List of Kenyon College people

Here follows a list of notable people associated with Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. This list includes the college's notable alumni, organized by their fields of endeavor, in addition to notable members of its faculty and a complete chronological list of the presidents of the college.

Distinguished graduates

Selected Kenyon Alumni

19th President of the United States, Rutherford B. Hayes, class of 1842

US Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton, class of 1834

Swedish Prime Minister, Olof Palme, class of 1948

Academy Award-winning actor, Paul Newman, class of 1949

Emmy Award-winning actress, Alison Janney, class of 1982

Comedian, Jonathan Winters, class of 1950

Actor and filmmaker, Josh Radnor, class of 1996

Academics

Name	Occupation	Notes on Kenyon Experience
Amos N. Guiora	Professor of law at University of Utah and Israel Defense Forces Judge Advocate General's Corps (Lt. Col. Ret.)
John Allen Gable	Executive director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association from 1974 through to his death in February 2005. He was widely considered the world's leading authority on Theodore Roosevelt.

Activism

Name	Occupation	Notes on Kenyon Experience
Ron Link	Former fire fighter and actor (patient advocate)

Law

Name	Occupation	Notes on Kenyon Experience
Kathleen M. O'Malley	United States federal judge
Augustus J. Ricks	United States federal judge

Literature and Journalism

Name	Occupation	Notes on Kenyon Experience
Jim Bellows	Journalist and newspaper editor
Caleb Carr	Novelist and military historian
Jay Cocks	Film critic and screenwriter
E. L. Doctorow	Novelist and cultural critic
William Gass	Writer, winner of the American Book Award
John Green	Author; Winner Michael L. Printz Award for Looking for Alaska
John Hattendorf	Maritime historian
Anthony Hecht	Poet
Laura Hillenbrand	Writer, author of Seabiscuit: An American Legend	Was forced to withdraw after contracting chronic fatigue syndrome
Scott Kenemore	Writer
P. F. Kluge	Writer
Robert Lowell	Poet,Two time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Poet Laureate 1947-1948
Robie Macauley	Writer, editor of Playboy	Transferred from Olivet College in 1939; Later editor of the Kenyon Review
Robert Mezey	Writer
Constantinos Patrides	Professor of English Literature, University of Michigan	Student of John Crowe Ransom; earned Rhodes Scholarship
Fred Waitzkin	Writer
Matthew Winkler	Editor in chief, Bloomberg News
James Wright	Poet, Winner of Pulitzer Prize

Military

Name	Occupation	Notes on Kenyon Experience
Ralph P. Buckland	Brigadier General, Union Army, during the Civil War
John G. Mitchell	Brigadier General, Union Army, during the Civil War

Performing arts

Name	Occupation	Notes on Kenyon Experience
Nick Bakay	Actor, Comedian
Adam Davidson	Academy award winning Director
Frank Dicopoulos	Actor
Chris Eigeman	Actor
Allison Janney	Actress, four-time Emmy Award winner
Paul Newman	Actor, Emmy Award and Academy Award winner
Wendy MacLeod	Playwright, screenwriter
Kris Osborn	CNN anchor
Amy Malkoff	Recording Artist
Alfred Humphreys Pease	Composer
Josh Radnor	Actor
Jonathan Winters	Actor and comedian
Nicholas Petricca	Recording Artist

Philanthropy

Name	Occupation	Notes on Kenyon Experience
Kevin O'Donnell	Director of the U.S. Peace Corps

Politics

Name	Occupation	Notes on Kenyon Experience
Rutherford B. Hayes	President of the United States
Olof Palme	Prime Minister of Sweden
William Rehnquist	Chief Justice of the Supreme Court	Attended for 1 year
Edwin Stanton	Secretary of War during the Lincoln administration
John Snow	Secretary of the Treasury	Attended for 1 year
Bill Harsha	US Representative for Ohio
David Davis	Senator, Supreme Court Justice
Thomas Stanley Matthews	Senator, Supreme Court justice
Henry Winter Davis	US Congressman for Maryland's 3rd and 4th district
Zack Space	Congressman, Ohio Congressional District 18
Peter Stautberg	member of Ohio House of Representatives
Barry Goode	California judge, former legal officer for California Gov. Gray Davis
Diana Schaub	President's Council on Bioethics, Professor of Political Science at Loyola University Maryland

