List of Denison University alumni

This is a list of notable alumni of Denison University in Granville, Ohio.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

## Academia[edit]

* Susan Campbell Baldridge - psychologist; Provost, Middlebury College
* Cynthia Baum – clinical psychologist and academic administrator
* David H. Bayley \- pioneer in policing research and former Distinguished Professor Emeritus, School of Criminal Justice, SUNY Albany
* William G. Bowen \- former President of Princeton University, current President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
* Richard Brandt \- professor of philosophy, Swarthmore College and University of Michigan
* Ernest DeWitt Burton \- biblical scholar
* George Cressey \- geographer, author, and academic
* Frederick German Detweiler \- sociologist
* George Amos Dorsey \- ethnographer
* Lottie Estelle Granger \- president, Iowa State Teachers' Association
* Stephen Holmes \- Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law, New York University
* John S. Lowe \- professor and expert in energy law
* Roger H. Martin \- 14th president of Randolph-Macon College
* Jeffrey Masten \- Shakespeare and sexuality studies scholar, Northwestern University; Guggenheim fellow
* Kirtley F. Mather \- geologist; professor and department chairman at Harvard University; civil libertarian and author
* Thomas Skidmore \- historian and scholar specialized in Brazilian history
* Maria Tatar \- John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Chair of the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University
* Stephen Tuttle \- musicologist and former chairman of the department of music at the University of Virginia

## Business[edit]

* James Anderson - head of corporate communications and marketing, WarnerMedia; interim head of communications, CNN, Worldwide
* Samuel Armacost \- former president, director, and CEO of BankAmerica Corporation
* Joe Banner \- President and CEO of the Cleveland Browns
* Brad Blum \- former CEO of Burger King
* George Bodenheimer \- Executive Chairman of ESPN former President of ESPN and ABC Sports
* John Canning, Jr. \- Chairman, Madison Dearborn Partners
* Mark Dalton \- CEO of the Tudor Investment Corporation
* Edward Andrew Deeds \- engineer, inventor and industrialist
* Michael Eisner \- former Chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Company
* William Esrey \- former Chief Executive of Sprint Corporation
* John V. Faraci \- chairman and chief executive officer of International Paper
* Bill Giles \- chairman and part owner of Major League Baseball's Philadelphia Phillies
* Mark Haines \- co-anchor of CNBC’s Squawk on the Street
* Terry Jones \- founder of Travelocity.com and Kayak.com
* Andrea Mutters - Chief Information Officer of McHenry Advisers
* Ralph Schlosstein \- Chairman Emeritus of Evercore and former president and Co-founder of BlackRock

## Arts and Entertainment[edit]

* Susan V. Booth - Artistic Director, Alliance Theatre, Atlanta; Artistic Director, Goodman Theatre, Chicago
* Steve Carell \- screen and television actor
* Roe Conn \- radio personality, WLS 890AM, Chicago
* Tom Cotter (comedian) \- comedian.
* Franklin Cover \- stage, screen and television actor.
* Luke Ebbin \- Grammy nominated record producer, songwriter and composer
* John Davidson \- stage and television actor; game show host, including Hollywood Squares
* Jennifer Garner \- screen and television actress
* Jeffrey Hatcher \- playwright and screenwriter
* Hal Holbrook \- stage, screen and television actor, known for portrayal of Mark Twain
* John Jeffcoat \- screenwriter and film director, known for Outsourced
* Ademir Kenović \- film director and producer
* Nancy Lynn \- acrobatic pilot, killed in 2006 Culpeper Airfest crash
* Ann Magnuson \- actress, performance artist, and nightclub performer
* John Malm Jr. \- former manager of Trent Reznor and his band Nine Inch Nails
* Daniel Meyer \- conductor and musical director
* Alex Moffat \- actor and comedian
* P-Star (Priscilla Diaz) - rapper, actress, singer, model, director, DJ
* Hollis Resnik \- singer and actress
* José Rivera \- first Puerto Rican screenwriter to be nominated for an Academy Award
* John Schuck \- screen, stage, and television actor
* Kurt Vincent, director of The Lost Arcade
* Andrew Levitt, drag queen known as Nina West
* Chase Hilt, Good Mythical Morning Producer.
* Chelsey Warner, Associate Producer - The Boys, Amazon

