This page lists notable alumni and former students, faculty, and administrators of Kalamazoo College.
Alumni
Arts and letters Selma Blair, actress (graduated from the University of Michigan, but studied at Kalamazoo 1990–1992) Teju Cole, award-winning Nigerian American author Mark Crilley, comic book creator and children's book author/illustrator David France, journalist and author Holly Hughes, performance artist Quincy Isaiah (2017), actor best known for portraying Magic Johnson in the HBO series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty Nagai Kafu, author Jordan Klepper (2001), comedian, The Daily Show Lisa Kron, 2015 Tony Award-winning (Fun Home) playwright and actress Don Lane, singer, entertainer, TV host William Malatinsky, author Julie Mehretu, artist, winner of MacArthur "Genius" Award Fern Persons (1933), actress Diane Seuss (1978), poet and educator, winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Dorothy B. Waage (1905–1997), numismatist Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic correspondent Steven Yeun (2005), actor best known for portraying Glenn in The Walking Dead
Government Garry E. Brown, politician Darrin Q. Camilleri, member, Michigan House of Representatives Amy Courter, former national commander of the Civil Air Patrol Brandt Iden, member, Michigan House of Representatives Alexander Lipsey, Michigan politician Chokwe Lumumba, mayor of Jackson, Mississippi Gerald Ellis Rosen, United States District Court Judge Bradley A. Smith, former Chairman, Federal Election Commission David Tarnas, member, Hawaii House of Representatives Christopher P. Yates, judge, Michigan Court of Appeals, Michigan Court of Claims and Michigan Circuit Court
Business Harry Garland, entrepreneur Mark Spitznagel, hedge fund manager Jon Stryker Ty Warner, founder, Ty Inc. (Beanie Babies)
Academia Paula Arai, Buddhist studies scholar, researcher, and professor George C. Baldwin, theoretical and experimental physicist and professor at General Electric Company, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Los Alamos National Laboratory William F. DeGrado, professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco Kenneth G. Elzinga, economics professor at the University of Virginia Cassandra Fraser, chemistry professor at the University of Virginia, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Thomas F. Gieryn, sociology professor at the University of Indiana known for developing the concept of "boundary work" David Heath, probabilist, known for developing the Heath–Jarrow–Morton framework to model the evolution of the interest rate curve Martin A. Larson, religion scholar Katheryn Edmonds Rajnak, theoretical physical chemist Tad Schmaltz, philosophy professor at the University of Michigan, early modern philosophy scholar Robert J. Shiller, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics Floyd Wilcox, third president of Shimer College
Other Hannah P. Dodge, faculty of the Ladies' Department Fannie Ruth Robinson, college president, 1895 John E. Sarno, innovator in back-pain therapy Madelon Stockwell, first woman to graduate from the University of Michigan David Hildebrand Wilson, founder and curator of Museum of Jurassic Technology
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