This List of Haverford College people includes alumni and faculty of Haverford College. As of 2010, Haverford alumni include 5 Nobel Prize laureates, four MacArthur Fellows, 20 Rhodes Scholarship recipients, 10 Marshall Scholarship recipients, nine Henry Luce Fellows, 56 Watson Fellows, two George Mitchell Scholarship, two Churchill Scholars, one Gates Cambridge Scholar, 13 All Americans, and 23 NCAA post-graduate winners.

Alumni

Academia Carl B. Allendoerfer 1934, mathematician and former chair of University of Washington mathematics department Anthony Amsterdam 1957, MacArthur Fellow, university professor of law, NYU Robert Bates 1964, Eaton Professor of Science of Government, Harvard University Terry Belanger 1963, 2005 MacArthur Fellow, university professor and director of Rare Book School, University of Virginia Douglas C. Bennett 1968, former provost of Reed College, and former president of Earlham College Thomas J. Christensen 1984, interim dean of School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University Tristram Potter Coffin 1943, former professor of English and founder of the Folklore department at the University of Pennsylvania Steven Drizin, lawyer and law professor at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law Stephen G. Emerson 1974, director of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center and Clyde ’56 & Helen Wu Professor in Immunology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and former president, Haverford College (2007–2011) David W. Fraser 1968, former president of Swarthmore College, epidemiologist who led team that identified Legionnaires' disease Joan Gabel 1988, chancellor of University of Pittsburgh Henry H. Goddard 1887, 1889 (M.A.), eugenicist, director of research at Vineland Training School, first in the U.S. to study intellectual disabilities Peter Bacon Hales 1972, professor of art history and director of the American Studies Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago Theophilus Herter 1945 (B.A.), 1947 (M.A.), Anglican bishop and professor at Reformed Episcopal Seminary Akira Iriye 1957, professor of history at Harvard University, president of American Historical Society Fredric Jameson 1954, Marxist cultural and literary critic, William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University Garry Jenkins 1992, president of Bates College Walter Kaegi 1959, scholar of Byzantine history and professor of history at the University of Chicago Lauren Kassell, professor of history of science and medicine at the University of Cambridge Christoph M. Kimmich 1961, former president of Brooklyn College Mark A.R. Kleiman 1972, 1951–2019, professor of public policy at NYU, previously of UCLA, Harvard, criminal justice and drug policy expert, blogger Douglas Koshland 1976, professor of molecular and cellular biology at University of California, Berkeley Bruce Lincoln 1970, professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School Stephen J. Lippard 1962, Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology George Marsden 1959, Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame (1992–2008), winner of the Bancroft Prize and Merle Curti Award for Jonathan Edwards: A Life Marc Melitz 1989, professor of economics, Harvard College Paul B. Moses 1951, 1929–1966, professor of Art and the Humanities, University of Chicago George Mosse 1941, University of Wisconsin - Madison John C. Bascom Professor of European History and Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies, concurrently holding the Koebner Professorship of History at Hebrew University; first research historian in residence at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Ken Nakayama 1962, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, Harvard University Adam Zachary Newton 1980, professor of English, Yeshiva University Frank J. Popper 1965, professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy of Rutgers University and the Princeton Environmental Institute at Princeton University; known for proposing the Buffalo Commons and coining the term "locally unwanted land use" (LULU) Jack Rakove 1968, William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies at Stanford, winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for History Hunter R. Rawlings III 1966 Classics, 10th president of Cornell University 1995–2003 (made interim president again in 2005), former president of University of Iowa Fred Rodell 1926, LL.D. 1973; professor, 1933–1973, at Yale Law School; proponent of legal realism Charles Coleman Sellers 1925, librarian at Dickinson College and Bancroft Prize-winning biographer and historian Edward A. Shanken 1986, University of Amsterdam, author of Art and Electronic Media Ed Sikov 1978, film scholar and author of Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers and On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder Henry Slonimsky, dean of the Jewish Institute of Religion Jonathan Z. Smith 1960, historian of religion, University of Chicago Eric Tagliacozzo 1989, professor of Southeast Asian history, Cornell University Joseph H. Taylor 1963, former dean of faculty, of physics Princeton University, Nobel laureate ‘93 in Physics David Thornburgh 1981, executive director, Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania (2008–present) Sarah Willie-LeBreton 1986, president of Smith College, and former provost of Swarthmore College Louis Round Wilson attended 1895–98, academic librarian at the University of North Carolina; founder of the University of North Carolina Press; founder of the library science school at the University of Chicago; president of the American Library Association

Arts and architecture

Vincent Desiderio 1977, artist Robert E. Hecht 1941, collector, dealer and expert in antiquities H. Mather Lippincott Jr. 1943, architect Craig Owens 1971, art critic and theorist Maxfield Parrish (attended 1888–1891), painter, illustrator Walter Ferris Price (BA and MA 1881), architect Henry Richardson 1983, artist, designed Connecticut 9/11 memorial

