32 Notable alumni of
Roanoke College
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Roanoke College is 2089th in the world, 727th in North America, and 685th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 32 notable alumni from Roanoke 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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John McAfee
- Enrolled in Roanoke College
- In 1967 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in mathematics
- Occupations
- computer scientistpoliticianprogrammerbusinesspersonengineer
- Biography
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John David McAfee was a British-American computer programmer, businessman, and two-time presidential candidate who unsuccessfully sought the Libertarian Party nomination for president of the United States in 2016 and in 2020. In 1987, he wrote the first commercial anti-virus software, founding McAfee Associates to sell his creation. He resigned in 1994 and sold his remaining stake in the company. McAfee became the company's most vocal critic in later years, urging consumers to uninstall the company's anti-virus software, which he characterized as bloatware. He disavowed the company's continued use of his name in branding, a practice that has persisted in spite of a short-lived corporate rebrand attempt under Intel ownership.
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John Payne
- Occupations
- voice actoractorentrepreneurstage actortelevision actor
- Biography
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John Howard Payne was an American film actor who is mainly remembered from film noir crime stories and 20th Century Fox musical films, and for his leading roles in Miracle on 34th Street and the NBC Western television series The Restless Gun.
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Carol M. Swain
- Occupations
- juristwriteruniversity teacherpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Carol Miller Swain is an American political scientist and legal scholar who is a retired professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University. She is a frequent television analyst and has authored and edited several books. Her interests include race relations, immigration, representation, evangelical politics, and the United States Constitution.
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Prince Yi Kang
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Yi Kang, Prince Imperial Ui, also known as Prince Uihwa, was the second son of Emperor Gojong of Korea and his concubine, Lady Jang, who was a court lady-in-waiting.
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Kim Kyu-sik
- Occupations
- teacherpoetpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Kim Kyu-sik, also spelled Kimm Kiusic, was a Korean politician and academic during the Korean independence movement and a leader of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. Kim served in various roles in the provisional government, including as foreign minister, ambassador, education minister and finally as the vice president from 1940 until the provisional government's dissolution on March 3, 1947. Kim's nicknames included Usa (우사), Kummun (금문), Kimsong (김성), and Chukchok (죽적).
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Alice White
- Occupations
- film actoractor
- Biography
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Alice White was an American film actress. Her career spanned late silent films and early sound films.
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Henry H. Fowler
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Henry Hammill Fowler was an American lawyer and politician who served as the United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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Sam Rasoul
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Salam "Sam" Rasoul is an American politician serving as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from the 38th district. He is one of the two Muslim members of the Virginia General Assembly. In November 2020, Rasoul announced his candidacy for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia in 2021. Despite a significant fundraising advantage, Rasoul lost the Democratic primary to Hala Ayala by a large margin.
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Rick Boucher
- Enrolled in Roanoke College
- In 1968 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Frederick Carlyle Boucher is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for Virginia's 9th congressional district from 1983 to 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He was defeated in his bid for a 15th term by Republican Morgan Griffith in the 2010 elections.
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Ted Brown
- Occupations
- radio personality
- Biography
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Theodore David Brown was an American radio personality who worked at several stations in New York City including WMGM, WNEW and WNBC during the 1950s and 1960s, the golden age of AM radio.
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Rob Balder
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- journalistsinger-songwriter
- Biography
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Robert T. Balder is a professional cartoonist and singer-songwriter. He graduated from Roanoke College with a major in English in 1993 and, after a variety of jobs, entered a seven-year career in IT, starting as a manager of database development, which he left for his current career.
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Richard L. Pratt, Jr
- Occupations
- theologian
- Biography
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Richard Linwood Pratt Jr. is an American theologian, author, and founder and President of Third Millennium Ministries. Third Millennium was launched in response to the lack of training of Christian leaders around the world. Third Millennium recognizes where the church is growing the fastest, those Christian leaders have the least amount of training. Pratt personally witnessed this in the 1980s as he traveled for missions. Helping the church worldwide has become his passion. He believes that any person that has the desire to learn more about the Bible should be given that opportunity in their own land, in their own language, and at no cost.
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Stuart T. Saunders
- Years
- 1909-1987 (aged 78)
- Occupations
- executive
- Biography
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Stuart Thomas Saunders, Sr. was an American railroad executive best known for his tenure with Penn Central.
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Frankie Allen
- Occupations
- basketball coach
- Biography
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Frankie Allen is an American men's college basketball coach who most recently coached at Maryland Eastern Shore. He was also the head coach at Virginia Tech, Tennessee State and Howard, as well as an assistant at Radford and UMBC. His greatest success was at Tennessee State where he won three Ohio Valley Conference titles and was the 1993 national Coach of the Year. Allen played collegiately under Charles Moir at Roanoke College, where he was the school's first African-American athlete. Allen would later coach at Virginia Tech as an assistant under Moir and then follow Moir as the head coach of the Hokies. In 2013, Allen was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame.
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Shelley Olds
- Occupations
- sport cyclist
- Biography
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Shelley Olds is an American former professional racing cyclist.
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James Clinton Turk
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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James Clinton Turk was a Virginia lawyer, state senator and for more than four decades, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia.
