Roanoke College is a private liberal arts college in Salem, Virginia. Following are some of its notable alumni.

Art and architecture

Rob Balder – cartoonist Joel Christian Gill – cartoonist and author of graphic novels Wyatt C. Hedrick – architect, engineer, and developer

Business John P. Fishwick – former president of Norfolk and Western Railway John McAfee – software entrepreneur; founder of McAfee John A. Mulheren – Wall Street trader and philanthropist; provided funding for the construction of several Roanoke College buildings Stuart T. Saunders – founding chairman, Penn Central Railroad; appeared on the cover of Time in 1968

Education R. H. W. Dillard – poet and author; and professor of English and creative writing at Hollins University Thomas David Gordon – reformed theologian, writer, and professor at Grove City College Cornelius T. Jordan – Virginia Senate and president of New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (New Mexico State University) Lewis Lancaster – Buddhist scholar; professor emeritus, University of California, Berkeley; past president, University of the West William Riley Parker – professor of English at Indiana University and New York University Rebecca Sharitz – ecologist and emeritus professor at the University of Georgia Carol M. Swain – Pulitzer Prize nominee in 2002, political scientist, and professor at Vanderbilt University

Entertainment

Jay Alaimo – film director, writer, and producer Ted Brown – radio personality in New York City with WMGM, WNEW and WNBC Omari K. Chancellor – film, television, and stage actor Walter Compton – radio and television broadcaster and executive Tom T. Hall – country music artist, attended Roanoke following military service via the G.I. Bill John Payne – film and television actor David C. Robinson – movie producer and vice president of Morgan Creek Productions Alice White – film actress Eve Whittle – actress and child psychologist Kristen Wiig – actress known for Saturday Night Live and various comedic blockbusters

Law

George Warwick McClintic – judge with the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia 1921–42 Richard Harding Poff – justice with the Supreme Court of Virginia 1972–88 and United States representative 1953–72 Anthony D. Sayre – justice with the Supreme Court of Alabama 1909-31 Frank S. Tavenner Jr. – United States attorney, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, 1940–45 James C. Turk – judge with the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia 1972–2014 and Virginia Senate

Literature and journalism

R. H. W. Dillard – poet and author; and professor of English and creative writing at Hollins University Rorer A. James – owner and editor of the Danville Register and the Danville Bee, Virginia House, Senate, and United States representative Frederick Bittle Kegley – magazine editor and author Ruth Randall – biographer of Mary Todd Lincoln William Seabrook – journalist, author, explorer and occultist; best known for introducing the Haitian Vodou concept of zombies into popular culture with his book, The Magic Island (1929)

Military

Leslie D. Carter – U.S. Army major general David C. Shanks – US Army major general Yi Kang – lieutenant general in Imperial Korean Army and Korean prince

Politics

Frederick C. Boucher – United States representative, Virginia's 9th congressional district, 1983–2011 Park Hee Byung – Korean independence leader; worked to end the Japanese annexation of Korea Christy Underwood Clark – North Carolina House of Representatives Walter M. Denny – United States representative, Mississippi's 6th congressional district, 1895–97 Mawine G. Diggs – Liberian minister of Commerce and Industry Henry H. Fowler – United States Treasury Secretary, 1965–68 Rorer A. James – Virginia House, Senate, United States representative, owner and editor of the Danville Register and the Danville Bee Cornelius T. Jordan – Virginia Senate and president of New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (New Mexico State University) Kim Kyu-shik – Korean independence leader; represented Korea at the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I James W. Marshall – United States representative, Virginia's 9th congressional district, 1893–95 William McKendree Murrell – member of the Virginia House of Delegates Leonard G. Muse – Virginia Senate Park Hee-byung – Korean independence activist E. J. Pipkin – member, Maryland State Senate, 2003–13 Richard H. Poff – United States representative 1953–72; justice, Supreme Court of Virginia, 1972–88 Sam Rasoul – member, Virginia House of Delegates Lloyd M. Robinette – Virginia Senate Robert Spellane – member, Massachusetts House of Representatives, 2001–11 James C. Turk – Virginia Senate and judge with the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, 1972–2014 James P. Woods – United States representative, Virginia's 6th congressional district, 1918–23 Joshua Soule Zimmerman – West Virginia House of Delegates

Religion

William A. Brown – Episcopal bishop of Southern Virginia Thomas C. Darst – bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina W. A. R. Goodwin – Episcopal priest, historian, and author known as the "father of Colonial Williamsburg" Arthur Selden Lloyd – coadjutor bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia and suffragan bishop of New York Richard L. Pratt Jr. – theologian, author, and founder and president of Third Millennium Ministries William Henry Roberts – Baptist minister who worked for many years as a missionary in Burma Theodore Schneider – bishop of the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 1995–2007

Science and medicine

William Steel Creighton – myrmecologist and taxonomist with Department of Biology at the City College of New York Alan M. Friedlander – marine biologist and fisheries scientist Carl W. Gottschalk – professor of medicine, University of North Carolina; notable kidney researcher Bettie Sue Masters – biochemist and adjunct professor at Duke University Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle – neurophysiologist and Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University

Sports

Frankie Allen – college basketball player and coach Doc Ayers – professional baseball player William Beroza – lacrosse goalie, coach and member of the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame Jim Brillheart – professional baseball player Lombe Honaker – college football coach Loren LaPorte – college softball coach Mike McGuire – head coach of the Radford University women's basketball team Herbert J. McIntire – college football coach Rock Norman – college basketball and track coach Shelley Olds – former professional racing cyclist John Pirro –- lacrosse player and coach Ben Sanders – professional baseball player Conley Snidow – college football and basketball coach Gordon C. White – college football coach

References

External links Official website of Roanoke College