Bubble and Learned to Love the Right. He is a former chief executive officer of National Public Radio.

  51. Kermit Lipez

    Kermit Lipez
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1941-.. (age 83)
    Occupations
    judgelawyer
    Biography

    Kermit Victor Lipez is an American lawyer who serves as a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

  52. David Meyer Wessel

    David Meyer Wessel
    Years
    1954-.. (age 70)
    Occupations
    journalist
    Biography

    David Meyer Wessel is an American journalist and writer. He has shared two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism. He is director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution and a contributing correspondent to The Wall Street Journal, where he worked for 30 years. Wessel appears frequently on National Public Radio's Morning Edition.

  53. Andrew L. Lewis, Jr

    Andrew L. Lewis, Jr
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1931-2016 (aged 85)
    Occupations
    politicianbusinessperson
    Biography

    Andrew Lindsay Lewis Jr., generally known as Drew Lewis, was an American businessman and politician from the state of Pennsylvania. He was United States Secretary of Transportation in the first portion of the administration of U.S. President Ronald W. Reagan, and is best known for presiding over the firing of the striking U.S. air traffic controllers in 1981.

  54. David S. Kris

    David S. Kris
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1966-.. (age 58)
    Occupations
    lawyer
    Biography

    David S. Kris is an American lawyer. From 2009 to 2011, he served as the United States Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division of the United States Department of Justice. He also served as the associate deputy attorney general for national security issues at the Department of Justice from 2000 to 2003.

  55. Mark Hulbert

    Mark Hulbert
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1955-.. (age 69)
    Occupations
    journalist
    Biography

    Mark J. Hulbert is an American finance analyst, journalist, and author with a focus on expectations of stock market investment newsletters, contrarian investing, and quantitive or technical analysis.

  56. Jesse M. Ehrenfeld

    Jesse M. Ehrenfeld
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1978-.. (age 46)
    Occupations
    researcheranesthesiologist
    Biography

    Jesse Menachem Ehrenfeld is an American physician. Ehrenfeld is President of the American Medical Association and Professor of Anesthesiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is also a former Speaker of the Massachusetts Medical Society, where he was the youngest officer in the 228-year history of the organization. He is also a former Vice-President of the Massachusetts Society of Anesthesiologists. The inaugural recipient on the NIH Sexual and Gender Minority Research Award from the NIH Director, Ehrenfeld has been recognized for his contributions to advancing health equity. A 2008 recipient of the AMA Foundation Leadership Award, Ehrenfeld is a researcher in the field of biomedical informatics. Ehrenfeld's research interests include bioinformatics and the application of information technology to increase quality, reliability and patient safety. Ehrenfeld's work has led to the presentation of over 200 abstracts at national/international meetings and the publication of over 175 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical Systems, and is a fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association and the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

  57. Jim Moody

    Jim Moody
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1935-2019 (aged 84)
    Occupations
    politicianuniversity teacher
    Biography

    James Powers Moody was an American economist and Democratic politician. He served five terms as the U.S. representative for Wisconsin's 5th congressional district (1983–1993). At the time, the 5th congressional district comprised the north half of Milwaukee County, including much of the city of Milwaukee. Earlier in his career, he represented downtown Milwaukee in the Wisconsin State Senate and Assembly.

  58. Alexander Laszlo

    Alexander Laszlo
    Years
    1964-.. (age 60)
    Enrolled in Haverford College
    1982-1985 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
    Occupations
    scientist
    Biography

    Alexander Laszlo is a polycultural systems scientist, currently residing in Argentina.

  59. Benjamin Taylor

    Benjamin Taylor
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1952-.. (age 72)
    Occupations
    literary scholarman of letterswriter
    Biography

    Benjamin Taylor is an American writer whose work has appeared in a number of publications including The Atlantic, Harper's, Esquire, Bookforum, BOMB, the Los Angeles Times, Le Monde, The Georgia Review, Raritan Quarterly Review, Threepenny Review, Salmagundi, Provincetown Arts and The Reading Room. He is a founding member of the Graduate Writing Program faculty of The New School in New York City, and has also taught at Washington University in St. Louis, the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, Bennington College and Columbia University. He has served as Secretary of the Board of Trustees of PEN American Center, has been a fellow of the MacDowell Colony and was awarded the Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger Residency at Yaddo. A Trustee of the Edward F. Albee Foundation, Inc., he is also a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University and a Guggenheim Fellow for 2012 - 2013. Taylor's biography of Marcel Proust, Proust: The Search, was published in October 2015 by Yale University Press as part of its newly launched Yale Jewish Lives series.

