The following is a list of notable people associated with Earlham College, a private liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana.

Notable alumni A–M Sally Abed - Palestinian-Israeli peace activist, leader of Standing Together and a member of the Haifa city council Carl W. Ackerman – first head of the Columbia University School of Journalism Marjorie Hill Allee – author Warder Clyde Allee – known for research on animal behavior, protocooperation, and for identifying the Allee effect; elected to the National Academy of Sciences John S. Allen – founding president of the University of South Florida; interim president of the University of Florida"'Build Us A University' — And That's What Dr. John Stuart Allen Did ," St Petersburg Times, pp. 1D & 5D (April 26, 1970). Retrieved March 9, 2010.University of Florida, Past Presidents, John S. Allen (1953–1955) . Retrieved March 9, 2009. Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sä) – writer, Native American activist, founded National Council of Indian Americans J. Peter Burkholder – musicologist and author Jana E. Compton – research ecologist with the Environmental Protection Agency Ione Virginia Hill Cowles – president, General Federation of Women's Clubs Garfield V. Cox – attended but did not graduate; dean of the University of Chicago School of Business, 1942–1952 David W. Dennis – congressman from Indiana Juan Dies – co-founder and executive director of Sones de Mexico Ensemble; nominated for a Latin Grammy Joseph M. Dixon – Congressman, Senator, 7th Governor of Montana Liza Donnelly – cartoonist for the New Yorker John Porter East – former U.S. senator for North Carolina Brigadier General Bonner F. Fellers – General MacArthur's psychological warfare director during World War II; during the subsequent occupation of Japan, worked with fellow Earlhamite Isshiki Yuri (see below) to persuade MacArthur to preserve the institution of the Emperor and clear Hirohito of war crimesBix, Herbert P. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan. New York: Perennial/Harper Collins, 2001. p. 542. Jim Fowler – star of Wild Kingdom Lew Frederick (Lewis Reed Frederick) – member of the Oregon House of Representatives 2010–2016; member of Oregon State Senate 2017–present; Outstanding Alumni Award 2013 Reverend Wilda C. Gafney – priest and bible scholar Sara Gelser – member of the Oregon House of Representatives 2005–2014 and member of the Oregon State Senate 2015–present; Outstanding Alumni Award 2016; recognized as one of Time magazine's "Person of the Year" Silence Breakers in 2017 Andrew Ginther – mayor of Columbus, Ohio, 2016–present David Grosso – city council member for the District of Columbia Mary Haas – linguist, pioneer in the field of Siamese language studies; former president of the Linguistic Society of America William Hadley – established Hadley School for the Blind Michael C. Hall – actor on HBO's Six Feet Under and star of Showtime's Dexter, for which he was nominated for an Emmy and won Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards Margaret Hamilton – headed the team that wrote the onboard flight software for NASA's Apollo program Helen Hansma – researcher emeritus and associate adjunct professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara Robert M. Hirsch – former chief hydrologist and head of water science for the United States Geological Survey Emily Caroline Chandler Hodgin – temperance reformer Mary Inda Hussey – Semitic text authority; first woman to teach at the American Society for Oriental Research in Jerusalem C. Francis Jenkins – demonstrated the first practical motion picture projector Henry Underwood Johnson – US congressman from Indiana Mary Coffin Johnson (1834–1928) – temperance activist, newspaper publisher Robert Underwood Johnson – former US ambassador to Italy Andrew Johnston – film critic for Time Out New York, Us Weekly, Radar magazine; editor of the "Time In" section; TV critic for Time Out New York Joseph Henry Kibbey – territorial governor of Arizona Peter D. Klein – chaired Rutgers University's Department of Philosophy Frances Moore Lappé – activist and author of three-million-copy bestseller Diet for a Small Planet Simone Leigh – noted multimedia and ceramic artist Manning Marable – professor at Columbia University; author of Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012 Dan McCoy – writer for The Daily Show and host of The Flop House podcast Robert Meeropol – founder of the Rosenberg Fund for Children, attorney, college professor and activist; son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Elephant Micah (real name Joseph O'Connell) – lo-fi recording artist Molly R. Morris – ecologist, professor at Ohio University

N–Z William Penn Nixon – publisher of the Chicago Inter Ocean and president of the Associated Press Larry Overman – organic chemist, member of the National Academy of Sciences Robert Quine – named by Rolling Stone as one of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time Marc Reisner – author of the books A Dangerous Place and Cadillac Desert Susan Porter Rose – chief of staff to the First Lady of the United States (1989–1993) David Rovics – singer/songwriter and activist Olive Rush – artist Rock Scully – manager of The Grateful Dead 1965–1985 Andrea Seabrook – contributor to National Public Radio's All Things Considered and former Congressional correspondent for NPR David Shear – US ambassador to Vietnam Michael Shellenberger – conspiracy theorist and two-time California gubernatorial candidate William E. Simkin – helped prevent national strikes and resolved thousands of labor disputes as the federal government's chief labor mediator and as a leading private arbitrator Ruth Hinshaw Spray – peace activist Wendell Meredith Stanley – biochemist, shared a 1946 Nobel Prize for discovering methods of producing pure enzymes and virus proteins Edwin Way Teale – naturalist writer; won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1966; elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; staff writer at Popular Science Nellie Teale (1900–1993) – naturalist Summia Tora – Afghan activist Thomas Trueblood – president of the National Society of Elocutionists; his golf teams won two NCAA National Championships and five Big Ten Conference championships Harold Urey – received the Chemistry Nobel Prize in 1934; known for his discovery of deuterium and the Miller–Urey experiment Frederick Van Nuys – U.S. senator from Indiana 1932–1944 Amy Walters – producer, National Public Radio Zach Warren – ran the Boston Marathon while juggling in 2 hours, fifty-eight minutes Newton K. Wesley – Japanese-American optometrist; early developer of commercially successful rigid contact lenses in the 1950s Herman Brenner White – physicist Don Wildman – actor and host of TV travel shows including Ushuaia, Men's Journal and Cities of the Underworld on the History Channel Alice Wong – writer and disability justice activist; MacArthur Foundation fellow2024 MacArthur Foundation fellow Mary Chawner Woody – president, North Carolina Woman's Christian Temperance Union Harry N. Wright – president of City College of New York, mathematician

Notable faculty

William W. Biddle – social scientist, major contributor to the study of community development and propaganda Landrum Bolling – president of Earlham 1958–1973; director at large of Mercy Corps; back channel between Yasir Arafat and Jimmy Carter Wayne C. Booth – former professor of English; literary critic; author of The Rhetoric of Fiction and The Company We Keep Anna Cox Brinton – Quaker scholar and administrator Howard Brinton – Quaker scholar and administrator John Elwood Bundy – impressionist painter Evan Ira Farber – emeritus library director, named Academic Research Librarian of the Year in 1980 Del Harris – former Earlham basketball coach; current NBA coach Anne Houtman – professor of Biology and former president of Earlham College Thomas R. Kelly – author of A Testament of Devotion Dale Edwin Noyd – decorated fighter pilot and Air Force captain who became a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War E. Merrill Root – poet Paul Sniegowski – professor of Biology and president of Earlham College Peter Suber – professor of Philosophy emeritus, creator of the game Nomic, and a leader in the open access movement D. Elton Trueblood – Quaker author and theologian

References

External links Earlham College Alumni Association website Earlham Outstanding Alumni Award recipients