* Charlie Burg \- singer song writer
* Meghan McGuire \- writer and comedian
* Ned Bittinger \- portrait painter and illustrator

## Government[edit]

* Richard B. Austin \- judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
* Ruth Sarles Benedict \- anti-war activist, researcher and journalist[1]
* John T. Chain, Jr. \- retired U.S. Air Force General
* Robert Dold \- U.S. Representative for Illinois's 10th congressional district
* Edmund Burke Fairfield \- minister, educator, and politician, including 12th Lieutenant Governor of Michigan
* Carty Finkbeiner \- former mayor of Toledo, Ohio
* Tony P. Hall \- United States Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture and United States Representative from Ohio
* Andrew S. Hanen \- judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
* Judson Harmon \- 45th Governor of Ohio and 41st United States Attorney General
* Leonard D. Heaton \- former Surgeon General of the United States Army
* Edgar Winters Hillyer \- judge, United States District Court for the District of Nevada
* Douglas Holtz-Eakin \- former Director of the Congressional Budget Office and former chief economic policy adviser to U.S. Senator John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign
* Randy Hopper \- former member of the Wisconsin State Senate
* Sue W. Kelly \- former member of the United States Congress from New York
* Robert W. Levering \- former United States Congressman
* Richard Lugar \- United States Senator from Indiana; on the Board of Trustees
* Kenneth E. Melson \- former ATF director
* Jim Petro \- former Ohio Attorney General
* Jane Pringle \- Member of the Maine House of Representatives
* Lewis A. Sachs \- former US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
* A. W. Sheldon \- Associate Justice, Arizona Territorial Supreme Court
* Erastus B. Tyler \- Union Army general in the American Civil War
* H. Clay Van Voorhis \- former US Congressman
* Ed Weber \- former US Congressman
* Yu Tsune-chi \- Chinese Ambassador to Italy and Spain, United Nations delegate who took part in the San Francisco Conference
* Allen Zollars \- Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court

## Literature[edit]

* James Clear \- author and speaker about habits
* James Frey \- screenwriter and author; A Million Little Pieces, featured by Oprah's Book Club
* Michael Glaser \- Poet Laureate of Maryland
* Lauren Shakely \- poet, editor, and publisher
* Pam Houston \- author, speaker, teacher

## Religion[edit]

* Roger Ames \- American Anglican bishop
* Edgar J. Goodspeed \- liberal theologian
* Randolph Hollerith \- Dean of Washington National Cathedral
* James Madison Pendleton \- 19th-century Baptist preacher, educator and theologian

## Science[edit]

* Homer Burton Adkins \- organic chemist
* John Berton \- computer graphics animator and visual effects supervisor
* Richard B. Brandt \- philosopher
* William Ernest Castle \- early American geneticist
* William E. Forsythe \- physicist
* George Stibitz \- scientist, early pioneer of computer with Bell Labs

## Sports[edit]

* Dan Daub \- Major League Baseball player, 1892–1897
* Woody Hayes \- football coach of Ohio State, 1951–1978
* Ken Meyer \- former head coach of the National Football League's San Francisco 49ers
* Johnny O'Connell \- professional sports car racer
* Bobby Rahal \- Indianapolis 500 champion
* John Robic \- assistant men's basketball coach at the University of Kentucky
* Nate Schmidt \- assistant men's basketball coach at Iowa State University

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Ruth S. Benedict". The Star-Democrat. Easton, Maryland. September 8, 1996. p. 12. Retrieved December 31, 2017 - via Newspapers.com.

## External links[edit]

* Denison University