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E. J. Pipkin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Edward Joseph Pipkin Jr. is an American activist, politician, and Republican former member of the Maryland State Senate, had represented Maryland's 36th Senate district, and was first elected in 2002 and served until 2013. Prior to his election to the state senate, he worked in the field of business finance, trading bonds in New York City. He also founded an environmental group known as "Citizens Against Bay Dumping," during which he was successful in lobbying for legislation that banned irresponsible disposal of dredge spoils in the Chesapeake Bay. Pipkin currently lives in Dallas. In 2004, he unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate against Barbara Mikulski. Then, in 2008, he unsuccessfully ran for Congress in Maryland's 1st congressional district, against incumbent Wayne Gilchrest and State Senator Andy Harris, losing the primary to Andy Harris. On August 5, 2013, Pipkin announced he would retire from the State Senate to attend graduate school.
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Joel Christian Gill
- Occupations
- comics artist
- Biography
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Joel Christian Gill is an American cartoonist, educator, and author of a number of graphic novels from Fulcrum Publishing: Strange Fruit Vol I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History, Bass Reeves: Tales of the Talented Tenth No.1, and Bessie Stringfield: Tales of the Talented Tenth, No. 2, Strange Fruit Vol II: More Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History, a picture book "Fast Enough: Bessie Stringfield's First Ride" from Lion Forge and Fights: One Boys Triumph Over Violence a memoir about how children deal with trauma and abuse from Oni Press. He has taught studio art, Illustration and comics while serving as Chair of the Comic Arts and Foundations programs at the New Hampshire Institute of Art. In the Fall of 2019 he accepted an appointment as Associate Professor of Illustration at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. In 2020 he began work on an adaptation of Dr. Ibram X Kendi's Stamped from the Beginning a Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America for Ten Speed Press.
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Doc Ayers
- Years
- 1891-1968 (aged 77)
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Yancey Wyatt "Doc" Ayers was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB). He was known for throwing the spitball and was one of the 17 pitchers allowed to continue throwing the pitch after it was outlawed in 1920. Ayers played nine seasons in the American League with the Washington Senators (1913–19) and Detroit Tigers (1919–21). He batted and threw right-handed.
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Ben Sanders
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Alexander Bennett "Ben" Sanders was an American Major League Baseball player who pitched a total of five seasons for three teams.
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James P. Woods
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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James Pleasant Woods was a U.S. Representative from Virginia.
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Joshua Soule Zimmerman
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Joshua Soule Zimmerman was an American lawyer, politician, and orchardist in the U.S. state of West Virginia. In the early years of the 20th century, Zimmerman served as the Prosecuting Attorney for Hampshire County and as a Democratic member of the West Virginia House of Delegates.
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William Henry Roberts
- Years
- 1847-1919 (aged 72)
- Occupations
- missionary
- Biography
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William Henry Roberts was a Baptist minister from the United States who worked for many years as a missionary in Burma.
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Richard Harding Poff
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Richard Harding "Dick" Poff was an American politician and judge. He was first elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1952 from Virginia's 6th congressional district. An attorney and a Republican, he was given strong consideration for the United States Supreme Court by President Richard M. Nixon and was later appointed as a justice (later senior justice) of the Virginia Supreme Court.
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Raymond P. Hammond
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 60)
- Occupations
- literary criticpoet
- Biography
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Raymond P. Hammond is an American poet, critic and editor of the New York Quarterly magazine since assuming control after the death of William Packard in 2002.
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Robert Spellane
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Robert P. Spellane is an American politician who represented the 13th Worcester District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2001 to 2011.
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Rorer A. James
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Rorer Abraham James was an early 20th Century American lawyer, newspaperman and politician from Virginia. As a politician, he served in the Virginia House, Senate, and briefly as United States Representative.
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Jim Brillheart
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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James Benson Brillheart was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played between 1922 and 1931 for the Washington Senators (1922–23), Chicago Cubs (1927) and Boston Red Sox (1931). He was also known as 'Buck', 'Lefty', or 'Benson'. Brillheart batted right-handed and threw left-handed.
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Henry S. Trout
- Occupations
- bankerpolitician
- Biography
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Henry Shaver Trout was a Virginia lawmaker who served as both state delegate and senator, and later as mayor of Roanoke, Virginia.
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Cornelius T. Jordan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Cornelius Theodore Jordan was an American educator and politician who served as a member of the Virginia Senate, representing the state's 9th district. In 1915, he ran for Senate as an Independent, defeating Democratic incumbent William H. Landes. After caucusing with the chamber's Democrats during his four-year term, he won the party's nomination in 1919 but was bested in the general election by Independent F. Percy Loth. From 1896 to 1899, he was the President of New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, which would later become New Mexico State University.
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Arthur Seldon Lloyd
- Occupations
- priest
- Biography
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Arthur Selden Lloyd was president of the Board of Missions of the Episcopal Church. He was the coadjutor bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia from 1909 to 1911 and then Suffragan Bishop of New York from 1921 until 1936.
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John W. Williams
- Biography
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John William Williams was an American lawyer who served as Clerk of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1901 to his death in 1934. He served as that body's journal clerk from 1895 to 1901.