  60. Samuel S. Stratton

    Samuel S. Stratton
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1916-1990 (aged 74)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Samuel Studdiford Stratton was an American Democratic political figure in Upstate New York. He is notable for his service as Mayor of Schenectady, and his 30-year career as a member of the United States House of Representatives.

  61. Richard G. Andrews

    Richard G. Andrews
    Born in
    United Kingdom Flag United Kingdom
    Years
    1955-.. (age 69)
    Occupations
    judgelawyer
    Biography

    Richard Gibson Andrews is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. He is a former Delaware state prosecutor and assistant United States attorney.

  62. Howard Shelanski

    Howard Shelanski
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1964-.. (age 60)
    Occupations
    economistlawyerjurist
    Biography

    Howard Shelanski is an American attorney, economist, and legal scholar. He is a professor of law at Georgetown University, where he holds the Sheehy Chair in Antitrust Law and Trade Regulation, and a partner in the law firm of Davis, Polk & Wardwell. He served in the Obama administration as administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), part of the Office of Management and Budget.

  63. Anjan Chatterjee

    Anjan Chatterjee
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1958-.. (age 66)
    Occupations
    neuroscientistteacher
    Biography

    Anjan Chatterjee is a professor of neurology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is director of the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics (PCfN) and a member of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. His research focuses on spatial cognition and its relationship to language. He also conducts neuroaesthetics research and writes about the ethical use of neuroscience findings in society.

  64. William Thornton Rickert Fox

    William Thornton Rickert Fox
    Years
    1912-1988 (aged 76)
    Occupations
    political scientist
    Biography

    William Thornton Rickert Fox, generally known as William T. R. Fox (or occasionally W. T. R. Fox), was an American foreign policy professor and international relations theoretician at the Columbia University (1950–1980, emeritus 1980–1988). He is perhaps mostly known as the coiner of the term "superpower" in 1944. He wrote several books about the foreign policy of the United States of America and the United Kingdom (and the British Empire). He was a pioneer in establishing international relations, and the systematic study of statecraft and war, as a major academic discipline. National security policy and an examination of civil-military relations were also focuses of his interests and career. He was the founding director of Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies and held the position from 1951–1976.

  65. Bruce H. Andrews

    Bruce H. Andrews
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1968-.. (age 56)
    Occupations
    international forum participantlawyer
    Biography

    Bruce Huntington Andrews is a former United States Deputy Secretary of Commerce.

  66. Thomas Farley

    Thomas Farley
    Biography

    Thomas A. "Tom" Farley is an American pediatrician who served as Commissioner of Health of the City of New York and Commissioner of the Philadelphia Department of Health.

  67. Charles T. Canady

    Charles T. Canady
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1954-.. (age 70)
    Enrolled in Haverford College
    In 1976 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
    Occupations
    politicianjudgelawyer
    Biography

    Charles Terrance Canady is an American attorney and judge serving on the Supreme Court of Florida since 2008. He previously served as Chief Justice from 2010 to 2012 and from 2018 to 2022.

  68. William H. Harris

    William H. Harris
    Years
    1927-.. (age 97)
    Occupations
    surgeon
    Biography

    William H. Harris, is an American orthopaedic surgeon, Founder and Director Emeritus of the Massachusetts General Hospital Harris Orthopaedics Laboratory, and creator of the Advances in Arthroplasty course held annually since 1970.

  69. Kari Nadeau

    Kari Nadeau
    Occupations
    university teacherimmunologistacademic
    Biography

    Kari C. Nadeau is the Chair of the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard School of Public Health and John Rock Professor of Climate and Population Studies. She is adjunct professor at Stanford University in the Department of Pediatrics and the co-chair of the Medical Societies Consortium for Climate Change and Health. She practices Allergy, Asthma, Immunology in children and adults. She has published over 400+ papers, many in the field of climate change and health. Her team focuses on quantifying health outcomes of solutions as they pertain climate change mitigation and adaptation at the local, regional, country, and global levels. Dr. Nadeau, with a team of individuals and patients and families, has been able to help major progress and impact in the clinical fields of immunology, infection, asthma, and allergy. Dr. Nadeau is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the U.S. EPA Children’s Health Protection Committee.

  70. Michael Freilich

    Michael Freilich
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1954-2020 (aged 66)
    Enrolled in Haverford College
    In 1975 graduated with Bachelor of Science in chemistry and physics
    Occupations
    oceanographerearth scientist
    Biography

    Michael H. Freilich was an American oceanographer who served as director of the NASA Earth Science division from 2006–2019.

  71. Ed Sikov

    Ed Sikov
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1957-.. (age 67)
    Occupations
    biographerwriter
    Biography

    Ed Sikov is an American film scholar and author. His books include Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers (published in 2002), On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder (published in 1998), and Laughing Hysterically: American Screen Comedies of the 1950s (published in 1994).

