20 Notable alumni of
Principia College
Updated:
Principia College is 1998th in the world, 685th in North America, and 645th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 20 notable alumni from Principia College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
-
Robert Duvall
- Enrolled in Principia College
- Studied in 1953
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directorcharacter actorstage actoractor
- Biography
-
Robert Selden Duvall is an American actor. With a career spanning seven decades, he is regarded as one of the greatest actors of all time. He is the recipient of an Academy Award, four Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
-
Terry Melcher
- Occupations
- record producermusiciansongwritersinger
- Biography
-
Terrence Paul Melcher was an American record producer, singer and songwriter who was instrumental in shaping the mid-to-late 1960s California Sound and folk rock movements. His best-known contributions were producing the Byrds' first two albums Mr. Tambourine Man (1965) and Turn! Turn! Turn! (1965), as well as most of the hit recordings of Paul Revere & the Raiders and Gentle Soul. He is also known for his collaborations with Bruce Johnston and for his association with the Manson Family.
-
Peter Horton
- Occupations
- television directorfilm directordirectoractor
- Biography
-
Peter Horton is an American actor and director. He played Professor Gary Shepherd on the television series Thirtysomething from 1987 until 1991.
-
Candy Crowley
- Occupations
- journalistnews presenter
- Biography
-
Candy Alt Crowley is an American news anchor who was employed as CNN's chief political correspondent, specializing in American national and state elections. She was based in CNN's Washington, D.C. bureau and was the anchor of its Sunday morning talk show State of the Union with Candy Crowley. She has covered elections for over two decades.
-
Egil Krogh
- Enrolled in Principia College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
-
Egil "Bud" Krogh Jr. was an American lawyer who became infamous as an official of the Nixon administration and who was imprisoned for his part in the Watergate scandal. He was a Senior Fellow on Ethics and Leadership at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress and Counselor to the Director at the School for Ethics and Global Leadership.
-
Sara Nelson
- Occupations
- trade unionistflight attendant
- Biography
-
Sara Nelson is an American union leader who serves as the international president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL–CIO. A United Airlines flight attendant since 1996, she previously served as AFA's international vice president for a term beginning January 1, 2011. AFA-CWA represents nearly 50,000 flight attendants at 20 airlines.
-
Chris Shays
- Enrolled in Principia College
- In 1968 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
-
Christopher Hunter Shays is an American politician. He previously served in the United States House of Representatives as representative of the 4th District of Connecticut from 1987 to 2009. He is a member of the Republican Party.
-
Jocelyn Burdick
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
-
Jocelyn Louise Burdick was an American politician from North Dakota who briefly served as a member of the United States Senate in 1992. She was the first woman from the state to hold this office. At the age of 97, she was the oldest living former U.S. Senator for the last eight months of her life. She was a member of the North Dakota Democratic–Nonpartisan League Party.
-
Larry Groce
- Occupations
- musiciancomposersinger-songwritersinger
- Biography
-
Larry Groce is an American singer-songwriter and radio host. From 1983 until 2021, Groce served as the host and artistic director of Mountain Stage, a two-hour live music radio program produced by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and distributed by NPR. He first entered the national spotlight in 1976 when his novelty song "Junk Food Junkie" became a Top Ten hit. After that, Groce's voice became well known by children and parents alike as a result of his Platinum recordings of children's folk songs for Walt Disney Records Children's Favorites four-volume series: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3 and Volume 4 (released from the late 70s-1990).
-
Chandler Burr
- Occupations
- opinion journalistcuratorwriterjournalist
- Biography
-
Chandler Burr is an American journalist, author, and museum curator.
-
John H. Rousselot
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
-
John Harbin Rousselot was a U.S. Representative from southern California. Although the territory he represented was generally the same, in eastern Los Angeles County, the district was renumbered several times during his congressional career.
-
Ron Charles
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- journalistliterary critic
- Biography
-
Ron Charles is a book critic at The Washington Post. His awards include the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award Nona Balakian Citation for book reviews, and 1st Place for A&E Coverage from the Society for Features Journalism in 2011. He was one of three jurors for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.
-
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
-
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman is an American novelist, short story writer and journalist whose fiction and literary non-fiction includes The Far Side of the Desert, Burning Distance, regional bestseller The Dark Path to the River, the short story collection No Marble Angels, and PEN Journeys: Memoir of Literature on the Line. She’s also the senior editor of The Journey of Liu Xiaobo: From Dark Horse to Nobel Laureate. She is a Vice President of PEN International and has served as the International Secretary of PEN International and Chair of PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee.
-
Haru M. Reischauer
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
-
Haru Matsukata Reischauer was a Japanese-American writer and wife of the U.S. scholar and Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer.
-
Bruce Jacob
- Occupations
- teacher
- Biography
-
Bruce Robert Jacob is a former Assistant Attorney General for the State of Florida during the early 1960s. He represented Louie L. Wainwright, the Director of the Florida Division of Corrections, in the Supreme Court case of Gideon v. Wainwright, decided in March 1963, regarding the right to counsel of indigent defendants in non-capital felony cases in state courts. The attorney representing the Petitioner, Clarence Gideon, was Abe Fortas, a Washington, D.C. lawyer who later became a Justice of the Supreme Court. The previous 1942 Supreme Court case of Betts v. Brady required the appointment of counsel for an indigent defendant at state expense if there was a “special circumstance” present in the case which made it necessary for counsel to be provided for the defendant to receive a fair trial. For example, if the defendant was indigent and was extremely young, or lacked education or experience, was unfamiliar with court procedures, or if the charges against him were complex, the trial court was required under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to appoint counsel. Jacob argued against any extension of the defendant's right to counsel. The Court in Gideon overruled Betts and required state courts to appoint attorneys for defendants in all felony prosecutions.
-
Joe Fitzgibbon
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
-
Joseph Clark Fitzgibbon is an American politician of the Democratic Party. He is a member of the Washington House of Representatives, representing the 34th district since 2010.
-
John Andrews
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
-
John Andrews is an American former Republican politician and conservative activist who served as a Colorado state senator from 1998 to 2005, and Senate President from 2003 to 2005.
-
Edward R. Murphy
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
-
Edward R. Murphy is a former United States Navy officer, best known as the executive officer aboard the USS Pueblo (AGER-2), a spy ship captured by North Korea in 1968.
-
Janet Evra
- Biography
-
Janet Irvine Buchanan, popularly known as Janet Evra, is an English-born vocalist, bassist, guitarist, songwriter and bandleader. Evra sings in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French and performs in jazz, indie jazz, French jazz, bossa nova, samba, and Latin jazz styles.
-
David Rowland
- Occupations
- inventorindustrial designerfurniture makerdesignermilitary personnel
- Biography
-
David Lincoln Rowland was an American industrial designer noted for inventing the 40/4 Chair. The chair was the first compactly stackable chair invented, and is able to stack 40 chairs 4 feet (120 cm) high.