Religion

Name	Occupation	Notes on Kenyon Experience
Joseph Schereschewsky	Bishop of Shanghai, China, 1877-1883
William Crane Gray	First Bishop of Southern Florida, 1893-1913
S. Arthur Huston	Episcopal Bishop of Olympia, 1925-1944
William E. Swing	Bishop, Diocese of California, 1979-2006
Charles D. Williams	Fourth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan, 1906-1915

Sciences

Name	Occupation	Notes on Kenyon Experience
James Cox	Physician, researcher, educator
Rolla Dyer	Developer of the typhus vaccine and director of the National Institutes of Health
Carl Djerassi	Creator of the birth control pill, winner of the National Medal of Science
Harvey Lodish	Professor, co-founder of Genzyme Corporation

Sports

Name	Occupation	Notes on Kenyon Experience
Dr. Keith F. Bell	Sports Psychologist, Masters Swimmer
Don McNeill	Tennis player
John Rinka	Basketball player and coach
Shaka Smart	Men's basketball head coach, Virginia Commonwealth University
Bill Veeck	MLB owner and baseball player
Jed Hoyer	Executive Vice President and General Manager, Chicago Cubs	Coached the Baseball team before he moved to the Boston Red Sox

Visual arts

Name	Occupation	Notes on Kenyon Experience
Carl Andre	Artist	Attended for one year
Jim Borgman	Cartoonist, best known for Zits
Meg Cranston	Artist
Eric Gaskins	Fashion Designer
Graham Gund	Architect
C. Cameron Macauley	Photographer and Film Producer	Graduated in 1949 with a B.A. in English
Jonathan Mannion	Photographer and Director
Coles Phillips	Artist
Bill Watterson	Cartoonist, best known for Calvin and Hobbes
Victoria Wyatt	Art historian

Notable faculty members

• Virgil Aldrich, Philosophy
• Robert O. Fink, Classics
• Bruce Haywood, German; Provost
• Lewis Hyde, English
• Randall Jarrell, English
• P. F. Kluge, English
• Perry Lentz, English
• Robie Macauley, English
• Wendy MacLeod, Theater
• Otto Nikodym, Mathematics
• George E. McCarthy, Sociology
• Paul Radin, Anthropology
• John Crowe Ransom, English
• Charles Ritcheson, History
• Richard Salomon, History
• Benjamin Schumacher, Physics
• Jennifer McMahon Smith, Lead Instructor and Director of Introduuctory Labs in Biology
• Joan Slonczewski, Biology
• Denham Sutcliffe, English
• Allen Tate, English
• Anna Sun, Sociology, Asian Studies

Visiting Faculty

• Katharine Weber, English
• John Kinsella, English
• Claire Messud, English
• Barry Unsworth, English
• James Wood, English

Presidents of the college

1. Philander Chase (1825–1831)
2. Charles Pettit McIlvaine (1832–1840)
3. David Bates Douglass (1840–1844)
4. Samuel Fuller (acting, 1844–1845)
5. Sherlock A. Bronson (1845–1850)
6. Thomas M. Smith (1850–1854)
7. Lorin Andrews (1854–1861)
8. Benjamin L. Lang (acting, 1861–1863)
9. Charles Short (1863–1867)
10. James Kent Stone (1867–1868)
11. Eli Todd Tappan (1868–1875)
12. Edward C. Benson (acting, 1875–1876)
13. William B. Bodine (1876–1891)
14. Theodore Sterling (1891–1896)
15. William Foster Peirce (1896–1937)
16. Gordon Keith Chalmers (1937–1956)
17. Frank E. Bailey (acting, 1956–1957)
18. F. Edward Lund (1957–1968)
19. William G. Caples (1968–1975)
20. Philip H. Jordan Jr. (1975–1995)
21. Reed S. Browning (acting, 1989)
22. Robert A. Oden Jr. (1995–2002)
23. Ronald A. Sharp (acting, 2002–2003)
24. S. Georgia Nugent (2003–2013)
25. Sean M. Decatur (2013-present)