  72. Jon Delano

    Jon Delano
    Occupations
    political journalist
    Biography

    Jon Delano is the Money & Politics Editor for KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a position he began on a full-time basis in 2001 after joining the station in 1994 as its political analyst.

  73. John F. Hawley

    John F. Hawley
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1958-2021 (aged 63)
    Enrolled in Haverford College
    1976-1980 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
    Occupations
    astrophysicistuniversity teacherastronomer
    Biography

    John Frederick Hawley was an American astrophysicist and a professor of astronomy at the University of Virginia. In 2013, he shared the Shaw Prize for Astronomy with Steven Balbus.

  74. Douglas Koshland

    Douglas Koshland
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1953-.. (age 71)
    Occupations
    biochemist
    Biography

    Douglas E. Koshland is a professor of molecular and cellular biology at the University of California, Berkeley.

  75. William Chace

    William Chace
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1938-.. (age 86)
    Occupations
    academic
    Biography

    William Chace is a Professor of English Emeritus at Emory University as well as Honorary Professor of English Emeritus at Stanford University. He specializes in the work of James Joyce in addition to the work of W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Also the former president of Emory University, he lives in Palo Alto, California, with his wife JoAn Johnstone Chace.

  76. Mark A.R. Kleiman

    Mark A.R. Kleiman
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1951-2019 (aged 68)
    Occupations
    criminologistuniversity teacherscientistadvisorblogger
    Biography

    Mark Albert Robert Kleiman was an American professor, author, and blogger who dealt with issues of drug and criminal justice policy.

  77. William Draper Lewis

    William Draper Lewis
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1867-1949 (aged 82)
    Occupations
    pedagogue
    Biography

    William Draper Lewis was the first full-time dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School (1896–1914), and the founding director (1923–1947) of the American Law Institute.

  78. Henry Drinker

    Henry Drinker
    Years
    1880-1965 (aged 85)
    Occupations
    lawyer
    Biography

    Henry Sandwith Drinker was an American lawyer and amateur musicologist. In 1964, the American Bar Association gave Drinker the American Bar Association Medal, stating that Drinker's monumental work Legal Ethics (1953) was "recognized throughout the civilized world as the definitive treatise on this subject."

  79. David Bispham

    David Bispham
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1857-1921 (aged 64)
    Occupations
    opera singer
    Biography

    David Scull Bispham was an American operatic baritone.

  80. Clark Hulings

    Clark Hulings
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1922-2011 (aged 89)
    Occupations
    painterphysicist
    Biography

    Clark Hulings was an American realist painter. He was born in Florida and raised in New Jersey. Clark also lived in Spain, New York, Louisiana, and throughout Europe before settling in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the early 1970s. The travels did much to influence his keen eye for people in the state of accomplishing daily tasks.

  81. Iwao Ayusawa

    Iwao Ayusawa
    Years
    1894-1972 (aged 78)
    Occupations
    diplomat
    Biography

    Iwao Frederick Ayusawa was a diplomat and international authority on social and labor issues.

  82. Thomas Barlow

    Thomas Barlow
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1940-2017 (aged 77)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Thomas Jefferson "Tom" Barlow III, was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky's 1st congressional district for one term.

  83. Terry Belanger

    Terry Belanger
    Years
    1941-.. (age 83)
    Occupations
    librarian
    Biography

    Terry Belanger is the founding director of Rare Book School, an institute concerned with education for the history of books and printing, and with rare books and special collections librarianship. He is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia (UVa), where RBS has its home base. Between 1972 and 1992, he devised and ran a master's program for the training of rare book librarians and antiquarian booksellers at the Columbia University School of Library Service. He is a 2005 MacArthur Fellow.

  84. Grayson Murphy

    Grayson Murphy
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1878-1937 (aged 59)
    Occupations
    businessperson
    Biography

    Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy Sr. was an American banker and company director.

  85. Brian Cronin

    Brian Cronin
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1970-.. (age 54)
    Occupations
    politicianteacher
    Biography

    Brian C. Cronin served as Idaho State Representative for District 19's B seat from 2008 to 2012. District 19 includes downtown Boise, the North End, East End, Foothills, Warm Springs Mesa, Foothills and Highlands areas of Boise. In 2010, Cronin was chosen by fellow House Democrats as Minority Caucus Chairman.

  86. Richard Unger

    Richard Unger
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1942-.. (age 82)
    Occupations
    historian
    Biography

    Richard W. Unger is a professor of Medieval History at the University of British Columbia and a specialist in European maritime history in the medieval period. He served as Second Vice-President of the Medieval Academy of America in 2011, First Vice-President in 2012, and President in 2013.