Business Iwao Ayusawa 1917, Japanese labour relations author Emily Best 2002, founder of crowdfunding platform Seed&Spark Josh Byrnes 1992, senior vice president of baseball operations, Los Angeles Dodgers William S. Halstead 1926, inventor in national and international communication; held more than 80 patents in radio and television development Samuel Hill 1878, businessman and philanthropist, sponsor of the Peace Arch and Maryhill Museum of Art Alex Karp 1989, billionaire co-founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies Michael Kim 1985, billionaire co-founder and partner of MBK Partners James Kuo 1986, bio-medical entrepreneur; CEO of BioMicro Systems Gerald M. Levin 1960, former Time Warner Inc. chief executive officer Andrew L. Lewis, Jr. 1953, former chairman and CEO of Union Pacific Corporation Eugene Ludwig 1968, chairman and CEO of Promontory Financial Group; former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency Howard Lutnick 1983, billionaire chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald; U.S. secretary of commerce Robert MacCrate 1943, Sullivan & Cromwell vice chairman; legal education reformer J. Howard Marshall 1926, Texan billionaire oil tycoon; spouse of Anna Nicole Smith Tony Petitti 1983, CEO of MLB Network Jane Silber 1985, CEO of Canonical, maintainers of the Ubuntu operating system Ken Stern 1985, former CEO of NPR Arn Tellem 1976, principal, Management Wasserman Media Group John C. Whitehead 1943, former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs, deputy U.S. secretary of state in the Reagan administration and later chairman of Lower Manhattan Development Corporation; namesake of Whitehead Campus Center Barry Zubrow 1975, former chief risk officer at JP Morgan Chase; former chief administrative officer at Goldman Sachs

Entertainment David Scull Bispham 1876, baritone; Metropolitan Opera and Covent Garden soloist; author of A Quaker Singer's Recollection, 1920 William Carragan 1958, musicologist noted for his work on Anton Bruckner, and for contributions to physics Chevy Chase ex-1966, attended for one semester, comedian and actor Andy Gavin, video game programmer, entrepreneur Alfred Grossman 1948, writer and novelist Mark Hudis 1990, former co-executive producer of True Blood, former writer and co-executive producer of Nurse Jackie, former executive producer of That 1970s Show Tobias Iaconis 1993, screenwriter Harlan Jacobson 1971, film critic, lecturer and author Julius Katchen 1947, concert pianist, recognized by Eugene Ormandy at his debut concert playing Mozart's Piano Concerto in D-Minor (age 10) Daniel Dae Kim 1990, film and stage actor; Hawaii Five-0, Lost, The Andromeda Strain; holds an MFA from the Graduate Acting Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts; winner of Screen Actors Guild Awards for Lost and Crash; named one of the "Sexiest Men Alive" in 2005 by People magazine Ken Ludwig 1972, Tony Award-winning playwright of Lend Me a Tenor and Crazy for You; lawyer (of counsel) for Steptoe & Johnson LLP Judd Nelson ex-1982, actor, did not graduate Rand Ravich 1984, writer, director, and producer Mark Schatz 1978, musician, dancer, and music producer George Segal ex-1955, actor, attended Sunny Singh 2008, filmographer Alena Smith 2002, screenwriter and producer Sigmund Spaeth 1905 (D.H.L. (Hon.) 1965), musicologist, composer, radio personality, known as The Tune Detective Gregory Whitehead 1978, audio artist, media philosopher, award-winning radio playwright and documentary producer David Whiting 1968, journalist and manager of actress Sarah Miles

Journalism John Carroll 1963, former executive vice president and editor of The Los Angeles Times; first Knight Visiting Lecturer at Harvard's Shorenstein Center William Henry Chamberlin 1917, long-time Moscow correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor and author Martin Evans 1979 Fine Arts, co-winner of 1997 Pulitzer Prize for spot news for Newsday; Pacific Rim correspondent for The Orange County Register, The Baltimore Sun, The Baltimore Afro-American Dirck Halstead 1958, photojournalist Adi Ignatius 1981, editor-in-chief of Harvard Business Review Harlan Jacobson 1971, film critic and former editor-in-chief of Film Comment Magazine Annie Karni 2004, White House reporter for Politico Joshua Kurlantzick 1998, journalist and author, special correspondent for The New Republic Stanley Kurtz 1975, conservative commentator Allen Lewis 1940, Philadelphia Inquirer baseball writer, inductee into writers' wing of National Baseball Hall of Fame Josh Mankiewicz 1977, correspondent for Dateline NBC Felix Morley 1915, journalist and author; editor 1933–1940 of Washington Post; winner of 1936 Pulitzer Prize Robert Neuwirth 1981, philosophy, author of Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World Michael Paulson 1986, theater reporter, religion reporter for New York Times; city editor for Boston Globe, co-winner 2003 Pulitzer Prize for public service, for coverage of sexual abuse scandal in Catholic archdiocese; four-time winner, Wilbur Award for religion writing Norman Pearlstine 1964, former editor-in-chief of Time; chief content officer of Bloomberg L.P., senior advisor at the Carlyle Group; former managing editor of The Wall Street Journal; former executive editor of Los Angeles Times David Wessel 1975, Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio economics correspondent Juan Williams 1976 philosophy, Fox News Channel senior correspondent

Law

Richard G. Andrews 1977, judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware Gary Born 1978, international arbitrator and partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP Robert Braucher 1936, former associate justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Richard M. Cooper 1964, Rhodes Scholar, former chief counsel for Food and Drug Administration, partner at Williams & Connolly LLP