The following is a list of notable people associated with Earlham College , a private liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana .
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Carl W. Ackerman — first head of the Columbia University School of Journalism[1]
Marjorie Hill Allee – author
Warder Clyde Allee – known for his 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 [2] [3]
Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sä) – writer, Native American activist, founded National Council of Indian Americans[4]
Greg Burdwood – State Legislator in the New Hampshire House of Representatives [5]
Rick Carter – head football coach, College of the Holy Cross ; his 1983 team remains the only Holy Cross team to ever qualify for the NCAA Division I-AA playoffs; N.C.A.A. Division I-AA Coach of the Year[6]
Al Cobine – big band leader and tenor saxophonist; worked closely with Henry Mancini and often associated with the Pink Panther theme song[7]
Jana E. Compton – research ecologist with the Environmental Protection Agency[8]
Joseph John Copeland – former president of City College of New York[9]
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[10]
David W. Dennis – Congressman from Indiana[11]
Juan Dies – co-founder and executive director of Sones de Mexico Ensemble ; nominated for a Latin Grammy [12] [13]
Christoper Dilts – Senior Photographer at Obama for America 2012[14]
Joseph M. Dixon – Congressman , Senator , 7th Governor of Montana [15]
Liza Donnelly – cartoonist for the New Yorker [16]
John Porter East – former U.S. Senator for North Carolina [17]
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 Emperor Hirohito of war crimes [18]
Jim Fowler – star of Wild Kingdom [19]
Lew Frederick (Lewis Reed Frederick) – member of the Oregon House of Representatives 2010–2016; Member 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
Robert Graham – Endowed Chair, Department of Family Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical Center; elected to the National Academy of Sciences , Institute of Medicine [20]
Tim Grimm – played FBI agent Dan Murray alongside Harrison Ford in the film Clear and Present Danger (1994)[21] [22]
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[23] [24]
William Hadley – established the Hadley School for the Blind [25]
Michael C. Hall – actor on HBO 's Six Feet Under and star of Showtime 's Dexter , for which he was nominated for an Emmy [26] 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[27]
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 [28]
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 [29]
John Herndon James – Chief Justice of the 4th Court of Civil Appeals in San Antonio[30]
C. Francis Jenkins – demonstrated the first practical motion picture projector[31] [32]
Walter Jessup – former head of the Carnegie Corporation and president of the University of Iowa [33]
Henry Underwood Johnson – US Congressman from Indiana[34]
Mary Coffin Johnson (1834-1928) – temperance activist, newspaper publisher[35]
Robert Underwood Johnson – former US Ambassador to Italy[36]
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 [37]
Joseph Henry Kibbey – Territorial Governor of Arizona[38]
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[39]
Maurice Manning – Pulitzer Prize finalist poet[40]
Howard Marmon – former president of the American Society of Automotive Engineers[41]
Manning Marable – professor at Columbia University;[42] author of Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention , which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012
Robert Meeropol – founder of the Rosenberg Fund for Children, attorney, college professor and activist; son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Edward Matney – received an Emmy for a 1998 segment of Nightline on the Clinton White House[43]
Dan McCoy – writer for The Daily Show and host of The Flop House podcast
Elephant Micah (real name Joseph O'Connell) – lo-fi recording artist
Morris Hadley Mills – Indiana State Senator[44]
Molly R. Morris – ecologist, professor at Ohio University
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Martha Valentine, President, Richmond (Indiana) Women's Christian Temperance Union, member, Earlham Board of Trustees, 1865-1867. <fn. Richmond: Thornburg, Earlham: Story of the College, 1963, p. 439>
Robert Kelley, President of Earlham College
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