  87. Henry Richardson

    Henry Richardson
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1961-.. (age 63)
    Occupations
    sculptorglass artistartist
    Biography

    Henry Burtt Richardson is an American sculptor. He works primarily in the medium of plate glass.

  88. Louis Round Wilson

    Louis Round Wilson
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1876-1979 (aged 103)
    Occupations
    librarian
    Biography

    Louis Round Wilson was an important figure to the field of library science, and is listed in "100 of the most important leaders we had in the 20th century," an article in the December 1999 issue of American Libraries. The article lists what he did for the field of library science including dean at the University of Chicago Graduate Library School, directing the library at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and as one of the “internationally oriented library leaders in the U.S. who contributed much of the early history of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.” The Louis Round Wilson Library is named after him.

  89. Frank Eugene Lutz

    Frank Eugene Lutz
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1879-1943 (aged 64)
    Occupations
    zoologistentomologistcurator
    Biography

    Frank Eugene Lutz was an American entomologist.

  90. Stephen Klineberg

    Stephen Klineberg
    Years
    1940-.. (age 84)
    Occupations
    academic
    Biography

    Stephen Klineberg is a demographics expert and sociologist in Houston, Texas. As a professor at Rice University, Klineberg and his students began conducting an annual survey in 1982, now called the Kinder Institute Houston Area Survey, that tracks the area's demographics and attitudes. Klineberg is also the founding director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research, a think tank affiliated with Rice University that focuses on urban issues and challenges facing Houston, the Sun Belt and other major metro areas. Klineberg founded the institute in 2010 with a $15 million gift from philanthropists Richard and Nancy Kinder.

  91. Frank Furstenberg

    Frank Furstenberg
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1940-.. (age 84)
    Occupations
    sociologist
    Biography

    Frank Folke Furstenberg Jr. is the Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the family in the context of disadvantaged urban neighborhoods and adolescent sexual behavior. Furstenberg has written extensively on social change, transition to adulthood, divorce, remarriage and intergenerational relations. Furstenberg is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and American Academy of Political and Social Science.

  92. Harlan Jacobson

    Harlan Jacobson
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1949-.. (age 75)
    Enrolled in Haverford College
    1967-1971 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
    Occupations
    journalistauthorfilm criticradio personality
    Biography

    Harlan Marshall Jacobson is an American film critic and scholar.

  93. Henry Scattergood

    Henry Scattergood
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1877-1953 (aged 76)
    Occupations
    cricketer
    Biography

    Joseph Henry Scattergood was an American cricketer, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Scattergood was one of the Philadelphian cricketers that played from the end of the 19th century through the early years of the next.

  94. Douglas Waples

    Douglas Waples
    Years
    1893-1978 (aged 85)
    Occupations
    librarian
    Biography

    Douglas Waples was a pioneer of the University of Chicago Graduate Library School in the areas of print communication and reading behavior. Waples authored one of the first books on library research methodology, a work directed at students supervised through correspondence courses. Jesse Shera credits Waples’s scholarly research into the social effects of reading as the foundation for the approaches to the study of knowledge known as social epistemology. In 1999, American Libraries named him one of the "100 Most Important Leaders We Had in the 20th Century".

  95. Temple Painter

    Temple Painter
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1933-2016 (aged 83)
    Occupations
    pianistharpsichordistorganist
    Biography

    Temple Painter was an American harpsichordist and organist.

  96. Joel Selanikio

    Joel Selanikio
    Occupations
    scientist
    Biography

    Joel Selanikio is an American physician, attending pediatrician, and assistant professor of pediatrics at Georgetown University Hospital.

  97. Ralph R. Eltse

    Ralph R. Eltse
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1885-1971 (aged 86)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    Ralph William Roscoe Eltse was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from California from 1933 to 1935.

  98. Arthur R. M. Spaid

    Arthur R. M. Spaid
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1866-1936 (aged 70)
    Occupations
    educator
    Biography

    Arthur Rusmiselle Miller Spaid was an American educator, school administrator, lecturer, and writer. He served as principal of Alexis I. duPont High School (1894–1903) in Wilmington, Delaware, superintendent of New Castle County Public Schools (1903–1913) in Delaware, superintendent of Dorchester County Public Schools (1913–1917) in Maryland, and Delaware State commissioner of Education (1917–1921).

  99. Isa Leshko

    Isa Leshko
    Years
    1971-.. (age 53)
    Occupations
    photographer
    Biography

    Isabell Carmella Leshko is an American fine art photographer best known for her Elderly Animals series which focuses on animal rights, aging and mortality.

  100. John F. Benton

    John F. Benton
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1931-1988 (aged 57)
    Occupations
    historian
    Biography

    John F. Benton was the Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology.